RECAP: American Chopper – Iraq Star Bike

Paul Sr. has a full shop in this episode.  In walk in Kristy Swanson, Gary Sinise, and a few wounded soldiers who have been helped by the Iraq Star Foundation.  The foundation helps by providing wounded soldiers with plastic and reconstructive surgery that they need.  Many of these soldiers come back disfigured, and those wounds dig down into the core of their humanity by effecting their psychological well-being.  With the help of these surgeries, these soldiers are able to not only rebuild their physical being, but also their emotional and psychological being.

While Sr. prepares for the new build, Paul Jr. and his new design firm are off meeting with Coleman about the 10th Anniversary grill packaging.  In the last episode, Paul Jr. was able to build the grill for Coleman, and now it’s time for Coleman to discuss it’s marketing plans with Jr.  This was a meeting that Mikey was supposed to be at with Paul Jr., but he is nowhere to be found in the beginning of this episode.

Sr. brings out the draft of the bike for his team, and it is going to feature a really slick paint job that is going to mimic the look of desert camouflage clothing.  Once his team gets started on the bike, Paul Sr. goes to meet one of the soldiers who is being helped through the Iraq Star Foundation.  Tim Juliano was hit with some shrapnel that disfigured his nose, and his cheek structure.  Paul Sr. is at Dr. Herman’s office to meet Tim during his pre-op meeting.  Paul is going to stay the following day to witness the surgery as well.

It’s time for the surgery, and Paul Sr. is in medical scrubs, ready to watch the surgery take place.  Sr. manages to stomach the entire surgery.  Kristy Swanson has to step out a few times.  Paul Sr. is brought to tears during the segment and relates with all the parents that have to watch their sons go through the pain and struggles of war.

Paul Jr. unveils the Coleman grill to the employees, and discusses the different features he added to the unit.  The grill is set up for huge successes in the future, and Paul Jr. is really proud of the piece because it is his first project away from Orange County Choppers.

Back at the shop, the team manages to finish the build with no problem and Sr. has it shipped to Los Angeles for the unveil.  The bike is auctioned to raise money for the charity, and Paul Sr., Dr. Phil, Gary Sinise, and Jon Voight all purchase the bike for $100,000.  The money was given to the Iraq Foundation fund.

The episode ends with Paul Jr. still looking for Mikey.  He finds out that Mikey has checked himself into rehab for alcohol abuse.  He and the whole Teutul family are completely behind Mikey, and just hope to see a more healthy Mikey after his treatment in rehab.

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RECAP: Street Customs – Lamborghini

Last week they did a Maybach, why not a Lamborghini?  Ryan’s friend and successful entrepreneur, David Calleros, brings in his Lamborghini for a makeover.  Ryan shows David the design sketch.  A 2 tone, black and white lambo.  David drops off the keys, and Ryan takes the car to the back of the shop.  The West Coast Customs team has 6 days to completely transform the car and prepare it for the unveil, which takes place on David’s birthday.

The car gets stripped in no time, and is sent off to paint.  Ish is ready to completely tranform the cars interior, and Joe is going to add a performance exhaust system that should take the car up a notch.

Meanwhile Ryan has his friend Buck over at the shop.  Buck is going to teach Ryan how to flame a car.  They are going to paint flames on the hotrod of a car for an unveil at a Children’s Hospital so Ryan really wants to get hands on with this project.  The car gets placed in the booth and Buck works through it while teaching Ryan how to add flames on a car.

Ryan goes to check in on Ish’s interior design and doesn’t like it.  It being a Lamborghini, Ryan wants Ish to create the best interior he has ever created.  Instead Ish is complaining about the time constraint, and is planning on adding a simple black and double stitch interior.  Things turn quickly when Ish is inspired to create a tuxedo themed interior.  The vision will add a lot more white to the interior and Ish will be able to use his new hole punch tool to create a button-like design.

Ryan decides to take an easier day away from the shop with Bigg Dane, Sean, and his family.  They decide to go to a BMX track and make a day out of it.  The three race around the track and Ryan comes in last.  Bigg Dane takes the win on his new bike; a Bigg Dane sized BMX bike that Ryan gives to him as a gift.

Ryan is able to reveal the flamed out Hotrod he helped paint for the Children’s Hospital.  All the children of the hospital are outside for the unveil, and West Coast Customs adds smiles to all their faces giving them another reason to hold on for another day.

Back in the shop, it’s 1 day away from the Lamborghini reveal and the car is still in pieces.  All the design work is done, but it looks like it’s going to be a late night for the team.

It time for the reveal and the team manages to pull it off and get the car done.  Ryan drives it to the reveal which is going to take place at a closed race track.  David Calleros, the client, is stunned when he sees the car, and the episode ends with David driving the car at it’s full capacity around an empty track.  What a way to celebrate your birthday.

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RECAP: Ghost Hunters Academy – The Honeymoon’s Over

It proved to be a difficult investigation for the cadets of Ghost Hunters Academy.  Their investigation is taking place in the Battleship North Carolina.  As you can imagine, the place is a maze.  Steve and Tango take the group on the tour of the ship, and Heathyr, the medium of the group chooses to stay behind once again.  During the tour Steve mentions to the cadets that they should take notes, but no one listens.

It’s time to set up the equipment, and the young team decides that they should take a second tour on their own to figure out where they are going to set up the cameras.  It’s an hour later, and the equipment hasn’t even been touched.  It’s time for Steve and Tango to step in and have a talk with the amateurs.  They probably should have thought about taking notes during the initial tour.

The team begins to set up on their own, and they finally get central command up and running.  They begin their investigation and Susan gets lost from her team.  They end up regrouping, luckily, before Steve and Tango find out that they were ever separated.  I wonder if they would have been talked to.  They end the first night of the investigation.

For the second night Steve and Tango decide to jump in and help the team set up the equipment.  With all hands on deck and the expertise from the 2 pros, center command gets up and the team goes lights out.  There are no clear points of evidence that are discovered from the young team at first glance, but you never know without looking over the evidence.

Steve and Tango ask each individual of the young team to look over their evidence on there own without sharing it with anyone else.  This is because they are trying to evaluate the strength of each individual member.  They all manage to get through the evidence, and begin to share it with Steve and Tango.  There were some interesting finds, but Steve says that the entire investigation has to be thrown out because the team didn’t follow protocol.  All the interesting sound bytes couldn’t be further solidified because the team didn’t ‘tag’ the audio.  Tagging the audio is when an investigator descriptively describes a sound that happens over the audio recorder that could be mistaken as paranormal activity.  An example would be if Investigator A sneezes, they the investigator would then say, “Investigator A just sneezed.”  This is a fail proof way to separate the odd sounds from the hopeful paranormal ones.

It looks like the entire team is on the chopping block.  With one entire investigation down the drain, the team must reevaluate their mistakes and figure out a way to gel together.  If not, someone, or possibly everyone could be let go, and sent home.  As the title of this episode suggests, the honeymoon is indeed over.

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RECAP: Ghost Hunters – Pensacola Lighthouse

The Pensacola Lighthouse is maintained by the United States Guard, and now it’s going lights out for the Ghost Hunters.  The tower first lit up in 1859, and has been under the control of the US Coast Guard since 1965 when the tower went automated.  There have been a lot of ghost stories lingering around the location for many years, and now it’s time for the TAPS team to check it out first hand.

Richard Callaway, the President of the Pensacola Lighthouse Association gives Jason and Grant the tour of the hotspots.  They are brought down into the Keeper’s Quarters Basement where there have been accounts of a woman’s hair and shoulder being pulled.  There was even an account of someone seeing an African-American slave in the form of a shadow.  The tour continues on to the Keeper’s Quarters where a murder supposedly took place.  There have been accounts of footsteps and voices heard near the Keeper’s Quarters.  The team moves onto the original Keeper’s Room where a cold breeze has been felt on several accounts.  It’s time for the team to climb the 177 steps to the top of the lighthouse.  At the top Richard talks about an account where a woman in a white dress has been seen from people down below.

It’s time for the team to set up the equipment and prepare for lights out.  Dustin and Britt are on staff again tonight while Steve and Tango work on Ghost Hunters Academy.  The equipment gets up and the lights go out.

Jason and Grant start in the lighthouse, and they immediately get activity on their K2 meter.  They start heading up the stairs toward the top and the meter continues to jump.  They start hearing banging sounds, and no one is around.  It almost sounds like a walking sound happening from directly above them.  Britt and Amy head up to the lighthouse, and the entrance to the keeper’s quarters.  They sit and begin to do their investigation.  Their investigation begins with Amy’s stomach growling.  Britt hears a low rumble sound, and first thought it was Amy’s stomach, but then realizes that it came from inside the room.

Later in the evening, Amy and Kris are investigating in the basement when they begin to feel the temperature drop.  Kris even feels like something is touching her head.  This is the first time in her 2 years of investigating with TAPS that she has felt something like this.  She runs out and gets a thermometer to see if the temperature is indeed dropping.  They begin to ask the ghost to bring the temperature down to a very particular temperature.  On 2 occasions the temperature is brought down to a the temperatures that Kris and Amy asked for.

Britt and Amy have another strange occurrence during this episode.  While they are investigating the Keeper’s Quarter’s Britt hears and feels footsteps pass directly by him.  Meanwhile Jason and Grant are down in the basement and the light on Grant’s camera keeps on turning off.  The light switch physically turns off, and then back on during one occasion.  Grant switches the light on the camera and it happens again.  With all the odd happenings going on in this lighthouse, there is a moment of comic relief when Dustin asks if there is “anyone hiding in the shadows the basement.”  Instead of getting a spiritual response he only proceeds to make Kris Williams laugh.

They close out the night and further their investigation on the evidence.  Jason and Grant deliver the evidence to Richard Callaway; he is pleasantly surprised with their findings.  They were able to audibly capture the footsteps heard by Britt, and a voice was even captured while Grant was asking a question.  It’s yet another great case for the TAPS team, and Richard leaves the door open for the TAPS teams and future investigations in the Pensacola Lighthouse.

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RECAP: The Ultimate Fighter – Gut Check

Team Rashad.  The lonely warriors come to fight against one another.  The bigger question in the beginning of this episode is whether Matt Mitrione is going to fight or not.  He complained that his brain was swollen in the last episode and that rant has brought itself into this episode.  Rashad is worried about Matt “Meathead” Mitrione and asks him how he’s feeling.  From the point of view of the fighters and the coaches, it looks like his head just isn’t in the game at this point.

The question still remains, if not Matt, who will fight McSweeney?  Kimbo begins to prepare.  Kimbo is consulted by an orthopedic surgeon, and it seems that he is missing some cartilage in his knee.  Throughout the episode Kimbo prepares for the fight with McSweeney while icing and heating his knee.  McSweeney is a kicker, or as Kimbo calls him, a ‘tree chopper’.  If Kimbo does fight him then he’ll have to watch for those kicks to the knee.  We will find out if Matt is going to fight McSweeney in the next episode.

In Rashad’s training camp Brendan Schaub and Jon Madsen prepare for the matchup in this episode.  After they do all the fighters and coaches go to the Palm’s to watch the Coaches challenge.  It’s Rampage and his Asst Coach vs. Rashad and his helping coach.  They battle it out in volleyball.  The best 2 out of 3 wins 10k for the coach, and an additional 1500 for each fighter on the winning team.  The first match goes to Team Rampage, and Rashad comes back hard and wins the last 2 rounds.

The battle still continues with the coaches and fighters trying to figure out whether Matt Mitrione is going to fight.  Dana comes in and gives a pep talk to the entire group of fighters.  ”If you didn’t come here to fight, then you came to the wrong place.”  Rashad gets the feeling that Matt is making it seem like he is being forced to fight.  That isn’t the case, and Dana mentions it in the talk.  He gives Matt another day.  The doctor’s are going to have their recommendations within the following day, and then Matt can decide.  If he decides not to fight, then someone will go in as an alternate.

For now its time to focus on the current matchup.  Brendan Schaub vs. Jon Madsen.  The weigh in makes it official, and it’s now fight day.  Round 1.  Jon comes out with his strong wrestling skills and takes down Brendan a couple times in the matchup.  He doesn’t advance his position so the fight is brought to a standup by the referee.  Both fighters survive the first round and it’s off to the second.  The fighters come out again and Jon tries to take down Brendan again.  Only this time he’s completely tired.  Brendan comes in swinging and knocks him 2 in the jaw, sending him to a knockout.  Brendan was grabbing the fence a lot during the matchup while he was on the ground, and maybe should have even got a point taken away.  Regardless he finished the fight with a knock out.

Now it’s on to the next episode to find out whether Matt Mitrione will step into the octagon once again.

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