Speaker 1: Hello, Puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler podcast, the Caramelized Onion
Speaker 1: Jam accompanying your daily puzzle burger. I am your host,
Speaker 1: AJ Jacobs, and I am here with our guest, the
Speaker 1: wondrous Joel Stein, author, journalist and host of the excellent
Speaker 1: podcast Story of the Week. Welcome Joel.
Speaker 2: How nice, what a nice intro? Thank you.
Speaker 1: I love your podcast, and not just because I've been
Speaker 1: on it twice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're the only one.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna have you on a third time to
Speaker 2: do an intro, so that'll be by far the record.
Speaker 2: Ooh well, I'm honored and a little nervous to be
Speaker 2: on your podcast.
Speaker 1: But the premise of your podcast is that you find
Speaker 1: an amazing story in a magazine or newspaper and then
Speaker 1: you interview the journalist. So in honor of your podcast,
Speaker 1: we actually have a magazine themed puzzle today.
Speaker 2: Wow from the nineties or is this a current magazine themes?
Speaker 1: I think all of these are still being published. I
Speaker 1: know it's shocking. There's not a lot to choose from,
Speaker 1: so maybe that makes it easier.
Speaker 2: Than New York The answers than New Yorker every time.
Speaker 1: That one is not an answer, thank god. The puzzle
Speaker 1: is called magazines literally, and the idea is that we're
Speaker 1: in an alternate universe where magazines are much more literal.
Speaker 1: They run articles exclusively about the literal meaning of their name. So,
Speaker 1: for instance, what magazine might run an article entitled size
Speaker 1: doesn't matter Why the world's second biggest ocean is the best?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: I see, I see. So that would be the Atlantic Magazine.
Speaker 1: The Atlantic Magazine.
Speaker 2: But that one's much easier than the ones you're going
Speaker 2: to give me.
Speaker 1: Now, that's about the same, about the same. There are
Speaker 1: a couple, I think towards the end.
Speaker 2: As you know, I don't do like crosser puzzles. I'm
Speaker 2: not a puzzler, so I'm very nervous.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: But you were on the New York Times celebrity puzzle podcast.
Speaker 2: The Crosser Puzzle. That's right. Yeah, that was hard for
Speaker 2: me for a week.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So what magazine might run an article
Speaker 1: entitled the view from the top Robert de Niro's Greenwich
Speaker 1: Village rooftop apartment.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Okay, so it's in tripe, Becca. That's
Speaker 2: not going to help me at all. So he lives
Speaker 2: in New York there's a lot of magazines with New
Speaker 2: York in the title, but it's the view particularly were Okay.
Speaker 1: The keyword is rooftop apartment.
Speaker 2: Oh, Penthouse magazine that still exists, That still exists.
Speaker 1: I actually they excerpted one of my No, they did
Speaker 1: something with which order reviewed the weirdly The Year of
Speaker 1: Living Biblically about the Bible. I appear it appeared in
Speaker 1: Penthouse Magazine and Relevant Magazine.
Speaker 2: Which one liked it more.
Speaker 1: Weirdly? I think they both liked it.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's a great book. No matter where you are
Speaker 2: in the sin spectrum.
Speaker 1: Okay, what magazine might you find an article entitled Relevant?
Speaker 2: Relevant Magazine?
Speaker 1: It's my favorite evangelical But no, the article is called
Speaker 1: the fifty Coolest Workers at Amco. And here's another article
Speaker 1: from the same magazine, The Golden Boy, the miightis worker
Speaker 1: with a thousand friends.
Speaker 2: Wait, what was the first one?
Speaker 1: Again, the fifty coolest workers at Amco? Am COO like Aamco?
Speaker 3: Wait?
Speaker 1: I got a third article?
Speaker 2: If you're struggling, jeez, okay, thanks, I'm struggling.
Speaker 1: Grease monkeying around How to have fun when you hang
Speaker 1: up the wrench for the day. So what are all
Speaker 1: those have in common? Them Amco, Midas, Grease Monkey.
Speaker 2: The mechanic, Popular Mechanics, they're all the friends.
Speaker 1: They're popular popular Mechanics. You got it?
Speaker 2: That was yeah, but it took me three.
Speaker 1: Artiks stressed out. I don't mean to stress you.
Speaker 2: Out, so I'm sweating so much.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, here's another one.
Speaker 2: The speed of this is incredible. Okay, all right?
Speaker 1: Where might you find these great pieces of journalism? Falling
Speaker 1: water and food? A deep dive into Frank Lloyd Write's
Speaker 1: GI tract.
Speaker 2: Okay, give me a second, give me it's an architectural digest.
Speaker 1: Got the actual digest. You didn't even need the second one? Beautiful?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: Two more? All right? And this magazine does still exist,
Speaker 1: I think because I saw a leg on my corner newsstand,
Speaker 1: which also still exists. The most underrated adages ever.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, I know it's I want to say, Readers Digest,
Speaker 2: but it doesn't make sense ten most underrated adages. Why
Speaker 2: I'm repeating what you're saying.
Speaker 1: It's good, good for I've got another article if you want.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I guess.
Speaker 1: I mean I wrote them. That's why I kind of
Speaker 1: want to say them.
Speaker 2: Oh oh sure, Okay, now I feel better about this. Yes, okay,
Speaker 2: I'm ready for.
Speaker 1: Saying all right, this is not your grandfather's proverb. The
Speaker 1: best new aphorisms for twenty twenty three. You have a
Speaker 1: third one, right, well, I do, but it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's not nothing great say say sayings one hundred sayings
Speaker 1: you can't live without.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm looking for a word that means like an
Speaker 2: adage exactly, that's it. But I'm trying to think of
Speaker 2: a magazine that has Google.
Speaker 1: No one's going to know.
Speaker 2: No, I don't need Google, I need you. So these
Speaker 2: are wait, so there are two things going on. I
Speaker 2: needed a word that means adages, and then I needed
Speaker 2: what was the other part of it?
Speaker 1: That was it? That's all you need a word that
Speaker 1: need proverb, aphorism, sayings, adages. I think that there are
Speaker 1: a couple more. I can't remember. Idiom now sayings. Well,
Speaker 1: i'll tell you this, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 2: Tell me yeah, Jesus you the listener knows it. And
Speaker 2: they're mocking me. And that's the fun of the show, right, Okay,
Speaker 2: they're screaming, so let them have their fun.
Speaker 1: This was well, you and I I mean, some of
Speaker 1: our listeners may not even know it because it was
Speaker 1: sort of a nineties no, no, an early two thousands phenomenon.
Speaker 1: There was f hm, there was stuff and there.
Speaker 2: Oh there was Maxim. You Maxim.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for Maxim.
Speaker 2: Oh I was looking for a second word. Okay, Maxim, Okay,
Speaker 2: max Good. I believe the editor of Maxim is now
Speaker 2: the incredibly popular, the number one late night host in America.
Speaker 1: Right, he was editor of Stuff. I don't know, he
Speaker 1: might have been at Maxim.
Speaker 2: But Stuff definitely not Maxim. So he never made it
Speaker 2: to Maxim. He stuck. He was stuck.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true, but I know he
Speaker 1: was editor of Stuff.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Stuff they were similar, right.
Speaker 1: They were remarkably similar. All Right, so there you go.
Speaker 2: I remember time Ink was interested in maybe launching or
Speaker 2: they bought they bought one of those companies, and then
Speaker 2: they talked to me about it, and I was like, I.
Speaker 1: Don't want to that's smart, that is very smart. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, last one? Are you ready for your last one?
Speaker 1: I ran out of time, so I only have one article.
Speaker 1: So I'm hoping that you you don't.
Speaker 2: Have to tell people that I'll just I'll just know.
Speaker 1: Okay, ready this, uh, What Magazine might feature an article
Speaker 1: called not just for roof shingles and blackboards, ten other
Speaker 1: creative uses for our favorite great rock Slate, Slate online
Speaker 1: magazine that was the only purple. Well, thank you, Joel,
Speaker 1: despite your fear, you did wonderfully.
Speaker 2: So you're not scoring this.
Speaker 1: I give you four out of five. I mean, did
Speaker 1: you get maxim? No, I feel you did.
Speaker 2: Really I don't think so either.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sorry, but you did have maxim trivia. So
Speaker 1: that's something. So Joel tell us where we can hear
Speaker 1: more original Joel Stein content.
Speaker 2: Oh well, if you're a podcast listener, apparently you are,
Speaker 2: go over to Story of the Week when you're done here.
Speaker 1: It's a great I love it. It's a great aj.
Speaker 2: I'll probably be on it.
Speaker 1: And before we wrap up, as always, for puzzlers at home,
Speaker 1: here's your extra credit puzzle. What Magazine might feature in
Speaker 1: an article called short and Sweet, why five minutes of
Speaker 1: quiet is the best way to discipline children?
Speaker 2: So I shouldn't say, even though I know you.
Speaker 1: Shouldn't say, even though you might have worked at this
Speaker 1: magazine as a matter of fact. All right, So puzzlers
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Speaker 1: Podcast and I'll meet you here tomorrow for more puzzling
Speaker 1: puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 3: Hello puzzlers, this is Greg Pliska up from the Puzzle
Speaker 3: Lab with the extra credit answer from our previous show.
Speaker 3: We played a game with Joel Stein involving naming fanciful
Speaker 3: mating calls. In this case, this was the mating call
Speaker 3: that we gave you, and you have to guess what
Speaker 3: animal this is. Have you lost weight? You look like
Speaker 3: you're barely two hundred and fifty pounds. That's right, that's
Speaker 3: the mating call of the humpback whale. Thanks for playing
Speaker 3: along and we'll see you next time on the Puzzler
Speaker 3: Podcast