WEBVTT - Celebrity Doppelganger 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:06.040 This is the most dramatic podcast ever and iHeartRadio podcast. 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:10.559 Chris Harrison coming to you from the home office in Austin, Texas. 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:15.640 On the show today is Mark Wahlberg. So I know 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:18.280 what you're thinking, and I'm just going to say right now, 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.159 and I know this might cost me listeners, It's not 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:28.720 that Mark Wahlberg. And when I say Mark Wahlberg, immediately 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:31.080 think obviously of them make a movie star. But you 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:34.040 also may think, wait, is that the guy that does 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:37.199 Temptation Island Antique road Show? And the funny thing is, 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:39.519 first of all, yes, that is the Mark Wahlberg I'm 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.960 talking about. He does Temptation Island, his game shows, and 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:46.239 he did Antique road Show. The reason I wanted to 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:50.239 bring Mark on is he and I have had this 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:55.480 crazy past that is, Chris crossed each other. We both 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:58.520 kind of hit the scene hosting about the same time 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:02.320 in the late nineties early two thousands in Hollywood, and 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:04.480 he was there a little bit before me, working with 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:08.000 Dick Clark Productions. But I came in and started doing 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.080 stuff for Game Show Network. He was doing stuff for 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.920 Game Show Network. There was this group of us that 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:15.680 we're all grinding, and we get called into auditions at 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:17.840 the same time. So we all knew each other, we 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.560 were all friendly, and we all kind of respected each 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:22.760 other lifted each other up because it was such a 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.520 grind and a tumultuous time of trying to get our 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.320 footing and get a hold in this business, and we 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.119 all did. Mark has gone on to do incredible things. 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:34.320 But it's funny to this day, I will get asked 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:36.960 about doing Antique Roadshow and if I love that show 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:40.600 or did I enjoy Temptation Island. I have to say people, no, no, 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:44.080 I'm not Mark Wahlberg. That's I hosted The Bachelor, and 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:46.480 I know that he has gotten the same thing for 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:49.960 so many years about hosting The Bachelor or all you know, 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:52.520 my Home and Garden show. So I wanted to have 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.560 Mark Wahlberg on, first of all, to say we are 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:58.080 two different people, but also to catch up because he 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:02.320 is an amazing guy. He has a beautiful family, and 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:06.040 he has such great perspective on this business where we 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.960 came from, but also where this business is going. So 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:13.440 today a conversation with Mark Wahlberg, No, not that one. 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.560 And he joins me now on the most dramatic podcast 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.000 ever market's so good to see my friend. It has 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:19.800 been a long time. 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:22.320 It has been a long time. Thanks for having me on. 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:23.040 I appreciate it. 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:23.680 Are you in La? 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:27.760 I am his Iam in beautiful Sonny Sherman Oaks. 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.480 I'm in a beautiful, rainy Austin, Texas. 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:32.160 That's a good place to be. 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:33.800 It's a great place to be. 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:34.040 Are you. 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:35.079 Are you an LA guy? 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:36.480 No? 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.480 I mean I've I've lived here longer than most people 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:41.720 have been alive. But I'm from South Carolina. 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.040 Okay, you're born and raised South Carolina. 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.040 Born in Georgia, but raised in South Carolina. And when 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:48.760 did you cop around a little bit through the South? 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:50.360 I live in Alabama little bit and stuff like that. 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.360 But when did you come to La? 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:59.120 I came to La. I left home between my freshman 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:03.079 sophomore year colleg and I went on the road a 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:04.640 little bit. I was in northern Michigan and on the 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.280 road that ended up coming out to Los Angeles. I said, 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.880 I take a gap year and I'm still waiting to 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:10.720 go back to college. 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:11.960 How's that working out for you? 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.200 It's pretty good. I just got to get a tuition together. 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:17.680 Yeah. Hey, And by the way, the longer you wait, 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:20.520 the more expensive it gets, as we both know, with 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:21.760 two kids, and. 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:25.000 I'm not eligible for any scholarship, either academic or sports. 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.160 Oh no, no, man. Some of these punters now are 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.360 like thirty five years old, the punters and kickers, these 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.800 Australian kids are coming over. I'm like they may have 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:34.639 it all figured out, like the midlife crisis is now 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:38.240 going to be going back to school. Yeah, where were 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:38.960 you in college? 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.920 I went to Francis Marion College which is now Francis 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:46.200 Marion University. It was outside of my hometown. I was 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.640 really all at the time I could afford to do. 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:50.720 And wow, you went to a smaller school than I did. 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.800 I went to Oklahoma City University again, same thing. I 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.480 had a soccer scholarship. It's what my family could afford. 0:03:56.720 --> 0:04:00.880 And yeah, it's so clearly Mark and I prove how 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:02.920 important it is that you go to a really big 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:04.640 name school to make it in this world. 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.160 That's right. I always tell people, I went to several 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:11.280 weeks of college, pretty much checked all the boxes and 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:12.880 figured I'd take it from there. 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:15.800 As I said in the intro, one of the many 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:19.880 reasons I wanted to have you on is if there 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:23.800 is somebody that I get mistaken for and have been 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:28.480 mistaken for throughout my career. It's Mark Wahlberg. 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:30.800 So you know, I was thinking about this this morning, 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.360 that the only time we've actually kind of worked together. 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:34.680 Yeah. 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.640 I don't know if you remember this. He was the 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.440 red carpet for E for the Golden Globes and I 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.240 was up in the balcony doing something. You were on 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.640 the red carpet. I had to throw to you or 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:46.120 you through to me. I can't remember if I set 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:47.720 or you said it, but something the effect of and 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.240 to prove that we're not the same person on our 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:51.320 throw to Chris Harrison. 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:53.800 Yeah, I did it. I told the producers I said, hey, 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.120 I want a two box of Mark and I because 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:57.880 for once and for all, we need to show that 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:01.440 we are two different human beings. It was really funny that, 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:05.280 you know, when I first came to LA there was 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.159 like a group of like four or five of us. 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.520 It was you, There was a guy named Brian Blakeley, 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:14.400 and if you remember him, Todd Newton was was bopping around, 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.440 and so there was like a group of us that 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.719 these casting directors would always call because we would always 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:24.320 give great auditions and we all ended up getting work. 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.400 It was a really talented group of people, and I 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.839 enjoyed watching you get gigs at Game Show Network. I 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:31.600 got one at Game Show Network. We did our Home 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.760 and Garden show. You were doing antique road show, and 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:36.839 so it was funny to watch all of us kind 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:39.880 of find our niche and do that. We all kind 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.320 of came out. It was late nineties, early two thousands 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:43.520 when we all kind of broke in. 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.360 About that time. That was a but that was when, 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:51.159 you know, being a TV host as a as a 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.720 profession was a thing and now as much a thing. 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:57.359 Yeah, it definitely has evolved and changed. It was a 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:58.680 group of us that, you know, it's like, this is 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.279 what we wanted to do. You know. My background was 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:03.520 local news and I was like, I am a host. 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:06.040 That's all I want to do is host TV. And 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:07.040 you were kind of the same. 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:11.800 Well, I mean that's not entirely true. Mine was I 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:13.880 don't know how to do anything else. I was working 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:18.520 in production. Yeah, my whole career was by default. I 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.680 got engaged and then married to my wife, who was 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:25.160 at the time an actress, and then I thought maybe 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.200 that's what I wanted to do. And then walking down 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:28.600 the aisle, I said, one of us has to get 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:30.120 a job. So I got a job at Dick Clark 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.640 Productions as a PA. And my whole thing was to 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:35.239 get out and figure out a way to make a living. Cause, 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.320 like I said, I didn't have a degree or anything. 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.480 It was just by happenstance. I ended up posting stuff 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:42.520 and then I'm like, well, this is a lot easier 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.440 than lifting or you know, thinking, so I'll do this. 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.360 What was what bridge that gap? 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.839 A warm up guy didn't show up one day and 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.880 Dick Clark said, get the funny kid from upstairs, and 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:54.839 that was me. 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.440 That's how it started. You started to tell that was. 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:01.479 The left turn. And then you know, people started saying, 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:02.920 you know, can you call and stay for work and 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:04.760 come do warm up for me? And then I think 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:06.600 I got a job. Somebody wanted me to do warm 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:07.960 up and when I showed up, they said, we don't 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.400 have a budget for warm up and we need an announcer, 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:12.520 and I'm like, well, I know how to read. 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:16.160 It was there's three weeks of college that prepared me 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:16.480 for this. 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:17.840 That's exactly right. 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.280 And then you went on what was kind of the 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:25.200 first big gig was it was a GSN good game show. 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:28.320 Yes, N was after I had already i think, lost 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:29.720 my career and gotten it back already. 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:30.040 Yeah. 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:34.240 I think the first show I hosted was like eighty seven, 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.800 No ninety I'm looking at my wife. It was ninety 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.680 two because my wife was pregnant with our first So 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:42.920 that's the first time I was on camera. And then 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.240 I did Shop Do You Drop as a sidekick sort 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:49.239 of announcer on camera for that, and then a bunch 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:50.960 of At the time, and I tell people this, at 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:52.920 the time, you could do like four different cable networks 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:54.960 and still not make a living. So I was like 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:57.600 on camera with like four different shows on different networks, 0:07:57.600 --> 0:07:59.360 but still having to do warm up to make a living. 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.920 When I came out here in ninety nine, I did 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:06.400 a game I had TVG the Horse Racing Network. I 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:11.880 had a Designers Challenge on HGTV, and then I had 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:16.240 done seasons one and two of The Bachelor. I was 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:19.000 doing all three at the same time, and people were like, 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.600 what are you doing. You're hosting the biggest show on 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.760 network TV. You got to be worth millions and millions 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.320 of dollars. I said, I'm worth so much that I 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.560 have three jobs right now. I said. 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:31.960 That was when I did Temptation Island. Originally I'm Fox 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.080 and everybody and I was, and I always tell a 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:35.840 story that was like it aired on a Wednesday night, 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.400 I think, and Thursday morning I was famous. Like people 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.240 were coming up to me. And what they didn't realize 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:44.800 is we did six episodes, and I think I made 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:46.480 seventy five hundred dollars an episode. 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:51.080 And that was the season I crushed you. My first 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:54.800 season of The Bachelor twelve five, that's what I was making. 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.200 And again we did the same thing. It was six 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:01.000 one hour episodes. And so I'm like, and you know, 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:04.000 when you have thirty million viewers, people think, oh my god, 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.600 because that many people are watching, you must be worth 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.040 hundreds of millions of dollars now. And I'm like, I'm 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:12.560 worth thousands of dollars still, and I have two other gigs. 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:14.080 And I got to go to Home and Garden Network 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:17.120 because that's what's actually paying my rent. And you know, 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.520 you don't get big until later when the show you 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:21.960 know you can renegotiate and get your gig. It's like 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.560 you're one in the NFL. You're making minimum. 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.480 By the way I've read about that concept of that 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.960 you renegotiate and get more money must be cool. 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.000 It's pretty good. So I guess the biggest question is 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:40.640 what's the worst lot in life for you? Being named 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:45.760 Mark Wahlberg or being mistaken from time to time for 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:46.560 Chris Harrison. 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:50.480 Yeah, I've now put that into almost every Like if 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:53.320 I give a keynote or something, I mean I'm talking 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:55.199 about you know, know your worth and know your truth, 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:58.120 I'm like, I look like Chris Harrison and everybody thinks 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:00.760 it's the other Mark Wahlberg. So I have an identity crisis. 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:04.400 As soon as I walk on State. I think the 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:06.800 older I get, the less like you I look. So 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:07.800 that helps. 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.160 Yeah, but people the but it was, I mean it 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.760 was so funny. It was really uncanny. No early on 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.040 people would be like, you know, we get stopped by 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:19.440 the paparazzi or whoever, and they're like, so, like, do 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.000 you enjoy Antique Road Show? And I'm like, yeah, you know, 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:25.000 I watch it from time to time. They're like, well, 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.120 what about Temptation Island? I said, yeah, no, I've watched 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:28.480 that too. I don't host either of those. 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.360 Man. People ask me who's going to get a rose 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.480 next week? And I'm like, you know, I'm not sure, 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.480 but I think if I had my brothers, I think 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.040 the Mark Wahlberg Mark Wahlberg thing is is probably more 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:44.160 of a daily part of my life. And I talking 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:45.600 about that when people come up to you and say, 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.040 you know, Temptation Island. I was doing Antiques Road Show 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:51.520 and this was years ago, like before social media was 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.760 what it is. But I got off the plane and 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:55.520 I'm coming down to the luggage and there are these 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:59.000 two guys just so psyched to see me, and they 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.839 recognize me. They so they know it's me and they 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.520 know it's Antique road show, right, So they're like, oh, 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:06.640 mister Walber and mister Walberg over here. And I'm like, hey, guys, 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:08.800 what's up? You know, could you you know, you know, 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.240 do you mind do this? And we love you on 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:16.000 the show, and like clearly know that's me having a conversation, right, 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.120 And then they say do you mind signing a picture? 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:19.640 I'm like, not a problem, and they ad me a 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.560 picture of Mark Walberg. Act Oh my god, I'm like, 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.360 do you know, yeah, are we not in the same 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:26.000 room right now? 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.200 They're like, man, you've really let your abs go. Like 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.600 this guy used to do the Calvin Klein commercials man. 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.440 But so how many times have you have you gone 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:38.440 into a restaurant and you just see the hostess just oh. 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:42.640 Glaze over. Well, my fear of that is so great 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:46.720 that any family member, immediate and extended knows that if 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:50.760 they make any reservation, they make it very clear which 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:53.080 Mark Welber they're getting. I said, please don't make me 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:56.719 walk in and have they go, oh, because we have. 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:57.400 A different table. 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:00.200 Like charity events that I've been invited to, and I 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:03.040 show up to the event, They're like yeah, oh, okay, 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:04.319 and then it's like awkward. 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:17.680 One of my producers brought this up, and I don't 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:19.800 even know if this is true, but it's not the 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.800 worst idea in the world. When I left The Bachelor 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:28.720 bachs Arette, someone said, the thought was call you call 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.959 Mark Wahlberg because he looks the most like Chris Harrison. 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.560 It'll be the least jarring. Was that a thing? Did 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:36.760 someone did? Was that a rumor? Or did anyone reach 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:37.840 out to you? 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.120 You know, if you go into the Reddit world and 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.520 all that stuff, you know, first of all, there's a 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.920 very blurry line between you and me and any other 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:49.319 host on TV from a viewers. I realize now how 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.480 how much in soft focused the viewers often view yes, 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.160 So I think that made perfect sense to some people. 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:57.760 I got a lot of you know, who's going to 0:12:57.840 --> 0:12:59.880 take Chris's place, you'd be great, blah blah blah blah 0:12:59.920 --> 0:13:03.480 bl and my answer was, you know, I got my gig, 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.520 he's got his gig, and all is going to be fine. 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:10.160 So yeah, I got some of that, you know, some 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:16.439 of that you know traffic, but it wasn't significant enough 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.760 that it was really made it on the meter. 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.320 Are you still doing prices right live? 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.599 I'm not doing prices right live. Todd Newton's out on 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:24.880 the road. 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.040 That's like his gig, Todd Newton. Tod Newton's still doing that. 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.240 Oh my god, Yeah, he's still doing it. As a 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.720 matter of fact, he's married to who was our prize 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:35.280 model for all those years, and so they got married. 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.000 So it's really kind of a love story. It's kind 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:37.280 of cool. 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.760 That is amazing talk about Yeah, things that happened on 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:40.120 the road. 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:42.679 And when I did Prices right Live, I was always 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:44.960 filling in for Todd, so I'd go for like ten days, 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:47.360 two weeks. Yeah, and I get my fixed and get out. 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:51.320 Now I'm going to lead next Tuesday and do Wheel 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:52.040 of Fortune live. 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:52.720 Awesome. 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:56.760 It's kind of stage version of Wheel of Fortune. And 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:00.200 for me it's like summer camp. You know, I go 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.040 for maybe ten days. This time, I'm going a little 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.520 longer than that. But it's bussing truck, so I'm sleeping 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:05.959 on the bus. I always say it's good rock and 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:10.040 roll fantasy. But the groupies are, you know, a little older. 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:14.080 Yeah, it's like Hasselhoff now you know he's not getting 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.000 the But so just to fill people in on what 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:21.880 this is, so many many years ago, these casinos started 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:25.840 Prices right live and it was like a ninety minute show. 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:29.520 We did it in Vegas, we did it at all 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:33.080 the casinos around And the funny thing is, and I'm 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:34.560 sure you were in on this, and I know Todd 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:40.000 Newton was as well. Was this was kind of as 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.280 Bob Barker was leading Prices right. 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:44.800 I was on stage that night he retired. 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.120 So people, we all of us were kind of in 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.160 the mix. They had talked to us all. I'm sure 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:51.480 they talked to you about that job. 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.760 Yeah, there's a whole story behind that. But yeah, they 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:54.280 kind of did. 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.240 Yeah, and you know they then they they talked to 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:58.920 me about it as well, and I know they talked 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.720 to Todd Newton, and Todd was really excited about the possibility. 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.880 And so here's what this is the beauty of Hollywood. 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.680 It's not that they lied to us, because I think 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.760 we were all good legit hosts and we all had 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:14.240 a shot. But they also needed something. They needed really 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:17.360 good hosts to go out and host these prices right 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:19.000 live shows. So what you would do is you would 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:21.760 go to a casino like Todd's doing or Mark's doing. 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.200 Now you host this ninety minute show. It was I 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:27.080 did it at Bally's in Las Vegas. You would go 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:29.920 in and do ninety minutes. These casino people will come 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:31.720 in and they barely pay attention. Then they go back 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:33.880 on the casino floor and we would stay there for 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:37.000 weeks at a time. And I did it. And what's 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.320 the other the biggest the smallest, biggest city in the 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:43.760 world in the Valveice And yeah, and so I did 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.480 it there, and I did it in this Chumash casino 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:48.000 somewhere in San Diego. 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:50.520 That's changed since back then I mean that was the 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.040 birth of it. It's now a buzz and truck playing theater, 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:55.200 so it's a lot more fun. 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:56.880 Oh, that's got to be a blast then, because if 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:58.080 people want to be there. 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:00.840 Plongs of people around the block. It's like a rock concert. 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.240 And so it's much better than when it was at 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:05.920 Bally's and we were kind of grinding it out at 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:08.160 four in the afternoon. I just really went to do 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:10.240 it so I could play poker. That was the only 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.040 reason I did it back in those days. Now I 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:15.640 go because it's it's like improv, it's like an event, 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:18.720 and it's fun. But you know what's interesting is back 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:20.360 in the day when they were trying to get us 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:23.080 all host prices right off the bat, they would say 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.720 it's kind of an audition for when Bob retires exactly. 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:29.960 And I were saying to Todd, that's not it at all, right, 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:33.600 It's never going down like that. If you are investing 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:35.840 in the possibility of being the host of the price 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.880 is right by doing this You're so. 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:40.800 So that's that's not how this works. 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:42.960 Do it for your own reasons, but that is not 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:44.160 how this is going down. 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.040 Because I wanted I forgot the name of the executive producer, 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:51.680 Andy Felcher. Yes, so Andy came. I hosted for two 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:54.080 weeks and he came for the last two days, and 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:55.840 then you know, we did the whole dinner thing. And 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.160 then he actually had me to the Prices Right show 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:00.720 where I met Bob Barker and was talking about this 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:03.160 is so weird, Like you said, this is how this works. 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:06.000 Where I show up and I'm talking to like Bob 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.680 had to be thinking, who is this punk ass kid 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:12.280 who wants my job? Who's at my job right now? 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:14.720 It was so weird the way it was forced. And 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.560 of course as soon as Bob retired and the talks 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:21.120 really started, it was okay, let's find a big name. 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:21.520 You know. 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:24.719 It was every big name and the entire well, actually 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:27.000 that's not entirely true either. Do you know what the 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:28.879 real story there? No, And I don't want to like 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:31.480 spill too much tea, but it is the most dramatic 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.840 podcast everly. This will be good for three game show nerds, 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:37.320 so I'll give them this, and two of them are 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:41.560 right here. It was originally going to be Dave Price, 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.600 the weatherman from CBS This Morning. Really, that was a 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.960 done deal and so the behind the scenes goes that 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.240 the show was going on in Vegas, the live show. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:55.159 I was on stage, he retired. I get this message 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:57.200 from Fremantle, send me your tape. You know this is 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:01.359 in play whatever, and then it got and then it 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.760 realized that Les Moonvest had picked Dave Price to be 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:07.520 the guy. No audition, that's what's up. Wow. They get 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.840 a call like a week later saying our host is 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:13.960 sick in Vegas. Can you get here? So they fly 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.400 me out like Monday night to do the show only 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:19.720 Tuesday and Wednesday, and I do it. But the truth 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:22.720 was nobody was sick. Dave Price had been flown in 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:24.760