November 27, 2023 • 8 mins
Hello, Puzzlers! Puzzling with us today: comedian, actor, and former Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood, Jr.
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 extra legroom
in your daily cross country puzzle flight. I'm your host,
A J. Jacobs, and I am here with our guests,
the amazing Roy Wood, junior comedian, podcaster and jigsaw puzzle lover.
(00:27):
Welcome Roy.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Hello. Hello.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I heard on another show that you actually glue your
finished jigsaw puzzles and hang them up on the wall. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I have to give a shout out to Vett Nicole
Brown from Community Fame. She and I got to talking
about puzzles and she was telling me how she does
her puzzles and then just undoes them and reboxes them
and then gives them to someone and I'm like.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
No, it's mine, this belongs to me. Forever passed this
down one day in twenty twelve. Your dad was bored
and in six hours he completed a seven hundred and
fifty pieces, Like I want everyone to know.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
And are you in a room with any puzzles on
the wall right now?
Speaker 5 (01:16):
No.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I just moved into this place, so I don't have
anything up on the walls yet, but they're all out
there ready to go up. I got to figure out
my I gotta paint first.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And your favorite is they You had mentioned the Las
Vegas Skyline.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah, Buffalo Games. They do these seven hundred and fifty panoramas,
and they've got a couple of really good cities. I
probably have ten or twelve of those, from Vegas to
New York to Vancouver, the pair of the Great Pyramids,
you know, like it's just San Francisco, just random cities, Chicago,
(01:51):
like there's just no rhyme or reason. I don't have
a Pittsburgh when I'm not from Pittsburgh, but looks cool
and put that on the wall.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I will say, Buffalo Hell. I like their jigsaw. I
think that's the one. They have very different shaped pieces.
Like some companies, they are all the same kind of shape,
And am I wrong about that? Maybe I'm confusing it.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
They're pretty regular.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I've bought puzzles for my son, and the thing I
don't like about those puzzles is that they sometimes have, Oh,
here's one that's here's a piece that shaped like a
dolphin or hot air ballance. So there's nothing interlocking about it.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
You don't like those, that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
It's just a loose puzzle, right, It's just loose stuff
on the ground.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
All together held by what not physics?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's true, it seems a little unstable. Not a fan
got it all right. We won't give you that as
a going away prize. But today's puzzle is based on
a type of puzzle that was popular in the nineteen eighties.
It was called wordy gurdy, and you might have seen it.
It was next to the comics, and it was a
(03:00):
two word rhyming phrase that was the answer to everyone.
So if the clue was this is a hilarious rabbit,
then the solution might be funny bunny gotcha? Okay, So
that is wordy gurdy. But in honor of view, we
gave it a little twist because this time all the
(03:21):
answers are two word rhyming phrases. But one of those
words is a type of wood, So it's not it's
woody goody. If it's not wordy gurdy, it's woody goody.
So if the clue for instant, I'll give you it.
For instance, if the clue is a headrest for your
bed made of wood from a weeping tree, that might.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Be willow pillow exactly, pillow willopillow, Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Willow pillows? Right, Yeah, We usually put the tree first. Okay,
so are you ready? And some may be a little
tricky ready, especially if yeah, our producers like, I don't
know wood types, but maybe you do. So here you
go a dip for tortilla chips made out of lightweight wood,
very lightweight wood. And it's a dip for your tortilla chips.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Drift chip.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I like it, but it's not what we were thinking.
Oh drift wood. Oh yeah, that's good. Now this we're
thinking of the The little red sauce that you put
your tortillas.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
In is all balsa salsa exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh that's it.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I like you all right. Number two. This is a
boat you take to Staten Island, but it's made of
reddish brown wood. Ah.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I like this one. Cherry fairy.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
That's it, cherry fairy on all bab you are all right?
Here comes another. I think you got it. Number three
a ballet dress made from a panda's favorite food. A
ballet dress made from a panda's favorite food.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
M hmm.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
A bamboo too too. That's it.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Oh, you are on a roll.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Shoot, okay, almost cursed. I was like, oh, you're real,
I got it. Okay, it's a will of fortune. When
you just blindly guess an X or a V like
you know what, there are four xes in this book
what exes?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Well, you got it, you got it and uh and
we are happy that you guessed randomly. But it wasn't
so random all right. Number four is a statue of
the King of the Greek gods made out of a
type of evergreen wood. So the King of the Gods,
the god of thunder in Greece, and it's made of
(05:46):
evergreen wood. He's also.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
It's not pine.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Try the god, I think might be easier to get
than the wood. The god is.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I'm trying to see the door. Zeus Thunder is.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
No, you got it, you said it.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Zeus is the lightning or whatever. Thunder.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah, name Zeus so Zeus and it's a kind of
moose Zeus.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Weird.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
This was the crazy Howard Hughes spruce spruce zeus exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I was trying to think of other names for evergreens
other than pine. But yeah, okay, that will well done.
Well done puzzle master on that one.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Well done to you. By the way, fun fact which
I found researching this, the spruce goose plane that crazy
Howard Hughes had was not even made of spruce. It
was birch, but I guess there was nothing that rhymed
with birch that flies. All right, well, you you did
great as expected. You know your woods. Thank you for
(06:53):
participating and where can people get more roy Wood, the
best type of wood wood.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Get more Roywood at my website roywood junior dot com. Also,
don't you to watch some of my old comedy specials.
They're there in free Why don't you?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I watched them? Actually yeah, Comedy Central puts them up
with no commercials.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So before we wrap up, as always for you puzzlers
at home, we have an extra credit puzzle. This is
a chef's hat made of a wood used for wine barrels.
Wine barrel wood, but it's a chef's hat made of that. Puzzlers,
(07:42):
please don't forget to subscribe to the Puzzler Podcast and
I'll meet you here tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles that
will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Hello puzzlers, Greg Pliska, your chief puzzle officer, here once
again and with the extra credit answer from our previous show,
we played her right Bogonias with Ofira Eisenberg, a tribute
to anagrams and anagrams in particular of her first name, Ophira.
Your extra credit clue was what Hawaiian cheerleaders say about
(08:18):
traditional food, and you needed to find an anagram of
Ophira that answered that clue. I bet you all got
this one. The answer is poi Rah, Poi r Ah.
My name is Greg pliska sparkle gig, and I'm pleased
to be your chief puzzle Officer. I hope you'll join
(08:39):
us again here on the Puzzler Podcast with aj Jacobs
Hello, Puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast, the extra legroom
in your daily cross country puzzle flight. I'm your host,
A J. Jacobs, and I am here with our guests,
the amazing Roy Wood, junior comedian, podcaster and jigsaw puzzle lover.
(00:27):
Welcome Roy.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Hello. Hello.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I heard on another show that you actually glue your
finished jigsaw puzzles and hang them up on the wall. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I have to give a shout out to Vett Nicole
Brown from Community Fame. She and I got to talking
about puzzles and she was telling me how she does
her puzzles and then just undoes them and reboxes them
and then gives them to someone and I'm like.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
No, it's mine, this belongs to me. Forever passed this
down one day in twenty twelve. Your dad was bored
and in six hours he completed a seven hundred and
fifty pieces, Like I want everyone to know.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
And are you in a room with any puzzles on
the wall right now?
Speaker 5 (01:16):
No.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I just moved into this place, so I don't have
anything up on the walls yet, but they're all out
there ready to go up. I got to figure out
my I gotta paint first.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And your favorite is they You had mentioned the Las
Vegas Skyline.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah, Buffalo Games. They do these seven hundred and fifty panoramas,
and they've got a couple of really good cities. I
probably have ten or twelve of those, from Vegas to
New York to Vancouver, the pair of the Great Pyramids,
you know, like it's just San Francisco, just random cities, Chicago,
(01:51):
like there's just no rhyme or reason. I don't have
a Pittsburgh when I'm not from Pittsburgh, but looks cool
and put that on the wall.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I will say, Buffalo Hell. I like their jigsaw. I
think that's the one. They have very different shaped pieces.
Like some companies, they are all the same kind of shape,
And am I wrong about that? Maybe I'm confusing it.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
They're pretty regular.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I've bought puzzles for my son, and the thing I
don't like about those puzzles is that they sometimes have, Oh,
here's one that's here's a piece that shaped like a
dolphin or hot air ballance. So there's nothing interlocking about it.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
You don't like those, that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
It's just a loose puzzle, right, It's just loose stuff
on the ground.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
All together held by what not physics?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's true, it seems a little unstable. Not a fan
got it all right. We won't give you that as
a going away prize. But today's puzzle is based on
a type of puzzle that was popular in the nineteen eighties.
It was called wordy gurdy, and you might have seen it.
It was next to the comics, and it was a
(03:00):
two word rhyming phrase that was the answer to everyone.
So if the clue was this is a hilarious rabbit,
then the solution might be funny bunny gotcha? Okay, So
that is wordy gurdy. But in honor of view, we
gave it a little twist because this time all the
(03:21):
answers are two word rhyming phrases. But one of those
words is a type of wood, So it's not it's
woody goody. If it's not wordy gurdy, it's woody goody.
So if the clue for instant, I'll give you it.
For instance, if the clue is a headrest for your
bed made of wood from a weeping tree, that might.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Be willow pillow exactly, pillow willopillow, Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Willow pillows? Right, Yeah, We usually put the tree first. Okay,
so are you ready? And some may be a little
tricky ready, especially if yeah, our producers like, I don't
know wood types, but maybe you do. So here you
go a dip for tortilla chips made out of lightweight wood,
very lightweight wood. And it's a dip for your tortilla chips.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Drift chip.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I like it, but it's not what we were thinking.
Oh drift wood. Oh yeah, that's good. Now this we're
thinking of the The little red sauce that you put
your tortillas.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
In is all balsa salsa exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh that's it.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I like you all right. Number two. This is a
boat you take to Staten Island, but it's made of
reddish brown wood. Ah.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I like this one. Cherry fairy.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
That's it, cherry fairy on all bab you are all right?
Here comes another. I think you got it. Number three
a ballet dress made from a panda's favorite food. A
ballet dress made from a panda's favorite food.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
M hmm.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
A bamboo too too. That's it.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Oh, you are on a roll.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Shoot, okay, almost cursed. I was like, oh, you're real,
I got it. Okay, it's a will of fortune. When
you just blindly guess an X or a V like
you know what, there are four xes in this book
what exes?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Well, you got it, you got it and uh and
we are happy that you guessed randomly. But it wasn't
so random all right. Number four is a statue of
the King of the Greek gods made out of a
type of evergreen wood. So the King of the Gods,
the god of thunder in Greece, and it's made of
(05:46):
evergreen wood. He's also.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
It's not pine.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Try the god, I think might be easier to get
than the wood. The god is.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I'm trying to see the door. Zeus Thunder is.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
No, you got it, you said it.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Zeus is the lightning or whatever. Thunder.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah, name Zeus so Zeus and it's a kind of
moose Zeus.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Weird.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
This was the crazy Howard Hughes spruce spruce zeus exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I was trying to think of other names for evergreens
other than pine. But yeah, okay, that will well done.
Well done puzzle master on that one.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Well done to you. By the way, fun fact which
I found researching this, the spruce goose plane that crazy
Howard Hughes had was not even made of spruce. It
was birch, but I guess there was nothing that rhymed
with birch that flies. All right, well, you you did
great as expected. You know your woods. Thank you for
(06:53):
participating and where can people get more roy Wood, the
best type of wood wood.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Get more Roywood at my website roywood junior dot com. Also,
don't you to watch some of my old comedy specials.
They're there in free Why don't you?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I watched them? Actually yeah, Comedy Central puts them up
with no commercials.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So before we wrap up, as always for you puzzlers
at home, we have an extra credit puzzle. This is
a chef's hat made of a wood used for wine barrels.
Wine barrel wood, but it's a chef's hat made of that. Puzzlers,
(07:42):
please don't forget to subscribe to the Puzzler Podcast and
I'll meet you here tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles that
will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Hello puzzlers, Greg Pliska, your chief puzzle officer, here once
again and with the extra credit answer from our previous show,
we played her right Bogonias with Ofira Eisenberg, a tribute
to anagrams and anagrams in particular of her first name, Ophira.
Your extra credit clue was what Hawaiian cheerleaders say about
(08:18):
traditional food, and you needed to find an anagram of
Ophira that answered that clue. I bet you all got
this one. The answer is poi Rah, Poi r Ah.
My name is Greg pliska sparkle gig, and I'm pleased
to be your chief puzzle Officer. I hope you'll join
(08:39):
us again here on the Puzzler Podcast with aj Jacobs
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