Speaker 1: Hello, puzzlers, Welcome to the Buzzler Podcast, The Cleansing Bassetration
Speaker 1: for your puzzle Infection. I am your host, A J. Jacobs,
Speaker 1: and I am here with our guests, the awesome Dax
Speaker 1: Shepherd and Monica Padman, hosts of Armchair Expert and so
Speaker 1: much more. Welcome Dax and Monica, thanks.
Speaker 2: For having us A. I think that was my favorite intro.
Speaker 1: I've herd really you love little gross.
Speaker 2: Tackling an infection while greeting people into the program is
Speaker 2: bold and revolutionary and I applaud it on every level.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: My producer was a little skeptical, say.
Speaker 2: Well, they're going to lose your back team sponsors.
Speaker 1: It was a risk I took. Well, today we have
Speaker 1: a movie themed puzzle for you, because I know you
Speaker 1: are both movie fans and have appeared in movies. So
Speaker 1: and actually, I will say briefly, I came up with
Speaker 1: several movie themed puzzle ideas. My first idea was rejected
Speaker 1: very vigorously by the puzzle staff. The first idea though,
Speaker 1: if you go on IMDb and look at Dax, if
Speaker 1: you look at your list of credits, do you.
Speaker 2: Know what the vomiteer at party that's what you're gonna Yeah,
Speaker 2: I wear that with great pride. If you can start
Speaker 2: a career as vomiteer at party with no lines and
Speaker 2: work your way up to a cast member on parenthood,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: What a life.
Speaker 2: This guy's the limit?
Speaker 1: Did it say vomited? When I saw the one I
Speaker 1: saw said guy vomiting at.
Speaker 2: Party, classed it up by saying vomiteer at party. You're right,
Speaker 2: it's actually lower brow guy vomiting at party.
Speaker 1: I didn't know about the noun vomiteer. I love it.
Speaker 2: Well, clearly I did a great job vomiting because it
Speaker 2: led to all kinds.
Speaker 1: Of fors vomiting.
Speaker 3: Year.
Speaker 4: Is it a plan volunteer?
Speaker 2: It's like group of vomitorium vomiteer out a vomatorium. Wow,
Speaker 2: Rome ancient of hellenicx Liberal artification.
Speaker 1: Well, I was gonna do sort of a theme of
Speaker 1: other cinematic spewing like the Exorciste.
Speaker 4: Oh, we would have liked that.
Speaker 1: Well you're nice. Well my next time you're on. Yeah. Instead,
Speaker 1: I would love to try a puzzle called name that
Speaker 1: title drop. And you might have heard the phrase title drop.
Speaker 1: My kids taught it to me. It is when a
Speaker 1: character says the title of a movie during the movie
Speaker 1: at oh I.
Speaker 2: Love that Okay, sometimes met with a round of applause
Speaker 2: if the movie is good enough.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. The most famous title drop, One of the
Speaker 1: most famous is Doc Brown telling Michael J. Fox next
Speaker 1: Saturday night, we're sending you back to exactly. So in
Speaker 1: this quiz, we're going to play you a clip from
Speaker 1: a couple of movies. And we bleeped out the title drop.
Speaker 1: But we didn't bleep it out. I decided I would
Speaker 1: actually say the phrase title drop. Oh, so I can
Speaker 1: express my acting chops in case you're casting anything. Uh
Speaker 1: but here, coz, please play clip number one.
Speaker 2: Village please apartment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hi, Look, I'm calling from Paris. I have a
Speaker 1: son whose title drop.
Speaker 4: I knew it from the from the ringing. I love
Speaker 4: that movie so much. Wow, And it's timely because we're
Speaker 4: just coming out of Christmas. I've seen it recently.
Speaker 2: This doesn't air lost?
Speaker 1: You know, well, what is it? Monica tell us home alone,
Speaker 1: Home Alone, baby? That was so fast, that was crazy.
Speaker 2: Yes, she was well ahead of it.
Speaker 4: Do you think you would have had it?
Speaker 2: It's hard to know because you couldn't. You were saying
Speaker 2: it before it was the clip was even over. I
Speaker 2: think if I'm recollecting correctly, I couldn't help. I'm proud.
Speaker 2: I'm proud to be in this game with you and business.
Speaker 4: I have a feeling the rest are going to go
Speaker 4: to you because my brain doesn't work well like this auditorily,
Speaker 4: Like when people play music, I don't know the song
Speaker 4: until the song's over, basically, but this was just the
Speaker 4: one I knew it was going to get.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is such a shoe in for you. You
Speaker 2: probably watched us four times in the last.
Speaker 1: Two months, exactly exactly. Yeah, I think I feel this
Speaker 1: puzzle is like if you love the movie, you know,
Speaker 1: if you don't, then you're a shit out of luck.
Speaker 1: All right, So here's clip number two.
Speaker 2: I just want to say to the listener who can't
Speaker 2: see Monica. She's using her left hand to push the clip,
Speaker 2: and it's shocking how uncoordinated she is with her left hand.
Speaker 2: She's having the hardest time getting her finger just to
Speaker 2: the mousepad. I relate. I tried to write with my
Speaker 2: right hand the other day and it couldn't be done.
Speaker 2: So I'm not casting.
Speaker 4: Any Dax is left handed. I think that you don't
Speaker 4: understand because you have to use your right hand in life,
Speaker 4: because this is a right handed world you live in,
Speaker 4: right and left these like right handers don't have to
Speaker 4: use their left hand almost ever.
Speaker 2: True, That's true.
Speaker 4: Okay, were ready?
Speaker 1: Are you feeling some empathy for Yeah?
Speaker 2: Nice?
Speaker 3: Everything I think and everything.
Speaker 2: I do is wrong.
Speaker 3: I was wrong about Elton, I was wrong about Christian.
Speaker 3: Now Josh hated me.
Speaker 2: It all boiled down to one inevitable conclusion.
Speaker 4: I was just totally titled, John, Oh, I love it?
Speaker 3: Do you know it?
Speaker 2: I feel like these are really on a platter for you.
Speaker 2: I'm I don't know.
Speaker 1: Clueless, clueless clueless.
Speaker 4: Yes, these are great. I love this game.
Speaker 2: Something does happen to my brain though, when I see
Speaker 2: that you have it, and then I immediately go like, oh,
Speaker 2: I don't have it. She has it, And then I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't even think any longer.
Speaker 4: Mental games?
Speaker 2: Is that what it is?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You need to get a little bit tougher mentally.
Speaker 2: I need to block you out during this is what
Speaker 2: I need to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we want to be in separate booths.
Speaker 2: We're going to call you back in twenty five where
Speaker 2: I'm going to patch in from Central La and she's
Speaker 2: going to stay here.
Speaker 1: All right? Well, we have two more. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: I could have done. I looked at your IMDb list
Speaker 1: for any title drops. There was one, but I was
Speaker 1: it was too late. I couldn't get the clip. But
Speaker 1: it was something along the line of, you're just jealous
Speaker 1: about my superior retailing ability. You'll never make.
Speaker 2: Employees of them. I feel like baby Mama has to
Speaker 2: have been said in Baby Mama as well, don't you think, Mamica?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but maybe you not by me.
Speaker 2: No, they wouldn't interrust me with the title drop. I
Speaker 2: actually I wonder if it's in there.
Speaker 4: I can see them not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're so good, So.
Speaker 1: Okay, I will I will fact check that.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: What about this? Oh? Yeah, we have two more.
Speaker 2: Give Monica some time to get her hand.
Speaker 4: Up ten to twelve minutes.
Speaker 2: She just needs a little ten minutes, heads up, right now?
Speaker 1: Okay, be ready?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 1: Clip three? This is clip three.
Speaker 6: You felt it your entire life that there's something wrong
Speaker 6: with the world. You don't know what it is, but
Speaker 6: it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.
Speaker 6: It is this feeling that has brought you to me.
Speaker 6: Do you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Title drop Matrix, Matrix.
Speaker 1: I didn't have that well done.
Speaker 2: Well, we've gone like early Girl movie, now Boy movie.
Speaker 4: No Matrix is very under nooch. I've watched it many times.
Speaker 4: I just didn't and I didn't know it well enough.
Speaker 1: And by the way, this was the scene right before
Speaker 1: he offers him the blue or the red pill. Yes,
Speaker 1: I would have a hard time. I might take the
Speaker 1: blue pill.
Speaker 2: Personally, Oh wow, I should because I've got way too
Speaker 2: lucky of a wife. I don't know why I would
Speaker 2: want to find out none of this is real. Although
Speaker 2: as if you've listened to the show, you know that
Speaker 2: we are under a very firm belief that we're living
Speaker 2: in Monica's father's.
Speaker 4: Simulation, all of us, including you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're part of it. So and it's so I
Speaker 2: guess you are a show. Thank you as well, because
Speaker 2: for me, I love the role he's assigned me.
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you. I have some notes. I have some
Speaker 1: notes for him, but overall it's not that. Now this one,
Speaker 1: I do feel guilty because I know I happen to
Speaker 1: know that this is a favorite of Monica's. I don't
Speaker 1: know whether Dax I think you like it too, so.
Speaker 2: Maybe Monica just a whole Well, you're you're outburst, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: All right, play clip number four. Please.
Speaker 3: You're a pack of vultures at the feast, Todd, I'll
Speaker 3: drop bloody.
Speaker 2: That's for you.
Speaker 1: Well, you did say on a show recent maybe recent dish,
Speaker 1: that you love this this movie.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: Glad. I'm so glad you didn't get at a meeting.
Speaker 2: Can we get a second? Is it breaking the rules?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 2: It twice?
Speaker 1: No, play it as often as you want.
Speaker 3: You're a pack of vultures at the feast, Todd, I'll
Speaker 3: drop bloody.
Speaker 2: It's English, right, are we seeing some kind of a
Speaker 2: period piece or some kind of.
Speaker 1: He's that English? I mean, well interesting. The actor is English,
Speaker 1: but I believe the character is Southern in this, I will.
Speaker 2: Give you it is.
Speaker 1: Daniel Craig is the one who's saying it.
Speaker 2: Oh, I got it. Yes, you love these movies.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, the Ryan Oh yeah, oh my god, yes,
Speaker 4: Inheritance or knives Out, Knives.
Speaker 1: Knives Out, that's it exactly.
Speaker 2: Wow wow. Yes, he's definitely playing a Southern gentleman and
Speaker 2: he is English. I totally that was hard. It was
Speaker 2: very hard because it sounded a little English and southern.
Speaker 4: It sounds like it was going to be from the twenties,
Speaker 4: sound like it was an old.
Speaker 2: Movie period piece.
Speaker 1: Well, I love that movie. I love glass Onion too.
Speaker 1: Did you let did you see that? Loved?
Speaker 2: So we were we were three or four.
Speaker 1: We got it.
Speaker 4: We didn't get it with a little clue.
Speaker 1: Pretty big clue, I am Daniel, because otherwise it would
Speaker 1: have been, like you know, it was too easy. Thank
Speaker 1: you for show your human Oh that was fun.
Speaker 2: This is so fun. AJ it is aj.
Speaker 1: I love to having you are amazing guests. I just
Speaker 1: didn't Well, anytime you want listen, if you want any
Speaker 1: puzzling on the Armchair Expert, you know I'm happy to provide.
Speaker 4: We know where to go.
Speaker 1: There you go, thanks exactly.
Speaker 2: We may rudely accept that casual invitation, as they say.
Speaker 1: Yeah, are you kidding? Honored? Where can people find more
Speaker 1: of Dax and Monica?
Speaker 4: We have multiple shows Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday on
Speaker 4: everywhere you find your podcast. Just search Armchair Expert and
Speaker 4: you'll find us all the time.
Speaker 1: Every seconment of day twenty four And by the way,
Speaker 1: I did try to do an F one puzzle and
Speaker 1: I failed.
Speaker 2: Maybe next time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And of course, as always for the puzzlers at home,
Speaker 1: we have another name that title drop here you go.
Speaker 3: But what we found out is that each one of
Speaker 3: us is a brain and an athlete and a basket case.
Speaker 1: A princess and a criminal. Does that answer your question?
Speaker 1: Sincerely yours title job okay, and come back tomorrow and
Speaker 1: you will get the answer. And in the meantime, feel
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Speaker 1: puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 2: Hey puzzlers.
Speaker 5: Greg Plisker here up from the Puzzle Lab with the
Speaker 5: extra credit answer from our previous show. We did some
Speaker 5: fact checking with Monica and Dax and we asked them
Speaker 5: which of these is true. Alexander the Great started a
Speaker 5: war because of a jigsaw puzzle or Alexander the Great
Speaker 5: started a war because of an anagram? Well, those of
Speaker 5: you who have read the Puzzler know the answer. According
Speaker 5: to the Puzzle Instinct by psychologist Marshall Denezi, Alexander the
Speaker 5: Great once had a dream about a satyr, the mythical
Speaker 5: character that is half man, half goat. He asked his
Speaker 5: soothsayers what it meant to pointed out that in ancient Greek,
Speaker 5: the word for satyar is an anagram of tire is yours,
Speaker 5: and so he took this as a green light from
Speaker 5: the gods. Of course, in English, satyar is an anagram
Speaker 5: of trays, which would have set Alexander the Great straight
Speaker 5: into the cafeteria. So stay out of the cafeteria and
Speaker 5: keep listening to the puzzler.
Speaker 2: See you next time.