Hey, everybody. Connor Lestoka here. This is 280 mysteries will never get back, where Mike and I attempt to solve some of the funniest and weirdest encyclopedia brown mysteries out there. And today, we have a very special guest, someone who is as ideally suited to guest on this podcast as anyone out there might ever be.

Ken Jennings, the Jeopardy Goat, the greatest of all-time Jeopardy Player, the guy who was so good at it

that he got to take over hosting the show.

And Ken has a new book out called The Complete Connections out on July 29th, which compiles

a thousand of his connections puzzles from parade and mental floss.

We were delighted to have him on.

We had a great time.

I hope you will enjoy Ken Jennings and the Case of the Carousel Horse.

Music Jennings and the case of the carousel horse.

Mainly we want you to solve an encyclopedia Brown. But I was hugely entertained by your book.

Is that a bad thing?

I thought it was great.

It was so much fun.

And I just thought, I don't know, Connor, I'm sure you have a lot of questions.

Because you're more of a trivia guy than I am.

You're better at trivia than I am. Sure. I looked me and Ken's combined jeopardy earnings is four million five hundred

thousand seven hundred dollars so we got a little Wayne and Brent Gretzky thing going on here

did you did you add mine in there my My Jeopardy winnings?

Like in the Nintendo version of Jeopardy? Well, no, there's zero. So I haven't won anything. Well, we average it out three ways. That's we're doing pretty well. Yeah, we had a Jeopardy contestant telling me that he and his wife had the highest Jeopardy winning. You know, most games won or something. And I'm like, you know,

my wife and I have, have 74 straight wins. So I don't know if you're in first place.

But yeah, I mean, Mike does bar trivia. I do Learned League. Were you in Learned League, Ken?

I was, yeah, until it got to a point where, because you have to use your real name. Yeah. I hear there are celebrities on Learned League who are secretly using pseudonyms. That's the rumor I hear. Wow. Because I know the guy who runs that thing. But I was just stupidly like, yeah, I'm Jennings K. And then every time somebody beat me, it would be like on, you go viral on Twitter, or every time I beat somebody, they would, you know, be angry.

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