Longtime 'Price Is Right' Host Bob Barker Dies at 99
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Something about that is very satisfying to me.
People still went out trick or treating, people still watched tv with commercials which I think made us slow down and talk about things more while we waited for the commercials to end. I love Netflix and chill as much as anybody else and I'm obsessed with AI but as I get older nostalgia hits harder and harder.
I'm not certain I love stranger things for the story or just the nostalgia it brings. Probably both, but I'll watch and probably enjoy anything set in the 80s, or 90s. There seemed to be a lot less political polarity and hatred between the left and right too. that was nice.
She was totally excited about it, of course, told the whole family to watch; I couldn't tune in so I watched a tape or replay or something.
It was actually pretty emabarrassing for her and I just cringed to watch it. They started out on the wrong foot with the announcer mispronouncing her name (how do they do that?!) but she exhibited great enthusiasm and energy as she zipped up to her assigned podium.
Then she bid on a couple pricing games, and was quickly eliminated for being way, way off target, didn't win anything, and went home in shame and defeat.
That is how the cookie crumbles, I suppose, for many contestants, and I believe my cousin had more price-savvy than most, hanging out in thrift stores and auction sites and knowing the values of things, everything but the brand-new drum set they put on display for her to win. (Her husband was a multi-instrumentalist and her very young son was a drummer in a local band.)