Toxic Relationship, Allyship, & a Feminist Leadership Style | VIDEO EXCERPT | Awards Show | April & May | ::} 093

This is the video excerpt of episode 93, and the full video is on Patreon.com/RealityTestThe full audio is wherever you get your pods, including Apple & Spotify. Dr.s Kay and Ray dole out their 8 awards to any reality television shows they watched in the months of April & May, 2025: The Valley, Summer House, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Southern Charm, Below Deck Sailing Yacht, and, on Netflix, Battle Camp and Million Dollar Secret. If you haven’t heard of Netflix’s shows, Battle Camp & Million Dollar Secret, they each offer a new premise for challenge-focused reality television–the former a mix between The Challenge and Perfect Match, and the latter a mix between Anonymous and The Trust. The players from Squid Game: The Challenge stole the screen time on Battle Camp, although for different reasons for each. Which of these shows did you watch? Which awards would you give them? For example, our “TESTosterboned” award is given to a reality TV castmate or moment where testosterone boned the acting party and led to a particularly patriarchal (racist, heterosexist) result, in any variety of ways. We call the opposite award, “The Bechdel TEST” (each award has “test” in the name, given our show’s name!), which we give to the most feminist, anti-racist or queer moments or castmates of a given month. To whom or what moment might you give these two awards? To whom or what moment might we have? -------------------------------------------------------------------Listeners! Come visit the Patreon for free at⁠⁠ ⁠patreon.com/RealityTest⁠⁠⁠ & check out some of the benefits of a free membership & the paid tier! -------------------------------------------------------------------Reality testing is when we check an emotion or thought we’re having against objective reality. So, here in Reality Test, we’re going to be testing the thoughts, emotions, interactions, and producer antics of reality television against what we know, as licensed psychologists, about objective reality. Come with us, let’s Reality Test!Hosts: Dr. Kay & Dr. RayThank you to our sound extraordinaire, Connor!Patreon: patreon.com/RealityTestInstagram: @drkaypods @drraypodsTikTok: @dr.realitvFacebook Page: Reality Test PodYouTube Channel: @RealityTestPodEmail: [email protected]