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Right now, joining us on the free cut line. It is our
new friend Jared Watson from Greenville, Texas, the winner of Jeopardy Show nine
forty six the twenty twenty four Tournament of Champion Quarterfinal game two. He got
the win over Ben and Chris. Jared, congratulations and hello, oh man,
thank you so much. What else? Snake in the grass? We
had him on Friday, sneaky man. You didn't know confidence. I don't
know you had confidence for sure, But you're going against some legend of the
game, I'm told. And you went and wiped the floor with everybody yesterday.
Yeah, I mean Chris Banilo is a fantastic static company, won twenty
one games in a row last season, and he was the guy that nobody
wanted to be up on the podium beside them, and I got him first
rattle out of the box, and somehow I managed to win that game.
So you didn't know. I've read a couple of quotes from you. You
don't know who you're facing until when I mean how do you walk out there
like moments before. How does that work? Yeah, so you're sitting back
in the green room waiting for your turn to play, and they, yeah,
they don't tell you who you're playing until literally like five minutes before you
go up on stage. Wow. Okay. Yeah, and everyone knew him
because he'd won twenty one and no one, I assumed no one had gotten
close to that, at least in this tournament of champions. I know,
the closest was Ray the Lonz. He was one of the second most games.
I believe he won thirteen games, but yeah, he was Christmas far
and away the number one guy in the tournament. You know, when you
go to the first commercial break there again, this was last night. You
go to the first commercial break, you were down. Chris had a pretty
big lead and you were down. And then by golly, you started hitting
the daily doubles like it was nothing. You got two daily doubles in Double
Jeopardy and nailed them. And I did perk up a little bit when you
got the category. The seventies totally rocked because I know, like in our
messages, you told me you were a musician and we were talking about bass
guitar strings last week, so I knew you would like that. So that
was kind of a fun ride though to see you like get the Daily Doubles
and kind of get lucky. You kind of attribute that to your victory or
do you attribute it to your vast knowledge of all things? Well, I
mean, I definitely prepared harder for this than anything I've ever done in my
life. But yeah, I was very fortunate to find all the Daily Doubles
and then to convert them. But part of them is one thing. Getting
a light is another thing. So Jared, you do you always want daily
Doubles? I mean, is there ever a time when you're like, ugh,
well no, see, even if you find the Daily Double yourself and
don't feel good about the category and just wager five dollars, five dollars is
the minimum you can wager on the Daily Double. By the way, on
the pack nice, but keeping it out of the hands of your opponent is
just as important as converting them yourself, because that takes away the ability for
them to catch back up to you if you have a lead. Are you
a Daily Double chaser or do you just like for them to happen and the
way they naturally occur by going sequentially from top to bottom. No, I'm
definitely a daily double hunter. I think that it's the way the game has
evolved, especially in the wake of like James Holpower kind of breaking open what
would possible to accomplish in a single Jeopardy match. Yeah, it's the part
of the game now is you need to find the daily double them. It's
kind of a race to find them. But isn't there risk involved too?
If you're hunting, do you is there a strategy to only hunt in categories
that you're very comfortable with or do you just say screw it all, I'm
gonna risk it in going to a category that I'm not super boned up on
trying to find that daily double. Is there kind of a strategy behind that,
like where you need to look? Because my guess would be like,
if you're going to something that I have no idea about this category, you
don't get the daily Double, but then you've got an eight hundred dollars you
know, potential loss there. How does that? How does that work in
your mind when you're hunting them. I think you can't think about whether or
not you're going to get the clue right, I think you just the reward
of making a big score on a daily double is worth the risk of losing
it, and that did bite me before in my fourth game in my original
run, I lost I think, you know, like seven thousand dollars total
on the two daily doubles that I found and got them both wrong. So
you know, I've seen it from both sides. But yeah, so I
just go immediately to the categories that I think are the most likely to contain
the daily doubles and just start hammering from the middle of the board. But
I will say that the one exception from last night's game was that seventies rop
category because I got those first three right away in Double Jeopardy, and I
stuck with that category even though it's not likely that the last two, the
most dollar value lose well, contained daily double. But I just wanted to
stick at that category one to see if I could run it, and to
just to kind of keep boosting my own confidence. Yeah. So, yeah,
that's one of the most intangible quess you were rolling at that point too.
This is our friend Jared Watson. He is a resident of Greenville,
Texas, and he won in round one of the Jeopardy Tournament of Champions,
which aired last night. Jared, when is your next episode? I believe
that point next Thursday, next Thursday night. All right, we got our
DVR set now, so we're all We're all good there, Jared. I
have one more follow up question about the seventies rock category. You being a
musician and being very knowledgeable about all things rock and roll, and you might
maybe run into these types of categories in the past where you roll through a
category and just because you are knowledgeable in it, do you ever hit the
end of that line and go God? That was easy because Kevin did the
questions this morning, and I'm like, these are these are baby questions when
it comes to somebody that knows music. Yeah, I mean I was definitely
taking that in my head. Yeah, you know, click, Yeah,
I'm out light a budakoon. That's that's a clack right right? And that
was the big that was the big dollar one. Yeah, that was.
But it's the kind of thing. It's like, it's almost like, you
know, sports questions on Jeopardy. It's kind of a specialized thing. And
sure, the kind of a minority of players that take the time to learn
those kind of things. I mean, that was just in my blood.
Sure. I'm my father's son and I was born and raised on classic rock,
so that was, you know, always going to be something for me.
So jared some of the headlines today I'm reading. There's a lot of
Jeopardy News upset of the Year in Tournament A champions so much like if we
are we're the home of the Dallas Mavericks here on ninety seven won the freak.
But if they make the playoffs and the one seed gets bounced out,
we're kind of like, all right, thank you Memphis or thank you whoever
did it. When you walk back to the green room, is there some
fist bumps, like all right, got rid of that guy? Well done?
Uh? Yeah, yeah. I think basically every remaining contestant either gave
me like a little look or like yeah you did. Also like can you
get to know you section? You know, the very quick part. You
know, you get a couple of quick minutes to introduce you guys. You
mentioned that, you know, you had made a cover song of the Jeopardy
theme song with you playing all the instruments. So we're gonna play a little
bit of that for our audience. Cut this off YouTube here that this is
Jared and he plays all the instruments here. Okay, that's insane in this
video seventy eight guitar pictures of him on there. That's awesome. That's badass,
dude, Thank you, thank you. All right, So I got
next Thursday. How many more show wins do we need to cap off this
entire thing to be the actual champion of the tournament? Champions? And what
kind of bread are we looking at? If you win the whole you run
the table. So the semifinals is a single match and then that will feed
into three finalists in the finals, and that final is a best of seven
to where the first player to win three games wins the whole thing and the
pop pies or the tournament a champions dollars. That's a lot of money.
That's why Kevin keeps referring to you ours is our friend. Yeah, He's
like, I don't know, I just did a couple of interviews. I
wouldn't say we're friends. Guys. Well, I've got a big pitch this
week with i'l will draft House to uh talk about the trivia night bit that
we were talking about. So we're to keep you keep you close. Well,
here's to wishing. We want to do that for sure. All right,
Well, here's wishing you categories such as one hit, wonders, British
invasion, types of Fender guitars, and of the like DFW Metroplex. Yes,
I love you, Jared Ouneston. Congrats. My mom heard the segment
on Friday and she had a friend over yesterday and they were like cheering and
watching in Sarasota, Florida, and she was texting me she was so happy
she did it. You got a lot of fans here and uh and further
abroad. Man, So congrats and keep it going all right, thank you
so much. Yeah, and clear out next Friday too, because we will
have you on for a follow up. See what happens next Thursday night.
Rock on, Jared. There you are our Tournament of Champion friend, our
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can go. Do you think any over zealous volunteer is going to yank our
radio station signs out of the ground because we're making a mockery of the election
process. Oh, I think it's highly possible. Yeah, yeah, right
the end of the trash band. Now, election rules do say you cannot
put a sign down within one hundred feet of the building. I was told
that by someone who's running over a different part of town. But so you
know, don't do that, but make your signs stand out a little bit.
They're big signs too. I mean we're dunking on some politicians here.
I'm gonna say some of them are half assed in their signs. Yeah,
take that, calling all red. Let me ask you this, what if
you put all these signs out and then what if we win? Yeh?
What if? What if the station is the mayor? That'd be weird to
get through. We get more done than the actual mayor? No, we
wouldn't. What does he ever done more than us? Eric Johnson? He's
running the damn city, is he? I mean, I guess we can
all be the mayor. He's firing people for tweeting brau at him. I
mean, come on, look, you're gonna have to be responsible for this
if we win a bunch of seats. Yeah, good, Mayor Turner,
will you hire me as your new city manager? Since broad Nax is out?
I think we just let TC handle that. I want that salary,
Yeah, like four hundred kyah four and fifty five thousand dollars, I'll do
that, dud was making. I'll do anything. Can you imagine the fires
you gotta put out if you're the city manager, though, I'll do anything
for money. I'll do it absolutely. Mike said, if you come by
and get a sign today, he'll make shield wipers. I'll make love to
you and change your windshield wipers. And that first part, throw a sign
in your back seat, I'll make love to you. That's Kevinn. Come
me your favorite celebrities today. Yeah, and Addison for real, right in
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tolly in Alpha. It's the iHeartRadio. I heard media building. Yep.
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You're on southbound Spring Valley, just stay stay on the side road there.
We're gonna put a couple of signs out so they're gonna see a couple.
Yeah. And if you're on north on the tollway, take Spring Valley quick
you turn bam. Say how to our friends in the overpass, the hot
homeless couple. Yeah. You might have a plan until noon to get those
and get a max of five Okay, and then go get them and get
five entries for each sign. Did you go and posted a polling location or
your yard, and you take a picture or a video and then you put
that into the comment section on the Twitter or Instagram or Facebook. Then you're
entered into a drawn. So if you get five, then you get five
entries. There's only one hundred signs. I think you can only post a
comment with a photo on either Twitter or Facebook. Yes, I don't think
you can post a comment photo on Instagram. I don't know about TikTok.
Yeah, I mean full disclosure. The polling in's on Friday. We're gonna,
you know, take a look at this later in the week and I'll
just grab what I see. I see the picture of uh Frank has posted
this, and it's like, okay, well Frank's got one ancher. Oh
Frank did this again? And put your location too, because I think it's
cool, Like, no, very cool. See how many cities are hit.
Maybe you're eating an Ausops burrito while you have posted out there in Alboreto.
I don't know. I'm just saying whatever's convenient for you if you can
hit these up, get this done by Friday, because the polls close on
Friday. For you to get them done the next forty eight hours, that'd
be great. What if what if they're not on social media? Can they
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though today and I'm not expecting to have signs tomorrow. The only thing is
if you join us on our show, you have to be here at five
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for the show. Yeah please, two to three full segment ideas please and
open your right Yeah yeah music, We might lend you the scuttle, but
just for a day. No, you'll get Kevin At seven, Anthony Kim
is on the driving range. He's not shanking, going full ten cup here,
looks like a pro golfer hitting his wedges. He's wearing a white t
shirt and shorts and just looking at as exactly what we'd expect from the return
of Anthony cam sexy. Twelve years he's had there chili dipping them. Now
it would be so oh no, no, I wanted to do. Well.
He's a local guy, right yeah, kind of right from here,
lives here, lives here, from California. I think he lives here were
I don't know. He's enigma, shrouded in mystery. How am I?
How would I know where he lives? Kind of always walking around covered in
an umbrella. All right, So we're gonna do birthdays to do talkbacks,
and I saw a wild note involving the super Bowl, and a wild note
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