Podcast: People I (Mostly) Admire
Episode: Ken Jennings on How a Midlife Crisis Led Him to Jeopardy! | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 4
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
Brainiac
Buy on Amazon"Yeah, there seems to be, and I don't think I knew this until I wrote Brainiac and interviewed dozens of people like this, that there is such a type that just seems to be like this from the womb."
Maphead
Buy on Amazon"I wrote a book called Maphead about people with weird geographic quirks and hobbies, and one thing I found while writing the book is that I see the world through a very geographic lens that many people do not share, but other people with weird geography fixations do."