Speaker 1: Hello puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast, the comforting ranger
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Speaker 1: And now on with the show. Today's asked is the
Speaker 1: great Naghine Farsade, comedian, writer, director and host of the
Speaker 1: podcast Fake the Nation. Welcome Nageine.
Speaker 2: Hello, I'm so excited to be here, all so nervous
Speaker 2: and scared.
Speaker 1: Those are all valid emotions. I'm not going to question
Speaker 1: your emotional reality, but I think you will come away
Speaker 1: not scared. I think you will have mary. We are
Speaker 1: very gentle here at the Puzzler. So your podcast is
Speaker 1: a delight and for those who have not listened to
Speaker 1: your show, and our hearts go out to those people.
Speaker 1: Of course, how would you describe it? What's the format?
Speaker 2: Fake the Nation is just it's a three person It's
Speaker 2: me and a couple of comedians. Usually you're like journalists
Speaker 2: who know how to hang if you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: And we take three topics from politics and from culture,
Speaker 2: and we try and leave people feeling better about the
Speaker 2: news and the state of affairs in the world than
Speaker 2: they did before they started the pod. So that's one
Speaker 2: of our weekly goals.
Speaker 1: I always feel better after watching your show. And tell
Speaker 1: me about the name. How did you come up with
Speaker 1: a name Fake the Nation?
Speaker 2: I mean, in twenty sixteen, before the term fake news
Speaker 2: was born, I was watching Face the Nation on CBS
Speaker 2: and it was literally just a pun on the CBS
Speaker 2: show Face the Nation.
Speaker 1: I was like, what if it's that?
Speaker 2: But like dumb comedians, you.
Speaker 1: Know, and you were ahead of the curve on the
Speaker 1: fake front. But we also were very pro pun here
Speaker 1: of course at the Puzzler, because many of our puzzles
Speaker 1: are based on them, and in fact, we love your
Speaker 1: idea of changing one letter then the name of a
Speaker 1: news show. We loved it so much we decided to
Speaker 1: do our own version as a puzzle. Okay, So this
Speaker 1: puzzle is called Television newt which is of course one
Speaker 1: letter from television news, nothing to do with nuke Gingrich.
Speaker 1: And in this puzzle, I'm going to give you the
Speaker 1: description of a show which doesn't actually exist, but is
Speaker 1: one letter off from the title of a real news program.
Speaker 1: So are you ready for your first time?
Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm looking for the title of a news program.
Speaker 1: It's one letter off egg exactly. I think you'll get
Speaker 1: it as soon as I give you this clue, and
Speaker 1: thank you for the inspiration, by the way, So this
Speaker 1: your first clue is this is a daily morning show
Speaker 1: on a conservative news network where the hosts banter about
Speaker 1: smoked salmon. They banter about smoked salmon.
Speaker 2: Is it like chum in the water chatting chum?
Speaker 1: Oh? I like the way you're going. I like that,
Speaker 1: But no, that is another fish pun. But this one
Speaker 1: is smoked salmon or you might get on a bagel.
Speaker 1: Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeat are the co hosts, and
Speaker 1: they love to talk about.
Speaker 2: Love to talk about libtards. Whatever they do. Their pet
Speaker 2: name for is smoked salmon their pet name for liberals?
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe well, what is another name for smoked salmon?
Speaker 1: Maybe that will.
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: So locks, so locks and loaded, Locks and friends. You
Speaker 1: got it. I'm going to see you. So one letter
Speaker 1: off from.
Speaker 2: Say, Locks and Loaded is a sister show that has
Speaker 2: to do with weaponry and fish at the same time.
Speaker 1: Yes, you're shooting fish in a barrel exactly. So that's
Speaker 1: a show.
Speaker 2: And it wasn't the show you were asking about, but
Speaker 2: it is the show I wanted to answer about.
Speaker 1: And yes, and you got the chumpun so you got
Speaker 1: extra points.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1: And now I think you've got the I didn't. I
Speaker 1: usually give an example, but we didn't have enough to
Speaker 1: give an example. So that was your example. Consider that
Speaker 1: your example. Okay, now the real ones. Okay, this is
Speaker 1: a daily show on MSNBC where the hosts go for
Speaker 1: a run before breakfast. The hosts they're a married couple,
Speaker 1: last names Scarborough and Brazinski, and they go for a run.
Speaker 2: A daily show where they go for a run.
Speaker 1: So the real show is named What's the Real Show
Speaker 1: with Scarborough and Brazinski on MSNBC.
Speaker 2: I wish Morning Joe?
Speaker 1: Is it that's it, Morning Joe. So now changing a letter.
Speaker 1: If they're going for Morning Jack, Morning Job, all right,
Speaker 1: I think you're in. I think you got it now.
Speaker 1: But I hope, I.
Speaker 2: Hope that they do change the format of their show
Speaker 2: to like a jogging. I think it would be so
Speaker 2: much more interesting to get their opinions that way.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'd like to see some politicians I don't know,
Speaker 1: Chris Christie like jogging, like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I want to see more. Absolutely, let's get
Speaker 2: the politicians jogging, and then in the you know, in the
Speaker 2: Fox example, let's get them eating locks.
Speaker 1: Absolutely exactly, because.
Speaker 2: Like hot Ones, has the market quartered on eating something
Speaker 2: during an interview, and they shouldn't be the only ones.
Speaker 2: I mean, we can't just have the hot Ones monopoly.
Speaker 1: You are so right. Yes, they can get saltier and
Speaker 1: saltier locks and see if they can stand it. Exactly.
Speaker 1: I would watch that, all right. How about this HBO show.
Speaker 1: It's a weekly show hosted by a politically incorrect comedian. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and in this one he discusses current events, but with
Speaker 1: silent entertainers. All the guests are silent entertainers wearing striped shirts.
Speaker 1: So what's the real.
Speaker 2: Sea So the real show is Real Time with Bill Maher,
Speaker 2: and I believe, in a nod to a very popular
Speaker 2: format in nineteen thirties France, you are referring to real.
Speaker 1: Mime, Real Mime with Bill Maher exactly. And sometimes you
Speaker 1: do want his guests to be silent. It might be
Speaker 1: a better I know.
Speaker 2: All I want is for them to be dropped in
Speaker 2: an imaginary box sometimes really just looking for ways to
Speaker 2: get out, just really doing that object work on that
Speaker 2: box and instead of the conversation, that is really what
Speaker 2: I would rather see.
Speaker 1: Yes, sometimes they're in an ideological box. Maybe that's the link.
Speaker 1: All right, two more and then you are done. This
Speaker 1: one is an hour long weekly show and it's about math.
Speaker 1: And in this one the hosts do one subtraction problem
Speaker 1: per minute, with hosts like Leslie Stall and Steve Croft.
Speaker 1: So they do one subtraction problem per minute for an hour.
Speaker 2: Oh, Leslie Stall, it's called are you talking about sixty minutes?
Speaker 1: That's the actual show? Yeah, but then and.
Speaker 2: Then sixty minutes and then sorry, they subtract one thing
Speaker 2: an episode.
Speaker 1: No, no, one per minute, and it's an hour long show,
Speaker 1: so they do a lot. They do like three score
Speaker 1: of these subtraction problems. So there are sixty of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sixty, they're not sixty minutes subtraction.
Speaker 1: What's another subtraction? Not addition, but not plus, but.
Speaker 2: It's not sixty division doesn't work with your game sixty edition.
Speaker 2: Sixty minutes.
Speaker 1: It's got it's plus, it's got it, it's got its pluses, it's.
Speaker 2: Got it's it's got it's minuses. Minute, yes, minuses, Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Minuses, sexty minuses.
Speaker 2: Wait, you got the same thing there that minuses and
Speaker 2: minutes don't feel related in any way, but they're so
Speaker 2: related with one letter.
Speaker 1: All you're right, Yeah, they got the weird pronunciation difference.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but you got it, you got it all right.
Speaker 2: Last, I feel like by the way I feel like
Speaker 2: I play the show sixty minuses with my daughter every day.
Speaker 2: She's in kindergarten, so we're doing sixty minuses every night
Speaker 2: at home.
Speaker 1: And you're like the Leslie Stall here, and I'm yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: you're trying to break her down.
Speaker 2: And I say, and I sit down, very formal, and
Speaker 2: I say, with the clock ticking in the background, and
Speaker 2: I'm Leslie Stall and you're this is sixty minuses.
Speaker 1: I would watch it. Listen film that next time. Please?
Speaker 1: All right, last one. This is an ABC show airs
Speaker 1: every weekday and the hosts, Robin Roberts and Word Stephanopolis
Speaker 1: show off their bear butts. So what is that They
Speaker 1: show off their bear butts every morning? So what's the
Speaker 1: real show with your ABC's morning.
Speaker 2: It's not good Morning America.
Speaker 1: It is good morning America. You got it, you got it,
Speaker 1: So now just change one. What what's another word for
Speaker 1: showing off your bear butt? Might be when you blank someone?
Speaker 2: You you flash them?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's more frontal. I feel okay, spackle, like when
Speaker 1: you pull your pants down.
Speaker 2: Paint Good pantsing America.
Speaker 1: I like that, not the sun, but the oh moon.
Speaker 2: Good mooning America.
Speaker 1: Good moaning America. You got it. There, it is mooning.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard that.
Speaker 2: I feel like again, we're pully like I would say,
Speaker 2: it's in common parlance today, the term mooning. It feels
Speaker 2: like very old to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well my wife won a mooning contest of some sort,
Speaker 1: so maybe it's more present in my mind.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, all those mooning contests that your wife.
Speaker 1: Gets involved in, not anymore, this was in her past.
Speaker 1: Oh gotcha? Well, thank you. Those were even worse puns
Speaker 1: than fake the Nation. Nothing wrong with fake the Nation.
Speaker 1: These made fake Nation to that, but you did fantastic.
Speaker 1: You worked through it all right. Before we wrap up,
Speaker 1: as always for the puzzlers at home, here's an extra
Speaker 1: credit puzzle. This is a PBS investigative documentary series about
Speaker 1: the first half of a golf course. The first half
Speaker 1: of a golf course. You will get the answer to
Speaker 1: that extra credit in the next episode. And please, if
Speaker 1: you like the show, then review it. We're hoping to
Speaker 1: get more reviews because it helps people find it. I
Speaker 1: learned this trick of saying that from Nigee and Farsan
Speaker 1: our guest, so thank you for the inspiration and we
Speaker 1: will meet you here tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles that
Speaker 1: will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 3: Hello puzzlers, this is Greg Pliska, your chief puzzle officer,
Speaker 3: with the extra credit answer from our previous show. We
Speaker 3: played a game with Christopher Short of Geeks who Drink,
Speaker 3: and we called the game Greeks who Sink. Every answer
Speaker 3: rhymes with geeks who drink. Your extra credit clue was
Speaker 3: small fries who like to blink with one eye and
Speaker 3: those are Pipsqueaks Who Wink Come back tomorrow for another
Speaker 3: edition of the Puzzler Podcast with AJ Jacobs, also known
Speaker 3: as Pipsqueaks Who Wink,