June 13, 2023 • 38 mins
- TPIR full Audience returning?
- Beat Shazam $1M winner
- Raid the Cage coming to the U.S.
- Attempting to (badly) differentiate a game show and reality show.
- TPIR pricing game review: Triple Play
- Beat Shazam $1M winner
- Raid the Cage coming to the U.S.
- Attempting to (badly) differentiate a game show and reality show.
- TPIR pricing game review: Triple Play
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From the studio to a in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This is the Big Bucks
Podcast, presented by Game Show battleRooms. Look online at gameshow battle rooms
dot com. Game Show battle Roomswhere you're in the game show and now
here's your host, Jake Hey,Thank you so much, Ricky Ge.
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Welcome to the Big Bucks Podcast.If you know what you want to talk
about, hit us up on Twitteror Facebook at Big Bucks Podcast. You
can email the show jak Says Radioat gmail dot com. It's jk Says
Radio at gmail dot com. Allright, we got a lot to get
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to. Let's begin with the prices. Right. It is no longer filming
at Television City. Yes, thatis sad. They are in transition to
their new home about twenty minutes awaynow. Having said that, they do
need to plan for season fifty twoand they are doing that. According to
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On Camera Audiences, there is informationabout the new show for when it moves
to its new location at Haven Studios. Now there's been some issues about whether
it's a big enough facility to hostwhat exactly Price is Right needs, but
we'll see how that works out oneseason fifty two premiers. But on Camera
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Audiences has released to some ticket information, and guess what it sounds like.
We're going back to a full sizeaudience. Now what the studios, the
new studio are going to look like. What that means, I don't exactly
know. Will it hold three hundredtwenty some people? I don't Again,
I don't know the answer to that, but we shall see. Right now,
they're at about fifty and they havebeen for a couple years now,
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and of course this is all livingin the post COVID world. They are
slowly transitioning back to that new audienceand you can get tickets or be on
the waiting list rather go to oncamera audiences and look it up. Now,
there isn't a lot of information aboutthe new season on there, so
just keep that in mind. Butit is happening and it sounds like it
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will be with a big audience.Congratulations Prices, Right, you come a
long way, and it is goingto be great to see that new sound
that in the new studio with afull slate of people, because, honestly,
having people try out in a traditionalgame show way, there's been a
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little off putting when it comes tothe right part of that charm has always
been, at least up until COVIDstarted has always been Hey, you're gonna
be interviewed when you come to theshow, you might get on the show.
You don't have to try out aheadof time. I think that is
part of the appeal and part ofthe charm of the price is right.
So hopefully that is the case.Moving on this week on Beat Shazam,
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and of course we are in theNick Cannon Kelly Osbourne phase as Jamie Fox
has still recovering from his illness.We had a million dollar winner this week
and Nick Cannon was there to allowthat to happen. Siblings Justin and James
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took home the million dollar prize onHonestly, what I thought was a very
easy musical cute Phil Collins, easylover, and it was pretty obvious that
they wanted that he knew it rightaway. But here's the thing, And
as I go on Twitter looking throughit, and this is not a show
that I that I watch with anyregular I just I happened to see this
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happen via Twitter. But it soundslike the audio was really bad on this
episode. Like Twitter is full ofpeople that were saying how bad the song
audio was, Like you could almostcouldn't hear it, so the playability factor
was almost non existent. And Ican't find video of this to support that
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evidence. But help me out ifthat was true. If you were watching
the show, hit me up,let me know what that was all about,
because that sounds like a disaster.Look beat, I remember beach Zam's
first million dollar winner, and Idon't think I've watched the episodes since,
but I do believe this is thefourth million dollar winner something. Ratulations to
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brothers Justin and James on their milliondollar win on beaches Am. Well,
here's an oddity. The Wall,you know, the game show with Chris
Hardwick on NBC. The Wall ismaking their way to bowling alleys. And
I know that's one of the mostrandom sentences you've probably ever heard in your
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life. But The Wall will makeits way to specific Lucky Strike Entertainment bowling
alleys starting this week and ending onJune twenty six over the weekends. It's
an interactive gaming experience at fourteen LuckyStrike venues inspired by the game show The
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Wall. And I don't know ifyou have a Lucky Strike location near you.
I've honestly never heard of it.I do not have one near me.
There's one in Boston and Summerville,Massachusetts, Chicago, Honolulu, Philadelphia,
Orange County, California, LA,Hollywood, San Francisco. There's one
in Colorado, Maryland, and WashingtonState. But I guess a special blue
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marked pin will drop down on alane at random, I guess, and
players will have a chance to winprizes. If they will strike, they'll
play a mini version of the wallfor additional prizes. What that entails,
I don't know, because the NBCblurb I got was as vague as could
possibly be. So if you knowmore about this, let me know.
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I'm gonna dig deeper into this andsee if I can find more. But
the Wall coming to a bowling alleynear you. And I may have talked
briefly about this a few weeks ormaybe a couple of months ago. But
person, place or thing which droppeda pilot for Fox television stations, I
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didn't, well, not really apilot. It was more of a test
run in certain markets. I didn'tthink this had a prayer of seeing daylight.
But here we are. Half hourweekday show has been sold across eighty
nine percent of the US in onehundred ext one markets from various station groups,
according to Deadline, So you're gonnasee this on a lot of Fox
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stations. It was hosted by MelissaPeterman. Person, Place or Thing as
a game where players ask yes orno questions to correctly determine the identity of
a person, place, or thing. Sure, it's it's fine. I
one hundred eighty episodes are going tobe distributed for Fox First Run. Who's
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going to be in developing and programmingthis series? So one hundred eighty episode
that's pretty strong, that is youknow, that's that's gonna get you,
you know, half a year's worthof of promise, I suppose. So
good luck with that new game show. Can't complain about new game shows.
I hope for the best for aPerson, Place, or Thing. And
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finally today it came up via Twitteractually very recently, lead today that I
am recording this Raid the Cage isgoing to get a chance in the United
States. It is casting, andthis is a show that's been around for
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a little over nine or ten years. It's an Israeli show. And let
me talk tell you about Raid theCage. Contestants pairs of two couples.
They answered trivia and physical challenges,trivia questions, and physical challenges in an
effort to get prizes from a giganticcage before the door slam shut. Contestants
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face off in nine different rounds partners. One partner answers trivia questions on various
topics. Each question is worth acertain amount of time in a cage that
is filled with prizes like blenders,computers, cars, anything you can imagine
that could fit in this giant cage. The purpose of the challenger is to
answer all nine questions correctly and successfullycomplete the game while providing maximum time for
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the partner in each round to grabas many pop prizes as possible. The
heart of the question, the longeramount of time you are granted, so
the first question you might get tenseconds in the cage. You gotta run
in and get out. Here's thething. If you miss a question,
the game is over. You lose. If you don't get out of the
cage before the doors slam shut,you lose and you have to be out.
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Wow. Sounds intense, sounds crazy. There are some of the bigger
prizes you can't just grab. Youhave to actually perform a task, maybe
like unlock something with a key.That's located elsewhere in the cage, or
some of the videos show like goingon a giant hamster wheel to unlock something,
that kind of thing. So itlooks interesting and hopefully hopefully this works
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out in the United States because ithas been pretty successful elsewhere in the world.
It has raid the cage. Itis now casting check it out.
Don't know what network's going to bedistributing this as of yet, but we
will keep you in the loop asit happens. All right, So coming
up next, I don't know ifyou saw it on ABC, The Game
Show Show, a four episode minidocumentary series was on and it highlighted the
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history a very brief history of gameshows. It was a kind of rush
show. But I'm going to talkabout that a little bit and I want
to dig a little deeper into whatis a game show? What is the
definition of a game show? Iwant to because I have my own definition,
but it might be different than others, and I want to talk about
that in our main segment coming upnext. Stick around. This is the
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Big Bucks Podcast. Welcome back tothe Big Bucks Podcast. JK with you
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here, and before we jump intoour main story, I want to talk
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battle Rooms where you're in the gameshow. All right, let's talk about
our main story today. If youwatched on ABC or Hulu. You can
check it out on Hulu right now. It is. There's a documentary about
excuse me, a documentary series calledThe Game Show Show. This was a
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four part, four hour brief historyof game shows in the United States.
And I'm gonna tell you, thefirst two episodes were actually very fun.
I thoroughly enjoyed them. The secondtwo I did not get into as much.
Why is that. Well, westarted with, you know, the
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nineteen fifties quizzers and the downside thatcame into that with the scandals on the
Game twenty one, and how weyou know, went into cautiously in the
sixties of how things came back likeJeopardy and and and that kind of thing,
and this, you know, thethird episode, I'm gonna be honest
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with you, I skipped through alot of it. I skipped through a
lot of it because it was discussing, essentially just reality shows. So what
do we talk about? We talkedabout The Bachelor and Shark Tank and the
Amazing Race and that kind of thing. And I'm gonna be honest with you
when I when I think game show, that's not what I think of.
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I think game shows are a formof reality television, But I don't think
reality television is necessarily a game show. And I'm going to get a lot
I might get a lot of pushbackon this because I think everyone has their
own definitions of what a game showactually is. And that's what I want
to delve into today. When Ithink of game shows, what do I
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think of? What do you thinkof? Because to me, you have
your word games, you have yourpuzzle games, you have your pricing games,
you have your trivia games, youhave your games where money is on
the table and you risk it doingvarious tasks. And I know what you're
thinking, Well, all of thesecould apply to things like The Bachelor and
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whatnot, but do they really becausethere is a fine line when it comes
when it comes to these kind ofthings. And it was around nineteen ninety
nine, two thousand and two thousandand one where Survivor kind I know,
became the first big reality show.Did anyone consider it a game show at
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the time, because I certainly didn't. I don't recall anyone saying it was
a game show. You know,I think at the time, you know,
who wants to be a millionaire,to hit its stride and hit its
prime and was on its downward trendon ABC in prime time. And you
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know, we call that a gameshow, being a quizzer, But what
about all these other shows where,like, do you consider Hell's Kitchen a
game show? You know, likeI personally don't. And here's why.
When you have a group of peoplethat are going to slowly be eliminated over
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the course of a season, andyou're constantly interviewing them and constantly talking about
it, you're creating You're creating amanufacturing drama. Not that certain games show
do or don't do that, butwhen they do, it turns me off
a little bit. The manufacturing ofgame shows and drama, I'm looking at
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you, Fox and NBC is notnecessary. It is completely unwarranted. It
detracts from the actual game itself.And and I am trying to set up
an interview with a couple of peoplethat were on the game shows. This
is absolutely something I want to discuss. I truly want to discuss this,
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and I could talk about this allday long. And you know, one
of my favorite things, and I'vetalked about this on the show before,
American Gladiators Game show or not.I lean towards no, like I don't
want it to fall into that.I haven't fall into a competition show.
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And again, you can make theargument game shows are competitions. I get
it, I get it. I'ma more I would say, you'd have
to give me a title of traditionalgame show. So when you have things
like The Cube or Minute to WinIt, where did those fall? I
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would consider those game shows. Imean, I think Minute to Win It
was horrendous and horrible, and theCube is actually very good despite being very
similar. But there's still game showsto me because you have prizes for competing,
completing a certain level, a moneytree, if you will, as
it's referred to, and you're riskingit all on the next play. But
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it doesn't take an entire season togive away its prize. You have a
competition each and every episode within asthe same player essentially. And I don't
feel like I've made all that ofa compelling argument. I'm gonna be totally
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honest with you. I really don'tknow that I have a truly compelling argument
as to what differentiates reality and gameshow. But as I was starting to
talk about, you go back to, you know, when Survivor came around,
I don't know if you remember this, but the Emmys, the Emmy
Awards, at that point, realityshows were so big they created their own
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category for reality shows because there wereso many of them. Now, game
shows have always had their own categoryin the Daytime Emmys, but this usually
involves you know, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, Family feud, prices,
right, let's make a deal,that kind of thing. The daytime shows,
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that's where these you try to drawthat line because when I look at
reality shows, I don't recall manytraditional game shows being nominated for you know,
the nighttime Emmy Awards. You justdon't see it, despite the plethora
of nighttime game shows that are available. So look, you can have your
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opinion about The Bachelor. I thinkit's trash TV. I think it's garbage.
I think I think when it comesto reality television, it is the
least reality based show there is.Like, it's not scripted, but it's
close. They're not actors, butthey're told what to do and say in
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ways. On traditional game shows,you play out a game and yeah,
you're told to clap a lot,and wheel of Fortune you're told to make
a lot of noise. But isthat the same thing, you know,
I don't know. I want toknow what you think at big Bucks podcast,
JK says radio a gmail dot com. Let me know what is your
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definition of a game show? Becauseyeah, it divided social media when when
the game show show aired and Iwas following on Reddit, on Facebook,
on Twitter, people were divided.People were divided. I had an opportunity
to interview game show host Todd Newtonseveral years ago, and he told me
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something about game shows that I'll neverforget. He also gave me some great
advice, but that's for another time. He said that he thinks game shows
are the ultimate reality show, likeit's a derivative of reality, but he
thinks it's the ultimate reality show becauseyou know, you have unscripted contestants.
You don't know what you're going toget out of them playing a game for
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a chance to win life changing amountsof money or prizes. And he's right.
I just don't know where you drawthe line here. I know where
I draw the line, and it'sa shark tank. Shark Tank is not
a game show. Shark Tank isa show where I don't even call them
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contestants. They are entrepreneurs trying tobetter their lives with a product that they
have created in an attempt to getsomeone to put some money invest into their
company. That's not a game show. That's someone in need to try and
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make their product stand out and bethe best it can be. I'm sorry,
I can't do that with Shark Tank. I like Shark Tank. I've
watched dozens of episodes of Shark Tank. It's a great show, but it's
not a game show. I'm notgoing to talk about it here any longer
on this show because that's not whatit is. So why I don't talk
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about the batchwords, why don't talkabout survivor? And then you had in
the fourth episode of the game show, so you have like love connection and
uh, you know, singled out, singled out a game show on MTV.
It's just a dating show. LikeI don't even considered the dating game
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to be a game show honestly,Like it's it's a it's a show true
about trying to find love. Idon't know, Like I just I truly
don't feel like I've made any kindof compelling argument here. And I totally
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get to the appeal of like America'sgot talent, American idol. I love
last comics standing. These are great. Let me read from Wikipedia. A
game show is a reality television programnot helping my cause where people play a
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game for points with the goal ofwinning money or prizes. Different game shows
use different games. Most test ofplayers knowledge, skill, or cleverness.
Many game shows incorporate some element ofchance. For example, in Wheel of
Fortune, contestants spend wheel to determinehow much prize money they will get for
a correct letter. Some game showshave the contestants compete against other individual contestants.
Other game shows group contestants into teams. Some game shows have regular people
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as the contestants. Other game showshave celebrities, such as music movie actors,
as the contestants. Many game showsair on Game Show Network. The
first game shows were on radio thatsounded like a nine year old wrote it.
Game shows often reward people with money, holidays, or cars. These
prizes are often given by the peopleare groups of people that give the show
money to run. The people whogive the game show money to run are
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cult sponsors. Examples include Pressure Lock, Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire, MatchGame, Family Feud, Blockbusters, The
Prices Right, the weakest linked cardsharks, dealer, no deal, Are
you smarter than a fifth grader?Etc. Etc. So, according to
Wikipedia, game shows are a realitytelevision program. That didn't help anything,
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did it. But you know what, I think reality television is the broad
genre and game show is a derivativeof that, and that's what we're gonna
go with. So, you knowwhat, a game show, as I
said at the very beginning, agame show is a reality show. But
a reality show is not necessarily agame show. But I think that the
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point I'm trying to make here isat the Game show show on ABC and
Hulu, it was a fun watch. There were a lot of things that
maybe regular folks just hadn't known.There was very little on that series that
I didn't already know, and Ikind of spent through episodes three and four
because it didn't appeal to me.That's not what I was looking for,
So I was a little disappointed withhow it ended. I loved the first
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two episodes. I would love tosee more of those. I am again
trying to generate some interviews with acouple of people that were involved in that
show. So stick around and hangtight, because we're gonna try to get
a few of those folks right hereon the Big Bucks Podcast here in the
year two thousand twenty three. Thereyou go. Let me know your thoughts.
What do you consider a game show? What isn't a game show?
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People like what they like, andI'm not going to put them down.
I have my opinions and that's okay. Everyone has one at Big Bucks Podcast
on Twitter and Facebook. JK saysradio at gmail dot com. All right,
stick around. We have one moresegment. It is our pricing game
review from the prices right What's itgonna be. I'll have to stick around
to find out. Come back formore. This is the Big Bucks Podcast.
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Final segment of the Big Bucks Podcast. JK in here with you.
Welcome. We're going to talk aboutour pricing game reviews. Right now,
our random number generator came up withTriple Play, which is considered one of
the bigger pricing games on the show. Typically played first, let's talk about
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this. It's a big game.It's debut was October second of two thousand
and This is a special game becauseit is played for three cars number one,
never two, always three cars,hence the name. It uses all
three of the big doors, whichis a rarity to even use door number
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one in on the prices, right, but it does here. The reveal
is fun but albeit very predictable.You absolutely know as of viewer that this
game is going to be played themoment that door one opens, because you
hear a specific music queue and youcan look online to find that, of
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course, and then of course youknow the announcer isn't saying anything after that,
and you know the host drew inthis case typically will you know,
kind of joke around with a contestantand say, hey, how about another
one, and then we get anotherand you know, the third door has
the name of the game behind it, with usually the most expensive car that
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is out there. It's not necessarilyplayed for luxury vehicles, but it's played
for vehicles of increasing value. Sohere's how it's played. Each car is
placed played for one at a time, starting with the lowest price. So
the contestant will choose one of twoprices. George will describe the car,
and then you'll see two prices displayed. To get a correct answer, you
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have to pick the price that isclosest to the actual price of the car.
Without going over this isn't a pickthe correct item or pick the correct
price. You're picking the price closestto the value without going over, so
it is a little more difficult inthat regard. You have two choices.
On the first one, If it'scorrect, you will remove the price tag
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and it will reveal a yes obviously. If it's wrong, it will reveal
a no, and then on thetop the actual price will be displayed.
If you're correct, you move on. If you are incorrect, the game
is over. You win nothing.This is an all or nothing game.
If you get to the second car, George will describe the second car or
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truck or as you being you know, a vehicle, and you'll have three
prices to choose from same thing closestwithout going over. If you're correct,
you'll go to the final car andGeorge will read a description. You'll have
four choices to choose from. Thereis no bailout option in this game.
It is all or nothing, soaccording to prices right dot fandom dot com.
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Triple Play was created because Bob Barkerwanted a game that had a car
behind each of the big doors onthe show's stage. This is a fun
fact. It was initially conceived asa game called slam Dunk, so basically
one of the cars could have beenone. Now, the rest of the
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staff didn't like the idea of havinga game that offered prizes that could not
be one, and the idea waseventually overhauled into the current format. It's
interesting because, and I'm not sayingit's on the same page, but the
very first game and the history ofthe show, any Number, it is
impossible to win everything, so that'san interesting situation here. However, you
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have one car in any number andyou have a three digit prize. Here
you have multiple cars. Also,funny enough, it is the last pricing
game to premiere before Janice and Kathleen'sdeparture in two thousand. Now, in
its initial playing it had a themethat they went with, so you would
have the first car being just aregular car, then a truck and a
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van. Also, the game's logoappeared behind the first two doors initially,
but it was permanently removed after thatto I guess add suspense. I don't
know. It took eight playings ofthis game before it was one, which
was a rarity anyway, because thisgame has not been one very often it's
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been one, in fact, fourteentimes according to this website in twenty three
years. It's not played all thatoften, to be fair, it's probably
played about seven or eight times ayear. Here's another interesting trivia fact for
you, and obviously we don't Idon't have any video to back this up,
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but on October twenty eighth, twothousand and three, the game was
lost on the first car. Thestaff discovered that the wrong contestant was declared
the winner of the one bid.Now, the whole first act was eventually
reshot. A new item up forbids was offered, and contestant Jimmy,
who won, played money game forthe second car on triple play, which
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is actually a van of Ford Windstar, and he won. That's interesting.
Now, when two thousand and eighththe game was only played once and didn't
return for an entire year. Why, I don't know. Doesn't say it
was Drew's first season. Maybe thathad something to do with it, I
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don't know. Now, this isonly the second pricing game ever played to
be or to be to regularly offermultiple cars. It's optional as a retired
game that did offer two cars.It's never been played more than ten times
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in the season, and it continuesa Baseball Reference team, so you know,
squeeze play and three strikes or Baseballreferences. This continues that trend.
And you know Bob Barker was abig baseball fan, still is probably I
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say was, but using that inthe term that he's not the host anymore.
The odds of winning this game areone and twenty fourth. You're guessing
randomly. That's about the same asGolden Road. So let's talk about the
game. How is it? Isit difficult? Absolutely that first the first
car is usually the higher price,but that second one you just never know.
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And a lot of times you don'teven get to the third car.
But again, the difficulty is probablyhigher by a little bit, only because
of the caveat that you have tobe closest without going over. It's a
small thing, but that can makea difference. Does it? I don't
know, but I think it doesadd a little element of confusion when you're
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playing the game. What do Ilike about this game? Oh, my
goodness, you're playing for three cars. It's a big game. That's why
I love about it. I lovethat it's not played all the time.
I would like to see it playeda little more often. Same with Golden
Road, same with three Strikes becausethey're played very rarely. But they can
be time consuming. That's the problem. They can be very time consuming as
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far as the set goes. No, it's perfect. It's perfect because you
are awarded your showing three cars.The reveal could use a little work because
again, you know, as aregular viewer, you know exactly what game
is coming up the moment door numberone opens. You don't even have to
hear that music que you know it, just the camera angle and everything.
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And it's fine. A lot ofgames are like that, but I would
like to see a little less predictabilityin that department. What I don't like,
I mean, honestly, there's nota lot to dislike unless you're a
contestant who wins. You have topay a lot of taxes on cars on
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game shows, thousands of dollars.In fact, you win a twenty thousand
dollars car, you're probably paying fouror five thousand dollars in taxes. So
you're basically getting a very good dealon a car. Winning three of them
now gets a little more complicated.Now you're almost force shooting yourself to sell
one, maybe two. That's theone thing I don't like being a contestant
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who wins, as weird as thatsounds. But from a viewer, yeah,
it's an exciting game. It's veryexciting. Would I change anything?
No, I like the uniqueness factorof picking a price at this closest without
going over. Most other games whereyou're choosing at least in the pricing games,
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you are, especially with big moneyvalued prizes, you're just straight up
picking five price stacks for instance.You're just picking the number. You're not
picking closest without going over. Youare here. So honestly, I don't
know if there's much I would change. It's a good game. And difficulty
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level. I've already talked about that. It's incredibly difficult. You wouldn't think
it is, but it is.It's up there. It had an eight
year losing streak. This had aneight year losing streak at one point.
That's that's insane. December sixth,two thousand and seven through December twenty one,
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twenty fifteen, the game was notone that is that boggles my mind.
It has not been one since latetwenty nineteen. I just saw it
on a TV couple a few daysago and they all got to the second
car. So yeah, it's it'sLook, here's the thing. I like
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seeing it pop up, just forthe wow factor, just for that wow
factor. Is it a great game? No, it's incredibly simple in fact,
and it's very similar to Golden Road, but has its own unique layout.
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So Triple Play. Is it thebest pricing game? No? Is
it in the top top top ten? Maybe when it's all said and done,
maybe it is. Right now westarted the top master Key one of
my favorites. Nope. Is itbetter than Grand Game? No? Is
it better than Checkout? No?How about Bonkers Love Bonkers? No other
card game? Spelling Bee? Isit better than Spelling Bee? I'm gonna
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say no. But is it betterthan Shell Game? I love a shell
Game, but I like that wowfactor here in Triple Play. So we're
gonna place that between Spelling Bee andShell Game, and that's where we're gonna
slot Triple Play it. So thatcomes in at number six on our list.
This is episode twenty three, soit is six out of twenty three
so far. In every five,I'm going to place it on our social
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media so you can see exactly wherethese pricing games rank. Well, there
you go. I love triple playand you know again, it's a game
that has never played and played tentimes in a season, so it's one
of those blink and you'll miss ittype situations. All right, Well,
that's gonna do it for us thistime on the Big Bucks Podcast. Thank
you so much for your patience.Again, we're kind of it's a busy
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time for me, so we're kindof a every other week situation for the
time being. But keep following usat Big Bucks Podcasts, on our social
media, and of course email theshow JK Says Radio at gmail dot com.
We'll see you next time right hereon the Big Bucks Podcast. Thank
you so much. Everybody, bekind to one another. We'll see you
next time. This is Ricky Gspeaking for the Big Bucks Podcast and jak
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Welcome to the Big Bucks Podcast.If you know what you want to talk
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can email the show jak Says Radioat gmail dot com. It's jk Says
Radio at gmail dot com. Allright, we got a lot to get
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to. Let's begin with the prices. Right. It is no longer filming
at Television City. Yes, thatis sad. They are in transition to
their new home about twenty minutes awaynow. Having said that, they do
need to plan for season fifty twoand they are doing that. According to
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On Camera Audiences, there is informationabout the new show for when it moves
to its new location at Haven Studios. Now there's been some issues about whether
it's a big enough facility to hostwhat exactly Price is Right needs, but
we'll see how that works out oneseason fifty two premiers. But on Camera
(01:49):
Audiences has released to some ticket information, and guess what it sounds like.
We're going back to a full sizeaudience. Now what the studios, the
new studio are going to look like. What that means, I don't exactly
know. Will it hold three hundredtwenty some people? I don't Again,
I don't know the answer to that, but we shall see. Right now,
they're at about fifty and they havebeen for a couple years now,
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and of course this is all livingin the post COVID world. They are
slowly transitioning back to that new audienceand you can get tickets or be on
the waiting list rather go to oncamera audiences and look it up. Now,
there isn't a lot of information aboutthe new season on there, so
just keep that in mind. Butit is happening and it sounds like it
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will be with a big audience.Congratulations Prices, Right, you come a
long way, and it is goingto be great to see that new sound
that in the new studio with afull slate of people, because, honestly,
having people try out in a traditionalgame show way, there's been a
(02:58):
little off putting when it comes tothe right part of that charm has always
been, at least up until COVIDstarted has always been Hey, you're gonna
be interviewed when you come to theshow, you might get on the show.
You don't have to try out aheadof time. I think that is
part of the appeal and part ofthe charm of the price is right.
So hopefully that is the case.Moving on this week on Beat Shazam,
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and of course we are in theNick Cannon Kelly Osbourne phase as Jamie Fox
has still recovering from his illness.We had a million dollar winner this week
and Nick Cannon was there to allowthat to happen. Siblings Justin and James
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took home the million dollar prize onHonestly, what I thought was a very
easy musical cute Phil Collins, easylover, and it was pretty obvious that
they wanted that he knew it rightaway. But here's the thing, And
as I go on Twitter looking throughit, and this is not a show
that I that I watch with anyregular I just I happened to see this
(04:09):
happen via Twitter. But it soundslike the audio was really bad on this
episode. Like Twitter is full ofpeople that were saying how bad the song
audio was, Like you could almostcouldn't hear it, so the playability factor
was almost non existent. And Ican't find video of this to support that
(04:33):
evidence. But help me out ifthat was true. If you were watching
the show, hit me up,let me know what that was all about,
because that sounds like a disaster.Look beat, I remember beach Zam's
first million dollar winner, and Idon't think I've watched the episodes since,
but I do believe this is thefourth million dollar winner something. Ratulations to
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brothers Justin and James on their milliondollar win on beaches Am. Well,
here's an oddity. The Wall,you know, the game show with Chris
Hardwick on NBC. The Wall ismaking their way to bowling alleys. And
I know that's one of the mostrandom sentences you've probably ever heard in your
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life. But The Wall will makeits way to specific Lucky Strike Entertainment bowling
alleys starting this week and ending onJune twenty six over the weekends. It's
an interactive gaming experience at fourteen LuckyStrike venues inspired by the game show The
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Wall. And I don't know ifyou have a Lucky Strike location near you.
I've honestly never heard of it.I do not have one near me.
There's one in Boston and Summerville,Massachusetts, Chicago, Honolulu, Philadelphia,
Orange County, California, LA,Hollywood, San Francisco. There's one
in Colorado, Maryland, and WashingtonState. But I guess a special blue
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marked pin will drop down on alane at random, I guess, and
players will have a chance to winprizes. If they will strike, they'll
play a mini version of the wallfor additional prizes. What that entails,
I don't know, because the NBCblurb I got was as vague as could
possibly be. So if you knowmore about this, let me know.
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I'm gonna dig deeper into this andsee if I can find more. But
the Wall coming to a bowling alleynear you. And I may have talked
briefly about this a few weeks ormaybe a couple of months ago. But
person, place or thing which droppeda pilot for Fox television stations, I
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didn't, well, not really apilot. It was more of a test
run in certain markets. I didn'tthink this had a prayer of seeing daylight.
But here we are. Half hourweekday show has been sold across eighty
nine percent of the US in onehundred ext one markets from various station groups,
according to Deadline, So you're gonnasee this on a lot of Fox
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stations. It was hosted by MelissaPeterman. Person, Place or Thing as
a game where players ask yes orno questions to correctly determine the identity of
a person, place, or thing. Sure, it's it's fine. I
one hundred eighty episodes are going tobe distributed for Fox First Run. Who's
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going to be in developing and programmingthis series? So one hundred eighty episode
that's pretty strong, that is youknow, that's that's gonna get you,
you know, half a year's worthof of promise, I suppose. So
good luck with that new game show. Can't complain about new game shows.
I hope for the best for aPerson, Place, or Thing. And
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finally today it came up via Twitteractually very recently, lead today that I
am recording this Raid the Cage isgoing to get a chance in the United
States. It is casting, andthis is a show that's been around for
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a little over nine or ten years. It's an Israeli show. And let
me talk tell you about Raid theCage. Contestants pairs of two couples.
They answered trivia and physical challenges,trivia questions, and physical challenges in an
effort to get prizes from a giganticcage before the door slam shut. Contestants
(08:33):
face off in nine different rounds partners. One partner answers trivia questions on various
topics. Each question is worth acertain amount of time in a cage that
is filled with prizes like blenders,computers, cars, anything you can imagine
that could fit in this giant cage. The purpose of the challenger is to
answer all nine questions correctly and successfullycomplete the game while providing maximum time for
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the partner in each round to grabas many pop prizes as possible. The
heart of the question, the longeramount of time you are granted, so
the first question you might get tenseconds in the cage. You gotta run
in and get out. Here's thething. If you miss a question,
the game is over. You lose. If you don't get out of the
cage before the doors slam shut,you lose and you have to be out.
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Wow. Sounds intense, sounds crazy. There are some of the bigger
prizes you can't just grab. Youhave to actually perform a task, maybe
like unlock something with a key.That's located elsewhere in the cage, or
some of the videos show like goingon a giant hamster wheel to unlock something,
that kind of thing. So itlooks interesting and hopefully hopefully this works
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out in the United States because ithas been pretty successful elsewhere in the world.
It has raid the cage. Itis now casting check it out.
Don't know what network's going to bedistributing this as of yet, but we
will keep you in the loop asit happens. All right, So coming
up next, I don't know ifyou saw it on ABC, The Game
Show Show, a four episode minidocumentary series was on and it highlighted the
(10:16):
history a very brief history of gameshows. It was a kind of rush
show. But I'm going to talkabout that a little bit and I want
to dig a little deeper into whatis a game show? What is the
definition of a game show? Iwant to because I have my own definition,
but it might be different than others, and I want to talk about
that in our main segment coming upnext. Stick around. This is the
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Big Bucks Podcast. Welcome back tothe Big Bucks Podcast. JK with you
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here, and before we jump intoour main story, I want to talk
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our main story today. If youwatched on ABC or Hulu. You can
check it out on Hulu right now. It is. There's a documentary about
excuse me, a documentary series calledThe Game Show Show. This was a
(12:56):
four part, four hour brief historyof game shows in the United States.
And I'm gonna tell you, thefirst two episodes were actually very fun.
I thoroughly enjoyed them. The secondtwo I did not get into as much.
Why is that. Well, westarted with, you know, the
(13:18):
nineteen fifties quizzers and the downside thatcame into that with the scandals on the
Game twenty one, and how weyou know, went into cautiously in the
sixties of how things came back likeJeopardy and and and that kind of thing,
and this, you know, thethird episode, I'm gonna be honest
(13:39):
with you, I skipped through alot of it. I skipped through a
lot of it because it was discussing, essentially just reality shows. So what
do we talk about? We talkedabout The Bachelor and Shark Tank and the
Amazing Race and that kind of thing. And I'm gonna be honest with you
when I when I think game show, that's not what I think of.
(14:01):
I think game shows are a formof reality television, But I don't think
reality television is necessarily a game show. And I'm going to get a lot
I might get a lot of pushbackon this because I think everyone has their
own definitions of what a game showactually is. And that's what I want
to delve into today. When Ithink of game shows, what do I
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think of? What do you thinkof? Because to me, you have
your word games, you have yourpuzzle games, you have your pricing games,
you have your trivia games, youhave your games where money is on
the table and you risk it doingvarious tasks. And I know what you're
thinking, Well, all of thesecould apply to things like The Bachelor and
(14:43):
whatnot, but do they really becausethere is a fine line when it comes
when it comes to these kind ofthings. And it was around nineteen ninety
nine, two thousand and two thousandand one where Survivor kind I know,
became the first big reality show.Did anyone consider it a game show at
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the time, because I certainly didn't. I don't recall anyone saying it was
a game show. You know,I think at the time, you know,
who wants to be a millionaire,to hit its stride and hit its
prime and was on its downward trendon ABC in prime time. And you
(15:24):
know, we call that a gameshow, being a quizzer, But what
about all these other shows where,like, do you consider Hell's Kitchen a
game show? You know, likeI personally don't. And here's why.
When you have a group of peoplethat are going to slowly be eliminated over
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the course of a season, andyou're constantly interviewing them and constantly talking about
it, you're creating You're creating amanufacturing drama. Not that certain games show
do or don't do that, butwhen they do, it turns me off
a little bit. The manufacturing ofgame shows and drama, I'm looking at
(16:08):
you, Fox and NBC is notnecessary. It is completely unwarranted. It
detracts from the actual game itself.And and I am trying to set up
an interview with a couple of peoplethat were on the game shows. This
is absolutely something I want to discuss. I truly want to discuss this,
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and I could talk about this allday long. And you know, one
of my favorite things, and I'vetalked about this on the show before,
American Gladiators Game show or not.I lean towards no, like I don't
want it to fall into that.I haven't fall into a competition show.
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And again, you can make theargument game shows are competitions. I get
it, I get it. I'ma more I would say, you'd have
to give me a title of traditionalgame show. So when you have things
like The Cube or Minute to WinIt, where did those fall? I
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would consider those game shows. Imean, I think Minute to Win It
was horrendous and horrible, and theCube is actually very good despite being very
similar. But there's still game showsto me because you have prizes for competing,
completing a certain level, a moneytree, if you will, as
it's referred to, and you're riskingit all on the next play. But
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it doesn't take an entire season togive away its prize. You have a
competition each and every episode within asthe same player essentially. And I don't
feel like I've made all that ofa compelling argument. I'm gonna be totally
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honest with you. I really don'tknow that I have a truly compelling argument
as to what differentiates reality and gameshow. But as I was starting to
talk about, you go back to, you know, when Survivor came around,
I don't know if you remember this, but the Emmys, the Emmy
Awards, at that point, realityshows were so big they created their own
(18:26):
category for reality shows because there wereso many of them. Now, game
shows have always had their own categoryin the Daytime Emmys, but this usually
involves you know, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, Family feud, prices,
right, let's make a deal,that kind of thing. The daytime shows,
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that's where these you try to drawthat line because when I look at
reality shows, I don't recall manytraditional game shows being nominated for you know,
the nighttime Emmy Awards. You justdon't see it, despite the plethora
of nighttime game shows that are available. So look, you can have your
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opinion about The Bachelor. I thinkit's trash TV. I think it's garbage.
I think I think when it comesto reality television, it is the
least reality based show there is.Like, it's not scripted, but it's
close. They're not actors, butthey're told what to do and say in
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ways. On traditional game shows,you play out a game and yeah,
you're told to clap a lot,and wheel of Fortune you're told to make
a lot of noise. But isthat the same thing, you know,
I don't know. I want toknow what you think at big Bucks podcast,
JK says radio a gmail dot com. Let me know what is your
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definition of a game show? Becauseyeah, it divided social media when when
the game show show aired and Iwas following on Reddit, on Facebook,
on Twitter, people were divided.People were divided. I had an opportunity
to interview game show host Todd Newtonseveral years ago, and he told me
(20:18):
something about game shows that I'll neverforget. He also gave me some great
advice, but that's for another time. He said that he thinks game shows
are the ultimate reality show, likeit's a derivative of reality, but he
thinks it's the ultimate reality show becauseyou know, you have unscripted contestants.
You don't know what you're going toget out of them playing a game for
(20:41):
a chance to win life changing amountsof money or prizes. And he's right.
I just don't know where you drawthe line here. I know where
I draw the line, and it'sa shark tank. Shark Tank is not
a game show. Shark Tank isa show where I don't even call them
(21:03):
contestants. They are entrepreneurs trying tobetter their lives with a product that they
have created in an attempt to getsomeone to put some money invest into their
company. That's not a game show. That's someone in need to try and
(21:26):
make their product stand out and bethe best it can be. I'm sorry,
I can't do that with Shark Tank. I like Shark Tank. I've
watched dozens of episodes of Shark Tank. It's a great show, but it's
not a game show. I'm notgoing to talk about it here any longer
on this show because that's not whatit is. So why I don't talk
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about the batchwords, why don't talkabout survivor? And then you had in
the fourth episode of the game show, so you have like love connection and
uh, you know, singled out, singled out a game show on MTV.
It's just a dating show. LikeI don't even considered the dating game
(22:11):
to be a game show honestly,Like it's it's a it's a show true
about trying to find love. Idon't know, Like I just I truly
don't feel like I've made any kindof compelling argument here. And I totally
(22:36):
get to the appeal of like America'sgot talent, American idol. I love
last comics standing. These are great. Let me read from Wikipedia. A
game show is a reality television programnot helping my cause where people play a
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game for points with the goal ofwinning money or prizes. Different game shows
use different games. Most test ofplayers knowledge, skill, or cleverness.
Many game shows incorporate some element ofchance. For example, in Wheel of
Fortune, contestants spend wheel to determinehow much prize money they will get for
a correct letter. Some game showshave the contestants compete against other individual contestants.
Other game shows group contestants into teams. Some game shows have regular people
(23:18):
as the contestants. Other game showshave celebrities, such as music movie actors,
as the contestants. Many game showsair on Game Show Network. The
first game shows were on radio thatsounded like a nine year old wrote it.
Game shows often reward people with money, holidays, or cars. These
prizes are often given by the peopleare groups of people that give the show
money to run. The people whogive the game show money to run are
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cult sponsors. Examples include Pressure Lock, Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire, MatchGame, Family Feud, Blockbusters, The
Prices Right, the weakest linked cardsharks, dealer, no deal, Are
you smarter than a fifth grader?Etc. Etc. So, according to
Wikipedia, game shows are a realitytelevision program. That didn't help anything,
(24:06):
did it. But you know what, I think reality television is the broad
genre and game show is a derivativeof that, and that's what we're gonna
go with. So, you knowwhat, a game show, as I
said at the very beginning, agame show is a reality show. But
a reality show is not necessarily agame show. But I think that the
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point I'm trying to make here isat the Game show show on ABC and
Hulu, it was a fun watch. There were a lot of things that
maybe regular folks just hadn't known.There was very little on that series that
I didn't already know, and Ikind of spent through episodes three and four
because it didn't appeal to me.That's not what I was looking for,
So I was a little disappointed withhow it ended. I loved the first
(24:48):
two episodes. I would love tosee more of those. I am again
trying to generate some interviews with acouple of people that were involved in that
show. So stick around and hangtight, because we're gonna try to get
a few of those folks right hereon the Big Bucks Podcast here in the
year two thousand twenty three. Thereyou go. Let me know your thoughts.
What do you consider a game show? What isn't a game show?
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People like what they like, andI'm not going to put them down.
I have my opinions and that's okay. Everyone has one at Big Bucks Podcast
on Twitter and Facebook. JK saysradio at gmail dot com. All right,
stick around. We have one moresegment. It is our pricing game
review from the prices right What's itgonna be. I'll have to stick around
to find out. Come back formore. This is the Big Bucks Podcast.
(26:11):
Final segment of the Big Bucks Podcast. JK in here with you.
Welcome. We're going to talk aboutour pricing game reviews. Right now,
our random number generator came up withTriple Play, which is considered one of
the bigger pricing games on the show. Typically played first, let's talk about
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this. It's a big game.It's debut was October second of two thousand
and This is a special game becauseit is played for three cars number one,
never two, always three cars,hence the name. It uses all
three of the big doors, whichis a rarity to even use door number
(26:56):
one in on the prices, right, but it does here. The reveal
is fun but albeit very predictable.You absolutely know as of viewer that this
game is going to be played themoment that door one opens, because you
hear a specific music queue and youcan look online to find that, of
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course, and then of course youknow the announcer isn't saying anything after that,
and you know the host drew inthis case typically will you know,
kind of joke around with a contestantand say, hey, how about another
one, and then we get anotherand you know, the third door has
the name of the game behind it, with usually the most expensive car that
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is out there. It's not necessarilyplayed for luxury vehicles, but it's played
for vehicles of increasing value. Sohere's how it's played. Each car is
placed played for one at a time, starting with the lowest price. So
the contestant will choose one of twoprices. George will describe the car,
and then you'll see two prices displayed. To get a correct answer, you
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have to pick the price that isclosest to the actual price of the car.
Without going over this isn't a pickthe correct item or pick the correct
price. You're picking the price closestto the value without going over, so
it is a little more difficult inthat regard. You have two choices.
On the first one, If it'scorrect, you will remove the price tag
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and it will reveal a yes obviously. If it's wrong, it will reveal
a no, and then on thetop the actual price will be displayed.
If you're correct, you move on. If you are incorrect, the game
is over. You win nothing.This is an all or nothing game.
If you get to the second car, George will describe the second car or
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truck or as you being you know, a vehicle, and you'll have three
prices to choose from same thing closestwithout going over. If you're correct,
you'll go to the final car andGeorge will read a description. You'll have
four choices to choose from. Thereis no bailout option in this game.
It is all or nothing, soaccording to prices right dot fandom dot com.
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Triple Play was created because Bob Barkerwanted a game that had a car
behind each of the big doors onthe show's stage. This is a fun
fact. It was initially conceived asa game called slam Dunk, so basically
one of the cars could have beenone. Now, the rest of the
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staff didn't like the idea of havinga game that offered prizes that could not
be one, and the idea waseventually overhauled into the current format. It's
interesting because, and I'm not sayingit's on the same page, but the
very first game and the history ofthe show, any Number, it is
impossible to win everything, so that'san interesting situation here. However, you
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have one car in any number andyou have a three digit prize. Here
you have multiple cars. Also,funny enough, it is the last pricing
game to premiere before Janice and Kathleen'sdeparture in two thousand. Now, in
its initial playing it had a themethat they went with, so you would
have the first car being just aregular car, then a truck and a
(30:30):
van. Also, the game's logoappeared behind the first two doors initially,
but it was permanently removed after thatto I guess add suspense. I don't
know. It took eight playings ofthis game before it was one, which
was a rarity anyway, because thisgame has not been one very often it's
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been one, in fact, fourteentimes according to this website in twenty three
years. It's not played all thatoften, to be fair, it's probably
played about seven or eight times ayear. Here's another interesting trivia fact for
you, and obviously we don't Idon't have any video to back this up,
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but on October twenty eighth, twothousand and three, the game was
lost on the first car. Thestaff discovered that the wrong contestant was declared
the winner of the one bid.Now, the whole first act was eventually
reshot. A new item up forbids was offered, and contestant Jimmy,
who won, played money game forthe second car on triple play, which
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is actually a van of Ford Windstar, and he won. That's interesting.
Now, when two thousand and eighththe game was only played once and didn't
return for an entire year. Why, I don't know. Doesn't say it
was Drew's first season. Maybe thathad something to do with it, I
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don't know. Now, this isonly the second pricing game ever played to
be or to be to regularly offermultiple cars. It's optional as a retired
game that did offer two cars.It's never been played more than ten times
(32:23):
in the season, and it continuesa Baseball Reference team, so you know,
squeeze play and three strikes or Baseballreferences. This continues that trend.
And you know Bob Barker was abig baseball fan, still is probably I
(32:43):
say was, but using that inthe term that he's not the host anymore.
The odds of winning this game areone and twenty fourth. You're guessing
randomly. That's about the same asGolden Road. So let's talk about the
game. How is it? Isit difficult? Absolutely that first the first
car is usually the higher price,but that second one you just never know.
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And a lot of times you don'teven get to the third car.
But again, the difficulty is probablyhigher by a little bit, only because
of the caveat that you have tobe closest without going over. It's a
small thing, but that can makea difference. Does it? I don't
know, but I think it doesadd a little element of confusion when you're
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playing the game. What do Ilike about this game? Oh, my
goodness, you're playing for three cars. It's a big game. That's why
I love about it. I lovethat it's not played all the time.
I would like to see it playeda little more often. Same with Golden
Road, same with three Strikes becausethey're played very rarely. But they can
be time consuming. That's the problem. They can be very time consuming as
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far as the set goes. No, it's perfect. It's perfect because you
are awarded your showing three cars.The reveal could use a little work because
again, you know, as aregular viewer, you know exactly what game
is coming up the moment door numberone opens. You don't even have to
hear that music que you know it, just the camera angle and everything.
(34:16):
And it's fine. A lot ofgames are like that, but I would
like to see a little less predictabilityin that department. What I don't like,
I mean, honestly, there's nota lot to dislike unless you're a
contestant who wins. You have topay a lot of taxes on cars on
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game shows, thousands of dollars.In fact, you win a twenty thousand
dollars car, you're probably paying fouror five thousand dollars in taxes. So
you're basically getting a very good dealon a car. Winning three of them
now gets a little more complicated.Now you're almost force shooting yourself to sell
one, maybe two. That's theone thing I don't like being a contestant
(35:01):
who wins, as weird as thatsounds. But from a viewer, yeah,
it's an exciting game. It's veryexciting. Would I change anything?
No, I like the uniqueness factorof picking a price at this closest without
going over. Most other games whereyou're choosing at least in the pricing games,
(35:22):
you are, especially with big moneyvalued prizes, you're just straight up
picking five price stacks for instance.You're just picking the number. You're not
picking closest without going over. Youare here. So honestly, I don't
know if there's much I would change. It's a good game. And difficulty
(35:44):
level. I've already talked about that. It's incredibly difficult. You wouldn't think
it is, but it is.It's up there. It had an eight
year losing streak. This had aneight year losing streak at one point.
That's that's insane. December sixth,two thousand and seven through December twenty one,
(36:08):
twenty fifteen, the game was notone that is that boggles my mind.
It has not been one since latetwenty nineteen. I just saw it
on a TV couple a few daysago and they all got to the second
car. So yeah, it's it'sLook, here's the thing. I like
(36:30):
seeing it pop up, just forthe wow factor, just for that wow
factor. Is it a great game? No, it's incredibly simple in fact,
and it's very similar to Golden Road, but has its own unique layout.
(36:51):
So Triple Play. Is it thebest pricing game? No? Is
it in the top top top ten? Maybe when it's all said and done,
maybe it is. Right now westarted the top master Key one of
my favorites. Nope. Is itbetter than Grand Game? No? Is
it better than Checkout? No?How about Bonkers Love Bonkers? No other
card game? Spelling Bee? Isit better than Spelling Bee? I'm gonna
(37:15):
say no. But is it betterthan Shell Game? I love a shell
Game, but I like that wowfactor here in Triple Play. So we're
gonna place that between Spelling Bee andShell Game, and that's where we're gonna
slot Triple Play it. So thatcomes in at number six on our list.
This is episode twenty three, soit is six out of twenty three
so far. In every five,I'm going to place it on our social
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media so you can see exactly wherethese pricing games rank. Well, there
you go. I love triple playand you know again, it's a game
that has never played and played tentimes in a season, so it's one
of those blink and you'll miss ittype situations. All right, Well,
that's gonna do it for us thistime on the Big Bucks Podcast. Thank
you so much for your patience.Again, we're kind of it's a busy
(37:58):
time for me, so we're kindof a every other week situation for the
time being. But keep following usat Big Bucks Podcasts, on our social
media, and of course email theshow JK Says Radio at gmail dot com.
We'll see you next time right hereon the Big Bucks Podcast. Thank
you so much. Everybody, bekind to one another. We'll see you
next time. This is Ricky Gspeaking for the Big Bucks Podcast and jak
(38:22):
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