Triple Rush

"Scott Papera, meet Josh. Josh, Mr Papera will be following you around with a camera for the next few weeks" = Boom! Greatest reality show ever.

Mr Papera, you can kindly put my consultant fee in the mail, I have just made you a fortune.

do it do it do it do it
instant hit.

Whats the money like in London? And how do you find your way around at the start? I know London reasonably well, but not all the little streets.. do you have/use gps?

$36 for one drop?! Fuck me. The show is just AWFUL though... Eric's wheels got stolen! OMG that sucks! What a load of shit.

His own fault for not locking the bike properly.

You'd think the production crew outside the place would have seen something..

But they probably didn't intervene because that would ruin a good story.

Also, given the ridiculous amount of scaremongering going on by the controllers, it seems a little irresponsible for the show to advocate the use of personal music players while on the job.

They do give a disclaimer before, but I see your point. You don't 'need' any music especially around traffic.

Also, given the ridiculous amount of scaremongering going on by the controllers, it seems a little irresponsible for the show to advocate the use of personal music players while on the job.

It looks like she's just been knocked off.

@Kips:

Don't know much about living costs in London. Here in Berlin, you need something about 400-450 Euro for a small, but reasonable apartment including gas/water/electricity. Medical insurance is about 200-250 Euro, 20-50 Euro for phone, internet etc. So you have base living costs of 620-750 Euro, remaining money to spend for "real" living. This is ok, but not too much.

How to get started? Well... there are something about 14000 roads in Berlin, even experienced couriers don't know all of them. There are several hundred ones that recently appear either as pickup or destination addresses, and probably 1000 more which you'll hear from time to time on the radio. A good A-Z helps. At the larger courier companies, orders are dispatched via two-way radio with a combined freestanding/blockreading system. As a courier, you may offer yourself as standing free in one district. That means the next (or n-th) order will be assigned to you. Pickups that start in a district where nobody is standing free are just read and you can call on them. Newbies mostly use the freestanding principle and seldomly call on tours. Which means that they do one job after another and don't combine. So they earn less.

I don't know if there are collegues out there using GPS, but I doubt. It doesn't make much sense for a cyclist. Those GPS-based navigation systems are optimized for motorized traffic and don't know about the shortcuts that make courier life efficient.

I've just watched the second episode and the continuity/ editing isn't amazing either.

Around 13 minutes in the messenger with the white full-face helmet sets off on a delivery on one bike and arrives on another!

http://www.megavideo.com/?d=R80XGI1S say thanks please :P

It just got cancelled by the Travel Channel as well. That didn't last long!

No real surprise.

Now you can watch all episodes on travelchannel. http://www.travelchannel.com/video/the-money
Unfortunately doesn´t work for me.

Doesn't work for me either :(

Lucky escape.

all the episodes are on youtube anyway.

all the episodes are on youtube anyway.

Thanks

all the episodes are on youtube anyway.

I could only see episode 1 + 2. am i just not looking hard enough?

They are there, it's so american haha!

They are there, it's so american haha!

I can only find 1+2 too...
Any chance of a link?

I've found a link, if anyone would like it drop me a PM

for a while, episodes 1-8 were available on american streaming sites like hulu. they're long gone now though

Any chance of a link?

Would be nice.