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There are various First Nations living in the Southwest. I personally appreciated the scene where Leaphorn goes shopping in Gallup for the belt and he has to make sure to get a Dine belt and not a Pueblo (some made in China) one.

Totally with Amber. I look at Trish and Jen aka Barbie and Kimber as mean girls trying to take down the "queen bee". Part of the challenges in this show is to keep moving forward with your task, making it to the end, and that means doing and keeping up with each survival task, shelter food, sanity, etc. Amber military background helps her focus on the tasks. Yes, she is a showboat, but you have to be to be on this show. Amber has not finished many challenges, but she has also shown a sense of humor about her failures. I also felt sorry for being medically tapped out on the last XL because her swollen legs were thought to be blood clots, which I think was the reason she had to leave the military. So, I am rooting for her to finish this challenge. Barbie and Kimber will get their forty days, but Kimber might find out that Babbie is made of plastic. ;-)

Something tells me that Kobe thinks that a civil engineer is something like a supervisor on a construction site or a general contractor. If French/African education is similar to British education, he may have finished high school and taken his A/O Levels, which is similar to the first two years of college in America, so he would have to test to see if he meets US education requirements for almost any technical job here. My son-in-law is an engineer, he drives and computes routes for trains for a national railroad company. He started the job at an intern level out of high school, and they sent him to an industrial college for his two-year degree. If Kobe stops letting Emily fill his head with nonsense, he can take the time to find out what he really wants to do for his family while he waits for his work papers.

Let's see, Caribbeans from British Colonies being asked to come to the Motherland to help out in various professions. They are well-trained and well educated, but they happen to be Black. They are disrespected by many of the people they are there to help, and if they show any type of anger or exasperation, they can lose their job. In order to function within the society, they appear extra cheerful, and treat their charges with civility and a modicum of island charm. Being called "precious" is a way to reassure the women that they will be cared for in a most professional manner, so they need not fear. In 1960's UK and 2022 US Black Folk still must watch what we say and how we act within certain confines. No matter how we do our job, how professional we act, we will still be accused of being condescending and arrogant aka "uppity"(sometimes another word follows). Lucille and Cyril are only being the only way they can be at the time of this show.

Looks like old Country Music guys like Tex Ritter or Red Foley.

Retired Postal Worker here. You can name the street if you are the first house built on that street. Many streets (parcels of land) in the past were bought by one person/family and they were allowed to name their property. I worked in the mapping division in the 80's and had a woman who owned several acres of land and wanted the street name changed every week or two. The city where the land was located was not going to change the street signs on her whim, so one of my jobs was to sending her an official letter with the new name. She was older and it made her happy. Today with many municipalities being developed with companies, the developer will name the street and the city will have a limited veto. So the winners could possibly have the right to name the street. The Postal Service has no say so in the street name.

Maybe someone Black has similar European ancestry, which could possibly mean that your ancestor either owned or had intimate relations with an enslaved person. As someone who has watched this program and the English and American versions of WDYTYA, I find the search for ancestors and their stories fascinating. I also think that the questions Dr. Gates keeps asking are not only designed to gauge the subject's internal feelings about their personal history, but to remind us (the viewer) to be empathetic because we all have stories that are unknown and untold. I think the reason why some of us feel this is repetitive is because we think that we know our own history, and it's probably more interesting than what we see on this show. Remember we can all learn something from history, even the boring parts. The US is a young nation and like any young person, we think we know everything, and we are quick to throw away anything that is older and does not interest us. I would love to see this series and others like this be part of the history curriculum in our schools. It would open up discussions about who we are and how our Nation came to be and how we can continue to change and grow. But with the present sensitives about hurting children's feeling with the mere mention of slavery, segregation, the holocaust. etc., I don't see that happening.

I like this show and how it plays into Page's quirks. On Flip or Flop Nashville, Page would always show Derron (her ex and Business Partner) the initial property in fancy shoes and would then come in to work on construction day in sensible shoes. There seemed to be a running joke that Derron knew that she would not be helping with the construction/destruction work.by the type of shoes she wore. I think a show like this is necessary by showing how delusional some flippers can be. Many of these people are looking for a big payday. Instead of doing their homework, they get these large-money-loans (and the $$$ that goes with them), then try to do it all with family and friends as the contractors. No one has any expertise or even practical knowledge, so it starts and stays a wreck. Unlike, other flipping shows, where we see the success later, this one is showing what happens when the process fails (which probably happens more than we think). Bravo to HGTV and Page for giving us a reality check. Hope they do more shows like this.

There are several Youtube videos showing the arrest and detention of Mr. Coogler. In the longest one he explains that his Nanny prefers to be paid in cash, and he agreed to that. She and another staff member were in the car waiting for him to return. In the video he is confused and afraid and on the verge of tears. He asked to have his handcuffs removed after the Police realized that there was no bank robbery. But the longest video that I viewed (about 10 mins) the officer kept trying to explain that they were not at fault for arresting him and he kept trying to get them to understand that he is afraid by what is happening to him at this very minute. Coogler was calm beyond belief. I think it is him calm that kept the officers (about five of them) from pushing back in their usual manner. I worked for the Postal Service in a previous lifetime and had to handle large sums of cash, All the teller had to do was let Mr. Coogler know that the limit was $10K and she would have to do two separate transactions. After seeing the interior of the bank with it separate glass enclosed sections, there was no way she or her manager should have thought a man who gives you his bank card and ID with the transaction receipt is robbing them. This could have turned out much worse.

The fall may have looked soft, but he hit his head, and time you hit your head, it's probably best to seek attention (Bob Saget). He was slow to come around, and they later said he had a concussion. I'm glad Tara made it. Shawn's brother Warrick had a tough time making it through the challenge. He seemed to have trouble keeping his energy up, and he had a few episodes of light-headedness. I wonder is it something genetic?

Glad there is a thread for this show. I love all the surgery shows, so this one works for me. I think that because of the small cameras in use today, Medical Professionals film almost every surgery for review and/or teaching purposes. I even received video of my colonoscopy a few years ago as a part of my results. I just think the producers know this and go back and get permission from the patients to show this on television. It all about our fifteen-minutes-of-fame!

Now I am not sure if HBO gave creative control to all its series creators, but Tom Fontana had control over the casting and writing of his show Oz, which premiered in July 1997. Netflix the network was not created until August 1997, and both Netflix and HBO are subscriber-based formats, just HBO is 40+ years old.

Four, and I prefer a nice Red.

Which is why I love this commercial!

I am a sixty-five-year-old Black Woman and THAT Word has never been appropriate. I was taught that the use of the N-word is an insult whenever anyone uses it. if you need a reference Look at the Chris Rock stand up on the use of the word from the 1990's. I will give you a pass for being young and not knowing any history, but Alina is not getting one and should get off of my screen now!