For the first time in 22 years, three former strangers picked to live in a loft and have their lives taped returned to said loft to have their mini reunion taped.

The Real World Season 1's Heather B. Gardner, Norm Korpi, and Julie Gentry appeared on OWN's Oprah Where Are They Now last night, and discussed the game-changing show that made them household names. They did that from the Soho loft they lived in together, which is just blocks away from Gawker HQ. I wish they would have invited me over, not that it matters much—as usual, I feel like they did. I love these people. They feel like home to me, no matter where I am or where they are, but especially when they are back at their home of three months. (Fun fact: The loft is the actual home of Winston Churchill's artist granddaughter Edwina Sandys.) (Less fun fact: Heather, Norm, and Julie don't live there anymore, nor do they live together.)

It's so crazy to think that these people were cast because of their ambition, and said ambition wasn't merely to be on a reality show. Times have changed for the worse, and this is proof.

Still, the machinations of modern reality TV were present even before "reality TV" was a thing. "We figured out real quick there needed to be a plot each week," says Julie, who denies ever having sexual chemistry with her supposed showmance partner, heartthrob and eventual host of The Grind Eric Nies. Norm says that the producers' casting of stereotypes backfired on them when, for example, Southern Julie and queer he got along so well.

It's all charming and wonderful and I miss these people. If they ever want to reunite in Williamsburg for the first time, I have a couch.

Speaking of Nies, he was also profiled on the Where Are They Now? episode from his Hawaii home. He now has a baby, but has retained that South Jersey accent, thank god. He and his wife, Iona, knew each other in past lives. They describe themselves as "master light warriors" and use their Quantum Cellular Balancing CyberScan to help people improve their health over Skype. "My life is kind of like Studio 54 meets The Karate Kid meets The Celestine Prophecies [sic]," says Nies.

I didn't make any of that up. Nies might have, though.

[There was a video here]