June 16, 2025 • 18 mins
Hello, Puzzlers! Puzzling with us today: hosts of the "Part-Time Genius" podcast, Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello puzzlers. Let's start with a quick puzzle. This puzzle
is inspired by the names of our guests. Today we
have with us the hosts of the delightful podcast Part
Time Genius. They are Will Pearson and Mangesh Hawk Ticketer. Now,
Mangesh is often known as Mango, and Will's last name
is Pearson spelled pea r pier sun as in the
(00:24):
word pair. So as a puzzle nerd, it is my
solemn duty to point out that both names contain fruits
mango and pear, which means today's a moose boosh puzzle
is what other notable people have fruity names, either a
standalone fruit like mango or a hidden fruit such as
pear in Pierson, the answers and more puzzling goodness after
(00:46):
the break, Hello puzzlers, Welcome back to the Puzzler podcast,
The Anaerobic Compost in your Organic I'm your host A J. Jacobs,
and I'm here, of course, the chief puzzle Officer, Greg Plisko.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Greg.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Before the break, we asked listeners to come up with
notable people whose names contain fruits. Can you think of
any fruit filled people?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I've been struggling just to think of fruit. No, I
think the first one I thought of was Annie Applebaum, the.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Writer, very high brow. Starting with highbrow, I said, Fiona apple.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Also a good one.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Apple.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
There are lots of apple people. Nobody key, we do
we count like the Duke of Orange.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Can we kill you?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Sure, I'll throw it in. I'll give you the others.
Just to Darryl Strawberry, these are the ones I thought of.
There are a lot more nane A Cherry, Don Lemon
and newscaster Chuck Berry. Then they're the hidden ones like
Christopher Plummer and Eve Plumb my my wife's favorite show,
The Brady Bunch.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Yeah, very good one.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Send in your other fruity names to the Puzzler dot com.
We love to hear from you. But as I'm mentioned,
our favorite people in the world with fruit themed names
are Mango and Will Pearson, hosts of the great podcast
Part Time Genius. Welcome Will and Mango.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Hey, good to be with you, guys.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
We are delighted to have you and we love your show.
Not only do you have fruit filled names, but you
have talked about fruits on your show Because your show
covers everything in the world, the fascinating facts and I
learned how to eat a banana like the Queen of
England from your show.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Do you remember the fork and knife?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Ark and knife?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Yeah? Wait wait I miss it. Does she peel it
or does it get peeled for her?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
No? I believe she feels it.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, well yeah, yeah she really is of course.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Now it's the King of England.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Well, that's true, the King of England. He probably eats
his bananas the same way. I think that's the royal protocol.
You cut the ends off and then cut it. By
the way, you have done hundreds of episodes, and I
get this question a lot because I did a book
about reading the encyclopedia in general. How much do you
remember of all of the facts that you have covered.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I remember almost none of it. I am very very
excited to learn stuff, and I love it, and and
then I'm like a goldfish. I'm so bad at trivia.
I'm actually nervous about being here because people always like
pick me to like. I mean, I have been a
I was a phone a friend on a taxi. What
(03:44):
was that taxicab show?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Who Wants to Be a Million Cash Cat?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah? So I did help when that time, But mostly
I'm just nervous to like help someone with trivia.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
But the but the fun of it of forgetting a
lot of it is you get to learn it all
over again, so you know, it's and doing part time genius.
We'll stumble on facts and be like, that's so interesting,
and then you'll realize it was in an issue of
Mental Floss in the past. But that's just part of
the fun.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Exactly. I have the same thing because I read the
encyclopedia and I remember my guess is point five percent.
And the stuff I remember is not the stuff that
I wish I remembered. It's not like eyebrow philosophy. It's
like things like a possums have thirteen nipples like.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
That right in a circle.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
That important.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, hey, you don't remember stuff, Manngo, you are lying.
That is exactly right.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
It's it's a I mean, I.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Remember stuff from the last episode that we do, so
like right now, I know a lot about Canadian Chinese food.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You know, Well, you are in luck. All of our
questions about it are about Chinese Canadians.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
What amazing.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
So you're fine. Well, we'll mentioned Mental Floss, which is
where I first met these guys. It's one of my
favorite magazines. Of all time. They founded it in college.
It's also where we met. I met our producer, Neelie Lohman,
who first approached me with the idea for the Puzzler podcast.
So thank you will and Mango for that. But since
(05:18):
then you have switched from print to audio. So in
honor of that, we have an audio puzzle. It's a
puzzle we call an audio rebis. The name we came
up with is Earbus trademark Penders. And we are going
to say a word in a tone of voice or
an accent, and you will have to guess the phrase
(05:39):
that I am trying to convey with that word. So
for instance, if I say tied that means rising tide,
it's usually a two word phrase. Or if I said
chamber chamber, chamber teine that is echo chamber.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
You got it, got it?
Speaker 5 (05:58):
All right?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Here we go, stock.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Stock, I think I know this one. Mango, how about you?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, I think I do yea yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Is this laughing stock?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yes, laughing stock exactly. I liked you that you were
so polite. Neither of you wanted to say it. All right,
what about this one magazine? I'm using my acting skills.
You'll see my wide range.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
What do you think, Mango, Will you do it once more?
Will you perform it once more for me?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Perform absolutely magazine.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Yeah, when you do it seven more times?
Speaker 5 (06:43):
There, it really helps.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
When you can.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Magazine magazine.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Magazine helps.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
It helps to see his face, which, of course isn't
fair to the listeners.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I think this may be one of Mango's childhood favorites.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
What do you think, Mango, Mad Magazine?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You are correct, Mad Magazine? It was one, was it?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
All right?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I got The next one is divson.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
All right, let's think about this one.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Longer for me?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Mm hmm yeah, yeah. If you could just go a
little longer with.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
That, ag you're making me work. I love it. All right,
here we go. This is good podcast, droning on divon.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
You know, I don't know if any of you have
experienced this when you have to, like work with your
kids on math as they get older. This is the
hardest thing in the world for me now, like doing
I think the answer may be long division, but it
is the hardest thing to do if if you forget
how to do it. But anyway, is that the answer?
Agent and I agree?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
How did they how have they not come up? With
a better system.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah, but I will even say to your point, well,
like my older kid did it one way and my
younger kid does it a different way, neither of which
are the way I learned how.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
To do it.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
No, is this the part where we're old and we
complain about math? Is that what we do?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
But five years later her eleven year old brother is like,
oh no, we don't do it like that. We do
it like this.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
So she's old. Then, By the way, the other clue
I was going to do for this word was John Silver,
and what's delightful about this?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And Mango?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
You have no recollection? John Silver? Division, Well, you will
not remember this, Mango, because it was not yesterday. But
I listened to your show yesterday, and you had a
show about pirates. This was a sort of a classic
(08:59):
an audio, and I learned that long John Silver, the
character on the pirate on Treasure Island, is the source
of all of the reason that we all talk in
such a crazy like arm walk the plane.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Whoa.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Well, I'd love that you say whoa.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
When you taught me, like I know, back to the
earlier point, we get to learn these things all over again.
He said. It was a class you know what, I
want to make a commitment though after having said that,
I've never been to Long John Silver. Wait, it still exists, right,
I'm going to go to one. I'm going to go
to that. Mango knows that I love fast food and
(09:37):
I've never been to a Long John Silver. So within
the next month, I'm going to go eat some Long
John Silver.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Poor fact. And yes, we would love to be the
official puzzle show for Long John Silver. But let me
just refresh your memory because Long John Silver is a
pirate and Treasure Island Disney may a movie about Treasure
Island in the fifties, and the actor who played it
happened to come from a part of England where they
(10:07):
kind of talk like that. So that's the only reason
we think pirates like if the actor had been from
Long Island, we'd all think pirates had a Long Island access.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It was so.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Crazy, all right. I got a couple more. We have
got Limozine.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
It's in the same genre stretch limo.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Exactly, well done.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
How about this one? Now this is going to require
some acting for me, but I'll try chocklate bar. Thank you, Greg.
I assume that's a laugh of respect and admiration Joy
Joy Okay, jock lit bar. It's a it's a brand
(11:02):
on the like the others. It's a brand name any.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Thoughts named after a horse?
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Right?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Oh? I did not know. See that's why once again,
well what is it? Tell thee?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah, I love that it's named after See.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Greg threw me off because you said Joy and this
almond joy.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Somehow and and likely it was like long limousines long
chocolate fresh chocolate was all that way.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
And my kids said chuckles, which is not a chocolate bar,
but that could. And by the way, I think you'll
remember this man, that you love gummy bears. I loved
your riff on gummy bears, and that you're supposed to
eat them after you work out.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, that's right. Have you adopted that I don't work out.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
That takes care of that. That takes care of it.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
The second part.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
By the way, I just want to say I have
also learned things about puzzles and secret codes. Again you
might not remember, but I learned the hidden meaning of
the Fraser theme song, which was always baffling to me
because they say Tamas Saladin scramble there it is in
that in that tone and the reason is I'm not
(12:33):
going to put you on the spot because I unless
you remember.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, it's because it's like a veiled reference to all
the people on the show, right, like the the.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
They're mixed up, they're mixed up, they're scrambled, which which
may not be like nowadays appropriate, but it's it's fine,
it's good. I love it. And Mission Impossible has a
morse code like dunda something like that. Uh, all right,
we got a couple of more. How about We've got
(13:07):
ology psych ology psych So now, if I was really
doing it, Greg is pointing out, it would be e
Joe lockeice, right.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
But we were truly going backward, also known as reverse
exactly reverse psychology. Right, we do you think about that? Mango?
I got that one? Was that right? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I'm still thinking about theme songs.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
All right, We've got two more and then we're done.
We've got again. My acting is gonna come in handy.
Uh are you ready?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I already again? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
All right, here we go. I've got two for you.
Because it's a little tricky. Verse is Trojan Trojan and Charlie.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Char I got it.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I'm trying to figure out the voice there.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, yeah, it's like he's losing your voice. Is getting
horse there?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
So it's a Charlie horse and Trojan horse.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Well done, well done. Oh I have to bring in
Chief Puzzle Officer Greg Pliska for one or two duetts
earbus duets. So you are seeing the only the second
iteration of this, so very exciting. You're at eight. Here
we go places places, places, places, places places. That's that's enough.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Come on, there's that. Yeah you did. H It's not
an echo.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
It's a I'll give you a hint. It's a movie
for people our age that we all loved and problem
may or may not hold up. I haven't seen it, mm.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Hmm is it?
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I haven't seen this for a while.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Are we trading places?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
We are trading places? Well done?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
All right?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
And now I'm not lying. This is the final one, Greg,
are you ready?
Speaker 5 (15:27):
I'm ready?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
All right?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
You go of it?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Of it. It's a tricky one to end on.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
A yeah, yeah, it of it.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
So it's of it a O F I T. And
actually we did use this word earlier with the with
the math, when we talked about how we don't understand
kids today. So we've got that word. It's not two words.
It's a long it's a longer phrase. It's a five
(16:05):
word phrase. That's the trick.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
What are you thinking?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
So one of the first of it is like the
vision it is.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Not but I can't right long of it long and
short of it, short of it?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
You got it.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
I have a feeling mego if that one at the
end and he was he's just too nice and was
tossing it my way.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I agree that.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I like that you all have that feeling.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah, we're going to stick with it.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
I really like ending on that one that was like.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah, yeah, it's all about teamwork, like your show. All right,
so I have an extra credit for the folks at
home before we leave bis bis or here's another one
of a similar Franz Schubert's simpun. Franz Schubert simpun. All right,
that's your extra credit, mango and will we loved having you?
(17:11):
What a delight. We have you back tomorrow for more
trivia that none of us may remember the next day.
But in the meantime, listeners, please check out our Instagram
feed at Hello Puzzlers, where we post all sorts of
fun puzzly stuff and of course we'll meet you here
tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Hey puzzlers, it's Greg Pliska, your chief puzzle Officer up
from the puzzle AaB with the extra credit answer from
our previous episode. Nikki plisk joined us and gave me
an Aja quiz on gen Z and Jen alpha slang,
and I have to say Aj and I were pretty
stoked about how we did, though stoked is not one
of the gen Z slang words we should be using anyway,
(17:59):
it was really skibbitty and our gillats were twitching after
we were done. So here's your extra credit clue from Nicki.
Two of these are real Italian brain rut and one
of them is not. He gave us these three Burboloni
Lulioni and Googaga Lulala and truly Marrow truly China, and
(18:22):
which one is not real? That's the middle one. Googaga
Lulaala is something Nicky made up. The first one, Burboloni
Luloni is a cappy beera mixed with a coconut, and
truly Marrow Truly China is a cat slash fish slash human.
We welcome everyone, here on the puzzlers capybara, coconuts, catfish, humans,
(18:43):
and even googaga lulaalas. So come back tomorrow for some
more puzzling puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly
Hello puzzlers. Let's start with a quick puzzle. This puzzle
is inspired by the names of our guests. Today we
have with us the hosts of the delightful podcast Part
Time Genius. They are Will Pearson and Mangesh Hawk Ticketer. Now,
Mangesh is often known as Mango, and Will's last name
is Pearson spelled pea r pier sun as in the
(00:24):
word pair. So as a puzzle nerd, it is my
solemn duty to point out that both names contain fruits
mango and pear, which means today's a moose boosh puzzle
is what other notable people have fruity names, either a
standalone fruit like mango or a hidden fruit such as
pear in Pierson, the answers and more puzzling goodness after
(00:46):
the break, Hello puzzlers, Welcome back to the Puzzler podcast,
The Anaerobic Compost in your Organic I'm your host A J. Jacobs,
and I'm here, of course, the chief puzzle Officer, Greg Plisko.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Greg.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Before the break, we asked listeners to come up with
notable people whose names contain fruits. Can you think of
any fruit filled people?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I've been struggling just to think of fruit. No, I
think the first one I thought of was Annie Applebaum, the.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Writer, very high brow. Starting with highbrow, I said, Fiona apple.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Also a good one.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Apple.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
There are lots of apple people. Nobody key, we do
we count like the Duke of Orange.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Can we kill you?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Sure, I'll throw it in. I'll give you the others.
Just to Darryl Strawberry, these are the ones I thought of.
There are a lot more nane A Cherry, Don Lemon
and newscaster Chuck Berry. Then they're the hidden ones like
Christopher Plummer and Eve Plumb my my wife's favorite show,
The Brady Bunch.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Yeah, very good one.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Send in your other fruity names to the Puzzler dot com.
We love to hear from you. But as I'm mentioned,
our favorite people in the world with fruit themed names
are Mango and Will Pearson, hosts of the great podcast
Part Time Genius. Welcome Will and Mango.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Hey, good to be with you, guys.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
We are delighted to have you and we love your show.
Not only do you have fruit filled names, but you
have talked about fruits on your show Because your show
covers everything in the world, the fascinating facts and I
learned how to eat a banana like the Queen of
England from your show.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Do you remember the fork and knife?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Ark and knife?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Yeah? Wait wait I miss it. Does she peel it
or does it get peeled for her?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
No? I believe she feels it.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, well yeah, yeah she really is of course.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Now it's the King of England.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Well, that's true, the King of England. He probably eats
his bananas the same way. I think that's the royal protocol.
You cut the ends off and then cut it. By
the way, you have done hundreds of episodes, and I
get this question a lot because I did a book
about reading the encyclopedia in general. How much do you
remember of all of the facts that you have covered.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I remember almost none of it. I am very very
excited to learn stuff, and I love it, and and
then I'm like a goldfish. I'm so bad at trivia.
I'm actually nervous about being here because people always like
pick me to like. I mean, I have been a
I was a phone a friend on a taxi. What
(03:44):
was that taxicab show?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Who Wants to Be a Million Cash Cat?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah? So I did help when that time, But mostly
I'm just nervous to like help someone with trivia.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
But the but the fun of it of forgetting a
lot of it is you get to learn it all
over again, so you know, it's and doing part time genius.
We'll stumble on facts and be like, that's so interesting,
and then you'll realize it was in an issue of
Mental Floss in the past. But that's just part of
the fun.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Exactly. I have the same thing because I read the
encyclopedia and I remember my guess is point five percent.
And the stuff I remember is not the stuff that
I wish I remembered. It's not like eyebrow philosophy. It's
like things like a possums have thirteen nipples like.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
That right in a circle.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
That important.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, hey, you don't remember stuff, Manngo, you are lying.
That is exactly right.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
It's it's a I mean, I.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Remember stuff from the last episode that we do, so
like right now, I know a lot about Canadian Chinese food.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You know, Well, you are in luck. All of our
questions about it are about Chinese Canadians.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
What amazing.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
So you're fine. Well, we'll mentioned Mental Floss, which is
where I first met these guys. It's one of my
favorite magazines. Of all time. They founded it in college.
It's also where we met. I met our producer, Neelie Lohman,
who first approached me with the idea for the Puzzler podcast.
So thank you will and Mango for that. But since
(05:18):
then you have switched from print to audio. So in
honor of that, we have an audio puzzle. It's a
puzzle we call an audio rebis. The name we came
up with is Earbus trademark Penders. And we are going
to say a word in a tone of voice or
an accent, and you will have to guess the phrase
(05:39):
that I am trying to convey with that word. So
for instance, if I say tied that means rising tide,
it's usually a two word phrase. Or if I said
chamber chamber, chamber teine that is echo chamber.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
You got it, got it?
Speaker 5 (05:58):
All right?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Here we go, stock.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Stock, I think I know this one. Mango, how about you?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, I think I do yea yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Is this laughing stock?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yes, laughing stock exactly. I liked you that you were
so polite. Neither of you wanted to say it. All right,
what about this one magazine? I'm using my acting skills.
You'll see my wide range.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
What do you think, Mango, Will you do it once more?
Will you perform it once more for me?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Perform absolutely magazine.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Yeah, when you do it seven more times?
Speaker 5 (06:43):
There, it really helps.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
When you can.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Magazine magazine.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Magazine helps.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
It helps to see his face, which, of course isn't
fair to the listeners.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I think this may be one of Mango's childhood favorites.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
What do you think, Mango, Mad Magazine?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You are correct, Mad Magazine? It was one, was it?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
All right?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I got The next one is divson.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
All right, let's think about this one.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Longer for me?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Mm hmm yeah, yeah. If you could just go a
little longer with.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
That, ag you're making me work. I love it. All right,
here we go. This is good podcast, droning on divon.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
You know, I don't know if any of you have
experienced this when you have to, like work with your
kids on math as they get older. This is the
hardest thing in the world for me now, like doing
I think the answer may be long division, but it
is the hardest thing to do if if you forget
how to do it. But anyway, is that the answer?
Agent and I agree?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
How did they how have they not come up? With
a better system.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah, but I will even say to your point, well,
like my older kid did it one way and my
younger kid does it a different way, neither of which
are the way I learned how.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
To do it.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
No, is this the part where we're old and we
complain about math? Is that what we do?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
But five years later her eleven year old brother is like,
oh no, we don't do it like that. We do
it like this.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
So she's old. Then, By the way, the other clue
I was going to do for this word was John Silver,
and what's delightful about this?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And Mango?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
You have no recollection? John Silver? Division, Well, you will
not remember this, Mango, because it was not yesterday. But
I listened to your show yesterday, and you had a
show about pirates. This was a sort of a classic
(08:59):
an audio, and I learned that long John Silver, the
character on the pirate on Treasure Island, is the source
of all of the reason that we all talk in
such a crazy like arm walk the plane.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Whoa.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Well, I'd love that you say whoa.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
When you taught me, like I know, back to the
earlier point, we get to learn these things all over again.
He said. It was a class you know what, I
want to make a commitment though after having said that,
I've never been to Long John Silver. Wait, it still exists, right,
I'm going to go to one. I'm going to go
to that. Mango knows that I love fast food and
(09:37):
I've never been to a Long John Silver. So within
the next month, I'm going to go eat some Long
John Silver.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Poor fact. And yes, we would love to be the
official puzzle show for Long John Silver. But let me
just refresh your memory because Long John Silver is a
pirate and Treasure Island Disney may a movie about Treasure
Island in the fifties, and the actor who played it
happened to come from a part of England where they
(10:07):
kind of talk like that. So that's the only reason
we think pirates like if the actor had been from
Long Island, we'd all think pirates had a Long Island access.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It was so.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Crazy, all right. I got a couple more. We have
got Limozine.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
It's in the same genre stretch limo.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Exactly, well done.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
How about this one? Now this is going to require
some acting for me, but I'll try chocklate bar. Thank you, Greg.
I assume that's a laugh of respect and admiration Joy
Joy Okay, jock lit bar. It's a it's a brand
(11:02):
on the like the others. It's a brand name any.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Thoughts named after a horse?
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Right?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Oh? I did not know. See that's why once again,
well what is it? Tell thee?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah, I love that it's named after See.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Greg threw me off because you said Joy and this
almond joy.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Somehow and and likely it was like long limousines long
chocolate fresh chocolate was all that way.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
And my kids said chuckles, which is not a chocolate bar,
but that could. And by the way, I think you'll
remember this man, that you love gummy bears. I loved
your riff on gummy bears, and that you're supposed to
eat them after you work out.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, that's right. Have you adopted that I don't work out.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
That takes care of that. That takes care of it.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
The second part.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
By the way, I just want to say I have
also learned things about puzzles and secret codes. Again you
might not remember, but I learned the hidden meaning of
the Fraser theme song, which was always baffling to me
because they say Tamas Saladin scramble there it is in
that in that tone and the reason is I'm not
(12:33):
going to put you on the spot because I unless
you remember.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, it's because it's like a veiled reference to all
the people on the show, right, like the the.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
They're mixed up, they're mixed up, they're scrambled, which which
may not be like nowadays appropriate, but it's it's fine,
it's good. I love it. And Mission Impossible has a
morse code like dunda something like that. Uh, all right,
we got a couple of more. How about We've got
(13:07):
ology psych ology psych So now, if I was really
doing it, Greg is pointing out, it would be e
Joe lockeice, right.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
But we were truly going backward, also known as reverse
exactly reverse psychology. Right, we do you think about that? Mango?
I got that one? Was that right? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I'm still thinking about theme songs.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
All right, We've got two more and then we're done.
We've got again. My acting is gonna come in handy.
Uh are you ready?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I already again? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
All right, here we go. I've got two for you.
Because it's a little tricky. Verse is Trojan Trojan and Charlie.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Char I got it.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I'm trying to figure out the voice there.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, yeah, it's like he's losing your voice. Is getting
horse there?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
So it's a Charlie horse and Trojan horse.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Well done, well done. Oh I have to bring in
Chief Puzzle Officer Greg Pliska for one or two duetts
earbus duets. So you are seeing the only the second
iteration of this, so very exciting. You're at eight. Here
we go places places, places, places, places places. That's that's enough.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Come on, there's that. Yeah you did. H It's not
an echo.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
It's a I'll give you a hint. It's a movie
for people our age that we all loved and problem
may or may not hold up. I haven't seen it, mm.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Hmm is it?
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I haven't seen this for a while.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Are we trading places?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
We are trading places? Well done?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
All right?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
And now I'm not lying. This is the final one, Greg,
are you ready?
Speaker 5 (15:27):
I'm ready?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
All right?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
You go of it?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Of it. It's a tricky one to end on.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
A yeah, yeah, it of it.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
So it's of it a O F I T. And
actually we did use this word earlier with the with
the math, when we talked about how we don't understand
kids today. So we've got that word. It's not two words.
It's a long it's a longer phrase. It's a five
(16:05):
word phrase. That's the trick.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
What are you thinking?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
So one of the first of it is like the
vision it is.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Not but I can't right long of it long and
short of it, short of it?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
You got it.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
I have a feeling mego if that one at the
end and he was he's just too nice and was
tossing it my way.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I agree that.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I like that you all have that feeling.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah, we're going to stick with it.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
I really like ending on that one that was like.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah, yeah, it's all about teamwork, like your show. All right,
so I have an extra credit for the folks at
home before we leave bis bis or here's another one
of a similar Franz Schubert's simpun. Franz Schubert simpun. All right,
that's your extra credit, mango and will we loved having you?
(17:11):
What a delight. We have you back tomorrow for more
trivia that none of us may remember the next day.
But in the meantime, listeners, please check out our Instagram
feed at Hello Puzzlers, where we post all sorts of
fun puzzly stuff and of course we'll meet you here
tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Hey puzzlers, it's Greg Pliska, your chief puzzle Officer up
from the puzzle AaB with the extra credit answer from
our previous episode. Nikki plisk joined us and gave me
an Aja quiz on gen Z and Jen alpha slang,
and I have to say Aj and I were pretty
stoked about how we did, though stoked is not one
of the gen Z slang words we should be using anyway,
(17:59):
it was really skibbitty and our gillats were twitching after
we were done. So here's your extra credit clue from Nicki.
Two of these are real Italian brain rut and one
of them is not. He gave us these three Burboloni
Lulioni and Googaga Lulala and truly Marrow truly China, and
(18:22):
which one is not real? That's the middle one. Googaga
Lulaala is something Nicky made up. The first one, Burboloni
Luloni is a cappy beera mixed with a coconut, and
truly Marrow Truly China is a cat slash fish slash human.
We welcome everyone, here on the puzzlers capybara, coconuts, catfish, humans,
(18:43):
and even googaga lulaalas. So come back tomorrow for some
more puzzling puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly
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Greg Pliska
A.J. Jacobs
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