Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

TV wouldn't lie to us, right?

I mean, it's been there for us for good times and in bad.

Especially if it's reality TV, right?

Has reality in the name?

Well, of course they do.

But don't you want to know how they do it?

That's what we're going to talk about today here on the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

On Monday and Wednesday, we talk apologetics, theology, how to explain and defend the

Catholic faith.

But on Friday, we talk about whatever I want to talk about.

And today I want to talk about reality television.

Now I remember, no, they've had reality television around for some time.

I remember when I was in the 90s, the real world was the big reality TV thing.

Find out when things, I think it was find out when things stopped being polite and

start getting real, real world.

I remember it was a big deal when there was a Catholic speaker.

I think his name was Matt Smith was put on the real world and then he gave talks and

people knew him a lot.

This was back in the early 2000s because he was on the real world in the late 90s.

But I think reality TV really started to take off in the year 2000 because in May of 2000,

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