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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast the Vibrato In
your Puzzle Diva's solo, I'm your host A J. Jacobs,
and here is a quick puzzle for you. Slash and
blank plus blank jerk reaction. So fill in those two
blanks slash and blank and blank jerk reaction. Put them
together and you get the first name of a famous
(00:22):
politician the answer after the break. Welcome back to the
Buzzler Podcast. Before the break, we asked you to fill
in the blanks to get the first name of a
famous politician. Slash and blank plus blank jerk reaction. That
would be burn, slash and burn plus knee jerk reaction.
(00:45):
You put them together and you get yes. Bernie Bernie Sanders.
And I bring up Bernie Sanders for two reasons. First,
our guest was a reporter embedded with Bernie Sanders during
Bernie's I think it was twenty.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Sixteen sixteen campaign, Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
And second, our guest happens to share a last name
with Bernie Sanders. And our guest, of course is Sam Sanders,
host of Vibe Check and the News Show. So the
Sam Sanders Show on Casey r W. You're Welcome back, Sam.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's good to be here.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
You know, when I was covering Bernie Sanders, I was
doing radio reporting for NPR at the time, and at
the end of an NPR News story, you do what's
called a sockout standard out Q and you say your
name and NPR News. But whenever I would do Bernie stories,
I would say my name, n PR News and then
no relation. So I'd say Sam Sanders, no relation, and
(01:40):
everyone knew that we were not related, but I found
it funny.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
It's funny even even ten years later. And did he
ever comment on that? Did he ever talk?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I don't think that man knew who I was. He
was too busy trying to be president. He was way
too busy trying to be president.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Well that was his loss. This puzzle is not about
Bernie though. It's actually an honor of your show, It's
Been a Minute, which was super popular on NPR that
you hosted for several years. And this puzzle it's not
called It's Been a Minute, It's actually called It's been
how many minutes? Ha love because in this puzzle, I'm
(02:19):
going to give you some sort of thing or phenomenon
that happened and you can guess how many minutes it lasted,
and many of these are pop culture related. Okay, we
don't expect you to get the exact number. We will
give you credit if you guess within ten percent of
the correct answer. And and I'm pretty I'm pretty lax.
(02:41):
If it's twenty percent, I'm okay with it all. Here
we go. How many minutes was the longest standing ovation
in the history of the con Film Festival?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Twenty seven?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Wow, I think, Oh, you were so close to the
ten percent. It was twenty two minutes. I don't expect
you to know this, but just take a while. Guess
what what movie do you think might have done that?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It's probably a recent oh, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Two six, two thousand and six. Gosh, and it was
I think it's Germle of del Toro, I think. And
it was.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Not Pans Labyrinth.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
That's it. Pans Labyrinth, Okay, which to me is just crazy.
I mean, I'm all.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
For a wild movie, and I'm not sure that I
would stand up for that one. For twenty two minutes.
I liked it, but twenty two minutes of applause, Oh my.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Twenty two minutes. That's like a like an actual show.
Like a sitcom. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I also think that now the awards industrial complex is
such that everyone knows to stand for the films that
you So it's like it just happens now, and it
sound in theory signify nothing, Like everyone gets a standing
ovation at these festivals. Now, I don't take it too
seriously anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
That's it doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I'm a cynic. Yeah, they all gets.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Actually, yeah, it's like performative you have to yeah, yeah,
how many minutes of scream time led to the record
for the shortest performance to earn a Best Supporting Oscar
So if that's for minutes, oh, there's a good guess,
it's even less. It's even less. Wow, it is five
minutes and two seconds.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
And it was a while ago. It was for Network
the Patty Chayefsky movie Beatrice Straight. Second place, though, is
one I actually saw with my wife on our first date,
so or second or third date? Do you know what?
You have any guesses? It was famous?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I want to say Viola Davis in Doubt, but I'm
not sure she won for Doubt.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Oh that's good. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
She had a short role in that one. But tell
me which one it was.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
This was Judy Denz for Shakespeare in Love.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Uh, yeah, you know, I have a bone to pick
with Shakespeare in Love. I don't think it was the
best pick of that year. It was the first time
that Harvey Weinstein put into motion the like full awards
industrial complex to push that movie to win. And I
think it was battling against a war movie, a Spilberg movie.
What was it up against that year?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Andrea are associate puzzler. Can you look it up? Because
I remember too people were shocked and then.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Not should have won. It wasn't supposed to win. Yeah,
what was the Spilberg movie? Was it a band of Brothers?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Wait? I now I'm remembering Wait, Saving Private Ryan? Was it?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Saving Private Ryan. There was a big battle that.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Year between Saving Private Ryan and Shakespeare in Love, and
Weinstein got Shakespeare in Love to the top because he
just pulled out all the tricks to like run the
campaign season. Right after Shakespeare Love won, the entire industry
adopted the playbook that we still see that interesting.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Well, he has done worse things in his life, but
that was a bad thing. Yes, So all right, how
about how many minutes is the longest sex scene in
a Hollywood rom com?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
These are questions wild.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
This one's controversial because this was just some guy who
watched all the round comms and timed them, and I
don't I don't want to know more about him, but
this was his conclusion. Listeners, if you can find one
that is longer, please let me know. But if you
had to guess how many minutes.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Six minutes short?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
No that is, you got it, five minutes forty one
seconds Wheela Kunis and Justin Timberlake and Friends with Benefits.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Wasn't that the movie where like, the same year, there
was another movie just like it with a different title.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
What was the other one?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I can't attached the other one, Yeah, very well done,
and that that had a much shorter sect apparently.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
My wife pointed out Blue is the Wormest Color had
had a seven minute sex scene. But that's not Was that.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
A rom com? That's very dramatic?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah, right, So that's why I felt we might be saying,
how many minutes would you say? Is the longest song
to chart on Billboard's Hot one.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Hundred, Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. It's over seven minutes long.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Oh, that's a good guess. And one longer. There is
one longer. This is why a well, his name includes
a large number. Maybe that's a hint. And I know
that he's getting a lot of buzz for a current album.
He's a genius. I think we can all say. He
plays the flute. He is Andre three thousand.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Wait, which song was longer?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
This is the title of the song and which I love?
That was called I swear I really wanted to make
a rap album, but this is literally the way the
wind blew me this time. That's the end of the song.
And it was twelve minutes twenty seconds and it was
flute based.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Hence was this flute?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
You know the flute album that he did is up
for Album of the Year. I began to listen to it,
and God, bless Andre. I love him. So that wasn't
for me.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That wasn't for me. I love him more. I love
that man.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
He is brilliant. Yes, what about Oh, by the way,
I know Taylor Swift was up there. She had one
that was the ten minute version.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Of that ten minute song of all too well?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, uh, all right? How many minutes was the Gettysburg address.
That's true.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
It's just a few hundred words. It's not that long.
I'm not going to get it right. But let's say
seven minutes even less.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Even less. It was wow, two minutes and forty six seconds.
So that is a good one to like when you're
at a wedding or something, you can tell people. H
and by the way, this forty six seconds. I'm very
skeptical because, like, was there a Stopwatch guy there exactly? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Did they even count seconds back then? I don't know
how it worked back in those days.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
They didn't know what come on exactly. This one is interesting,
I think to me, But as an interviewer, this is, uh,
this is up your alley, the what would you say?
Is the longest interviewing marathon. So this is a person
(09:40):
who interviewed many, many guests NonStop. She had she had
like five minutes to go to the bathroom in between.
She did wear an adult diaper, by the way, so
that she didn't have to But she interviewed guests one
after another for a certain amount of time. What might
(10:01):
you say? That amount and you can give it an hours.
I don't want to make you convert from sixty.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Men seventeen hours.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Longer, longer, it was fifty five hours. Who was this?
It was Nigerian social media entrepreneur Clara Chizoba Kronborg. Apologies
if I'm mispronounced Chizoba, but yes, she was good for them.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Wow, I know I couldn't be me. I love interviewing people,
but no, no, no, not that much.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
What's the longest interview you think.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
We got? You know?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I kind of my theory about interviews is that, like
most of them, the subject is gassed by an hour.
The best of the best can get you to ninety minutes,
but after that you're just tired and repeating things like
if they don't get it out in ninety minutes, it's
not gonna come out, and you're just perform right. I
don't know, that's my theory. I'm sure some people better
(11:03):
than me can make it go for hours and hours
and hours, but I have never booked time for an
interview for more than ninety minutes.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I think that's fair. I have a friend who's a
ghostwriter for celebrities. She won't tell me which celebrities. Uh
oh wow, but Britney Spears watched one of them because
they think her. But she said some celebrities will only
give her a total of six hours for their life story,
so she is six hours really to download to get
(11:31):
it all, to get a book like that to me
is insane, Like it's I spend like I've written books,
and I spend like six hours a day, like you know,
writing a paragraph. So yes, it's very frustrating.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
If I ever were to be a ghostwriter, I would
only do it if I could like get the celebrities
subject to agree to like go with me to like
a remote island and all we do is just like
talk to each other on the.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Sand for days. I need that much of them.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Yeah, I mean, I'll never go write a book because
I don't have the commitment for that. But that's why
I would do it, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, have you ever thought of writing a memoir?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Oh gosh maybe, But also like.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
There's so many memoirs that are probably written better than
I could ever write my own, So.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I don't know about that. But all right, well you've
got time. You've got time, So I've got time.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I've got time, all right, Just.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
A couple of more. How long did Neil Armstrong walk
on the moon? How many minutes? Did he go.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Three minutes?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
No, that was that's an underestimate. He was on there
for about two hours and thirty minutes, one hundred thirty are.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah, I don't know why it feels so short in
my mind.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Well, we only saw three minute I guess I mean
and the and the MTV logo, which is yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, oh that's wild. Yeah, good for Neil.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And by the way, this was a Thanksgiving conversation. I
think it was allan someone one of the astronauts hit
a golf ball on the moon and it literally went
for miles because of the Yeah. Uh, all right. I
don't know if you're if you're into h endurance sports,
(13:21):
I am not particularly But what would you say, is
the longest duration for a dead hang? So a dead
hang is when you have your boom. Yeah, it's like
a chin up You're holding the chin up bar and
you just don't let go, which is very hard to do. Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah, so i's seven hours more more. I'm glad you
did under twelve hours more.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Oh wait, did you say seven hours or seven minutes? Oha?
Oh so now it looks terrible now it just is
totally anti climax because it's eighty minutes and forty.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
No one could do seven hours. Don't know why I
said that. Yeah, okay, eighty minute seems much more reasonable.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
There you go. I was all excited because I thought
you said seven minutes, and I was like, no, in
then all right? It was by the way to give
him his prefs. It's Kenta Adachi in Japan on in
twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Shout out to him. That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Absolutely well, Sam, it's been a wonderful several minutes. We
loved having you, and we'll see you here tomorrow. But
let's finish with a quick extra credit for the folks
at home. We're switching it up for the extra credit.
This round is called it's been less than a minute.
It's been less than a minute. So these are two
(14:39):
things that took less than a minute, and you have
to estimate how many seconds they lean The first flight
of the Right Brothers at Kitty Hawk, how many seconds
was that? And what is the current world record at
press time for fastest time to solve a Rubik's cube?
How many seconds? Thank you against Sam and puzzlers, please
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(14:59):
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Speaker 4 (15:18):
Hello, puzzlers, it's Greg Pliska up from the Puzzle Lab
with the extra credit answer from our previous episode. We
had Sam Sanders on and we played a game based
upon his name called Sam Sanders sand Every answer is
a well known individual plus a food or another item
that's hidden inside his name or her name. And your
(15:41):
extra credit clues were the hot dog of a former
senator and SNL writer that of course is al Frankens
Frank and your other one was what the host of
a weekly satirical news show puts in his martini. That
is John Oliver's Live Delicious. Pour yourself with martini and
(16:04):
listen to some more of the puzzler
Hello, Puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast the Vibrato In
your Puzzle Diva's solo, I'm your host A J. Jacobs,
and here is a quick puzzle for you. Slash and
blank plus blank jerk reaction. So fill in those two
blanks slash and blank and blank jerk reaction. Put them
together and you get the first name of a famous
(00:22):
politician the answer after the break. Welcome back to the
Buzzler Podcast. Before the break, we asked you to fill
in the blanks to get the first name of a
famous politician. Slash and blank plus blank jerk reaction. That
would be burn, slash and burn plus knee jerk reaction.
(00:45):
You put them together and you get yes. Bernie Bernie Sanders.
And I bring up Bernie Sanders for two reasons. First,
our guest was a reporter embedded with Bernie Sanders during
Bernie's I think it was twenty.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Sixteen sixteen campaign, Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
And second, our guest happens to share a last name
with Bernie Sanders. And our guest, of course is Sam Sanders,
host of Vibe Check and the News Show. So the
Sam Sanders Show on Casey r W. You're Welcome back, Sam.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's good to be here.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
You know, when I was covering Bernie Sanders, I was
doing radio reporting for NPR at the time, and at
the end of an NPR News story, you do what's
called a sockout standard out Q and you say your
name and NPR News. But whenever I would do Bernie stories,
I would say my name, n PR News and then
no relation. So I'd say Sam Sanders, no relation, and
(01:40):
everyone knew that we were not related, but I found
it funny.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
It's funny even even ten years later. And did he
ever comment on that? Did he ever talk?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I don't think that man knew who I was. He
was too busy trying to be president. He was way
too busy trying to be president.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Well that was his loss. This puzzle is not about
Bernie though. It's actually an honor of your show, It's
Been a Minute, which was super popular on NPR that
you hosted for several years. And this puzzle it's not
called It's Been a Minute, It's actually called It's been
how many minutes? Ha love because in this puzzle, I'm
(02:19):
going to give you some sort of thing or phenomenon
that happened and you can guess how many minutes it lasted,
and many of these are pop culture related. Okay, we
don't expect you to get the exact number. We will
give you credit if you guess within ten percent of
the correct answer. And and I'm pretty I'm pretty lax.
(02:41):
If it's twenty percent, I'm okay with it all. Here
we go. How many minutes was the longest standing ovation
in the history of the con Film Festival?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Twenty seven?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Wow, I think, Oh, you were so close to the
ten percent. It was twenty two minutes. I don't expect
you to know this, but just take a while. Guess
what what movie do you think might have done that?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It's probably a recent oh, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Two six, two thousand and six. Gosh, and it was
I think it's Germle of del Toro, I think. And
it was.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Not Pans Labyrinth.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
That's it. Pans Labyrinth, Okay, which to me is just crazy.
I mean, I'm all.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
For a wild movie, and I'm not sure that I
would stand up for that one. For twenty two minutes.
I liked it, but twenty two minutes of applause, Oh my.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Twenty two minutes. That's like a like an actual show.
Like a sitcom. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I also think that now the awards industrial complex is
such that everyone knows to stand for the films that
you So it's like it just happens now, and it
sound in theory signify nothing, Like everyone gets a standing
ovation at these festivals. Now, I don't take it too
seriously anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
That's it doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I'm a cynic. Yeah, they all gets.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Actually, yeah, it's like performative you have to yeah, yeah,
how many minutes of scream time led to the record
for the shortest performance to earn a Best Supporting Oscar
So if that's for minutes, oh, there's a good guess,
it's even less. It's even less. Wow, it is five
minutes and two seconds.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
And it was a while ago. It was for Network
the Patty Chayefsky movie Beatrice Straight. Second place, though, is
one I actually saw with my wife on our first date,
so or second or third date? Do you know what?
You have any guesses? It was famous?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I want to say Viola Davis in Doubt, but I'm
not sure she won for Doubt.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Oh that's good. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
She had a short role in that one. But tell
me which one it was.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
This was Judy Denz for Shakespeare in Love.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Uh, yeah, you know, I have a bone to pick
with Shakespeare in Love. I don't think it was the
best pick of that year. It was the first time
that Harvey Weinstein put into motion the like full awards
industrial complex to push that movie to win. And I
think it was battling against a war movie, a Spilberg movie.
What was it up against that year?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Andrea are associate puzzler. Can you look it up? Because
I remember too people were shocked and then.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Not should have won. It wasn't supposed to win. Yeah,
what was the Spilberg movie? Was it a band of Brothers?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Wait? I now I'm remembering Wait, Saving Private Ryan? Was it?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Saving Private Ryan. There was a big battle that.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Year between Saving Private Ryan and Shakespeare in Love, and
Weinstein got Shakespeare in Love to the top because he
just pulled out all the tricks to like run the
campaign season. Right after Shakespeare Love won, the entire industry
adopted the playbook that we still see that interesting.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Well, he has done worse things in his life, but
that was a bad thing. Yes, So all right, how
about how many minutes is the longest sex scene in
a Hollywood rom com?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
These are questions wild.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
This one's controversial because this was just some guy who
watched all the round comms and timed them, and I
don't I don't want to know more about him, but
this was his conclusion. Listeners, if you can find one
that is longer, please let me know. But if you
had to guess how many minutes.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Six minutes short?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
No that is, you got it, five minutes forty one
seconds Wheela Kunis and Justin Timberlake and Friends with Benefits.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Wasn't that the movie where like, the same year, there
was another movie just like it with a different title.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
What was the other one?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I can't attached the other one, Yeah, very well done,
and that that had a much shorter sect apparently.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
My wife pointed out Blue is the Wormest Color had
had a seven minute sex scene. But that's not Was that.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
A rom com? That's very dramatic?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah, right, So that's why I felt we might be saying,
how many minutes would you say? Is the longest song
to chart on Billboard's Hot one.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Hundred, Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. It's over seven minutes long.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Oh, that's a good guess. And one longer. There is
one longer. This is why a well, his name includes
a large number. Maybe that's a hint. And I know
that he's getting a lot of buzz for a current album.
He's a genius. I think we can all say. He
plays the flute. He is Andre three thousand.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Wait, which song was longer?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
This is the title of the song and which I love?
That was called I swear I really wanted to make
a rap album, but this is literally the way the
wind blew me this time. That's the end of the song.
And it was twelve minutes twenty seconds and it was
flute based.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Hence was this flute?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
You know the flute album that he did is up
for Album of the Year. I began to listen to it,
and God, bless Andre. I love him. So that wasn't
for me.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That wasn't for me. I love him more. I love
that man.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
He is brilliant. Yes, what about Oh, by the way,
I know Taylor Swift was up there. She had one
that was the ten minute version.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Of that ten minute song of all too well?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, uh, all right? How many minutes was the Gettysburg address.
That's true.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
It's just a few hundred words. It's not that long.
I'm not going to get it right. But let's say
seven minutes even less.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Even less. It was wow, two minutes and forty six seconds.
So that is a good one to like when you're
at a wedding or something, you can tell people. H
and by the way, this forty six seconds. I'm very
skeptical because, like, was there a Stopwatch guy there exactly? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Did they even count seconds back then? I don't know
how it worked back in those days.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
They didn't know what come on exactly. This one is interesting,
I think to me, But as an interviewer, this is, uh,
this is up your alley, the what would you say?
Is the longest interviewing marathon. So this is a person
(09:40):
who interviewed many, many guests NonStop. She had she had
like five minutes to go to the bathroom in between.
She did wear an adult diaper, by the way, so
that she didn't have to But she interviewed guests one
after another for a certain amount of time. What might
(10:01):
you say? That amount and you can give it an hours.
I don't want to make you convert from sixty.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Men seventeen hours.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Longer, longer, it was fifty five hours. Who was this?
It was Nigerian social media entrepreneur Clara Chizoba Kronborg. Apologies
if I'm mispronounced Chizoba, but yes, she was good for them.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Wow, I know I couldn't be me. I love interviewing people,
but no, no, no, not that much.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
What's the longest interview you think.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
We got? You know?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I kind of my theory about interviews is that, like
most of them, the subject is gassed by an hour.
The best of the best can get you to ninety minutes,
but after that you're just tired and repeating things like
if they don't get it out in ninety minutes, it's
not gonna come out, and you're just perform right. I
don't know, that's my theory. I'm sure some people better
(11:03):
than me can make it go for hours and hours
and hours, but I have never booked time for an
interview for more than ninety minutes.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I think that's fair. I have a friend who's a
ghostwriter for celebrities. She won't tell me which celebrities. Uh
oh wow, but Britney Spears watched one of them because
they think her. But she said some celebrities will only
give her a total of six hours for their life story,
so she is six hours really to download to get
(11:31):
it all, to get a book like that to me
is insane, Like it's I spend like I've written books,
and I spend like six hours a day, like you know,
writing a paragraph. So yes, it's very frustrating.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
If I ever were to be a ghostwriter, I would
only do it if I could like get the celebrities
subject to agree to like go with me to like
a remote island and all we do is just like
talk to each other on the.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Sand for days. I need that much of them.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Yeah, I mean, I'll never go write a book because
I don't have the commitment for that. But that's why
I would do it, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, have you ever thought of writing a memoir?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Oh gosh maybe, But also like.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
There's so many memoirs that are probably written better than
I could ever write my own, So.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I don't know about that. But all right, well you've
got time. You've got time, So I've got time.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I've got time, all right, Just.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
A couple of more. How long did Neil Armstrong walk
on the moon? How many minutes? Did he go.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Three minutes?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
No, that was that's an underestimate. He was on there
for about two hours and thirty minutes, one hundred thirty are.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah, I don't know why it feels so short in
my mind.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Well, we only saw three minute I guess I mean
and the and the MTV logo, which is yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, oh that's wild. Yeah, good for Neil.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And by the way, this was a Thanksgiving conversation. I
think it was allan someone one of the astronauts hit
a golf ball on the moon and it literally went
for miles because of the Yeah. Uh, all right. I
don't know if you're if you're into h endurance sports,
(13:21):
I am not particularly But what would you say, is
the longest duration for a dead hang? So a dead
hang is when you have your boom. Yeah, it's like
a chin up You're holding the chin up bar and
you just don't let go, which is very hard to do. Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah, so i's seven hours more more. I'm glad you
did under twelve hours more.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Oh wait, did you say seven hours or seven minutes? Oha?
Oh so now it looks terrible now it just is
totally anti climax because it's eighty minutes and forty.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
No one could do seven hours. Don't know why I
said that. Yeah, okay, eighty minute seems much more reasonable.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
There you go. I was all excited because I thought
you said seven minutes, and I was like, no, in
then all right? It was by the way to give
him his prefs. It's Kenta Adachi in Japan on in
twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Shout out to him. That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Absolutely well, Sam, it's been a wonderful several minutes. We
loved having you, and we'll see you here tomorrow. But
let's finish with a quick extra credit for the folks
at home. We're switching it up for the extra credit.
This round is called it's been less than a minute.
It's been less than a minute. So these are two
(14:39):
things that took less than a minute, and you have
to estimate how many seconds they lean The first flight
of the Right Brothers at Kitty Hawk, how many seconds
was that? And what is the current world record at
press time for fastest time to solve a Rubik's cube?
How many seconds? Thank you against Sam and puzzlers, please
take thirty seconds to rate and review us on your
(14:59):
favorite podcas cast platform, because it really helps people find
us because we are ruled by algorithms unfortunately, and we'll
be here tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles that will puzzle
you puddlingly.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Hello, puzzlers, it's Greg Pliska up from the Puzzle Lab
with the extra credit answer from our previous episode. We
had Sam Sanders on and we played a game based
upon his name called Sam Sanders sand Every answer is
a well known individual plus a food or another item
that's hidden inside his name or her name. And your
(15:41):
extra credit clues were the hot dog of a former
senator and SNL writer that of course is al Frankens
Frank and your other one was what the host of
a weekly satirical news show puts in his martini. That
is John Oliver's Live Delicious. Pour yourself with martini and
(16:04):
listen to some more of the puzzler
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