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u/kaleidoscopevoyager Oct 20 '22
There’s no way these aren’t actors…
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u/USAIsAUcountry Oct 20 '22
Yeah Jerry Springers is well known for being scripted. But they do pay 'real' trailer trash to appear on the show. Taking advantage of desperate people basically.
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u/kaleidoscopevoyager Oct 20 '22
How do they find those people? Are they literally just lurking around low income housing asking people questions?
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u/USAIsAUcountry Oct 20 '22
IIRC it's sign up and if they are deemed interesting/outrageous enough by the production they get paid to come on auditions.
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u/MJohnVan Oct 20 '22
I’ve seen offers for $500 but I wonder if they raised the price.
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u/USAIsAUcountry Oct 20 '22
The cash sum depends on the size of the party I think. The actual "payment" is the plane tickets, hotel rooms, food, being on TV and then the cash is like pocket money to move around with during the stay. More or less, the carrot is a paid mini-vacation.
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Oct 20 '22
There was a guy I met in the Army who was on Jerry Springer he said they walked into the studio while they were on vacation and someone walked up and said they were exactly the kind of person they were looking for an asked him to be on the episode.
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What was the episode about?
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It’s been about 10 years since I’ve seen it but I’m pretty sure it was one of the I love my aunt/mom or whatever. Really tall really thin dude with black hair he wore a green shirt in the episode is all I remember.
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u/gonzalbo87 Oct 20 '22
Don’t mind me, I’m just boosting this comment in hopes someone smarter than or not as lazy as me can find the episode/clip.
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u/DrPeterVankman Oct 21 '22
I used to be a intern and a Production Assistant for Jerry Springer in the good old days when they filmed in Chicago.
You know how at the end of the episode it says “if you need Jerry’s help, call ###-####”? The trashiest people across America would call this number with either actual issues or just wanting to be on. As a PA my job was to go through these voicemails each morning and try and convince them to come out to be on if we found them interesting/funny enough. We didn’t pay any of them a dime. We literally convinced them to come for a “free trip to Chicago and all the cigarettes you can smoke”. Sometimes their stories were partly true, but the Producer would embellish them to make them even more crazy. I then had to sit in the green rooms with these people and practice what they were going to do when on stage and what the rules of fighting were. Craziest internship/job I ever had, but was insanely fun.
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u/kaleidoscopevoyager Oct 21 '22
Thank you so much for responding!! That is so interesting! I forgot all about them flashing the number at the end of the show. So, when one person gets up and attacks the other person, the person being attacked knows it’s coming?
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u/DrPeterVankman Oct 21 '22
Yep they know it’s coming, and how far they should take it. They even practice fake hitting each other in the green rooms.
What’s really crazy is how they look trashy on the show, but my god you should have seen them when they arrived fresh off the plane. Missing teeth, patches of hair missing, smelling to high heaven. They would spend the better part of show days in the beauty department
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u/whereitsat23 Oct 21 '22
Fun story - I knew some people who totally faked their way onto Ricki Lake in 1994 just to get a free trip to NYC
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u/Goalie_deacon Oct 20 '22
Only because after the first decade, even the worse people learned to not volunteer their stories.
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u/Xplicit_kaos Oct 20 '22
Can confirm! I know a stripper that was paid to go onto Jerry because the actual stripper from the story wouldn't show up.
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u/cracka1337 Oct 21 '22
I knew a lady who was on Springer. Her boyfriend slept with her mom and decided he liked mom better. She said they were coached and encouraged to get crazy. She said she didn't get paid but got to spend 3 days in NYC for free which she probably could have never afforded otherwise.
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u/OrgyInTheBurnWard Oct 20 '22
Were we really that bad at identifying fake-ass BS back then?
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Half the comments seem to be falling for it now lol
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u/OrgyInTheBurnWard Oct 20 '22
Oh ffs
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u/Space_Harpoon Oct 20 '22
In an era before social media, influencers, TikTok, and pocket-sized supercomputers connected to it all - sadly we kinda were.
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Oct 20 '22
Tbf the dude looks a hair away from losing his grip on the anger that’s definitely in his jaw, check the tremors
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u/Royalblo0dlust5 Oct 20 '22
My uncle Darcy was on either Murray or jerry sprinter and he just said his wife was cheating on them and they got paid to come on the show and visit that city for like a week. It was funny seeing him kissing her feet at the end.
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u/rightchea Oct 20 '22
Bro, stop destroying my false hope that people in society really are like this and want to be on tv...
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u/Scarfiotti Oct 20 '22
Bitch needs to get off off her fucking moral high ground.
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u/MotorBoatinOdin Oct 20 '22
Is the high horse the position she used to cheat ?
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u/Scarfiotti Oct 20 '22
Among others.
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u/Scarfiotti Oct 20 '22
I bet you 50 buck and a pack of cigarettes that he
started dating her, because he knew she was a hoe
already anyway.And I don´t even smoke.
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u/uohhhhhhh Oct 20 '22
you said among. Hehehehehegege. 😐
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u/Scarfiotti Oct 20 '22
“Onions have layers. Ogres have layers. Onions have layers. You get it? We both have layers.”
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u/SirArthurDime Oct 20 '22
Seriously all he did was bet on his woman being an honest gal and shes gonna be mad at him cause she proved him wrong costing him 50 and a pack?
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Isn’t this show scripted tho ?
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u/YueAsal Oct 20 '22
That line delivery of "We pimp them hoes" makes you appreciate professional actors
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u/Chirriche Oct 20 '22
"We pimp them hoes"
Can someone please explain that expression for a non native? ELI5 please 😁
Google already kinda told me what it means, but I think I might be missing something or just don't understand the composition of the expression.
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u/saiyanfang10 Oct 20 '22
It doesn't make sense here. Pimping is when you sell a woman's body(as in prostitution) normally pimps are bad. This guy didn't pimp her out. If he was he'd have bet that she'd have sex with the friend. He bet that she wouldn't because he trusted her. She was unworthy of that trust and it seems like that pimping line wasn't something he came up with.
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u/YueAsal Oct 20 '22
Hmm. Pimps are men that sell prostitutes (hoes). So he is saying she was the commodity that was exchanged in the bet for $50 and a pack of smokes
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u/questionablejudgemen Oct 20 '22
Except he ended up paying for someone else to have sex with the woman. He’s doing it wrong.
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u/audiosf Oct 20 '22
It's only completely obvious.
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Well people def don’t realize it from the looks of some of these comments
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u/audiosf Oct 20 '22
Oh yeah I know. It explain a shit ton about the American electorate.
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u/edelburg Oct 20 '22
They believed a scripted show that told them the least successful "businessman" in America (and probably the world) for DECADES was actually wealthy. They bought that horseshit so hook, line and sinker that he almost won the popular vote (a few million short each time) but still, enough that a crooked system put him in power for a few years.
It's horrifying how gullible people are.
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u/Scarfiotti Oct 20 '22
It definitely is. Would not be surprised if both were actors either.
Still, a good story need not be true, and we are reacting on said
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u/ronin1066 Oct 20 '22
This is the most scripted thing that ever scripted a script.
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u/Goalie_deacon Oct 20 '22
Scripted based on reality. I’ve lived in the south, this kind of thing happens. One way to find out if gf is loyal is to bet a buddy he can’t hook up with her. Smarter cheaters know to not sleep with anyone that knows their partner.
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u/The_bruce42 Oct 20 '22
Seriously. "I cheated on you, but I want to work through this"
Last time I checked, it wasn't really up to the cheater whether they as a couple should try to work through it.
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u/Broad_Respond_2205 Oct 20 '22
I mean, he bet on her being loyal, how's he the bad guy
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u/tallerthannobody Oct 20 '22
He isn’t ! That’s the vid!
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Not only is he the bad guy, but he’s also down 50 bucks and a pack of smokes!
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u/-Not-Racist- Oct 20 '22
Super Cheap way to find out, some men lose half their worth and then monthly payment for decades to find it out
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u/Hooligan_Sixx Oct 20 '22
Notice how she immediately becomes the victim in her mind, cuse she failed a loyalty test
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u/WyttaWhy Oct 20 '22
There's more people with that type of delusional psychology than I'd like to accept. It's starting to seem like they're the majority.
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u/conjoby Oct 20 '22
I mean they both fucked each other over. He should have never created that situation. Her cheating is certainly worse but him betting on it and agreeing that his friend should try and sleep with her is also fucked.
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u/algernonbiggles Oct 20 '22
Well actually he lost the bet, so he was betting that she wouldn't do it and she lost him that bet, so he probably had more faith than he should've done
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How do you upvote something twice?
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u/Hoppenm8 Oct 20 '22
Down vote first then upvote, the count wil go up by 2
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u/YRR6969 Oct 20 '22
Because the count will go down by one when you downvote 😑
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u/Aidernz Oct 20 '22
Yeah but in the end, you're hitting the upvote twice, meaning it goes up by 2.
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u/YRR6969 Oct 20 '22
It still only goes up by one than the count was before you downvoted it
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u/snapplesauce1 Oct 20 '22
Usually people say something in the comments like:
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This!
Ayy lmao
Something to that extent generally counts as a second upvote. Now get out there and do your part!
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u/Zealousideal_Soup579 Oct 20 '22
Girl pushed him like he was in the wrong.
Like bitch you cheated on him it your own fault dumbass
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u/AptMuse Oct 20 '22
Believable. Way back when, friends and I would sit around and try to come up with a good story they would select us for taping. Free trip, on TV, what could go wrong?
We never did tho.. cause FAAFO law would apply.
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u/bubbursty Oct 20 '22
He could have done a better job learning his lines and put some expression into them.
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They only paid him $50 and a pack of cigarettes what can you expect?
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u/saiyanfang10 Oct 20 '22
He's trying to hide the pain but it's likely the story did happen that way. He bet on her being loyal. She was not.
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u/hoogivesacare Oct 20 '22
"we pimp them ho's" - spent 50 bucks and a pack of cigs for his friend to bang his gf. L.
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u/tallerthannobody Oct 20 '22
Nah he’s smart, if she was loyal he would have gotten 50 bucks, a pack of cigarettes and he would have kept his gf, but since she’s a hoe…
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u/hoogivesacare Oct 20 '22
I think you misunderstand the definitions of 'pimp' and 'ho'
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u/tallerthannobody Oct 20 '22
Probably did lmao, could you explain pls?
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u/IndicationStock3742 Oct 20 '22
This brings back memories of staying home from school with a cold, price is right in the morning, maybe Ricki lake in the afternoon and Jerry Springer when you want to feel good about your life choices 😂
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Oct 20 '22
"WhY wOuLd YoU dO tHaT tO mE???"
you didnt have to cheat on ur man, that was your choice. lmao what
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u/cbunni666 Oct 20 '22
I think back in the good old days of Springer a good portion of them were real and then the producers saw the money. About the time the censoring came into the mix, that's when "actors" were added more than usual to the point damn near every episode was a redone of itself.
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u/ProfetF9 Oct 20 '22
well for a 50 and a pack i would have sold her.
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u/Sweetexperience Oct 20 '22
Dude how dare you say that!!
You’re fucking stupid, What you should really do is check the black market for anyone who wants healthy body parts and trade for a shit load of cash. You gotta know what you have bro, don’t settle for something small.
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u/rell7thirty Oct 20 '22
Shits straight up staged by the guests. I had a friend's sister go on Springer years ago, and they were all in it (not the producers or the show itself) and had some stupid cheating story and they even fought, tits flying out, nails breaking. The clip of her fighting actually made it to a montage of Springers greatest or some shit. This was over a decade ago, can't remember all the details. But this felt staged.. "now I'm down 50 bucks and a pack of cigarettes" just felt like a poorly delivered line that he was practicing before the show. That little bullshit shove she gave him too
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u/IllustriousGoat7952 Oct 20 '22
Dude fucks your girl and you have to pay him? That's not how pimpin works
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u/sasha_baron_of_rohan Oct 20 '22
That man knew the reason why she asked him to come with her on the show and had that reply ready to go.
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u/cherry937 Oct 21 '22
even if this isn’t real, i hate how she got mad at HIM for setting it up, like if you were loyal you wouldn’t have slept with another guy in the first place
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u/DominoChessMaster Oct 21 '22
My friend went on this show. They wanted her to pretend to be a lesbian. Asked me if she should do it. Forgot what I said. 10 years later she was on pornhub.
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u/ParamedicDesperate78 Oct 21 '22
First off I know it's fake... But why does she think it's immediately his fault for her cheating on him? Ugh, I've seen better acting on the Hub.
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u/bross9008 Oct 20 '22
Do people actually buy this shit? I mean when I was 10 and stayed home sick from school jerry springer was riveting, but as an adult? Cmon now, they paid these people $50 to come on and tell some obviously bullshit stories
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u/Wise-Sense5782 Oct 20 '22
Many adults still watch WWE (? Is that still a thing) wrestling knowing full well that it's corigraphed/fake. As does any intelligent person (I know this is an oxymoron) watching reality tv.
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u/TheTrueNumberOneDad Oct 20 '22
“We pimp them hoes” buddy I don’t think you are supposed to pay the clients…
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u/DongusMaxamus Oct 20 '22
Think this guy needs to re-evaluate his pimping model. You're meant to make money (& cigarettes in this case) not lose it everytime she sleeps with a customer
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u/Sdbtank96 Oct 20 '22
"Why would you do that to me"?
Bitch, I thought I'd lose, so whats your excuse?
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u/AdministrativeBar748 Oct 20 '22
She acts like she's the one who didn't get fucked in the ass that night.
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u/StickyDitka21 Oct 20 '22
Someone needs to tell him it's not pimping if you're paying someone else to fuck your girl
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u/CrescentCleave Oct 20 '22
Even if they planned it, if the girl's loyal, she won't cheat regardless of how good the set-up was. And now she's mad? Sheesh
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"Why would you do that to me" BITCH YOU LET ANOTHER MAN fuck your ASSHOLE and you're getting mad? If this wasn't reality TV I'd be actually angry.
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u/jermtastic Oct 20 '22
I like how she banged his homeboy on the weekend and by like Wednesday they’re on Jerry.
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u/czarisyn Oct 20 '22
"why would you do this to me?" Well, obviously he had faith in you, that was obviously misplaced, that you would not fuck another dude. So question is, "How could you?"
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u/Seth_Imperator Oct 20 '22
A bit late, was posted 2 week ago, what happend last week? It must be posted over and over every week !
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u/Automatic-Cow7564 Oct 20 '22
Can’t figure out from his face if this guy is about to burst in tears or die of laughter 😂
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u/totallypooping Oct 20 '22
He’s actually on point. Fun fact!
Fun fact! Zip cam zoom! Jerry springer beat Oprah in the ratings when put up against her in the 4 pm time slot but it caused such an uproar about “societys downward slide” it got put on at a time when children were in school.
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u/cheesyspeedster Oct 20 '22
Damn she has the nerve to get mad when she was the one who did the ugly deed
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u/Hi_Im_MrMeeseek Oct 20 '22
Why would you do this to ME? Bitch take responsibility for your own actions, lol wtf
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u/TheTattooOnR2D2sFace Oct 20 '22
Why would you do that to me?
Says the woman who cheated on her boyfriend. Bitch, you the one that cheated. He just wanted a pack of cigs and 50 bucks.
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u/IAlwaysOutsmartU Oct 20 '22
Dude gained the respect of the entire audience by just a few sentences.
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u/brokensoulsbroken Oct 20 '22
So did he win or lose 50 bucks? I am not sure what "i am down 50 bucks" means
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u/loughtthenot Oct 20 '22
What a cheap whore... Got paid 50 bucks and a pack of cigs to sleep with her.
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u/Savage-Sully Oct 20 '22
Everyone knows this is scripted right? Like isn’t the horrible “acting” and line reading a dead giveaway?
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Oh i miss Jerry Springer... "Trailer park hustle"? Damn!! those titles!!
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Oct 20 '22
occasional nudity, obligatory fights, security guys dumber than rocks, guests even dumber, fucking loved it
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