{"id":24775,"date":"2019-06-04T08:06:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T14:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1046711"},"modified":"2019-06-04T08:06:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T14:06:20","slug":"a-salute-to-jeopardys-james-holzhauer-and-his-uniting-winning-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/a-salute-to-jeopardys-james-holzhauer-and-his-uniting-winning-streak\/","title":{"rendered":"A Salute to Jeopardy!’s James Holzhauer and His Uniting Winning Streak"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jeopardy Productions, Inc.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sure, James Holzhauer<\/strong> collected a large sum of money on Jeopardy!<\/em>, but his greatest accomplishment may be uniting viewers.<\/p>\n

During his 30+ games, Holzhauer’s big bets, Daily Double strategy and overall personality turned Jeopardy! into must-see TV. I’m a regular Jeopardy!<\/em> watcher, it’s one while I make dinner and unwind after work, but during Holzhauer’s streak, I was an avid watcher. I avoided spoilers. I recorded episodes if I wasn’t home and stayed off social media. When he broke $2 million and I got an embargoed press release about it before I watched the episode, I was enraged. And this is coming from somebody who watched all of Game of Thrones<\/em>, sans the series finale, spoiled.<\/p>\n

Holzhauer turned Jeopardy!<\/em> into riveting, edge-of-your-seat television as he approached Ken Jennings<\/strong>‘ earnings record, a record he narrowly missed. Seeing Jeopardy!<\/em> Twitter, yes that’s a thing, light up each night with hot takes, jokes and praise, was special.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Holzhauer became a TV hero to root for, especially in his defeat.<\/p>\n

Immediately after host Alex Trebek<\/strong> proclaimed Emma Boettcher<\/strong> the winner, Holzhauer congratulated her with a high-five.<\/p>\n

“By the time Final Jeopardy rolled around I knew my goose was cooked if Emma answered correctly,” Holzhauer told The Atlantic. “It’s a little like needing a team to miss a last-second field goal\u2014nothing you can really do but watch. I made peace with my fate before the clue for Final was even revealed.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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In a press release distributed after Boettcher knocked him from the top stop, Holzhauer praised his competition.<\/p>\n

“Emma dominated her warmup games that day, and I knew she would make an extremely tough challenger,” Holzhauer said in a statement. “I was still incredibly impressed by her courage on that \u2018True Daily Double.’ I’m proud that it took a top-level player at her absolute best to eliminate me.”<\/p>\n

Holzhauer ended up just $58,484 short of beating Jennings’ earnings.<\/p>\n

On Twitter, the 34-year-old professional gambler continued the classy bow-out.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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“James will eventually beat himself by flubbing one of his big bets.\u201d Nope, James got his ass kicked straight up by an elite player who nailed her own big bets.<\/p>\n

\u2014 James Holzhauer (@James_Holzhauer) June 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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To everyone: Thanks for the support, and remember to be good humans.<\/p>\n

\u2014 James Holzhauer (@James_Holzhauer) June 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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In a compilation video, above, Holzhauer said he used to watch the game show with his grandmother. He promised her as a kid that he would compete on the series and kept his word. “It really was something I’ve wanted to do for 25 years now,” he said.<\/p>\n

Holzhauer will return in Jeopardy!<\/em> season 36 as part of the Tournament of Champions.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Don’t miss E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeopardy Productions, Inc. Sure, James Holzhauer collected a large sum of money on Jeopardy!, but his greatest accomplishment may be uniting viewers. During his 30+ games, Holzhauer’s big bets, Daily Double strategy and overall personality turned Jeopardy! into must-see TV. I’m a regular Jeopardy! watcher, it’s one while I make dinner and unwind after work, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 17:32:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}