Jim Peck (game show host, Three's A Crowd, Big Showdown, and Joker's Wild)

<p>Game show legend Jim Peck joined me to talk about living in Milwaukee during the Happy Days era; favorite radio shows; the first time he saw a television; going to Marquette University; getting the performing bug; his first job as a booth announcer at WISN; Don Pardo; hosting a series called <em>Confrontation</em>;&nbsp;<em>Jim Peck's Hotline</em>; hard to get guests; <em>Take it from Here</em> from Washington DC; <em>Big Showdown</em>; falling down during entrance and having it be on YouTube today; emulating Johnny Carson; contestant interviews; <em>Hot Seat</em>; the Richard Dawson "feud": <em>Second Cance</em>; Peter Tomarken; going out with Monty Hall on his 94th birthday; Peter Marshall;&nbsp;his unaired late night pilot <em>After Hours: The Jim Peck Special</em> which would have featured Susan Anton, Robin Williams, and Loni Anderson; <em>You Don't Say</em>; Nipsey Russell; Dick Gautier;&nbsp;Robert Ridgely; <em>3's a Crowd</em>; led to divorces and firings; originally pitched by Jess Oppenheimer as a clean game show and sexed up by Chuck Barris; Chuck realizes "no one had fun on the show"; cheating on game shows; <em>Press Your Luck</em>;&nbsp;<em>The Price is Right</em>; his famous perm; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind; <em>Everything's Relative</em> and other game show pilots; You Tube <em>3's A Crowd</em> reaction video;&nbsp;being hired to sub for and take over for Jack Barry on <em>Joker's Wild</em>; Barry dying and the syndicator choosing to go with Bill Cullen; calling his mother's friend out of the audience to play game; Divorce Court; Doug Llewellyn; Judge William Keane; show was done with actors and scripts; guest lawyers including John Erlichman;&nbsp;Judge Keane decided case by what he saw, not original outcome; hosting the Drum Corps International on PBS; Milwaukee; retiring from WTMJ-AM in 2021 - his first radio job.</p>