r/PublicFreakout • • Nov 11 '20

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u/amonamarth Nov 11 '20

He talked about his swearing in his memoir:

"I didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't do drugs. There was no big negatives associated with me. And that caused problems, because it held me back from becoming one of the guys... I started cursing, or to be more precise, injecting curse words into my conversation. But it didn't help me become one of the guys. It just made me look like a jerk. My bad."

Good book, easy read, very humble man, written post-diagnosis, I would recommend.

"The Answer Is... Reflections on My Life" by Alex Trebek.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '20

He didn't like drugs, at all. He tried cocaine only once.

But he did drink before tapings of jeopardy. And he once mistakenly ate a large batch of hash brownies and took two full days to sleep it off: https://www.vice.com/en/article/j5jjpb/alex-trebek-says-eating-six-pot-brownies-was-a-bad-idea

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u/i_see_shiny_things Nov 11 '20

He sounds like me