November 26, 2024 • 18 mins
Hello, Puzzlers! This week, A.J. and Greg are joined by their partners to celebrate Thanksgiving week!
Join host A.J. Jacobs and his guests as they puzzle–and laugh–their way through new spins on old favorites, like anagrams and palindromes, as well as quirky originals such as “Ask Chat GPT” and audio rebuses.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hello, Puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast. The don Hoe
cameo in your Puzzles Brady Bunch Hawaii episodes.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Specially.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
That was for Julie Jacobs. My wife's favorite show was
The Brady Bunch.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Which which sister were you?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Well? I was Cindy because I have two older brothers
and there was another family we were close with and
they had two girls and then a boy, so I.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Was the I'm the oldest of three boys, so Greg's.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
The oldest of right shoan In other words.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yes, exactly, you are Je.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Well, in any case, I am your host, A j Jacobs.
And in honor of Thanksgiving week, we have a special treat.
It's the Puzzler Family Reunion Day two and we have
with us two very special members of the Puddler family,
the Puzzler Wags, the wives and girlfriends of the Puzzler Podcast.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
And as as close as I will get, did you
take it?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Did you know that there's girlfriends of all I will
take It's.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Curious puzzle Puzzler family. I mean, Adam has a girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
But yeah, in this studio today it's just the w's
and uh and Jessica, Greg's wife, did wonderfully on a puzzle.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Yesterday, Greg will be delivering the puzzles and I will
just make snide and.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Remarks story of my life. Well today, yes, Greg was
going to give one to me and Julie, who, by
the way, as we mentioned yesterday, has been puzzling professionally
for longer than I have. She is president of Watson Adventures,
which we've mentioned a couple of times on the show.
But since you happen to be here, what you can
(02:00):
tell us a little more about.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
How did that happen?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Well, thank you a j and thank you for having
us back. Yes, so, Watson Adventures has been around for
over twenty five years. We are in over thirty cities
across the country. We have over a thousand different games
that we do, and we have done games and hunts
for more than a million people at this point, which's
(02:23):
so crazy. Yeah, we're not messing around.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
We were. We were among those millions.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I love that million. It would have been great if
you had met on a watsonvent. We have had people
meet on our which is very you know, It's like
now I feel like I'm going to have them because
yeah I met.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
I think you have no I think you have two more,
I think you have to do three.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Well I already have one. I have another one that
they got married for really well this is for real too,
but yeah, yeah, anyway.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well I'm interested, though, what does it mean that?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Thanks so much for asking? So it's not really your
typical scavender that used to do when you were a
kid a camp, although I love those two. These are
Scavendhern's that you're do going through museums and historic neighborhoods,
and it's a little bit like a walking tour but
done as a game, or it's like an escape room,
but you're experiencing a neighborhood or a museum while you're
(03:16):
doing all the puzzles. So we like to put a
little spin on it, a little bit more intellectual, a
little bit more puzzly.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah, I mean there's a lot of wordplay, just like
in the puzzling. Yeah, exactly, And maybe we'll get a
little example of that after the puzzle. But let's let's
do some puzzling before that, and let's Watsonadventures dot com.
Though I should mention that just popped into my mind just.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
What a shocking website. I never would have thought that
would be the website.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
I just came out of nowhere dot com.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Yeah, we should talk more about that because I well, anyway,
I do my plug for Watson Adventures after the puzzle.
But this puzzle is call called Watson Misadventures. Oh, a
little tribute to your company. Watson of course refers to
one of them. It was famous sidekicks in history, right,
doctor Watson Sherlock Holmes' sidekick, frequent companion. So this is
misadventures because I'm going to clue some famous sidekicks in
(04:09):
unexpected ways, not unlike the messed up wedding plane from yesterday.
Like you know, this is sort of a misunderstanding of
what the side chick is.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Okay, can I ask Julia a question before you start?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I already did start.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
So do you like when you're just hanging out at
night randomly get questions like can you think of a
famous like when aj is building a puzzle and you
have to chime in on wherever the topic is.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Well, I am a guinea pig like you definitely tests
all the puzzles on me.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Okay, yeah, we're definitely talking about some sidekicks.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Yeah, yeah, sidekicks. Just look on the internet. I'm like, well, no,
I know I can look on the internet. I just wanted.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
To what do you think of my contribution? Yeah, it
depends on you know, what you're doing at the time,
Like can you exert that energy? All right?
Speaker 5 (04:59):
All right?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
So so the example I was going to give it
is the clue electrical unit plus daytime star.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Oh and you would.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Say, wait, daytime for example. Yeah, what I was thinking,
But that would be watching nice very well.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
So each andrewho is the name of a famous sidekick.
Each clue is kind of wacky and indirect. So this
sidekick is a bird with a reddish orange breast, one
that flies just like bats doew.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Okay, I think I orange breast.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I got that from the And then the second part
helps you clue the real sidekicks.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Not Cardinal thinking red bird Cardinal, but I think I know.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Robin the red breast bird. Also the sidekick to Batman y.
This sidekick is the opposite of two cheers. But would
cheer for a picnic basket?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Boom boom.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
That was fast.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Showing me she was she was actually nying. You start
thinking about ones that he mighty.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
And that was and that's Yogi Bear bear, and is
that his nephew is cousin?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
What is that relations I'm gonna go with I'm too
young to.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Know that, Clever, there was just another bear.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
There's in the woods there jelly stones, just friends, nice,
just friends.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Well, you know, all right, So this sidekick sounds like
a quiet short haircut for women and not for a
guy named Jay.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Oh my short haircut for.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
That's a good one. I would say Sundance kid is
the sidekick.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I know. That's why I was kind of confused.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Clever, this is a short haircut for women generally, but
this is a quiet it.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
One of those bomb silent, silent.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
And silent Bob from the Kevin Smith's Claire universe.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah, I love it. That's a little more contemporary. I'm
too old to know that one.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
That guy, like what we're calling.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
This one is both old and recent. This sidekick is
a barnyard foul. Not a fighter pilot.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Oh boy, barnyard hen uh. Not a fighter pilot. Not
a fighter pilot. It's like the red baron.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
A movie fighter pilot Top Gun, y.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Maverick from Top Gun.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
It was the you know, old and new when you
said that before he went off, If he's listening.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Im, you still love you want to be on the show?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Tom like cryogenic, But I did love him quite a
bit during this.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Does all those stunts too. I haven't seen the most
recent Mission Impossible movie, but I've seen the stunt at
the beginning.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
It's like a motorcycle off a cliffs.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
It's insane.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
He does it in the sixties, and.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
He did the bartender tricks.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
We do our own stunts here on the puzzler too.
All right, I've got a few more of these. This
sidekick is like the habit of an old time baseball player,
something that he would do with his mouth, and he
would do it solo.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Oh well, I got solo just by That's what I think, Hans.
Oh no, of course, his sidekick is Showboca.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Amazingwork watching finishing each other sentences literally finished.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Well we you know we did. We met at Entertainment Weekly,
and so that is definitely our original connection is anything
i'd say entertainment related. We have a very similar working knowledge.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
But I like to remind people as much as I
can that I'm twelve years younger than Greg. So I'll
make another joke that our cultural touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
You should have seen us discussing the playlist at the wedding.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, we only have three months apart, so you don't
even know those first.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Would you want to dance to Steely Dan at your wedding? No,
you wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Asking for a friend, I'm.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Looking for email people. All the people had Steely Dan
at their weddings. Send it in, all right, we got
some more of these. This Sidekick is an expert about
baby in childcare, boldly going where no man has gone before.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Well, I'm thinking an expert on baby.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Boldly going where you've not gone before. Isn't that star Trek?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
It is star Trek?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
So is spock.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Spot Sidekick legend expert on even though most of the
stuff turns the bunk. Yeah, this one.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
That's why our children your ear, honey.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I was raised with that book. Actually a lot, I think.
All right, This Sidekick was the largest two.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Digit multiple of nine, and you have to be smart
to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Oh okay, I remember this. Maybe this wasn't your genre.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
It was, but not. There's a more recent film based
upon this TV.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Show that's true. I think was Steve Carellen was here?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
No, yep.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Sidekick is the largest two digit multiple of nine and
you have to be smart to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Well, get smart? Did you ever watch that?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Yeah, because I do love my mom. We got our
an apple just in case, you know, she falls in it.
You know, it's a nice thing, cause alert and she
loves answering it with her phone when we call her,
and she like, I'm just I can get smart.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
There.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Very funny.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
That's about the reference, right.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah, that's right, her year old.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I got one more for you ready. This sidekick is
a motorcycle and a mighty Eskimo and that's no joke.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Wow, no joke. Wait, oh, remember.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
A new motorcycle and a mighty Eskimo And that's no joke.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Eskimo because I was thinking of Tonto and Lune Ranger.
She wasn't asking.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I looked at his face and it did not light up.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
No, if you think of that pair. Although Tonto is
a very fraud character by Jay Silverheels, who I belie
it was a Native American.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
So and also Johnny Depp, who I believe was not.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Definitely you know.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
So this sidekick is a motorcycle and a mighty Eskimo
and that's no joke.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
What is a Mighty Eskimo. Joe is that Joe? Isn't
there a song? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:18):
When the Eskimo gets here, Julie, you know Dylan song
recorded by the Manfred Man band that's old. This move
so there's a very recent movie about this is one
of the rare villain there's a villain with a sidekick.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
That's unusual hench people.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Oh so the jokers side Yeah, no joke.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Lay in the movie. A motorcycle brand and the Mighty Eskimo.
Names of motorcycle.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Brands Harley Harley, Harley quick when.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
You got it.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Ended on a pain, it's a hard one.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
I'm going to edit all that out and then they'll
just seem really brilliant.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
I'll give you one more is an extra credit when
we get there are I'm going to say about what
Here's what I want to say about Watson Adventures is,
in case it wasn't clear from your intro, part of
the fun of it is that it's a social event too, right.
We did it with it was us and and Caroline and.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Of the other.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Proposal from yesterday and you know, so it's a great time.
You're solving puzzles, you're learning about the space.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yere, where were you when we were at.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
The museum and and and we had a few drinks
and did this, and so it was a great night out.
It was like a great couple's double date and we
had a great time.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Yeah, very so. So we do it for both We
do it for the public on the weekends and seven
cities across the country, and then we also do it
for private groups for corporate team building and student groups
and alumni groups.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
And for Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Oh yeah, well we've done some interesting people.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
So you know, the famous story about Jeff Bezos came
and it was really hard. It was a MET hunt
and it was something like fifty questions. We like poured
it on and he got a perfect score and he
you know, wanted to make sure that everyone knew about that.
But we're done. We're telling him, yeah, exactly, you're welcome, Jeff.
(14:29):
So yeah, so we love doing showing people museums and
historic neighborhoods, making them experience it in a completely different way,
which is a really nice time job.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
And you've got the word play like in the puddle alerts.
So just give us one example.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
So an example from the MET for instance, is You're
sent into a room of vangos, and the question is
what would vane Go find appealing on the back of
his mind? So you don't really know what we're talking
about until you get there. You are team usually four
six people. You spread out. Someone notices there's a painting
and the front of it is a self portrait. He
also painted on the back of the canvas and it's
(15:07):
a potato peeler, So what would vane Go find appealing
on the back of his mind?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
You actually have to read all the descriptions.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Well, is that one you're kind of noticing, like, wait, well,
you know sometimes when you talk things out with someone else,
you're like, I I am feeling like it could be
this painting, and then you bring your other teammates in
and then you kind of piece it together.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
It was like a metaphor for our times you need. Also,
I like coming together, coming together, coming together, but I
also like way to force my children to learn.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Yeah, that's also nice thing. Well, I think teachers really
like it because it's the kids get excited. It's a
game and they're getting to see the museum or the
neighborhood or whatever is. So we love that this is
usually someone's fun activity on the weekend, fun day out.
You know, it's a I don't even know they are.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
It's a fun game, bachelor, bachelorette party.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Well, we have themes, which is fun, like people love murder,
so we have murder at the Getty and murder in
Greenwich Village in all different places. And then we also
have naked at the Art Institute of Chicago or naked
at the Met And you're going.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
And going around naked.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
A lot of questions asked, but you're actually just looking
at nude art.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah, so that's very popular around Valentine's Day as well.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I love it well that I wonder where can people
find more?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
So glad, Yes, how about Watsonadventures dot com? Please check
it out?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Excellent. All right, thank you Julie for telling us about that.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Wait, did you have an extra credit?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
I do have an extra credit, A Watson Misadventure extra credit.
This sidekicks life might have been solitary, poor, nasty British
in short, except he had a boy theologian.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
As a friend. I was a philosophy major in college,
so that I think helped me a little. Well, it
doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
You don't have to ask you, no doubt. The folks
at home can think about this as long as they want.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Well, excellent puzzle. We loved it. And while you wait
for the answer, check out Hello Puzzlers on the Instagram
because we have new puzzles there all the time. It's
super fun.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
And they're visual and auditory.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
That's true. And by the way, come back tomorrow for
more puzzling puzzles that will likely puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Hey, puzzlers, it's your Chief puzzle Officer, Greg Pliska here
with the extra credit answer from our previous show. Here
on Family Week, we played the Wacky Wedding Planner game,
and your extra credit clue was this wedding planner and
found a map of the best places for plants to germinate,
and that, of course is the seeding chart. Kind of
(18:09):
like the seeding chart. That's the joke there, that's the
funny part. So thank you for listening, and congratulations to
all of you who got married.
Hello, Puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast. The don Hoe
cameo in your Puzzles Brady Bunch Hawaii episodes.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Specially.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
That was for Julie Jacobs. My wife's favorite show was
The Brady Bunch.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Which which sister were you?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Well? I was Cindy because I have two older brothers
and there was another family we were close with and
they had two girls and then a boy, so I.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Was the I'm the oldest of three boys, so Greg's.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
The oldest of right shoan In other words.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yes, exactly, you are Je.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Well, in any case, I am your host, A j Jacobs.
And in honor of Thanksgiving week, we have a special treat.
It's the Puzzler Family Reunion Day two and we have
with us two very special members of the Puddler family,
the Puzzler Wags, the wives and girlfriends of the Puzzler Podcast.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
And as as close as I will get, did you
take it?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Did you know that there's girlfriends of all I will
take It's.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Curious puzzle Puzzler family. I mean, Adam has a girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
But yeah, in this studio today it's just the w's
and uh and Jessica, Greg's wife, did wonderfully on a puzzle.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Yesterday, Greg will be delivering the puzzles and I will
just make snide and.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Remarks story of my life. Well today, yes, Greg was
going to give one to me and Julie, who, by
the way, as we mentioned yesterday, has been puzzling professionally
for longer than I have. She is president of Watson Adventures,
which we've mentioned a couple of times on the show.
But since you happen to be here, what you can
(02:00):
tell us a little more about.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
How did that happen?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Well, thank you a j and thank you for having
us back. Yes, so, Watson Adventures has been around for
over twenty five years. We are in over thirty cities
across the country. We have over a thousand different games
that we do, and we have done games and hunts
for more than a million people at this point, which's
(02:23):
so crazy. Yeah, we're not messing around.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
We were. We were among those millions.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I love that million. It would have been great if
you had met on a watsonvent. We have had people
meet on our which is very you know, It's like
now I feel like I'm going to have them because
yeah I met.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
I think you have no I think you have two more,
I think you have to do three.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Well I already have one. I have another one that
they got married for really well this is for real too,
but yeah, yeah, anyway.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well I'm interested, though, what does it mean that?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Thanks so much for asking? So it's not really your
typical scavender that used to do when you were a
kid a camp, although I love those two. These are
Scavendhern's that you're do going through museums and historic neighborhoods,
and it's a little bit like a walking tour but
done as a game, or it's like an escape room,
but you're experiencing a neighborhood or a museum while you're
(03:16):
doing all the puzzles. So we like to put a
little spin on it, a little bit more intellectual, a
little bit more puzzly.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah, I mean there's a lot of wordplay, just like
in the puzzling. Yeah, exactly, And maybe we'll get a
little example of that after the puzzle. But let's let's
do some puzzling before that, and let's Watsonadventures dot com.
Though I should mention that just popped into my mind just.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
What a shocking website. I never would have thought that
would be the website.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
I just came out of nowhere dot com.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Yeah, we should talk more about that because I well, anyway,
I do my plug for Watson Adventures after the puzzle.
But this puzzle is call called Watson Misadventures. Oh, a
little tribute to your company. Watson of course refers to
one of them. It was famous sidekicks in history, right,
doctor Watson Sherlock Holmes' sidekick, frequent companion. So this is
misadventures because I'm going to clue some famous sidekicks in
(04:09):
unexpected ways, not unlike the messed up wedding plane from yesterday.
Like you know, this is sort of a misunderstanding of
what the side chick is.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Okay, can I ask Julia a question before you start?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I already did start.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
So do you like when you're just hanging out at
night randomly get questions like can you think of a
famous like when aj is building a puzzle and you
have to chime in on wherever the topic is.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Well, I am a guinea pig like you definitely tests
all the puzzles on me.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Okay, yeah, we're definitely talking about some sidekicks.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Yeah, yeah, sidekicks. Just look on the internet. I'm like, well, no,
I know I can look on the internet. I just wanted.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
To what do you think of my contribution? Yeah, it
depends on you know, what you're doing at the time,
Like can you exert that energy? All right?
Speaker 5 (04:59):
All right?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
So so the example I was going to give it
is the clue electrical unit plus daytime star.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Oh and you would.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Say, wait, daytime for example. Yeah, what I was thinking,
But that would be watching nice very well.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
So each andrewho is the name of a famous sidekick.
Each clue is kind of wacky and indirect. So this
sidekick is a bird with a reddish orange breast, one
that flies just like bats doew.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Okay, I think I orange breast.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I got that from the And then the second part
helps you clue the real sidekicks.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Not Cardinal thinking red bird Cardinal, but I think I know.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Robin the red breast bird. Also the sidekick to Batman y.
This sidekick is the opposite of two cheers. But would
cheer for a picnic basket?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Boom boom.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
That was fast.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Showing me she was she was actually nying. You start
thinking about ones that he mighty.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
And that was and that's Yogi Bear bear, and is
that his nephew is cousin?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
What is that relations I'm gonna go with I'm too
young to.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Know that, Clever, there was just another bear.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
There's in the woods there jelly stones, just friends, nice,
just friends.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Well, you know, all right, So this sidekick sounds like
a quiet short haircut for women and not for a
guy named Jay.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Oh my short haircut for.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
That's a good one. I would say Sundance kid is
the sidekick.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I know. That's why I was kind of confused.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Clever, this is a short haircut for women generally, but
this is a quiet it.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
One of those bomb silent, silent.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
And silent Bob from the Kevin Smith's Claire universe.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah, I love it. That's a little more contemporary. I'm
too old to know that one.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
That guy, like what we're calling.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
This one is both old and recent. This sidekick is
a barnyard foul. Not a fighter pilot.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Oh boy, barnyard hen uh. Not a fighter pilot. Not
a fighter pilot. It's like the red baron.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
A movie fighter pilot Top Gun, y.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Maverick from Top Gun.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
It was the you know, old and new when you
said that before he went off, If he's listening.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Im, you still love you want to be on the show?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Tom like cryogenic, But I did love him quite a
bit during this.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Does all those stunts too. I haven't seen the most
recent Mission Impossible movie, but I've seen the stunt at
the beginning.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
It's like a motorcycle off a cliffs.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
It's insane.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
He does it in the sixties, and.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
He did the bartender tricks.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
We do our own stunts here on the puzzler too.
All right, I've got a few more of these. This
sidekick is like the habit of an old time baseball player,
something that he would do with his mouth, and he
would do it solo.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Oh well, I got solo just by That's what I think, Hans.
Oh no, of course, his sidekick is Showboca.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Amazingwork watching finishing each other sentences literally finished.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Well we you know we did. We met at Entertainment Weekly,
and so that is definitely our original connection is anything
i'd say entertainment related. We have a very similar working knowledge.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
But I like to remind people as much as I
can that I'm twelve years younger than Greg. So I'll
make another joke that our cultural touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
You should have seen us discussing the playlist at the wedding.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, we only have three months apart, so you don't
even know those first.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Would you want to dance to Steely Dan at your wedding? No,
you wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Asking for a friend, I'm.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Looking for email people. All the people had Steely Dan
at their weddings. Send it in, all right, we got
some more of these. This Sidekick is an expert about
baby in childcare, boldly going where no man has gone before.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Well, I'm thinking an expert on baby.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Boldly going where you've not gone before. Isn't that star Trek?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
It is star Trek?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
So is spock.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Spot Sidekick legend expert on even though most of the
stuff turns the bunk. Yeah, this one.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
That's why our children your ear, honey.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I was raised with that book. Actually a lot, I think.
All right, This Sidekick was the largest two.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Digit multiple of nine, and you have to be smart
to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Oh okay, I remember this. Maybe this wasn't your genre.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
It was, but not. There's a more recent film based
upon this TV.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Show that's true. I think was Steve Carellen was here?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
No, yep.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Sidekick is the largest two digit multiple of nine and
you have to be smart to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Well, get smart? Did you ever watch that?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Yeah, because I do love my mom. We got our
an apple just in case, you know, she falls in it.
You know, it's a nice thing, cause alert and she
loves answering it with her phone when we call her,
and she like, I'm just I can get smart.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
There.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Very funny.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
That's about the reference, right.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah, that's right, her year old.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I got one more for you ready. This sidekick is
a motorcycle and a mighty Eskimo and that's no joke.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Wow, no joke. Wait, oh, remember.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
A new motorcycle and a mighty Eskimo And that's no joke.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Eskimo because I was thinking of Tonto and Lune Ranger.
She wasn't asking.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I looked at his face and it did not light up.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
No, if you think of that pair. Although Tonto is
a very fraud character by Jay Silverheels, who I belie
it was a Native American.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
So and also Johnny Depp, who I believe was not.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Definitely you know.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
So this sidekick is a motorcycle and a mighty Eskimo
and that's no joke.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
What is a Mighty Eskimo. Joe is that Joe? Isn't
there a song? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:18):
When the Eskimo gets here, Julie, you know Dylan song
recorded by the Manfred Man band that's old. This move
so there's a very recent movie about this is one
of the rare villain there's a villain with a sidekick.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
That's unusual hench people.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Oh so the jokers side Yeah, no joke.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Lay in the movie. A motorcycle brand and the Mighty Eskimo.
Names of motorcycle.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Brands Harley Harley, Harley quick when.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
You got it.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Ended on a pain, it's a hard one.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
I'm going to edit all that out and then they'll
just seem really brilliant.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
I'll give you one more is an extra credit when
we get there are I'm going to say about what
Here's what I want to say about Watson Adventures is,
in case it wasn't clear from your intro, part of
the fun of it is that it's a social event too, right.
We did it with it was us and and Caroline and.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Of the other.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Proposal from yesterday and you know, so it's a great time.
You're solving puzzles, you're learning about the space.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yere, where were you when we were at.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
The museum and and and we had a few drinks
and did this, and so it was a great night out.
It was like a great couple's double date and we
had a great time.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Yeah, very so. So we do it for both We
do it for the public on the weekends and seven
cities across the country, and then we also do it
for private groups for corporate team building and student groups
and alumni groups.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
And for Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Oh yeah, well we've done some interesting people.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
So you know, the famous story about Jeff Bezos came
and it was really hard. It was a MET hunt
and it was something like fifty questions. We like poured
it on and he got a perfect score and he
you know, wanted to make sure that everyone knew about that.
But we're done. We're telling him, yeah, exactly, you're welcome, Jeff.
(14:29):
So yeah, so we love doing showing people museums and
historic neighborhoods, making them experience it in a completely different way,
which is a really nice time job.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
And you've got the word play like in the puddle alerts.
So just give us one example.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
So an example from the MET for instance, is You're
sent into a room of vangos, and the question is
what would vane Go find appealing on the back of
his mind? So you don't really know what we're talking
about until you get there. You are team usually four
six people. You spread out. Someone notices there's a painting
and the front of it is a self portrait. He
also painted on the back of the canvas and it's
(15:07):
a potato peeler, So what would vane Go find appealing
on the back of his mind?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
You actually have to read all the descriptions.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Well, is that one you're kind of noticing, like, wait, well,
you know sometimes when you talk things out with someone else,
you're like, I I am feeling like it could be
this painting, and then you bring your other teammates in
and then you kind of piece it together.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
It was like a metaphor for our times you need. Also,
I like coming together, coming together, coming together, but I
also like way to force my children to learn.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Yeah, that's also nice thing. Well, I think teachers really
like it because it's the kids get excited. It's a
game and they're getting to see the museum or the
neighborhood or whatever is. So we love that this is
usually someone's fun activity on the weekend, fun day out.
You know, it's a I don't even know they are.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
It's a fun game, bachelor, bachelorette party.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Well, we have themes, which is fun, like people love murder,
so we have murder at the Getty and murder in
Greenwich Village in all different places. And then we also
have naked at the Art Institute of Chicago or naked
at the Met And you're going.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
And going around naked.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
A lot of questions asked, but you're actually just looking
at nude art.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah, so that's very popular around Valentine's Day as well.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I love it well that I wonder where can people
find more?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
So glad, Yes, how about Watsonadventures dot com? Please check
it out?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Excellent. All right, thank you Julie for telling us about that.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Wait, did you have an extra credit?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
I do have an extra credit, A Watson Misadventure extra credit.
This sidekicks life might have been solitary, poor, nasty British
in short, except he had a boy theologian.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
As a friend. I was a philosophy major in college,
so that I think helped me a little. Well, it
doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
You don't have to ask you, no doubt. The folks
at home can think about this as long as they want.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Well, excellent puzzle. We loved it. And while you wait
for the answer, check out Hello Puzzlers on the Instagram
because we have new puzzles there all the time. It's
super fun.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
And they're visual and auditory.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
That's true. And by the way, come back tomorrow for
more puzzling puzzles that will likely puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Hey, puzzlers, it's your Chief puzzle Officer, Greg Pliska here
with the extra credit answer from our previous show. Here
on Family Week, we played the Wacky Wedding Planner game,
and your extra credit clue was this wedding planner and
found a map of the best places for plants to germinate,
and that, of course is the seeding chart. Kind of
(18:09):
like the seeding chart. That's the joke there, that's the
funny part. So thank you for listening, and congratulations to
all of you who got married.
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Greg Pliska
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