#They took Matt amodio from me

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Not to be an angry dweeb but if I have to look at Ken Jennings' stupid face as the host of jeopardy for the foreseeable future I am going to lose my mind. he looks like a blonde gerbil. he looks like a four year old with really long arms. he looks like wet cheesecloth draped over a plastecine statue of Julius Caesar. I want him gone. I hate him he has the personality of an unripe carrot. He's probably sticky all the time and pulls his mask down when he orders coffee anyway I hate that guy. I hate him.

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Amy Schneider is an American engineering manager and game show contestant. She had a 40-game winning streak on the game show Jeopardy! from November 2021 to January 2022, the second-longest win streak in the show's history, behind only Ken Jennings (74 games), who hosted the show as she competed. She is the most successful woman ever to compete on the show, in terms of both her streak and her $1.3 million in winnings.

Schneider is known for her skill in the Final Jeopardy! round, having responded correctly 30 out of 41 times in her run. She lives in Oakland, California. Across all American game shows, she is the 11th highest-earning contestant of all time.

Schneider grew up in Dayton, Ohio, and attended Chaminade-Julienne High School. In eighth grade, she was voted "Most likely to appear on Jeopardy!" by her classmates.

Throughout her run on Jeopardy!, she expressed admiration for past champions Ken Jennings, James Holzhauer, Matt Amodio, and Julia Collins (the first woman to win 20 games in a row, at the time Jeopardy's second longest streak). On a January 2022 episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Schneider said that she hoped Jennings would become the permanent host of the program, citing his comforting and empathetic presence.

Schneider has a cat named Meep; during the 17th game, when host Ken Jennings asked why the cat had this name, Schneider responded, "It was the name they gave her at the shelter, because the only noise she would make was 'meep'. Me and my girlfriend said we would find another name for her, but she kept making that noise, and we realized it was the right name."

Schneider is a trans woman; she completed gender transition in 2017. On January 19, 2022, Schneider was awarded a GLAAD Special Recognition honor for her Jeopardy! performance.

Schneider's first victory occurred on the November 17, 2021, episode, dethroning five-day champion Andrew He. In the following 14 games, she only missed one Final Jeopardy! question. She missed a second in her 16th win. In total, Schneider has won over $1 million on Jeopardy!, the fifth-most winnings of any contestant on the show in all play. Schneider is the first openly transgender contestant to qualify for the Tournament of Champions. Her winning streak came one year after the first openly transgender contestant, Kate Freeman, competed and won on the show. Schneider, who viewed Freeman's victory and several other trans contestants' losing appearances on the show as inspiration, has described the significance of having a trans identity: "The fact is, I don't actually think about being trans all that often, and so when appearing on national television, I wanted to represent that part of my identity accurately: as important, but also relatively minor."  After surpassing Matt Amodio's 38-game winning streak in the January 24, 2022, episode, Schneider took second place for the most consecutive wins in Jeopardy! history at 39, only behind Jennings's 74 consecutive wins.

End of streak Schneider was defeated in her 41st episode, aired on January 26, 2022, finishing second behind Rhone Talsma, a librarian from Chicago, Illinois. The "Final Jeopardy!" clue was, "The only nation in the world whose name in English ends in an H, it's also one of the 10 most populous.". Talsma responded, "What is Bangladesh?", which was correct, putting him ahead of Schneider who had no response. Her winnings totaled over $1,300,000, ranking her fourth in most money won in regular-season play behind Jennings, Holzhauer, and Amodio.

Schneider has explained that when she sees a category where she is weak, she gets it "out of the way first. That way, if there were any doubles in that category, they would come up when there wasn't as much money to be wagered." Later, she described her wagering strategy in a runaway game with little competition: "round up the second place score to the nearest thousand, double it, subtract it from my score, and then subtract another thousand in case I'd messed something up. Schneider said that doing crossword puzzles helps her think of words "as both a concept and a collection of letters at the same time".

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So Jeopardy! Really Blew This, Huh?

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On Aug. 11, Mike Richards was named the late Alex Trebek’s replacement as permanent Jeopardy! host. Today Richards resigned, ending what had become one of the ugliest sagas in the normally wholesome TV institution’s history.

Jeopardy! had already begun filming its 38th season with Richards in the host role. Production had gotten through about a week’s worth of episodes before Richards’ resignation. Sony Pictures Television, Jeopardy!’s producer, will continue the search for a permanent host via the use of more guest hosts. Here is Richards’ message of resignation to the Jeopardy! staff.

Dear Team,

It pains me that these past incidents and comments have cast such a shadow on Jeopardy! as we look to start a new chapter. 

As I mentioned last week, I was deeply honored to be asked to host the syndicated show and was thrilled by the opportunity to expand my role. However, over the last several days it has become clear that moving forward as host would be too much of a distraction for our fans and not the right move for the show. As such, I will be stepping down as host effective immediately. As a result, we will be canceling production today.

SPT will now resume the search for a permanent syndicated host. In the meantime, we will be bringing back guest hosts to continue production for the new season, details of which will be announced next week.

I want to apologize to each of you for the unwanted negative attention that has come to Jeopardy! over the last few weeks and for the confusion and delays this is now causing. I know I have a lot of work to do to regain your trust and confidence. 

Mike

Richards will remain in his usual role as Jeopardy! executive producer.

Richard’s resignation comes on the heels of a sprawling report from The Ringer’s Clair McNear (who literally wrote the book on Jeopardy! and is the Woodward and Bernstein of coverage surrounding the quiz show), detailing Richards’ history of questionable behind the scenes behavior and offensive public statements. Over the span of 41 episodes of his “The Randumb Show” podcast, Richards referred to women as “frumpy,” “overweight,” “hos”, and “sluts.” 

The poor attempts at humor are questionable on their own, but when combined with the sex discrimination lawsuit brought against Richards during his time as The Price is Right producer, they challenged Richards’ assertion that the litigation didn’t “reflect the reality of who I am.”

Following Alex Trebek’s death from pancreatic cancer in 2020, the producers at Jeopardy! (including Richards) settled upon the idea of bringing on a string of guest hosts to both honor Trebek’s legacy and audition some folks for his replacement. After a lengthy one-month long guest hosting stint from Jeopardy! GOAT (and Trebek’s presumptive replacement to many) Ken Jennings, Richards took over for two weeks.

In a vacuum, Richards was superb in the role: warm, professional, and energetic. It wasn’t until the conclusion of the 16-person guest hosting exercise, however, that some unsavory details about Richards’ stint began to emerge. Richards initially claimed that he stepped in as guest host due to a scheduling conflict with Jennings’ obligations to ABC quiz series The Chase. In another dispatch from The Ringer, however, McNear reveals that the show would have been able to line up a new guest host with ease but Richards nevertheless strong-armed his way into a hosting stint. 

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Rightly or wrongly, there’s a sense that Richards may have used his role as executive producer to insinuate himself as an integral part of the Jeopardy! team, despite taking on that role only very recently in May 2020. Richards had just finished shadowing outgoing Jeopardy! chief Harry Friedman when Trebek died in November. In the first Jeopardy! rerun since Trebek’s death, it was Richards who appeared on the show’s stage to eulogize the titan of trivia and set up the run of episodes to come honoring him. Again, Richards performed this task admirably and seemingly empathetically, but in hindsight it was a big public task for someone who was technically Jeopardy!’s least tenured employee.

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Now Jeopardy!’s future is less clear than during just about any other time in its history. The show will be bringing guest hosts back but it’s unknown whether it will be a whole new batch or will feature guests from the first “tryouts” to receive second looks. Fellow guest host Mayim Bialik remains on board as host of Jeopardy!’s special primetime episodes. Perhaps she will be given a look as permanent host of the syndicated program but she, too, has a history of…inartful public statements.

I suppose the lesson here, if we’re determined to find one, is that no TV institution is big enough to elude online journalism’s watchful scrutiny. As embodied by Trebek for nearly 40 brilliant years, the role of Jeopardy! host is an important one to Western pop culture history. When it comes time to fill that role, requesting that its recipient be someone worthy of that mantle is not too big an ask.

And hopefully, none of this messes with Matt Amodio’s rhythm. 

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