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Oprah's Big Give
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I feel that some more speculation is in order. This won't affect tonight's episode, but might if The Big Give reaches the New York metropolitan area in a later episode. One individual who has a high profile on Oprah's Show but who has not been mentioned in any of the Big Give publicity is Dr. Mehmet Oz. I predict that if the show goes New York metro, Dr. Oz will be involved in some way.
marigold:
:groan: I will force myself to watch tonight :lol:
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Tonight's Big Give was based on 48/$48K/Denver. That is 48 hours in the Denver area to utilize $4800 to best advantage. The Big Twist was that contestants got to give away the Ford Edge vehicles they were driving, which raised their donation potential by about another $20,000.
Contestants used widely varying strategies to find a person or group suitable to receive this largesse. Brandi was at the library and a staff person there told her about a friend in need who is a single mother with children. Angelo utilized the American Legion to find an Iraq war diabled veteran that he could help. Carlana found someone with a disabled daughter and a college age son. Three of the men(Eric, Cameron, Stephen) teamed up to help the Denver Children's Home. Sheg went to a hospital and started giving small amounts of the money to individual mother's with problem-birth children who had limited resources with which to leave the hospital and go home. Rachael hooked up with an HIV support group. Kim found the boys' and girls' clubs a worthy cause.
The clock wound down and most of the Big Give contestants had celebratory events to hand over the money, prizes, and anything else they had raised for their chosen person or group. Brandi did Ok but she knew she was "on the bubble". Angelo gave the money and a party at the restaurant, then the restaurant manager surprised everyone by giving the 24 hour receipts for the restaurant. In a controversial move he elected to give his car to that manager, but that did not go over well with the judges (or with me). Carlana honored two separate groups by giving her car to an entirely different handicapped person. Eric/Cameron/Stephen blew everyone away with the brilliance in fund- and gift-raising by getting $293,000 in total gifts/prizes/money for the Denver Children's Home. Even if $40,000 of that was the cars, that is still $248,000 more than they started with. Wow! Sheg gave his car to the head of that department at the hospital and proclaimed that it would be a gift that kept on giving(probably true and enough to keep him off the chopping block). Rachael arranged for a special day for her HIV women, with facials and beauty treatments, then a dinner in their honor. Kim arranged for Denver Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler and several of his teammates to come and visit the kids. There was also a pizza party and a variety of other gifts.
There was no question about who did the best. There was a question of whether Brandi or Angelo had done the worst. Angelo got the empty envelope, so he's out. He exited with a classy speech extolling the virtues of the Big Give. Oprah would have been proud of him.
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--- Quote from: apskip on March 08, 2008, 06:58:46 AM ---As a geographer, I want to speculate on where the next task is tasking the Big Give cast. There are 98 Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the U.S. larger than 500,000 population and one has been used (Los Angeles metro) and I expect two are being reserved for future use (New York metro and Chicago metro). That leaves 95 and I have about a 1% chance of getting this right for each guess I make. I am picking Oakland/San Francisco Bay Area and I am picking the valley of the Sun (Phoenix). We'll see. Of course Oprah may have chosen to have this challenge done in each of 5 different metropolitan areas, which invalidates my approach and predictions.
EDITOR'S NOTE - Well, I wasn't close on my 2% total guessing. I will be able to hit 100% sometime later in the 8-show series that it will be in Newnan GA since I have evidence that it does. I just can't tell you when. It is logical that Newnan, which is Atlanta metro, is one episode, New York metro is probably the second-to-last, and Chicago is last. That leaves 3 episodes. One is likely to be in the Southwest, such as Dallas, Houston or San Antonio. One is likely to be in the Charlotte to Philadelphia corridor (either of those or Raleigh, Richmond, Washington DC, Baltimore) and one in the Pittsburgh/Buffalo/Cleveland/Columbus/Cincinnati/Detroit corridor.
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Well, I wasn't far off. I have just discovered the TV Guide has published the next two locations, which are Houston tonight and Miami for next Sunday. Houston was one of the metropolitan areas I cited as prime possiblities for next. Miami was not on any of my lists. Its existence knocks out one location after Newnan/Atlanta metro form the above speculative lists.
marigold:
:lol: Your maintaining your 99.9% average in accuracy.
I've tuned in for tonights episode and I keep thinking about Dave's point of view in the article he wrote and I keep trying to compare it to other shows like The Apprentice. It will be interesting to see the ratings for tonight as I understand there was a drop from the premiere episode and last weeks show.
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