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Neumms:
I think Barker is my big influence. Working in ad agencies, I’ve always been told I’m a good presenter to clients. There’s no particular reason for it, though. I’ve never acted, performed on stage, or joined the debate team. I figure it must be the hours upon hours of watching Bob make the perfect quip or properly build to a reveal.

My crush would be Anitra on The New Price Is Right. Nobody did more with a quart of Castrol than she did. Later I fell for Kyle in her too few appearances. 

bulldog_06:
1. (This should make Ms. Tammy aka Winkfan proud) While Barker was THE master of ceremonies, my favorite was Wink Martindale. I used to watch TTD, Trivial Pursuit and others a lot and he had that amazing radio voice. He made me want to be a game show host...I still have those dreams still.

2. Vanna is the obvious choice. But for me, my game show crush I actually got to meet, it was Claudia Jordan (TPiR and DoND). At the time she was working with Jamie Foxx's XM radio show and I met her at a nightclub after she finished was on-air. I dunno if I still have that pic.

Unrealtor:
I'm going to go off the board and give qualified negatives to both questions.

I can't really say that I have a particular host that I consciously emulate, but sometimes, when I'm using my electric lawnmower and dragging the extension cord behind me, I realize that I'm kind of subconsciously imitating Bob Barker tugging on his microphone cable as he walked around the stage.

I didn't really have that many crushes on adults before puberty hit, or at least not that I remember, and when puberty did hit, it was the mid 90s when the market for first-run game shows basically cratered. Although I did realize years later that maybe JD Roth was a part of the appeal of Fun House for me, but it wasn't particularly intense.

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