A rather funny and quite frankly wierd game show that comes on Saturdays right after
Car Talk on
National Public Radio. It is hosted by
Michael Feldman. The prizes are usually quite useless or trivial, such as a gift certificate to some diner on a roadside in Bagboro, Montana, or a particularly large package of
Boca burgers.
The History of the show is such: Michael Feldman was born the son of David and Geraldine Feldman in
Milwaukee, WI,
USA. He graduated from the
University of Wisconsin in 1970 with a degree in
English. He went on to become a schoolteacher in
Madison, WI but in 1978 ended up doing some fill-in work on a local radio station called
WORT. Within a year he had a morning show called
The Breakfast Special broadcast from a greasy spoon called
Dolly's Fine Diner. He eventually quit his teaching job, then quit radio to become a cab driver.
Not too pleased with this as a career he went back into radio at Wisconson Public Radio and had a small show called
High Noon. This was eventually canned, but through the radio business later on he made friends with John Thulin and Lyle Anderson. There was a stint in 1984 with Chicago's
WGN but was fired right around Christmas.
Upon returning to Madison from
Wisconson, he met with Jack Mitchell (his old boss from Wisconsin Public Radio) once more at the
Time Museum in
Rockford, WI.
"Let's give it a try." Jack said.
"Whad?" replied Feldman.
The idea was for a very strange game show that eventually came to be called "Whad'ya Know?"