Thurow and Euro & some loose ends.

[C. Petersen]

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> FREAKS
> 
> Some earlier comments about the freaks on daytime talk shows got me ta
> thinking.  For a long time now I've been telling people that these shows
> are put on so that the public will think the working class doesn't deserve
> a decent healthcare system.
> 
> My friend Stella, who's interesting enough as it is, refused to go on Jerry
> Springer cause they wanted her to make stuff up.  You'd think a gorgeous,
> clean and sober bi-sexual woman who works for the rights of sex workers and
> wears a dildo on stage fronting her lesbo band would be enough.
> 

They definitely make stuff up. I know two sets of people who went on Jerry
Springer and both pretty much made up their story or act. One was my
friend Mica (who is a very quiet person actually) and her two friends, who
said they had a love triangle and were pretending to yell at each other
etc. and visually they had piercings and one had weird hair. I couldn't
make it home that day so I never actually saw it. You can't feel guilty
about lying to Jerry Springer in order to get a free trip to Chicago. The
other set of people did almost the identical thing. I think 1/2 the people
are just drama school dropouts. I suspect that a lot of the people on the
other shows are telling the accurate truth about themselves though. The
Jerry Springer show tends to have a uniquely staged-looking sort of
quality.