March 17, 2025 • 15 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, puzzlers. Let's start with a quick puzzle which has
more questions in it? The Bob Dylan song Blowing in
the Wind, the Aved and Costello routine, Who's on first?
Or the Doctor Zeus Book, Green Eggs and Ham? So
which of those put in order? Which has the most
(00:23):
and has the least number of questions? And the three
options again, Bob Dylan song Blowing in the Wind, the
how many roads must a Man walk down? Aved and Costello?
Who's on first? Doctor Zeus Book, Green Eggs and Ham?
Would you eat them in a box? Would you eat
them with a box? Think about it, and the answer,
my friend, is after the burst. Hello puzzlers, Welcome to
(00:53):
the Buzzler Podcast. The Steel Frizzon in your Puzzle, flint
Locked Musket. I'm your host, A J. Jacobson. I'm here,
of course, with Chief Buzzle Officer Greg Kliska. So before
the break, Greg, we asked which of the following has
the most number of questions in it? So, Bob Feelin's
on Blowing in the Wind, Abing Costello, Who's on first?
(01:14):
Or the Doctor Zeus Book, Green Eggs and Ham? What's
your answer? Rate them from highest to lowest.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I think, well, I think Green eggs and Ham is
basically one long question. I'm sure it's punctuated in between
some question marks. Would you could you on a boat?
Question mark? Would you could you with a goat? So
I'm inclined to put that one down at the bottom.
I feel like blowing the blowing in the wind is
the same question over and over and again, uh, in
different ways. So I'm going to put that second, and
(01:41):
I'm gonna put Abin and Costello at first.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
All Right, you did pretty well. You didn't get one
hundred percent, you got.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Not so many options, so well, it's pretty bad. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Who's on first? Has forty six questions total in the routine.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Then comes green eggs and Ham, which does have sixteen questions,
and I say they are completely separate. Would you in
with a fox? Would you in a box? Totally different?
And then blowing in the wind has nine questions? So
there you go.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You know, Green Eggs at Him was also written with
all one syllable words except.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
For one oh, which was the alone.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
And not counting the hyphenated sam. I am.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I know. It was like a bet. Didn't he make
a bet or something that he could write one. Yeah,
so what is that? Do you remember the nons monos?
You can't tease?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yes, I remember it's yes, yes, Well I would not
eat them here or there. I would not eat them.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Any anywhere where. God, it's multi all right. Interesting. I
don't know why I had to break the streak with that,
but you know, he's doctors. She's great anyway, speaking of great,
speaking of great, Actually have a different segue. We started
with this puzzle because it seemed appropriate for our guests today,
because it's about numerous questions, and our guest is the
(03:04):
great Joe Sabia, the man behind the famous seventy three
Questions videos for Vogue. He's also a filmmaker who has
directed federer Twelve Final Days, a great documentary about the
final days of Roger Federer's competitive tennis career. Welcome, Joe.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Oh, it's great to be here, no question about it.
I'm so happy too here.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Excellent.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I love this podcast.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Thank you, Joe, We love having you and Joe. For
those who have not seen it, those poor souls who
have not seen seventy three questions, can you describe it
real quick?
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
So? Seventy three questions is where I have the pleasure
of knocking on a celebrities door. That's celebrity opening up
the door, letting me into their home where I asked
them a surreal barrage of seventy three questions, one after another,
rapid fire, all in one, take no cuts, and the
(04:05):
camera is me so they celebrity is looking directly at
me the entire time, and that's how we pull it off.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
That's amazing. And the questions range from like big like
what's your biggest regret? To like what's your favorite breakfast cereal?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Breakfast Cereal? The go to is like, you know, if
you could be a Disney princess, who would you be?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Do?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
What was the last movie that made you cry? We
cover the full expanse of the human condition with the series.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
All right, well, I do have a few questions about
seventy three questions, but I will save them for a
little later. Uh one, let me get out this out though.
Why seventy three? Where did that come from?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
It was because one hundred was too many questions, And
when I trimmed down a few of the questions to
get to the right number, I googled seventy three and
it had great search engine optimization. And it's also a
really high prime number. People don't realize that prime numbers
go that high, and I did it to serve that
(05:06):
audience as well.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
That's why people think that prime numbers just stop at
a certain point.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You kind of think like prime like mostly primes are
you know sub twenty Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Of course they go higher than that, but people don't
think about the ones that go higher than twenty.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Fair right, right, So you're appealing to the math audience
as well as the celebrity audience. I love it best.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I did my best.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Uh well, given the titles of your show and movie,
we thought it was only appropriate we give you one
of our favorite types of puzzles, which are called dit Lloyd's,
and the dit Lloyd works where I give you a
clue to a phrase and the phrase is always going
to include a number, and I'm going to clue it
(05:46):
by giving you the first letter of the words in
that phrase. So, for instance, if the clue is fifty
two w in a Y, then the answer is fifty
two weeks in a year. So it's going to be
a common phrase. If we were doing your show, it'd
be seventy three qs would be the clue seventy three
questions or F twelve f D would be Federer twelve
(06:10):
final days.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Got it, I so got it. I'm so ready for this.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Let's do this, all right. I love the confidence. Okay,
all right, we're gonna start. I'm gonna give you the
category because it can be very challenging without the category.
So I'm gonna start with some book and movie titles
s W and the seven d's s W and the
seven d's.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
S W and the seven d's.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I would have to say, well, first, I'm gonna go
to my knowledge of Disney because it's kind of resonating
as no white and the steven.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Dwarfs resonating one hundred percent correctly, Yes, exactly. I was
gonna give you the B, D, DG HSS, which are
the initials of the dors, but you didn't even need it.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
No, if you did that, then that would have been
a nightmare for me.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
So I'm really.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
All right.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I got another title. A t of two c's A
t of two c's.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
A t of two c's.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Right, so t is I should have called up the
NATO alphabet. A tango of two Charlie's a.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Tango of two Charlie's a t of two S's a
t of two thieves.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
A title.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Oh, it's a title. I was going to see a
titch of of two cups.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Or something like that, like baking ingredients. But it's not that,
so it's oh, oh, I got it, I got it. Okay,
it's a tale of two Cities.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You got it correctly, exactly, all right. Two more on
the titles. One hundred y of s, one hundred y
of s.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Oh, yes, I know this because I have a friend
who is a very big fan of this author's work.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
And it is one hundred years of solitude. That is correct.
It's a big book, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I got a couple more that I'm switching from titles
to adages, sayings, maxims, idioms, that kind of thing, a
S in T S nine an s in t S
nine And it's all about you want to solve your
problems on the early side before they get out of control.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Oh right, okay, So solving problems early before they get
out of control. Well, I mean I'm seeing the word
as I'm thinking saves, something like slaves.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yes, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, the second.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Nine nine, and.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Then you want the first s. It's going to be
it's a sewing it's a sewing term. It's a selling.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yes, show it stay.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Time saves nine.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
That's it. A stitch in time save none.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I've never heard about that aage, but I hope it
adds a lot of value my life moving ahead.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
So thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Yeah, I guess it means you want to stitch early,
otherwise it'll rip more and you have to do nine stitches.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, you get a small hole and you do one
stitch now, because if you don't, you're gonna have to run.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
That's I mean, that's not Let me talk about a
hundred years of solitude. That sounds one hundred years old?
Is that like from Betsy Ross or something?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
It dates from the I believe it dates according to uh,
you know the Internet, it dates from seven from the
eighteenth century.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Wise words. Okay, all right, I'm gonna end with one object,
and it is for l C four l C oh.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Well, I'm thinking of a popular viral trend that came
out in two thousand and ten.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
It's a beverage, an energy drink. Poor Loco.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Oh I love it. No, it is not poor Loco.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I first said that as an adage.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
That it's.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Before here for logo and that would be l K. Right,
isn't it?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
What four leaf clover?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
That's it? Four leaf clover?
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Is that that?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
It's right?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Okay, that that works?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
That counts.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Yeah, okay, great.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
That counts.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Okay, Actually absolutely, wow, Lucky Me.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I was gonna say it was on the it's on
the Lucky Charms cereal box. But you didn't even need that.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Well, listen, Joe, you did excellent. We don't have time
for seventy three questions with you, but I would like
to do seven point three questions or just seven questions.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Okay, I'm ready about.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Seventy three questions. So, because you have interviewed pretty much
every modern celebrity. If you go to the seventy three
videos you have met, you met everyone. Is there a
celebrity you haven't met Billy Joel?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
I say it all the time, Billy Joel.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
What I know, he won't do it? Or Vogue was
not so interested.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
I would say that he's not the most Vogue out there.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
But he's not quite the right demo.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah, okay, you but if you see him in the
music video, I mean those shades make him look pretty fashionable.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
There you go. All right, so let me run through
these real quick. What was the most impressive physical stunt
a celebrity did during seventy three questions?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Okay, the most amazing physical stunt?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Well, what's coming to mind is, oh, yeah, okay, it's
probably the time where Reese Witherspoon was jumping on a
trampoline and then out of the blue just did a backflip.
It was like a ninja ninja mode did a backflip,
and I was so stunned. I wasn't expecting it. And
she intentionally didn't tell me she was going to do it,
just to just do it on camera.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
So that was pretty shocking, and she nailed it. Love
it all right, she landed on her feet.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Multi talented, multi talented? Yeah, all right. Last one, is
there something that nobody else knows about seventy three questions
that just you know that you are now ready to
reveal to the puzzler audience?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Oh you want an exclusive? You're trying to they do
from me?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
We do, come on.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
What I will say is I don't think I've ever
told anyone that if you watch the Selena Gomez episode,
I did one of the nerdiest things ever.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
And no one really knows about it. I don't know, definitely,
Felena doesn't know about it.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
But what I did was that when I go into
her home early in the video, there's a kitchen and
there's a refrigerator in the background. If you look closely
on the refrigerator, there are these magnet numbers that I
took the magnet numbers and placed them on the fridge,
and there are eight number. If you look at the
corresponding numbers and match them to questions that are being asked,
(13:07):
the corresponding number of the questions being asked, like, for example,
you see seven is question seven. You see number twenty
one is question number twenty one. You will notice that
if you stitch all of my questions together, I'm asking
questions that end up Rick rolling, Selena and all of
the audience. So, for example, this first question that's stitched
(13:27):
out of all the hobbies in the world, what's one
that you wouldn't give up, what's a fashion trend that
you can ever let down? What's the best song to
run around to? What's your favorite dessert? What would make
you cry? Is there a trend to which she would
say goodbye. Have you ever told a lie? I know
it hurts, but that's the end. I know it hurts,
but that's the end of the interview. So I ended
(13:48):
up rickrolling everyone and no one even figured it out.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Oh my goodness, that's like the seventy three questions metapuzzle.
It's like embedded.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yes, I love it. Delightfully nerdy, delightfully nerdy. All right,
I'm going to go back and watch that multiple times. Well,
thank you. And by the way, I rick rolled you
like eight times during this interview. Yes you didn't notice.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Oh you bury some diploids in there, didn't you. Okay,
I got to go back there.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
That's right, go back and try to figure it out. Well,
that was fantastic. I have one extra credit for the
folks at home. Two s of a l T two
s of a L T And that is an adage,
an idiom. And we will, luckily, we'll be back tomorrow
(14:42):
with more Joe Saba and he can give us more exclusives.
He gave us two at least, but we're shooting for
like twenty. So thank you Joe, and thank you all
for listening.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
If you like the show, please check out our Instagram
feed at Hello Puzzlers, where we post original puzzles and
other fun stuff, and we'll meet you here tomorrow for
more puzzling puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly
Hello, puzzlers. Let's start with a quick puzzle which has
more questions in it? The Bob Dylan song Blowing in
the Wind, the Aved and Costello routine, Who's on first?
Or the Doctor Zeus Book, Green Eggs and Ham? So
which of those put in order? Which has the most
(00:23):
and has the least number of questions? And the three
options again, Bob Dylan song Blowing in the Wind, the
how many roads must a Man walk down? Aved and Costello?
Who's on first? Doctor Zeus Book, Green Eggs and Ham?
Would you eat them in a box? Would you eat
them with a box? Think about it, and the answer,
my friend, is after the burst. Hello puzzlers, Welcome to
(00:53):
the Buzzler Podcast. The Steel Frizzon in your Puzzle, flint
Locked Musket. I'm your host, A J. Jacobson. I'm here,
of course, with Chief Buzzle Officer Greg Kliska. So before
the break, Greg, we asked which of the following has
the most number of questions in it? So, Bob Feelin's
on Blowing in the Wind, Abing Costello, Who's on first?
(01:14):
Or the Doctor Zeus Book, Green Eggs and Ham? What's
your answer? Rate them from highest to lowest.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I think, well, I think Green eggs and Ham is
basically one long question. I'm sure it's punctuated in between
some question marks. Would you could you on a boat?
Question mark? Would you could you with a goat? So
I'm inclined to put that one down at the bottom.
I feel like blowing the blowing in the wind is
the same question over and over and again, uh, in
different ways. So I'm going to put that second, and
(01:41):
I'm gonna put Abin and Costello at first.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
All Right, you did pretty well. You didn't get one
hundred percent, you got.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Not so many options, so well, it's pretty bad. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Who's on first? Has forty six questions total in the routine.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Then comes green eggs and Ham, which does have sixteen questions,
and I say they are completely separate. Would you in
with a fox? Would you in a box? Totally different?
And then blowing in the wind has nine questions? So
there you go.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You know, Green Eggs at Him was also written with
all one syllable words except.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
For one oh, which was the alone.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
And not counting the hyphenated sam. I am.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I know. It was like a bet. Didn't he make
a bet or something that he could write one. Yeah,
so what is that? Do you remember the nons monos?
You can't tease?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yes, I remember it's yes, yes, Well I would not
eat them here or there. I would not eat them.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Any anywhere where. God, it's multi all right. Interesting. I
don't know why I had to break the streak with that,
but you know, he's doctors. She's great anyway, speaking of great,
speaking of great, Actually have a different segue. We started
with this puzzle because it seemed appropriate for our guests today,
because it's about numerous questions, and our guest is the
(03:04):
great Joe Sabia, the man behind the famous seventy three
Questions videos for Vogue. He's also a filmmaker who has
directed federer Twelve Final Days, a great documentary about the
final days of Roger Federer's competitive tennis career. Welcome, Joe.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Oh, it's great to be here, no question about it.
I'm so happy too here.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Excellent.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I love this podcast.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Thank you, Joe, We love having you and Joe. For
those who have not seen it, those poor souls who
have not seen seventy three questions, can you describe it
real quick?
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
So? Seventy three questions is where I have the pleasure
of knocking on a celebrities door. That's celebrity opening up
the door, letting me into their home where I asked
them a surreal barrage of seventy three questions, one after another,
rapid fire, all in one, take no cuts, and the
(04:05):
camera is me so they celebrity is looking directly at
me the entire time, and that's how we pull it off.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
That's amazing. And the questions range from like big like
what's your biggest regret? To like what's your favorite breakfast cereal?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Breakfast Cereal? The go to is like, you know, if
you could be a Disney princess, who would you be?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Do?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
What was the last movie that made you cry? We
cover the full expanse of the human condition with the series.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
All right, well, I do have a few questions about
seventy three questions, but I will save them for a
little later. Uh one, let me get out this out though.
Why seventy three? Where did that come from?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
It was because one hundred was too many questions, And
when I trimmed down a few of the questions to
get to the right number, I googled seventy three and
it had great search engine optimization. And it's also a
really high prime number. People don't realize that prime numbers
go that high, and I did it to serve that
(05:06):
audience as well.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
That's why people think that prime numbers just stop at
a certain point.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You kind of think like prime like mostly primes are
you know sub twenty Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Of course they go higher than that, but people don't
think about the ones that go higher than twenty.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Fair right, right, So you're appealing to the math audience
as well as the celebrity audience. I love it best.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I did my best.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Uh well, given the titles of your show and movie,
we thought it was only appropriate we give you one
of our favorite types of puzzles, which are called dit Lloyd's,
and the dit Lloyd works where I give you a
clue to a phrase and the phrase is always going
to include a number, and I'm going to clue it
(05:46):
by giving you the first letter of the words in
that phrase. So, for instance, if the clue is fifty
two w in a Y, then the answer is fifty
two weeks in a year. So it's going to be
a common phrase. If we were doing your show, it'd
be seventy three qs would be the clue seventy three
questions or F twelve f D would be Federer twelve
(06:10):
final days.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Got it, I so got it. I'm so ready for this.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Let's do this, all right. I love the confidence. Okay,
all right, we're gonna start. I'm gonna give you the
category because it can be very challenging without the category.
So I'm gonna start with some book and movie titles
s W and the seven d's s W and the
seven d's.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
S W and the seven d's.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I would have to say, well, first, I'm gonna go
to my knowledge of Disney because it's kind of resonating
as no white and the steven.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Dwarfs resonating one hundred percent correctly, Yes, exactly. I was
gonna give you the B, D, DG HSS, which are
the initials of the dors, but you didn't even need it.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
No, if you did that, then that would have been
a nightmare for me.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
So I'm really.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
All right.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I got another title. A t of two c's A
t of two c's.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
A t of two c's.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Right, so t is I should have called up the
NATO alphabet. A tango of two Charlie's a.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Tango of two Charlie's a t of two S's a
t of two thieves.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
A title.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Oh, it's a title. I was going to see a
titch of of two cups.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Or something like that, like baking ingredients. But it's not that,
so it's oh, oh, I got it, I got it. Okay,
it's a tale of two Cities.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You got it correctly, exactly, all right. Two more on
the titles. One hundred y of s, one hundred y
of s.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Oh, yes, I know this because I have a friend
who is a very big fan of this author's work.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
And it is one hundred years of solitude. That is correct.
It's a big book, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I got a couple more that I'm switching from titles
to adages, sayings, maxims, idioms, that kind of thing, a
S in T S nine an s in t S
nine And it's all about you want to solve your
problems on the early side before they get out of control.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Oh right, okay, So solving problems early before they get
out of control. Well, I mean I'm seeing the word
as I'm thinking saves, something like slaves.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yes, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, the second.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Nine nine, and.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Then you want the first s. It's going to be
it's a sewing it's a sewing term. It's a selling.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yes, show it stay.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Time saves nine.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
That's it. A stitch in time save none.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I've never heard about that aage, but I hope it
adds a lot of value my life moving ahead.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
So thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Yeah, I guess it means you want to stitch early,
otherwise it'll rip more and you have to do nine stitches.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, you get a small hole and you do one
stitch now, because if you don't, you're gonna have to run.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
That's I mean, that's not Let me talk about a
hundred years of solitude. That sounds one hundred years old?
Is that like from Betsy Ross or something?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
It dates from the I believe it dates according to uh,
you know the Internet, it dates from seven from the
eighteenth century.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Wise words. Okay, all right, I'm gonna end with one object,
and it is for l C four l C oh.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Well, I'm thinking of a popular viral trend that came
out in two thousand and ten.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
It's a beverage, an energy drink. Poor Loco.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Oh I love it. No, it is not poor Loco.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I first said that as an adage.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
That it's.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Before here for logo and that would be l K. Right,
isn't it?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
What four leaf clover?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
That's it? Four leaf clover?
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Is that that?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
It's right?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Okay, that that works?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
That counts.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Yeah, okay, great.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
That counts.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Okay, Actually absolutely, wow, Lucky Me.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I was gonna say it was on the it's on
the Lucky Charms cereal box. But you didn't even need that.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Well, listen, Joe, you did excellent. We don't have time
for seventy three questions with you, but I would like
to do seven point three questions or just seven questions.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Okay, I'm ready about.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Seventy three questions. So, because you have interviewed pretty much
every modern celebrity. If you go to the seventy three
videos you have met, you met everyone. Is there a
celebrity you haven't met Billy Joel?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
I say it all the time, Billy Joel.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
What I know, he won't do it? Or Vogue was
not so interested.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
I would say that he's not the most Vogue out there.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
But he's not quite the right demo.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah, okay, you but if you see him in the
music video, I mean those shades make him look pretty fashionable.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
There you go. All right, so let me run through
these real quick. What was the most impressive physical stunt
a celebrity did during seventy three questions?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Okay, the most amazing physical stunt?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Well, what's coming to mind is, oh, yeah, okay, it's
probably the time where Reese Witherspoon was jumping on a
trampoline and then out of the blue just did a backflip.
It was like a ninja ninja mode did a backflip,
and I was so stunned. I wasn't expecting it. And
she intentionally didn't tell me she was going to do it,
just to just do it on camera.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
So that was pretty shocking, and she nailed it. Love
it all right, she landed on her feet.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Multi talented, multi talented? Yeah, all right. Last one, is
there something that nobody else knows about seventy three questions
that just you know that you are now ready to
reveal to the puzzler audience?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Oh you want an exclusive? You're trying to they do
from me?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
We do, come on.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
What I will say is I don't think I've ever
told anyone that if you watch the Selena Gomez episode,
I did one of the nerdiest things ever.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
And no one really knows about it. I don't know, definitely,
Felena doesn't know about it.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
But what I did was that when I go into
her home early in the video, there's a kitchen and
there's a refrigerator in the background. If you look closely
on the refrigerator, there are these magnet numbers that I
took the magnet numbers and placed them on the fridge,
and there are eight number. If you look at the
corresponding numbers and match them to questions that are being asked,
(13:07):
the corresponding number of the questions being asked, like, for example,
you see seven is question seven. You see number twenty
one is question number twenty one. You will notice that
if you stitch all of my questions together, I'm asking
questions that end up Rick rolling, Selena and all of
the audience. So, for example, this first question that's stitched
(13:27):
out of all the hobbies in the world, what's one
that you wouldn't give up, what's a fashion trend that
you can ever let down? What's the best song to
run around to? What's your favorite dessert? What would make
you cry? Is there a trend to which she would
say goodbye. Have you ever told a lie? I know
it hurts, but that's the end. I know it hurts,
but that's the end of the interview. So I ended
(13:48):
up rickrolling everyone and no one even figured it out.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Oh my goodness, that's like the seventy three questions metapuzzle.
It's like embedded.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yes, I love it. Delightfully nerdy, delightfully nerdy. All right,
I'm going to go back and watch that multiple times. Well,
thank you. And by the way, I rick rolled you
like eight times during this interview. Yes you didn't notice.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Oh you bury some diploids in there, didn't you. Okay,
I got to go back there.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
That's right, go back and try to figure it out. Well,
that was fantastic. I have one extra credit for the
folks at home. Two s of a l T two
s of a L T And that is an adage,
an idiom. And we will, luckily, we'll be back tomorrow
(14:42):
with more Joe Saba and he can give us more exclusives.
He gave us two at least, but we're shooting for
like twenty. So thank you Joe, and thank you all
for listening.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
If you like the show, please check out our Instagram
feed at Hello Puzzlers, where we post original puzzles and
other fun stuff, and we'll meet you here tomorrow for
more puzzling puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly
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