Speaker 1: Hello puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast, The Soothing unguint
Speaker 1: to Cure your puzzle Wounds. I am your host, A J. Jacobs,
Speaker 1: and today's guest is the Great Faith, the Sally Emmy
Speaker 1: winning CBS Sunday Morning correspondent panelists for Weight Weight Don't
Speaker 1: Tell Me, Storyteller, podcast host you name it? Welcome Faith,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: That was a long introduction and I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: I could go on.
Speaker 2: I never know how to answer, and people say, what
Speaker 2: do you do?
Speaker 4: So you helped me out there. I just want to
Speaker 4: say I was on Star Trek once. I feel like, well, ever,
Speaker 4: what is it like? I got beamed up a J.
Speaker 4: I was a genetically enhanced mutant.
Speaker 2: I don't mean to brag, but I was what was
Speaker 2: enhanced my brain?
Speaker 5: My brain?
Speaker 4: Yes, Serena Douglas on Deep Space nine, I'm on a
Speaker 4: trading card worth hundreds of sins.
Speaker 1: So have you been to a Star Trek convention? Have
Speaker 1: you been mobbed?
Speaker 4: I have, and I was there covering the fiftieth anniversary
Speaker 4: of Star Trek for CBS Sunday Morning.
Speaker 5: So I was not mobbed.
Speaker 4: But there was this time when one family did a
Speaker 4: double take and I mean this is twenty years after
Speaker 4: I played Serena Douglas and got beamed up and they
Speaker 4: were like are you And I had the biggest, slowest
Speaker 4: smile and I was like, yes, I love it.
Speaker 1: You are a part of history. I love that. So
Speaker 1: this puzzle has nothing to do with Star Trek, but
Speaker 1: it does have an interesting origin stry, which is that
Speaker 1: Greg Plisk got chief Puzzle Officer. We published a book together,
Speaker 1: The Puzzler, and for the book party, Greg wrote a
Speaker 1: puzzle where all the answers were phrases with the initials AJ,
Speaker 1: so other ajs. So if the clue was the president
Speaker 1: after Abraham Lincoln, the Andrew was, the answer was Andrew Johnson,
Speaker 1: not the Andrew was. But when we were preparing for
Speaker 1: You're a Week, we realized we missed one very important clue,
Speaker 1: and that would be Book by Faith Sale, wonderful Book
Speaker 1: by Faith Sale.
Speaker 4: A J.
Speaker 1: Hey J and what does A stand for?
Speaker 5: In this cool junkie.
Speaker 4: I loved that AJ because when I was turning my
Speaker 4: book into a show, it became a solo show. That
Speaker 4: was always the shorthand between my director and me.
Speaker 5: Our emails were always AJ. Whatever, Oh, I.
Speaker 1: Love that there you go. So great book, great show.
Speaker 1: By the way, I thought one astute reviewer had a
Speaker 1: great description. He said, it's a hilarious and emotional look
Speaker 1: at love, career, and faith, mom's pelvic floor, among others.
Speaker 3: A J.
Speaker 1: Jacob, that's true. I think you blurring listen. I approved
Speaker 1: of it, and I approve of you and people should
Speaker 1: get it. It's wonderful, and I hope you approve of
Speaker 1: us repurposing this puzzle on AJ's to you because you
Speaker 1: are also an AJ creator. So are you ready for
Speaker 1: this is an orange and green O shaped cereal from Kellogg's.
Speaker 4: Wait, it's going to begin with age Oh apple Jack?
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, okay, Yeah.
Speaker 1: When we were kids, that actually was only orange, but
Speaker 1: now they've added the green.
Speaker 4: FYI, Oh, I guess that's you know, they tell you
Speaker 4: to eat your greens, so I'm sure that makes it
Speaker 4: very healthy.
Speaker 2: And I remember how the milk tasted after you want it?
Speaker 3: Right? Yeah?
Speaker 5: No, it was good, sweet sweet apple sauce.
Speaker 1: And by the way, speaking of health, the initial tagline
Speaker 1: the advertising tagline was A bowl a day keeps the
Speaker 1: bullies away. So obviously you have some Apple j X
Speaker 1: and you are super strong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is why jen Xers grew up to be
Speaker 2: who we are.
Speaker 5: You're eating sugar to keep the bullies away.
Speaker 1: Nike shoes. This is a Nike shoes whose commercials were
Speaker 1: the inspiration for the film Space Jam famous type of sneakers.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's not a Bron James, so it has to
Speaker 4: be based on Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1: Yeh here halfway there? Did you say Air Jordan? Yes,
Speaker 1: you are correct, Air Jordan's aj You're doing great. Two
Speaker 1: for two.
Speaker 4: Okay, this movie, by the way, Air that movie first
Speaker 4: R rated movie my children ever saw.
Speaker 5: They're still reeling from the language.
Speaker 1: Interesting. All right, I didn't see it, but thank you.
Speaker 1: Good recommendation news you can use all right. This actress
Speaker 1: her breakthrough approval. We're trying to work in approval occasionally
Speaker 1: an honor review. Her breakthrough approval came in the role
Speaker 1: of CJ. Craig on The West Wing, but she also
Speaker 1: got big approval for her role in Masters of Sex.
Speaker 4: Yes, she is marvelous and I feel closer to her
Speaker 4: than most people who have never met her because when
Speaker 4: the pandemic first started and wait, wait, don't tell me
Speaker 4: started doing all the shows by zoom instead of a
Speaker 4: live audience.
Speaker 2: She was the guest on the celebrity guest on the show,
Speaker 2: and she did it.
Speaker 5: From her parents' attic.
Speaker 2: All it was so sweet and intimate and vulnerable, and
Speaker 2: I think she was like growing out her roots, as
Speaker 2: we all tried to do for about.
Speaker 5: Two months in May of twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: So I think that the great Alison Janny.
Speaker 1: That is the great Alison jan The AJ, you're on it,
Speaker 1: You're on it. So this is we've got just two more. Okay,
Speaker 1: meat lovers approve of French dip sandwiches, which are often
Speaker 1: served this way. So what AJ.
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: It's quite a euphemism for kind of slightly.
Speaker 4: Bloody liquid crat like like a delicacy.
Speaker 5: I believe, I believe it is.
Speaker 1: Oh you, oh ju is correct as.
Speaker 5: The Jew kind of full of heme as they say,
Speaker 5: I guess you're right.
Speaker 1: I guess you're right. It sounds better, as you say,
Speaker 1: than oh blood. So smart marketing by the French dip folks.
Speaker 1: All right, we have one last one for you, which is, uh,
Speaker 1: this is just an ordinary guy. Maybe he gets a
Speaker 1: approval for being ordinary. Who is this a J? I
Speaker 1: guess them?
Speaker 5: I mean al Jiaux was not an ordinary guy.
Speaker 4: It's extraordinary Jay, not not all around Jesus an ordinary guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I will tell you there are several other phrases
Speaker 1: that mean the same thing. One of them is a
Speaker 1: blank six pack. I won't use the first. Joe, right,
Speaker 1: Joe is part of it? You got it? Just an ordinary?
Speaker 2: Is it all around Joe?
Speaker 1: It is not. It is not like.
Speaker 5: An ordinary Joe. It's uh.
Speaker 1: Hmm, it's just like right in the mean, the median.
Speaker 5: The average.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, average Joe.
Speaker 1: You got it all right?
Speaker 4: Before we conclude this, what did the AJ and your
Speaker 4: name stand for?
Speaker 1: Oh? Well, thank you for asking.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: My full name is Arnold Stephen Jacobs Junior and my
Speaker 1: father is Arnold Stephen Jacobs Senior. So they didn't want
Speaker 1: to call me Arnold or Arney. They were going to
Speaker 1: call me as, but that had its problems. They were
Speaker 1: worried about what would happen in elementary school, so they
Speaker 1: took the J possibly from junior and popped it in there.
Speaker 1: So there I am. AJ. Jacobs.
Speaker 4: Parents are so much more compassionate than my husband and
Speaker 4: I are, because our son's name begins with A and
Speaker 4: his last name is hyphenated and it's s h S.
Speaker 5: So see what your parents did there.
Speaker 4: My I needs to eat is apple jacks to keep
Speaker 4: away the bullets.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he will. Well, it's good, it's character building.
Speaker 1: I think it'll be great. I approve. Before we wrap up, Faith,
Speaker 1: where can we find more of you?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, like most of us.
Speaker 4: I'm on the artist formerly known as Twitter, Faith, Underscore,
Speaker 4: Saley and Instagram at Faith Say and CBS Sunday Morning,
Speaker 4: Wait Wait Don't tell Me? And I host a couple
Speaker 4: of podcasts, ones called Real Good and one is called
Speaker 4: Health Matters.
Speaker 1: Love it. And before we wrap up, as always for
Speaker 1: the puzzlers at home, we have an extra credit puzzle
Speaker 1: and this one you might know the answer, but it
Speaker 1: was it was a little harder for those of us
Speaker 1: who are not personal friends. Everyone approves of Faith's Wait
Speaker 1: Wait don't tell me. Colleague Bill Curtis and this crime
Speaker 1: program that he hosted on the A and E Network.
Speaker 1: What aj is that?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: I like that Faith is looking confused. That's good. These
Speaker 1: are something, These are something. These are supposed to be
Speaker 1: a little harder. So listen Google texts.
Speaker 5: Will Curtis, as I can.
Speaker 1: There you go yes. If any listeners know Bill Curtis,
Speaker 1: feel free to text them. If you don't get it,
Speaker 1: you will get the answer on the next episode. And Puzzlers,
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Speaker 1: you're enjoying it, tell your friends and we'll meet you
Speaker 1: here tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 3: Hello again, Puzzlers, this is Greg Pliska here with the
Speaker 3: extra credit answer from our previous show. We were playing
Speaker 3: charades with Faith Sale and we gave you a series
Speaker 3: of clues to charade a famous person's name. Here were
Speaker 3: the clues. The singer of Gangnam Style, an adult male
Speaker 3: in Jamaica, a word that follows sacred milk or don't
Speaker 3: have a and shape of some sofa brackets or letters.
Speaker 3: Those are ci Mon cow and Elle for Simon Cowell.
Speaker 3: Thanks for playing with us, and we'll see you here
Speaker 3: next time on the Puzzler