Laguna Beach: It can be difficult to revisit your adolescence, particularly if it was a Frankensteined version

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that a TV network conglomerate had recorded, edited, and manufactured for the enjoyment of millions

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worldwide. Even if your initial motivation for going back is so you can create a whole podcast around the nostalgia

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trip, one can only assume it gets harder. They say that there are recurring patterns throughout life. Of

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course, I'm referring to Back to the Beach, the Dear Media podcast that revisits each episode of the early

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reality television sensation Laguna Beach and features two original cast members and ex-couples Kristin

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Cavallari and Stephen Colletti. They assert that this is the first time they have both watched the

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play since they worked on it as teenagers about twenty years ago. They are both in their mid-thirties now.

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The podcast appears to be a simple exercise in brand extension and a clear entry in the burgeoning celebrity

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rewatch genre. But if you look a little closer, you'll also discover that it transforms into an intriguing window into

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the early days of modern reality television—and what toll they exact on its initial players.

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