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you do you mean to do it? Or do you want to do it?
You're good at this, Kevin. You're the master of all game show.
Love the Floor and you love game shows. We all love the Floor.
We watched it on Fox airing January through March. It's a top five
show on Hulu right now. And if you don't believe us a show,
they're talking about it on Saturday Night Live. Yeah, pop culture phenomena.
Okay, people love the Floor. And over the weekend I went tracking down
as i'll do on the internet sometimes, and I found the season one winner
of the Floor. Oh, miss Jacqueline Kenny joins us live on the free
line. Hello, there she is. There's our champion, Yes, champion
in the house. Hello, how are you doing so good? One of
is it eighty one? We started with eighty one, eighty one, eighty
one, Yes, the crown champion of eighty one. It's still I'm still
processing, to be honest. So it was kind of during the writer's strike
right that they started running promos for the Floor. And we know how networks
go to game shows and like, you know, stuff that doesn't need as
many writers whatever, So we started talking about the floor, and it was
almost a joke. I was like, all right, guys, January tewod
the floor begins. Because we didn't know anything about it. We had no
clue. We just know they're throw another game show at us. We all
right, yeah, of course you didn't know, and we start watching it.
We're like those kind of kick ass and then we ended up watching every
damn episode and there you were standing at the very end. So for real,
congrats, how did that feel? Fun? Thank you? It it
feels amazing, I mean, and it's still looking back like fun fact,
I technically was even cast as an alternate, Like I didn't find out I
was actually going to be filming on the show until about forty eight hours prior
to leaving for filming, where I just got the emails like here's your flight
in phone. I was like, oh my gosh, okay, here we
go. So never in a millionaire thought I would even be cast on the
show, much less, you know, winning at all and being the first
season one champion. And I just remember the first day prior to filming,
sitting there and you know, start explaining the rules and they're kind of you
know, they're explaining how to play, because this is a brand new game
show to the United States too, So going on, you know, another
show like Jeopardy or will Fortune or something like that, you know, you
know how to play, you have the gist of it, but going into
this completely blind, like we really didn't know what to expect. So they
were going through the rules and as real, Iber was sitting there like looking
around too, just being like, wow, this is one such a cool
experience, So like, how awesome that like one of these other people,
not myself, like someone else in this room was gonna win, like so
so cool for them, right, And I was just excited for someone else
who was going to take that prize, never in a millionaire thinking oh my
god, it's me. I want it. Let's go back in time,
excuse me, Jacqueline to win this all you became aware of this, What
was what tipped you off on where to apply to be on the show?
What was the audition process? How long do all of that take? Because
when you watch the show, the producers did a really good job of getting
a wide array and a vast collection, a cross section of every element of
our American society. How did you fit into that? And what was that
audition system, Like yeah, so I actually Iran and I love trivia.
I played bar trivia, you know, my whole life growing up, or
I mean at least being of legal age to go into bars, but playing
bar trivia. I used to live in California. I went once to like
the state championship of bar trivia, Like, yes, that is a thing.
So I've always loved trivia. And back in twenty twenty, I remember
seeing an ad come across my Instagram and I think it was just a basic
questionnaire like do you like trivia? Apply now? So I ended up applying
for a different so completely separate from the Floor. You know, two years
ago, nothing ever came from it. I think I had one interview,
like forgot all about it. And then this summer I got an email from
the same casting company that they were then casting for the Floor, and they
said, you know, hey, we remember having a conversation with you.
You like trivia. We're casting for a trivia based game show. If you're
interested, let us know, we'll have a conversation. So the first step
was you did have to have kind of a trivia quiz with them. It
was basically like a forty question power point, almost very similar to how the
layout of the show works, where it's pictures and you identify, you know,
the image that you're seeing. So that was step one, and then
you had you know, some more formal kind of zoom interviews and everything.
But again, like this process lasted throughout the summer, you know. I
think it was like my first email was maybe in like May or June,
and then you know, I didn't get cast until the very very last minute
in July, and I was going on like workships. I had a bachelorette
planned, so I had to call the bride and say, hey, I
might not be going because I might be going to film a game show instead.
So I actually talked to her the other day. I was like,
surprise, I'm too glad I missed you bachshorette. You're exactly yeah, She's
like, so about that wedding gift. Let's upside a little bit now.
But yeah, I had no idea that I was getting cast until the very
last minute. But I think what's so interesting is when we first got to
filming too, I remember other contestants saying that they had been cast like two
weeks ago, a month ago, and I got really like almost nervous and
self conscious, and I was like, I don't want people to know that
I was actually an alternate, Like I'm having poker faith on from the get
go. So I was already kind of just simming to everyone saying like,
oh yeah, I've known for like a month. I was getting cassed because
I didn't want them to think, oh, she's an alternate, or like
she's not a strong competitor. I was very strategic from the second I got
to filming. I was like, we're in it to win it here,
all right, this is Jacqueline Kenny. She just emerged Victoria on the floor
the Fox TV show that has been on for a couple months. How the
game itself? Right? So we watch and it's shocking how easy some of
the questions are and I know you know that. And then there I'm not
going to say I was sweeping categories. I mean almost every category. It
would get to something where I'm like, I don't know kombucha. I don't
know what that drink is, but it does start with water and milk.
So walk us through that. Man, you're up there, And how about
because it's sort of a they get you with something that they know you know,
but you just can't say it in one, one or two seconds,
which is the premise of the entire game. How was it for you up
there? I don't remember your specific categories, certainly at the beginning. I
know TV host, I know the last one. Yeah, yeah, I
with TV host. I mean, yeah, it's it's extremely nerve wracking,
and so much of this game is it's just how you handle the pressure.
There were some contestants that you saw go up there and they see the image
that they would take like the longest ten second pause, and you're just wasting
your own clock, you know so very much. You had to say calm
and cool and under pressure. When I first got up there, my strategy,
because you can only see really your clues technically in the middle. What
the audience at home could see were all the clues, right, My strategy
was complete. I got up there blinders on. I never looked at the
middle screen, so I'm like, it's irrelevant what my other competitor is guessing,
because it doesn't affect me. So I was just looking at my screen
the whole time. And I also stood in such a way that I didn't
see my timer at the bottom left hand corner, and I did that on
purpose. I did not want to see my timer. I figured if I
did it might it might stress me out a little bit more to see my
clock ticking down. So I had just such blinders on straight ahead, just
at the clue. And my strategy also was the second. If I saw
a clue come up and I didn't recognize it instantly, I would give it
one guess, and if I didn't get that, I instantly passed. I
figured it. I was like, you're not if you don't know what instantly,
you're going to just burn your clock out. So better to pass,
lose the three second, and take the chance that the next clue that you
got, you're going to know that instantly, and then pick back up where
you started. Okay, so when you go in and you it's funny because
you you only had three duels in this whole game, uh TV host,
and then you ended up with musicals and got past that, and I think
that was in the third episode, and then you went from episode four to
episode ten. You're not like you're in it, but you're not. You
didn't have to play again. So when you go you have all these areas
of expertise My question is do you submit your area of expertise or did they
tell you, hey, here's the choice of all the things that we're gonna
have, you know, put in your top three or how did that work?
Did because there were some that were very odd, like things in the
kitchen or things in the bathroom or something, you know, kitchen area and
bathroom items. And that's the thing I mean, I think when you think
of it too, there's eighty one different categories that they had to fill.
So I think some people too, when they're getting cast, like you know,
they had more general item knowledge or something like that, so they would
get slot into the those kind of categories. We definitely had to, you
know, have multiple interviews and kind of fill out questionnaires about the categories that
we felt the strongest in. So production did get a really good sense of
like who would be best for what. I actually talked a lot in my
interviews too about sports, so I knew I was going to get either you
know, something in pop culture, TV show hosts, et cetera, or
something sports related. So when I saw that I wasn't sports related, I
also really held that, like those ships to myself that I used to that
I still currently do work in sports, because I didn't want people to have
any idea that I knew sports, hoping that like if eventually down the line,
you know, someone challenged me thinking I was potentially week in sports.
You know, I could have an edge, So I knew that I was
probably going to be pop culture. So TV show hosts to me wasn't too
much of a surprise. But short answer, no, we did not get
to select the categories ourselves. They were determined for us at random by production.
All right, Jacqueline, I've how did you feel when it's down to
you? And what was the final guy's name? Homeboy? Arthur? Arthur,
and it's you two. He commands the most floor space, so it's
your category. In the category that he has, he gets to choose the
category to challenge you with. Yours was I believe international foods. The one
he was sitting on was fashion icons. When he picked fashion icons, please
tell me in the back of your mind, you're like, what an idiot?
I got this? Because look, international foods. He's got a chance.
I could not believe that. It shocked me. And he gets up
there and pass, pass, pass passed, Like Jackie's taking this sucker home.
I mean, I'm not gonna lie when it hand out, And it
became those two categories. Lest I was beside myself on the inside. I
was trying to remain as calm, cold collected as humanly possible, but you
know, without sounding too cocky. I felt very confident in both of those,
and I was like, this is mine to lose, so just stay
calm. I think in his strategy, and I think what people forget too
is like, so we did film this, you know, over multiple days.
I was not filmed in one day and any time. And I think
all the contestants, if you were to pull anyone and they asked who studied
the hardest, it was me, like one hundred percent. I feel like
all the casts, you know, after we'd filmed, they were you know,
they'd hang out, they'd go to the bar, you know, have
a drink. I went to bed every night. I studied. I made
like my own floorboard in a PowerPoint presentation. I was like, so type
a setting. So I think day over day, you know, the longer
I had international foods, I was studying that over and over and over again.
So I think maybe in his mind he was like, hey, she's
been studying this now for a couple of days. She knows it very very
well. Fashion icons like it's going to be brand new to both of us.
Maybe that will, you know, give me the best shot to win.
I just think, but instinctively, I'm looking at you, who seems
to be i mean, very well put together human being, a female that
probably knows a little bit more about that world than I would. I'm not
going there at least with international foods, oh eggs. You know, I
got a probably having chance. He like, she just said he probably knew
that she'd been sitting on that for multiple episodes and been studying international foods,
so he and he was very good at general seemingly everything. Yeh, He's
like, we just throw something random out. At least it's something that she
hasn't been studying for for two days. He couldn't even tell who fear a
Wing was. He didn't get Cindy Crawford. I know Cindy. I know
Cindy Crawford. I think that was the one that everyone was like, oh
no, And I just I will never forget the feeling too of hearing like
with every pass, I think my heart was just racing more and more and
more and more, And it wasn't until I heard roblow and he was just
like Jacqueline, and I heard it and then I was like, oh my
god, it actually happened. So I'm pretty sure I blacked out on stage
like for the after that happened for the next like five minutes. I don't
really recall anything, but just such a cool experience. And I was still
very nervous going into that duel, just because even though I felt comfortable with
the categories themselves, so much of it is like he had been up there
multiple times already, and like when you get a little bit of momentum,
you shake off the nerves of being up there, Like I hadn't been up
to that podium in a couple days. So like the shitters definitely came back
again. Yeah, all right, Jacquelin Kenny won the floor recently. So
how was Rob loan? Was he boozing at the bar? He didn't drink.
He didn't drink, think so yeah, no, I think, yeah,
I think he's still he's still sober. But he was so sweet,
I mean, very easy to work with. Just I mean, he's exactly
what you think Rob Love would be, just so charming. I mean definitely
aging very very well. Yeah you ever seen a fifty nine year old smoke
show like that in your life? Good God? I mean yeah, having
to also like you're up at the podium, you're under the clock, you're
nervous, you're in front of eighty one other people, a live studio audience,
and then have to do that like in front of Rob blow too,
and he's just so you want you won two and fifty gs, You get
the you get the bread yet. I haven't got the bread yet. It's
it's on the way, trus me. I feel, yeah, I'm waiting
for that moment, and I know I talked about it on the show.
I'm just so excited to have a nice trip with my with my parents,
you know, do something wrong with it, take some vacations. But other
than that, I feel like I'll be pretty boring with the money. Lots
of savings, investments, you know, play it safe. Let the money
worked for me. A little bit down the line. Text are coming in
uh on our on our end, Jacqueline. It says Jacqueline is an e
fing gamer and played everybody, including production on that show Legend. So I
have a couple of questions. So it probably takes three, four or five
days to shoot this. It's you know, ten episodes, so I know
that probably do it all in bulk there. But they made the choice to
make everyone wear the same thing every single day. So you were wearing what
we were discussing earlier. We were having an internal debate was it green or
was it yellow? Whatever outfit you were wearing. I went with lime green.
But you can answer that and to is that just their wardrobe? Do
they wash it? Like? How does that work? I was thinking about
that everyone's wearing the same thing like five days in a row. It's so
funny. This is like the number one question I have been asked since the
Gecko. Everyone is so curious. So yeah, I will tell you all
how it works. So first and foremost, I will say, so,
I've been identifying the color as chartruths. It's a sharttooth stress, which chartooth
is like a combination of lime and yellow. So you're both technically correct in
that sense, it's chartruth. So I just kept saying I was like,
Shartooth's on the loose with going into filming. This is honestly the most stressful
part for me because, like I said, I got cast very very late
in the game, before leaving for filming and production call. They're like,
so you need two of the same outfit because you'll be wearing one and then
the other one will stay with the wardrobe department and you know they'll steam it,
clean it, and like you'll always have a clean one, and then
you know one can be taken care of. But no one just naturally has
two of the exact same thing in their wardrobe already. So I had to
go out and like five bunch of different outfits. I had very little time
to do that. I got that dress honestly, an Express and great,
you know, shot to Express for their express shipping because I like overnight it
and that was the one I yeah, I landed on. It worked out
nicely because it was so bright and I feel like my parents could very easily
see me like various shots on the floor, so it worked out great.
But yeah, you're wearing the same one. I will admit, though,
I wore that. I wore that exact same dress the entire time because one
it never got dirty and two, I mean, yeah, they like steamed
it and everything like that, but I just kept wearing the same one because
I'm very, very superstitious and it is working out for me. So I
just kept that same dress on the entire time, Okay, Jacqueline. Two
quick questions here, Number one. After this being the inaugural season of The
Floor, they're obviously going to make some tweaks. I think they probably will.
What would you change? Number one? What would you change about the
floor to make it better? And number two? What did potential gamers to
contestants see and learn from season one of the Floor that will help them with
their strategy when they become contestants in the future. So what would you change
about it? And what did the public learn about how to play the game?
Great question. I don't know if I would necessarily change anything too much
from the layout of the rules, because I also think like that's what makes
it so interesting. I will say, I feel like I've seen some,
you know, comments that I shouldn't have won because I only won so many
duels, right, I only won three in comparison to some of the quote
unquote whales and maybe like six seven, yes exactly, Gene. Gene won
so many duels, so I can see from some people's perspective it's like they
would want that affected in the rules. I guess my counter argument to that
though, and what makes this game so unique in a lot of ways,
It's like there were other there were many opportunities for people to challenge me,
and they just chose not to. You know, I was never, for
the most part, like completely insularted my little cat in my corner, and
no one could challenge me. They just chose not to. So I feel
like that, really though, does you know, affect kind of how the
game is played, because you're choosing who you want to go against. That's
just so much part of it. So but I could see potential rules changing
with that, and I think they might just have more rules around what you
can, like the name and what counts as correct because I think there were
some instances where, you know, it was they showed an image of like
a honeydew and I think they said cantalope, but like the image was like
too close. Things like that, Like it gets a little you know,
subjective there. I think strategy or how future people if they you know,
get cast on the floor. The strategies, I would just say, again,
really pay attention to like your timing and how much you pass. I
think that had a major impact on a lot of the duels, and it
really comes down to split seconds like you saw some of I mean US States
for example. What one of my favorite duels of the entire show is just
ping pong back and forth, like nobody got a question wrong, which is
crazy, But what it comes down to is that one little breath. It's
that extra like or before you say something right, So like practicing just being
as quick as humanly possible, because it's not who gets the answer correct first,
it's just it's you. It's you against yourself and your own clock.
You'll practicing on that jack when we have a trivia guru on our show,
Mike Siroy. In fact, he won the Dallas Observer Radio Host Year in
twenty twenty two. Oh my gosh, a couple of things. I think
they should bring you back to defend your championship in season two. But my
real question is did you make enough connections with the production staff there that you
could put in a good word. We want Mike on the floor in season
two. Oh yes, I will, I will put out the best word
ever. Let's get you on the floor. And I mean I would love
to come back for another season and if there's like a floor all stars eventually
down the line with multiple winners, we need eighty one seasons, Jacqueline.
Yeah, we're ways away, like a Condemns floor. Yeah, you know,
just a little quadrant the ultimate goatlet. But I would love to participate
again. It was such an amazing experience and just fun, Like I'm a
huge game show nerd, and just it brought out the competitive I mean,
I'm always competitive, but it really brought out that side and let me kind
of flex my strategic skills. So all in all, just lifetime experience.
You're cool, Jacqueline, thank you for jumping on with us. Jacqueline Kenny,
the winner of season one one of the floor. Thank you the lovely
guest. You're a lovely guest. All right, we'll talk you down the
road when she defends her crown maybe in floor two. Freak addition, I
was, that's cool. The true answer should be the final two people have
a best of three and they illuminate the entire floor with every category randomizer again
choosing the three categories. I agree the true King or Queen of the floor.
Jacqueline cool, good job Jack Lady enjoy congratulations. Dingo's morning news,
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