Hear Me Out: Trashy TV Is Actually Good For You

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… Kim, there’s people that are
dying.  We can probably all agree that reality shows aren’t
exactly peak TV. But there’s a time, a place, and an audience for
pretty much everything. In a world where Love Is Blind’s
chart-topping run is frequently described as brilliant and awful in
the same breath, it’s easy to dismiss this stuff as a product of
the social media era. But that’s not quite accurate. Culture critic
and podcast host Kristen Meinzer joins us to talk all things
trashy. She maintains that not everything we watch needs to be
brain food… and that, in fact, the entertainment we hate to love
and love to hate might be good for society after all.  Podcast
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