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Yeah, I grew up watching reruns of his show on PBS in the early 00's. It was much more fun to watch when home sick than Antiques Roadshow.

What, The Price Is right not good enough for you?!

When the price of cars became more than four digits (and the first digit was not a "3") I bailed on "Price is Right". Too hard.

lol, that’s fair :-)

Going back further, from what I saw he had notoriety even back in 2003/2004 on 4chan.

Peep Show was calling him "God" in 2003:

Yeah. He’s being rediscovered, but at his death, he’d already spent 20 years being discovered in the first place.