Then, they said they’d fly eight of us down to Orlando and they wanted to film in July.”Ĭasey, her husband, siblings and parents were on the episode that first aired on Dec. All along the way we never knew if we’d get on the show. We had to do a Skype interview and we had to do a game play on Skype with our whole family. “After that, once a month, if not every other week, I was hearing from them. My intention going into it was to do it all for my Dad, but I had to do it as myself. I was originally going to pretend I was my Dad and apply, but then I realized they needed references and all sorts of stories. It was a 2-hour long application process. I probably wouldn’t have ever Googled it if I had known it was off the air. When I went to apply online I had no knowledge of all that. But lo and behold, they were starting it back up in 2018. He DVRs them and just watches them over and over again. I didn’t ever realize that because my Dad watches it all the time.

“I found out the show went off the air in 2009. And, the time was right to move back closer to my home before our kids are in school, so the finances were definitely in the back of our minds too,” Casey said. Photo provided by Casey Heath.Ĭould do this crazy experience for our family maybe it would be a good distraction and better than any words I could say to him. We had gotten some bad news about him and I thought, ‘I’m just going to Google this to see if we can get on the show.’ I had no words for him that could make him feel better, but I thought if I Casey Heath concentrates on which case to pick. “Dad was going through a lot of health issues and he is a tremendously big fan of the show. The situation prompted Casey to do an unusual Google search to find out about the television game show “ Deal or No Deal.” At the same time, Casey and her husband were contemplating selling their home in Sandusky so she could move closer to Bluffton to work at Anderson Tractor Supply, the family’s business in northwest Ohio. His daughter, Casey Heath, wanted to do something to help her father focus on something other than his pain and health issues. Randy Anderson, who had been fighting cancer for several years, found out it had spread. In March of 2018, the Anderson family got more bad news.

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