Hey! Hey everybody welcome back to hot takes and deep dives you know me Jess and I am

here with fan favorite of the pod, Emerson Collins,

widely known from the people's couch.

Hey Emerson!

Oh my God, I'm so excited.

I have hot tanks and let's dive deep.

Well, the past two days have been quite a whirlwind.

Would you call this a scandal?

Yes, I would, absolutely.

Yeah, no, I feel like, we've been on this slow journey to like meta reality experiences and this is like the furthest

deep into like production that we've been so far and I think absolutely qualifies as scandal.

Which scandal was more fun.

This which is ongoing and listeners were going to really break everything down and I have some audio clips that hopefully I'll be able to have time to insert into the podcast so you can actually hear what we're referring to and we're going to give you all the quotes and everything but Emerson in your

opinion which scandal was more fun to unpack this one about the Vander Pump Rules

editor or the Lala 50 cent

Fofty scandal.

Okay, Lala Fofty was hilarious, but that didn't feel like new and interesting. This to me is way more scandalous because I'm obsessed with how reality TV is assembled the line between

Performative personal producing actual you know, this is so deep in the nuts and bolts of how these shows are actually assembled and how the shows are guided into like what we think as audience members is crafted by a team of people

that guide a season towards those opinions whether you perceive it or not and this is so

revealing of that I think it's way more fun.

You think this is way more fun?

Yes.

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