They recently adopted one of his novels to film, High Rise starring Tom Hiddleston.

He also wrote Crash(the Cronenberg one about car crash sex, not the Haggis one about black people also being racist) and Empire of the Sun. He was a weird guy but his science fiction was often about rich people in sort of post-modern affluent misery.

Gibson is being modest, of course, HE is the guy who really ****ing nailed what our world is headed towards.

CURIOUS APPROACH

Haberman is the actual WOAT

My most recent Vegas cab driver gave me the hard sell on southeast Asia sex tourism and how he was struggling to get his Filipina wife into the states. Good talk, man.

Were you guys all asked to sign waivers to appear on HBO at the end of your cab rides?

I've only seen a few clips of that Taxi Cab Confessions or w/e, but I know someone who was on a predecessor, Real Sex, and at least the part she was on was totally scripted.

The next reality show I see that isn't scripted will be the first.

I know two different bar owners, one current and one former, in my area whose bars were featured on Bar Rescue and both said it was a complete sham. It's the same formula in every episode and if you pay even a little bit of attention you can spot it immediately.

Real World wasn't scripted at all from my experience, just casted in ways that provoked obvious drama with a bunch of booze around.

All those shows are immensely stupid, but can you imagine how boring it would be if they showed real reality? It would take like a years worth of filming to get 22 entertaining minutes.

RW wasn't "scripted" in the sense that they had lines to memorize but they certainly coached up the participants, and when you combine that with the way the footage is edited you get a pretty fake "reality" show.

This girl was on RW (article from 2016)

http://www.cracked.com/personal-expe...st-member.html

Experience?

I was a production coordinator in the house for a season and know many who produced and casted for them.

NY Post Cover

This is a rather uneventful story about a MS-13 member except for some courtroom drama by the defendant that might leave you scratching your head:

Pleading guilty unannounced to shave 9% off your 105 year sentence: probably not the best idea

qanon is like, “no no no, we meant democrats worshipping satan, not this, this is nothing”

Here's how Bar Rescue works (from my own experience plus chats with those owners):

1. The Intro - Show starts with Jon Taffer, Savior of Drinking Establishments, and the two people he brought with him (typically a chef and a bartender) sitting in an SUV watching allegedly-live footage of what is going on in the bar and lamenting about all the problems. Usually a "spy" is sent in to be served (poorly). The bar owner and staff are aware they are being filmed. We know this just by watching, because bars are typically dark caverns (everyone looks better in the dark) yet the interior is amazingly well-lit. This is all for the cameras since they can't pick up what is going on when it's dark (and according to one of the owners I talked to, the footage was not even live, it was taped, though it is STRONGLY suggested to the viewer that this is all happening in real time and that the staff is not aware that they're being watched). The owner and staff are coached to **** around and basically behave badly, overpouring drinks, undercooking food, etc. The "spy" is not having a good time. Taffer feigns anger and disgust, and eventually stops viewing the "live" feed to storm into the bar and confront owner and staff.

2. The Confrontation - Taffer enters and berates the owner & staff. Kitchen (if one exists) is typically filthy, the food typically sucks and the cook is typically an idiot, so the cook gets yelled at; bar is typically filthy and the bartender is typically an idiot and possibly a drunk, so he/she gets yelled at; owner gets yelled at for letting it all happen. Owner seems either clueless, helpless, or some mixture of both, and often appears to be out of ****s to give on top of it all. Taffer storms out, vowing never to return unless they "clean the ****ing place up." Go to commercial.

3. The Awakening - We're back from commercial, and the place is much cleaner because the owner & staff stayed there all night cleaning (lol). The owner finally realizes that he's been ****ing up all along...there's no one to blame but himself/herself. Taffer's opinion of the owner insta-changes and he sees that the owner knows he ****ed up and genuinely wants to be helped and is willing to do Whatever It Takes to Turn Things Around. Taffer believes him, yo. They hug it out and plan a re-launch. Go to commercial.

4. The Stress Test - All the new drinks, dishes, and other sundry changes that Taffer & his people introduced are put to the test. They advertise and get a big crowd to attend, typically 10x as many people as they've ever had in the place before. The owner & staff fail miserably, of course. Taffer yells some more, then kicks the customers out mid-shift because owner & staff suck so badly. "Hopefully we'll figure this thing out SOON! We have a LOT of WORK to do." Go to commercial.

5. The Re-Launch - The bar gets a facelift, new stools, paint, POS system, what have you. The viewer is laughably led to believe that neither owner nor staff has any idea what the remodeled place looks like until now. They're gathered together outside, Taffer gives a short speech, then they're led inside to marvel at the radical changes. Owner & staff are brought to tears over how wonderful everything is. A bunch of customers are (again) brought in and the "new" place is up and running. Despite having the same staff and same owner, everything goes smoothly. Taffer is thanked, and he departs into the sunset, having Rescued Another Failing Bar.

6. The End - Words onscreen tell us how great things are since the changes. Sales are up 10%! Owner is much less of an ******* now! Though, occasionally, they throw us a curveball wherein a particularly stubborn owner who was resistant to change will change some or all things back to the way they were, defying Taffer, and resulting in the same problems they had before, you can lead a horse to water but it's still just a goddamned horse.

Fin.

There, you've now seen every episode of Bar Rescue.

When she said 'Don't let me down' it was a tell imo.

Not the same story, but reminds me of this:

A guy who worked for me had an extremely rough childhood which included being an alcoholic 12 year old, having a sexual relationship with his foster mother, and a meth addict as a teen/young adult. As a meth addict he transported some drugs across state lines for a dealer. He straightened out and got religion - on his own. Then a few years later the dealer named him. As a super Christian he just plead guilty to everything without contesting things or a deal and spent 5 1/2 years in prison.

It's also hard to imagine the drama isn't a little contrived even unintentionally when there's a camera crew and a guy with a boom mic following everyone around.

I used to live a block away from a bar rescue bar. They kept the changes for about a year then ripped it all out and went back to how it was. The other one I'm aware of in New Orleans is still doing quite well after the show, but that one is on Bourbon St. so one would think even a basic level of competency could print money there.

One of the owners I referenced above let BR come in and "fix" the bar (complete with interior alterations) and then sold it lol

Thought they were on Love it Or List It (P.S. I'm so white). Easy mistake to make.

They’re not sending us their best imo.

Glad to see you return to form

I installed solar next door to a house where they were filming one of those paranormal shows. I don't think there were actually any ghosts and it didn't seem very spontaneous when a PA would ask us to be quiet for like 30 seconds at a time every once in a while.

Those paranormal shows, while insulting to even the moderately-intelligent, have some genius-level editing going on.