Hermosa man avoids “Who’s Still Standing” TV trapdoor
Jared Young reacts to a contestant. Photo courtesy NBC-TV Jared Young, a Hermosa musician and volleyball coach, had a televised decision to make. The one-night star of the NBC-TV trivia show “Who’s Still Standing” – the premiere episode, mind you – had already watched five opponents drop through trapdoors as they were eliminated from the game show, which aired prime time Monday. Host Ben Bailey, smooth and persuasive as a serpent with an apple, was asking Young whether he wanted to keep the $49,000 he already had won, or risk it all for $1 million in tilts with five more contestants. This is the moment another game show host, Howie Mandel, dreaded – he once told a TV interviewer that he wished contestants could resist the long shot in favor of the sure thing. Bailey sweetened the long-shot pot with the offer of another free “pass” on a trivia question, to replace the one Young had used when he did not know that Eden Prairie, Minnesota, was on a magazine’s list of the 10 best places to live. Young winced under the temptation. “Forty-nine thousand dollars is a lot of money, but it isn’t $1 million, is it,” Bailey asked rhetorically. “If you lose, you lose everything,” he added…
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