Streak week: The longest carryover 'Jeopardy' contestant made up stories just so he had things to talk about

Streak week: The longest carryover 'Jeopardy' contestant made up stories just so he had things to talk about

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
Today this week expected that they theme is about streaks.
Cover due lingo, we'll cover gambling. Today we cover a
game show streak that they think may be impossible to
beat the way game shows are structured. Now, okay, the
carryover champ goes to the next episode. Oh yeah, and
Ken Jennings is that carryover champ?

Speaker 2 (00:36):
He I just called him Kinnings for sure.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Or jen Nah Jim Kinnings. He is a Jeopardy champion
and now Jeopardy host. He took over from Alex Trebet.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I remember this happening, not that I was either, you know,
you just said in the news every now and again. Yeah,
he recently, like in the last ten years.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Now, two thousand and four, when he secured a consecutive
seventy four wins in a row, sitting records, and obviously
everybody started watching. Was great for Jeopardy because is this
guy just going to keep winning? This guy just going
to keep winning? Yeah? So he he did, and he's
got the longest runner on Jeopardy. The streak is this
super brainy, super brainy. Yeah, computer programmer. I read a

(01:18):
bit about him. As a young child, his father was
in the military and they got stationed in South Korea,
so he learned Korean, learned a lot of other things.
But the idea, have you guys ever watch Jeopardy? You
got to answer with the form of the question, yes,
category you have a jippardy? Is that what dian Heinwood hosted,
No family few, that's right, And that's.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Like an audience vote. That's things.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
This is like you go into a category, yeah, and
then the more money that category has, the herder.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
The question and a question yeah. Yeah. Is it something
rather data?

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah. So a couple of things about his streak on Jeopardy.
When you at the start of the show, at the contestants,
they introduced the contestants, right, they're like, and Steve, you're
a teacher from Connecticut.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
What's your favorite thing to teach kids?

Speaker 1 (02:05):
And he's like, I love seeing their little faces laid
up when we teach them great moments of American history.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Great, thanks for joining us, Steve, onto the next one.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Well, this guy Ken was on seventy four shows, seventy
four so he ran out of things to talk about.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
He admitted when he was finished that he was just
making up things. Well, I like parcels and I like
to go down to the whohu.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah. Yeah, well, let's hope after tonight's when you can
get on back down to that whoho Let's wait.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
That's what he was doing.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
He was just making up live, rying up things, fabricating
things and oh. The host Alex Trebit would say, ken
and at the weekend you went to Hawaii.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
He was like, I sure did. I had a great time.
But he didn't.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
But he just had nothing else to say because it
was on six was so much and they just don't
think they want you.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Would introduce yourself, but they've got to get to you.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
They've obviously got to say something about you've been yeah
up to Also, at the end of the very first episode,
he was on.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Two thousand and three. I don't know why I was
thinking this was like the seventies. No, yeah, he's only
just fifteen hours. Guy. The answer was who is Marion Jones?

Speaker 1 (03:09):
That was what he had to put. It was a
question about an Olympian. Yeah, and he said who is Jones?
And the judges were like, and they had to deliberate
on at the end of his first episode. Yep, so
he had seventy three episodes after that. Yeah, but he
could have been out on his first episode because he
didn't say who is Marion Jones? But they just started.

(03:29):
They're like, he knows who it is, he just doesn't
put the first name. So we let him through and
then that kick started as massive street. Wow.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Wow. What was his last one?

Speaker 1 (03:38):
I don't know what his last question was, And I
honestly think he like bowed out rather than I think
he retired undefeated, right rather than got knocked out. But
he was like, yeah, he holds a game show record
for the most consecutive carryover champs.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
This and then he got to host the show as well.
So today's fact of the day is Ken Innings, the
man who has the longest Jeopardy game show streak, was
just making up stories, so I had something to talk
to the host about