 The earliest form of reality television that I talk about was actually before TV. It was on radio. And these shows were called the audience participation shows. I was very surprised by this. When I started writing this book, I expected it to go back to like the 90s in the real world. But what I found was that there was this explosion of shows on radio that also cast just regular people and that created a similar kind of moral outcry where people were sort of appalled that regular people were going on the air. And I'm talking here about shows like