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Podcast: Fascinating Nouns
Episode: *Bonus* – The Gong Show in Cinema
Description: Let’s be serious: The Gong Show was a national phenomenon! Unfortunately like a lot of things in the 70’s, once a movie was made, the fad was over. This is true of The Gong Show Movie which was really a therapy session for creator and host Chuck Barris. So was his book “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” which became a movie as well. It is safe to say that Chuck used Hollywood as a way to get free psychological help. In this bonus episode, we discuss this as well as the movies that came out of the popularity of this game s