Ike Barinholtz
speaker
519 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 28 Apr
Ike Barinholtz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I knew that he was active around 100 CE and just turned into a different person.
I remember he was exiled. So you've seen Eyes Wide Shut. Remember the scene when they go to Sidney Pollack's huge, beautiful Christmas party and they get separated. That really cheesy guy walks up to Nicole Kidman, takes her champagne and she's like, I believe that's mine. And he's like, my darling, I'm absolutely certain of it.
And he at one point goes through and he's like, are you familiar with Ovid and the art of love? Oh. So for a second, like poet, love, Ovid came into my head. And then I read the answer and I was like, I'm going to go with Ovid. So I wrote that down. And so then it went down the line and Ray got it right. Of course Ray got it right.
It went to me and Ken Jennings, who I'm obsessed with, was like, in Hollywood, do they sit around and talk about Ovid? And my answer came up, he goes, oh, they do. And I remember, I'll never forget hearing the crowd go, oh.
It was crazy.
No.
But Melissa still hadn't gone yet because she was in first place. And so she wrote, who was Juvenal, who's another poet. That's a rapper too. At that one second duration, the audience realized I'd won. And then there was another like, ooh.
Like the craziest thing ever. The real win was going to the semis. I had to go back to the next day. I was playing against another two incredible players, Ben Chan, and I'm blanking on the other guy's name, but he was incredible. And that's the one that's keeping me up at night still. Were you close? 50-50 guess. Had I got it right, I'd win it. No, you were ahead in money again?
Oh, yeah, I was surging. I don't know if I was ahead, but I would have won. Can you come back? I will one day, for sure. Jeopardy is a huge part of me. I love that show. It's incredible. But it was crazy. The final category was something like...
Greek history so it was another like antiquity classical thing where I was like okay and then this one was this Greek writer wrote this phrase about whom and it was like our enemies blah blah blah so in my mind I was like okay enemies of the ancient Greeks the only ones I'm coming up with are Persians and Spartans I'm just gonna go with Spartans and it was Persians
So had I just gone the other way on that one, I would have gone to the finals. So I will literally some nights just be like, why didn't I just go the other way? I'm so proud of you. I know. This is such an accomplishment.
It's a very fun thing. I love trivia. And you know he didn't go to college. That's what's fun is he's cobbled together this crazy knowledge. You're a good will hunting? No, I didn't go to college. One day I had like a job, kind of like a custodial job. Okay. And there was a problem like on a chalkboard and I saw it and I just kind of knew it so I wrote it down. Yeah.
And a guy who worked there kind of in an administrative position saw it and that kind of got the ball rolling. But I wouldn't say it's a good will hunting thing.
Yes.
You just have to know it. There are little tricks when you go on Jeopardy. A big thing is the buzzer. I always thought at home watching it that the buzzer is just something you just want to ring as fast as possible. You want to ring as fast as possible, but you don't want to ring once. You want to go Nintendo controller style.
Yeah, because if anyone rings early, the minute Ken stops asking the question, it coincides with these little lights around the board that kind of go off. And once those lights go off is when he stops talking, and that is when your system is unlocked. If you ring it early, a quarter of a second, you are locked out. Locked out for how long? You're locked out for a quarter of a second.
So it's that fast, but that's enough time for someone else to get in there. Yeah. I want to keep doing it in case no one else rings in. So that was a big thing that I had to learn.
I'm like Kristen, where I, for years, just answer right away, which is so rude. Just people would be annoyed. It's because my parents did that because they were rude when they would watch it. So I've since changed that, by the way. Is there the last time I saw your wife? We were doing Jimmy Kimmel together and they were like, hey, will you do a bit, like a pre-taped bit?
It was called Celebrity Hide and Seek or something like that. Or Celebrity Lost and Found, I can't remember. And they were like, we're going to have a person off the street go into like a Hollywood Boulevard gift shop and they're going to be looking for you, but you'll be hidden as part of the atmosphere. And we're like,
okay cool camouflage camouflage right so we go in it was like a souvenir shot a souvenir shot there's you know half mannequins the upper torso of a mannequin and it was wearing a t-shirt that says hollywood usa and then a hat that says like the stars and there's three of them one of them they removed and i went under the table and was posed like a mannequin with my head and my hoodie on.
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