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If you'd be called in a week later we would have taped on the same day. Congrats!
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Wait which day were you on? Do you have a screenshot of it I've seen every episode this past week but its always cool to see a goon on.
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banned from Starbucks posted:Wait which day were you on? Do you have a screenshot of it I've seen every episode this past week but its always cool to see a goon on. This episode, aired on Tuesday. No picture there, but if you find an image of the contestants from that show, it should be obvious who she is, going off of her av. Hoover Dam posted:My exact thinking: YOLO
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CPColin posted:Nice! Congrats on making the show. Although seeing you post reminds me how long ago I gave up on posting in the soccer subforum, because of all the "ironic" racism disguised as "banter." Yeeeeah...I pretty much start the MLS thread and then bounce, especially since the Revs have been kinda crappy for three years. HookShot posted:If you'd be called in a week later we would have taped on the same day. Congrats! The taping was, no poo poo, on my birthday. At the end of the episode as the credits roll I'm yelling "YOU COULDN'T HAVE LET ME HAVE IT FOR MY BIRTHDAY?"
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Oct 18, 2018 20:06
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Hoover Dam posted:The taping was, no poo poo, on my birthday. At the end of the episode as the credits roll I'm yelling "YOU COULDN'T HAVE LET ME HAVE IT FOR MY BIRTHDAY?"
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Oct 18, 2018 20:22
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 Game graph looks like West Virginia. Looks like it was an exciting game. Sorry you didn't win!
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Hoover Dam posted:The taping was, no poo poo, on my birthday. At the end of the episode as the credits roll I'm yelling "YOU COULDN'T HAVE LET ME HAVE IT FOR MY BIRTHDAY?" I noticed that they don't have you guys come out onto the middle of the stage to talk to Alex and they just have him walk over to you guys behind your podium during the credits now for the last couple of seasons. Maybe it would've made better TV if the cameras caught you yelling that if they still did it the old way.
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GhostStalker posted:I noticed that they don't have you guys come out onto the middle of the stage to talk to Alex and they just have him walk over to you guys behind your podium during the credits now for the last couple of seasons. Maybe it would've made better TV if the cameras caught you yelling that if they still did it the old way. That's 'cause we're standing on motorized podiums to even out the panel's height and we're wearing wired mics. (Alan there is like 6'7" and I'm 5'2"). They spend a decent amount of time blocking everyone's position so you're told to stand as still as you can, and you can't step off the podium until it's level with the floor. wa27 posted:
Which is kind of amusing, as I am a WV native ('bout 45 minutes from the town where the lady next to me lives) and internet consensus seems to be that I sound like Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling. I feel better about losing knowing dude who beat me is still on his streak; it's like getting bounced from the World Cup or the NCAA basketball tournament by the eventual titleholder. I also spent the last two months sitting on a goddamned lot of soccer jokes related to missing that DD and coming in second place. The warning about timing the buzzer being the hardest part is absolutely true. They tell you in pre-tape orientation that you passed two exams and an audition, it's assumed you could run most of the board if left on your own. (Holy poo poo is it hard not to yell the answers when the people taping ahead of you miss them). I think that's why people go on hot streaks; once you learn the buzzer, you have a leg up on the other two. That's (plus general "YOU'RE GOING DOWN MOTHERFUCKER") is probably why I was able to kill the second round. Other QA I've seen elsewhere: Everyone in my taping cohort was really nice, even Alan. If you make it to auditions, prove you have some personality and a look that'll read well on TV. Middle management John Hodgman lookalikes are like 75% of the audition pool so it pays to stand out. (I said I'd use winnings to buy one of everything at the dollar store, and had a "can I get partial credit for a funny answer" kinda setup in the sample game). No surprise, then, that when you get to the show everyone in the room has neat stories to tell. If Hila looks like she's checked out by the end of the game, she'd been on set the previous day but not called for a game, then had the luck to get two opponents in a dogfight. I can't speak to her mental state but I wouldn't be surprised if she was so over the whole thing at that point. The one thing I wish they did, besides let you have your theoretical winnings, is put someone in the green room full time. You're not allowed anywhere in the studio without an escort, for obvious reasons, but once your game is over you can either watch the other tapings in the audience or go home, no middle ground, because they do not have staff to stay in the green room. I didn't want to go right home, but I also didn't want to watch the rest of the day. What I really wanted after the game was to sit and chill out and debrief, like enough to get a cup of coffee and a snack or something, because let's face it, poo poo's draining, especially since I came with some dead mom baggage (literally and figuratively; that's her ashes in the pendant I'm wearing). She was the one who was super into the show and always wanted to go on it, and for me to go on it, but she checked out suddenly in 2016. Ended up driving aimlessly around Culver City for a bit before going back to my Airbnb in Venice, then spending the rest of the day eating almost nothing but ice cream at the beach and a soccer game. I didn't have anyone in the audience with me, thanks to the weekday taping setup and living on the other side of the continent. My brother actually lives in LA but we literally missed each other at the airport--as I was getting in, he was in line to get on a flight. Nobody except my husband and my dad knew I even got an audition, let alone on the show. I told everyone I was going on a job interview that was for remote work but under non-disclosure, which sounded kinda shady but isn't totally implausible as someone who works in internet stuff. I knew I aced both the online and in-person exams as soon as I finished. Lastly, about the capoeira anecdote: There's no Portuguese edition of Jeopardy, not in Portugal, not in Brazil. Even so, most of the Brazilian folks in my group have been in Boston only slightly less time than I have (since 1994), so I was not expecting to have to explain the entire concept of the show to them. Y'all been here since you were toddlers and missed on a pretty solid part of American/Canadian TV culture? Eish.
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Hoover Dam posted:Lastly, about the capoeira anecdote: There's no Portuguese edition of Jeopardy, not in Portugal, not in Brazil. Even so, most of the Brazilian folks in my group have been in Boston only slightly less time than I have (since 1994), so I was not expecting to have to explain the entire concept of the show to them. Y'all been here since you were toddlers and missed on a pretty solid part of American/Canadian TV culture? Eish. My mom is from France and watches virtually no TV, but she's lived in Canada since 1986. I sent her an email with my picture with Alex, and the one by myself, and she replied with "I like the one where you're standing with the man." I 100% feel you hahaha. Thanks for the writeup! I agree with basically everything. STUPID BUZZER. Oh my God. I was so bad at the buzzer, it drove me insane the entire time. Basically every ad break Maggie and Corina would come over and try to give me hints for it haha. I also really agree about the green room, it would have been super nice to have someone in there the whole time to chill out afterwards.
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Hoover Dam posted:That's 'cause we're standing on motorized podiums to even out the panel's height and we're wearing wired mics. (Alan there is like 6'7" and I'm 5'2"). They spend a decent amount of time blocking everyone's position so you're told to stand as still as you can, and you can't step off the podium until it's level with the floor. I'm aware, the Jeopardy contestant network on Facebook liked to call them electronic apple crates. Maggie and Glenn told my taping group not to even go and shake other contestants hands until the platforms went down so as not to suffer an unfortunate accident, and they'd show Alex coming over to shake everyone's hand, then cut to a commercial sponsor bit while the platforms lowered, then Glenn would have us walk over to a spot on center stage to have your chat with Alex during the credit roll. I guess they cut out that end part, along with making the dividers that separate the podiums during Final Jeopardy electric instead of having to bolt them onto the podiums themselves during the commercial break before Final. Agreed with wanting to have some time to yourself after your loss in the Green Room. I was on the Wednesday show, and lunch was right after. Since I was no longer a prospective contestant, they didn't let me dine at the Sony Commissary, and I had to go out on my own to find lunch. So I wound up wandering around the blocks around the Sony Pictures lot, found a sushi place, blew $40 on sashimi and teriyaki, and then (power) walked back to the studio a hot sweaty mess in March LA weather to make it back to the studio on time to catch the rest of the week's taping because I wanted to see how the rest of my taping group did. My aunt, who was with me in the audience, didn't feel like staying and grabbed a cab back to the DoubleTree instead. I eventually caught a cab back to the same hotel with one of the other contestants who stayed and the eventual Friday champion, which was cool.
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Hoover Dam posted:Yeah uh you and me both Oh what was your airdate? I’m a few weeks behind. edit and a page behind in the thread. Oct 16 is it?
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Well, I'm on the website under this week's contestants, so I guess this is really happening!
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Oct 23, 2018 05:03
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I still can't figure out how dude didn't immediately know Marbury on that DD.
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I'd never heard of Marbury vs Madison but I'm also a terrible historyboi
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Poque posted:I'd never heard of Marbury vs Madison but I'm also a terrible historyboi Marbury is like the first Supreme Court case that's considered important as it sets up Judicial Review, so it's usually covered very quickly in US History or Government in High School, at least in my experience.
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Poque posted:I mean I figured Madison was probably involved because of that but if you haven't heard of Marbury that isn't something you're going to suss out from context clues. I guess it's weird to me that you could suss out Madison but have also never heard of Marbury v. Madison.
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Well, now that it's officially confirmed that I'm playing Erik tomorrow, this was basically my experience: - First game starts (Monday's) - Erik is at over $7200 by the first ad break - I start hoping that no matter what, someone else beats him before I have to face him hahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Seriously though, Erik is a super nice dude, and pretty awesome.
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Today's the day it begins! Can't wait to see you Ken Jennings it. You're such a Champ pretending like you aren't there every week filming. Honestly though, I'm excited for you. Zesty fucked around with this message at 12:15 on Oct 24, 2018 |
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Hahaha I wish I was hiding that from everyone. And thanks! It's funny, I actually remember very little of the game. I was saying to my husband last night, there are 12 categories in a game. I can remember two of them (well, and I also remember final). It's almost going to be like watching it for the first time, because I genuinely remember almost nothing. I definitely took some time before the game started to absorb and appreciate and all that so I have some great memories of standing in that middle position, looking around, remembering how huge the board was, that sort of thing. But yeah, as for the actual game, it's a mystery to me too hahaha. Speaking to some of the other contestants from the day they're in the same boat. One was like "Yeah, there are some categories I remember, but I don't remember if they were from my game or someone else's" haha and that's also so true. I honestly thought the Monday Night Football category was part of my game until it showed up on Monday.
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Oct 24, 2018 23:30
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Low rent Colin Kaepernick got nothing on Hookshot
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There is no such thing as a sabertooth tiger, its a sabertooth cat or smilodon 
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Congrats on your win, Hookshot! Retro good luck on continuing your streak!
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Oct 25, 2018 00:28
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HELL YEAH!!! Is that our first goon winner? I thought Erik was gonna run away with it at the beginning. Awesome job. Congratulations!!!
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Oct 25, 2018 00:59
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Hell yeah, finally a goon champion! Congrats, HookShot!
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That was a super fun episode. Congrats!
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Woah, congrats!! Great game.
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Thanks, guys!! It was a ton of fun  I honestly thought Erik was going to run off with it too. Like, I didn't realize JUST how important the buzzer was. I went from going into it hoping to be able to make the game a runaway before final to "oh God, just try to stop HIM from making it a runaway" pretty quickly. Luckily, my time in the politically loaded maps thread paid off  Iron Crowned posted:There is no such thing as a sabertooth tiger, its a sabertooth cat or smilodon
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Good win! I'll have to make sure I don't read the thread tomorrow till I can watch the episode.
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WOOOO fantastic work!!!
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Congrats on ousting the champ, Hookshot! You crushed it! I'm excited to see how far you'll go. Also, I was mad that no one could identify a sparrow. 
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Congratulations! I accidentally spoiled myself beforehand, but I think that made it even more fun to watch. Great job on the final, that one stumped me.
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