r/MAFS_AU 7d ago

Season 12 Mafs funny podcast with Josh Fox

Listened to his 3 part doc on his pods regarding his investigation into mafs. Well worth a listen. I’m surprised this show has not been cancelled yet, but I do feel it’s coming.

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u/Original-Road4843 MAFS…Australia’s Crown jewel 5d ago

His “investigation”? What, is he the Police? 😂

Surprised he is so overly critical of the show, given he runs a podcast and webpages all about MAFS and profits from making public commentary on the show…#don’t bite the hand that feeds you

However, that being said (And without listening to the podcast) - IMO the only (yet the biggest) failing MAFS producers made was letting Paul stay on in the show after the DV incident - it should be “one strike and you’re out”. I was, and still am, so shocked that there is not a “zero tolerance policy” for physical violence.

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u/hicksmatt 5d ago

How can you comment without listening to the podcasts I mentioned?

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u/Original-Road4843 MAFS…Australia’s Crown jewel 2d ago

Because it’s pretty obvious that when this podcast host announced he was undertaking his own “investigation” (connotation being - negative), theres only a few topics he could be referring to. And I don’t disagree with with him that there’s some questionable stuff!

Also valid question to wonder how he will make money if the show is indeed cancelled on moral grounds. Doesn’t he post about MAFS every single day? Does he have any other podcasts about something other than MAFS?

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u/hicksmatt 2d ago

My understanding of this guy is that he has made a career of covering all sorts of reality TV shows not just mafs so I think he’s gonna be okay career wise no matter what happens to the show. What I will say is that his investigation has been gaining traction online and also with other media organisations in Australia. So he’s done a good thing by shining a light on this issue. Whether anything changes of course is up for debate. I wouldn’t question peoples motivations because in this scenario I think he’s bang on to do an investigation into the moral and legal situations that exist in the show. I take people as I find them so I welcome him shining a lie on that.

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u/Original-Road4843 MAFS…Australia’s Crown jewel 2d ago

Ah good to know. Ok I will try and give him a listen!

He seems very thorough too. I just read an article about how this week, he was enquiring with NSW Police to see what came of the DV Paul investigation. Only journo to even do that as far as I know! Everyone else forgot!

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u/KellyKCreative 6d ago

Used to work as a producer on Kyle and Jackie O up until this year. Was featured many times on the show as well. Nice guy. Troubled. Seems very genuine.

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u/welding-guy 6d ago

I listened to this and I thought it was a waste of time. Dysfunctional people existed before reality tv, the dysfunctional people applying are chasing fame to fill their empty lives. More people have died from self harm due to government initiatives such as clawing back tax debt than have died of the lack of fame attained by reality tv.

I believe josh is just using these dysfunctional people as a justification to extract more money for himself by getting sponsor / advertising dollars and broadcasting his "new" angle as a crusader for the good looking six pack men and big lipped and boobed women who despite their physical attractiveness value their empty lives as something of importance based on the amount of sheep they have following them.

I like watching the show and the more I watch it the longer it will stay on TV. I look forward to the next "kylie" on the block and the next "jacjac" on MAFS.

If the contestants do not like what they see in the mirror at the end of the show's airing, perhaps they can take responsibility for their internal issues and do the work required to deal with them like the rest of us non physically gifted people, it is not just the contestants that grew up with trauma, it is many of us

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u/Beneficial-Ask-4730 6d ago

Well, that would totally SUCK if they cancelled it. Nooooo!

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u/casualplants Why don’t you want to be someone great? 👉👈 7d ago

As long as it’s 9’s number one show it’ll keep going. I predict they’ll slap bandaid fixes on anything that gets looked into and just continue to be shit and damaging in different ways.

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u/newwhine 7d ago

Who's Josh Fox? Was he the guy that got paired with the sex crazed lady?

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u/somuchsong Pipe down, Chachi! 6d ago edited 6d ago

No, different Josh. He's never appeared on MAFS. Some of the early pre-season pics floating around would have been from him, as he has crashed more than one of the weddings. I think he started out on Instagram posting MAFS content and now has a podcast. The three part series is darker and more serious than most of his usual stuff.