{"id":3162,"date":"2013-01-12T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2013-01-12T01:00:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T05:00:18","slug":"what-is-wrong-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=3162","title":{"rendered":"What is Wrong with You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have Amish TV at Skunk Hill, we get the 5 channels that come free over the air.  So when I get to a hotel room with cable TV I get all excited about so many things to watch.  Here in my plush room at the Hyatt Regency Indianapolis I surfed through the channels and I found, starting at channel 2 (I stayed on a channel only long enough to identify what it was showing):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tom Selleck as Jesse Stone in a made for TV movie (sadly,this was the high point)<\/li>\n<li>Yogurt ad<\/li>\n<li>Toyota ad<\/li>\n<li>PBS advertising themselves<\/li>\n<li>CNN showing YouTube videos<\/li>\n<li>Mystery Detectives outtakes<\/li>\n<li>College hockey<\/li>\n<li>Fishermen saying &#8220;bleep&#8221; to each other.<\/li>\n<li>Commercial about coming NBA games<\/li>\n<li>Wright State vs Loyola.  I could tell you the sport, but honestly, does it matter?<\/li>\n<li>Carmelo Anthony shooting practice shots for his anticipated return after bad behavior, or maybe an injury.<\/li>\n<li>Ad for &#8220;Dredd.&#8221;  Whatever that is, it wasn&#8217;t clear.  Maybe a movie?<\/li>\n<li>University of Phoenix ad. (Why did I waste all that time at Purdue reading books and taking tests?)<\/li>\n<li>Subway sandwich store ad.<\/li>\n<li>A Steve Carell movie, not sure which one.<\/li>\n<li>HBO. Someone getting shot with an assault rifle while fishing.  Ha ha, that&#8217;s entertainment!<\/li>\n<li>Stock market analysis, a red faced person shouting, &#8220;don&#8217;t buy Intel&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A news show. &#8220;Manufacturers of high capacity assault rifle clips spent 7.7 million dollars on lobbying.&#8221; (You can draw whatever conclusions you like with regards to the HBO movie 2 bullets (haha) above.)<\/li>\n<li>Bill O&#8217;Reilly talking over his guest<\/li>\n<li>Weather show about rain<\/li>\n<li>Hip hop music with a guy peeing on a pool table. (Really, I couldn&#8217;t make this stuff up)<\/li>\n<li>Cough medicine ad.<\/li>\n<li>Cartoon with vultures talking in an Indian accent. (Again, really)<\/li>\n<li>Weather conditions in Jerusalem (Seriously, I&#8217;m not making this up)<\/li>\n<li>4 talking heads talking about Latin America credit ratings<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t know.  I think it was a news show.  But it was cartoon figures of the newscasters flying over the US Capitol Building.<\/li>\n<li>Soccer of &#8220;Ben&#8221; vs. &#8220;Bar&#8221; (Countries I suppose.  But could it really be Benin vs. Barbados?)<\/li>\n<li>A child beauty pageant <\/li>\n<li>Dirty movies that I have to pay for and that I might want to block if I have young children.  I figured my youngest son Paul (age 27) might come to visit, so I blocked it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honestly?  People pay money for this sort of programming?  To quote my favorite tv mom, Jane Kaczmarek as Lois in &#8220;Malcolm in the Middle, (who was not present on this screed of horrible tv,)  &#8220;What is wrong with you???&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to go read my book&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Which is a book of Dave Barry telling booger jokes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have Amish TV at Skunk Hill, we get the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curmudgeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}