On a semi-related note Ken's Omnibus Podcast Co-Host John Roderick has been
in a social media scandal of his own over the last 24 hours.
https://www.scarymommy.com/guy-let-kid-struggle-can-opener-twitter/
On Thursday, December 31, 2020 at 2:26:42 PM UTC-5 Jim Ellwanger wrote:
> Ever since the
Ever since the money from his initial “Jeopardy!” run allowed him to quit his
job as a computer programmer, Ken has made his money as an author of
nonfiction… which means he does spend time studying trivia, but it’s called
“research” when it’s for use in a book.
He does have a wife and two
I’m sure, if necessary, the Sony lawyers will come up with a set of standards
involving different levels of “knowing” the host. I can’t imagine — for example
— that someone would be disqualified as a “Jeopardy!” contestant just because,
in the Facebook group for fans of Ken’s “Omnibus” podcast,
Pat Sajak and Chuck Woolery might be two of the most obnoxious if not
outright offensive people on social media, but that doesn’t make them bad
game show hosts. Bad people, maybe, but not bad game show hosts. Dick Clark
was a cheap bastard who went through wives like Kleenex, but that didn’t
make
For what it's worth, the joke was along the lines of "If she wasn't in a
wheelchair, she'd be hot!"
As John Scalzi noted over on his Twitter feed, in his opinion the problem
was that Jennings never deleted the tweet, which made it sound like
Jennings never withdrew the comment.
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 1:26 PM Mark Jeffries wrote:
> Jennings' less tweetable problem with replacing Trebek is that he knows
> too many people in the trivia community who would become automatically
> ineligible to appear on "Jeopardy!" (if they haven't yet appeared) if he
> became permanent
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 1:26 PM Mark Jeffries wrote:
> Jennings' less tweetable problem with replacing Trebek is that he knows
> too many people in the trivia community who would become automatically
> ineligible to appear on "Jeopardy!" (if they haven't yet appeared) if he
> became permanent
Jennings' less tweetable problem with replacing Trebek is that he knows too
many people in the trivia community who would become automatically
ineligible to appear on "Jeopardy!" (if they haven't yet appeared) if he
became permanent host. (Those people would have no problem getting booked
on "The
From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Joe Hass
>No, I don't think we did.
>
>I think it flew under the radar, but I do know that amongst those it offended,
>it was never forgotten and was frequently brought up as "Oh, you may think Ken
>Jennings is
No, I don't think we did.
I think it flew under the radar, but I do know that amongst those it
offended, it was never forgotten and was frequently brought up as "Oh, you
may think Ken Jennings is awesome, but he's really an ablist!!!"
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