June 14, 2025 • 21 mins
Hello, Puzzlers! This week, A.J. and Greg celebrate Father's Day by puzzling with their kids!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello puzzlers. Let's start with a quick puzzle. As you know,
we are wrapping up Father's Day week on the Puzzler
and we have a mini puzzle about suns. But since
this is the Puzzler and wordplay is mandatory, this puzzle
is about suns, not sons. And the question is can
you name at least two national flags with an image
(00:24):
of the sun on them? For instance, the flag of
Nepal is a red flag with a white crescent moon
and a white sun. Nepal's flag. Fyi also the most
unusually shaped flag two triangles instead of a rectangle, but
that is not at all relevant. The question that is
relevant what countries have an image of the sun on them?
(00:44):
The answer and more puzzling goodness after the break. Hello puzzlers,
Welcome back to the Puzzler Podcast, the open USB out
in your crowded airport puzzle lounge. I'm your host, AJ Jacobs.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
That's nice. It's like a great thing to find your
stressful day. You're in the airport, you got to charge
your phone and there's the Puzzler podcast there.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
It is. It really is a nice thing. So that
of course is Chief Puzzle Officer Greg Pleiska and Greg
Before the break, we asked about suns s U n
and what countries flags have an image of the sun
on them, any thoughts.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
That's a great question. You took one of the ones
I was going to use Nepali, and you mentioned the
cool thing about the Nepal flag the shape of it,
which is non rectangular, making it unique among world flags.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Um.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And the other one I know for sure is Argentina,
which has which is like blue and blue white blue
stripes with a big sun right in the middle of it.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
That's it, That is I mean, it's always funny because
I always try to choose an obscure example that won't
ruin your thinking, and it's always the one you're always well,
you know you've an obscure mind.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Does the Brazilian flag has a bunch of stars which
are technically suns in other galleries or other not other galaxies,
but other star systems, right.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Right, same with the United States flag. But I decided, yeah, no,
you got it. Argentina also Uruguay has that same uh
sun up in the corner, slightly different. It's got like
heavier eyebrows, but looks like that same sun because it's
a little face of.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
A heavier eyebrows than Argentinians.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Maybe please send your emails to Greg if you have.
But there's also Japan, the land of the Rising Sun. Uh,
there's the Philippines, Namibia, Malawi.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Old, but Japan is just a big red dot that
represents the sun.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
True, that is should I have made that clear that
it had to be, it could be?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And I see where you go. That's fine, yeah, yeah,
we give we'll give you credit.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
For your We got Taiwan, Bangladesh, Rwanda, Antigua, so quite
a few. I did not know until I started researching
that it was the sun was so popular. But speaking
of sons, the whole reason this came up is because
we have an s O N in the house. But
(03:23):
he is just as bright as the s U N
and his name is Nikki Puliska. Welcome, Nikki, Hi, thank
you for having me. Oh, we are just thrilled. We
are absolutely thrilled. And I see that you are now
I believe it's your room. Maybe it's your parents, okay,
because in the background there's a forty nine ers poster
(03:44):
and a Marvel poster. Yes, that brings to mind a
question for me, who do you think which Marvel character
would be best at puzzles? Who is the smartest?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Oh, let's see, you have to get the smartest problem solving.
I'd say maybe mister Fantastic because he's really smart and
is the brains of the Fantastic Four.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So great answer. I mean, it's interesting because I did
google this because I was curious, and several sources say,
mister Fantastic, you are the mister Fantastic of this podcast.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I was going to predict that you would say iron Man.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Well that's a good one too, not ask smart, he's
more techy.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah right, fair Fair is in the top five of
the other of the ones people talk about.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
And Nikki, are you excited for the Fantastic Four movie
that's coming soon?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
What?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I cannot wait?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Oh, cannot wait? Got it? I thought you said not really.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
No, No, we're very psychond. We saw Thunderbolts and you
know there's a little preview for the Fantastic Four at
the beginning of that. It was very.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Well, Nicky, I know, just like mister Fantastic, you are
very smart and puzzling. And I'm told you actually have
a puzzle for us.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
I do, so the puzzle I've created for you to
today is a puzzle on gen Z and gen Alpha
terminology as well as Marine Rod. She is developed from
the internet.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
So is what you experienced because you're on the internet
too much?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Oh this is good? All right? Well, I'm actually I'm
quite nervous or whatever the gen Z term for nervous
is because I don't think I know my gen Z termination.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I might have an advantage because I have a gen
Z and a gen Alpha child at home, so we'll see.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
All right, I'm excited. Here we go.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Question one, what is the meaning of the word fire
according to gen Z? Is it a stupid slash on intelligent,
wasteful slash useless see hot slash warmth or d impressive
slash cool?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Should I answer or go for it?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I think I know this one and we've used it
in our house.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
All right, well this fire, Well, yeah, I'm actually this one.
I think I might. Now I'm like sixty percent sure
that weirdly it's cool, fire is cool.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
That would be the correct answer.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
All right, all right, one for us.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
So for question two, now this is not multiple choice.
Question is what is a yacht G y A T T.
And there's a sentence I have here if you need.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I do need it, I do need a sentence?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Is he has a really big yacht?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I feel that it is a very unhelpful hint. But Nikki,
you are a great puzzle giver and writer. So apple
does not far far from the tree?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
All right?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
A bear a yacht? A yacht?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Oh, man, I have had a loss. I am at
c if you will.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Ye give him Nikki? What about? Because I know this
one too, because it was popular in our house. There
was a song that had the line sticking out your
yacht okay, elbow, No it's tongue, YEA good guess. Lower
on the body, I.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Think you might have said, who said no? No? After
that tongue elbow between those yes? Correct?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Oh it's a butte is a butt? Okay? All right
now I know.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
So now for question three? What is the name of
the internet sensation known for being a head and a toilet?
Is it a signal toilet, the skivity toilet see mister
toilet or the toilet toilet toilet toilet.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Like yes, Just to clarify, I don't think you're giving away.
Are we talking about a video like this? Would be
a talking head that is in the toilet looking up
at you or.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Talking more gibberish.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Okay, got it, all right? And that is oh man,
you know what I'm gonna go with, toilet toilet mac
toilet face just because I love it.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Not correct?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I know this one. It's skibbity toilet correct answer?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
All right? So should I watch skibbity toilet? Is it?
Is it going to contribute to my brain?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Rot? Your mind will be underdeveloped?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Thank you for saving what I love is is. I
don't know if you're going to ask us about the
meaning of skibbity are you nikky?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Oh no, because it's it's it's quite confusing and you're
both good and it used to.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Mean good and then it meant bad. If something was skibbty,
it was bad and then it was good or what
I mean interesting?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Yeah, I have a question for here. How do you spell?
And I'm not gonna be made fun of this period?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Say one more time period? Period? Period?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Can you use that in a sentence? That's pretty a
complete sentence.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
It's a word. I guess you would say it means
that you like good, like that's perfect word, like you
know when people say we're that statement you say period.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, do you say period? Yacht like?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
No?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
All right, so good period.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
If you need I have the amount.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Of letters, yeah, I'll take anything I can.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Nikki, he has seven letters.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Seven letter shoot. I really thought it was like the
like the punctuation mark period p E r I O D.
But it's not.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Well, what about p e r I y A d
p e r period.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
It's gonna be seven letters p E r I O
T T.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Really close.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
One of the letters is wrong period uh p e
r I A T T period No oh.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
D d no close one letter.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
On o d T corecked wow r I O d T.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
We'll just cut out the part where we guessed six
times the wrong thing.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Don't ask me, don't ask me why. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
All right, that is a period question.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Now question five, and this is more of a newer
piece of brain rots. What is Italian rock a American
brain rot spoken in Italian b A complex series of
AI generated animal object mixes originated in Italy. See a
(11:23):
simple series of superheroes and animals originated in Italy. Or
a fake thing or d a fake thing I just
made up on the spot.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Tricky, nicky rot. I like this so I know.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
It's not a fake thing he made up? I knowing.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
What was the third one?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
A simple series of superheroes and animals originated in Italy?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Well, I like the mixing, the one that it was
all about mixing a.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Complex series of AI generated animal object.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Mixes originated Let's go with that.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Love that, Ye, that would be correct answer.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Can you give us an example of an Italian brain?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Let's see tum tum tum tum tum soho. Oh, wow,
bombardio crocodilo and what is that?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
A mix of a crocodile and an airplane? An airplane? Oh,
this is good Italian? And what was the other one?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
You said?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Tum tum tum tum tum soho?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
And what is that?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I can't reveal that because that's part of the next question.
Question six. Who is the shark with blue shoes and
Italian brain? Is it a tum tum tum tum tum soho?
B La Voca sturno saturnita cela or d Bryan and
(12:59):
the shark Little Shoes is based off the Shirk with
blue shoes. That's based off the appearance.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Got it.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I don't think it's the vodka because because that's vodka.
I think pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
It is cow right right, unless it's a bull.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Shark and it's not right fair, it's not Brian.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Uh yeah, that's what I was waiting for, a zoul
something that I can grasp onto, but I got nothing.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It's either the first one, which is what was the first.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
One, doom doom doom do, or.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
It's one of those two.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Oh, I love it. I just love you saying.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Right, it's so good.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
So I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with koh sure
that one.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I'm gonna go with the other one that doom doom
doom do.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
So yeah, and this Christian A j would be correct.
Good job.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
There get a shark with blue shoes coming to visit you.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Hilarious. I love the.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Question seven is not multiple choice? What is the meaning
of the word cap in Genova and jen Z terminology?
And there's a sentence if you need it.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Definitely need a sentence.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
She capped so badly that no one believed her cap.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Like she capped so badly.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I do remember reading this in one of my like
language for old people guides, but I can't remember now
what it is. I know that like in the mafia.
You know, cap bust the cap and the uh what
was the gi yo yacht?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
You bust a cap and someone's yacht? But but I
can't that is not the correct use of CA happened.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I'm pretty sure I know this one.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Uh cap?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
What was the sentence again?
Speaker 4 (15:07):
She caps so badly that no one believed her.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
She she yelled because cap lock. No, all right, I
give up.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I think it's lie.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
She lies correct a very cap all right.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Question eight? What are baddies? Is it a ugly people?
B animals? See evil people? Ord attractive people?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Interesting?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Can you spell that.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Word B A D D I E S?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Interesting? Baddies? Well, I you know, I believe that baddies
are in the eye of the beholder. So there are
no ugly people who a beautiful people? Except what you decide.
That's just a little life philosophy for you, Nick. But
I'm gonna say I think evil people is too on
(16:02):
the nose, definitely, So I'm gonna say I think baddies
are hotties. I'm gonna say like a reverse thing would
be correct.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Oh yeah, we are three batties right here.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Question nine? What is rigs? That's all eyes? Easy. Is
it a charisma, B selfishness, C, speed or D A
nickname for crackers, as in as in Ritz crackers.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Right, yeah, this is all right zz Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
The cool people say Riz crackers.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I'm gonna give you some crackers.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
That's what I happen to know. That's when my kids
do use and it is Riz. That would be correct awesome.
Now you have Riz Nikki. I want to say that.
Right up from.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Question ten out of eleven, this this one? Hey, who
is baby Gronk? Hey? A kid internet star given his
name because of his football abilities and ability to rise
up baddies, A funny looking baby see a basketball player
given his name because of the noises he makes when
(17:17):
he shoots, hence the name Gronk or D. Notorious former
NFL tight end Rob Gronkowski's son.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Oh man, that's a tough one. I mean, I do
think it's related to Rob.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I've cladly got to be related to Gronk, right, Rob Gronkowski.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
And I feel I don't know, I feel his son
is maybe too obvious. So what was the other one
of the first one.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Kid internet star giving his name because of his football
abilities and ability to result baddies.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
That's that's the correct answers. And now we're on the
last and final questions. All right, the best one of
them all. Wow, I experienced our greg and age and
genova and gen z terms in brain wrong is a
very sigma B, fire, C, low key, insane or d
(18:14):
all of the above.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Oh my god, that is fantastic. I'm gonna lokey is
funny because I just had this discussion with my kids.
At first, I thought loki meant lo key, but then
I'm told loki sometimes can mean the opposite of lo
KEI high keys. Very confusing, But I'm gonna just go
with all of the above.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
What's correct?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Sure fire? You cooked? Nikki?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Well, oh, Nikki, that was fire? That was all? Whatever?
What all of the above? That quiz was all of
the above? We loved having. I feel my brain has
on the opposite of rotting. It's bloomed. My brain is
bloomed by getting all.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
This way, It's bloomed to row.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
There you go, it has. It has rotted to bloom
or bloom to rot. But I do feel a lot
more qualified to talk to people who are younger than me.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I have a question for an extra credit.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Ye, right, possibly do, Nikki.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Are there Italian brain rot terms you have not said
yet quite a few, So you're gonna give us for
the extra credit. You're gonna give us three Italian brain
rot terms. Two of them are real and one is fake,
and the audience has to get which one is fake?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
All right, So the first is Burboloni Loulioni, the second
is Goo Gaga, and the third is going to be
truly Metrochina. You have to determine which is fake.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
What was the third one? Again? Truly Metro Truchina, Truly
Moro Truchino, Truichina, Gina love it.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I am stumped, but I cannot wait to find out
what they are and which is fake. So come back
for that. And in the meantime, if you have a
few minutes and want more puzzling goodness, check out the
puzzler Instagram at Hello puzzlers, and of course we will
see you tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles that puzzle you puzzling.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Hey puzzlers, it's Greg Pliska, your chief puzzle officer, here
once again with the extra credit answer from our previous episode.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
I gave my son Nikki pliska a little quiz we called.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Bootball or the NBL.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Every team that I clued him on is one letter
different from a better known NFL National Football League team.
Your extra credit clue was a little bit ridiculous, but
I think it's fun. Your clue is this, They play
in Texas and they dress up like mechanical android bovines. That,
of course, is the team from Dallas.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
And it's not the Dallas Cowboys. It's the Dallas cow Bots, which,
frankly i'd like to see.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
I'd like to see a bunch of Dallas players, Dak
Prescott in a big cow outfit, galloping or galumphing down
the field as if he was a robot.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
So maybe we can make that happen. Let's see. Thanks
for playing
Hello puzzlers. Let's start with a quick puzzle. As you know,
we are wrapping up Father's Day week on the Puzzler
and we have a mini puzzle about suns. But since
this is the Puzzler and wordplay is mandatory, this puzzle
is about suns, not sons. And the question is can
you name at least two national flags with an image
(00:24):
of the sun on them? For instance, the flag of
Nepal is a red flag with a white crescent moon
and a white sun. Nepal's flag. Fyi also the most
unusually shaped flag two triangles instead of a rectangle, but
that is not at all relevant. The question that is
relevant what countries have an image of the sun on them?
(00:44):
The answer and more puzzling goodness after the break. Hello puzzlers,
Welcome back to the Puzzler Podcast, the open USB out
in your crowded airport puzzle lounge. I'm your host, AJ Jacobs.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
That's nice. It's like a great thing to find your
stressful day. You're in the airport, you got to charge
your phone and there's the Puzzler podcast there.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
It is. It really is a nice thing. So that
of course is Chief Puzzle Officer Greg Pleiska and Greg
Before the break, we asked about suns s U n
and what countries flags have an image of the sun
on them, any thoughts.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
That's a great question. You took one of the ones
I was going to use Nepali, and you mentioned the
cool thing about the Nepal flag the shape of it,
which is non rectangular, making it unique among world flags.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Um.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And the other one I know for sure is Argentina,
which has which is like blue and blue white blue
stripes with a big sun right in the middle of it.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
That's it, That is I mean, it's always funny because
I always try to choose an obscure example that won't
ruin your thinking, and it's always the one you're always well,
you know you've an obscure mind.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Does the Brazilian flag has a bunch of stars which
are technically suns in other galleries or other not other galaxies,
but other star systems, right.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Right, same with the United States flag. But I decided, yeah, no,
you got it. Argentina also Uruguay has that same uh
sun up in the corner, slightly different. It's got like
heavier eyebrows, but looks like that same sun because it's
a little face of.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
A heavier eyebrows than Argentinians.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Maybe please send your emails to Greg if you have.
But there's also Japan, the land of the Rising Sun. Uh,
there's the Philippines, Namibia, Malawi.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Old, but Japan is just a big red dot that
represents the sun.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
True, that is should I have made that clear that
it had to be, it could be?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And I see where you go. That's fine, yeah, yeah,
we give we'll give you credit.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
For your We got Taiwan, Bangladesh, Rwanda, Antigua, so quite
a few. I did not know until I started researching
that it was the sun was so popular. But speaking
of sons, the whole reason this came up is because
we have an s O N in the house. But
(03:23):
he is just as bright as the s U N
and his name is Nikki Puliska. Welcome, Nikki, Hi, thank
you for having me. Oh, we are just thrilled. We
are absolutely thrilled. And I see that you are now
I believe it's your room. Maybe it's your parents, okay,
because in the background there's a forty nine ers poster
(03:44):
and a Marvel poster. Yes, that brings to mind a
question for me, who do you think which Marvel character
would be best at puzzles? Who is the smartest?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Oh, let's see, you have to get the smartest problem solving.
I'd say maybe mister Fantastic because he's really smart and
is the brains of the Fantastic Four.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So great answer. I mean, it's interesting because I did
google this because I was curious, and several sources say,
mister Fantastic, you are the mister Fantastic of this podcast.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I was going to predict that you would say iron Man.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Well that's a good one too, not ask smart, he's
more techy.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah right, fair Fair is in the top five of
the other of the ones people talk about.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
And Nikki, are you excited for the Fantastic Four movie
that's coming soon?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
What?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I cannot wait?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Oh, cannot wait? Got it? I thought you said not really.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
No, No, we're very psychond. We saw Thunderbolts and you
know there's a little preview for the Fantastic Four at
the beginning of that. It was very.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Well, Nicky, I know, just like mister Fantastic, you are
very smart and puzzling. And I'm told you actually have
a puzzle for us.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
I do, so the puzzle I've created for you to
today is a puzzle on gen Z and gen Alpha
terminology as well as Marine Rod. She is developed from
the internet.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
So is what you experienced because you're on the internet
too much?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Oh this is good? All right? Well, I'm actually I'm
quite nervous or whatever the gen Z term for nervous
is because I don't think I know my gen Z termination.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I might have an advantage because I have a gen
Z and a gen Alpha child at home, so we'll see.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
All right, I'm excited. Here we go.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Question one, what is the meaning of the word fire
according to gen Z? Is it a stupid slash on intelligent,
wasteful slash useless see hot slash warmth or d impressive
slash cool?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Should I answer or go for it?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I think I know this one and we've used it
in our house.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
All right, well this fire, Well, yeah, I'm actually this one.
I think I might. Now I'm like sixty percent sure
that weirdly it's cool, fire is cool.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
That would be the correct answer.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
All right, all right, one for us.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
So for question two, now this is not multiple choice.
Question is what is a yacht G y A T T.
And there's a sentence I have here if you need.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I do need it, I do need a sentence?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Is he has a really big yacht?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I feel that it is a very unhelpful hint. But Nikki,
you are a great puzzle giver and writer. So apple
does not far far from the tree?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
All right?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
A bear a yacht? A yacht?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Oh, man, I have had a loss. I am at
c if you will.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Ye give him Nikki? What about? Because I know this
one too, because it was popular in our house. There
was a song that had the line sticking out your
yacht okay, elbow, No it's tongue, YEA good guess. Lower
on the body, I.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Think you might have said, who said no? No? After
that tongue elbow between those yes? Correct?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Oh it's a butte is a butt? Okay? All right
now I know.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
So now for question three? What is the name of
the internet sensation known for being a head and a toilet?
Is it a signal toilet, the skivity toilet see mister
toilet or the toilet toilet toilet toilet.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Like yes, Just to clarify, I don't think you're giving away.
Are we talking about a video like this? Would be
a talking head that is in the toilet looking up
at you or.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Talking more gibberish.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Okay, got it, all right? And that is oh man,
you know what I'm gonna go with, toilet toilet mac
toilet face just because I love it.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Not correct?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I know this one. It's skibbity toilet correct answer?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
All right? So should I watch skibbity toilet? Is it?
Is it going to contribute to my brain?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Rot? Your mind will be underdeveloped?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Thank you for saving what I love is is. I
don't know if you're going to ask us about the
meaning of skibbity are you nikky?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Oh no, because it's it's it's quite confusing and you're
both good and it used to.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Mean good and then it meant bad. If something was skibbty,
it was bad and then it was good or what
I mean interesting?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Yeah, I have a question for here. How do you spell?
And I'm not gonna be made fun of this period?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Say one more time period? Period? Period?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Can you use that in a sentence? That's pretty a
complete sentence.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
It's a word. I guess you would say it means
that you like good, like that's perfect word, like you
know when people say we're that statement you say period.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, do you say period? Yacht like?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
No?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
All right, so good period.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
If you need I have the amount.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Of letters, yeah, I'll take anything I can.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Nikki, he has seven letters.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Seven letter shoot. I really thought it was like the
like the punctuation mark period p E r I O D.
But it's not.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Well, what about p e r I y A d
p e r period.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
It's gonna be seven letters p E r I O
T T.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Really close.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
One of the letters is wrong period uh p e
r I A T T period No oh.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
D d no close one letter.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
On o d T corecked wow r I O d T.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
We'll just cut out the part where we guessed six
times the wrong thing.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Don't ask me, don't ask me why. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
All right, that is a period question.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Now question five, and this is more of a newer
piece of brain rots. What is Italian rock a American
brain rot spoken in Italian b A complex series of
AI generated animal object mixes originated in Italy. See a
(11:23):
simple series of superheroes and animals originated in Italy. Or
a fake thing or d a fake thing I just
made up on the spot.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Tricky, nicky rot. I like this so I know.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
It's not a fake thing he made up? I knowing.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
What was the third one?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
A simple series of superheroes and animals originated in Italy?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Well, I like the mixing, the one that it was
all about mixing a.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Complex series of AI generated animal object.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Mixes originated Let's go with that.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Love that, Ye, that would be correct answer.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Can you give us an example of an Italian brain?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Let's see tum tum tum tum tum soho. Oh, wow,
bombardio crocodilo and what is that?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
A mix of a crocodile and an airplane? An airplane? Oh,
this is good Italian? And what was the other one?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
You said?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Tum tum tum tum tum soho?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
And what is that?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I can't reveal that because that's part of the next question.
Question six. Who is the shark with blue shoes and
Italian brain? Is it a tum tum tum tum tum soho?
B La Voca sturno saturnita cela or d Bryan and
(12:59):
the shark Little Shoes is based off the Shirk with
blue shoes. That's based off the appearance.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Got it.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I don't think it's the vodka because because that's vodka.
I think pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
It is cow right right, unless it's a bull.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Shark and it's not right fair, it's not Brian.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Uh yeah, that's what I was waiting for, a zoul
something that I can grasp onto, but I got nothing.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It's either the first one, which is what was the first.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
One, doom doom doom do, or.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
It's one of those two.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Oh, I love it. I just love you saying.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Right, it's so good.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
So I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with koh sure
that one.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I'm gonna go with the other one that doom doom
doom do.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
So yeah, and this Christian A j would be correct.
Good job.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
There get a shark with blue shoes coming to visit you.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Hilarious. I love the.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Question seven is not multiple choice? What is the meaning
of the word cap in Genova and jen Z terminology?
And there's a sentence if you need it.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Definitely need a sentence.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
She capped so badly that no one believed her cap.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Like she capped so badly.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I do remember reading this in one of my like
language for old people guides, but I can't remember now
what it is. I know that like in the mafia.
You know, cap bust the cap and the uh what
was the gi yo yacht?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
You bust a cap and someone's yacht? But but I
can't that is not the correct use of CA happened.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I'm pretty sure I know this one.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Uh cap?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
What was the sentence again?
Speaker 4 (15:07):
She caps so badly that no one believed her.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
She she yelled because cap lock. No, all right, I
give up.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I think it's lie.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
She lies correct a very cap all right.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Question eight? What are baddies? Is it a ugly people?
B animals? See evil people? Ord attractive people?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Interesting?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Can you spell that.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Word B A D D I E S?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Interesting? Baddies? Well, I you know, I believe that baddies
are in the eye of the beholder. So there are
no ugly people who a beautiful people? Except what you decide.
That's just a little life philosophy for you, Nick. But
I'm gonna say I think evil people is too on
(16:02):
the nose, definitely, So I'm gonna say I think baddies
are hotties. I'm gonna say like a reverse thing would
be correct.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Oh yeah, we are three batties right here.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Question nine? What is rigs? That's all eyes? Easy. Is
it a charisma, B selfishness, C, speed or D A
nickname for crackers, as in as in Ritz crackers.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Right, yeah, this is all right zz Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
The cool people say Riz crackers.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I'm gonna give you some crackers.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
That's what I happen to know. That's when my kids
do use and it is Riz. That would be correct awesome.
Now you have Riz Nikki. I want to say that.
Right up from.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Question ten out of eleven, this this one? Hey, who
is baby Gronk? Hey? A kid internet star given his
name because of his football abilities and ability to rise
up baddies, A funny looking baby see a basketball player
given his name because of the noises he makes when
(17:17):
he shoots, hence the name Gronk or D. Notorious former
NFL tight end Rob Gronkowski's son.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Oh man, that's a tough one. I mean, I do
think it's related to Rob.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I've cladly got to be related to Gronk, right, Rob Gronkowski.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
And I feel I don't know, I feel his son
is maybe too obvious. So what was the other one
of the first one.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Kid internet star giving his name because of his football
abilities and ability to result baddies.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
That's that's the correct answers. And now we're on the
last and final questions. All right, the best one of
them all. Wow, I experienced our greg and age and
genova and gen z terms in brain wrong is a
very sigma B, fire, C, low key, insane or d
(18:14):
all of the above.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Oh my god, that is fantastic. I'm gonna lokey is
funny because I just had this discussion with my kids.
At first, I thought loki meant lo key, but then
I'm told loki sometimes can mean the opposite of lo
KEI high keys. Very confusing, But I'm gonna just go
with all of the above.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
What's correct?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Sure fire? You cooked? Nikki?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Well, oh, Nikki, that was fire? That was all? Whatever?
What all of the above? That quiz was all of
the above? We loved having. I feel my brain has
on the opposite of rotting. It's bloomed. My brain is
bloomed by getting all.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
This way, It's bloomed to row.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
There you go, it has. It has rotted to bloom
or bloom to rot. But I do feel a lot
more qualified to talk to people who are younger than me.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I have a question for an extra credit.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Ye, right, possibly do, Nikki.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Are there Italian brain rot terms you have not said
yet quite a few, So you're gonna give us for
the extra credit. You're gonna give us three Italian brain
rot terms. Two of them are real and one is fake,
and the audience has to get which one is fake?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
All right, So the first is Burboloni Loulioni, the second
is Goo Gaga, and the third is going to be
truly Metrochina. You have to determine which is fake.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
What was the third one? Again? Truly Metro Truchina, Truly
Moro Truchino, Truichina, Gina love it.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I am stumped, but I cannot wait to find out
what they are and which is fake. So come back
for that. And in the meantime, if you have a
few minutes and want more puzzling goodness, check out the
puzzler Instagram at Hello puzzlers, and of course we will
see you tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles that puzzle you puzzling.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Hey puzzlers, it's Greg Pliska, your chief puzzle officer, here
once again with the extra credit answer from our previous episode.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
I gave my son Nikki pliska a little quiz we called.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Bootball or the NBL.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Every team that I clued him on is one letter
different from a better known NFL National Football League team.
Your extra credit clue was a little bit ridiculous, but
I think it's fun. Your clue is this, They play
in Texas and they dress up like mechanical android bovines. That,
of course, is the team from Dallas.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
And it's not the Dallas Cowboys. It's the Dallas cow Bots, which,
frankly i'd like to see.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
I'd like to see a bunch of Dallas players, Dak
Prescott in a big cow outfit, galloping or galumphing down
the field as if he was a robot.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
So maybe we can make that happen. Let's see. Thanks
for playing
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Greg Pliska
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