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Which airs tuesday, 8:00 p.m. on nbc. i saw the past show, it is terrific. how did you get into doing the television thing? >> 15 years of people approaching me. i've never been a reality tv fan. i do infomercials. >> larry: you're seen everywhere. >> i'm seen everywhere. that was helpful after one show. i didn't like the idea of moving people off islands, voting them off. i wanted to do something inspirational. every time i went to do a show, it went down to humiliation. and then i found partners who did the biggest loser and extreme home make over. and i said, how can we do this? nbc said we...

Makes more money having a problem than acting per minute, per hour, she's not going to change. under mel's case, he has had an incredible history before this and none of this has shown up. everybody has to be saying what is going on? >> larry: could it be new? >> absolutely. if you have a blueprint, a mind-set, this is where my life should be and your life doesn't match, people get a little crazy and some people drink. some people get angry. there's something in mel's world that doesn't match. i don't know what it is. it may have to do with aging, something with his kids, family or something w...

Thanks to them we won the show. i say we because i had the support of everyone around me. >> larry: you went to the beijing olympics, right? you toured for three months? >> right. it was on and off. i would be home a few days, on the road a few days, kind of here and there. toward the end of that period things started kind of going south. rick was very focused into facebook and other social media type of things. i just noticed that he was gone. and i wasn't really paying attention to my own responsibility, and i was very focused on what he was doing. >> larry: what were you doing, rick? >> i d...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening, i'm kathleen parker. >> i'm eliot spitzer. welcome to "parker spitzer." kathleen, second show, last night was great. don't you think? >> for those who may have missed it we should reintroduce ourselves. you're a liberal new york city democrat and i'm sort of -- >> character, but i'll live with it for now. >> i'm a regular american -- >> prague mattive conservative. >> pragmatic conservative from the south. we're going to have different ideas about things. >> sometimes. a lot of times we don't. >> anyway, what we want to do on this how is ta...

I wanted people nominated, who knew they were going through a tough time. my whole thought was get people that really are good people that you want to root for, but have gotten a raw deal. life has crushed them. let's give them a second chance. i watch a video of this young boy, tears in his ey saying come help my dad. i watched my mom get killed in a drive-by shooting. we live in the salvation army. come help me. that moved me. what moved me is what i selected. i had to come up with a plan. how do you help someone move from being trapped in their house, a quadriplegic to regaining their life ...