[UA] [not so OT] Adam Corolla

[Woodhouse, Mark]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Dustin [mailto:yetiseti at hotmail.com]
 
> >From: Yiannakos <yiannako at geneseo.edu>
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^ 
Hey- I grew UP there!

> >Gregory Paul Stolze wrote:
> > >
> > > To be fair to Adam Corolla, he's also the co-host of the 
> radio show
> > > "Loveline" in which troubled and confused people call in 
> and discuss 
> >their
> > > sex/drug/personal problems with him and Dr. Drew Pinski.  
> The two of 
> >them
> > > are a good balance.  Dr. Drew is the compassionate healer 
> and addiction
> > > specialist, but he's sometimes a bit of a softie.  Adam is the
> > > trash-talking wiseguy, but every once in a while you need 
> him to tell it
> > > sharp.  ("Loveline" used to be one of my guilty pleasures 
> when I was
> > > driving back from late classes.)
> 
> I once listened to it too.  I can remember my opinion of 
> humanity dropped 
> about fifteen notches when a distinctly troubled 19 year old 
> female caller 
> said, "I'm scared and disgusted by sex," and then the four 
> men on the show, 
> Corolla, Drew and the two guest hosts (I think they were the Orb or 
> something like that) all took bets on which family member 
> molested her.
> 
> Drew won.
>

Ya know, I think most of us sometimes wonder "Why would ANYONE call in
to/appear on one of these shows so they can be mocked and humiliated in
front of millions?"

Well, what if it's a quick and dirty charge-builder?

This is _very_ off the top of my head, but:

Revelomancy - The magic of confession

An offshoot of cryptomancy, this school is based around self-revelation.
The adept gains power by exposing her most intimate secrets to strangers.

Paradox: Making the private public, shame versus exhibitionism.

Taboo: rrrr... not sure, really. Something to do with exhibiting shame or
discretion? 

For the purposes of Revelomancy, a "secret" is some piece of personal
information (something about the _adept_themselves_) known only to those
directly involved which is in some way disturbing - that is, capable of
causing a stress check to the person experiencing it.  A 'major' secret is
something that is deeply shocking and disturbing - in general, an act or
experience capable of causing a rank 5 or greater stress check.

A secret is revealed once _anyone_ not directly involved in the original
event knows about it, and becomes useless for further charge-gaining.

Minor Charge: Reveal a major secret to a casual acquaintance or stranger, or
reveal a minor secret to a large group (>100 people)
Sig Charge: Reveal a major secret to a large group, or a minor secret to a
very large group (>100000)
Major Charge: Reveal a major secret to a very large group

No real ideas on effects or formulas yet, but I would expect them to have to
do with manipulating people's emotions.  These folks _definitely_ have a
blast, but it may take an odd form... maybe they cause the victim to have
little strokes?

Seems like a school in which charges are easy to get at first and then get
hard unless the adept is out there burning their own madness meters getting
NEW secrets to reveal - thus having a high degree of burnout.  Plus the
Isolation toll of only being able to share one's personal life with
strangers must be pretty brutal...

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