EPISODE 2:
This week kicked off in front of Madison Square Garden where Donald and his sons approached team ASAP and team Backbone to give them the next task. They are to create a children's book and perform it as a play for a group of 4-5 year olds. Project managers were decided on the spot. After deliberation the women chose Lisa Rinna and the men quickly defaulted to Meat Loaf.
This was another 2 hour show. I have to say, there were so many details, I don't want to forget anything. I'm actually hoping the link will pop up in the morning. Because this is a must see episode.
Brief synopsis: Meat delegated important writing tasks to Mark McGrath and John Rich. While Jose seems to be the debbie downer of the group getting hung up on words this early on in the task. The concept was decided, the moral of the story was achieved, and the execution of the character was decided. Meanwhile the women were killing me, they were infighting for near 2 hours just on concept. Meetings took place with a children's author for a bit of brain picking to help them achieve their goals. Meat obtained everything he needed. With the book in full swing, they needed to work out props for the play and wardrobe. Gary and Jose get the task of delivering props. TO A BAD ADDRESS given by Meat. But low and behold after a 2nd bad address. The first one was correct after all, just no one was there to receive the props. Wardrobe: the guys were guys and got a little nutty in the costume shop. The women: MORE FIGHTING, this time over choosing a cover for the book and credits to the author and everyone in their mother for having input in the thing (Star Jones and Dionne Warwick have a bit of an ego). The women finally get a book and they aren't seen until Lisa is giving a pep talk which went over like a lead balloon. The men were excited to get to wardrobe and excited about the play. Meat was shown rehearsing the play and was giving Jose a bit of a theatrical lesson. Hilarious by the way. Showtime, the women went first and their skit was cute. Meat's was next and they did themselves proud. Boardroom: Donald was consulted about the pros and cons of each book and performance before heading into the battlefield. A few questions to the team about Meat Loaf's leadership (and I didn't breath for a while I'm sure) all came back positive and then the ladies went on about Lisa. Meat won the task overall. $20,000 to The Painted Turtle and THEN Donald gave the information that the book was going to be published and the proceeds of that would go to The Painted Turtle as well. Meat gets overwhelmed and his voice cracks with emotion as his lip trembled. My eyes well up for Meat as I held my bottom eyelids. I couldn't express the amount of pride I have for him. He thanks Mr. Trump and says yes, he is an emotional guy.
And that's brief folks. I'm sure others will add. But I could be typing until 4 in the morning about this particular show .
My stance: Meat was smart for utilizing the strengths of each individual person on the team. I know I didn't review all of what he did, but he was the commander in charge, like a good leader does and how it just comes so very natural for him.
2nd: A group of us were tweeting to DonaldTrump Jr. on twitter all night long during the show about various things and questions he was asking. I asked along with a few other's asked when we can get Meat's book titled Not So Little, Jon. He responded and said he would find out and get back to us on twitter.
)) We were so happy!
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