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Morbid

February Bonus Episode: Smizing Through the Trauma

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart

Comedy, Paranormal, True Crime, Dark History

4.4100.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In today’s February Bonus Episode, Ash & Alaina sit down to unpack Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, the new documentary that takes a long, hard look at ANTM, the world of reality TV, and the price paid by young contestants chasing swift fame. This isn’t a criminal case but it is Morbid: power dynamics, exploitation, public scrutiny, looking back with adult hindsight… so, yeah, we had to discuss it!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, weirdos. I'm Elena. I'm Ash bonus the butt top model that was crazy in the day. I've been waiting to talk about this. I literally am so excited. I don't know if I already said this on the pod, but I have not stopped going around my house saying, how many people were afraid. And holding your hand out. And holding my head up. How many people are afraid? And Drew can't stop going,

0:38.1

today we're going to learn about acting!

0:41.1

Just please make sure Drew roaming around my home just randomly boarding that out.

0:44.7

Today we're going to learn about acting.

0:46.4

Also, we're thinking about possibly recording our bonus episodes like on video in the future.

0:52.7

Just so you know, like I was just thinking about it because that that movement would have been really good. In the hand. So just know that that's something we're thinking about. I think you guys will dig that. Yeah. These are usually pretty fun and, you know, we get lively with these. It just means we have to get dressed more, which I did today. So we should have filmed, but you're still swollen. It's fine. You're beautiful still. Well, thank you. You're beautiful. It's true. You're beautiful. So I watched this in one fell swoop. Me too. But I did it later at night, obviously, when the kids went to sleep. And John was with me and my mother-in-law was with me. Oh my God,

1:28.6

Karen watched this. They were both horrified to the point where I was almost embarrassed.

1:33.7

Oh, no. Oh, no. Right? Mikey agrees. Mikey had the same experience with Dave, didn't you?

1:41.1

Were you almost embarrassed that you watched the show? When Dave and I first started dating, he was like, oh, I'm going to show you all my favorite shows.

1:48.7

He's like, what's your favorite show?

1:50.4

And I was like, oh, I loved like, I love this show.

1:54.9

And I also love America's Next Top Model.

1:57.8

And he was like, are you a fucking Lasigas?

2:00.6

Well, like, because we were talking about like reality television shows because he loves, he is a top chef guy. Oh, I love top chef too. But like that, like, America's next top model was like my jam. Yeah. He's like, okay, let's watch it. And we started watching it. And he was like like literally like maybe you're not the gentle

2:18.0

little lamb that I thought you were like the actual show top model I'm dead he was like that'll

2:23.4

fry thoroughly thoroughly horrified I was watching this as like a I actually remember when I lived

2:30.1

at mom and papa's house back when I was little, little, me and my mom did, we would all

2:35.1

watch it in the living room, remember? Which is wild. Like, as I was falling asleep, so I watched

2:40.1

this when I was like five, I think, or maybe like a little bit older. Which is so not okay.

2:45.0

Then I think it started getting like syndicated to like, it was either MTV or VH1. And I really

2:50.1

watched it a ton in like middle school.

2:53.5

Yep.

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