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The Apprentice, Week 16:
NYC 2012 Athlete Challenge and Best Buy Video Game World Championship
Original Air Date: 5/12/05
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Trump now turns to Tana. “Do you think the fact that you’re not highly educated is a disadvantage for you working for me?” Oh, c’mon! I thought we were done with all this nonsense. Tana tries to turn it to her advantage, “My education came from the street; I didn’t get it in a college. The street is my bread and butter.” I know very little about the Midwest, but I’m guessing the mean streets of Iowa aren’t the toughest ones to face. She also claims to be a “worldly business owner.” I’m not even sure what that means.
Kendra goes on the dogfight attack: “I absolutely think it’s a liability. When you start college, or you start anything, you should finish what you start.” Okay, so now we learn that Tana actually went to college for three years before getting married, dropping out, and getting pregnant. So in essence, what Kendra has over her, education-wise, is exactly one year of college. Now there’s a competition.
Trump calms Tana’s growing defensiveness over her life choices by saying, “That’s a fine answer. There’s no better thing to do than to have children. That supersedes education.” He still needles her a bit about not being able to handle tough New York people. Kendra notices that the lavish attention has shifted off of her and onto Tana, so she butts in about how great she is at handling people from the Northeast in her Florida real estating. Woo.
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Back and forth, back and forth. Tana is “a strong person who does not break easily,” nor does she “frazzle easily.” Can’t say the same about her hair, but that’s okay. Kendra jumps in, “I think that I want this more than Tana.” Tana snarks that Kendra has left nothing behind for this job, whereas she has a husband and two kids; Kendra claims that she’s the total package, what with her extra year of education and days on the mean streets. She brings up her superior track record, at which Tana rolls her eyes. Tana, rightly, points out that Kendra waited until everyone else was a project manager before volunteering, which Kendra claims was just a part of her strategy. Generally in reality shows, people don’t brag about flying under the radar, because that’s usually considered an insult, but whatever.
As they exit, Kendra is all big smiles, but Tana, who has been talking rather robotically throughout this whole boardroom, is quite stiff. Trump turns to George and Carolyn, who add very little to the conversation except to say that Kendra and Tana are strong women who handled difficult tasks. And as the two ladies in question sit uncomfortably in the waiting room, their teams troop in one by one. Da da dum. Da da dum.
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My education came from the street...The street is my bread and butter.
