The Golden Age of Gameshows

Stacy and Carol chat about mid-summer heat, heavy storms and flash flooding, After sharing calm Fourth of July plans and a storm-disrupted cookout, they launch into a nostalgia-focused episode on classic game shows, recalling how game shows dominated daytime TV. They invite listeners to share their favorite shows and sign off with their tagline.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:12

Hey everybody, welcome to Start a List with Carol and Stacy. I'm Stacy. I'm Carol.

SPEAKER_00 0:19

Howdy ho, ma'am. Howdy ho. Howdy ho. All right. Well, we're back, and it's hot, hot, hot midsummer. And I got to thinking about how hot it probably is in other states. And then I realized that I had read something that we talked about on our last podcast, and it was about the Brady Bunch. And who knew? You probably knew this. You can go tour the Brady Bunch House in Studio City, California. That's a new thing you can do. Started in this year. Somebody bought it and it's kind of turned it into a tourist attraction. I did read that somewhere. It's a semi-private one-hour tour. It's $300 a ticket. But think of what a chance of a lifetime and how cool that would be. Yeah, I would totally do it. I would totally do it. And you get to see the floating staircase, the orange and green kitchen, the living room, the kids' bedrooms with the bunks, Alice's room, tons of props and everything. But yeah, that's neat. I thought, oh, I really would love to do that. Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. But part of the proceeds, it's a non-profit um benefit wags and walks, dog rescue. That's where I got my dog. I know. So I thought that was interesting.

SPEAKER_01 1:52

Yeah, that's nice. They must be big animal lovers. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:56

Well, how was your 4th of July? Uh actually surprisingly calm. I worked that morning and I don't know. I think I came home and did some whatever I do. And then I think I watched a movie, heard the fireworks, but yeah, it was relatively calm. That's how I like it.

SPEAKER_01 2:20

Yes, same. Our actual 4th of July was calm. It was just me and Perry and we cooked here at the house, or I should say he cooked here at the house, and we just watched TV and hung out with Phoebe. And the day before, on the third, I had my mom and dad, and then my son and his family came over for he had to work on the fourth. So we had like a, you know, we were well, we were doing hamburgers and hot dogs, and my goodness, it came up the biggest storm right as we're about to start cooking. Monsoon. And we thought, oh, it'll blow over. Well, I it did not blow over. And I looked outside, and all of these little aluminum pans that Perry uses on our Blackstone have made their way out of the box and are flying all over the backyard. The cushions from the patio furniture are flying. So Josie and Lewis and I went outside and God love them, they ran out and grabbed all the aluminum pans out of the and then we sat there for a while and finally he's like, Well, I'm just gonna start cooking in the house. So he had every pan we have on the stove. He had the hot dogs going, the hamburgers going, the turkey burgers going. We didn't have a choice.

SPEAKER_00 3:30

Yeah. But it was fun. It's been doing this like it's supposed to rain every single day, but it's been literally like flash flooding. Yeah, that was last night. The flash flooding was crazy.

SPEAKER_01 3:43

It's been really, really it can move on, but I mean it shows a chance of rain every day, which kind of is typical this time of year. But like yesterday when all that came up, yet again, he was outside cooking and it started lightning. He's like, I'm gonna have to bring it in the house. There was no warning. I didn't get a hey, we're gonna have a thunderstorm. You know how you get alerts. I didn't get anything. Just one minute it was fine, and the next minute it was crazy.

SPEAKER_00 4:10

Yeah, it's almost like those summer pop-up heat storms. Yeah, uh, a weird thing. A friend of mine was telling me that their underground dog fence, lightning hit that and it went through the wiring and it exploded and was on fire and everything.

SPEAKER_01 4:31

Out of the city, like their yard was on fire?

SPEAKER_00 4:33

Just that box. Like it exploded and smoke was all over it. I'm like, what? Never even thought about that. I didn't either, but he said that was the second one that had happened to them.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

We have issues with our we, I think we've talked about this, our AC, and if it lightnings or the we get a surge of the like the lights flicker, sometimes it triggers it. Yeah. And Barry has to go out and open the outdoor fuse box that goes to it's a whole thing. But anyways, we need to get a surge protector probably installed on it.

SPEAKER_00 5:04

Well, at least it's a safety feature and it's not just come spontaneously combusting or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 5:10

Well, I'm very excited this week. I'm gonna I know you've got all kinds of notes and stuff, so I'm gonna let you take the lead on it. But um, because you're so you're so prepared. But to remind our listeners, if those of you that were listening, a couple weeks ago we did an episode on just nostalgic TV shows, and we talked about that. And then we mentioned that we had brought up game shows, and we said, Well, that's gonna have to be a whole separate episode. Yes, yes, and I meant to look up, but I didn't do it, so I failed at my job. But I wanted to look up some statistics because when we were kids and even teenagers, game shows were legit. Like the TV was full of them, they were on every channel, morning, noon, evening. You could find a game show.

SPEAKER_00 6:00

We called it, we called it for those of you that are you know 12, uh, we called it daytime TV and then prime time or nighttime TV. So yeah, daytime TV in the summer, if you weren't outside playing, you were inside, and it seems like it would start about 10:30 or 11 in the morning.

SPEAKER_01 6:22

I was just about to say, I feel like once the news shows in the morning ended or today's show, Good Morning America, it went straight into game shows. And then the rest of the afternoon until the news again was soap operas, which is a whole other thing. That's a whole that's another episode.

SPEAKER_00 6:38

And and then four children will never know what those are, but they were just and this they were similar to what episodes or series are on Netflix now. Yeah. Or lifetime.

SPEAKER_01 6:49

And then you'd get through your soap operas and you'd have maybe a talk show or two, and then you'd have your news, and then usually there were one or two game shows before the seven o'clock program started. So we had a lot of game show action. So we're gonna take a trip down memory lane to some of the funny things about game shows that we liked and some of our favorites.

SPEAKER_00 7:09

Well, and if you really think about it, any a lot of times when you're watching movies and the people are in the kitchen cooking and cooking dinner, you can hear the famous Wheel of Fortune on the television in the other room. And I was gonna say that was one of the biggest or most popular is it still on Wheel of Fortune? Yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm not really tone in, so the daughter of the or they have another person now. Honestly, I don't watch The Wheel anymore. Um, because I I just I don't. But that one was probably one of the longest running ever. You know, it's up there with Jeopardy and all of that. But um growing up, it seems like I remember for sure the price is right was first thing in the morning. And man would I love it. And my brother and I, or whoever, friends, cousins, we would sit around and watch it and be like yelling out numbers, like they would say, What's what's your number? What do you guess this price of this the retail price of this? I don't know, it was a toaster or a microwave oven. And they would go, $199, $255, you know. And my brother always would bid a dollar because he if anybody goes over, then he was the close, yeah, they're done. And he would, and so he'd be like, Yes, like he had really won the microwave.

SPEAKER_01 8:40

And I'm like, Oh do you remember thinking this was probably when I got older because that show was on for a really long time? Mm-hmm. And I remember thinking sometimes, y'all, that's expensive for that. But it was filmed in California, so things out there probably cost more, right? Because I would be thinking they'd do like a stick of deodorant, and the guy might say $1.50, and they're like, four dollars, which y'all now I know that's how much deodorant is, even more than that. But back in the eight dollars, yeah. But I was like, good grief, that's expensive.

SPEAKER_00 9:13

But I was like, oh, it must cost more out there. Do you remember that one of the consolation prizes was always rice aroni? It was like a box, a San Francisco tree. Yeah, it was a box of rice or a case of rice. I'm like, wow.

SPEAKER_01 9:28

I always wondered, like, if you won like a washer and dryer or whatever, you know what I'm saying? Like, how are you getting it? Did they I need to know? Did they send it to you?

SPEAKER_00 9:39

Did Oh, you probably had to pay for delivery now.

SPEAKER_01 9:42

Oh, I'm sure you had to pay taxes on it. Because sometimes they give away tiny things like rice aroni, or they'd give away, you know, a box of PD eggs. Yeah, and then you might win a trip, or you might win a car, or you might win well, the that's a something I need to investigate because that's a good question.

SPEAKER_00 10:02

But yeah, like when you won the car, that was the biggest thing. It was like a new car they would yell and confetti would fall and everybody'd go crazy, and they would show them in it.

SPEAKER_01 10:15

I'd go get in it and look at the camera, you know, and sit in it. Some young people, so I know Drew Carey did it in later years, right? I didn't I wasn't watching it then, but the OG one with Bob Barker. Yeah, when Carol and I were laughing, I said, you know what I thought was the best funniest thing was with this really long skinny microphone.

SPEAKER_00 10:37

I mean, it was the silliest looking microphone, it was like a stick, it was like a baton, yeah, and it was long and it had this bulb on the top. And you're like, Do you really need that? And it's funny you mentioned that because I saw I was watching an episode of something, and I saw the guy, he was banging on it and go, He said, This microphone's not working anymore. So he reached in his shirt lapel and took out he had like a backup in there. Yeah, he goes, Okay, here, you can just talk to my finger. You can talk to my he was interviewing somebody.

SPEAKER_01 11:12

Okay, put this on the list. I need to investigate more about the prices, right?

SPEAKER_00 11:15

Somebody has bound to have done a documentary about it, like the models were there is one, but it's not real, it's not a good ending for Bob. Bob didn't fare too well. Where'd he watch that? Who knows? But it he wasn't very gotta look that up. He wasn't very, let me just say appropriate. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 11:38

I remember that now, but um I was just wondering more about like the ins and outs of the show, not so much. Oh, yeah. But yeah, I would love to know some. Back in the back in the 70s, I guess. I don't remember, we had some wild game shows, and we're all like kids sitting around watching them, and one of them was the dating game. Oh Lord help us. And if you don't know what the dating game is, it was um a bachelor or a bachelorette, that's what they called them, and then there were three lucky contestants of either men or women of the opposite sex, and they sat on the other side. So the bachelor and the bachelorette would come out and sit in this tall chair, and then there was like a wall that divided them, and then the three prospects were on the other wall, and I there was like a host that mediated it, right? Yeah, and then the parents. And you know, go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 12:34

The the uh contestants looking back, like they have film of them, many, many, many famous people now they like they were up-and-coming actors or whatever, and they would go on that show or actresses, like look at because the clothes in itself are very entertaining.

SPEAKER_01 12:52

Oh gosh, so entertaining. But they get on there and they'd be like, contestant number one, what is your idea of an ideal date? You know, and then every uh contestant would give their answer. And I really, and then I guess at the end she picked one and then they went on a date or something.

SPEAKER_00 13:10

And at the at the time, they were not uh very kid appropriate answers, but they were right there on the line as far as being able to say it on TV. Yeah, like some they were very flirty, and you know, well, what they would say something ridiculous like my idea of a good night would be whatever your ideas are, and everybody go, woo, or something silly, like sitting in front of a cozy fire with a glass of wine, staring into your eyes, you know, something stupid and cheesy, very cheesy, and we'd all be like, I guess we thought that's how you date, you know.

SPEAKER_01 13:52

Well, that's why they were half of them are actors, they were probably at practicing acting and they were, you know, making up improv or something. Yeah, that was a weird game show.

SPEAKER_00 14:01

It was, but my favorite part was when they would say, and now you can meet your date, you know, whoever, like Thomas Jones, and he'd come around the corner and they'd see each other for the first time and be like standing there, like, oh yay, yay, and then they'd always send them somewhere, like on a a date three days something.

SPEAKER_01 14:22

Yeah, I'm like, who's going out of town with somebody they just met? No, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 14:27

It was a little it was a little sketchy, but what I do remember the giant daisies on the wall, the decor. Oh, yeah, it was pretty cool. I enjoyed that. Uh back, I'm backtracking the prices right. Some of my favorite games on there. Do you remember the one where you'd have to punch your fist in there and pull out a either a prize, like let's say it would be a tuba toothpaste, and you had to guess the retail price, and then they would you know say, Okay, you're saying it's two dollars and fifty cents, and then they'd go, is it higher or lower? And you'd have to change the numbers or whatever, and they'd take your money from you for the difference. That was I don't know what that one was called, and then the beat the clock one, yeah, where they had the giant clock and they would say, How much do you think the retail price is for this new lounge chair? you know, and it'd be like a Broyhill cloth. It was always nice stuff, yeah. It was, uh, but then you would guess your uh number and they would not before you nervously looked into the audience and they're all going, yeah. They're yelling numbers, they're going 485, 220, 212, or whatever. And then you would give your number and the clock would start and they'd go 187, 88, 89, 999, you know, and then they would get the prize. It was so ridiculous.

SPEAKER_01 15:54

It was a dramatic set, like they had a lot of stuff. I loved the Plinko game where they'd get up there and drop the yes.

SPEAKER_00 16:03

I like that one. And what about the golf? They did one mini golf thing, and if you got the hole in one, you won the car. Was there one with race horses, or am I just imagining? Yes, no, it was mountain climbers, and it just and they would they were climbing the mountain. I do remember that. That was funny. I don't know how you made a move. I don't know what you were doing. I don't either, but they would go they were like clicking.

SPEAKER_01 16:33

Some poor guy on the back coming to operate it, thinking I can pay you not enough money to do this. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:39

Uh, but it always cracked my favorite part of that show where the uh showcase showdown at the end where you got to you have to guess how much an entire stand behind your little podium, and then Bob would so gently let you down if you had not won. Yeah. But I liked it when they would steal, you could steal the other person's offer. I remember that. And again, it would be like a trip to Hawaii and a new bedroom set and a whole all new appliances, and they were bidding like ten thousand dollars and they would win. Like they were close, that's how much it would cost.

SPEAKER_01 17:18

Yeah, there are a lot of mechanics happening on that show because they'd spin the set around, and there'd be the set of I mean, the set of furniture you're winning would be sitting on the stage on this thing that they just whizzed around and there'd be the lady modeling with it, and whatever.

SPEAKER_00 17:32

And then and then they would spin the big wheel that that was later in like the 80s, and that wheel looked heavy. Yeah, if you landed on what was it, you're trying to get a dollar, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:44

And there were some of them that were really good, but that was on for a really long time. Um always liked the family feud. It was on for the original. There's been, I know I think Steve Harvey does it now, but the original family feud with uh Richard Dawson.

SPEAKER_00 18:01

Richard Dawson, yeah. Yeah, and he he had a fetish for kissing women in the back. Yeah, he was weird, and that that was a little odd and uncomfortable, but you know, whatever.

SPEAKER_01 18:10

Well, we would sit around and play with them on the TV trying to come up with answers, you know.

SPEAKER_00 18:14

Yeah, we were yelling. Yeah. I looked at it. I did read uh a couple of funny um questions and answers from that game show. Well no, they said they would always say, name something, and then they would ask the families, but they said name something you feel before you buy it. You know, I'm thinking a gardener, uh some carpet, a puppy, um, or I don't know. And the guy said excited. He'd feel excited. He was thinking feeling and the host just like dropped his head, and I thought that was funny.

SPEAKER_01 18:52

They had the aggressive if you didn't get the three riddics, the big heads would pop up. Well, we would like, I mean, my granny um loved game shows, like she loved them, she would watch the prices right. Yeah, and there was one, this was later on. I was much older, probably a young adult. And it was a newer game show, so we're you know, we were enamored with it, but Carol had to look it up because I couldn't remember the name of it. And I said, All I can remember are these people are on there like this with their hands like this, and they're going, Big money, big money, big money, big money. And then they'd go, Gimme a whammy, give me a whammy, and then they'd hit the button and it'd go boom. Yeah, they'd stop it. It was called Hunger Luck.

SPEAKER_00 19:36

Yep. No, you didn't want the whammy. The whammy was he would go, something about a whammy and a yeah, it was like a little devil or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 19:48

This is when they got a little more high-tech, it was more electronic, right? So it looked like an at an electronic game, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:54

It looked like an Atari, uh it was really just luck.

SPEAKER_01 19:58

There was no strategy in it or anything, and that's why they called it that. But that I was telling her, I was like, I just all I remember them yelling was something about the whammy and their hands were up on the button, ready to go.

SPEAKER_00 20:08

Oh, they would. They would yell, big money, big money, because you could land on cash. Um, but I think if you got cash and then you got the whammy, didn't you lose it? Is that how it went? You did, yeah. Yeah, yeah. But if you could if you could stay alive, like if you got a whammy, excuse me, it would go to the next person. Okay, that's right. So you're set, you're back to zero. But anyway, um that I'm sorry. Um back again to family feud. One of them, one of the questions was name something you buy in a larger size if you have a large family. And the guy said, Jeans.

SPEAKER_01 20:48

He wasn't hearing the entire question. Oh, it was a different gen. Much like our students would not listen to the entire question.

SPEAKER_00 20:55

Yeah, they're like, I thought you said no homework for a week. I'm like, uh no, that's not what I said. Uh another one I always loved was, and this one was when we were little, was the newlywed game.

SPEAKER_01 21:09

But they my favorite part of that show was the set. I remember thinking the set was super cool. And I was telling Carol, I was like, didn't they like wheel them out, spin them out, or something? And they were in these little half-circle looking seats, right? And you said, yeah, they would didn't they roll them out on stage?

SPEAKER_00 21:29

Well, this the set or their part of the stage was this big semicircle with lattice behind it. Yeah, the lattice, I remember that. And then they would they had the stage split and they would take each side and they'd bring them out until they were one stage, one semicircle. So they were coming out in quarters. But um, and the questions were ridiculous. And they tried to get yeah, they tried to get all risque on there, but they couldn't say certain things. But you can't.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

So imagine this though, because like ma'am, if you play a game, you use a whiteboard, right? This was something else I loved. They didn't have whiteboards. So they in their laps, I can't, I think it was in their laps, they had big pieces of thick cardstock paper and a black marker, and they'd be like their answer on it, right? They would. Um, and then they'd you know hold it up or whatever. How did the other person not see it? Were they blind?

SPEAKER_00 22:26

Well, the okay, like if they were asking the wives a question. Oh, the husbands. The husbands were, yeah, they were backstage. That's right. And they were backstage answering the same questions. What do you think your wife will your wife will say to this question?

SPEAKER_01 22:40

And sometimes people would get really mad if the person, their their spouse did not get it right. Yeah, absolutely. Question Did you have to actually be a newlywed or could you have been married 10 years?

SPEAKER_00 22:55

I think it had to be an actual newlywed. I don't remember. Okay, there's somebody knocking on my door, and he well, he looks like he's selling something, so I'm not gonna answer it. Carry on. He's got an iPad in his arm. Yeah, he's selling something. Skadoodly do, sir.

SPEAKER_01 23:14

Look, bye. Yeah, he's there. He goes. He probably heard you say, I ain't answering it. Uh back, you were talking about the questions on the newlywed game.

SPEAKER_00 23:24

Yeah, yeah. They would always say they would ask the wife and then the husband would answer. You were telling me how you thought it was so funny.

SPEAKER_01 23:32

Well, it just cracked me up because first of all, we're like watching this. I'm like, what in the world? And they were like, every single episode, I feel like they always ask, like, where uh what's the most what how many what's the most times you make whoopie in a month? And that's how they called it, make whoopie. Yeah, and um, I guess that's how they could say it on network television. I don't remember, but what's the dumbest thing? Make whoopie.

SPEAKER_00 24:01

And look, all the kids, we were all like going, Oh yeah, and well, now my son just pulled in the house, so I guess he'll talk to the internet guy. Oh, there he goes, he's on one of those wheelies out on the road. Yeah, he's a salesman. Anyway, they would say things like, Um, what's the strangest place you've ever made whoopie? And then it'd be like, it would be I don't even know. Like, I can't remember some of the answers, but then the word whoopie just is what always got me. Uh-huh. And if they had a match, every time they got one right, they'd turn and kiss each other. They'd be like yay, and they'd have 10, they go ding, and they give them 10 points on their the old school games.

SPEAKER_01 24:49

All like I said, the thing that would f I think was so cool, necessarily game, the sets were I was fascinated by how they were doing things. Like, for example, I'd loved how that set would they would roll them out, right? Or the how the drama of the price is right, how they'd spin it around, and there'd be the car or the furniture or whatever. And then another one that I thought was super cool, and you told me this the other day, and I can't remember it, but they would sit and they have like a little box in front of them, and they would have to give clues to the other person. It was the ten thousand dollar pyramid that was like that, yeah, but they did this before they went into the center thing, remember?

SPEAKER_00 25:31

Yeah, they did, and it was similar to password.

SPEAKER_01 25:34

Yes, so they would give clues, and I think it was pop it up on our screen so we could see it, but the other person couldn't, and they would sit real and they'd be like, Well, trying to decide something, describe something, and then whoever won got to go to the final thing in this circular. I was like, That's so fancy, the little circular thing, and they'd sit in the chairs and they had the big pyramid by.

SPEAKER_00 25:57

And do you remember they had leather straps you could run your hands in so you didn't use uh gestures because if you did they'd go? Yep, I forgot that.

SPEAKER_01 26:09

Like, yeah, they're like strapped into the chair with their hands down, and then be like, well, the thing would go bang and they'd be like, um blue, uh you know, and they'd name off stuff.

SPEAKER_00 26:23

We're trying to things and oh gosh, they're like the sky, and they're trying to get them to say ocean, and they're like, water, swim, and if they finally or they go pass, if they and then I'd get all like, oh no, you're gonna run out of time. I'd be watching the timer. Well, uh, speaking of the pyramid, I look this up in 1973. It was called the $10,000 pyramid. In 1976, they changed it to the $20,000 pyramid. Okay. In 1982, they changed it to the $25,000 pyramid, and in 81 the $50,000, and finally in 85 the $100,000 pyramid. So it went from $10,000 to $100,000.

SPEAKER_01 27:15

They made enough money from their TV show they could increase their grand prize in nine years, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:21

70 to 85. Yeah. I loved that one. Did that one of them wasn't a celebrity, was it? Dick Clark was the mediator.

SPEAKER_01 27:30

Oh, like Betty White was on it forever. Yeah, there were celebrities on that sometimes, weren't there?

SPEAKER_00 27:36

Oh, yeah. Drew Carey would be on there. Uh Carol Burnett was. I mean, lots of there was always a guest star, like a star, and then the other person would just be a like a regular. I'm sorry if y'all are hearing a bunch of noise. My headphones are itching my head today.

SPEAKER_01 27:54

And what other shows were there, man?

SPEAKER_00 27:56

Well, uh the Joker's Wild, I loved. Now that was the one where was that the word the giant playing cards? Giant playing cards, and they would spin. But my favorite part, there was a big pedestal. Like you know, if you go to a casino and you pull the arm, this was a giant arm. The ball was the size of a bowling ball. And if you won, you got to go to the final playoff or round, you would take this giant ball and pull this stick down and it would spin the three wheels. But yeah, you can't.

SPEAKER_01 28:32

I remember watching that one a lot.

SPEAKER_00 28:34

Well, I loved it. You would have categories, and you'd either pick A or B, you know, and you'd have to, they would say uh two birds and a whammy or two birds and a joker. Then that would be a trip, you know, you could use your joker as a third bird, and then you would win. But if you didn't, like you would say, I'll take love for I'll take the category of love, or another category would be transportation or whatever it was. But it was called Beat the Devil. That big giant, you take that big giant. Uh-huh. Okay. Beat the devil.

SPEAKER_01 29:13

And if you got a devil, that was cool.

SPEAKER_00 29:16

And my my other very favorite was match game with Gene Rayburn. And he had the stick wand. And the stick wands. Yeah, it had six celebrities, and Richard Dawson was always on it. Betty White was on it a lot. I can't remember. Nipsey Russell was on it sometimes, but there were six of them. And like if I was the contestant, I had to ask a question, and they've already written their answers. Okay. So it would be like Batman blank or something. And you would if you got matched to whatever they said, you'd get a point. And they had a circle person and a triangle person. And if you filled up your circles, you had the most circles you won. Okay. Or the most triangles. I don't know. It was, I just wanted to.

SPEAKER_01 30:11

Another one was celebrities I thought called celebrity squares or celebrity.

SPEAKER_00 30:16

Hollywood. Hollywood squares.

SPEAKER_01 30:18

And they'd sit in those big. I don't remember the premise of that game. There was a contestant.

SPEAKER_00 30:25

They answered questions.

SPEAKER_01 30:26

They were asking them questions, right? Yeah. Were they trying to get a tic-tac-toe?

SPEAKER_00 30:30

Yeah, tic-tac-toe. Like I was an ex and you were an O. They would do points like that. I remember that. Let's see. Name that tune. Name that tune. That's old. But it was funny because I saw a clip of Kathy Lee Gifford. She was singing the tunes. Okay. They would say, I can name that tune in seven notes. And she would sing the seven notes. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 30:58

If you don't know what that is, there would be two people and they'd play it, or they'd say, I can name that in however many. And then the other person would try to beat them and say, I can name it at only three, whatever. And then sometimes they'd be like, Boo. And that's all you'd get. You'd have to name the song. Like, okay.

SPEAKER_00 31:18

No, but didn't they have a clue? They would give them a clue, like, for example, this was written by Francis Scott Key.

SPEAKER_01 31:26

I think so.

SPEAKER_00 31:27

I'd have to you would yeah, it would give them a some kind of uh clue.

SPEAKER_01 31:34

Later on in life, we had win, lose, or draw, which I thought was fun. Loved it. They'd sit around on the couch and draw pictures. That kind of became a game you could play at your house. Um can't think if there were any. I think we hit all the ones that we oh love connection in the 80s.

SPEAKER_00 31:52

It was so cheesy.

SPEAKER_01 31:54

It was very cheesy. I don't remember loving that one nearly as much as the match or the dating game.

SPEAKER_00 32:00

Dating game was awesome. But love connection, if you want to see some 70s and 80s uh fashion, it was bad. They would there would be one guy, like he's gonna go out on a date, and there were three girls, and they would say, interview them, and they'd just show a clip of them, and they would say, I love to ride my bike and do gardening and go on long bike rides in the sunset, and then the next one would say something in the next one, but the audience would vote on who they thought he should go out on a date with, and whoever got the highest percentage, this the studio, the the game show, Love Connection would pay for them to go on the date. Yeah, but he could pick a different one. I remember that, but they he I remember that so much. Golly.

SPEAKER_01 32:55

You could see what was very important to me as a young youngster, all of the useless the only other one that's coming to my mind now was a show on a long time ago called Let's Make a Deal. And they drop people, the audience dressed up in these crazy costumes, loved it. The hosts would go up into the audience, and they were all acting like crazy people trying to get their attention, and and they'd be like, Let's make a deal or something.

SPEAKER_00 33:20

And his name was Monty Hall. Okay. And he would, he would say, I'll give you $400, or you can have what's behind curtain number three, or they'd say, or you can have what's in this box.

SPEAKER_01 33:36

And and I mean, sometimes they literally got a p a chapstick instead of the $400, you know. I mean, it was yeah, you were taking a gamble, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:45

And they would, I think they would do crazy stuff like they'd mix it up. They would say, uh, all right, I'm gonna pick you, and people be dressed as like comic book characters or book characters or and they would be hysterical, they'd be so excited, yeah. And they would choose these three people to participate, and they'd say, Okay, uh, bring your purse with you or your bag with you. And they'd say, Whoever has that do any of you three have, and they would name an item, and if they had it in their pocketbook or their purse at the game. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember that. They would win. And um, it seems like it was always something crazy like a Q-tip or a something you wouldn't normally have with you. Yeah, a bottle of nail polish remover or something. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:31

Um, and I mean, I know now, I know Nate Barghetsi, the comedian, he has a game show. I have not watched it, but he has a game show, and I guess some Family Feud's still on.

SPEAKER_00 34:42

I guess I'd love Philip Fortune. Uh yeah, but Family Feud is hilarious to me still. I mean, Steve Hardy is funny. I think he's funny, and he'll, you know, they'll give these ridiculous answers and he just blankly stares he will and he'll make fun of them too, which I think is funny. Yeah. Well, they're ridiculous. Like, I mean, really?

SPEAKER_01 35:05

Well, we are almost at the end of our our time. We have three minutes. Okay. And I hope that uh this has been a fun trip down the old game show memory lane. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:16

Anybody that can think of one they enjoyed watching as a child, um, shoot us a text or email and yeah, add your two cents worth. Please. And I can stay cool out there. Yeah, stay cool, stay dry, and stay safe. And don't forget, don't make a fist. Start a list. All right, guys, see you next time. Bye bye.