November 19, 2024 • 14 mins
Hello, Puzzlers! Puzzling with us today: star of Modern Family and Hysteria!, Julie Bowen!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hello, Puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast. The nuts graph
in your puzzle newspaper article? I am the what did
you say?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Graph?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Or grasp?
Speaker 4 (00:23):
It was?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It was a long shot. It was a long Yeah,
I took a swing. Nut graph is journalist ease for
the paragraph that says the most important and it's like
four sentences and that's all you have to read. That
is not the nuts the three or third or fourth paragraphs.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
The nut graph so as it as a prefix to
as in para, it's nut to graphs, and it's the
graph that has all the nut in it.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It has the nut in it in a non sexual way, exactly.
It has Like I was just wanted to make clear.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
That about squirrels. It's a squirrel newspaper.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Nutcrav this is.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
This is the nut graph in your what.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And your puzzle newspaper article. Listen, they can't all be winners.
They can't all be winning.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
No, I'm learning something I have to learn.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
And by the way that voice you hear, of course
you probably recognize it. The great Julie Bowen, star of
Modern Family, star of Hysteria, the hysterical Hysteria on Peacock
and a whole bunch of other things. Welcome back, Julie.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
It's very exciting to be back.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
We are delighted. And you promise us that you would
actually tell us today that you are not new to
the puzzle world. You do do like?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Do you do? I do?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I do. I'm a very devoted New York Times puzzle section, Connections, strands, uh,
wordle and crossword gotcha? All of them?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
All of those are my gems.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
In that order. Do you have an order you do
every day?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Wordle?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Wordle first?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I only I don't do the crossword every day because
I don't have the time. I do the Sunday. I
love the Sunday, but I do. I always do work.
I always do wordle first, then I do connections, then strands, oh,
and then spelling.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Gotcha all right?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Then spelling because spelling usually takes me off and on
during the day.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
I gotta go back and look at it.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
It makes me crazy, I know, by the way, I
feel I should have checked this, But I feel you
must have been in the New York Times crossword puzzle
at least one.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
I have been, and I have it. Uh.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
It's up on my desk, framed somewhere. It was so exciting. Yeah,
it was like a real validation. Uh.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
I think it was.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
She played something about being a TV mom, something about
being Claire, but it was s Bowen bow n was the.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Answer and were you doing the puzzle at the time,
And it was like, wait, I think I know that.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I wish I could say that. No, somebody sent it
to me first and they kind of they stole that
joy from me, but still is terrible.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
That is very exciting. Well, actually that is a good segue.
That is a good segue because I'm going to turn
it over to Chief Puzzle Officer Greg Pliska, and you
will see why it's a good segue when he begins speaking.
Welcome Greg, okay.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Well, thank you and thanks for being here again. Julie,
I don't think I know why it's a good segue,
but I'll see if I can make it sound like
we meant that. Well, it's because we noticed, Julie that
if you combined the first Chinese American cast member of
Saturday Night Live, we knew we'd have a hybrid hysteria
actress slash SNL cast member named Julie bon Yang exactly.
(03:53):
Julie bon Julie bow and Yang.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Who if they liked super talented, like who wouldn't want
to watch Julie Bone.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
I mean, it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Nobody was named Bowen before and now it's like every
it's it's a very popular name.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I love it. I don't think it's because of me.
Could because of bow and Yang, but I love it.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Well. Not everyone has a surname that could be another
person's first name, but we found a bunch of these people.
And the way this puzzle works is will give you
a hybrid clue to the combined person where the you know,
the first the last name of one person is the
first name of the next, and you just give us
the mash up of these two people's names.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Okay, can you give me an example.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
This character on the TV show Friends, played by David Schwimmer,
is best known for sowing the very first American flag.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
So Betsy Ross, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
That's why it's a good example. You don't have to
think about it. It's best. Betsy Ross Geller gals, I could.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I didn't know, didn't know what's on Betsy Ross Perrot.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I suppose, but I don't go to keep it, you know,
TV Ish fun.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And by the and I think it's called the Puzzle,
It's called R. Paul Revere. So that's sort of another
little hint.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Okay, by the way, have you met Bowen? Yang? Has
Julie Bowen and never met?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
But no, I've not met bow and Yang got you?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
All right?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Well yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Okay, So here's your first one, the star of when
Harry met Sally met Deadpool.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Okay, so the star when Harry met Sally. You've got
Meg Ryan Ryan Rendry.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yes, exactly, very good, very good thing.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
You like how you guys feel like you're.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Like good, We're excited.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I want you to get it.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I want to get it.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
You are an everyday wirdler and spelling vir. We are listen.
We are not going to condescend to you. We are
going to challenge you.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
All right, how about uh? This actor and politician is
famous for saying, four score and seven years ago, too
many notes, mister Mozart, Oh that is hard.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
That's a tough one.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Wait a second, wait, this actor and politician.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Was because it's one person. It's like a Frankenstein mashup
of two people.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
And then too many notes.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Mister Mozart is aligned from the movie Amedais.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Oh okay, so hang on, well you got the first
one right, four score a.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
It's Abe Lincolneah.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Use his full name, use his full.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Name, Abraham.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Yes, yeah, that's Murray Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Being well done. Look at that.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
That was a hard one.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
That was a hard, a hard one. Yeah. And you
said you didn't know presidents, and you got the president
right away.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I had the.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
President right away. Efrey Haybrahm. I was like the guy
Saliary I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Okay, all right, how about this? He's best known as
the Gladiator who Escaped from New York. So a mashup
of two actors.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Okay, the Gladiator who Escaped from New York Kurt Russell.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Crowe, Yes, very good. I love I love watching the
way like the gears turn and then they click into
place and you're like Kurt Russell Crowe exactly.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Kurt Russell Crowe.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Okay, very good. How about this? Actor was nominated for
a combined Emmy Slash Oscar for his role in thirty
million dollar Baby Rock.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Thirty million, I have to write it down dollars baby Rock.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
So okay, thirty million dollars. Thirty million dollars.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Oh my gosh, wait a second, A million Dollar Baby
would be Clint east Wood.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
He directed, he was in that. But there's an actor
who was nominated for an Oscar It might have actually
won for that film Dollar Baby.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Oh and then.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
And then another actor that was that's in thirty Rock.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Yeah, okay, so he plays Morgan Freeman.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yes, there, it is so good. I love it. Just
as I'm like trying to come up with a hint,
You're like, I don't need a hint. I got this.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
One, and I said I was easy with the hints,
and I was just I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
So all right, it's another one. It has a president
in it, but I think I still think you're going
to get it. It's the twelfth President of the United States.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Known as Yeah, that is.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Known as old rough and ready. He can tracted a
stomach disease and just couldn't shake it off.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
All right, Well, obviously that's so we've got Taylor Swift.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
And it's going to be oh Man Andrew. Who's that tailor?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Right?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
His name is.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
He is Aldong. Let me think, oh, the star of Scrubs.
We were just talking about scrubs is. Do you remember
that guy's.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Name, Zachary Taylor, zach Taylor.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yes, yes, yes, Zachary Taylor.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
That would have I would not have known that it
was Zachary Taylor. Legit needed that close that we're here for.
We're I'm so bad at presidents.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Okay, no more presidents. We'll stop with the president.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
We got to go back to the hotel. Sculptor.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
You can do them.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
I just you know, it is just full disclosure might
take a little longer.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
All right. His ninety five theses launched the Protestant Reformation
and led to everyone living La vita loca.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Oh, Ricky Martin Luther. Very good Martin, I was going backwards.
I was like, yeah, I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yes, Martin could have been like Martin Luther Vandross or something.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, that's where I was confused.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
That was going the wrong way. Okay, and all right.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I do remember because my first book was reading the Encyclopedia.
He did not nail those theses to the wall. He
was very much more respectful. It was like, maybe I
don't know post it note, little tape what it.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Was, and a J. I was so excited when I
was in that book.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I was so excited and everybody's excited as I could be.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
If my name was in New York Times.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I was like, oh, hilarious.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
I was very excited.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I remember that, and I was so excited to hear
from you, and it was I was thrill because I
said a friend of mine was in an Adam Sandler movie. Right,
was a friend of mine from college? That was the reference?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Yes, yeah, and there was some There was actually there
were two references, but one was more obscure the other,
and I don't know what it was.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
And I'm actually doing it Adam Sandler movie right now.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Well, you're doing the sequel to that very.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
One, right indeed, Happy Gilmour two.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
That is so awesome. So you're filming that now as
we speak. Oh my god, not.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
This second, because I'm in LA. But I've been back
and forth to New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Oh my god, I cannot wait. And you so you
don't have because I remember you talking about it, either
to me or on some show about your helmet, your
helmet of hair.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
The helmet hair.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yeah, there are some flashbacks that they put me in
the wig for and I was I made a very
sad face. The hair that helmet hair because I just thought,
I love this guy.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
This movie's fun, but it's you know, it's tiny. No
one's going to see it. Don't worry about your hair.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Of course, massive, massive hit and Eat My Children. Ridicule media.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Well, listen, it's going to come back. It's going to
come back, and maybe this sequel is the one that
brings it back.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I got one more of these. You want to do
one more of these before we wrap up? All right? Uh?
This is a red haired actress known for her roles
in the Jurassic World movies and Spider Man three, and
for being the self described king of all media.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Well that's Howard Stern, Bryce Dallas, Howard Stern.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Very good. Oh you got that? Like that one of
our producers. This one's too hard. You got to move
this one. It's too hard. I'm like, no, you got
this one?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
God bless well, fantastic. Greg. Do you have an extra
credit for the.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Of course I do. I have an extra credit. This
one is actually a triple it's three people mashed together.
This is an X files actress with a top rated
CNN news program and position as wide receiver for the
Los Angeles Rams.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Okay, I could do two. Thirdy, I got this, we got.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Them all, don't say it, don't.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
And everyone thank you. If you have thirty seconds, please
rate us on your podcast platform because our lives are
ruled by algorithms, so we're just looking for a little
love and we'll meet you here tomorrow for more puzzling
puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Hey, puzzlers, it's Greg Pliska up from the Puzzle Lab
with the extra credit answer from our previous episode. The
Lovely Julie Bowen was on with us and we played
a game we called stand Cooms, where every clue is
the opposite of the name of a sitcom, and AJ's
very clever extra credit was the clue A Team and
(13:52):
we love it because that's also the name of a
TV show.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
But you're looking for a sitcom whose name is the
opposite of a team, and that is Scrubs. Get it,
The A Team and the Scrubs, Well, you're not Scrubs.
You're the A Team and we love that you're listening.
See you here next time.
Hello, Puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast. The nuts graph
in your puzzle newspaper article? I am the what did
you say?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Graph?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Or grasp?
Speaker 4 (00:23):
It was?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It was a long shot. It was a long Yeah,
I took a swing. Nut graph is journalist ease for
the paragraph that says the most important and it's like
four sentences and that's all you have to read. That
is not the nuts the three or third or fourth paragraphs.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
The nut graph so as it as a prefix to
as in para, it's nut to graphs, and it's the
graph that has all the nut in it.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It has the nut in it in a non sexual way, exactly.
It has Like I was just wanted to make clear.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
That about squirrels. It's a squirrel newspaper.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Nutcrav this is.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
This is the nut graph in your what.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And your puzzle newspaper article. Listen, they can't all be winners.
They can't all be winning.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
No, I'm learning something I have to learn.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
And by the way that voice you hear, of course
you probably recognize it. The great Julie Bowen, star of
Modern Family, star of Hysteria, the hysterical Hysteria on Peacock
and a whole bunch of other things. Welcome back, Julie.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
It's very exciting to be back.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
We are delighted. And you promise us that you would
actually tell us today that you are not new to
the puzzle world. You do do like?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Do you do? I do?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I do. I'm a very devoted New York Times puzzle section, Connections, strands, uh,
wordle and crossword gotcha? All of them?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
All of those are my gems.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
In that order. Do you have an order you do
every day?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Wordle?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Wordle first?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I only I don't do the crossword every day because
I don't have the time. I do the Sunday. I
love the Sunday, but I do. I always do work.
I always do wordle first, then I do connections, then strands, oh,
and then spelling.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Gotcha all right?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Then spelling because spelling usually takes me off and on
during the day.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
I gotta go back and look at it.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
It makes me crazy, I know, by the way, I
feel I should have checked this, But I feel you
must have been in the New York Times crossword puzzle
at least one.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
I have been, and I have it. Uh.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
It's up on my desk, framed somewhere. It was so exciting. Yeah,
it was like a real validation. Uh.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
I think it was.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
She played something about being a TV mom, something about
being Claire, but it was s Bowen bow n was the.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Answer and were you doing the puzzle at the time,
And it was like, wait, I think I know that.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I wish I could say that. No, somebody sent it
to me first and they kind of they stole that
joy from me, but still is terrible.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
That is very exciting. Well, actually that is a good segue.
That is a good segue because I'm going to turn
it over to Chief Puzzle Officer Greg Pliska, and you
will see why it's a good segue when he begins speaking.
Welcome Greg, okay.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Well, thank you and thanks for being here again. Julie,
I don't think I know why it's a good segue,
but I'll see if I can make it sound like
we meant that. Well, it's because we noticed, Julie that
if you combined the first Chinese American cast member of
Saturday Night Live, we knew we'd have a hybrid hysteria
actress slash SNL cast member named Julie bon Yang exactly.
(03:53):
Julie bon Julie bow and Yang.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Who if they liked super talented, like who wouldn't want
to watch Julie Bone.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
I mean, it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Nobody was named Bowen before and now it's like every
it's it's a very popular name.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I love it. I don't think it's because of me.
Could because of bow and Yang, but I love it.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Well. Not everyone has a surname that could be another
person's first name, but we found a bunch of these people.
And the way this puzzle works is will give you
a hybrid clue to the combined person where the you know,
the first the last name of one person is the
first name of the next, and you just give us
the mash up of these two people's names.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Okay, can you give me an example.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
This character on the TV show Friends, played by David Schwimmer,
is best known for sowing the very first American flag.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
So Betsy Ross, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
That's why it's a good example. You don't have to
think about it. It's best. Betsy Ross Geller gals, I could.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I didn't know, didn't know what's on Betsy Ross Perrot.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I suppose, but I don't go to keep it, you know,
TV Ish fun.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And by the and I think it's called the Puzzle,
It's called R. Paul Revere. So that's sort of another
little hint.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Okay, by the way, have you met Bowen? Yang? Has
Julie Bowen and never met?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
But no, I've not met bow and Yang got you?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
All right?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Well yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Okay, So here's your first one, the star of when
Harry met Sally met Deadpool.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Okay, so the star when Harry met Sally. You've got
Meg Ryan Ryan Rendry.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yes, exactly, very good, very good thing.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
You like how you guys feel like you're.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Like good, We're excited.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I want you to get it.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I want to get it.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
You are an everyday wirdler and spelling vir. We are listen.
We are not going to condescend to you. We are
going to challenge you.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
All right, how about uh? This actor and politician is
famous for saying, four score and seven years ago, too
many notes, mister Mozart, Oh that is hard.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
That's a tough one.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Wait a second, wait, this actor and politician.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Was because it's one person. It's like a Frankenstein mashup
of two people.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
And then too many notes.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Mister Mozart is aligned from the movie Amedais.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Oh okay, so hang on, well you got the first
one right, four score a.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
It's Abe Lincolneah.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Use his full name, use his full.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Name, Abraham.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Yes, yeah, that's Murray Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Being well done. Look at that.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
That was a hard one.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
That was a hard, a hard one. Yeah. And you
said you didn't know presidents, and you got the president
right away.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I had the.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
President right away. Efrey Haybrahm. I was like the guy
Saliary I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Okay, all right, how about this? He's best known as
the Gladiator who Escaped from New York. So a mashup
of two actors.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Okay, the Gladiator who Escaped from New York Kurt Russell.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Crowe, Yes, very good. I love I love watching the
way like the gears turn and then they click into
place and you're like Kurt Russell Crowe exactly.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Kurt Russell Crowe.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Okay, very good. How about this? Actor was nominated for
a combined Emmy Slash Oscar for his role in thirty
million dollar Baby Rock.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Thirty million, I have to write it down dollars baby Rock.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
So okay, thirty million dollars. Thirty million dollars.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Oh my gosh, wait a second, A million Dollar Baby
would be Clint east Wood.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
He directed, he was in that. But there's an actor
who was nominated for an Oscar It might have actually
won for that film Dollar Baby.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Oh and then.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
And then another actor that was that's in thirty Rock.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Yeah, okay, so he plays Morgan Freeman.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yes, there, it is so good. I love it. Just
as I'm like trying to come up with a hint,
You're like, I don't need a hint. I got this.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
One, and I said I was easy with the hints,
and I was just I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
So all right, it's another one. It has a president
in it, but I think I still think you're going
to get it. It's the twelfth President of the United States.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Known as Yeah, that is.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Known as old rough and ready. He can tracted a
stomach disease and just couldn't shake it off.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
All right, Well, obviously that's so we've got Taylor Swift.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
And it's going to be oh Man Andrew. Who's that tailor?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Right?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
His name is.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
He is Aldong. Let me think, oh, the star of Scrubs.
We were just talking about scrubs is. Do you remember
that guy's.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Name, Zachary Taylor, zach Taylor.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yes, yes, yes, Zachary Taylor.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
That would have I would not have known that it
was Zachary Taylor. Legit needed that close that we're here for.
We're I'm so bad at presidents.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Okay, no more presidents. We'll stop with the president.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
We got to go back to the hotel. Sculptor.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
You can do them.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
I just you know, it is just full disclosure might
take a little longer.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
All right. His ninety five theses launched the Protestant Reformation
and led to everyone living La vita loca.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Oh, Ricky Martin Luther. Very good Martin, I was going backwards.
I was like, yeah, I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yes, Martin could have been like Martin Luther Vandross or something.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, that's where I was confused.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
That was going the wrong way. Okay, and all right.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I do remember because my first book was reading the Encyclopedia.
He did not nail those theses to the wall. He
was very much more respectful. It was like, maybe I
don't know post it note, little tape what it.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Was, and a J. I was so excited when I
was in that book.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I was so excited and everybody's excited as I could be.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
If my name was in New York Times.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I was like, oh, hilarious.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
I was very excited.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I remember that, and I was so excited to hear
from you, and it was I was thrill because I
said a friend of mine was in an Adam Sandler movie. Right,
was a friend of mine from college? That was the reference?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Yes, yeah, and there was some There was actually there
were two references, but one was more obscure the other,
and I don't know what it was.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
And I'm actually doing it Adam Sandler movie right now.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Well, you're doing the sequel to that very.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
One, right indeed, Happy Gilmour two.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
That is so awesome. So you're filming that now as
we speak. Oh my god, not.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
This second, because I'm in LA. But I've been back
and forth to New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Oh my god, I cannot wait. And you so you
don't have because I remember you talking about it, either
to me or on some show about your helmet, your
helmet of hair.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
The helmet hair.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yeah, there are some flashbacks that they put me in
the wig for and I was I made a very
sad face. The hair that helmet hair because I just thought,
I love this guy.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
This movie's fun, but it's you know, it's tiny. No
one's going to see it. Don't worry about your hair.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Of course, massive, massive hit and Eat My Children. Ridicule media.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Well, listen, it's going to come back. It's going to
come back, and maybe this sequel is the one that
brings it back.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I got one more of these. You want to do
one more of these before we wrap up? All right? Uh?
This is a red haired actress known for her roles
in the Jurassic World movies and Spider Man three, and
for being the self described king of all media.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Well that's Howard Stern, Bryce Dallas, Howard Stern.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Very good. Oh you got that? Like that one of
our producers. This one's too hard. You got to move
this one. It's too hard. I'm like, no, you got
this one?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
God bless well, fantastic. Greg. Do you have an extra
credit for the.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Of course I do. I have an extra credit. This
one is actually a triple it's three people mashed together.
This is an X files actress with a top rated
CNN news program and position as wide receiver for the
Los Angeles Rams.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Okay, I could do two. Thirdy, I got this, we got.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Them all, don't say it, don't.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
And everyone thank you. If you have thirty seconds, please
rate us on your podcast platform because our lives are
ruled by algorithms, so we're just looking for a little
love and we'll meet you here tomorrow for more puzzling
puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Hey, puzzlers, it's Greg Pliska up from the Puzzle Lab
with the extra credit answer from our previous episode. The
Lovely Julie Bowen was on with us and we played
a game we called stand Cooms, where every clue is
the opposite of the name of a sitcom, and AJ's
very clever extra credit was the clue A Team and
(13:52):
we love it because that's also the name of a
TV show.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
But you're looking for a sitcom whose name is the
opposite of a team, and that is Scrubs. Get it,
The A Team and the Scrubs, Well, you're not Scrubs.
You're the A Team and we love that you're listening.
See you here next time.
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Greg Pliska
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