Hello and welcome to Micah's Reed of the Week and Mind of Micah.

Today is part two of Micah's Reed of the Week.

We are discussing the 20-year history of reality

dating shows in America. The title from the Washington Post, the revealing a disturbing story of America

told through 20 years of reality dating shows.

When we just finished episode one we got through what I consider to be the most important

show in the genre's history of the bachelor which premiered in 2002 we are now on to

2003 we're going to go through this in a multi-part series. So thank you for being a part of this. As always, I will just tell you, please check out Backdoor Cover and Too Much Dip, My Sports Podcast, and click the link inside the

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All right, on to 2003.

As I mentioned, we talked about who wants to marry a multimillionaire in 2000,

the first show in the genre, Temptation Island in 2001, 2001 the bachelor in 2002 we're on to 2003

another Fox show this one Joe Millionaire

the age of misinformation got a head start in 2003 when 20 women were told they were competing for the love of Evan Marriott, heir to the 50 million dollar fortune, who was actually a construction worker making $19,000 a year.

Around 40 million people turned into the finale eager to see Marriott reveal the truth

and if a woman would run away screaming from a poor person.

In the end, it was basically fine.

Marriott and winner Zora Andrich were awarded a $1 million check to split for their troubles and broke up shortly after.

That's not too bad. But the premise set a precedent for TV creators. People would believe

what you told them to believe,

leading to other bleak attempts such as

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