October 30, 2024 • 19 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hello, puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast the Glass back
Wall in your puzzle paddle Game. I am your host,
A J. James, and I am here with today's guest,
the awesome Jordan Carlos, hilarious comedian co host of the
(00:26):
hit podcast Adulting with Michelle Buteau and Jordan Carlos. And
he is the Jordan Carlos in that very sentence, Welcome, Jordan.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Thank you so much. You got here with padel Man,
you really did. There's padel clubs popping up all.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Over very Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
They're very Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm like, no one asked for this, but.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I am a pid delphan. It's the pickleball of twenty
twenty five people. It's a pickleball.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
It's yeah, it's coming for for us all absolutely.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
I well you, I'm just catching up. I'm just catching up.
This is padel pa d.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
E l yes, and is sort of a smashing together
of tennis and squash and you can hit it off
the back wall. But it's very confusing because there's also
paddle tennis, which is also platform tennis, and also paddel
is the American pronunciation, but paddle is the European pronunciation.
I've spent a long time googling this because I am interested.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
The cool kids in Mexico City play it. The cool
kids in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
City, and I've been in a padel like facility and
I am not.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I went to one and they were like they had
a DJ at the pedel courts. So yeah, it is well. Anyway,
you mentioned now that you are in Brooklyn, but you
grew up I believe in Texas. Was it Dallas?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
That is true, I grew up in Dallas.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Dallas is if you've ever seen a Lego Land movie, Uh,
then it is like that Everything's awesome.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Everything is awesome, everything is cool, and now on the team.
It is it is set at level easy. Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
If you're if you're if you don't want any challenges
in life, then move to Dallas, get into commercial real
estate and you'll be fine. It's uh, I had to leave,
all right. It's there's a lot of give and take. Right,
That's that's what it was. Yeah, that's that's what it was.
Why am I confessing.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
All these things?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
No, it's great, it is great. Well, I mean i've
heard on your wonderful podcast you talk you have very
mixed feelings about your your home state. But the one
thing that you do still like, according to you at least,
is that you pepper your conversation sometimes with Texas sayings
Texas colloquialisms such as here we go, all hat and
(02:54):
no cattle. I believe in that, which means for those
who don't.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
You want me to film that, would you have?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
You're they?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
That just means that you talk a good game. That's
all it is, but you cannot back it up. God
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
That's what it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You also mentioned trying to ride two horses with one ass. Absolutely,
did you not?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Maybe? Of course that was our first day of school.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
You learned that, okay, which means that one actually I'm
not one hundred percent sure.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Okay, So so you you've got but one, You've got
but one button that you were given right, So, like
if you try to ride two horses of one ass,
If you're trying to ride two horses at once, right so,
side by side and trying to get your legs over
another horse, it's not gonna work.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
It's not gonna work.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Aj. It's like biting off too much for you to
chew or whatever that phrase is something like that.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yes, Unfortunately, I use a lot of se they come
I love idioms, and they come to me at the
wrong time, so I'll be like I was at like
a oh my gosh, like like one of these PTO,
you know, like city wide school board meetings, and I
said that, and they did not go over with people
(04:06):
were like talking about over here it makes no sense.
I've felt like foghorn, leghorn I do. I feel so
bad for my kids because I'll say, like, you know,
y'all need to calm down. You're you're jumping around like
(04:27):
a flea on a hot brick out here, and they'll
be like, They'll be like, Dad, that doesn't make any
sense whatsoever, but it but back home it makes all
the sense.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
It makes all, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I mean, it is those well, I love them, which
is why we were inspired to actually write a puzzle.
Do y'all speak Textan is the name of the puzzle,
and it is a little test of your fluency text
to speak. Now, I will just add the caveat that.
I don't know if these are actually used in Texas,
(05:01):
but they were used in a Texas Monthly Glossary of
Texas and a couple other Texas websites. So someone someone
thinks I didn't make them up, is what I'm saying.
So the idea here is for y'all. Am I using
that right? Very No, No, I'm not, because it's a singular,
(05:22):
isn't it a you can no?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
You can use y'all y'all for one person.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
See that's the.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Beauty of y'all, you know, like it can be used
as a catch all for everything. It could be one person,
y'all are always doing this, that and the there. It
could be many people, y'all get over here. Interesting, But
it can be one or it can be many and
it and it is a neutral it's pretty much a neutral.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Program, right, well, that is an advantage. I like that, yeah,
I will say, though I'm a little disappointed because I thought,
all right, finally they've solved the you you singular plural.
But now you're telling me that it's all just mess.
But that's okay. I I like that. It's you know
you you have an expansive view of it, which is wonderful.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Truly, I will say, technically a j I don't know
the answers to this one.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
So it would be a plural y'all.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Good, yes, y'all.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Really, for this to be fair, Jordan should be quizzing
the two of us. That's how this puzzle should have gone.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I mean, yes, well, we'll see who knows. I don't know,
you know, if anyone actually says these But I enjoyed them,
so I thought let's give it a shot. And it's
in a fill in the blank format. So if I
said he's all hat and no blank, then you would
say cattle. So are y'all ready for it?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I'm ready, y'all?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
All right, So this is a saying about someone who
is slow. He's so slow it takes him an hour
and a half to blank. He's so slow, it takes
him an hour and a half.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Oh, he takes him an hour. And now you have
to understand some parlances are regional.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Texas is a big place, and what we say in
one part it might not be what somebody says in another.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
So it takes him an hour to.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
An hour and a half, that's the case. It's not
sixty minutes. It takes him ninety minutes to do something.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Get his pants on.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
No, that's interesting.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
That's what I would have guessed too. I don't know why.
I was just like, oh, it put on his pants.
I don't know, I know it well.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I kind of said the answer by a mistake in there,
because I was trying to say ninety minutes. It takes
him ninety minutes to do something that's meant to watch
something that should take an hour.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Hour, don't. I mean, I know you're working with it,
but I want to know what it is.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I want to know what It takes him an hour
and a half to watch sixty minutes. It takes him
an hour and a half to watch.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I've heard that one before. I've heard that one before.
It's nice, takes an hour and a half watch sixty minutes.
But you you got to say it like that, Oh
yeah it was half watches.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yeah, if you had the accent, Jordan would have gotten
it right away.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
All right, let me get into let me get into
yo seventy save character and see what I can do.
All right. This is for someone who's corrupt. He's so
crooked that if I'm not even trying, he's so crooked
that if he swallowed a nail, he would spit up
a blank. He would spit up a blank. So but
now this one is maybe figure outable because I swallow
(08:26):
is so nail and then it comes out in a
screw close, even more twisted.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Even more crooked, more twisted, more crooked than a screw,
even more.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Full of twists and turns and.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Screw a hook.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
You've got half the Yeah, yeah, we give you credit.
The other the other hand, the other get out.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Do something before the screw, not after.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
To get a wine cork out. You might use this to.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Get a wine to get the cork out, uh, a
cork screw exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
He's so crooked, swallow nail, he would spit up a
cork screw.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Now what we say is that man's about a cricket
as a hind dog's leg.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Oh that's good, a hound dog's leg. So that's what
we say, That man's about as cricket as a hound
dog's leg.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
That does sound a little more.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Authentic, but that's okay.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Texas Monthly, you know this is this is a very
trusted and reliable.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
It's a big state.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
It's a big as you say. It's a big state
with lot with big number of colorful sayings. So absolutely,
all right, Well what about this one? This one will
see he if someone is cheap, you might say, he
squeezes a quarter so tight that blank happens that.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
The eagle grins.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yes, well, the ego this one said the eagle screams.
But I like the eagle grin.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Screaming, eagle screaming and the eagle grinning. Yeah, yeah, totally,
but it's something happens with the eagle, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
And I also have heard like, if you're one hundred
and eight years old than the you know, the buffalo farts.
He he squeezes a nickel so hard the buffalo farts
because they used to have buffaloes nickels back in the day.
I also on the on one of the lists, he's
so he's so cheap, he would not give a nickel
(10:18):
to see Jesus riding the bicycle. I like it. That's
a nice specific one. That's all right, What about we
got a few more.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
What I love about this is I feel like our
kids don't even know what a nickel is.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
The little in a buffalo nickel. Forget that this is
a nickel. What is that? Weird?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
No idea? You know you want to know a crazy one?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Okay, a j if you cooked up a good meal,
and I ate it, and I liked what you made.
If you you made some great chili, you know what
I would say about your cooking.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
No, I want to know.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I'd say, you put you put your foot in that?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
What that's interesting?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yeah, you put your foot in that? Yeah, because which
it tastes so good.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
It tastes like good.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
It makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Well, this is like you put your shoulder into elbow grease.
But they just found a different interesting. I'm not going
to analyze it. It's nice. I like it. All right.
I got a couple more for you, please, please please.
This for someone who is useless, not useful, you might say,
(11:33):
he's as useful as a screen door on a blank submarine.
Oh my, yeah, you got that quick?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
So absolutely.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Have you ever said that in like sure?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Hey man, you know I've said it before. I've said that.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I said, you know, if a frog had wings, wouldn't
bumps that to hopin all that kind of thing, you know, all.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Tighter tighter than a mosquitos us over a rain barrel.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
All right.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
We had that one from I don't know where I
got that. I think I got that one from a
from an Alaskan friend. But we said the submarine thing
when I was a kid in California too.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, okay, you know, and there's been migration. I mean,
who has read the Grapes of.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Wrath exactly that that's what they did.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
They took submarines right across the.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
All right, what about this one? What about this one?
Just two more? Someone who is not urbane might say,
you might say, he's so country. He thinks a seven
course meal is a possum and a blank and it's
a it's not a list of six other things. So,
by the way, so, oh my god, seven.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
And a that one? I don't know. That's gotta be like,
is it another animal? No?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Wait, Greg, you might have a theory.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Well no, I was just going to say, he's so
country and thinks a possum is a meal, Like that's
already country to me.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Oh so, yeah, well this is even.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
But that's not the point here. The point is a
seven course meal.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Is a pos and six pack, a six pack six
pack of Abso blue Ribbon or whatever. What would be
the most Texan beer, Jordan, I don't know what is shinerbock?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
What's it called Schinerbacker lone Star or the most Texans.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I've heard lone star shiner Bock in shinerback.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Yeah, Schinerbock comes from New Brunsville, which is like the
German part of Texas, which is halfway between Houston and Austin.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
All right, what about I would love to hear this
in real life in the wild someday. I don't think
I ever will. But if someone is unwelcome, you might
say they are as welcome as a porcupine at a blank,
as welcome as a porcupine at a blank.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Oh porcupine. I haven't heard this one.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Well, this one, I don't know. My son came up
with one that I like better than the than the
allegedly real one, which was a balloon factory as unwelcome.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
That's where I was going to go with balloon store.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Yeah, I thought about at a waterbed warehouse.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Oh well that's good too. Now this was just something
like if if it would be a place where porcupine
has a lot of opportunities to embed their quills colony, Yes, as.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
There you go. Well, Jordan, you did great. You know,
you know some of your texaisms or alleged taxisms. Uh,
and you taught us some other ones and so yes,
you still you still carry some Texas in you.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
You some residual Texas. Yea.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Do you have any examples on top of your head
about ones that are more regional?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Sure, I mean you have the East Texas kind of one.
So East Texas is more.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Like the South.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Right in West Texas of course is like the pondu Rosa.
South Texas of course is more when you get down
to South Texas the Eagle Pass, it's more like Mexico.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
So what I know is like more East Texas and
ponder Rosa.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
So East Texas would be like to say something hasn't
happened in a long time is to say I haven't
done that since Cooter was a child. That makes no
sense to me, and yet it was repeated over and
over again.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
But I do. I do think that what was great
about learning all the language was.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
That it gives you just like this wonderful spectrum of
the English language, which has definitely.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Helped in writing and in comedy and things like that.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
And just being able to express yourself in different ways,
you know, makes me makes me really happy.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yeah, I feel we don't use enough metaphors in in
in everyday language, like we we need more of that,
and the and the South. I think I think on
a per sentence basis, they use more metaphors and similes,
so I I tip my hat to them. Or I
(16:26):
don't think that's a metaphor. I think that what is that?
That's some other type of phrase.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Well, you're you're speaking, you know, figuratively, and I appreciate.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
That you well, thank you well. I tim my hat
to you. You were fantastic and we are honored to
have y'all here singular. Who knew? I don't know. I'm
a little disappointed. I thought it was this, this was plural.
But that's okay. I'm over it. We loved it, and
(16:55):
we hope you'll come back and and puzzle with us again.
And are you Have you gotten over your fear of
puzzling or appearing on the puzzler?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Absolutely not. I'm on so many beta blockers right now.
You have no idea.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
My Lord Torso is wrapping a space blanket. My mother's
in the other room. I have my guidance counselor my
high school guid upstairs.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
In your lap.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
It's so much. My service dog also in the room.
You know, it feels it feels good.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Well, you're a great actor. I've always known you're a
great actor, and now thank you proofly because he seemed
to be calm, but sorry to put you through that torture.
And oh I do it. I have an extra credit before.
This is for something that's hot. If it's a hot day,
(17:49):
it's so hot and the hens are blank. It's so
hot that the hens are blank. Doing this all right?
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Speaker 6 (18:18):
Hey puzzlers, it's Greg Pliska, your chief puzzle officer, here
with the extra credit answer from our previous episode.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Jordan Carlos joined us for some neologisms, new words or
phrases that were coined recently or came into usage recently,
and your clue was this.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Esperanto was a nineteenth century example of this, and cling
on more recent but it.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Was David Peterson's success creating doth ROCKI for Game of
Thrones that led to the popularization of this linguistic term.
That term is con lang for constructed languages. Doth Rocki, Klingon,
and Esperano are all constructedly languages. Well, here at the Puzzler,
(19:02):
we like all kinds of languages, and we hope you'll
keep playing along with us.
Hello, puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast the Glass back
Wall in your puzzle paddle Game. I am your host,
A J. James, and I am here with today's guest,
the awesome Jordan Carlos, hilarious comedian co host of the
(00:26):
hit podcast Adulting with Michelle Buteau and Jordan Carlos. And
he is the Jordan Carlos in that very sentence, Welcome, Jordan.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Thank you so much. You got here with padel Man,
you really did. There's padel clubs popping up all.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Over very Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
They're very Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm like, no one asked for this, but.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I am a pid delphan. It's the pickleball of twenty
twenty five people. It's a pickleball.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
It's yeah, it's coming for for us all absolutely.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
I well you, I'm just catching up. I'm just catching up.
This is padel pa d.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
E l yes, and is sort of a smashing together
of tennis and squash and you can hit it off
the back wall. But it's very confusing because there's also
paddle tennis, which is also platform tennis, and also paddel
is the American pronunciation, but paddle is the European pronunciation.
I've spent a long time googling this because I am interested.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
The cool kids in Mexico City play it. The cool
kids in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
City, and I've been in a padel like facility and
I am not.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I went to one and they were like they had
a DJ at the pedel courts. So yeah, it is well. Anyway,
you mentioned now that you are in Brooklyn, but you
grew up I believe in Texas. Was it Dallas?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
That is true, I grew up in Dallas.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Dallas is if you've ever seen a Lego Land movie, Uh,
then it is like that Everything's awesome.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Everything is awesome, everything is cool, and now on the team.
It is it is set at level easy. Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
If you're if you're if you don't want any challenges
in life, then move to Dallas, get into commercial real
estate and you'll be fine. It's uh, I had to leave,
all right. It's there's a lot of give and take. Right,
That's that's what it was. Yeah, that's that's what it was.
Why am I confessing.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
All these things?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
No, it's great, it is great. Well, I mean i've
heard on your wonderful podcast you talk you have very
mixed feelings about your your home state. But the one
thing that you do still like, according to you at least,
is that you pepper your conversation sometimes with Texas sayings
Texas colloquialisms such as here we go, all hat and
(02:54):
no cattle. I believe in that, which means for those
who don't.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
You want me to film that, would you have?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
You're they?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
That just means that you talk a good game. That's
all it is, but you cannot back it up. God
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
That's what it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You also mentioned trying to ride two horses with one ass. Absolutely,
did you not?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Maybe? Of course that was our first day of school.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
You learned that, okay, which means that one actually I'm
not one hundred percent sure.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Okay, So so you you've got but one, You've got
but one button that you were given right, So, like
if you try to ride two horses of one ass,
If you're trying to ride two horses at once, right so,
side by side and trying to get your legs over
another horse, it's not gonna work.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
It's not gonna work.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Aj. It's like biting off too much for you to
chew or whatever that phrase is something like that.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yes, Unfortunately, I use a lot of se they come
I love idioms, and they come to me at the
wrong time, so I'll be like I was at like
a oh my gosh, like like one of these PTO,
you know, like city wide school board meetings, and I
said that, and they did not go over with people
(04:06):
were like talking about over here it makes no sense.
I've felt like foghorn, leghorn I do. I feel so
bad for my kids because I'll say, like, you know,
y'all need to calm down. You're you're jumping around like
(04:27):
a flea on a hot brick out here, and they'll
be like, They'll be like, Dad, that doesn't make any
sense whatsoever, but it but back home it makes all
the sense.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
It makes all, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I mean, it is those well, I love them, which
is why we were inspired to actually write a puzzle.
Do y'all speak Textan is the name of the puzzle,
and it is a little test of your fluency text
to speak. Now, I will just add the caveat that.
I don't know if these are actually used in Texas,
(05:01):
but they were used in a Texas Monthly Glossary of
Texas and a couple other Texas websites. So someone someone
thinks I didn't make them up, is what I'm saying.
So the idea here is for y'all. Am I using
that right? Very No, No, I'm not, because it's a singular,
(05:22):
isn't it a you can no?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
You can use y'all y'all for one person.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
See that's the.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Beauty of y'all, you know, like it can be used
as a catch all for everything. It could be one person,
y'all are always doing this, that and the there. It
could be many people, y'all get over here. Interesting, But
it can be one or it can be many and
it and it is a neutral it's pretty much a neutral.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Program, right, well, that is an advantage. I like that, yeah,
I will say, though I'm a little disappointed because I thought,
all right, finally they've solved the you you singular plural.
But now you're telling me that it's all just mess.
But that's okay. I I like that. It's you know
you you have an expansive view of it, which is wonderful.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Truly, I will say, technically a j I don't know
the answers to this one.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
So it would be a plural y'all.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Good, yes, y'all.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Really, for this to be fair, Jordan should be quizzing
the two of us. That's how this puzzle should have gone.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I mean, yes, well, we'll see who knows. I don't know,
you know, if anyone actually says these But I enjoyed them,
so I thought let's give it a shot. And it's
in a fill in the blank format. So if I
said he's all hat and no blank, then you would
say cattle. So are y'all ready for it?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I'm ready, y'all?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
All right, So this is a saying about someone who
is slow. He's so slow it takes him an hour
and a half to blank. He's so slow, it takes
him an hour and a half.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Oh, he takes him an hour. And now you have
to understand some parlances are regional.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Texas is a big place, and what we say in
one part it might not be what somebody says in another.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
So it takes him an hour to.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
An hour and a half, that's the case. It's not
sixty minutes. It takes him ninety minutes to do something.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Get his pants on.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
No, that's interesting.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
That's what I would have guessed too. I don't know why.
I was just like, oh, it put on his pants.
I don't know, I know it well.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I kind of said the answer by a mistake in there,
because I was trying to say ninety minutes. It takes
him ninety minutes to do something that's meant to watch
something that should take an hour.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Hour, don't. I mean, I know you're working with it,
but I want to know what it is.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I want to know what It takes him an hour
and a half to watch sixty minutes. It takes him
an hour and a half to watch.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I've heard that one before. I've heard that one before.
It's nice, takes an hour and a half watch sixty minutes.
But you you got to say it like that, Oh
yeah it was half watches.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yeah, if you had the accent, Jordan would have gotten
it right away.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
All right, let me get into let me get into
yo seventy save character and see what I can do.
All right. This is for someone who's corrupt. He's so
crooked that if I'm not even trying, he's so crooked
that if he swallowed a nail, he would spit up
a blank. He would spit up a blank. So but
now this one is maybe figure outable because I swallow
(08:26):
is so nail and then it comes out in a
screw close, even more twisted.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Even more crooked, more twisted, more crooked than a screw,
even more.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Full of twists and turns and.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Screw a hook.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
You've got half the Yeah, yeah, we give you credit.
The other the other hand, the other get out.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Do something before the screw, not after.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
To get a wine cork out. You might use this to.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Get a wine to get the cork out, uh, a
cork screw exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
He's so crooked, swallow nail, he would spit up a
cork screw.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Now what we say is that man's about a cricket
as a hind dog's leg.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Oh that's good, a hound dog's leg. So that's what
we say, That man's about as cricket as a hound
dog's leg.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
That does sound a little more.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Authentic, but that's okay.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Texas Monthly, you know this is this is a very
trusted and reliable.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
It's a big state.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
It's a big as you say. It's a big state
with lot with big number of colorful sayings. So absolutely,
all right, Well what about this one? This one will
see he if someone is cheap, you might say, he
squeezes a quarter so tight that blank happens that.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
The eagle grins.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yes, well, the ego this one said the eagle screams.
But I like the eagle grin.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Screaming, eagle screaming and the eagle grinning. Yeah, yeah, totally,
but it's something happens with the eagle, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
And I also have heard like, if you're one hundred
and eight years old than the you know, the buffalo farts.
He he squeezes a nickel so hard the buffalo farts
because they used to have buffaloes nickels back in the day.
I also on the on one of the lists, he's
so he's so cheap, he would not give a nickel
(10:18):
to see Jesus riding the bicycle. I like it. That's
a nice specific one. That's all right, What about we
got a few more.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
What I love about this is I feel like our
kids don't even know what a nickel is.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
The little in a buffalo nickel. Forget that this is
a nickel. What is that? Weird?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
No idea? You know you want to know a crazy one?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Okay, a j if you cooked up a good meal,
and I ate it, and I liked what you made.
If you you made some great chili, you know what
I would say about your cooking.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
No, I want to know.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I'd say, you put you put your foot in that?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
What that's interesting?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yeah, you put your foot in that? Yeah, because which
it tastes so good.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
It tastes like good.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
It makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Well, this is like you put your shoulder into elbow grease.
But they just found a different interesting. I'm not going
to analyze it. It's nice. I like it. All right.
I got a couple more for you, please, please please.
This for someone who is useless, not useful, you might say,
(11:33):
he's as useful as a screen door on a blank submarine.
Oh my, yeah, you got that quick?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
So absolutely.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Have you ever said that in like sure?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Hey man, you know I've said it before. I've said that.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I said, you know, if a frog had wings, wouldn't
bumps that to hopin all that kind of thing, you know, all.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Tighter tighter than a mosquitos us over a rain barrel.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
All right.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
We had that one from I don't know where I
got that. I think I got that one from a
from an Alaskan friend. But we said the submarine thing
when I was a kid in California too.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, okay, you know, and there's been migration. I mean,
who has read the Grapes of.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Wrath exactly that that's what they did.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
They took submarines right across the.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
All right, what about this one? What about this one?
Just two more? Someone who is not urbane might say,
you might say, he's so country. He thinks a seven
course meal is a possum and a blank and it's
a it's not a list of six other things. So,
by the way, so, oh my god, seven.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
And a that one? I don't know. That's gotta be like,
is it another animal? No?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Wait, Greg, you might have a theory.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Well no, I was just going to say, he's so
country and thinks a possum is a meal, Like that's
already country to me.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Oh so, yeah, well this is even.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
But that's not the point here. The point is a
seven course meal.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Is a pos and six pack, a six pack six
pack of Abso blue Ribbon or whatever. What would be
the most Texan beer, Jordan, I don't know what is shinerbock?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
What's it called Schinerbacker lone Star or the most Texans.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I've heard lone star shiner Bock in shinerback.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Yeah, Schinerbock comes from New Brunsville, which is like the
German part of Texas, which is halfway between Houston and Austin.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
All right, what about I would love to hear this
in real life in the wild someday. I don't think
I ever will. But if someone is unwelcome, you might
say they are as welcome as a porcupine at a blank,
as welcome as a porcupine at a blank.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Oh porcupine. I haven't heard this one.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Well, this one, I don't know. My son came up
with one that I like better than the than the
allegedly real one, which was a balloon factory as unwelcome.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
That's where I was going to go with balloon store.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Yeah, I thought about at a waterbed warehouse.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Oh well that's good too. Now this was just something
like if if it would be a place where porcupine
has a lot of opportunities to embed their quills colony, Yes, as.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
There you go. Well, Jordan, you did great. You know,
you know some of your texaisms or alleged taxisms. Uh,
and you taught us some other ones and so yes,
you still you still carry some Texas in you.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
You some residual Texas. Yea.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Do you have any examples on top of your head
about ones that are more regional?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Sure, I mean you have the East Texas kind of one.
So East Texas is more.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Like the South.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Right in West Texas of course is like the pondu Rosa.
South Texas of course is more when you get down
to South Texas the Eagle Pass, it's more like Mexico.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
So what I know is like more East Texas and
ponder Rosa.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
So East Texas would be like to say something hasn't
happened in a long time is to say I haven't
done that since Cooter was a child. That makes no
sense to me, and yet it was repeated over and
over again.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
But I do. I do think that what was great
about learning all the language was.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
That it gives you just like this wonderful spectrum of
the English language, which has definitely.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Helped in writing and in comedy and things like that.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
And just being able to express yourself in different ways,
you know, makes me makes me really happy.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yeah, I feel we don't use enough metaphors in in
in everyday language, like we we need more of that,
and the and the South. I think I think on
a per sentence basis, they use more metaphors and similes,
so I I tip my hat to them. Or I
(16:26):
don't think that's a metaphor. I think that what is that?
That's some other type of phrase.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Well, you're you're speaking, you know, figuratively, and I appreciate.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
That you well, thank you well. I tim my hat
to you. You were fantastic and we are honored to
have y'all here singular. Who knew? I don't know. I'm
a little disappointed. I thought it was this, this was plural.
But that's okay. I'm over it. We loved it, and
(16:55):
we hope you'll come back and and puzzle with us again.
And are you Have you gotten over your fear of
puzzling or appearing on the puzzler?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Absolutely not. I'm on so many beta blockers right now.
You have no idea.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
My Lord Torso is wrapping a space blanket. My mother's
in the other room. I have my guidance counselor my
high school guid upstairs.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
In your lap.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
It's so much. My service dog also in the room.
You know, it feels it feels good.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Well, you're a great actor. I've always known you're a
great actor, and now thank you proofly because he seemed
to be calm, but sorry to put you through that torture.
And oh I do it. I have an extra credit before.
This is for something that's hot. If it's a hot day,
(17:49):
it's so hot and the hens are blank. It's so
hot that the hens are blank. Doing this all right?
So everyone, 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 will meet here
tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Hey puzzlers, it's Greg Pliska, your chief puzzle officer, here
with the extra credit answer from our previous episode.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Jordan Carlos joined us for some neologisms, new words or
phrases that were coined recently or came into usage recently,
and your clue was this.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Esperanto was a nineteenth century example of this, and cling
on more recent but it.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Was David Peterson's success creating doth ROCKI for Game of
Thrones that led to the popularization of this linguistic term.
That term is con lang for constructed languages. Doth Rocki, Klingon,
and Esperano are all constructedly languages. Well, here at the Puzzler,
(19:02):
we like all kinds of languages, and we hope you'll
keep playing along with us.
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