Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2020-10-03
Stephen Dubner & Ken Jennings: books mentioned on Freakonomics Radio
“Don’t Neglect the Thing That Makes You Weird” | People I (Mostly) Admire: Ken Jennings
It was only in his late twenties that America’s favorite brainiac began to seriously embrace his love of trivia. Now he holds the “Greatest of All Time” title on Jeopardy!
Steve Levitt discussed Planet Funny by Ken Jennings.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Planet Funny
Discussed“I think I've had a look at every one of your books, except I'd never looked at Planet Funny, your most recent one. And so this morning, I thought, well, I better read at least a few pages before I go on the interview”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Brainiac
“Yeah, there seems to be – and I don't think I knew this until I wrote Brainiac and interviewed just dozens of people like this.”
Plugged Maphead
“I did not understand this about myself until I wrote a book about my childhood love of maps and geography. I wrote a book called Maphead about people with weird geographic quirks and hobbies.”