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OK, here's chapter 1:Luther wrote:Well Mikey, what happened?
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Got up at 5 this morning, planning on leaving at 6 for the drive to Culver City. According to Google Maps it's about 110 miles, first north on the 5, then cutting through the Laguna Hills and behind Newport on the toll road, Highway 73, hitting the 405 near Irvine, and then north on the 405 one exit past LAX to the Radisson on Centinella. My appointment was at 9:30, so 3 1/2 hours seemed like plenty of time to drive 110 miles. In fact, I was worried that I might be really early and have to sit around for an hour. But better earlier than late, 'cause they said they wouldn't let anybody in late, and besides, most of this drive would be through OC and LA and you never know about the traffic.
Didn't actually get started until around 6:30, but that still seemed like plenty of time, so I wasn't worried. The wife decided to go along with me, even though it was likely that she'd have nothing to do but sit around for two hours - she did bring reading material. Plus, I promised to take her out to lunch in Santa Monica afterwards.
So, there wasn't much traffic until we got past Irvine, and then it started to get a little congested but not as bad as I expected. Because there were two of us we could use the "diamond" lane and we cruised all the way to LAX without slowing down at all. About a mile south of the airport, and three miles from our exit, I decide to get out of the carpool lane and start moving over towards the exit lanes. The freeway was wide open at this point and I didn't want to blow past without getting off. That was a mistake. It was about 8:00 by this time, so I still had an hour an a half, but within a quarter mile the traffic came to a complete stop. Good thing we left plenty of time, because it took an hour to go those last three miles.
These were the written instructions from there: exit Howard Hughes Parkway and follow it to Sepulveda. Turn right on Sepulveda, then left on Centinela. Right turn into hotel driveway at second signal. (We are only three miles North of LAX.). The thing is, the hotel drive way was the first signal after turning left on Centinela. And no U-turns after that. Thanks maroons. Gotta go around the block a few times and figure out how to work our way back.
Finally got parked in the hotel's pay parking lot at about 9:10, and found the room where the auditions would be. Check-in time was 9:15.
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OK, here's the long story made short. I'll finish the travelog tomorrow.
There were about 20 or so people in the room. They made us take another 50 question test. We each had an answer sheet and pen and they flashed the questions for 8 seconds each on a screen. From what I heard, 35 is passing. I totally fucking blanked out on some questions I should have known. I couldn't remember Madeline Albright's name until about 5 seconds after we passed the answer sheets in. I couldn't remember the movie name "Citizen Kane", even though I had a vivid mental picture of Orson Welles, and then a snow sled in the snow and "rosebud". I did remember that Mt. Kilimanjaro is in Tanzania, though and I think I got at least 35 correct.
While the tests were being graded they spent some time explaining a lot about how the show works, and answered some questions. One thing I never knew is that there's a guy on stage that you never see (besides cameramen). He sits with a button that he pushes as soon as the question has been read. There actually are bright lights on each side of the big game board that come on as soon as he pushes his button. That's the signal that you can ring in. You never see these lights on TV because they are always on a closeup of the question when this happens. As soon as the light comes on you can ring in. If you ring in early you're locked out, but only for 1/4 second. That's why you see the contestants hitting the button over and over real fast. They coach you to do it that way.
They did a lot to try and pump the group up and get us involved. They said they were mainly looking at how we might act on the show and they are looking for animated people who would be interesting to the TV land audience. They had us practice on some questions by flashing them on the board and having us raise our hands. They would call on someone to answer and make sure you spoke loudly and answered in the form of a question.
Once the tests were graded they brought us up three at a time and had us play a mock game. There was no lock out timer, but the guy running the show had a set of lights that would flash every time a player pushed his button, so he could tell what was going on. They had a computerized game board on the video screen and one person would choose the first question. They would then choose one of the three (if you rang in) to answer the question. It wasn't necessarily the first to ring in, either. They wanted to see how each of us would answer questions. If you got it right you were supposed to immediately ask for the next category and amount.
It was actually pretty fun, and there were some funny answers and stuff. The rest of us were supposed to applaud and shit before and after each group went up. Each group played for about 5 minutes and then he would ask each member of the group to tell something about themselves and describe what they would do with the money if they won. Then they told us that we were on the active list for a year and they would call if we were to be on the show. I think the odds are still pretty slim that any one person gets on.
That's about it.
There were about 20 or so people in the room. They made us take another 50 question test. We each had an answer sheet and pen and they flashed the questions for 8 seconds each on a screen. From what I heard, 35 is passing. I totally fucking blanked out on some questions I should have known. I couldn't remember Madeline Albright's name until about 5 seconds after we passed the answer sheets in. I couldn't remember the movie name "Citizen Kane", even though I had a vivid mental picture of Orson Welles, and then a snow sled in the snow and "rosebud". I did remember that Mt. Kilimanjaro is in Tanzania, though and I think I got at least 35 correct.
While the tests were being graded they spent some time explaining a lot about how the show works, and answered some questions. One thing I never knew is that there's a guy on stage that you never see (besides cameramen). He sits with a button that he pushes as soon as the question has been read. There actually are bright lights on each side of the big game board that come on as soon as he pushes his button. That's the signal that you can ring in. You never see these lights on TV because they are always on a closeup of the question when this happens. As soon as the light comes on you can ring in. If you ring in early you're locked out, but only for 1/4 second. That's why you see the contestants hitting the button over and over real fast. They coach you to do it that way.
They did a lot to try and pump the group up and get us involved. They said they were mainly looking at how we might act on the show and they are looking for animated people who would be interesting to the TV land audience. They had us practice on some questions by flashing them on the board and having us raise our hands. They would call on someone to answer and make sure you spoke loudly and answered in the form of a question.
Once the tests were graded they brought us up three at a time and had us play a mock game. There was no lock out timer, but the guy running the show had a set of lights that would flash every time a player pushed his button, so he could tell what was going on. They had a computerized game board on the video screen and one person would choose the first question. They would then choose one of the three (if you rang in) to answer the question. It wasn't necessarily the first to ring in, either. They wanted to see how each of us would answer questions. If you got it right you were supposed to immediately ask for the next category and amount.
It was actually pretty fun, and there were some funny answers and stuff. The rest of us were supposed to applaud and shit before and after each group went up. Each group played for about 5 minutes and then he would ask each member of the group to tell something about themselves and describe what they would do with the money if they won. Then they told us that we were on the active list for a year and they would call if we were to be on the show. I think the odds are still pretty slim that any one person gets on.
That's about it.
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