Get Real
By Garrett Stanley
Shows we watch: Survivor, Big Brother, Love Island, The Bachelor, Amazing Race, RuPaul's Drag Race and more!
Get RealSep 14, 2022
#088: Get Medical
It's HERE! We're HERE! The Survivor 44 Premiere!!! Lots to talk about, including the introduction of our Survivor BINGO for this season! Plus TWO weeks of RuPaul's Drag Race!
#087: Get Unlocked
The last episode before Survivor starts! More Drag Race as well as an Inbox show-- Love Trip: Paris! A show with actually hot men on it!
#086: Get to Playing
A short week! We've got Drag Race, a little update to MILF Manor, and a Survivor themed Jeopardy!
#085: Get With The One
Drag Race, Are You The One, idk what else? We love podcast
#084: Get to Know My Mom (ft. Alissa)
MILF MANOR
#083: Get Lied To
With a bit of a schedule change, there is no SLC this week! Instead, we watched the 2022 Netflix home makeover show, Instant Dream Home, and the 2014 FOX reality dating show, I Wanna Marry Harry. Plus, a double Snatch Game on RuPaul's Drag Race!
#082: Get Sent to Prison For Fraud
This week we got the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Finale! What a doozy! We talk the drama and mechanics of a shorter episode of RuPaul's Drag Race and feature our Inbox show for the week: the Peacock original Traitors!
#081: Get Heard
The first official episode of 2023!! We've got the penultimate episode of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, the double premiere of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 15, and a new Inbox show; Netflix's Pressure Cooker!!
#080: GET REAL WRAP UP 2022
In tradition, the team ranks all the shows we watched this year! Which show will reign supreme? Which shows do we regret watching? Which shows did we forget about completely?
#079: Get Gabler'd
After a break for the holidays, it is the long awaited Survivor 43 finale! This was... interesting... to say the least. Plus TWO WEEKS of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. What happened to Heather's eye? Will we ever find out? Did she do it herself?
#078: Get Ahead
It's here! The Amazing Race Finale! Who will win? Will the knee storyline finally get the payoff it deserves? Who are all these people? Plus the final 6 of Survivor gets the most dramatic blindside of the season, and someone throws Angie K's $1500 shoes into the ocean on Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. We don't know who did it, but it definitely wasn't Jen Shah.
#077: Get Wet
After a week off of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, the women are back and wetter than ever. The penultimate leg of The Amazing Race took racers to Iceland where they swam and swam in water colder than the land Elsa hails from (Minnesota). And castaways took their Last Gasp as they competed in a legendary Survivor challenge.
#076: Get Dizzy and Get Busy
No Real Housewives of Salt Lake City this week so we're laying it on THICK with Survivor edit speculation. We're nearing the end! Who will win? Plus the long awaited Rhonda episode of The Amazing Race (Elsa has been there!!)
#075: Get Bitter
Good week, short podcast! A double elimination on Survivor 43, no eliminations on Amazing Race, and social eliminations on Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. We're reaching the end of our fall lineup!
#074: Get Your Foot Out Of His Taint
We love the Survivor merge. We love seeing Claire and Derek on Amazing Race. We do not love that scene with Meredith and Seth on Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.
#073: Get Hymn
A packed week, in the sense that each of these episodes was packed with drama and entertainment. The first full merged episode on Survivor, teams getting tripped up by travel on The Amazing Race, and finsta feuding on Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.
#072: Get Bad (ft. Alissa)
#071: Get Sandy
A pretty normal week as weeks go, with more Survivor, Amazing Race, and Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. It's spooky next week!
#070: Get Going
It's the fall lineup! Survivor, Amazing Race, Real Housewives of Salt Lake City! Plus the return of The Inbox with Netflix's THE MOLE!
#069: Get Mega
In what some may call a mid week, our shows did not prove to be so eventful this week. We were met with a standard episode of Survivor, the first half of a Mega Leg on Amazing Race, and the calm before the storm on Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.
#068: Get Your Hat
FINALLY! OUR FULL FALL LINEUP!!! Survivor 43 (amazing), Amazing Race 34 (stunning), and the premiere of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City season 3 (can't even begin to describe it). So many great characters! So many secrets! So much drama! So much running!
#067: Get LIVIN
#066: Get to the Top
It's another finale week, this time with the end of The Challenge USA. It was... interesting. And we're in the final days of Big Brother 24! I swear we did not know about the Taylor and Monte drama when we recorded. Survivor starts next week! Be sure to listen to our Survivor cast draft!
#065.5: Survivor 43: Revenge of the Palooza
As is tradition, we've done a cast overview/draft for season 43 of Survivor! This year we're doing a fantasy-style competition, which will surely be fun and not annoying in the slightest!
#065: Get Famous
A late episode this week (don't kill us), but we are bringing back the Bucketlist!! ABC's Claim to Fame was on our screens and boy did we love it! Plus, the penultimate week of The Challenge USA, and the penultimate penultimate week of Big Brother!
#064: Get Angela, She's Trying To Block Me
After another week off, the gang is back! The Love Island USA Finale, three Big Brother eliminations, and two weeks of The Challenge USA! Our summer lineup will soon be coming to an end, but be sure to stick around for our fall shows: Survivor 43, The Amazing Race, and Real Housewives of Salt Lake City season 3!
#063: Get Chaotic
We are really on one today. Recaps of The Challenge USA, Love Island US, and Big Brother coming at you. But as Garrett says, we were drinking goofy juice today.
#062: Get Sauced
It was Casa Amor week on Love Island US, and boy was that spicy. New couple after new couple over there. Otev was on Big Brother 24 and shared his sauce with all the houseguests. Plus, we saw some quitters on The challenge USA.
#061: Get The Band Back Together
After setting off to start a (now debunked) Cape Cod themed podcast, Taj comes crawling back to rejoin Get Real. We cover the events and mishaps of Big Brother 24, The Challenge USA, and US Love Island 4. Lots of chaos ensues. This is also posted on the two year anniversary of the podcast, but in typical Get Real fashion, we totally forgot.
#060: G and E spill the T
WHERE IS TAJ? He's stuck at the airport, funnily enough, which means Garrett and Elsa are left to battle their ADHD in order to produce a podcast. And this one is two weeks worth of content! We had the Love Island premiere and the Drag Race finale, as well as two amazing weeks of Big Brother and the Challenge. What could go wrong??
#059: Get Out Of The House
This is the craziest first week of Big Brother to have ever existed. And that might not be a good thing... Plus The Challenge USA is now in full swing, and we are hit with the penultimate challenge for RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 7!
#058: Get Ready For Summer
Finally!! We have some shows back on our screens! CBS's The Challenge USA is here with a lot of familiar faces for the team to root for! The new season of Big Brother has also hit, but can we all just agree that live episodes are the worst thing to ever happen to this show? Plus RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 7. We are slaves to CBS.
#057: Get Your Priorities Straight
Our Inbox show was met with mixed reviews this week as the crew watches Netflix's Snowflake Mountain. There was another mid acting challenge on Drag Race All Stars, and a new show that may be better than Pig Royalty?
#056: Getting To Know You
A love themed episode! Cute! Along with our regularly scheduled RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 7 (very mixed reviews on that runway btw), we watched the all new Amazon Prime Video show, The One That Got Away and the fan favorite Married At First Sight. In reality there wasn't a lot of actual love in these shows...
#055: Get Haunted
We have a good show! Ghost Adventures, and we have OPINIONS! Also the new Jeff Lewis show Hollywood Houselift is.. a show... I guess. Plus Drag Race All Stars!!
#054: Get Spoiled (ft. Alissa Salzwedel!)
For Taj's 21st (a week later) it's a drunk cast! We watched My Super Sweet 16 (to mixed reviews) and RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars. And this is the first week of our new segment: The Get Real Inbox, where we watched Real Housewives of Dubai! And Alissa Salzwedel joins us as a suprise!
#053: Get Your Head In The Clouds
After a week hiatus, the team is back with some reality recaps! Survivor finale aired, along with two new episodes of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars! We added a new segment to our lineup, and watched Treehouse Masters for the Bucket List!
#052: Get Fabulous
I liked this one, personally. Drag Race All Stars is back with an all winner season! It's so good, we love it. The penultimate episode of Survivor is here with a frontrunner going out in a big strategic play. Plus we watched the Netflix reboot of Queer Eye! Next week is the Survivor Finale and one of our hosts will be receiving a punishment!
#051: Get Wild
We have a double Bucket List week! Along with Survivor (great episode by the way), we watch the original Queer Eye and the new Discovery+ show Love In The Jungle! Drag Race All Stars starts next week!
#050: Get Royal (ft. The Rihn Family)
This is an extra special one! You've heard us blab about Pig Royalty nonstop for the past few weeks, but now we're talking shop with the Rihn Family from the show! Thank you so much Jody and Josh for chatting with us! Plus we've got the rise of Lindsay on Survivor. And to pair with our favorite show (Pig Royalty), we watched the worst show ever made for the Bucketlist, How Far is Tattoo Far.
#049: Get Grylled (ft. Robert)
In a Get Real first, we bring back a bucket list show to talk about the Pig Royalty season 2 finale. We love this show so much. Plus a double elimination on Survivor, and more surviving on The Island with Bear Grylls! And we're with Robert (Alissa's boyfriend, we talk about him a lot).
#048: Get Clout
What a week! Drag Race finale, first merge episode of Survivor! Also JERSEY SHORE! That show is crazy.
#047: Getting Piggy With It
We have discovered the sleeper hit of reality TV: Pig Royalty. An amazing week on Survivor (but at what cost) and a somewhat standard reunion on Drag Race. Next week is the Finale!! Who will be crowned winner of Season 14?
#046: Get Body Positive
Good vibes this week, but we had some serious discussions (surprising, I know). Lydia finally got her moment to shine on Survivor, we had ANOTHER NON-ELIM on Drag Race (curse you RuPaul Charles), and we talk Biggest Loser on the Bucket List. Did such an iconic show stand the test of time?
#045: Get Roasted
New shows, old shows-- we have everything this week. Survivor 42 has spoiled a big moment in their season, and queens are getting roasted on Drag Race. Plus our Bucket List review of the new TBS reality competition Rat In The Kitchen, which we honestly love.
#044: Get Decked
#043: Get Married (ft. Alissa Salzwedel)
Alissa (our favorite person) is back to talk about the reality TV sleeper hit Bridezillas. We stan Lydia, we stan Jonathan, and we are pretty sure Jen Shah is guilty. Plus we incorporated secret phrases into our episode this week! Does Taj really like slippery spaghetti?
#042: Get Snatched
The time has finally come! Survivor 42 premiere (what a coincidence that this is episode 42!), Snatch Games on Drag Race (I don't want to talk about it), Elsa finally gets to talk about a game show (she does want to talk about it), and the penultimate episode of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City season 2 (thank god it's almost over). Alissa returns next week!
#041: Get Blinded By Love
Bucket List is back, and boy is this one a doozie! Garrett, Elsa, and Taj recap the pod dates for the second season of Love Is Blind. There are some strong opinions-- I'll leave it at that. The Amazing Race finale was also this week? Did Elsa have to follow through on her bet to get Phil Keoghan's name tattooed? Plus Drag Race and the first episode of the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Reunion! Next week is the Survivor 42 premiere! If you haven't listened to our cast draft and review, check that out!
#040.5: Survivor Palooza Twoza: Electric Boogalooza
Out second Survivor special! For season 42 we are doing a reverse draft and the stakes have never been higher!