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What is...? A Jeopardy! Podcast
by Emily Heller
A weekly comedy podcast about Jeopardy! from comedians Emily Heller and John Cullen.
Episodes
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Week of October 5: the Queens of Primopolos
The torch has been passed to our newest guest host: Guy Branum! And he's just in time to celebrate both Emily's birthday and a week of absolute queens on the show. Rian falls victim to the season 43 curse, Emily unsuppresses her Mr. Big memories, and we bring the same attention to detail to...
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Week of September 28: the Kindergarten Slime Man
It's Handsome Kevin Seccia's farewell (for now!) episode, and we rue our childish hopes for Nikolas's run. Kevin quibbles about a wrestling clue and Producer Dan agrees, we try our hands at the ooOOO, and Kevin gives us some knife recommendations on his way out the door. Something else Kevin...
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Week of September 21st: Drag it Through the Garden
It's our second week back with Handsome Kevin Seccia, and dare I say we have our first breakout star of the season??? We do so much digging into the history of Groundhog Day you can basically call us Fred le Marmotte. The Greek Theater gets multiple shoutouts. We also "give dap" to our favorite...
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Week of Sept 14: A rich tapestry of horrible incidents and interactions
Well well well, looks like we CAN do the podcast without John! (even though the first time I tried to publish this I failed horribly) Emily is joined by friend of the podcast, Handsome Kevin Seccia, to recap the first week of season 43. Ken gets the Jeopardy! writers too online, Andrew Garfield...
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The 2026 Jeoppys
The most prestigious awards in television are BACK, as we hand out our Jeoppy Awards for Season 41 of Jeopardy!, from the classic Response and Anecdote of the Year to the best names and misleading headlines from the year that was. And of course, the monologue returns, poking fun at all of the…
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The 2026 WIAJP Player of the Year: Jamie Ding
Who else could it be? A 31-game winning streak, a great sense of humour, and a hell of a lot of orange, Jamie Ding joins us to discuss his amazing run on the Alex Trebek Stage. We ask about his prep process, how he feels watching the ToC stack up with amazing contestants, his worst anecdote, his...
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Week of July 20: Catch the Freshness
The end of the 42nd season of Jeopardy! is here, and it ends with a week of absolute BANGERS, including what is potentially the Game of the Year on Thursday. We also get introduced to one of the more memorable players of the season in Grace Biermann, Caleb Groen's superchampion run comes to an…
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Week of July 13: Which Unabomber?
We ponder the existence of multiple Unabombers on this week's episode as Caleb Groen enters the imperial phase of his superchamp run, which is to say, not a lot happens this week other than Caleb dominating. Caleb also has an anecdote that makes John insecure about his own intelligence, we learn...
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Week of July 6: Emily Met Tom Cruise
Yes, Jeopardy! games happened this week and Caleb Groen continues an impressive streak of ToC invites by winning his fifth game, but most of you will be here to hear about Tom Cruise showing up at Emily's work and her and all of her co-workers going nuts about it. Plus, Jeopardy! opens up a...
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Week of June 29: Bulging
Much like a certain Jeopardy! category, we are BULGING with content this week as we say goodbye to superchamp Adam Remsen and we get one of the games of the season in the wake of his farewell to the Alex Trebek Stage. Plus, some olds online get weird about Ken on vacation, Ken has one of his...
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Week of June 22: The Slime of Glory
John returns to the show after a week off just in time to watch Adam Remsen become a super champion with a very strong week of games. We also get a very strong Response of the Year candidate with the rare "kibbitz with Ken" left in the edit and a previous Response of the Week crosses over into...
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Week of June 15: No Meatspin Until You Finish Your Homework w/ Paolo Pasco
John's out this week, so Emily is joined by reigning TOC champion Paolo Pasco to recap another week of Adam Remsen. Despite some strong play this week, we are spoiled for choice when it comes to Response of the Week, and Paolo keeps his cards close to his chest about his Masters prep. This week's...
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Week of June 8: Twice a Bird
After Jamie Ding's imperial run and three consecutive ToC invites, the inevitable finally happened: we saw a bad game of Jeopardy!. Of course, all games of Jeopardy! are great, but this week finally served as a reminder that the game is hard and we've been watching some very impressive runs. This...
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Week of June 1: California Creaming
The Tournament of Champions invites are getting handed out like candy as we went from Tristan Williams to Chris D'Angelo to now Peter McFerrin, who ends Chris' impressive run and racks up 5 wins of his own, dominating the week in the process. He also spurs on a debate about his accent the likes…
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Week of May 25: Ballet is the French Accent of the Body
We learned a lot about Chris D'Angelo last week and even heard from his sister, but this was TRULY Chris D'Angelo week on J! as he has a fantastic run of games and earns his way into the Tournament of Champions. We also get a contender for Response of the Year, it's a tough week for anecdotes,...
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Week of May 18: Elmo v. Jar Jar w/ Jen D'Angelo
Tristan Williams cements his superchamp status this week...just in time to lose it to Chris D'Angelo, who begins a little run of his own after a fortuitous math error in Final works out in his favor. Also this week, we get a quintessential Canadian contestant we love, Ken puts in a very strong...
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Week of May 11: 70 Lbs. Worth of Bible
It's Tristan Williams week on Jeopardy! as he gets himself a ToC invitation and much more, playing solidly across all 5 games this week. He gets a couple of close scares though, as we discuss a charming southern U.S.A. anecdote, the show seemingly taking a few shots at right wing America, and Ken...
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Week of May 4: This Feels Canadian To Me
It's a Canadian week on Jeopardy! as a contestant from a small Ontario town near where John grew up gets blessed with a Final Jeopardy! category about Canadian music. We also get a a show first: a contestant and listener who purposely steered their anecdote to be about something we have professed...
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Week of April 27: Yellow Delicious
It was a wild and weird week for Jeopardy! as superchamp Jamie Ding meets his end at the hands of Greg Shahade, a chess master and very solid champion who dominated the news cycle this week for not his gameplay but uhh...other reasons. We bid farewell to our beloved Jamie and discuss a very fun...
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Week of April 20: Not Really Horny, But Penis Mentioned
Jeopardy! proves that you don't have to be horny to mention a horse's "equipment", and quite frankly, we approach feeling horny ourselves for one of the best games in Jamie Ding's entire run, as him and Patrick Nolan have a fantastic back-and-forth in Thursday's game. Plus, we get a real…
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Week of April 13: The Cocaine Episode
We aren't on cocaine while recording this episode, but for some reason it comes up more than once, as Emily forgets to finish writing a recap joke about it, John remembers that he's seen the 2001 drug-dealer movie "Blow", and TaoTao brings a manic energy to the Alex Trebek stage. Plus, Stephanie...
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Week of April 6: Inaugural Balls
John is back as Jamie Ding survives a near-loss scare and then rebounds to win the rest of his games this week in a convincing fashion, etching his name into the 20-win club. We also get a Name of the Year candidate, one of the longest responses to a single J! clue ever, and Jamie is once again...
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Week of March 30: Where is Your God Now? w/ Handsome Kevin Seccia
John is out covering curling this week, so we're joined by friend of the show and friend of handsomeness everywhere, Handsome Kevin Seccia! We have a great time chatting about another INCREDIBLE week of Jamie Ding, including Kevin's flawless Jeff Foxworthy impression. PLUS: we travel back in time...
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Week of March 23: Mmm Mmm Mmm
It's another Jamie Ding week on Jeopardy! and that means another tough week for our show, as his dominance makes our jobs just that much more difficult. But we find a way, as an Emily joke turns into a complete giggle fit for John, Jamie gives a very classy incorrect response, and there's...
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Week of March 16: Hum Dinger
John is BACK and not a moment too soon as he issues his "Canadian corrections" to last week's episode regarding a certain word pronunciation and Emily and Paolo not understand the importance of the Heated Rivalry fleece. Elsewhere, Jamie Ding continues his march towards superchamp status and also...
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Week of March 9: PUD w/ Paolo Pasco
John is out sick this week, so we are joined by TOC Champion and bona fide WIAJP patron Paolo Pasco! He helps us recap a fun week of games with a record breaking number of cuties + honorable mentions for response of the week. Plus, we get a deep dive on the Rainbow Coalition and we talk about...
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Week of March 2: No.
A Jeopardy! contestant answers a common question on the show with such speed that it becomes a Response of the Year contender as we get a bit of an up-and-down week on the show that features a little 3-game run for Quentian (as Emily spelled it in our show document) and a whole lot of…
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Week of February 23: The First Time in History That Has Been Called That
Regular play Jeopardy! is BACK and once we get over the initial whiplash, we get some great games with some huge final scores, some massive DD wagers that turn out both good and bad, and we get back to our regular dose of actual funny responses of the week, including one this week about...
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Week of February 16: The Final Jeopardy! Ever
The 2026 Jeopardy Invitational Tournament is in the bag, and with it, the conclusion to the extensive–and this year, very difficult–Jeopardy! postseason. And what a way to go out, as Andrew He claims victory for his first major Jeopardy! tournament win in a slugfest three-game final against Long...
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Week of February 9: Alison's Gambit
Jeopardy! crosses over into the true mainstream as Alison Betts' Final Jeopardy! joke actually pays off in another week of Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament action. We debate whether the boards have simply gotten too hard, actually, as contestants sputter all over the place. But we get some great...
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Week of January 26: Emily Heller Geographic
The Tournament of Champions continues apace this week, as we finish off the quarterfinals and the semifinals and get ready for next week's finals by...watching an exhibition game. We have some thoughts on that as well as some of the stellar gameplay this week including a "Welcome to Next Year's...
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Week of January 19: The Layout of the Boy Aquarium
The Tournament of Champions is HERE and we love to see a bunch of our faves back on the Alex Trebek Stage. John nails a bunch of his predictions (including the one about the herbal candies), we get some great sports-related anecdotes, and we see some great gameplay as we continue on with this...
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Week of January 12: Herbal Candy
The Champions Wild Card finals are here, and they are a doozy, as we get the Jeopardy!-Honored "Game of the Year" and some stellar (no pun intended) play from a fantastic group of contestants. We also get a very self-deprecating response from Harvey Silikovitz, a Julia Child impression, and we...
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Week of January 5: That's An Overline
The Champions Wild Card tournament begins and brings with it a fantastic week of games with tight races for first place in each game, strategic wagering for semifinal berths, and lots of very impressive gameplay. We also get Bill McKinley giving one of the funniest half-hearted attempts to…
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Week of December 29: 6,7
How do you do, fellow kids? We try to appeal to the youth this week and so does Jeopardy!, as their older fans predictably fume about them twisting a very regular wordplay category to make a meme joke. But we love it, and we love this final week of Second Chance as some dynamite players return to...
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Week of December 22: Barbra Joan Streisand w/ Guy Branum
Emily is finally feeling well enough to record a pod and so we do a truncated recap of last week's games, which we are calling "Guy Branum's Second Chance, Presented by Guy Branum, featuring Guy Branum". In other news, Guy Branum joins us to discuss his run to the Second Chance Finals, from…
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Week of December 15: Emily Recommends "Death by Lightning"
Emily's constant recommendation of the miniseries "Death by Lightning" pays off as it leads to a get on an FJ, and that's really the headline of this first week of the Second Chance Tournament, where wagering errors and some extremely hard FJs play more of a role in who wins than the actual...
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Week of December 8: ❤️Bernard❤️
A category about holiday movies gets us in our Christmas bag as we discuss Christmas Vacation, Jingle All the Way, and Emily's early crush on Bernard the Elf. Will Riley jingles all the way to bank this week with cash stuffing his pockets after a very impressive run and a very, very confusing...
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Week of December 1: Globes of the Devil
It's a big week for superchamps present and former as Harrison Whitaker's time on J! comes to an end but superchamp Ray LaLonde's (evil?) twin, Ron, makes his debut and sets out to carve a Jeopardy! path of his own. Plus, we get another great 2-day champ in Libby Jones, we get perhaps the…
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Week of November 24: A Fig Leaf Can't Contain Me
The imperial run of Harrison Whitaker marches on, and though he faces a couple tough challenges throughout the week, he heads into the weekend a 14-day champion. Ken also gets to feel like a champion on this episode as we get a few wonderful Ken's Korner moments, Jeopardy! fans fume about his...
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Week of November 17: (Chewbacca Noise)
Harrison Whitaker is a joy to watch play Jeopardy!, but he also makes our job very hard this week, as his constant parade of correct answers makes it hard to make fun of anything. But comedy finds a way, as we have Jeopardy! fans fuming over something that makes no sense at all, we learn Harrison...
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Week of November 10: 7 Hot Sexy Emily Heller Bikini Pics
Now that we have your attention, it's another episode of our Jeopardy! podcast! Googling ourselves leads to some mixed results but there were no mixed results for new champ Harrison Whitaker this week, as he steamrolls the competition on his way to a fantastic week and perhaps superchampdom.…
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Week of November 3: What Color is Shrek's Penis?
That's the type of hard-hitting question we answer on the show this week, as John returns from his one-week layoff to tell tales about visiting Reno, Nevada and Emily buys a hat that prompts said conversation. Emily also narrowly avoids jury duty, we meet a potentially very strong champion in...
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Week of October 27: Meet Me at the Tug Hole w/ Isaac Hirsch
It's fun careers week on Jeopardy! John is off licking his World Series wounds, so Emily is joined by Jeopardy! Master & 9-game champion Isaac Hirsch. We discuss Aaron Levine's run, the history of Martha's Vineyard, and Isaac's short-lived career as a fake elevator operator. Jeopardy! fans fume...
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Week of October 20: Two For Me, One For You
Apologies for the delay but John was up late watching the Blue Jays game because he is an idiot!!! No idiots on J! this week though, as we watch two very good champions dominate the proceedings over the course of a great 5 days of J! including an EPIC game. Plus, Emily gets fooled by a JFAF...
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Week of October 13: You Gotta See This Guy
We are back and we are delirious as John is coming off of a work trip and the fact his Toronto Blue Jays just minutes prior to recording clinched a spot in the World Series. But hey, we have a fun week of one-day champs concluding with Dargan Ware, a guy that you simply have to see. Elsewhere, we...
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Week of October 6: Absolute Clown
TJ Fisher makes it to the Tournament of Champions and we learn about the duality of Jeopardy! headlines as the US Mirror goes wild over his victory (and defeat). We go wild for this great week of games too as Ken gets a Trebek-like slam on a contestant's anecdote, we go heavy on Wager Talk™, we…
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Week of September 29: The Ghost of Merv Griffin
The Ghost of Merv Griffin is here and so is the ghost of John and Emily's 30s, as Emily finally hits the big 4-0 and John is soon to follow. We discuss the feeling of getting older, Emily's big birthday bash that was attended by some high-profile J! contestants, and a suspect gift that was given…
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Week of September 22: Read It the Way I Wrote It
We say goodbye to one great champion last week and welcome another this week as Steven Olson has a great run and comes up with a couple Responses of the Week along the way. We also get some wagering controversy in Friday's game, Ken reflects on his fashion choices during his 74-game run, and we...
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Week of September 15: [Borat voice]
Obviously if there is a Final Jeopardy! about Borat, we are going to discuss Borat. And we talk about some other stuff this week too, as Paolo Pasco continues his fantastic run all the way to a Tournament of Champions berth, we have a new player in the JFAF game (The National Enquirer!) and a...
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A weekly comedy podcast about Jeopardy! from comedians Emily Heller and John Cullen.
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