Chasing Mummies

I'm watching this on demand right now. It was cool till I figured it out. It's all fake as fake can be for instance there is that Zoe "intern". How convent she is there by mistake and yada yada getting into trouble "Pissed on the rocks". Yup she is an actress http://www.zoedamato.com. The best part is in her Resume she is going to be on the HBO show boardwalk. I don't think Scorsese would hire an amateur. I hate history channel it has become so E36 M3ty.

It is easier to tell this is faked then Pawn stars. Where all the "experts" are valuing crap they already had there.

There's better history shows on just about every other channel than the History Channel these days. As a history buff (and a person with a History degree enrolled in the Phi Alpha Theta historian's fraternity) it's becoming hard to find decent history documentaries/shows these days when this crap is all over the channels that are supposed to cater to that. WTF.

I watched about 2 minutes of this crap and changed it over to some re-runs of Chappele's Show. Zero historical value there, other than the fact taht it's one of the funniest sketch comedies in recent memory.

SilverFleet wrote: I watched about 2 minutes of this crap and changed it over to some re-runs of Chappele's Show. Zero historical value there, other than the fact taht it's one of the funniest sketch comedies in recent memory.

What are you talking about. It has historical figures:

HOW'S IT TASTE MOTHERberkeleyER?!?!?!

Salanis wrote:

SilverFleet wrote: I watched about 2 minutes of this crap and changed it over to some re-runs of Chappele's Show. Zero historical value there, other than the fact taht it's one of the funniest sketch comedies in recent memory.

What are you talking about. It has historical figures:

I stand corrected!

It said on their site that the "intern" had worked odd jobs to pay for travel to various places in her life, so she could have just worked as an actress before without them necessarily "hiring" her to play the intern. But my first thought when I turned it on was that it looked awfully scripted and overly dramatic. They said they could run out of air in the tunnels, but there was a hell of a lot of tunnel. They would have been sucking in a lot of air to use all that up, in even in five hours.

I figured it was fake in the first 5 minutes, when the guy was signing books and they said they were trapt in the pyramid, and he took off running.

RossD wrote: I figured it was fake in the first 5 minutes, when the guy was signing books and they said they were trapt in the pyramid, and he took off running.

...And then I changed it to Chappele's Show. See above post.

As far as REAL history shows, I've been watching History Detectives on PBS. It's pretty cool, a team of researchers and historians pick from viewer mail objects that have possible historical value, and then they go out and find out about their origins and report back to the owner. They are real objects, owned by real people, and the only drama happens on occasion when something like a family heirloom gets the owner emotional.

For instance, some lady had a revolutionary war cannon, and they took it and had it verified, and realized it was a cannon that was snagged from the British in around 1775, which back then they got pissed about and this kind of theft was what sparked the battles of Lexington and Concord. Pretty awesome! Also, they had a replica of one and they took her to a firing range and she got to fire it!

SilverFleet wrote: As far as REAL history shows, I've been watching History Detectives on PBS.

That show is effin' rad! Seriously great show.