Speaker 1: Hello puzzlers, and welcome to the Puzzler podcast The Missing
Speaker 1: Nickel in your daily puzzle count Questions. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: AJ Jacobs, and I'm here with our guest, Andy Borrowitz,
Speaker 1: creator of The Borrowitz Report and best selling author of
Speaker 1: Profiles and Ignorance. Welcome Andy, Thanks for having me, Aj
Speaker 1: and Andy. Greg Pliska, our chief puzzle officer, has written
Speaker 1: a special puzzle just for you. Mike, I'm gonna turn
Speaker 1: it over to Greg.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for letting me out of the basement
Speaker 2: once again, just this one. It's great to meet you. Andy.
Speaker 3: I'm not worthy. I'm not worthy.
Speaker 2: Now, you're probably not familiar with the playwright William Snakespear,
Speaker 2: are you.
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 4: It's it rings a bell vaguely, but I don't think
Speaker 4: I've read any of his Did he write Rodeo and Juliette?
Speaker 3: Was that hisse?
Speaker 2: So you're actually gonna write today's puzzle, aren't you. You've
Speaker 2: got the idea right there. William Snakespear wrote a number
Speaker 2: of works that are just one letter different from those
Speaker 2: of the better known Williams right on about a bit okay,
Speaker 2: and so one example certainly could be Rodeo and Juliette.
Speaker 2: Another is the one about the Prince of Denmark and
Speaker 2: his new low cost airline that's staffed entirely by bad actors, which,
Speaker 2: of course is the play Hamjet Hamjet exactly just one
Speaker 2: letter different from the better known Hamlet. Well you understand
Speaker 2: how this works, so we'll just dive right in. I'll
Speaker 2: give you a description of the snake Spear play, and
Speaker 2: you see if you can come up with the title. Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, here's your first one. This rom com has
Speaker 2: dos Daemona revealing her love for sports agent Jerry Maguire
Speaker 2: with the line you had me.
Speaker 4: Well you had me at hello, so would it be
Speaker 4: oh hello?
Speaker 2: Oh it's actually at hello Hello?
Speaker 4: Is just one very close because I actually said that
Speaker 4: in my in my setup, and then I got the
Speaker 4: answer Rocket Party'll give you credits.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you actually said the words, as long.
Speaker 4: As you several correct answer before didn't identify them correctly
Speaker 4: that I did.
Speaker 1: At Hello a play on othello.
Speaker 3: That's a very clever one. That's very clever.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, here's another one. A young Montague boy
Speaker 2: attempts to woo the daughter of the rival Capulate family.
Speaker 2: He's captured and thrown into the Illinois State Penitentiary, made
Speaker 2: famous by the movie The Blues Brothers.
Speaker 4: Well, he wasn't in a rodeo, that he was, but
Speaker 4: he was in Joliet. It was Romeo in Joliet.
Speaker 2: Romeo and Joliette. Exactly, yeah, exactly, very good. I almost
Speaker 2: cut that one because you you know, you got Rodeo
Speaker 2: and Juliet is all so very good.
Speaker 4: Well, maybe that's his he had some rodeo based in fraction.
Speaker 3: Exactly right. That's that sort of changes your role. Then
Speaker 3: you're misspelling two words, so that's a little time.
Speaker 2: No, she's left behind at the rodeo, right, that's where
Speaker 2: he goes to brit.
Speaker 3: And he says, this isn't my first rodeo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. Here's another one, another famous snake spear play.
Speaker 2: In a cursed Scottish castle. A lady stands over the tub,
Speaker 2: attempting again and again to wash the blood off of
Speaker 2: her Apple computer.
Speaker 3: I love that. Oh that's very clever. She's in another words,
Speaker 3: giving it a mac bath.
Speaker 2: Mac bath is exactly the image of this woman with
Speaker 2: all the computers in the bathtub.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's not very good for the mac. I would
Speaker 1: say it's not maybe with I think if she used
Speaker 1: the like the purell a little, it might work, but.
Speaker 2: It could exactly much cleaner. All right, I got one
Speaker 2: more for you before we wrap up. This play is
Speaker 2: a sequel to an animated DreamWorks film, and it finds
Speaker 2: Queen Fiona challenged by Petruchio to get her ogresh husband
Speaker 2: under control.
Speaker 4: Oh gosh, so it will be. I think it'll be
Speaker 4: Taming of the Shrack, right, the Taming of the Shrack. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I almost I almost lost my credibility as an English.
Speaker 3: Nature by saying Petruchio patruch one? Was he in? You know?
Speaker 3: It's like it's been a while, well understood.
Speaker 2: You got to drop a hint in there for the
Speaker 2: folks who might not have any idea about Shrek. But
Speaker 2: at least no, Petruchio isn't taming.
Speaker 4: That was a very clever one. These are all really great.
Speaker 4: I think I'd like mac bath.
Speaker 2: It's good fun, isn't it. I love Thank you, Thank you. Well.
Speaker 2: As always, we have an extra credit to to give
Speaker 2: the listeners at home. You'll know the answer, so don't
Speaker 2: call it out. Well, I'll just share this one for
Speaker 2: our listeners. Although he had great success as the architect
Speaker 2: of the victories of King George Bush, the second of Navarre.
Speaker 2: This political advisor's work is all for naught when King
Speaker 2: Trump comes to power years later.
Speaker 1: Hmm, okay, that's good.
Speaker 3: That's a tough one.
Speaker 1: That is a tough one.
Speaker 3: Listen.
Speaker 1: Well, they've got a whole day to do it, or more.
Speaker 1: They can do it whenever they want.
Speaker 2: No, no, If they don't get it in by the
Speaker 2: next podcast, they can't listen anymore.
Speaker 1: Well, they can take a break to just savor it. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you Greg, and thank you Andy. That was delightful
Speaker 1: and educational, So everyone's a winner. Remember, don't forget to
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Speaker 5: Hello, Puzzlers. Day after Valentine's Day, this is Greg Kliska,
Speaker 5: your chief puzzle officer. Here were the extra credit from
Speaker 5: her Valentine's Day special. I played a game with aj
Speaker 5: where I gave him clues to words or phrases that
Speaker 5: appear on the candy hearts that people give out at
Speaker 5: Valentine's Day. These are sort of punny charade cryptic sorts
Speaker 5: of clues, and the two extra credits I gave you
Speaker 5: were these. The first one was reddish brown, body of
Speaker 5: water or howl at the moon, and the answer, of
Speaker 5: course was bee bay is the answer.
Speaker 2: To each of those clues. Bee is a reddish brown color,
Speaker 2: a body of water, or a verb meaning howl at
Speaker 2: the moon. But Bee Bae also appears on candy hearts.
Speaker 2: The second one I gave you was a young woman
Speaker 2: who loves Venezuelan politician Chavez, and that would be Hugo Chavez,
Speaker 2: and of course a young woman who loves him is
Speaker 2: a Hugo girl, giving you the confectionery heart phrase you
Speaker 2: go girl. That's one of the more encouraging candy hearts.
Speaker 2: So we encourage you to come back and listen to
Speaker 2: the Puzzler again tomorrow and the day after that, and
Speaker 2: the day after that, until we see you here a
Speaker 2: year from now for Valentine's Day. Once again, thanks for listening.