Speaker 1: Hello, puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast the triple Backflip
Speaker 1: in your Puzzle Trampoline Routine. I'm your host, A J. Jacobs,
Speaker 1: and today's guest is the wonderful Charlotte Wilder, Sportswriter podcast
Speaker 1: host Substacker All sorts of things with Jack of All
Speaker 1: Trades Jack Jilles. There you go. Welcome, Thank you for
Speaker 1: coming back. And as you know, we are an audio show,
Speaker 1: so sometimes we like to do audio quizzes, which is
Speaker 1: not something you can get in your paper inning puzzles.
Speaker 1: We did a name that Game show sound effect with
Speaker 1: Ken Jennings where we would play him a little beeper
Speaker 1: buzz and he would have to name the game show.
Speaker 1: One of my proudest moments on the Puzzler I stumped
Speaker 1: Ken Jennings on a Jeopardy sound effect. No, it's exciting, yes, incredulity.
Speaker 2: No, that's awesome, that's the goal, right it.
Speaker 1: It was from the nineteen seventies version of Jeopardy. It
Speaker 1: was the harp, the glissando.
Speaker 2: I should still know that.
Speaker 1: Sorry, he was. Yeah, he was excited to be stumped
Speaker 1: because it's such a rare occasion for him. All right,
Speaker 1: So for you though we have name that sports sound.
Speaker 1: So we're going to play clips of sports sounds and
Speaker 1: you're going to have to guess, and if you get
Speaker 1: him right, I'm going to say woo. And if you
Speaker 1: get him wrong, I'll do a raspberry or something or
Speaker 1: boo something like that. We'll see. But are you ready
Speaker 1: for sports sound number one?
Speaker 2: Yes? I sure, am maj excellent. Oh I've got you
Speaker 2: got it. Yeah, it's bowling pins getting knocked.
Speaker 1: Down exactly, but how many? Is it a five? Eight
Speaker 1: or strike? That's no way you can It was a strike,
Speaker 1: just so you know, but you got it there was.
Speaker 1: You didn't have to get the strike part. You got
Speaker 1: it Allre you ready for number two? Sports Sound number two?
Speaker 2: Yes? Oh it's a short one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this play again. You might want to play a
Speaker 1: couple of times.
Speaker 2: I have two guesses that might either is on both?
Speaker 1: Tell me both?
Speaker 2: Okay. My first thought was is it pool? When? What
Speaker 2: is that called when you hit the white ball at
Speaker 2: the other ones? What it's called a break? A break break?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Is that an interesting or a hockey slap shot?
Speaker 1: That is so interesting? It is neither one of those.
Speaker 1: This is something you would hear on your wonderful show.
Speaker 1: Oddball about the end be a.
Speaker 2: You're gonna stump me on basketball the way you stumped
Speaker 2: Ken Jennings on Jeopardy. I shouldn't have made fun of Ken,
Speaker 2: I did. Okay, I'm gonna listen to it one more time.
Speaker 1: Okay, good?
Speaker 2: Oh? Is it? Is it? Nothing but Nette?
Speaker 1: It's nothing but that. It's a swish exactly, thanks, and
Speaker 1: just so you know, it's a Kobe Bryant swish. I
Speaker 1: won't make you try to guess that.
Speaker 2: I don't think I could have, but thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, this one, yeah, some of these are tricky.
Speaker 1: This next one. Uh, are you ready? Let's listen to
Speaker 1: Sports Sound number three.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I need to listen again.
Speaker 1: All right now, I am here for hints for this one.
Speaker 2: I have like a sense memory of this. Maybe not?
Speaker 2: But is this a hockey player getting slammed into the boards.
Speaker 1: No, weirdly, that was a found we were gonna play later,
Speaker 1: but you just have you scooped us. No, this is
Speaker 1: in a game a sport that you follow, uh and
Speaker 1: it was actually it happened to be a game with
Speaker 1: one of your favorite teams that you we were just
Speaker 1: talking about last week. So which was exactly.
Speaker 2: It's not like helmets colliding, is it?
Speaker 1: No, no dark, but it is something colliding.
Speaker 2: Oh oh oh, of course a j it's a doin.
Speaker 1: It's a doink exactly, and it's a very particular it's
Speaker 1: like bong woing wing wing wing ling wing.
Speaker 2: Well. I don't think people realize just how deep the
Speaker 2: sound is, like how tall the uprights are, so that
Speaker 2: when you hit it there's a lot of metal to vibrate.
Speaker 1: That was interesting to me. I did not know. By
Speaker 1: the way, this was a Randy Bullock, who was then
Speaker 1: with the Tennessee Titans, dwinking in a game with your patriots.
Speaker 2: That ectually that was great for the Patriots. That was
Speaker 2: very bad for the Titans.
Speaker 1: See, I wanted to bring you a happy memory.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Of course that did just bring
Speaker 2: me right back to where I was when I was
Speaker 2: watching that game. Wow.
Speaker 1: Great, we're here to help, all right. Last one, let's
Speaker 1: play clip number. Whatever's the clip number for?
Speaker 2: Is that a tennis rally?
Speaker 1: It is a tennis rally. It is nice some grunting
Speaker 1: from the tennis court. And Annie, would you like to
Speaker 1: would you like to guess who might be those grunters.
Speaker 2: Is one of them, Serena.
Speaker 3: No, she is.
Speaker 1: Listed in the top ten grunters. Like I found many
Speaker 1: lists online, but this one was listed as a higher than.
Speaker 2: Krnakova.
Speaker 1: No, but it's kind of the right era it is
Speaker 1: now it sounds sounds like Krnikova. I don't. I think
Speaker 1: she got in trouble and is not allowed to play anymore.
Speaker 2: Caroline Wosnowski or no, it is, well, there is.
Speaker 1: There are two of them, and they were listed as
Speaker 1: one and two best grunters in some article. Victoria Azarinka
Speaker 1: is the first, which I didn't know. But the second
Speaker 1: I didn't know is she's very tall. Russian doping problem,
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I can't.
Speaker 1: Martina, No, Maria exactly, you got it. We got but
Speaker 1: that was just extra credit. You got it. It was
Speaker 1: the grunting well, very nicely done. Oh by the way,
Speaker 1: since I spent so much time researching grunts on the internet,
Speaker 1: I and my friend do a quick supercut of grunts
Speaker 1: from different sports. This is not really a quiz because
Speaker 1: it's very hard. But let's just play the grunt supercut
Speaker 1: really quickly for I try to guess. Sure, you can
Speaker 1: try to guess. It's gonna be hard, all right. Number
Speaker 1: six is the grunt supercut.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's too hard. I can't guess. So I know
Speaker 2: that one of them basketball though, I know that.
Speaker 1: You got it. The first one is is Joel Embiid.
Speaker 1: I think I'm saying his name right, drawing a foul,
Speaker 1: and the next was shot putter. There's a boxer getting hit,
Speaker 1: heavyweight boxer, martial arts and the football wide receiver. I
Speaker 1: think it was a grunt. I looked into it. They
Speaker 1: grunt sometimes when they make a turn, not even like
Speaker 1: in there. What's that about.
Speaker 2: I just like the I think people don't fully understand
Speaker 2: the amount of effort it takes to quickly change direction.
Speaker 2: I think that's actually this is interesting to me about
Speaker 2: sports in general, is that when when you're watching a game,
Speaker 2: say you're watching basketball, and someone sort of you know,
Speaker 2: juke somebody else or quickly pivots off of their one leg.
Speaker 2: The amount of strength that takes, if you're going full
Speaker 2: speed and you're you know, over six five two one
Speaker 2: hundred pounds is insane. And so I that's also for football.
Speaker 2: I would imagine.
Speaker 1: That's so interesting. Yeah, it's like the inertia. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: well that is very helpful. Well, I loved having you
Speaker 1: this week and I learned a lot about sports and
Speaker 1: you did great, So thank you for coming on. Where
Speaker 1: can people find more Charlotte Wilder, Well.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Aj. I'm going to need more puzzles. I'm
Speaker 2: all amped up now. I'm like, can you do more?
Speaker 2: Can I have some more puzzles?
Speaker 1: Do it off the air? I'm free all night right.
Speaker 2: Uh, you can find me and the co host of
Speaker 2: Oddball with them and Al Hassen on The Metal Lark
Speaker 2: for Metal Lark Media, a bunch of other shows a
Speaker 2: Metal Ark and The Wilder Things dot substack dot com.
Speaker 1: Lovely, And before we wrap up, as always for all
Speaker 1: you puzzlers at home, here is your extra credit sports sound.
Speaker 1: It is going to be Jody Sports Sound number five
Speaker 1: on the lists Jay, so you'll get the answer to
Speaker 1: that next episode. And puzzlers, please don't forget to subscribe
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Speaker 1: tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 3: Hello, puzzlers, this is Greg Pliska, your chief puzzle officer,
Speaker 3: and I'm here with the extra credit from our previous episode.
Speaker 3: We played the wide Opposite world of sports with Charlotte Wilder,
Speaker 3: where every answer is the opposite of a Big four
Speaker 3: North American sports team. The clue we gave you for
Speaker 3: extra credit was this hockey team never uses a shift.
Speaker 3: That's trickier than our usual extra credits. But I bet
Speaker 3: a lot of you got it. This is the Washington
Speaker 3: lower cases, the opposite of the Washington capitals. Get it,
Speaker 3: shift like on a typewriter keyboard. Yeah, you got it.
Speaker 3: We'll see you next time.