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Sources can be found in the show notes. Hello and welcome back to cold leader.

I'm your cult leader, Spencer Henry.

And Colpaved, as you can see, I'm a little bundled up today. We've got the beanie on. Okay, if you're watching this on YouTube, which you should be YouTube.com slash at Colt Leader, then you will see that. But today, in some very exciting news, we in Nashville had our first snow, a little flurry. And God, I got to tell you,

coming from California, it was real exciting for me. I've been in the snow, grew up, you know,

we went to Tahoe living in Southern California. You go to Big Bear, you go to Lake Arrowhead.

You expect it. But today, it just all of a sudden was real cold outside and started snowing. And I thought, what better way to embrace this cool weather than sitting here with you in my

cozy little office to tell you a horrible story? But it's one that has been highly, highly requested,

like countless times over the years.

And I finally got a chance to sit down and look into it because I've been binging old reality TV lately.

And there's just nothing like it.

So crack open your Diet Coke with me and let's get to it.

I mean, really, I feel like the 2000s were peak

chaos television. The best, really. Nothing was off limits. And sure, we have Bravo and the Mormon

wives now, but it's not the same. Back in the early aughts, before self-produced YouTube channels

and juicy TikTok tell-alls, part 50 of how did I marry this person and everyone's

famous now, right? But this was like when there were regular people and entire families would just

go on prime time national television and air out all their messy business for the world to see.

Why? Well, I don't know, but a lot of people did this.

It was like the golden age of messy, and I love catching old clips of my super sweet 16 or

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