Speaker 1: Hello, puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast, the fabric softener
Speaker 1: in your daily puzzle detergent. I am your host, A J. Jacobs,
Speaker 1: and I am here with today's guest, the awesome Ofira Eisenberg, comedian, author,
Speaker 1: moth storyteller, host of her own amazing podcast on iHeart
Speaker 1: Parenting is a Joke. Welcome O Fira, Hello J.
Speaker 2: How's it going?
Speaker 1: It is good because you're here and you are a
Speaker 1: friend of puzzles. I happen to know that for a minute.
Speaker 2: That is true. I've befriended the puzzle. Has the puzzle
Speaker 2: befriended me?
Speaker 1: We will find out. But you're also a friend of
Speaker 1: puzzle lurse. I mean you hosted Ask Me Another on
Speaker 1: NPR for many years, which we consider an inspiration, a
Speaker 1: cousin of the Puzzler. So we are delighted to have
Speaker 1: you here. And before that, my favorite fact, before you
Speaker 1: were a superstar, you were briefly a host for Watson
Speaker 1: Adventures Scavenger Hunts, my Wife's wonderful Company.
Speaker 2: So true.
Speaker 3: I'm so grateful for that job on so many levels.
Speaker 3: And one of those things is that I ended up.
Speaker 3: I ended up because I was writing the puzzles and
Speaker 3: at times, or writing the clues at times, but mostly
Speaker 3: running hunts is that I got to learn about New
Speaker 3: York and I got to go to all the museums
Speaker 3: and art galleries with people and look at it from
Speaker 3: a different point of view.
Speaker 2: Like it gave me so much access edutainment.
Speaker 1: It was pure edutainment, right, yeah, because the scavenger hunts
Speaker 1: are in museums often or historic neighborhoods, right.
Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And so that's why I say people all the time
Speaker 3: they're like, what kind of job do you recommend getting
Speaker 3: out of college?
Speaker 2: I go, what do you want to know about? Get
Speaker 2: a job in that, because you'll get to learn everything.
Speaker 1: I love it. Wise advice, all right, See, look look
Speaker 1: at what you give the listeners added value. All right,
Speaker 1: Well today's puzzle. Today's puzzle is called Galahad's Bahamas Caravan.
Speaker 1: Uh WHOA Okay, I'm acpit sure that in this puzzle
Speaker 1: every answer is going to be a word with a
Speaker 1: lot of a's a lot of the letter A. In fact,
Speaker 1: these words, these answers have no other vowel besides A,
Speaker 1: and there is an a every other letter of the word. So,
Speaker 1: for instance, whoa. Yeah, thank you for that, for that reaction.
Speaker 1: I love that. So if I said country where Ofira
Speaker 1: Eisenberg was born, you would say Canada. You would even
Speaker 1: sing it that you don't have to say that is
Speaker 1: not the tune of the national anthem, just so everyone else.
Speaker 2: That was completely independent.
Speaker 1: That was just a burst of Canadian joy that. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: love it all right, So you got you got the idea.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start, ready, Jess. So you know, I'm going
Speaker 1: to have several clues for each one, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to start with the harder clues. So I don't want
Speaker 1: you to get it on the first one. If you do,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm impressed. Tend not to, but you can
Speaker 1: do it. Okay, are you ready?
Speaker 2: I'm ready.
Speaker 1: You might come from this place with a banjo on
Speaker 1: your knee.
Speaker 3: Oh that is a well, wait a second. Okay, that's
Speaker 3: from a song lyric.
Speaker 1: It is a song lyric.
Speaker 3: And it's an American state now as a Canadian, Wait
Speaker 3: a second's an American state or American city. This is
Speaker 3: excellent way to start, aj because I feel like this
Speaker 3: is probably part of your life growing up.
Speaker 2: But we sang songs.
Speaker 3: About maple syrups and beavers and bear attacks. Okay, there
Speaker 3: was not a lot of banjo's I grew up, so
Speaker 3: it's going to be a little bit more interesting for
Speaker 3: me to figure this out.
Speaker 2: So let's go for a hint.
Speaker 1: All right, Well that yeah, so we totally we screwed
Speaker 1: you because we went American and and ignored it.
Speaker 2: Always Katy, all right, it always gets me.
Speaker 1: Well, you're right, it is a state. It's the home
Speaker 1: state of Channing Tatum and Mia Hamm and our producer
Speaker 1: Neelie Neelie Lowman.
Speaker 3: Oh so I'm just thinking just because you said every
Speaker 3: other letter, So let's see al Alabama works Alabama?
Speaker 1: That is it?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: The Tide is Crimson. That was the next one. Excellent,
Speaker 1: all right, you're one for one.
Speaker 2: Tight is Crimson. That also would have been not a
Speaker 2: great one, not for me at all.
Speaker 1: Okay, are you ready for your next day? Words?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 2: Anne?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Okay, you can have a party in these. You can
Speaker 1: have a party in these.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna keep going and you just stopped me.
Speaker 2: Party in these? I love this? Okay? What would I
Speaker 2: have a party in Martini glass? Not enough as keep going.
Speaker 1: The name comes from Urdu and means garment for the legs.
Speaker 2: Ooh uh, garment for that you would have a party?
Speaker 2: It a garment for the legs.
Speaker 3: Okay, I take about all the tights.
Speaker 1: It's almost the opposite of tights. Interestingly, it is it
Speaker 1: has appeared in the title of Adoris Day movie.
Speaker 3: Oh oh part It's like, oh my goodness, now, I
Speaker 3: just want to go, like underwear.
Speaker 2: Am I in the Am I in the right world
Speaker 2: of underwear? Pajamas?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Exactly. I don't know is pajamas is considered underwear. I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 3: That's a good So this is a good question because
Speaker 3: I took my son for ice cream late the other
Speaker 3: day because I was trying to bribe him to do
Speaker 3: homework anyway, awesome parent of the year. And he was
Speaker 3: wearing his pajamas and I said, just put a hoodie
Speaker 3: over it and we'll pretend it's clothes.
Speaker 2: And he said, but it's like underwear.
Speaker 1: So if you ask him, okay, that is good. Well,
Speaker 1: we've got one data point that says it is underwear,
Speaker 1: right in with your own opinion? All right, are you ready?
Speaker 3: Yep?
Speaker 1: This is where dirty Dancing Too took place. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you saw that dirty dancing too.
Speaker 3: No dirty dance. So the first one took place in
Speaker 3: the Catskills. And everyone can get mad at me right
Speaker 3: now because guess what movie I've never seen from beginning
Speaker 3: to end Dirty Dancing And again what I've almost seen
Speaker 3: every like.
Speaker 2: Scene from it, but I've never seen it all the
Speaker 2: way through.
Speaker 1: Well, I feel if you've seen they don't put baby
Speaker 1: in the corner. Yes, exactly, that's really all you need.
Speaker 1: I think you and the main day and the Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: feed el cast show to university. Okay, play right. Uh
Speaker 1: Havannah Havanna, Havanna, Havanah, Havana.
Speaker 2: Exactly you Havana Havanda.
Speaker 1: Uh there it is dirty dancing too, Havana Knights. That's right,
Speaker 1: not seen it?
Speaker 2: Wait a second, doesn't someone we know have a writing
Speaker 2: credit on that?
Speaker 1: Are you serious?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Andrea? Can you look up who is the writer?
Speaker 2: Or Peter?
Speaker 1: Say?
Speaker 2: That is correct? Out of I knew that a little
Speaker 2: bit of trivia.
Speaker 1: That is, how did that happen?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, we did record some episodes with him. I'm going
Speaker 1: to get him back on and ask him. Uh, all right,
Speaker 1: one more, maybe two, because I want it. I want
Speaker 1: to hear you sing. But one more is it's about
Speaker 1: three point six million square miles, which is more than
Speaker 1: the total area of Australia. It gets about three inches
Speaker 1: of rain a year.
Speaker 2: Three That doesn't sound like enough, that's enough.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean it is for this place, and it
Speaker 1: is located in such countries as Egypt, Chad, Sudan and Libya.
Speaker 2: And so you want a name of are you thinking
Speaker 2: like the name of a desert? Is this where we're going?
Speaker 3: I am the name of it, kay, I do desert name.
Speaker 2: And it's a big desert. It's a huge desert.
Speaker 1: I think the biggest.
Speaker 2: Okay, the Sahara desert.
Speaker 1: There it is, I know it was in there.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: One quick piece of trivia that I can't resist. Andrea
Speaker 1: found that the word desert translates to Sahara, So Sahara
Speaker 1: desert is actually desert desert.
Speaker 2: Red Dunde.
Speaker 1: All right, well this you did? Great, that's it. I'm
Speaker 1: ending there so lovely, You're off to a flying star.
Speaker 1: Where can people find more Ofira Eisenberg content?
Speaker 2: If you would like to follow me? How about you
Speaker 2: follow me?
Speaker 3: I actually post things, people, I am at all of
Speaker 3: the things at oh sirah E. That's O p h
Speaker 3: I R A lots of.
Speaker 2: Different letters because someone else had oh fira. Okay, so
Speaker 2: you got to add on the eat.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, we will add on the.
Speaker 2: E except for at venmo and venmo. I got at oira,
Speaker 2: which I feel very proud.
Speaker 1: So send her money. Just start sending me now you
Speaker 1: know where to send it.
Speaker 2: Let's socialize a doll credit time.
Speaker 1: That is great, all right, So before we wrap up,
Speaker 1: is always a clue for you puzzlers at home. This
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Speaker 4: Hi, puzzlers. Greg Pliska here with the extra credit answer
Speaker 4: from our previous show where we were playing around with
Speaker 4: roe palax a series of words where each word is
Speaker 4: longer than the previous one. I was quizzing aj by
Speaker 4: giving him three items in a set that all increase
Speaker 4: in length, and he had to guess the fourth one
Speaker 4: that was one letter longer than the previous one. So
Speaker 4: the extra credit that we gave you were these three things, Scandal,
Speaker 4: the Catch, and off the Map. That's a seven letter word,
Speaker 4: an eight letter phrase, and a nine letter phrase. And
Speaker 4: the ten letter answer is Bridgerton, which fans of Shonda
Speaker 4: Rhymes will recognize. Those are all Shonda Rhymes shows and
Speaker 4: each one is one letter longer than the previous. Congrats
Speaker 4: to everyone who got it, and we look forward to
Speaker 4: more puzzles next time.