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This is Love

The Contestant

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.89.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

After Jean Westcott's first "Jeopardy!" audition, she waited 18 months to find out if she'd be on the show. She didn't get called, so she auditioned again. And again. She kept auditioning for over 20 years. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 Want to listen to This is Love ad-free? Sign up for Criminal Plus – you’ll get This is Love, Criminal, and Phoebe Reads a Mystery ad-free. Plus, behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal and other exclusive benefits. Learn more and sign up here. We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. You know growing up in the 70s most kids were pretty feral but we were especially so and I

0:40.4

come from a large family and it was pretty chaotic. There were eight kids.

0:45.0

Jean Westcott grew up in upstate New York with two brothers and five sisters.

0:51.0

My father was a bit of a jock in his high school days and so like we played, there were enough of

0:58.0

us that we could play basketball against each other and we would play baseball and it just was we were just

1:06.1

raised to be competitive. They were even competitive when they were watching

1:11.2

television. I started watching Jeopardy with my family.

1:15.0

Probably it had to be Art Fleming, but I don't remember.

1:18.0

I just remember the questions.

1:20.0

But vying for attention was something that we would have to do, you know, because there were so many of us.

1:28.0

Name of the flag with white skull and crossbones on a black field.

1:32.0

It was a Jolly Roger.

1:33.0

A Jolly Roger.

1:34.0

Well done, you're in Leeds, sir.

1:35.0

It was always exciting when I could know the answer, even when I was really little.

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