♪ Jump everybody Jump everybody Jump ♪
♪ Jump everybody Jump everybody Jump ♪
♪ Jump everybody Jump everybody Jump ♪
♪ Jump everybody Jump everybody Jump ♪
Lars.
["Get Ready For This" by Unlimited]
How can you wanna listen to this?
I-I mean, I like it once in a while.
I don't, I don't understand this.
[Lars] I am extremely in love with that music.
House music, that's my life.
[Kat] This is the true story..
[Neil] Of seven strangers..
Seven strangers..
[Jacinda] Picked to live in a house..
[Jay] And have their lives taped..
[Lars] To find out what happens..
[Mike] When people stop being polite..
[Sharon] And start getting real.
"The Real World," London.
[man on radio] 'More continuous back to back tunes'
'on Kiss .'
[Lars] Right now I can't think of-of anything better to do in London
than doing club promotion for Kiss FM.
That's pretty exactly what I want to do over here.
[woman on phone] 'Hello?'
Hello, this is Lars Schlichting.
Am I talking to Holly Bacon?
'Yeah, nice to hear from you.'
That's wonderful.
[Lars] A friend of mine back in Berlin
is the boss of Kiss FM, Berlin.
So he sent this fax to Gordon Mc
explained that I'm coming to London.
'When would you like to come in and talk to Gordon?'
Um, whenever, you give me a date, I'll be there.
When I told some people, like, out in the clubs
"I'm meeting Gordon Mc."
They were like, "Ooh, you're meeting Gordon Mc?"
'Is that okay? Thursday, the sixteenth at
'- Yeah. - 'Brilliant, okay.'
'Do you know where we are?'
I knew I wouldn't have a job
in like, the first two weeks.
I wouldn't want to have a job by now
because, um, I first want to find out what's going on here
what's happening, what's hot.
♪ Another night another dream ♪
♪ But always you ♪
♪ It's like a vision of love that seems to be true ♪
♪ Another night another dream ♪
♪ But always you in the night.. ♪♪
[Mike] Lars, I like Lars.
I mean, like, we went to a club last night.
Lars was, you know, he's like this
and shaking his butt back and forth.
[Sharon] Lars is a DJ.
He's really into his house and garage.
He's going through a house and garage phase at the moment.
But that's funky, I'm into that.
I like going clubbing and listening to that music so..
[Kat] He needs to go to clubs to kind of get a feel
and to meet people and to know
the group of people that he's targeting.
Which means going out a lot, I mean...why not?
Lars is into his club DJ, Lars, man.
[Lars] In the music industry and the club scene
things are very professional here.
It's a lot different than in Germany, that's for sure.
[techno music]
[Lars] 'Brompton-Brompton Road, right?'
[Mike] 'No, see right there, it says SW.'
'That means we're going the wrong way.'
[Sharon] Seven on this side of the road.
No, it's five, right here, look.
[Sharon] On the way home, Lars
he's used to the roads being on the other side
so that was a huge obstacle to start with.
[Sharon] Right, right, take a right here.
[Lars] I don't really know how well she knows London.
I'd say her sense of direction is pretty bad.
[Sharon] Take a left, take a left, we're taking a left.
[Sharon] I knew exactly the way home.
Except we came to this bit where I'm telling Lars
to turn left, and he heard me too late
'cause he was driving too fast
and it got so bad, we were driving so far out.
We were driving towards, like, Heathrow Airport.
[Sharon] Now, this is W that we're in.
[Mike] No, we were just.. That last road sign said SW.
We did get very extremely lost.
[Lars] I just asked her like, "What's that direction?
And is that north, is it south, is it east, is it west?"
She didn't have a damn clue.
Who's the idiot? She's the idiot.
- She knows where to go! - Halt!
[Neil] Shut the *** up, everybody!
Well, at least we got there in the end.
Now since we're here and since this road--
We're west and that's east and that's..
Right, and since this road is facing this way..
That...that would be east, that would be west.
Oh, so that's north and this is south!
- Yeah, so, what's there? - We're facing that way.
So that's north.
- Oh! Sharon, whoa. - Thank you so much.
♪ And love ♪
♪ And love one another ♪
[Lars] We have this music thing in common
so we always have something to talk about.
I mean, we can talk about soul singers
we can talk about jazz musicians
we can talk about house music.
♪ Deep deep inside deep deep down inside you ♪
♪ Deep deep inside deep deep down inside you ♪
♪ In love ♪♪
[Sharon] I live through music, I express myself through music.
Music is a huge, if not the most focal
and, and, uh, all-consuming part of my life.
♪ Well we're there now but then we have discovered ♪♪
Wow, Sharon, you're great.
How do you feel hearing yourself like that?
- Kind of weird? - Warm and embarrassed.
- And very weird. - 'Was that you or what?'
- Yeah. - That's you?
''Cause it's not like her, is it?'
[Kat] 'I know, I didn't think it sounded like her.'
Hey, this is cool.
[Sharon] My involvement within the music
is that I'm a singer-songwriter.
It's not something you can go to a college and learn
it's purely human contact and experience.
And in order to get that, you have to be quite humble
and you have to be willing to just take whatever is given.
♪ When you can't get what you want ♪
♪ You have to improvise ♪
♪ Setting out the self with no direction ♪♪
At the moment, I'm in a jazz-funk band.
I gig with my band about twice a week, regularly.
Is my water boiled?
I need some hot water.
It's sort of crept up on me.
I can sing, or if I go out clubbing with friends
and I'm in a smoky room, and I'll go back home and I'll..
It'll take me three days before my voice goes back to normal.
[phone rings]
[Sharon] 'I think I sound too manly, too gravelly, all that.'
[Mike] 'Sharon, get off the phone!'
[Lars] Sharon, the only problem I have with her is like
her being constantly on the phone.
- Sharon! - Sharon's not in right now.
[Sharon] To be fair, I really don't think
I use the phone too much.
People just seem to want to use it when I do.
You and that telephone.
You should get married to the telephone.
We should just wire her
and have, like, a telephone wire coming out of her a*s
then she can just, she can just wire herself in everywhere.
She's probably not on the phone as-as much
but whenshe's on the phone, she talks forever.
Actually, I'm thinking of where Greece is!
We all keep waiting for her to, you know, to wear her down
you know, like those, like those Duracell commercials
every time, r-r-r..
[laughs]
[Sharon] My usage of the phone
and the feeling surrounding it a-are pretty amicable.
There's no serious ill-feeling, to-to my knowledge.
Sharon, it's already been, like, an hour and a half.
Oh, no way!
Yes, I need you to get off it eventually.
♪ Start getting off the phone ♪
♪ Wake up Pam pam pam parararam ♪♪
They're trying to make as much noise as possible.
Next time the phone rings for Sharon, she's not here.
- Absolutely. - Bye. Buh-bye.
You two..
- Two hours! - Rude.
This is my home just as much as it's their home
and I think we all have the right
to-to, to use the phone as we wish.
The problem wasn't, you know, one phone, seven people.
The problem was, one phone, six people and Sharon.
It wasn't a problem with the phone, is what it was.
[Lars] Putting the phone in someone's name turned out to be
more difficult than I expected it to be.
We should make up a false name, then they can't trace it.
[Lars] 'Would any one of you two mind'
if we put it in one of your names?
- 'I think..' - You would mind?
Why would you mind?
Because it's too big a responsibility for me.
What's the big responsibility about that?
If you don't find it to be a big responsibility..
[Lars] 'Oh, fine, well, that-that made things easy.'
'We're gonna get just fine the next four months'
with that attitude.
Then Sharon went all like
"Ooh, that's too big of a responsibility
for me, I can't do that." And I got pretty pissed at her.
No, but I'm saying it to this.
You asked me a question, and I gave you my answer.
'I don't mind being responsible for myself'
I don't want to be responsible for everybody else though.
[Mike] 'You don't have to be, the phone bill comes'
'we all add up whose is whose.'
I'll do all the adding and multiplying.
How so? I've got no fixed abode.
So I'll put it in my name, they'll never find me.
Once I leave here, they'll never know where I am.
[Mike] 'Done, it's settled.'
- 'We'll call 'em up tomorrow.' - 'All done then.'
You're all wusses though. I'm so very disappointed in you.
I don't see why I should have to do it.
[Neil] I'm actually not too concerned about the phone
while everyone else seems concerned about it.
I have no way of paying it, so if it goes unpaid
the phone gets cut off, well...so be it.
[Jacinda] 'We're gonna have to have an award ceremony in the house.'
Award ceremony?
Yeah, like, for who's the loudest and..
Who's the loudest?
She loses her voice in the mornings, don't you?
[Sharon] Terribly.
'Cause you talk too much during the day.
It was just this week.
I wake up and I've got a dull, faded voice.
- Like, if you phone me-- - 'But why?'
I'm, at the moment I'm checking that out.
At the moment I think I might have a nodule on my throat.
Which is very worrying, 'cause as a singer--
- A what? - A nodule, it's like a growth.
It's, like, a blister. Yeah, exactly.
So, I've been told by my doctor that I'm supposed to be like
toning it down, keeping it quiet and not singing.
[Sharon] 'So at moment I'm in the process of getting that checked out.'
If I do, it's just a simple operation, but still
it's very worrying, because if they sod up..
...that's my career down on the tube.
[Kat] 'If they what?'
If they-if they mess up.
A nodule's sort of like, a, a growth on your vocal box.
[Sharon] When I realized that it was all quite real, you know
there was only the possibility for the last two weeks
that I might have a nodule.
But then I got the letter from the hospital today
saying that I've got to come in.
I thought it was the hospital.
As a singer, my profession basically
my job has been put on the line by this operation.
The slightest slip or misjudgment
and-and that, you know, my voice could go.
I may never be able to sing again.
And, um, I'm a little worried.
Sharon's gonna have an operation tomorrow morning.
Are you kidding? So she really is having an operation?
'That's gotta be the scariest possible operation for her.'
[Kat] 'I know.'
And Sharon has an incredible voice.
Six weeks she can't talk after the operation.
[Kat] 'Like at all, like, complete..'
Wait a minute, you're kidding me.
[Jacinda] 'And Sharon is the one who loves to talk more than any of us.'
'This kind of thing shouldn't happen to people like her.'
You know what I'm saying?
Like, it really shouldn't.
Lars is sick, he's in bed.
[Kat] 'What's he sick with?'
- The flu. - 'Great.'
[blowing nose]
♪ I got me so down I got me a ♪
♪ Headache ♪
♪ My heart is crammed in my cranium ♪♪
[Lars] I was really ill.
I had a cough and I had to sneeze
and I had a fever and I had a headache
and I had to throw up.
It was just really bad.
You're really not feeling well, are you, Lars?
My head's exploding.
[Mike] Lars just started getting real sick.
He says it's from clubbing, smoking and drinking.
But...but I don't know, maybe it was just the weather.
It was kind of sad because Lars wasn't capable of going out.
[Lars] I had to stay in for, like, ten days.
I mean, you can live together
with the nicest people in the world
but after ten days, those six people do get on your nerves.
- You're ready to go out? - Yeah, right.
[Mike] 'You know what you need?'
Is a nice relaxing...club.
Every night I was like, "Lars, come on, let's go."
And he was like, "No, I'm not going anywhere.
I'm sitting right here."
Mike ,like, every night, he's like
"Lars, get back on your feet again.
"We need to go out and party.
And get women and get drunk. You know what I'm saying?"
I'm like, "Yeah, I know what you're saying
but I don't wanna go out."
[Lars] He did not quite understand how I felt
because he kept saying it every night.
He just would not shut up.
Lars has been, like, sick for, like, two weeks or something.
And I came home one day and his
like, whole eye was swollen.
He had this huge, like, gash on his eye.
He'd collapsed in the kitchen and, like, hit his head on
the, um, one of the benches.
It's not even cleaned up.
- No, you're right. - Shame on you.
I thought he should've gone to the hospital.
It kept opening up and everything
it was pretty horrible.
You need to get some disinfectant.
You haven't cleaned it at all, huh?
No, all I did was..
- Do you want me to do it? - It's a good idea.
He didn't seem to care
He hadn't even cleaned it or anything.
[woman on phone] 'Can I help you?'
Hi, this is Lars Schlichting.
I have an appointment with
Gordon McNamee today at o'clock.
'Right.'
Um, I'm very sorry, but I have to cancel
that appointment because I'm sick.
[woman on phone] 'Okay, I'll let him know that.'
♪ Will Jesus ♪
♪ Come through the storm? ♪♪
[Sharon] When I walked in for my pre-op, my parents both came with me
and I had to walk through a ward
of all these, like, sick people.
Uh, that was the first time that it hit me, actually
that it was kind of real.
Do you think it will make my voice clearer?
Because even my spoken voice has become very gruff.
That is, that is the whole intention
is to make your voice better.
Now, we'll do our best.
'It will never be percent, but it will be better.'
We don't anticipate any problem.
Can I just ask, is it with gas or needles that they..
They will put you a nee-put a needle first.
Just a little, uh, shot, anesthetic
'and then it will be the gas, yeah?'
You can't do the gas first?
'Uh, no.'
'But you won't feel anything, it's a tiny, tiny scratch.'
- No, I always do. - 'Well, you'll be surprised.'
Sharon, Deena's gonna keep an eye on you for a few seconds.
- Okay. - Hello.
Oh, my God, it's you.
We used to be at school together.
[Sharon] When I went into the operating theater
one of the nurses had been at my school.
So it was nice, actually, for me
to see somebody that I knew, that made me feel quite secure.
We're gonna give you a tiny needle in the back of the hand
and then we'll have you off to sleep, alright?
'Alright, tiny scratch coming, you won't feel it.'
'Alright, that's it.'
That's all.
- That's it? - 'That's it.'
You're comfortable there?
- Mm-hmm. - Alright.
That was the worst bit for me.
Alright, okay, just breathe a bit, please, for me.
You'll be off to sleep in a moment.
[Sharon] 'It's the weirdest sensation, I can feel it going around.'
Yeah, you're sleepy now? Sleepy?'
[mumbling]
'Alright, yeah.'
[beeping]
[intense music]
Sharon, hello?
It's all finished, okay?
[Lars] Sharon came home from her operation.
She came home with her parents.
So, Sharon, how you doing?
Not too bad. I shouldn't--
She's not meant to be speaking at all.
I shouldn't, I shouldn't talk for a while.
- We should like-- - It's our secret.
Sign-sign language.
I had a, I had a pad on my, on my neck yesterday
I felt like Holly Hunter in "The Piano," you know?
'Cause I'm sitting there, writing.
What happened to your eye? Did some nasty thug hit you?
No, I-I don't know, I was just feeling really bad
and passed out and hit my head
here on the, on the sink.
Wow.
Well, I'm glad two people are sick in the house anyway.
I don't feel so bad now.
I-I'll speak to your mother now
so you don't, you don't have to speak anymore.
When did she have her operation?
Yesterday.
Sharon not being able to speak, that's so funny.
[Sharon] 'Hi, Jay.'
Shh.
It's good to have you back.
Well, Sharon came back under the orders not to talk.
I couldn't handle it.
- 'Not to be able to talk?' - Yeah.
Imagine being herand not being able to talk.
I mean, that's a complete different story.
[Jacinda] 'You know the big problem with you is that'
you like to ex-explain everything with lots of words.
'It's gonna take you forever'
to write down everything you want to.
[Jacinda] Sharon has a hard time anyway
like, not talking or-or keeping quiet on things.
Maybe it's meant to be to teach you
a little bit of...restraint.
[phone rings]
Jacinda, yeah.
Well, Sharon cannot talk, not a word.
She couldn't talk, she wasn't allowed to talk
but didn't stop her.
No, they said to me I'm not to talk for a week.
'Cause I only had it done this morning.
[woman on phone] 'I'll check in next Monday.'
'Okay, don't talk, I'll call you next Monday.'
- Okay. Bye-bye. - 'Okay?'
- 'Okay, love.' - Bye.
- 'Bye, darling.' - Bye.
- 'Love you.' - I love you too, grammy.
[Neil] 'There's the Zen approach to life.'
Just wait for the minimal, minimal thing to say.
Just don't say anything all day
and then just come out with one word in the day.
Don't say another word, because I need to respond
to what you said, okay?
- Okay. - Okay.
[Kat] She said she couldn't talk
and she was good about it for about minutes.
And then she started whispering every once in a while.
And I'd be like, "Sharon, you're not supposed to talk."
[hiccups] Ow.
The problem was she couldn't write fast enough.
Sharon likes to use a lot of words.
And she just couldn't write fast enough, so she gave up.
Literally the first night she started talking.
It's because the thing is, I-I can't keep up
in regular conversations.
So there's no point in me trying because I'm just gonna
end up talking.
Well, just, you only have to go a week.
It's discipline, I lack discipline.
[Lars] Kiss FM, London is like, quite a legend.
So working for Kiss, London
is just sort of a dream I always had.
So, Wednesday I came in o'clock
had, um, this talk with Gordon Mc.
See how they work.
Show them how I work, what I've done so far.
And-and your role in all that has been
um, to actually organize the DJs, the venue
you know, promote the whole thing or is it..
[Lars] 'Promote the whole thing.'
'I mean, that depends on the size'
but pr.. I'm pretty much doing
like, the whole thing myself.
What sort of work or job
will you imagine you could do for this station?
What I can offer and bring in
is my experiences from Germany
my experiences from Italy.
And-and then the connections I have in Germany and Italy.
What would probably be a good idea
is to get into the environment.
If you came in downstairs
and just spent a couple of days.
In that way you can then, kinda judge, kind of
"Okay, this is how it works."
So that might be a good idea to do on that side.
[Lars] So I was hoping I could get a job out of this
where like, Kiss pays me monthly or something.
Um, which is not quite what happened.
The next couple of weeks I want to spend a bit more time
to get to know more promoters here.
'We'd like to work with you.'
We'd like to do something with you.
We're not really sure what.
[Lars] I've gotten this far now
but I still have to look for a way to, um
I don't know, get money in.
[Neil] In terms of Lars integrating with it
he's gonna have a very hard time
'cause there's so many people involved in it.
And as a stranger from Berlin
to slot in and start organizing things
I think he's gonna find it quite tricky.
[Lars] I enjoy going out, I enjoy like, the whole thing
but on the other side I understand that
this is quite a tough business.
Coming over here for a couple of weeks or a couple of months
and just throwing some good parties is just not that easy.
[Sharon] You were so funny last night.
You were so gone!
You and your friend Danny playing the pool.
And you were all having a cow 'cause everybody
was beating everybody
and you were just like, so gone.
- 'Kat?' - Yeah.
[Jacinda] 'Is Sharon still on the phone?'
Uh, wait, yeah, she is.
'Tell her to get off.'
[Jay] 'Get off the phone, Sharon.'
Bye-bye.
I'm a dreadful girl.
"She's on the phone."
[Sharon] Generally they were all very patient with me.
I think, I let them down, actually.
Because they-they've seen my true colors.
They've seen my total lack of self-discipline.
You need to learn how to, um..
[Sharon coughing]
Be a little more economical with your words, I think.
Yes, dear. Verbosity was always my vice.
[Jay] 'See, just say yes.'
It's hard for her, because she's such..
She's so alive, you know?
She's got so much to her, and she's got so much to say.
I really worried about her after the operation
because she wouldn't shut up.
I mean, I'm not saying that they're made up
of the same organic matter as human beings
but it doesn't mean to say that there are no..
...living organisms on that planet.
And Sharon's just a talker, and she couldn't hold it back.
She just started talking.
You just can't rule it out.
You just can't make that kind of statement when you don't know.
- Yes, you can. - No, you can't.
'Well, you can, but it's ignorant then.'
It's non-comparable.
[Mike] 'It's also too damn cold.'
The temperature on Mars
is a hell of a lot hotter than our own.
No, it's not, it's further away from the sun than ours is.
Yeah, but it doesn't mean to say that the gases
aren't generating their own heat.
You're kidding. Neil, help me out with this.
No, the surface of Mars is cold
the surface of Venus is incredibly hot.
Strike , Sharon's wrong again.
[Sharon] 'How come Venus is hotter then?'
'Cause, I mean, it's red.
I would imagine if it's red with all these gases
then it would be boiling hot.
[Neil] 'It's not red 'cause it's hot'
it's red, 'cause it's got red dust on it.
[Sharon] 'Ha-ha.'
Now, how come you believe Neil when I tell you that
and you don't believe me?
Because he's more informed than you are.
Because you were, like, so sure that you were right
when you were wrong, like, for the th time
in the last four weeks.
I-I really like the idea that, like
Mars must be warm, because it's red.
[Sharon] 'Because I thought it was red with gases!'
I concede, I concede that Mars is colder than the Earth.
'There you go, I've said it.'
[female narrator] On the next "Real World.."
[Mike] That car will probably go miles an hour.
We expect our drivers to work.
I'm gonna fence, and it's gonna help me refocus.
So junior Olympic level we're talking.
They don't go to have a good time
they go to kick a*s.
[Kat] This is what I need to do to get myself back in order.
[buzzer]
Jacinda said that you said
that people say that..
[laughing]
I'm waiting to hear this.
...that, um, in like the outside area of London
the groceries are cheaper than in the inside.
Absolutely.
- Now check this out. - Mm-hmm.
- I have a car. - Mm-hmm.
I share this car with Cedric.
Cedric will be going home to Germany tomorrow, right?
- Taking that car. - Mm-hmm.
So tonight or tomorrow morning
is the absolutely last chance
for us to use that car to buy cheap groceries.
[laughing]
I love the way he makes it sound so amazing
and dramatic and fantastic.
And it's just groceries, right?
It's just groceries.
'If he could do that with groceries'
'think of what he could sell, okay.'
[Lars] Never underestimate
the importance of groceries.
[Sharon] Oh, I don't.