Matt O., have you been holding out on us?

[rigsby]

Now, I can't be certain that 1) this hasn't already been mentioned (but I didn't see it anywhere), and 2) if I have the right guy, but the Matt mentioned here as one of the men at Wednesday's Jeopardy taping sure seems like our co-executive producer.

Unless, of course, there is another Matt in the East Lansing area who is a "game show junkie".

Unfortunately, none of this week's taped shows air until fall, but now I guess we have another reason to fire up those VCR's!

[zachhoran]

[quote name=\'rigsby\' date=\'Mar 5 2004, 11:25 AM\'] Now, I can't be certain that 1) this hasn't already been mentioned (but I didn't see it anywhere), and 2) if I have the right guy, but the Matt mentioned here as one of the men at Wednesday's Jeopardy taping sure seems like our co-executive producer.

Unless, of course, there is another Matt in the East Lansing area who is a "game show junkie".

Unfortunately, none of this week's taped shows air until fall, but now I guess we have another reason to fire up those VCR's! [/quote]
The info given at said website does indeed apply to our co-EP. Whether it is him we'll find out when the time comes.

[mmb5]

I know that someone named Matt will be on Jeopardy on June 21.  Who will that Matt be?  Will it be Matt O., or the owner of the blog above, who is also named Matt?  I'll never tell.


--Mike

[TimK2003]

[quote name=\'mmb5\' date=\'Mar 5 2004, 01:54 PM\'] I know that someone named Matt will be on Jeopardy on June 21.  Who will that Matt be?  Will it be Matt O., or the owner of the blog above, who is also named Matt?  I'll never tell.


--Mike [/quote]
 Well, if it is indeed the person-who-we-think-he-is, then congratulations and best of luck!!!  It couldn't happen to a nicer guy!


Wouldn't it be cool if the J! people were thinking after the show, "That Matt would sure make a great successor to Alex if and when Trebek retires down the road..."  He's got the experience.

[MSTieScott]

Hmm... that would explain the somewhat cryptic comment in this thread:

I watch Jeopardy every night, and I probably have a more vested interest in doing so that the average person.

Here's hoping that it was a profitable experience... heck, here's hoping that it's still going on!

--
Scott Robinson

[WhammyPower]

[quote name=\'rigsby\' date=\'Mar 5 2004, 10:25 AM\'] Now, I can't be certain that 1) this hasn't already been mentioned (but I didn't see it anywhere), and 2) if I have the right guy, but the Matt mentioned here as one of the men at Wednesday's Jeopardy taping sure seems like our co-executive producer.

Unless, of course, there is another Matt in the East Lansing area who is a "game show junkie". [/quote]
 Maybe we should ask the Dave who commented and said that he knows the Wednesday Matt....

[tvrandywest]

Here's another clue; reach your own conclusions:
Matt is on an airplane this lovely Sunday morning, returning home from LA.

Randy
tvrandywest.com

[Timsterino]

Go, Matt! I hope you did well, or at least had fun. :-)

Tim :-)

[zachhoran]

[quote name=\'tvrandywest\' date=\'Mar 7 2004, 10:45 AM\'] Here's another clue; reach your own conclusions:
Matt is on an airplane this lovely Sunday morning, returning home from LA.

Randy
tvrandywest.com [/quote]
 If it is indeed you Randy W. is talking about, Matt O., congratu-freaking-lations on being in Jeopardy! on some show(s) airing in June.

[Dbacksfan12]

[quote name=\'tvrandywest\' date=\'Mar 7 2004, 10:45 AM\'] Here's another clue; reach your own conclusions:
Matt is on an airplane this lovely Sunday morning, returning home from LA.

Randy
tvrandywest.com [/quote]
 The only bad part about his trip was that he didn't get called a swinger.

[rigsby]

[quote name=\'WhammyPower\' date=\'Mar 7 2004, 08:37 AM\']Maybe we should ask the Dave who commented and said that he knows the Wednesday Matt....[/quote]
Um, that was me.  I was pretty confident it was him then, and more so now.

[MikeK]

[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Mar 7 2004, 07:10 PM\'] If it is indeed you Randy W. is talking about, Matt O., congratu-freaking-lations on being in Jeopardy! on some show(s) airing in June. [/quote]
 Oh.  Crap.  This means someone might actually win the Malcolm Jackpot.  If it's won, I hope Matt will accept either a post-dated check or the value of the Malcolm Jackpot in Peanut M&Ms.

Can anybody refer me to a good bankruptcy lawyer? :-)

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'hmtriplecrown\' date=\'Mar 8 2004, 11:28 AM\'] Oh.  Crap.  This means someone might actually win the Malcolm Jackpot.  If it's won, I hope Matt will accept either a post-dated check or the value of the Malcolm Jackpot in Peanut M&Ms.
 [/quote]
 You already lost the $1.37, remember? Bad football card investment? It was a 2004 Vick, wasn't it?

Don't worry. If in fact he DID collect, I'll cover the $1.37, and I will bump it in the amount of spare change in my wallet right now, which is (whew, caught me after I spent all of the quarters exactly ninety-six cents.

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: The Malcolm Jackpot now stands at $2.33.

[grimmte]

For us idiots, what is the Malcolm Jackpot?

[Brandon Brooks]

[quote name=\'grimmte\' date=\'Mar 8 2004, 03:43 PM\'] For us idiots, what is the Malcolm Jackpot? [/quote]
Those who don't know aren't "idiots" at all.  And those of us who do should be ashamed.  (Thanks a lot, Mike!  :-))

The Malcolm Jackpot stems from a rather putrid pilot Alex Trebek hosted in the early eighties called, fittingly enough, Malcolm.  I purposely forgot the premise of this awful show, but it involved two contestants answering "complete the statement" questions with the help of a rubber-animated blob named Malcolm.  Trebek and Malcolm were the best of friends and were the new-day Chuck and Susan.

Unfortunately, Malcolm didn't sell.  But if you go on Jeopardy, draw a sketch of him during FJ, and have Alex recognize his long lost buddy you would win...

[font=\"Geneva\"]$2.33!!![/font]

Isn't that exciting? (Actually, I would love to see that happen.)

Brandon Brooks