The Get Real Podcast: For All Things Reality TV

The team celebrates their one year anniversary by talking about the last week of Love Island and Week 5 of Big Brother. We get glimpses of The Challenge and share our thoughts on The Bachelorette finale as well!

Garrett, Elsa and Taj are back to get you caught up on weeks three and four in the Love Island Villa and the Big Brother House!! Brent has a lot cooking in his mental, Cash has a dramatic exit, there's a lot going on people!!!

Garrett, Elsa and Taj are back to talk about all the heat and romance in the Love Island Villa week 2, but mostly we are just mad that Javonny is gone. Also, Big Brother 23 week 2, the downfall of Frenchie, as this season grows in popularity. 

CBS Reality is on FIRE this summer and Garrett, Elsa, and Taj are ready to sit back and watch. We break down the Episodes 2-7 of Love Island covering the Cinco Love Triangle and all of the drama with Josh and Shannon. In Big Brother we are frenching pumped to talk about Frenchie's horrible frenching HOH and the first eviction of the season. Alissa Salzwedel joins us as our special guest to break i...

Garrett, Elsa, and Taj are BACK and ready for summer!!! All new seasons of our favorite reality shows are back and better than ever! Each week we will break down all the steamy gossip and dramatic heartbreak in the Love Island villa as well as talk about the backstabbing and shenanigans in the Big Brother house. TWO Live Television events, hours of entertainment to be had.

WE'RE OVER IT MTV! END THESE SHOWS EARLIER THIS IS LIKE A MARATHON WE DIDN'T TRAIN FOR. Garrett, Elsa and Taj are here talking about The Challenge, Drag Race, and the Masked Singer and how these seasons feel like they are dragging on forever. They also look ahead to what new shows are coming on the horizon. AND, Elsa brought a game! Special thanks to @alissasalzwedel and @alisonbanchero for o...

Garrett, Elsa and Taj were so lucky to be joined by the lovely Jay Washington this week to talk about what's been happening in the world of reality TV. Jay shares his long history as a fan of the Challenge and introduces the hosts to Floribama Shore. Then, we talk about the horrible roast from season 13 of Drag Race and finally we wrap it up by talking about what's been happening on the Masked Sin...

Since we are all big college basketball fans here (?), Garrett, Elsa and Taj decided to run through a bracket of the Top 32 reality shows of all time. High stakes, mad drama and an extremely predictable outcome... just like most reality TV. We also touch on the Bachelor finale and recent episodes of Drag Race.  Thank you to @alissasalzwedel for our cover art and @alisonbanchero for our jingle...

As our seasons begin to wind down, Garrett, Elsa, and Taj are here to make sure you know what happened on this season. Taj breaks down the Fantasy Suite visits on THE BACHELOR, Garrett talks the latest CHALLENGE news, and Elsa gives her thoughts on the makeover challenge on DRAG RACE. Plus, Elsa learns that blood is not blue and that the first sperm to the egg is not the one to fertilize it. This...

Garrett, Elsa and Taj need your help. Elsa knows Josh Duhamel, Garrett has a vague idea of him and Taj had never heard his name. Is he famous or not? Either way, talking about reality television and occasionally referencing him will obviously help his career(?). Josh's spirit joins us on a voyage through the the television landscape as Taj breaks down the hometown visits on THE BACHELOR, Garrett e...

Garrett, Elsa and Taj take on the helms of the greatest pop culture teen detectives to uncover any and all mysteries surrounding reality television this week. Garrett nails down a solid timeline for Claudia Conway, Taj proposes a new theory as to why Heather popped into the Bachelor mansion, and Elsa finally is able to compliment Tina Burner on one of her looks. Plus a bonus happy rant about Big B...

Garrett, Elsa and Taj are BACK (3.0?) with a whole new look! The Bachelor, The Challenge, RuPaul's Drag Race and more! This episode Garrett brings up his conspiracy theory about Claudia Conway being on American Idol, Elsa complains about Tina Burner's trichromatic wardrobe and Taj reveals that the Bachelor has become his guilty pleasure (while people online are trying to get the show off the air!)...

As per usual, Garrett, Elsa and Taj say that they are going to talk about the Bachelor, but mostly they just complain about Victoria. In a show about love, the Get Real hosts are ready to talk about the most important stuff: drama between total strangers fighting over the same man they just met 24 hours ago.  Plus we have a lot in store for you in the coming weeks, stay tuned!  THE CHALL...

Ok so Fessy... what was that? Seriously dude, this isn't BB20 you don't have to play like a dumb person anymore. Garrett, Elsa and Taj are here to break down the extra horrible gameplay (but great television) that graced our screens in this episode of the Challenge. With the worst daily challenge we have seen thus far but the best elimination, this was certainly a rollercoaster of an episode. Let...

YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS! It's Flavor of Love time on GET Real and Garrett, Elsa and Taj are here to talk about this iconic moment in reality television history. This show is a parody of a parody all wrapped up in drama and it is GREAT. We talk about Flavor Flav, New York, Red Oyster, Pumkin and MORE as we break down the best parts of this series. DONT MISS our BACHELOR 25 and our CHALLENGE DOUBLE...

Garrett, Elsa and Taj are here to rank and break down every show they talked about in 2020. This include individual seasons that they recapped and whole shows that they researched for the Bucketlist. Shows that we talked about in 2020 were: Big Brother 22, Love Island USA 2, Dance Moms, Long Island Medium, The Great Foodtruck Race, The Bachelorette 16, Amazing Race 32, 90 Day Fiance, Finding Bigfo...

Garrett, Elsa and Taj are back to Bachelor nation after a short break to renew their visas. They are ready to talk about the dildo, the pickup truck and the crown, plus all the messy drunk single women vying for Matt James' love. Every limo entrance and every rose ready to go.  Check out our 2020 WRAP UP where we ranked all of the shows that we watched last year. THE CHALLENGE episode 4 just...

Garrett, Elsa, and Taj are back to talk about the crazy week of The Challenge that just went by. Two injuries, one big fight, a twist ending, this episode was quintessential Challenge. We talk about all the drama, all the strategy, and all the music! The Challenge is taking a one week break, we will be back to cover it after it resumes airing on 1/6 on MTV at 8 PM, don't miss it! THE BACHELOR star...

Garrett, Elsa and Taj finally put Tayshia's season to rest as they recap everything that happened during the last week of the Bachelorette 16. This podcast goes over the stand out moments from these episodes, the final rose, and looking back on the season as a whole to give our thoughts. We close out with a think tank to brainstorm how to make a better reality dating show.  More coverage of T...

Our penultimate Bachelorette podcast talking about the final dates, the hometown visits, the mens tell all and all the drama. Garrett, Elsa and Taj are ready to talk about all the gushy romance, if there is any to be found. Tayshia continues to stun and impress, but she is having to make hard decisions and her fate could change.  Don't miss THE CHALLENGE, as well as our FINALE podcast about T...

The finale of the Amazing Race has come and gone and another season is in the books. Garrett, Elsa and Taj take this opportunity to reflect on the season overall and the show as a whole, as well as to discuss the final leg. Plus, are we happy with the winners? Listen here to find out, and a sneak peak of what MAY be to come in The Amazing Race 33.  THE CHALLENGE is hot and wonderful right now...

Garrett, Elsa and Taj are all rogue agents and they are all PUMPED about this season of the Challenge. With two brand new viewers and one newer fan, this is the perfect podcast for anyone who has never seen the show before! If you like Survivor, Big Brother, American Ninja Warrior, or Fear Factor this is the show for you! With a killer spy theme, you DON'T want to miss THE CHALLENGE or our coverag...

Tayshia has the axe out and is chopping down men left and right, somehow in the most graceful way possible, all the way to finale. It has been a very unconventional season of the Bachelorette for MANY reasons but we are on the home stretch now. Garrett, Elsa, and Taj are here to finish out the season and finish out the year with a brand new couple! Don't miss our last few BACHELORETTE podcasts Plu...

Much like eponymous character of the show we watched, this podcast has evaded being discovered. In fact, this was recorded nearly two months ago on October 18 on a stormy fall night and has gone unposted.... until now. This podcast is a number of things, an informative podcast about Finding Bigfoot is not one of them. Instead, a wonderful mix of drunken people and sober people leads to chaos and h...

In our penultimate podcast about the Amazing Race 32, Garrett, Elsa and Taj talk about everything that happened with the racers in Cambodia and the Philippines. Starting with the final Double U-Turn of the season and ending with the first ever City Sprint leg, we talk about it all. Plus, we give our thoughts on the season as a whole and reminisce about some of the great moments. Our Amazing Race f...