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A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

Drake Bell and the Cycle of Abuse

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

Matt Bernstein

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

The new docu-series “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” is shedding light on the abuse that early-2000s child stars faced behind the scenes of our favorite Nickelodeon shows. The doc focuses especially on Drake Bell (of “Drake & Josh” fame), but leaves out half the story. Is a program that claims to be raising awareness about abuse ultimately just perpetuating it? Support me on Patreon! Huge thanks to Blueland for sponsoring today’s show. Get 15% off a cuter, more sustainable way to clean at www.blueland.com/fruity Find more of Kat. Find more of A Bit Fruity. Find more of Matt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, hello and welcome back to a bit fruity.

0:09.0

The show where it increasingly feels like the conclusion that I reached by the end of every episode

0:14.4

is that there aren't good people and bad people, but just people who have the capacity to be

0:20.9

complicated and conflicting, and when you realize that it becomes a lot easier

0:26.5

to take in new information about them without fighting against it for the sake of upholding

0:31.9

some cartoonishly two-dimensional version of

0:34.8

personhood that we often wish was a reality that was the longest intro I've

0:40.0

the longest sentence I've ever recited.

0:42.7

Today we are here once again

0:45.2

with recurring friend of the show, Kat Tenbarge.

0:48.1

Such an honor.

0:49.3

Well, thank you for having me back.

0:51.2

I love to be here. I'm a tech and culture reporter at NBC News.

0:56.3

I think my dream for this podcast is to ultimately in the long run do what I've begun doing

1:00.5

which is just like there's like four guests and every couple of months you can

1:04.5

know that you're going to hear from one of them and on issues like this, there's no one but cat.

1:09.2

Quick trigger warning for today's episode, we are going to be talking about sexual abuse. We're going to be

1:15.0

talking about child sexual abuse. If that's something that's hard for you to take in

1:20.0

stories about

1:25.0

Drake Bell, who is recently featured prominently in the

1:33.0

explosively popular docuiseries Quiet on Set,

1:37.0

which chronicles the lives of late 90s and early 2000s

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