Can I just say that before we get really into discussion of this movie, that what was really shocking to me was at the end of it, just how thoroughly depressed I was.

I was saying.

This movie is so dark and it doesn't even mean to me.

Well, I actually think it does.

It does mean to be.

And Alex, you were saying in our in our group dm earlier this week that

you thought the film set out to be sympathetic to him and i i agree but the problem is he is just

so unambiguously sad that even the filmmakers around the midpoint have to concede yes this is sad

this is dark it's hard to. I think maybe before we get

into Arthur Chu himself, or maybe do you think we should build some context about who Arthur

Chu is before? Yeah, maybe a little bit. I mean, Arthur Chu rose to prominence as being a

jeopardy champion. He won a number of games in a row on the popular TV game show, and he became the

Jeopardy player that everyone loved to hate, because he had this strategy of, you know, leaping all

across the board, starting with like the level five questions and working backward, trying to

find daily doubles. A lot of people didn't like him,

but he was ruthless and he was efficient and he won a lot of games. And he was able, after this,

to parlay this into a career as a public speaker, as a writer, as a commenter on the day's news.

It was actually interesting to find out, you know, I read some articles that were written in 2014 and talking about Arthur

Chu and his rise to prominence.

And like when he started on Jeopardy, you only had about 162 Twitter followers.

And it's funny because the film, you know, builds in all of these things about his

follower account rising, which I also thought was kind of sad that this is like his claim

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