Week of June 8: Twice a Bird

Week of June 8: Twice a Bird

June 16, 2026 · 1h 14m · Season 3 · Episode 40

About this episode

This episode discusses a challenging week of Jeopardy! games, highlights a notable run, and explores the topic of hypnotism.

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 great, but this week finally served as a reminder that the game is hard and we've been watching some very impressive runs. This week, Peter McFerrin's run comes to an end, we get a few tough games, and we get a Final Jeopardy! response for the ages. Plus, we dive deep on hypnotism. We don't want to resort to putting you in a deep sleep, but we DO want you to support the show and donate to our Patreon! Just $5/month gets you access to a new bonus episode every month, our entire back catalogue of bonuses, and exclusive access to our Discord. It's a great deal and a lot of fun and only available at patreon.com/jeopardypodcast. SOURCE: The National Council for Hypnotherapy: "History of Hypnosis" Special thank you as always to the J-Archive and The Jeopardy! Fan. This episode was produced by Producer Dan. Music by Nate Heller. Art by Max Wittert.

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