Part of the fun of reality TV is putting yourself in the shoes of the people you're watching.

Maybe you'd make a great real housewife.

Maybe you could win the amazing race.

I'm Stephen Thompson, and on this encore episode of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour,

we're not here to make friends.

But we are here to pick

the reality shows on which we think we could thrive.

Joining me today are my fellow Pop Culture Happy Hour hosts, our core four, Linda Holmes. Hey, Linda.

Hey, Stephen. I was born for this.

Aisha Harris. Hey, Aisha. Hey, I am not here to make any friends today. Too late. Nope, nope, nope. None of us. We're all here to win. Glenn Weldon is also here. Hi, Glenn. Hey, Stephen. I'm feeling very attacked. Well, let's get right into it. Linda Holmes, I want your pick. Give me the reality TV show that you think you, Linda Holmes, could dominate. Okay, well, you know that I am bad at logistics and travel arrangements. So I had to knock out the amazing race in spite of my sentimental attachment to it. I don't think I could do Survivor because I would get such a sunburn.

Ultimately, I went with, and I need you to give me a moment to explain my thinking, but I went ultimately with chopped.

Four new contenders are ready to roll. Who will be victorious? Go faster, faster, faster. And who will be chopped?

Oh.

Now, you got to understand sometimes on chopped, in fact, I would venture to say most of the time, it's chefs.

If it's chopped and it's chefs, I don't have a chance.

But sometimes there's like civilian chopped.

And it's like grandmas or like firefighters.

I'm thinking if there's like podcaster chopped. Yeah.

And my opponents are like Sam Sanders and Sarah Kahnig.

Sure.

I'm in that.

I'm in the game.

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