149 - Brain Teasers - 11/13/17

Deals and Skeery loves 'Brain Teasers'

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast show.
First of all, I have a friend who's not from America, um,
and so I just texted her something like, could you

(00:23):
do this thing for me that would be clutch, and
she texted back, of course what is clutch? And I
love her. I love people not from America. It's my favorite.
I noticed when I talked to people from traveling like
I do. I'll make friends and then I'll be texting
back and forth with them and I'll say something like, oh,
they probably don't fit that yeah, or they'll say something

(00:44):
to me and I have no clue. Yeah, she's from
she's from the UK. Like it's she's just she speaks English,
it's her first language. But like they don't use the
same idioms over there that we use over here. I'm
like that with foreigners from not Brooklyn. When I when
I meet people who aren't from my neighbor hood or
from New York area, they have no clue what I'm saying,

(01:04):
no clue. They think that I'm always like in a
hurry or rude or like trying to get and I'm not.
I'm just the way most rude. For instance, Uma, I
have no I'm one of those people doesn't have tolerance
for other other people's ways of things. Um, Jake just
came in and there's this little container here of sprinkles,
and he goes, why is this container of Jimmy's in here?

(01:25):
And you would have thought he stamped with my mother.
I had never heard that. That's how I moved to
the East Coast. They're not Jimmy's. There's sprinkles, sprinkle them
ice cream. So funny. It angers me the same way
at angers Broutie when people do that. Or if someone
calls a hero a HOGI, stop it. It's yeah, but
at least other people know what a hogi is. Even

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if you don't call it a hogi. People up here
don't know what. Okay, do you know what they called
in Connecticut? A grinding and grinder, navy beans, navy and subs.
I've always called it a sub. I get the subthing
because it looks like a submarine. Yeah, but Poe Boy
is different. Is like hard bread, but with a hero
could be unhardbread. Yeah, I call it what it is,

(02:12):
the one that I know. Um, okay, so this is
the fifteen minute morning show. I'm Bethany Brodie's there, Nate
is here, Dina the makeup artist is standing in front
of Scary from Kissing Makeup Yeast. You know, back to
your thing about different cultures. I went out with this
girl from Bulgarian. I don't know if we ever talked
about this, but in order to indicate no, they nod

(02:34):
their head and yes is shaking your head. It's one
of the only few, if I think, it's the only
country where that actually happens. So in this case, no
does mean yes, yes, actually I'm shaking my head. Harvey
Weinstein only dated Bulgarian girls, you'd have a case yeah,
then you'd be fine. Um, okay. So actually what I

(02:55):
wanted to talk about is I needed your advice a
little bit because I there's this thing online that I
want to buy, but it's about two hundred dollars and
I have no intention of spending two d on it.
And so I'm doing the internet search for coupon codes,
and you know, you search for the product, and then
you search for the coupon code, and so often these
coupon codes are expired. They seldom actually work. But I

(03:16):
have been googling for probably thirty minutes trying to find
a coupon code. What is the law of diminishing returns?
At that point? How long will you waste on something
that is not working? You want the brody answer, do
you want to come? I want to? I want to
know for me to like I want to like Nate,
like Brodie. I know you'll go, you'll drive out of state.

(03:36):
Last week I spent forty minutes at bed Beth and
beyond trying to get off coupon to save like four bucks. Right,
But if you're like sitting and it's not going anywhere,
will you sit for an hour and try to like
what is your time worth? I would say probably about
fifteen minutes I would spend legitimate spend time looking for
an active code. And then the next step is leaving
in my cart and don't purchase it because some retailers

(04:00):
online retailers, if you leave it in your card and
you've already entered your information, they'll say, hey, you left
something in your card, here's ten percent off to get
you motivated to fittish. Check out what a great I
had that once. I can't remember the website, but but
that might happen. That's my next step. And then after
that I just buy it. When it comes to the
food delivery services and which we are afforded that and

(04:21):
where I live, this area has like five different competing
ones they offer these fifteen percent codes, so I will
active and then some of them have different lists of
restaurants that they deliver from. I will actively search the
company that's giving me the fifteen percent off that day
and try and find something that fitscent off code, because

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I don't I would rather it's sometimes it's one of
my favorite places on this one service, but it's not
on the one offering me the coupon. I will go
on the I will eat something else and go to
a different place just to just get that fifteen percent off,
and I will spend up to forty five minutes and
finding a restaurant on that service. Do shut. So I've

(05:05):
also like sat and just started typing in random words
to see if those because sometimes the coupon code is
like some are fun, so then you're I could have
thought of some were fun. So now I'm actually just
typing in random words to trying new You know what
Nate said about your cart, anything you look at on

(05:27):
Amazon that you even think someday you might want to
put it your wish list, because if you have the app,
every day you get something that's on sale in your
wish list. Oh that's fantastic, they'll go, oh, those USB
adapted yesterday though that you were looking at their on sale.
Now that's it. I don't pay full price in Amazon anymore.
A discount just because you have a wish list of

(05:49):
that item. Yeah, because they know you want it, but
they know you haven't bought it, and they think there
must be a reason they give you off. They give
you discount I've got off. Sometimes try this. Okay, this
isn't necessarily a coupon code, but take whatever the order
part is or whatever the item number is. It's usually
something like I don't know j q R for three
three zero. Pretty much every thing you buy online has

(06:13):
one of those item numbers and search for that. I
was trying to buy a mirror off of House, which
was like a d I searched for that that item number,
found it on Walmart for dollars. The hell hows is
way over priced. What you need to do is get
a barcode scanner on your phone. Then wherever you are,
you scan it, Like I'll be walking through Target or

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home depot. I scan it and it tells me where
it's cheaper, and the employees looking at you like, oh
that fox barkode scanner. Yeah no, I do that all
the time too. It's smart shopping. But houses great, you
just can't buy from them. So wait, now, my foreign
friend just said when someone, um, when I first moved here,
I asked someone what your better work means. I'd like

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to hear your definition. What's your definition of your better work?
W e r K r K is different than w
r K. Well, that's that's uh, that's that you're bad
at work. That means like whatever you want life, you
gotta put effort into it, you gotta work hard for it.
But it also means like show that off, girl. Yeah,
that's what that when work work working, that's work. Ask

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your friend if she knows what jeep means. I don't
know what. In New York, it's asking a friend if
they ate yet? Yeah, did you eat yet? J e yet?
So work work for it means whatever you need to
do to get it done or to get that thing,
get it do it. See. I think it means more
like sexual, like like work at girl, like yeah, you

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look at mate like what our interns doing right now? Yeah, girl,
you look good. Get ahead, get ahead, get ahead, go ahead,
go ahead. Yeah yeah, scary does that all the time.
Get ahead all that. I mean. So, I'm saying, show

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debt off, girl, use your natural feminine assets to work
it to quote unquote, to attract your preferred sexual partner.
That's what I'm sending her. Well, you've made that as well.

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I'm trying to define it. But the lingo you used
was no lingo at all, that language anymore. That is
what you want to do, I approach said person using
this sentence. You just blew my mind with the Amazon
Wishless thing. It's the best, honestly, at least discover that

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I have middle name. I got the app because it
makes things much easier to find and purchase. I have
a wish list that I keep things like I'll never
find that again. Like when you search all day for
that one that one cable, you're like, okay, I need
to make sure I don't forget which cable it is.
I put no wise lest I swear that. Then all
of a sudden, I started getting alerts on my phone.

(09:06):
Amazon update one of your items, and you wise this
on sale tonight. If someone starts searching for Brodie's Amazon
wish lists as listening to this right now and Brodie
gets a ton of cables sent to his house because
of this, Hell, yeah, he would love that. I will
tell you though, they only give you a number of hours.
They'll tell you like you have four hours to take
this discount. So there's pressure. But so even if I
want just like cotton balls, they'll tell me those cotton

(09:27):
balls are on sale. Yeah, it's not quite as exciting.
If you're waiting for a deal on cotton balls, you
really need to reevaluate your banks. He buys them by
the pounds, trying to be physically responsible. I go through
a lot of cotton balls. Ask what weighs more a
cotton ball? Upound of cotton balls or a pound of bricks?
They're both way a pound? Very good, very good? YEA,
how many times have you asked that before you figure

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it out? He answered, very slowly. And now I love
brain teachers. What's your favorite brain teaser? I don't. I'll
give you one. I'll give you one. A doctor gives
you three aspirin, tells you to take one every half hour.
How long did they last? You? From the time you
started taking the first one three aspirin. Yeah, our half

(10:12):
hour after you take each one one every half hour?
An hour and a half wrong, anybody else an hour,
it's gotta be an hour, two hours, No one, it's
it's one hour because you take one, right, you don't
wait a half hour to take the first. Take one
of five, one, five, thirty one and six. Okay, So
we're gonna go to squiggles brain teasers. Two apples from

(10:32):
three apples? How many to have two apples? Take two
apples from three apples? How many you have apples? Three?
Because you took them? Tap two apples from three apples.
I have two apples because I took two apples. Everyone
says one. Everyone says one. Man, all right, so scary.
You know, one story pink house. There was one pink person,
one pink cat, one pink fish, a pink computer, a

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pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower.
Everything was pink. What color were the stairs? You have
to say that again? I have to repeat that. I mean,
the obvious answer that everyone's gonna say is pink. But
that's a trap. Already got the answer. It's a trap.
It's a trap. You have to say, get ahead, get ahead?

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Uh no again, there are you know one story Pink
has two times, but you had a copy steps out
front though you never you never listened to the first
line of what people say. So chances are you gonna
find you're an asshole? Good points, great, great story. Okay,
So Jack tells Jill, this isn't the five dollar bill

(11:36):
you left on the table. I found it between pages
fifteen and sixteen of Harry Potter. Jill retorts, your lying,
and I can prove it. How did Jill know? Because
fifteen and sixteen were the same piece of paper, back
in front and back. Mm hmmm, yes, yes, because Harry Potter,
like all other books, has odd numbered pages on the right.

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Therefore pages fifteen and sixteen are the front end back
of his single page. Nothing could have been found between them.
All right, scary, here's another one. Why is this directed?
He said? Supped? All right. Two spies walk up to
a bar and another spy wants to poison them both,
so they each get a glass and one drinks it

(12:20):
right away and he's fine. The other one takes an
hour to drink his, and then he dies. What's the difference?
Why did the one die? You gotta repeat this again.
Two spies are about to be killed at a bar.
They each order a drink. The one spy drinks his
immediately and he's fine. The second spy takes forever, takes

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an hour for him to drink his drink, and then
he dies. M How did he die? I don't know.
Was there a third spy? The first time he told
the story was a third sp just the two spies
at the bar. It's been a while since I remember.
I think you know the answer. A gunshot wound to
the chest. That should be your answer for everything. Now,

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he was poisoned. He was poisoned. How why did one
take Because the first one put the poison in the
second one's drink. That's why he drank and was fine. No,
it was the poison was in the ice and the
ice melted. That's why. Alright, scary leaving some stuff out
of that equation. I couldn't remember. It's bed. Two mothers
and two daughters went out to eat. Everyone ate one burger,

(13:29):
yet only three burgers were eaten in all? How is
this possible? I got it? Hold on? One is the
two fathers and two sons go fishing and three fish
are caught. Each one catches a fish. I'm asking about burgers. Yeah,
it's the same, say it again. All right, you should
use Italian food because scary. Two guys, two mothers and

(13:53):
two mothers and two daughters went out to eat U
and everyone ate a pizza. Yet only three pizzas were
eaten in all How is this possible? Bethany? Now you
got this, you got this. Let's first talk this out.
How do I want to talk this out? And wasting
the last fifty three seconds of the podcast. Think of
it as a diagram. Come on, I got a doctor
one chary off, let's go. They were a grandmother, mother

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and a daughter. The mother was both the daughter and
the mother. This doctors in the operating room and a
kid comes in from the emergency room. He needs surgery terribly,
and the doctor says, I can't operate on him. That's
my son. And the kid says, but the doctor was

(14:37):
not the kid's father. How do you explain that he's
his brother's sexist? He loves brain teasers. I see what
you did there? You made me into a sex you

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minute morning show Elf,