My intentions with this were to get closure, leave with friends, and also talk about how we frame discussion of racism.

Knowing that that was going to be my job anyway, I wanted to at least get it right.

Hi, I'm Brittany, and this is for colored nerds.

The weekly show where we peel back the layers of black culture we rarely discuss in mixed company.

This week, Eric and I returned to the show that changed reality TV as we know it, the real world.

Seven strangers living together in a big house in a whole new city and most importantly

getting real. This was peak TV in the 90s and early odds, but it eventually lost its touch.

But now the real world is back with a twist. The Real World Homecoming is a reunion series that

brings all the old cast members back from their original season to live together under one roof once again.

If you don't know anything else about Eric and me, you have to know that the original Real World New Orleans was foundational pop culture programming for the both of us.

So when MTV released the Real World Homecoming New Orleans this spring, we were there every

single week.

Stay tuned as we reflect on the original series, our reactions to the reunion, and last

but not least, our interview with the real world's best castmate ever, Melissa Beck.

Y'all do not want to miss this. We got Melissa from New Orleans.

Come right back and join us after this quick break.

Music Many of our millennial and Gen X listeners will know how this story begins.

Seven strangers pick to live in a house, work together.

And have their lives take to find out what happens when people stop being polite.

And start getting real.

Real world.

Or wherever the city is that comes after that, you know?

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