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Celebrating 6 Seasons on GSN America Says Hosted By Actor Michael Higgins · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Hey, there's a podcast network I would love for you
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  Speaker 1: to check out. It's Ero dot net, A R r
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  Speaker 1: o e dot net. It's not just one podcast, it's
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  Speaker 1: twenty different suggestions. One of my favorites is that voice.
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  Speaker 1: How about those conversations as it was happening. It's just
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  Speaker 1: outside the blind auditions growing forward, that voice only on
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  Speaker 1: ero dot net, A R r oe dot net. Enjoy
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  Speaker 1: your exploration. How are you doing today?
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  Speaker 3: You know, and I'm fine.
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  Speaker 2: I was ill a couple of weeks ago and had
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  Speaker 2: to cancel my radio tour, but which rarely happens, but
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  Speaker 2: there it is.
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  Speaker 3: But now I feel like I'm a million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, mister million dollar man, I did something here.
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  Speaker 1: There's a couple of things here that you Being on
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  Speaker 1: the Game show Network has changed my life in so
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  Speaker 1: many ways. Number one, your perseverance just blows me away.
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  Speaker 1: And I want you to study one thing. How people
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  Speaker 1: recognize you. I've yet to meet a person that does
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  Speaker 1: know who you are. So I'm going to officially declare
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  Speaker 1: you the most most recognized man in America.
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  Speaker 2: Really, you know, I you know, I feel people recognize
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  Speaker 2: me all the time. I don't think they know who
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  Speaker 2: I am, though I think sometimes it's like it's not
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  Speaker 2: like I'm a normal celebrity, like, oh, there's Tom Cruise.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's like, oh, there's that guy from.
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  Speaker 2: The thing, you know. And but that's fine. I don't mind.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that because you're you're such a great character actor
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  Speaker 1: that you can fit into any role that we can
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  Speaker 1: relate with, And all of a sudden, we're going, oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's my brother.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I hope. So, I guess that's the idea.
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  Speaker 2: I was never you know, on stage, I was sort
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  Speaker 2: of a leading man, but on film, I don't. It's
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  Speaker 2: like it doesn't quite work for me being a leading man.
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  Speaker 2: And so I was a character guy. And I've been
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  Speaker 2: characterraiphed for forty years. And maybe that's why I told
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  Speaker 2: it's the longevity. It's I've done so many products that
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  Speaker 2: most people have bumped into me at some point and
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  Speaker 2: they think they think they know me. Sometimes I think, oh,
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  Speaker 2: maybe he's my dentist or you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: They just like, I know you, I don't know why.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that you really do bring to
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  Speaker 1: America says, and this is where it changes me on
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  Speaker 1: the lecture tour, is that I love the way that
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  Speaker 1: you utilize the strength of the blank because in those
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  Speaker 1: blanks they have to come together with the right answer
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  Speaker 1: and and it really does engage those that are present.
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  Speaker 1: I love how you have mastered that art.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you. It took him. It took a minute.
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  Speaker 2: You know. I've done six seasons of it and it's
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  Speaker 2: all it's all about a learning curve for me. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the game is really well designed. I think you they
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  Speaker 2: have that screen with all those blanks and you can't
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  Speaker 2: really help. But if you're walking through the room or
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  Speaker 2: an airport or through your kitchen, you're going to be
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  Speaker 2: shouting out trying to fill the blanks. It's just human nature.
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  Speaker 2: You know what the answer is, and you're you're yelling
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  Speaker 2: at the television.
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  Speaker 3: And that's that's the beauty of the game. It really
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  Speaker 3: just works wonderfully. It's very entertaining.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're so good at improv and ad leming. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I would love to know what your secret sauce is
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  Speaker 1: in the way of getting there and delivering, because you
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  Speaker 1: don't waste any time on getting that that position of Okay,
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  Speaker 1: here's how we're setting up, here's the execution. Now there's
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  Speaker 1: the payoff.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's actually a good question.
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  Speaker 2: You'll understand this as a radio guy, is that you
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  Speaker 2: know good improv is. The trick is you listen more
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  Speaker 2: carefully than you speak, and if you listen carefully to
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  Speaker 2: what the other guy saying, you will say something that works.
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  Speaker 2: It may not be funny, but at least it works
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  Speaker 2: and the audience appreciates it. Then every third thing you
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  Speaker 2: say is funny and it's it's just and that's and
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  Speaker 2: that's all the that's all the odds you need to succeed.
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  Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Michael Higgins coming
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  Speaker 1: up next. GSN. Game Show Network America says, we are
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  Speaker 1: back with the host, the legendary Michael Higgins. Isn't the
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  Speaker 1: One of the greatest things about America, says on GSN,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that that you guys really do include the viewer.
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  Speaker 1: Because when you're asking these teams to come together, they're
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  Speaker 1: everyday people, and I feel like that we're competing. We
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  Speaker 1: of course we all automatically pick our favorite team, but
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  Speaker 1: then we're cheering with that team like we know them
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  Speaker 1: and we've known them for years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is very much like a sporting event. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you get you become invested in these contestants. The contestants
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  Speaker 2: is the whole People think it's me, it's not. It's
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  Speaker 2: the contestants that are interesting. And because they're the ones
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  Speaker 2: who have a problem. I don't have a problem as
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  Speaker 2: a game show host. I'm just having I'm just throwing
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  Speaker 2: a party, you know. But everyone there, all those eight
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  Speaker 2: contestants I have every single episode, they have a problem
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  Speaker 2: that they're trying to work out, and you're trying to
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  Speaker 2: work it.
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  Speaker 3: Out with them, and you feel them, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And it's nice to have me making jokes along the way,
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  Speaker 2: but it really just keeps the I'm really just there
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  Speaker 2: to pour the drinks. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you've become such a sinsey in the way of that.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, I believe in this mantra. They're there not
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  Speaker 1: to see me. They love the idea that you recognize them.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, you put the attention on them and
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  Speaker 1: they're going, oh oh, and all of a sudden they
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  Speaker 1: start playing that game even more. And I love how
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  Speaker 1: you do that. You really bring them out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you said it perfectly. I think that really is
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  Speaker 2: my job and I've always recognized that as my job.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe that's why the show has gone well for
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  Speaker 2: Game Show Network and for me and for the contestants
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  Speaker 2: is that it's really about the contestants. And I recognize that,
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  Speaker 2: and it's fine. It makes for a really entertaining half
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  Speaker 2: hour of television and I'm happy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy to be a part of it, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And so if I can get the contestants to say
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  Speaker 2: a joke that's funny, which is about really relaxing them. Finally,
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  Speaker 2: if they're relaxed and happy, they will do something fun.
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  Speaker 3: And and that's that's the trick.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta let me on the inside on one thing,
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  Speaker 1: and that is is that are you counting steps when
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  Speaker 1: you're on that stage? And the reason why is because
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  Speaker 1: I do all the time. When I hosted the Newlywed
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  Speaker 1: Game that one time, all I could do inside my
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  Speaker 1: mind was count my steps to know if I was
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  Speaker 1: in the right place at the right time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there is a bit of that, you know. I
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  Speaker 3: have to say.
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  Speaker 2: You know, in this new season, season six, we have
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  Speaker 2: a brand new set, the Redesign set. It's very fancies beautiful,
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  Speaker 2: and I feel i feel like I'm not as good
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  Speaker 2: as the set is.
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  Speaker 3: So I've got I've gotta up my game a bit,
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  Speaker 3: but so but yeah, for me.
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  Speaker 2: It was odd because the spacing is slightly different. So
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  Speaker 2: usually when I'm saying this, I'm I'm taking two and
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  Speaker 2: a half steps to get to that podium where that
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  Speaker 2: person is. And and then for this season, for the
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  Speaker 2: first week, I was having trouble because I was I
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  Speaker 2: only I had to take three and a half steps,
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  Speaker 2: and I was like speaking to soon and it.
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  Speaker 3: Was really strange. It was all it was all muscle memory.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when I've done, you know, almost six hundred
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  Speaker 2: episodes of this show, and it's believed me.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of muscle memory.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, You're so great at what you do.
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  Speaker 1: You got to come back to this show because the
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  Speaker 1: door is always going to be open for you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then I will always come. So just give me
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  Speaker 2: a call and I'll be there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you keep me being brilliant, Okay, sir, Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much,