July 23, 2025 • 16 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello puzzlers. I think we should start with a quick
puzzle today. The challenge is to fill in these three
blanks and then let us know what they have in common. Okay,
are you ready? Blank up the volume, Throw another blank
on the barbie and blank.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
There it is.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
So those are three different words, but they share something.
Blank up the volume. Throw another blank on the barbie
and blank there it is. The answers and more puzzling
puzzles after the break. Hello puzzlers, Welcome back to the
Puzzler Podcast, the forty five minute shortcut given to you
(00:44):
by your Ways Puzzle app. I am your host, AJ Jacobs.
I'm here, of course that I love Ways. I'm sorry, I'm.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Here you do. I think I think we should appear
on Ways like you can. You can as you're getting directions,
you get us giving you puzzles about the direct Actually, oh,
I like that.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
That's just left, don't What is what is vexillological talk
for sinster?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah? Go four miles blank of Eden. Yeah, I think
there's lots of opportunities. That was our guest, by the way,
Mike Pesca, who we are about to introduce. But in
the meantime, Greg, did you have any thoughts on those
three blanks on what they might have come And you.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Want to turn up the volume or crank up the volume.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, that's exactly what I want. Greg, Yeah, you got it.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
No, No, I got more shrimp on the barbie.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Shrimp on the barbie.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah. And whoop. There it is.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Well that's the interesting thing. It is, all right, it's that.
Did you really?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
You know?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
The up the volume? Yes, it is. Whoop that is me.
Pump up the volume, pump up the volume. Throw another
MP words, I got it. Uh. And the whoomp was
very controversial. My wife was like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Whoop?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Whoomp? But it is officially listed in the lyrics as
whoop and MP Coincidentally enough, there are the initials of
our guest today. He is the host of the enormously
Popularist podcast, the longest running daily news podcast in history.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
He interviews wonderful guests and has great commentary. His name
is Mike Pesca MP.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Welcome, Mike, Well thank you, I don't I'm not offended
that you lumped me in with those other ones that
won't crimp my style.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Ah, fantastic, All right, Well you hear what you're in
for folks you are in for some of that. That's
oh I just saw you. You wrote on social media
that now the just as available three x on all platforms.
(03:03):
The thing is you talk, so I listened to most
podcasts two X, but you talk so fast I have
to go to one point five X for you. So
that's a big compliment.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
It is, but it takes longer for you to slog
through my show. I listened to most podcasts at two
point three speed, and so I say to myself, I
could never get the puzzles as fast as some of
your guests. But then I realize, oh, they're probably playing
in one point oh speed.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yes, exactly. There we record this in one point oh
and then we release it.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
That is a great point. We should have like a
thirty second pause for people who are on two X.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Just a j You ever meet a podcaster who you
only listened to in double speed and it just really
freaks you out that you, yes, dogget so slow. Yep,
it happens.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Well, I'm like, oh yeah, I'm like, are you okay?
Are you having a stroke? What's going on? Yeah, it's terrible.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Happens all the time.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
But as I said, you are only you're only half
a speed off.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
So realize how long Michael Bbara's pauses are in real life.
Oh my god when he says or hmm, I mean
he says for a long time.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I am now going to introduce Chief Puzzle Officer Greg Fliss,
because Greg has a puzzle for you today, MP.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I do, although I have a question. First longest running
but longest running news.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Podcast there there are Fresh Air with Terry Gross has
been at in podcast form for twenty years or some
but a podcast that was only ever meant to be
a podcast that conveys the news and does analysis the news.
This just was the first as far as we could tell.
That's very for the first that's ongoing.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yes, right right, that makes sense, got it, God, I
got it. So you were in early and and you
didn't exist before.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I haven't died yet. Yes, this is what you're getting to.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yes, well, now this is good. Like for someone to
catch up. They it's gonna be hard because I'm.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Doing it every day, so they're gonna have to go
twice daily, exactly, right, right, right.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Right, exactly. Well, here's the thing I've been thinking about
the name of the podcast, the gist, because it's one
of those words that starts with g I but has
the soft G the J sound yes right, yes, like
jillian or ginger. And then sometimes that G in front
of an eye can be a hard G, like get
or gilligan. Right, words like that.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Wow, the island had one of each. I never thought
one of each exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I didn't even I just put those down, like.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
And the and the and the skipper was Jonah. What's
his last name? Jonah?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I'll look that up since I'm not playing. I'm sure
I feel like to.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Feel gimby, Yeah, gimby, that would be good.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Right. Well, look, how do you pronounce there's this infamous
word that we all fight over the pronunciation of It's
spelled gif. How do you pronounce that skippy?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Oh? Yeah, no it is. It is jeff. You gotta say,
You gotta say jeff to be a normal person. But
I get that it's a giff. I get it.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I say giff. Why am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I just think because there are so many words, like,
here's another one. Eldridge Gary was the what the Revolution?
As AJ knows from the book, Eldge Gary was the
governor of Massachusetts? Is that right? Aj? And yeah, we
say jerry Mander, because when you see it written down,
(06:37):
the ge lends itself to a Jerrymander. Same deal with
Jeff Gif. I would say Jeff even if it's a gift, right,
that's so funny.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And I say Giff all the time.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
One quick thing, I mean poor Gary because he is mispronounced.
And he also kind of got the shaft like he
did not want to Jerrymander. He was on the record
saying this is a bad idea, but his advisors like,
you gotta do it. So anyway, So.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
The quiz is all about switching between the hard G
sound and the soft G. Right, okay, so every answer
is two words, one that becomes the other when you
switch those sounds. The spelling might change completely. It's just
those first two sounds that all the matter. So for example,
if I said greasy sludge that you'd find in a
pile of old metal parts, that would be junk gunk wow.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
And they all do they all rhyme or would they
They all rhyme?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
They all rhyme. The spelling might change, but they will rhyme. Yeah. Yeah,
we're just going for changing that first, either the good
to a JA or a vice versa.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Okay, you got it. I'll try or you jot it
either way, right, I'm jod to go.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
You got the idea, all right, So your first one
is this month's thug.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
You know you would think saying this month would narrow
town for a guy like me, h June's goons or
June June.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
June June goon, the June goon exactly exactly. All right,
all right? This is this is to a to acquire
a personal aircraft.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Ah, get a jet? It, get a jet, get a jet? Okay,
get it?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean it could. It doesn't have
to be personal, but I thought it was helpful. All right.
How about tittering with amusement while you move the toilet
handle up and down.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Giggle, jiggle, giggle, jiggle exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
When your pot belly sticks out sharply.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
You've got the classic gut jet.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Exactly nice. I did not get that, so thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
You don't have gut jet. That's good. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
You can't say below my chest on the zoom.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
So there must be a medical term aj for right.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I'm gonna look that up. That'll be my job right now.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
All right, all right, Mike, how about Pride Month's favorite bluebird.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Uh, well, Pride month is June, but you already did June, right, yeah,
and is a wait, June goon is something that you've
already done.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yes, So it's not about the name of the month.
It's about who we celebrate some of the people we sell.
A gay jay, a gay jay exactly. You go, how
about a legally fair blast of wind?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Ah, A just gust.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Exactly exactly, and then and then if it's a strong
wind that is convicted, it would be sent here a
gale jel.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
All right, But I've got an answer that you've all
been waiting for. They got medical term for beer belly.
That's what I search for. Is a visceral obesity. Visceral
obesie makes sense, miser obese.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Visceral Yeah, visceral obesity of the viscera.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yeah, the visceral Well, I think the viscera is causing
the obesity. This is the This is this is what
all the obesity doctors are warning against. It's not being heavy,
it's the visceral obesity.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yes, right there you go.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Oh, very interesting. All right, I got making notes about this.
This is the Puzzler and Your Dieting podcast. This is
a very large serving of Okra soup.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Ochra soup, very large serving ah Okra Okra soup.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, well, or stu Okra stu. You could say, yeah,
oh oh it's a pop.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Yeah it's a Jumbo gumbo.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yes, well done, Yes we had.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Just go ahead, Oh, just a sue a stew made
of various parts of P. T. Barnum's favorite elephant. Or
if you do, if return Cannibal at tough University, you
could also have the Jumbo Gumbo.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yes, yes, yes, very good.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
That is the mascot of Toughs University, because I think P. T.
Barnum funded Toughs or something like that.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I also think that Jumbo's carcass was there. Let's look
that up, or let's just let it go and think
that Jumbo died it Toughs.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
All right, I'm gonna look it up.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
You look that up. I'll give you another one. This
is something that makes Mick want to vomit.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Oh, Mick want to vomit?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Jaggers gaggers, jagger gagger, dagger gagger.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Okay, it's a jagger gagger. Sure, why not? How about
when you invite someone over to do something funny.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Well, you could invite them to go on a gag
jag if that's what you mean.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Fair, fair, that's what they would do. But they you know,
they come over to your house, so they are this
and they're gonna they're.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Just guests, if you will, a just guest exactly, which
is kind of what you.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Are on the show.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
There you go. By the way, people have been waiting
for the update on Jumbo's cartoon.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Tell me there's a elephant.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I have it.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
You were right, he was. The skin was stored at Tufts,
but then it was destroyed in a major fire. However,
this is a very important detail that while the carcass
was still around, there was a superstition that dropping a
coin into the nostril of the trunk would bring good
(12:56):
luck on an examination or a sporting event.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
That's good. So when Toffs played, that trunk took a
lot of nickels.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yeah right, that's why the Tough Seems have not been
doing well as of late.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
This is no trunk in which to put your coins.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
That's correct, makes sense.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
All right, let's do a couple more of these. This
is where J Paul kept his yacht.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Ah. I don't think I know who J Paul Jenny's
Jenny Geddy.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Jenny, Yes, exactly, j Paul Getty. How about what an
Irish musician might call one of her shows.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
One of her shows a jig gig of course, of course.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
And last one, this is the performance enhancing drug taken
by picture gossage, Goose juice, Goose juice, exactly, exactly. There.
There aren't a lot of guests on our show. I
would trust to know who goose gossage was.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
When you squeeze goose gossage, that's what you get. Now,
we only chewing tobacco actually to Yeah, I'm sure it
was exactly.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Goose did not juice in the traditional sense as far
as we know, but he definitely chewed tobacco. Well, Mike,
that was terrific. You nailed them all that was.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
That was good as it should have been, yes.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Guy, Yeah, Well Mike you are, by the way, I
think when you first came on, I said Mike, Hey,
Mike Pence instead of Mike Pesca. Am I the first
to make that mistake?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Oh? No, I thought that you saw in the background
the former vice president is here, He's hiding out from
an angry mob. So I did not if you've done
to him.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Oh good, thank you. Well that makes.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
People would say in the heyday of the first Trump
administration that you know, NPR or some other newscast would
mention Mike pen Pence doing something and they'd miss hear it,
and they'd get mad at me for a second, and
they'd say, wait a minute, Mike Pesca didn't vote to
defid and whatever I did, I did, but it didn't matter,
is my point.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
It wasn't the consequential vote.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yes, yeah, but then a lot of people think he
saved democracy. Bye. Uh. So you can get some positive
vibes from that.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, it's been paying off ever since.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I love it. Greg. Do you have an extra credit
for the folks at home.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Of course I do. Here's your extra credit. Jack went
to fetch a pail of water and fortunately his companion
could breathe underneath it thanks to these.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Okay, good I am. I'm picturing it suspending a little disbelief. Well,
thanks again, Mike, your great puzzler and come back anytime.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
It was. It was absolutely my pleasure. Was so much fun.
Thank you guys for having me. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
In the meantime, folks, check out our Puzzler Instagram feed
at Tello Puzzlers. We'll be back tomorrow. Songs my unfortunately,
but we'll have plenty of other good stuff and we'll
see you here tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles that will
puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Hey, puzzlers, it's Greg Pliska up from the Puzzle Lab
with the extra credit answer from our previous episode. Mike
Pesca joined us for some fruity phrases. Your extra credit
clue was this.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
This is a fruity.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Synonym for fame, or being the focus of attention. It's
actually based on the way theaters used to illuminate the
stage with glowing calcium oxide. Calcium oxide is another name
for quicklime, and the answer is limelight. Thank you for
sharing the limelight here with us, puzzlers, and we'll catch
you next time.
Hello puzzlers. I think we should start with a quick
puzzle today. The challenge is to fill in these three
blanks and then let us know what they have in common. Okay,
are you ready? Blank up the volume, Throw another blank
on the barbie and blank.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
There it is.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
So those are three different words, but they share something.
Blank up the volume. Throw another blank on the barbie
and blank there it is. The answers and more puzzling
puzzles after the break. Hello puzzlers, Welcome back to the
Puzzler Podcast, the forty five minute shortcut given to you
(00:44):
by your Ways Puzzle app. I am your host, AJ Jacobs.
I'm here, of course that I love Ways. I'm sorry, I'm.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Here you do. I think I think we should appear
on Ways like you can. You can as you're getting directions,
you get us giving you puzzles about the direct Actually, oh,
I like that.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
That's just left, don't What is what is vexillological talk
for sinster?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah? Go four miles blank of Eden. Yeah, I think
there's lots of opportunities. That was our guest, by the way,
Mike Pesca, who we are about to introduce. But in
the meantime, Greg, did you have any thoughts on those
three blanks on what they might have come And you.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Want to turn up the volume or crank up the volume.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, that's exactly what I want. Greg, Yeah, you got it.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
No, No, I got more shrimp on the barbie.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Shrimp on the barbie.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah. And whoop. There it is.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Well that's the interesting thing. It is, all right, it's that.
Did you really?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
You know?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
The up the volume? Yes, it is. Whoop that is me.
Pump up the volume, pump up the volume. Throw another
MP words, I got it. Uh. And the whoomp was
very controversial. My wife was like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Whoop?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Whoomp? But it is officially listed in the lyrics as
whoop and MP Coincidentally enough, there are the initials of
our guest today. He is the host of the enormously
Popularist podcast, the longest running daily news podcast in history.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
He interviews wonderful guests and has great commentary. His name
is Mike Pesca MP.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Welcome, Mike, Well thank you, I don't I'm not offended
that you lumped me in with those other ones that
won't crimp my style.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Ah, fantastic, All right, Well you hear what you're in
for folks you are in for some of that. That's
oh I just saw you. You wrote on social media
that now the just as available three x on all platforms.
(03:03):
The thing is you talk, so I listened to most
podcasts two X, but you talk so fast I have
to go to one point five X for you. So
that's a big compliment.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
It is, but it takes longer for you to slog
through my show. I listened to most podcasts at two
point three speed, and so I say to myself, I
could never get the puzzles as fast as some of
your guests. But then I realize, oh, they're probably playing
in one point oh speed.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yes, exactly. There we record this in one point oh
and then we release it.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
That is a great point. We should have like a
thirty second pause for people who are on two X.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Just a j You ever meet a podcaster who you
only listened to in double speed and it just really
freaks you out that you, yes, dogget so slow. Yep,
it happens.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Well, I'm like, oh yeah, I'm like, are you okay?
Are you having a stroke? What's going on? Yeah, it's terrible.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Happens all the time.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
But as I said, you are only you're only half
a speed off.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
So realize how long Michael Bbara's pauses are in real life.
Oh my god when he says or hmm, I mean
he says for a long time.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I am now going to introduce Chief Puzzle Officer Greg Fliss,
because Greg has a puzzle for you today, MP.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I do, although I have a question. First longest running
but longest running news.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Podcast there there are Fresh Air with Terry Gross has
been at in podcast form for twenty years or some
but a podcast that was only ever meant to be
a podcast that conveys the news and does analysis the news.
This just was the first as far as we could tell.
That's very for the first that's ongoing.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yes, right right, that makes sense, got it, God, I
got it. So you were in early and and you
didn't exist before.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I haven't died yet. Yes, this is what you're getting to.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yes, well, now this is good. Like for someone to
catch up. They it's gonna be hard because I'm.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Doing it every day, so they're gonna have to go
twice daily, exactly, right, right, right.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Right, exactly. Well, here's the thing I've been thinking about
the name of the podcast, the gist, because it's one
of those words that starts with g I but has
the soft G the J sound yes right, yes, like
jillian or ginger. And then sometimes that G in front
of an eye can be a hard G, like get
or gilligan. Right, words like that.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Wow, the island had one of each. I never thought
one of each exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I didn't even I just put those down, like.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
And the and the and the skipper was Jonah. What's
his last name? Jonah?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I'll look that up since I'm not playing. I'm sure
I feel like to.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Feel gimby, Yeah, gimby, that would be good.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Right. Well, look, how do you pronounce there's this infamous
word that we all fight over the pronunciation of It's
spelled gif. How do you pronounce that skippy?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Oh? Yeah, no it is. It is jeff. You gotta say,
You gotta say jeff to be a normal person. But
I get that it's a giff. I get it.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I say giff. Why am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I just think because there are so many words, like,
here's another one. Eldridge Gary was the what the Revolution?
As AJ knows from the book, Eldge Gary was the
governor of Massachusetts? Is that right? Aj? And yeah, we
say jerry Mander, because when you see it written down,
(06:37):
the ge lends itself to a Jerrymander. Same deal with
Jeff Gif. I would say Jeff even if it's a gift, right,
that's so funny.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And I say Giff all the time.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
One quick thing, I mean poor Gary because he is mispronounced.
And he also kind of got the shaft like he
did not want to Jerrymander. He was on the record
saying this is a bad idea, but his advisors like,
you gotta do it. So anyway, So.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
The quiz is all about switching between the hard G
sound and the soft G. Right, okay, so every answer
is two words, one that becomes the other when you
switch those sounds. The spelling might change completely. It's just
those first two sounds that all the matter. So for example,
if I said greasy sludge that you'd find in a
pile of old metal parts, that would be junk gunk wow.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
And they all do they all rhyme or would they
They all rhyme?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
They all rhyme. The spelling might change, but they will rhyme. Yeah. Yeah,
we're just going for changing that first, either the good
to a JA or a vice versa.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Okay, you got it. I'll try or you jot it
either way, right, I'm jod to go.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
You got the idea, all right, So your first one
is this month's thug.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
You know you would think saying this month would narrow
town for a guy like me, h June's goons or
June June.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
June June goon, the June goon exactly exactly. All right,
all right? This is this is to a to acquire
a personal aircraft.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Ah, get a jet? It, get a jet, get a jet? Okay,
get it?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean it could. It doesn't have
to be personal, but I thought it was helpful. All right.
How about tittering with amusement while you move the toilet
handle up and down.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Giggle, jiggle, giggle, jiggle exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
When your pot belly sticks out sharply.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
You've got the classic gut jet.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Exactly nice. I did not get that, so thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
You don't have gut jet. That's good. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
You can't say below my chest on the zoom.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
So there must be a medical term aj for right.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I'm gonna look that up. That'll be my job right now.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
All right, all right, Mike, how about Pride Month's favorite bluebird.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Uh, well, Pride month is June, but you already did June, right, yeah,
and is a wait, June goon is something that you've
already done.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yes, So it's not about the name of the month.
It's about who we celebrate some of the people we sell.
A gay jay, a gay jay exactly. You go, how
about a legally fair blast of wind?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Ah, A just gust.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Exactly exactly, and then and then if it's a strong
wind that is convicted, it would be sent here a
gale jel.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
All right, But I've got an answer that you've all
been waiting for. They got medical term for beer belly.
That's what I search for. Is a visceral obesity. Visceral
obesie makes sense, miser obese.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Visceral Yeah, visceral obesity of the viscera.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yeah, the visceral Well, I think the viscera is causing
the obesity. This is the This is this is what
all the obesity doctors are warning against. It's not being heavy,
it's the visceral obesity.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yes, right there you go.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Oh, very interesting. All right, I got making notes about this.
This is the Puzzler and Your Dieting podcast. This is
a very large serving of Okra soup.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Ochra soup, very large serving ah Okra Okra soup.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, well, or stu Okra stu. You could say, yeah,
oh oh it's a pop.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Yeah it's a Jumbo gumbo.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yes, well done, Yes we had.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Just go ahead, Oh, just a sue a stew made
of various parts of P. T. Barnum's favorite elephant. Or
if you do, if return Cannibal at tough University, you
could also have the Jumbo Gumbo.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yes, yes, yes, very good.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
That is the mascot of Toughs University, because I think P. T.
Barnum funded Toughs or something like that.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I also think that Jumbo's carcass was there. Let's look
that up, or let's just let it go and think
that Jumbo died it Toughs.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
All right, I'm gonna look it up.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
You look that up. I'll give you another one. This
is something that makes Mick want to vomit.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Oh, Mick want to vomit?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Jaggers gaggers, jagger gagger, dagger gagger.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Okay, it's a jagger gagger. Sure, why not? How about
when you invite someone over to do something funny.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Well, you could invite them to go on a gag
jag if that's what you mean.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Fair, fair, that's what they would do. But they you know,
they come over to your house, so they are this
and they're gonna they're.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Just guests, if you will, a just guest exactly, which
is kind of what you.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Are on the show.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
There you go. By the way, people have been waiting
for the update on Jumbo's cartoon.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Tell me there's a elephant.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I have it.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
You were right, he was. The skin was stored at Tufts,
but then it was destroyed in a major fire. However,
this is a very important detail that while the carcass
was still around, there was a superstition that dropping a
coin into the nostril of the trunk would bring good
(12:56):
luck on an examination or a sporting event.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
That's good. So when Toffs played, that trunk took a
lot of nickels.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yeah right, that's why the Tough Seems have not been
doing well as of late.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
This is no trunk in which to put your coins.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
That's correct, makes sense.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
All right, let's do a couple more of these. This
is where J Paul kept his yacht.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Ah. I don't think I know who J Paul Jenny's
Jenny Geddy.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Jenny, Yes, exactly, j Paul Getty. How about what an
Irish musician might call one of her shows.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
One of her shows a jig gig of course, of course.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
And last one, this is the performance enhancing drug taken
by picture gossage, Goose juice, Goose juice, exactly, exactly. There.
There aren't a lot of guests on our show. I
would trust to know who goose gossage was.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
When you squeeze goose gossage, that's what you get. Now,
we only chewing tobacco actually to Yeah, I'm sure it
was exactly.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Goose did not juice in the traditional sense as far
as we know, but he definitely chewed tobacco. Well, Mike,
that was terrific. You nailed them all that was.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
That was good as it should have been, yes.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Guy, Yeah, Well Mike you are, by the way, I
think when you first came on, I said Mike, Hey,
Mike Pence instead of Mike Pesca. Am I the first
to make that mistake?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Oh? No, I thought that you saw in the background
the former vice president is here, He's hiding out from
an angry mob. So I did not if you've done
to him.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Oh good, thank you. Well that makes.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
People would say in the heyday of the first Trump
administration that you know, NPR or some other newscast would
mention Mike pen Pence doing something and they'd miss hear it,
and they'd get mad at me for a second, and
they'd say, wait a minute, Mike Pesca didn't vote to
defid and whatever I did, I did, but it didn't matter,
is my point.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
It wasn't the consequential vote.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yes, yeah, but then a lot of people think he
saved democracy. Bye. Uh. So you can get some positive
vibes from that.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, it's been paying off ever since.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I love it. Greg. Do you have an extra credit
for the folks at home.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Of course I do. Here's your extra credit. Jack went
to fetch a pail of water and fortunately his companion
could breathe underneath it thanks to these.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Okay, good I am. I'm picturing it suspending a little disbelief. Well,
thanks again, Mike, your great puzzler and come back anytime.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
It was. It was absolutely my pleasure. Was so much fun.
Thank you guys for having me. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
In the meantime, folks, check out our Puzzler Instagram feed
at Tello Puzzlers. We'll be back tomorrow. Songs my unfortunately,
but we'll have plenty of other good stuff and we'll
see you here tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles that will
puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Hey, puzzlers, it's Greg Pliska up from the Puzzle Lab
with the extra credit answer from our previous episode. Mike
Pesca joined us for some fruity phrases. Your extra credit
clue was this.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
This is a fruity.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Synonym for fame, or being the focus of attention. It's
actually based on the way theaters used to illuminate the
stage with glowing calcium oxide. Calcium oxide is another name
for quicklime, and the answer is limelight. Thank you for
sharing the limelight here with us, puzzlers, and we'll catch
you next time.
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Greg Pliska
A.J. Jacobs
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