EP 80 Jeopardy Champion Buzzy Cohen
The Adam Ferrara Podcast
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4.9 • 526 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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EP 80 Jeopardy Champion Buzzy Cohen
The crew pays tribute to Alex Trebek. Adam and Phil regale us with their adventure at a Rite Aid.
2017 winner of the Jeopardy tournament of champions Buzzy Cohen stops by. He won over 400k and shares with us how he prepared and other secrets in his new audio book Get Ready.
If you had to train for something, what would you commit yourself to? Adam committed to boxing, trained, got in shape and quit as soon as his sparring partner punched him in the face.
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| 0:00.0 | Alexa, who is Adam Ferrar? |
| 0:11.0 | Adam Ferrar is an American actor and comedian known for playing the roles of Chief Needles Nelson on Rescue Me. |
| 0:17.0 | Sergeant Frank Vilelli opposite Edie Falco on Nurse Jackie. He was a co-host on the US |
| 0:22.7 | version of Top Gear. He has had three comedy central specials and his new album is called it |
| 0:27.6 | Scary in Here. Adams' new podcast is a big hit and available everywhere. Sounds like it could be funny. Sounds to me like 30 minutes you'll never get back. |
| 0:44.9 | Hi, guys. |
| 0:45.7 | Thank you for joining us for the first time. |
| 0:47.3 | We're checking us out again. |
| 0:48.3 | Either way, we're glad you're here, and we have a great show for you this week. |
| 0:52.3 | My guest in the ADD interview is the author of the book Get Ready. |
| 0:56.1 | He is also the 2017 Jeopardy Champion. |
| 1:00.3 | It's Buzzy Cohen. |
| 1:02.2 | And we want to welcome everyone from our Talk to Me Tuesday family, |
| 1:04.6 | which is a conversation we have every week, 9 o'clock Eastern, 6 p.m. Pacific. |
| 1:08.5 | Go to my website, click the link, and join us. And our super |
| 1:11.9 | fan shout out is for Sherry Coons. Boys and girls say hi to Sherry. Hey, Sherry. Hey, Sherry. What's |
| 1:19.1 | happening, Sherry? Sherry, those voices are the people I love. My beautiful wife, Alex. |
| 1:23.3 | Hello there. My pal and pod producer Marcus Stern. My good friend. It's good to see you. And, of course, my lifelong pal, Phil Tag. How are you, pal? Okay, Adam Ferrara. There you go. It's happening. Adam Ferrara. That's right. And we are recording this show on Monday. And our guest is a Jeopardy champion. And it just so happens that Sunday yesterday, Alex Trebek has passed away. Yeah, very sad. Very sad. He was loved by many. He was. He was 80 years old, though. Mm-hmm. Pretty good run. Yeah. I read that he went peacefully staring at the ocean on his favorite swing. With his wife, Jean. Mm-hmm. That he was married to his wife, Gene, in 1990. So I think 30 years. 30 years, yeah. 30 years they were together. It's a great one. Yeah. Three kids. Mm-hmm. Three kids. And the family actually had a very sweet tweet that I wanted to read to you. It says, we are sad to announce the passing of Alex. |
| 2:18.2 | He is no longer in pain, and we knew he was gone as soon as we heard. |
| 2:26.7 | Did you have to do that, Adam? |
| 2:28.0 | I did. |
| 2:29.8 | I was saying, wow, is he actually going to get through this without a joke? |
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