Speaker 1: Hello puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler podcast The Chopped Nuts
Speaker 1: in Your Puzzle Back Lava, I am your host, AJ Jacobs.
Speaker 1: Happy Valentine's Day, everybody. We have a special Valentine's Day
Speaker 1: puzzle teed up. I don't know what it is because
Speaker 1: Chief puzzle Officer Greg Pliska has told me I am
Speaker 1: not allowed to know even the premise. So here, I
Speaker 1: am ready to be embarrassed.
Speaker 2: Well, thanks for letting me out of the puzzle lab.
Speaker 2: I'm actually getting out twice today. I get out to
Speaker 2: do this puzzle and then I'm being allowed to go
Speaker 2: out with my wife.
Speaker 1: For Valentine's That's very generous.
Speaker 3: I know, be back in there for the rest of
Speaker 3: the week. I promise.
Speaker 2: Do you do you have a go to Valentine's Day treat?
Speaker 1: Well, my wife and I both are not fans of
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day because I think I was single for so
Speaker 1: many years. I just thought it was a really rude holiday.
Speaker 1: It's like right, you know, like smug, We're like, you know, uh.
Speaker 1: And I also I did write an Escort Esquire article
Speaker 1: once about how I think that sometimes love should be
Speaker 1: seen as costs and benefit. It's okay to do a
Speaker 1: cost benefit analysis of love, even though that's highly discouraged.
Speaker 1: So sometimes I'll write a note to my wife, you know,
Speaker 1: the benefits of being married to you outweigh the costs.
Speaker 1: Happy Valentine's Day.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna try that one where.
Speaker 1: She seems to like it. I'm not sure she does.
Speaker 2: But so it's not like you guys are getting chocolates
Speaker 2: or flowers. You basically just no sending cost benefit graphs.
Speaker 1: And exactly in honor of our long singlehood.
Speaker 2: Well that's interesting. My wife, my wife Jessica has no
Speaker 2: love for roses. She's not into the flowers things. But
Speaker 2: you could aim a sweet confection and she's all over it,
Speaker 2: every you name it. In fact, one of the jokes
Speaker 2: when we first got together, I bought some ice cream
Speaker 2: and I stuck it in the fridge in the freezer,
Speaker 2: and the next day it was gone and I said, wait,
Speaker 2: what happened to the ice cream? She said, Oh, that's
Speaker 2: not going to last in this house. I said, in
Speaker 2: my house that would last.
Speaker 3: For a month.
Speaker 2: Now, corn chips, you're at the Freedo's, the Doritos, they'd
Speaker 2: be gone like that, But the ice cream would last
Speaker 2: in my house.
Speaker 1: So you're you're more of a salt guy on the
Speaker 1: savory guy. Okay, that's good. It's like a Jack Spratt
Speaker 1: situation exactly.
Speaker 3: It works out perfectly.
Speaker 2: So that's the cost benefit analysis works in our favor
Speaker 2: right there.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: So, so what this puzzle.
Speaker 2: Is is about one of the most well known Valentine's
Speaker 2: Day confections. But I'm not going to tell you what
Speaker 2: it is. It's in the in the title of the puzzle.
Speaker 2: The title of the puzzle is soup container actress ruby
Speaker 2: male deer.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm getting something. I love. The super containers can
Speaker 1: actress is d and then I forgot the last one.
Speaker 3: What was last male deer?
Speaker 1: Oh dough candy dough.
Speaker 3: That's a feeling.
Speaker 1: Candy.
Speaker 3: Wait, stags another word for male deer.
Speaker 1: Candy starts with a harsh Oh. Hearts candy heart heart,
Speaker 1: very good, very good.
Speaker 3: That's a classic candy.
Speaker 2: Goes back originally to the early part of last century,
Speaker 2: nineteen oh one, when they first made the little hearts
Speaker 2: shaped like that with the words stamped on them.
Speaker 1: And by the way, a couple of years ago, I
Speaker 1: didn't make anatomically correct candy hearts for the family like
Speaker 1: in the shape of an actual heart with valves and stuff.
Speaker 3: That's cool.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if it was cool. Oh weird,
Speaker 1: it was weird. I was encouraged not to do it again.
Speaker 3: God, there no candy kidney. Is there anything weird in
Speaker 3: your house? Well?
Speaker 2: The way this works is I'm going to give you
Speaker 2: a wordplay clue, like a charade or something like that,
Speaker 2: and you give me the phrase from candy hearts that
Speaker 2: is being clued there.
Speaker 3: There are hundreds of.
Speaker 2: Phrases over the years that have been on those little
Speaker 2: candy hearts, but I'm trying to stick with the classics,
Speaker 2: the most familiar.
Speaker 1: All Right, I love it. This is a great puzzle.
Speaker 1: I'm excited.
Speaker 2: All right, here's your first one. This is more of
Speaker 2: a punny clue. Where to dig up honey?
Speaker 1: Okay? Where to dig up honey? That is interesting? Well honey,
Speaker 1: I often think of I'm just gonna throw out honey
Speaker 1: related words and see what happens. Pot comb hive.
Speaker 3: Who makes honeys?
Speaker 2: Be?
Speaker 3: Okay? Be? Where do you dig things up?
Speaker 1: Be whole? It's not romantic at all.
Speaker 2: That's a kind of zen candy.
Speaker 1: Heart okay, be? Where you dig things up?
Speaker 2: Be?
Speaker 1: Field, be be mine, be mine, be my good one.
Speaker 1: I had to go the other way. I had to think,
Speaker 1: what is a candy heart saying? Okay, I love it.
Speaker 3: No, that's well done, well done. But here's another one.
Speaker 3: Here's an one. The opposite of colds easy.
Speaker 2: The opposite of colds easy.
Speaker 1: Well cold, I mean easy. Opposite is hard maybe or
Speaker 1: difficult easy.
Speaker 2: What's the opposite of colds hots?
Speaker 1: Hots hots? I've got the hots for you hots.
Speaker 2: No hots something hot easy? That was a That was
Speaker 2: a It was a challenging quiz.
Speaker 1: Tough hotsy. Oh, I got it. Nice hot. I was
Speaker 1: going to literally I forgot you could combine yes, okay,
Speaker 1: hot stuff nice nice nice.
Speaker 2: Here's another one, maybe a little less romantic phrase. But
Speaker 2: the candy hearts have covered a lot of territory, so
Speaker 2: you know we'll allow it. Food in a barn and
Speaker 2: a female sheep.
Speaker 1: Ah, Okay, I got that one. I feel good. It
Speaker 1: is Hey is the food in the barn, and you
Speaker 1: as the female sheep?
Speaker 2: Hey you hey, you there you go exactly.
Speaker 1: I feel that you. Ewe gets so much play in
Speaker 1: crosswords and in rebuses, and without them, the word you
Speaker 1: would really be in trouble.
Speaker 2: Do we ever talk about use except when we use
Speaker 2: that word in a puzzle?
Speaker 1: Right exactly? I have never just been talking, Hey, did
Speaker 1: you see that nice you?
Speaker 3: Right looking out over Central Park? I think there's a
Speaker 3: U in a.
Speaker 1: Great lawn right now, use meadow.
Speaker 2: Even if there was one, you would say there's a sheep, right,
Speaker 2: You wouldn't immediately run to check the sex and then
Speaker 2: say it's a U.
Speaker 1: Yes, that would be hard.
Speaker 3: So that's this is.
Speaker 2: Us being city guys, not using these words.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 3: All right, here's here's a here's one more for you.
Speaker 2: Quick time three point one four one five nine.
Speaker 1: I love it. Quick well pie is the second part
Speaker 1: three point you get that? And quick time I mean
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, what is sweety sweetie? QuickTime is a it's
Speaker 1: a program where you record record pie. It's a program.
Speaker 2: So if I were doing a cryptic crossword puzzle, I
Speaker 2: would use quick time to clue two letters.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, very good, qt pie qute pie bye, Yes exactly,
Speaker 1: all right, got it?
Speaker 3: Got good one? All right, we'll do two more.
Speaker 2: All right, ready a reasonably good grade, two really bad grades.
Speaker 1: Well I'm oh interesting, Oh okay, I got it, I
Speaker 1: got it. Took me a while reasonably, go just be
Speaker 1: I'm happy with bees and then not a good grade
Speaker 1: is f BFF.
Speaker 2: Exactly, BFF best friend. That's a more contemporary candy hearts there.
Speaker 2: That wasn't around in the nineteen oh one. They didn't
Speaker 2: have BFF candy hearts. No, but keeping up, all right,
Speaker 2: here's the last one. I think a nice little send
Speaker 2: off confectionery conversation like this puzzle.
Speaker 1: M all right. I have a theory, which is confectioneries
Speaker 1: sweet and conversation is talk, sweet.
Speaker 3: Talk, sweet talk, sweet talk. Exactly. This puzzle is sweet talk.
Speaker 1: It's very metal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was always about candy.
Speaker 1: Fantastic. I loved it.
Speaker 2: I loved it, Thank you, thank you, well done.
Speaker 3: Don't share it with Julie. Just give her the graph.
Speaker 3: You'll be fine.
Speaker 1: You know what I am going to try. I am
Speaker 1: going to go outside of my cost benefit year and
Speaker 1: actually try to write something romantic. So we'll see how
Speaker 1: that goes. I'll report back, and then we'll aweigh the
Speaker 1: pros and cons of being rational versus emotional.
Speaker 3: You do a cost benefit analysis? Exactly?
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Greg, that was pantantic. Oh do you
Speaker 1: have an extra credit for the puzzlers at home.
Speaker 2: I do have an extra credit I'm going to use.
Speaker 3: I'm going to give two. I'm going to give two.
Speaker 2: The first extra credit is reddish brown body of water or.
Speaker 3: Howl at the Moon.
Speaker 1: Okay, love it.
Speaker 2: The other one is a young woman who loves Venezuelan
Speaker 2: politician Chavez.
Speaker 1: Okay, I love it. And who does it except for
Speaker 1: most people? All right, Well, if you want the answers,
Speaker 1: please tune in next time, and please have a great
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Speaker 1: will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 3: Hello puzzlers.
Speaker 2: Greg Pliska here with the extra credit answer from our
Speaker 2: previous show, Andy Borowitz was playing anagrams with us, and
Speaker 2: the extra credit clue, which anagrams into a famous person's name,
Speaker 2: was catched them Women guy. So we're looking for a
Speaker 2: guy who quote can catch them women. And the answer
Speaker 2: there's a lot of letters, but if you write him
Speaker 2: down and mix them around, you can spell Matthew McConaughey.
Speaker 2: Of course, you need to know how to spell Matthew McConaughey,
Speaker 2: which is a challenging name to spell, but if you
Speaker 2: got it, you know he's the catch them women guy.
Speaker 2: Thanks for playing along and we'll see you next time.
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