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'Take the Money and Run': Someone actually cracks under the fake pressure
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So the premise of "Take the Money and Run" is that a pair of people get a briefcase with $100,000 inside. They have an hour to hide it anywhere in their city. Then some real investigators have 48 hours to find the money. If they find it, the investigators keep it. If it stays hidden, the pair keeps it. The rules of the investigation are that the investigators get access to the pair's cellphones, any receipts they acquire during the hiding period and the GPS coordinates from their vehicle.
The premiere pair were the Bustamante brothers Raul and Paul in San Francisco. They drove around to a bunch of locations, called a variety of people as decoys and ultimately buried the briefcase in Lafayette Park.
After the hide the money, the investigators treat this as a real investigation, which actually surprises me. They decide that Raul is the Alpha and Paul is the weak link, which turns out to be totally true. Paul is a terrible, terrible liar and he's getting so nervous. Dude, relax! This isn't real.
Then the investigators call the guys' mom and she just gives up the third brother's address. The investigator straight-up says, "Paul and Raul can't come to the phone, I'm calling for them. They want to go visit their brother Rob for his birthday, but they don't know his address" and she just gives it up. You're a fortress, mom. Well done.
Meanwhile, the other investigators are playing Paul like a violin. He's a weak-ass mama's boy and he is crumbling on the fake heist TV show. Nut up, dude! Get it together. Seriously, I hope this guy watches this and feels deeply shamed.
He absolutely cracks under the "pressure" because he "wants to go home." It's 48 HOURS! For $100,000! And you have like 18 hours left! What is wrong with this guy? He now straight-up just tells them where the case is. W.T.F.?!
This is embarrassing. The investigators find the case with 17 hours to go. Because stupid Paul gave them up so he could go back to his mama's house.
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This just might be the dumbest reality television show ever. And that's saying a lot.
This was a cool show. The detectives talked a little bit about their methods and seeing how they narrowed down the location based on times of the phone calls was ingenious.
It's so frustrating to see the one guy crack. I can't wait for the next episode.
I totally agree with comments made above by ZAP2IT! This Paul guy was a complete joke! They could have sleep deprived me, even did physical harm(which they probably were not allowed to), and I would not have told them anything at all, not to mention the truth! Sweet Jesus, did his mommy tell him his nose would grow if he told a lie! Lastly, his brother was too understanding! I would have been PISSED had my brother or sister blew 100k because he wanted to go home! He would not have a home cuz I would burn it down if he had one, and kick him out of moms if he lived there!
Who cracked? the fat boy or the skinny one? Didnt bother to watch the show.
Seriously! I agree with Jarvis, Raul is too understanding, I would be waaaay more pissed if I were him! I may be weak, but it's just a show, what can the interrogators really do to me?? I doubt they can inflict any physical harm, so I may be stressed, I may cry, but I sure as hell would not just tell them the hiding spot! With 100k literally 48 hours away I think I might be crying with joy, not crying under stress. Why did Paul want to go home so badly while knowing full well that he only has to hold out for 48 hours??
the fat boy cracked
Fake interrogations, all actors, I am so angered that I watched this stupid show and don't know how anyone allows this garbage on television. If you believed any of it for longer than a minute which guaranteed half of the middle america retards did, you should be sodomized with a curling iron! It makes me nauseous and now I cant eat lunch goodbye.
i cant believe i wasted an hour on this fake as ****. i want to go on an amazing race to kick the **** out of the producers just to get my time bsck. F**k ABC for lying to America and making it seem like this was a reality show. BASTARDS!!` Will never watch again thats for sure////111
Fatty really decided to go home rather than be a grown man and take the shet. Seriously bro your not really in jail. Blew it because he wanted to go home. What a b***h
What a stupid show!!! Not only did that moron say the money was in the park, he told them EXACTLY where in the park it was and how they hid it. This is the stupidest human being on Earth.
And if anybody should've gotten the $100,000, it should've been the 2 interrogators since they did all the "work" anyway.
The 2 detectives with all that so-called "experience" between them, did NOTHING except go where the interrogators told them too.
And for that, they got $100,000.
Never watching this piece of garbage again.