Are TV Court Shows Real?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

If you've ever had the dubious pleasure of watching daytime TV in the US -- possibly in a waiting room -- then you've probably witnessed a particular genre of programming: the TV court show. From far enough away, these shows look a lot like an actual court. You've got the usual courtroom cast, along with an escalated version of actual courtroom events. In tonight's episode, Ben, Matt and Noel ask: Are these shows real? What exactly do we mean by "real"?

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0:00.0	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:06.9	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:11.9	A production of IHeart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show.
0:25.8	My name is Matt.
0:26.5	My name is Noel.
0:27.3	They call me, Ben.
0:28.6	We're joined as always with our super producer, Andrew Triforce Howard.
0:32.8	Most importantly, you are you.
0:34.9	You are here.
0:35.8	That makes this.
0:36.9	The stuff they don't want you to know.
0:39.8	Copyright, trademark. Dick Wolf. Yeah, yeah, we're going to trial. Yeah, yeah. Do you hear that?
0:47.4	And we're sued. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. And we're sued. Okay, we turn it off. We turned it off.
0:52.7	We edged toward that one, folks.
0:54.8	The energy is live.
0:56.4	We are in person, which is quite a rare treat for us.
1:00.3	And we started asking, so we're always pitching ideas to each other, right?
1:03.8	And we started asking, hey, does anybody remember the weird, surreal wasteland of daytime TV before streaming?
1:12.8	Right?
1:13.1	Surely it still exists to some degree, right?
1:15.7	Very much so.
1:16.3	Okay.
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