What is...? A Jeopardy! Podcast

Week of October 12: Welcome to Philadelphia

It's week 2 of the Guy Branum administration here at WIAJP, and we have a lot of fun recapping this historic week of games! There are also MANY inside baseball digression

Week of October 5: the Queens of Primopolos

The torch has been passed to our newest guest host: Guy Branum! And he's just in time to celebrate both Emily's birthday and a week of absolute queens on the show. Rian f

Week of September 28: the Kindergarten Slime Man

It's Handsome Kevin Seccia's farewell (for now!) episode, and we rue our childish hopes for Nikolas's run. Kevin quibbles about a wrestling clue and Producer Dan agrees,

Week of September 21st: Drag it Through the Garden

It's our second week back with Handsome Kevin Seccia, and dare I say we have our first breakout star of the season??? We do so much digging into the history of Groundhog

Week of Sept 14: A Rich Tapestry of Horrible Incidents and Interactions

Well well well, looks like we CAN do the podcast without John! (even though the first time I tried to publish this I failed horribly) Emily is joined by friend of the pod

Week of Sept 14: A rich tapestry of horrible incidents and interactions

Well well well, looks like we CAN do the podcast without John! (even though the first time I tried to publish this I failed horribly) Emily is joined by friend of the pod

The 2026 Jeoppys

The most prestigious awards in television are BACK, as we hand out our Jeoppy Awards for Season 41 of Jeopardy!, from the classic Response and Anecdote of the Year to the

The 2026 WIAJP Player of the Year: Jamie Ding

Who else could it be? A 31-game winning streak, a great sense of humour, and a hell of a lot of orange, Jamie Ding joins us to discuss his amazing run on the Alex Trebek

Week of July 20: Catch the Freshness

The end of the 42nd season of Jeopardy! is here, and it ends with a week of absolute BANGERS, including what is potentially the Game of the Year on Thursday. We also get

Week of July 13: Which Unabomber?

We ponder the existence of multiple Unabombers on this week's episode as Caleb Groen enters the imperial phase of his superchamp run, which is to say, not a lot happens t

Week of July 6: Emily Met Tom Cruise

Yes, Jeopardy! games happened this week and Caleb Groen continues an impressive streak of ToC invites by winning his fifth game, but most of you will be here to hear abou

Week of June 29: Bulging

Much like a certain Jeopardy! category, we are BULGING with content this week as we say goodbye to superchamp Adam Remsen and we get one of the games of the season in the

Week of June 22: The Slime of Glory

John returns to the show after a week off just in time to watch Adam Remsen become a super champion with a very strong week of games. We also get a very strong Response o

Week of June 15: No Meatspin Until You Finish Your Homework w/ Paolo Pasco

John's out this week, so Emily is joined by reigning TOC champion Paolo Pasco to recap another week of Adam Remsen. Despite some strong play this week, we are spoiled for

Week of June 8: Twice a Bird

After Jamie Ding's imperial run and three consecutive ToC invites, the inevitable finally happened: we saw a bad game of Jeopardy!. Of course, all games of Jeopardy! are

Week of June 1: California Creaming

The Tournament of Champions invites are getting handed out like candy as we went from Tristan Williams to Chris D'Angelo to now Peter McFerrin, who ends Chris' impressive

Week of May 25: Ballet is the French Accent of the Body

We learned a lot about Chris D'Angelo last week and even heard from his sister, but this was TRULY Chris D'Angelo week on J! as he has a fantastic run of games and earns

Week of May 18: Elmo v. Jar Jar w/ Jen D'Angelo

Tristan Williams cements his superchamp status this week...just in time to lose it to Chris D'Angelo, who begins a little run of his own after a fortuitous math error in

Week of May 11: 70 Lbs. Worth of Bible

It's Tristan Williams week on Jeopardy! as he gets himself a ToC invitation and much more, playing solidly across all 5 games this week. He gets a couple of close scares

Week of May 4: This Feels Canadian To Me

It's a Canadian week on Jeopardy! as a contestant from a small Ontario town near where John grew up gets blessed with a Final Jeopardy! category about Canadian music. We