Speaker 1: This is Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee Matthews Podcast
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Speaker 2: You know Camden Matheson from General Hospital and All My Children,
Speaker 2: He's starting to stretch his abilities into game show hosting
Speaker 2: and that will be on the new episode of Beat
Speaker 2: the Bridge on the Game Show Network. Welcome Cameron Matheson.
Speaker 2: I understand this is based on a BBC import.
Speaker 3: It sure is, Yeah, Bridgealize, which was a great show
Speaker 3: in the UK, and then we took it over here
Speaker 3: and in the US and Game Show Network and everybody
Speaker 3: just kind of reworked it a little bit and made
Speaker 3: it fit in for the American audiences. And I think
Speaker 3: we've done a really good job. It's been airing and
Speaker 3: people are loving it. And I usually never watch myself,
Speaker 3: like in any of the acting jobs I have or
Speaker 3: hosting jobs I have, but this and I have a
Speaker 3: good time and I get excited because I don't remember.
Speaker 3: I don't remember how each episode ends, right. We shoot
Speaker 3: a lot of episodes, and it's been very very exciting
Speaker 3: and also new for me to be able to watch
Speaker 3: a show that I'm on and kind of get into it.
Speaker 3: So it's even for me, it's been fun.
Speaker 2: Being a game show host is considerably different than acting
Speaker 2: behind the camera or in front of the camera.
Speaker 3: Rather, uh, it's definitely very different. It's it's way more
Speaker 3: it's way more dreamally draining. Like you know, you're you're
Speaker 3: basically it's you're in that fight or flight state the
Speaker 3: whole time. I love to you know, very enthusiastic, very
Speaker 3: high energy, very positive with the with the teams and
Speaker 3: the guests, and obviously acting you're you're just trying to
Speaker 3: be I mean, here's the deal. It's when I went
Speaker 3: to my hosts, I try to be very you know,
Speaker 3: very positive and like I say, I have a lot
Speaker 3: of energy going, but at the same time, very authentic
Speaker 3: and genuine. It's it's just who I am and just
Speaker 3: how I am. Naturally, when I'm acting, you're a lot
Speaker 3: more grounded in the moment, and you're playing a different
Speaker 3: character and you're you know, it doesn't typically call for
Speaker 3: you to be up there kind of yelling and screaming
Speaker 3: and cheering, and you know, you're just kind of talking
Speaker 3: and listening and reacting and also trying to be as
Speaker 3: authentic and grounded and genuine as you can. So there's similarities,
Speaker 3: but there's a lot of differences.
Speaker 2: Well, I imagine you have live theater experience as well.
Speaker 2: I would imagine it's closer to live theater than it
Speaker 2: is when you're when you're rehearsing and then recording or
Speaker 2: taping an episode of say General Hospital.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I suppose it is. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: even in like theater, you're not you know, you're not presenting,
Speaker 3: You're not you're not like you know, you're you're not
Speaker 3: hosting anything. You're just trying to be super grounded in
Speaker 3: the moment and listen, react and spontaneous and truthfully in
Speaker 3: that way, it's the same whether you're acting on a
Speaker 3: TV show or not. But I know what you mean
Speaker 3: in the sense of like projecting. When you're on live theater,
Speaker 3: you want to project in the back of the house.
Speaker 3: And so there's similarities. For sure, there's similarities, but there's
Speaker 3: definitely a lot of differences.
Speaker 2: Cameron Mathison, he's the host of the all new game
Speaker 2: show Beat the Bridge. What's our premise on Beat the Bridge?
Speaker 2: If you don't get across the bridge, you fall into
Speaker 2: the London, you fall into the Thames River.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's I mean, I mean maybe that's like
Speaker 3: sort of the the essence of it. But nobody's falling
Speaker 3: into any rivers here. There's no like wipeout contingent, you know.
Speaker 3: Part of the show. Uh, it's basically just you got
Speaker 3: this huge interactive bridge that's got a personality to it,
Speaker 3: and you're and so you've got a team of three
Speaker 3: people and individually they're trying to make it across this bridge. Now,
Speaker 3: the interesting thing is the surface of this bridge. It
Speaker 3: is the actual game board, right, so the contestants are
Speaker 3: stepping there. There's sort of the game pieces, stepping on
Speaker 3: the right answers, avoiding the wrong answers, trying to make
Speaker 3: it across the bridge, accumult money in their bank as
Speaker 3: they do it. Every successful crossing they get a little bonus.
Speaker 3: And then the final round of the show is this
Speaker 3: timed around where they try to make it back across
Speaker 3: the bridge. If they do, they get to keep their
Speaker 3: money and a huge bone of us up to fifteen
Speaker 3: thousand dollars in total. And it's it's just a fast paced,
Speaker 3: lots of energy of trivia base show that is really
Speaker 3: really engaging in fun to.
Speaker 2: Watch chess with. But they are the pieces.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and it says they're the pieces. Yeah, exactly right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're talking about Beat the Bridge. It is on
Speaker 2: now on weeknights at six o'clock Eastern on the Game
Speaker 2: Show Network, and the hostess cameraon matheson what are some
Speaker 2: of the questions? Because I know, you know, it takes
Speaker 2: probably a whole team of people to come up with
Speaker 2: these really good trivia questions that people may or may
Speaker 2: not know the answers to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it takes a whole team of people, and it
Speaker 3: takes a whole team of people, like months to do it.
Speaker 3: It's you know, we shoot a lot of these episodes.
Speaker 3: I guess its on the Game the Show, et cetera.
Speaker 3: But we we shot one hundred episodes, and so just
Speaker 3: think about all those trivia questions. Each each episode has
Speaker 3: several rounds and different categories, and so you know, we
Speaker 3: could have a category that would be movies that were
Speaker 3: inspired by TV series, or we could have summer summer
Speaker 3: Olympic games categories, or we could have you know, there's
Speaker 3: a million million different categories and then subcategories within. So
Speaker 3: the category could be sports and then like what's the
Speaker 3: Bridge looking for? Well, we're looking for summer Olympic games,
Speaker 3: categories or we're looking you know whatever, or you know
Speaker 3: the the the category of the overall category could be
Speaker 3: famous people and then we could be like interest, Elvis movies,
Speaker 3: you know, like, it could be a lot of different
Speaker 3: specific things. And the beautiful thing about this game, I
Speaker 3: feel like is even if you have no idea the who, like,
Speaker 3: let's say this famous person is could be like Beyonce
Speaker 3: albums or something like I don't listen to Beyonce. But
Speaker 3: there's still the ability because it's like process of elimination,
Speaker 3: you could still make it across. We've had people make
Speaker 3: it across the bridge even if they have no idea
Speaker 3: what this category is or whatever, and just by using
Speaker 3: their deductive reasoning and process of elimination, they're still in
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 2: And that game is Beat the Bridge with Cameron Matheson
Speaker 2: as the host. Do you know them from General Hospital?
Speaker 2: All my Children? And more? Do you have to go
Speaker 2: over some of the pronunciations of the questions beforehand or
Speaker 2: are they as a mount is a surprise to you
Speaker 2: as they are to the to the to the player.
Speaker 3: I go over the pronunciations beforehand, but inevitably, you know
Speaker 3: how when you like see a word or a pronunciation
Speaker 3: and you just get it in your head like this
Speaker 3: is the one that's gonna trip me up inevitably. Inevitably,
Speaker 3: I'll still get it wrong and we'll do like an
Speaker 3: audio pickup or something. So that's happened. But they tell
Speaker 3: me when we shot this that I had like the fewest.
Speaker 3: I had very few different I had very few pickups comparatively,
Speaker 3: but I definitely needed a few a second take at
Speaker 3: some of those pronunciations.
Speaker 2: Well, that may be where a lot of your soap
Speaker 2: opera practice came into came into being, because you have
Speaker 2: so many lines that changed daily when you're shooting a
Speaker 2: soap opera versus a game show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like we you know, but people don't realize shooting
Speaker 3: I'm on General Hospital, and I was on All My
Speaker 3: Children for a long long time before that, but I uh, yeah,
Speaker 3: people don't realize you've got to memorize between twenty and
Speaker 3: sometimes up to fifty sixty pages of dialogue and one
Speaker 3: day on a soap. Yeah, and it's uh, you know,
Speaker 3: you can't really be getting you know, second and third
Speaker 3: takes on these shows. These shows we shoot one hundred
Speaker 3: plus pages a day every day and they got to
Speaker 3: keep it moving, and so that kind of training really
Speaker 3: comes in handy for a lot of things like being
Speaker 3: able to be prepared, being able to get it in
Speaker 3: the first take, memorizing certain things, all of the above.
Speaker 2: Cameron Mathieson of General Hospital and All My Children, host
Speaker 2: of the all new game show Network A game show,
Speaker 2: Beat the Bridge. It is on weeknights at six pm
Speaker 2: on the sixth Eastern. Yeah, sorry about that. Yes, speaking
Speaker 2: of not knowing your lines. Karen Mathison, thank you for
Speaker 2: joining us.
Speaker 3: You got it, you got it. Thank you so much
Speaker 3: for having me. I hope everybody chicks out the show.
Speaker 3: It's a lot of fun.
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