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Tag: appearing on tv

  • Not as bad as I thought

    As soon as my shift was done, I jumped on the computer to see the damage.  I would’ve loved to have seen it live, but work called.  Luckily enough, Global TV keeps all their news broadcasts online for a month after airing, so if you would like to catch a glimpse of my brush with fame, check out Global TV’s Website. You will need to click on “Family Health” on the left navigation bar, then click on the video clip for “Detox Diets”.

    You might have trouble finding me.  The video crew came and shot for an hour.  They boiled the raw footage down to a 2:30 segment, and in that, you might be able to see yours truly (the “bald by choice” guy in the black tshirt) for about 10 seconds… just long enough for me to say “flush” (which my friend Amanda finds hilarious).  I was pretty happy that my part got whittled down so much.  Half the time I was talking to the camera I found myself wondering what the heck I was saying. From all the footage we shot, you can see me drinking a glass of water, saying that I lost 8 pounds, and saying “flush!”  Hardly a long career in superstardom… drink water, lose 8 pounds, flush, drink water, lose 8 pounds, flush.  no matter how many times I replayed it, I don’t get it.  I did, however, correctly predict that the box would steal the show.  You can see the box in the opening shot with the anchor people.  I am sure that the box got at least 1 second more air time than me.

    I can’t imagine I will receive a ton of business from the exercise, but that isn’t important.  I think that in this business, the money is secondary.  None of us became RMT’s in order to get rich.  We did it to do a job that we loved.  And the experience was just a lot of fun and a great change of pace.   My name was mentioned (though no mention of my being an RMT).   But most importantly, I get to start every conversation for the next week with “Did you see me on TV the other night?”

    Oh, and as a plus, I emailed the good people at Renew Life and they were so pleased that they offered to mail me some more cleanses to try out.  I will let you know how that develops.

    In the meantime, let me know if you need any celebrities or entertainment at your next event.  And, yes, I do barmitzvahs.

  • The Longest Wait

    Yesterday’s attempt at free publicity is already behind me, but now that the cameras are put away and the lights aren’t glaring in my eyes anymore, I find myself anxious to see how it turned out.  The cast and crew were at my clinic for about an hour and probably put together a minute and a half segment for the news tonight.  The question is what parts will they show for the minute and a half ?  (btw, that’s roughly one tenth the minimum personal allowance according to Andy Warhol, which doesn’t seem quite fair.  It seems that there are way too many people out there that are getting far more of their allotment than they should.  Don’t I deserve at least the full 15 minutes?).  There was the interview which would have been wonderful if it weren’t for my 10 pound swollen tongue which mangled my words and the super slidey sofa which had me slouching and crouching like one of the hobbits from The Lord of the Rings (My Precious…).  Followed by about 4 or 5 shots of me pretending to pop some detox pills and wash them down with water (You won’t believe how technically difficult it can be to take pills).  And then about 10 minutes of still video footage of the Cleanse Smart Detox Box.  So, out of my interview, my taking pills or the footage of the box I’m guessing that the box is going to grab the spotlight away from me.  It is certainly the more photogenic of the two of us.  It didn’t flub its lines.  And it had a lovely colour scheme (I’m not sure how the white balance works on Asians such as myself.  If the camera wasn’t a Sony, I’d probably call it a racist).  But anyway, the show won’t air until 6PM tonight on Global, so I won’t know how much of a leotard I was until then.  For now, I am just stuck imagining the outcome and alternately calling up people telling them to watch the news or stay away from their TV sets.   All this for some free publicity.

  • My 15 Minutes of Infamy

    The cameraman just left with the others from Global TV and I am now breathing a sigh of relief.  I had been offered the chance to be on TV before and had shied away from it.  For some reason, giving a massage on a reality TV show kinda scared the bejeezus out of me so, 2 years ago, I politely declined.  This time for some reason I decided to try it out.  They were doing a story on detoxes and cleanses and just wanted my 2 cents on the experience so i tried it out.  You’re welcome to have a peek.  It should air tomorrow, Wednesday September 23 2009 on the 6 o’clock news.  Also it will be available after 8pm on the Global TV website so that you can watch it over and over and over again and wonder how I knew that a black t-shirt would be so perfect for hiding the rivers of sweat trickling down my upper body.  Myself, I will be watching and re-watching to get an exact count on how many times I really do say um, like, or y’know…… I’ve always been curious.  For those of you that have never met me, ignore the broadcast. I’m usually way more combobulated in person.  It is just that the TV really does add 10 lbs to you… or in this case it added 10 pounds to my tongue making it virtually impossible to articulate.  No matter what I wanted to say, every time I tried to speak that swollen ten pound mass of a tongue in my mouth got in the way.  Anyhoo. don’t say I didn’t warn you.