Episode 298: Big Bucks, No Whammies, STOP!

Show Notes Episode 298: Big Bucks, No Whammies, STOP! This week Host Dave Bledsoe welcomes back our returning champion, a bottle of whiskey. To date, whiskey has won over $35,000 dollars from the show and shows no signs of stopping! (It really is like taking candy from a baby!) On the show this week, we talk about the day the Whammies Died on Press Your Luck!   Along the way we experience what the average day was like for the children or the 1980’s (and the unemployed!) as we take a tour through daytime game shows! From there dig into the creation of a comparatively short lived game show that has never really been forgotten by a generation of latchkey kids! (We never saw our parents!) Then we meet the man who beat the Big Board and took CBS for over a quarter million dollars in today’s money: Michael Larson. It all ends pretty much how you think it might end. Our Sponsor this week is The Match Game, teaching children about sex since 1969! We open the show with these lovely parting gifts and close with an entirely different set of parting gifts, including the What the HELL Home Game! Show Theme: https://www.jamendo.com/track/421668/prelude-to-common-sense The Show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheHell_Podcast The Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/ www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music: https://youtu.be/jn7WI2zc6d0 We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed: The Man Who Got No Whammies https://priceonomics.com/the-man-who-got-no-whammies/ BIG BUCKS - THE PRESS YOUR LUCK SCANDAL https://vimeo.com/119543939 Michael Larson Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Larson Uncited Additional Reading: https://variety.com/2003/tv/reviews/big-bucks-the-press-your-luck-scandal-1200542858/ https://www.onthisday.com/date/1984/june/8 https://gameshows.fandom.com/wiki/Press_Your_Luck/Episode_Guide/1984 https://25yearslatersite.com/2019/07/29/press-your-luck-and-the-80s-most-infamous-game-show-scandal/ https://theretronetwork.com/big-money-no-whammies/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/an-ice-cream-man-hacked-press-your-luck-1984-1217142 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices