What Is...? A Jeopardy! Podcast
A weekly comedy podcast about Jeopardy! from comedians Emily Heller and John Cullen.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 84 minutes
- Episodes
- 73
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Week of March 17: The One With Matt Leblanc's Porno
Yes, this is a Jeopardy! podcast, and yes, John reminisces about the old softcore pornography show "The Red Shoe Diaries", which yes, does have an episode with Matt Leblanc in it. But enough about th…
01:38:45 |
Tue 25 Mar 2025
Week of March 10: When I'm Under, I'm So Under
We are back, baby! After Emily needed a week off to deal with a butt issue, we have returned and not a moment too soon, as we have an absolutely stellar week of games to recap that had a tournament f…
01:27:47 |
Tue 18 Mar 2025
Week of February 24: John Can Have One Good Joke, As a Treat
The JIT continues as we wrap up the quarters and find our way into the first semifinal with some awesome games featuring some of our favorite sweeties! Some of John's favorite Canadians are here too …
01:33:41 |
Tue 04 Mar 2025
Week of February 17: A Hershey's Kiss
Your two favorite JIT-heads are BACK as the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament rides once again. We have a couple of stunning upsets, the return of many of our sweeties from years' past, and we get ve…
01:27:25 |
Tue 25 Feb 2025
Week of February 10: In Life, You Have Certain Photos
It's the Tournament of Champions FINAL week and we crown a brand-new champion! We also watch a weird exhibition game for some reason. The games feature some really great play, some real nervous energ…
01:44:07 |
Tue 18 Feb 2025
Week of February 3: Sexual Water
It's a whiplash week of Jeopardy! as we go all the way from the Tournament of Champions quarterfinals to the finals, ending up with a three-way clash for the belt between Adriana Harmeyer, Isaac Hirs…
01:37:59 |
Tue 11 Feb 2025
Week of January 27: Tournament of Heartbreak
After weeks of Second Chance and Champions Wild Card play, the long-awaited Tournament of Champions is finally HERE! And it immediately breaks our hearts, as some of our faves go home early and we ar…
01:27:00 |
Tue 04 Feb 2025
Week of January 20: It's a Bifecta!
John was away for work this week and got sick so this is his "Flu Game", as we recap the final week of the Champions Wild Card, and what a week it was. The week featured one of the games of the year,…
01:18:21 |
Tue 28 Jan 2025
Week of January 13: A Woman of Simple Pleasures
The Second Chance Tournament is over and now it's time to revisit some of our favorite champs from the past with the Champions Wildcard Tournament, and much like the Second Chance, it does not disapp…
01:34:06 |
Tue 21 Jan 2025
Week of January 6: Winning Personified
It was a tough week for the world and California especially, but it was a great week for Jeopardy! fans as we were treated to a fantastic second week of Second Chance play. A bunch of our faves are b…
01:30:46 |
Tue 14 Jan 2025
Week of December 30: Second Chancey Will Yancey
The Second Chance Tournament is BACK and with it comes a whole host of our favorites from Season 40, including our man Will Yancey, who we were pulling for back in his first appearance on the show an…
01:22:12 |
Tue 07 Jan 2025
Week of December 23: Essential Herbs
We got to celebrate Christmas with our listeners, and now it's time to celebrate New Year's, with this NYE episode that has us feeling great about 2025! And it must have Laura Faddah feeling great to…
01:24:18 |
Tue 31 Dec 2024
Week of December 16: The Christmas Eve Spectacular
An episode of your favorite Jeopardy! podcast on Christmas Eve?! What a gift! Emily and John share some memories of Christmas past as we also share some memories of this week of games which see Ashle…
01:21:13 |
Tue 24 Dec 2024
Week of December 9: Let's Just Do Our Own Bewitched
Look, sometimes we get things wrong. Ok, we get things wrong all the time. But we were very surprised Dave Bond didn't go deeper, as we say goodbye to him on Monday and hello to Bill McKinley and Ash…
01:18:04 |
Tue 17 Dec 2024
Week of December 2: I Wish My Birkenstocks Smelled Like That
John is back and we have an absolutely fantastic of week of games, as we fall in love with Evan Jones and then fall in love all over again once Stevie Ruiz is introduced. And by the end of the week, …
01:22:00 |
Tue 10 Dec 2024
Week of November 25: Rick Rat's Pizza w/ Guy Branum
With John away this week, Emily is joined by comedian, writer, and current Jeopardy contestant-pool member Guy Branum! They break down: the rise and fall of Episcopal priest Kevin Laskowski, the best…
01:08:09 |
Tue 03 Dec 2024
Week of November 18: Double Jeopardy: Folie à Deux
It's a Daily Double double this week as Mehal Shah pushes all-in twice in a row to give us one of the season's marquee moments. He also gives one of the responses of the year in FJ, prompting Ken to …
01:26:56 |
Tue 26 Nov 2024
Week of November 11: Dan...Delete That
It's an up-and-down week on the show as Joey DeSena goes on a brief run before succumbing to the powers of women's tennis, Evan Dorey can't quite mount a run, and we end the week with "lovable nerd" …
01:27:17 |
Tue 19 Nov 2024
Week of November 4: Getting Nailed
Keep on Jolin, baby! Greg Jolin cements his place in the Tournament of Champions as we cement our place as a Jeopardy! podcast of note, hearing from both a past contestant about last week's episode, …
01:24:33 |
Tue 12 Nov 2024
Week of October 28: Remember Your Phrasing!
As Emily so aptly puts it, we have a game this week that justifies this podcast's entire existence. A wild cast of characters, a raft of missed clues, and a Daily Double mishap create the type of dra…
01:27:43 |
Tue 05 Nov 2024
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