A Lot to Learn with Austin Rogers

Austin Rogers became one of Jeopardy!'s most memorable contestants during his 12-game winning streak in 2017, and this podcast channels the same restless curiosity that made him fun to watch on the show. Rather than recapping Jeopardy! episodes, Rogers uses his champion status as a springboard to explore topics that fascinate him -- energy policy, poetry, food allergies, journalism, maritime history, and dozens of other subjects across 68 episodes. Each conversation finds "the thing behind the thing," as he puts it, digging past surface-level knowledge into the stories and details that actually make a subject interesting. If you watched Rogers on Jeopardy! and thought "I want to hang out with that guy and hear him talk about random stuff for an hour," this is exactly that experience. His interview guests range from academics to journalists to specialists in obscure fields, and Rogers brings the same confident, slightly irreverent energy he showed on the game show. The podcast earned a 4.7-star Apple rating from 117 reviews before wrapping in April 2020. It is a finished series, so the full 68-episode backlog is there waiting. While it is not a Jeopardy! recap show, it represents the natural extension of what makes someone a great Jeopardy! contestant -- an insatiable appetite for learning about everything.