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This past November, the world lost an icon.

Alex Trebek, longtime host of Jeopardy.

And this season on the show, there's been a run of guest hosts behind the lectern.

Everybody from Ken Jennings, Decadie Curric, Aaron Rogers, Anderson Cooper, we haven't

even gotten to Lavar Burton yet.

But sometime in the next couple of months, one of these guest hosts will become the new

host of Jeopardy.

And it'll be a bittersweet moment in the evolution of one of America's favorite game shows.

And it's got us thinking about an episode that we did a few years ago about the evolution

of how Jeopardy is actually played, like the strategy.

And also it was an episode about a petty beef that I had with a then emerging new Jeopardy

star named James Holtzower.

This episode originally aired back in 2019 in the middle of Jeopardy.

James' historic run, Stick Around for a brief update at the end.

Maybe you've heard that this guy named James Holtzower is absolutely dominating Jeopardy.

You've become a celebrity now because of your accomplishments on Jeopardy.

It's going to be a lot of pressure on you.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

James' sort of a relative of mine.

13 years ago, his only sibling Ian married my only sibling Julie.

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