My suggestion is stick with guests and shows that have new ideas or push the envelope.

I hope that this icky feeling goes away eventually.

Red Faces always bothered me, but I always have a hard time watching things where people are embarrassing themselves (I could never hack The Office). I do seem to recall off-colour acts occuring with too much regularity too. I actually felt relieved for these guys that they were pretty unrecognisable.

Most recently it sold off its majority stake in Australian broadcaster Ten Network Holdings, in addition to past sales of its E!-branded TV stations and U.S. political magazine The New Republic.

I don't think you hit on any of the points above… well, maybe you did ask but they either didn't understand or didn't answer (perhaps quite cleverly) those direct questions.

No, I actually loved the Marc Fennell interview, did enough to get me interested and set the IQ2 to tape it, we'll see what comes of it.

@catbrain – I loved the apology for the 6 in the studio… I only heard 3 (and a cracking smell line from Brett! Gold!)

We hoped to get across information about how aware contestants are about what they're going through with these shows. I haven't had a chance to listen back to the episode so I don't know if we succeeded.

We hear a lot about manipulation of characters in Reality/Extreme Gameshows but on Boxcutters we've never spoken to anyone who has actually spent several weeks in a house with no outside stimulus.

If the contestants feel that they have grown and learnt something from the experience, then does it really lack moral value?

The concept of the show, especially in the US, is largely exploitative. What compels someone to put themselves up for that sort of exploitation?

I would hope that there is a difference between what the Corin and Jenna said on our show and what they would say on breakfast radio.

Or maybe I've misunderstood you. Maybe you loved our interview with Corin and Jenna but hated the one with Marc Fennell from Hungry Beast.

I'm glad you managed to get them on the show, and I will tune in to Channel 7 to check it out (but probably only for 1 week).

Although I'm sure you just did that interview to like show how great your guys like podcast is and stuff and that you like to you know like shows that lack like moral value or interest, it just didn't come off.

*Brett being a pretty good barometer for me, was interestingly very quiet during that interview.

I also like that the title of this episode can be read as calling Marc Fennell a geek.

I find Boxcutters to be both well Produced and Entertainment-ilicious, myself.