Made from Humans: How Reality Becomes TV

When I was voted out—on live TV

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26 years ago, just one week after Survivor premiered, I was live on TV, competing for an audience’s vote, and it was broadcast thanks to C-SPAN. Here’s the story—and video!

Plus: hilarious recommendations and stick around to the end for life advice from Tiffany Pollard.

Curtain Pull

  • Reality TV contracts

    • Story Time:

    • Great American Think-Off
    • C-SPAN
    • C-SPAN broadcast: "Is Democracy Fair?" (watch below)
    • Andy Dehnart on C-SPAN
    • recent Think-Off debates on YouTube

      • Recommendations

      • Bad Lip Reading - The House of Representatives
        • Nancy Pelosi and George Santos
        • House of Villains (Peacock)

          • Credits

          • Made from Humans: How Reality Becomes TV is copyright 2026 by Reality Blurred LLC.
          • Find me at realityblurred.com or andydehnart.com
          • Our theme song is “Cheery Monday” by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under the Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 License.
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            Made from Humans: How Reality Becomes TVBy reality blurred's Andy Dehnart