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The Daily Article

How to succeed like Alex Trebek: Focusing this Christmas on "the only relationship that matters"

The Daily Article

The Denison Forum

News, Daily News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9576 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Alex Trebek explained his success on Jeopardy! by his commitment to be the show's host rather than its star. Today's podcast explores the difference, then we focus on the significance of making Christmas about Christ and the joy we can offer the world as a result.

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0:00.0

This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians.

0:07.8

To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit

0:12.5

thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

0:19.8

Who will succeed Alex Trebek as the host of Jeopardy, one of the longest running shows

0:25.4

on television?

0:26.9

Trebek filmed enough episodes to go through Christmas, but the producers will have a decision

0:31.8

to make in 2021.

0:34.1

Former champion Ken Jennings, who begins filming future shows today as the interim host, may be the frontrunner.

0:41.0

Journalists Anderson Cooper and George Stephanopoulos may be on the short list.

0:45.8

Trebek himself nominated Betty White in a 2018 interview, but the 98-year-old actress might be a bit of a stretch.

0:53.7

Here's what the host, whoever he or she may be, will need to do to succeed like Alex Trebek.

1:00.1

Imitate his humility.

1:02.0

Trebek once told an interviewer,

1:04.1

You have to set your ego aside.

1:06.4

The stars of the show are the contestants and the game itself.

1:10.4

That's why I've always insisted that I'd be introduced as the host and not the star.

1:15.5

And if you want to be a good host, you have to figure out a way to get the contestants to,

1:20.5

as in the old television commercial about the military, Be All You Can Be.

1:27.7

This is a Christmas season like no other in living memory.

1:31.8

Time reports that the U.S. COVID-19 outbreak is worse than it's ever been.

1:37.2

Dr. Anthony Fauci warned in an interview yesterday that, following Thanksgiving travel,

1:42.9

the U.S. could see a surge upon a surge. But even amidst

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