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it’s a complex ritual asserting
- power: he won’t smack you but the length of the microphone means it would hurt
- dominance: he’s always holding the microphone up,
- influence: the cord connects him all the way back to the production team and if he whips it they will dance
also, he ain’t give a f https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py805hYfopw
Who can forget the long-mic OG, Gene Rayburn.
The host of Baby of the Year also uses one of those mics
And Sam Reich in Game Changer too
When The Price Is Right went on the air those were the fashionable microphones. Then they just kept it because Bob liked it. I’m pretty sure that by the time he retired and still today it’s just a lapel mic at the end of a stick.
