ICYMI: Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show Makes Reality TV Great Again

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4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Rachelle is joined by Aisha Harris, co-host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour and author of Wannabe: Reckonings With the Pop Culture That Shaped Me. The two discuss Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show, the latest venture from the comedian behind the Emmy-award winning stand-up special Rothanial. In contrast, Reality Show has been greeted with a mixed critical reception but both Aisha and Rachelle agree that it’s a fascinating project by one of our generation’s most experimental comedians. This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were liars.
0:07.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:09.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
0:25.2	We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video. Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton.
0:44.5	And I'm Candice Lim, and you're listening to I see why am I.
0:47.7	In case you missed it.
0:49.0	Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:51.5	And Rachel, I need to make a correction.
0:57.4	Oh, okay. So on a previous episode I said that espresso by Sabrina Carpenter was not the song of the
1:01.4	summer I would like to retract that because I believe that espresso by Sabrina
1:05.2	Carpenter is indeed the song of the summer well before you like fully retract I
1:10.0	feel like a new entry may have emerged because I feel
1:13.5	like lately there's been an energy in my house.
1:16.4	I've been walking around asking my cat.
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