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Ago, college campuses, the craziest, edgiest most hilarious places there ever was. thats where people wanted to go. remember spring break and delta house and the costumes. now its just the opposite. >> dana, you had crazy times in college. you were a hell-raiser. >> i dont think a comedian ever game. it was colorado. >> they had a rodeo clown. >> there is a place in new york called the comedy cellar. >> its an actual cellar. >> there is a comedian there named jessica. i learned to her pod casts....

Republican guard and this new era of republican politics. and its so interesting because boehner was a guy not to do the full history, its quite fascinating when he came into congress in 1990, he was the hell raiser, the tea party before the tea party existed and a group of these renegade congressmen, they ferreted out the corruption, they got indictments, they were serious trouble ma troublemakers and they tortured the establishment and as his career progressed and he climbed the ranks he becam...

That youre supposed to have later on. im doing this because i want to world and this country to be a better place for them and for other children like them and their children. also i get back to san antonio. im trying to get disciplined to make sure i spend time at home. its one thing to go out and campaign but you cant forget your priorities. >> you have such good training to be active because of your mom. >> thats true. >> your mom is a legend in your hometown. talk to us about that. >> i grew...

The american dream isnt a its something you work for when i couldnt afford college college of the ozarks gave me the chance to work for my degree ill 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: lets 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 wouldnt have...

Celebrities. i have been married now for 28 years and i am very happy with the lifestyle we have developed. i love to -- im 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: iman guessing that if you go to a restaurant, somebody would want to walk up to you and say, alex, im going to stomp you with a question or an answer. >> that happened in the early years of "jeopardy." they would come up ...

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 ...

>> harvey: [laughs] >> so im 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 wh...

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 ...

Ill accept that. so people talk about you as being a hell-raiser back in the day. how do you think of yourself today? whatever the opposite of a hell-raiser is. - is that what you are, the opposite? - thats me, yeah. you once said, "if i meet a musician who has different political and religious views than mine, those differences dissolve the minute we start to play." - music brings people together. - it does. what do you think about the current political climate? i mean, its so divisive right no...