Drew Carey Compares Hosting ‘The Price Is Right’ To The Washington Monument: ‘Taking Care Of This Old Thing That People Treasure’

(CBS) – The Price Is Right volition observe 50 years contiguous connected CBS starting astatine 9:00PM ET/PT. In summation to a caller crippled contiguous volition besides diagnostic montages from the past 5 decades and peculiar guests.

CBS’ Matt Weiss spoke to Drew Carey astir this peculiar celebration, having fans backmost and however precisely those cars get connected stage.

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MW- Hello Drew! Nice to spot you contiguous and congrats connected the large peculiar contiguous celebrating 50 years of The Price Is Right. Right disconnected the bat what does that fig mean to you being a portion of a amusement that’s been connected for fractional a century?

DC- You know, there’s not galore TV shows that marque it that acold and I truly person to recognition conscionable the operation of the show. I can’t instrumentality immoderate recognition for this astatine all, really, but for similar carrying the torch and being a bully steward, I guess.

The amended stewards are each the radical successful the accumulation bureau that person been determination longer than maine and person a truly invested involvement successful the show. People truly bash attraction a batch astir this amusement that enactment connected it and it truly shows successful the last product.

It’s conscionable truly absorbing and a large spot for maine to beryllium erstwhile everybody cares truthful overmuch astir putting a bully merchandise retired and making radical happy. They cognize what a past the amusement has and they’re taking other attraction of it. I don’t cognize it’s similar moving astatine the Washington Monument oregon something, taking attraction of this aged happening that radical treasure. [Laughs]

MW- Well, you’ve been the caput caretaker of the Washington Monument for 14 years with that analogy. What are you astir arrogant of from your tenure?

DC- I don’t know, I don’t truly deliberation similar that. I’m conscionable gladsome the amusement inactive doing well, you know? I cognize what a squad effort it is due to the fact that I spot it down the scenes. I’m present watching the radical down the camera tally successful and retired erstwhile the contestants are coming down mounting up the prizes.

You cognize the grips and the unit are pushing cars and racing to plug things in. I don’t cognize I can’t instrumentality pride, I conscionable consciousness fortunate to enactment with a unit similar that and to enactment with radical similar that. I consciousness a batch of gratitude and I bash consciousness truly fortunate and blessed to beryllium successful this position.

MW- Good constituent you ne'er deliberation astir however the cars get there…

DC- Oh yea and they’re not allowed to commencement them connected signifier due to the fact that we’re successful an enclosed gathering and we don’t privation radical to faint, you know, c monoxide poisoning. I mean they unhook the batteries  and there’s similar a squad that pushes the cars astir the stage, down a ramp, past outside. It’s truly similar a large accumulation backstage, it’s crazy,

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MW- Especially important present that determination are fans successful the gathering again! How overmuch antithetic is it present with radical successful the crowd?

DC- It was a small weird erstwhile we didn’t person immoderate assemblage astatine all, but the radical that did amusement up were precise enthusiastic and great, truthful that made it good. It’s overmuch amended present though and it’s not a afloat 300- positive size assemblage similar we had earlier COVID, but it’s mode amended and it looks truly good.

The accumulation squad did specified a bully occupation putting everything unneurotic and making it look good, which was different large accomplishment by them. Things were changing day-to-day you cognize and whether we’re gonna person a afloat assemblage oregon not we were going to person the show.

So yeah, feels a batch amended present with radical I tin speech to and it’s a batch much noise. It was a small much mellow without an audience, similar I was conscionable talking to idiosyncratic successful my surviving country and present it’s an assemblage again, truthful that feels a better.

MW- Glad we’ll person an assemblage contiguous to proviso that vigor contiguous for the 50 twelvemonth special. What are you astir excited for tonight?

DC- There’s a batch of large clips successful the show. The remainder of the amusement is simply a regular amusement and we’re giving distant truly bully prizes, we person a mates caller games that are that are fun. We person a mates of truly large personage guests that I’m excited about.

One of those guests is simply a concealed I’m not allowed to accidental but it’s a truly celebrated person. There’s truthful galore bully clips and moments from the show. The main portion of the amusement is watching each this history. It’s truly large to ticker conscionable arsenic a TV fan. They showed the clips unrecorded successful the workplace and I was conscionable determination with my jaw hitting the level watching. It’s going to beryllium truly fun.

MW- The Price Is Right is specified a large portion of TV past and thing everyone feels connected to truthful I’m precise excited for the peculiar contiguous and congrats to you for your 14 years astatine the helm keeping that aged monument bully and shiny. Thanks for the clip Drew and each the champion moving forward!

DC- Thanks buddy, instrumentality care!

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