The Problem with Reality TV
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2023
⏱️ 84 minutes
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00:00 Introducing Nick Thomspon
01:15 What happened filming LIB?
06:23 Justifying the conditions on set
12:58 Compensation on the show
17:26 Would Nick & Danielle still be together if the show had better conditions?
21:45 Support & being a success story
25:32 Isolation & producers
34:11 Contracts, bullying, & the lack of water
49:41 The emotional toll of bullying & the effect on confidence
1:14:49 How accurate was Dr. Kirk's analysis of Nick & Vanessa's relationship?
1:21:33 How can meaningful changes be made to reality TV?
May 22, 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Hey dessert listeners and today's episode I am interviewing Nick Thompson from season two of the reality TV show called Love Is Blind. |
| 0:08.8 | My first experience with Nick was watching the show and reacting to it on YouTube. |
| 0:14.2 | I enjoyed his story with his fiancee and then eventual wife Danielle on the show Love Is Blind. |
| 0:21.2 | I talked a lot about what I saw and I was cheering them on and hoping that they would do well. |
| 0:27.3 | And then they got married at the altar. Then a year later I heard through news stories that |
| 0:33.3 | they had gone through a divorce about a year after getting married is, I don't know the exact |
| 0:37.6 | timeline. And then last month in April of 2023, I started receiving a lot of emails from y'all |
| 0:44.5 | saying that Nick Thompson was in the news and also he was using his social media account to |
| 0:50.9 | talk about the way in which cast members are mistreated during the filming of the show. |
| 0:56.8 | And that he was starting a foundation or an organization to advocate for better |
| 1:02.8 | labor practices essentially. And then a little bit later I received an email from someone |
| 1:07.4 | that was representing Nick Thompson saying that he wanted to come on this YouTube channel. |
| 1:11.7 | And so I interviewed him so let's get to that interview now. |
| 1:15.0 | Welcome to the YouTube channel Nick. Nice to meet you. |
| 1:18.4 | Nice to meet you too. Thanks for inviting me on. |
| 1:21.3 | What happened while filming Love Is Blind that you would like people to know about? |
| 1:26.2 | Well, I think a lot of what's happened on Love Is Blind is not exclusive to Love Is Blind which |
| 1:32.4 | is really shine to light because a few weeks ago myself and a few of the other cast mates from |
| 1:38.0 | seasons one and two of Love Is Blind came out as whistleblowers to talk about some of the inhumane |
| 1:43.6 | conditions along with the mistreatment of human beings. Just to set the stage you are away for three |
| 1:51.2 | weeks and you spend about two of them in the pods and then you spend about one of I think it's |
| 1:56.8 | was five days in Mexico at least in our season. And then there's some some days in between that |
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