
Episode 260 • • 1:09:17 - 1:13:28
260: Madoff has left the building
Reality TV Distractions and Sarah Palin's Caribou Skinning
The hosts critique American reality television shows like "Bridalplasty," where contestants compete for plastic surgery procedures. They contrast the public's comfort with graphic surgical scenes to the "cringe" reaction many had toward Sarah Palin skinning a caribou on her television show. They argue that basic survival skills like butchering an animal for food are being replaced by superficial cultural obsessions.
