484 - The 'Press Your Luck' Scandal

Do Go On

Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke

Fact, History, Facts, Comedy

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

If there's one thing we love, it's game show scandals! And this week we hear about a very successful contestant on the American game show Press Your Luck. But WAS he just lucky, or was there more to it?

This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 09:49 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnMlSVS9hb4

https://www.nofreelunch.co.uk/blog/michael-larson-press-your-luck/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Your_Luck_scandal

https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/lebanons-michael-larson-and-the-110000-press-your-luck-scandal-of-1984/GTVLQYYNN5DGBPFOAKNESTBN5A/

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/412/million-dollar-idea

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Do Go On's 500th episode is coming to Melbourne at the Capitol Theatre on Saturday, April 26, and here's a ticket update with now sold 80% of all tickets.
0:09.7	So if you want to get involved, you might want to go to do go onpod.com.
0:13.4	That's Saturday, April 26 episode of Do Go One.
0:35.2	My name is Dev Warnocky and as always I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart.
0:39.2	Hello.
0:40.0	Hey, how good is it to be alive?
0:41.7	So good to be back.
0:43.0	People, this doesn't matter, but it's our first episode we're recording this year.
0:46.6	Yeah.
0:47.1	Wow.
0:47.7	Wow.
0:48.2	How about that?
0:48.8	But here's the thing. podcast magic with the last couple of episodes and we're like, wow, 2025. Oh, did we lie? Yeah, we lied. I'm so sorry about that. I'm doing it.
0:57.0	So, dude. Yeah, you guys thought we were here the whole time, but really, we had holidays.
1:01.5	We had a great holiday. Yeah. So good. Yeah, during holiday, we all went away together. Yeah,
1:06.2	as we do every year. Yeah. And I look forward to it every year. It was great to go to Disney World together. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:11.1	We'd already done two of the Disneylands.
1:12.8	Yes.
1:13.2	And we thought, let's mix it up.
1:14.7	People often complain.
1:15.6	People complain about their bosses a lot, but I think ours are great.
1:19.4	Our bosses are awesome.
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