Lyndsey Burr - Producing America’s Next Top Model
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation
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🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Lyndsey Burr, longtime reality television producer who worked on America’s Next Top Model for years, joins the girls to talk about her experiences working on the now-controversial hit show. She talks about what the team looked for when casting, some of the more problematic challenges the show used, and the time she lost the models in Thailand.
They discuss how it was the wild west of reality TV, with every show in the early days trying to outdo each other and often not considering the consequences for the folks on the show, and Tyra’s own arc and whether she was perpetuating the harmful cycle she’d been trying to stop. Plus, why Lyndsey thinks unscripted television has–hopefully–been getting more ethical.
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| 0:00.0 | This is exactly right. |
| 0:07.4 | Trust me. |
| 0:08.8 | Do you trust me? |
| 0:10.6 | Would I ever lead you astray? |
| 0:12.2 | Trust me. |
| 0:13.1 | This is the truth. |
| 0:14.3 | The only truth. |
| 0:15.6 | If anybody ever tells you to just trust them, don't. |
| 0:19.5 | Welcome to Trust Me, the podcast about cults, extreme belief, and manipulation from two |
| 0:25.5 | top models who have actually experienced it. |
| 0:27.9 | I am top model Lola Blanc. |
| 0:30.7 | And I'm top model, Megan Elizabeth. |
| 0:33.6 | And this week, these two top models are joined by Lindsay Burr, longtime reality television producer |
| 0:39.1 | who worked on, of course, America's next top model for four years. She's going to join us to talk |
| 0:43.7 | about her experiences working on the now controversial hit competition show. She'll tell us what the |
| 0:48.5 | team looked for when casting some of the more problematic challenges the show used and the time |
| 0:54.0 | she lost the models in Thailand. |
| 0:56.1 | She'll talk about how it was the wild west of reality TV, with every show in the early days trying to outdo each other |
| 1:04.0 | and often not considering the consequences for the people on the show and Tyra's own arc and whether she was perpetuating the harmful |
| 1:12.5 | cycle she'd been trying to stop. Plus, why Lindsay thinks unscripted television has hopefully |
| 1:18.5 | been getting more ethical. All that and more right after Megan tells me her cultiest thing. |
| 1:25.8 | Also, let's just take a moment to, like, say how much we love |
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