March 31, 2025 • 19 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello puzzlers. Let's start with a quick puzzle. The puzzle
is what rhymes with rhymes? What word rhymes with the
word rhymes? Here are some hints to three words that
rhyme with rhymes. First, something people march for, something that
prevents scurvy and the last name of a beloved sports analyst.
(00:28):
The answer and more puzzling goodness after the break, Hello puzzlers,
Welcome back to the Puzzler Podcast, the Classic Windmill in
your Puzzle Mini golf Course. I'm your host, Ajy Jacobs,
and I'm here as always with Chief Puzzle Officer Greg Puliska. Greg.
(00:51):
We asked before the break, what words rhyme with rhymes?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well, a lot of words rhyme with a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yes, rhymes happens to be a very rhymeable word. But
I gave three clues. One is the something people march for,
which would be.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
The Dimes the March of Dimes classic fundraiser right for als?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Good cause?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
A good cause? Terrible? I don't know, okay. And the second.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It's not for scurvy, the March of Dimes survey. But
this does prevent scurvy?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
And is that would be limes?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Right? And the British Back in the Day, then the Sailors,
eight Limes and Slimy. But more important than both of
those is it's the last name of beloved sports analyst
Mena Chimes Day, which is appropriate because our half cast
happens to be none of that than beloved sports analyst
(01:53):
Mina Chimes. Welcome Mina.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
What if it wasn't and whoever it was just had
to listen to that whole It was Jones, Yeah, like cool,
you know it else rhymes with Chimes what times? And
I was looking behind me as you were telling that
I have a hat that says Kimes times. This is
a little bit of an aside, but perhaps appropriate for
the nerdy vibe of this show, not to cast dispersions.
(02:19):
Another show that I do I used to do a lot,
called The Dan LeBatard Show, has a game where people
it's called the Looks Like Games. So someone might say
aj Jacobs looks like a historical reenactor at a budget
Colonial Williamsburg or something, and it's people trying to come
up with things that they feel you look like. And
one of the things that someone did for me once
(02:40):
was Nina Kimes looks like as a child she started
and published her own newspaper for her parents, called The
Chimes Times. And when they did this one, I lost
it because it was true. I did start a newspaper.
We actually had. My parents had saved it. It's on
the internet somewhere. It's truly the most cringiest, embarrassing document
(03:01):
of all time. It's like articles I wrote about our family.
But in you know Times new Roman font it's the
Kinds Times at the top. So somebody made me a hat.
This is Kimes Times.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That is so fancast, so perfect. We love it. Was
there a crossword puzzle in the Kimes Times.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
No, I had not started even attempted to make any puzzles,
but I Do'm not really someone who makes puzzles now.
But I didn't make any puzzles, and now if I
were to do it, I would try to make one.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Well, I love the Mimes mine. I can't say.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
It's a different shows Mimes Family, true, but.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
We are delighted to have you back. We know that
we are not the only puzzle type show that you
have been on. You are also on Celebrity Jeopard eight,
which I loved watching your congratulations. This is this is
recording all we know is you won the first round.
I don't know whether what happens next, but and she is,
(03:59):
of course not I'm allowed to say.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
But you.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I did love at the end. You didn't have to
do anything for Final Jeopardy because you were ahead so much,
so you wrote the answer. The response you wrote was
I love you. Nino. Is that your you know?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Yeah, Nino is my son. Yeah, my eighteen month old son.
At the time, he was one. So it's done quite
some time ago.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, Oh wow, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Is it hard keeping a secret that long? Like this
was six months ago you did it.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
And you have people knew that I had a baby. No,
people were most people knew.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
God, I was thinking of the you know, the Jeopardy results.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I did actually keep that a secret before he came out,
until I was about seven months pregnant, which is a
pretty long time.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Wow, that was a long time.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yeah, but I meant, like the Jeopardy results, which we
still don't know, but you've known for you know, more
than six months now.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I never really at the time was and then it
was it was. So here's thing. It happen right during
middle of this football season. So I'm so busy my
schedule is kind of teacher like in that it's incredibly
busy from September through the Super Bowl. I guess teachers
have to work a little bit order that, and then
the summers are pretty chill. But during that time just
traveling and so chaotic that I kind of like I
(05:16):
taped it and then I was just back into ESPN,
so I was really busy.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Got it?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Well, we have I am going to I know you're busy.
You just said it. So we are going to get
to the puzzle, and we have I think a puzzle
that you're going to like. It is I think you
do the Connections in the New York Times? Is that correct? Well,
this is the Connections. But for your ears, I'm going
to play you three sound clips, three audio files, and
(05:44):
you have to figure out what is the link between
those three file three sounds. So, for instance, I'm not
going to play it, but if I played an audio
clip of SpongeBob SquarePants saying what the halibit? And another
clip of a guy saying everybody Lucy Doe, and the
third clip of Paul Lind delivering a witticism on Hollywood Squares,
(06:05):
then that link would they all have to do with squares, SpongeBob, SquarePants,
square Dancing, Hollywood Squares. So that's an example, but in
this case we are actually going to uh play the clips.
All right, here we go, ready, ye.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Yes, Jets, I'm a Yankee doodle Dandy, Yankee doodle Dog.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
All right, that's it. Those are your three? Do you
have any guesses?
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Okay? Well we started with the Power Rangers theme song
Mighty morphin Power Rangers. Then it was Benny and the
Jets right by Elton John uh and then finally it
was was it Yankee doodle Dandy? Yes, I'm okay. I
(07:06):
actually don't know who, Greg. Do you know who sings that?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
It's a Georgia Cohen song originally? I don't know who
performance that was. I mean, you know it's is there
a famous rendition of Yankee Doodle Dandy?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I don't know. I think everybody sings it.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
I just know Yankee doodle Dandy. Okay, So Power Rangers,
Benny and the Jets, Yankee Doodle Dandy.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Hmmm.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Do you know Greg? I know you're you got it?
You got it?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I got it from Well, yeah, there's a.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
It's about It's for you because it's sports.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Oh okay, Benny and the Jets.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Oh yeah, well okay, the sports aspect. Okay, so we
were just yes, okay, so these are all sports teams contained.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
They're even more specifically, yes.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
The the Rangers, the Yankees, and the Jets.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Right, so they are all actually from they're on New
York Sports a New York Yes, I know that's a
New York Sports fan.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
No, that's good, since we are.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So I just thought, all right, are you ready for two?
You've gotten a second one.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Okay, you take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland,
and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
All right, so any thoughts, any thoughts? Do you recognize the.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Yeah, so that was the sound of a MacBook. Interesting,
it is something else.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Computer is something else. It is something on your computer.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
But when you go, it's a reboot, right, or.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
It's uh streaming service sound yeah. I mean it's confusing
because there's also the law and order.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yeah. I thought of skip that one and think about
the second two and then.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah, so one is you take the red pill?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Oh yes, from the matrix matrix. That's a matrix.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And then are you old enough to know these commercials?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Yeah? That was the trick cereal right, tricks surer.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Kids got matrix and tricks.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Yes, and so matrix tricks. And then what was.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
The streaming service?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
It's a streaming service. Gosh, I don't know if I
ever heard it.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I must name a streaming service that might be in
the same Netflix matrix. And there is that the sound
they play, yeah before year show starts.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Oh yeah, they all rhyme.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, they all rhyme. They're all xes. They are all
mixes exactly. And actually I lugged into the Netflix sound
and they put a lot of them. There was there
were three options that they considered. One was a goat,
but they went with this one. One was like, oh
this especially called the tuddum dum.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
I'm sorry, did you say one was a goat.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
One was a goat like Leo the Lion, but a goat,
and then one was a like bubbles from underneath the ocean.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
So really, and it's been that from the very beginning. Yeah, exactly,
now that you're saying it, I do feel like my
audio blind is clearly wearing now that I think about it. Yeah,
I do.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Hearing that millions of dollars in corporate branding it's gone
out the window. What shooting service is?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
That?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Was that?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
HBO?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
All right, well we got a couple more so funny
I'm ready?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Yeah, all right, alright, alright that's work.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah, all right, so you looked you you were you?
Don't you think you got some ideas?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
You don't even need the third Do you want to guess?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Let's see? Could it be Marshall Mathers? Perhaps?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
And are than what I have? Just everybody HiT's me?
Say you want to come inside my clubhouse? Not quite
Marshall Matters, but.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Marshall Matters would have been a deep that would be
a great Do you guys ever play the game celebrity?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Oh god?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Love that?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Or like, you know, when you're trying to trick people
with initials. But maybe people don't know their full names
or their real names. I feel like maybe that's one
where probably people most people know eminems some others.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Right, yeah, well because he also records under that name, right,
Marshall Mathers is not It's not like Sting's real name.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Which is never used publicly.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yes, right, we know a little better, right, I think?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
So?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Did are you doing that because of my middle name? Aj?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
No?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
My middle name is an m. Yeah, I'm Mina mugill kinds. Actually,
look at that.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I'm going to pretend that I knew that and that
was on purpose and that I'm being But no, that's good.
So you I could have played you. I could have
played a little bit trigg.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
AJ have an important game question for Mina, which is
when you play celebrity do you play it in three rounds?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Do you do the whole.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Got to do in three rounds?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah? Of course?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Right the second round you can only use one word.
In the third round you have to be silent. Oh see,
you have the most fun house.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
We got to make sure people are paying attention to
two rounds, right, ye, three rounds.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah, and by the way, don't judge me, but we
do three words in the second round instead of one word.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
It goes by quicklyment no judgment.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
It sounds like a little judgment. All right, I got
a couple more. Are you ready?
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Uh? How about this one?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
This device amplifies my power, allowing me to locate mutants
across great distances.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
He's extensive. Jesus web bottoms, Jesus bos.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
I can get them both on.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
A pedia.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Fool, did you catch that last one. It was kind
of quick.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Yeah, yeah, so I believe the first one was Professor
X right from the Yeah. The second one was the
iconic CARDI B.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
That's funny. I just said iconic in my script. So
well done.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
And then finally again another iconic person, another one who
I have a person overlationship with. But I can get
to that later. Mister T. That's the final boy.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
So what do you what?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Well do they all have? You know, the one letter
as part.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Of their names, the one letter? All right, we got
to get to the mister T. Now we can. We
can't wait on that.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Mister T was my child, my nickname as a baby
because until for years my hair only grew up. And
I was born in nineteen eighty five and he was
one of the most famous people in America then. So
people just called me mister T because I like hilarious,
looked like mister T. Yeah, my son does not have
that efuction, by the way, his hair is full and great.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
So and I will just say there's I mean, people
can't see you here on the podcast, they've probably seen
you on TV. There is literally nothing about you that
resembles mister T anymore.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
If I want to show you a picture.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
We will put on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Yeah, if you share that picture, you know, besides the
picture of Mina chimes as mister t it's.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
It was just I was like that from the womb.
It's so odd.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Well, while you look, can I play the final one?
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Lord? Do you need all right? This one's a little trickier,
a little trickier, and it's four parts, but we'll walk
you through it. We'll walk you through it. Okay, ready, hello, hello,
all right, that's part one. So yeah, any theories? Okay,
well that's from well, you don't have to know what
(15:25):
that's from. Okay, what that is? Okay? Oh, okay, And
now this next clip, there's going to be a beeped
out word, but the word is is going to be
the clue that indeed, you're ready.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
The club was established in eighteen ninety two, and over
the years, our members have helped to protect hundreds of
millions of acres of some of the most beautiful places
in the country.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Okay, so that was the club has protected millions. All right,
So you've got so do you want to guess what
what either of those are? You want to hold your
cards close to your best either way is fine, Why
don't we keep going? All right? Here we go. Next
is someone's been sleeping in my bay? Okay, So that
(16:10):
was part three, all right, and then the final part
is also a beep. So there's a little song and
the last word is beeped. But that's the word you're
looking for today.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
April June.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Okay, So that was do you know that song? Thirty
days half September, April June.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
And okay, okay, and November.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
So the first one do you remember, hello, hello, hello hello?
So that is and what would you call that type
of sound pattern, hello hello hello hello?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
An echo?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Okay. Then you've got the blank club that.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Preserves preserves acres of wilderness the natural world.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Do you know what club?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Then the Sierra Club?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah, okay, oh okay.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Echo Sierra. What was the third one again?
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Forget that sleeping in my bed?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Right?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Oh, I get it.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Deep So that's not that it's one of the three
little bears.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah, but it's not the little one, it's not the baby.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
And it's not the mama papa.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
All right, So you just got them all so Echo
Sierra November.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Those are yeah, so that those are the those the
what do you call it? Nate?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Uh, yeah, I guess, said Nate.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Nate to Nato, NATO, Yeah, the code for radio code words. Yeah,
I know that. I don't know the code words. That's
so echoer and what and what does it spell?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Yes, yes, you are.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Well done. Thank you Mina, and thank you listeners. And
of course for the puzzlers at home, we have an
extra credit. So what do these three clips have in common?
Speaker 7 (18:11):
New York hottest club is Push. This club has everything
ghost good, Banjo's Carl Palladino, a stuck up kitten who
won't sign autographs, clear as full.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Hearts, Campos.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Pugsy.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
You're soft and weak. You'll never survive without me. I'll
give you two months.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Tops, I'm gonna miss you toosys.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Well, thank you Mina and thank you listeners and listeners.
If you like the show, might I recommend you check
out our Instagram feed which is at Hello Puzzlers. We
post original puzzles, other fun stuff, visual stuff, and of
course we'll meet you here tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles
that will puzzle you.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Puzzling th
Hello puzzlers. Let's start with a quick puzzle. The puzzle
is what rhymes with rhymes? What word rhymes with the
word rhymes? Here are some hints to three words that
rhyme with rhymes. First, something people march for, something that
prevents scurvy and the last name of a beloved sports analyst.
(00:28):
The answer and more puzzling goodness after the break, Hello puzzlers,
Welcome back to the Puzzler Podcast, the Classic Windmill in
your Puzzle Mini golf Course. I'm your host, Ajy Jacobs,
and I'm here as always with Chief Puzzle Officer Greg Puliska. Greg.
(00:51):
We asked before the break, what words rhyme with rhymes?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well, a lot of words rhyme with a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yes, rhymes happens to be a very rhymeable word. But
I gave three clues. One is the something people march for,
which would be.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
The Dimes the March of Dimes classic fundraiser right for als?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Good cause?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
A good cause? Terrible? I don't know, okay. And the second.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It's not for scurvy, the March of Dimes survey. But
this does prevent scurvy?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
And is that would be limes?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Right? And the British Back in the Day, then the Sailors,
eight Limes and Slimy. But more important than both of
those is it's the last name of beloved sports analyst
Mena Chimes Day, which is appropriate because our half cast
happens to be none of that than beloved sports analyst
(01:53):
Mina Chimes. Welcome Mina.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
What if it wasn't and whoever it was just had
to listen to that whole It was Jones, Yeah, like cool,
you know it else rhymes with Chimes what times? And
I was looking behind me as you were telling that
I have a hat that says Kimes times. This is
a little bit of an aside, but perhaps appropriate for
the nerdy vibe of this show, not to cast dispersions.
(02:19):
Another show that I do I used to do a lot,
called The Dan LeBatard Show, has a game where people
it's called the Looks Like Games. So someone might say
aj Jacobs looks like a historical reenactor at a budget
Colonial Williamsburg or something, and it's people trying to come
up with things that they feel you look like. And
one of the things that someone did for me once
(02:40):
was Nina Kimes looks like as a child she started
and published her own newspaper for her parents, called The
Chimes Times. And when they did this one, I lost
it because it was true. I did start a newspaper.
We actually had. My parents had saved it. It's on
the internet somewhere. It's truly the most cringiest, embarrassing document
(03:01):
of all time. It's like articles I wrote about our family.
But in you know Times new Roman font it's the
Kinds Times at the top. So somebody made me a hat.
This is Kimes Times.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That is so fancast, so perfect. We love it. Was
there a crossword puzzle in the Kimes Times.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
No, I had not started even attempted to make any puzzles,
but I Do'm not really someone who makes puzzles now.
But I didn't make any puzzles, and now if I
were to do it, I would try to make one.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Well, I love the Mimes mine. I can't say.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
It's a different shows Mimes Family, true, but.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
We are delighted to have you back. We know that
we are not the only puzzle type show that you
have been on. You are also on Celebrity Jeopard eight,
which I loved watching your congratulations. This is this is
recording all we know is you won the first round.
I don't know whether what happens next, but and she is,
(03:59):
of course not I'm allowed to say.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
But you.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I did love at the end. You didn't have to
do anything for Final Jeopardy because you were ahead so much,
so you wrote the answer. The response you wrote was
I love you. Nino. Is that your you know?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Yeah, Nino is my son. Yeah, my eighteen month old son.
At the time, he was one. So it's done quite
some time ago.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, Oh wow, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Is it hard keeping a secret that long? Like this
was six months ago you did it.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
And you have people knew that I had a baby. No,
people were most people knew.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
God, I was thinking of the you know, the Jeopardy results.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I did actually keep that a secret before he came out,
until I was about seven months pregnant, which is a
pretty long time.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Wow, that was a long time.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yeah, but I meant, like the Jeopardy results, which we
still don't know, but you've known for you know, more
than six months now.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I never really at the time was and then it
was it was. So here's thing. It happen right during
middle of this football season. So I'm so busy my
schedule is kind of teacher like in that it's incredibly
busy from September through the Super Bowl. I guess teachers
have to work a little bit order that, and then
the summers are pretty chill. But during that time just
traveling and so chaotic that I kind of like I
(05:16):
taped it and then I was just back into ESPN,
so I was really busy.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Got it?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Well, we have I am going to I know you're busy.
You just said it. So we are going to get
to the puzzle, and we have I think a puzzle
that you're going to like. It is I think you
do the Connections in the New York Times? Is that correct? Well,
this is the Connections. But for your ears, I'm going
to play you three sound clips, three audio files, and
(05:44):
you have to figure out what is the link between
those three file three sounds. So, for instance, I'm not
going to play it, but if I played an audio
clip of SpongeBob SquarePants saying what the halibit? And another
clip of a guy saying everybody Lucy Doe, and the
third clip of Paul Lind delivering a witticism on Hollywood Squares,
(06:05):
then that link would they all have to do with squares, SpongeBob, SquarePants,
square Dancing, Hollywood Squares. So that's an example, but in
this case we are actually going to uh play the clips.
All right, here we go, ready, ye.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Yes, Jets, I'm a Yankee doodle Dandy, Yankee doodle Dog.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
All right, that's it. Those are your three? Do you
have any guesses?
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Okay? Well we started with the Power Rangers theme song
Mighty morphin Power Rangers. Then it was Benny and the
Jets right by Elton John uh and then finally it
was was it Yankee doodle Dandy? Yes, I'm okay. I
(07:06):
actually don't know who, Greg. Do you know who sings that?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
It's a Georgia Cohen song originally? I don't know who
performance that was. I mean, you know it's is there
a famous rendition of Yankee Doodle Dandy?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I don't know. I think everybody sings it.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
I just know Yankee doodle Dandy. Okay, So Power Rangers,
Benny and the Jets, Yankee Doodle Dandy.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Hmmm.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Do you know Greg? I know you're you got it?
You got it?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I got it from Well, yeah, there's a.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
It's about It's for you because it's sports.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Oh okay, Benny and the Jets.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Oh yeah, well okay, the sports aspect. Okay, so we
were just yes, okay, so these are all sports teams contained.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
They're even more specifically, yes.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
The the Rangers, the Yankees, and the Jets.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Right, so they are all actually from they're on New
York Sports a New York Yes, I know that's a
New York Sports fan.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
No, that's good, since we are.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So I just thought, all right, are you ready for two?
You've gotten a second one.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Okay, you take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland,
and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
All right, so any thoughts, any thoughts? Do you recognize the.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Yeah, so that was the sound of a MacBook. Interesting,
it is something else.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Computer is something else. It is something on your computer.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
But when you go, it's a reboot, right, or.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
It's uh streaming service sound yeah. I mean it's confusing
because there's also the law and order.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yeah. I thought of skip that one and think about
the second two and then.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah, so one is you take the red pill?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Oh yes, from the matrix matrix. That's a matrix.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And then are you old enough to know these commercials?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Yeah? That was the trick cereal right, tricks surer.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Kids got matrix and tricks.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Yes, and so matrix tricks. And then what was.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
The streaming service?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
It's a streaming service. Gosh, I don't know if I
ever heard it.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I must name a streaming service that might be in
the same Netflix matrix. And there is that the sound
they play, yeah before year show starts.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Oh yeah, they all rhyme.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, they all rhyme. They're all xes. They are all
mixes exactly. And actually I lugged into the Netflix sound
and they put a lot of them. There was there
were three options that they considered. One was a goat,
but they went with this one. One was like, oh
this especially called the tuddum dum.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
I'm sorry, did you say one was a goat.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
One was a goat like Leo the Lion, but a goat,
and then one was a like bubbles from underneath the ocean.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
So really, and it's been that from the very beginning. Yeah, exactly,
now that you're saying it, I do feel like my
audio blind is clearly wearing now that I think about it. Yeah,
I do.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Hearing that millions of dollars in corporate branding it's gone
out the window. What shooting service is?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
That?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Was that?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
HBO?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
All right, well we got a couple more so funny
I'm ready?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Yeah, all right, alright, alright that's work.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah, all right, so you looked you you were you?
Don't you think you got some ideas?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
You don't even need the third Do you want to guess?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Let's see? Could it be Marshall Mathers? Perhaps?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
And are than what I have? Just everybody HiT's me?
Say you want to come inside my clubhouse? Not quite
Marshall Matters, but.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Marshall Matters would have been a deep that would be
a great Do you guys ever play the game celebrity?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Oh god?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Love that?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Or like, you know, when you're trying to trick people
with initials. But maybe people don't know their full names
or their real names. I feel like maybe that's one
where probably people most people know eminems some others.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Right, yeah, well because he also records under that name, right,
Marshall Mathers is not It's not like Sting's real name.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Which is never used publicly.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yes, right, we know a little better, right, I think?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
So?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Did are you doing that because of my middle name? Aj?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
No?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
My middle name is an m. Yeah, I'm Mina mugill kinds. Actually,
look at that.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I'm going to pretend that I knew that and that
was on purpose and that I'm being But no, that's good.
So you I could have played you. I could have
played a little bit trigg.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
AJ have an important game question for Mina, which is
when you play celebrity do you play it in three rounds?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Do you do the whole.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Got to do in three rounds?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah? Of course?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Right the second round you can only use one word.
In the third round you have to be silent. Oh see,
you have the most fun house.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
We got to make sure people are paying attention to
two rounds, right, ye, three rounds.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah, and by the way, don't judge me, but we
do three words in the second round instead of one word.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
It goes by quicklyment no judgment.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
It sounds like a little judgment. All right, I got
a couple more. Are you ready?
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Uh? How about this one?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
This device amplifies my power, allowing me to locate mutants
across great distances.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
He's extensive. Jesus web bottoms, Jesus bos.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
I can get them both on.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
A pedia.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Fool, did you catch that last one. It was kind
of quick.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Yeah, yeah, so I believe the first one was Professor
X right from the Yeah. The second one was the
iconic CARDI B.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
That's funny. I just said iconic in my script. So
well done.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
And then finally again another iconic person, another one who
I have a person overlationship with. But I can get
to that later. Mister T. That's the final boy.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
So what do you what?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Well do they all have? You know, the one letter
as part.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Of their names, the one letter? All right, we got
to get to the mister T. Now we can. We
can't wait on that.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Mister T was my child, my nickname as a baby
because until for years my hair only grew up. And
I was born in nineteen eighty five and he was
one of the most famous people in America then. So
people just called me mister T because I like hilarious,
looked like mister T. Yeah, my son does not have
that efuction, by the way, his hair is full and great.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
So and I will just say there's I mean, people
can't see you here on the podcast, they've probably seen
you on TV. There is literally nothing about you that
resembles mister T anymore.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
If I want to show you a picture.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
We will put on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Yeah, if you share that picture, you know, besides the
picture of Mina chimes as mister t it's.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
It was just I was like that from the womb.
It's so odd.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Well, while you look, can I play the final one?
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Lord? Do you need all right? This one's a little trickier,
a little trickier, and it's four parts, but we'll walk
you through it. We'll walk you through it. Okay, ready, hello, hello,
all right, that's part one. So yeah, any theories? Okay,
well that's from well, you don't have to know what
(15:25):
that's from. Okay, what that is? Okay? Oh, okay, And
now this next clip, there's going to be a beeped
out word, but the word is is going to be
the clue that indeed, you're ready.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
The club was established in eighteen ninety two, and over
the years, our members have helped to protect hundreds of
millions of acres of some of the most beautiful places
in the country.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Okay, so that was the club has protected millions. All right,
So you've got so do you want to guess what
what either of those are? You want to hold your
cards close to your best either way is fine, Why
don't we keep going? All right? Here we go. Next
is someone's been sleeping in my bay? Okay, So that
(16:10):
was part three, all right, and then the final part
is also a beep. So there's a little song and
the last word is beeped. But that's the word you're
looking for today.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
April June.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Okay, So that was do you know that song? Thirty
days half September, April June.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
And okay, okay, and November.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
So the first one do you remember, hello, hello, hello hello?
So that is and what would you call that type
of sound pattern, hello hello hello hello?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
An echo?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Okay. Then you've got the blank club that.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Preserves preserves acres of wilderness the natural world.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Do you know what club?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Then the Sierra Club?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah, okay, oh okay.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Echo Sierra. What was the third one again?
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Forget that sleeping in my bed?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Right?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Oh, I get it.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Deep So that's not that it's one of the three
little bears.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah, but it's not the little one, it's not the baby.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
And it's not the mama papa.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
All right, So you just got them all so Echo
Sierra November.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Those are yeah, so that those are the those the
what do you call it? Nate?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Uh, yeah, I guess, said Nate.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Nate to Nato, NATO, Yeah, the code for radio code words. Yeah,
I know that. I don't know the code words. That's
so echoer and what and what does it spell?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Yes, yes, you are.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Well done. Thank you Mina, and thank you listeners. And
of course for the puzzlers at home, we have an
extra credit. So what do these three clips have in common?
Speaker 7 (18:11):
New York hottest club is Push. This club has everything
ghost good, Banjo's Carl Palladino, a stuck up kitten who
won't sign autographs, clear as full.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Hearts, Campos.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Pugsy.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
You're soft and weak. You'll never survive without me. I'll
give you two months.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Tops, I'm gonna miss you toosys.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Well, thank you Mina and thank you listeners and listeners.
If you like the show, might I recommend you check
out our Instagram feed which is at Hello Puzzlers. We
post original puzzles, other fun stuff, visual stuff, and of
course we'll meet you here tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles
that will puzzle you.
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