Speaker 1: Hello, puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast, the therapeutic hot
Speaker 1: cold Pack for your puzzle pain relief. I am your host,
Speaker 1: A J. Jacobs, and I am here with Chief Puzzle
Speaker 1: Officer Greg Pliska. Welcome Greg, Thank you, AJ.
Speaker 2: I am thrilled to be here. I'm glad we get
Speaker 2: to do another one of these, and I have nothing
Speaker 2: to banter about.
Speaker 1: All right, let's make us a banter free introduction.
Speaker 2: We're gonna dive right into the puzzles.
Speaker 3: No more paces.
Speaker 2: These are puzzles about language, but not real languages, made
Speaker 2: up ones. Okay, every answer is a word ending in Ish,
Speaker 2: Ease or Ian, like English, Chinese or Italian. Oh okay,
Speaker 2: except these aren't actually languages.
Speaker 1: I love it. Do you have an example?
Speaker 2: Of course I do. I could be I could give
Speaker 2: you the clue. It's garbage, or it's a language spoken
Speaker 2: in massage parlors.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I thought it was trash. Oh rubbish, rob.
Speaker 2: Rubbish exactly, it's garbage, is rubbish, or if it were
Speaker 2: a language, it's the language of rubbing.
Speaker 1: It's rubbish, got it, So it's Ish? What were the three?
Speaker 3: Well, I'll you know what I'm going to do. These
Speaker 3: in groups. So the first are all Ish words.
Speaker 1: Is there any o like Esperanto?
Speaker 3: Oh, very fancy.
Speaker 2: No, I didn't do any Oh you know there, I
Speaker 2: could have done esque.
Speaker 3: Like monagasque, the language of Monaco.
Speaker 1: I didn't know about that. I will tell you. I
Speaker 1: looked up puzzle, the word puzzle in Esperanto, and it's enigmo, enigmo, enigmo.
Speaker 1: I think that Esperanto sansy just add and o to
Speaker 1: every word.
Speaker 2: Enigmo sounds like the name of the machine we have
Speaker 2: in the puzzle lab. Fire up the enigmo and get
Speaker 2: us more languages.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, what did the enigma have for me? Now?
Speaker 3: All right? So these are some Ish words.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's an object believed to have magical powers, or
Speaker 2: it's a language spoken at a festival or lavish outdoor entertainment.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well I'm drawing a blank. I've got
Speaker 1: some theories. Uh, outdoor entertainment. And there's picnic that doesn't
Speaker 1: end an ish.
Speaker 2: Well, keep in mind that this is that would be
Speaker 2: picnic ish you were looking for. Right, So the first
Speaker 2: half of the clue and object believed to have magical powers? Oh,
Speaker 2: I say, is the word ending with ish.
Speaker 1: Oh, I see, I see that It.
Speaker 2: Could also be used to to refer to somebody's sexual predilection,
Speaker 2: like you have a foot blank.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I got it, I got it. I got
Speaker 1: a fat ish fat ish exactly exactly. You went with
Speaker 1: the more g rated, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I did, but then I gave it away with the
Speaker 2: foot fish.
Speaker 1: And there we are that that help I need the
Speaker 1: more yeah, the more low route clues. So there you go.
Speaker 2: All the all the parents driving in the cars with
Speaker 2: their children are like, honey, I'll explain this to you
Speaker 2: later and not explaining any All.
Speaker 3: Right, here's here's the second one.
Speaker 2: It's what magicians do to their audiences. Or it's the
Speaker 2: language of James Bond's car.
Speaker 1: Interesting, see now, I I was thinking that it was
Speaker 1: like Vanish uh, and that it would be about vans,
Speaker 1: but it's actually astonished.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, very nice.
Speaker 2: Vanish would be the you know, the vehicle in which
Speaker 2: James Bond is abducted.
Speaker 1: Or when he retires and has kids and.
Speaker 3: Drive it around in the van. Right, all right, here's
Speaker 3: another one.
Speaker 2: It means to give sustenance to, or it's the language
Speaker 2: spoken only by the Queen.
Speaker 3: Of Jordan's.
Speaker 1: Okay, I think I got this one. I think that
Speaker 1: it is nourishish exactly.
Speaker 3: So Queen Queen Noor of Jordan, of course.
Speaker 1: So is that a homophone homophone or does she spell
Speaker 1: her name n O?
Speaker 2: I believe she well, I believe her name is probably
Speaker 2: spelled in Arabic originally, right, but she's we we transliterated
Speaker 2: to n O o.
Speaker 1: R Newish nourish.
Speaker 3: All right, let's look this up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there is an Arabic spelling of Noor al Hussein.
Speaker 2: She was actually born Lisa Najeeb Halabbi. Interesting, but she
Speaker 2: is known as Newr.
Speaker 1: Now, all right, there you go. It's infotainment. You're getting
Speaker 1: your entertainment and your info.
Speaker 2: That's what we're here for. Okay, let's go to Let's
Speaker 2: switch over to.
Speaker 3: Some es words.
Speaker 1: Okay, ease, all right.
Speaker 2: It's the element with the symbol m n or. It's
Speaker 2: a language spoken by yellow, red pear shaped tropical fruit.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, well, I thought for a second, I'm
Speaker 1: getting I'm getting Mangoese, magnoese, Mangoese.
Speaker 2: What is that element magnese medium, No, it's but you're
Speaker 2: very close to saying it it just if you don't
Speaker 2: know the element you'll probably never guess.
Speaker 1: But all right, well, I'm just gonna say that those
Speaker 1: sounds in a sort of slurring way, and you can
Speaker 1: give me credit. So it's mangan.
Speaker 3: Yes, you got it, Manganese.
Speaker 1: Manganese exactly, Manganese. All right, Manganese. Oh so that really
Speaker 1: that's an element, is manganese.
Speaker 2: It might be the only element that ends esse. I
Speaker 2: don't think there's the new ones. Don't have any of those.
Speaker 1: Interesting. I just listened to the Tom Lair song where
Speaker 1: he lists all the elements. So I did hear it,
Speaker 1: like a few days.
Speaker 3: It should have been easy for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, I feel okay.
Speaker 2: Mangan here's another e See it's the territorial jurisdiction of
Speaker 2: a bishop, or it's a language spoken by gaming cubes.
Speaker 1: Well, I thought that it was archdiocese. Oh, I said,
Speaker 1: you take out the arch it's just the arch Maybe
Speaker 1: that's the cardinals the archdiocese or the archbishop.
Speaker 2: Really, the archbishop runs the archdiocese, bishop.
Speaker 1: Runs God the diocese. All right, diocese, diocese.
Speaker 3: Right, I've got two more.
Speaker 2: These are words that end with.
Speaker 1: I A n okay, I'm ready.
Speaker 2: It's a person responsible for the cleaning and care of
Speaker 2: a building, or it's a language of swear words spoken
Speaker 2: by amphibians.
Speaker 1: Okay, I think I got it. I think I got
Speaker 1: it because I did. I basically was. I got it
Speaker 1: from the clue of the janitorial.
Speaker 3: So which is building caretaker.
Speaker 1: Custodian, and then toad is the amphibian, and so custoactly than.
Speaker 2: You imagine all the toads just cursing at us all
Speaker 2: night long.
Speaker 1: It's a very popular language, absolutely, I'm sure.
Speaker 2: And finally, it's a word for an uncivilized person, or
Speaker 2: it's a language spoken by naked people in pubs.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, And I'd like.
Speaker 2: To be clear that naked people in pubs are not
Speaker 2: by default uncivilized people.
Speaker 1: True, that is true. And as we've discussed on this show,
Speaker 1: there is a large nudist following for escape rooms exactly,
Speaker 1: so we are puzzlers have nothing against the naturalist movement.
Speaker 2: And when they successfully complete the escape room, they go
Speaker 2: off to the.
Speaker 1: Pub exactly where they speak Barbarian.
Speaker 2: Exactly, Barbarian perfect.
Speaker 1: You got it, well done, Greg, You definitely got me
Speaker 1: on a couple But I had a good time. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: and do you have an extra credit for the puzzlers
Speaker 1: at home.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: This is a condiment or it's a language spoken by
Speaker 2: people who think equines are cool.
Speaker 1: Okay, Oh I like that. Okay, all right, So if
Speaker 1: you get it, that's wonderful. And if you don't, you
Speaker 1: should come back tomorrow because we will give you the answer.
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Speaker 2: Hello, puzzlers, this is your chief puzzle Officer, Greg Pliska,
Speaker 2: here to give you the extra credit answer from the
Speaker 2: previous episode. Jeremy Hopson joined us once again and we
Speaker 2: played the middle with him. We took four letter words,
Speaker 2: inserted a letter in the middle to get a new
Speaker 2: five letter word.
Speaker 3: I gave you this extra credit.
Speaker 2: I've collected kitchenware belonging to Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, and
Speaker 2: Amanda Gorman because I love the blank of blank?
Speaker 3: What do I love?
Speaker 2: I love the pots of poets of course. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much for listening, and we'll catch you here next time.
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Speaker 2: Puzzler with Aj Jacobs. I'm Greg Pliska, your Chief Puzzle Officer.
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