Marc Summers on the Craziest Day of His Entire Career

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The Craziest Day of My Entire Career is a segment that gives us the chance to talk with some of our favorite people about the weirdest workday they have experienced so far. This time around, we're joined by Marc Summers. He has built a remarkable career as a television host. Rarely will you find a person who has hosted as many TV shows as Marc Summers. When we asked Marc to tell us about the craziest day of his entire career he told us about the day he finally got the call to go on The Tonight Show. The other guest was Burt Reynolds. Things didn't go as planned. You can find his new show Marc Summers Unwraps wherever you get your podcasts.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:22.0	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:24.0	Sometimes the work day doesn't go the way you thought it would.
0:28.0	In fact, in show business, it rarely does.
0:31.0	That's why we created this segment, the craziest f*** day of my entire career.
0:36.0	And this time around, we're joined by Mark Summers.
0:39.0	Mark Summers has built an incredible career as a television host.
0:44.0	He has hosted reality shows, cooking shows, talk shows, and of course, game shows.
0:49.0	If you're the right age, you probably know him as the host of Nickelodeon's Double Dare.
0:56.0	Mark Summers!
1:01.0	Nice to see you at the Family Double Dare here in Nickelodeon and Florida and all those places in.
1:06.0	We're going to have a good time here today.
1:08.0	What would you say about me today? I have trouble hearing those things.
1:10.0	I have a child actor from every episode of Leave It To Beaver.
1:13.0	That's right. How's this?
1:15.0	You want to know? How's that?
1:17.0	Perfect.
1:18.0	That's why I'm a game show host and not an actor.
1:21.0	We have great teams, as always.
1:23.0	I start off to my left. They are dressed in red and they call themselves the Rubbles.
1:30.0	Rarely, will you find a man who has hosted as many television programs as the great Mark Summers?
1:36.0	Literally dozens.
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