Mormons Are Running Reality TV

Girlscamp

Hayley Rawle

Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

There’s a full-blown Mormon reality TV takeover happening! This week, Madi Murphy-West of The Bad Broadcast joins me to break down why public fascination with Mormonism keeps growing and why it translates so well to the reality TV format. We get into Utah’s pipeline feeding Dancing With the Stars, our predictions for Secret Lives of Mormon Wives season 3, and our thoughts on Taylor Frankie Paul as the new Bachelorette. BYU article about Hailey Bills Alyssa Grenfell’s video on ballroom and Utah/Mormonism Join the Girlscamp: After Dark Patreon account ⁠⁠here⁠ for two bonus episodes per month and more. For more Girlscamp content follow along on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠. For ad inquiries please email [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	G-I-R-L-S-C-A-M-P it's Girls' Camp.
0:13.2	Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Girls' Camp podcast. I'm your host, Haley Rawl, and I am joined
0:18.5	today by my friend Maddie Murphy West. Hello. And we're in my
0:23.9	zone. I know. It's weird. But you're in the hot, you're in the head honcho seat. I am interviewing
0:29.5	you, but in your setup. I know. I actually kind of love this. This is like the most relaxed I've ever
0:34.6	felt recording. You love being interviewed, don't you? I love being interviewed. I love having people on the podcast. I love like having somebody else there is the best thing ever. I know. I was explaining this yet again to Bentley the other day. I was like, if I just had a co-host, I think all my problems would be solved. I really do. But then think of how many problems it would create. No, there's no way. Because here's the thing. You have to start it together.
0:58.1	Yeah. all my problems would be solved? I really do. But then think of how many problems it would create.
1:13.0	No, there's no way. Here's the thing. You have to start it together. Yep. Or not or, or never bring a co-host on. Because it's like, if you think of J.C. and Chels, it's like they started this together. So there's never any question of like what it is. But I feel like, because I think about this all the time. I'm like, what if I just brought Lucy on full time or whatever? And I'm like, and we've had these conversations. And it's like, but it's so hard to change it, to change what it is. And then have to like, I'm on my own schedule and then adding another person. It's a lot. No, even the scheduling alone would make it not worth it. But it's a fun fantasy. It is a fun fantasy. And tonight, it's a reality for you and I.
1:29.1	We are accomplishing a lot of fantasies tonight. Later on.
1:32.6	Later on, we got a camera setup. Who knows what might happen. Today, we are actually talking about
1:38.1	a subject. You and I talk about a lot in our free time, which is, well, we're going to be focusing
1:44.0	most specifically on dancing with
1:46.0	the stars.
1:46.5	Yes.
1:47.0	However, a lot of these reality TV worlds are kind of colliding right now.
1:53.2	And we're going to be talking about that as well.
1:55.3	Because there's kind of like a...
1:57.1	In regards to Mormonism.
1:58.1	In regards to Mormonism.
1:59.2	Thank you.
1:59.7	Yes.
2:00.1	Because we have Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, season three.
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