As I have stated before I really enjoy reality TV. I think that it is very interesting to watch what people do and how they react. There is a relatively new show on now which is called the Moment of Truth. This show is a little out there and I am not sure I really like it, but I have watched it a few times. I actually saw this show last night, and quite honestly there were 2 people on there. The first was a man; he was a Mormon, which it seems that they have used a few Mormons already on this show. I think that perhaps it is for shock value or something. I think that they are hoping that the family's reactions will be more severe than those of an average family. I am not really sure but the person that I really want to talk about was the woman who came after this guy.
Now if you have never watched the Moment of Truth then this is what you need to know. The people on this show are asked 100 questions while being polygraphed before the show. They seem to know a lot about these people, and I am not exactly sure how they find out all the dirt about them, before hitting them with a bunch of questions. It is obvious; however, that they know what the big button issues are for each person. In any case, when they are on the show, they must tell the truth and the questions will be asked in any order and they use their previous polygraph test to tell if they are telling the truth. Now the woman that I want to talk about was a mother of 3 and a volunteer firefighter. The first question this woman was asked was "Have you ever given your children something that you had stolen from the store?". Her truthful answer was yes, and when the host asked her for clarification of what she had stolen and given to her kids, her answer was it could have been a lollipop, flower, or a book, there were too many instances for her to count. The next question was had she ever stolen from a neighbor. Again she said yes, and that she had gotten angry with the neighbor, stolen their photo album and burned it for revenge. The next question was have you ever stolen anything from a relatives house and again the answer was yes. Have you ever cheated on a Red Cross First Aid Exam, and again she answered yes. Then they had her fire chief ask her if she had ever ignored an emergency page from the fire house, and again her answer was yes. Well, the thing you must know is that the whole time this woman is smiling and laughing about all these questions, like of course her responses are totally normal. Her husband does not seem the slightest bit shocked by any of her answers, but her father looks like he wants to die out there. Now here she is admitting all these horrible things about herself and the next question comes it is "Have you lost physical attraction for your husband since you have been married". She answers no, and the lie detector says that is a lie. She goes off the stage crying. Now she loses all the money, and she just said all these horrible things about herself and doesn't care about that, but she was afraid to upset her husband. The whole thing was just dumb.
I just don't really get how she could sit there and say that she was a liar, shoplifter, and cheat, but yet she couldn't say that after having 3 kids she was not as attracted to her husband any more. Of all the things to lie about and the people always seem shocked at the questions, which to me just seem a bit bizarre. If they ask you all the questions in advance, then why are they surprised at the questions when they are asked them? And if you know that they are going to ask you a question that perhaps your family or spouse doesn't know about, why is it that you would not go home and confess before going on the show to save everyone a little bit of embarrassment? I am not sure I get the whole concept. Whether we get it or not, I am sure the show will keep coming on, and such is life I am afraid.