On February 3, Mehlville High School alum Alex Braun heard the three words he had been waiting for since 2018: “Come on down.”
After 16 tries in seven years, Braun – a self-proclaimed “game show geek” – was finally chosen as a contestant on “The Price Is Right.”
“When you’ve been there 16 times, you kind of know how the show runs. You’re kind of playing in your head what would happen, a lot of ‘what-ifs,’ if your name gets called. It’s hard to plan reactions, but I thought about it that day, about running across the studio to say ‘hi’ to my four friends. All went out the door when I saw my name on the poster board; my mind went blank,” Braun said…