Hello, current affairs listeners. It's your host, Pete Davis here. I wanted to let you know that we just released a new bonus episode over on the bird feed. That's the feed for folks who are monthly donors to our Patreon page. If you want access to the bird feed, head over to patreon.com slash current affairs and join up.

We are a podcast of politics and culture and we apologize.

We have been light on the culture side in recent weeks.

So we wanted to give you a full cultural hour.

So in this bonus episode, social media editor Vanessa A.B., contributing editor Brianna Joy Gray

and Amusements Editor, Leida Gold, have recorded an hour on the joys and nuances of reality

television. Hope you can become a patron and take a listen. If you can't, though, no worries. We'll be back

with episode five in 10 days or so.

Here's an excerpt from this recent bonus episode.

It's like voyeurism, you know? I don't think that's particularly new to reality TV.

Like, I feel like Jane Austen today would be a great writer for Bravo.

Yeah.

Yeah, I totally believe that she, like, found another way to, like, repackage this drama

that, like, we were all, like, thirsty for and that, like, a hundred years later, like,

or, you know, like, that I still find, like, fascinating.

I was thinking about, like, my mom's family is from Cameroon, and, like, obviously, we

didn't have reality TV for, like, a very, very long time.

But, like, Cameroonian songs are really long.

Like, they're never three minutes.

Like, if you put on a song from, like, my tribe, it's like you got to devote like 45 minutes because

it just goes on and on and on.

But it's like a lot of storytelling and the stories are always like super dramatic.

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