Speaker 1: Hello, puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler podcast, the one hundred
Speaker 1: Meter Dash in your daily puzzle combine. I am your host,
Speaker 1: AJ Jacobs, and I am here with our guest, the
Speaker 1: fantastic Mina Chimes ESPN analyst and host of the podcast
Speaker 1: The Mina Chimes Show featuring Lenny. Lenny, of course, is
Speaker 1: her talk. Welcome, Mina.
Speaker 2: Hi, thank you so much for having me finally the
Speaker 2: chance to talk about something. I'm truly passionate about.
Speaker 1: Puzzles exactly, that's right, sports schmorts. Well, are you also
Speaker 1: passionate about movies? How's her? Are you a fan?
Speaker 2: I am a fan, but that definitely is not the
Speaker 2: strongest suit in my trivia arsenal. So if that's what
Speaker 2: we're going today, it could be challenged.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we have hints. We have hints if
Speaker 1: they're needed. What is your favorite movie of the ones
Speaker 1: that you are semi passionate about.
Speaker 2: My favorite movie of all time is a movie that
Speaker 2: has some puzzle like qualities, Groundhog Day with Bill Murray.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, that's fantastic. That is my favorite too. Actually,
Speaker 1: that's like in my top three, I know. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: we can talk about that later. But I know we
Speaker 1: have limited time, so I am going to turn it
Speaker 1: over to Chief Puzzle Officer Greg Kliska, who has cooked
Speaker 1: off this puzzle in his puzzle lab and has emerged
Speaker 1: to give it to you.
Speaker 3: I love the way you used e merged like I've
Speaker 3: just come up from the basement.
Speaker 2: So people think of us.
Speaker 3: It's so great to have you here. Mina. A groundhog
Speaker 3: Day will not appear in this puzzle, I'm sorry to say.
Speaker 3: But and in fact, we were going to do a
Speaker 3: puzzle that was about short films. But someone's knocking to
Speaker 3: the puzzle lab and changed a letter. So now it's
Speaker 3: a festival of sport films.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, Okay.
Speaker 3: So act whoever it was changed the titles for every
Speaker 3: movie in our collection changed one letter in the title,
Speaker 3: so that they all became sports movies.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 3: So like, for example, we had this Clark Gable and
Speaker 3: Vivian Lee drama about a man from Georgia who heads
Speaker 3: north to play hockey in Minnesota, and that was this
Speaker 3: great old movie.
Speaker 2: Called Oh, Gone with the Wild, Gone with.
Speaker 3: The Wild Exactly. You got how this works. You take
Speaker 3: the better known for them and you just change one
Speaker 3: of those letters and you get the sport movie.
Speaker 2: Oh, this would be a great Thursday crossword by the way,
Speaker 2: as a crossroads, right, awesome to see.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna have to write this down. Okay, good,
Speaker 3: all right, here's your first one. The hills are alive
Speaker 3: with a group of pictures singing while they throw. Uh.
Speaker 2: The original film would be the sound of music. So
Speaker 2: I'm guessing we're going with the mound of music.
Speaker 3: The mound of music exactly, which when you think about it,
Speaker 3: imagining like that, you know, the last five cy Young
Speaker 3: winners up there singing while they throw it could be?
Speaker 3: Could be?
Speaker 1: And mounds and are like small hills.
Speaker 3: Very well done. Aj here's another one. This is a
Speaker 3: mel Brooks comedy about the wackiest table tennis team in
Speaker 3: the Old West.
Speaker 2: Oh god, mel Brooks. This is this is it's the
Speaker 2: older movies that really Yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: It's an older Western.
Speaker 1: And a lot of our jokes.
Speaker 3: That doesn't really narrow it down for a mel Brooks film,
Speaker 3: I don't think so. It's it's the title includes what horses,
Speaker 3: what you put on a horse to ride it?
Speaker 2: Oh? Okay, so blazing saddles and thus blazing paddles. I
Speaker 2: wonder if paddles. For people like me who are cinematically challenged,
Speaker 2: you almost want to work backwards, you know, think of
Speaker 2: ping pong words. And then because I was actually doing that,
Speaker 2: I was like, what ping pong, ping pong, but paddles, Yeah, could.
Speaker 3: Have maybe great, that's great puzzle advice. Right, Sometimes you
Speaker 3: gotta work backwards from the pun All right, here's another one.
Speaker 3: This is a breakout debut film created by Matt Damon
Speaker 3: and Ben Affleck, and it follows the story of a
Speaker 3: young math prodigy who becomes an all star NFL kicker. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I actually just watched Goodwill Hunting the other day, so, uh,
Speaker 2: good Will punting. I'm trying to think of there any
Speaker 2: Will punters in the NFL. I think it will Will LUTs.
Speaker 2: Some want to say, might be a punter, Will LUTs see, that.
Speaker 3: Would have been a much better layer.
Speaker 1: Andrea, can you look that up? Let's Saints.
Speaker 2: There was definitely a LUTs And I remember that because
Speaker 2: you put the position next to the name, and I
Speaker 2: was thinking, if he was a kicker, it would have
Speaker 2: been k Lutz Klutz, which.
Speaker 3: And it's just career a little bit well done. I
Speaker 3: love that Will Lutz. Let's see if he's, if he's real.
Speaker 1: He's aka the Saints, nice.
Speaker 3: Perfect, perfect, and he's and he's with the Saints. Now
Speaker 3: that's cool. All right, here's another one, Seattle's w n B.
Speaker 3: A team gets caught up in a gang dispute, with
Speaker 3: direction by Steven Spielberg, music by the great Leonard Bernstein.
Speaker 2: Okay, well that would be Seattle Storm and a Steven
Speaker 2: Spielberg movie about a gang dispute.
Speaker 3: Music by Leonard Bernstein was originally a stage music.
Speaker 2: That's not gonna help me. I'm such a model, like
Speaker 2: I am. I'm not a musical person at all.
Speaker 3: There's the Sharks and the Jets.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, it's right. The reason I was thinking rhymes
Speaker 2: instead of one words off. So west Side Storm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go, west Side.
Speaker 2: Badass name for a sports team, west.
Speaker 3: Side Storm, right right? If they well, where does the
Speaker 3: Storm play in Seattle? Are they on the west side
Speaker 3: of Seattle?
Speaker 2: I'm not sure?
Speaker 3: But if so, Shirts, well, I got one more for
Speaker 3: you and then we'll we'll wrap up. In the plot
Speaker 3: of this movie, Dorothy is not in Kansas anymore. She's
Speaker 3: in a tie game after time is run out and
Speaker 3: needs some magic to find a way to win.
Speaker 2: Ah. You know some people call Tom Brady this the
Speaker 2: Wizard of Ot, the.
Speaker 3: Wizard of Ot. Exactly, very well done, nailed it five
Speaker 3: for five.
Speaker 2: See you know.
Speaker 3: Wow nice We found that sweet spot between sports and movies. Excellent.
Speaker 2: I always like when puzzles, especially in the Thursdays, have
Speaker 2: two different lines of expertise, so you can kind of
Speaker 2: lean into the thing that you know better than rather
Speaker 2: for me not knowing movies particularly.
Speaker 3: Well and movie music. You nail with your health.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, guys, thank you and Greg. Do
Speaker 1: we have an extra credit for the puzzlers at home?
Speaker 3: I do have one for the puzzlers at home. It's
Speaker 3: a Marx Brothers classic that sees Groucho, Harpo and Chico
Speaker 3: showing off their skills during the NBA All Star competition
Speaker 3: doing the tomahawk, the windmill and the alley.
Speaker 1: You all right, so puzzle on that and thank you again, Mina.
Speaker 1: He did fantastic. So puzzlers, please don't forget to subscribe
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Speaker 1: for more puzzling puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 3: Hello, puzzlers, this is Chief Puzzle Officer Greg Pliska here
Speaker 3: with the answer to last episode's extra credit puzzle. We
Speaker 3: played a great game called Dan You Bart with Baratunde Thurston,
Speaker 3: where every answer is an anagram of his terrifically anagrammable
Speaker 3: first name, Baratunde. We gave you the clue offer a
Speaker 3: counter argument to comic car which many of you were
Speaker 3: able to parse, means rebut Dana rebut Dana as and
Speaker 3: Dana Carvey. Hope you got that one, and I hope
Speaker 3: to see you here again next time. Thanks for playing
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Speaker 3: your chief puzzle officer. Our executive producers are Neelie Lohman
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