(upbeat electronic music) – Welcome to Ear Biscuits, I’m Rhett. – And I’m Rhett. Ha, gotcha. I’m Link. – I think you got yourself. – (chuckles) No I didn’t. I fooled you, man. – Well– – Is that why we introduce ourselves at the beginning of the podcast so that we– – It would have fooled me– – We know who we are, or is it for them? – Yeah I would have gotten you. – It’s for the listener. – You can’t get me if I go first. This is a fundamental misunderstanding. If I said welcome to Ear Biscuits, I’m Link, I would have gotten you. But I already said my name so you saying that you’re Rhett is getting no one– – You know what? – Except the Mythical Beasts. – I’ll get you next week. – Okay, I’m ready. – I’m gonna get you. There’s nothing you can do to prepare. – Now I know that you’re gonna do it. I am prepared. – I’ll still get you. – Okay. – I’ll still get ya. This week at the round table of dim lighting, we’re asking the question what is the greatest game show of all time? At least according to me and separately but equally according to Link. – Oh that’s funny. – Don’t say something’s funny. Either laugh or don’t. But don’t say that’s funny. – Yeah we have ranked– – So insulting. – We have ranked our top five game shows. – And we haven’t looked at each other’s lists. – And made a list of honorable mentions because it wasn’t necessarily that easy to do that so we’re gonna go through that, compare notes. – Can I just say that, you may say oh, who cares about game shows? I don’t even know why I’m listening to this but I will say I’m personally offended because this is a deeply personal topic for me. As I think will become clear very quickly when I go through my list, game shows are tied in not only to my psyche and not only to by the way what we do for a living now in terms of formatting Good Mythical Morning, I think there’s a lot, we haven’t plumbed the depths, maybe we will today, of how the game show culture and our experiences with it have shaped Good Mythical Morning. But even if we don’t get to it, it is a fact. But even more importantly, there’s a certain part of my childhood, actually a couple of eras in my childhood that are deeply associated with game shows. – Well and I also think it will be interesting because my theory is that your criteria for what makes a good game show is probably different than mine and maybe there ends up being some crossover because of that and maybe not. – Or maybe we’ll just fight. – So I am excited about this discussion. We do wanna let you know that we are coming your way if you happen to be in one of the following places on the following dates. Yes, again, this musical comedy tour that we’re doing right now which is not the Tour of Mythicality. People are still calling it that. The Tour of Mythicality was a distinct thing that was related to the first book. This is a musical concert experience that we’re having Britton Buchanan, Link’s cousin from The Voice opening up for us and anecdotal evidence as told to us by Mythical Beasts that we met while on tour last time, have told us that they prefer this show to the Tour of Mythicality so I would say eight out of 10, nine out of 10, maybe 10 out of 10. – Yeah, prefer it. – There was a couple people who said– – 10 out of 10 dentists prefer– – Yeah, especially if you’re a dentist, you should come. – Rhett and Link live in concert versus the Tour of Mythicality. If you liked that, you’ll love this. – And again– – If you didn’t like it, you’ll love this. – We’re gonna be in Las Vegas on Friday, June 21st, we’re gonna be in Salt Lake City on June 22nd, we’re gonna be in Denver, Colorado on June 23rd, we’re gonna be in Milwaukee on June 25th, Indianapolis June 26th, Detroit on June 27th, Omaha on June 29th and Minneapolis on June 30th. – Come out and see us! And if you know someone who’s in these areas, tell them to come out and see us. – ‘Cause that’s what we run into. What we have found is every time we’re visiting a town and we’re walking around before a show or after a show or whatever, people are like Rhett and Link, what are you doing here? And we’re like well we got a show and they’re like what? – Or we had a show, that’s even sadder. – Yeah so we’re letting you know now so– – You can let them know now. – Go to RhettAndLinkLive.com to get your tix. – Get your tix. You got something for me before we get into game shows? – Yeah I do. I’m feeling not a little bit jittery because I am– – Does that mean not jittery or a lot jittery? – I’m a lot jittery. – Okay. – I am on sort of the second half of day two of, and I’m not gonna say the brand because I haven’t finished this yet so I’m not in the mood for an endorsement. I don’t know if this is gonna be something that I will then recommend to other people. But you know, I like to try new things and experiment with new things and I’m kinda into the whole like– – If this is illegal, we should talk offline. – (chuckles) It’s not illegal. I’m into the whole anti-aging thing and I’ve been doing the intermittent fasting thing for almost two months now. – Which is? – Basically eating for an eight hour period and then not eating for a 16 hour period, super, actually, a lot of people here are doing it at the office. It’s really popular. – If that makes you feel better about it. – At least in this town. – Sure. – So here’s what I’ll say. I can give it– – Group think. – A two month in endorsement of intermittent fasting has radically transformed some things about my body. And I’m not talking about like body shape, I’m talking about like inflammation. I got little spots of psoriasis that pop up, those have dwindled. I have this recurrent sort of like unpredictable bowel reactions to things, you know, if we eat something weird on the show or if I eat something really spicy, that has stabilized and all the five times that I’ve had hot chicken in the past couple weeks, absolutely no negative effects from it. I have to believe that this is somewhat related. – You’ve been freed up to say yes every single time that you’re remotely presented with the opportunity to sample a hot chicken. – And that means a lot to me. – We’re walking down the street and you just stop, you said, I’ll meet up with you later. I’m gonna be in this hot chicken place that we just happened to stumble on even though we’d just eaten lunch. – And getting the hottest one. Still no effect. – Again, this is not the thing that you’re not endorsing. This is intermittent fasting which means you’re waking up in the morning, you’re not eating breakfast. – You eat, you pick an eight hour. I’m doing the 16 and eight so basically, I wake up in the the morning, I don’t eat until noon and then I don’t eat after eight o’clock. And basically– – After eight o’clock would be easy but I don’t think I could wait until noon to eat, I get– – I was never, I don’t wake up hungry so that wasn’t a big deal for me. – What about if you go to the gym and then afterward, aren’t you starving? You gotta build muscle, man. – Yeah but you adjust pretty quickly to that. And it doesn’t– – You drink, right? – Drink water, yeah. – Just water. – Yeah or you can have tea. There’s some people who are really sticklers, who are like, you can have like some BCAAs like branched-chain amino acids and stuff like that, they don’t really hit the calorie. – Okay you’re losing me. – For me that’s really complicated because I don’t wanna be the dad who doesn’t eat dinner, you know what I’m saying so this way I can still eat dinner which makes me not a weird person. – Great movie though. – (chuckles) The dad who would not eat dinner. – It’s in black and white but you get used to that after like the opening scene which is amazing. It’s a dad and he’s at the table but he’s not eating dinner. – Right but he’s present. – Everybody else is there eating dinner. – He just watches you as you eat. – Yeah it was hilarious. – It’s better than just watching TV while you eat. – They hated it, they hated it. – But– – That’s the start of the character arc. – So you have a difficult time in the morning. Late at night, that is my time. That’s what’s been difficult to me is I am a late night snacker and so stopping eating basically at eight o’clock, essentially after dinner, that has been a difficult adjust to me so I go to bed hungry. – But you haven’t even gotten to the thing. – No, but the thing that I am trying now is this thing, it’s called the fasting mimicking diet that these professors, or a professor at USC partnered with some anti-aging institute and they came up, they formulated this diet. – If that makes you feel better about it. – It’s a five, it does, well it’s not just some hack, it’s like scientific from a legitimate establishment. They formulated a diet– – ULCA. Oh, nope. – That tricks your body into thinking that it is fasting, so when you fast, all this stuff happens. Like all the science is showing right now that during a period of fasting, there’s like all these things that are happening to your body and organs shrinking and cell removal and stuff like that that the research is beginning to kinda line up with this is a really healthy thing for people to do. But fasting just cold turkey is a difficult thing to do and also probably, I don’t really know all the reasons why they want you to have a little bit of calories but not go cold turkey but I think that it’s just an easier transition for people. I like systems like I can just get a box of food and just be like I don’t have to think about this. I literally look at a picture, like a little print out– – I do like that. – You have to eat the three things, you get a little box for every day. Eat these three things at breakfast, these three things at lunch, these three things in the afternoon. – A pre-schooler could do it. – But the things that I’m eating are like a bar and I’m not doing the fasting mimicking and the intermittent fasting because I have to keep up with breakfast, lunch and dinner just so you know. – Had to switch gears, had to switch tracks. – All that to say that it’s not enough food. – Well I looked over your shoulder yesterday and you were finishing a bowl of juice with seeds in it is what it looked like to me. – Soup. I just put it in– (Link sputters) – (laughs) Soup. – I put it in a– – It didn’t look like soup, man, it was jelly-like. – Well the reason you interpreted it as a drink is because I had it in a mason jar, but it was minestrone. (chuckles) It wasn’t necessarily good minestrone. Actually it tasted excellent in the state that I was in but– – You’re basically doing a hospital recovery mimic diet. Like if you’re recovering from something and they put you on this weird, bland, watery diet of some– – And there’s packs of, the reason that a lot of people, including you, wouldn’t be able to do this is that one of the things that you get twice a day is a pack of olives. – Oh God! – And actually I’ve never had so much fun with a pack of olives. – What have you been doing with it? – Well, just eating it, believe it or not. And it’s like six olives. I already like olives but when you’re barely eating anything, a package of six olives is heaven. I might just have– – I would be eatin’– – Little small packs of olives from here on out. – You eat the pit? You’re that hungry. – No, they’re de-pitted. Or they’re pitted. – Yeah because they’re afraid that you’ll eat it. I mean here’s the thing about fasting. I think goes back to hunter-gatherer type situation where you’re like, you get desperate to find some, you’re like hunting, you’re out there and your organs are shrinking and your body’s getting sinewy and you’re pulling back your bow string and trying to get a deer, man, and you know what, and you’re desperate. – But that is the science behind it is that people say that, and again, I don’t know, I haven’t read enough about this to make any endorsements or what’s true or what’s not true. – Why read about it when you can eat about it? – When you can just do it. The thinking behind the whole fasting thing is that humans traditionally, back in those hunter-gatherer days– – It wasn’t like constantly rolling over and stuffing your face. – You didn’t have three square meals per day. You ate when it was plentiful, that’s one of the reasons we have such a, we abuse fats and sugars because it wasn’t often– – Instinct. – That you came across fats and sugars and if you came across a calorie-dense thing, you ate it. – Capitalize, buddy. – But now we’re just surrounded by calorie-dense things and so we’re all out of whack, anyway– – But my problem, I think the risk with the fasting is that you might find yourself attacking and eating things. – You better watch out. – Like if you try to eat Jade, I will kill your. I would not hesitate. It would be instinctive, again, it would be like one of those– – I’m not gonna kill– – It would be like a hunter-gatherer fight to the death. Would you eat my dog? – I can make a promise. – Don’t eat my dog. – I am not going to kill– – Like a cartoon, look at my dog– – Your dog in the next four days. – Looks like a cooked turkey, you know? – I will not kill your dog– – Eat your own dog, man. – In these circumstances, but in the apocalypse, in desperate times, if I’ve already eaten someone else’s dog and the only thing left is your dog and my dog? I’ll probably eat your dog. – Yeah I think in an apocalyptic situation, the dogs that you wanna keep around are the ones that are ferocious. You don’t wanna keep around the emotional support dogs. I think they become like (chuckles), emotional support dogs are the first things that become hunger support dogs. (chuckles) – Right well there’s, I don’t watch The Walking Dead anymore but there’s not a dog in that show, right? Was there a dog? – There’s a lot of union stipulations when you bring in the dogs and the kids. – Right. – I think that’s why they started killing the kids too. Early on they killed the kids– – I’ll tell ya right now. – ‘Cause they have to bring in tutors and stuff. – I’m jittery, I can only imagine how bad your shakes, I think I probably have equal shakes to you right now. – I’m steady as a painter. – Why are you moving so much then? For those of you listening, we’re holding our hands next to each other, seeing who’s shakier. It’s pretty even right now. Anyway I’ll report back and let you know how I feel at the end of the week. – Why not at the end of this episode? Let’s just contain it right here. – Okay yeah, well, I’ll still be on day two. – All right so let’s get into our game show list now that I’ve thoroughly picked apart your minestrone diet. (chuckles) – But first, we wanna let you know that you can grab the hat that Link is wearing or at least one very much like it at Mythical.store. These mugs are also there. Well nothing else that you’re wearing currently or that I’m wearing is available there but there’s a lot of stuff available. The pin, well that pin you gotta be in the Mythical Society to get that pin. – That’s right. – Mythical.store for all your Mythical needs. – I think Feldman was just pointing at his nipple. – Oh, well the shirt you’re wearing. – Nope. – No. – Well listen, we’ll sell anything if we can so just go over there and find whatever it is now. – Lots of stuff. – Mythical.store, rep your boys, internetainment supportage happening. Go for it. Go for it and come back full. Kinda like Rhett at the end of an eight hours of eating. – Right. Give me your philosophy of how you chose these. What was your guiding principal? – My guiding principal for my top five game shows of all time was enjoyment factor coupled with I just think sentimental slash personal connection. So do you wanna just start? – I wanna give, okay, that’s your philosophy. – I have some honorable mentions, yeah, I should ask, what’s your philosophy, sorry. I should have asked that. – And this is– – That’s what polite people would have done. – Okay ’cause I figured that it had to do, ’cause you talk about game shows a lot especially when you were a kid watching. Interestingly, watching game shows and not watching any movies that everyone else on earth was watching which if you were wondering why Link didn’t see Back to the Future, Top Gun, Ghostbusters, Goonies, fill in the blank every single movie that you saw when you were a child, he was watching game shows. – No I was watching– – And Entertainment Tonight. – Yeah, my mom and I watched Entertainment Tonight every single night at 7:30 I guess it was. Maybe seven o’clock. Yeah there was a point where during the summer, Mom would drop me off at Nana and Papa’s house and Nana just worked a few blocks away as a dental assistant. No one was watching me but Nana would come in at lunch, like she could leave the dental office and come home and make lunch for me and her and then Papa who was police officer, chief of police, he would also come home. – Really? – Which meant he’d come home and we’d eat lunch together and then she would be home pretty early in the afternoon. I don’t know how that happened but the dental stuff kinda slowed down around 3:30. Kinda like school or something. I don’t know. – Really? – But in the mornings, I would watch the USA Network. And they would just have syndicated game shows. From years earlier so like from… It was the late ’80s when I was watching these game shows but they were from the early ’80s or ’70s. I would watch reruns of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson right when I would get there, on USA. That’s how I watched Johnny Carson every single day, learned all of his bits and everything about that so those were all reruns from the ’70s. – But at the time his show was on– – At night. – At night every night. – Yeah which I didn’t stay up and watch as an upper grade schooler. – And of course because we were friends with Ben, Ben– – He would stay up. – If you spent the night at Ben’s house, you stayed up and you watched Johnny Carson. – Yeah. – ‘Cause Ben just had those kinds of tastes. – I never spent the night at Ben’s house by the way. – Really? – Never once, yeah. I mean you guys were that much, you were a lot closer than we were, so I would hear about Johnny Carson and Letterman, he also liked Letterman. But I watched the older Johnny Carsons because they were syndicated on USA Network and when those were done, the game shows would begin for like, probably at least three hours of game shows so six game shows. Some of them made my list, some of them made my honorable mentions. – Yeah you shouldn’t mention any of them because then they might know, don’t know your list yet. – That’s special to me and then– – Your awareness of game shows and your attachment are– – So a whole summer– – Are related to that. – Yeah, related to that summer. – Whereas I think that my experience with game shows is probably… I think it represents most people’s interaction with game shows in that I watched them when they came on in primetime or in the afternoon or whatever. Saw those reruns but I think my list is generated, it comes from the game shows that I actually enjoyed personally and with my family and I think that the ones that I just kinda noticed this after I compiled my list, the ones that I had put as my top five, the thing that I value the most about game shows is the play-along-ability. – Okay. – And it’s interesting ’cause I think– – I value, I think that– – And I would say that you don’t value that as much as I do. – I don’t, I value something else more and I learned it from looking at my own list only after I’d made it so let’s start with your number five. I have honorable mentions, maybe they’re on your list. – Number five, Wheel of Fortune. – Wheel of Fortune. Wheel of Fortune is one of the longest-running game shows in history. Of course it is the nightly follow-up to Jeopardy. Why am I saying this like you don’t already know. Who wouldn’t know this stuff? – Potentially the or… Potentially the most popular game show of all time. If not tied with a couple other ones that might have made our lists. I mean it has all the ingredients, right, it’s got a charismatic, funny host. It has Vanna White. So it has the sex appeal. – Oh yeah. From Myrtle Beach. – Of a woman from Myrtle Beach. – South Carolina. I wonder what dress she’s gonna wear today. – Right and– – I bet there’s sequins all over her dressing room. I bet you you couldn’t vacuum ’em up, it’s like glitter. – No no sequins are way better than glitter. – But for her I’m just saying they’re like deeply ingrained. I bet she has sequins on her skin permanently, like scales on a fish. – I actually think she had them attached at some point. – Right. – I think Vanna White’s skin is sequins. – So if something rips, there’s still sequin under there. – Yeah. – I think that’s what it is. – It has a very high play-along-ability factor. – Yeah, and accessibility. – And it’s very accessible. The rules are really easy to understand. – You gotta know English and words. – And everyone thinks that they can do it. Unlike Jeopardy. – Right. Jeopardy’s interesting. I’m sure we’ll get to Jeopardy. – We’ll talk about Jeopardy. But anyway, and of course at one point, so Pat Sajak of course was a weatherman before he was the host of Wheel of Fortune and he was a Los Angeles-based weatherman. I think I’ve told the story before. – I would love to meet him. – And my dad kind of, in my mind, looked like Pat Sajak and I swear to you– – As a kid, yeah. – There was a time when I was watching the weather and I told my mom, I was 100% convinced that my dad was on television. (chuckles) I thought yeah, they’d make him up a little bit different for television so he doesn’t look quite the same. This was when I was in California. – 38, you were 38 years old. – Yeah it was a couple years ago. – She used to turn the letters manually. – Now she just touches ’em. – They would light up and then she would have to walk over there and turn ’em. And now they light up and then when she touches them, they change. – How do you think she does it? – But I don’t think she does anything. – Hold on. – I think there’s just someone who times it, I don’t think it’s a touch screen, I’m just making that note. – But okay especially back when she used to turn them, she did it so quickly. If it’s a huge phrase, how does she know so quickly what letters to go to? Is she seeing it somewhere else? Do they do something that only Vanna can see on the letters– – Like Google Glass. – Well I’m not talking about like augmented reality. They definitely didn’t have that back in the ’80s. But I’m saying how do you think she knows? – Feldman and I agree, I think they lit up. – Oh they just light up? – And then she would just turn ’em. – Okay yeah but now, they light up when she touches ’em. – No, they light up and– – They light up and then she touches ’em. – Yeah same thing. – Okay so her job is super easy. – Yes, you’re kinda– – In my mind I just thought– – [Link] You’re giving her lots of credit. – How does she know to do this? – I think, I don’t want to– – Okay they just light up. – Belittle what she does because she does a lot. – She still has a very important job. – She walks and she touches letters that if she didn’t, if she wasn’t there, they would still be revealed. – Right, it’s the touch of Vanna, it’s the touch of Vanna that, oh you said they still would be revealed. Well I’m sorry. I believe that Vanna’s touch is what reveals that. – I just remembered another game show I’m adding to my, might have to go in my top five. No it can’t, it’s an honorable mention. – Okay so Wheel of Fortune, did it make your list? Or did you already tell me this? – Wheel of Fortune didn’t make my list as an honorable mention. If they still had the thing at the end where you could take your winnings and shop, remember a thing would open and then all of a sudden, there’d be all this stuff with price tags– – Yeah. – And you could shop! – The shopping spree. – If you could do the friggin’ shopping spree, they’ve honed it down so much that like– – Well they’ve just taken away the shopping spree. That’s all they’ve honed. – No, they also at the end, the final puzzle is like, R, S, T, L, N, E, let’s put those up there. We know you’re gonna guess those anyway. For decades people would just guess those. – That’s called fine-tuning. – So now you’re like, it was inevitable, you have to do that but I think if someone time traveled from Vanna turning the letters physically days ’til now, no shopping spree, none of that, that’d be very disappointing, be like whoa this is– – Yeah that’s too much change too fast. You have to slowly evolve a game show to keep that audience. I mean my parents still watch it every night. – It’s an indictment of us as a society that it has to be so streamlined. – I think you’re being too hard on it, man. – Didn’t make my list. I would love to meet Pat Sajak and we’ve said it before, I want to go on as a duo. – Yeah, friends episode. – When they did a friends episode. Rhett and Link, we’re friends, we wanna go on Wheel of Fortune. Come on, Pat, come on Vanna. I’m sure Vanna, that you do a lot more than we realize and we’re sorry. – I thought that you had a special system for selecting the letter so just so you know. – I bet you do. I bet she’s the one writing all the puzzles, by the way. – Yeah I would love to go on that show. – I will do nothing but positive, you will be number one on my list if we get to be on it. – Okay. – All right Feldman, this just in. – She’s given the answers– – But they still light up. – See? – One time Vanna remembers– – I don’t think they light up. – Turning around the wrong letter but she does know the solutions to the puzzles ahead of time. – Hold on but it’s not as simple as they just light up, guys, there’s something else going on. We’re gonna have to watch clips of this. – My number five is a game show that I watched on the USA Network in that timeframe as a kid, Bumper Stumpers. You ever heard of this? – Is that when you’re trying to do the license plates? – Well you can probably guess but do you remember it? Yeah that’s what it is. – I’m not guessing, I’m trying to remember if that’s the right thing, yes. – You’ve seen it? Okay. – It’s where they– – I didn’t know if you would have seen it. – It’s like the vanity plates and you’re trying to figure out what they mean. – Yeah and I can’t remember who the host was. I looked it up, this is a Canadian game show that they syndicated. Al Dubois. – Oh yeah, ol’ Dubois. – What a Canadian name. Well it’s a French name. – From Montreal. – Al Dubois, yeah I love the Bumper Stumpers and I always thought man, one day I’ll be able to get a vanity plate, and then when the time came, I was like I ain’t gettin’ no vanity plate. – It’s extra, costs extra. – It costs extra. – And it’s extra. – Yeah and it is extra. I just remember lovin’ it. I just think it’s simple, I think it needs to be recognized more. I think it’s something that you play all the time and it’s difficult to come up with a good vanity plate in real life but how much more difficult is it to create an entire game show where it’s like, you’re makin’ it happen. It was fun. – That’s actually in your– (chuckles) That made your top five. – They turned vanity plates into an entire game show in Canada. – Okay first of all– – That’s a feat, man. – Incredibly high play-along-ability factor. So because– – And when people are guessing it’s kinda fun to watch them try to sound it out. – What else happened? – I don’t remember. – At least you could win a car, right? – I remember that there were a lot of car sound effects. (mimics car honking) (chuckles) I like sound effects. Don’t ask me anything else about it ’cause I don’t remember– – That gives me some clues as to what else is gonna be on your list if you like sound effects. – I wanted it to be recognized as my number five. What’s your number four? – Not Bumper Stumpers believe it or not. Hollywood Squares. – Hollywood Squares. – Is my number four. We’ve ended up talking about Hollywood Squares quite a bit as we’ve actually tried to figure out what a modern-day version of Hollywood Squares would be because you had the celebrity factor, and of course, those of you who don’t know, Hollywood Squares is essentially tic-tac-toe. Two people are playing tic-tac-toe against one another and the way you get your letter, either X or O on the board is the host asks a celebrity who’s in that spot a question and then you have to decide if you’re going to agree or disagree with that. – They answer the question and then they’ll, yeah you’ll have to agree or disagree. – And they’re either purposely, you. Or they are answering it correctly and you have to judge the personality and of course for many years, was it Joan Rivers was the middle square? – Yeah. – Which is the most important square. – I gotta jump in here and say I’m pretty disappointed. – Pretty disappointed, why? – For a couple of reasons. – Okay. – I’m disappointed that it’s not higher on your list. – Oh really? – And I think it should be and I think it will be after I talk some more about it. – All right. – But you also stole my thunder. – (laughs) Okay. – That’s why I’m also upset ’cause– – I’m sorry. – This is my number one! Ladies and gentlemen, my number one, stealin’ my thunder. – This is your number one? – It’s bound to happen. The way we do the system is there’s no buildup to number one ’cause the chances of the other person putting it lower really takes the wind out of a reveal. – No that just makes it more fun, you know what, you get to the exciting thing earlier. – It’s like putting the shopping spree at the top of Wheel of Fortune. – Well they should have tried that. Maybe it’d still be on the air, ha, just kidding, it is. – My number one game show is Hollywood Squares. – Okay. – And I watched this religiously. I’m pretty sure it was on that USA situation. And I didn’t realize why until I guess now that I think about it or when we were talking about it about a year ago ’cause we were talking about game shows and developing ideas for game shows honestly. The comedic factor, the fact that someone could intentionally try to deceive you or there’s different ways to play it and some people were just celebrities and they were just playing it sincere. Some of them were acting sincere but they were playing you. And some of ’em, the comedians on there like Jim J. Bullock, I don’t know who that guy is except that he was on Hollywood Squares. (Rhett chuckles) You knew he was gonna give a funny answer and then you weren’t supposed to take it seriously, everybody would laugh and then he would give his answer that you were gonna agree or disagree with, so this is something we do on our show. When we play our whiteboard games, we talk about, we kinda know that sometimes we give funny answers on the whiteboard, sometimes we say funny answers but then there’s a different answer on the whiteboard like I was gonna say so and so and maybe try to get a laugh. All that comes from Hollywood Squares and that’s why I love it. – I love all that stuff about it. – I also love the fact that it was lower pressure for the contestants, like something about me watching– – Okay this is interesting. This is what I wanted to talk about so go ahead. – Yeah and I think I’m just now realizing this, I also love the fact that I feel like I could be a contestant on that and not just, my pants. – And this says a lot about our personalities because the reason and I figured that it would be higher on your list, if not number one. – You have a 50/50 chance. And I know how to play tic-tac-toe. – The reason that it did not get higher than four on my list is because there’s not enough at stake. – It’s not truly competitive. There’s no skill. – There’s no drama. Now, when you get to what my number one is, you might be like why’s that your number one, and I’ll try to justify it. But the reason Hollywood Squares, as great as all those things that you described about it are– – I think I know what it is but I’m not gonna say it because I don’t wanna spoil your number one which– – Well you might end up spoiling it anyway. – I would never do to you what you just did to me. – The reason is that it’s just fun. – Yeah. – It’s only fun. – Good Xs and Os fun. – I don’t remember any of the contestants. There’s no like, do you remember when Ken Jennings was winning for a month, you know what I’m saying? – Right, right. – There’s no opportunity for the contestant to excel in a way that brings the attention back to them which again, as somebody who’s super competitive and has had a life of competing in sports and stuff like that and drawing attention to myself, I naturally kinda lock into the game strategy and how do you win this and how are you the victor in this and Hollywood Squares didn’t have that. It had the comedy side which I love and that’s why it’s on my top five of all time, but it’s not higher because of that. – And the resurgence of game shows, the primetime game shows where you’re talking about, what’s the Howie Mandel box show? – Deal or No Deal. – I hope that’s not on your list. – It isn’t, it is an honorable mention. But I have a very specific reason why it’s not on my list. – All right again I’m not gonna spoil what I think is your number one– – I’ll wait until I get to– – But I’m just gonna say– – Another game show that is a modern game show and tell you why it is on my list and why Deal or No Deal is not on my list. – The drama and the stakes and the spotlight and all that stuff from all those primetime shows, the resurgence of game shows in primetime– – Is based on that premise. – Is based on the principle of drama and stakes. – You can’t get a primetime game show that’s just fun. Doesn’t work. – Right, right. They tried to bring back The Gong Show which is not on my list even though I watched that some. And I didn’t like that ’cause that was just frivolous. That was basically just like a crazy variety show, I wasn’t into that. – They brought it back with Mike Myers playing a character. – It was too silly. – That no one watching network television understood that that was a character. – Yeah that was weird, I don’t understand. – Wrong crowd. – What’s, is it my turn? – It’s your turn to say what your number four is. – My number four is The Price Is Right. – Hmm, okay. – I think The Price Is Right is the longest-running game show in history. Can you verify that? At another point in my life, when I was younger and I couldn’t be left alone for any amount of time, my mom took me to Miss Dean. Miss Dean– – Child care. – Big blue Cadillac that only had two doors but the doors were so long, it was like you would pull the door handle and as a grade schooler she’d pick me up from school, I’d pull the door handle open and then I would have to walk in a circular radius in order to, using all my weight to push the door open and then get in the backseat with three or four other kids. Is it the longest-running game show, yes, since when? – ’69. – 1972. – ’72. – Syndicated version. ’56 is when– – Wow. – It originally aired and that was Bob Barker from the top, I believe. No he says. We should have done some research. – Who cares about research? – Who cares. This is all about my brain. – It’s happening now. – Over the summer, when she didn’t pick me up from school and I’d have to walk her door open, Mom would just drop me off and I’d be there in the morning, eat a little Rice Krispies with a bunch of sugar added. – At Miss Dean’s? – At Miss Dean’s. – She added sugar to your Rice Krispies at Miss Dean’s? – I insisted upon it. – Okay. – I remember there was a little television situated right in front of her table where we would eat breakfast and everything and then, we’d watch other stuff but then ultimately, Price Is Right would come on at same time it does now. – Yeah. – 11 o’clock. – Which is interesting that that’s its time slot and that’s what you associated with that, watching Price Is Right in the late morning. But don’t watch Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy in the late morning. – I love Price Is Right, I also think it has a heavy influence on Good Mythical Morning. But what would happen is, the reason why it’s not higher for me even though I love it, especially that big wheel, man. That is awesome. And I love Bob Barker, I love his long microphone. At the end of the episode, I knew, we were eating lunch, she would serve lunch at 11:40 and we would eat our grilled cheese or whatever and then I knew at the end of the Showcase Showdown, that I’m gonna have to take a nap right after this and that’s the reason that it’s not higher. She would make us take a nap– – Seems a little unfair. – At noon. – To Price Is Right, hold on, it’s an hour-long show. – An hour-long show and at the moment, yeah you’d have a winner of the first, first person would spin the wheel and be like, oh I like that guy, he’s gonna come back at the end and then they’d bring more people up. So at the end when he was like, and remember, have your pets spayed or neutered. I was like, now I gotta lay down and act like I’m going to sleep. I hated it. That’s the only reason it’s not higher. – Pavlovian response to Bob Barker’s neutering call. – The pandemonium when you would run down, come on down, that was just exciting, man. – Well okay so it’s not on my list and it was, and I ended up knocking it off to add another one that, I don’t know even know how I feel about it. – ‘Cause Miss Dean would make you take a nap at noon which is cruel. – I never even met her. – You never met her? – I don’t think so. Man, the more I think about it, it has so many great elements. Just let me just cover ’em for a second, right? Very funny, quick-witted host. You got the sex appeal of– – The models. – The Barker Beauties. – There’s male models now. – Now there’s male models, yes, it’s 2019, of course. – It’s great. Bring it on. – You’ve got a play-along-ability, you’ve got the variety of all the different games, you’ve got lots of cash and prizes, it’s an hour long. You’ve got the wheel, you’ve got the Showcase Showdown, it has so many elements. – When Safe Cracker comes on you get excited or of course Plinko like woo! – I honestly think that the reason it didn’t make my list is the time of day that it comes on that makes it feel less weighty to me. – And the commercials really bring you down. – Lots of commercials and they were always– – They’re marketed towards people who are dying, I mean honestly. – And also I never, I always found myself being annoyed by the contestants in a way that I was not annoyed, and you know what, something that Bob Barker didn’t do– – They’re manic. The contestants are manic. – And he also, even though he had a lot of dry wit, I feel like he let, he encouraged a lot of that. Whereas other hosts would kinda shut it down. – He almost absorbed it as personal adulation. – And I don’t know if I was jealous. I don’t know what it was but there was something about the whole system that turned me off enough to make me not, ’cause one of the reasons, one of the criteria for this list is if I turn the channel to it, which I still do turn the channel sometimes. – Oh I know what’s up there for you now. That you’ll watch. – If I land on it, I will keep watching it until it’s over and so, The Price Is Right is something that I would tune out of. I didn’t have to watch it until the end, so most of the stuff on my list, or all of the stuff on my list is something that I will kind of lock into. – Drew Carey. – Drew Carey’s whole career changed. It was a complete career change to step into that role. – What’s your next one? I’d love to bid a dollar though. You know iJustine? – She’s been on there. – She was on there. Of course they cast, they look at everybody in line. Hate to break this to you but when you stand, they decide who’s gonna come up. They cast you based on, they pick people in line. When you’re standing in line for Price Is Right, they’re interviewing people. They’re going down the aisle– – It’s profiling. – They’re profiling you, they’re interviewing you and they’re bringing you up there. Oh you got a social media following? Get up here, girl. – Okay. This is my one modern game show. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. – Okay, this is the one that was… Started the resurgence of game shows in primetime I believe. So dramatic. – And I am talking about the Regis Philbin version. – Yeah, yeah. – I don’t know, is it– – Meredith Vieira. – Is it still on? – I don’t think it is, no. – And here’s why– – Maybe in syndication but Meredith Vieira took over during the daytime. – Okay so– – Maybe, I don’t know. – When it came on– – I watched it. – The stakes were so high. – Yes. – You could win a million dollars. Unlike anything that had ever happened on a game show before. It was nerve-racking, there was a spotlight on this person. They had to call the right person. They had to make the right decisions. They used their lifelines and then you’ve got this incredibly funny host, you’ve got that, so it isn’t like you have this, there was The Weakest Link and you had that really– – British. – Caustic woman. – British woman. – And she was very funny but it was just all– – It was a bit. – It was all a bit the whole time and Regis, I’ve always liked him. I always liked Regis. – Yeah. I see a lot of your dad in Regis. – Right. He always, what do we got here? – Started August 16th, 1999. – 1999. So anyway– – Still in syndication, of course. – High playability factor, play-along-ability factor and the reason that I put that on the list is because it has all those elements. The reason I did not put Deal or No Deal on the list is because that whole thing where they make an offer to you and they act like the woman up there, the silhouette of the woman and she’s on the phone and she’s talking to Howie. – Yeah. – I don’t like all that stuff that I know is just all for show. You know what I’m saying, there was something about the simplicity of this person in a chair and these questions and a few different things you could do to get the answer and you either keep going up or you go. – It was over-sensationalized but it wasn’t like a farce. – It wasn’t a farce and there’s a farce in Deal or No Deal and also– – But I gotta give it to Howie because I really think that he was amazing on that show. – Oh yeah. – Absolutely– – It’s an honorable mention but it’s not in my top five. – I didn’t put it anywhere but I gotta give it to… The winking drama that he brought to it. He kinda winked at– – Howie is a genius at playing into that thing. – So good, man. And the fact that a comedian coming in and doing that but the comedy was in how dramatic he was, you know, he actually wasn’t funny in the way you thought he was gonna be funny. – Hmm. – He was funny in a dramatic way, you know? – Yeah but I think it might be funny for you to watch it ’cause you know that he’s acting with these people too. It might not be the way– – Well I think– – Everyone– – No of course not. – Interacts with– – But it worked on that level. And of course he knew that. – So anyway, and I didn’t, again, nothing against Meredith. I’m talking about the Regis Philbin version because Regis was funny. – He was first. – And I she wasn’t trying to be funny. – I don’t recall. – He was just trying to be nice. – I don’t know what she was. I’m staying out of that one. – But I’m just saying, she wasn’t trying to be funny. Regis is a comedian. And so there’s just something about how– – I think she was funny. – You need that voice in there, I don’t think she was trying to be, was she trying to be funny, did you watch that? – There’s so few– – She’s not a comedian. She’s a host. – There’s so few female game show hosts, like all of that ’70s and ’80s bravado stuff which now is almost intolerable. I think it’s like, so I’ll give it to Meredith in terms of being a champion of– – And of course, you’re trying to make me look bad. – No I’m sorry, I know you aren’t– – It has nothing to do with– – You just said that she wasn’t funny to you which is fine. – No– – You’re sexist. – She’s not trying to be funny. (Link chuckles) She’s not trying to be funny, she’s an anchor. She’s a news anchor, she’s not a comedian. So I’m saying that– – She was endearing. – You need a comedian in that role to give the full package for that show in my mind. Once you got rid of that it was like I’m not interested in it anymore. – My number three. I might be stealing your number one here. – Okay. – My number three is Family Feud. – That’s my number one. – That’s your number one? – Mm-hmm. – But I don’t think it is your number one because I’m saying Family Feud hosted by Richard Dawson. – Okay, Family Feud hosted by Richard Dawson was awesome. Family Feud hosted by Ray Combs was awesome. – I don’t know about that. – Family Feud hosted by the guy who was the beard on Home Improvement– – That’s not– – Not good. – That’s an improper use of the term. – The bearded guy. – The bearded guy is better. – But and then Steve frickin’ Harvey? – Steve Harvey is amazing. – The reason that this is my number one is because it has stood the test of time. – Yeah. – And it also has stood the test of the internet. Family Feud unlike any other game show, creates amazing fodder for tantalizing internet compilations. – Yeah. – Of answers and responses from the host. – It’s great. – And it’s just always fun. It’s fun but you’re not just getting it from professional comedians like you do on Hollywood Squares, you’re getting it from normal people, really racking their brains to come up with what three people out of 100 said. That’s when it gets interesting. – Do you believe that by the way? Do you believe they’re actually going out and they’re asking 100 people stuff? – There are people that do surveys, man. – I think sometimes those people who they ask are writers. – Well sure. – That’s what I believe. And it doesn’t matter. – It’s just 100 people. – Yeah they rack their brains and they trap them in these places where they have to say embarrassing, sexually-charged– – Well in the last decade or do, they really have leaned into the innuendo and they’re actually doing it for the internet clips, in fact, sometimes, Steve Harvey will be like, “You gonna be on YouTube,” you know what I’m saying. He says it on the– – And he’s great. The way that he, he is great, man. That’s his place, that’s his calling. – And there’s just something about the group, this is another thing, the group effect. You gotta come as a family so you have to bring the weird brother or the weird uncle, you have to. You gotta have five people. – The frickin’ Kardashians went on there with Kanye. – You put the weird one down at the end. – Did that really happen? – Yes it did. – I can’t even believe that happened. – It’s the best game show, man. – When Snoop was on there. Now that’s a clip you can keep watching. – Yeah, exactly, so– – So great. – Unlike, would Kanye and the Kardashians go on Wheel of Fortune? Well you can’t really I guess. – I think they went on more than one– – Kim and Kanye could go on together but there’s a reason that celebrities are clamoring, and I add myself to that list of people who, I wanna go on that frickin’ show. – Let’s face off. My family against your family. – Okay. You got one extra. No, I need an extra. I’ve only got four people in my family. Have to bring the dog. – You’re gonna have to bring somebody weird. – Again, it passes the test of if it’s on, I’m gonna watch it and I think it depends so much on– – I’m not gonna seek it out but if it’s on, I’ll watch it. – No– – It’s that good. – You flip through and you find something. I was at a restaurant– – I’ll seek it out on YouTube. – I was at a restaurant recently when we were skiing and this restaurant was playing the Family Feud, I was like they’ve got it figured out. I don’t wanna see necessarily the latest baseball game. Show me Family Feud, man. And it’s so, the host has, this is another reason I like it is that I always secretly wanted to be a game show host and see myself in that role and I see the way somebody like Steve Harvey does it and I’m just like hmm, that’s– – That’s it. – He’s got it. He’s doing it. The way he’s interacting with these people, it’s perfect. And so I kinda, I love watching that process happen. Family Feud. FF, number one. – I love the way that those answers used to turn manually. It was very satisfying. – What do they do now? – It’s a screen. – Bloop! – Boring. – They used to go ding and turn over. – Yeah it was very satisfying the way it would work. All right so I need your number three. – Oh. – Number two. – You need my number two. Jeopardy. – Jeopardy. Now, why you like Jeopardy? Jeopardy’s not on my list, it’s not on my honorable mentions but it is a staple. Whenever I’d go to Nanny’s, they would always be watching it. I mean there’s so many people that watch it. – For completely different reasons. Obviously. – What do you mean obviously? – It’s completely different than Family Feud. – Oh, oh. – It is so dry. – Yes. – It is just smart people. You have to be very smart to qualify to be on Jeopardy. You don’t just pay a fee or something. You have to pass a test. – But why? – To be on Jeopardy. – I knew one guy who was almost on. But I haven’t known anybody who’s on. – There was a rumor for a long time that my granddad was gonna be on Jeopardy, I remember that back when I was kid, it was like Grandpa McLaughlin, he’s gonna be on Jeopardy, might be on Jeopardy. I was like okay, cool. I didn’t like it as a kid. – Why? I don’t understand the broad appeal of a show that is so heady. – That is the appeal. – I think it’s ’cause you get the answers right after the question so you don’t really play along. I remember– – No no. – You play along– – Hold on, the appeal is trivia. It’s the only game that’s based on, predicting what 100 people are gonna say in a survey to a question is not trivia. But Jeopardy is trivia. It’s like this category– – You learn– – About Greek mythology, you’re like, oh. – You learn fascinating stuff. – What do I remember about that and I think everyone is accessing their knowledge base and I think there’s just a lot of people that A, like to play along with that, to be like, what category would I pick and how much do I know about this and can I get the answer before they get the answer without, in Groundhog Day having seen it a million times, but also, seeing somebody do what a guy like Ken Jennings and apparently there’s a guy that just did it again. I haven’t been watching. – Breaking the records of winnings, yes. – Yeah seeing somebody dominate in that way just because they are just smarter than other people is something that people like to watch, I like to watch, that’s why it’s number two. – The way that he’s winning so much and this has been done before is that they skip around in categories to keep everybody on their heels and they try to find the daily doubles early knowing that they’re not gonna be the low values and then they’re really smart on what to wager. You can wager everything you’ve got and take risks earlier and really assert, acquire a big lead and if you don’t get it right, you can recover because you’re still in charge of the game and everyone’s on their heels. And so that’s kind of a known– – He’s changed the game. – It’s a known technique now. Yeah, I’m just fascinated with people who aren’t heady thinkers, still like to witness trivia answers. I think that’s what it teaches me is that you don’t have to be a reader or honestly a very thoughtful person to really enjoy bite-sized trivia. It’s a different thing. – Well I actually think that most people who like it do think of themselves as, whether they are or they aren’t, they are interested in thinking about where they stack up against other people. I think that that’s the appeal and I think that’s most people. I think most people when they, again, I think most people are relatively competitive. I think that it’s just like, okay you’re gonna ask a question? I’m compelled. My human nature compels me to give you an answer and to try to give you that answer before somebody else does. – I was laying in bed, I think I was laying in bed, and this thought popped into my head, I don’t know why. Maybe I was reading something on Reddit about Jeopardy. Unrelated to what I was reading, I was like why is it formatted that you answer, you don’t answer a question. You respond to an answer with a question. So I looked that up ’cause I couldn’t formulate a guess. I couldn’t figure out why that would be the case. – Did you formulate a question? – So according to the Smithsonian, in 1963 television host and erstwhile actor Merv Griffin was flying back to New York City with his wife Julann after a weekend visiting her parents in Michigan. Didn’t need to add that but they did. Merv was looking at notes for a new game show and Julann asked if it was one of the knowledge-based games she likes so is it a trivia game? He said, “Since The $64,000 Question, “the network won’t let you do those anymore,” he said. The rigging scandal of the 1950s, like that movie Quiz Show. – Yeah. – Which very good movie. The scandals had killed off American quiz shows seemingly for good. And he said, “They suspect you of giving them the answers.” And she said something to the effect of, “Well why don’t you give them the answers “and people make up the questions.” And he’s like thinking about it, he’s like okay, the answer is 5,280. And he thought for a moment. The question is, how many feet in a mile. And he’s like, the answer is 79 Whistful Vista. The then the response was, where did Fibber McGee and Molly live? I don’t know who Fibber McGee is. This was in 1963. Those two simple questions changed TV history. There you have it. It was just a simple response but it was such a, it was a hook, and then I’m thinking, well, if you give an answer, you could ask multiple questions to get that answer. So then I’m realizing that you’ve got to, you also have to satisfy the category. – Right. – So you gotta satisfy the clue and the category so if it’s like there was one that was, Patrick Roy and Hope Solo played this position. And the category was 10 letter words. – 10 letter words? – Yeah, and the answer– – Goalkeeper. What is a goalkeeper? – Wrong. – What is a goalie? – Goalkeeper is 10 letters, but they said it had to contain the word 10 so the correct answer was goaltender. – Oh it had to contain, oh that’s great. – But they said that so there’s my little trivia. – Wow. – Associated with Jeopardy and we– – That’s great though. What you just did is great. That’s what makes it so great. – Yeah and I don’t think– – It’s a mind game, man. – When they were brainstorming it on the plane, I don’t think they knew the full ramifications. Sometimes you just, what if we give the answer and you have to come up with the question and then you play it out– – Which ultimately, they’re just asking a question and you’re giving the answer but they just reverse sort of the pretense. Now, of course– – We gotta talk about Alex. – Alex Trebek has got pancreatic cancer. As of the recording of this– – Sending much love to Alex. – Alec. – Oh. (chuckles) I like– – Send it to the right person. (Link laughs) – Alec. – He’s got pancreatic cancer which of course is like… – It is Alex. Yeah hold on, it’s not Alec. I thought it’s Alec Baldwin. I was sending it to the right person and then you fooled me. – Alex Trebek. I don’t know. – I kept thinking– – Here’s the thing. – It is Alex. – Here’s the thing, up until literally, I’ve never thought that his name was Alec until a split second ago when you said Alex. I’ve always known him to be Alex Trebek. – I just have a way of making you think sounds false. – You made it sound wrong. (chuckles) – That’s a game show. Making true things sound false. – He’s got pancreatic cancer which is you know, very, very low survival rate. – He made a heart-wrenching announcement video. They haven’t said who’s gonna replace him because– – Well what’s the latest though because I don’t know what the status of his health is right now. – I don’t know the status of his health but in terms of, they’re not saying who would replace him. I think they’re keepin’ all that under wraps but– – Maybe a guy named Alec. – I feel like if he has a son, I think his son should do it and I think that his son should look just like him but have the mustache that he had in the ’80s. – And we don’t know, I mean he could beat this illness. But he’s going to retire at some point regardless. – Sure, rumors are saying that Gayle King will replace him. Somehow that name’s floating around. – What’s it say? – He signed off for the summer but he intends on coming back. ‘Cause he’s saying I’m gonna beat this. But even when he retires, we wish Alex the best and we believe he can do it. I wouldn’t wanna host. – The way that you said it somehow tricked my brain into thinking that it was Alec, that’s incredible. You have a gift, man. – Thank you. – But we’ve covered, we’ve covered your number– – I gotta go with my number two. – Oh your number two. – My number two ’cause Hollywood Squares is my number one, my number two is Press Your Luck. Because that was– – The Whammies. – That was my favorite show. No Whammies no Whammies no Whammies, stop! – Yeah that was an honorable mention for me. – It was very manic. Peter Tomarken was the host. And this guy had the slyest grin. It was like he knew something. And I never figured out what it was. And I couldn’t stop watching because I thought maybe I’d figure it out. Like he knew something about life and it was very amusing to him. Something about this weird, bemused bravado was just, I don’t know, I just thought he was the coolest guy. – Tarken. – Tomarken. – Tomarken. – Peter Tomarken. – I can’t picture him right now. – And they would have the animations on the screen where the Whammies would come out or the– – Yeah those little devil-looking characters. – Devil guys would come out. – Tasmanian devils. – It would do different stuff. And we talked on GMM about one of our most-viewed episodes ever was like– – The cheater. – Game show cheaters. And the guy on Price Is Right who was the cheater, he died recently and that was back in the news. Flanagan sent that to us. I don’t know why that video kept getting 10s of millions of views on our channel, it’s crazy. – People just like– – But we also talked about– – Cheaters. – The guy who cheated on Press Your Luck and he knew the patterns and could– – He could time it perfectly. – Stop at the right time. I just like the energy of it. And they would make it look like the contestants and the host were perched on top of this huge board with the way that they would superimpose it. – It was the first game show that had, I think they did this with Bumper Stumpers too if I remember, the display of it– – Like a picture. – Was a picture in picture thing. Very interesting. – But basically, it’s my number two just because of his, Peter Tomarken’s vibe, the animations and just the overall, just the energy. – I don’t even remember what the point of the show was. – The vibe of the show. – What was the point of the show? – I don’t know. Win money. (chuckles) – But you were pressing your luck and you were like I’m gonna go again, I’m gonna hit this thing and then– – It would build up, the pressure would build up in terms of are you gonna lose all this money? – Okay so that’s your number two. – Yeah. – So we don’t agree on the number one, you said Hollywood Squares, I said Family Feud. Honorable mentions that we didn’t mention that you may remember, Street Smarts. Do you remember Street Smarts? This is like– – That was on Fox. – Early 2000s. – That seemed trashy to me but I don’t remember what it is. – Well it was a game, there was a host, can’t remember his name, who would go out on the street and do man on the street interviews with people and then there was two contestants and they had to predict if this person was, of these three contestants that we just introduced you to, which one of them will know who this is? And they hold up a picture and it’s like Frank Sinatra. And it’s just like, okay, which one of these people, only one of them knew who Frank Sinatra was, which one was it and so then you pick one of the three people. – So it’s profiling. – And then they show you and they say, and just for fun, let’s see what Carla said. And she doesn’t know who Frank Sinatra is so she says like the president or something like that. – Man on the street comedy. – So it’s making fun of stupid people which is like what now Jimmy Kimmel has turned into a bit with his man on street stuff where it’s like, what do people know about current politics or whatever. It was very trashy. – One of my honorable mentions was Supermarket Sweep. I don’t know why as a kid I had any business being interested in Supermarket Sweep. – It’s funny because you were so averse at spending money and have always been but yet you wanted to see somebody else go do it. – Oh yeah wish fulfillment. Like oh my gosh, if I had a cart and 90 seconds, what would I get? And I think on Nickelodeon there was a show where you would go into Toys R Us and do the same thing, you go to a toy store. – That makes sense. – But yeah I would watch the adult version, Supermarket Sweep. – Speaking of Nickelodeon, Double Dare was on there. – Yeah, Double Dare. – Not top five but it’s so iconic. – My honorable mention was Fun House, the Fox television show ripoff of Double Dare with the host had red hair and he’s been the host of other things too. Can you Google the hose of Fun House? – I never even heard of it. – Just picture a ripoff of Double Dare. – And that beat Double Dare for you? – I think it had bigger obstacle courses that were more like, it was more like American Ninja Warrior in some ways, I think in the final. J.D. Roth was the host. – And then I had The Newlywed Show and The Dating Game. Kinda before our time so reruns and then those clips pop up a bunch but it’s just one of those things that endless fodder for compilations. – Tic-Tac-Dough. – Never heard of it. – Wink Martindale hosted that. – Oh. – It was tic-tac-toe like Hollywood Squares but it was different in ways I can’t remember but Wink Martindale, he hosted a bunch of shows and he was hokey, but I liked him. You got any other honorable mentions, you’re done? – No I’m done with my honorable mentions. – Oh you’re done? Shout out to $25,000 Pyramid, Dick Clark. I like that, you’d have a celebrity paired– – It’s a good show. – With a contestant and it would be things like, crystal ball. Magic eight ball. – Round things. (chuckles) Magic round things. – Fortune teller. – Magic things. (chuckles) – We suck at this. A prognosticator. A, pass. – Prophecy. – It was things that predict the future. – Things that predict the future. – Yeah. And then some people would be really good at it. – Not us. – There were some celebrities who didn’t have anything better to do so they stayed on the show and then they would get really good at it. – Right, it’s good, have they tried to bring that back, right? – I don’t know but they should again. I think that’s all on my honorable mentions. Concentration, that was the last one that I added. It was like a matching game and you would remove matching panels and it would reveal a pictograph underneath that– – It’s a matching game. – Like a phrase. And you had to solve it, solve the phrase using the pictographs. I loved that game for some reason. So that’s it. – Yeah those sorta– – Now we agree. – Simple, simple games. – So we agree on Family Feud. – Simple games like that just won’t, they won’t put ’em on television anymore. – Well there’s a whole network. – They’ll put ’em on television in Australia. Based on what I saw– – Yeah what you saw. – When I was there. – So there you have it. Our top game shows of all times. Let us know, all time. We’ve only had one time. Go to #EarBiscuits, let us know your favorite game show and tell us why, maybe it’ll change our minds. Maybe it’ll remind us of something or give us a reason or a piece of trivia that will make us change our top five. – And Link, do you have a rec? Do you have a Rec In Effect? – I do, I got a Rec In Effect. Since you’re done listening to this podcast, maybe you want another podcast to listen to before Ear Biscuits rolls around next week ’cause you’re fully caught up. I’m gonna recommend a podcast where you can listen to my wife talk for an hour. – Wow. – Our good friend Mike has a podcast called Ask Science Mike. I highly recommend his podcast in general, but episode 180 called Living, I wrote it down here, I didn’t remember exactly. Living With a Brain Injury with Christy Neal who’s my wife. I don’t know that I’ve ever actually shared specifically that almost three years ago Christy suffered a brain injury. She suffers from post-concussion syndrome as a result of a concussion she had almost three years ago which dramatically changed her life as well as had ramifications for us as a family. We’ve been talking about when was the right time maybe for her to come on Ear Biscuits and talk about it. But she didn’t wanna do it because of the video component, honestly. She wasn’t quite ready for that. She doesn’t love being on the videos at this point. So Ask Science Mike, check that out, episode 180. Especially if you know someone who’s had a concussion or has suffered from an invisible injury that impacts your life, I think there’s lots of takeaways and I’m super proud of her for everything she shared. I think it’s tremendously, it can be really powerful to someone who’s going through it or knows someone who is so check that out. And I think that’s all I have to say about it at this time. I do think that at some point, maybe she’ll come on the air, we can unpack it further. But that’s a great place to start, so check it out. – And with that being said, we will see you again. Or you will hear us again or hear and see us again, however you enjoy this, next week. In the meantime, connect with us. The password is #EarBiscuits. – No Whammies! To watch more Ear Biscuits, click on the playlist on the right. – [Rhett] To watch the previous episode of Ear Biscuits, click on the playlist to the left. – [Link] And don’t forget to click on the circular icon to subscribe. – [Rhett] If you prefer to listen to this podcast, it’s available on all your favorite podcast platforms. Thanks for being your Mythical best. (electronic music)