If you could take part in my TV show "30 Days"on FX, what would you do for 30 days and why?

Question

It took only 30 days living the All-American fast food life to change the way I’ll look at food forever.

In my TV show 30 Days, we take people and put them in life situations quite different from their own where they experience seeing the world through someone else's eyes. What do you want a different perspective on?

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Answer 1

Being a millionaire.

Answer 2

I would like a different perspective on the enviornment. Like, if the person had to do all the bad things they could to the enviornment in 30 days and it would show how much their world can turn around by doing horrible things to the world around us. I think by doing this you would show viewers how bad we are treating the enviornment and they may even stop doing some of the things that are making our world bad. Also, thank you for making 'Super Size Me.' It really changed my outlook on fast food. Ever since i saw that movie, I haven't had any fast food at all.

Answer 3

I'd love to be able to volunteer for project or program in a "third world" country. Something like they do in the Peace Corps or in Doctors Without Borders. An experience that would really challenge me, educate me and give me some new perspective on my own daily life.

Answer 4

Work in Congress, with both parties, to peel back the veil for America (expose the Wizard). The American people are being inundated with partisan politics to 1) mobilize them through fear 2) chase them away from participation, all together. I imagine that the bulk of what our government does is based on preserving and extending power (regardless of party affiliation) and to that end, on most issues, Congress is a rather congenial place. Enter Toto...

Answer 5

I would like to see 30 days as a long haul truck driver. (Maybe you've already done this) The episode on living thirty days as a minimum wage earner was so touching it made me cry, but unfortunately, it is the only one I have seen. I personally think that 30 days in a tough situation is more compelling than thirty days in a fabulous job.

Answer 6

Once a guy I knew got an account at Amazon under the name Houie Lewis and tried to submit "author's reviews" of the Houie Louis and the News albums.

Answer 7

I think an idea that could shine in the show would be to live 30 days as what could be called a "refugee traveler" either by air or land, you could set up interesting rules such as:

a) Only airline and airport concesion stand food. (or bus station food)

b) IF you travel by air: At least 60 different cities with at least 60 connecting flights (2 flights per day). Maybe even limit yourself to only "redeye" flights. Or limit your airfare spending say 1999 Dollars in the 30 days.

If you take the highway and travel by land, Maybe a detrmined number of miles per day (lets say the equivalent to staying 8 hrs on the greyhound)

c) One relevant activity per city, maybe a meeting, or a doctor´s apointment, maybe meetings in different cities to raise awareness on a specific topic (ie pollution caused by traffic) you could even keep film record of how in different regions in the country people have different levels of awareness. from the very concerned activist to the unsuspecting, "unafected" bystander.

d) Set limits to the type of hotels or motels in which you will stay (ie will only stay at a hotel if you cant find a connecting flight past 10:00 pm,) (Can only spend 75 dollars on food and lodging per day)

You could document a mix of your personal feelings and reactions with life stories of other travelers (I bet there has to be a good story behind airport clerks, delayed travelers and even the homeland security personnel who diligently inspect every single passenger.)

Just the fact of looking at life through the diferences in perspective in diverse cities and communities would be great, plus it would pay justice to the diverity of your national audience.

Take your fiancee on for the ride, if she´s up to it, that way we could see her point of view, which has been a great balance in the past.

Answer 8

I would like to have a different perspective on the AIDS epidemic in Africa. In my life, I've thought I have felt hopelessness. But I can't imagine what those people must be going through.

Answer 9

I would like to try a totally different career for 30 days. For example, I am a band teacher and I would like to see what my life would be like had I pursued a career in corporate America. Maybe I could be a stockbroker for a month. It would be interesting to see what it's like to spend the whole day surrounded by other adults! :)

Answer 10

I have thought about what life is like for people in prison. I have always supported prison relief work, and actually taught a poetry writing class in a minimum security women's prison a long time ago. What wold 30 days in jail/prison be like?

Answer 11

To be honest with you, *I* wouldn't be a willing candidate for having my "secret shame" exposed to the entire country, but there are people who have a serious problem with a form of extreme environmental messiness known as "squalor." Once "squalor" takes root, it is very difficult to overcome!

Some people are hoarders--they have obsessive-compulsive disorder, and they can't bear to get rid of things (nor can some of them stop buying things that they have no room for). In my own case, it's due to depression--depression that only snowballs and digs its way in deeper, because living like this is so...well...in a word, DEPRESSING! (--Not to mention EMBARRASSING! I can't believe that I'm actually typing this, and everyone in the world can now know that this otherwise-together-seeming broad lives in the middle of a garbage dump of her own making--Sheesh!)

Anyway...there are lots of folks like me who live in appalling messes. And it'd probably take about 30 days to get their places cleaned up AND get them past whatever psych issues they have that caused the problem in the first place.