>> harvey: [laughs] >> so i'm starting to do things behind the camera. >> harvey: i got to tell you, i have really enjoyed this. you are one impressive guy. thank you so much. >> well, i am really flattered that you wanted to do this. >> harvey:ev i am honored. >> h thank you so much. >> harvey: the objects people choose to keep in their home define who they are. this is "objectified": alex trebek. >> these are the dies from high rollers on which you were a contestant. >> i was.is >> harvey:to who did not do particularly well particularly well. >> harvey: i'm harbor 11. this is the story of a man who has been welcomed into millions of homes across the globe for more than three decades. >> welcome to "jeopardy," as we begin another week. >> harvey: alex was a young hell raiser in canada, something that enraged his mom. >> she would rock me pretty hard sometimes. if she did something that she

considered stupid. >> harvey: after his parents property after divorce, alex was shipped off to boarding school and was started at a college gig at a radio station to pay tuition entered into a career. which had its purpose. >> you were kind of a serial >> you were kind of a serial dater. what was your type? >> i was into faces more than bodies. i wasn't one of those guys who was like, oh, look at the knockers on that girl. >> harvey: soon enough, he got the opportunity of a lifetime, hosting "jeopardy." >> you never let the producers call you the star of the show. at the beginning of "wield a fortune," they stay, though they are the stars of the show, but you don't like that. >> harvey: it turns out alex trebek's financial i may be closer than you think. >> your contract is up on "jeopardy" in 2020. can you imagine a life without "jeopardy"? >> sure. >> harvey: what are the odds that you will stay after 2020? >> harvey: alex trebek, the man with all the answers. >> harvey, welcome.

>> harvey: what is a t salutation? >> you got that one right. >> harvey: happy to have you here but i'm going to have to st with an apology. your show is about objects that people have saved over the years because they are significant in one part or another of their careers or their lives. i have never thrown anything away. >> harvey: [laughs] >> my whole life, my whole everything around you is an object. >> harvey: well, that's fantastic. you want to get started? >> i did manage to pull out of my libraryaw this book, which ws my very first book purchase as a young boarding student at the university of ottawa prep school in ottawa, ontario, canada. it is part of the collins classic. and i looked at theirs and i said, my gosh, this book is leather bound. and it's wuthering heights by emily bronte. and it's only $2. i've got to get that book.

and that was the beginning of, i guess he would call it, a thirst for knowledge. and a love of books. i just love being able to acquire knowledge this way or by personal experience. >> harvey: to get back to canada. kind of a monist upbringing, would you say? >> yes. like many young boys, i had a paper route, i was a good student. in high school, i started to fool around a little bunch -- a little too much for the teacher. and could be described as a slightly unruly. >> harvey: your dad was an interesting guy. >> my dad was born in ukraine, was fluent in about four or five languages. he and mom had some pretty good arguments. never any physical abuse on either side. >> harvey: she was the disciplinarian. >> yeah, yeah.

she would whack me pretty hard sometimes. >> harvey: really? >> well, if i did something that she considered stupid. >> harvey: you seem to me at least to be a very disciplined person. so it seemed like that dropped off. >> it ripped off there and it dropped off perhaps more than that at boarding school with the old ladies in the priest, who were a great bunch ofo guys. one of them got to be my spiritual advisor and my banker because my dad had almost no money" and to send me any money to spend each money, so the father would lend me money. >> harvey: your parents divorced -- >> i think i was around 12. that is why i want to boarding school. >> harvey: really? >> i had no place to stay. >> harvey: where was your mom? >> mom was in florida. >> harvey: why didn't you move with her? >> i was going to school in canada and it would have been a hardship for her, she had no way of supporting me and my sister. so my sister went away to boarding school and i want to

wait to boarding school. >> harvey: that must be tough on a kid when you are living with mom and dad and all of a sudden, you are living with neither. one is out of the country andy the other is not with you. >> in many ways, yes, and that probably was what contributed to my becoming so unruly my first year at boarding school. and being one of the difficult students in class. >> harvey: you were acting out? >> yeah. >> harvey: something that to me felt like the seeds of "jeopardy," you spent, a time of your life, you spent a lot of time a loan. kind of a shy kid. you read a lot. >> yeah, reading. got it to be an escape and radio got to be an escape. >> harvey: and escape from what? >> well... snow. [laughs] >> harvey: what did you want to be when you grow up? >> i joke with audiences, i tell them when i was a kid, i wanted

prime minister of canada. i have achieved none of my goals. you are looking at a failure. >> harvey: may be a pilot and a doctor or even prime minister would say, god, i wish i hosted "jeopardy." >> prime minister trudeau, whom i spent some time with on a visit to ottawa about a year and a half ago, told me, "alex, if you ever do a celebrity jeopardy with world leaders, put me down. i want to be on the show." >> harvey: [laughs] really? i read thatoi you dropped out of military school at one point to chase a girl? >> i had, just before going off to military college, met the love of my life. and then the thought of being away from her for for this extended amount of time at military college, i guess was one of the major influences in my walking out of military

college. >> harvey: what happened? >> we broke up not too long after that. >> harvey: [laughs] ♪ >> harvey: when we were at the front door, i told you that i dt throw anything away. >> you did say that. >> i have saved, i have an example here, this is the first income tax return i filed after my first full year in broadcasting with the canadian broadcasting corporation. 1962. how much money did i make? $8,855.41. even then, i was overpaid. >> harvey: [laughs] what were you doing there? >> i was a staff announcer. >> these 51 charming young ladies are members. as they sing these songs, who could resist their terms? >> harvey: how did you get into broadcasting? >> i needed money to pay for my

junior year at university. i had no money. tuition was a whopping $500 a year for the cbc, they hired me as a summer relief announcer, and then inan february, there ws an opening on the permanent staff and they asked me if i would be interested in joining the permanent staff. this was in my senior year now. and i said, yeah, if i can finish my education. and so i did class from 9:00 to noon every day, the faculty of philosophy, and then i did studio work from 4:00 to 12:00 for an entire year. graduated and stayed with the cbc and a year and a half later, i got transferred to toronto, which is really where my career developed. that is where i paid my dues. >> from studio 4, it is your afternoon time! and here is your host, alex

trebek? ♪ >> harvey: you were called the canadian dick clark because you hosted some kind of a teeny dance show. >> it wasn't 18 dance show. we had some of canada's best known performers, gordon lightfoot was one of our early guests. >> harvey: wow. ♪ >> harvey: how did you get into quiz shows? >> there was a high school show called quiz for the top. name the canadian province where we would find partridge varies. peter matthews. >> a bird of prey >> alberta is incorrect. >> i got to be the of a lot of shows for people like sdtv. eugene levy portrayed me and he was the host, alex trebel.

the winners certainly -- >> two points. >> so cbc loved you, you did a bunch of shows for them, why did you come to america? >> opportunity. pretty much everything i could do in canada in terms of hosting because i was bilingual, i got to host some big musical, classical musical extravaganzas. >> harvey: when you began hosting game shows united states, you were the first host since groucho marx -- >> with a mustache. >> harvey: there was some resistance of that, wasn't there? >> one of the t reasons they hid me was because i had a mustache. when i did the pilot, came to me, and said, alex, so

"wizard of oz" was my"s start. bad news, good news, after a year . >> in my career, i have managed to be canceled and replaced myself in a show on two different occasions. i thought you might recognize these because these are the dice, the original dice from "high rollers, on which there was a -- you were a contestant o particularly well.

>> no, and i cannot find a tape of this thing. i was a law student at the university of chicago, and got an invitation to teach law school at the university of miami. boat on a game show. i did research, i go into your show, i'm up against this woman named audrey. she kicked my butt. before "jeopardy," you did a bunch of shows, "$188,000 question," you did the rounds, didn't you? >> i did. as malcolm gladwell has explained in one of his books, i paid my dues for about ten years because it takes about ten years become good at your chosen profession.

after ten years, i was good enough to become the host of "jeopardy" ." >> harvey: i just absolutely love your show. in one of the things that i always think about when i watch it, as i watch you read theg answers. and some of them are complicated. do you rehearse these? >> if there are words that are going to be difficult to pronounce -- >> harvey: [laughs] >> i make diacritical marks so that the people at home think, gosh, alex trebek is so bright. -omar, look. [ thunder rumbles ]

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i love that painting. ♪ >> harvey: i love that- painting. >> it hasta kind of a sorrowful aspect to it. doesn't it? i have the mustache -- >> harvey: it's brooding. >> it goes back to the early 1980s when i was working on "jeopardy," starting on "jeopardy," and at that time, i was involved with a winery in central california. and james paul brown is the artist who did the labels for us for the winery. andth also did this picture of . >> harvey: the picture of you has endured better than the winery. you lost your shirt, alex.

>> i didn't lose my shirt but i lots an awful lot of money. everything seems to have worked out well for me. >> here is the host of "jeopardy," alex trebek! >> thank you. thank you, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to "jeopardy," as we begin another week. >> harvey: how did you get "jeopardy"? >> i got a call one day from bob murphy, who was vice president of merv griffin enterprises. about a year before this phone call, i had received another phone call from him saying, alex, you don't know me, bob murphy, i'm the executive producer of "wheel of fortune." chuck was supposed to tape the shows this weekend. we have a special tournament. and he is in the hospital. he can't do anything. he tried to commit suicide. hett said, i'm not telling tales out of school or betraying

incompetence is because chuck hs admitted this. so he was in the hospital. and they said, we are taping tomorrow. do you think you could help us out and come to the shows? and so i did. they remember that. when they put "wheel of fortune when they put "wheel of fortune into did really well that first year. they decided, why don't we try to get a oneeo hour package of "wheel" and something else? how about we bring back "jeopardy"? andel o who are we going to get hosted? what about that guy, alex trebek, who helped us out on "wheel" in year ago? good idea. >> here is the host of la"jeopardy," alex trebek! >> harvey: why is it relatable? because these questions, you want to the intestines, and you are kind of in all that they know so much and they are so deepge. but for a lot of people, they don't get a lot of questions right.

>> you don't have to. you are not going to be disappointed with the material you don't get because it is really tough stuff and you are not expected to get it. those contestants, they'll get it because we know they are bright. they have to take big tests in order to be on the show. but we have a lot of pop culture material now, music, movies, stuff like that, that you can relate to. you go to movies, you listen to music played >> harvey: i love that you are pointing to me when you talk about the easier ones. thank you. you know how i did and "high rollers." 34 years it's been on the air with you, 7,600 episodes. does it get old for you ever? >> never. >> harvey: why? >> because every day we have no contestants, every day we have new material. the format is the same. so i feel very comfortable in that format. i settled into it. and i like it. and i can relax with it. and because i can do that, i can fool around.

>> nerd core to pop. >> it is people who identify as nerdy rapping about the things that they love, video games, science-fiction, having a hard time meeting romantic partners. you know. it's really catchy and fun. >> losers, in other words. >> well... >> harvey: i absolutely love your show. one of the things that i always think about when i watch it is i want you read the answers and s. do you rehearse these? >> i don't rehearse them but i read them over one time. i get all of the material five shows we are going to tape, and one day, i get that at 7:30 in the morning and it takes me an hour and have to go over those five games. and if there are words that are going to be difficult to pronounce -- just a properly -- >> harvey: [laughs] >> i make diacritical marks, but still, i mess up every once in a

while, and we reshoot the clouseau the people at home think, oh, gosh, trebek is so bright. >> harvey: you just told us aac secret. >> harvey: how many days a week do you work? >> tuesdays and wednesdays. good gig. >> did not exactly overworked. >> harvey: can we talk about a scandal? >> sure. >> harvey: 2001, you save your my staff -- shave your mustache. >> i couldn't understand that. i got more press than some of the international events that were occurring at that time. >> it did. we are at war, and i'm telling people, what the hell are you thinking? you are asking me about my mustache. >> harvey: [laughs] it was a big deal. >> the public is like the voting public in america right now, they are split 50/50 as to whether i should have a mustache or not. my wife is the sign of those who say, clean-shaven. >> harvey: she wins. >> she wins. >> harvey: you want to side,

and i love this, "if you have no personality, you can't be a contestant. you can hosted but you can't be a contestant." pretty self-effacing. y >> i'm there as a facilitator. i want to make you look good. i want to make you to be the very best you can be because if you succeed, the show succeeds. if the show succeeds, i succeed. ♪ >> harvey: do you consider yourself a celebrity? >> minor celebrity, if you will. >> harvey: you never let the producers call you the star of the show. >> because i'm not. >> harvey: at the beginning of "wheel of fortune," they say, these are the stars of the show. if you were doing "wheel," would you be the start of the show? >> no. even though i know the entire alphabet. (woman) candace, two minutes.

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keep them healthy and nothing's impossible. give your kids a better chance to see their dreams come true. if your son or daughter is age 11 or 12 give them the hpv vaccine to prevent hpv cancers later in life. ♪ >> good evening, everyone. live it for america's news. a message to the world on this christmas eve of the head of the catholic church.

pope francis' urging christians to forgo the greed, hoarding, and materialism of christmas. focus instead on its message of simplot to become a charity, and love. francis celebrated a christmas eve mass tonight in st. peter's basilica during his anomaly, he lamented that many people find happy and possessions. kevin spacey has been charged in connection with an allegation that he sexually abused an 18-year-old boy in a massachusetts bar more than two years ago. he's scheduled to be arraigned in nantucket next month and a single charge of indecent assault and battery. no comment so far from the actor or his attorney. i am anna kooiman. now back to "objectified": alec trebek. ♪ >> harvey: gucci bracelets. >> nice. this is a replica of a gucci bracelet that my mother found in a parking lot one day about 25

years ago. she brought it home, she gave it to me. it's a man's bracelet. i said, i like that. and it's the only piece of jewelry that i have worn constantly throughout my professional career. >> harvey: so this is the segment if you bring a celebrity. do you consider yourself a celebrity? >> minor celebrity, if you will. >> harvey: use a minor celebrity. the show has been on the air 34 years. you know you are the top of the heap when it comes to syndicate the television, probably in history of television, right? >> well, "wheel of fortune" has always had better ratings than ours but if we had "wheel"'s time thought, i think we would have been number one. i say that with pride. >> harvey: you never let producers call you the star of the show. >> never. >> harvey: because? >> because i'm not by the stars on "jeopardy" are the contestants and the material. >> what is a tootsie roll? >> that's right! [applause]

>> harvey: i get it. so explain this to me. your show is done by the same company that does "wheel of fortune." at the beginning of wheel of fortune, they say, they are the stars of the show. >> here are the stars of america's game, pat sajak and vanna white. >> but you don't like that. >>id it's a personal quirk. it's just, as i said a moment to go, the stars are the material. >> harvey: if you are doing "wheel," would you be the star ? >> no. no. >> harvey: that's interesting. >> even though i know the entire alphabet. >> harvey: [laughs] do you socialize with celebrities? >> i used to a lot more than i do now. generally speaking, i do not socialize with show business people. >> harvey: is that a choice? >> yeah, it's just the way things are worked out with

celebrities. i have been married now for 28 years and i am very happy with the lifestyle we have developed. i love to -- i'm a homebody. i love fixing things at home. i have probably more tools and more hardware paraphernalia than any person you have ever interviewed. >> harvey: i'man guessing that if you go to a restaurant, somebody would want to walk up to you and say, alex, i'm going to stomp you with a question or an answer. >> that happened in the early years of "jeopardy." they would come up to me and just throw something at me. and expect me to come up with a correct response. i'm trying to remember what one of thela earlier ones, where it had to do with places where the united states flag flies 24 hours a day. and i said, what is the moon?

yeah, okay. >> harvey: wow. i would not have thought that. but you are absolutely right. >> still there. >> harvey: you're right. that is a good one. so will ferrell plead you on "saturday night live." did you like it? >> yeah, it was a lot of fun. i didn't think he was a great me because eugene levy, who did me before on ctv was a better alex trebek. but will ferrell seemed to be very perplexed and he would get upset and i don't think that was me. >> harvey: do you kind of have shown extravagances, yachts, private jets, stuff like that? >> yes. >> harvey: you can afford it. >> yeah, but it doesn't bring me any pleasure anymore. i drive a pickup truck. i am very comfortable driving a pickup truck. i haul stuff because i need things to help the repairs, here at the house, and i am not into

exotic cars or boats or planes. it does not excite me. >> harvey: i got to tell you, you got a pickup truck, you know how to fix stuff. if you retire from jeopardy, you could do really well just parking outside home depot. mr. fix it. seriously. >> yep. ♪ >> harvey: you dated stephanie powers, you dated beverly, susan sullivan. so you've made your way around hollywood. >> mm-hmm. >> harvey: [laughs] a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it. oh! under seven? (vo) and you may lose weight. in the same one-year study, adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. oh! up to 12 pounds? (vo) a two-year study showed that ozempic® does not increase the risk of major cardiovascular events

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the american dream isn't a it's something you work for when i couldn't afford college college of the ozarks gave me the chance to work for my degree i'll graduate debt free from a college where character is as important as class work and patriotic education is part of the curriculum we are hard work u and we are working for our american dream so, i noticed in the house you have a lot of art. ♪ >> harvey: so i noticed in the house, you have a lot of art. thereic is one piece that speci. the musk ox.

which manages to combine my love animal, because when threatened by wolves, they form a circle and all of the cavs are inside the circle, fully protected. that is probably why i love the musk ox so much. i see myself as a protector of my family. >> harvey: let's talk a little bit about the other dimension of your life. you were engaged tosa a woman wn you were at the cbc in canada. and you said something -- you said, i got lucky and did not marry the girl. what is that about? >> itin wouldn't have worked ou. she was a beautiful, beautiful girl. amanda king was her name. gorgeous creature. and it just -- it was infatuation for each of us, i think. but not destined to survive. >> harvey: you are kind of a't serial dater in toronto. what was your type?

>> there wasn't any type. i dated beautiful blondes, beautiful brunettes. >> harvey: i think beautiful is a type, then. [laughs] >> i was into faces more than bodies. i wasn't one of those guys that said, boy, look at at the knocs on that girl or look at this, look at that.ey no, that ever came up. if it was the phase, the eyes tt attracted me. and if they had a sense of humor, and if they were good cooks, that helped. >> harvey: fair enough. so then how does the former playboy bunny that you married fit into that? >> she was beautiful. >> harvey: she could cook? [laughs] >> she could cook. very bright. we have remained friends to this day. shere is friends with my current wife, jean. >> harvey: after he got divorced, you dated some interesting people. you dated stephanie powers,

beverly, susan sullivan. so you made your way around hollywood. >> mm-hmm. >> harvey: [laughs] this mile is enough. [laughs] you met your current wife, i believe, 1990? >> we married in 1990. i met her before that. she was doing books for a friend of mine and i thought she was most attractive. she thought i was a jerk. and he invited me to dinner one night and i said, i'll come if you can make sure that jeannie attends also. and she did. and i asked her out. and we started dating. >> harvey: she is 23 years your junior. >> 24. >> harvey: 24? was that an issue? >> yeah, i worried that age would slow me down a great deal. but i find that i am still very

active. i don't look my age, and i realize that. i have had a knee replacement, i have had 20 surgeries in my life. >> harvey: 20 surgeries? >> yeah, back, legs, feet, hands. >> harvey: are a lot of those sports-related? and work-related? >> not television work but manual labor around the house. >> harvey: i love the story about your wedding vows, how you said "i do." >> the answer is... "i do." got to laugh. >> harvey: [laughs] let's talk about your kids. matthew was born when you were 50. you are a first-time dad at 50. trepidations there? >> no. it was one of the most exciting moments of my life. >> harvey: so he ended up getting a degree in philosophy. >> communications and philosophy at fordham. and decided to work as a bartender. >> harvey: which is what you

do after you get a philosophy degree. >> yeah. then he decided he wanted to go open a mexican restaurant, which he has done, and which is now thriving. >> harvey: it's in harlem, right? >> north harlem. right across the street from city college in new york. and emily is doing well here in the valley. she graduated from loyola marymount and tried a few things, party planning, and decided that she liked designing houses and renovating houses, so she's buying fixer uppers and fixing them up. they are universally liked by their friends. they have maintained friendships with their high school buddies and i think that is just marvelous. it's a sign that maybe jean and i handled things properly. ♪ >> i had to the afro.

i had the mustache. and a very dark tan. i appeared on the dinah shore show. dr. jay was the guest, and somebody thought we were brothers. and so i am out there in the afro american community as a brother. my mom washes the dishes... ...before she puts them in the dishwasher. so what does the dishwasher do? cascade platinum does the work for you, prewashing and removing stuck-on foods, the first time. wow, that's clean! cascade platinum.

this is what you get when you become an officer ♪ >> this is what you get to a new become an officer of the order of canada. it's canada's highest civilian award. and i was fortunate enough to receive this this past year. >> has committed to multiple educational, environmental, and education causes. mr. trebek. [applause] >> it's nice to reach a point in your career where you start getting a lot of goodies because people think you deserve them. >> world vision sponsorship is someone like you taking that child's hand and walking with them take their first steps towardit health and strength. >> harvey: you have done an incredible amount of philanthropic work. i want to go through some of the things you've done.

world vision, which i got involved within the early '80s, the days of that great famine in ethiopia. they started sending me all over the world to record these little vignettes, these stories about kids in dire straits in order to raise money for their campaign of child sponsorship. and i was involved in world vision for 25 years. still m. >> harvey: and tell me about the village you adopted in zambia. >> again, that was through world vision. and they had a village of about 1700 people that got their drinking water, their cooking water, they are washing water from this little spring that was where cattle used to go to drink also, so it was a semipolluted. and i adopted the village and we

built two schoolhouses, a medical facility, three medical facility, three residences drilled eight wells. g >> harvey: tell me about the smile train. >> when you donate money to charity, quite often you don't know where that money goes or what it does. but with the smile train, when you are looking at kids with cleft pallets, and they are like this in the first photo, and after a minor surgery, they are like this, and they are smiling. you say, yeah, i like that. i can see where my money is being spent. >> harvey: and again, you changed their lives. you have donated so much money to charitable causes. i know you have given millions of dollars to the university of ottawa. it seems like you are the kind of guy that realizes when it's enough for you and you then look outward. >> i don't need any more money

to affect myer life. >> to do good for somebody else at very little cost to yourself, how can you say no? >> it makes you feel good. >> harvey: how did you get involved with the united negro college fund? >> they came to me and asked if i would be willing to appear on their telethon. and i said, of course, because a mind is a terrible thing to waste. i said, you guys have the best catchphrase of any charity out there. i'd be happy to assist you. and i want to do the program, and i ran into gregory hein, the dancer. and somebody came up to me afterwards and said, i saw you and your brother talking a few minutes ago. now keep in mind, at this stage in my career, i had to be afro. had the mustache. and a very dark tan.

>> harvey: [laughs] >> so i was feeling very -- oh, gosh, they think gregory and i are brothers."t and then, not too long after that, i appeared on "the dinah shore show," and dr. jay was against, and somebody thought we were brothers. >> harvey: oh, my gosh. >> so i'm out there in the afro-american community as a brother. ♪ >> harvey: your contract is up on "jeopardy" in 2020. can you imagine a life without "jeopardy"? >> sure. >> harvey: what are the odds that you will stay after 2020? ♪ if you have psoriasis,

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lifetime achievement award. pat sajak and i ♪ >> lifetime achievement award. pat sajak and i receive them at the same time as a tribute to the success of jeopardy and wheel of fortune i'm sure. >> my thanks to the academy. this is a very special day for me. i have kind of alluded to it. i am celebrating 50 years of posting television shows this year. >> so i'm kind of superstitious about this that if you get a lifetime achievement award it means you're about to check out. >> chuckled physically or your career is about to end?

>> i was thinking more physically. >> i have no reason to think that. my health is as bad as it's always been. and no need to worry. nothing is different. >> your contract is up on and 2020. can jeopardy? >> sure. >> who would be a good, solid host of the show if you retire? >> mention to our producer not so long ago that the fellow who does play-by-play for the los angelesec kings. >> it is one of the most highly anticipated opening-round series in recent memory. >> they should consider him. he's young, attractive, his first name is alex. it wouldn't be a big hardship for johnny gilbert to say no here is the host of jeopardy, alex --is not trebek. >> what about a woman? >> there is an attorney, lauren

coates. she is african-american and she appears on some of the cable news shows from time tolc time. very bright, very personable. >> here on sirius xm channel 120. taking your calls today. >> your profession would be well represented. >> what are the factors that go into your decision on whether to hang it up in 2020? >> if i'm still enjoying it and if i'm not making too many mistakes that i will continue. but there comes abu time of course, bob barker is the perfect example. he was still doing well but he figures, hey, the time is now. and in life we make a lot of decisions about what we want to do and whether to accept a job and you should also be able to make an intelligent decision about when it's time to hang

things up. athletes are forced to do this all the time. they realize, hey, my skills haved diminished just this much but in this day and age, in this league, whether it's basketball, football, hockey or baseball, that's enough, i can no longer compete at a level that makes me feel good about my performance. >> what are the odds that you will stay after 2020? right now? >> 50/50 and a little less. >> really? >> yeah. 2020. that's going to be 36, 37 years that's going to be 36, 37 years of hosting that's enough. i will be 80 years old. >> you don't look 80. >> i know. >> you're supposed to say

thank you. >> i'm not 80 yet. >> you told me earlier one of the things you thought about as a kid was being prime minister of canada. what about running for political office? >> it's terrible, the way we treat our politicians, the investigations we do into their private lives, i don't know why anybody would want to go into politics. if you have to have a tremendous ego to want to put up with all of that stuff. >> you've had to go heart attacks, how is your health? >> fine. i have no complaints. >> breakfast, snickers and diet pepsi? >> originally it was snickers and diet pepsi. >> is a going to be healthier like milky way now? >> then i went to milky way. and then i went to twix because i find that i don't eat as much anymore so i will only have one anymore so i will only have one of

>> i have to tell you, having been such a fan for so many years of jeopardy and humiliated by you on high rollers, i love getting to know you and i really appreciate the time. thank you so much, alex. >> my pleasure. >> the objects people choose to keep in their home define who they are. this is "objectified" with jaclyn smith. >> my friend farrah fawcett says she gave me before she passed away. doesn't that look like her body? >> i'm harvey levin, this is the story of a small-town texas girl who transformed herself from a goody two shoes ballet dancer into one of the most popular angels in the universe. jaclyn smith lived a sheltered life growing up about her big break on "charlie's angels" put her way outside her comfort zone. >> would you consider yourselves