“Blunt Force Truth,” which Mr. Woolery hosts with a like-minded friend, Mark Young, has
been around since late 2014, at times rising to the Top 10 on the podcast charts.
LOS ANGELES — When it comes to Hollywood reincarnations, this one may top them all: Chuck Woolery, the affable, unflappable,
Everyman host of 1980s-era game shows like “Love Connection,” re-emerged as … a right-wing podcaster?
Why would people want to take advice from a group of people who pretend to be other people for a living?”
The 75-year-old Mr. Woolery may have slipped from some of our minds since his days
gently guiding “Scrabble” players through that odd tile-dropping process.
(“I will pray that Mike Pence will have a great impression on Donald Trump and make him more conservative,” Mr. Woolery said in one appearance.)
“We’re not the biggest voice in politics, but we’re still an important voice,” Mr. Young said during a joint phone interview with Mr. Woolery.
Had Mr. Trump not won the election, Hollywood could have continued to ignore Mr. Woolery
and Mr. Young, 59, as two more pontificating cranks: Ho-hum, and back to NPR.
