The selection of mike rich s, a lot of them came to sony pretty recently, and many didn't really have a ton of a game show experience. And it's not really clear that they understood what is unique about jeopardy and why people care so much about jeopardy. I mean, the fact that this news has kind of just been covered in newspapers everywhere. Its bent on the morning shows. Like people really care about jeopardy in a way that they don't necessarily care about even other game shows,. To have failed to grasp that, either through, you know, just ignorance or misunderstanding, or, who knows what, is shocking.
I’ll take public scandal for $1000.
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