Speaker 1: Hello Puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast the Essential Vitamins
Speaker 1: and Minerals as part of a Complete Puzzle Breakfast. I
Speaker 1: am your host, A J. Jacobs, and I am here
Speaker 1: with Chief Puzzle Officer Greg Plisko.
Speaker 2: Welcome Greg, Well, thank you Aj, and Happy Pie Day.
Speaker 1: Happy Pie Day to you. March fourteenth, three point one four.
Speaker 1: So yes, it's very exciting. And Albert Einstein's birthday, which
Speaker 1: I didn't know until this year, but it.
Speaker 2: Kind of works out right, kind of fitting that he
Speaker 2: is birthday would be on Hi Friday.
Speaker 1: I think you would like pie as a constant. I
Speaker 1: looked into this just before the show because Pie Day,
Speaker 1: I feel, is a great nerdy holiday. But there are
Speaker 1: two others that are just slightly nerdier, which is Pie
Speaker 1: Approximation Day, which is the twenty second of July because
Speaker 1: twenty two over seven is the fraction that approximates pie.
Speaker 1: So that's pretty nerdy like.
Speaker 2: That, that's even nerdier. Yeah, and let me give you.
Speaker 1: One last one before we get to the puzzle, which
Speaker 1: is Mole Day. And Mole is some crazy big number
Speaker 1: related to Avigrado's number. I don't even understand how they're related,
Speaker 1: but it occurs on October twenty third at six oh
Speaker 1: two am. Because that's ten twenty three, six oh two
Speaker 1: and and avocado's number is six point zero two times
Speaker 1: ten to the twenty third. So that's hardcore.
Speaker 2: There you go. And that's that's not avocado's number, that's
Speaker 2: avogadro's number.
Speaker 1: Right, right, did I say avocado's number?
Speaker 2: You did say it could be the number of avocados
Speaker 2: you have in your house too.
Speaker 1: Well, I feel that like you make pies on pie day,
Speaker 1: so you would make avocado dip or guacamole on avocado agudros.
Speaker 2: It could be molay a day and then you would
Speaker 2: make it nice.
Speaker 1: Oh, I like it, Molly and avocado. That's great.
Speaker 2: Every day is about food or irrational numbers. Well, I
Speaker 2: wish I had a puzzle that was about pie the food.
Speaker 2: But today it's about pie the number. It's about adding
Speaker 2: pie helped to various things.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm getting out my calculator.
Speaker 2: Don't worry, there's no math involved, just the two letters pi.
Speaker 1: Excellent. Thank god, you had me scared for a moment.
Speaker 2: Okay, don't be scared this. I'm going to give you
Speaker 2: clues to two words where you stick pie inside the
Speaker 2: first word to get the second word.
Speaker 1: Oh, I love it. Do you have an example?
Speaker 2: I do have an example. Start with a part of
Speaker 2: your face, insert pie inside of it, and you end
Speaker 2: up with a two word term meaning to contribute your
Speaker 2: share of the cost of something.
Speaker 1: Uh okay, I was going no pies for nose, but
Speaker 1: now I got chip in for chin. You add the
Speaker 1: pi and it goes chip in.
Speaker 2: You got it exactly, all right.
Speaker 1: It was my second It was the second part of
Speaker 1: my face that I thought of. So there you go.
Speaker 1: I thought of.
Speaker 2: The next week, we'll do part of the face day
Speaker 2: and it'll be ready. All right, here's your first one.
Speaker 2: Start with a satirical news site and end up with
Speaker 2: the kind of column often appearing on a newspaper's editorial page.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, all right, I'm already lost. Oh wait
Speaker 1: wait wait, no, no, okay, Well I know that opinion
Speaker 1: pages often and.
Speaker 2: Oh that's it.
Speaker 1: I got it. I work backwards, yes opinion, yes, onion
Speaker 1: is yep, the onion sasterical news. And you put a
Speaker 1: pie right in between two of the letters, which my
Speaker 1: brain is too foggy to figure out which, and you
Speaker 1: got opinion.
Speaker 2: You got it, You got it very good.
Speaker 1: All right. I've got a little bit of a cold,
Speaker 1: so I'm not working on all eight cylinders. Or is
Speaker 1: it eight cylinders or six? See, I'm it depends on you.
Speaker 2: You know. If you've got a twelve cylinder brain, then
Speaker 2: it's twelve cylinders. If you've got a Mazda, you've got
Speaker 2: kind of a rotary brain that just spins around in it.
Speaker 1: Right now, I feel I'm working with the Mazda brain.
Speaker 2: Okay, you're doing great, you're doing great. All right. Start
Speaker 2: with a term for a guy with a lot of braun. Okay,
Speaker 2: end up with a term for a guy with not
Speaker 2: much brains. Oh wow, Okay, a guy with a lot
Speaker 2: of braun. So I'm thinking, I guess someone not a bully,
Speaker 2: a at list.
Speaker 1: No, that wouldn't work.
Speaker 2: That's a four letter word.
Speaker 1: He's a real, he's a real. All right. Let me
Speaker 1: try going the other way.
Speaker 2: Okay, what's an adjective meaning not having much brain?
Speaker 1: And it's got to have the letters pie in it. So,
Speaker 1: oh man, I am not smart but dumb dumb?
Speaker 2: Yeah, another word for dumb. You know.
Speaker 1: I am living out the second part of this. I
Speaker 1: am the person with not many brains.
Speaker 2: But you're looking very brownish.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I blame the cold mitigation. All right, So
Speaker 1: someone who is not wait he said, as someone who's
Speaker 1: not smart is or not slow? Yeah, stupid, stupid? Ah,
Speaker 1: a stud and stupid, all right, exactly feel.
Speaker 2: Brawnny guy is a stud. The guy with not much
Speaker 2: brain power is stupid.
Speaker 1: I am certainly the second, right now, feeling the second.
Speaker 1: Let's let me try to get back to the first.
Speaker 1: Let me try to get back to studley.
Speaker 2: Back to Studley and the puzzle. Realm sure, all right?
Speaker 2: Start with red, yellow or black. End up with the
Speaker 2: color of an old photograph.
Speaker 1: Oh thank god, I feel okay about this one. All right,
Speaker 1: so yes, I work backwards because the answer I'll just
Speaker 1: start with the answer is c se A and Sepia.
Speaker 1: But it was the Sepia that got it for me
Speaker 1: because I happen to know Sepia is like that brown
Speaker 1: colored photograph. And then I really, oh black sea, yellow sea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly very tricky there, Well done. Now you
Speaker 2: say Sepia, I say cepia.
Speaker 1: Interesting. Maybe it's a British American thing like era and
Speaker 1: era could be Probably I'm just mister.
Speaker 2: One of us is clearly Andrea, you.
Speaker 1: Our puzzle associate. Puzzler has to weigh in and tell us,
Speaker 1: so let.
Speaker 2: Us know who's right. But let's continue with puzzles while
Speaker 2: she does that. Start with a gunman who shoots from
Speaker 2: a rooftop and end up with an adjective meaning more
Speaker 2: short tempered.
Speaker 1: Oh. Interesting, Well I thought I had it because I
Speaker 1: thought the gunman from the rooftop. Oh, I think I
Speaker 1: do have it. I think I do have it. Okay,
Speaker 1: show yes, So the gunman from a rooftop is sniper,
Speaker 1: and then you add a PI to sniper, and you've
Speaker 1: got snippier, snippier.
Speaker 2: All right, I should we should have done it. The
Speaker 2: other wise it's just the snipier sniper, the snippier sniper.
Speaker 1: They're all pretty snippy. I don't I don't think you
Speaker 1: can have like a zen come. I mean they seem
Speaker 1: that maybe not, maybe that that's the whole thing. You
Speaker 1: want to be zen in calm. If you're a sniper who.
Speaker 2: You're truly zen, you're not going to be shooting things
Speaker 2: from a roof I hope. All right, let's let's get
Speaker 2: away from the violence and go for this one. Start
Speaker 2: with a word for your stockholdings, and end up with
Speaker 2: the types of markers used in space. Wow.
Speaker 1: Wow, okay, Well, the things that come to me immediately
Speaker 1: are not working out at all. One is anti gravity.
Speaker 2: Pen that yeah, that has no pi in it?
Speaker 1: I mean portfolio was the part that I as you.
Speaker 1: It's where you keep your stock holdings? Is what you said?
Speaker 2: No, a word for your stockholdings. You have a bunch
Speaker 2: of blank of stock. You have a you're gonna buy
Speaker 2: some stock blank stock.
Speaker 1: Uh, you're gonna come back to being the non stud. Uh. Uh,
Speaker 1: You're gonna buy a stock portfolio. You're gonna buy some
Speaker 1: stock picks. You're gonna buy some stock.
Speaker 2: How many blank of apple stock do you own? How many?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Share?
Speaker 1: Ye? There you go? All right? And then what was
Speaker 1: the clue?
Speaker 2: And the marker? It's a type of marker that happens
Speaker 2: to be used in space because it can write in
Speaker 2: zero gravity.
Speaker 1: Oh goode.
Speaker 2: Popular for signing autographs.
Speaker 1: Yes, I have used sharpies, So yes, sharpies. Very well done?
Speaker 2: Right, let's do two more?
Speaker 1: All right? You want to humiliate me? Two more done?
Speaker 2: Sure? One start with the nose of a pig and
Speaker 2: end up with a possible result of losing control of
Speaker 2: your car.
Speaker 1: All right, well, I thought I had it. I thought
Speaker 1: the nose of a pig was a snout. It is okay, good,
Speaker 1: So then, oh, okay, I see the p I goes
Speaker 1: earlier in the word than I thought. So you do
Speaker 1: spout snout to spin out snack exactly, exactly, exactly, okay.
Speaker 2: And our last one start with the kinds of boats
Speaker 2: you might row down a river and end up with
Speaker 2: the kinds of shelters you might erect alongside your house
Speaker 2: to protect you from the sun.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, now that is good. I mean, I it's funny.
Speaker 1: I actually do feel my neurons firing at a lower
Speaker 1: rate because there's a word that I know, that I know,
Speaker 1: and it is not coming to me. Okay, but wait, word,
Speaker 1: it's a ship you would row by the river, A boat,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, A boat? Which would be it could be
Speaker 1: a canoe, It could be a kayak, could be a
Speaker 1: It wouldn't be a rower.
Speaker 2: You named canoe?
Speaker 1: Canoes?
Speaker 2: Canoes?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: So, and then kinds of shelters that protect you from
Speaker 2: the sun.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, canopies, canes, the canopy very good? Well, I
Speaker 1: don't know about the very I'd say.
Speaker 2: You got them all. It's pie Day, you got them all.
Speaker 2: How many digits of pie can you name?
Speaker 1: Oh? Man, I think I can go for like five
Speaker 1: and that's it. And I give up three point one
Speaker 1: four one five. He is nine two seven. Hey, I
Speaker 1: surprised myself. I think that that's pretty good. What do
Speaker 1: you got?
Speaker 2: I got three point one four one five nine two?
Speaker 2: So you're a.
Speaker 1: You are a sud you're trying to be nice? All right?
Speaker 1: Well that was fantastic, Greg, Do you have a uh
Speaker 1: an extra credit for the folks at home?
Speaker 2: I do?
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 2: I picked a tough one. You start with a six
Speaker 2: letter term used in science fiction for inhabitants of or
Speaker 2: for an inhabitant of Earth, okay, and end up with
Speaker 2: the species of small turtle that is the mascot for
Speaker 2: the University of Maryland. Oh I love it.
Speaker 1: Okay. I did happen to get that one reverse engineering
Speaker 1: it because I have a friend who's a big fan.
Speaker 1: Well that was fantastic. Happy pie Day. Everyone, go eat
Speaker 1: some pie, or go calculate some irrational numbers, and don't
Speaker 1: forget to come back tomorrow for the answer and subscribe
Speaker 1: and write a review. By the way, breaking news. I
Speaker 1: sort of got pie right and I sort of got
Speaker 1: it wrong, So full disclosure three point one four one
Speaker 1: five nine two six five. But if you round that up,
Speaker 1: it's three point one four one five nine two seven.
Speaker 1: So yes, I will take the W even though I
Speaker 1: got the y L. Thank you and right in. If
Speaker 1: you're still angry, all right, that was fun. Tell your
Speaker 1: friends if you want, we're here. We'd love to keep
Speaker 1: puzzling you, and we will. We will meet you here
Speaker 1: tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles. I will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 2: Hello puzzlers. Greg Pliska here up from the Puzzle Lab
Speaker 2: with the answers to the extra credit from our previous episode,
Speaker 2: we played sports sounds with Charlotte Wilder, where we gave
Speaker 2: her a number of different sounds that she had to
Speaker 2: identify what sport they came from. For the extra credit,
Speaker 2: we played you this sound. Ras up what many of
Speaker 2: you probably recognize that as the sound of curling, But
Speaker 2: did you know that's the Swedish women's curling team and
Speaker 2: it's the final match at the Vancouver twenty ten Olympics.
Speaker 2: And bonus credit if you could name the player. He's
Speaker 2: Anna LaMonte, Catherine Lindahl, Ava Lunde and Annette Norberg and
Speaker 2: they won gold, and your gold to us for listening
Speaker 2: to the Puzzler every day. We'll catch you next time.