You Could Raid a Stranger's Bedroom on Television w/ Miles Kahn

You Could Do That On Television

Mohanad Elshieky & Hannah Wright

2000s, Reality Tv, Comedy, Interviews

4.9 • 664 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Mohanad and Hannah interview the co-creator of MTV’s “Room Raiders” and discuss how the show originally came to be, find out the truth behind those iconic blacklight scenes, and what producers found in those bedrooms that never made it onto TV. Follow us on Instagram @youcoulddothatontelevisionJoin our patreon for bonus content and discord benefitsHannah's Instagram Mohanad's Instagram Art by heyshermieEpisode recorded My Friend's Basement Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, welcome back.
0:08.6	This is Mohanah Del Sheikh.
0:10.0	And this is Hannah Wright.
0:11.0	And this is You Could Do That on television, the podcast where we talk about all the absolutely insane shows of the early 2000s that you could definitely never make today.
0:21.2	Yes. And today, we're going to be talking about Room Raiders.
0:25.1	Yeah.
0:25.5	It's an MTV show from 2003.
0:27.8	Room Raiders.
0:28.7	Yes.
0:29.0	And we have a very special guest today with us.
0:31.7	Yes.
0:32.0	Our podcast's first guest at Vaugh, the whole creator of Room Raiders himself, Miles Khan. Hey, Miles.
0:40.7	Hey, hi. How are you? Come on in. Miles, just so you know, so Miles is over Zoom or a Zoom-like
0:47.0	product right now, and we have you in the nice chair. Maybe you can see it. I don't know if you can appreciate that. You are in a very fancy chair right now. The laptop holding miles. Oh, I'm sitting. What I like is that what your viewers don't know is it's a very low angle. So you, I'm in a very low seat to reach my own microphone at home. So it looks like you're berating me from,
1:28.6	from afar. Oh, yeah. That's what we, I'm being scolded to do. This is what the show is. That's the vibe we want to create. Yeah. It's good. I feel very intimidated. So this is perfect. Yeah, take a picture of the angle. Oh, I did. I did. Yeah. It's great. So yeah, thanks for being with us, Miles.
1:28.6	It is my pleasure. of the angles. Oh, I did. I did. It's great. So, yeah, thanks for being with us, Miles.
1:30.7	It is my pleasure.
1:32.6	Yeah, room readers.
1:33.6	Yeah, room readers. So me and Mahan, just so everyone knows, used to work together at Full Frontal with Samantha
1:37.8	B.
1:38.5	And Miles was the executive producer of that show.
1:41.8	And while we worked with him, we found out he also created the show Room Raiders in 2003, which is such an insane flex. It was, it was, it's funny because when people are like, oh, what, tell me about your career. And I'm like, oh, I did the Daily Show in full frontal and I want a Peabody for this thing. I did deal here. And then I'm like, oh, yeah. And then like way back in like the 2000s, I created room.
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