Wes Hazard

All right, hey.

In October 2017, I got a really good email.

Maybe the best email I ever got in my life, or at least the most exciting.

It told me that I had passed the online test, and I was invited to go audition live for Jeopardy.

I got to do that.

I was very, very excited.

And sort of an email I've been waiting for for 20 years.

I love that show.

I really, really enjoy it.

And on an average day, if I have the time, I will watch the daily episode of Jeopardy on TV.

And then I'll spend 90 minutes a day looking up random crap on Wikipedia.

That's how I have fun, all right?

I got that email.

I'm like, oh, we're obviously going to orient our entire lives around this now.

And so I started going hardcore, like every day watching it.

I would watch old episodes on YouTube.

I bought a student atlas, like minimum 90 minutes map studies every day.

UK Kings line of succession.

I'm like in the J archive, like a database of all the online Jeopardy episodes, just every single day, hours.

It's just like, you know, and I started watching it behind a music stand, standing up with a ballpoint pen in my hand to get the timing down.