The line about her and her 14 year old sitting in the same room for two hours is what gets me, because that is real. My sister has a teenager who barely looks up from his phone, but they watch those live reunions together and actually talk during them. I was in the same camp as you, thought the live stuff was lazy filler and a total waste of a time slot. But hearing that one detail made me rethink it, since there is not much on TV anymore that pulls two people of different ages into one room without a fight. Cutting the recaps to 10 minutes sounds fair to me, maybe even 5. I flipped on a show last year when a coworker told me why she watched it with her mom every week, so yeah, one person can change your whole view.

I used to roll my eyes at guys who double checked with a beam wrench after every click, figured they were just wasting time in the shop. Then my old Craftsman clicker started drifting about 8 ft-lbs heavy over a couple years and I trashed a rocker cover bolt on a Lycoming O-320, so now I check my clicker against a beam every few months like clockwork. It is a pain but way less of a pain than drilling out a snapped bolt at 11pm. As for the digital adapter thing, I have not had good luck with the cheap ones holding up, the screen fogs up and the buttons get sticky once the grease gets in there. I just keep a good beam wrench in the box now as my sanity check instead of chasing gadgets. How far off was yours reading, like consistently 10 under across the range or just at the low end?