You Bet Your Life #54-10 Red Sanders, UCLA football coach (Secret word 'People', Nov 18, 1954)

[@roncote215]

I like the fact that you post episode specific info with each show you share. Red Sanders would pass away 4 years later in August 1958 .

[@grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476]

Thanks, Ron Cote! I couldn't do *any* of this work without the help of an excellent log for the series. I add all these detailed descriptions because this show is so impossible to keep track of otherwise-- you're lucky if shows are even minimally identified by their "secret word", which is a pretty useless detail since it tells you nothing about the show itself. Besides, YBYL reused secret words constantly, some of them literally dozens of times (e.g., "Name", "People", "Hand") It takes a lot of time to write the descriptions, so I'm genuinely heartened to read that at least some folks out there appreciate the result! It's honestly far more work to write the descriptions than it is to upload the videos. :)

[@FF11Freshstep]

Groucho Marx - You Bet Your Life What can I do to get a copy of that log from you? I had a heart attack a bit back so haven't been working on my restoration of this show for awhile. I have a detailed log of my own and some public domain episodes I've managed to track down and place what season and such they are.

[@FF11Freshstep]

Groucho Marx - You Bet Your Life also i'm happy to share all the ones you haven't posted and all my info back to you. a big wish that i can help bring this show back from the semi-dead and misinformationed hell it has suffered in. one of the first weekly shows of all time and a classic piece of both marx bros history and tv history in general. you have the first accurate listing i've seen and your info has helped me to work backwards and forwards from the episodes you have generously shared and reconstruct even more info about the episodes you haven't posted.

[@grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476]

FF11Freshstep Send me a private message and I'll get you in touch with the author of the only good log for YBYL.

[@MrHollywoodHigh]

+Ron Cote More specifically, Shortly before the 1958 season, Sanders died suddenly of a heart attack in a Los Angeles hotel room with a convicted prostitute on August 14, 1958.

[@fredc.dobbsakarikdalton4616]

Enjoyed Groucho I all my life

[@zarabada6125]

My work is classified and I can't discuss it. My hobby is building and firing rockets. I'm surprised that his hobby wasn't classified. There is an implication that he was a physicist involved in a government research programme (maybe not rockets but he obviously has experience in propulsion and aerodynamics).

[@papagen00]

The Southern lady talks like Melanie in Gone With the Wind.

[@gordonowens7794]

Wow when I saw the still picture of Red Sanders he looked like Tom Hanks.

[@freddyfurrah3789]

Who the HELL is Red Sanders?😅 SO famous no one years later has heard of him. So many people in sports could have been named.

[@crush41gb]

I really appreciate all of the hard work you do here and on the WML channel, too. I don't know if it's worth the trouble but Liza Alexander is from a plantation near Goldsboro, N.C. and not GA. I am just now getting to enjoy these wonderful post of YBYL , been a fan of WML for years ;), and I've seen where you like to correct the descriptions when necessary. Thank you again for these wonderful posts! :)

[@grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476]

I always appreciate corrections-- and I've edited the description (taking your word for it, I haven't gone back to rewatch the episode!) Thanks very much for the info and I'm glad you've been enjoying these shows.

[@davidcherve]

What is WML?

[@rockyjaydog6447]

I was raised on a cotton plantation, you dont hear that anymore

[@holleyjomartinez4009]

Nobody today would dare admit to being raised on a plantation. With the way things are going I think they would be attacked on the way out of the theatre. Seriously.

[@paultheaudaciousbradford6772]

I wonder why the audio cut out 9:43 when it was time for Groucho to answer the question about the Clyde River. There’s a River Clyde in Scotland, in Nova Scotia, in Vermont and in Australia. I don’t know if it qualifies as “principal river” anywhere.

[@marymarysmarket3508]

In Canada

[@JakeMabe1]

Wow, wonder what happened to Bertha? She must have been a heck of a pitcher. It's also nice to see Red Sanders in this kind of setting.

[@martinjones5965]

9m37 “The probably the worse simile I’ve ever made”. I love how relaxed Groucho is - he rarely flops but even then he does it with grace and transparency. He doesn’t have to prove anything to anyone … the product of exception wit and years of hard work.

[@MrMenefrego1]

*“The probably the worse simile I’ve ever made”* - I do believe you misquoted someone.

[@martinjones5965]

@@MrMenefrego1 and the mismisquote is ?

[@MrMenefrego1]

@@martinjones5965 *“The probably the worse simile I’ve ever made”*

[@byrd56]

10:51 to 10:53 -- Applause edit over what would have been Groucho finishing with "...for the DeSoto-Plymouth dealers".

[@MrMenefrego1]

👀

[@Tormund_Giantsbrain]

harbin manchuria? then they must have russian bourgeois who escaped the revolution

[@ElaMongrella]

Very interesting to watch this, where they haven't gotten to the moon yet at that time.

[@519djw6]

*I can well believe that Mr. Guralnik was born in Manchuria. There were many Russians born in northern China in the early 20th century.*

[@sandrauhlein4317]

Where's the Rose Queen?

[@MrMenefrego1]

which one?

[@stevebartley8594]

Red was so relaxed, it is hard to believe he died of a heart attack just a few years later.

[@freddyfurrah3789]

Did he SMOKE?

[@BinkyTheElf1]

I know too much of this trivia. Not so much the music.....

[@MrMenefrego1]

yippee! 👀

[@SuperWinterborn]

I'm no very much into sports, but this Red Sanders seemed to be a really likeable fellow!

[@JHarder1000]

He was. He was a wise-cracking, Shakespeare quoting practical joker who turned first Vanderbilt and then UCLA into national powers. 1954 was the year of his masterpiece ,an unbeaten Single Wing juggernaut which outscored the opposition 351 to 40 and shared the national title with Ohio State,whom they could not play in the Rose Bowl because of a "no repeat "rule.

[@marymarysmarket3508]

Sadly, he had an unfortunate and shameful sudden death 4 yrs later

[@yeswecanusa2008]

Why was his death shameful?

[@salada201]

I loved that first guy going to the moon and the second man who was writing a book about him called Who Am I!! Great laughs!!

[@fatbowe]

Groucho wanted to make a new show... You Bet Your ASS... but it was considered Too boring...☻😂🐓

[@philomenareilly7257]

Hi

[@marymarysmarket3508]

Hi to you, too

[@bh9225]

Hello. Happy 4th of July!

[@freddyfurrah3789]

Ho

[@MrJamespeyton]

I loved Groucho’s humor but I wished he would have let his guests finish their story. He was a bit too interruptive.

[@murdough208]

red was right good players good coach

[@m42037]

Jay Leno is redoing this show in September, let's see if he pays respect to the king Groucho or ruin the show...

[@Dexiray]

Leno doesn't have Marx's wits, not even close. But if he wants to pay respect, best wishes.

[@m42037]

@@Dexiray I agree, not the king of monologue either, the Tonight Show was never the same after Carson left!