naked and famous
I suppose with the literal onslaught of reality shows, and the nearly immeasurable number of people I know, it was inevitable that I would know someone in a reality tv show.
That day has finally come.
As some of you know, I was involved in a reality TV show that is going to air on Speed Channel starting Wednesday April 18. The show is called Setup. It airs at 8pm, 11pm, and 2am Eastern time, so adjust accordingly for your time zone.
So I watched the first episode, saw Doug a few times, and thought to myself, "Hey, I know that guy!" like an idiot. But then it occurred to me, there was almost zero coverage of Doug's team in the first episode. No 'reality tv show twist' as promised, no nothing. There was plenty of retard reality show interviewing and gay backgrounds intended to jerk tears, but that was pretty stupid.
So it ends, and I'm ready to send Doug a nastygram about how his team placed 3rd in the initial rankings but then ended up with almost zero coverage, when I realized the show was 22 minutes long! No wait, my recording of the show is 22 minutes long, and it's an hour long show.
Great, someone killed the recording in the middle.
Love that.
That day has finally come.
As some of you know, I was involved in a reality TV show that is going to air on Speed Channel starting Wednesday April 18. The show is called Setup. It airs at 8pm, 11pm, and 2am Eastern time, so adjust accordingly for your time zone.
You can see four trailers for the show by going to www.buildorbust.com, and clicking on the Trailers link. I'm the last guy talking on trailer 1, and I make a couple brief appearances on trailer 2.
The gist of the show is that ten teams each got a Pontiac Solstice GXP to build, setup, and race. Each team consisted of three people - driver, crew chief, and mechanic. I was the crew chief on our team. The driver (Ron Bauer) and mechanic (Kevin Dietz) are both racers here in the Seattle area, each with an autocross national championship (or two) under their belts.
Kevin was the one that found out about this and pulled in Ron and I. It was a very last minute deal for us. We found out about it on Thursday February 15, and were down in Santa Monica filming on the following Monday. Kevin was intended to be the driver, but through a reality TV show twist that you should see on the first episode, Ron ended up driving instead.
So I watched the first episode, saw Doug a few times, and thought to myself, "Hey, I know that guy!" like an idiot. But then it occurred to me, there was almost zero coverage of Doug's team in the first episode. No 'reality tv show twist' as promised, no nothing. There was plenty of retard reality show interviewing and gay backgrounds intended to jerk tears, but that was pretty stupid.
So it ends, and I'm ready to send Doug a nastygram about how his team placed 3rd in the initial rankings but then ended up with almost zero coverage, when I realized the show was 22 minutes long! No wait, my recording of the show is 22 minutes long, and it's an hour long show.
Great, someone killed the recording in the middle.
Love that.