Speaker 1: Hello, puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast, The rhyming couplet
Speaker 1: in your daily puzzle Sonnet, I am your host, AJ Jacobs.
Speaker 1: If you're interested in what I had for lunch today,
Speaker 1: I had a delicious sampling of laughy taffy nutter butter
Speaker 1: Reese's Pieces, wing Dings and tooty fruity ice cream. That
Speaker 1: is not true, But what is true is I love
Speaker 1: rhyming words. I love a pair of rhyming words because
Speaker 1: I'm a word nerd, which is another two word rhyme.
Speaker 1: And I bring this up because two word rhymes are
Speaker 1: the basis of our puzzle today. It's a puzzle genre
Speaker 1: sometimes called wordy gurdy, and we're going to play it
Speaker 1: with our wonderful and brilliant guest, Joel Stein, host of
Speaker 1: a Story of the Week. Welcome Joel Stein.
Speaker 2: I love a rhyme. I love it. I love repetition.
Speaker 2: I love a rhyme. I love a literation. I love repetition.
Speaker 1: Good one. Do you have a two word rhyme that
Speaker 1: is a that comes to mind a favorite?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh oh, I was going to do one on Joel.
Speaker 1: I forgot about that, so, like you know, if it were.
Speaker 2: I always liked Beyond Neon from an early Genesis album. Interesting.
Speaker 1: Interesting, all right, well I like it. That is not
Speaker 1: the answer to any of our clues today, so we're safe.
Speaker 1: But this game wordy Gurdy, some of our puzzler listeners
Speaker 1: may remember it because it was hugely popular in the eighties.
Speaker 1: It was in newspapers that ran next to crossword puzzle,
Speaker 1: and it was created by a guy named Tricky Ricky Kane.
Speaker 2: No, none of this is true.
Speaker 1: All of that is true. It's not his real name,
Speaker 1: but that part is true.
Speaker 2: It was it's time.
Speaker 1: It was Yeah. I wouldn't say it quite reached Sudoku proportions,
Speaker 1: but it was like half Sudoku and it was an
Speaker 1: eighties puzzle. And I bring that up because you were
Speaker 1: once a beloved talking head on the VH one Nostalgia
Speaker 1: com Trademark series. I love the eighties.
Speaker 2: I love the eighties.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, these two word phrases are all related to
Speaker 1: eighties pop culture.
Speaker 2: So I want to get got my confidence up. You guys,
Speaker 2: beat me back down.
Speaker 1: Okay, no, no, I'm feeling good for you. So I'll
Speaker 1: give you the clue and then the answer is going
Speaker 1: to be a two word rhyming phrase Okay. While studying
Speaker 1: human behavior in Boulder, Colorado, this alien amassed a large
Speaker 1: collection of cutlery mark Mark sparks. You got it. You
Speaker 1: got it so fast, it's my favorite so far. When
Speaker 1: not filming Purple Rain, this singer liked to make these
Speaker 1: delicious Jewish cheese filled creps. Prince Blinz princess Lyin says exactly,
Speaker 1: I like, how fast you are.
Speaker 2: I'm going singular, you're going plural, So you prefer the player,
Speaker 2: I kind of do. Okay, got it, got it? Nice one.
Speaker 1: All right, it's not a race. Though, it's not a race,
Speaker 1: don't worry. But also I will say I felt a
Speaker 1: little guilty because the Prince and he had the formerly
Speaker 1: but in the eighties I believe he was prince. Is
Speaker 1: that right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course no, he just did that for a lawsuit. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he wanted to put out albums, but he was contractually
Speaker 2: obligated under Prince to not you know, he was still
Speaker 2: he put his own albums as the symbol, which we
Speaker 2: pronounced as the artist formulis Prince, but he didn't call
Speaker 2: himself that. I called himself the symbol. And then when
Speaker 2: the contract expired, he went back to Prince, so he's
Speaker 2: mostly princes.
Speaker 1: Well that that lawsuit? Yeah, okay, we got just a
Speaker 1: couple more. This director had a collection of props from
Speaker 1: his films, including Farris Sneakers and Uncle Buck's Brown Oxford's.
Speaker 2: Oh Hughes shoes, huge shoes.
Speaker 1: Okay, you got it, all right, I'm glad that took
Speaker 1: a little longer. That was good, all right. Last one,
Speaker 1: it was fast, so fast one? What are these? What
Speaker 1: are these? Sam Malone's terror of being in a long
Speaker 1: term relationship? Cheers fears you didn't even let me finish.
Speaker 1: But yeah, okay, I enjoyed this so much.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I was having a lot of fun. How
Speaker 2: you do this all day? If you have five more,
Speaker 2: I'm ready.
Speaker 1: Well, can I give you the rest of the clues,
Speaker 1: because they're like it's a trio, it's like a rule
Speaker 1: of three. Sam Malone's terror being in a long term relationship.
Speaker 1: Diane Chambers is worried she's too smart for her own good,
Speaker 1: and Norm Peterson is afraid he's got a drinking problem
Speaker 1: and clinical depression.
Speaker 2: Cheers fears.
Speaker 1: There you got it, but don't you think like they
Speaker 1: made very light of the fact that norm like was
Speaker 1: you know, oh what, Yes.
Speaker 2: The whole show, they made light of everything. I mean,
Speaker 2: Sam is an alcohol hallock faced with bottles of booze
Speaker 2: every day. I mean that there's so much tension in drama.
Speaker 2: It's a horrible decision and we totally ignore it for
Speaker 2: the whole show. It reminds me of my two dads,
Speaker 2: where that the dark truth of two men impregnating, you know,
Speaker 2: having sex with this woman's mom in the same month
Speaker 2: rarely addressed.
Speaker 1: I had no idea that was the premise. I thought
Speaker 1: it was like the first gay sitcom.
Speaker 2: No, they're not gay. They didn't have the guts for that.
Speaker 2: They were both straight, and they didn't know who was
Speaker 2: the dad, so they both did responsibility. So if you
Speaker 2: had twenty.
Speaker 1: Three in me, yeah, that would ruin the premise.
Speaker 2: But I mean, that's a dark idea, like some girls
Speaker 2: being raised by two men who both had sex with
Speaker 2: their mom in the same month.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is interesting. Yeah, I'm thinking about it also,
Speaker 1: but uplifting because they're both like, you know, maybe it's
Speaker 1: nice that they well, Joe, you were too good. Sorry,
Speaker 1: you're too good. Congratulations, we loved it. Where can people
Speaker 1: hear more of your exclusive content.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not that quick usually, so you help to
Speaker 2: slow it down and listen to my podcast Story of
Speaker 2: the Week.
Speaker 1: Which is great, and you can listen on double speed
Speaker 1: to make him sound that's right. That's good call, all right,
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Speaker 1: thank you. See that's your veteran podcaster for you at home.
Speaker 1: We have an extra credit. This character does not like
Speaker 1: having Lenny and Squiggy over to her home because they
Speaker 1: always knock over her leafy, flowerless plants. There you have it.
Speaker 1: Please come back. We'll see you tomorrow for some more
Speaker 1: puzzling puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 3: Hello puzzlers, this is Greg Pliska, your chief puzzle officer,
Speaker 3: and I'm here to share with you the extra credit
Speaker 3: answer from our previous episode. We played a game with
Speaker 3: Joel Stein all about kids' riddles, but we did it
Speaker 3: in reverse form. Instead of giving you the riddle, we
Speaker 3: gave you the answer and you had to give us
Speaker 3: what the riddle is. The extra credit was it waved
Speaker 3: many of you who are probably bad punsters, dads or
Speaker 3: former kids knew that the answer was how did the
Speaker 3: ocean say hello to the shore?
Speaker 2: That's right, it waved ha.
Speaker 3: Thanks for playing along, and we'll puzzle together again soon