Special Report: Who is Arthur Chu? (2017)

Special Guests: Scott Drucker, Yu Gu
Guest Co-Host: Rod Lott

Rod Lott joins Mike to discuss the 2017 documentary Who Is Arthur Chu? The film is ostensibly about "Jeopardy" champion Arthur Chu but goes into larger discussions of race, gender, nerd culture, and more.

Mike speaks to filmmakers Yu Gu and Scott Drucker about the creation of and response to the film.

Links:
Visit the official Who is Arthur Chu website
Follow Arthur Chu on Twitter
Visit the official Arthur Chu website
Visit the The Final Wager
Visit the J Archive
Read No Girls Allowed: The Lasting Rules of GamerGate and Toxic Misogyny by Sam Riedel
Read I’m not “that creepy guy from the Internet”: How Gamergate gave the geek community a bad name by Arthur Chu
Follow Ken Jennings on Twitter
Read How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco's Life by Jon Ronson
Listen to the Slanted Screen episode

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Music:
"Think!" - Merve Griffin
"I Lost on Jeopardy" - Weird Al Yankovic

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