April 1, 2025 • 16 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello puzzlers. I thought we could warm up with a
quick puzzle for this puzzle, Greg, Yes, you ask me
how I have been today?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Aj, how have you been today? Good?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I put on a very short skirt, ate a tick stack,
took my dark fur coat to the cleaners, and bought
a vase from a fifteenth century Chinese dynasty. None of
that is true, But the four things mentioned you share
something in common. Very short skirt, tic tac, dark fur coat,
fifteenth century Chinese dynasty. Think of synonyms for those and
(00:36):
what they might share? The answer and more puzzling goodness
after the break, Hello puzzlers, Welcome back to the Puzzler Podcast.
The squeaky floorboard in your hunt puzzle mentioned. I'm your host,
Dadie Jacobson. I'm here with Chief puzzle Officer Greg Kliska. Greg.
(00:58):
Before the break, we asked what these have in common?
A very short skirt, tiktak, dark fur coat, fifteenth century
Chinese dynasty. Any theories?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yes, I think I know the answer. They're a mini skirt,
a tik tak mint, a mink fur coat. And of
course the Tang dynasty was very no the Ming dynasty
VAZ and you can hear the laughter of the reason
why you chose those because they all start with M,
(01:30):
I N. And if you make the last letter in A,
you welcome our guest, Mina Kimes.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
That's it. The beloved sports analyst Yes from ESPN and
hosts of the podcast The Mina Chimes Show featuring Lenny
Lenny being her dog, Welcome Mina Times, M I N A.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Thank you so much for having me back, and also
for the mental image of you wearing a miniskirt and
a fur coat.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
But I have to ask Mena, how many of those
four things do you own in your house right now? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I don't think. I don't have any. They don't have
any mints. I don't I'm not a mint person, and
I don't have any ming dynasty.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Well, there were a couple of others I was I
was trying to think Minx. There's an HBO show called
Minx or something. But I think the four I went with.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
The spine those are the best for mine in mind,
like mine mind.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
She has an excellent mind. That Mena con Well, I
want to see that mine put to work. So I'm
going to turn it over to Greg Pliska, a chief
puzzle officer who has a puzzle for you today.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Well, what's uh not intentional is this puzzle is about
changing letters in words, which was not something we planned,
but it works.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
We never talked to each other before the show, all secret.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
But I mean you're familiar with the big four sports
leagues in the US, of course, NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA.
I always like to include the w n B A
because I feel like it's just as important as the NBA.
So really they're five, but we're gonna pretend they're four,
and you're, probably, however, not aware of the alternate group
called the big foul teams. These are teams whose names
(03:23):
are one letter different from their Big Four counterparts. So,
for example, if I described a team as a hockey
team that's the smartest team in Boston, that would clue
the Boston Brains instead of the Boston Bruins, one letter different,
got it. You see how this works?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
All right, and unfortunately you know something about.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Sports a little less of a hockey teams.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
All right, So here we go. This former San Diego
team's new name reflects the fact that they altered their location.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Hmmm, uh well the okay, so you want I'm guessing
the modified.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Version, modified version, right, you can say the original version
if it's helpful.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Right. Well, so the first team that comes to mind
would be the San Diego Chargers, Yeah, who are now
in Los Angeles. Modified their locations though, the Changers.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
The Los Angeles Changers.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Okay, yeah, very.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Good, very good, very meta. Greg.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I like the meta. I didn't invent it. It's the
big foul for sports league. But you're not. You're not
a Chargers fan.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I am not there. Unfortunately, are not many in Los Angeles,
perhaps because of the change.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, there you go. Well, Los Angeles is always feel
like you can never support a football team for very long.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah. Yeah, that would be a great disc though for
another team, you know, if they're playing them like you're just.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
A change changers.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
See, Okay, that would really hit hard.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
If you want to mention it on the air, you know,
we could start the trend. All right, here's your next Like,
this is one of several hockey franchises in the New
York metropolitan area, and this is the one that's furthest
from the.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Coast, furthest from the coast. Okay, that's the whole clue
that literally and Okay, gosh, hockey. Okay, I'm guessing that
would be Buffalo's for from the coast, right, is it?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Well, no, it's not. Okay, so that's the that's the
big that's the letter change clue, it's not actually furthest
from the coast the change name. So pick a hockey
franchise in New Yorkers.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You weren't actually asking.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
For that question.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
If that's for jeopardy, your first answer would be correct.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Right, The Buffalo Sabers are surely the farthest from the coast.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
The Islanders are not.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
The New York Islanders becomes the New York Inlanders. Very good,
all right. This team has a former m v P
QB and perhaps future m v P we'll see, and
a terrific East Coast fan base, but the only food
available in their concession stand is Japanese noodles.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Okay, So, former and NFL MVP on this team, to
you said at East e QP, East Coast and East
Coast team fan base, that would be I'm guessing the
Balltimore Romans.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
The Baltimore Romans exactly different from Baltimore Ravens. All right.
Before every game at PNC Park, these players lead the
fans in some mind body exercise focusing on the core
principles of centering, concentration, control, precision, breadth, and flow.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I like this one, the Pittsburgh Pilates.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Very good. Pirates, Pittsburgh Pirates one of the most beautiful
baseball stadiums in the lead.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Beautiful. Yeah, just a nice fall day.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Gorgeous. Yeah, and you can just look at it's gorgeous,
all right. Next one, the Chicago w NBA team gets
very nervous around big crowds.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
So the team is the Sky. But in your world
of the shy.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
The Chicago shy very good.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Really, Actually that that team is actually very not shy,
I would say, is their reputation and their stars.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
But yeah, very true, very true. Do you have a
w NBT NBA team.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Uh, you know, the Storm being from Seattle. But I'm
not a hardcore fan, although they've been good in recent years,
so I should really bandwagon them because we don't have
a men's NBA team in Seattle of course, right not anymore?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Where did they go the Sonics went? Did they go to?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
They were stolen by the Thunder?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, sorry about that thunder. My liberty shirt today.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
In fact, that's oh man, Yeah, that's a hot ticket.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I hear such a great great they're such a great team.
All right. This Saint Paul based team is known for
the way it always SAgs after not getting enough water.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Uh, Saint Paul based teams after not getting enough water. Okay,
what do we got in Saint Paul. We've got the
Twins Vikings aren't really.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, I've gone into hockey here.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Oh yes, okay, that would be my brain doesn't go there.
That would be the wild Who wilt?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Who wilt? The Minnesota wilt exactly?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Minnesota wilt sorry, which again.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Sounds like a really good disc for the team.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
If you want to about that one tongue the same way.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
You know, I'm going to do another hockey one.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Okay, let's get NHL team challenging.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, good, good, We're gonna stretch you a little bit.
They play in Ohio's most populous city.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
They are named for the city's favorite artificial sweetener, equal
and the containers it comes in.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Okay, the oh, this is good. The blue packets very good?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yes, the Columbus.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Columbus Blue backets, blue.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Packets, Oh, very good.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
And you have to know the colors, no, not yellow.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Or it helps to know the Columbus Blue Jackets are
the team so that you can work from that. This
is a Southwest Conference basketball team that got its name
from the fans love for candy like Skittles, Nerds and Warheads.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Okay, basketball fans love for candies.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, Southwest Conference.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I don't know, just to hit pause, if I could
name any of the NBA teams conferences and I'm actually not,
I don't what percentage of NBA fans do you think
could do that?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
That's a great question because it doesn't matter that nobody cares.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, we never even like an NBA programming a ESPN.
I don't think we ever, like was the last time
it has ever even mentioned?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
You know, right, because you just get into the playoffs
based on your record, regardless.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Of the This would be my worst nightmare and seleby
Jeopardy if they will just like name one team in
this car, I like, I crewe true, I mean, we're
not lady beginning a football question wrong, but like that
would be devastating because anyways, but Southwest, I got west,
you know, general region of the country where that could
be Okay, and so and and it was sweet candies.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah, yep, no, it was. It was explicitly not that
it was Skittles nerds and warheads.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Skittles nerds and warheads. So sour candies, yes, Okay. So
NBA teams, So we've got the Suns obviously. In Phoenix, southwest,
you've got the Lakers. Yeah, Clippers, and.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
This is a team a little further east, all the
way south. Uh, former ABA team actually one of only
two former ABA teams.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Oh so just this hours.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
San Antonio exactly. You have to do a little choice
in the Southwest. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I did just want to point out that there's a
candy named after like nuclear nuclear weapons, warheads.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Warheads.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, I don't even know it, but I'm disturbed.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
You've never had those.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
No, I never had them. Maybe I'm a pacifist mina,
I don't have the world heads.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Once you've tried one, you'll see that they are appropriately named,
because it was kind of it's like red hots, where
they're not good, but when you're a kid, you're so
obsessed with kind of challenging your palette to eat this.
They're not good at all, really really sour crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
They've got some sort of chemical in them that makes
your own mouth trivele up.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I will try it, all right, We'll do.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Two more, two more. When this Michigan city hit hard times,
they named their football team for all the mortgages that came.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Do oh, that would be the Detroit Leons.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yes, exactly, instead of the Detroit Lions. That was a
heartbreaking into their season.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Truly, truly, I really wanted it for them.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Everybody did, Yeah, everybody did.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
It's a great fan base too, one of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, terrific fan based, terrific team, great coach. I mean,
just maybe this year excellent.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
You think fantastic. Mana well done. And by the way,
I was listening to your podcast today or maybe yesterday,
and you were discussing that a lot of college mascots
are dogs, but they're all bulldogs. There's a bulldogs. Yeah,
but I do think that's I mean, I wouldn't think
like a golden doodle would be a good mascot for
(12:47):
a college team like you. Yeah, I guess you could do.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Doberman's bulldogs are not athletic. They're also like borderline ethically
dubious to exist.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I think interesting.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
However, they are very disproportionately represented amongst college sports teams
s Ben Huskies, there was a golden Retriever team. I
think it was you Maryland or something Maryland, a small
school that made it. That was a kind of Cinderella
a few years ago UNBC, but Bulldogs, lot of.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Hols my favorite college sports team. I think I've said
it on the show before. Franklin and Marshall, that is
just you.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Know, what's their mascot?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
The diplomats. Oh like I thh that they just want
to talk talk for we don't have to play football.
We can just have a discussion and figure this out.
I think that's nice.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
It is.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
It's a less exciting sport for the viewer, but certainly
very pleasant.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Well, you know, for those of us who did high
school debate or Model UN, maybe it would be a
good mascot for a Model Un team.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
There you go exactly. Well, thank you, Mina, and by
the time those airs, we'll know more about your Jeopardy fate.
But we loved watching that first episode and we love
having you on the Puzzler, So thank you again for
taking the time.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Guys and Greg, do you have an extra credit for
the pocas.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Of course, of course I do. This extra credit actually
has has two answers. Once upon a time, every baseball
team had a colored female pig that ran around the field.
Only two franchises remained that are named for theirs.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
All right, I'm going to be working on that because
I didn't get it immediately. And while I'm working on that,
maybe I'll go on my favorite podcast platform and rate
the puzzler. Maybe I shouldn't because that's on episodes, but
if you do, we would love it because it helps
so much. And of course we'll meet you here tomorrow
for more puzzling puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Hey, puzzlers, it's Greg Pliska up from the Puzzle Lab
with the extra credit answer from our previous episode. Mina
Chimes joined us once again for some audio connections, and
this clip was what we gave you as your extra credit.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
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 eyes, full.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Heart, scampos, pugsy.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
If you're soft and weak, you'll never survive without me.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I give you two months.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Tops.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I'm gonna miss you, Tess. So what do those three
things have in common? If you said they are TV
shows with days of the week in their titles, you
would be correct. That's Saturday Night Live, Friday Night Lights
and Wednesday. The show about Wednesday. Adams leads me to thinking,
are there shows with other days of the week in
(16:09):
them and no count? Now you can't say the Sunday
Evening News that doesn't count. In fact, I probably wouldn't
have even allowed Saturday Night Live because it's named for
the days of the day of the week that it airs.
Have you got ones for Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday, Saturday? Send
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Hello puzzlers. I thought we could warm up with a
quick puzzle for this puzzle, Greg, Yes, you ask me
how I have been today?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Aj, how have you been today? Good?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I put on a very short skirt, ate a tick stack,
took my dark fur coat to the cleaners, and bought
a vase from a fifteenth century Chinese dynasty. None of
that is true, But the four things mentioned you share
something in common. Very short skirt, tic tac, dark fur coat,
fifteenth century Chinese dynasty. Think of synonyms for those and
(00:36):
what they might share? The answer and more puzzling goodness
after the break, Hello puzzlers, Welcome back to the Puzzler Podcast.
The squeaky floorboard in your hunt puzzle mentioned. I'm your host,
Dadie Jacobson. I'm here with Chief puzzle Officer Greg Kliska. Greg.
(00:58):
Before the break, we asked what these have in common?
A very short skirt, tiktak, dark fur coat, fifteenth century
Chinese dynasty. Any theories?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yes, I think I know the answer. They're a mini skirt,
a tik tak mint, a mink fur coat. And of
course the Tang dynasty was very no the Ming dynasty
VAZ and you can hear the laughter of the reason
why you chose those because they all start with M,
(01:30):
I N. And if you make the last letter in A,
you welcome our guest, Mina Kimes.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
That's it. The beloved sports analyst Yes from ESPN and
hosts of the podcast The Mina Chimes Show featuring Lenny
Lenny being her dog, Welcome Mina Times, M I N A.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Thank you so much for having me back, and also
for the mental image of you wearing a miniskirt and
a fur coat.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
But I have to ask Mena, how many of those
four things do you own in your house right now? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I don't think. I don't have any. They don't have
any mints. I don't I'm not a mint person, and
I don't have any ming dynasty.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Well, there were a couple of others I was I
was trying to think Minx. There's an HBO show called
Minx or something. But I think the four I went with.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
The spine those are the best for mine in mind,
like mine mind.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
She has an excellent mind. That Mena con Well, I
want to see that mine put to work. So I'm
going to turn it over to Greg Pliska, a chief
puzzle officer who has a puzzle for you today.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Well, what's uh not intentional is this puzzle is about
changing letters in words, which was not something we planned,
but it works.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
We never talked to each other before the show, all secret.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
But I mean you're familiar with the big four sports
leagues in the US, of course, NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA.
I always like to include the w n B A
because I feel like it's just as important as the NBA.
So really they're five, but we're gonna pretend they're four,
and you're, probably, however, not aware of the alternate group
called the big foul teams. These are teams whose names
(03:23):
are one letter different from their Big Four counterparts. So,
for example, if I described a team as a hockey
team that's the smartest team in Boston, that would clue
the Boston Brains instead of the Boston Bruins, one letter different,
got it. You see how this works?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
All right, and unfortunately you know something about.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Sports a little less of a hockey teams.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
All right, So here we go. This former San Diego
team's new name reflects the fact that they altered their location.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Hmmm, uh well the okay, so you want I'm guessing
the modified.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Version, modified version, right, you can say the original version
if it's helpful.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Right. Well, so the first team that comes to mind
would be the San Diego Chargers, Yeah, who are now
in Los Angeles. Modified their locations though, the Changers.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
The Los Angeles Changers.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Okay, yeah, very.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Good, very good, very meta. Greg.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I like the meta. I didn't invent it. It's the
big foul for sports league. But you're not. You're not
a Chargers fan.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I am not there. Unfortunately, are not many in Los Angeles,
perhaps because of the change.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, there you go. Well, Los Angeles is always feel
like you can never support a football team for very long.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah. Yeah, that would be a great disc though for
another team, you know, if they're playing them like you're just.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
A change changers.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
See, Okay, that would really hit hard.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
If you want to mention it on the air, you know,
we could start the trend. All right, here's your next Like,
this is one of several hockey franchises in the New
York metropolitan area, and this is the one that's furthest
from the.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Coast, furthest from the coast. Okay, that's the whole clue
that literally and Okay, gosh, hockey. Okay, I'm guessing that
would be Buffalo's for from the coast, right, is it?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Well, no, it's not. Okay, so that's the that's the
big that's the letter change clue, it's not actually furthest
from the coast the change name. So pick a hockey
franchise in New Yorkers.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You weren't actually asking.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
For that question.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
If that's for jeopardy, your first answer would be correct.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Right, The Buffalo Sabers are surely the farthest from the coast.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
The Islanders are not.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
The New York Islanders becomes the New York Inlanders. Very good,
all right. This team has a former m v P
QB and perhaps future m v P we'll see, and
a terrific East Coast fan base, but the only food
available in their concession stand is Japanese noodles.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Okay, So, former and NFL MVP on this team, to
you said at East e QP, East Coast and East
Coast team fan base, that would be I'm guessing the
Balltimore Romans.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
The Baltimore Romans exactly different from Baltimore Ravens. All right.
Before every game at PNC Park, these players lead the
fans in some mind body exercise focusing on the core
principles of centering, concentration, control, precision, breadth, and flow.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I like this one, the Pittsburgh Pilates.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Very good. Pirates, Pittsburgh Pirates one of the most beautiful
baseball stadiums in the lead.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Beautiful. Yeah, just a nice fall day.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Gorgeous. Yeah, and you can just look at it's gorgeous,
all right. Next one, the Chicago w NBA team gets
very nervous around big crowds.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
So the team is the Sky. But in your world
of the shy.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
The Chicago shy very good.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Really, Actually that that team is actually very not shy,
I would say, is their reputation and their stars.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
But yeah, very true, very true. Do you have a
w NBT NBA team.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Uh, you know, the Storm being from Seattle. But I'm
not a hardcore fan, although they've been good in recent years,
so I should really bandwagon them because we don't have
a men's NBA team in Seattle of course, right not anymore?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Where did they go the Sonics went? Did they go to?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
They were stolen by the Thunder?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, sorry about that thunder. My liberty shirt today.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
In fact, that's oh man, Yeah, that's a hot ticket.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I hear such a great great they're such a great team.
All right. This Saint Paul based team is known for
the way it always SAgs after not getting enough water.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Uh, Saint Paul based teams after not getting enough water. Okay,
what do we got in Saint Paul. We've got the
Twins Vikings aren't really.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, I've gone into hockey here.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Oh yes, okay, that would be my brain doesn't go there.
That would be the wild Who wilt?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Who wilt? The Minnesota wilt exactly?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Minnesota wilt sorry, which again.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Sounds like a really good disc for the team.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
If you want to about that one tongue the same way.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
You know, I'm going to do another hockey one.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Okay, let's get NHL team challenging.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, good, good, We're gonna stretch you a little bit.
They play in Ohio's most populous city.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
They are named for the city's favorite artificial sweetener, equal
and the containers it comes in.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Okay, the oh, this is good. The blue packets very good?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yes, the Columbus.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Columbus Blue backets, blue.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Packets, Oh, very good.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
And you have to know the colors, no, not yellow.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Or it helps to know the Columbus Blue Jackets are
the team so that you can work from that. This
is a Southwest Conference basketball team that got its name
from the fans love for candy like Skittles, Nerds and Warheads.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Okay, basketball fans love for candies.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, Southwest Conference.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I don't know, just to hit pause, if I could
name any of the NBA teams conferences and I'm actually not,
I don't what percentage of NBA fans do you think
could do that?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
That's a great question because it doesn't matter that nobody cares.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, we never even like an NBA programming a ESPN.
I don't think we ever, like was the last time
it has ever even mentioned?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
You know, right, because you just get into the playoffs
based on your record, regardless.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Of the This would be my worst nightmare and seleby
Jeopardy if they will just like name one team in
this car, I like, I crewe true, I mean, we're
not lady beginning a football question wrong, but like that
would be devastating because anyways, but Southwest, I got west,
you know, general region of the country where that could
be Okay, and so and and it was sweet candies.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah, yep, no, it was. It was explicitly not that
it was Skittles nerds and warheads.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Skittles nerds and warheads. So sour candies, yes, Okay. So
NBA teams, So we've got the Suns obviously. In Phoenix, southwest,
you've got the Lakers. Yeah, Clippers, and.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
This is a team a little further east, all the
way south. Uh, former ABA team actually one of only
two former ABA teams.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Oh so just this hours.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
San Antonio exactly. You have to do a little choice
in the Southwest. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I did just want to point out that there's a
candy named after like nuclear nuclear weapons, warheads.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Warheads.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, I don't even know it, but I'm disturbed.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
You've never had those.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
No, I never had them. Maybe I'm a pacifist mina,
I don't have the world heads.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Once you've tried one, you'll see that they are appropriately named,
because it was kind of it's like red hots, where
they're not good, but when you're a kid, you're so
obsessed with kind of challenging your palette to eat this.
They're not good at all, really really sour crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
They've got some sort of chemical in them that makes
your own mouth trivele up.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I will try it, all right, We'll do.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Two more, two more. When this Michigan city hit hard times,
they named their football team for all the mortgages that came.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Do oh, that would be the Detroit Leons.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yes, exactly, instead of the Detroit Lions. That was a
heartbreaking into their season.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Truly, truly, I really wanted it for them.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Everybody did, Yeah, everybody did.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
It's a great fan base too, one of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, terrific fan based, terrific team, great coach. I mean,
just maybe this year excellent.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
You think fantastic. Mana well done. And by the way,
I was listening to your podcast today or maybe yesterday,
and you were discussing that a lot of college mascots
are dogs, but they're all bulldogs. There's a bulldogs. Yeah,
but I do think that's I mean, I wouldn't think
like a golden doodle would be a good mascot for
(12:47):
a college team like you. Yeah, I guess you could do.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Doberman's bulldogs are not athletic. They're also like borderline ethically
dubious to exist.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I think interesting.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
However, they are very disproportionately represented amongst college sports teams
s Ben Huskies, there was a golden Retriever team. I
think it was you Maryland or something Maryland, a small
school that made it. That was a kind of Cinderella
a few years ago UNBC, but Bulldogs, lot of.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Hols my favorite college sports team. I think I've said
it on the show before. Franklin and Marshall, that is
just you.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Know, what's their mascot?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
The diplomats. Oh like I thh that they just want
to talk talk for we don't have to play football.
We can just have a discussion and figure this out.
I think that's nice.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
It is.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
It's a less exciting sport for the viewer, but certainly
very pleasant.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Well, you know, for those of us who did high
school debate or Model UN, maybe it would be a
good mascot for a Model Un team.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
There you go exactly. Well, thank you, Mina, and by
the time those airs, we'll know more about your Jeopardy fate.
But we loved watching that first episode and we love
having you on the Puzzler, So thank you again for
taking the time.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Guys and Greg, do you have an extra credit for
the pocas.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Of course, of course I do. This extra credit actually
has has two answers. Once upon a time, every baseball
team had a colored female pig that ran around the field.
Only two franchises remained that are named for theirs.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
All right, I'm going to be working on that because
I didn't get it immediately. And while I'm working on that,
maybe I'll go on my favorite podcast platform and rate
the puzzler. Maybe I shouldn't because that's on episodes, but
if you do, we would love it because it helps
so much. And of course we'll meet you here tomorrow
for more puzzling puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Hey, puzzlers, it's Greg Pliska up from the Puzzle Lab
with the extra credit answer from our previous episode. Mina
Chimes joined us once again for some audio connections, and
this clip was what we gave you as your extra credit.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
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 eyes, full.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Heart, scampos, pugsy.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
If you're soft and weak, you'll never survive without me.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I give you two months.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Tops.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I'm gonna miss you, Tess. So what do those three
things have in common? If you said they are TV
shows with days of the week in their titles, you
would be correct. That's Saturday Night Live, Friday Night Lights
and Wednesday. The show about Wednesday. Adams leads me to thinking,
are there shows with other days of the week in
(16:09):
them and no count? Now you can't say the Sunday
Evening News that doesn't count. In fact, I probably wouldn't
have even allowed Saturday Night Live because it's named for
the days of the day of the week that it airs.
Have you got ones for Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday, Saturday? Send
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