What Is...? A Jeopardy! Podcast
Jul 21, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min · 11 segments
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 this week other than Caleb…
Emily HellerHostWelcome to What is a Jeopardy podcast, where we make fun of the smartest show on television, even though one time I was driving with my friends for about an hour back from UBC to White Rock, and I didn't use my brakes the entire way home on a dare, and I did it.
guess i mean it was mostly highway so i was in grade 12 and uh i was in i was in ib uh which is like uh It's like an accelerated program.
But basically, if you do well enough on the IB exams, you can skip some intro-level university courses.
And so our teacher, our history teacher, was like, I'm going to take the whole class to the UBC library to do research for this research project.
And then on the way home, they dared me to get back home only using the brakes three times on the whole way home.
But yeah, I would like, I would see like a red light or a stop sign coming in the distance.
And I would just like take my foot off the gas for hundreds of meters beforehand and In the hopes that like by the time I got to the stop sign, I could kind of roll through it or the like red light would turn green.
Like, it's just like it's the dumb kind of thing that you do when you're a kid and you're just like, oh, my God.
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Welcome to What is a Jeopardy podcast, where we make fun of the smartest show on television, even though one time I was driving with my friends for about an hour back from UBC to White Rock, and I didn't use my brakes the entire way home on a dare, and I did it.
guess i mean it was mostly highway so i was in grade 12 and uh i was in i was in ib uh which is like uh It's like an accelerated program.
But basically, if you do well enough on the IB exams, you can skip some intro-level university courses.
And so our teacher, our history teacher, was like, I'm going to take the whole class to the UBC library to do research for this research project.
And then on the way home, they dared me to get back home only using the brakes three times on the whole way home.
But yeah, I would like, I would see like a red light or a stop sign coming in the distance.
And I would just like take my foot off the gas for hundreds of meters beforehand and In the hopes that like by the time I got to the stop sign, I could kind of roll through it or the like red light would turn green.
Like, it's just like it's the dumb kind of thing that you do when you're a kid and you're just like, oh, my God.
