Speaker 1: Hello Puzzlers, and welcome to the Puzzler Weekend, where we
Speaker 1: bring you some of our favorite episodes from the vaults
Speaker 1: for your weekend listening. Here's a mini puzzle to get
Speaker 1: things started. I'm going to give you clues to two words.
Speaker 1: You put the two words together and you'll get the
Speaker 1: final answer. The first word is what movie studios do
Speaker 1: to foreign movies before distributing them domestically. So what movie
Speaker 1: studios do to a foreign movie to help people like
Speaker 1: me who are too lazy to read the subtitles? And yes,
Speaker 1: I am ashamed, I don't read subtitles. They blank the movie.
Speaker 1: They dub it. That's right, dub. That's the first word, dub.
Speaker 1: The second word is the last name of the Taiwanese
Speaker 1: American basketball player Jeremy who created a sensation with the
Speaker 1: Knicks in twenty eleven. That is Jeremy from the Knicks
Speaker 1: and his last name is Jeremy Lynn. You got it,
Speaker 1: so put him together. Dub Lynn dublin. As in Ireland,
Speaker 1: as in Saint Patrick's Day, Happy Saint Patrick's Day. Everyone.
Speaker 1: Today's classic does not have to do with Ireland, but
Speaker 1: it does have to do with countries and Ireland is
Speaker 1: a country, so that is something please enjoy. Hello Puzzlers,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Puzzler podcast The Miracle Grow for your
Speaker 1: puzzle Garden. I'm your host, AJ Jacobs, and I am
Speaker 1: here with our guest for the entire week, the amazing
Speaker 1: Ken Jennings, host of the omnibus podcast Jeopardy Legend and
Speaker 1: author of the Newish book One Hundred Places to See
Speaker 1: After You Die, which explores depictions of the afterlife in
Speaker 1: literature and pop culture. Welcome Ken, Thank you for having
Speaker 1: me Aga. Ken and I I'm proud to say, have
Speaker 1: known each other a long time. I interviewed you when
Speaker 1: you were on your first Jeopardy streak and I had
Speaker 1: just written a book where I read the Encyclopedia. You
Speaker 1: at the time asked me what I remembered from the encyclopedia,
Speaker 1: and I am very excited that it stuck with you.
Speaker 1: The main fact that I have taken away I.
Speaker 2: Still think and talk about this opossums have thirteen nipples.
Speaker 2: You read, you read, you read millions of words, and
Speaker 2: this is a.
Speaker 1: Few other things. Did Yeah, I don't know. I mean
Speaker 1: a possum is a funny word. I like the word
Speaker 1: of possum. And you know nipple was also hard to forget,
Speaker 1: so and thirteen it had all of the elements. It's
Speaker 1: not everything, got everything well, one of my favorite books.
Speaker 1: You've written several books. One of my favorite book she
Speaker 1: wrote is called Maphead, and it is about your obsession
Speaker 1: with maps. And I still remember some of your favorite
Speaker 1: places from that book, like Hibbert's Gore, Maine. Do you
Speaker 1: remember hibbert score Main population.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's only one person, right, And as a result,
Speaker 2: the census data for Hibbert's score Main actually tells you
Speaker 2: everything about that person because they publish averages, so you
Speaker 2: can find out what her income is, what her age is.
Speaker 2: It's she's been docked by the Census Bureau.
Speaker 1: That is unfortunate. She needs to get at least one
Speaker 1: other person so she can average it out well. In
Speaker 1: honor of Maphead, this puzzle is about geography and it
Speaker 1: is called putting the pan in Panama. So every answer
Speaker 1: is going to contain the name of a country as
Speaker 1: well as a word consisting of the first three letters
Speaker 1: of that country, so or three or four letters in
Speaker 1: some cases. So for instance, if the clue is I
Speaker 1: got them massage and a seaweed wrap in Madrid, The
Speaker 1: solution might be I went to a spa in Spain.
Speaker 1: There you go. I wish I could count that, but
Speaker 1: that was the sample one. So but these next ones
Speaker 1: are fully for accreditation.
Speaker 2: Well I hope I all have the capital in them
Speaker 2: because I studied those for Jeopardy back in the day.
Speaker 1: Oh nice, And you still think you've got all of
Speaker 1: the capitals in there.
Speaker 2: Probably. I mean I'm a pretty big map nerd. Like
Speaker 2: when I say I studied, I mean like I was
Speaker 2: six years old, like reading the Atlas for fun. So
Speaker 2: hopefully it stuck with me. The post nineteen ninety stuff,
Speaker 2: all the post Soviet stuff. Maybe I don't know, because
Speaker 2: I was interesting.
Speaker 1: All right, you will see, we will see. I think
Speaker 1: there is a couple of capitals. The first one is
Speaker 1: I bought some lingerie for my wife at Copa Cabana Beach.
Speaker 2: Copa Cabana as Barry Manilo Tatas is in Rio, I
Speaker 2: think would be Brazil. So it's bra and Brazil.
Speaker 1: There it is. He doesn't have any trouble. I kind
Speaker 1: of figured, all right, what about this one. This one
Speaker 1: is a little pop culture. I passed the legal exam
Speaker 1: in a Rihanna's country of birth. I passed the legal exam,
Speaker 1: he say. He's nodding his head.
Speaker 2: See like, I'm used to this on Jeopardy. You're already
Speaker 2: parsing when you're talking. So as you're talking about the law,
Speaker 2: I'm like, what are three letter words related to the law?
Speaker 2: Elsat is not going to start any countries, but bar
Speaker 2: Those are the first three letters in Barbados, where Rihanna
Speaker 2: is from.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, exactly. Well, should I just read the
Speaker 1: first like three words of the clue and then you
Speaker 1: can answer.
Speaker 2: I don't know if i'm I don't usually request more difficulty,
Speaker 2: but yeah, yeah, I mean if you want to, if
Speaker 2: you want to stop before the country doesn't see if
Speaker 2: I can read your mind.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, that'll be interesting. I replenished my
Speaker 1: vital energy in vital vital energy in the andes in
Speaker 1: the andes.
Speaker 2: Well that makes it a little easier. Oh, I was
Speaker 2: spelling Chi with a que and I didn't have it,
Speaker 2: So it's Chi and Chile.
Speaker 1: There you go. Yes, I might have the wrong I
Speaker 1: might have the more anglicized spelling, so so bad on me.
Speaker 1: That's my bad.
Speaker 2: Well it could have been China. Also, there's there's two
Speaker 2: Chi countries.
Speaker 1: That's true. That's true. Yes, so replenished. My chi Chi
Speaker 1: is the eastern energy in Chile. All right, couple more.
Speaker 1: You're doing as expected, pretty good. All right, here is
Speaker 1: a capital. We got a capital. I snapped my ulna
Speaker 1: in Yerevan. I snapped my Ulnahna.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Erevan's the capital of Armenia. And the Olma is
Speaker 2: a bone in your uh what your upper arm? Arm
Speaker 2: in Armenia, arm in Armenia.
Speaker 1: Exactly?
Speaker 2: All right, wait lower arm right, I said, upper it is.
Speaker 1: I was going to correct you, but I then thought
Speaker 1: you're allowed to correct me. Well, it was going to
Speaker 1: be an easter egg for the for the listeners.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's nothing people like more than and finding a
Speaker 2: podcast coaster guest in a mistake. It will make their
Speaker 2: whole day. They're yelling at the car radio right now.
Speaker 1: Well we'll we'll insert some mistakes just for their pleasure,
Speaker 1: all right. Final one. I did some planet gazing in
Speaker 1: the Bikini a toll. The planet gazing in the Bikini
Speaker 1: A toll.
Speaker 2: Planet gazing.
Speaker 1: Now I did mention. I hope it's either three or
Speaker 1: four letters. It's not always three.
Speaker 2: Oh, I see Mars is four letters. You didn't mention that.
Speaker 2: So the Bikinia tole must be in the Marshall Islands,
Speaker 2: which I didn't know. I learned something today. Agent.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this is huge, this is huge. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: I feel I've done my job. Then the possums have
Speaker 1: thirteen nipples and the bikini toll is in the Marshall Islands. Well, Ken,
Speaker 1: you did not do so bad as expected. You did great.
Speaker 1: If we had cash prizes, we would give you one.
Speaker 2: Wait, there aren't cash prices.
Speaker 1: You get our esteem.
Speaker 2: This is like the first year they let pro basketball
Speaker 2: guys in the Olympics and they're like, what, I'm not
Speaker 2: getting a check for this.
Speaker 1: It's true, you are the equivalent of a pro basketball player.
Speaker 1: So where can people find more Ken Jennings content if
Speaker 1: they want, which they should?
Speaker 2: Or one hundred places to see After You Die? Is
Speaker 2: just kind of a fun faux travel guide to different
Speaker 2: versions of the afterlife, all the way from the ancient
Speaker 2: Babylonians and Egyptians all the way up through TV's The
Speaker 2: Good Place, theme park, rides, comic books, video games, and
Speaker 2: it's on sale wherever books are sold, independent bookstores, evil
Speaker 2: e retailers. It's everywhere a.
Speaker 1: Jane is a great book. I loved and I learned
Speaker 1: a ton, including hell with one l.
Speaker 2: Norse. Hell. They couldn't afford the second out. That's how
Speaker 2: that's how threadbare Viking culture was. They had to save
Speaker 2: those olms.
Speaker 1: All right. Well, before we wrap up, as always, there's
Speaker 1: an extra credit puzzle for those at home. Actually, I'll
Speaker 1: get them to I got e coli from some undercooked
Speaker 1: sour Broughton. And how about this one? I got into
Speaker 1: a bit of a sticky wicket at the Bob Marley Museum.
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