CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – At 7 p.m., Pierre Poindexter is usually in his carport in Charlottesville’s Fry’s Spring neighborhood, calling out answers to Wheel of Fortune. On Monday night, November 9, his neighbors can turn on their TVs and watch him play.
Poindexter buys and sells scrap metal for a living and says he’s usually calm under pressure. Then came the minutes before his Wheel of Fortune taping. He’d sweated through his suit jacket, and a wardrobe staffer told him he couldn’t go on like that.
“She made me stand like the scarecrow and pulled out a hair dryer and was literally blowing out my armpits,” Poindexter said.
Two TVs and a head start
Once he got to the wheel, Poindexter told host Ryan Seacrest how he used to get a jump on the answers as a kid. At 7 p.m., his mother or grandmother would call everyone into the living room to watch. Poindexter figured out that the TV in his mother’s room was a few seconds ahead…