• About Kathy Shaidle
  • Kathy Shaidle: Donate
  • Kathy Shaidle: Privacy policy

5 Feet of Fury

Kathy Shaidle's blog. Est. 2000

Must read: Mark L. Walberg on what really goes down on trashy reality shows

March 25, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

It’s weird hearing the host of the American Antiques Roadshow on PBS say the world “bullshit.”

Walberg takes you behind the scenes of his previous (trashier) jobs, like Joe Millionaire, Moment of Truth and Temptation Island:

I said, “I’m not asking you to cry. I’m not getting paid by the tear. I’m just asking you, how do you feel? How do you honestly feel when you see another man’s arms around your girlfriend?” I posed it that way, and he still wouldn’t give me a legit answer.

So I said, “Look: You can either tell me how you feel right now, or not tell me and we’ll just shoot you crying on the beach in an hour.” And he was like, “Ha, well, we don’t cry!”

And then an hour later, he’s crying on the beach and we shot it. (…)

In the first episode we ever did, I asked a contestant the question, “Do you really care about global warming?” And she goes, “No, I really don’t.”

And the audience does this big boo and hiss, and I’m supposed to go to break at this point. Now, I have a choice as a host to either say to the guest, “How could you not care about the environment?” or reprimand the audience for booing.

And I didn’t do any of that. I let it die down, and I said, “Okay, well, that’s the correct answer and good for you. But hold on, before we go to break, audience: raise your hand if you drive an SUV.”

Eighty percent of the audience raised their hand and I said, “We’ll be right back.”

And I felt like that’s all we needed to say, right?

 

 

More from my site

  • “Africans vs. African-Americans in Minneapolis: Somali Cop’s Black Neighbor Not Surprised By Shooting”“Africans vs. African-Americans in Minneapolis: Somali Cop’s Black Neighbor Not Surprised By Shooting”
  • John Derbyshire on American inertiaJohn Derbyshire on American inertia
  • Are there still 70,000 Americans with guts out there?Are there still 70,000 Americans with guts out there?
  • Mark Steyn to Tucker Carlson: “We don’t actually need unity. We need robust, civilized disunity”Mark Steyn to Tucker Carlson: “We don’t actually need unity. We need robust, civilized disunity”

Filed Under: Kathy Shaidle

« Michael Savage: Liberals in Asian Restaurants
Comedian Adam Richmond charged with sexual assault, faces up to 25 years in prison; also, women are dumb »
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • RSS
  • Twitter


Ebates.ca

RSS my husband’s blog

  • Pokemon OK… Jews not so much
  • A Tale of Two Defectors
  • NEB Approves Trans Mountain Pipeline Contingent On Correct Answers To Random Skill Testing Questions Or Provision Of A Shrubbery
  • Liberals will get to the bottom of the SNC-Lavalin affair — once the Liberals get out of the way: Robyn Urback
  • Before ‘distracted boyfriend’ was there ‘distracted girlfriend’?
  • China bars millions from travel for ‘social credit’ offenses
  • Sweden Has Become for Jihadis ‘What Argentina Was for Nazis’ – MP
  • Unrepentant Racist Liar Jussie Smollett ‘claims he has an untreated DRUG problem’
  • Colby Cosh: Michael Wernick spewed drivel while taking us all for fools
  • Shamima Begum and the Myth of Islamic Deradicalization

Archives

Copyright © 2019 · Magazine Pro Theme On Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in