The Green Girls of Reality TV

For Colored Nerds

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2016

⏱️ 79 minutes

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This week, B & E go very, very deep into the world of reality television, viewing The Real Housewives of Potomac, Basketball Wives: LA and Love & Hip-Hop: New York through the lens of Roxane Gay's essay on the women of the entertainment genre. Big reveals: Eric's undying love for trash TV, Brittany's weird (and slightly embarrassing) obsession with manners, and their mutual respect for Cardi B. The reading: http://www.bookslut.com/features/2011_12_018446.php See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Eric.
0:13.0	And I'm Brittany.
0:13.9	And we are for colored nerds.
0:16.1	The conversations that black people have.
0:18.0	When white people are not in the room.
0:20.0	But we record it and put it on the
0:21.4	internet yes isn't it clear that we put it on the internet like i mean that part is kind of self-explanatory
0:27.5	it's implicit but i don't know no i mean you know sometimes it's what it is you gotta tell people what
0:32.8	it is you got to tell people what it is it is true that true. That's true. How you doing, Brittany?
0:38.5	I'll be honest.
0:39.1	I'm doing pretty fucking good, man.
0:40.3	It's not bad.
0:41.0	I had some coffee this morning.
0:42.2	I had a lot of coffee this morning.
0:43.4	I'm fucking.
0:44.2	I'm working through it.
0:45.4	Yeah.
0:45.8	It's a good day.
0:47.0	It's a good, beautiful Sunday morning.
0:48.7	I feel like it's something important recently happened. That's a few things. What are we going to talk about today?
0:54.7	We're going to talk about reality television.
0:57.6	Yes, yes.
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