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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello puzzlers. The Puzzling crew is taking a quick break
this week to huddle in the puzzle lab and come
up with lots of new brain teasers and brain ticklers
and brain taunters and other synonyms for puzzles. We will
be back on Monday, but in the meantime, please enjoy
some of our favorite episodes from this past year. Hello puzzlers,
(00:25):
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
(00:46):
last name of a beloved sports analyst. 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, Ady Jacobs, and I'm
(01:09):
here as always with Chief Puzzle Officer Greg Pliska. Greg,
we asked before the break what words rhyme with rhymes?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Well, a lot of words rhyme with a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
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 2 (01:29):
The Dimes, the March of Dimes, classic fundraiser, right for
als good cause, A good good cause? Uh, terrible, I
don't know, okay. And the second one, so.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
It's not for scurvy, the March of Dimes, but this
does prevent scurvy, and.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
It is that would be limes.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Right and the British back in the day, the Sailors
eight Limes and Slimy. But more important then both of
those is it's the last name of a beloved sports analyst,
Mana kime By, which is appropriate because our half cast
happens to be none beloved sports analyst Mina Chimes welcome.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
What if it wasn't and whoever it was, just had
to listen to that whole.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Jones cool?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
You know it else rhymes with chimes what times? And
I was looking behind me as you were telling that
I have a hat. This is Kimes Times. This is
a little bit of an aside, but perhaps like appropriate
for the nerdy vibe of this show, not to cast dispersions.
Another show that I do I used to do a lot,
called The Dan Lebtard Show has a game where people
(02:46):
It's called the looks Like Games. So someone might say
aj Jacobs looks like a historical reenactor at a budget
colonial Wivesburg or something. And it's people trying to come
up with things that they feel, uh, you look like.
And one of the things that someone did for me
once was Nina Kimes looks like. As a child, she
started and published her own newspaper for her parents, called
(03:08):
The Chimes Times. And when they did this one, I
lost it because it was true I did start any
savor we actually had my parents had saved it. It's
on the internet somewhere. It's truly the most cringiest embarrassing
document of all time. It's like articles I wrote about
our family, but in you know Times new Roman fonts
(03:29):
the Chimes Times at the top. So somebody made me
a hat. This is Kimes Times.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
That is so so perfect.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
We love it. Was there a crossword puzzle in the
Chimes Times.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
No, I had not started even attempted to make any puzzles.
But I'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 (03:50):
Ah well, I love the Mimes mind.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I can't say it's a different shows Family Troup, but we.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Are delighted to have you back. We know that we
are not the only puzzle type show that you have
been on. You were also on Celebrity Jeopardy, which I
loved watching your congratulations. I did love at the end
you didn't have to do anything for Final Jeopardy because
you were head so much so you wrote the answer.
(04:21):
The response you wrote was I love you Nino. Is
that your son?
Speaker 5 (04:26):
You know?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, Nino is my son at the time, he was one,
So oh done that quite some time ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Well, we are going to get to the puzzle, and
we have I think a puzzle that you're gonna like.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
It is.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
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 you have to figure out what
is the link between those three file three sounds. So,
for instance, I'm not gonna play it, but if I
played an audi clip of SpongeBob SquarePants saying what the halibit?
(05:04):
And another clip of a guy saying, everybody doocy doe,
and the third clip of Paul Linde delivering a witticism
on Hollywood Squares. Then that link would be 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
(05:26):
we go, ready, ye.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
Yes, Hi'm a Yankee doodle Dandy.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yankee Doodle do want?
Speaker 8 (05:48):
All right?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
That's it? Those are your three? Do you have any guesses?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Okay? Well, we started with the Power Rangers theme song
riting morphin Pier Rangers. Then it was Benny and the
Jets right by Elton John, and then finally it was
was it Yankee Doodle Dandy? Yes, I'm okay. I actually
(06:14):
don't know who, Greg. Do you know who sings that?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
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? I don't know.
I think everybody sings it.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I just know Yankee Doodle Dandy. Okay, So Power Rangers,
Benny and the Jets, Yankee Doodle Dandy. Hmmm, do you
know Greg? I know you're you got it. You got it.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I got it from. Well, yeah, there's a.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
It's about it's for you because it's sports.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Oh okay, Benny and the Jets.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Oh yeah, well okay the sports aspect. Okay, so we
were just yes, okay, so these are all its teams
contained there even more. Yes, the the Rangers, the Yankees,
and the Jets.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Right, so they are all actually from.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
They're a New York sports they're all New York.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yes, I know that's a New York sports fan. No,
that's good, since we are. So I just thought, all right,
are you ready for two? You've gotten a second one.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Okay, you take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland,
and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
All right, so any thoughts, any thoughts? Do you recognize the.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, so that was the sound of a MacBook?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Interesting it is is it not?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Is it something else? Computer?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Something else? It is something on your computer.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
But when you go like a reboot, right.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Or it's a streaming service sound yeah, I mean it's
confusing because there's also the law and order.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah, I thought of law. Skip that one and think
about the second two and then.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, so one is you take the red pill.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Oh, yes, from the matrix matrix. That's a matrix.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
And then are you old enough to know these commercials?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah, that was the trick Cereal right, tricks Surer.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Kids got matrix and tricks.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Yes, and so matrix tricks. And then what was the.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Streaming service?
Speaker 3 (08:49):
It's a streaming service. Gosh, I don't know if I
ever heard it.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I must name a streaming service that might be in
the same cap Netflix, Matrix and tricks.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Is that the sound they play that?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah at the four year show starts.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
So yeah, they all rhyme.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah, they all rhyme. They're all IXes. They are all mixes, exactly.
And actually I looked 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 tudm.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I'm sorry, did you say one was a goat.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
One was a goat like Leo the Lion, but a goat,
and then one was a like bubbles from underneath the ocean.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
So but really, and it's been that from the very beginning.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yeah, now that you're saying it. I do feel like
my audio blindness clearly wearing now that I think about it.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yeah, I do hearing that millions of dollars in corporate
branding has gone out the window. What service is that?
Was that? HBO?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
All right, well we got a couple more so funny?
I'm ready?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Yeah, all right, alright, alright, that's.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Oh yeah, all right? So you luck you you were you?
Don't you think you got some ideas?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I think so?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Oh you don't even need the third Do you want
to guess?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Let's see? Could it be Marshall Matters? Perhaps?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
And that would have been much than what I have.
Just everybody HiT's me, say you want to come inside
my clubhouse? Not quite Marshall Matters, but.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Marshall Matters would have been a deep that would be
a great Do you guys ever play the game celebrity?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Oh god?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I love that?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
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 most people know eminem is Marshall Mathers.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Right, yeah, well because he also records under that name, right,
Marshall Mathers is not. It's not like Sting's real name,
which is never used publicly. Yes, right, Weathers. We know
a little better, right I think?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
So did Are you doing that because of my middle name?
Aj oh no, my middle name is an m Yeah,
I'm Mina Mugill Kimes. Actually, look at that.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I'm going to pretend that I knew that and that
was on purpose. But no, that's good. So you I
could have played you. I could have played a little
bit triggy.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah. Ah. Have an important game question for Mina, which
is when you play celebrity do you play it in
three rounds?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Do you do the whole got to do in three rounds?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah? Of course, right the second round where you can
only use one word. In the third round you have
to be silent. Oh see, you have the most fun house.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Well, you got to make sure people are paying attention
tow two rounds, right rounds?
Speaker 7 (12:03):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
And by the way, don't judge me, but we do
three words in the second round instead of one word.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
It goes by quicklyment no judgment.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
It sounds like a little judgment. All right, I got
a couple more, are you ready?
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Uh? How about this one?
Speaker 5 (12:27):
This device amplifies my power, allowing me to locate mutants
across great distances.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
These extensive Jesus web bottoms, Jesus blood shoes.
Speaker 8 (12:38):
I can get them both on a.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Pedia. Fool.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Did you catch that last one? It was kind of quick.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yeah, yeah, so I believe the first one was Professor
x R.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
The second one was the iconic CARDI.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
B that's funny. I just said iconic in my script.
So well done.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
And then finally again another iconic person, another one who
I have a personal relationship with. But I can get
to that later. Mister T.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
That's the final voice. So what do you what?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Well do they all have? You know, the one letter
as part.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Of their names, the one letter? All right, we got
to get to the mister T. Now we can't wait
on that.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
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 2 (13:43):
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 3 (13:52):
If I want to show you a picture, we will
put this on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah, if you share that picture, you know it's important.
Size the picture of Mina Kaimes as mister T.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
It's it was just I was like that from the womb.
It's so odd.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Well, while you look, can I play the final one?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Indeed, 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. And now this next clip, there's going
to be a beeped out word, but the word is
(14:32):
is going to be the clue that indeed, you're ready.
Speaker 8 (14:36):
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 (14:46):
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 desk? Either way is fine?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Wh keep going?
Speaker 8 (15:00):
All right?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Here we go. Next is someone's been sleeping in my bay?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Okay, So that 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.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Today June.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Okay, So that was do you know that song? Thirty
days half September, April, June and okay, okay?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
And November.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
So the first one do you remember, hello hello, hello hello?
So that is and what would you call that type
of sound pattern?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Hello hello hello hello an echo?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Okay. Then you've got the blank club that.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Preserves preserves acres of wilderness the natural world. Do you
know which club that is?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Sierra Club?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Oh okay, echo Sierra. What was the third one again?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Forgetting sleeping in my bed?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Right?
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I get it?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Deep So that's not that it's one of the three
little bears.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah, but it's not the little one.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
It's not the baby, and it's not the mama the
papa exactly, all right, So you just got them all
so echoo Sierra Pa November.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Those are yeah, so that those are the those the
what do you call it, Nate?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Uh yeah, I guess, said Nate, Nate to NATO, NATO.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yeah, the code for radio code words.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, I know that.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I don't know that the code words. That's so echo,
serra and what and what does the spell?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Yes, yes, you are.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Well done. Thank you Mina, and thank you listeners, and
of course for the puzzlers at home, we have an
extra reddit. So what do these three clips have in common?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
New York hottest club is Push. This club has everything.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Ghost good, Banjo's Carl Palladino, stuck up kitten who won't
sign autographs.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Clear as full hearts, campos.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Pugsy.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
If you're soft and weak, you'll never survive without me.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
I give you two months.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Tops, I'm going to miss your toosys.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
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.
Then will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Hello Puzzlers it's Greg Pliska up from the Puzzle Lab
with the extra credit answer from our previous episode. We
had Sam Sanders on and we played a game based
upon his name called Sam Sanders sand Every answer is
a well known individual plus a food or another item
that's hidden inside his name or her name. And your
(18:32):
extra credit clues were the hot dog of a former
senator and SNL writer. That of course is Al Frankens
Frank and your other one was what the host of
a weekly satirical news show puts in his martini. That
is John Oliver's Olive Delicious. Pour yourself a martini and
(18:55):
listen to some more of the Puzzler.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
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(19:23):
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Hello puzzlers. The Puzzling crew is taking a quick break
this week to huddle in the puzzle lab and come
up with lots of new brain teasers and brain ticklers
and brain taunters and other synonyms for puzzles. We will
be back on Monday, but in the meantime, please enjoy
some of our favorite episodes from this past year. Hello puzzlers,
(00:25):
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
(00:46):
last name of a beloved sports analyst. 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, Ady Jacobs, and I'm
(01:09):
here as always with Chief Puzzle Officer Greg Pliska. Greg,
we asked before the break what words rhyme with rhymes?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Well, a lot of words rhyme with a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
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 2 (01:29):
The Dimes, the March of Dimes, classic fundraiser, right for
als good cause, A good good cause? Uh, terrible, I
don't know, okay. And the second one, so.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
It's not for scurvy, the March of Dimes, but this
does prevent scurvy, and.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
It is that would be limes.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Right and the British back in the day, the Sailors
eight Limes and Slimy. But more important then both of
those is it's the last name of a beloved sports analyst,
Mana kime By, which is appropriate because our half cast
happens to be none beloved sports analyst Mina Chimes welcome.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
What if it wasn't and whoever it was, just had
to listen to that whole.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Jones cool?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
You know it else rhymes with chimes what times? And
I was looking behind me as you were telling that
I have a hat. This is Kimes Times. This is
a little bit of an aside, but perhaps like appropriate
for the nerdy vibe of this show, not to cast dispersions.
Another show that I do I used to do a lot,
called The Dan Lebtard Show has a game where people
(02:46):
It's called the looks Like Games. So someone might say
aj Jacobs looks like a historical reenactor at a budget
colonial Wivesburg or something. And it's people trying to come
up with things that they feel, uh, you look like.
And one of the things that someone did for me
once was Nina Kimes looks like. As a child, she
started and published her own newspaper for her parents, called
(03:08):
The Chimes Times. And when they did this one, I
lost it because it was true I did start any
savor we actually had my parents had saved it. It's
on the internet somewhere. It's truly the most cringiest embarrassing
document of all time. It's like articles I wrote about
our family, but in you know Times new Roman fonts
(03:29):
the Chimes Times at the top. So somebody made me
a hat. This is Kimes Times.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
That is so so perfect.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
We love it. Was there a crossword puzzle in the
Chimes Times.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
No, I had not started even attempted to make any puzzles.
But I'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 (03:50):
Ah well, I love the Mimes mind.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I can't say it's a different shows Family Troup, but we.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Are delighted to have you back. We know that we
are not the only puzzle type show that you have
been on. You were also on Celebrity Jeopardy, which I
loved watching your congratulations. I did love at the end
you didn't have to do anything for Final Jeopardy because
you were head so much so you wrote the answer.
(04:21):
The response you wrote was I love you Nino. Is
that your son?
Speaker 5 (04:26):
You know?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, Nino is my son at the time, he was one,
So oh done that quite some time ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Well, we are going to get to the puzzle, and
we have I think a puzzle that you're gonna like.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
It is.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
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 you have to figure out what
is the link between those three file three sounds. So,
for instance, I'm not gonna play it, but if I
played an audi clip of SpongeBob SquarePants saying what the halibit?
(05:04):
And another clip of a guy saying, everybody doocy doe,
and the third clip of Paul Linde delivering a witticism
on Hollywood Squares. Then that link would be 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
(05:26):
we go, ready, ye.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
Yes, Hi'm a Yankee doodle Dandy.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yankee Doodle do want?
Speaker 8 (05:48):
All right?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
That's it? Those are your three? Do you have any guesses?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Okay? Well, we started with the Power Rangers theme song
riting morphin Pier Rangers. Then it was Benny and the
Jets right by Elton John, and then finally it was
was it Yankee Doodle Dandy? Yes, I'm okay. I actually
(06:14):
don't know who, Greg. Do you know who sings that?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
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? I don't know.
I think everybody sings it.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I just know Yankee Doodle Dandy. Okay, So Power Rangers,
Benny and the Jets, Yankee Doodle Dandy. Hmmm, do you
know Greg? I know you're you got it. You got it.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I got it from. Well, yeah, there's a.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
It's about it's for you because it's sports.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Oh okay, Benny and the Jets.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Oh yeah, well okay the sports aspect. Okay, so we
were just yes, okay, so these are all its teams
contained there even more. Yes, the the Rangers, the Yankees,
and the Jets.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Right, so they are all actually from.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
They're a New York sports they're all New York.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yes, I know that's a New York sports fan. No,
that's good, since we are. So I just thought, all right,
are you ready for two? You've gotten a second one.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Okay, you take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland,
and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
All right, so any thoughts, any thoughts? Do you recognize the.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, so that was the sound of a MacBook?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Interesting it is is it not?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Is it something else? Computer?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Something else? It is something on your computer.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
But when you go like a reboot, right.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Or it's a streaming service sound yeah, I mean it's
confusing because there's also the law and order.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah, I thought of law. Skip that one and think
about the second two and then.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, so one is you take the red pill.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Oh, yes, from the matrix matrix. That's a matrix.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
And then are you old enough to know these commercials?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah, that was the trick Cereal right, tricks Surer.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Kids got matrix and tricks.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Yes, and so matrix tricks. And then what was the.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Streaming service?
Speaker 3 (08:49):
It's a streaming service. Gosh, I don't know if I
ever heard it.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I must name a streaming service that might be in
the same cap Netflix, Matrix and tricks.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Is that the sound they play that?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah at the four year show starts.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
So yeah, they all rhyme.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah, they all rhyme. They're all IXes. They are all mixes, exactly.
And actually I looked 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 tudm.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I'm sorry, did you say one was a goat.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
One was a goat like Leo the Lion, but a goat,
and then one was a like bubbles from underneath the ocean.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
So but really, and it's been that from the very beginning.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yeah, now that you're saying it. I do feel like
my audio blindness clearly wearing now that I think about it.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yeah, I do hearing that millions of dollars in corporate
branding has gone out the window. What service is that?
Was that? HBO?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
All right, well we got a couple more so funny?
I'm ready?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Yeah, all right, alright, alright, that's.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Oh yeah, all right? So you luck you you were you?
Don't you think you got some ideas?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I think so?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Oh you don't even need the third Do you want
to guess?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Let's see? Could it be Marshall Matters? Perhaps?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
And that would have been much than what I have.
Just everybody HiT's me, say you want to come inside
my clubhouse? Not quite Marshall Matters, but.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Marshall Matters would have been a deep that would be
a great Do you guys ever play the game celebrity?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Oh god?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I love that?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
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 most people know eminem is Marshall Mathers.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Right, yeah, well because he also records under that name, right,
Marshall Mathers is not. It's not like Sting's real name,
which is never used publicly. Yes, right, Weathers. We know
a little better, right I think?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
So did Are you doing that because of my middle name?
Aj oh no, my middle name is an m Yeah,
I'm Mina Mugill Kimes. Actually, look at that.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I'm going to pretend that I knew that and that
was on purpose. But no, that's good. So you I
could have played you. I could have played a little
bit triggy.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah. Ah. Have an important game question for Mina, which
is when you play celebrity do you play it in
three rounds?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Do you do the whole got to do in three rounds?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah? Of course, right the second round where you can
only use one word. In the third round you have
to be silent. Oh see, you have the most fun house.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Well, you got to make sure people are paying attention
tow two rounds, right rounds?
Speaker 7 (12:03):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
And by the way, don't judge me, but we do
three words in the second round instead of one word.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
It goes by quicklyment no judgment.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
It sounds like a little judgment. All right, I got
a couple more, are you ready?
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Uh? How about this one?
Speaker 5 (12:27):
This device amplifies my power, allowing me to locate mutants
across great distances.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
These extensive Jesus web bottoms, Jesus blood shoes.
Speaker 8 (12:38):
I can get them both on a.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Pedia. Fool.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Did you catch that last one? It was kind of quick.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yeah, yeah, so I believe the first one was Professor
x R.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
The second one was the iconic CARDI.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
B that's funny. I just said iconic in my script.
So well done.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
And then finally again another iconic person, another one who
I have a personal relationship with. But I can get
to that later. Mister T.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
That's the final voice. So what do you what?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Well do they all have? You know, the one letter
as part.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Of their names, the one letter? All right, we got
to get to the mister T. Now we can't wait
on that.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
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 2 (13:43):
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 3 (13:52):
If I want to show you a picture, we will
put this on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah, if you share that picture, you know it's important.
Size the picture of Mina Kaimes as mister T.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
It's it was just I was like that from the womb.
It's so odd.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Well, while you look, can I play the final one?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Indeed, 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. And now this next clip, there's going
to be a beeped out word, but the word is
(14:32):
is going to be the clue that indeed, you're ready.
Speaker 8 (14:36):
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 (14:46):
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 desk? Either way is fine?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Wh keep going?
Speaker 8 (15:00):
All right?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Here we go. Next is someone's been sleeping in my bay?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Okay, So that 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.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Today June.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Okay, So that was do you know that song? Thirty
days half September, April, June and okay, okay?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
And November.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
So the first one do you remember, hello hello, hello hello?
So that is and what would you call that type
of sound pattern?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Hello hello hello hello an echo?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Okay. Then you've got the blank club that.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Preserves preserves acres of wilderness the natural world. Do you
know which club that is?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Sierra Club?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Oh okay, echo Sierra. What was the third one again?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Forgetting sleeping in my bed?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Right?
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I get it?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Deep So that's not that it's one of the three
little bears.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah, but it's not the little one.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
It's not the baby, and it's not the mama the
papa exactly, all right, So you just got them all
so echoo Sierra Pa November.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Those are yeah, so that those are the those the
what do you call it, Nate?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Uh yeah, I guess, said Nate, Nate to NATO, NATO.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yeah, the code for radio code words.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, I know that.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I don't know that the code words. That's so echo,
serra and what and what does the spell?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Yes, yes, you are.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Well done. Thank you Mina, and thank you listeners, and
of course for the puzzlers at home, we have an
extra reddit. So what do these three clips have in common?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
New York hottest club is Push. This club has everything.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Ghost good, Banjo's Carl Palladino, stuck up kitten who won't
sign autographs.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Clear as full hearts, campos.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Pugsy.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
If you're soft and weak, you'll never survive without me.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
I give you two months.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Tops, I'm going to miss your toosys.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
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.
Then will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Hello Puzzlers it's Greg Pliska up from the Puzzle Lab
with the extra credit answer from our previous episode. We
had Sam Sanders on and we played a game based
upon his name called Sam Sanders sand Every answer is
a well known individual plus a food or another item
that's hidden inside his name or her name. And your
(18:32):
extra credit clues were the hot dog of a former
senator and SNL writer. That of course is Al Frankens
Frank and your other one was what the host of
a weekly satirical news show puts in his martini. That
is John Oliver's Olive Delicious. Pour yourself a martini and
(18:55):
listen to some more of the Puzzler.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Thanks for playing along with the team. Here at the
Puzzler with AJ Jacobs, I'm Greg Pliska, your chief puzzle Officer.
Our executive producers are Neelie Lohman and Adam Neuhouse of
New House Ideas and Lindsay Hoffman of iHeart Podcasts. The
show is produced by Jody Afrigan and Brittany Brown of
Roulette Productions, with production support from Claire Bidegar Curtis. Our
(19:23):
associate producer is Andrea Schoenberg. The Puzzler with AJ Jacobs
is a co production with New House Ideas and is
distributed by Taco had Stripes. Now you know the drill,
I've rearranged the letters. It's distributed by iHeart Podcasts. If
you want to know more about puzzling puzzles, please check
(19:45):
out the book The Puzzler by AJ Jacobs, a history
of puzzles that The New York Times called fun and funny.
It features an original puzzle hunt by Yours Truly and
is available wherever you get your books and puzzlers.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
For all your puzzling needs, go visit the puzzler dot com.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
See you there,
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