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Why Ken Jennings Says He Would No Longer Win On Jeopardy! · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. It's a common assumption
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Speaker 1: among Jeopardy fans that current host Ken Jennings could easily
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Speaker 1: beat any of the contestants he's seen come across the
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Speaker 1: stage since he and fellow host Mind by All took
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Speaker 1: over for Alex Trebeck. After all, Ken is the top
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Speaker 1: earning Jeopardy contestant of all time. But one person who
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Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily agree with that is Ken himself. He thinks
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Speaker 1: she's just like sports trivia experts peak at a certain age,
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Speaker 1: telling CNN, I don't want to get less sharp, but
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Speaker 1: there's a reason why. When you see somebody on Jeopardy
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Speaker 1: just killing it, they're usually about thirty years old. I
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Speaker 1: kind of see my processing speed coining away. The older
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Speaker 1: I get. It will take me a few minutes to
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Speaker 1: come up with a name. I do feel like I'm
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Speaker 1: too old for Jeopardy, and I'm very happy hosting. They
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Speaker 1: gave me the correct responses because I'm a little too
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Speaker 1: old to be played. You can want Jeopardy weeknights on
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Speaker 1: ABC that's direct from Hollywood,