Spoiler alert if you watch Jeopardy! and are reading this early on Monday June 3rd. Sources and video evidence on the net are showing that James Holzhauer goes down in defeat on today’s episode. So the only addendum to the following blog is there was leakage but only hours before the episode aired.

Answer: Two people who intersected at a weird time….Question: Who are Alex Trebek and James Holzhauer?  Unless you’ve been completely obsessed with going over and over the Mueller Report over the past month you no doubt have also paid at least some attention to what’s going on on Jeopardy! As of this writing Holzhauer is within striking distance of toppling previous record holder Ken Jennings.  All that aside, the real weirdo part of this, in concert with Holzhauer’s streak we learned that host Trebek has cancer, pancreatic cancer, which historically offers little hope of long term survival.  Although it was recently reported Trebek is responding very well to treatment.  Trebek fighting for his life would in itself be compelling in that he’s been hosting the show for 35 years and you just believed he would be there forever I guess. The other intriguing component here is we don’t know how Holzhauer’s run ends if in fact it does since the show stop taping in April for its summer hiatus. Does he go all the way to the summer break and come back in September to continue on?  How does the show keep this information from leaking out?  Are you telling me everyone in the audience has decided to keep their mouth shut, do they sign something guaranteeing their silence?  Even if that were true you have to believe somebody would spill info to someone regardless.  When more than one person knows something I would think it almost impossible to keep anything secret.  Hell there’s a website that announces the winner of The Bachelor/Bachelorette before the first episode airs and they don’t have a live audience.  And James Holzhauer when he smiles seems like an alien, the outer space kind not border wall kind.  Man! he has white teeth.  And he’s so good he usually smokes his opponents in the first five minutes.  I love seeing the sadness in their eyes when James hits that first daily double.   I’m thoroughly enjoying this bizarro TV cocktail. Even better than the Starbucks cup/plastic bottle on Game of Thrones.

Gunga, galunga,
Garry