Speaker 1: Hello puzzlers, and welcome to the Puzzler Podcast, the Diced
Speaker 1: Tomato in your Daily Puzzle Burrito. I am your host,
Speaker 1: A J. Jacobs, and I'm here with our guests, the
Speaker 1: brilliant Andy Borowitz of The Borowitz Report.
Speaker 2: Welcome Andy, thanks for having me, AJ. You're welcome. Andy.
Speaker 1: If I said the phrase bad wintry zoo, what would
Speaker 1: come to mind? Bad wintry zoo?
Speaker 3: This sounds very tricky. I mean a bad wintry zoo.
Speaker 3: I think of like the Arctic. I think of are
Speaker 3: we going for a rhyme? Are we going for Nope?
Speaker 2: No, We're going for you.
Speaker 1: We are coming for you, Andy Borowitz, because it is
Speaker 1: an anagram of Andy Borowitz.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, anagrams. Now, that's right, that's right, that's
Speaker 3: what we're doing. I should have brought a scratch pad.
Speaker 2: Well you mind ned one? Yeah? Actually, Choir Nealie recommend.
Speaker 3: You're foiled AJ, because right in my desk where I'm sitting,
Speaker 3: I have you heard the drawer opening? That wasn't like
Speaker 3: a sound effect, that was actually my drawer opening. I
Speaker 3: am holding a pencil and I have a piece of paper,
Speaker 3: and I love anagrams. I can't say I'm good at them.
Speaker 2: And you're putting on your glasses too. You're getting serious.
Speaker 1: So bad wintry a zoo and by the way, another one,
Speaker 1: which are Chief Puzzle Officer Greg Pliska found not wizard boy,
Speaker 1: not wizard boy, which seems a little insulting.
Speaker 3: That sounds like a takedown. I think I've read worse
Speaker 3: about me, but not wizard boy sounds like, you know,
Speaker 3: this really sounds like ready made for Twitter.
Speaker 2: I agree, Am I not?
Speaker 3: Am I really not wizard boy. I always thought of
Speaker 3: myself as wizard boy.
Speaker 2: I think of you more as not wizard man.
Speaker 3: So you're not wizard but not a nanogram.
Speaker 2: I think you are. You're a wizard. You're a wizard.
Speaker 1: So anagrams, just to give you some background, are one
Speaker 1: of the oldest puzzles, date back to the ancient Greeks.
Speaker 1: They were thought to have divine significance, and we're used
Speaker 1: to justify wars and as evidence in medieval trials. But
Speaker 1: today we're not.
Speaker 2: Going to do that.
Speaker 1: We're just going to use them in a puzzle. Today's
Speaker 1: puzzle consists of anagrams of notable people. Lewis Carroll wrote
Speaker 1: a famous one for a beloved public figure in England.
Speaker 1: Flit on, cheering Angel, flit on. This is not part
Speaker 1: of it because this is a little tricky. But do
Speaker 1: you know who flit on cheering Angel is Head of
Speaker 1: nursing founder of Modern Nursingale, Laurence Nightingale. Exactly. All right,
Speaker 1: So ours are, I think are a little more accessible.
Speaker 1: There are a mix of ones we found on the
Speaker 1: internet and ones created by associate puzzler Andrea Schomberg. Okay,
Speaker 1: ready for the first me radium ace me comma radium ace,
Speaker 1: sort of a boast.
Speaker 3: Me me radium ace. Well would that be would that
Speaker 3: be Marie Curie?
Speaker 1: It is, it's actually Madame Currie.
Speaker 2: But I didn't really look. You can't really look at
Speaker 2: the letters.
Speaker 3: I just said, you know, she seems like a radium ace.
Speaker 3: I want to say something like, you know, first of all,
Speaker 3: in her case, she'd be saying moir but in English
Speaker 3: a j Just so we don't, you know, miseducate your listeners.
Speaker 3: It really should be I radium ace the subject of
Speaker 3: the sense. Anyway, I'm moving on the one corrected me
Speaker 3: about Madame curious. I felt like I had to say.
Speaker 2: Fair enough, correct you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, these anagrams are not necessarily grammatically correct. In fact, uh,
Speaker 1: this one also falls into that chemera.
Speaker 3: Anna grammatically correct and nice.
Speaker 1: So this one is this one's more more can temporary?
Speaker 2: Go to mister Barbie? Go to mister.
Speaker 3: Barbie and mister is spelled.
Speaker 2: That's a great question, m R.
Speaker 3: Just mr, Okay, you see that really screwed me up
Speaker 3: exactly if I hadn't asked go to mister Barbie.
Speaker 1: Comma Barbie, so you're you're a dressing Barbie to go
Speaker 1: to her mister who in this case is Ken, and
Speaker 1: Ken in this particular case might be played by handsome
Speaker 1: actor Ryan Gosling.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, oh yeah, I just can't remember who is
Speaker 3: playing who's playing Barbie in that?
Speaker 1: Well, that's why you have all the letters.
Speaker 3: I know. Is this Margot Robbie.
Speaker 2: It is Margot Robbie.
Speaker 3: Okre you go, yeah, it's really good. Margot Robbie is
Speaker 3: really good.
Speaker 1: She is very talented, and she has an appropriate anagram
Speaker 1: which probably doesn't even know about.
Speaker 3: That's very clever.
Speaker 2: Into your wheel.
Speaker 1: That was by Andrea, So thanks Andrea. This one was
Speaker 1: not by Andrea. This is sort of a famous political one.
Speaker 1: He bugs Gore. He bugs Gore.
Speaker 3: Would it be George Bush?
Speaker 2: It would be George Bush.
Speaker 3: But there's no W in there, so it's a little
Speaker 3: you know, it's not George W. Bush. Oh, yes, but
Speaker 3: that is his name. It was also his dad's name,
Speaker 3: and he did bug Gore.
Speaker 2: I would be bugged too.
Speaker 1: If I lost to someone who got fewer popular votes
Speaker 1: than me, I would also be bugged.
Speaker 3: I think it's a trend in recent elections.
Speaker 1: Actually, exactly, all right, we got two more. I am
Speaker 1: a weakish speller. I am a weakish speller. Also, this
Speaker 1: is kind of a famous one. I'll give you another one.
Speaker 1: I'll give you another one with the same name. Wait,
Speaker 1: I'll make a wise phrase. I'll make a wise phrase.
Speaker 3: I'll make a wise phrase. Wow. Yes, Well there's a
Speaker 3: K in here. K seems like a letter that you
Speaker 3: do not see in everybody's name. So that should that
Speaker 3: should be to me, That should be helpful to me.
Speaker 3: But I'm drawing a blank. You have any more clues
Speaker 3: for me?
Speaker 1: Well, the weakest speller. I looked into it, and it
Speaker 1: is it is true. He's such a weak speller. He
Speaker 1: spelled his own name in several different ways, and his
Speaker 1: last name has been spelled about eighty different ways.
Speaker 3: There're two l's.
Speaker 2: They're two l's.
Speaker 3: I see, is it William K.
Speaker 1: Shakespeare William kay Shakespeare.
Speaker 3: Name?
Speaker 2: That is correct? See you got it?
Speaker 1: And Andrea can tell me if I'm wrong. But according
Speaker 1: to my research, he himself signed things either as Shakespeare
Speaker 1: s h A K s p e r E or
Speaker 1: s h A K s P E R.
Speaker 2: So he was all over the place.
Speaker 3: Wow, And he didn't write the plays anyway.
Speaker 2: So why are we exactly why are we? Who is
Speaker 2: it some duke who wasn't in the.
Speaker 3: Earl of sandwich? There you go, who didn't invent the sandwich?
Speaker 3: Shakespeare did that?
Speaker 1: That makes sense, all right? This one is also from Andrea,
Speaker 1: serving plebes e T Serving plebes e T. Now I
Speaker 1: found this unnecessarily classist. There's no reason to call these
Speaker 1: people pleaves.
Speaker 3: Because other people might have enjoyed his his films as well.
Speaker 3: It's Steven Spielberg.
Speaker 2: It is Steven Spielberg.
Speaker 3: That's that's a clever one. Now I have a question, agent, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm ready. If somebody made a line of colones that
Speaker 3: were very high class and was really great at inventing those,
Speaker 3: they're high class colones. That person might be called a
Speaker 3: tony bo.
Speaker 2: Wizard, boh wizard.
Speaker 3: Do you know who that would be? Now, this person
Speaker 3: has an actually done this, but if he did, he
Speaker 3: would be a tony bo wizard. Any guess, Well, I'm guessing.
Speaker 1: I mean there is are you have a wizard in
Speaker 1: your name? So I was thinking there's another there, and.
Speaker 3: That's Andy Burwitz. Actually, in my next career, I'm going
Speaker 3: to invent upscale colognes for men. I love it, and
Speaker 3: no reason I'm doing that is so that that anagram
Speaker 3: will work.
Speaker 1: I have smelled you, and you smell very fresh, very
Speaker 1: tony tony, so I'm in. I am a subscriber. If
Speaker 1: you do, I'll be an angel investor. Well, thank you
Speaker 1: for playing along, and look at that tony. Before we
Speaker 1: wrap up. As always, for you puzzlers at home, here
Speaker 1: is your extra credit. This one also a popular one
Speaker 1: from the internet. Catch Them Women Guy. This is a
Speaker 1: catch them Women guy sort of a description of who
Speaker 1: he is. All right, puzzlers, please don't forget to subscribe
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Speaker 1: for some more puzzling puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 3: Hello again, puzzlers, this is Greg Kliska with the extra
Speaker 3: credit answer from our previous show.
Speaker 2: On that show, we were doing some presidential rhyming with
Speaker 2: Andy Borowitz and we gave you the extra credit clue
Speaker 2: Harry's spice that gives you a two word rhyming phrase,
Speaker 2: which is Truman's cooman, Harry Truman and the Spice Cooman.
Speaker 3: I hope you all got that one, and I look
Speaker 3: forward to enjoying more puzzles with you next time