Wink Martindale (and his wife Sandy!) (encore)
Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
Alison Rosen
4.6 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
In honor of Wink's recent passing, I wanted to share this episode that originally aired in 2014.
Original description:
Wink Martindale (plus appearance by his wife Sandy) stops by this episode of Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend to talk about being a frigging legend, hosting game shows, which game show he wishes he currently hosted, his first radio gig at 17, going from radio to TV, his friendship with Elvis Presley, the last time he saw Elvis, being a parent vs. being a grandparent, how he met his wife Sandy, Sandy's 6 year relationships with Elvis, their chihuahuas, keeping love alive, operating a restaurant, fighting, civil rights and so much more. We also did a round of Just Me Or Everyone.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. It is me, Alison Rosen in 2025. And before you hear this episode, |
| 0:06.7 | just wanted to come on and I wanted to say hello. And I'm going to be fully transparent. |
| 0:12.3 | This is the second time I've recorded this because the first version was weirdly sing-songy and also there were mouth sounds in it and that's unacceptable. |
| 0:24.9 | So this one is going to be songs, mouth sounds, and hopefully less sing-songy. |
| 0:32.2 | I'm just going to be as fucking monotone as possible. Oh, that's a little sing-song. I'm just going to be right here. |
| 0:39.7 | It's Allison. The episode you're about to hear, does this sound normal? The episode you're |
| 0:43.8 | about to hear was recorded in 2014. Ooh, who am I being? Was recorded in 24. I'm like, |
| 0:50.5 | does this NPR was recorded in 2014? |
| 0:59.1 | In a certain month of 2014, it was legendary game show host. |
| 1:00.6 | Do you guys hate that? |
| 1:02.0 | Or should that be my new voice? |
| 1:04.9 | Hang on, I have to swallow and I'm afraid of mouth sounds. |
| 1:09.7 | In the words of Chelsea Peretti, I'm scared straight from mouth sounds. |
| 1:18.6 | Excuse me. It's Easter Sunday and no one is trying to hear that. By the time you hear this, it'll be Easter Sunday plus one. Anyway, it's a legendary game show host, Wink |
| 1:25.1 | Martindale, the late great, and his wife Sandy. Now, I titled it Wink Martindale, the late great, and his wife Sandy. |
| 1:29.6 | Now, I titled it Wink Martindale plus cameo from his wife Sandy or something like that. |
| 1:35.6 | My memory, I'm really trying to avoid. |
| 1:39.3 | For you audio nerds out there, I want to put a gate on my own voice. |
| 1:44.4 | My memory is that his wife, was there the entire episode, and yet I, the way I titled |
| 1:50.6 | it, it suggests she just popped in. Did I give her a short shrift? This sounds good, right? |
| 1:58.7 | It's sexy, sensual, normal. |
| 2:06.0 | Yeah, my memory issue was there the whole time, so I don't know why I titled it that way. |
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