Speaker 1: Hello, puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler podcast the Corinthian Capital
Speaker 1: atop your puzzle Roman column. I'm your host, AJ Jacobs,
Speaker 1: and today we are talking about anagrams, or as I
Speaker 1: like to call them, the rs magna. Ours magna is
Speaker 1: a Latin phrase that translates to the great art. And
Speaker 1: here's the twist. If you rearranged the letters in ours magna,
Speaker 1: it spells anagrams. It's an anagram of the word anagrams.
Speaker 1: That is super meta stuff. That's the kind of next
Speaker 1: level wordplay you get here at the Puzzler. Our guest
Speaker 1: today is the amazing, hilarious Jessica Shaw, host of the
Speaker 1: pop culture Spotlight on Serious Exam. Welcome Jessica.
Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, Aj. I didn't know that about the anagram anagram.
Speaker 1: This is an educational show. Well did you know that
Speaker 1: your name is an anagram? Jessica? Shall I do?
Speaker 3: I do know, and I'll tell you, well, I don't.
Speaker 3: It might be I mean, listen, you don't know. There
Speaker 3: might be multiples. But I did have a crush on
Speaker 3: a boy in college and he happened to be a
Speaker 3: cartoonist and in the Columbia Daily Spectator he dedicated his
Speaker 3: last cartoon to me and said grassias two and then
Speaker 3: the anagram for my name.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's the one you have, but
Speaker 2: there was one.
Speaker 1: So it's been published. Oh my goodness, well what is it?
Speaker 1: What's the one he did?
Speaker 2: Jewish casas?
Speaker 1: See that's better than ours. I love it. Ah, well,
Speaker 1: here's ours. Jaw agges sis. Like if you're telling your
Speaker 1: sister that your jaw's in pain because he ate too
Speaker 1: many gummy worms, he'd say jaw aches sis. Totally natural phrase.
Speaker 3: It's very TMJ, which happens in a lot of Jewish casas.
Speaker 1: Frankly, there you go. It all ties together. Oh well,
Speaker 1: I love it all right. So today we are doing
Speaker 1: anagrams about occupations, about jobs, and I'll give you an example.
Speaker 1: If I give you the clue, for instance, moon staer,
Speaker 1: moon starer, then you might say, someone who stares at
Speaker 1: the moon is in astronomer unbelievable, look at that. Okay, Jess,
Speaker 1: here's the first one. And by the way, listeners, if
Speaker 1: you are not driving, then feel free to write it
Speaker 1: down yourself. If you're driving, maybe not.
Speaker 2: I'm not driving, so that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: I'm right, perfect, Okay, first off is redo it. This
Speaker 1: is someone whose job might be say I might involve
Speaker 1: saying redo it, redo it. And it's something that I
Speaker 1: was kind of doing when we first met and Entertainment Weekly.
Speaker 1: I would look at articles and I might say redo
Speaker 1: it because editor an editor nailed it.
Speaker 3: The saddest part is all I kept seeing in my
Speaker 3: writing was dorrito, Mike, am I hungry?
Speaker 2: What is happening?
Speaker 1: Well, they are a sponsor, so it works out perfectly.
Speaker 1: They're not, by the way, all right. So next we
Speaker 1: have got stamp on, stampn stamp on. This is someone
Speaker 1: who might, during their job say stamp on. If he
Speaker 1: has a letter and he wants you to get it
Speaker 1: ready so that he can nail it. He might say
Speaker 1: stamp on because he works at the.
Speaker 2: At the post office.
Speaker 1: Book, Yes you got it, No, you got it? Post postman?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well no, I think I give you because it's sexist.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't it should be post office.
Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 2: That's right. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 3: I have a real problem and I don't think that
Speaker 3: should count toward by tally of wrong answers because that
Speaker 3: is downright sexist. A. J.
Speaker 1: Jacobs, Yeah, I agree one hundred percent. Whoever came up.
Speaker 2: And on behalf of all women. I'm taking that as
Speaker 2: a win.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: This one might also be controversial. Bag manager, bag manager,
Speaker 1: someone who manages bags. They might be.
Speaker 2: Smelly bags, garbage man.
Speaker 1: Nice garbage person exactly. So yes, I have never been
Speaker 1: a garbage man, or I have been an editor. What
Speaker 1: Jessica was?
Speaker 2: Which will?
Speaker 1: I mean?
Speaker 2: Truly like sometimes you're editing garbage.
Speaker 1: So excellent point. There's a big link. What about you?
Speaker 1: What was your weirdest and or worst job?
Speaker 3: Are you gonna anagramm it if I tell you?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: On the spot here My worst job was a tcby
Speaker 3: Scooper person, and I got food poisoning my very first
Speaker 3: day and they fired me.
Speaker 1: Wait, well from what?
Speaker 2: From a sad story? This is a sad story. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 3: I can't say I got it from being there and
Speaker 3: from sampling, which you know I did a lot of.
Speaker 3: All I know is I I had to go home
Speaker 3: and I never went back to work. And then the
Speaker 3: manager called my mother and said can she bring in
Speaker 3: her green collar shirt?
Speaker 2: Because she took it home with her.
Speaker 1: So you didn't even get to keep the shirt. I
Speaker 1: did not and what do you think if you had
Speaker 1: to guess which flavor was the one that got you
Speaker 1: in public service?
Speaker 2: I don't need? Does TCB why still exist?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: I don't need?
Speaker 3: Now I'm going to say that I sampled like legit everything.
Speaker 2: So let's go to like cookies and.
Speaker 1: Cream, cookies and cream that could do it? Uh, don't
Speaker 1: see us please tc B Y all right? So next up?
Speaker 1: Are you ready? A STU sir? A stew so A
Speaker 1: s t e W sir. This is something this person
Speaker 1: might ask h a customer. This person might come up
Speaker 1: and say, hey, a stew sir?
Speaker 2: Oh what what? Wait? Waiters wait?
Speaker 1: Yes, I think it's actually wait wait waitress. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: trying to balance the genders.
Speaker 2: Are you are get used to the sexism again?
Speaker 3: Another in the wind column. For me, it was only
Speaker 3: because I was compensating.
Speaker 1: Understand, understand that is totally our fault. Okay, two more
Speaker 1: and then we're done. Which is this one is? This
Speaker 1: is they're getting a little harder just so you know,
Speaker 1: so don't feel bad. Court poser, So court c O
Speaker 1: U R T poser p O s E R so.
Speaker 1: This this is the person who's in court and they
Speaker 1: might pose some questions, some cross examination questions. Perhaps a
Speaker 1: court poser, I mean, not a lawyer, prosecuteator, you got it,
Speaker 1: prosecutor exactly. All right, last one, you are nailing it.
Speaker 1: You are five for five to nailing it. Okay, this one,
Speaker 1: this one is interesting because it's a little appropriate. I
Speaker 1: never write. I never write, So I an E V
Speaker 1: E R W R I T E. And what's interesting
Speaker 1: is this person they might not write because they're too
Speaker 1: busy asking questions.
Speaker 2: Interviewer, interviewer.
Speaker 1: And the ironic part is that that's not accurate, Jessica,
Speaker 1: because you are an interviewer and a writer. You are
Speaker 1: a wonderful writer. I loved your piece recently in the
Speaker 1: New York Times tracing your family roots. You hiked across
Speaker 1: the Pyrenees to understand your father grandfather's escape from Germany.
Speaker 1: So lovely. What else are you working on? What can
Speaker 1: we look forward to?
Speaker 3: You can hear all of my interviews with the celebrities
Speaker 3: who are not garbage men on Serious XM, on the
Speaker 3: Pop Culture Spotlight.
Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent. Well, you could interview Emilia Estevez, who is
Speaker 1: in a Working Man about garbage collectors, wasn't he? That's
Speaker 1: my only pop culture garbage man reference, so I thought
Speaker 1: i'd throw it in. Wasn't that it?
Speaker 4: No way?
Speaker 3: It was like him with Charlie Sheen. I don't feel
Speaker 3: like it was called working man though, but it was something,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 1: Were our researchers are busy typing it up. But yes,
Speaker 1: it was a brother It was lovely, it was a
Speaker 1: brother thing. Okay, So before we wrap up, well, first,
Speaker 1: thank you Jessica. You are the best. And thank you
Speaker 1: before we wrap up, as always, for all you puzzlers
Speaker 1: at home, here is your extra credit puzzle. Before I
Speaker 1: give it, we just got its. Men at work, not
Speaker 1: working men at work. All right, here's one last anagram.
Speaker 1: This anagram actually is old. It appeared in nineteen twenty
Speaker 1: one in a legendary puzzle magazine called The Enigma. It's
Speaker 1: not an occupation, but it is a place where people work,
Speaker 1: and the anagram is and sliced eats, so in slight eats, puzzlers,
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Speaker 1: puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 4: Hello, puzzlers, this is Greg Pliska, here with the extra
Speaker 4: credit answer from our previous show. We asked you to
Speaker 4: identify the following words and phrases that start with P
Speaker 4: and the last clue. The extra credit clue was burial
Speaker 4: place for an unknown person, taken from a phrase in
Speaker 4: the Bible, and the answer, just like in the song
Speaker 4: put Pup, Pup Pup poker Face, is pu pup, pup
Speaker 4: pup Potter's Field. Congrats to everyone who got it. We'll
Speaker 4: see you next time. Happy puzzling,