“My aunt won a Porsche on the show 30 years ago and I’ve been watching the show ever since,” Robert Jones said. The first four players for contestants’ row are called from the studio audience at the start of the show, and after each pricing game, a new player is called to fill the vacated slot. The prize’s price is then revealed, and the player with the closest bid walks onto the stage to play a pricing game. On the show there is one bid, in which four players in contestants’ row bid on a prize, attempting to bid as close as possible to, but without exceeding, the prize’s suggested retail price. Once there he knew what to do since he had been watching the show on television for nearly 30 years. “So we booked two first-class tickets to Los Angeles and I did the show.” “I told my brother about it finally and he said, ‘Are you crazy?! This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for you,” Robert said. Immediately Robert said that he couldn’t do it as it was only a few days away and too short of a notice. It turns out it wasn’t a scam and a few days later Robert was asked if he could tape a show on Feb. But I figured as long as they didn’t ask for any private information I would go along and shoot the video.” I then started to think it might be a scam, especially when they asked to do a Zoom interview with me. “So I went along with the joke and I soon find out Dwayne’s not part of it. I figured it was Dwayne getting back at me,” Robert continued. “So a month ago I get a call from the people on ‘The Price is Right’ asking if I wanted to possibly be on their show. And I told Robert I’d get him back eventually.”įast forward about a decade later, and Robert thought he was getting that payback. “They called me twice! I had to keep telling them it wasn’t true. “He (Robert) made up some scenario where I was fooling around with some girls and she didn’t know who the father of her kid was,” Dwayne now says with a laugh. “I told the Jerry Springer people some stuff about him (that wasn’t true) and they kept calling him over and over again asking him to be on their show.”ĭwayne looks back now at the memory and laughs.
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“It all started as a joke,” Robert said, with a laugh.
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About 10 years ago Robert called “The Jerry Springer Show” but disguised himself and his voice as Dwayne. Robert, who works at Napa Hospital, is the younger brother of Dwayne, who is a counselor at Jesse Bethel as well as previously being a longtime basketball coach at the same school as well as Hogan. “What started out as a trick, turned into a treat,” Robert told the Times-Herald on Wednesday. When his opponent, Joshua, bid $33,500, just over the real amount of $32,978, Robert was the winner and he celebrated by jumping up and down and screaming praise. Robert Jones’ bid was $27,500, just under the real amount of $29,329 for the car. Bay Area man wins showcase on ‘The Price is Right’ – The Mercury News