1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,439 Speaker 1: Too Much Information is a production of My Heart Radio. 2 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:13,440 Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to Too Much Information, the show 3 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,440 Speaker 1: that brings you the secret histories and little known fascinating 4 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: facts behind your favorite movies, music, TV shows and more. 5 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:23,279 Speaker 1: We are your showman of the showcase showdown related Facts. 6 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: My name is Jordan run Tug. Wow, that's an all timer, 7 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: and I'm Alex Sigel, and we're here to invite you 8 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:35,519 Speaker 1: to come on down because we're talking about the price 9 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: is right. Yes, the beloved television mainstay which is required 10 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 1: sick day viewing when I was a kid, premiered fifty 11 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:45,520 Speaker 1: years ago this very month, and it holds the record 12 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 1: for the longest running game show in TV history. As 13 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 1: a little kid, I adored this show so much because 14 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 1: it was so colorful and loud and vibrant. It was 15 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: like a casino on TV every day. Despite its rechery 16 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: music and set design, the rapid fire pacing of the show, 17 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 1: with the onslaught of games and prizes and cameras creaming 18 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 1: wildly around the studio audience, it feels kind of ahead 19 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 1: of its time in a funny way. What about you? 20 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:12,679 Speaker 1: What do you think about this show? Is this something 21 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: you were into or was this just too too kitchy 22 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 1: for you? I was not a game show guy until 23 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:22,960 Speaker 1: until until Millionaire, and yeah, just not a game I 24 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 1: mean I knew Bob Barker from spaying and neutering your pets, 25 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: and because of Happy Gilmour. There's one thing I know 26 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 1: about kids. They love to talk about spaying and neutering 27 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 1: their pets. You know, I have to admit I have 28 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 1: not watched this show since its departure of Bob Barker 29 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:45,320 Speaker 1: after thirty five years in two thousand seven, No shade that. 30 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: Drew Carey he had this theory about the show's longevity. 31 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 1: Talking to the l A Times, In said, the reason 32 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: it was so popular originally and why it's still popular 33 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: is because of the powerful basic premise of the show. 34 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: Everything is based on prices. Every one identifies with prices. 35 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: The minute we put something up for bid and the 36 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 1: contestant makes a bid, the viewers involved once it become involved. 37 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:10,519 Speaker 1: We've accomplished with the producer of every game show wants 38 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: viewer involvement the prices right, has that to the nth degree. 39 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: I would agree with that to a certain extent of that. 40 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 1: Prices aren't very sexy, but viewer involvement, just like it's 41 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 1: the Hairy style. I think I like about this movie 42 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 1: is that it's a movie. It's it's a similar spirit 43 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: in this explanation, everyone identifies with Prices, So yeah, I mean, okay, 44 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 1: I just think it was appealing for me. One of 45 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 1: the reasons, at least because it was one of those raw, 46 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 1: unscripted seeming shows on television. It almost had a touch 47 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:46,639 Speaker 1: of the Jerry Springer with just you just saw this 48 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 1: like crowd of chaotic seeming people shopping up and down, 49 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:53,639 Speaker 1: screaming most of the show, and like in a pre 50 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:57,079 Speaker 1: reality TV era that was fun to watch well, from 51 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: the surprising role that Bob Barker's gray hair play in ratings, 52 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:04,799 Speaker 1: a Plinko accident, the cost producers thirty grand, the time 53 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 1: a woman nearly gave birth in the audience, and the 54 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: other time the mom from The Brady Bunch had a 55 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 1: car accident live on stage, to the scandal but nearly 56 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 1: shut down production on the show, and the potential mini 57 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: few between Bob Barker and Drew Carey. Here's everything you 58 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: never knew about the Prices right now. First things first, 59 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: the version of the price is right that we all 60 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: Know and Love with the colorful sets and the fail 61 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 1: horn and the audience of over zealous Prices and Bob 62 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: Barker and all that. That was actually called The New 63 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 1: Prices Right when it premiered in September of nineteen seventy two, 64 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 1: and that's because the original version of the show debuted 65 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty six under the stewardship of host Bill Collen, 66 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: who's the so called Dean of game shows because he 67 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 1: hosted a truly astonishing thirty five of them in his career. However, 68 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: this early version of The Prices Right was not very interesting. 69 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 1: It was originally a black and white show on primetime NBC, 70 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: consisting of four people bidding auction style on items, and 71 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 1: this approach was about as boring as it sounded. It 72 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: went off the air in but by the dawn of 73 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: the seventies, a pair of producers named Mark Goodson and 74 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: Bill Toddman wanted to revive the show for daytime, and 75 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:21,799 Speaker 1: this plan was met with resistance because the show seems 76 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:25,280 Speaker 1: so outdated and bland. They really needed to use it up. 77 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 1: So they looked at the most successful daytime game show 78 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:30,280 Speaker 1: that was out there at the time. That was NBC's 79 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:33,720 Speaker 1: Let's Make a Deal, which was this very active audience 80 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: participation show with a circus like atmosphere. He had colorful 81 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,719 Speaker 1: flashing lights and sound effects and enthusiastic crowd members and 82 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 1: crazy costumes who were called up to play this rotating 83 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: series of very what's the word, uh sexual, Yeah, a 84 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:52,719 Speaker 1: very eye catching game. So this new version of The 85 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:55,280 Speaker 1: Prices Right incorporated some of these elements from Let's Make 86 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:58,679 Speaker 1: a Deal, which is ironic because following Drew Carey's ascent 87 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:01,840 Speaker 1: to The Prices Right hosting gig, Let's Make a Deal 88 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:04,679 Speaker 1: as revived with this whose lines that Anyway, colleague Wayne 89 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:08,720 Speaker 1: Brady as the new host Anyway. The Price Is Right 90 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 1: premiered on September four, nine seventy two. We just missed 91 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:15,600 Speaker 1: the fiftieth anniversary, and they used the title the New 92 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 1: Price Is Right for the entire first season, and amusingly, 93 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 1: the producer behind it, Mark Goodson, was not very optimistic 94 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: about the show at first, even though he pitched it, 95 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:28,600 Speaker 1: because it was so heavily dependent on sponsor plugs and 96 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,480 Speaker 1: prize copy. He felt that the audience would lose its 97 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: patients with these endless prize descriptions. But the show was 98 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: designed in such a way that it held the audience's attention. Again, 99 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: all the lights and the sound effects and the quick cuts. 100 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:43,839 Speaker 1: It's very, very eye catching. Uh. Some of the creative 101 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,719 Speaker 1: folks who worked on the show are masters in their fields. 102 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:49,919 Speaker 1: The person who wrote the iconic and awesomely retro theme 103 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 1: I got the name of Ed kal Hoff. It's the 104 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:55,040 Speaker 1: same guy who did the theme music the Nickelodeon's Doubledare 105 00:05:55,320 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 1: and ABC's Monday Night Football. Right yeah. Uh, And that 106 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,839 Speaker 1: theme remained constant and unchanged for the three five years. 107 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:06,280 Speaker 1: The Bob Barker host of the show was a glorious 108 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:10,279 Speaker 1: anachronism on daytime TV. Weirdly for something that sounds so 109 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,599 Speaker 1: show busy and flashy, it was recorded in London. I 110 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:16,240 Speaker 1: can't articulate why, but that doesn't know doesn't so well 111 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:21,039 Speaker 1: with me. The show's Las Vegas Midway style set was 112 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:24,679 Speaker 1: designed by a man named Don Roberts, who also designed 113 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 1: the sets for the legendary TV shows like All in 114 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:32,479 Speaker 1: the Family, Different Strokes, Jefferson's Good Times, One Day at 115 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 1: the Time, Who's the Boss, and Married with Children. I 116 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: just find it so crazy that the person who designed 117 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 1: the set of the prices right, also designed Archie Bunker's 118 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 1: living room, and the and the Bundy's that's but you're 119 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 1: not just here to learn. I want to do this 120 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 1: all in your in your game show announcer voice. But 121 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:55,359 Speaker 1: you're not just here to learn about the behind the 122 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 1: scenes folks on this cherished game show. You want to 123 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:04,160 Speaker 1: know more about the face of Danna br Mr bab Bucker, 124 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 1: Mr bar Bucker. I was doing Oprah, I guess, one 125 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 1: of the most beloved names in television. He's been around 126 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: so long that you would be forgiven for believing he 127 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: was simply born on a TV sound stage holding a 128 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: weird shaped mike. But Barker actually grew up on a 129 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: reservation in South Dakota, and as an official member of 130 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 1: the Sioux tribe, he's an eighth Sioux. Incidentally, uh, nope, 131 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: not incidentally, no segue there. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor 132 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 1: five days before Bob turned eighteen. I could have written 133 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: a better transition there. I'm sorry. Nope, No, that's perfect. 134 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 1: Because Bob enlisted in the Navy and served from he 135 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:55,559 Speaker 1: didn't see combat. Um, he said, I was all ready 136 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 1: to go. But when the enemy heard that I was 137 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 1: headed for the Pacific. They surrendered. He's a good quote 138 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: MI Show. I gotta say this may not be hyperbole, however, 139 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 1: because Bob Barker could kick some ass. Yeah. Bob apparently 140 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 1: studied martial arts for years under Chuck Norris um Walker 141 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 1: Texas Ranger. He of all of the recycled Bill Braski 142 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: jokes from early days of the Internet, saying, Chuck Norris 143 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 1: Bacon epic. When I don't know, you punched yourself out, 144 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 1: Just say slavery, Just say Texas Ranger Manuel McQuaid. Uh, 145 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 1: what else is he in? Am I missing an action? Anyway? 146 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: Chuck was against stuff, Yeah, yeah, returning to the Dragon 147 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 1: on Chuck was against on Truth or Consequence, which was 148 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 1: Bob's pre prices, right show, and he was so impressed. 149 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: It was so impressed with Chuck's demonstration of karate the 150 00:08:55,800 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: art of the empty hand, and he figured out, you know, 151 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 1: I'll give it go myself. I was in the Pacific. 152 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:07,560 Speaker 1: I can, I can, I can do it. Bob's an 153 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 1: athletic guy. He attended Jewelry College on a basketball scholarship, 154 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 1: and it took to martial arts quickly. According to an 155 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 1: article in the Washington Post. He holds a red belt 156 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 1: in karate and two red belts yeah apparently, well and 157 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: u tang su Do, which is Korean. But this is 158 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 1: from the nineties, so yeah, Bob could be a black 159 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 1: belt by now. Yeah. I've seen some unverified listicals that 160 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 1: say he's a black belt now at age Yeah, Jesus 161 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: God um. And knowing all this, it comes no surprise 162 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 1: that he refused a stunt double for that famous cameo 163 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:44,839 Speaker 1: and Happy Gilmour in which he beats the crap out 164 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: of Adam Sandler. Barker actually agreed to start on the 165 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: film when he found out that he would in fact 166 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:54,959 Speaker 1: win the fight. Um. Weirdly, throughout the two thousands, The 167 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 1: Prices Right was actually produced and directed by a guy 168 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:05,359 Speaker 1: named Adam Sandler. Not the same yeah or is it uh. 169 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:07,080 Speaker 1: In addition to his Turn and Happy to Give More, 170 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 1: Bob Barker has made cameos on The Nanny Futurama Family Guy, 171 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 1: How I Met Your Mother, The Bold and Beautiful episode 172 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 1: of Bonanza. That's awesome? Just one, I think, just the one? Yeah, 173 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 1: one and done, Bob didn't Bob didn't need it more. 174 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: Always leave him one more and SpongeBob SquarePants, where he've 175 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 1: always a character named Bob Barnacle. Bob began his entertainment 176 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: career in radio just after his stint in the Navy, 177 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 1: working at stations in Missouri and Florida, and apparently he 178 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:41,560 Speaker 1: got his first job after learning the station manager had 179 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: a major fascination with planes. So Bob went into his 180 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:47,440 Speaker 1: interview decked out and his Navy airman outfit and all 181 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 1: his brass and dazzled the guy with talk about aeronautical 182 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 1: daring for forty five minutes until he got the job. 183 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 1: His big break in TV occurred and he was tapped 184 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:00,120 Speaker 1: to host the game show Truth or Consequences, which and 185 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 1: until nineteen seventy, so almost twenty years so he's already 186 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 1: a very familiar face on TV by the time The 187 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:10,200 Speaker 1: Prices Right came his way in two and amusingly, he 188 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 1: initially didn't want to take the job. Truth or Consequences 189 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 1: was a very audience participation heavy show, similar in structure 190 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 1: sort of to The Prices Right, and Bob didn't want 191 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 1: to get pigeonholed as a one note host, not even 192 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 1: just being pigeonil as a game show host, being pigeonil 193 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:31,439 Speaker 1: as a game show host who specializes an audience participation. 194 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:35,440 Speaker 1: I guess there are gradiations in the game show host hierarchy. 195 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaker 1: But eventually Bob was convinced. He took the gig, which 196 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 1: went on even longer than Truth or Consequences thirty five years. 197 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: In fact, he broke Johnny Carson's record for hosting the 198 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 1: same show. This brings us to the matter of Bob 199 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 1: Barker's hair, which was, in its own way, I may say, 200 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:58,440 Speaker 1: quietly radical. I've personally only ever known him as a 201 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 1: silver fox. In fact, the side of him with jet 202 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:03,600 Speaker 1: black hair and old photos is jarring to me, and 203 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:07,560 Speaker 1: I find him somewhat unrecognizable. TV executives like their on 204 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 1: air personalities to have a certain look and could be 205 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 1: quite controlling about it. You hear stories of actresses having 206 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 1: it written to their contract that they can't cut their hair, 207 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 1: and everyone's supposed to maintain a certain weight. I imagine 208 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 1: David Letterman's massive Rick Ruben style beard that he has 209 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 1: now is a reaction against that too. So when Bob 210 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 1: Barker started going gray, Network had some thoughts. Bob litterally 211 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:31,560 Speaker 1: told the l A Times I was prematurely gray. I 212 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 1: began the gray at my temples, and I guess it 213 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 1: could be the technology at that time was not what 214 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:38,680 Speaker 1: it is today, and I did not look good. It 215 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 1: looked like I had no hair at my temples, So 216 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 1: they suggested I tinted, and that's what he did for 217 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,439 Speaker 1: many years, and that's how audiences knew him. Then Bob 218 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: went on vacation in nine seven and decided not to 219 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 1: bother with the hair die and he wound up getting 220 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 1: lots of compliments from people on the gray and feeling 221 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 1: all gassed up, he went to the network executives and 222 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: asked permission, which I still find hilarious top dyeing his hair, 223 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 1: and they agreed, and the audience response was overwhelming. They 224 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:09,080 Speaker 1: thought it was, in a strange way brave, which again 225 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 1: is hilarious. He was greeted with a massive ovation in 226 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 1: the studio the day he walked out for the first 227 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:19,680 Speaker 1: time with his gray hair, and the ratings noticeably improved. 228 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:22,080 Speaker 1: And the funny part was because of the way they 229 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:25,479 Speaker 1: taped the show, it basically appeared that Bob went gray 230 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: over the course of a single day. Yeah, he got 231 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 1: a letter from a guy that said, Bob you must 232 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 1: have had one hell of a night. Well, he chose 233 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 1: the false grail. He chose poorly. The other funny part 234 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:41,839 Speaker 1: is that once it went white. I guess the makeup 235 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 1: people took weeks and weeks to find out what makeup 236 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:46,440 Speaker 1: looked good for him on camera, because suddenly, like his 237 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:50,600 Speaker 1: whole color palette was off anyway, but arguably more than 238 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 1: his perfectly quaffed white hair. Bob's greatest trademark to me, 239 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:57,719 Speaker 1: at least, was his sign off for each episode, This 240 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 1: is Bob Barker reminding you to help control the population. 241 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 1: Have your pets spade or newtered. Bob Barker is one 242 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: of the most famous animal rights activists in Hollywood, and 243 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: he's been doing it long before it was fashionable. He 244 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:14,079 Speaker 1: credits his late wife, Dorothy Joe, for sparking this passion, 245 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 1: much like Lynda McCartney sparked Paul's. She was apparently very 246 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: in the vegetarianism decades before it was mainstream, and their 247 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 1: love stories sweet. Bob met his future wife when he 248 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 1: was just fifteen years old. I guess they were high 249 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 1: school sweethearts, and for their first date they attended an 250 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 1: Ella Fitzgerald concert. Awesome also, damn they're old, it's gonna 251 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: be this year. They were married from until her death 252 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: in one when she was only fifty seven, and Bob 253 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 1: said he's never had the inclination to remarry, but it's funny, 254 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 1: I guess. The first one bid prize ever offered on 255 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 1: the prices right during Bob's tenure was a fur coat. 256 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:59,040 Speaker 1: This would change as Bob's love of animals suddenly began 257 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 1: to impact the auction. He started ending each episode with 258 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 1: this famous reminder to have your pet spader neoter in two, 259 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 1: and he insisted that all the showcases, you know, the 260 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:12,480 Speaker 1: big plethora of prizes that you could bid on at 261 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 1: the very end of the episode, you know that'll always 262 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 1: been this huge assortment of stuff, would never have anything 263 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 1: that involved animal products. Sometimes they were themed, and if 264 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 1: they were, they wouldn't have anything with rodeos or zoos 265 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 1: or even circuses. Because Bob felt that all these exploited animals. 266 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 1: They stopped giving away aquariums, stopped giving away fishing rods, 267 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 1: and even the prop food and the prize refrigerators or 268 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 1: grills would all be plastic veggies instead of meat. And 269 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:41,720 Speaker 1: for years they even refused to give away General Motor 270 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 1: Cars when it was discovered that GM used live animals 271 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 1: and crash tests, which is a practice that they've since 272 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 1: stopped doing. Bob's activism extended beyond the prices, right, I 273 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: didn't realize this. He hosted the Miss USA and Miss 274 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 1: Universe paget from nineteen sixty seven until night seven, when 275 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 1: he reas kind over a disagreement over for coats. He 276 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: also donated two point five million dollars to renovate a 277 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 1: Los Angeles building to become Peter's West Coast Hub, one 278 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 1: million dollars to Columbia Law School to fund the study 279 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:15,560 Speaker 1: of animal rights, and he purchased four hundred and sixty 280 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 1: acres of land in California to be used as a 281 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 1: donkey sanctuary. That's just adorable, But this is slightly less adorable. 282 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: Well yeah. Bob was also given a whopping five million 283 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 1: dollars to marine wildlife and environmental protection group called the 284 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 1: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, who have been dubbed eco terrorists 285 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: by the Japanese government for their hands on direct action 286 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 1: tactics in trying to end the practice of whaling and sealing. 287 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:48,640 Speaker 1: Their leader was voted out of Green Peace for being 288 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 1: too confrontational. They have claimed to have sunk ten whaling 289 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 1: ships and destroyed millions of dollars worth of equipment, and 290 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 1: interfered with seal and whale hunts by shining laser lights 291 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 1: at them for bottles of foul smelling but eric acid 292 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 1: onto vessels at sea, boarding whaling vessels to protest while 293 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:10,160 Speaker 1: at sea, and seizing and destroying drift nets at sea. 294 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:14,160 Speaker 1: Bob gave these folks five million dollars to purchase an 295 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 1: anti whaling vessel capable of disabling whaling ships by ramming 296 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: the sea. Shepherd Conservation Society named the ship the Bob 297 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:29,119 Speaker 1: Barker in his honor, that whips the last thing a 298 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:33,200 Speaker 1: bunch of whaler's sea. It's a giant ship in placing 299 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:36,959 Speaker 1: with Bob Barker's name heading right to I hope they 300 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:39,120 Speaker 1: have like the old timey like mermaid at the front 301 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 1: of it, but it's Bob Barker. Bob, just the silver 302 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:47,440 Speaker 1: silver coffiard man in the suit just wipes your ship 303 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:52,680 Speaker 1: out and you sink from They're whalers, what was moby dick? 304 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 1: I agree with them. I'll buy them a ship. They 305 00:17:55,760 --> 00:18:01,360 Speaker 1: can call it the the Bruce Springsteen's best album is Nebraska. 306 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:08,520 Speaker 1: The USS Bruce Springsteen's best off MS Nebraska. Uh, what's 307 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 1: the deal with those microphones? Segue from the world of 308 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:18,879 Speaker 1: eco terrorists, we go to the world of microphones. Um, yeah, 309 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 1: you know. This is honestly the other thing that I 310 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:24,520 Speaker 1: associate with Bob Barker, other than hair and beating up 311 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:30,080 Speaker 1: Adam Sandler, is those that weird thin stemmed microphone. Um. 312 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:33,560 Speaker 1: And that is the point. Apparently producers went for them 313 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:37,679 Speaker 1: because they looked less intimidating to contestants, and uh, this 314 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 1: would put them at ease since most people who are 315 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:42,880 Speaker 1: on game shows have never had a microphone thrust into 316 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 1: their face before. And I guess your normal what does that? 317 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:50,199 Speaker 1: Probably an sight Probably having one of those jammed in 318 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 1: your mouth feels a little aggressive. It just feels like 319 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:55,399 Speaker 1: you're on like late night news, you know, film at 320 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:57,399 Speaker 1: E leven type things we're being interviewed at, like a 321 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:01,480 Speaker 1: crime scene or something. It's just it's feels stressful. These 322 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:03,960 Speaker 1: thin ones are just goofy looking. One of the other 323 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,159 Speaker 1: reasons is because they pulled people from the audience and 324 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 1: immediately have them start playing, so they couldn't use clip 325 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:11,680 Speaker 1: on mics or boom mix, so it was easy for 326 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 1: him to control the audio feed by just pointing at 327 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 1: this thing, rather than having to wait for people to 328 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 1: get like laugh miked up or whatever. So yeah, anyway, uh, 329 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 1: I guess. Also, the common thing that a lot of 330 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:24,399 Speaker 1: people do when a microphone is putting their face for 331 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:27,200 Speaker 1: an interview is to reach forward and grab it, and 332 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:30,360 Speaker 1: that inclination is tamped down by having the big, skinny one. 333 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,479 Speaker 1: And yeah, you know. The other thing is that with 334 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:38,680 Speaker 1: the long telescoping neck, you can hold it much lower, which, yeah, 335 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:41,399 Speaker 1: I guess it looks better than having your hand right 336 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 1: up by your chin. Yeah. Drew Carey has continued using 337 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:48,119 Speaker 1: these microphones since sticking over in two thousand seven, a 338 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 1: nod to tradition. Speaking of ongoing traditions, the famously bespectacled 339 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 1: Drew Carey opted to get laser eye surgery soon after 340 00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:59,959 Speaker 1: taking over as hosts on Prices Right. There was such 341 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 1: a trademark of his show A Drew But you know 342 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 1: he took the prescription, lends his out and just continue 343 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 1: to wear the frames in the manner of it's the 344 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 1: opposite of Clark Kent when he takes him off he's anonymous, 345 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:18,159 Speaker 1: and then puts him on and he's Super Drew. I 346 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 1: guess things got so bad that in June eight, producers 347 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 1: issued a policy that forbids audience members from wearing fake 348 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 1: eyeglasses like Drew's, which I guess they've they've backed off 349 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 1: on wise. I wonder why that is. I mean, I 350 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:37,360 Speaker 1: wonder if it's just like confused the chimp that they 351 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:40,639 Speaker 1: have running the cameras, like suddenly thrown into a rage, 352 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 1: just like what let them wear their glasses to somebody 353 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 1: who like, honestly, he's wearing glasses that just happened to 354 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:52,640 Speaker 1: look like us. Take them off, Take them off, them off, 355 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 1: break his legs. We're going to take a quick break, 356 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:00,800 Speaker 1: but we'll be right back with more too much information 357 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:15,919 Speaker 1: in just a moment. Yes, this all gets us to 358 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 1: the larger question of how do you get on the 359 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 1: show in the first place. Well, to start in an 360 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 1: easy some hopefuls have to wait upwards of four hours 361 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 1: in a massive line before being allowed onto the set, 362 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:29,800 Speaker 1: and then you have got to go through the taping, 363 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 1: which can run upwards of ninety minutes. On one hand, 364 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:35,119 Speaker 1: it's cool to watch the television taping, but on the 365 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:38,639 Speaker 1: other hand, it's ninety minutes of excruciating suspense while you 366 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 1: wait and see if you're gonna get the call to 367 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 1: come on down, So kind of a slug. Now, contrary 368 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:48,120 Speaker 1: to popular belief, contestant names are not chosen at random. 369 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:51,920 Speaker 1: There are interviews beforehand during this massive multi hour period 370 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 1: to determine which nine contestants will get the call out 371 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:59,359 Speaker 1: of approximately audience members. And it helps if you impress 372 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:03,359 Speaker 1: a man names stand Blitz. Since ninete it's been his 373 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 1: job to talk to every person in line who wants 374 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:08,679 Speaker 1: to join the studio audience for the prices right. He 375 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 1: sizes them up in twenty seconds or less to see 376 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 1: if they have what it takes to come on down, 377 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:15,480 Speaker 1: And he explained toy, but he looks for in a 378 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: potential contestant. In an interview with The New York Post, 379 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 1: he said, I'm looking for energy, sincerity, and potential humor. 380 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:24,399 Speaker 1: And if they can equal my energy or exceed it 381 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:26,639 Speaker 1: and maintain it there at the top of the list. 382 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:29,919 Speaker 1: And it's obviously difficult to put this across in twenty 383 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,200 Speaker 1: seconds when you're responding to three questions your name, where 384 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:36,400 Speaker 1: you're from, and what you do. But the producers are 385 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:39,640 Speaker 1: serious when they say they're looking for enthusiasm. The audience 386 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:44,040 Speaker 1: members are expected to clap and cheer relentlessly. They often 387 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: clap basically NonStop for hours on end, and more than that, 388 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:52,040 Speaker 1: the audience members are expected to keep clapping even during 389 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:55,119 Speaker 1: commercial breaks. Apparently, the show just keeps the music on 390 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 1: and the audience members are just supposed to keep on clapping. 391 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 1: One writer who intended to take being is said that 392 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,600 Speaker 1: by the time the show taping was over, his palms 393 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:07,000 Speaker 1: were like two Hamburger patties. That is disgusting. No, I 394 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,200 Speaker 1: can't bide by that. I don't even like being told 395 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,480 Speaker 1: to cheer during concerts when like clap your hands, you 396 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:14,359 Speaker 1: can't do it. I hate it. No, it has to 397 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:17,320 Speaker 1: be organic. And I tell you one thing that drives 398 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:20,679 Speaker 1: me up a damn wall is people go on how 399 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:25,960 Speaker 1: you doing, and you get the obligatory and they get yeah. 400 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 1: I if I had a gun, I would shoot them. 401 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 1: So all this clapping and false bonnami is that how 402 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 1: you yeah? Is uh not the biggest problem in the world, 403 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,560 Speaker 1: because the audience and get pretty rowdy. In fact, it 404 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,720 Speaker 1: gets so loud the contestants almost never hear their call 405 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 1: to come on down, and producers need to hold up 406 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:53,040 Speaker 1: Q cars with individual names on it. And when the 407 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:56,640 Speaker 1: contestants do come on down, the camera crew is remarkably 408 00:23:56,760 --> 00:24:00,159 Speaker 1: quick at finding them in the audience. Former Prices right 409 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:04,160 Speaker 1: executive producer Mike Richards, Yes, that Mike Richards, who went 410 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 1: on to ruin Jeopardy. More on him later, is quoted 411 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:11,160 Speaker 1: by Buzzfeti is saying, or expert, where's Waldo? Players? We've 412 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,919 Speaker 1: seen the pictures of the contestants and they each have 413 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,399 Speaker 1: numbers on them, so sometimes that dictates where they're sitting. 414 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 1: This all sounds very sinister. We all that we then 415 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:21,960 Speaker 1: have a grid of the audience that we hand to 416 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 1: the cameraman so they know where they're going. It sounds 417 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 1: like some James Bond thing. All right, your here's your 418 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 1: target now. For years, the man responsible for issuing the 419 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 1: famous call to come on downs the show's announcer, Rod Roddy, 420 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,919 Speaker 1: a beloved presence on the show for his booming voice, 421 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 1: Bill Haley style spit curl maybe more Roy Orbison and 422 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 1: his Liberaci asked loud suits. He took over from original 423 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:51,240 Speaker 1: announcer Johnny Olsen, but it took a wire from the 424 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 1: whole soup thing to catch on. He later told The 425 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 1: A V Club that he started wearing Thie silk suits 426 00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 1: from Bangkok in order to keep pace with Bob Barker. 427 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,959 Speaker 1: Who is that. That's kind of a Natalie attired gentleman, 428 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 1: a dandy dresser. I'm gonna tell you one thing, that 429 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 1: guy was not going to Bangkok just for the suits, 430 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:19,440 Speaker 1: even there are several times a year. Yeah, no, great 431 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:25,240 Speaker 1: segue for this. After that, health health problems plagued his 432 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 1: final years on the show, and he was reportedly diagnosed 433 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:35,520 Speaker 1: with colon cancer, apparently on September eleventh, two thousand one. Oh, 434 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,879 Speaker 1: I feel so sorry for intimating he was a sex tourist, 435 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:44,199 Speaker 1: which he probably was. Holy can you imagine getting you 436 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:49,560 Speaker 1: go home and you're like, what now, I've all I've 437 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 1: seen that, and I've also seen that he just had 438 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,840 Speaker 1: surgery that day. But I've seen both. But yeah, that 439 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 1: that is that's quite a that's quite a thing. And 440 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 1: he ultimately died of male breast can sir in two 441 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,600 Speaker 1: thousand three. And he was a staunch advocate for men 442 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,560 Speaker 1: receiving mamograms as well. So that's our our p s 443 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 1: A for this episode. Uh. This brings us to the 444 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:16,119 Speaker 1: real star of the Prices Right, not sex tourism, not 445 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:21,160 Speaker 1: September eleven, not male breast cancer. The prizes. Business Insider 446 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: reports that a team of twenty people look up what's 447 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 1: popular and given in the zeitgeist. Uh, so they can 448 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 1: choose the prizes. To keep the price continuity uniform throughout 449 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,160 Speaker 1: the show, producers get the retail prices from the same 450 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 1: group of retailers, largely based in California, the coastal elites 451 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:43,199 Speaker 1: deciding the rest of the country's actual retail Once again, 452 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:48,359 Speaker 1: Holy fight the real enemy. Rips up, rips up image 453 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:57,880 Speaker 1: Drew carry What was I talking about? Brand new car? 454 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:01,879 Speaker 1: Of course, major prize on the Prices Right are the 455 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,280 Speaker 1: brand new cars, and there are a lot of them 456 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 1: at any given time. The Prices Right has between thirties 457 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: seven and forty five cars on a special lot at 458 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:16,400 Speaker 1: the CBS Television City Studios. Not to mention boats, jet skis, trailers. Uh. 459 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 1: Former executive producer Mike Richards told already mentioned him is 460 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 1: the guy who ruined Jeopardy. Okay, yeah, Mike Richards told BuzzFeed. 461 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 1: We do six shows a week, and each episode, for 462 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,960 Speaker 1: the most part, has three cars in it, So we're 463 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,040 Speaker 1: through eighteen cars in a week. Then the next week, 464 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:39,640 Speaker 1: I don't want to see the same car. I bet 465 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 1: you don't, buddy, and I don't think our viewers do either. 466 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 1: So then you've got to have a whole other set 467 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: of cars. Yeah, so that's probably one of the probably 468 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,880 Speaker 1: what the you know, the biggest brass ring and Prices 469 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 1: right is the new car right, But um, you don't 470 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:56,440 Speaker 1: get one. You don't get to drive away with them. 471 00:27:56,440 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 1: They're just there. You don't get it. They're just for display. Um. 472 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,159 Speaker 1: So what happens is the production contact a dealership in 473 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,800 Speaker 1: your hometown and brokers a deal for you there, and 474 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,480 Speaker 1: then after the cars appear on the show, they go 475 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:12,600 Speaker 1: back to the dealer who supplied them. So which means 476 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:14,240 Speaker 1: that if you live in the l A area, you 477 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 1: may be driving a car that was featured on the 478 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 1: Prices Right, which I think is pretty cool. So each 479 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:23,960 Speaker 1: show has roughly thirty prizes in it, not counting this 480 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 1: stuff like grocery adoms. So when you're doing a hundred 481 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 1: and ninety episodes a season, that is a lot of stuff. 482 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:36,160 Speaker 1: The team calls it the fire hose of Prizes, which 483 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,920 Speaker 1: is fed from three separate warehouses on the CBS Television 484 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:43,480 Speaker 1: City lot, which includes a thirty thousand square foot facility. 485 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 1: Again to take it back to Indiana Jones, it's like 486 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 1: where they stowed the ark of the Covenant. And there's 487 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 1: been some crazy stuff over the years. Someone's got a 488 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 1: ferris wheel. Another contestant won an island on the St. 489 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 1: Lawrence Seaway. Back in the fifties version of a woman 490 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,160 Speaker 1: want a peacock to go with her color TV set, 491 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,840 Speaker 1: which is a play in the NBC in living color, 492 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 1: and that peacock, remember remember networks, remember television. Finally, and 493 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 1: a man named Carl Slater when a dining room set 494 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:22,320 Speaker 1: a young horse. What's the differentiation between a young horse 495 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:26,480 Speaker 1: and a pony? I would imagine size a suit of 496 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,640 Speaker 1: armor and a trip to a castle in Scotland to 497 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 1: see the origins of the armor. How about that? Good 498 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 1: for Carl? Uh? You know the bad news is, obviously 499 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,040 Speaker 1: there's a dark side to all this because this America 500 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 1: does the show about you know, capitalism prices the essence 501 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 1: of the prices, right his prices. As Bob Barker said, Kenzie, 502 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 1: end game show. You gotta wait for a while, to 503 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 1: get it, so don't bother to show up to your 504 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 1: taping with a U haul. The price department doesn't start 505 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,080 Speaker 1: working with intestants to get prizes until after the show 506 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:05,040 Speaker 1: has aired, which can be upwards of three months later. 507 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:09,000 Speaker 1: So if you're looking to forestall your house foreclosure with 508 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,960 Speaker 1: your prices right car, it ain't gonna happen. But as 509 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,600 Speaker 1: with everything, the real kick in the teeth comes from 510 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:19,920 Speaker 1: the taxes. Winners have to pay taxes up front on 511 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 1: the full retail value of the item before they given 512 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 1: access to said item, and as a result, a lot 513 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,800 Speaker 1: of the people who win decide not to accept the prizes. 514 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,640 Speaker 1: ABC News interviewed a few contestants about how much they 515 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,280 Speaker 1: had to pay in taxes after being on the show, 516 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:37,000 Speaker 1: with one guy saying he won fifty seven thousand dollars 517 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,960 Speaker 1: in prizes but had to pay close to twenty thousand 518 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,520 Speaker 1: in taxes. Another contestant turned down his ten thousand dollar 519 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 1: cash prize because he didn't want to give half to 520 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:48,800 Speaker 1: his ex wife. That's the Oprah thing too, you know 521 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 1: when she gives everybody a new car, you gotta pay 522 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,560 Speaker 1: taxes on that car. I think, like, like before you 523 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,240 Speaker 1: leave the studio that day. Yeah, you show up to taping, 524 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 1: You're thinking, just just be stead We're gonna talk about 525 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 1: you know, Steadman and Dr Phil is going to come on. 526 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 1: And now all of a sudden, I gotta pay yeah 527 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,720 Speaker 1: for a car I didn't even ask for. It's what 528 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,280 Speaker 1: they don't tell you. It's how they get you. That's 529 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 1: how they get you. I cannot believe we had made 530 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:18,080 Speaker 1: it this far without talking about the Big Wheel. One 531 00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 1: of the most familiar sights on The Prices Right is 532 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 1: the big wheel you used to decide who gets the 533 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 1: progress to the showcase showdown at the end of the episode. 534 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,239 Speaker 1: This was actually a late addition to the game. It 535 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 1: wasn't added until The Price Is Right was expanded from 536 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:34,640 Speaker 1: thirty minutes to a full hour in nine. The rule 537 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,120 Speaker 1: of the wheel is that it must do a complete 538 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,320 Speaker 1: spin all the way around in order to count. If 539 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:44,680 Speaker 1: it does not, the audience subjects the poor sap who 540 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 1: tried to spin it to a brutal round of booing, 541 00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:50,720 Speaker 1: and they must try again. This rule came to bite 542 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,480 Speaker 1: Bob in the ass on October two, two thousand three, 543 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,840 Speaker 1: when he attempted to assist a wheelchair bound contestant by 544 00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,000 Speaker 1: spinning the wheel for them. Unfortunately, it didn't go all 545 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:04,000 Speaker 1: the way around, prompting around of savage booing and hissing 546 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,920 Speaker 1: from the audience at Bob, who later described this as 547 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,880 Speaker 1: the most humiliating moment of his fifty year game show 548 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,880 Speaker 1: hosting career. Amusingly, the Big Wheel has been the subject 549 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:18,960 Speaker 1: of serious scholastic study. The Royal Economic Society published a 550 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,760 Speaker 1: twenty six page paper in two thousand two titled to 551 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:25,880 Speaker 1: Spin or Not to Spin? Natural and laboratory results from 552 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:29,160 Speaker 1: the Prices Right and They sought to calculate decisions the 553 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,240 Speaker 1: contestants make while spinning the wheel and found that the 554 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:37,880 Speaker 1: majority of time contestants disregarded what would be advantageous mathematical statistics. 555 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:41,680 Speaker 1: In other words, it's hard to make rational decisions under pressure. 556 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,160 Speaker 1: I could have told you that without the use of 557 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:50,479 Speaker 1: a paper. So the Big Wheel was not in the 558 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,600 Speaker 1: original Prices Right set up. But more surprising to me 559 00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,280 Speaker 1: was that they went more than a decade before introducing 560 00:32:56,320 --> 00:33:00,760 Speaker 1: everyone's favorite Prices Right game. Come On, Plink Oh. The game, 561 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:04,280 Speaker 1: which The Atlantic has referred to as quote basically a 562 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:08,200 Speaker 1: metaphor for life, debuted in three You know the rules, 563 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,120 Speaker 1: You drop a chip down a peg board and it 564 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,640 Speaker 1: falls into one of nine spaces on the bottom, each 565 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:16,760 Speaker 1: valued at a different dollar amount. Contestants played grand but 566 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,520 Speaker 1: a debuted, making Plinko the first game on the show 567 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:21,640 Speaker 1: to offer that kind of big money. Now you can 568 00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,920 Speaker 1: win up to fifty grand. Speaking of big money in Plinko, 569 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:28,200 Speaker 1: the chips used to play the game, well, they kind 570 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,040 Speaker 1: of belong in a museum, folks. There are only ten 571 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:36,280 Speaker 1: Plinko chips in existence, five for the show and five 572 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:40,320 Speaker 1: as backup. According to Buzzfee's interview with then executive producer 573 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:44,600 Speaker 1: Mike Richards, these chips are extremely expensive to make, and 574 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,600 Speaker 1: they're delivered to the set whenever they're used on a towel, 575 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,600 Speaker 1: not unlike a holy relic. And when they're not being used, 576 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,320 Speaker 1: they're locked away in a box after every taping so 577 00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:57,520 Speaker 1: they can't be stolen or copied. The top secret, the 578 00:33:57,560 --> 00:33:59,800 Speaker 1: old time Plinko record is held by a man named 579 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,000 Speaker 1: and Glass. We appeared on the show in January of 580 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,400 Speaker 1: two eighteen. He needed thirty eight thousand, eight hundred and 581 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:10,480 Speaker 1: fifty dollars and then on the flip side prices right. 582 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:14,800 Speaker 1: History was made in March of when someone dropped five 583 00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,000 Speaker 1: chips on the Plinko board and they all landed on zero. 584 00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:25,000 Speaker 1: That person lost their faith yeah that day. But perhaps 585 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:29,480 Speaker 1: the most notorious plink Oh moment occurred in two when 586 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,440 Speaker 1: the producers of The Prices Right made a very costly mistake. 587 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,359 Speaker 1: They were filming a commercial to show how easy it 588 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,280 Speaker 1: was for contestants to hit the grand prize ten thousand 589 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,080 Speaker 1: dollars space on the Plinko machine, and they rigged it 590 00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:44,520 Speaker 1: so that it would hit ten grand every single time. Then, 591 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,759 Speaker 1: when it came time to film the next episode of 592 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:50,120 Speaker 1: the show, the producers forgot to reset the Plinko board. 593 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,759 Speaker 1: So when the Plinko board was brought out, people were 594 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,839 Speaker 1: amazed when this one lucky contestant hit the center ten 595 00:34:55,880 --> 00:35:00,360 Speaker 1: thousand dollars space three times in a row. Wording to 596 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,200 Speaker 1: one redditor who was in the audience that day, everyone 597 00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:06,520 Speaker 1: was screaming, Drew was literally jumping up and down that 598 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,680 Speaker 1: a producer burst onto the stage and frantically stopped the 599 00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:13,080 Speaker 1: player from dropping her fourth chip. Because at this point 600 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,640 Speaker 1: they finally figured out what had happened. Uh producers reshot 601 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,640 Speaker 1: the segment, but the Plinko player still walked away with 602 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,840 Speaker 1: thirty grand. They honored their screw up. That's one thing 603 00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:24,799 Speaker 1: to say for the producers on the show. Whenever there 604 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:26,799 Speaker 1: was a screw up on their end, they always honored it, 605 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,239 Speaker 1: you know, in favor of the contestants. So walked away 606 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:33,000 Speaker 1: with thirty grand plus an extra three grands from when 607 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:37,279 Speaker 1: they reshot it. So there you go. And while we're 608 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,200 Speaker 1: on the topic of costly mistakes on air, there have 609 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,840 Speaker 1: been a few. Once the producers right off the wrong 610 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:46,080 Speaker 1: brand of a computer contestant was supposed to value, uh, 611 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,080 Speaker 1: so they just wound up just giving it to them. 612 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:50,120 Speaker 1: During a taping in two thousand eleven, one of the 613 00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,359 Speaker 1: prize models knocked over at Big Screen TV worth over 614 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,279 Speaker 1: a grand uh. And there have been many games over 615 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:59,040 Speaker 1: the years that accidentally revealed the actual retail price of 616 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,440 Speaker 1: an item far to her, either through mechanical or human error. 617 00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:06,120 Speaker 1: But the costly as mistake aside from Plinko gate, occurred 618 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,680 Speaker 1: in two thousand fifteen when one of the prices right models, 619 00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:13,960 Speaker 1: who we will will remain nameless charitably by us, accidentally 620 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:18,000 Speaker 1: gave away a car valued at twenty one d sixty dollars. 621 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:21,840 Speaker 1: She pulled the wrong card away, revealing the actual price 622 00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:25,160 Speaker 1: too soon, and the unofficial law of the games that 623 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:29,120 Speaker 1: whenever the crew screws up, the contestant wins. The poor model, 624 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,480 Speaker 1: who had been on the show for six years by 625 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,319 Speaker 1: that point, gave an interview to Inside Edition in which 626 00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:38,440 Speaker 1: she described the mortifying situation, saying, I thought, a this 627 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:40,880 Speaker 1: is my last day at work, be they're going to 628 00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:43,439 Speaker 1: take it out of my paycheck every week. I thought 629 00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,839 Speaker 1: this was it for me, but thankfully, She added that 630 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:50,960 Speaker 1: Drew could not have been more supportive. Same with the producers. Mhm. Yeah, 631 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:52,600 Speaker 1: So if you ever think you screwed up at your job, 632 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:58,479 Speaker 1: think about was it a mistake? Almost twenty two? Yeah, 633 00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:02,200 Speaker 1: it's understandable that accidents occur simply by the law of statistics. 634 00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:05,920 Speaker 1: Because there are a hilarious number of games. A total 635 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,080 Speaker 1: of a hundred and twelve have been played on this 636 00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:13,120 Speaker 1: show by your account, I trust you, and there are 637 00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,879 Speaker 1: seventy nine are in current rotation. There have been some 638 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,760 Speaker 1: games that have been axed for technical problems, poor audience reaction, 639 00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:23,279 Speaker 1: or it's just too difficult. Is this the most complex 640 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:27,400 Speaker 1: game show? I would argue yes. The many games that 641 00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,640 Speaker 1: are played on the show are stored in the CBS lot. 642 00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:32,360 Speaker 1: It must be hauled out and prepared for quick entry 643 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,600 Speaker 1: when needed. Some of these costs upwards of thirty grand 644 00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:39,040 Speaker 1: build and are so big they need jumbo jet style 645 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,680 Speaker 1: tuggers to push them into place on the set. They're 646 00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:46,319 Speaker 1: tested frequently since many of them have amazingly complex electronics 647 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,360 Speaker 1: behind them, and a failure during taping would result in 648 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:52,440 Speaker 1: a lengthy delay in front of an impatient and presumably 649 00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:56,279 Speaker 1: intoxicated audience. Do they let you bring booze in pre 650 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,279 Speaker 1: game on the sidewalk? Imagine there's like tailgate parties and 651 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,280 Speaker 1: the prices right parking lot. The show has a special 652 00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:05,719 Speaker 1: effects and lighting crew who examines every electronic aspect of 653 00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:09,160 Speaker 1: the show. Large custom made consoles sit on stage with 654 00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:13,320 Speaker 1: a crew operating them, not on like mission control. Basically 655 00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:16,600 Speaker 1: it's like a concert. Right. They've got flashpots, explosives, they 656 00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:21,920 Speaker 1: got fire breakaway sets, mechanical props, buckets of water to 657 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:26,080 Speaker 1: be dumped on the models. Um because, as we'll get 658 00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:33,360 Speaker 1: into later, this show treats models like firewood. Uh. But 659 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:36,120 Speaker 1: the plethora of these games actually meant that Drew Carey 660 00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:37,919 Speaker 1: had his work cut out from when he took over 661 00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:41,759 Speaker 1: as host in two thousand seven. Yes, but first let's 662 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,960 Speaker 1: talk about Bob's retirement. But she announced October thirty one, 663 00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:48,720 Speaker 1: two thousand six, Halloween, a scary day indeed for Prices 664 00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:52,880 Speaker 1: Right fans. On June fifteenth, seven, then eighty three year 665 00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,640 Speaker 1: old Bob Barker hosted his last episode of The Prices Right, 666 00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,960 Speaker 1: which aired both during the regular daytime spot and again 667 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,799 Speaker 1: in prime time as the lead into the thirty four 668 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:07,600 Speaker 1: annual Daytime Emmy's. In a very poetic touch, the final 669 00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:11,160 Speaker 1: three Pricing games played on Bob Barker's final show, where 670 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,919 Speaker 1: the first three games played on his very first show, 671 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,480 Speaker 1: fighting reverse order. So he went out on the way 672 00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,840 Speaker 1: he came in that but Bob nearly stayed on the 673 00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:23,400 Speaker 1: show even longer. He offered to delay his retirement because 674 00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,320 Speaker 1: CBS had a really tough time finding a host. A 675 00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,840 Speaker 1: number of candidates were auditioned and all hosted a mock 676 00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:33,799 Speaker 1: non broadcast episode with audience members who volunteered to stay 677 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,840 Speaker 1: after you know, taping from one of the Bob Barker episodes. 678 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:42,279 Speaker 1: These hopefuls included George Hamilton's and Zering, Mario Lopez, John 679 00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:46,680 Speaker 1: oh Hurley, and former Double Dare host Mark Summers and 680 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:50,040 Speaker 1: This Is Amazing. Mark Summers was reportedly Bob Barker's choice 681 00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:53,240 Speaker 1: for his successor, but the network shut it down, saying 682 00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:56,640 Speaker 1: that Mark was too short, although he did go on 683 00:39:56,719 --> 00:40:00,840 Speaker 1: to help host a traveling version of the Prices Right Um, 684 00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:04,359 Speaker 1: a non televised version I think um andres roadshow host 685 00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:08,080 Speaker 1: Mark Wahlberg, not that Mark Wahlberg different. Mark Wahlberg also 686 00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:11,759 Speaker 1: lost out, supposedly because the network thought he wasn't attractive enough, 687 00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,440 Speaker 1: but he's also gone on to host the touring version 688 00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:18,160 Speaker 1: of Prices Right Live and This is Cole. The show's 689 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:21,840 Speaker 1: announcer at the time, Rich Fields, desperately wanted a shot 690 00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:26,000 Speaker 1: at auditioning, but CVS adamantly denied him the opportunity, and 691 00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,440 Speaker 1: he left the show a few years later. Rosie O'Donnell 692 00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,120 Speaker 1: was also rumored for the job, but she very publicly 693 00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:35,480 Speaker 1: took herself out of the running. The official version was 694 00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:36,840 Speaker 1: that she would have to leave her home in the 695 00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:39,040 Speaker 1: East Coast and moved to California for the gig, but 696 00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:43,120 Speaker 1: the real reason is supposedly the fact that CBS received 697 00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:45,960 Speaker 1: a ton of hate mail once her name was leaked. 698 00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:49,560 Speaker 1: Kind of chalk that up to good old fashioned homophobia 699 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:54,080 Speaker 1: or sexism or both. Finally, Drew Carey was offered the 700 00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:56,560 Speaker 1: gig in the summer of two thousand and seven. Then 701 00:40:56,640 --> 00:41:01,040 Speaker 1: CBS chairman Les Moonvez was impressed when watching Drew host 702 00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:06,120 Speaker 1: the primetime game show Power of Ten, and Drew originally 703 00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:08,920 Speaker 1: turned this gig down, just like Bob Barker before him, 704 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:13,239 Speaker 1: and then network began aggressively courting him. I say aggressive. 705 00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:16,479 Speaker 1: They sent him a package with a gift that Drew 706 00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:19,200 Speaker 1: assumed would be an iPhone which had just been released 707 00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:22,360 Speaker 1: some you know, high end Bob to try to curry 708 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:27,840 Speaker 1: his favor to host this daytime TV juggernaut. Hilariously, he 709 00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,160 Speaker 1: opened the package and discovered that they tried to win 710 00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:32,480 Speaker 1: him over with the Freebee Prices right T shirt and 711 00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:38,880 Speaker 1: Mum Sheep skates. Yeah yeah, But ultimately Drew took the gig, 712 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,680 Speaker 1: announcing it during an appearance on The David Letterman Show, 713 00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:44,239 Speaker 1: which I think is very appropriate considering Letterman was seen 714 00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,759 Speaker 1: as the king of late night and Bob Barker the 715 00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:50,080 Speaker 1: king of daytime TV, at least on CBS. And on 716 00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:53,800 Speaker 1: October two thousand seven, just under a year after Bob 717 00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:57,560 Speaker 1: announced his retirement, Drew Carey made his debut on the 718 00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:01,080 Speaker 1: Prices right stage. Yeah, and they really kind of greased 719 00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:03,600 Speaker 1: the wheels for him, which is admirable because you're coming in. 720 00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:06,160 Speaker 1: He's gonna be enormous shoes to fill the legacy of 721 00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:11,520 Speaker 1: this show, so longtime producer Roger dobb Cowitz dubbed Cowitz 722 00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:17,320 Speaker 1: Roger Roger Dobbs our dubbs Uh. He said it was 723 00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:20,240 Speaker 1: a conscious decision to ensure that for the first few 724 00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:23,319 Speaker 1: months of Drew's tenure, plenty of people would win the 725 00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:26,040 Speaker 1: show to help audiences warm up to him. He later 726 00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,799 Speaker 1: wrote in a post off his personal blog, I completely 727 00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,560 Speaker 1: ignored the prize budget for the first couple of months. 728 00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:34,680 Speaker 1: I scheduled easy games with obvious right and wrong price 729 00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:37,800 Speaker 1: combinations so that more contestants could go home as winners. 730 00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:41,759 Speaker 1: He just accomplished his mission a little too well. By 731 00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:45,120 Speaker 1: January two eight, he said, I was about seven hundred 732 00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:51,200 Speaker 1: thousand dollars over budget, had like four months of truth tenure, 733 00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:55,240 Speaker 1: almost up to like three cores of a million dollars 734 00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:59,000 Speaker 1: above budget, and uh, with the network unwilling to fork 735 00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:01,160 Speaker 1: over the cash, he's as they went into a period 736 00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:06,600 Speaker 1: where we were forced to use tougher games and smaller cars. Sadly, 737 00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:10,600 Speaker 1: it is probably not a coincidence that Roger was fired 738 00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:12,920 Speaker 1: from the show in two thousand and eight after Carrie's 739 00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:16,200 Speaker 1: first season wrapped up, and that dude had been at 740 00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:20,760 Speaker 1: this show since the beginning thirty six years longer than Bob. 741 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:25,760 Speaker 1: Show goes over budget, one season cruel, She's a cruel 742 00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:31,080 Speaker 1: mistress the Big Wheel. Uh, but it's too a street. 743 00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,879 Speaker 1: Audiences needed time to adjust to Drew. Drew needed time 744 00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:36,520 Speaker 1: to adjust to the new gig. The show was done 745 00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:40,360 Speaker 1: live to tape under Bob, as in what you see 746 00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:44,080 Speaker 1: is what gets printed, like on the studio floor, off 747 00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:47,839 Speaker 1: the cuff in real time. Drew struggled with this, reportedly, 748 00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:51,120 Speaker 1: which is surprising considering that he had just come from 749 00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:55,600 Speaker 1: the improv centric Whose line is it? Anyway? But he's 750 00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,239 Speaker 1: mostly like the he's like the straight man on that show, right, 751 00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:01,600 Speaker 1: He's pretty funny as the host. But yeah, wow, he's 752 00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:10,120 Speaker 1: no Bob Barker. Sorry, model of all American masculinity, animal lover, 753 00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:15,200 Speaker 1: black belt, sue navy vet. Well we get into some 754 00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:20,960 Speaker 1: sexual predator. Yeah yeah, there it is sex pest. So 755 00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:23,800 Speaker 1: early on in Drew's tenure, tapings have begun to stretch 756 00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,120 Speaker 1: closer in ninety minutes and with seventy five over seventy 757 00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:29,960 Speaker 1: five games with over seventy five sets of rules, the 758 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,640 Speaker 1: producers tried to help him out by only featuring six 759 00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:36,080 Speaker 1: complicated games a week for a while, so they went 760 00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:39,279 Speaker 1: on limb for Drew. This brings us to perhaps my 761 00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:43,200 Speaker 1: favorite anecdote of this episode. They're kind of might be 762 00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:45,840 Speaker 1: a little bit of a few between Bob Barker and 763 00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,479 Speaker 1: Drew Carey. At least there was, but then again, maybe 764 00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:51,880 Speaker 1: I'm projecting. Bob has admitted that he's not exactly been 765 00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:54,520 Speaker 1: a loyal viewer since he hung up his microphone and 766 00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:58,799 Speaker 1: rarely tunes into the carry lead Prices right right there 767 00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:03,719 Speaker 1: with you, Bob. But in July, Barker told TMCs cameraman 768 00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:07,160 Speaker 1: Drew does the show differently than I did. I tried 769 00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:10,160 Speaker 1: to make the show really exciting. He doesn't do that. 770 00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:14,200 Speaker 1: He just plays the games that In my opinion, that's 771 00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:18,000 Speaker 1: pretty unambiguous, but I guess. Hours later, Bob tried to 772 00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:21,080 Speaker 1: explain himself on Entertainment Weekly. He said that he would 773 00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:26,360 Speaker 1: never criticize Drew, CBS or the Prices Rights producers because quote, 774 00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:29,280 Speaker 1: I have a sizeable royalty that I am paid every 775 00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:31,719 Speaker 1: year on the show that the show is on, I 776 00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:34,600 Speaker 1: would be an absolute fool. I hope the show stays 777 00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,400 Speaker 1: on for years. In other words, I love the show 778 00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:40,720 Speaker 1: because I still get paid. As for his criticism of Drew, 779 00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:44,680 Speaker 1: Bob Barker has said, he's been charming and complimentary, and 780 00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:46,479 Speaker 1: he had me on the show to plug my book. 781 00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:49,239 Speaker 1: To think that I would say anything derogatory about him 782 00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:57,600 Speaker 1: is idiocy. I mean, okay, but you said it. But yeah, 783 00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:00,440 Speaker 1: But he's appeared on the show a few times, I 784 00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:05,400 Speaker 1: think most recently for is ninety five birthday, maybe one 785 00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:07,879 Speaker 1: of his big birthdays. So I guess it's all water 786 00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:11,319 Speaker 1: under the bridge. Um. There's something that Drew does on 787 00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:13,160 Speaker 1: his version of the show that I think it's very 788 00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:16,040 Speaker 1: nice that I'd like to talk about. If contestants guess 789 00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:19,240 Speaker 1: the actual value of an item rather than simply close 790 00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:22,320 Speaker 1: to it, they get a cash bonus of five dollars. 791 00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:25,239 Speaker 1: And this money is literally paid from Jew's pocket, like 792 00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,920 Speaker 1: taken from his suit and out of his presumably quite 793 00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:32,200 Speaker 1: generous salary. CBS calculated the by two thousand seven, ten 794 00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:34,799 Speaker 1: years into his tenure, Drew had given away around a 795 00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:38,000 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty seven thousand dollars of his own salary 796 00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:40,839 Speaker 1: that he doesn't have to do. And there's another cute 797 00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:43,360 Speaker 1: thing that he does too. Many of these games on 798 00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,960 Speaker 1: the show still operate by old school cranking pulley operators, 799 00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:48,960 Speaker 1: and Drew always makes a point to introduce the crank 800 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:52,960 Speaker 1: operators on stage, since union rules dictate that if an 801 00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:56,960 Speaker 1: employee's face has shown, they must receive more cash, so 802 00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,040 Speaker 1: he always has them come out and say a quick high, 803 00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:05,759 Speaker 1: which I think is very nice. I agree. Now. The 804 00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:08,440 Speaker 1: show has had a number of celebrity guests over the years, 805 00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:11,200 Speaker 1: and some of the more recent ones include Seth Rogan, 806 00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:15,239 Speaker 1: Kristen Bell, Demilovado, Heidi Klum, you got your ex boy 807 00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:18,400 Speaker 1: banders and your real housewives, and even Snoop Dogg dropped 808 00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:20,840 Speaker 1: a plinkoat chip or two. But what we're talking about 809 00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:23,359 Speaker 1: pre fame stars appearing on the Prices, right, I really 810 00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:25,759 Speaker 1: only got two, but they're good ones. The first is 811 00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:29,640 Speaker 1: Vannah White, who went on the show in two years 812 00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:33,520 Speaker 1: before she started flipping letters on the Wheel of Fortune. Sadly, 813 00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:35,319 Speaker 1: though she got the call to come on down, she 814 00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:37,560 Speaker 1: never made it out of contestants row. She said she 815 00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:39,960 Speaker 1: never got to play any of the games. But then 816 00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:43,680 Speaker 1: there's Aaron paul A k A. Breaking Bad's Jesse Pinkman, 817 00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:47,319 Speaker 1: who made it onto the show and was extremely enthusiastic 818 00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,680 Speaker 1: about it. A video of his two thousand performance surfaced 819 00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:54,360 Speaker 1: a few years ago and it's adorable. Encourage all Prices 820 00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:56,640 Speaker 1: Right and or Breaking Bad fans to check it out. 821 00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,160 Speaker 1: It went down shortly after we moved to l A 822 00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:02,439 Speaker 1: to pursue acting, and he loses his damn mind when 823 00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:04,920 Speaker 1: he finally gets on camera. You can see him scream 824 00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:08,880 Speaker 1: you're the man, Bob, You're my idol, before successfully placing 825 00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:11,520 Speaker 1: the closest bid on a flat top desk. And he 826 00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:13,840 Speaker 1: made it all the way to the showcase showdown before 827 00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:17,239 Speaker 1: going just a little too high, just a hundred and 828 00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:20,440 Speaker 1: thirty two dollars on a price package worth over twenty 829 00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:23,480 Speaker 1: six grand, and it included a sports car. He was 830 00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:25,839 Speaker 1: so close he can't go over. That's the whole thing 831 00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:28,320 Speaker 1: about the price is right, as close as possible to 832 00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,759 Speaker 1: the actual price without going over, And he went over 833 00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:34,360 Speaker 1: by just a hundred and thirty two dollars. Thirteen years later, 834 00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:36,680 Speaker 1: he was still pissed about it. He told Jay Leno 835 00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:39,359 Speaker 1: that he was depressed for many many months after this. 836 00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,600 Speaker 1: I mean wouldn't you be, Yeah, especially if you're a 837 00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:45,560 Speaker 1: struggling actor in l A. Although I guess it meant 838 00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:47,480 Speaker 1: he probably wouldn't have had the money to pay the 839 00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:52,680 Speaker 1: taxes on all that good do Well, can you put 840 00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:55,160 Speaker 1: it on a payment program? Like can you defer payments? 841 00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:57,879 Speaker 1: Maybe maybe there's some kind of Yeah, that's a good point. 842 00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:03,680 Speaker 1: Just break your legs right then and there. Here's your choice. 843 00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:06,360 Speaker 1: You pay us or five minutes in the alley with 844 00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:13,360 Speaker 1: a veto no with Bob red or possibly black belt. 845 00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:16,200 Speaker 1: Bob's just up there like limbering up. He's like, trust me, 846 00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:21,520 Speaker 1: you don't want to take the alley. As you meditate 847 00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:24,400 Speaker 1: on that, we'll be right back with more too much information. 848 00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:42,239 Speaker 1: After these messages, there are other non celebrity centric appearances 849 00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:44,680 Speaker 1: that have gone down in the vast lore of the 850 00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:48,280 Speaker 1: prices right a Verse. For example, one guy got famous 851 00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:53,960 Speaker 1: by bidding four dollars on every prize because did he 852 00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:56,839 Speaker 1: win back? Guy? I don't know. I think there's gotta 853 00:49:56,840 --> 00:50:01,000 Speaker 1: be a guy Olds who did sixty nine for everything right, Like, yeah, 854 00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:06,640 Speaker 1: people are clever. One of the most infamous incidents occurred 855 00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:10,719 Speaker 1: nine seven and involved a woman named Yolanda. This being 856 00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:12,760 Speaker 1: in the late seventies. She was wearing a tube top, 857 00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:15,520 Speaker 1: as was the fashion of the time, and when she 858 00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:17,440 Speaker 1: got the call to come on down, she got so 859 00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:20,960 Speaker 1: excited that the tube top slipped off, revealing too much 860 00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:24,480 Speaker 1: for daytime. When Yolanda finally got to the podium on 861 00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:27,600 Speaker 1: Contestants Robe, Bob couldn't help but saying I've never had 862 00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:32,239 Speaker 1: a welcome like this to During an appearance years later 863 00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:34,480 Speaker 1: on Larry King Live, he said that was the most 864 00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:37,520 Speaker 1: talked about single incident in the history of the show. 865 00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:41,920 Speaker 1: That said, coming on down with the wardrobe malfunction is 866 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,080 Speaker 1: rob but it's better than not showing up at all. 867 00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:48,680 Speaker 1: During the Barker years, a contestant named Patricia Bernard had 868 00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:52,640 Speaker 1: an unfortunately timed bathroom break and completely missed the moment 869 00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:56,920 Speaker 1: that her name was called. The cameras were scanning the 870 00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:00,320 Speaker 1: audience looking for her and quickly noticed her husband running 871 00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:03,280 Speaker 1: around trying to find where she'd gone. Oh my god, 872 00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:07,280 Speaker 1: can you imagine she just couldn't hold it. A similar 873 00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:09,640 Speaker 1: thing happened in but Yeah, but there's another. There have 874 00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:12,120 Speaker 1: been other times when people have missed the call. Sometimes 875 00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:15,239 Speaker 1: this waste names being pronounced incorrectly, other times due to 876 00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:18,359 Speaker 1: the fact that taping had already started while people were 877 00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:21,120 Speaker 1: still filling into the studio. There was a woman who 878 00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:23,640 Speaker 1: was said to be married, and she was still getting 879 00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:27,239 Speaker 1: used to her married name, so she forgot her own 880 00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:29,640 Speaker 1: maiden name when it was called, and she was like, 881 00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:34,680 Speaker 1: there's no woman here by that name, no good thing. 882 00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:40,280 Speaker 1: California is a no fault divorce state, so that's all 883 00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:43,799 Speaker 1: mildly awkward. But that's nothing compared to an incident that 884 00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:48,480 Speaker 1: occurred in Daniel Perez is a comedian who had lost 885 00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:51,280 Speaker 1: her legs in an accident that occurred a decade earlier. 886 00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:54,360 Speaker 1: During your appearance on The Price Is Right, she was 887 00:51:54,400 --> 00:52:00,520 Speaker 1: awarded a treadmill. The crowd went silent, thankfully. Dan El Perez, 888 00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:02,719 Speaker 1: being a comedian, had a sense of humor about it all. 889 00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:06,560 Speaker 1: She told our former colleagues at People Magazine. I just thought, oh, 890 00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:09,080 Speaker 1: this is perfect. You cannot write this, you cannot make 891 00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:11,440 Speaker 1: this up. It's not even that I'm in a wheelchair. 892 00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:13,560 Speaker 1: It's that I literally don't have feet. But I was 893 00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:15,680 Speaker 1: so hopped up on all the cash and prizes and 894 00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:18,239 Speaker 1: the doorphins you go and you just want to win. 895 00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:20,719 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what it is that you win, so 896 00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:24,800 Speaker 1: good perspective on it. It's tough to explain how dedicated 897 00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:27,239 Speaker 1: these people are in the audience of the Prices Right, 898 00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:30,760 Speaker 1: but here's an example that illustrates it quite well. Bob 899 00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,600 Speaker 1: tells the story of the l a times. I was 900 00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:36,120 Speaker 1: talking to the audience once during a break and taping, 901 00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:38,040 Speaker 1: and a young woman in the audience began to have 902 00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:41,040 Speaker 1: a baby. I turned to the studio pages and said, 903 00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:43,360 Speaker 1: we help her out, and this woman said, no, I 904 00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:47,000 Speaker 1: don't want to go. You might call my name, and 905 00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:49,200 Speaker 1: I said, madam, we are not going to call any 906 00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:52,040 Speaker 1: more names until you're on your way to the hospital. 907 00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:54,880 Speaker 1: And just to wrap up this segment, there was the 908 00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,279 Speaker 1: time that Mrs Brady of the Brady Bunch had a 909 00:52:57,320 --> 00:53:01,120 Speaker 1: car accident on the set of the show. Florence Henderson 910 00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:03,040 Speaker 1: was the special guest and she was supposed to sit 911 00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:05,400 Speaker 1: in an suv as it was driven onto the stage 912 00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:08,280 Speaker 1: as part of one of the Prices Rights Mother's Day episodes. 913 00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:10,280 Speaker 1: You know, she's one of the most famous TV moms 914 00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:12,560 Speaker 1: of all time. The person behind the wheel got a 915 00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:15,480 Speaker 1: little distracted by everything going on, the cameras and the 916 00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:18,360 Speaker 1: lights and the crowd and Bob Barker and Mrs Brady. 917 00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:22,120 Speaker 1: It's too much. Something had to give and he accidentally 918 00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:25,360 Speaker 1: drove the suv straight into the wall of the set 919 00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:30,440 Speaker 1: at a breakneck two. Luckily, no one was hurt and 920 00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:32,360 Speaker 1: there was no severe damage to the car or the 921 00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:36,319 Speaker 1: set or Mrs Brady. Something similar happened actually with one 922 00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:38,520 Speaker 1: of the models who was supposed to drive a sports 923 00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:40,799 Speaker 1: car onto the set while they were filming, you know, 924 00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:42,480 Speaker 1: the show it off and do the like van of 925 00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:45,320 Speaker 1: white thing, except she drove it straight through a wall. 926 00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:48,239 Speaker 1: She said she didn't realize that the car was a 927 00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:52,200 Speaker 1: stick shift. And this brings us to the topic of 928 00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:56,080 Speaker 1: the prices right models, or Barker's Beauties as they were 929 00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:59,400 Speaker 1: informally known during Bob's tenure. They are, of course the 930 00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:02,239 Speaker 1: lovely lady who pose with the prizes a sort of 931 00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:05,000 Speaker 1: proto van a white gig, although they did at a 932 00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:10,000 Speaker 1: Dude in twelve. This is difficult to talk about because 933 00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:12,040 Speaker 1: this is where we get into the tales of Bob 934 00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:17,759 Speaker 1: Barker being accused of sexual harassment many times over. There 935 00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:20,319 Speaker 1: have been many unsavory stories that spilled out of the 936 00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:24,080 Speaker 1: tabloids since the mid nineties and since nine I think 937 00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:27,080 Speaker 1: six women were fired from The Prices Right and they've 938 00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:30,000 Speaker 1: all sued Bob, who was the executive producer of the show, 939 00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:34,920 Speaker 1: for charges including sexual harassment, racial discrimination, and wrongful termination. 940 00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:38,240 Speaker 1: I feel like it's only right, as we talk about 941 00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:40,840 Speaker 1: the fun things about the show, to share some of 942 00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,520 Speaker 1: these stories right now. The first story is that of 943 00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:47,880 Speaker 1: Diane Parkinson, who left The Prices Right In after eighteen years. 944 00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:49,960 Speaker 1: At the time, it was said that she was leaving 945 00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:52,640 Speaker 1: to pursue other interests, but the following year after she 946 00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:56,719 Speaker 1: left in, she filed a lawsuit against Bob Barker for 947 00:54:56,800 --> 00:55:00,840 Speaker 1: sexual harassment. She alleged that Bob used force the course 948 00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:04,279 Speaker 1: or into a three year sexual relationship. She says that 949 00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:06,440 Speaker 1: she slept with him for fear of losing her job, 950 00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:09,840 Speaker 1: and upon her resignation, she received a thousand dollars a 951 00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:12,799 Speaker 1: month in what she says was huched money. The producers 952 00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:15,840 Speaker 1: claimed this was severance pay. Bob Barker insists that this 953 00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:19,879 Speaker 1: relationship with Diane was a consensual relationship. According to him, 954 00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:24,200 Speaker 1: Diane quote volunteered to add some hanky panky to his life. 955 00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:29,200 Speaker 1: That's a quote, thus ushering in quote, a sexual revolution 956 00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:34,359 Speaker 1: thanks to his time with her. Good God, I can't 957 00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:36,239 Speaker 1: believe I just said all that. Why would he put 958 00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:43,120 Speaker 1: those quotes out? I guess management firm, right, Yeah, I don't. Actually, 959 00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:44,799 Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember what those quotes are from. I 960 00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:46,799 Speaker 1: wonder if they're from a deposition, which would be even 961 00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:51,200 Speaker 1: more insane. Several other women associated with the show claimed 962 00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:55,280 Speaker 1: Diane was overly flirtatious and inappropriately touchy feely with Barker, 963 00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:59,040 Speaker 1: who was seventy years old at the time she resigned. Ultimately, 964 00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:02,480 Speaker 1: she dropped her lawsuit citing health problems, and her attorneys 965 00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:05,200 Speaker 1: were fined two grand for her refusing to comply with 966 00:56:05,280 --> 00:56:11,800 Speaker 1: legal questions that she deemed invasive the legal system. Yes, truly, 967 00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:14,120 Speaker 1: no notes. So a number of people on the show 968 00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:16,960 Speaker 1: kind of ganged up on Diane. That one person who 969 00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:20,560 Speaker 1: refused to speak out against her was her fellow Barker 970 00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:24,399 Speaker 1: beauty mobel Holly Holstrom. She was dismissed from the show 971 00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:30,080 Speaker 1: in September after nineteen years, supposedly because of fourteen pounds 972 00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:33,480 Speaker 1: she had gained due to a prescription medication she was taking. 973 00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:38,239 Speaker 1: She later alleged that Barker actually fired her, as if 974 00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:40,480 Speaker 1: that wasn't bad enough. She alleged that she was fired 975 00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:44,080 Speaker 1: because she refused to support Bob during the whole Diane 976 00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:48,400 Speaker 1: Parkinson thing when she was accusing him harassment. Bob wanted 977 00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:50,680 Speaker 1: her to go on talk shows and basically say that 978 00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:54,479 Speaker 1: the whole thing with Diane was a fiction. Uh, she 979 00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:57,839 Speaker 1: didn't want anything to do with it. She flat out said, 980 00:56:57,920 --> 00:56:59,880 Speaker 1: I don't really want to testify out their oath and 981 00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:04,000 Speaker 1: basically perjuring myself. She didn't want to get involved, and 982 00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:06,000 Speaker 1: she said she was dismissed from the show as a result. 983 00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:09,680 Speaker 1: Barker responded to all this by suing Holly for libel 984 00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:12,799 Speaker 1: and slander, but dropped the suit forty eight hours before 985 00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:17,040 Speaker 1: the trial began. Holly Hallstrom counter suit Bob for age, 986 00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:22,160 Speaker 1: weight and medical discrimination, wrongful termination, and malicious prosecution, and 987 00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:25,760 Speaker 1: ultimately received a multimillion dollars settlement in October of two 988 00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:29,800 Speaker 1: thousand five. During the nearly ten years that this lawsuit 989 00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:33,080 Speaker 1: was in courts, she spent all of her resources and savings, 990 00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:35,800 Speaker 1: and at her lowest point, she sold her house and 991 00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:39,600 Speaker 1: ended up living in her car. As she said in 992 00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:42,240 Speaker 1: interviews regarding that period of her life, I refused to 993 00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:46,760 Speaker 1: give up and let the evil old bastard win. And 994 00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:49,800 Speaker 1: she has since started a foundation for individuals who have 995 00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:53,400 Speaker 1: suffered wrongful or malicious conditions in the workplace and don't 996 00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:56,560 Speaker 1: have the power or resources financially or otherwise to go 997 00:57:56,640 --> 00:58:02,800 Speaker 1: up against powerful individuals or large corporations. Well, if you 998 00:58:02,840 --> 00:58:07,760 Speaker 1: thought that was bad, hang on uh. During in June 999 00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:11,720 Speaker 1: taping of the show Modeled, Janice Pennington was accidentally hit 1000 00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:14,720 Speaker 1: by a camera and knocked off the stage and into 1001 00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:19,000 Speaker 1: contestants row six ft below. She suffered a concussion and 1002 00:58:19,080 --> 00:58:22,640 Speaker 1: a broken clavical and was rushed unconscious to the hospital, 1003 00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:26,040 Speaker 1: where she underwent two surgeries, one of which left one 1004 00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:29,480 Speaker 1: of her shoulders an inch shorter than the other. Because 1005 00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:31,640 Speaker 1: of the scars from her surgery, she was no longer 1006 00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:34,160 Speaker 1: allowed to wear a swimsuit on the show, and her 1007 00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:37,760 Speaker 1: modeling career suffered. She got a one point three million 1008 00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:40,360 Speaker 1: dollars settlement for her injuries, and things seemed to be 1009 00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:44,480 Speaker 1: fine for another decade. Then in October of two thousand, 1010 00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:47,240 Speaker 1: Janice was let go after twenty nine years on the show, 1011 00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:52,200 Speaker 1: which you think makes her the longest serving Prices right model. Yeah, 1012 00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:54,240 Speaker 1: she was there from the beginning. I mean that's twenty 1013 00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:57,920 Speaker 1: nine years. That a long time, and apparently, according to her, 1014 00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:01,240 Speaker 1: Bob didn't even say goodbye to her. She told The 1015 00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:03,920 Speaker 1: l A Times that she believed she was fired because 1016 00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:07,880 Speaker 1: she sided with Diane Parkinson in her wrongful termination deposition. 1017 00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:13,440 Speaker 1: Responding to the controversy just before his retirement in two 1018 00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:17,320 Speaker 1: thousand seven, Bob Barker told USA Today, they have been 1019 00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:26,160 Speaker 1: such a problem, Bob buddy, I don't want to say 1020 00:59:26,200 --> 00:59:30,120 Speaker 1: anything about them. They were disgusting. I don't want to 1021 00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:38,360 Speaker 1: mention them. Fire his pr person, or at least get 1022 00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:42,320 Speaker 1: him one. It doesn't seem like he has one. But 1023 00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:45,400 Speaker 1: even after he left the show, models were still mistreated. 1024 00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:48,840 Speaker 1: After a model named Brandy Cochrane became pregnant with twins, 1025 00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:52,600 Speaker 1: she reported that producers started saying things like wide load 1026 00:59:52,840 --> 00:59:58,439 Speaker 1: coming through. She was ultimately fired after taking maternity leave 1027 00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:02,200 Speaker 1: in two thousand eight, which is illegal, and she filed 1028 01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:04,520 Speaker 1: a lawsuit against the show in two thousand ten, in 1029 01:00:04,520 --> 01:00:11,440 Speaker 1: which she won over eight million dollars. Yeah, damn, well, 1030 01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:15,120 Speaker 1: we can end on the lowest moment in the show's history. 1031 01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:18,280 Speaker 1: So instead, let's talk about the high point, a truly 1032 01:00:18,320 --> 01:00:21,640 Speaker 1: stunning bit of gameplay. I'd like to discuss the most 1033 01:00:21,720 --> 01:00:25,160 Speaker 1: sublime moment in all of Prices Right history. It was 1034 01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:28,960 Speaker 1: during an episode that aired on December six eight, a 1035 01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:31,640 Speaker 1: man by the name of Terry Knice I think is 1036 01:00:31,680 --> 01:00:35,120 Speaker 1: his name, managed to guess the exact value of an 1037 01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:39,760 Speaker 1: elaborate showcase showdown package, something that hadn't ever occurred during 1038 01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:43,040 Speaker 1: the show's run. There was an RV, a karaoke machine, 1039 01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:45,440 Speaker 1: a poll table, and he got it right on the nose, 1040 01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:49,360 Speaker 1: which like should not be positible, and the production crew agreed. 1041 01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:52,920 Speaker 1: They suspended production for forty five minutes while they tried 1042 01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:55,600 Speaker 1: to figure out what had happened, because everyone assumed this 1043 01:00:55,680 --> 01:00:58,200 Speaker 1: was the result of cheating. So you mentioned earlier the 1044 01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:02,800 Speaker 1: show's longtime producer, director Roger Dobko, how do you say 1045 01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:05,240 Speaker 1: his name? He had just been fired and they thought 1046 01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:08,600 Speaker 1: that maybe he was sabotaging the production out of revenge. 1047 01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:11,400 Speaker 1: And if you got to watch this clip online, the 1048 01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:15,440 Speaker 1: best part is Drew Carey's unenthusiastic reaction. He later explained, 1049 01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:19,800 Speaker 1: everybody thought someone had cheated. We just fired Robert Dobkwitz 1050 01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:22,360 Speaker 1: and all the fan groups were so upset about it. 1051 01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:24,600 Speaker 1: I remember asking, were we ever going to air this? 1052 01:01:25,200 --> 01:01:27,480 Speaker 1: And nobody could see how we could. So I thought 1053 01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:29,600 Speaker 1: the show was never gonna air. I thought somebody had 1054 01:01:29,640 --> 01:01:31,840 Speaker 1: cheated us, and I thought the whole show was over. 1055 01:01:32,120 --> 01:01:33,760 Speaker 1: I thought they were going to shut us down, and 1056 01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:35,200 Speaker 1: I thought I was gonna be out of a job, 1057 01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:39,160 Speaker 1: which let me dial it back. Esquire wrote a really 1058 01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:42,320 Speaker 1: fascinating piece about this incident in two, and Terry Kinnice, 1059 01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:45,440 Speaker 1: the Lucky Winner, claimed that he obsessively watched the show 1060 01:01:45,480 --> 01:01:49,760 Speaker 1: with like a religious fervor, and he had merely memorized 1061 01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:52,360 Speaker 1: the value of the prizes since the show did repeat 1062 01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:55,880 Speaker 1: things on occasion, and so he had a rough idea 1063 01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:58,080 Speaker 1: of the value of these items, and to round it out, 1064 01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:01,400 Speaker 1: he supposedly picked the numbers seven four three, which was 1065 01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:05,200 Speaker 1: the family pin number, consisting of like birthdays and anniversary dates. 1066 01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:10,120 Speaker 1: I forget what was the number thousand seven hunt? Okay, 1067 01:02:10,240 --> 01:02:13,360 Speaker 1: I believe so. But if you think Terry's obsessive viewing 1068 01:02:13,720 --> 01:02:16,440 Speaker 1: is strange, things are about to get even weird. Or 1069 01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:19,120 Speaker 1: there's a documentary made about this whole incident. In two 1070 01:02:19,160 --> 01:02:22,200 Speaker 1: thousand and seventeen called the perfect bid the contestant who 1071 01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:25,160 Speaker 1: knew too much and it sent us around. Another Price 1072 01:02:25,240 --> 01:02:28,680 Speaker 1: is Right super fan named Ted Slawson who's been studying 1073 01:02:28,680 --> 01:02:31,360 Speaker 1: the game since the seventies, and he even developed a 1074 01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:35,120 Speaker 1: homemade computer program to train him on price values, and 1075 01:02:35,160 --> 01:02:37,800 Speaker 1: he started going to tapings regularly. It was even called 1076 01:02:37,800 --> 01:02:41,360 Speaker 1: a contestant once, but surprisingly didn't win. But during his 1077 01:02:41,440 --> 01:02:44,280 Speaker 1: repeated trip to the tapings, he'd call out the correct 1078 01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:47,600 Speaker 1: answers from the audience and helped contestants win. You know, 1079 01:02:47,640 --> 01:02:49,400 Speaker 1: that's part of the game, is that the audience can 1080 01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:52,880 Speaker 1: yell out prices and that's allowed. And I guess he'd 1081 01:02:52,920 --> 01:02:55,080 Speaker 1: become something of kind of like a legend in the 1082 01:02:55,120 --> 01:02:59,640 Speaker 1: Prices Right community. Like when he said something, you you listened, uh, 1083 01:02:59,640 --> 01:03:01,960 Speaker 1: he said. He claims that he called out the correct 1084 01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:05,120 Speaker 1: bid to this Terry guy during the showcase, and Terry 1085 01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:08,000 Speaker 1: listened to him, and that's why he won. Terry disputes 1086 01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:11,800 Speaker 1: that two nerds butting heads. Who's telling the truth. The 1087 01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:15,200 Speaker 1: world may never know. But following this whole kerfuffle, the 1088 01:03:15,280 --> 01:03:18,560 Speaker 1: Prices Rights producers began changing the diversity of the items 1089 01:03:18,600 --> 01:03:21,360 Speaker 1: on the show, going so far as changing the options 1090 01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:24,840 Speaker 1: packages on cars that they were offering, which impacts the price. 1091 01:03:25,440 --> 01:03:27,720 Speaker 1: So all in all, all of this was just to 1092 01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:30,840 Speaker 1: make it less likely than contestant could just memorize prices 1093 01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:35,040 Speaker 1: from watching the show over a long period. Well, we've 1094 01:03:35,080 --> 01:03:36,920 Speaker 1: just about come to the end of our time exploring 1095 01:03:36,960 --> 01:03:39,440 Speaker 1: The Prices Right. But given that it's such a numbers 1096 01:03:39,480 --> 01:03:41,880 Speaker 1: based show, I wanted to share a quick by the 1097 01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:45,280 Speaker 1: numbers lightning round of stats that I personally found interesting 1098 01:03:45,360 --> 01:03:48,520 Speaker 1: and if you've listened this far, you may too. Many 1099 01:03:48,520 --> 01:03:53,400 Speaker 1: of these are courtesy of Deadline or CBS themselves. More 1100 01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:56,960 Speaker 1: than nine thousand nine episodes of The Prices Right have 1101 01:03:57,040 --> 01:04:00,600 Speaker 1: been taped over sixty eight thousand contents since have been 1102 01:04:00,600 --> 01:04:04,280 Speaker 1: instructed to come on down. More than three hundred million 1103 01:04:04,320 --> 01:04:06,600 Speaker 1: dollars and money and prizes have been given away. Over 1104 01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:09,920 Speaker 1: the last fifty years. More than eighty four hundred vehicles 1105 01:04:09,920 --> 01:04:12,840 Speaker 1: have been given away. First was a Chevrolet Vega valued 1106 01:04:12,880 --> 01:04:16,760 Speaker 1: at two thousand and seven hundred forty six seven hundred forties. 1107 01:04:19,560 --> 01:04:22,520 Speaker 1: The most expensive was an Audi R eight hundred and 1108 01:04:22,600 --> 01:04:26,200 Speaker 1: fifty seven thousand, three hundred dollars. More than two point 1109 01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:29,160 Speaker 1: four million people have attended a studio tapping of the 1110 01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:32,800 Speaker 1: Prices Right in person on two separate occasions. A ninety 1111 01:04:32,920 --> 01:04:35,680 Speaker 1: nine year old contestant has been known to come on down, 1112 01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:39,600 Speaker 1: the oldest age of any contestant on the show, and 1113 01:04:39,640 --> 01:04:42,240 Speaker 1: at two thousand and eight, a California teacher one one million, 1114 01:04:42,280 --> 01:04:45,400 Speaker 1: one hundred fifty three thousand, nine hundred and eight dollars 1115 01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:49,040 Speaker 1: during the Prices Right million dollars Spectacular prime time special, 1116 01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:51,480 Speaker 1: which makes him the record holder for the most one 1117 01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:54,640 Speaker 1: on the show, but the record for regular daytime play 1118 01:04:54,760 --> 01:04:58,000 Speaker 1: was broken in twenty nineteen by Mike Stober, who won 1119 01:04:58,120 --> 01:05:00,760 Speaker 1: close to two hundred and sixty three thousand dollars in 1120 01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:06,640 Speaker 1: cash and prizes. And I think that's about all I got, Heigel. 1121 01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:10,120 Speaker 1: If unless you've got something, uh, I just you know, 1122 01:05:10,600 --> 01:05:13,120 Speaker 1: I hope we've gotten you all as close as we 1123 01:05:13,200 --> 01:05:18,400 Speaker 1: can without going over. Well after that, I guess there's 1124 01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:21,680 Speaker 1: nothing left to say but help control the pet population. 1125 01:05:22,240 --> 01:05:25,080 Speaker 1: Have your pets spade or neutered. My name's Jordan Runt 1126 01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:28,080 Speaker 1: Tug and I'm Alex Hegel. We'll catch you next time. 1127 01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:35,920 Speaker 1: Too Much Information was a production of I Heart Radio. 1128 01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:39,360 Speaker 1: The show's executive producers are Noel Brown, and Jordan Runt Talk. 1129 01:05:39,520 --> 01:05:42,760 Speaker 1: The supervising producer is Mike John's. 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