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The Quiz Show’s Dead, Long Live the Quiz Show
“10 Questions with Kyle Brandt” is a backward-looking, forward-thinking, deliriously entertaining podcast mashup of game show and in-depth celebrity interview. It’s also a statement of purpose.
“Alex Trebek. Great? … Or G.O.A.T.?” asks Kyle Brandt to Aaron Rodgers live on Good Morning Football, the NFL Network morning show Brandt’s co-hosted since August 2016.
Rodgers, former Celebrity Jeopardy Champion and current Green Bay Packers’ NFL MVP shoots back, seemingly without blinking: “G.O.A.T.”
The pair reunited late in 2020 on the inaugural season of Brandt’s podcast, 10 Questions with Kyle Brandt, where they took an even deeper dive into Rodgers’ Jeopardy fandom and wunderkind 2015 appearance as a contestant. It’s clear both men shared a long-running, deep reverence for the recently departed Canadian-American quiz show host.
It’s hard to blame them. When pancreatic cancer whisked Alex Trebek off this earthly plane on November 8, 2020 at the age of 80, the universe wiped out a singular presence. Trebek was a cultural and educational ombudsman, an ambassador of kaleidoscopic knowledge with perfect diction and the appropriately calibrated reaction to anything and…
