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Morgan: There's this time of when there's breakthroughs and breakdowns. And even when people are like, "I want to go home; I'm unhappy" you kind of talk people off the ledge and you say, "Stick it out." But they're not contractually obligated to stay there for the 30 days. People can stop; they can stop if they want to.
Like in season one there was, our participant was doing steroids and human growth hormones for a month, and around Day 20 he went to get his sperm checked, and basically when he started he had a sperm count like 80 million and on Day 20 he had zero. Basically he killed all the sperm in his body. And his wife was like, "You have to stop right now." He was like, "You're right; I'm done. I'm walking away." So he was finished after three weeks. And once he got off the HGH and the steroids all of his semen count came back and it was back to normal.
But it was one of those things and listen, I don't blame him. If suddenly after three weeks I went from 80 million to zero I'd have probably been really seriously thinking about dropping out, too. But for me, as I said, I think that's the interesting thing; that's the exciting thing. And these people are really courageous for sticking it out and for putting themselves in this environment where, think about it, think about something that's really important to you and you're surrounded by people who believe the exact opposite for a month. That's a difficult place to be mentally, emotionally, physically. I think it's very taxing.
Nads: Were you ever supposed to be in all of the 30 Days episodes?
Morgan: Seasons one and two I only did one episode and then this season, season three, I decided to do two. It's just I want to try and keep my marriage somewhat intact. When we originally pitched the idea to FX four years ago, when we got the idea for 30 Days, the original concept behind the whole show is I would go off and do every single episode, which essentially means I would be gone and in some sort of a different environment, a different experience every month for six months straight, essentially. And my wife said, "You're not going to have a wife very long if you do that."
Nads: Are you doing anything fun for the first episode of this season?
Morgan:On June 2nd I'm flying back to West Virginia where we're going to have a friends and family screening for all the coal miners.
I want to thank Morgan for taking the time to talk to me, he was so nice and so interesting to talk to. Check out the season 3 premiere of 30 Days on FX tonight at 10PM ET/PT. This season, you'll see Working in a Coal Mine, 30 Days In A Wheelchair, Animal Rights, Same Sex Parenting, Gun Nation and Life On An Indian Reservation.
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Wow Nads, we were just all discussing this show in the forums and here you are on the main page interviewing Morgan, himself.
The show is great, he's great, your great, our forums are great, so anyone wanting to discuss "30 Days" further, stop by the forums and look for it by name. We love newbies.
1 of 1 | Posted by chooch850 | Posted on June 3, 2008 8:42 PM