JEOPARDY Asks: What is The Money Pit!

Tuesday night started out as a quiet evening here at Money Pit’s home base.  That was, however, until shortly before 8pm when just about every electronic device I own started firing off messages faster than leaves can fill a gutter.

The news was big: The Money Pit RADIO SHOW was just used as an answer on JEOPARDY [1], a show that has helped to define pop culture for as many generations as TV game shows have been a part of our lives.  No we didn’t get it wrong, thinking it might have been one of those OTHER uses of The Money Pit, like a boat [2], the movie [3], or the island [4]on the south shore of Nova Scotia, Canada, where buried treasure [5] has been believed to have existed for over 100 years.  Nope..it was our radio show which was launched into JEOPARDY history as the answer to a $1,000 question, selected by contestant Justin Sausville and answered correctly by Alex Liteplo.

The question, read boldly as always by host Alex Trebek [6] was: 

We work pretty hard around here, fixing our own roof leaks [7]and broken garage door springs, while occasionally finding time to do the same for our faithful listeners on over 275 radio stations around the nation, including Sirius XM [8]and our super dedicated podcast [9]audience.  And so, it was for just a moment that we circled around, virtually patting each other on the back for working at this long and hard enough for one smart JEOPARDY writer to actually write us into a show.   

As our friend and consultant Holland Cooke [10] said, “When your show is used as the answer to a question on JEOPARDY – you know you’ve made it!”

Perhaps, but for now – it’s looking cloudy outside.  I’d better get back to fixing those roof leaks.