I declare that first so that you can understand what happened.
The game started shortly after 7 p.m., and by 9:30 p.m., the Pistons had defeated the 76ers.
I like the games that start early, because, going into work each night about 11 p.m., I like to be able to see the end of the games. Anytime the Pistons play someone on the west coast, the games start later, and there is a pretty good chance I'm going to miss the the last quarter of those games. So, I'm not complaining that the game ended early. Early is good.
Unfortunately, by ending that early, I was left channel surfing for something to fill in that half hour before Law & Order came on. (An hour and a half before work, with getting ready, I'm not exactly going to accomplish much else before going in, you know?)
And I landed on Fox. Fox, the Denny's restaurant of the airwaves. You don't plan to go there, you just end up there when there is no other choice.
(Of course, that is a generality. Fox does have House and 24. And another 12 hours of unwatchable programming each week.)
As I was saying, I landed on Fox. What I witnessed there was dumbfounding. It was a game show... I guess... called The Moment of Truth. This... show had been on for a half hour already, so it took me a moment to see what was happening.
Apparently, seemingly normal people chose to go on this show, where they were interviewed while hooked to a lie detector beforehand, and they then had to answer questions based on that interview in front of their friends, family, employers, and the entire viewing audience. Questions that ranged from personal, to uncomfortable, to kinda criminal. And all they have to do is answer honestly to win the cash.
It isn't even a game show. I mean, there are no questions the contestants DON'T know the answer to. All they have to do is admit horrible things about themselves. Horrible, life-ruining types of things.
For cash.
And not even a lot of it (as if that would somehow make it better).
Here is the kicker, though - if they answer dishonestly in front of everyone, they lose all the money and the entire world knows that they were lying about their denial anyway.
The one contestant I saw was a personal trainer and was asked if he ever touched a female client more than necessary. And he had to answer this in front of his wife. He denied it and the voice-over declared his answer false. He lost all his precious money, his wife stared daggers at him, and he gets to try to go back to his job with clients assuming he molests women.
Yeah, that was worth it.
Seriously, who would sign up for this? What kind of person is that desperate for cash, or the chance to be on TV, that they would subject themselves to this public humiliation?
I don't get it. I just don't get it.
I'm never going to watch this horrible display of greed and idiocy again. Talk about your lowest common denominator TV. Sheesh.
I'll type at you later.
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