Wow. The sheer number almost kind of blows my mind.
I'm about to head out to shoot the final “High School Bowl” for this season. And yes, I know I said something about doing exactly that a few weeks ago. However, one of the teams had a snow day that day and couldn't travel, so we're getting ready to shoot the second semi-final and the championship match. As I was getting ready last night I started to think And that, as we all know, can be a dangerous thing. But maybe not in this instance. Tomorrow I'll be wrapping up my (gulp) tenth season of hosting the show, which means I've done 196 hours of the series. Each hour has two games. If you subtract the nine (so far) “year in review” shows from the mix, that means I've how hosted 392 games of “High School Bowl”.
392 games. Maybe one of these days I'll even get it right.
8-)
I personally can't believe it's been that many games. The science, though, is 100% correct. And if there's one thing I've learned doing 392 games is that science is always right. Of course, I'm also having a little trouble grasping the concept I've been doing the show for a decade now, as it seems like it's been, at most, a year or two. But ten?
Once again, the science doesn't lie.
I am, however, still saying the same things about the show that I said after hosting the first few, foremost among them that the kids who take part are smart. I mean, they're really, really smart. I'd like to think I know a little something after all the decades of life that I've accumulated, but if we were being honest I only know the answers to maybe a third of the questions I ask. The rest I just sound like I know what I'm talking about. But some of the young people who've come through the show the answer to every single thing I've asked. And if they don't know it outright, they're able to infer what the answer might be. And they're doing this at the age when (joke coming here) I was still learning to feed myself.
They're that smart.
Now that production of season 46 is (almost) in the books we've already started talking about season 47, what we hope to accomplish, and any changes that might need to be made. And I'm sure that twelve or thirteen months from now, I'll be sitting here and wondering to myself how it is that I'll have done 216 hours—432 games—of a TV show that I thought I had just started hosting a few months prior.
And with that, I'm off. Have a great weekend!
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