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This week, Megan and Gillian sit down and revel in the nostalgia of Jersey Shore, The Simple Life, American Idol, Survivor, Catfish, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, and The Hills. We queue up some of the most memorable, most hilarious, and most cringe moments from the early 2000s. Watch the clips we use the audio for here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNPTj-aIfBubuVn5_pWnx_LRFidFuUUuv

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This week Megan and Gillian delved into Welcome to Plathville, a family of extremely blonde people who are both super Christian and super New Age. Kim has some control issues and Barry might well be a serial killer. Come join us!

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Megan and Gillian shoot the shit and watch the new Ghost Hunters. Gillian loved Ghost Hunters the OG TAPS seasons, so she was for sure stoked as hell that Ghost Hunters came back. Come hang out with us and get a little spoopy as fall slowly, finally, arrives.

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This week Megan and Gillian discuss the other half of the Unsolved Mysteries episodes. Gillian ponders air conditioning in spacecraft. 

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This week Megan and Gillian decided to dive into the first half of Unsolved Mysteries reboot on Netflix. Do you prefer your true crime content to be about unsolved mysteries and cold cases, or do you like solved mysteries more?

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Megan introduces Gillian to the hyper religious, child filled family of the Duggars. Gillian is promptly horrified and Megan gets down into the nitty gritty of the family she loves to hate.

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Hello everyone! 

This week Megan and Gillian do a dive into the topsy turvy world of Mormon cults, probably murdering your children, and having your spouses killed by your brother who also ended up dead? We watched the three dateline specials about Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell and their wild ass story.

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Hello everyone! 

We're back with more regular programming, 90 Day Fiance is giving us the will to carry on, despite all of the drama. Come hang out with us!

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Hello everyone! This week we are doing something a little different and doing a deep dive into perceptions of the police based on entertainment media. Black lives matter, defund the police. Cops has been canceled and Gillian apparently spoke Live PD being canceled into existence. 

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Sources for this episode:

Color of Change study:

https://hollywood.colorofchange.org/crime-tv-report/

Articles about study:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/25/law-and-disorder-how-shows-cloud-the-public-view-of-criminal-justice

https://newrepublic.com/article/156321/bingeing-cop-propaganda

Tulsa, OK has pulled out of their contract with Live PD in response to protests:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/kfor.com/news/local/tulsa-mayor-says-contract-with-live-pd-will-not-be-renewed/amp/

Movies, TV Shows Evolve to Reflect a Changing, More Complex View of Police

https://variety.com/2017/film/features/police-in-movies-tv-shows-1202511299/

Cops Are Always the Main Characters

https://www.vulture.com/2020/06/tv-cops-are-always-the-main-characters.html

TV Cop Shows Affect Real-World Policing, Study Says

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/06/803292027/tv-cop-shows-affect-real-world-policing-study-says

Have cop shows affected views on the police?

https://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/tv-and-culture/cop-shows-affected-views-on-police.htm

Don’t Fall for the Copaganda: They’ll Take A Knee, Then Tear Gas Thousands

https://www.leftvoice.org/dont-fall-for-the-copaganda-theyll-take-a-knee-then-tear-gas-thousands

The 8 Most Popular Types of ‘Copaganda’: How the Police Play the Media

https://www.alternet.org/2016/02/8-most-popular-types-copaganda-how-police-play-media/

https://www.reddit.com/r/copaganda/

https://www.reddit.com/r/copaganda/comments/as4h8a/what_is_copaganda_and_why_does_this_sub_exist/

The Role of Entertainment Media in Perceptions of Police Use of Force (study available on Google scholar) 

https://psmag.com/social-justice/law-and-order-is-educational-television

POLICING ON PRIME-TIME: A Comparison of Television and Real-World Policing (study available on Google scholar) 

Hello everyone! It's another week of 90 Day Fiancé! Darcey still, inexplicably, showed up last week. Ed went home with his tail between his legs. Avery and Stephanie left Australia behind. We talk about some random things as well as a few current events. Black lives matter, y'all.

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