Reality Roots

By Hilary Fleming

Join me on my journey back in time through episode recaps of classic daytime talk shows, the true roots of reality TV as we know it

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The podcast currently has 99 episodes available.

Reality Roots episodes:

September 13, 2023 Ricki Lake: We Fight 24/7... Why Can't We Get Along?
This week I'm BACK BACK BACK again with another gem mined from the Ricki Lake Show!
Families are supposed to love eachother... but what happens when they can't get along? Answer: They fight on daytime TV for our entertaintment.
Special guest appearances by Morticia Gormez, Al Bundy, Gabrielle Union and Bart Simpson
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1h 16min
August 15, 2023 Apology Tour
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2min
August 08, 2023 Sorry!
Until next week, take care of yourselves, and eachother <3
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2min
August 01, 2023 Sylvia Brown on Montel Williams FINALE WEEK (2006)
Montel's final week of production could never be complete without one last episode centered around prolific writer and self-proclaimed psychic Sylvia Brown. Listen to all the audience questions - stupid, sad, redundant and self-answering - and their sometimes sassy but always 5-words-or-less answers, straight from the mouth of the footlong fingernail third-eye goddess herself.

Special guests include: SYLVIA BROWN! What more do we need?
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57min
July 25, 2023 Sally Jessy Rafael: My Husband Treats Me Like A Slave
Sally takes on abusive husbands with her signature glasses, a flooffy teacher's haircut and a power suit, alongside recurring character Dr Ginger. Women are empowered, and the man-babies on-stage get put in their place.
Special guest appearances by Miss Cleo, wish-version Will Sasso, and Nancy Reagan
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1h 18min
July 18, 2023 Jerry Springer: I'll Never Let You Go!
Jerry Springer delivers all the catfights, death threats and weird dad jokes you could ever want this week, with only a few very minor poops in the reality TV punchbowl.
Special guests include beefcake Steve Wilkos, Frenchy from Grease, a close or far-distant relation of the Honey Boo Boo clan, and a mysterious shoe-like object.
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1h 14min
July 11, 2023 Ricki Lake: You're Too FAT To Be My Friend!
Four "skinny" guests bring their "fat" friends to Ricki Lake to issue weight-loss ultimatums "for their own good" in this very special Intervention crossover episode. Includes several friendship themed #motivationalquotes and some actress you've never heard of.
Special guest appearances by Juliette Lewis, the Barbie Dream Car, and TaMEEka!
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1h 24min
July 04, 2023 Sally Jessy Rafael: Help! My Teen Needs a Makeover
One unfortunate teen is blessed with a badly needed makeover after half her family writes in to relay all her bully's worst insults. Several other teens are forcibly given make overs at the behest of parents who can't cut the umbilical cord. Makeover makeover, makeover makeover, makeover makeover... MAKEOVER! *clap*clap*clap* Special guest appearances by Melissa McCarthy, the John Doe of child actors, and your grandma's best oversized crocheted doiley.
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1h 19min
June 27, 2023 Phil Donahue: Women Leave Their Husbands For Other Women
On this VERY SPECIAL Pride / Dirty 30 anniversary episode I go way WAY back in the way back time machine to 1991's Phil Donahue, who is getting the deets from these (mostly) out and fabulous lesbians on how their previous/current heterosexual relationships are faring, as well as a sneak peek at what it's like to be gay in 1991. Special guest appearances by Cillian Murphy, Killian Murphy, Emma Watson, and a map of the Midwest United States.
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1h 23min
June 20, 2023 Jenny Jones: Lie Detector That Playa!
Jenny Jones showcases the top 10 douchebags of 1997 in all their misogynistic glory! Special guest appearances by Rude Jude, hot girl Val, pudgy Conan O'Brien, and self-described Wish-version Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys.
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1h 28min

FAQs about Reality Roots:

How many episodes does Reality Roots have?

The podcast currently has 99 episodes available.