Ken Jennings on Sunday defended the Bean Dad, who, as it turns out, is the “Jeopardy!” champion’s co-host on the podcast “Omnibus.”

While the internet took Roderick to task for a viral thread Sunday about how he made his 9-year old daughter spend six hours trying to operate a can opener to get into a can of baked beans, Jennings said that Roderick is a “loving and attentive dad” who frequently tells such stories on his podcast.

“Extremely jealous and annoyed that my podcast co-host is going to be a dictionary entry and I never will,” Jennings said. “If this reassures anyone, I personally know John to be (a) a loving and attentive dad who (b) tells heightened-for-effect stories about his own irascibility on like ten podcasts a week. This site is so dumb.”

In 2018, Jennings and Roderick launched the “Omnibus” podcast, which twice a week compiles an encyclopedia...