YOUR STATE OF BANK QUALITY AND NOW HERE IS THE HOST OF JEOPARDY! MASTERS, KEN DENNY. THANK YOU, JOHNNY GILBERT. WELL, SOME OF THE BIGGEST JEOPARDY WINNERS EVER WILL GO HEAD TO HEAD STARTING MONDAY RIGHT HERE ON WISN 12. AND JOINING US THIS MORNING IS THE BIGGEST JEOPARDY WINNER EVER AND HOST OF JEOPARDY! MASTERS, KEN JENNINGS. KEN, GOOD MORNING. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. YEAH, GOOD MORNING. THANKS FOR HAVING ME ON. ALL RIGHT. SO LET’S CHAT ABOUT THIS. SO THIS THESE NEW EPISODES PUT SIX OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL JEOPARDY! CONTEST CONTESTANTS RATHER, AGAINST EACH OTHER. I MEAN, THIS IS TOP NOTCH. TOP OF THE TOP. YEAH. THESE ARE THE BEST PLAYERS WE HAVE SEEN IN RECENT YEARS. WE’VE GOT JAMES HOLZHAUER BACK FROM THE GOAT TOURNAMENT. ONE OF A KIND TALENT. WE’RE GOING TO SEE HOW HE STACKS UP AGAINST ALL OF LAST YEAR’S SUPER CHAMPIONS. AMY SCHNEIDER, MADAM. SO SOME OF THESE PEOPLE HAD RUNS LONGER THAN HIS, AND ONLY ONE CHAMPION CAN EMERGE WITH THE HALF MILLION DOLLAR MASTERS PRIZE AND THE ALEX TREBEK TROPHY. YEAH, WHAT A PRIZE. AND FOR THE FIRST TIME, THIS IS SOMETHING NEW. THE AUDIENCE IS GOING TO HAVE SOME INSIDE INFORMATION THAT THE CONTESTANTS WILL NOT HAVE. YEAH, THIS IS SOMETHING WE’RE TRYING OUT WITH MASTERS. WE NOTICED IT’S VERY FUN IN THE STUDIO THAT WE KNOW WHERE THE DAILY DOUBLES ARE BECAUSE WE CAN SEE THE CONTESTANTS GET CLOSE. SOMETIMES THEY VEER AWAY AT THE WRONG TIME. IT’S A LITTLE BIT LIKE A BIG, BIG GAME OF BATTLESHIP. SO FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE’RE GOING TO GIVE VIEWERS AT HOME A SNEAK PREVIEW OF WHERE THE DAILY DOUBLES ARE ON THE BOARD AND IF AT HOME YOU PREFER TO REMAIN UNSPOILED, YOU CAN YOU CAN AVERT YOUR EYES. YEAH. AND I WAS JUST GOING TO ASK YOU, BECAUSE YOU’VE BEEN THROUGH IT. RIGHT. I’M SURE THAT YOU’VE WATCHED AND YOU’VE PLAYED A LITTLE BIT OF BOTH. DO YOU PREFER THIS OPTION? DO YOU THINK THIS IS GOING TO STICK AROUND. I DON’T KNOW IF WE’LL TRY IT ON THE SYNDICATED SHOW, BUT I REALLY LIKE IT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE HOST ALWAYS KNOWS WHERE THE DAILY DOUBLES ARE IN ADVANCE. SO I GET TO WATCH A CONTESTANT WHO REALLY NEEDS THE DAILY DOUBLE KIND OF ADVANCE TOWARD IT. OH, IS SHE GOING TO GET IT? OH, NO. SHE SWITCHED CATEGORIES. YOU KNOW, YOU CAN YOU CAN REALLY GET A SENSE OF HOW THE MATCH IS CHANGING AND HOW THE ODDS ARE CHANGING IN REAL TIME. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. A GAME WITHIN THE GAME. SO YOU HOLD THE JEOPARDY RECORD WITH A 74 GAME WINNING STREAK. I GOT TO ASK YOU, WHAT’S IT LIKE BEING THE HOST NOW. IT’S A LOT MORE RELAXED, I’LL TELL YOU THAT. YOU KNOW, A BIG TOURNAMENT LIKE THIS, YOU COULD GO OUT ANY TIME. I HAVE A LITTLE MORE JOB SECURITY BEHIND BEHIND MY LECTERN. IT’S A I MISS PLAYING. BUT HONESTLY, THE HOST KIND OF HAS TO DO ALL THE SAME THINGS THAT THE PLAYERS ARE DOING. REALLY, THE TO HOST THE SHOW, YOU KIND OF HAVE TO BE PLAYING ALONG IN YOUR HEAD AT THE SAME SPEED. THE CONTESTANT. AH, SO I KIND OF FEEL LIKE THE IT’S THE SAME ADRENALINE RUSH I WOULD HAVE HAD BACK IN A TOURNAMENT WHEN I WAS PLAYING. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. I WAS GOING TO ASK YOU, WHAT ABOUT PREP TIME? DO YOU FEEL THAT’S ALSO THE SAME. YOU KNOW, THE COAST DOES HAVE TO PREPARE QUITE A BIT, BUT I THINK THESE CONTESTANTS HAVE JUST PUT IN HOURS AND HOURS OF WORK TRYING TO STAY FRESH, TRYING TO STAY ON TOP OF THEIR TRIVIA, LEARN NEW FACTS, YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE NOTHING, NOTHING FALLS OUT THE BACK OF THEIR BRAINS. YOU KNOW, I COME IN EARLY EVERY MORNING AND LOOK AT ALL THE CLUES FOR THE DAY, BUT I THINK THAT’S NOTHING COMPARED TO THE MONTHS OF TRAINING THAT SOME OF THESE JEOPARDY! ATHLETES ARE DOING. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. WELL, KEN JENNINGS, A PLEASURE CHATTING WITH YOU TODAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. IT WAS A PLEASURE. LOOKING FORWARD TO JEOPARDY MASTERS THIS WEEK. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. AND JEOPARDY MASTERS PREMIERES MOND