Jason Hasselkus

East coast business meets west coast style. I love the tag line NBC gave the newest season of The Apprentice. I get so excited to see these over confident, inflated ego’s go at each other like cats in heat. This season promises to have a few twists and turns that seem a bit off, from the previous seasons. The 6th season starts with 18 young business people introducing themselves, but we only get to hear a little bit, except for the Gold Medal female Hockey player (Angela), we get to hear her whole story, and she even gets a hug from Trump in the first 5 minutes of the show. Following Angela is Martin who asks Trump if he can give a hug if he can use the bathroom, DUDE!!! This is your first impression to a guy who you want to hire you? Moron. After introductions, we get to see the whole cast build a tent together, which is our first look at who has a big mouth. Frank and Heidi step up and become kinda the vocal leaders. Trump then invites them into the boardroom and lets Heidi and Frank choose teams. Martin was chosen last because during the tent building exercise, he decided to stand back and watch things get done, maybe it was because his bladder was so full he couldn’t work that hard, I dunno.
After teams are chosen, their first task as a team is to see which team can sell more car washes. So lets think about this from the normal person’s view. Ok, so you have to make the most money at a car wash right? So how would you do that? First you need to get people to come into the car wash, so a few signs and some people standing on the street to get them to get the filth off their car. Again not being a rocket scientist would tell me that, it doesn’t really matter how much I up sell as long as I have huge volume. Up sell the detailing all you can, however if nobody is coming through to even get the simple wash, it won’t matter at all. The more people you move through a car wash the better, just set your price at a reasonable level. Well apparently one team got it, while the other team didn’t. Heidi’s team wins, and the reason they won, was that every single person on the team worked their butt off. The reward for winning this task is to go to Spago and eat with Wolfgang Puck and the Trumps. But, that’s not the end of it. The winning project manager, Heidi, gets to be the project manager until she fails, and gets to sit next to Trump in the boardroom and help decide who on the other team gets fired. However, that isn’t even the best part. The loosing team, Franks team in this case, get to live in tents until they win a task.
This to me has to be the worse part of the whole show, although I had heard that this might happen on this season, I had to wait and see how it played out. Now it’s not like they are camping at the local KO, they are in the backyard of a multimillion dollar home, so they aren’t really slumming it. Would anyone really sleep in a tent to work for Trump? I wouldn’t, I think I have a little more respect for myself than to sleep in a tent and be humiliated on national television. Anyway these people think it’s worth it so they end up living outside until, at least the next episode.
So the loosing team starts picking on Frank because he was the project manager and they have to bunk in a tent and not the palatial palace they call the Trump guest house. Frank selects Tim and Martin to go with him to the boardroom. Ivanka Trump, whom who has replaced Carolyn Kepcher, says that Martin wouldn’t mesh well in the company and Heidi as well, recommends getting rid of Martin. Tim gets to leave the boardroom, because his being there isn’t necessary, since Frank and Martin can’t stand each other. Frank can’t keep his mouth shut, but that doesn’t stop Trump from firing Martin because his attitude just sucks. He even has the guts to turn around and tells Trump he’s made a mistake. Like Trump said, Martin would be good at teaching and as a lawyer, but he isn’t going to fit in with hard working people. Remember this is the guy who asked to go to the bathroom in the opening scene. While driving away Martin concludes that he was the hardest working person on the team. I guess he’ll have to watch the episode to realize he wasn’t.
So this season looks interesting although the talent is far less than any of the previous seasons. I don’t know how I feel about Trump degrading people by making them live in tents, but I guess that’s the networks want, now that people are getting so bored with reality tv.