This Road Rules season
Posted on: 01.30.2007
This Road Rules season has not forgotten its origins of what it was all about in the first place...hopeful young traveling adrenaline junkies.
I was reminded of this and why I did the original Road Rules show when I found myself sitting in a small car with bungee cords attached to the back of it while dangling hundreds of feet above a pool of water...waiting to release the emergency brake and go for a little joy ride off the edge of the plank. Too cool. I have AC/DC playing in my head right now, the song is Highway to Hell. This feels like rock n' roll. It is not all of the above that really got to me though. What really hits me with righteous feelings is when right before the crane starting lifting us into the air, one of the many great stunt men of Bungee America, Ron, reminded me to, "Enjoy this guys. You get to experience something that only a very few people ever get to do in this life." I could not have said it better myself. For a while up there I intentionally forgot all about the voting off bull%$#@&* and just enjoyed myself. I am not going to even try and describe how much I am in love with that first mission, because it is beyond recording...some of the best memories in life are the ones we dont record...however, I did happen to be filming a TV show while I made this memory so I get to watch it over and over again...awesome.
Now, after the mission was done, and Kina and I did get the fastest time, we went back to our RV park and did our little vote. Oh yeah, and, new rule guys, the three guys on the RV vote the girl to go into the pit and the girls on the RV vote the guy into the pit. Its a new rule every minute...cant wait to hear whats next.
So we voted, and as can be expected, the people going in did not like it. I wouldnt either. Shane and Veronica definitely got shafted, but somebody has to go. I dont think it was smart for Adam to announce to Shane that he would not vote off Kina or Susie becuase they are his friends and won't vote him in. Would you tell everybody that you have an alliance with other people on the RV? I dont know what Shane or Veronica are going to do to try and break-up that friendship of votes so that they wont keep getting sent back in, but if they are going to make it, they should figure something out fast.
So why did I agree to yet another of these social experiments? These games we play that are the show are incredibly bizzare, but absolutely amazing and awesome at the same time. I get big kick out of the way the game is structured and how it pits people against each other. I do believe that these shows are kind of like training for business. It is a highly competitive environment and you get rewarded for playing it right, or you get the boot if you play it wrong. Above and beyond all of the game though, it allways will come down to the fact that one can save themselves by winning in the pit....and then take revenge on those who put them in there:) see you guys around, this may be the most entertaining Road Rules yet.
Abram
PS just so everyone out there knows, my real name is Abram, not Abe.
Thanks.
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Hey, it's Abram...
Posted on: 01.18.2007
I was originally on one of the coolest shows on TV, MTV's Road Rules (season 12, South Pacific). Just writing those few words flood my mind with so many memories. My time on my original Road Rules show was the epitome of "the experience of a lifetime." I honestly am thankful everyday for all the blessings I have had in my life, and I have had the opportunities and experiences, I think, of three lifetimes, but truly there are few adventures as glorious as was mine in the South Pacific.
I am thrilled that MTV has come to their senses and renewed Road Rules, and I am happy to represent what I see as being one of the few worthwhile shows on television. However, I am not excited about any of the voting off, and game show qualities that I will be going through. I loved the original Road Rules because it was real. I was not acting, it was not based in trying to be superficial or cool on TV (at least for me); it was about living an adventure that any child or adult could ever dream of. Beyond the excitement of the show, it was about new people that you normally would not be living with. It was truly being alive and fully exploiting the infinite possibilities that we may discover in this life. It is because of these reasons, and my hopes that there will be something as cool as this show out there so that more of you may experience such a great trip as the Road Rules shows, that I am excited about MTV being a part of bringing Road Rules back. The game show stuff I don?t really care for, but I do like the opportunity and challenge of being placed in a highly competitive and adverse environment that forces growth within me as could not happen in any other scenario. Come to think of it, I love the game show part too... I thrive in it.
My life outside of the show is that I have started my own company, AGB Industries. The mission of this company is to create unlimited energy production and efficiency systems for commercial and residential use through innovative design and precision construction. We are currently in the middle of the first development, The Sun House, in Paradise Valley, Montana. The building is my design, and I also run the crew building The Sun House. The focus of this project is not just constructing a luxury home, but more it is the energy-efficiency of the overall building that is our goal. My hopes are to work large scale residential projects in the developing countries throughout the world. It is upon our generation to shoulder the responsibility of solving major global issues concerning all of humanity; a responsibility that has fallen. Someone is going to step up and take the reigns, why not me?
Beyond work I am still very much in love with the outdoors, and very much in love with the most beautiful woman in the world. Life is good, and I try to be aggressively pursuing my own happiness while still remembering to be patiently content.
I Look forward to hearing/talking to you all on this show. Thanks for listening,
Abram
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