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Potent Podables
A podcast for fans of the game show Jeopardy! Two former contestants bring you Jeopardy! analysis & banter, trivia, and a quiz.
Episodes
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Episode 244 - 24 February to 28 February 2025 - Splitting Time
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of February 24th, 2025. It's the end of the quarters and start of the semis for the JIT. We finally admit that we like our kids…
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Episode 243 - February 17 2025 to February 21 2025 - Who You Callin' a JIT?
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of February 17th, 2025 - the first week of the Jeopardy Invitational Tournament! We welcome back some old friends to the stage…
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Episode 242 - 10 February to 13 February 2025 - Just the Finals
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of February 10th, 2025. We just talk about the ToC finals, demand that math puns cease, and get to hear Emily's Yo-Yo Ma story…
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Episode 241 - 3 February to 7 February 2025 - Is He Tin or Wood?!
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of February 3rd, 2025. We try (and fail) not to mention anything currently topical, pay respects to what made Twitter good, and…
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Episode 240 - 27 January to 31 January 2025 - Podcast the Elder
We hear some of the lore from Kyle's high school Knowledge Bowl days, wonder why nobody gives cheese as a wedding gift anymore,, and Kyle introduces us to…
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Episode 239 - 20 January to 24 January 2025 - Innocence and Experience
We share some pet peeves, discuss the difference between French presidents and baked goods, and Emily does a deep dive about William Blake. Find us on Facebook…
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Episode 238 - January 13 to January 17 2025 - A Laborious Episode
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of January 13th, 2025. We stick to our new year's resolution, wonder why certain movies were always on cable television during…
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Episode 237 - January 6 to January 10 2025 - Howe Now?
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of January 6th, 2025. We resolve to not complain about it being 2024 anymore, get back into the swing of things, and Emily gives…
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Episode 236 - December 9 to December 13 2024 - Pod of Gold
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of December 9th, 2024. Kyle regales us with stories of his adventures on a truly terrifying bridge, Emily muses about the Giver…
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Episode 235 - December 2 to December 6 2024 -
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of December 2nd, 2024. Kyle laments about kids-these-days, we speculate on the mystery of Jason Kelce's appearance, and Emily…
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Episode 234 - November 25 to November 29 2024 - It's Not Crimea's First Rodeo
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of November 25th, 2024. Kyle has a truly bizarre take on geocaching, Emily nerds out about Marvel IP rights in theme parks, and…
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Episode 233 - November 18 to November 22 2024 - Seven Times Around
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of November 18th, 2024. We criticize the movie industry, as well as some poorly-designed questions, and Emily does a deep dive…
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Episode 232 - November 11 to November 15 2024 - The Spruce Goose Is Already a Joke
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of November 11th, 2024. Kyle reminds us not to overcomplicate things, Emily updates us on her aphid infestation, and Kyle brings…
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Episode 231 - November 4 to November 8 2024 - Ackshualleeeeeeee, It's Not Even the Name of the Bell
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of November 4th, 2024. Emily brings up Triscuits again, we discuss common misconceptions in the quiz, and Emily does a deep dive…
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Episode 230 - October 28 to November 1 2024 - A Sapphic Episode
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of October 28th, 2024. We share our best transatlantic accents for your listening pleasure, gossip about Meryl Streep, and after…
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Episode 229 - October 21 to October 25 2024 - Mother, Save Me a Parking Spot
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of October 21st, 2024. We are reminded of recent episodes, as though the writers are listening as we speak, discuss state birds…
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Episode 228 - October 14 to October 18 2024 - More Like John Painter Sargent, amirite?
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of October 14th, 2024. Kyle has the Rockies, and Emily has to settle for mountain range at home. We discuss beige flags and the…
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Episode 227 - October 7 to October 11 2024 - Fen-No-More, Please
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of October 7th, 2024. Moms are incredible, Emily pulls back the curtain on her culinary expertise, and she does us all a favor…
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Episode 226 - 23 September to 27 September 2024 - Go West, young Mae
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of September 23rd, 2024. We bemoan our Learned League woes, Emily reveals her antipathy toward caves, and Kyle brings us yet…
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Episode 225 - 16 September to 20 September 2024 - a^2 + b^2 = stay of execution
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of September 16th, 2024. Emily gives tips on holding airlines accountable, Kyle loves playing Balderdash even when nobody else…
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Episode 224 - September 9 2024 to September 13 2024 - To Be Young, Gifted, and Nina Simone
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of September 9, 2024. We welcome the beginning of Season 41, Kyle has a flashback to his Tournament experience, Emily describes…
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Episode 223 - The making of a Jeopardy! contestant, we guess?
We're back and preparing for season 41! (Okay, okay, we know that it's started by the time we're actually posting this.) Emily and Kyle share the stories of…
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Episode 222 - Oops, All Quizzes!
No new Jeopardy! so we are revisiting some old quizzes to find out if we have actually retained anything we learned. Maybe you will do better this time, too!…
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Episode 221 - August 14 2024 - Our Episode Commentary
We've been on summer break, just like Jeopardy! As a treat, we thought we would go back and watch the episode that we appeared in together, and give commentary…
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Episode 220 - July 15 to July 19 2024 - An Episode This Long Makes Me Leary
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of July 15, 2024. We are hyped for the Olympic sports that we only care about every four years, we give respect to the Costco…
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Episode 219 - July 8 to July 12 2024 - She's a Tallchief, that's why she raised the barre
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of July 8th, 2024. We have a little Wallace and Gromit moment, Emily describes her best and most annoying bit, and Kyle brings…
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Episode 218 - July 1 to July 5 2024 - Mary, Mary, Quite Conspire-y
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of July 1st, 2024. We revisit the trauma of Flowers for Algernon, Emily keeps her Disney talk to a minimum, and then she gives a…
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Episode 217 - June 17 to June 24 2024 - Duke, Sweet!
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of June 17th, 2024. We notice some throwbacks to the good old days of season 35, encounter the one an only scenario where we…
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Episode 216 - June 10 to June 24 2024 - Triangle Shirts Wouldn't Fit, Anyway
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of June 10th, 2024. Ken takes Emily's side in the Great Hamilton Feud, Kyle's dumb commercial memory is vindicated, and Emily…
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Episode 215 - June 3 to June 7 2024 - Schweitzer Falls, named after the famous Dr. Albert Falls
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of June 3rd, 2024. We remember what a jeremiad is, reflect on the cosmic unfairness of getting outbuzzed on a category that…
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Episode 214 - May 27 to May 31 2024 - Light 'em up!
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of May 27th, 2024. Emily goes overboard on the whole Hamilton-lyric thing, we affirm how funny we are, and Emily does a deep…
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Episode 213 - May 20 to May 24 2024 - Bach in Business
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of May 20th, 2024. Kyle demonstrates his Jimmy Stewart voice, Emily gets pedantic about crosswords, and we finally - finally! -…
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Episode 212 - May 13 to May 17 2024 - Just Kidd-ing Around
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of May 13th, 2024. We criticize some question writing (gasp!), learn about the goats that Emily met at camp, and she gives a…
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Episode 211 - May 6 to May 10 2024 - Basqueing in the Sun
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of May 6th, 2024. We get extremely picky about what counts as a homophone, Emily still can't distinguish the names of anyone…
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Episode 210 - April 29 to May 3 2024 - Guest Host, Emily Herndon Thurston!
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of April 29th, 2024. Kyle is out-of-town, so Emily is joined by Emily Herndon Thurston, a champion from 2014. With the combined…
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Episode 209 - April 22 to 26 2024 - Zora (Neale Hurston)'s Domain
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of April 22nd, 2024. We float some original fan theories about R2D2 and Donder and Blitzen, shudder at the thought of Russell…
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Episode 208 - April 15 to April 19 2024 - Days of Wine and Roses and Saints
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of April 15th, 2024. We revel in a full-week of regular-play episodes, Kyle works through the old wounds of candlepin bowling…
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Episode 207 - April 8 to April 12 2024 - A Faraday Late and a Faradollar Short
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of April 8th, 2024. We reminisce about Galaxy Quest, welcome the return of regular Jeopardy episodes, and learn all about…
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Episode 206 - April 1 to April 4 2024 - Gleeking Out
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of April 1st, 2024 (no foolin'). We share some of what our kids are up to, mourn the passing of Emily's individual J! record…
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Episode 205 - March 25 to March 30 2024 -Prohibition-Era Gangsters: They're Just Like Us
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of March 25th, 2024. We begrudgingly admit that we really like this tournament, share a moment about Furbies, and Kyle brings us…
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Episode 204 - March 18 to March 22 2024 - On the Burj
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of March 18th, 2024. We celebrate and mourn the passing of the Tournament of Champions, chat about our personal picks in the…
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Episode 203 - March 11 to March 15 2024 - Not to Be Realpolitikal, but...
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of March 11th, 2024. We head into the finals of the 2024 Tournament of Champions, chat about the newly-announced Jeopardy…
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Episode 202 - March 4 to March 8 2024 - Scrupulous and Granular and... Dramulous?
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of March 4th, 2024. We continue the 2024 Tournament of Champions, discuss the somewhat surprising performance of Ike Barinholtz…
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Episode 201 - Tournament of Champions! February 26th to March 1st 2024 - The Algonquin Round Table Is Judging this Title
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of February 26th, 2024. We have finally arrived at the final tournament! We continue to revel in the J! writers' newfound…
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Episode 200 - February 19 to February 23 2024 - Susanna, You're Allowed to Cry
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of February 19th, 2024. We bid farewell to Champions Wildcard and welcome in the Tournament of Champions! We also revel in the…
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Episode 199 - February 12 to February 16 2024 - Shirley You're Running for Office
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of February 12th, 2024. We get mixed up about the categories, reminisce about Wayne's World, and learn all about the life and…
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Episode 198 - February 5 to February 9 2024 - Who's the Pharos of them all?
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of February 5th, 2024. We criticize A Prayer for Owen Meany, become more convinced that the J! writers are communicating with…
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Episode 197 - January 29 to February 2, 2024 - I put my Black Hawk in hock so I would be in the black
I apologize for both the atrocious attempt at a pun in the title, and the audio quality. Still figuring it out! Jeopardy! recaps from the week of January 29th…
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Episode 196 - January 22 to January 26 2024 - Hard to make a pun about the Hitler Youth
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of January 22nd, 2024. We discuss the lack of luster with Lost and Battlestar Gallactica, Kyle declares new things to be stupid…
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Episode 195 - January 15 to January 19, 2024 - Hot Pot is Good, Pol Pot is Bad
FYI - Audio quality in this episode is (still) inconsistent. We are exploring options for improving, which results in some growing pains. Thanks for bearing…
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Episode 194 - January 15 to January 19 2024 - The Quiz on Podcast Street
FYI - Audio quality in this episode is inconsistent. We are exploring options for improving, which results in some growing pains. Thanks for bearing with us!…
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Episode 193 - January 1 to 5, 2024 - True Grito
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of January 1st, 2024. We talk about our hopes and dreads (not a typo) for the new year, Kyle discovers that he has misheard some…
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Episode 192 - December 18 to 22 2023 - Hammer Time
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of December 18th, 2023. We elevate Robert Pattinson, expand our dairy-state knowledge, and Emily hammers home some facts about…
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Episode 191 - December 11 to December 15 2023 - You Dirty Rat. And Pig. And Dragon...
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of December 11th, 2023, the last full week of Hearts Wildcard. We get A LOT of J! news, reflect on kids being kids, and Kyle…
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Episode 190 - December 4 to December 8 2023 - Make an Assassin Out of You and Me
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of December 4th, 2023. Emily gets persnickety, we practice our compliment sandwiches, and Emily educates us about all those…
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Episode 189 - November 27 to December 1 2023 - It All Henges on Stones
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of November 27th, 2023. We're fighting about whether mushrooms are unsettling, Kyle shares a little about the TTRPG he's created…
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Episode 188 - November 20 to November 24 2023 - Bird is the Word
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of November 20th, 2023. We get some good games this week, reflect on reading habits and strategies, Kyle declares his distaste…
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Episode 187 - November 13 to November 17, 2023 - A Monumental (and Memorial) Deep Dive
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of November 13th, 2023. We discuss the Clubs Wild Card quarterfinals and the wrong answers we're glad we didn't give on stage…
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Episode 186 - November 6 to November 10 2023 - SCLC What I Mean?
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of November 6th, 2023. We make it through Diamonds, begin Clubs, remark on some unconventional categories, and Emily clarifies…
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Episode 185 - October 30 to November 3, 2023 - Messier Objects than Wat?
Jeopardy! recaps from the week of October 30th, 2023. We find out which of us lacks folksy wisdom and discuss fish/wish economies, enjoy the comedic brilliance…