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Speaker 1: was really good food. I did learn some seasoning tricks

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Speaker 1: and submissions are open. You were there for We drove in,

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Speaker 1: It was really great to go well, speaking of theater,

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Speaker 1: speaking of weddings, speaking of Canadians, all the things we've mentioned,

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Speaker 1: last week we learned about merv and Julianne Griffin. They

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Speaker 1: All right, So to me, Alex Trebek is like right

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Speaker 1: Alex Trebeck was born in Already in Ontario, Canada. His

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Speaker 1: to pronounces oldest time. Alex Trebek's mother was Lucille Say, okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: come on, wouldn't it be cool if it was Lucille Ball, Like,

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Speaker 1: Alex Trebek was a Nepo baby. As a child, Alex

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Speaker 1: Alex Trebek grew up in a French English bilingual household,

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Speaker 1: over it. Well. Alex Trebek said that, you know, he

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Speaker 1: a little something else, and he handed her a little

426
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Speaker 1: wicker box with a six team carrots sapphire ring surrounded

427
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:58,200
Speaker 1: by six carrots of diamonds. This sounds insane, and it's

428
00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 1: also in a wicker box, which ange to me. I

429
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 1: feel like i'd have my tracations would be like all

430
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,880
Speaker 1: over the place, she told People magazine. Quote. It took

431
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 1: my breath away. I mean it was a rock, more

432
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:16,679
Speaker 1: like a boulder, she continued. Quote. Then he popped the question,

433
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,639
Speaker 1: and I went all dumb. I think I said what

434
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:24,159
Speaker 1: which I love? Because he clearly popped the answer, and

435
00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 1: she questioned what. No, of course she said yes, And

436
00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 1: soon her father, who Alex hadn't met yet, arranged an

437
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 1: engagement party for them in New York on a boat

438
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,600
Speaker 1: just off the coast of Long Island. Alex was only

439
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 1: two years younger than her dad, and he wrote quote,

440
00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:42,960
Speaker 1: when Jeannie introduced me to him, he took one look

441
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,359
Speaker 1: at me and said, I guess I won't be calling

442
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:52,679
Speaker 1: you son. Were the same age, because we're the same age.

443
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 1: They married on April nine, and when the minister said,

444
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 1: do you Alex take Jean to be your wife? Alex

445
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 1: Trebek said, quote, the answer is yes, yes, of course,

446
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 1: he said. He got a big laughs. His memoir, he writes, quote,

447
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 1: that's me always going for the joke. Oh yeah, that's

448
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,199
Speaker 1: what I think of Alex Trebek. First things first, he

449
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,000
Speaker 1: goes with a joke. That's one of the things that

450
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,880
Speaker 1: you've learned about in his memoir and from Gene Though,

451
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 1: is that off camera? That is just a real jokester

452
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 1: all the time? That's cool. I feel like it's a

453
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 1: lot of jokes like that though, you know, kind of

454
00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 1: dad jokes, yeah, or like really smart jokes like oh no,

455
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:41,119
Speaker 1: that No, that was good too. There was a thinker.

456
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:44,960
Speaker 1: Remember that joke you told two weeks ago. I just

457
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 1: got it. I laughed so loud last night when I

458
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:50,359
Speaker 1: finally figured it out. I was I was perusing an atlas,

459
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,440
Speaker 1: and I totally got the joke you told about the

460
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:59,760
Speaker 1: bearing straight well. Within three weeks of their wedding, they

461
00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 1: learn they were pregnant with their first son, Matthew. They

462
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 1: said they knew what they were gonna have kids, but

463
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 1: they weren't expecting that quickly but then in they had

464
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 1: a daughter named Emily, and their family also stayed very

465
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 1: tight with his adoptive daughter, Niki. Nikki worked on production

466
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,119
Speaker 1: in Jeopardy and other shows and movies. She was a model,

467
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 1: she was a musician. She did all kinds of stuff.

468
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 1: This does all kind of stuff. She's still around. Nikki

469
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,480
Speaker 1: said that Alex, who she called Dad, took her to

470
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 1: a wine symposium in Hawaii where she got to sit

471
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Speaker 1: next to Vincent Price. She said, quote needless to say,

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00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:37,240
Speaker 1: it was unforgettable. And on that trip, Alex told Nikki

473
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Speaker 1: that he was going to propose to Gene. Nikki said, quote,

474
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 1: I could see how happy he was. Nikki herself is

475
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,760
Speaker 1: only a few years younger than Jeans, so the two

476
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:48,439
Speaker 1: of them became more like close friends than you know,

477
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 1: stepmother and daughter. So my wife is almost the same

478
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 1: age as my daughter, and I am almost the same

479
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:58,120
Speaker 1: age as my wife's father. Weird generational divide. Their families

480
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:01,879
Speaker 1: look like anything, okay, And some of the best stuff

481
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 1: about the Trebeks, as we've been saying, is learning how

482
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 1: different he is in his personal life from the Alex

483
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 1: Trebek that we see on camera. People Magazine called him

484
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:13,640
Speaker 1: quote a man who keeps his house better homes and gardens,

485
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 1: neat hangs dress shirts on light hangers and sports shirts

486
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 1: on dark hangers, and keeps his spice rack alphabetically arranged.

487
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,919
Speaker 1: But Jean says that while it's his job to be astute,

488
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 1: perfect and articulate on the air quote, he certainly doesn't

489
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 1: want to be that way at home. People think he

490
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: goes to bed in a suit. He doesn't. Maybe his

491
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 1: birthday suit right. Maybe he's got like Super Mario pajamas,

492
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,360
Speaker 1: real lacky you wouldn't expect. Oh, I love it. It's

493
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,879
Speaker 1: like Alex Trebek and hiss like dinosaur footie pajamas. He's like,

494
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: I like to keep it young. An audience member said

495
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,679
Speaker 1: on Cora that quote. As soon as they said cut,

496
00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 1: Trebek practically turned into Robin Williams. He started telling Joe

497
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 1: Oaks and did an imitation of Pacino and Scarface. Then

498
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 1: when the director says they're about to come back from commercial,

499
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 1: he goes back to being game show host. Alex. Okay,

500
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:16,360
Speaker 1: what impression of Pacino sniffing up some ship like say

501
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:23,640
Speaker 1: hello to my little this? What is friend? That's right?

502
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: Others echoed similar sentiments, calling him silly, a goofball, and

503
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 1: a prankster. He apparently loved it when he was parodied

504
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 1: by Will Farrell on sn L or Eugene Levy on STTV,

505
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 1: which I learned I hadn't seen the Eugene Levy one,

506
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 1: but I learned that very similarly was presented Trebecca, someone

507
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 1: who was very easily frustrated, got angry and stuff, kind

508
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 1: of like Will Ferrell did, which, of course is like

509
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 1: the antithesis. I know, I guess that is a funny joke,

510
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 1: but that's funny. They both went the same direction. Alex

511
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,960
Speaker 1: Trebek also had a friendly right will read with Wheel

512
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: of Fortune host Patch stage Jack. Several times for April

513
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: Fool's Day, they would surprise everyone by switching shows without

514
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 1: anyone knowing ahead of time. I have to ask, anyone

515
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: does that include? Like did people show up at Wheel

516
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 1: of Fortune for work and they're like, what's Alex trac? Yeah?

517
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 1: What I read is that it was basically nobody knew.

518
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: That's just that's hilarious. Now. Alex and Jean Trebeck never

519
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 1: really liked the Hollywood life too much. They're both homebodies.

520
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: Alex like to drive a pickup truck and do home repairs.

521
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 1: She said his garage looked like a you know, like

522
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 1: a tinkerer's workshop. He was also apparently like toughest nails.

523
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 1: Not only did he do the Olympic torch run in

524
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 1: nineties six from Florida to Atlanta, in two thousand four,

525
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: he actually fell asleep behind the wheel of his pickup

526
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: and he flew forty five ft over an embankment and

527
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: crashed into a ditch. Damn. Unfortunately, no one else was hurt,

528
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 1: and Alex himself was back to shooting Jeopardy only four

529
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 1: days later. Who which I mean? If I stubbed my toe,

530
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 1: I'm out of work for a week, you know. In

531
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 1: two thousand seven, when Alex was sixty seven years old,

532
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 1: he suffered a minor heart attack. His ex wife, Elaine,

533
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 1: was the one who rushed into the hospital, and she

534
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: said that she begged him there to retire from Jeopardy,

535
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: but within a month he was back shooting the show again.

536
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 1: In two thousand and eight teen, he fell and in

537
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Speaker 1: his head on the bathtub and had to have surgery

538
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 1: to remove blood clots from his brain, and once again

539
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 1: right back to work. Dang. And then, of course I

540
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: would love to not have to get to this, but

541
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,239
Speaker 1: we do have to get to the sad part. In

542
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen, Trebek was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer.

543
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 1: He and Jean had been traveling a lot. They were

544
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 1: in Israel when he started having stomach pains and they

545
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: were visiting New York when his doctors called saying they

546
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: had some concerns, and when they caught the cancer, they

547
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 1: saw that it had already spread to his stomach. Pancreatic

548
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 1: cancer is one of the most dangerous because it spreads

549
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 1: very quickly and has no early detection measures. So Jean said,

550
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: all the feelings of losing her brother rushed back to her.

551
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 1: She was so worried how Alex would handle it, but

552
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: she wrote that quote right away, he exhibited that same

553
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 1: strength he always had. His attitude wasn't why me, but

554
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 1: much more okay, what do we do? He did not

555
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:21,200
Speaker 1: hide the news from it his audience, she wrote, but

556
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: went public right away, and the outpouring of support and

557
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 1: love was immediate and overwhelming. Jeane points out that most

558
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 1: of his fans have known him longer than she has,

559
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: so they, you know, probably felt similarly to her that,

560
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: like somebody really important is very sick right now. They

561
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: celebrated their thirtieth anniversary. Trebek wrote in his memoir quote,

562
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: She's kept me alive if it weren't for Geane. I

563
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 1: had to put myself out of this a long time

564
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 1: ago because the treatment, said Ben rough. Sometimes he was

565
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 1: getting chemo once a week, and this started immediately after

566
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: his diagnosis, and he said that sometimes it was painful,

567
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: made him feel really depressed and wonder if it was

568
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: worth going through. But he wrote, quote, that would have

569
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 1: been a massive betrayal of my wife and soulmate, Jean,

570
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: who had given her all to help me survive. When

571
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: he wasn't working on the show, they would take walks

572
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: together when he felt up for it. They would watch TV,

573
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 1: or they would sit on their swing in the backyard. Uh,

574
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 1: they're they're kind of spiritual, and so she said, you know,

575
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 1: there's a lot of just being thankful for the sun

576
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 1: on your face and things like that. Um and Alex

577
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 1: did continue doing the show, even though sometimes it was

578
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: hard for him to, you know, concentrate for longer periods

579
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: of time or to stand for the whole five episode tapings.

580
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: They started to kind of cut that back a little bit.

581
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: Gene and Alex would watch Jeopardy together. Jean wrote, quote,

582
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 1: of course he knows most of the answers, but he

583
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 1: never tells me. I'd be tough to be like no spoilers.

584
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 1: He's like, I know all the answers. You find the question.

585
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: And then in two thousand nineteen, a contestant named Drew

586
00:32:54,880 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 1: Gauer from Gainesville, Georgia, wagered one thou dollars out of

587
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: his two thousand dollar earnings in Final Jeopardy, and for

588
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 1: his question, he wrote, what is we love you Alex.

589
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 1: When Trebek revealed the response, he choked up. He said, quote,

590
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 1: oh that's very kind, thank you. But he then caught

591
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: his composure and said cost you. You're left with five bucks.

592
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 1: Jean later said quote you could see him like, oh,

593
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 1: don't make me cry here. But I love it. I

594
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: think it meant the world to him. That's nice, Alex.

595
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 1: Trebek continued to host Jeopardy despite his illness. Sam Anderson

596
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 1: wrote in New York Times quote it was a dignified

597
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 1: refusal to surrender to doom. He was the squarest possible

598
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: existentialist hero, a man who holds the answer to every

599
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: single trivia question, but not to the great final question

600
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 1: of death, and yet he keeps showing up anyway, reading

601
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: his clues, giving us every last answer he can. Trebec

602
00:33:56,680 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: taped his final episode on October, just over a week

603
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 1: before his death on November eight, at eighty years old.

604
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 1: He had written in his memoir that quote, I've got

605
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: a framed image. Jeannie gave it to me. It's a

606
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 1: line from our favorite movie, Wuthering Heights. Whatever our souls

607
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:17,399
Speaker 1: are made of, yours and mine are the same. That's

608
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,919
Speaker 1: the way I look at our relationship. We are one

609
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 1: soul in two bodies. On auguste Jean, their two children,

610
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:30,759
Speaker 1: Matthew and Emily, and his adopted daughter Nikki, attended the

611
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: dedication of the Alex Trebek stage at Sony Pictures Soundstage

612
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: Studio ten, where Jeopardy is filmed. So they named the

613
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:41,879
Speaker 1: stage for him. That's nice. And you know, he said,

614
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: he said, one thing they'll never say of me is

615
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 1: that I was taken too soon. He said, I did

616
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 1: so much, you know, I guess that's true. Eight is

617
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 1: a good run, yeah, and and and a very full year,

618
00:34:56,120 --> 00:35:00,800
Speaker 1: you know. But it's still sad. I mean, especially someone

619
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 1: like that, you have to think was in people's living rooms,

620
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 1: like every night that long, you know, you get you

621
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 1: get attached. I didn't. I'm not a religious Jeopardy watcher myself,

622
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: but I could see a lot of people being like

623
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: really affected by that. We watched a lot when I

624
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,720
Speaker 1: was a kid. Um, not every night, but we watched

625
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,400
Speaker 1: a lot. And you know, even not having watched for

626
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:27,439
Speaker 1: you know, more of my adult life, he's still such

627
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: an icon. It just he really does feel like someone,

628
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 1: you know, because his presence, his image is just so

629
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: ubiquitous and present all the time. Yeah, I mean he

630
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 1: hosted Jeopardy my entire life, so he was like, I mean,

631
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:43,879
Speaker 1: everyone knew him, Like he's just such an I yeah,

632
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 1: like you say, a pop culture icon. Everyone knows his name,

633
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 1: they know what he sounds like. Even if you don't

634
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 1: watch the show. He was just such a big part

635
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Speaker 1: of the culture that, uh, I don't know, even not

636
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: watching it, I was like, well, they can't get anyone

637
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:59,800
Speaker 1: else to host the show. Was like, I don't trust

638
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 1: none of y'all. We mentioned in the last episode. It

639
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: is different. I mean you know that they're they're both

640
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,840
Speaker 1: doing a fine job, but you can't help. But you know,

641
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 1: you don't want to compare but you can't help but

642
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:14,399
Speaker 1: be thinking about Trebek all the time, right, which makes

643
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 1: me think when he took over for Art Fleming, he

644
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 1: must have had a similar Like even though Art was

645
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: post for way less time, obviously he must add a

646
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 1: similar Like. Everybody's got this guy his voice, you know,

647
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 1: in their head for this format and I have to

648
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 1: really like make it my own. But he had it

649
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 1: for thirty you know, thirty years or whatever. Like. Yeah,

650
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: Like we were listening to the weird Al Jeopardy song,

651
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 1: which I loved growing up. Um Risk Dempsey on our

652
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 1: Instagram post pointed out that's weird Al was gave the

653
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 1: Jeopardy that bump. That weird album song references Art Fleming.

654
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 1: It was it was the early eighties, so it was

655
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 1: pre Trebek came out. Um but I never saw Fleming myself,

656
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: but people did love him. But we all Alex Trebec

657
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: and uh, we're gonna just clean up all the onions

658
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 1: that someone's been cutting in here. I've got to get

659
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 1: this lotion sun sunscreen out of my eye. Um, but

660
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: we're gonna have some fun when we come back. The

661
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,359
Speaker 1: Tripecs and the Griffins are certainly not the only love

662
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: story around Jeopardy. Several couples have met on or around

663
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 1: the show. We're gonna take a quick look at a

664
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Speaker 1: few of them right after this break. Welcome back everyone. Okay,

665
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: So Jeopardy ain't all answers and questions. It's also a

666
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,879
Speaker 1: total trivia tunnel of love. That's not what I would

667
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:39,919
Speaker 1: have been at all. You can't think of Jeopardy without

668
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: thinking of getting it off all hot and bothered. Well,

669
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Speaker 1: a blog from Jeopardy website in ten says that at

670
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: least seven couples have formed romantic connections on Jeopardy, and

671
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 1: then we found at least two more since then. The

672
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,839
Speaker 1: earliest that we could find was actually from the Art

673
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: Fleming Days in seventy eight. A man named Carlo Pan

674
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:05,439
Speaker 1: was selected to be a contestant on Jeopardy. Like we said,

675
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 1: they filmed several episodes per day, So everybody shows up

676
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the day and you kind of

677
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 1: figure out when you're gonna go on while you're just

678
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: sitting in a green room. So he shows up and

679
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 1: a bunch of contestants are already packed into that green room, uh,

680
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 1: you know, chatting with each other, telling their stories of

681
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 1: how they came to be on the show, and in

682
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: the middle of the room there was a woman named

683
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Speaker 1: Deborah telling her story. She said that she absolutely killed it.

684
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 1: In her test run to get on the show. She

685
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,319
Speaker 1: was telling everyone that one of her clues had been

686
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: this is the longest song title of as Cap record. Uh, anybody,

687
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 1: I'll give you a second. Anybody know the answer to

688
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 1: the the question to that one? Uh? Is there a

689
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,880
Speaker 1: song version of don't be a Medicine South Central I'll

690
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,959
Speaker 1: drinking your juice in the hood? Or well, at least

691
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: as of it was, how could you believe me when

692
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: I said I loved you when you know I've been

693
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 1: a liar all my life? That is uh, fred as

694
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 1: Stairs from the movie Royal Wedding, Oh so little victim blaming. Well,

695
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 1: you know I was a liar, so you know it's

696
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 1: your fault. It's your fault. Well, Deborah was telling everyone

697
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 1: in the room how they said she was only the

698
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: second person in the show's history to answer that question

699
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 1: correctly and then quote, this tall, skinny man with curly

700
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: hair and a terrible brown suit put his hand out

701
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:30,360
Speaker 1: for me to shake and said, I was the first Games.

702
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 1: It was Carlo Game Carlo was like, this is the

703
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:38,720
Speaker 1: one chance, the best set up I've ever had. There's

704
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 1: not it's not gonna come around again. Even if it

705
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 1: wasn't interested in Debra. He's like, let me allow me.

706
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 1: You don't get a layup better than this. Every real

707
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 1: this is basically scripted, Like I need to, I have

708
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:54,799
Speaker 1: to take advantage. In an interview published on Mansion on

709
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Speaker 1: main Street dot com, Carlos said Deborah had great, bright

710
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 1: eyes quote, with such vitality behind them. But Deborah said quote,

711
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: Carlo kept butting in on the conversation. He had something

712
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Speaker 1: to say about everything, and yet we ended up flirting

713
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Speaker 1: with each other. Oh de She's like, I couldn't resist.

714
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 1: But when network reps saw them flirting, they wouldn't let

715
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Speaker 1: them compete against each other on the same show. I say,

716
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 1: were like, let's not get in the way of this

717
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:29,440
Speaker 1: budding romance. Carlo's turn came first. He lost his episode,

718
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 1: but before he left, he slipped Deborah his phone number. Now,

719
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 1: she said she didn't think much about it because she

720
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 1: was about to go on. Unfortunately she bombed. But they

721
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:41,319
Speaker 1: both lived near l A, so three weeks later she

722
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: decided to call him up. They spent their first date

723
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Speaker 1: at old book and record stores, and it turned out

724
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 1: they had a ton of the same interests and tastes.

725
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: They married in and Carlos said, quote, we hold each

726
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:56,919
Speaker 1: other too high standards. God help you. If you tell

727
00:40:56,920 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 1: a joke you've told before, Yike. Yeah, I feel like

728
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: that's half of marriage. Is like, oh yeah, I feel

729
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 1: like you told me that. Joe heard that one. Carlo,

730
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:10,920
Speaker 1: you said it two weeks ago. He's like, damn it. Yeah,

731
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 1: Well you weren't listening, right, Yeah, Can you honestly say

732
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 1: you're paying attention? Your eyes glazed clearly I was while

733
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: you didn't laugh. Well, it wasn't funny, Carlo have a

734
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: hard time now. In the interview, they said they still

735
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:29,840
Speaker 1: yell at the TV while they watched Jeopardy together. Another

736
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 1: story in Eddie Timinus was the first blind contestant on

737
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Speaker 1: Jeopardy when he was only three years old. Eddie had

738
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Speaker 1: to have an operation to remove tumors from his eyes

739
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:42,839
Speaker 1: and that led to permanent blindness. So when he went

740
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 1: on Jeopardy, they made some adjustments, like he would get

741
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 1: the category names in brail before each round, and he

742
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 1: had a Brail keyboard to type out his response for

743
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 1: Final Jeopardy, but he refused any other accommodations. Jeopardy is

744
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 1: largely an audio game, really, when it comes down to it.

745
00:41:58,280 --> 00:41:59,919
Speaker 1: I was going to say, I'm not sure you needed

746
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,400
Speaker 1: many other accommodation. Yeah, that's cool. He's like, look just

747
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 1: a bare minimum, right, And they didn't do any video

748
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,359
Speaker 1: questions during those games either. Oh yeah, I guess they

749
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 1: have a video Yeah, that's right. Apparently he's a whole

750
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 1: team that just makes video Jeopardy questions. They go all

751
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 1: over the world. What an interesting job, you know, right,

752
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: sign me up. Well, Eddie won five games in a row,

753
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 1: which at the time and up until two thousand three,

754
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 1: was the limit on the number of games you could win.

755
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 1: So once you win five, you retire undefeated. I never

756
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 1: knew they had a limit, And now now it's like,

757
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 1: how long can you hold on? Well, they love these

758
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,879
Speaker 1: streaks now, right, because everybody tunes in to see when's

759
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:42,279
Speaker 1: the champ gonna lose? Yeah. So, later Eddie ended up

760
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 1: in a Yahoo message group about game shows where high

761
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: school social studies teacher named Kelly asked him for some

762
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 1: ideas on integrating game shows into her teaching curriculum, which

763
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:54,680
Speaker 1: to me, it sounds like she just wanted to talk

764
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:57,319
Speaker 1: to this guy, right, Like, Um, I don't know, how

765
00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 1: could I put game shows in mind classroom? I mean,

766
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: she might also be a conscientious teacher trying to mold

767
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:09,400
Speaker 1: the minds of tomorrow. But yeah, I mean she's like,

768
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:13,759
Speaker 1: can I ask this undefeated champion of Jeopardy. She did

769
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 1: say that her mom had nudged her to get to

770
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 1: know him, Okay, after his time on the show Good,

771
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:23,359
Speaker 1: So A're just saying she was like seeking him out.

772
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 1: She's a wing mom, right, Guys get wing men, Ladies

773
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 1: get wing moms. Well, Eddie must have had some good

774
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:35,879
Speaker 1: ideas for her, because later he said she quote sent

775
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 1: me a note thanking me for helping her fill the

776
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: last few minutes of her class, and things progressed from there. Now,

777
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: they didn't live near each other. She was like in

778
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 1: North Carolina. He was in Virginia. But she had a

779
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 1: friend who lived near where he did, and she would

780
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 1: go visit her and managed to meet up with Eddie

781
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 1: while she was there, which again feels to me like, Oh,

782
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: I'm just in town. What do you know? I happen

783
00:43:58,120 --> 00:43:59,759
Speaker 1: to be close to you. He's working hard on this,

784
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 1: she wrote to an old high school person she hadn't

785
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 1: seen in twenty years. It was like, I need to

786
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: come visit you, okay, And they're like, who is this again?

787
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:10,280
Speaker 1: Remember me? I sat next to you on the bus well,

788
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: Eddie said, quote it was a lovely walk. I had

789
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 1: the sensation that I had just found the one, it

790
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: would seem, she concurred. When I met her parents, her

791
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:21,319
Speaker 1: dad told me they kind of knew me already since

792
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 1: they'd watched me on TV so many times. He was like, surprise, bitch,

793
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:34,920
Speaker 1: I'm completely different. Another couple is two women who actually

794
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:39,320
Speaker 1: did compete against each other. Emily and Stacy Chloyd first

795
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 1: met in two thousand nine at an in person audition

796
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 1: for Jeopardy. In an article on Insider by Annetta Constantonitis,

797
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 1: Emily said she'd grown up watching the show every night

798
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:52,279
Speaker 1: with her parents and joined the quiz Bowl team in

799
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:55,279
Speaker 1: high school, and she never really thought she'd compete, but

800
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 1: when auditions came to d c Is, she figured, I'll

801
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 1: get to shot. And at the audition there was coordinator

802
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 1: who held icebreakers to help everyone relax, and they asked

803
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 1: quote who came furthest for the audition? A girl raised

804
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:12,279
Speaker 1: her hand, introduced herself as Stacy and said she just

805
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,360
Speaker 1: graduated from University of Michigan and was moving to d

806
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:19,919
Speaker 1: C to work for a nonprofit legal clinic. Emily is like,

807
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 1: whoa hey, I actually just graduated from Michigan and moved

808
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:26,360
Speaker 1: to d C to work as a climate scientist, and

809
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 1: Stacy'd like, whoa crazy. But they didn't see each other

810
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:32,920
Speaker 1: again for eight months. They both got called to go

811
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:35,839
Speaker 1: on Jeopardy and they both flew to Los Angeles. And

812
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:37,439
Speaker 1: we kind of described this before, but when you show

813
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:39,440
Speaker 1: up for the day, you don't know when you're going

814
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 1: to compete or against whom. Emily is the one who

815
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 1: told us quote. Just before each game, the staff draw

816
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 1: the names of two contestants who will go up against

817
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 1: the returning champion, which to me, I learning that the

818
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:54,839
Speaker 1: returning champion plays all their games in a row. Yes,

819
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:57,399
Speaker 1: that's really intense. So not only have you now I've

820
00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 1: won two, three, four games, I've got more to film

821
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: each day, and then I got to come back tomorrow

822
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:05,359
Speaker 1: and shoot five in a row like Ken Jennings who

823
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:09,320
Speaker 1: won seventy four games. What is that like? Fifteen days straight?

824
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:13,279
Speaker 1: Answering trivia do you think it's better like you you're

825
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:15,960
Speaker 1: in the zone, right, or like maybe, Oh I wish

826
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:17,440
Speaker 1: a couple of months went by, I could read some

827
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 1: more books tomorrow, get some rest, right your brains just

828
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 1: like I don't know anymore, my brain is right. It's

829
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 1: so weird because we see it day to day. You

830
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 1: assume there's twenty four hours in between. Yeah, but now

831
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:32,279
Speaker 1: they're like, we're going to take a twenty minute break

832
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:36,879
Speaker 1: water and come on back. Well, after three games were

833
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:39,719
Speaker 1: filmed that day, they drew Emily's name to compete, and

834
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:42,440
Speaker 1: then the next name they pulled, of course, with Stacy's.

835
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:45,600
Speaker 1: The two of them reintroduced themselves. It had been eight months.

836
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 1: I didn't really remember each other's names, and then they

837
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 1: went head to head. By the end of double Jeopardy.

838
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:54,320
Speaker 1: Going into the final round, Emily was in third place

839
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 1: with only four The returning champion had a thousand dollars,

840
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:04,399
Speaker 1: but Stacy was rocking fifteen thousand dollars. Now, of course,

841
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 1: you know that it's anybody's game in Final Jeopardy, but

842
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 1: that was a tough score to b because all Stacy

843
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 1: had to do was not wager a high enough amount

844
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 1: that she could lose, you know, more than the other

845
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,360
Speaker 1: two could win, because you can't bet more than you have.

846
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,320
Speaker 1: I was about to ask unless like the returning champion

847
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:23,680
Speaker 1: was like, oh what I bet sixteen grand? They're like,

848
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 1: you don't have it right. He's only got a thousand,

849
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 1: so the max he could win his two thousands. So

850
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 1: as long as Stacy didn't lose more than you know,

851
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: thirteen thousand dollars, then she was fine. Yeah, so of

852
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:36,439
Speaker 1: course she won at that game, locked up tight and

853
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: Uh and Emily lost. Since they both lived in d C,

854
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:41,839
Speaker 1: they decided they would have a viewing party of their

855
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 1: episode together when it aired in March. By that fall,

856
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 1: they were finally dating, even though they both went to

857
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:52,239
Speaker 1: University of Michigan and both lived in d C. They

858
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:54,799
Speaker 1: told Jeopardy that it's really unlikely they would have met

859
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:57,799
Speaker 1: if it weren't for the show. Emily told Insider that

860
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:00,239
Speaker 1: some of her friends had to apologize for saying mean

861
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:02,840
Speaker 1: things about Stacy while they were competing on the show.

862
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 1: But that's right or die friends, all right. Stacy was

863
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:08,640
Speaker 1: probably like, no, you you got to talk about me.

864
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:13,279
Speaker 1: You should hear what my friends said about you know.

865
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: They were like that four whatever. The returning champ his

866
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 1: friends probably said some terrible things. I know, but he's like,

867
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:25,799
Speaker 1: I didn't have to disclose. We had no romance. On

868
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:29,359
Speaker 1: their first Valentine's Day together, Jeopardy aired the episode where

869
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 1: Ken Jennings competed against the IBM computer Watson, which Emily said,

870
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 1: quote was pretty special since it turned out Watson had

871
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:41,239
Speaker 1: actually trained on our game, so that's cute. There was

872
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: like a Valentine's Day gift to them from Jeopardy. Emily

873
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:51,840
Speaker 1: and Stacy married two years later on June tenth, and

874
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:55,320
Speaker 1: they said that they think Jeopardy is hugely important because quote,

875
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:59,280
Speaker 1: knowledge and expertise and truth are taking a beating these days,

876
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:03,320
Speaker 1: but on pretty they're respected and celebrated. Seeing that people

877
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 1: could win for being smart or at least good at

878
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 1: trivia was important for a kid who preferred reading books

879
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: to playing sports. And when they tell their story and

880
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:16,400
Speaker 1: people ask them who won, Emily likes to say, quote,

881
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:23,760
Speaker 1: Stacy won the game, but I won at life. Now

882
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:27,319
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of other couples with similar stories, some

883
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: of them you know, fascinating, and some of them just like, yeah,

884
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 1: we're broth. On Jeopardy we met we started dating, we

885
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,960
Speaker 1: got married. Right, Oh wow, you really paint out a

886
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 1: picture for me. But look, I mean, you put a

887
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:40,400
Speaker 1: bunch of nerds in a room together, it's going to

888
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 1: happen sooner or later. Right, I was actually good, I

889
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 1: was thinking because earlier I'm like, well, I don't think

890
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 1: of Jeopardy as a place to meet somebody, but like

891
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:50,719
Speaker 1: every place where you're in a room with people who

892
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: share at least one interest with you is a possible

893
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 1: place to meet people at least to be friends, like

894
00:49:56,600 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: you know, you have something in common, well, and learning

895
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 1: that they've got Okay, five five games a day, you know,

896
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:05,680
Speaker 1: between ten and fifteen people back sitting in the green

897
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 1: room all day. You know, probably a lot of them

898
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:09,840
Speaker 1: were sitting there reading a book. But there's going to

899
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:13,720
Speaker 1: be some social interaction. Yeah, so yeah, lots of chances.

900
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:17,480
Speaker 1: I mean, if only my Ambiolic and Ken Jennings would

901
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:19,400
Speaker 1: get together, that that really put a nice button on

902
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 1: this episode. So if y'all could just do that speak romances, No,

903
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 1: probably not, because Ken Jennings has been married to his

904
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:32,840
Speaker 1: wife since the year two thousand and then I found

905
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 1: out that my ambi alics current boyfriend is apparently a writer, poet, filmmaker,

906
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:42,880
Speaker 1: and futurist um and I guess apparently the two of

907
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:46,759
Speaker 1: them hosts a podcast together. So actually, maybe we can

908
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 1: get them on the show, because that could be a

909
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: ridiculous romance right there. Yeah, that'd be cool. How did

910
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:55,759
Speaker 1: my ambiolic and her futurist boyfriend get together? Did you

911
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:58,800
Speaker 1: watch Blossom? You didn't watch? Did you? No? I didn't.

912
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:02,799
Speaker 1: I know about the hats, but that's about it. I

913
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:08,279
Speaker 1: watched it because I was in love with six. Oh yeah, yeah,

914
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:11,319
Speaker 1: because her name was six, and I just thought that

915
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 1: was the coolest thing. Like her name is a number.

916
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 1: But like if someone's name is four, it doesn't work.

917
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 1: It's like the X sound. I feel it does a

918
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:26,080
Speaker 1: lot for six, right, because yeah, I don't, but I'm

919
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:28,080
Speaker 1: not thinking of other numbers that work for me as

920
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 1: a name. Yeah, seven, it sounds like a serial killer. Seven.

921
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:38,640
Speaker 1: I just think. I just think Kevin Spacey, that's no

922
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:45,160
Speaker 1: good head in a box. True. Nine not not doing it.

923
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:48,760
Speaker 1: I guess I have a Friendame Trey because she's the third.

924
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 1: So that's but that's he's not called three, you know.

925
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 1: That's trade feels like a cooler way to do it

926
00:51:56,040 --> 00:52:00,680
Speaker 1: three on Ozark. Oh yeah, three, that's right, right, And

927
00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 1: I don't know why it works for me. And I

928
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 1: was like, I was like, sure, it looks right, but

929
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 1: I didn't find him sexy. No, no, that's true, but

930
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 1: I mean he was definitely a child. I'm glad to

931
00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 1: hear that before the Canadian Broadcasting Company cancels us downs. Wow,

932
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:24,920
Speaker 1: well that's yeah. That that's your Jeopardy love stories. The

933
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 1: trivia of Jeopardy Love Story. You can you can look

934
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,960
Speaker 1: up more. There's a bunch, like you said, these were

935
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:32,960
Speaker 1: the most These are the ones that really stood out

936
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:35,600
Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, that's your cue and last I could find,

937
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:37,120
Speaker 1: you know, not a lot of up to the date

938
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 1: information on them, but it seems like they've all lived

939
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 1: happily ever after And it was nice to kind of

940
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:44,839
Speaker 1: get to dig through Alex and Jean's life too. Yeah.

941
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 1: I never knew that about And I didn't really know

942
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:49,919
Speaker 1: much about Alex Trebek at all until, of course he's

943
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:52,560
Speaker 1: sick and people were doing a lot of retrospectives about

944
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 1: his life and stuff like that. I remember being like, oh,

945
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:57,640
Speaker 1: there's you know, he's a really interesting guy, but he

946
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:01,239
Speaker 1: just was you know, again, he's like he was famous

947
00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 1: before people were on Instagram all the time, inviting you

948
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 1: into their home and stuff, so you just had basically

949
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 1: just what he was on Jeopardy. For a very long time,

950
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: you didn't get that kind of insider look at someone's

951
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:18,359
Speaker 1: personality the way you do now. I really liked this

952
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 1: interview I read with Will Smith a few years back

953
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 1: that he said, you know, when I was becoming a

954
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 1: movie star, it was all about hiding from your audience. Uh,

955
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 1: you know, you won't You couldn't put movies out too often,

956
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 1: you couldn't be out there in the press too much

957
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: because you wanted this air of like, where's he been, Oh,

958
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 1: he's here, let's go see his movie. You know. It

959
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:42,920
Speaker 1: was about sort of restricting people's access to you. And

960
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:44,960
Speaker 1: he said then there was this turn with social media

961
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:46,880
Speaker 1: where now it's more like, if you want to be

962
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 1: a movie star, you've got to let people into your

963
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:51,279
Speaker 1: home and see what your day to day life, you know,

964
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:55,879
Speaker 1: curated though it may be. And now I can't help

965
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:57,560
Speaker 1: but think how much better Will Smith might be doing

966
00:53:57,640 --> 00:53:59,719
Speaker 1: right now if people didn't get to see so much

967
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:02,439
Speaker 1: of what he was doing. Literally, one of the best

968
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:05,600
Speaker 1: headlines ever is we should all know less about each other.

969
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:08,719
Speaker 1: And I kind of agree. There's parts of it that

970
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:12,360
Speaker 1: are great and and very humanizing and so on, but

971
00:54:12,360 --> 00:54:14,800
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's a lot of it is like, Okay,

972
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:17,760
Speaker 1: maybe you should just learn how to not talk about

973
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:20,359
Speaker 1: everything in your life and say every word that comes

974
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:23,239
Speaker 1: out of your that comes to your head because it's

975
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 1: not doing any favors. If we can only all be

976
00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 1: more like Alex Trebeck. Well, this was really fun to

977
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:34,160
Speaker 1: learn about these Jeopardy folks. I hope that y'all enjoyed

978
00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 1: this too. Um, one of the finest game shows ever,

979
00:54:38,040 --> 00:54:41,279
Speaker 1: still going strong. And you think about trivia is they

980
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:47,800
Speaker 1: keep making more of it. There's always something. Facts keep happening,

981
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:53,000
Speaker 1: just keep coming, as much as I keep saying please stop. Um,

982
00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:54,839
Speaker 1: but yeah, let us know what you saw it. Reach

983
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 1: out with your own suggestions. Tell us if you were

984
00:54:57,960 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 1: on Jeopardy. I think we asked this last time, and

985
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:03,080
Speaker 1: if you on Jeopardy, tell us your experience, especially if

986
00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 1: you got to meet Alex Trebek, if he told you

987
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:08,239
Speaker 1: a joke, or if he cursed at you. I want

988
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 1: to hear about it. You can find us through email

989
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:14,960
Speaker 1: ridic Romance at gmail. Dot com right, or find us

990
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 1: on Twitter and Instagram. I'm at Oh great, it's Eli.

991
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:21,320
Speaker 1: I'm at Dynamite Boom and the show's at ridic Romance.

992
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:24,320
Speaker 1: That's right, and we will be back soon with another

993
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:29,839
Speaker 1: fun filled episode about these some crazy love stories. Right,

994
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: we'll catch the next one. Love me by so long, friends,

995
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:38,000
Speaker 1: it's time to go. Thanks so listening to our show.

996
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:41,640
Speaker 1: Tell your friends, name's Uncle's in this? To listen to

997
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Speaker 1: a show ridiculous roll nance