Speaker 1: Reality TV shows have made a huge resurgence lately.
Speaker 2: Oh they aren't go away. It's Brook and Jeffrey in
Speaker 2: the Morning.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like they had a lull, but
Speaker 1: now they're getting really, really popular again, and not just
Speaker 1: the trash ones that Alexis.
Speaker 2: Likes, like Three Way Island and Milf Mountain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't you know you watch them too, That's all
Speaker 1: you two have in common. Honestly, they are pretty good
Speaker 1: and I guess they are mostly trash, but it is
Speaker 1: fun to watch. And the big question is how do
Speaker 1: they get so much drama out of these people?
Speaker 2: Do they get drunk?
Speaker 1: Do they walk into a therapist office and say, oh,
Speaker 1: Sam unstable want to be on TV?
Speaker 2: That's kind of what they do in the audition, isn't
Speaker 2: that what it is?
Speaker 1: It's actually surprisingly not that easy. And I know that
Speaker 1: because reality producers and former contestants recently spilled the juicy
Speaker 1: secrets of what really goes on behind the scenes of
Speaker 1: your favorite reality shows, like, for example, on the show Survivor,
Speaker 1: the host Jeff Probes just explained on a podcast recently,
Speaker 1: contestants are allowed to go to the bathroom without a
Speaker 1: camera or a producer present, but only if they go alone.
Speaker 2: See somebody else's time to film.
Speaker 1: They're hooking up if you want to hooking up, well,
Speaker 1: hopefully not on Survivor, maybe they are, but the whole
Speaker 1: idea is if you want to take a restroom break
Speaker 1: with other people, the cameras have to roll, so you
Speaker 1: can't use that time to conspire or make secret allegiances.
Speaker 2: That sounds like, why would you go with somebody else
Speaker 2: if you're not hooking Terrible on the show Survivor would
Speaker 2: get kicked off the plane on the flight thereass On
Speaker 2: the show The Bachelor, one of my favorites, one of the.
Speaker 1: Former producers admitted that they influence which contestants stay and
Speaker 1: which ones get sent.
Speaker 2: We I thought it was all up to whoever you know.
Speaker 1: Connect.
Speaker 2: That's what we all are hoping to. Awful person that's
Speaker 2: on their soul. That's the thing.
Speaker 1: They know who the villain is, and they know who's
Speaker 1: going to start the most drama, so they want to
Speaker 1: keep them around.
Speaker 2: They even decide the order of who gets a rose
Speaker 2: in the rose ceremonies. Oh, like, so who gets eliminated?
Speaker 2: Essentially like when your name gets called?
Speaker 1: Yeah, plus for the one on one dates, No one's
Speaker 1: allowed to eat the plates of food when they have dinner.
Speaker 2: What why serve it?
Speaker 1: They show like those big fancy dinners and they're sitting
Speaker 1: at a table in some like beautiful garden or something.
Speaker 1: They say it's because the viewers don't want to watch
Speaker 1: people eat.
Speaker 2: They just want to see the lobster tail, but.
Speaker 1: They don't want to see the Plus, the microphones would
Speaker 1: pick up the chewing if they were actually eat.
Speaker 2: Which I think is like part of the experience.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, like, can you imagine the Bachelor's just
Speaker 1: this really rude dude who can't close his mouth. I
Speaker 1: don't like two three days if he turned out to
Speaker 1: be the guy who strapes his teeth on the floor.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I couldn't never watch again.
Speaker 1: But in between all the date stuff that they film,
Speaker 1: they go back to the hotel to shower and eat
Speaker 1: dinner by themselves. We're talking about behind the scenes secrets
Speaker 1: that contestants and Hollywood producers have shared about our favorite
Speaker 1: reality TV shows and on the Masked Singer. To protect
Speaker 1: each celebrity secret identity, they have to have private security
Speaker 1: follow them around. Oh I didn't even think about that
Speaker 1: because people would leak it that work there anybody. Staff
Speaker 1: are never allowed to use their phones under any circumstances
Speaker 1: during the entire show. If they ever do have to
Speaker 1: take an emergency call, they're required to wear a pageant
Speaker 1: sash that says phone Queen on it, the reality TV
Speaker 1: equivalent of a dunce cap.
Speaker 2: Basically. Now, the cooking show Top Chef, you I've seen
Speaker 2: like bits and Pieces of us. There's like fifteen seasons.
Speaker 2: It's crazy. They make me too hungry to watch.
Speaker 1: Actually, they have an unofficial extra judge on that show
Speaker 1: for when, like the main TV judges, can't make up
Speaker 1: their minds about whose food dish is the best and worst,
Speaker 1: they'll turn to a camera operator named t Bone and
Speaker 1: he gets to cast the final decision on who should
Speaker 1: win each round. Are you telling me that they don't
Speaker 1: include this on television?
Speaker 2: That would be way funnier.
Speaker 1: It would be so good, But Top Chef isn't supposed
Speaker 1: to be funnier, right, I thought that.
Speaker 2: For I said it, it's like it's very prestigious.
Speaker 1: Imagine te Yeah, I know Alexis wants to hear about this.
Speaker 2: Love Island already know, Jeff, you probably do know this.
Speaker 1: But the contestants, if you're on the show, are never
Speaker 1: allowed to know.
Speaker 2: The actual time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no clocks allowed in Love Island Villa.
Speaker 2: No watches either, like a casino.
Speaker 1: One of the contestants that you're in your own secluded world.
Speaker 2: You know nothing. You don't even know what day it is.
Speaker 2: That would be weird.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be like the ree coupley like three am
Speaker 1: sometimes just to get emotions like super high too and
Speaker 1: stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Or they don't know they're tired.
Speaker 1: I don't know, because this island for.
Speaker 2: A crazy think.
Speaker 1: This is a show where you combine Love Island and
Speaker 1: Survivor together. Yea, Now we're talking about behind the scenes
Speaker 1: secrets that contestants and all the other producers are shared
Speaker 1: about reality shows. Back to Bachelor. If you see Bachelor
Speaker 1: in Paradise, the contestants all seem really really wasted the
Speaker 1: entire time for sure, very sloppy. But turns out they're
Speaker 1: not because they have a strict two drink per hour
Speaker 1: limit on the island, and how do they.
Speaker 2: Explain their behavior. That's why they don't want this out
Speaker 2: being drunk.
Speaker 1: One of the former participants on the show said the
Speaker 1: bartenders actually have a little binder with everybody's photo in it,
Speaker 1: and every time you get a drink, sir, they do
Speaker 1: a little tick mark by your picture.
Speaker 2: That's so, what's really happening is people are stealing other
Speaker 2: people's drinks. Yeah, all the show's on the other show.
Speaker 1: Sorry.
Speaker 2: And finally, does anybody watch Shark Tank here? I do?
Speaker 2: I do? I like that one too.
Speaker 1: Apparently contestants have to endure the most awkward thirty seconds
Speaker 1: of their entire life when they go on the show
Speaker 1: because when they first walk out in front of the judges, okay,
Speaker 1: they're not allowed to speak at all for a whole
Speaker 1: thirty seconds. You can see that every time they walk out,
Speaker 1: they sit, they stand, and then the judges all judge
Speaker 1: and talk about them. Well, so the whole reason is
Speaker 1: so that the camera crew can adjust the mic.
Speaker 2: Levels and get the camera angles right.
Speaker 1: One business owner from season six said, you're just kind
Speaker 1: of standing there, the sharks are all smiling awkwardly at you,
Speaker 1: and the whole thing is pretty weird and intense.
Speaker 2: You think that'd be your worst night, Merrilexis, I'd be like,
Speaker 2: all right, I'm not going home. Actually, that's terrible.
Speaker 1: Those are the behind the scenes secret of your favorite
Speaker 1: reality TV shows. We've got your phone tap coming.
Speaker 2: Up right after this. Brooking Jeffrey in the morning