Pablo Torre Finds Out - Share & Jeopardy! & Tell with Mina Kimes and Dan Le Batard
Episode Date: April 18, 2025Mina Kimes’s Celebrity Jeopardy! semi-final featured a Guardian of the Galaxy from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and a tech millionaire podcaster. How did Mina do? The answer: NOT a Daily Double. H...osted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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We're not walking into therapy right now, Dan.
We're really not going to do that.
We're not going to do that.
Hi, Mina.
Hello.
Hi.
The good news is that you missed Dan's preamble.
The bad news is that I think...
I mean he's giving double thumbs up.
The bad news is that I think you may have over-prepared for this show
because I just went through the game tape of Mina on Jeopardy.
I didn't watch it.
Wait a minute.
You guys didn't tell me anything.
I'm walking into a bit of a trap here.
I have watched you guys with great joy,
bravely go on celebrity game shows
and throw your celebrity into the air to have fun
and test your wits against people famously.
But celebrity jeopardy is a little easier
than the other jeopardies.
Are we doing just narcissism on examining?
How did we do?
Let's talk about ourselves.
We love doing the game shows.
Pablo, it's your show.
You're the one who wants to talk about this.
As always, and for real, what Mina is saying is a true fact, Dan.
She has not watched it.
She told me that she was physically unable to bring herself to watch it.
And so the reason we're doing it on the show like this is because we're going to make her watch it.
Pablo obviously loves making content out of our lives.
You both do.
It's something you clearly have in common.
What I'm going to do is take us on a ride.
A ride.
A ride.
A ride into a studio, a hallowed studio.
And on the stage, Dan is an actor from the Marvel Cinematic Universe named Sean Gunn,
who had.
A guardian of the galaxy.
A dude who hosts, in my opinion, you know, a kind of odious podcast, All In, named David Friedberg.
And our good friend, Mina Kimes.
Why was Mina shaking her head at All In?
I don't know.
What happened there?
a kind of odious podcast.
Oh, no, I was nodding in agreement.
I'm also not a fan.
As far as celebrity goes on Jeopardy,
the celebrities are not a high end of celebrities.
Mina might be the most famous one here.
Hold on a second.
Guardians of the Galaxy is a wonderful franchise.
Great writing, great acting.
Not a lot of famous people coming out
of the Guardians of the Galaxy universe
from behind the scenes, from small characters.
The other thing that's important to know
is we're in the semis now, right?
So a lot of the real,
the most celebrity of the celebrities
have been called at this point.
Okay, see, all right.
So now we're just, now, let's say what this is.
This is the bottom feeder at the last rung of cheap television
where we go get people who call them celebrities
and Mina's a celebrity.
But I don't know if those other two people are.
Mina, as much as you reject that title,
what you are, objectively, is somebody who had prepared.
You said on air that you may have scrolled some subredits.
Clearly, you talked to our friends.
Katie Nolan, with whom we've done an episode along these lines with her on this program,
you have and had, I think, for those not familiar with her celebrity family few performance,
a real competitive side.
Yeah, very competitive.
This is why I can't bring myself to watch this episode of Jeopardy.
Without watching it, I know that how competitive I was probably started manifesting itself on
the stage at some point in the final third of the episode when I was about to,
crush my buzzer in my bare hands
like a lemon.
Just infuriating.
I could not buzz in to save my life.
The issue, Dan, is that it didn't emerge
in the final third.
Minocombs versus the buzzer.
It emerged in the first third.
Utah's revamped state flag
features a beehive. Once favored by Brigham Young
is an emblem of this religion.
Dave.
What is Mormonism?
Yes.
24601.
Just watch.
Just watch.
Nina hold her buzzer.
Presumably French bread in this blockbuster.
Sean.
What is Lame Zorob?
Right.
A thousand years.
It's how long the hills have been alive with songs they have sung.
Whatever that means.
In this musical, Dave.
What is the sound of picture?
Mina's holding her buzzer above the podium so everybody can see this.
And it's not why I was doing.
Okay.
I have so much here.
Where can I start?
I'd like to know, first of all, how much soul ravaging you do with unforgiveness when you're being competitive and you're losing.
Like, how mean are you to yourself?
Well, first of all, I was winning.
We were showing questions where I couldn't buzz in, but I was very frustrated, obviously.
Because here's the thing.
Okay, so I'll just get rid of it.
The thing about Celebrity Jeopardy is, as you have seen, if you're watching this or if you watched it, the questions are easy.
So by the time you get to the second round, most of the contestants know.
the answers to all of the questions.
And it becomes a buzzing contest, right?
And the thing about the buzzer is you have a window to buzz in.
If you buzz in too early, you get locked out.
And because I don't have good hand-eye, clearly, I don't play video games.
That might have been good practice for this.
I just kept getting locked out and then losing my shit.
So it becomes a lot about like quick twitch.
Sorry, I'm in draft world.
Mina is so clearly obviously in draft mode right now.
Oh my God.
It's really a hand-up.
And the other guys, again, to their defense,
because I think they knew most of the answers,
certainly the guy Gunn next to me did,
he was getting frustrated because he couldn't buzz in
in the first round.
So it becomes like a buzzing contest.
It's very frustrating.
I'm assuming.
Pablo, I'm assuming.
I don't know, but based on your team of reporters
and how you like to make fun of me,
I'm assuming that I'm about to make
make an admission here that I've never made before, a secret that I've kept for 30 years,
because you have in your video compartment my only game show appearance ever where I can
admit now, only all of these years later, that I do not have the benefit of actually
the credibility that Mina does where I actually believe her buzzer was not quick enough,
and she knew the answers to all those questions. The thing I'm about to admit,
We all did.
Well, on boardwalk and baseball with Chris Berman, when I got a single answer right and we got her ass kicked by Oklahoma, the answer was Ford and I only got it right.
My brother made fun of me until his deathbed because there was 10 seconds of silence and I finally got to be faster than other people.
It's also the only thing I knew.
I was pretending that the buzzer wasn't working because I was consistently coming in late after people had an answer I did not have because I was so insecure about the fact that I wasn't getting anything.
thing right.
Oh my God.
That's right.
I'm sorry to admit it.
So we played this video of Dan in this thing in what appears to be the 1950s before.
Dan has a particular like tented hand.
But it wasn't the buzzer.
I was pretending.
I was getting my ass kicked and I was faking it.
I was faking a hamstring injury.
Mina, it explains something, which is that when you do watch it, you see how late Dan is.
now that I know that he's tanking,
it changes so much.
Just choking.
Not even choking.
Choking would be if I knew the answers.
The questions were too hard.
Mina, the question,
men, Mina goes on Celebrity, Jeopardy,
everybody knows the answers.
That's disappointing.
Well, hold on.
Look, it's, I would argue that it's impressive
that Mina goes on runs like this.
This moon of Saturn or an NFL player from Tennessee.
Mina.
What is a Titan?
T-T-O-G-O-G-O.
you can take me hot to go.
Mina.
Who is Chapalrone?
Yes, Chapel Rhone.
Did you see that gymnast, Stephen Netter-Razek in the Olympics?
He only does one exercise.
I can't remember what it's called.
Mina.
What is pommel horse?
Right.
A boy in Maine sold Greenwood's champion ear protectors
after patenting this type of winter head gear in 1877.
Mina.
What are earmuffs?
That's right.
He's the inventor of the earmuffs.
Okay, I forgot that the first question in that montage was about what team is in
Tennessee. That maybe wasn't as impressive.
Well, no, but you know what? I want to look at her face again after that because I did think
she found it funny how easy that question was, but you seemed happier than with the other
questions and the answers that you were getting right. The emotion you're trying to identify
is actually relief because I was like, thank God I didn't miss the football question.
Because that was my worst nightmare going on this show is that there would be a football category
and that I would lose the category, thus giving ammunition to my haters for decades.
Good to play that game with great, great fear.
Yes.
Mina Kimes, that's right.
Mina Kimes, who has done now 70 mock drafts
and wants to get every one of the picks right
because she's competitive,
is afraid that the internet is going to mock her
because a jeopardy question she gets wrong about the Titans.
If you're to talk about the most essential skill
for Mina as a jeopardy draft prospect,
the thing that I think is so important
that becomes very clear in this episode,
in the semifinal, is the daily double.
Oh, God.
This is the part that I don't want to watch.
This is the thing that haunted me.
I can't even think I thought to watch.
We got to walk through it.
We got to walk through it.
There's a build here because Mina at this point in the story has $9,700.
That's great.
She's in control.
But this thing, which was a strength in Mina's first celebrity Jeopardy win, which got her to the semifinal, becomes very relevant.
Thinking about the Roman Empire for 600.
Answer, Daily Double.
What do you want to wager?
700
just 700
oh duh
B
if you're right
and thinking it off
the Roman Empire
okay
so I've burned
my lasagna
at least I'm not
this fifth
Roman emperor
who legend says
fiddled while
Rome burned
Who is Nero
it was Nero
yes
could have bet a little
more there
I know
I'm just a coward
I know
keep it in mind
for next time
to like
Oh
keep it in mind
for next time
is a
very
impressive prophecy from
Ken Jennings.
He was disappointed me. I could feel it.
I could feel it. Can I say something?
I think Ken wanted me to win.
What?
That's scandalous.
That's scandalous.
He can't be biased?
That's unbelievable.
What claim are you making?
We're finding out stuff.
We're finding out stuff here, Dan.
We had a personal connection a little bit.
He's from the Seattle.
He's a big Seattle sports fan.
We had, like, bonded a little bit about that.
He's a fan.
of Mina's. He's an actual fan of Minas in a real way.
No, not really. Because she was, she was the only celebrity on that show who's not Ken Jennings.
Well, he's great. I could feel his disappointment in my cowardly bullshit daily double
strategy and I was disappointed. You could see it. I mean, that's, I just had discussed.
As soon as she knew the answer, but let's cover the math of this though, because can we look at it
again? Did you instantaneously realize that you were a coward? Like that?
Yes. Yeah, you could literally see me when the question comes up, be like you.
So wait. So, wait. So, hold.
Hold on, hold on.
Let me go back a second.
I am the coach who kicks the field goal instead of going for it.
I am.
My whole career is devoted to calling these coaches out on cowardly game management.
And then when I was in that situation, I panicked, like a word I can't say.
All right.
So can you answer this question for me, though?
You are rooting as a competitive person to get the daily double, correct?
Yes, you want.
I was hunting.
We were all, so this is another thing.
In the first game, I was hunting for them.
In the second game, we all were.
So, you know, everybody's kind of playing in a different way.
So you're not scared of it in any way.
No, you want the Daily Double.
But why did you get scared when you got the Daily Double?
Because I'm a loser.
I don't know.
But what happened?
I'm asking you, take me through the thinking process of,
so you're leading and you're afraid that you're going to make a bet that does such bad math that you're so nervous.
Yes, I was nervous.
I was going to blow my lead.
I was like, I'm in control of this shit.
I've been dominating the categories.
So you're lacking faith in yourself.
The reason you become a coward is because despite the fact that you're crushing this, you know the answers, they're easy questions.
At the moment of truth, you're saying, I will not bet this much money on the belief that I can do math correctly right now.
Not about the belief that I can do math correctly.
Just like the fear, like what if this is the one question I don't know and I bet like $4,000 and suddenly I no longer have a big...
But why wouldn't you bet on yourself?
Because it's...
Risk aversion.
It's like, oh, it was even more so than I think the fear of losing it,
it was overconfidence in my ability to keep buzzing in and dominating, right?
Which again, to go back to the NFL, that is like how dumb coaches think.
Like, oh, we're going to keep, we're going to get another chance to drive the field again.
You never know, right?
And it's just, it was like idiotic.
I don't know.
That was, Pablo, by the way, the one thing I didn't want to rewatch because the
other thing is frustrating, but like I felt like that was a little bit out of my control.
That was in my control, and I f***ed up.
This is a hell of a press conference,
a post-game press conference that Mina is giving.
Who, among the NFL coaches that you wished you were,
who's the guy you think over here?
Like, I should have channeled more of...
Dan Campbell.
Because I would wager that Sean Gunn,
the best character this character actor has played,
was the role of Dan Campbell in this context.
Answer, Daily Double.
I don't want to watch this.
Let's bet 5,000.
Oh, no, she loses.
You'll be in the league.
by $200, if you're right, in Texan and literary characters.
I'm tired of this.
Hey, Phoebes.
I was expelled from Pensie Prep, a bunch of ponies.
Meet me at the carousel and wear galoshes.
Holden.
What is the catch in the wrong?
That's correct.
You are so easy.
Everyone knows that.
Why didn't, like,
fuck me.
What we just saw was what Mina's football nightmare looks like in jeopardy.
So, Sean Gunn is going Dan Campbell.
And so Mina does get the ball back.
And yes, there's another run.
downfield, by the way, just in fairness.
I'm so tired of this.
Advanced Animalia for 1200.
Answer, daily double.
I will do
2,000.
You, dumb coward. You're take the lead back
by 400, but you have to be right.
You advanced animalia.
Scarabiety Sacker.
That's a much more appealing designation
than its stinkier name, Dung this.
What is a beetle?
Dung beetle, yeah, you're back on top.
It's a face of someone who knows she's an idiot.
But you're back on top.
She's back on top, Dan.
This is, unfortunately, a seesaw.
We're learning.
It's a seesaw between her and Sean.
This is wildly entertaining.
Where do we end here?
Because this has been a roller...
It's been a roller coaster.
Well, the seesaw, right, takes us through triple jeopardy.
And we do see, for those not watching on YouTube,
we do see a bit more of the buzzer here.
Krakuta Krakuta.
Love it two times.
Such a better name for the African scavenger
commonly known as the spotted this.
Sean.
What is hyena?
Good for 1,500.
Let's go to Rhym time 300.
It's a cucumber preserved in brine
that has an irritating tendency
to change its mind.
Sean.
What is a fickle pickle?
Losing my shit.
Animalia 300.
Or Sinus Orca.
Was that so hard?
And yet people still insist on calling it a killer this.
Sean. What is a whale?
I was convinced my thing was broken at that point.
I'm losing it.
The questions are so busy.
The scores.
The scores, Dan.
Sean Gunn, 20,500.
Mina Kimes, a very respectable 16,400.
Dave Friedberg, a distant third, $8,400.
Not really a factor is where we are at this point in the story.
I can't believe how human this.
is, Mina, you're sitting here savaging yourself about how idiotic this is. And who doesn't
understand, even though you're crushing it, a lack of confidence in yourself, even after all of these
easy questions, because you really, because...
You're still on the day the double is you talking. Yeah. Well, I'm talking, what I'm talking about
is the pressure of the moment making you make smaller bets when the biggest bets would have been on
yourself and it's just so interesting to not to not have the confidence in that moment because
see I think I would be afraid to do all of this in front of people vulnerably allowing them
to examine whether or not you're quote unquote smart enough or fast enough by testing your
intelligence on television I don't think I'd want to do that it doesn't seem like it would be
it seems like it would be pressurized even for charity so to get in that situation be plagued by it
however nervous you were before it, if you were indeed nervous,
get to the moment, be crushing it,
and then not have confidence when you have a moment to slow down and think.
It really wasn't, it wasn't like a lack of confidence.
I was, let me, I'll be straight up with you guys.
I don't watch Jeopardy.
I'm not a jeopardy person.
So I did a little bit of research into betting strategy,
which comes up at the end.
I did not ask anyone about daily doubles.
And I do think if I had asked someone, a jeopardy person,
they would have explained to me,
you should bet a lot.
So it was actually less like, oh, I'm so afraid I get this wrong, although that's a little bit of it.
And I think, like, I just didn't prepare for it at all.
Like, I didn't think through, hey, this is your opportunity.
These questions are easy.
You know all of them.
Establish a lead.
My brain, like, hadn't even thought through daily doubles at all.
I've never heard of you being.
Like, try to find them.
I didn't think about, like, okay, what do I do if I get these?
And I do believe if I had somebody had told me, hey, you should bet a lot.
I probably would have bet a lot.
So it was really like a lack of preference.
preparation on my part. Pablo, but when you tell me this is the part that I'm finding,
go ahead and tell me all the times that Mina has been caught on national television,
where her credibility might be on the line or her intelligence, and there's a lack of preparation.
What I can't get over is just that Mina, for those not watching, is in full NFL coach
behind a mic podium posture, just like, just really disappointed in herself.
The strategy around the Daily Doubles, hunting them but not maximizing.
them. Yeah. I've been told to hunt them. Yeah. So the think about Bita that I so appreciate is that
she hates nothing, few things more, I would, I would dare say, than not having the right strategy.
I was so pissed walking out of there because I felt like I had, I just strategically didn't
prepare for the right things and I didn't think through it. And I was really mad at myself.
That is choking, though, right? Mina. So wait, let's, hold on. So let's examine this for a second.
And I don't want this to be with.
Okay, well, Dan, Dan's now in the audience of reporters asking questions of the coach.
Yes, I like this.
Yes, well, because I don't want this to be withering criticism, but it seems to me that this would be textbook definition choking.
Yes, coach?
I don't think I dominated to the point where it's textbook choking.
Like, I don't.
Like, I couldn't, I didn't buzz in.
Like, that's not that the guy had a lead.
You know, I choked on the point.
the daily doubles, and I think that's where, that's why that was the hardest for me to watch,
because that was my fault. But, like, I couldn't buzz in. Like, I knew pretty much every answer,
and I just couldn't buzz in. And that's not choking. But that's just, the reason I say, nothing is good
at it. The reason I say it is choking is because combination of panic and lack of strategy that in a
moment makes you go, ah, because all of a sudden you're scared. Yeah, I'm saying in those moments,
but not over like, I don't think I choked away the entire game is all I'm saying. I think I,
I choked on the daily goals.
Coach, you lost.
Yeah, skip.
Sometimes you lose because you didn't prepare well enough.
That's not choking.
Choking is when you're the overwhelming favorite.
You should absolutely win.
You should be dominating and you f-k it all up.
I did make mistakes in big moments.
Coach, why wasn't your team prepared, coach?
That's your job, too.
That's the biggest question.
I actually wish I had done more prep into the actual gameplay.
I should have watched Jeopardy.
Your team was unprepared.
Hold on.
You didn't watch any game tape.
What Coach Kimes...
I watched a little bit.
I watched like a Katie semi...
Like I watched an episode of Celebrity Jeopardy
just to understand
because it's a little different.
But I didn't...
What Coach Kimes...
Yeah.
What she's...
No, I'm just pointing something out.
What Coach Kimes is saying
is something that I thought I would never hear,
which is that she didn't grind enough to...
It's just crazy to me.
I can't...
Like, Pablo knew.
Look, I will tell...
I don't know. Dan, I have a fucking...
full-time job. It was during the middle of football season, and I had a one-year-old baby.
I only had so much time to get ready for this game show.
I'm sorry.
It's not even football season.
This is the maddest I've ever been.
It's not even football season.
Oh, by the way, we taped these back.
I was the only person who had to go back to back.
I taped that right after my first episode, so I'm like freaking exhausted.
That sounds like a competitive disadvantage if you want to know.
That sounds like a bunch of excuses, coach.
I didn't prepare.
I didn't watch game tape.
I didn't panic.
I have a one-year-old.
This is the Steelers saying we have to play three games in 11 days.
The thing I regretted was not researching Dady Doubles.
It's the only thing I regret.
Can you imagine Dan Campbell after a loss, fourth-down decision?
Eh, I have a one-year-old.
I think he would probably have lost in Celebrity Jeopardy.
She is so mad right now.
Pablo.
And I don't know whether she's mad at you or.
me or herself. I don't even know what those rankings would be. Well, I was mad at myself,
but I've transitioned away from being bad at myself to being annoyed by this line of questioning.
To being annoyed by Dan Bayless.
Yeah. It's been 30 minutes, by the way. Are we talking about anything else today?
I didn't realize we would spend 30 minutes without actually showing you Final Shepherd.
Film festivals is the category. Here's the clue. So this is what really pisses me off.
Called the premier movie industry event for the Balkans,
this festival began 30 years ago while the city was under siege.
I know about the Balkans.
I know what cities are in there.
I know what cities were racked by conflict 30 years ago.
I absolutely could have deduced this if I had just used simple, like,
context, clues in geography.
But at this point, I was like, I'm going to lose.
This is over.
I was so flustered by Triple Jeopardy that I just panic picked.
And I was so worried about getting the betting strategy wrong,
which was actually kind of, the one thing I did prepare for,
and I did get it right.
I thought I got it wrong in the moment,
but later on I realized I got it right.
This part, the time pressure,
is the scariest part of this entire game show to me.
You only have so much time.
I'm going to get the answer.
You've got to write it down.
You will see in the answers to come,
the writing, people are panicking.
Pablo, Pablo, this is why your family feud moment is,
I mean, it's a game show moment from the dreams
to have reached through that time period
on family feud and not panicked and gave those answers.
Like, you had the opposite of...
The most obvious answers in the world.
Okay, but wait a minute.
We're really going to compare this?
Under time pressure, though, look, you can choke and then you start remembering
you're choking, you're thinking you're choking, now you're nine seconds in.
And you haven't answered shit.
Name a coin, you throw into a fountain to make a wish.
You said, the penny.
Yes.
Survey said,
Oh my God
Why?
Yes, Pablo correctly guessed Penny
as the coin that people throw into a fountain
Really, truly
Do your job
This is my press conference
Do your job
Anyways, yeah, so I was like super flustered
At home I'm watching this, I'm screaming
Like, what the fuck are you doing?
Like, you know, but I was...
But I did do the betting right
And that was actually some comfort
Because I was...
I didn't actually talk to folks about this, yeah.
Okay, so I want to
re-analyze your immediate instantaneous analysis, which you hear as Final Jeopardy continues.
I did my math wrong. Oh, my heart hurts for her right here. And she wagered. Oh, no. No, I didn't do the
math wrong. Oh, no. Oh, no. No, no. I did the math right. I did the math right. We'll talk about
this. Hold on. Hold on. We're going to watch a bit. So in the moment, I thought I didn't do it right.
You said Bosnia. Right. You said to America.
What did you wager?
12,001, 9,99.
And from third place, Dave Friker comes back.
Are you kidding me?
And he said it to the celebrity.
Oh, my God.
Okay.
So, can I, can I?
The all-in, guy.
The all-in, odious podcast guy.
What a heartwarming story.
The show that said it's okay if you miss social security payments was like,
this guy should be rewarded.
So I was, okay, now I'm so glad.
See, this actually is a great window into my mind here.
Because watching it, yes, in the moment I was devastated and I'm so mad at myself for not,
because I know geography, I know history.
I was just like my brain was whatever.
But my process was correct there.
So I'm actually, like I feel a lot better watching how it played out, Pablo, because I did bet
the exact right amount, which was something that I looked into.
So explain what happened.
So in the moment you said.
you messed up the math.
So this was something,
like I prepared for this
and then talked to you one
about Daily Doubles.
You know Hayes Davenport?
He is a guy who went to school
and Pablo who I'm friends with.
Co-host of Hollywood Handbook,
another...
Super funny dude, has been on Jeopardy.
So I asked him for advice,
and this was the one piece of advice
he gave me.
If you're in second place
and you're in striking distance,
meaning you can jump first,
only bet enough
so that third place can't jump you.
So if third place can't jump you at all,
you bet zero dollars. That dude had just enough money to jump me, right? Which sucks. But the reason
you do that is because you're not going to win unless first place is wrong. So you don't have to,
and first place is going to bet enough to not get jumped. So all you have to do is worry about third
place. And that's what I did with my betting strategy. A thousand dollars was enough to beat third
place, right? If he had, I haven't gotten right. Right. Right. So in the moment I was like,
wait, did I do this wrong? I was actually more upset with the that I did. But I did. But I
did it right, because if third place had been wrong, I would have won if we had all been wrong
because first place had to worry about me. Did that make sense? It's a little bit complicated.
It's convoluted, but I will tell you that all of that explanation, that was riveting television.
The fact that after all of that happens, no, no, wait a minute, wait a minute. Look, this is magic.
What happened here is magic?
Is this reporter, Dan or friend Dan? Who are we hearing from right?
We're not hearing a lot of friends.
Dan today. This is
entertained wildly
by watching
you
suffer but
say, yeah, I'm embarrassed, but my
process was good, but
also, I think you referred to
that dude, I don't
know what his name is. Do you know what his
name is? David Friedberg? That
dude had one of the
most stunning
comebacks I've ever seen
in sports because I did not see him
coming at all in this.
I was never thinking about him and only because you did what happened at the end there,
I now have, he has the moment of a lifetime.
That, that guy has the opposite of your story because he had no business winning that.
Well, he's like an extremely wealthy tech entrepreneur.
So, you know, I think, I don't think he's really the underdog of a lifetime here.
But, yeah, he was, like, stunned afterwards.
in the moment you can see he was stunned.
Like he walked out and his family, he was like, what just happened?
And Sean Gunn, I got to find Sean.
We got to hear a drink.
We were both just like, screw this.
I hate the show.
No, we love it.
But, like, we were just, like, devastated.
It was a great television moment.
It really was.
And I didn't watch the entire, I didn't watch the episode.
Obviously, I've only seen this.
But I have to think it was probably one of the more entertaining finish.
It's similar to Poplos finish, right?
Where it's, like, dramatic, come from behind.
Those are the moments that make.
And Katie's.
Like, how have you three of you ended up?
It's been pretty remarkable.
Did Katie make a comeback?
It was just a series of dramatic finishes.
Katie had her own like overtime.
Oh, yeah, I remember because she didn't bet.
Yeah, right, yeah.
The three of you have had amazing game show experiences.
Like, I imagine a lot of people go on game shows and just finish in second place.
Or fourth place or whatever.
Or get to the Price's right stage and never get on it.
Yeah.
I'm actually glad, Pablo, to mercifully wrap this up,
but you made me watch that in there
because, like, it was a little bit validating
to feel like I didn't screw the entire thing up.
So, you know, I would love another shot at it.
I'm still upset with how I handled the Daily Doubles in particular
and losing my cool a little bit with the buzzer.
But at least at the end, I did the math right.
That's really all that matters.
Pablo, do you marvel at the fact that a head coach,
doesn't leave losing with, well, I got the process right.
Like a head coach leaves the losing with, oh my God, like, I'm just crushed.
No, Mina gave the answer that is most reasonable to any rational observer and most
destroyable by any back page in a major metropolitan area in which she explains that the process
was right, but the result was wrong.
And I think that the most honest appraisal, honestly, wasn't even technically, Dan,
in the course of this game,
it was during the credits.
And you don't have to kick yourself, I think,
because the way it worked out
with Dave being the only one who knew final.
Listen, yeah, I would have been more mad
if I had done the math wrong,
and once that was, I was like, all right, you know,
because that would have just been embarrassing.
Well, you made small wagers on...
I don't know, Ken.
I ended up knowing on Nero, and then...
Scary money, don't make money.
For saying that at all.
Look, you can only learn from our failures
and also try to identify the things
we actually did do right in them
so we could build off of it.
That is my mindset.
Oh, my God.
That's textbook definition for learning,
but can we also just go back there for a second
and just check out Mina's body language?
I know.
Because you ended up knowing on Niro and then...
Scare money don't make money.
How weirdly sassy was that?
I was so sassy.
The sassiest quoting, I believe,
either Billy Napier,
current Floridaator's football coach,
or young Gizi.
I don't know exactly who originated that,
but Mina happened to blackout,
and quote one of them.
Well, but can I examine this for just a moment?
Because, Mina, I'm going to say that right before that,
when you're saying, at least I didn't get the math wrong,
and you're leaning on the console,
whatever is pulsating inside of you right there
is a combination of fear and bravado and relief.
Because if I could look at it again, just tell me,
the pose of you trying to lean in before you black out
and go scared money, don't make money.
Dude, I was exhausted.
I had been at that set for hours at that point.
Like I said, this was my second taping.
I was so drained.
I had had like three pieces of salami for lunch.
That pose is a woman who was just ready to go.
It was so late at night, by the way.
I was so ready to go to bed.
I really think, though covering the NFL, I swear to God, this is going to sound
tortured, but it has, like, better prepared me to deal with failures in my life.
Like, the things I'm saying to you, oh, like, you got to figure out.
out what you did well so you can build off of that.
You know, every rep, you got to just like to have a cornerback mentality and reset and think
about it and like then also be honest about yourself when you failed.
You got to focus on process.
I don't think I would have said any of that stuff when I was younger and I was like equally
competitive and allergic to failure.
So you know what?
Growth.
I look at this and I see growth.
Mina, how long ago did you tape that?
In October, it took me about three months to get over.
So I'm really reliving a lot of trauma here.
And it took you.
Those girls.
It explains what you were like to do podcast with November, December, and January.
Yeah.
That explains something.
Yeah.
Not as long ago, though.
Not as long ago as the aforementioned prospect that we are here to once again evaluate.
You thought it was settled in the orange bowl, baloney.
We have with us here on our very stage here in Orlando, the hurricanes of Miami of Florida.
So scared.
Dan's already
just all over that buzzer.
This American drove one mile in under 40 seconds
that was an average speed of 91 miles an hour.
Name that American auto manufacturer.
Miami, Dan.
Henry Ford, that is correct.
They were slow there.
Let's subbeat the players.
I'm Dan Levitard.
I'm a 19-year-old sophomore majoring in news editorial journalism
and politics. I'm from Miramar, Florida.
All right.
And I'm just walking here.
You're 19 in this club?
In 172 Summer Olympic Games took place in what city?
Oklahoma camp.
Munich is right.
Which Boston Red Sox picture?
Oh, here's the buzzer technique.
Who's Dan's?
Miami time.
Roger Clemm.
Look at Dan.
Gesture.
And that wraps up our 100 second round.
And Oklahoma is the champion over Miami.
Am I the only one who sees A.J. Soprano?
Looking at a young Dan there?
Not only do I see A.J. Soprano.
I hear A.
Supredo. Can we listen to Dan again, introduce himself?
Play him again.
That hair.
I'm Dan Levitard. I'm a 19-year-old sophomore
majoring in news editorial journalism and politics.
I'm from Miramar, Florida.
All right.
So scary.
Scared.
Just scared.
Just scared.
Actually adorable.
Just scared.
I would say, though, that you...
Sweet, sweet Cuban Jonah Hill.
Mina not being scared of all that
and only getting, you know, the result of learning and process is a reason to do it because I'm
stunned that you're not even more mortified, just haven't recovered from it.
Don't want to be anywhere around it.
Don't want to do this with us.
It's been a process, getting over it, honestly.
Let's just say the words, you raised $50,000 for charity, focus on what matters.
were said to me a lot in this house by my husband
over the next seven days after that.
And by the way, the charity,
I just, for anyone who's watching
and has any interest,
because I did talk about it briefly,
it's called the SELA Neighborhood Homeless Coalition
here in Los Angeles.
They do some of the most amazing work
of any nonprofit I've ever witnessed.
So Hayes, who we talked about,
was really involved in them as well early on.
So if you guys are looking to donate,
go to CELA, nhc.org.
I have the links in all my socials.
You guys do realize that we could actually just for charity say,
what's the most you'd pay to see one of us most embarrassed on national television?
Like, if we were selling that, Mina, and I told you before it started,
it's going to be embarrassing to you, but you will raise how much money for it.
What's the price got to be for that embarrassment?
I mean, that was the most embarrassing thing, I think.
I guess if I had missed a football question, that would have been more.
So what would be the, like, how would we talk you in from that one?
Like if you missed a football question and said,
but you raised this much for charity, Mina,
and you'd be like, okay, that's okay.
I mean, $50,000 is pretty,
especially like kind of when I got to visit them
and hear about what the money was going to do,
it made me feel a lot better about this.
You're getting me at the right time.
If this had been raw, if this had been like in the weeks after,
would have been, I mean, I think I was pretty defensive and angry,
but it would have been 10 times worse.
If I pointed out maybe that that incredibly worthwhile charity,
which you did support, and it's incredible,
that Celebrity Jeopardy does enable, like, real things on the back of stupid things.
If I pointed out, for instance, that they could have had even more money if you knew how to do a daily double.
I mean, maybe that would, you know.
Let me back on, Celebrity Jeopardy, let me back on.
She wants a second chance.
She wants a rematch.
Give me another chance.
Come on. Celebrity Jeopardy.
She's a great champion and your biggest celebrity.
And that dude, I don't know who, I still don't remember his name, Mina.
The dude who had the miraculous com.
Come back.
Do you remember his name?
Because I feel like Mina overlooked him, too.
He snuck past her because she wasn't prepared.
Yeah, he knew like the film festival.
He was like, oh, my wife and I had been to this film festival.
I was like, so mad about it.
Guys, wait, shocking news.
Are you ready?
Are you seated?
Crazy news just broke.
What happened?
Aaron Rogers has not made a decision and says he doesn't owe it to anyone to move on their timeline.
Speaking of a guy who watched way more jeopardy than Mina,
Aaron Rogers.
That would be the most embarrassing thing if I lost to him in some...
Imagine, okay, yes.
Imagine if instead of Ken Jennings hosting that episode,
it was fucking Aaron Rogers,
which almost happened.
Very close to happen.
What I found out today, actually.
What an alternate timeline of, like...
What I found out today is how much I long for that alternate timeline
exclusively and specifically for the ability to have done the episode we just did with each other,
but with Aaron Rogers in the role of Ken Jennings.
I too long for that alternate timeline because it would mean that right after this ends,
I don't have to go on NFL live and talk about Aaron Rogers saying he hasn't made up his mind yet,
which I'm going to have to do for the 45th time in the last two years.
I don't, Pablo, I don't believe there's any subject matter of any kind that I can put in front of Mina
that she's more tired of than talking about Aaron Rogers.
There's nothing that she's just,
that she will not bite on it ever saying anything other than,
I don't care, I'm tired of it.
I think that it is unique because people are always like,
oh, it's political or whatever.
I think it's unique to my job because I have to do it so fucking much.
Do you have an equivalent of that in your guys' lives,
like a thing where you're just like, this is,
I'm, I'm,
compelled so often to address this exact thing,
must I do this?
You might even say that these Aaron Rogers segments,
they're her own personal daily double.
That doesn't even make sense.
I feel like it does.
It just doesn't exist.
I'm sorry.
Logically, that doesn't actually like that's a terrible analogy.
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