I was on Shipping Wars, anyone else been on TV?

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Late in the episode 'Double Down and Bean Town', you will see Roy Garber delivering a vintage TV set to my apartment here in Waukegan (not Lake Forest as they mistakenly put in the episode). It was my second time being filmed, first time was for a documentary titled 'Color Wars' which is a European production covering early color television that made it's way to the Early TV Foundation convention I attended I Ohio. So who else has had their 15 minutes, and describe it please.
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crofty · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 11:49 am Post subject:

That's cool but that has to be one of the lamest ideas for a show I've seen in some time. "are you f'n serious" was my first response to the preview.
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Eaallred · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 12:48 pm Post subject:

I was (briefly) interviewed on the local news while they were doing a story on the "Midnight Drags" here in town as an alternative to street racing. Guess they liked the little VW hanging the wheels up to dry.

And just like that, my 15 minutes were up. Razz

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EZ Gruv · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 4:53 pm Post subject:

I actually liked the show. I'll keep watching for now.
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JonF · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 5:05 pm Post subject:

not me but i know a few of those fuzz faced bikers and few of the unfuzzed faced ones also.

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/moonshiners-bootlegger.html
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clay ford · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 5:12 pm Post subject:

our local news was covering the american cancer society run at a local middle school I was there taking down all our rented canopies and stage, and loading it up on the truck, later i was watching the news and there i was.
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back in the '60's, during the height of the vietnam anti war demonstrations, i was in 6th grade, 9 or 10 yoa. i had to walk up state street, from main street, in springfield, ma. about a mile or so, each way. i was going to pick up my new eyeglasses. both the tech and classical high schools were on my route. there was an anti-war demonstration going on, it had turned violent. so there's no traffic at all, this cop is sitting on the curb with a few more cops around him facing outward like elephants protecting their young. he's bleeding profusely from his face and a medic is giving him first aid. there is a tv guy with a huge camera . i had to get a closer look because i had never seen anything like this before. a cop down and bleeding! in my sheltered life this was not supposed be this way. i was shued away by the cops. they weren't mean or threatening at all. they even told me he'd been hit by a thrown brick when i asked. i continued up state street got my new glasses, and walked back down the hill to mainstreet through the mayhem. even chanted with the demonstrators ''1234 we don't want your fuckin war'' didn't really understand yet. i felt completely safe no one bothered me, cops or demonstrators, i guess it was my parochial school uniform and apparent young age. told my mom about it, her eyes got a big and that was the end of it. anyway i was on the evening news. got to school the next day and i was a celebrity about half the class saw me on the news standing by the bloody cop. that was my 15 minutes of fame, guess i peaked early.
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vw_hank · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 7:17 pm Post subject:

Been on the news 2 times(no not A high speed chase Rolling Eyes

) first time was at A air show, I was working the crown line for A friend's hot air balloon, guy came up and started chatting with me, I didn't even see the camera guy Rolling Eyes

the next day friends all started telling me thy seen my interview on the news Shocked

I didn't even know I gave A interview!!

the second time was well helping my friend Vick Johnson make his hot air balloon flight over the top of Mt,Rainier. I was just in some footage(no interviews this time Laughing

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miniman82 · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:01 pm Post subject:

Was able to make a short clip from some footage a friend sent me.

http://miniman82.4t.com/images/prototype%20color%20set/video/HPandNW.mp4.AVI
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WM971252 · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:07 pm Post subject:

A few times...

News shot background way back

TV commercial for a show that I don't think ever aired (with my 65 Panel)

VOA's "we love old VW's" promo video for the New Beetle

A bunch of Utube blog type videos

Bunch of newspaper shots including a few front pages

And then the long one was for Natural Born Dealers in Canada and Born Dealers in the US during the Brimfield episode. I got a commercial break and promo shots along with the actual part in the show. Almost a true 15 min there.

vwrabbitjunkie · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:08 pm Post subject:

A friend of mine has been on Pass Time and Desert Car Kings
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bugger101 · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:55 pm Post subject:

if you are going to be watching the Mecum auto auction in two weeks i will be on tv as I am going to be one of the drivers. So i will have face time all week long Very Happy

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Eaallred · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 9:24 pm Post subject:

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61vdubbug · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 7:03 am Post subject:

I was on Antiques Roadshow getting my '65 Gibson guitar appraised.
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19super73 · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 8:54 am Post subject:

I was cast as the main *star* in a commercial for a transportation company I used to be a manager at. Luckily I have a copy of it so it doesn't fall into the wrong hands and the commercial is now long forgotten.

Didn't even get paid for it! Mad

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nerfer · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 8:57 am Post subject:

I got a 1/2 second of fame, but it was in a commercial that aired umpteen times, so I don't know how that counts.

I was at the Forest History Center near Grand Rapids, MN (not the town in Michigan, this is the one where Judy Garland grew up at). This is a state park that has a recreated lumberjack camp from the 1910's and related things. Anyway, I got pulled up to dance a little jig in the bunkhouse with one of the guides. I remember seeing cameras around the area, but I didn't remember one inside the bunkhouse. I thought it might be for the local PBS station or something, but I never saw a show on it.

Fast forward about 2 years, on WGN (which comes out of Chicago, but we got in MN on cable) they had a tourism commercial for MN, and they included all this dramatic scenery and sunny golf courses and blue lakes, and there's this 1/2 second of me dancing a jig in a dark room. I'm honestly surprised they picked that scene out of everything that was available. I didn't have cable at the time, but I heard about it from friends. That commercial ran for at least a year, and eventually I did see it, several times in fact.

I thought you'd have to sign a release for something like that (at least for a commercial, not for news), but there was no such thing. Maybe because it was so short of a clip.

What makes this funny is that I'm a bad dancer and try hard to avoid it entirely. So that I got on TV because of dancing is just pure irony.
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98Champion · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 9:32 am Post subject:

In 2007 I was on a reality racing tv show on Speed called "Setup" you can watch the season 1 series here if you like. Im the bald guy with the gotee lol
http://www.hulu.com/watch/199979/setup-episode-1#s-p3-so-i0

AndrewM · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:49 pm Post subject:

I've been on the news three times for various stuff. Nothing Bad.
I was an extra on a crappy chick show.
I was on Insomniac with Dave Atell.
I was on the local podunk TV station when we trashed our homecoming parade.

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