Talk Shame Shows
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Long before we had D-list celebrities competed over who can endure longer without room service while sweating in a tropical forest and regularly voting off whomever bitches the most we had a species of reality TV known as the talk show. Here people talk about shameful things, proudly or regretfully, that make us feel like saints compared to the shit they air.
They come in two flavors: the “therapeutic” and the “shocking” - code for the sober and the fun versions respectively. Maury Povich = fun. Dr. Phil = sober.
I’m fortunate to live a city that air both shows on two diferent channels at the same time so I can get a good look at the differences. Phil’s got one or two guest to focus his folksy analysis on, Maury gives several guests the chance to have their lives shattered for ratings. Doc McGraw handles middle class folk while Povich mucks out the ghetto/trailer parks.
No expert opinion and promises of help from Maury - you got a free paternity/lie detector test and a trip to Chicago. The fuck else do you need? Help? Then why you’re follow up appearance won’t be as fun - like the woman that had to paternity test like two dozen dudes. She’s fertile six days out of the month, so thats about four guys a day. That’s trying on dicks like shoes.
Shameful, but nothing spreads joy like not being a dad, next to winning the lottery.
Phil does offer help, but its not very often that we see return guests that have had their life changed. If they did, you’d damn sure see them on the show follwed by a plug for the doctors new book on their problem. More often than not he preaches on the wrongness of their acts - immorality that feeds your ratings. It’s bemoaning the stains on your carpet when you threw a pissing contest at your house.
“Treating” more affluent guests means though that they can counter him more sharply. Thank the network for commercial breaks.
Turning away a problem? Nice.
I just today got roped into a Dr. Phil show that warned of strong sexual content - sure, I was hoping for nymphomaniacs. No luck: A middle-class gay guy married with a wife and kids was secretly acting gay - kinda. 1. You’re not that secret when the little woman keeps finding When Harry met Harry tapes all over the house. 2. How else is a gay husband with a straight wife supposed to get by? He needs a fresh memory of cock to get it up for her - atleast he’s trying!
Ofcourse they put the lie dectector on him, like they do on Maury but they use the clinical term “deceptive response” rather than the inaccurate “THAT WAS A LIE!”. Having a psyche degree myself, I know that they aren’t as definative as made out. Polygraphs are really stress detectors. If I asked you whether you’ve ever spanked it to pics of kids, do you think the question would show more stress than base line?
Still, fag dad shouldn’t have lied to his wife. She wasn’t very cute, but he was handsome. He could have got it OKed by being upfront. She couldn’t do better.
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