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This Is Later with Lee Matthews,
The Lee Matthews Podcast, More What You

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Here Weekday Afternoon's on the Drive.
You've seen him in so many things.

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Tom Cavanaugh most noted for NBC's Ed, which he's got Golden Globe nominations for

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his performance. Also nominated for a
Daytime Mmy Emmy on Showtimes critically acclaimed Bang

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Bang, You're Dead. Also NBC
Scrubs Love Monkey. He is also going

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to be hosting a new show that
is out now on Game Show Network called

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Hey Yahoo. Tom Cavanaugh, Welcome, Hi, How are you good?

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To have you along? Now?
Tell us about Hey Yahoo. It's well,

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it's a game game show, and
it's a plethora of fun, enjoyment,

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trivia and sometimes PG hijinks. So
what's not to like? Well,

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you get guests who complete, who
compete for trying to guess what millions of

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people are searching on Yahoo for.
And I thought, basically it came down

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to two things. Anything in a
bikini or a recipe? Is that is

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that? Was that your takeaway?
That seems to be what everybody is searching

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for on Yahoo? Yes, that's
so funny. Yeah, that's the kind

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of the genius of the show.
Um, Um, it's uh, it's

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inclusive, you know. Uh and
uh, you know we everybody I guess

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to lead the Wrestla putting us.
Everybody searches for stuff, right, and

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so we we, for lack of
a better word, have found a way

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to monetize that or at least or
at least for our contestants to monetize the

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search thing. So the better they
do, um, you know, like

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they you know, the more money
they stand, the stand to win,

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and it's always a fun time.
Hey, Yahoo is the show. It's

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on Game show Network, Tom Kavanaugh
as the host and he's joined us now

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to talk about it. Yeah.
It's also it's also indicative of where our

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pop culture has gone. Yeah,
I agree, because if I say to

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you search engine and I said that, you you know, I don't know

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at the time, during the days
of the Price of Right, you'd be

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like what Now everyone goes like,
oh, game show based on a search

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engine? Got it? You know? Um, it's it's and that's kind

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of like the stroke of genius.
When we're pitching different ideas to Jay and

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Shelley over a game show Network,
they you know, they they came up

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with the idea to pair with the
search. Um, you know what I

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mean. And and that was I
think the thing that got us off and

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running because there's a commonality, like
I say, everybody searches. So if

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I say to you, why does
my dog blank, You're already going to

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think like, well, somebody may
have searched a bark or bite, you

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know. Um, And so already
you're you've got an answer, ready to

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ready to go. And you know, so does your your We play three

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people versus three people, and so
you're not up there in Jeopardy style on

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an island all by yourself. You've
got help and so you know, and

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and it's not it's not our cane
and difficult trivia. Clearly, as we

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progress along the half hour of the
game show, things get much more difficult.

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And then we add a timed round
to add pressure to you know,

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to the to the game. But
everything is eminently gettable. Hey Yahoo is

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what we're talking about. New game
show on Game Show Network, Tom Kavanaugh's

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the host. Contestants are given the
first half of the search and then they

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have to fill in the blank with
what they think America is searching for on

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Yahoo. And we're talking about ten
thousand dollars in winnings on Hey Yahoo,

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the game show with Tom Kavanaugh.
Now this is different than acting for you.

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I mean a game show is fast
paced and you really have to hit

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your timing marks. Was this a
stretch for you? No, I mean

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absolutely, I think I think it's
actually absolutely not different from acting because essentially

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what I'm doing Lee is I'm I'm
playing the role of game show host.

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For lack of a less obvious thing
to say, because really it is.

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I mean, actors all day,
you know, we have our lines,

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we hit our marks. And then
part of the thing if you come from

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like I did a decade of theater
before ever advancing into like I shouldn't even

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use the word advancing, but like
ever doing any kind of television or film

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and theater, you have to be
you have to be prepared for a shift

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in mood, a different tack,
you know, an understudy, somebody being

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sick that you just have to be
ready, ready to go. And so,

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you know, the live studio audience
thing has a certain theatrical bent to

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it, which I very much a
joy. And then if you're doing like

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a sitcom, for example, something
like Curb your Enthusiasm, you know,

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You're just given a you know,
a framework, and then within a framework

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you're improvising. And so you know, the hitting the mark, they're saying,

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the lines, the live theater audience, the improvising all of that or

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these are all like basically you know, like basic actor tools. So I'm

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essentially using those, you know,
and um, and I find it like

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a challenge in a great way,
you know, because it's in a nice

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way. It's it's my performance is
there to ameliorate, but it largely it's

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straw that stirs the drinks so other
people can have, you know, a

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satisfying sip, you know, at
the well it's for it's really for the

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contestants who come on and for the
viewers. And I think my job is

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to kind of keep things going.
And I've kind of enjoyed like, oh,

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look, it's so that's not you
know, it's not really me up

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there. That's not kind of my
person, it's not who I am.

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But it's also like, yeah,
this is a fun role to play into

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try and get right. And you
have six times a day to try and

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get it right. And I enjoy
that very much. Well, and you're

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thinking on your feet too, like
you don't know what they're going to say.

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That's part of the things that you
can't like. That's one of the

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lovely things I found about this job
is like you really have to be present.

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You can't say if we're doing six
shows a day, you can't say,

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like, you know, I'm going
to mail in show three, Like

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it's just impossible, you know,
you this is everybody's, you know,

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a big moment in terms of the
six contestants who are on stage, and

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you have to be you have to
be there for them, and so like

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that. That's that's something that I
enjoy. Like, I know the your

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listeners might be like six shows a
day, but that's largely the format board

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game shows. And I have to
tell you, you know, because you're

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present, it just flies by in
a very in a great way. Golden

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Gold nominated actor and director Tom Kavanaugh
his new game show is Hey Yahoo on

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the Game Show Network. And you're
still working in theater and still doing a

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lot of projects. What are we
going to see you? What else are

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we going to see you in other
than Hey Yahoo? We're producing this musical

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hopefully it's a Broadway musical. Right
now, I don't know if you remember

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the movie pass, you know,
for ninety nine you can give this little

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red card that allowed you to see
as many movies in a month as you

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wanted at the movie theater. So
clearly just an an awful business model.

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They went bankrupt and then doubled down
and made a movie studio, and that

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movie studio produced one the total at
one grand one total, the grand total

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of one movie, which was gaudy
starring John Travolta. And so clearly that

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whole thing lends itself to musical.
So that's one thing for stage. And

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then in um on the television side
of things, we're bandying about the idea

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of a reverse Flash spinoff like flashes
sort of in the news these days,

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and I play on television the reverse
Slash for Warner Brothers, which is the

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arch enemy of the Flash, and
it feels like maybe now is the time

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to get that antihero story told.
So we'll keep you posted and we'll watch

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all of that, hey, Yahoo, including the on the Game Show Network,

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which stars Tom Kavanaugh as the host. Thank you for joining us,

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Thanks for having me the all of
that you, Thanks for listening to Later

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