Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings told CNN anchor Chris Wallace that his onscreen rival James Holzhauer will spend all eternity in the company of Satan’s minions — however in a lighthearted approach.

Wallace interviewed Jennings for this week’s variation of his Max collection Who’s Speaking to Chris Wallace  — now on hand solely on Max, and not airing a weekly highlights version on CNN.

In a single change, Wallace requested concerning the “aspect” he detected in the onscreen relationship between Jennings and fellow tremendous-champ Holzhauer:

WALLACE: Am I loopy or is there a bit of an edge on your contention with James Holzhauer or Jeopardy James? It seems like there’s just a little little bit of an edge there.

JENNINGS: The thing you must understand about James is he decided at one level in getting ready for the express that Jeopardy needed a villain, I think. He’s a professional wrestling fan. And he is familiar with that it makes a game exciting when the audience has a rooting interest. And he places on this persona as an over the top greater than life villain. I feel in real lifestyles we get along nice. Um, so for TV, we’re mortal Jeopardy enemies, and he likes taking part in that up.

WALLACE: oK, what is your technique on betting on Day-to-day Doubles and Final Jeopardy?

JENNINGS: This is the item that James Holzhauer in reality modified concerning the sport you know, he introduced a sports gambler feel of analytics. He had run the numbers and realized that Day-to-day Doubles traditionally have like a very high completion proportion like eighty% conversion on Day by day Doubles. Whereas Final Jeopardy is far more difficult, 50%. So what you wish to have to do is get your chips on the desk for these Day by day Doubles, find them in any respect costs and make giant wagers then, so the game is put away later.

WALLACE: One thing I never consider in regards to the Day-to-day Double is somebody is at the back of. And now it’s the Daily Double and they may take the lead and they don’t take the lead they don’t bet and it all the time strikes me that you simply acquired to enter Final Jeopardy in the lead as a result of if, if you don’t be aware of the answer, you’re most probably gonna lose anyway. However if you happen to do recognize the answer with the lead, (that you would be able to’t lose) you can’t lose.

JENNINGS: Generally, I believe you’re right. People bet too conservatively, in particular on Day by day Doubles and I think it’s as a result of they’re not used to that sum of money. You have to ignore the sum of money, that is home money presently. These are numbers on a board, you got to do the mathematically right factor. And now not what feels like a secure financial choice.

Later in the interview, throughout a dialogue about Jennings’s guide “a hundred Places to See After You Die Or A trip information to the Afterlife,” the topic of Holzhauer’s Closing Vacation spot got here up and Jennings saved up the act:

WALLACE: Very good. So I have to ask you, to not get too heavy. What do you assume happens?

JENNINGS: You know, I’m ready for the rest. Obviously, there’s no proof for any of these afterlives, and the most likely answer is most certainly nothing in any respect. But as an optimist, and I suppose, particularly as a creator, that looks as if such a disappointing ending to the story // and for my part, I wish to see solutions. My non-public dream afterlife is one where you get to ask the universe, anything else, you already know? ‘What did happen to Amelia Earhart? Why did the dinosaurs go extinct? Which, what ladies in seventh grade in reality liked me and I by no means received up the nerve to search out out?’ , all the issues to your life you by no means get to understand.

WALLACE: Kind of, eternal Jeopardy and expectantly no longer James Holzhauer there to do it. Finally…

JENNINGS: No James is in the different position needless to say.

WALLACE: He’s down below huh, with the pitchforks and oh, that’s not excellent.

JENNINGS: That’s proper.

Watch above by means of Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace.

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