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. Today, one of my favorite guests
Speaker 1: of all time, her Ripe Begonias aka oh Fira Eisenberg.
Speaker 1: If you arrange the letters properly. Oira is a longtime
Speaker 1: friend of the show and host of her own wonderful podcast,
Speaker 1: Parenting is a Joke, where she talks to comedians and
Speaker 1: others about the joys and challenges of raising kids. Oh
Speaker 1: Fira is just one of the best banters I know,
Speaker 1: so her podcast is a delight to listen to, and
Speaker 1: we are glad she came to banter with us. Please enjoy.
Speaker 1: Hello Puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast, the Fabric Softener
Speaker 1: and your daily puzzle detergent. I am your host, AJ Jacobs,
Speaker 1: and I am here with today's guest, the awesome Ofira Eisenberg, comedian, author,
Speaker 1: moth storyteller, host of her own amazing podcast on iHeart
Speaker 1: Parenting is a Joke. Welcome o Fira.
Speaker 2: Hello, j how's it going?
Speaker 1: It is good because you're here and you are a
Speaker 1: friend of Puzzles. I happen to know that for minute,
Speaker 1: that is true.
Speaker 2: I've befriended the puzzle. Has the puzzle befriended me?
Speaker 1: We will find out. But you're also a friend of
Speaker 1: puzzle Lurse. I mean you hosted Ask Me Another on
Speaker 1: NPR for many years, which we consider an inspiration, a
Speaker 1: cousin of the puzzler. So we are delighted to have
Speaker 1: you here. And before that, my favorite fact, before you
Speaker 1: were a superstar, you were briefly a host for Watson
Speaker 1: Adventures Scavenger Hunts, my wife's wonderful company.
Speaker 2: So true.
Speaker 3: I'm so grateful for that job on so many levels.
Speaker 3: And one of those things is.
Speaker 2: That I ended up.
Speaker 3: I ended up because I was writing the puzzles and
Speaker 3: at times or writing the clues at times, but mostly
Speaker 3: running hunts. Is that I got to learn about New
Speaker 3: York and I got to go to all the museums
Speaker 3: and art galleries with people and look at it from
Speaker 3: a different point of view.
Speaker 2: Like it gave me so much access edutainment.
Speaker 1: It was pure edutainment, right, yeah, because the Scavenger Hunts
Speaker 1: are in museums often or historic neighborhoods, right.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And so that's why I say to people all
Speaker 3: the time, they're like, what kind of job do you
Speaker 3: recommend getting out of college?
Speaker 2: I go, what do you want to know about? Because
Speaker 2: get a job and that because you'll get to learn everything.
Speaker 1: I love it wise advice.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: See look look at what you give the listeners added value.
Speaker 1: All right, Well today's puzzle. Today's puzzle is called Galahad's
Speaker 1: Bahamas Caravan.
Speaker 2: Uh whoa?
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm accept sure that in this puzzle every answer
Speaker 1: is going to be a word with a lot of a's,
Speaker 1: a lot of the letter A. In fact, these words,
Speaker 1: these answers have no other vowel besides A, and there
Speaker 1: is an a every other letter of the word. So
Speaker 1: for instance, whoa. Yeah, thank you for that, for that reaction.
Speaker 1: I love that. So if I said country where Ofira
Speaker 1: Eisenberg was born, you would say Canada. You would even
Speaker 1: sing it that you don't have to say that is
Speaker 1: not the tune of the national anthem, just so everyone else.
Speaker 2: That was completely independent.
Speaker 1: That was just a burst of Canadian joy.
Speaker 2: Is that? Yeah? Exactly?
Speaker 3: Love it?
Speaker 1: All right, So you got you got the idea we're
Speaker 1: going to I'm ready, Jess, you know I'm going to
Speaker 1: have several clues for each one, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: start with the harder clues, so I don't want you
Speaker 1: to get it on the first one. If you do,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm impressed ten not to. But you can
Speaker 1: do it. Okay, are you ready?
Speaker 2: I'm ready.
Speaker 1: You might come from this place with a banjo on
Speaker 1: your knee.
Speaker 3: Oh that is a wait a second, Okay, that's from
Speaker 3: a song lyric.
Speaker 1: It is a song lyric.
Speaker 3: And it's an American state now as a Canadian, wait
Speaker 3: a second, it's an American state or American city. This
Speaker 3: is excellent place to start, AJ because I feel like
Speaker 3: this is probably part of your life growing up.
Speaker 2: But we sang songs about maple syrups and beavers and
Speaker 2: bear attacks. Okay, there was not a lot.
Speaker 3: Of banjo's where I grew up, so it's going to
Speaker 3: be a little bit more interesting for me to figure
Speaker 3: this out.
Speaker 2: So let's go for a hint.
Speaker 1: All right, Well that yes, we totally we screwed you
Speaker 1: because we went American and uh and ignored.
Speaker 2: It always gets it always gets me.
Speaker 1: Well, you're right, it is a state. It's the home
Speaker 1: state of Channing Tatum and Mia Hamm and our producer
Speaker 1: Neelie Neelie Lowman.
Speaker 3: Oh so I'm just thinking just because you said every
Speaker 3: other letter.
Speaker 2: So let's see al Alabama works Alabama? That is it? Okay?
Speaker 1: The tide is Crimson. That was the next one. Uh, excellent,
Speaker 1: all right, you're one for one.
Speaker 2: Tight is Crimson. That also would have been not a
Speaker 2: great one, not for at all.
Speaker 1: Okay, are you ready for your next day? Words?
Speaker 2: Sure? Anne?
Speaker 1: Uh, okay, you can have a party in these. You
Speaker 1: can have a party in these. Uh. I'm just going
Speaker 1: to keep going and you just stopped me and these.
Speaker 2: I love this Okay.
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: What would I have a party in? Martini glass? Not
Speaker 2: enough as keep going?
Speaker 1: The name comes from Urdu and mean garment for the legs.
Speaker 2: Ooh uh garment for that you would have a party?
Speaker 2: It a garment for the legs? Okay, I take about
Speaker 2: all the tights.
Speaker 1: It's almost the opposite of tights. Interestingly, it is it
Speaker 1: has appeared in the title of Adoris Day movie.
Speaker 3: Oh oh part It's like, oh my goodness, now I
Speaker 3: just want to go like underwear, Am I in the
Speaker 3: am I in the right world of underwear?
Speaker 2: Pajamas? Yes?
Speaker 1: Exactly. I don't know is pajamas is considered underwear.
Speaker 3: I don't know that's a good So this is a
Speaker 3: good question because I took my son for ice cream
Speaker 3: late the other day because I was trying to bribe
Speaker 3: him to do homework anyways, awesome parent of the Year.
Speaker 3: And he was wearing his pajamas and I said, just
Speaker 3: put a hoodie over it and we'll pretend it's clothes.
Speaker 2: And he said, but it's like underwear.
Speaker 1: So if you ask him, okay, that is good. Well,
Speaker 1: we've got one data point that says it is underwear,
Speaker 1: right in with your own opinion. All right, are you ready?
Speaker 2: Yep?
Speaker 1: This is where Dirty Dancing Too took place. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you saw that Dirty Dancing too.
Speaker 3: Dirty Dance So the first one took place in the Catskills.
Speaker 3: And everyone can get mad at me right now because
Speaker 3: guess what movie I've never seen from beginning to end,
Speaker 3: Dirty Dancing.
Speaker 2: And again what I've almost seen every like scene from it,
Speaker 2: but I've never seen it all the way through.
Speaker 1: Well, I feel if you've seen they don't put baby
Speaker 1: in the corner. Yes exactly, that's really all you need,
Speaker 1: I think, And the main day and the yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: Fiedel Castro went to university.
Speaker 2: Right, Havanah, Havanna.
Speaker 1: Havanna, Havanah, Havanna exactly, Nervana Havannah. There it is dirty
Speaker 1: dancing too, Havana nights. That's right, seen it.
Speaker 2: Wait a second, doesn't someone we know have a writing
Speaker 2: credit on that?
Speaker 1: Are you serious?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Andrea? Can you look up who is the writer?
Speaker 2: Or Peter? Say that is correct? Out? I knew that
Speaker 2: a little bit of trivia.
Speaker 1: That is, how did that happen?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, we did record some episodes with him. I'm going
Speaker 1: to get him back on and ask him. Uh all right,
Speaker 1: one more, maybe two, because I want it. I want
Speaker 1: to hear you sing. But one more is it's about
Speaker 1: three point six million square miles, which is more than
Speaker 1: the total area of Australia. It gets about three inches
Speaker 1: of rain a year.
Speaker 2: Three That doesn't sound like enough.
Speaker 1: That's not enough. Well, I mean it is for this
Speaker 1: place and it is located in such countries as Egypt, Chad,
Speaker 1: Sudan and Libya.
Speaker 2: Uh So you want a name of are you thinking
Speaker 2: like the name of a desert? Is this where we're going?
Speaker 2: I do desert name and it's a big desert. It's
Speaker 2: a huge desert.
Speaker 1: I think the biggest.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Okay, the Sahara desert.
Speaker 1: There it is, I know it was in there.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: One quick piece of trivia that I can't resist. Andrea
Speaker 1: found that the word desert translates to Sahara, So Sahara
Speaker 1: desert is actually desert desert.
Speaker 2: Read dundant.
Speaker 1: All right, well this you did. Great, that's it. I'm
Speaker 1: ending there so lovely. You're off to a flying star.
Speaker 1: Where can people find more? Oh fira Eisenberg content?
Speaker 2: If you would like to follow me? How about you
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Speaker 3: I actually post things people. I am at all of
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Speaker 2: Okay, so you got to add on the eat.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, we will add on the E.
Speaker 2: Except for at Venmo and Venmo I got at, which
Speaker 2: I feel very proud.
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Speaker 2: Let's socialize the doll credit time.
Speaker 1: That is great, all right, So before we wrap up,
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