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Speaker 1: Too Much Information is a production of My Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to Too Much Information, the show

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Speaker 1: that gives you the secret history and little known fascinating

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Speaker 1: facts about your favorite movies, music, TV shows and more.

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Speaker 1: My name's Jordan Runt Talk, and I'm Alex Heiglin and

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Speaker 1: Hegel Today. I'm so excited we're talking about one of

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Speaker 1: my favorite shows, one of my favorite pop culture entities

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Speaker 1: of all time, Jeopardy. Yeah, this is I know this

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Speaker 1: is a big one for you. I know, I was

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Speaker 1: really surprised to hear that you weren't as into it

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Speaker 1: as I am. I saw you as like somebody who

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Speaker 1: did you audition and get turned down? Or you aren'ist

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Speaker 1: into this as I would have thought. That would be

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Speaker 1: the very predictable. Now, you want to know, the sad

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Speaker 1: truth of it is that I was in my um

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Speaker 1: middle school quiz bowl team, That's right, Yeah, and we

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Speaker 1: suffered a very humiliating loss at one point, and I've

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Speaker 1: frankly I've never been able to play a buzz in

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Speaker 1: trivia game him again. It's really derailed my career. It

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Speaker 1: was like I blew my a c l out or

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Speaker 1: something equivalent of that. I just I never played again,

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Speaker 1: and it's all too painful for me. I can't. I'm

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Speaker 1: not making this up. I did. I was in Quizzble

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Speaker 1: and we were it was a humiliating defeat. Let me

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Speaker 1: just say what happened. He was there one question in

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Speaker 1: particular that it was just this. It was like they

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Speaker 1: like me on steroids because I could never do I

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Speaker 1: could never do my worst enemy basically, well yeah, because

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Speaker 1: it was like this dude like had command of just

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Speaker 1: all kinds of obscure, ridiculous facts, but he could also

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Speaker 1: do math, which I could ever do. So we were

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Speaker 1: just murdered. I think it was like they got like

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Speaker 1: a perfect score of the answers were from this kid,

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Speaker 1: and we got like ten. It was embarrassing, and it

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Speaker 1: was like just as far as like that team had

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Speaker 1: ever gone, and I it's you know, it's haunted me

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Speaker 1: ever since. Um, but I you know what I did

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Speaker 1: spend a lot of time with Jeffardy wise as growing

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Speaker 1: up was the SNL skits. Oh yeah, we'll talk about

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Speaker 1: about that in here definitely, of course. But before we

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Speaker 1: go any further, we have a little special treat for

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Speaker 1: this episode. You know, passions run high here on too

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Speaker 1: much information, and it's something that we love about ourselves,

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Speaker 1: but sometimes the language does get a little bit rowdy.

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Speaker 1: So in the interest of good taste we've obtained at

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Speaker 1: great expense, I might add the original buzzing sound from

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Speaker 1: the unaired nine pilot of Jeopardy. I'm so excited to

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Speaker 1: share this. Let's give it a listen. Isn't it great?

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Speaker 1: We do it all for you anyway, that's it. I

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Speaker 1: just wanted to share that. Well, then let's dive the in. Baby.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad we're getting you said it out already. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's time to kick off this episode, this jet episode,

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Speaker 1: if you will. We're going to talk about how Lucille

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Speaker 1: Ball helped get Alex Trebeck the hosting gig, how hash

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Speaker 1: Brownie's nearly put him out of commission, how the theme

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Speaker 1: tune was written on a Hollywood icons piano, and how

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Speaker 1: We'll also lift the lid on the show's finally honed

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Speaker 1: production process, give you tips on the insane PTSD inducing

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Speaker 1: preparation that prospective contestants go through, and reveal whether or

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Speaker 1: not Alex Trebek ever met Hiss SNL celebrity Jeopardy nemesis

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Speaker 1: Sean Connery in real life. Without further ado, here's everything

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Speaker 1: you didn't know about Jeopardy. Well, curse things. First, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna go back to the pre Trebec era. Now, a

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Speaker 1: lot of people don't realize that Jeopardy actually first premiered

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Speaker 1: in the late fifties when it came out that a

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Speaker 1: number of really popular prime time quiz shows were rigged.

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Speaker 1: Contestants had gotten the answers beforehand, and this created a

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Speaker 1: an expose on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Jeopardy,

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Speaker 1: trivia nerds like me. This didn't sit well with Merv Griffin,

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Speaker 1: So after months of tinkering, he's presenting it for final

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Speaker 1: a great song, but you know it's an even better

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Speaker 1: song the theme to Jeopardy, which MERV Griffin wrote. MERV

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Speaker 1: Griffin wrote this song. It has a title. It was

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Speaker 1: genial guy. Great interviewer. Uh, you know what's on his tombstone?

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Speaker 1: it's funny. It does sound like thinking about the Jeopardy

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Speaker 1: jazz baby. So I mentioned earlier. The first episode of

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Speaker 1: it was an instant success. I think only Hollywood Squares

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Speaker 1: I mean, he went on to have a lot of

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Speaker 1: there's I see what you're doing. They got five episodes

426
00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,520
Speaker 1: a day. How what is that over an eight hour shooting. Yeah? Yeah,

427
00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,720
Speaker 1: I mean if you think about it without the commercials,

428
00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:44,280
Speaker 1: and I think without like the personal anecdotes and stuff.

429
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:46,280
Speaker 1: I think I read somewhere that it's really only like

430
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:50,239
Speaker 1: thirteen minutes of game time something like that. I mean,

431
00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:51,960
Speaker 1: if you think about taking the commercials out, that's like

432
00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:56,200
Speaker 1: twenty two minutes and then personal anecdotes and Trebek's intro

433
00:22:56,320 --> 00:23:00,400
Speaker 1: in the beginning or whatever, it's not a lot. Also,

434
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,320
Speaker 1: I want to ask, I feel like there are two

435
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 1: kinds of people in this world. People who love the

436
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:09,320
Speaker 1: personal anecdote moments on Jeopardy and then the people who

437
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:11,680
Speaker 1: fast forward through them when they have it on DVR.

438
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:13,920
Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like it's like you're feeling

439
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,440
Speaker 1: on the personal anecdotes of Jeopardy are sort of really

440
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,720
Speaker 1: says a lot about are you endlessly fascinated by the

441
00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:23,680
Speaker 1: diversity of the human experience or do you just want

442
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,879
Speaker 1: to know more potent potables? Yeah? Skip it. Take me

443
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:27,639
Speaker 1: to the potent potables. I don't give a shit a

444
00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:30,840
Speaker 1: but I don't care. It's it's no personal deed, no

445
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:34,720
Speaker 1: real names, no eye contact, no real names. Come on

446
00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:37,359
Speaker 1: to Jeopardy. It's about the answers. It's about the facts.

447
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,600
Speaker 1: It's about the love of the game. It's about the

448
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:43,600
Speaker 1: white hot crucible of person to person competitions. I don't

449
00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:47,960
Speaker 1: give where you're from. Cut to this chase, baby, that's

450
00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:52,439
Speaker 1: my that's my tan. Yeah, good luck, good luck cutting

451
00:23:52,440 --> 00:24:01,600
Speaker 1: around that runtime. Wow, you can try it. You evoking,

452
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:07,639
Speaker 1: no kissing, no eye contact. Describe Jeopardy is bone chilling

453
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:12,880
Speaker 1: names Yeah. Mr Pink, Mr Orange. That's what they come

454
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 1: on as. And it's just I want if games only

455
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 1: last minutes of like playtime, it should be like deathmatch,

456
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 1: like you should film tenant to film twenty of these

457
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:27,480
Speaker 1: a day, More and more people in, the more meat

458
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:32,199
Speaker 1: that the Jeopardy machine threshes through. That's what's honorable to

459
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:40,639
Speaker 1: me about it. You know, Um, okay, we're going to

460
00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,160
Speaker 1: take a quick break, but we'll be right back with more.

461
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 1: Too much information in just a moment. Well well, according

462
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Speaker 1: to the Jeopardy website, which does not heard of their contestants,

463
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 1: as meat. Um. The show tapes five episodes a day,

464
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 1: around forty six days a year for regular season episodes,

465
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 1: which means there's about twitter than thirty new episodes shot

466
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,680
Speaker 1: every year. Um. And Jeopardy shoots on the Sony Pictures lot,

467
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:19,199
Speaker 1: which is where not only We Loove Fortune shoots, but

468
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 1: also where Wizard of Oz was filmed, I believe, on

469
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:28,239
Speaker 1: the same sound stage. Um, you think, oh absolutely. I mean,

470
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 1: isn't there that that myth about the about the Munchkin,

471
00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 1: which is which is not just a bird in the background,

472
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 1: but at least definitely the ghost of Judy Garland's childhood

473
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:41,679
Speaker 1: is probably still haunting that place. I thought, I really

474
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:46,120
Speaker 1: thought this would be like the most lighthearted Fawn episode.

475
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 1: And yeah, for I mean, speaking of you know, they

476
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 1: do five episodes of Jeopardy. We just taped three episodes.

477
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 1: The third episode that we've taped today. We've done rumors

478
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:58,639
Speaker 1: with you know, the Blizzard of Cocaine. We've done the

479
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 1: Royal Tenembounds, which involves somebody's finger getting sliced off, and

480
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:05,919
Speaker 1: you know, it's somehow Jeopardy was was not the one

481
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 1: that I would have pegged as the one with you

482
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,920
Speaker 1: evoking you know the law of the Blade. Yeah, my

483
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:17,440
Speaker 1: my cone in the barbarian esque take on competition. Well,

484
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,119
Speaker 1: you know, it's just the it's just my quizzble killer

485
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 1: instant coming back. Baby. I was gonna say, now, I'm

486
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 1: starting to see why this was so painful for you

487
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 1: when he lost. Wow. Well, taking it to game day,

488
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 1: contestants and games are chosen at random to ensure there's

489
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,199
Speaker 1: no cheating, and for each clue selected by a contestant,

490
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,560
Speaker 1: like you know, whenever they say I'll take potent potables

491
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:40,160
Speaker 1: for four hundred or whatever, they actually have a dedicated

492
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,880
Speaker 1: person whose job it is to manually activate the game

493
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 1: board backstage. So there's no robotic anything involved with this production.

494
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:50,639
Speaker 1: It's all compliance officers and people. They're like really strict

495
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:55,640
Speaker 1: about this. Um Alex Trebeck because he shoots so many

496
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 1: Because he shot uh so many episodes a day. Uh,

497
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:01,560
Speaker 1: he had to change his suit five times a dating

498
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: for the keep up the illusion that it was a

499
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: different day. He supposedly had at one point over a

500
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 1: hundred suits UM, which is pretty impressive. On game day,

501
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,479
Speaker 1: he would wake up at five fifteen in the morning

502
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 1: and arrive at studio around six, and he guess He

503
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 1: had a whole series of pre show rituals, reading the newspaper,

504
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 1: doing the crossword, all the kind of chill out stuff

505
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 1: you'd probably imagine for a man of Trabec stature. Uh.

506
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,880
Speaker 1: And he reads through all the scripts and would read

507
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 1: through all the game boards. I guess they had it

508
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 1: like printed out on like a piece of paper, like

509
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:41,160
Speaker 1: the game board, and he would, you know, read through

510
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,400
Speaker 1: all make sure you all the pronunciations right and everything.

511
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: And you would notice when he was at his podium

512
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:47,119
Speaker 1: in the middle of the game, he looked like he

513
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,159
Speaker 1: was writing stuff. He would scratch off questions as he

514
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,880
Speaker 1: went on on his little paper game board in front

515
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 1: of him, just so um, you know, so he just

516
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 1: to keep it from being confused. But yeah, there's something

517
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 1: really sweet. I guess after he died. Um, the suits

518
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 1: were donated to something called the Dough Funds, which gives

519
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 1: UH formally incarcerated men uh suits to wear on on

520
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 1: job interviews. Is there that's some good mojo to bring in?

521
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 1: By all accounts, Drabek was. I mean, we'll get to

522
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,159
Speaker 1: more of this later, but by all accounts, Drabek was

523
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 1: just just the best, and like you know, friends of

524
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,119
Speaker 1: mine have interviewed him and stuff, have said that he

525
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 1: was just a magical guy. Um. But yeah, after he

526
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:27,679
Speaker 1: would arrive with a lot at six am and he

527
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 1: was usually on his way home by like four good gig.

528
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: You know, he's just like he's like I just go

529
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 1: to work. He's a craft dedicated to his craft. Oh yeah,

530
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: so we got some game time secrets from contestants. There's

531
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 1: been a lot of contestants over the years who have

532
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 1: you know, written blog posts and you know, started websites

533
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 1: and stuff about you know. Um. Contestants usually watch from

534
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 1: the audience before they're going up to play, which is

535
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 1: gotta be nerve racking. Like when I was on Who

536
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 1: Wants to Be a Millionaire? I can't imagine they kept

537
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 1: me backstage, Like I can't imagine watching other people do

538
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 1: what I was about to try to do. Like that's

539
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: got a mess with your head. Purpose They're like, we

540
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 1: got with these people. Um, but during gameplay, you get

541
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 1: it's approximately thirteen minutes to answer fifty questions and apparently

542
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 1: contestants are not allowed to acknowledge family members or anybody

543
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 1: in the audience in any way. You can't shout. But

544
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: apparently there was a time when one contestant, during their

545
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 1: personal anecdote moment, proposed to his girlfriend from the stage.

546
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 1: She was and she was in the audience, which you know,

547
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: I imagine Trebek had a hand and in helping matt

548
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 1: Um no real names and shed She replied, what is yes,

549
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 1: because nerds beget nerds. That's when we have like the audience.

550
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 1: The audience goes, oh, that's not even yeah. I was

551
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:56,959
Speaker 1: gonna say, that's not even the first time that happened.

552
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,080
Speaker 1: Maybe No, I guess there's somebody else who proposed is

553
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 1: of their girlfriend. They were just like in the audience

554
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 1: and during a commercial break, he got down on one knee. Uh,

555
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: which I admire the extreme fandom dedication, but there's something

556
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: about proposing in the middle of a commercial break, just

557
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 1: that that inherent fact kind of takes me out of it.

558
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 1: But I wasn't important enough to be on the air. Well,

559
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 1: I guess like when they came back, Trebec said something like,

560
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 1: you know, we had a little bit of happy news

561
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 1: from all the audience, and they I think they showed

562
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 1: a picture of the guy, like, you know, on his

563
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 1: own one knee or something. But after the game is

564
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 1: over again, they're shooting five thirty minutes shows in a

565
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 1: row with really kind of minimal breaks. Uh, the winner

566
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 1: doesn't really have a whole lot of time to do

567
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: any kind of major victory lap. So really you only

568
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 1: have about ten minutes to after you know, the thrill

569
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: of victory to go backstage, change your clothes, get your

570
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 1: makeup replied, and then go back out there behind the

571
00:30:55,000 --> 00:31:00,959
Speaker 1: podium and uh get back in the in the gladiatorial thunderdome,

572
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 1: back into the thunderdome. You know, Jordan, I don't know

573
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: if you know this about me, but I love podium PODi.

574
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: I I love PODII, I love platforms, I love stages,

575
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: I love dais is, I love rostrums, I love soapboxes.

576
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 1: So about the podium that some stuff to tell me

577
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 1: about for a uh, so we're under a little segment

578
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 1: we like to call Secrets of the Podium, which the

579
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: first is Risers, which is probably it seems pretty obvious

580
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: you want them all in the same shot. So rather

581
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 1: than doing the classic thing that they do with Tom

582
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 1: Cruise or key for something, and when they put them

583
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 1: on an apple create uh, they do that, they actually

584
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: do just that they put them each of the podiums

585
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: has risers, so they get all the contestants roughly up

586
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: to the same height. It's like in Taxi when Danny

587
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: DeVito comes out from the stand the first time and

588
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: he's like half as tall as everyone thought he was.

589
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 1: And so moving on to another great aspect of the

590
00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,160
Speaker 1: PODi I, there's one visual aspect of the podiums. It's

591
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 1: actually a way for people to keep track of what's

592
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 1: going on in the game. There's a little white light

593
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 1: in the lower left hand corner that will turn on

594
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: and that indicates, um, the competitor who answered the last

595
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: clue correctly tribec to know like who's got the who's

596
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 1: got control of the board, and stuff like that, just

597
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 1: so he doesn't have to like keep track of everything

598
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: that's going on and to avoid some of the all

599
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 1: important sight lines of the podium. The PODII what is

600
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 1: the plural podium? I don't think there's ever been more

601
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: than one podium in a give in space. Ever, two

602
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,959
Speaker 1: more podiums actually exist in a state of superimposition at

603
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: the same time. Um there is speaking of speaking of

604
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 1: things that exists in a state of quantum superimposition. There's

605
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 1: two scoreboards going on at the same time. In Jeopardy,

606
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 1: there's the scoreboard behind or to the side of the contestants,

607
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: and then there's one in all of their line of sight,

608
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: so that that helps them determine how much they're waging

609
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: in the Daily Doubles and Jeopardy, But so they are

610
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 1: not constantly creating their necks to find out what's going

611
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 1: on in the game. And then oh, this is my

612
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 1: favorite when I do this one. Yeah, yeah, I was

613
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 1: gonna say, we'd be remiss if we didn't get a

614
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 1: chance to talk about the screen pen. Yes, the screen pen.

615
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of contestants have complained about, you know,

616
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 1: how awful their handwriting looks and penmanship looks, you know,

617
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: when they're writing their name and on on their their

618
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: final Jeopardy answers and stuff like that. Uh. Ken Jennings,

619
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: writing an article for Cracked, wrote that it's like writing

620
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: with an icicle on class. It's apparently very hard to

621
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 1: to use. Uh And producers of the show apparently really

622
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 1: go out of their way to make sure that contestants

623
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 1: know the difference between the pen and the buzzer, because

624
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: apparently there was an incident where a woman was on

625
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 1: the show and she was unable to buzz in for

626
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 1: a single question during the entire first segment of the game.

627
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: And when she complained during commercial, Uh, someone on the

628
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: set walked over and looked and realized that she'd been

629
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: trying to buzz in with pen the whole time and

630
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: just like clicking it furiously, which like is heartbreaking too.

631
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,439
Speaker 1: I mean, think about you know, I mean, think about

632
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 1: how many rounds of auditions and stuff that you've got

633
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:13,840
Speaker 1: to go through all the I mean when people and

634
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,319
Speaker 1: we'll get to this later, like contestants, when they know

635
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,280
Speaker 1: they're going to get a shot on Jeopardy, they spend

636
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,359
Speaker 1: like months preparing and all that. I mean, it's just

637
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: that that that broke my heart. So if you ever

638
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,400
Speaker 1: do get to be on Jeopardy, make sure you know

639
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 1: the difference between the pen and the buzzer. It may

640
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 1: save your life. But while we were talking about the

641
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 1: the audition process, it is so hard, and I can

642
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 1: confirm this because I've tried to take the online test

643
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 1: and did not get anywhere near it. Uh, it's so

644
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 1: hard that you have apparently, you have a greater chance

645
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 1: statistically becoming a New York Times best selling author than

646
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 1: a contestant on Jeopardy UH. Jeopardy, according to its website,

647
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:55,359
Speaker 1: has a point for acceptance rate. I guess more than

648
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 1: a hundred thousand people take the online application quizz each year.

649
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 1: Of those, I think three thousand would be contestants are

650
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 1: chosen for an interview and then they're also subjected to

651
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 1: a fifty question written test and I guess like a

652
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 1: run through live round of Jeopardy UH, and they have

653
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 1: to complete all of those steps before they're being they

654
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:20,840
Speaker 1: ever ever asked to appear on air. The annual the

655
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 1: actual number of contestants annually varies because you know, you

656
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 1: never know how long a winning streak might go, so

657
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: there was no set number per year of contestants, but

658
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 1: it's usually less than a thousand and so for you know,

659
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 1: a hundred thousand people trying out annually, that's that's some

660
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 1: crazy odds. Now, before you try to audition, there are

661
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 1: some things that can get you just qualified. People who

662
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: have appeared on a nationally broadcast game show in the

663
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 1: past year are ineligible, so are people who have appeared

664
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 1: on three game shows in the last decade um. And

665
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 1: most importantly, you can't be on Jeopardy if you've been

666
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 1: on Wheel of Fortune. I didn't realize there was. The

667
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 1: Jeopardy was so spiteful towards really the same they're owned

668
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 1: by the same. I think it's like a conflict of

669
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,440
Speaker 1: interesting or something. They're owned by the same. Which one

670
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: would you rather be on? Oh, Jeopardy? I watched Jeopardy

671
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 1: so often that I when Travec was alive, I could

672
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:16,280
Speaker 1: predict the daily double because there was an imperceptible pause

673
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 1: in his voice, and I knew it every time, and like, oh,

674
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 1: I I loved it. That would have that was my

675
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 1: I deeply regret not being smart enough to mean you

676
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: know you you you might have dodged a bullet, like

677
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: considering considering, had you made it, you would have been

678
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 1: put in the position of lying to everyone that you

679
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 1: do like, go ahead and explain what happens if you're

680
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 1: actually selected. But that is true, um I mentioned this earlier.

681
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:49,760
Speaker 1: Jeopardy is sort of like Fight Club. Winners really can't

682
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 1: talk about where they're going. They're very secretive, and a

683
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,479
Speaker 1: lot of game shows are like this too. You can't

684
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 1: really tell people that you're about to go on do

685
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: a game show, and it gets really hard when you

686
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 1: win as much as someone like say Ken Jennings did

687
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 1: when he had seventy four wins and he'd recorded forty

688
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: eight shows before his first episode aired, because they take

689
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: these way in advance, and so he was missing from

690
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 1: his work of his job like every other Tuesday and

691
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: Wednesday for like months on end. And um, I guess,

692
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 1: I guess he did tell his boss. I think it

693
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 1: was in his interview with Cracked, which is a great

694
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: piece where he talks all about, you know, his experience

695
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 1: on Jeopardy. He said, my boss told my co workers

696
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: a series of increasingly implausible lies about my whereabouts every

697
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: other Tuesday and Wednesday. Sorry, this is on his website.

698
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 1: You think computer programmers are all geniuses. No one ever

699
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 1: caught on. I think it's gotta be one of the

700
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: more innocuous things to get caught doing in secret. Yeah,

701
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 1: you're secretly on Jeopardy. Now, that's that's fair. Um there.

702
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: I mentioned this earlier. The way that people prepare not

703
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 1: only for the you know, auditions, not only to be

704
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 1: on the show, but the auditions. There's pretty elaborate methods

705
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: to do so. And then there's a massive internet archive

706
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: of I believe every Jeopardy question ever, and it's called

707
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:18,880
Speaker 1: the j exclamation mark archive. Um archive uh, and I

708
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 1: guess they filed transcripts for I think every episode of

709
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 1: Jeopardy that exists. I haven't checked it in a while,

710
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: but as of like, I think it had I think

711
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: almost everything out there. According to an article on Slate,

712
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 1: and again, this was in eleven, so I'm sure that

713
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: this number has increased significantly, there were four undred and

714
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 1: twelve thousand, eight hundred and eighty three clues that you

715
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 1: can study, and I guess a computer programmer ram them

716
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 1: all through some kind of a program looking for patterns

717
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 1: and commonalities and all the categories and questions. And you know,

718
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 1: as I said, this article is a decade old, so

719
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,840
Speaker 1: the ratio might have changed, but at least back in

720
00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 1: twenty eleven, the most common category was before, after, it

721
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 1: was before and after which I hate. I am so

722
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 1: bad at all the word game things. Um. I mean again,

723
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: there have been hundreds of categories that have been included

724
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,319
Speaker 1: on the show over the years multiple times, but this

725
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 1: one appeared as of a hundred and fourteen times, so

726
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: that's that's pretty frequent. What is its incidents? It accounts for?

727
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 1: According to the Slate article point to six percent of

728
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 1: all categories, and that's one out of every three and

729
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: eighty seven categories. So you have a one in three

730
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 1: to eighty seven shot of you getting a before and after,

731
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: which is like part of being a contestant, like you

732
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 1: have to like run the numbers on this kind of

733
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 1: stuff like black jack. Well, I mean sort of. I

734
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 1: mean I don't know about that. But the way that

735
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,879
Speaker 1: people prepare for this is nuts. You can get into

736
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 1: that now, I mean, Ken Jennings at least before we

737
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 1: do what's the other what's the other statistical find from this? Oh?

738
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: That's right. The most common answer, most common correct answer

739
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: I should say on Jeopardy is what is China? Uh So,

740
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 1: if you ever find yourself in jeopardy and for some

741
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 1: reason you need to make a guess, which is usually

742
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: not advisable because if you make a guess and you're wrong,

743
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 1: you lose money. But if it's like an argument, you

744
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:16,359
Speaker 1: need to make a guess, say what is China? Statistically,

745
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 1: that's most often the common response, or at least it

746
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: was in so you know what counting cards? Baby, we're

747
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 1: getting into this, but stuttying up on you know the

748
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: statistics of questions is you know, it's only going to

749
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 1: get you so far right, the probability of whether or

750
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 1: not the answer is what is China? Maybe not as

751
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 1: helpful as, say, learning how the buzzer works. Mastering the buzzer.

752
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 1: Ken Jennings, you know, probably the biggest Jeopardy streak winner

753
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 1: of the past recent whatever. He attributes his success to

754
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 1: his reflexes and fans of the show obviously know that

755
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:55,880
Speaker 1: one of the inviolable rules of the game is that

756
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: contestants have to wait for the host to finish the

757
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,399
Speaker 1: clue completely before they can press the buzzer. But that

758
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 1: was not always the case. According to the show's official website,

759
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: earlier in its history, contestants could ring the buzzer at

760
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: any point during the clue, which obviously led to you know,

761
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: people jumping the gun, giving quick guesses, a lot of

762
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:21,840
Speaker 1: negative scores, and general confusion. Um producers decided to silence

763
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 1: the buzzers because the noise was too distracting and kept interrupting,

764
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: but that still wasn't how they decided to tamp down

765
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: on on this this wildly out of order, chaotic atmosphere

766
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: of Jeopardy with cocaine and I'm sorry. So now there

767
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 1: is a crew member, and this is Jeopardy is a

768
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 1: really impressive jobs creator, because now there's a crew member

769
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:48,759
Speaker 1: whose job is to turn on everybody's buttons at the

770
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: precise moment the host finishes reading the final syllable of

771
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 1: the last word of the clue. Well, I guess if

772
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:58,280
Speaker 1: you if you ring in early, I guess it locks

773
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:00,319
Speaker 1: you out for like you get like a like a

774
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 1: like a fraction of a second penalty for doing that,

775
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 1: which I mean again is it's a cruel game Jeopardy.

776
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:12,239
Speaker 1: And you know the other time too is the other

777
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:15,399
Speaker 1: corollary that the discovered from that was by preventing people

778
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:19,239
Speaker 1: from buzzing in early. UM, great cave time for the

779
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: home audience to be able to shout out the answers

780
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: to UM. But some people have talked about like the

781
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 1: physical lengths that they went to and there are you know,

782
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 1: articles out there as you might expect proper thumb placement,

783
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 1: your hand position, UM, but people practice with a fake buzzer.

784
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: A pen, Yeah, I would imagine a pen clicking. Yeah.

785
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 1: One contestant said I would stand up in front of

786
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 1: the TV with a pen in my hand to simulate

787
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 1: the buzzer um that got me used to the rhythms

788
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 1: and speed of Trebec's speaking voice, which is such a

789
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 1: people's yeah, getting in people's heads, like, oh man, this

790
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:02,280
Speaker 1: show is in city US. Other winners practiced by by

791
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: this is insane. Other winners have practiced by shining, having

792
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:09,240
Speaker 1: a bright light shown in their face, and playing along

793
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 1: with friends to mimic the added pressure that an audience brings.

794
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 1: Like it's like it's like, uh, like the opposite of

795
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 1: a sensory depth tank. You know that they're bombarding you

796
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 1: with stuff to see how well you can hold up

797
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:24,279
Speaker 1: under pressure, trying to be a nassa when they like

798
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:28,400
Speaker 1: you and like a like a the G four and like,

799
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,399
Speaker 1: you know, I could steer yourself out of this, like yeah,

800
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 1: it's I want to space camp And they didn't pull

801
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:37,319
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. But you know, people have also

802
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,400
Speaker 1: developed strategies for for playing to go along with all

803
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: this straight. I mean, how could you not. If you're

804
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 1: going to prep the physical minutia, you better have a

805
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 1: strategy for playing. So what are some of those? Well,

806
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 1: there's really kind of two schools of thought with how

807
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:53,840
Speaker 1: to play Jeopardy. I mean there's the recommended the classically

808
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 1: trained version, and this is the game. The method that

809
00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:00,799
Speaker 1: the show recommends is basically the slow and steady route,

810
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 1: where you just moved methodically down the category, starting with

811
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 1: the easiest questions and working your way up to the

812
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 1: hard ones. Ken Jennings later said it's easier to follow

813
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 1: at home, and it helps players acclimate to a category

814
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 1: before getting to the really hard clues. He said that

815
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 1: an interview with mental flaws. But there is for the

816
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: rebellious Jeopardy contestant, there's a technique known as Forrest bouncing,

817
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:26,839
Speaker 1: and it was named for a Tournament of Champions winner,

818
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: Chuck Forrest, and it's basically you bounce back and forth

819
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 1: kind of it ran the between categories, different levels of

820
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:38,359
Speaker 1: basically your prioritizing randomness to try to catch the other

821
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 1: contestants off card to wrong foot the other contestants and

822
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:44,920
Speaker 1: increase your chances of getting a daily double. So apparently

823
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 1: this is legal, but discouraged because it makes it harder

824
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:51,560
Speaker 1: for players at home to play along. So Forest bouncing

825
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: maybe legal, but you know what's not legal? What's not

826
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:59,720
Speaker 1: certain bids for Final Jeopardy. Apparently contestants are not allowed

827
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:02,840
Speaker 1: to make certain wagers at the at the very end. Uh.

828
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:05,280
Speaker 1: One of them is sixty nine. They are not allowed

829
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:10,880
Speaker 1: to bid sixty nine dollars. They there are five band

830
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:13,319
Speaker 1: dollar amount sixty nine is one of them that was

831
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 1: panned in eighteen. Uh yeah, that it made it a

832
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 1: long time. But Ken Jennings said in a tweet in

833
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen that it was a very recent banning Jeopardy James,

834
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:28,919
Speaker 1: the famous thirty two times Jeopardy winner, James holes Hour.

835
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 1: I think it's how you say his last name. He

836
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 1: also chimed in on apparently this tweet thread about band

837
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 1: Jeopardy bids, that there are four other band wagers. Uh

838
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:42,800
Speaker 1: six six six you can't pid six hundred and sixty

839
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:46,840
Speaker 1: six dollars. You can't bid which you know for alleged

840
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 1: satanic reasons. And then I was not familiar with this.

841
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: You can't bid fourteen dollars or eighty eight dollars or

842
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: one thousand, four hundred and eighty eight dollars. I guess

843
00:45:56,360 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 1: there's a white supremacy group connotation to one eight eight.

844
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 1: I wasn't familiar with that, but that has been banned

845
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:07,400
Speaker 1: as well. So those are the five band Jeopardy kids.

846
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 1: And speaking of Final Jeopardy, there has been a three

847
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:15,759
Speaker 1: way tie only once in the they really missed an

848
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 1: opportunity to um score this to the end of the Good, Bad,

849
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:26,799
Speaker 1: and New Ugly just like had just a long protracted

850
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 1: shot of at also setting it out in a graveyard.

851
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 1: I have ideas if they ever tapped me. Oh yeah,

852
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 1: they need a new host. Yeah we I go. We're not,

853
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 1: by the way of anyone you know who still listening

854
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,360
Speaker 1: to this episode, Um we are. We're not going to

855
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 1: get into the whole current debacle that is trying to

856
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 1: find a new permanent Jeopardy host. We're going classic Jeopardy

857
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 1: all the way. Um. But yes, it was March six,

858
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:54,320
Speaker 1: two thousand seven. All three contestants answered the final Jeopardy

859
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 1: question correctly with matching scores of sixteen thousand apiece, and

860
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 1: they're all invited to play again the next day or

861
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 1: ten minutes later, depending on whether or not you were

862
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 1: at home or in the studio audience. Uh, there's actually

863
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 1: been one Jeopardy catastrophe that has mercifully never happened, and

864
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 1: that's if all three contestants have negative scores before going

865
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 1: in the final Jeopardy. I guess if that did happen

866
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 1: according to the rules of the game. I think this

867
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: is on the show's website. Uh. In the event all

868
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:27,400
Speaker 1: three contestants have zero or minus amounts at the end

869
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,880
Speaker 1: of double Jeopardy, no final Jeopardy round would be played.

870
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 1: I wonder how they would fill that time. I almost

871
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:35,840
Speaker 1: wonder if, like, why don't you just give them my

872
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:39,879
Speaker 1: personal anecdotes person I don't know, give give him house

873
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:41,960
Speaker 1: money to play with, like you got you got add time,

874
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:43,840
Speaker 1: or maybe they're gonna maybe they're hoping that happens so

875
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 1: they got a more ad time to sell. I don't know,

876
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 1: but um, apparently their website suggests that they would make

877
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:53,400
Speaker 1: up a new rule like on the fly if that

878
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:57,879
Speaker 1: ever actually happen, kid will do it live. But yeah,

879
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 1: that has never happened, and it's it's sort of statistically

880
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:06,799
Speaker 1: unlikely to ever happen. As you meditate on that, we'll

881
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:17,360
Speaker 1: be right back with more too much information after these messages,

882
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: how I go, why don't you tell us what happens

883
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 1: to the contestants and their prize money? Well? Uh, up

884
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 1: until everyone received the full value of their cash winnings,

885
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,439
Speaker 1: even if they hadn't made the overall even they hadn't

886
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:41,320
Speaker 1: won overall, But Jeopardy quit doing that because people ruin everything.

887
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:44,800
Speaker 1: That was basically what happened. Jeopardy stopped doing that because

888
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 1: he became clear that two contestants that if they weren't

889
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: going to win, they would just start hoarding their money

890
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 1: by playing conservatively or refusing to participate or guess wouldn't

891
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:00,399
Speaker 1: buzz in it, wouldn't play yeah yeah, and is running

892
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: out the clock, and and there was an incident where

893
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 1: contestant kind of rather sweetly needed money for an engagement

894
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: ring and assume yeah an audience audience goes ah um,

895
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:15,279
Speaker 1: and so he just like stood in like mute silence

896
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 1: for the rest of the episode after he'd made enough.

897
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 1: And then so back then, if you one one, if

898
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 1: you made it to the end of the show while

899
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 1: still having negative money, uh, that just meant walking away

900
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:33,720
Speaker 1: with nothing. So then from two two the show started

901
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:36,839
Speaker 1: giving second and third place. There's non cash items like

902
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 1: vacations and sponsor merch um. But then since May two

903
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:46,279
Speaker 1: thousand two and up till today, non winners take home

904
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 1: a set amount of cash, So now you've got fixed prizes.

905
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 1: Second place winners pick up two grand. Third place finishers

906
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:55,920
Speaker 1: get one thousand dollars. And the fashion now behind that

907
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:57,880
Speaker 1: is it's intended to at least cover their flight in

908
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 1: their hotel since the show does pay for that. Um.

909
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 1: I mean that would be a big expenditure if they're

910
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:07,400
Speaker 1: flying in people from you know, all around the country

911
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 1: and everything. I mean, what's the money? What's the calculus

912
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:12,400
Speaker 1: behind Jeopardy like aside from tribec I guess there's a

913
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 1: small army of people who work on this show apparently,

914
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:22,359
Speaker 1: I mean the buzzer person buzzer, that's sixteen sixteen writers,

915
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,520
Speaker 1: tribacing trereking cheap, you know, I mean it was worth

916
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:29,760
Speaker 1: every damp, every penny. Yeah, man, yeah, I do wonder

917
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:32,359
Speaker 1: what the calculus is there? They could afford it. I

918
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: think they could afford it other way. Whatever days that's

919
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:37,759
Speaker 1: the other there there's I guess they shot what did

920
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:39,919
Speaker 1: I say, forty six days a year. I mean that's

921
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:43,440
Speaker 1: so many I don't know. I'm going to use my platform,

922
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: my massive platform and the massive reach I have on

923
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:53,280
Speaker 1: social media all of my followers to engage and forced

924
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:56,040
Speaker 1: Jeopardy to pay for flights and hotels for contestants. I

925
00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:58,799
Speaker 1: think that's just a small thing. So oh I did.

926
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:05,000
Speaker 1: I mean that's what I'm getting behind. You're going to die? Yeah,

927
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:08,319
Speaker 1: I will die on this hill and it can take

928
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:13,279
Speaker 1: closing finally getting back around him fighting a game show

929
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:15,239
Speaker 1: that you've never been on and have no desire to be.

930
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 1: Don't watch. Um, it takes six months to get your cash.

931
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:21,399
Speaker 1: How about that, You've got a six months waiting period.

932
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:23,239
Speaker 1: What about that guy who was trying to get engaged?

933
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:26,240
Speaker 1: They take six months to give him? Ah Man, Jeopardy,

934
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:29,400
Speaker 1: you do people, dirty savage show. It's a savage show.

935
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:34,160
Speaker 1: All right. Let's talk about what happens when you win.

936
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:36,279
Speaker 1: Let's talk about some of the people who have won one.

937
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:39,400
Speaker 1: I already already we name dropped Ken Jennings. What happened

938
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:42,239
Speaker 1: to Ken Jennings? Ken Jennings, that's right, we name dropped him.

939
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:46,279
Speaker 1: He has the record for the most consecutive games one

940
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 1: that's seventy four. That was in two thousand four. It's

941
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 1: really sweet. Apparently when he finally did lose, he said

942
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:56,399
Speaker 1: that he saw tears and Trebec's eyes and like they

943
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:59,239
Speaker 1: got kind of tight during it. Yeah, and during his

944
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 1: run he won two million, five thousand seven hundred dollars

945
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 1: and in the regular season. I think that's the most

946
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:11,719
Speaker 1: anyone who's ever played playing Jeopardy Um and Jennings. He

947
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:14,840
Speaker 1: later said that the experience kind of gave him a

948
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 1: mild form of PTSD. UH. He said he basically can't

949
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:23,160
Speaker 1: watch Jeopardy anymore, like comly changes really like he said,

950
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:25,520
Speaker 1: and this is a quote from I think this is

951
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:27,759
Speaker 1: his cracked article. I find that I have a hard

952
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:30,359
Speaker 1: time sitting on my couch and lazily shouting answers at

953
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 1: Trebec like I used to. Everything about the show, the music,

954
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:37,040
Speaker 1: the graphics, the sound effects causes some fight or flight

955
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 1: adrenaline spike in my blood and I become hyper aware

956
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:43,840
Speaker 1: of every detail of the show. Maybe I have post

957
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:48,880
Speaker 1: traumatic stress disorder. What about Brad rudder That's right, Brad

958
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:53,560
Speaker 1: Rutterer has one the most amount of money if tournaments

959
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:56,439
Speaker 1: are included. I think he's just like a recurring UH

960
00:52:56,600 --> 00:53:00,360
Speaker 1: tournament winner. His all time winnings are almost five million hours,

961
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 1: four million, nine hundred thirty eight thousand, four hundred thirty

962
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:08,600
Speaker 1: six and Jennings total amount of money every won, including

963
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 1: his tournament to champions winnings is four million, three hundred

964
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:16,720
Speaker 1: seventy thousand, seven hundred dollars, So both have seen amounts

965
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:20,120
Speaker 1: of money, but Brad Rutterer edges him out. And then

966
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 1: the most that someone could conceivably ever win on one

967
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:29,160
Speaker 1: episode of Jeopardy is UM five hundred sixty six thousand,

968
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 1: four hundred dollars. That's like, that's like a score and

969
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:35,440
Speaker 1: bowling or something like. That's okay, It's like, you know,

970
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:39,240
Speaker 1: you're a contestant, would have to sweep both boards, find

971
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 1: all three daily doubles, make them true daily doubles, and

972
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 1: way go all in on Final Jeopardy. I mean, the

973
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: statistics of that are just absolutely ridiculous. No one has

974
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 1: gotten anywhere close to, you know, to that amount. The

975
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:53,800
Speaker 1: closest who yeah, I was gonna say count to the

976
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 1: closest is Jeopardy James James holds Our. He's the current

977
00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:01,040
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer with the highest single game winnings. He

978
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 1: won a hundred and thirty one thousand, one hundred twenty

979
00:54:04,719 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 1: seven dollars on April se He owns the list of

980
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 1: the top ten highest single game scores. They're literally all him.

981
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 1: I mean it's not bad for work, no, that's it's

982
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:21,840
Speaker 1: pretty amazing. Um. Do you hear about the lowest scores?

983
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 1: I absolutely do. Oh yeah, the lowest scores. I mean

984
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:28,400
Speaker 1: they would make Sean Connery on sn I Celebrity Jeopardy

985
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:32,200
Speaker 1: blush um for a normal game. I don't even want

986
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:35,399
Speaker 1: to say his full name. A man named Patrick uh

987
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 1: currently holds the current record for the lowest single game

988
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:43,759
Speaker 1: score of minus seven thousand, four hundred. That was just

989
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:48,719
Speaker 1: recently in July. I mean, you know, I see how

990
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:51,160
Speaker 1: it could have happened. It's it's it's it's easier than

991
00:54:51,200 --> 00:54:55,280
Speaker 1: you would expect. If you're really like Dyan, the only

992
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:58,719
Speaker 1: way to dig yourself out is just to keep buzzing in.

993
00:54:59,080 --> 00:55:01,719
Speaker 1: Just hey, I mean, because you can't, like, once you're

994
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:04,200
Speaker 1: in the red, you can't go low, like you know,

995
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:06,520
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter at that point. All you can do

996
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:08,759
Speaker 1: is that you could go bigger, go home, like just

997
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:12,919
Speaker 1: try for it. And so you know, obviously that didn't

998
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:16,520
Speaker 1: work out that great for this this gentleman um. Prior

999
00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:19,799
Speaker 1: to that, the lowest score was by a woman named

1000
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:25,880
Speaker 1: Stephanie in March, and that was minus nd um. She

1001
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:29,440
Speaker 1: told Slate in an interview in that she has not

1002
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:33,399
Speaker 1: rewatched the episode since it aired, but um, she has

1003
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:36,000
Speaker 1: some theories about why she did so poorly. She said

1004
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 1: that the daily doubles were gotten by the other players

1005
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:42,560
Speaker 1: and that's really key in terms of strategy. Um. She

1006
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 1: also said that she buzzed in and answered incorrectly on

1007
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:49,480
Speaker 1: every two thousand dollar question. That's rough, but I guess.

1008
00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:51,960
Speaker 1: She said that Trebek tried to make her feel better

1009
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:53,800
Speaker 1: afterwards by coming up to her and saying that was

1010
00:55:53,840 --> 00:56:00,640
Speaker 1: a really weird board, really weird. That's like, yeah, apparently

1011
00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:04,240
Speaker 1: that this woman's uh. Stephanie created an online community for

1012
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:09,920
Speaker 1: female Jeopardy players because the Facebook group because um, and

1013
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:12,080
Speaker 1: this is a quota, because it turns out the people

1014
00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:14,280
Speaker 1: who tend to get the most negativity on the internet

1015
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 1: are women, shocker, um. And so they have created what

1016
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:23,040
Speaker 1: she calls sort of an Internet sorority of smart women

1017
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:25,760
Speaker 1: who have opinions on lots of different things and support

1018
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 1: each other and care about each other and help each

1019
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:29,799
Speaker 1: other and we're there for each other. And she said

1020
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 1: it's been a great support system and she's made some

1021
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:34,840
Speaker 1: great friends that way from fellow female Jeopardy contestants. But

1022
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:38,280
Speaker 1: I think is is uh, you know what. I also

1023
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:43,839
Speaker 1: love the lowest Celebrity Jeopardy Uh Uh if you could

1024
00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 1: while you see the answer of funny, I was gonna say,

1025
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 1: the person who has the lowest celebrity Jeopardy score was

1026
00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:52,399
Speaker 1: not the person I would have expected. It is Wolf Blitzer. Uh.

1027
00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:57,880
Speaker 1: He belying both of his names. He has the lowest

1028
00:56:57,880 --> 00:57:03,120
Speaker 1: celebrity Jeopardy score. Uh. He negative during the general Jeopardy rounds.

1029
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:07,160
Speaker 1: Because it was all for charity, the producers gave him

1030
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:09,920
Speaker 1: a grand so they can participate in Final Jeopardies so

1031
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:12,120
Speaker 1: we could raise more money or try to raise more money.

1032
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:17,720
Speaker 1: Like pity, He's like pity money about that? What? What

1033
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:19,440
Speaker 1: do you remember what show it was that they had

1034
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 1: a bit about. Was that The Simpsons where they talk

1035
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:25,360
Speaker 1: about it was taking away money. Yeah, it's like you

1036
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:28,520
Speaker 1: got you got negative march pay up and they like

1037
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 1: take her up back. It was that actually him. I

1038
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:34,920
Speaker 1: think it was actually surprised me doing the voice, yeah,

1039
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:37,160
Speaker 1: because I know he he appeared. He did all sorts

1040
00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:40,120
Speaker 1: of guest spots on like he was on Baywatch. He

1041
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:43,000
Speaker 1: was on I mean, as we talked about in Rugrats,

1042
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:47,440
Speaker 1: he was a Trepek esque game show host and that

1043
00:57:47,560 --> 00:57:51,440
Speaker 1: like he was really game for a lot. I mean

1044
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 1: that he said in an interview, like, you know, being

1045
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:55,200
Speaker 1: able to like laugh at yourself was kind of crucial

1046
00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:59,600
Speaker 1: at uh, you know, just for being a public fan.

1047
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:04,680
Speaker 1: The best I'm gonna become inarticulate over this next category

1048
00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:07,160
Speaker 1: because it's so damn funny. It's one of my like

1049
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:09,560
Speaker 1: even you know, when like when there was like that

1050
00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:12,520
Speaker 1: kind of wilderness era when you could just like Kazah

1051
00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:16,200
Speaker 1: or lime Wire like snl skits and just download the

1052
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:18,760
Speaker 1: audio from it. Oh yeah, so now I have like

1053
00:58:19,080 --> 00:58:20,520
Speaker 1: that was like some of the stuff that I spent

1054
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:22,320
Speaker 1: like the most time downloading. So I had all of

1055
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:25,040
Speaker 1: these on like just on my headphones. So I was

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00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:27,680
Speaker 1: like going around and mowing the lawn for money in

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Speaker 1: my neighborhood. So just like Will Ferrell as Alex Trebec

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Speaker 1: just saying like and the show has reached like that's

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00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:38,040
Speaker 1: just burned in my head for forever. I love it

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Speaker 1: so dearly. Yeah, his cadence on that was if I

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Speaker 1: think it was and it didn't approach anything like Trebek

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Speaker 1: actually sounded. That was kind of the best part was

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Speaker 1: that it was just totally it's its own thing, and

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Speaker 1: Trebek reportedly loved it because he guessed it. Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: guessed it on it so but but yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: what art imitating real life life image hating art? Did

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Speaker 1: he actually hate Sean Connery? No? I mean somebody apparently

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00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:06,400
Speaker 1: asked Trebek like, have you ever met him? And he

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Speaker 1: said no, no, but if I did a punch him

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Speaker 1: in the mouth. No, no, this close. If I were

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Speaker 1: ever to meet Sean Connery, I would punch his lights out. Um.

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Speaker 1: He did make a cameo on the s Live Celebrity

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00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:23,840
Speaker 1: Jeopardy sketch. Um, sadly it wasn't all that funny. No,

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Speaker 1: it's one of the ones that has kind of the

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00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:31,000
Speaker 1: flatter lines. Uh, it lands with the line has not aged. Well, yes,

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00:59:31,120 --> 00:59:33,960
Speaker 1: no that is true. But no, he apparently was a

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Speaker 1: big fan of the SNL Celebrity Jeopardy sketches. Well, Trebek

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Speaker 1: can afford to be self deprecating because I mean, obviously

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Speaker 1: he's a national treasure and Jeopardy is I don't know

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00:59:43,640 --> 00:59:48,200
Speaker 1: if he knows the most decorated game show in history. Bam,

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00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:50,560
Speaker 1: what's the rack of giving the lightning around? What are

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00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:53,920
Speaker 1: the plot? It's I think it has earned four Guinness

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Speaker 1: World Records. Announcer Johnny Gilbert, you know, the This is

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00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:00,640
Speaker 1: Jeopardy guy? Uh? He who is the record for the

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01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:04,240
Speaker 1: longest career as a game show announcer for a single show. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And Alex treveca is is uh you know, he's the

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01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:12,000
Speaker 1: Who's the Baseball? Now? I was gonna make a yeah,

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01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:15,440
Speaker 1: he's the I Alex Trebek obviously the Cal Ripken Jr.

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01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:20,200
Speaker 1: Of of trivia TV shows. That is my one sports factoy.

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01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:22,680
Speaker 1: By the way, I remember the day he broke that record.

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01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:26,000
Speaker 1: My principal walked into the our elementary school classroom and

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01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:28,800
Speaker 1: wrote whatever number of games he played on the board

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01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:31,840
Speaker 1: and underlined it and gave this very stern face like

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01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:36,200
Speaker 1: this is a lesson in endurance. And I obviously I

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01:00:36,240 --> 01:00:41,040
Speaker 1: never forgot it, like thirty almost years later. But and

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01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:43,320
Speaker 1: here we are relating it to hosting a game show.

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01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:50,400
Speaker 1: But yes, yeah, exactly. So. That is one of the

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01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:53,720
Speaker 1: other Guinness records that the show holds. Um It also

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01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:57,480
Speaker 1: holds the most Emmy awards, most Emmy wins of any

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Speaker 1: any game show at forty one Jesus. And it's also

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01:01:01,360 --> 01:01:04,360
Speaker 1: the Bananas the Bananza, although now it's The Simpsons. You

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01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:07,320
Speaker 1: have to update that reference. It's the Simpsons of game shows.

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01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:11,320
Speaker 1: It's the longest running quiz show of all time and

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01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:15,240
Speaker 1: it even yes it's it also want a Peabody Award, inn,

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01:01:15,320 --> 01:01:17,840
Speaker 1: which is one of the most prestigious awards and broadcasting.

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Speaker 1: So well done Jeopardy, I think it deserves all of

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Speaker 1: its honors. And trippec I cannot say enough about the guy.

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Speaker 1: You know, truly one of the most beloved pop cultural figures.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to end with a tribute to the late

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Speaker 1: great Alex trepec Um. It's a story that, to me

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01:01:33,880 --> 01:01:36,200
Speaker 1: is really a testament to the man. He was big

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01:01:36,200 --> 01:01:38,640
Speaker 1: on April Fool's Day and used to use the show

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01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:42,480
Speaker 1: as a stage for these pranks, and in sten he

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01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:44,640
Speaker 1: pulled off what I think is kind of the most

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01:01:44,720 --> 01:01:47,320
Speaker 1: amazing April Fool's Day prank for a man of his stature.

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01:01:47,600 --> 01:01:50,480
Speaker 1: He walked out onto the Jeopardy set at the beginning

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01:01:50,480 --> 01:01:54,320
Speaker 1: of the show with no pants on, which I just think,

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01:01:54,520 --> 01:01:58,400
Speaker 1: is uh that that's my my favorite memory of the man. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: even with all of those Emmy forty one Emmy wins. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know about you, but I'm really

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Speaker 1: happy with ending on the image of a pencils Alex

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01:02:08,240 --> 01:02:11,000
Speaker 1: Trebeck on stage at Jeopardy. I think that that's like,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's like at the end of Butch casting

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Speaker 1: a Sundance kid, but it's like a freest frame Like

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Speaker 1: That's kind of how I would like to remember him

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01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:21,880
Speaker 1: and sum up this whole uh, this, this whole experience

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Speaker 1: for probably if you were to pin me down, say

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Speaker 1: my favorite show, I'm gonna go ahead and have a

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01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:32,800
Speaker 1: few potent potables in his honor. Well, uh, hi will

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Speaker 1: thank you for for indulging me on this one. I

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Speaker 1: know this this was probably traumatic for you to revisit

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Speaker 1: the quiz Ball, but I thank you because I really

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Speaker 1: had a great time doing this one. Until next time,

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Speaker 1: I'm Jordan run Todd. Yeah, I'm Alex Oigo and this

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Speaker 1: production of I Heart Radio. The show's executive producers are

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Speaker 1: Noel Brown and Jordan run Talk. The supervising producer was

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Speaker 1: Mike John's. The show was researched, written and hosted by

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Speaker 1: Jordan Runtog and Alex Heigel, with original music by Seth

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Speaker 1: Applebaum and the Ghost Funk Orchestra. If you like what

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