Speaker 1: Hello, puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast. The Tartan on
Speaker 1: your Puzzle Kilt. I am your host, AJ Jacobs, and
Speaker 1: today's guest is the awesome Faith Saaley, Emmy winning correspondent
Speaker 1: for CBS Sunday Morning, author podcast host. Welcome, Faith, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Those are the things my father usually tells people in
Speaker 2: the checkout line at the grocery store. So it's really
Speaker 2: nice to hear it from you.
Speaker 1: He's welcome to come in as like an an announcer
Speaker 1: sort of whatever. Ed McMahon on our Puzzler podcast. So Faith,
Speaker 1: we're excited. Today We've got Greg Pliska, our chief puzzle officer.
Speaker 1: He has come up from the puzzle Lab to give
Speaker 1: you a puzzle, and this one is it's based on
Speaker 1: your name, Faith, by the way, just fun fact. And
Speaker 1: then I'll I'll turn it over for my book. I've
Speaker 1: been researching Old English and your name used to be
Speaker 1: pronounced with the full like fiveth, fiveth, So I'm really
Speaker 1: start calling you that.
Speaker 3: I insist that you do.
Speaker 2: And I love that it didn't have like a phantom
Speaker 2: e on the end or anything, right.
Speaker 1: I thaw no as far as I know, but a
Speaker 1: lot of these double vowels used to be pronounced.
Speaker 2: So and by the way, since we're here in the puzzler,
Speaker 2: I have been putting in my name for wordle as
Speaker 2: a first guest for two years and I'm just ready
Speaker 2: for the day that's gonna happen. But it's gonna happen
Speaker 2: one day, and I'm gonna be exactly.
Speaker 1: You gotta, as we know, have perseverance. Oh yeah, So
Speaker 1: for that, I'm going to turn it over to Greg,
Speaker 1: chief puzzle Officer.
Speaker 2: What do you got Greg, Greg, I'm in the presence
Speaker 2: of double puzzle geniuses.
Speaker 4: You're up to the task though.
Speaker 5: You've proved yourself this week, so we're ready to double.
Speaker 2: What I don't think your listeners know is that both
Speaker 2: of you appear in these kind of puzzling unitards like
Speaker 2: the Riddler from Batman, and that is why this should
Speaker 2: be on YouTube.
Speaker 5: Well it will be one day and all will be revealed,
Speaker 5: not everything.
Speaker 2: You're dealing a lot in those unitards right now, you.
Speaker 5: Know, to keep our guests awake, I'm here ready to go,
Speaker 5: all right, So here's the setup. Faith Saley, Bob Hope
Speaker 5: and Courtney Love walk into a bar. Yep, you see
Speaker 5: exactly it's not the setup to a great joke. It
Speaker 5: probably could be, but it's the setup for the next puzzle,
Speaker 5: which is all about what.
Speaker 2: Things in the Bible really and love, faith and charity, faith, hope.
Speaker 5: And love, or hope and charity is a famous group
Speaker 5: of three? In this case, it's from the Bible. So
Speaker 5: every answer in this puzzle is going to be a
Speaker 5: famous group of three, Okay, a well known group of three.
Speaker 4: I'll give you short in.
Speaker 2: Salt in Peppa, that group from the nineties, Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 2: and never got a fair Shake.
Speaker 5: No, that was in that Salt Peppa and DJ Spindrella
Speaker 5: or something like that was the third member of that group.
Speaker 5: They're actually were three members of that group.
Speaker 2: See only, Greg plisk I told you presence of greatness
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 5: The intersection of puzzles in music. Actually that is how
Speaker 5: we met. But because I did music for authorized your podcast.
Speaker 2: Yes, a wonderful podcast on Audible in which I fell
Speaker 2: in love with romance novels.
Speaker 4: Yes, it was so fun, so fun.
Speaker 5: Anyway, This the way this works is I'll give you
Speaker 5: short clues to each of the three things, and then
Speaker 5: you tell me what the group is. Okay, So I'll
Speaker 5: give The example I'll give you might be the blank herring,
Speaker 5: blank rabbit, blank lagoon.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, uh, no offense to anyone's culinary taste or traditions.
Speaker 2: But herring is gross, so grossing. Now we're heading towards
Speaker 2: a law firm gloss gross Leuwenstein and Walker.
Speaker 4: Sun rabbit and Walker Lagoon. Exactly, it doesn't work. They're
Speaker 4: all colors.
Speaker 3: They're all oh colors.
Speaker 2: Okay, so all it's a red herring and the second
Speaker 2: one was a rabbit. Again, rabbit is kind of gross
Speaker 2: to eat, but it's a color. So a red white
Speaker 2: rabbit and blue. Wasn't that the name of a movie
Speaker 2: that people our age might have not been allowed to see?
Speaker 3: Exactly naked?
Speaker 4: That that shows are age.
Speaker 5: If we know Blue Lagoon as a movie as opposed
Speaker 5: to I don't know, Blue Lagoon is the the hotspring Iceland.
Speaker 4: Iceland a fancy people.
Speaker 5: You were just sitting in the basement watching the vhs
Speaker 5: of Blue Lagoon.
Speaker 2: Okay, Red, white, and blue?
Speaker 3: Got it?
Speaker 5: So the good thing about this puzzle is that you
Speaker 5: only need to get one of the three things if
Speaker 5: you can then recognize the group that it belongs to. Okay,
Speaker 5: A popular messaging app, a crunchy Hershey's bar and another
Speaker 5: name for dad.
Speaker 2: Popular mess and a popular message.
Speaker 4: App messaging app.
Speaker 5: I don't know if your kids would be allowed nap
Speaker 5: chat Yeah, the short the short name.
Speaker 2: For that, nap Okay, yes, my kids are definitely not
Speaker 2: allowed to use that until they are forty two.
Speaker 3: Snap and what was the second one?
Speaker 6: Crunchy Hershey's bar ah crack crackle with a K, yes,
Speaker 6: the spells it.
Speaker 2: And then another word for dad, baba snap crackle and
Speaker 2: baba is it's the Russian.
Speaker 6: Breakfast cereal snap crackle and pop.
Speaker 5: Exactly the three uh little Elvish mascots for rice crispies.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 4: Not a sponsor of this show yet.
Speaker 2: Yet when we do this live, I will bring you
Speaker 2: rice Krispy treats minor famous. I add vanilla extract and
Speaker 2: extra marshmallows.
Speaker 4: You're in, You're in. Let's do it.
Speaker 5: This next one is all film and television. Okay, okay,
Speaker 5: blank wife, blank seed, blank duckling.
Speaker 2: The last one was duckling like a baby duck or dumpling.
Speaker 4: Yes, blank duckling.
Speaker 3: Okay, blank life.
Speaker 4: No wife sorry, blank wife?
Speaker 2: Oh oh well, the only one I can think of.
Speaker 3: Is it was the good.
Speaker 2: Wife good good Okay, yeah, oh the good Okay, we're
Speaker 2: going with.
Speaker 3: The whole thing.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think I know this one. The good and
Speaker 2: then seed was just like an old classic movie. I've
Speaker 2: never seen classicer even than the Blue Lagoon Bad, the good, bad, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then ugly duckling. So I love this answer, the good, bad,
Speaker 2: and the ugly because my husband has a shirt from
Speaker 2: that old Sergio Leoni movie Yeah, and he wore it
Speaker 2: for the birth of both of our children. That was
Speaker 2: his good luck pop shirt.
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 5: And if so, were the children going to be the
Speaker 5: good the bad?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Had to thank God.
Speaker 2: So we only have a good child and a bad child.
Speaker 2: We just haven't told the children which is.
Speaker 3: Or maybe I was the ugly when.
Speaker 4: I was giving, right, he was the good.
Speaker 5: You were the Anyway, I don't want to cast dispersions
Speaker 5: on anyone in your family. Great job, though, The good,
Speaker 5: the bad, and the ugly is the answer to that one.
Speaker 5: Let's do a couple more. Dwayne Johnson, The New York
Speaker 5: The New York Times, a barber's tool.
Speaker 2: Okay, Dwayne Johnson, New York Times and a barber's tool. Well, obviously,
Speaker 2: the Dwayne Johnson answer is the character he played in Mawana.
Speaker 3: Now I can't what's his name?
Speaker 2: Maui Mauie yees, Mauie. Mauie is definitely in a Fa
Speaker 2: miss trio, The Three the Largest, Okay, I think Dwayne
Speaker 2: Johnson is the Rock.
Speaker 3: Can you smell what I'm cooking?
Speaker 2: Okay? Rock? New York Times? Oh see, you're going twentieth century.
Speaker 2: If you want me to call The New York Times
Speaker 2: a paper? You want me to call it a paper, don't?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Back, So it's Rock Digital Platform.
Speaker 3: Let's see what was the left hand?
Speaker 2: A barber's tool, A barber's tool, razor, Rock Digital Platform, Raiser.
Speaker 3: Done. I'm so good at.
Speaker 5: Rock paper scissors exactly, Rock paper scissors, the game, the.
Speaker 1: Rock Paper Scissors, the Rock Papers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he goes Dwayne, Yeah, the Rock Rock.
Speaker 4: I call him Rock. You know we're kind of informal
Speaker 4: and you're clothes.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, just wait till he comes on the show.
Speaker 3: Then you can call him Maui.
Speaker 4: He'd be fun to having as a guest.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it wouldn't be as fun as you though.
Speaker 1: Thanks. Before we wrap up, Faith, where can we find
Speaker 1: more of you?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: You know, what if you want to hear more about
Speaker 2: my life. My off Broadway show is about my life
Speaker 2: and it's called Approval Junkey and it lives on Audible.
Speaker 3: It is the entire ninety minute show. You can listen
Speaker 3: to it and then.
Speaker 2: You will know more than you ever wanted to know
Speaker 2: about me.
Speaker 3: And I invite you to come and listen.
Speaker 1: I saw it with the visuals and I loved it,
Speaker 1: so I highly recommend you to check that out. And Greg,
Speaker 1: do you have an extra credit for those at home?
Speaker 5: Of course I do. Aj The extra credit for this
Speaker 5: episode is pots pots cool as in the old cigarette
Speaker 5: brand Kool and Silent SI L E N T.
Speaker 1: I am listening and I have no idea what you're
Speaker 1: talking about, but that is good. That will give me
Speaker 1: something to do. Thank you, Greg, and puzzlers. While you're
Speaker 1: working on that, please tell your friends. If you're enjoying
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Speaker 1: the answer to the stumper. So come back tomorrow for
Speaker 1: more puzzling puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 5: Hello puzzlers, this is Chief Puzzle Officer Greg Pliska here
Speaker 5: with the extra credit answer from our previous episode. We
Speaker 5: played Absolute Joy with Faith Saley, a game in which
Speaker 5: every answer is a two word phrase starting with the
Speaker 5: letters A J.
Speaker 4: The clue we gave you was.
Speaker 5: Everyone approves of your weight weight colleague Bill Curtis and
Speaker 5: this c I'm in Law program he hosted on the
Speaker 5: A and E Network. That is the show American Justice.
Speaker 5: Thanks for playing with us, and we'll see you next
Speaker 5: time on the Puzzler Podcast