Ken Jennings on the future of Jeopardy!
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The Hardest Part of Being a Contestant
Hosting is incredibly difficult I mean being a contestant is stressful there's no two ways about it you're seeing people every three people every not on jeopardy who have basically just picked up their sport that morning and are going to try it on national tv. So as a result what seems like a very kind of relaxed cerebral thing on tv is an intense gladiatorial gauntlet for the contestants. You know fundamentally you're trying to be a welcoming presence for these three very nervous contestants.
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