Speaker 1: Hello Puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast, the mint flavored
Speaker 1: mouthwash at the end of your puzzle dental cleaning. I
Speaker 1: am your host, AJ Jacobs, and today's guests are the
Speaker 1: legendary Dax Shepherd and Monica Padman, hosts of Armchair Expert,
Speaker 1: the podcast the flagship show of the Armchair Expert Empire.
Speaker 1: Welcome Dax and Monica.
Speaker 2: Thanks for having that your It's kind of a preposterous inro,
Speaker 2: but we'll take it. You're one of the funnest guests
Speaker 2: we've ever had in six years. The notion that we
Speaker 2: got to just puzzle our way through two.
Speaker 1: Hours, yes, so fun. Well, it was. I'm not making
Speaker 1: that this was. It was a highlight of my life.
Speaker 1: It's like my wedding, my kids being born, like it's
Speaker 1: in the top. So and I also love that you
Speaker 1: talked about that you love puzzles, your puzzle fans.
Speaker 2: Oh not only that, an update for you, Aj that
Speaker 2: didn't exist when we had you on is that my
Speaker 2: now third grade daughter has entered a phase of riddles
Speaker 2: in her teacher gives out riddles NonStop, so she's coming
Speaker 2: home every day with a riddle and it's like I
Speaker 2: can't believe how blessed my life is now.
Speaker 1: I love that. All right, Well, I hope you do
Speaker 1: better on these than I did. I feel good. I
Speaker 1: feel you nervous because this is a type of puzzle
Speaker 1: that we invented here at the Puzzler in the Puzzler Laboratory,
Speaker 1: and we think of it as a rebus for your ears.
Speaker 1: So we call this sort of an earbus trademark pendum.
Speaker 1: So the way it works is I'm going to say
Speaker 1: a word in a certain tone of voice or an accent,
Speaker 1: and if you combine the word and my manner of speaking,
Speaker 1: it's gonna reveal the answer, which is a two word phrase.
Speaker 1: So it's easier than it sounds is easier. So if
Speaker 1: I said, for instance, if I said tied slow tie
Speaker 1: high tie, hi tie exact or rising time or low
Speaker 1: too high, but yes high time.
Speaker 2: You're gonna hate us as guests because we just we
Speaker 2: can't help but go along. But I just want to
Speaker 2: say that one of the funniest moments I was I
Speaker 2: was banned from doing this in a game we would
Speaker 2: play called what was that game categories or something where
Speaker 2: you're going to try there's like fifteen words out on
Speaker 2: the board and you're going to say, Okay, I'm going
Speaker 2: to say one word and you're going to be able
Speaker 2: to guess three of the It was code names.
Speaker 1: Oh I love that game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And this was an outlawed clue that I you'll
Speaker 2: remember it because I said totgest because Australian was one
Speaker 2: of the things, and and like doctor was one, and
Speaker 2: then toilet or something and everyone was really mad. I
Speaker 2: use an Australian accent, but it's very similar.
Speaker 3: Cruel tool might be.
Speaker 1: Some bad makes sense? You ready for your first earbus
Speaker 1: is banana? No, it's banana yeah, but do you know it?
Speaker 3: Ahead, let's do it on three one two three Banana split.
Speaker 1: I love it and I love the I love the delivery.
Speaker 1: All right, well you're a natural. You're two naturals. Ready,
Speaker 1: we got live er, Live er.
Speaker 3: Live.
Speaker 1: I like their looking up. That means they're thinking live er.
Speaker 1: It's just so you know, it's sort of in the
Speaker 1: genre of banana split. It's like pause l I L
Speaker 1: I V E R. But I'm pausing between live and er.
Speaker 1: What happens with wife? No? No, it's got the word liver.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The second it's something liver.
Speaker 2: We have something liver. We got liver and onions.
Speaker 1: We got chopped liver, chopped liver, that chop liver, nicely done.
Speaker 1: All right, you're ready for more? You are, all right? Scientist, man, scientist,
Speaker 1: Look at that. No hesitation, no hesitation, unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Went on into infinity. We would sit here, we would.
Speaker 2: This is like our favorite kind of entertaining. It's like
Speaker 2: a button that.
Speaker 1: I have drug button for at no plans. That's great,
Speaker 1: all right, Well what about this one example example example example,
Speaker 1: it's a two word phrase.
Speaker 3: For example, great job, you're on fire, for example, sorry,
Speaker 3: it's great, we're playing it fast, and the spelling of four.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you're gonna get hung up on that.
Speaker 1: I loved that because I loved you solved it as
Speaker 1: you said.
Speaker 3: It that way.
Speaker 1: That's always fine, all right? What about this one.
Speaker 2: Move slow motion? She had to look. She was trying
Speaker 2: to be kind. She already had it before, I was saying.
Speaker 2: She had already had time to look at me to
Speaker 2: go like, go ahead, all right, only two more, only too,
Speaker 2: because you're nodding your head too. So like if there's
Speaker 2: any effort to let me think I had it before you,
Speaker 2: you blew that by nodding your head as you looked
Speaker 2: at me.
Speaker 1: You were doing much better than I did with eight fours. Okay, ready, s.
Speaker 2: Oh goodness, you weren't even like condescendingly looking at me.
Speaker 1: Over there.
Speaker 2: Your intelligence and compliment to you that I'm upset.
Speaker 1: I think you both are right in there. Well, this one,
Speaker 1: this is a little callback to something Dack said, rules football, rules.
Speaker 2: Football, English rules football.
Speaker 1: Well that I have it, I'm a terrible actor. So
Speaker 1: is it Scottish? That was no? Again, it's so bad
Speaker 1: rules football.
Speaker 2: My Australian rules football.
Speaker 1: Exactly. How would you do it?
Speaker 3: What does that even mean? I don't get it.
Speaker 2: Well, that you're hearing it for the first time, which
Speaker 2: puts you at a deficit for sure. Is that I
Speaker 2: have heard that. I have no clue what it is.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's like a game. It's like sort of rugby
Speaker 1: mixed with football, Australian rules football. I mean, it's fun
Speaker 1: to watch. They don't wear they don't wear helmets, and
Speaker 1: they just like beat up on each other.
Speaker 2: Everyone have callflowers here.
Speaker 3: Well, if you haven't gray for you okay, yeah, I
Speaker 3: didn't mean to shame anyone.
Speaker 1: I didn't know about that.
Speaker 3: That one.
Speaker 1: My apologies on the that was a hard one because
Speaker 1: my accent was was more like lucky Charms, leprechaun or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it was. All right, Well you
Speaker 1: did fantastic even with the accent, So thank you. Where
Speaker 1: can people find more Dax and Monica content.
Speaker 2: Anywhere you consume podcasts? Look for us on Mondays for celebrities,
Speaker 2: Thursday's Experts, and Friday's Crazy Stories from listeners, and we
Speaker 2: have some other shows too, So just listen to us
Speaker 2: every day. Yeah, just stopped everything you're doing and listen,
Speaker 2: and don't ever stop.
Speaker 3: Don't ever stop.
Speaker 1: It's good advice. It's an empire. Before we wrap up,
Speaker 1: as always for the puzzlers at home, an extra credit
Speaker 1: here goes we Fall? The answer is going to be
Speaker 1: three where it's we Fall?
Speaker 2: Same game or playing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, same game?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, okay, I.
Speaker 2: Didn't hear anything distinct on the delivery.
Speaker 1: Did you.
Speaker 3: Yeah there's a pause oh there, oh oh I know.
Speaker 1: But you don't need to do it. This is all
Speaker 1: for the for the audience, but you can you can.
Speaker 1: Oh they're whispering. I like it.
Speaker 3: Oh, good job.
Speaker 1: I think they got it. I think they got it
Speaker 1: I heard something. Puzzlers, please don't forget to subscribe to
Speaker 1: the Puzzler Podcast and we'll meet here tomorrow for more
Speaker 1: puzzling puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 2: Hello again, puzzlers, This is Greg Pliska and I'm here
Speaker 2: to give you the extra credit answer from our previous show.
Speaker 2: In that show, I played a game with Aj where
Speaker 2: he had to guess whether something was a cricket position
Speaker 2: or a carpentry tool, and the extra credit item was
Speaker 2: called a chalk line c H A l K line.
Speaker 2: Now I n E chalk line that is in fact
Speaker 2: a carpentry tool. It's used to draw long straight lines.
Speaker 2: It's a string with chalk on it and you snap
Speaker 2: it on the whatever surface to draw a long straight
Speaker 2: chalk line. I hope you got that one, and I
Speaker 2: hope you'll join us again on the Puzzler Podcast.