January 20, 2025 • 20 mins
Hello, Puzzlers! Puzzling with us today: Emmy-winning sports comedy personality and host of the brand-new podcast "Casuals", Katie Nolan!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast. The buzzer Beater.
In your NBA puzzle final, I am your host, AJ Jacobs.
Here's a quick puzzle for you. Name an athlete whose
first or last name is an animal. It could be
a mammal, could be a bird, a fish. I'll take
any of the above. The answers after the break, Welcome
(00:29):
back to the Puzzler Podcast. I'm Aj Jacobs. I asked
puzzlers at home to name an athlete whose first or
last name is an animal. A bunch of correct answers.
There's Tiger Woods, even though Tiger is nicknamed Eldrick, but
we count it Tony Hawk, Mike Trout, Lynn Swan, Rick Fox.
If you come up with others, please send them to
(00:50):
us at the puzzler dot com. But I brought it
up because I thought it was appropriate because we have
a guest who knows a lot about and a lot
about almost every other topic under the sun. I'm talking
about the legendary Katie Nolan, Emmy winning sports comedy host,
celebrity Jeopardy finalist, and host of the brand new podcast
(01:13):
Casuals About Culture and Sports. Welcome Katie, Thank you, for
having me.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Larry Bird, by the way, that was the first one
I thought of. Does that count?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Oh my god, of course that counts. I can't believe
I missed that.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well, It's Bird is generic. Yours we're better, But Larry
Bird is what I brought. What a nice intro that was.
Thank you so much, she said, legendary. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I believe it to be the case, and I'm excited
for your new podcast because it's marketed partly, I mean,
it's for everyone, but partly the casual sports fans, and
I consider myself a cat maybe a very casual sports fan.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Well, then it's exactly for you. It's exactly the genesis
for the idea. I just feel like there's a lot
of people who like sports or think they could, and
just don't really have an entry point, and so I
wanted to give them a place to come and hang out.
So we're happy to have you.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I will be there hanging out and learning. Well, but
I did research enough sports that I was able to
write today's sports themed puzzle, and it's called sports Schmortz.
So every answer is going to be the name of
a famous athlete and a word that rhymes with that
(02:24):
athlete's last name. So to give you an example, off
the clue is the monopoly in scrabble sets owned by
a Los Angeles Lakers superstar. The answer would be Lebron
James Games. So it's James Games. And by the way,
I did come up with one for you. But it's
(02:47):
it's honestly a bit of a stretch. It's not great.
It's it's the punctuation marks used by the host of
Casuals podcast.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
It's good Nolan's Katie Nolan's, colon's.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Right, or the body part, even though I assume you
only have one, Yeah that I know. All right, here
we go. Ocean predators owned by a star player for
the w NBA Indiana Fever. So Ocean predators from the
(03:17):
Indiana Fever Star.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Okay, I would say this would be Caitlin Clark's Sharks.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
You would say, correctly, you got it.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Athlete of the Year as named by Time today. Oh yeah,
well not today? Yes, well this will air. You know
in December they named her athlete of the Year.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Way back when in December I can hardly remember. Uh.
Continuing with the animal theme, these are elegant white birds
owned by a Gold medal winning skater, Olympic gold medalist.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So we got swans, so I'd say probably Michelle Kwan's swans.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Oh did I say skater?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Did you get Maybe you said skater, Maybe you said
skier and I heard skate. Lindsay Vaughn Swans.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Was fantastic works. It works for Michelle Kwan?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Did she win a gold medal? Though? I don't know?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Follow up?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Let me check?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
All right, you're the expert, and I will say even
better when I gave this to my wife as a
as she said, Lindsay Vaughan's herons rhymes. So there's all
sorts of answers to this. Did she win a gold medal?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
She is a two time Olympic medalist, a silver and
a bronze.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah, when they say medalist, then you.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Know yes exactly because you specify exactly right. Swanscounts. I
got it, eventually you did.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Oh no, Plus you got the other one. I love that,
all right? Final one with an animal, the little sheep
owned by a women's soccer legend. The little sheep owned
by a soccer legend.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Little sheep would be called what it's a little sheep called.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
A young sheep?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Right? Is a baby sheep. I have a hint, but
is this an easy one? That as soon as I
think of what it is, and it's a women's soccer legend,
so that could be a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I will say here, I'll give you a hint. Mary
had one of these, a.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Lamb a lamb oh so Mia Ham's lambs.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Miya Ham's lambs.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Man that was too. I don't know why that was
so difficult for me. I haven't thought of lambs in
a while.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I guess, well, and that's good because the other ones
he got too quickly. So I'm really happy that you
all right. We got another, which is sunglasses owned by
a former Miami Heat.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Star, Dwayne Wade's Shades.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That's it, Dwayne Raids shades. And by the way, while
we're on the topic of Dwayne Wade, we loved the
viral zoom call during the pandemic. So for those who
missed it, for the nighted few who missed it, can
you just tell us quickly what happened there?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
So it was I mean to paint the picture. It
was like March maybe April twenty twenty. We were all
stranded at home. Everybody. It was like the Great equalizer.
So even the most famous people you knew, I mean
many were complaining about it online, but they were stuck
at home, and so we figured, sure, this is a
bad thing, but the good side of it is that
(06:31):
everybody's kind of equally accessible. So we came up with
this idea that we would send I'd gather some of
my friends in sports media, and together we would send
this zoom link to all the famous people whose contact
information we had, and then we would just see who
would show up. And it sounds crazy, but if you'll
remember that time, people were just clicking on random links
(06:53):
and seeing what was going on. So we had a
ton of incredibly famous people show up in no particular
order and just fill a room and we hung out
for hours of just random people coming in and out
of that room. It was very, very fun. One of
those things. I don't think we'll ever be able to
capture that type of experience again. Maybe for the best,
(07:14):
hopefully there's not another pandemic that locks us all up.
But it was just very pure pandemic era content. It
was crazy and very fun.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Twenty and it was so you had Twain, Dwayne Ware yeah,
and Lynn Manuel Miranda.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, Clayton Kershaw came by. I don't think he had
a shirt on when he showed up.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
So that was interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah, we had quite a few guests. It was, it
was crazy, It was. It was tough to keep up
with because when people log into Zoom, they don't always
have their name written on the but and so sometimes
it would be like logging in with their friends Zoom
and there were so many people, so you're like squinting
at the screen, like, is that Clayton Kershaw without a
shirt on?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I don't know if it is, but it was, and
so you know, it was fun and they didn't know
when they clicked the low clube. That was the part.
All right, couple more. These are what the world's greatest
gymnast has on her kitchen and bathroom floors.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Oh, that's easy, but that's going to be Simone Biles Tiles.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
That is great.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
We love Simone Biles. What an athlete, I mean, unbelievable, unbelievable,
The things she can do that no one else can do. Amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Well, here's another pretty good athlete. These are things that
keep the Golden State Warrior Star up at night or
a Golden ste I'm sure there are other Golden State Warrior.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
As a lady who has trouble falling asleep at night.
I can tell you this is going to be Steph
Curry's worries. That is correct, And Steph, do I get it?
There's so much to think about.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, even Steph worries, I think you have.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Probably not on the court. He seems very cool, calm
and collected when playing basketball, but he's got to worry
about something.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Well. Yeah, I as I say, I'm a casual sports fan,
but I do like when he shoots a three pointer
and he lets the ball leave his hands and then
he just walks.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Cause he knows. He just knows. I don't think I've
ever felt that way about anything in my life. Like,
that's gonna go exactly how I wanted it to exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I'm waiting even after it goes in, I'm like, are
we sure?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Do you want to check?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
All right? These are the percussion instruments used by a
Japanese born tennis player. Huh, this one's a little harder
because I thought you were ready to take it up?
Is it?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I mean that doesn't really run. I was gonna say,
Naomio Soka's is it like Tanaka's is that a thing?
What's the word? What am I? You ares the Okay?
What am I thinking?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
It sounds like an actor or something?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Sure does?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
All right? A couple more we got, uh oh this one,
speaking of ones that don't rhyme, this one. Both my
wife and producer objected to it, but I'm gonna do
it anyway. I'm gonna do it. I love that.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Live by your own rules, Thank you, Katie. Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
This is what a Phoenix Sun superstar puts under his
arms to keep him smelling fresh and clean.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
So that feels like deodorant.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yes, you're in there?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Is it? We're doing Kevin Durant deodorant.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
That's it. Kevin allow it.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I'll allow it. You know Kevin Durant. I interviewed him
one time. It was because he was releasing these under
had underwear, like a line of underwear that have his
name on it or something, and I called them keV
under pants. And so I'm right with you enforcing a
rhyme into.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
His names underpants. We should have done that.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Well next time.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Wait, is that the one? Because I watched one where
you you could only ask him Your producer said you
could only ask him about underwear, even though like he's
one of the great athletes of all.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Time, and I think he was at the time being
rumored to be changing teams, and so I remember we
were like, had all these questions about like where he
was going to go, but they said we couldn't, so
we Oh, so it was it was like the he
had been told ahead of time. It might have been
the conceit of the bit. I don't remember if it
was real or not, but I do we did in
the room. I asked him. It sounded like I was
going to ask him a question, right, and you'd see
(11:33):
his br people be like no, and then I'd say,
and so did these wick away sweat when you wear him?
He looked very confused, but I do remember him saying
that was the most funny had in an interview, and
I put that on my resumes.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah, exactly, all right, what about this one? This Portuguese
soccer player's collection of viseral puzzle book books?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Visual visual puzzles would be like.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
These are like spot the difference, or looking for something
that you can't find because it's really small and it's
in a lot of other places. Not the magic eye.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Oh would this be a Christiano Ronaldo's wears Waldo's.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
That's exactly it, and that was very good. I thought
your delivery was excellent. You made it rhyme, even though
it didn't.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I think it rhymes. It's a it's a long walk.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
But you're very supportive. All right, we got two more.
This is trail mix eaten by the legendary indigenous athlete
who played pro basketball, baseball, and football. So it's a
historical one. This one. I'm pretty sorry you did not
(12:57):
interview this fellow.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Trail mix.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Trail mix is like granola nuts, raisins, and eminem's. Now
this have to have them ms. This could be like
a regional thing that I know from camp hiking.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
But it is also okay, all right, that's helpful. So
it's like an it's like a cutesy name for trail mix.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yes, it is a cute see name here. I'll give
you a hint what this is Former Vice President Al Gore. Yeah,
so it sounds like that you gotta add something on
the end. Well, this is interesting that maybe you don't
know this word. I think it's possible. I'm also older
than you, so it's possible. It's an old person's word.
(13:44):
This is well, go the other way, one of the most.
This guy's on the list of top ten athletes of
the century where of all time A lot of the
time he was Native American. He won a gold medal,
they took it away. He played.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Oh, oh, oh my god, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Well he's got I'll give you a Jim Jim Thornton close, yes,
thor Jim Thorpe.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Oh, Jim Thorpe.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Jim Thorpe, Jim Thorpe. You got it.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I say, I'm the host, so okay, so then that's fair.
So oh is it called?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Well there you go? All right.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Now, See I don't leave my house, so that's you know,
I don't work much, so I'm not really doing I'm
not hitting the trail. So the gorp is not Damn.
I really blew that one.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Well that that makes you more human like for you? Yeah,
I mean you are a Jeopardy finalist, so this is uh,
we gotta throw you some hard ones.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Thank you. I mean, Jim Thorpe. That's I'm never gonna
live that down. That's a I was thinking of Joe Thorpe.
I was thinking of Joe Thornton, one of my old
favorite hockey players. I don't know what. I don't know
what happened in my brain there, but it's best if
we just leave it, all right. Uh, I'll review the
tape later and.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Go far enough. Don't pick yourself up, all right? Last
one is uh, a redheaded snowboarder has a six pack
of this type of soda.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
That would be Shawn White's sprites.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
That is correct, now have I don't know when I
When I googled your name and Shaun White, all I
saw was a tweet that said he's up to his
old bullshit again or something along those lines.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
So I don't know, back on his bulls, I believe
the right, Yeah, he was he that was so I
did the Olympics the year that they that like, nobody
went like I worked for NBC, but we all were
in Connecticut while the Olympics were in China, I believe,
and we so I like had a zoom like a skype.
(15:54):
This basically I did this with Shaun White. He he's
great and I also randomly was in a green room
with him once and his now fiance or maybe they
got married. But Nina de brev the actress, they are right,
So I got to yes, Vampire Diaries. I knew her
(16:15):
from Degrassiuh so I got to I spent like five
minutes with them. We're not friends, but I you know,
he's a what an athlete?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
All right? So back on his bullsh was that a
Is that a compliment?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yes, that's like, oh he's doing he's doing classic Sean
White things. It's like if you thought he wasn't going
to anymore, he is. Again.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I feel so all right good.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
It's like gorp, that's your gorp. You didn't know about that,
and I've never heard of gorp.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
We each learned a little something that was very nice. Well,
thank you, you're awesome. We got you coming back tomorrow.
And in the meantime, speaking of tomorrow, your new podcast,
Casuals with Katie Nolan, debuts tomorrow on Serious xm app
or wherever you got your podcasts. And as you said,
(17:06):
it's for casual fans and obsessive fans. What kind of
stuff do you have in store?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
So we've got truly everything. Maybe you're a super fan
of baseball but you don't know basketball at all, or
but you want to care and you want to kind
of know, but not enough to listen to a basketball podcast.
We've got you for that. Or you don't know sports
you've always wanted to. You're interested, you want to know
about the culture around sports. You want to be able
(17:33):
to keep up with the conversations, but maybe the way
that other sports podcasts talk about it doesn't speak to you.
Try us. That's what Casuals is for. It's mainly just
a place where people can talk about sports the way
that like I talk to my friends about sports, where
it's not really about like, oh he went this for
this for this many yards and who has the most
(17:54):
it's just like all the interesting stuff that's around sports
and basically the connective tissue between it. Also, it's stuff
about sports that I don't even pay attention to, like
all those sports we only quote unquote care about every
four years at the Olympics, the craziest stories in that
things like distance running and marathoning. Like, well, we're gonna
(18:14):
get into all the weird and silly stuff. Mainly it's
just a fun hang where we laugh and we don't
judge what you know or you don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Well, I am gonna listen and presumably I'll learn things
like back on his bullshit is a positive thing. And
speaking of Judge, I did have Aaron Judges fudges, but
I will instead do this for an extra credit for
the folks at home. This is if a WNBA star
(18:43):
and former Russian prisoner opens some restaurants where you get
omelets and grilled cheese. This might be that. I think
that narrows it down the former Russian prisoner.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I guess, yeah, hopefully, Yeah, that'd be pretty right.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah, let's hope in the next month then we don't
have an incident. Well great, I loved having you and folks,
if you have a moment, check out our Instagram feed
at Hello Puzzlers, where we post original puzzles and other
fun stuff. And we'll be here tomorrow for more puzzling
puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Hey, puzzlers, it's Greg Pliska here from the Puzzle Lab
with a little extra credit from the episode AJ did
with The Daily Stoic. He did a little quiz about
with two quotes, one of which is from a Stoic
philosopher and the other is from someone else, and you
needed to guess which is which, So here are the
two quotes he gave you. How ridiculous and how strange
(19:48):
to be surprised that anything which happens in life. That's one.
The second one is something weird might just be something
familiar viewed from a different angle. Well, the Stoic philosopher
Marcus Aurelius said, the first quote, how ridiculous and how
strange to be surprised that anything which happens in life,
(20:08):
And the second one, something weird might just be something
familiar viewed from a different angle. Is Marceline's mom on
adventure time, So, Stoic philosopher, adventure time you pick, We'll
see you here next time.
Hello, puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast. The buzzer Beater.
In your NBA puzzle final, I am your host, AJ Jacobs.
Here's a quick puzzle for you. Name an athlete whose
first or last name is an animal. It could be
a mammal, could be a bird, a fish. I'll take
any of the above. The answers after the break, Welcome
(00:29):
back to the Puzzler Podcast. I'm Aj Jacobs. I asked
puzzlers at home to name an athlete whose first or
last name is an animal. A bunch of correct answers.
There's Tiger Woods, even though Tiger is nicknamed Eldrick, but
we count it Tony Hawk, Mike Trout, Lynn Swan, Rick Fox.
If you come up with others, please send them to
(00:50):
us at the puzzler dot com. But I brought it
up because I thought it was appropriate because we have
a guest who knows a lot about and a lot
about almost every other topic under the sun. I'm talking
about the legendary Katie Nolan, Emmy winning sports comedy host,
celebrity Jeopardy finalist, and host of the brand new podcast
(01:13):
Casuals About Culture and Sports. Welcome Katie, Thank you, for
having me.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Larry Bird, by the way, that was the first one
I thought of. Does that count?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Oh my god, of course that counts. I can't believe
I missed that.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well, It's Bird is generic. Yours we're better, But Larry
Bird is what I brought. What a nice intro that was.
Thank you so much, she said, legendary. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I believe it to be the case, and I'm excited
for your new podcast because it's marketed partly, I mean,
it's for everyone, but partly the casual sports fans, and
I consider myself a cat maybe a very casual sports fan.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Well, then it's exactly for you. It's exactly the genesis
for the idea. I just feel like there's a lot
of people who like sports or think they could, and
just don't really have an entry point, and so I
wanted to give them a place to come and hang out.
So we're happy to have you.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I will be there hanging out and learning. Well, but
I did research enough sports that I was able to
write today's sports themed puzzle, and it's called sports Schmortz.
So every answer is going to be the name of
a famous athlete and a word that rhymes with that
(02:24):
athlete's last name. So to give you an example, off
the clue is the monopoly in scrabble sets owned by
a Los Angeles Lakers superstar. The answer would be Lebron
James Games. So it's James Games. And by the way,
I did come up with one for you. But it's
(02:47):
it's honestly a bit of a stretch. It's not great.
It's it's the punctuation marks used by the host of
Casuals podcast.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
It's good Nolan's Katie Nolan's, colon's.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Right, or the body part, even though I assume you
only have one, Yeah that I know. All right, here
we go. Ocean predators owned by a star player for
the w NBA Indiana Fever. So Ocean predators from the
(03:17):
Indiana Fever Star.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Okay, I would say this would be Caitlin Clark's Sharks.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
You would say, correctly, you got it.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Athlete of the Year as named by Time today. Oh yeah,
well not today? Yes, well this will air. You know
in December they named her athlete of the Year.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Way back when in December I can hardly remember. Uh.
Continuing with the animal theme, these are elegant white birds
owned by a Gold medal winning skater, Olympic gold medalist.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So we got swans, so I'd say probably Michelle Kwan's swans.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Oh did I say skater?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Did you get Maybe you said skater, Maybe you said
skier and I heard skate. Lindsay Vaughn Swans.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Was fantastic works. It works for Michelle Kwan?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Did she win a gold medal? Though? I don't know?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Follow up?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Let me check?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
All right, you're the expert, and I will say even
better when I gave this to my wife as a
as she said, Lindsay Vaughan's herons rhymes. So there's all
sorts of answers to this. Did she win a gold medal?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
She is a two time Olympic medalist, a silver and
a bronze.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah, when they say medalist, then you.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Know yes exactly because you specify exactly right. Swanscounts. I
got it, eventually you did.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Oh no, Plus you got the other one. I love that,
all right? Final one with an animal, the little sheep
owned by a women's soccer legend. The little sheep owned
by a soccer legend.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Little sheep would be called what it's a little sheep called.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
A young sheep?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Right? Is a baby sheep. I have a hint, but
is this an easy one? That as soon as I
think of what it is, and it's a women's soccer legend,
so that could be a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I will say here, I'll give you a hint. Mary
had one of these, a.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Lamb a lamb oh so Mia Ham's lambs.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Miya Ham's lambs.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Man that was too. I don't know why that was
so difficult for me. I haven't thought of lambs in
a while.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I guess, well, and that's good because the other ones
he got too quickly. So I'm really happy that you
all right. We got another, which is sunglasses owned by
a former Miami Heat.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Star, Dwayne Wade's Shades.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That's it, Dwayne Raids shades. And by the way, while
we're on the topic of Dwayne Wade, we loved the
viral zoom call during the pandemic. So for those who
missed it, for the nighted few who missed it, can
you just tell us quickly what happened there?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
So it was I mean to paint the picture. It
was like March maybe April twenty twenty. We were all
stranded at home. Everybody. It was like the Great equalizer.
So even the most famous people you knew, I mean
many were complaining about it online, but they were stuck
at home, and so we figured, sure, this is a
bad thing, but the good side of it is that
(06:31):
everybody's kind of equally accessible. So we came up with
this idea that we would send I'd gather some of
my friends in sports media, and together we would send
this zoom link to all the famous people whose contact
information we had, and then we would just see who
would show up. And it sounds crazy, but if you'll
remember that time, people were just clicking on random links
(06:53):
and seeing what was going on. So we had a
ton of incredibly famous people show up in no particular
order and just fill a room and we hung out
for hours of just random people coming in and out
of that room. It was very, very fun. One of
those things. I don't think we'll ever be able to
capture that type of experience again. Maybe for the best,
(07:14):
hopefully there's not another pandemic that locks us all up.
But it was just very pure pandemic era content. It
was crazy and very fun.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Twenty and it was so you had Twain, Dwayne Ware yeah,
and Lynn Manuel Miranda.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, Clayton Kershaw came by. I don't think he had
a shirt on when he showed up.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
So that was interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah, we had quite a few guests. It was, it
was crazy, It was. It was tough to keep up
with because when people log into Zoom, they don't always
have their name written on the but and so sometimes
it would be like logging in with their friends Zoom
and there were so many people, so you're like squinting
at the screen, like, is that Clayton Kershaw without a
shirt on?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I don't know if it is, but it was, and
so you know, it was fun and they didn't know
when they clicked the low clube. That was the part.
All right, couple more. These are what the world's greatest
gymnast has on her kitchen and bathroom floors.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Oh, that's easy, but that's going to be Simone Biles Tiles.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
That is great.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
We love Simone Biles. What an athlete, I mean, unbelievable, unbelievable,
The things she can do that no one else can do. Amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Well, here's another pretty good athlete. These are things that
keep the Golden State Warrior Star up at night or
a Golden ste I'm sure there are other Golden State Warrior.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
As a lady who has trouble falling asleep at night.
I can tell you this is going to be Steph
Curry's worries. That is correct, And Steph, do I get it?
There's so much to think about.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, even Steph worries, I think you have.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Probably not on the court. He seems very cool, calm
and collected when playing basketball, but he's got to worry
about something.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Well. Yeah, I as I say, I'm a casual sports fan,
but I do like when he shoots a three pointer
and he lets the ball leave his hands and then
he just walks.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Cause he knows. He just knows. I don't think I've
ever felt that way about anything in my life. Like,
that's gonna go exactly how I wanted it to exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I'm waiting even after it goes in, I'm like, are
we sure?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Do you want to check?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
All right? These are the percussion instruments used by a
Japanese born tennis player. Huh, this one's a little harder
because I thought you were ready to take it up?
Is it?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I mean that doesn't really run. I was gonna say,
Naomio Soka's is it like Tanaka's is that a thing?
What's the word? What am I? You ares the Okay?
What am I thinking?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
It sounds like an actor or something?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Sure does?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
All right? A couple more we got, uh oh this one,
speaking of ones that don't rhyme, this one. Both my
wife and producer objected to it, but I'm gonna do
it anyway. I'm gonna do it. I love that.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Live by your own rules, Thank you, Katie. Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
This is what a Phoenix Sun superstar puts under his
arms to keep him smelling fresh and clean.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
So that feels like deodorant.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yes, you're in there?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Is it? We're doing Kevin Durant deodorant.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
That's it. Kevin allow it.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I'll allow it. You know Kevin Durant. I interviewed him
one time. It was because he was releasing these under
had underwear, like a line of underwear that have his
name on it or something, and I called them keV
under pants. And so I'm right with you enforcing a
rhyme into.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
His names underpants. We should have done that.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Well next time.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Wait, is that the one? Because I watched one where
you you could only ask him Your producer said you
could only ask him about underwear, even though like he's
one of the great athletes of all.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Time, and I think he was at the time being
rumored to be changing teams, and so I remember we
were like, had all these questions about like where he
was going to go, but they said we couldn't, so
we Oh, so it was it was like the he
had been told ahead of time. It might have been
the conceit of the bit. I don't remember if it
was real or not, but I do we did in
the room. I asked him. It sounded like I was
going to ask him a question, right, and you'd see
(11:33):
his br people be like no, and then I'd say,
and so did these wick away sweat when you wear him?
He looked very confused, but I do remember him saying
that was the most funny had in an interview, and
I put that on my resumes.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah, exactly, all right, what about this one? This Portuguese
soccer player's collection of viseral puzzle book books?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Visual visual puzzles would be like.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
These are like spot the difference, or looking for something
that you can't find because it's really small and it's
in a lot of other places. Not the magic eye.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Oh would this be a Christiano Ronaldo's wears Waldo's.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
That's exactly it, and that was very good. I thought
your delivery was excellent. You made it rhyme, even though
it didn't.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I think it rhymes. It's a it's a long walk.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
But you're very supportive. All right, we got two more.
This is trail mix eaten by the legendary indigenous athlete
who played pro basketball, baseball, and football. So it's a
historical one. This one. I'm pretty sorry you did not
(12:57):
interview this fellow.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Trail mix.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Trail mix is like granola nuts, raisins, and eminem's. Now
this have to have them ms. This could be like
a regional thing that I know from camp hiking.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
But it is also okay, all right, that's helpful. So
it's like an it's like a cutesy name for trail mix.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yes, it is a cute see name here. I'll give
you a hint what this is Former Vice President Al Gore. Yeah,
so it sounds like that you gotta add something on
the end. Well, this is interesting that maybe you don't
know this word. I think it's possible. I'm also older
than you, so it's possible. It's an old person's word.
(13:44):
This is well, go the other way, one of the most.
This guy's on the list of top ten athletes of
the century where of all time A lot of the
time he was Native American. He won a gold medal,
they took it away. He played.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Oh, oh, oh my god, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Well he's got I'll give you a Jim Jim Thornton close, yes,
thor Jim Thorpe.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Oh, Jim Thorpe.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Jim Thorpe, Jim Thorpe. You got it.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I say, I'm the host, so okay, so then that's fair.
So oh is it called?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Well there you go? All right.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Now, See I don't leave my house, so that's you know,
I don't work much, so I'm not really doing I'm
not hitting the trail. So the gorp is not Damn.
I really blew that one.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Well that that makes you more human like for you? Yeah,
I mean you are a Jeopardy finalist, so this is uh,
we gotta throw you some hard ones.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Thank you. I mean, Jim Thorpe. That's I'm never gonna
live that down. That's a I was thinking of Joe Thorpe.
I was thinking of Joe Thornton, one of my old
favorite hockey players. I don't know what. I don't know
what happened in my brain there, but it's best if
we just leave it, all right. Uh, I'll review the
tape later and.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Go far enough. Don't pick yourself up, all right? Last
one is uh, a redheaded snowboarder has a six pack
of this type of soda.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
That would be Shawn White's sprites.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
That is correct, now have I don't know when I
When I googled your name and Shaun White, all I
saw was a tweet that said he's up to his
old bullshit again or something along those lines.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
So I don't know, back on his bulls, I believe
the right, Yeah, he was he that was so I
did the Olympics the year that they that like, nobody
went like I worked for NBC, but we all were
in Connecticut while the Olympics were in China, I believe,
and we so I like had a zoom like a skype.
(15:54):
This basically I did this with Shaun White. He he's
great and I also randomly was in a green room
with him once and his now fiance or maybe they
got married. But Nina de brev the actress, they are right,
So I got to yes, Vampire Diaries. I knew her
(16:15):
from Degrassiuh so I got to I spent like five
minutes with them. We're not friends, but I you know,
he's a what an athlete?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
All right? So back on his bullsh was that a
Is that a compliment?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yes, that's like, oh he's doing he's doing classic Sean
White things. It's like if you thought he wasn't going
to anymore, he is. Again.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I feel so all right good.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
It's like gorp, that's your gorp. You didn't know about that,
and I've never heard of gorp.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
We each learned a little something that was very nice. Well,
thank you, you're awesome. We got you coming back tomorrow.
And in the meantime, speaking of tomorrow, your new podcast,
Casuals with Katie Nolan, debuts tomorrow on Serious xm app
or wherever you got your podcasts. And as you said,
(17:06):
it's for casual fans and obsessive fans. What kind of
stuff do you have in store?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
So we've got truly everything. Maybe you're a super fan
of baseball but you don't know basketball at all, or
but you want to care and you want to kind
of know, but not enough to listen to a basketball podcast.
We've got you for that. Or you don't know sports
you've always wanted to. You're interested, you want to know
about the culture around sports. You want to be able
(17:33):
to keep up with the conversations, but maybe the way
that other sports podcasts talk about it doesn't speak to you.
Try us. That's what Casuals is for. It's mainly just
a place where people can talk about sports the way
that like I talk to my friends about sports, where
it's not really about like, oh he went this for
this for this many yards and who has the most
(17:54):
it's just like all the interesting stuff that's around sports
and basically the connective tissue between it. Also, it's stuff
about sports that I don't even pay attention to, like
all those sports we only quote unquote care about every
four years at the Olympics, the craziest stories in that
things like distance running and marathoning. Like, well, we're gonna
(18:14):
get into all the weird and silly stuff. Mainly it's
just a fun hang where we laugh and we don't
judge what you know or you don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Well, I am gonna listen and presumably I'll learn things
like back on his bullshit is a positive thing. And
speaking of Judge, I did have Aaron Judges fudges, but
I will instead do this for an extra credit for
the folks at home. This is if a WNBA star
(18:43):
and former Russian prisoner opens some restaurants where you get
omelets and grilled cheese. This might be that. I think
that narrows it down the former Russian prisoner.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I guess, yeah, hopefully, Yeah, that'd be pretty right.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah, let's hope in the next month then we don't
have an incident. Well great, I loved having you and folks,
if you have a moment, check out our Instagram feed
at Hello Puzzlers, where we post original puzzles and other
fun stuff. And we'll be here tomorrow for more puzzling
puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Hey, puzzlers, it's Greg Pliska here from the Puzzle Lab
with a little extra credit from the episode AJ did
with The Daily Stoic. He did a little quiz about
with two quotes, one of which is from a Stoic
philosopher and the other is from someone else, and you
needed to guess which is which, So here are the
two quotes he gave you. How ridiculous and how strange
(19:48):
to be surprised that anything which happens in life. That's one.
The second one is something weird might just be something
familiar viewed from a different angle. Well, the Stoic philosopher
Marcus Aurelius said, the first quote, how ridiculous and how
strange to be surprised that anything which happens in life,
(20:08):
And the second one, something weird might just be something
familiar viewed from a different angle. Is Marceline's mom on
adventure time, So, Stoic philosopher, adventure time you pick, We'll
see you here next time.
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