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Shawna Rae: TLC's 'My 8 Year Old Bride'
from Mike Recine | The Tim Dillon Show #333 · #333
4 min
Tim and Mike Recine discuss a news article about a 23-year-old woman, Shawna Rae, who looks like an eight-year-old due to a medical condition, and the TLC show made about her dating life. They riff on To Catch a Predator, the ethics of dating her, and TLC's willingness to exploit her condition for entertainment.
- Tim introduces the article: a man is dating a 23-year-old woman who looks like an eight-year-old, and he's defensive about not being a creep.
- To Catch a Predator clips come up on TikTok, and Tim notes how wild the show was—the predators thought they were getting a warning, not arrested.
- TLC made a show called 'My 8 Year Old Bride' about Shawna Ray, a woman with a condition that makes her look like a child.
- Tim: the show is basically To Catch a Predator with better production value.
- Shawna Ray insists she doesn't look like a child and argues people should look at her face, hands, maturity, and body to understand she's actually twenty-something.
- Tim suggests being a pedophile this way—finding an adult who looks like a child—is actually the best version of it, then marvels at how happy the boyfriend looks in photos.
- Tim jokes that the boyfriend went to chat rooms saying he found a 23-year-old who looks eight, while other predators bragged about molesting kids in their neighborhoods.
- Tim mentions doing a bit about the day you realize you're not a pedophile being a great day in your life.
- Shawna Ray probably gets carded constantly and rejected by bouncers despite having a government-issued ID.
- Tim concludes that despite everything, she probably deserves love, but she definitely has some kind of medical condition.
Shawna RayTo Catch a PredatorTLCMike RecineLong Island