652: The NOs of Reality TV Preview
The Popcast With Knox and Jamie
Knox McCoy and Jamie Golden
4.8 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we invite our listeners to share their NOs (and YESes) of Reality TV. From weaponized personal trauma to chaotic celebrity cameos and the ever-growing web of reality TV incest, nothing is safe from our side-eye. Join us as we sort through the tropes that make us immediately change the channel and the rare moments that keep us shamelessly watching.
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| 0:00.0 | But then I loved Amazing Race, and I wish we would bring Amazing Race back. |
| 0:04.4 | That was my favorite of all time. |
| 0:06.8 | You wish we would, who took it away? |
| 0:09.1 | Who took it? |
| 0:09.6 | It's still happening? |
| 0:10.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:11.4 | Yeah, it is. |
| 0:11.8 | I didn't know that. |
| 0:12.7 | That's new information. |
| 0:13.9 | So was your love real? |
| 0:15.4 | Well, I thought that it was gone. |
| 0:17.9 | Where is it? |
| 0:19.7 | I'll find it. |
| 0:20.3 | Don't worry about it was gone. Where is it? I'll find it. Don't worry about it. |
| 0:29.2 | Hello, welcome to us number 6.52 of the popcast. I'm your host, Knox McCoy. |
| 0:32.9 | I'm your other host, Jamie Golden. The podcast is a show dedicated to his life old |
| 0:36.6 | idiocy, and we're committed to educating you on the things entertained, but do not matter. To find out more about these reality proceeds, check us out at Knoxinjami.com. You can also find us on Instagram, threads, Facebook, and Blue Sky at the podcast. Thanks for joining us this week as we are going to be talking the nose of reality TV. But before we do that, you guys, we are in the middle of popcast listener survey season. More than 1,000 of you have already helped |
| 0:59.9 | us out. Thank you so much. But we would love even more feedback. Your help, you know what it does? |
| 1:06.1 | It helps us figure out the show. You know, like we're 13 years in. Does we need a freshening up? |
| 1:10.5 | Do we need our own spring refresh? We want to entertain you about the things that don't matter in the best way. We want to learn about what types of episodes are your favorites, what you think we need more of or less than. Plus, you know, always fake info about you. Like how many, how many rich men are here who might need a trophy wife. Is that something that's happening? |
| 1:28.5 | I doubt it is. |
| 1:29.2 | Anyway, |
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