Saying Yes [Howie Mandel]

<p>Listen to/Watch the Tiger Belly podcast: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUNZe_ghZK4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUNZe_ghZK4</a></p><ul> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_or_No_Deal_(American_game_show)#Season_one_(2005%E2%80%932006)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_or_No_Deal_(American_game_show)#Season_one_(2005%E2%80%932006)</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie_Mandel#Later_work">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie_Mandel#Later_work</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Harvey">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Harvey</a></li> </ul><p><br><strong>Transcript</strong><br> </p><p>[00:00:00] <strong>swyx:</strong> This is the story of how, Howie Mandel booked Deal or No Deal, completely turning his career around, even though he originally didn't want the job in the first place.  </p><p>As a word of caution, there is some swearing, there's a lot of swearing in this story. So you've been warned.  </p><p>[00:00:13] <strong>Bobby Lee:</strong> You told me once though, too, is that, um, At first, when dealer knew no deal was presented to you, you didn't really initially jump on  </p><p>[00:00:20] <strong>Howie Mandel:</strong> it, jump on it. I said, fuck you to the person. I know I was at 2005. I T I told you this, my career in my mind was over, you know, I had, I had done, uh, St elsewhere and I had done Bobby's world in the nineties, and I did a lot of TV. </p><p>And I did a lot of movies in the eighties. And by about 2004, I was getting jobs at comedy clubs, which were maybe twenty-five percent full when I got there. So there was no people in the audience. So the audience has waned in my, in my height. I was playing like 10,000 seats and 84 or 83 and doing the tonight show. </p><p>But now. 60 people in the audience. And I was reading for parts for five lines and under, so I bead outside a casting office and then I get this call from my manager, says, you know, NBC wants you to do, uh, a game show and I went, fuck you. And if you r