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Four of James Holzhauer's ten nearest neighbors by audience shape are sports journalists, and a rock band sits among them at 0.92 — that combination defines the flat, tightly-bunched cluster his audience produces.
The shape is flat: scores run from 0.93 down to 0.89 with no single dominant pull. Jayson Stark leads at 0.93, followed closely by Paul Bissonnette (0.92), John Buccigross (0.92), and Buster Olney (0.92) — a mix of baseball and hockey media figures. Dave Matthews Band lands at 0.92 in the same tier, the only musician in the top 10 and the clearest cross-kind signal in the set. Rounding out the cluster: the hockey podcast Spittin' Chiclets (0.91), USA Hockey (0.91), the football site The MMQB (0.90), fantasy analyst Matthew Berry (0.89), and baseball writer Peter Gammons (0.89). No other TV Personalities appear in the top 10. The neighbor set spans baseball journalists, hockey media, and a multi-sport podcast ecosystem — with a musician inserted at the same similarity level as the sports reporters.
The overall picture is an audience shaped by sports-media consumption across multiple leagues, with enough breadth that a rock band's following fits the same profile.
