The Perfect Bid

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 34.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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FAM! Travel back with us to one of our funniest episodes! Get ready to meet Ted Slauson, a math teacher who becomes OBSESSED with the gameshow The Price is Right. He spends weeks and months MEMORIZING THE COST OF THOUSANDS OF ITEMS in order to beat the game--a tactic which is apparently perfectly legal. He goes to the show over and over hoping to make it on and helps so many gameshow hopefuls beat the game along the way. We're taking a walk on the lighter side this week, and you're gonna love it!

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0:00.0	Hey Julie Bezzavali. Hello, Patrick Hines. Fam, we're doing that thing that we do almost never. We're doing a repeat this week. Tell them what we're doing, girl. We're doing that Price is Right one. It's called The Perfect Bid. This first aired in October of 2022. Oh, my God. I only vaguely remember this. What happens? This is the one where it's the guy who, like, He learned how to quote scam prices, right?
0:02.0	He just studied the game and then like knew all the prices about everything. And then was like helping people win. And then, you know, it was like a scandal. But who doesn't love the prices right? Oh my God. I just feel like fake sick to stay home and watch The Price is Right.
0:38.2	Yeah, there's an app.
0:39.1	This is not an ad at all, but there's an app called Pluto.
0:41.5	They have two Price's Right channels. One is the Barker years and the other one is the Jucker years. Do you know that for a minute, Rosie O'Donnell was going to be the host of the Prices Right? Like where I feel robbed, I feel absolutely wrong.
0:36.3	All right, well, fam, enjoy this repeat.
0:37.8	And we'll say a quick about in the way out.
0:39.1	Yeah, we'll see ya.
0:40.6	Do you have a favorite Price All right, well, fam, enjoy this repeat, and we'll say a quick about on the way out.
0:54.9	Yeah, we'll see ya. Do you have a favorite price is right pricing game? Oh, Plinko. It's not so much of pricing game, but it's Plinco. Yeah, but it's like, all look. But everyone's roots for you. It's fine. I get it. Everyone's just like happy, you're there.
0:51.1	Everyone's very supportive.
0:53.0	He wins this game.
0:54.3	They go to commercial
0:55.1	and it's time to start up again. Everyone's just like happy you're there Everyone's very supportive He wins this game
1:12.4	They go to commercial
1:13.3	And it's time to start up again
1:15.0	And the next item up for bids
1:16.2	And it's a recliner
1:17.1	So I listen carefully
1:18.8	And I look at the monitor
1:19.7	And I see it's percline
1:21.1	Wardell who's just come down To to contestants' row bids first,
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