Speaker 1: Hello Puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast. This soothing ice
Speaker 1: pack at the end of your puzzle PT session. I
Speaker 1: am your host, AJ Jacobs. Before we start puzzling some
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Speaker 1: show notes on the podcast app and now on with
Speaker 1: the show. Today's guest is the amazing Neaghine Farsade, comedian, writer, director,
Speaker 1: voiceover artist, host of the podcast Fake the Nation. Welcome Naghine.
Speaker 2: Hello, Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 1: We are delighted, and by we I mean me and
Speaker 1: Chief Puzzle Officer Greg Pliska, who happened to have written
Speaker 1: that line the intro line about the ice pack after
Speaker 1: PT because he has been doing PET on his leg
Speaker 1: but he's still able to write puzzles even with his
Speaker 1: knee injury.
Speaker 3: Welcome Greg, thank you. I've crawled up here from the puzzle.
Speaker 3: I'm glad to be limping around with you. Well, this puzzle, Naghine,
Speaker 3: is inspired by your film Nerd.
Speaker 2: Core Rising ooh okay.
Speaker 3: Which is all about nerdcore hip hop. And I'm curious
Speaker 3: what got you into that music. What was the inspiration
Speaker 3: for doing that film.
Speaker 2: I just I so, yeah, So I made this movie.
Speaker 2: It was my first ever movie, and it's a documentary.
Speaker 2: And I happened to be I was writing a musical
Speaker 2: called The Israeli Palestinian Conflict, a romantic comedy, and that
Speaker 2: musical went on just is something that you could probably
Speaker 2: not even perform now, but we went on years later
Speaker 2: to do to do that show at the Edinburgh Fringe
Speaker 2: Festival and whatnot. And the guy who wrote the music,
Speaker 2: the wonderful Gobby Altar, is also in a nerd core
Speaker 2: hip hop band and he was in the band of
Speaker 2: mc front a lot, who's this incredible nerd core rapper.
Speaker 2: And I just thought I had never heard of this
Speaker 2: entire movement. I thought it was so interesting, and I said,
Speaker 2: someone should make a documentary about that, and I had
Speaker 2: a great time and yeah, and I also had to
Speaker 2: witness some magic the gathering that was also part of it.
Speaker 3: So perfect for nerdcore hip hop, there has to be
Speaker 3: some magic the gatherery in there as well.
Speaker 2: Always.
Speaker 3: What inspired us this is that nerd core is a
Speaker 3: word combines the words nerd and hardcore. It's like a
Speaker 3: port mashup of those two words. So what we've done
Speaker 3: in this puzzle is taken other words. These are actual
Speaker 3: words that end with the sound core, right, like nerd
Speaker 3: core does, and we've made up clues about what genre
Speaker 3: of music they might be. Okay, so these are real words,
Speaker 3: but not actual music genres. Nobody's making a documentary about these.
Speaker 3: We made them up. But like an example, I might
Speaker 3: say it's an American volunteer agency that provides aid around
Speaker 3: the world, and so that's a word or a phrase
Speaker 3: that ends with core, or it's a music genre that's
Speaker 3: all about an individual part of a jigsaw puzzle. And
Speaker 3: so the answer to that would be peace Corps. Right,
Speaker 3: the Peace Corps is the actual thing. And then if
Speaker 3: you just listen to the sound of that Peace Corps,
Speaker 3: it's the music about, you know, hip hop about peace
Speaker 3: is of jigsaw puzzles.
Speaker 1: So you can get it. This is when when Greg
Speaker 1: gives me cryptic clues. This is the same strategy. You
Speaker 1: can get it two different ways, because you can get
Speaker 1: it from the straight and voluntary or you can try
Speaker 1: to do the pun part at the back. So there
Speaker 1: are two approaches.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, yeah, because I'm gonna I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 2: That one left me puzzled. But but yes, I think
Speaker 2: I think we can go forward.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, this is the hardest one. By the way, this
Speaker 1: is the easiest one.
Speaker 3: I don't know, let's see how it goes out. But
Speaker 3: just if you think of words that end with the
Speaker 3: core sound, whatever you might spell that, that's the key
Speaker 3: and the first half of the clue is always that word.
Speaker 3: So here's your first one. It's a subject for an
Speaker 3: interior designer, or it's a music genre that happens three
Speaker 3: hundred and sixty five times a year.
Speaker 2: This is so.
Speaker 3: What's a subject for an interior designer? Someone who comes
Speaker 3: to your home and worries about what.
Speaker 2: In your home? What are like feng shui? Oh good?
Speaker 3: But it ends with the core sound, right, the.
Speaker 2: Core sound, So they worry about they come in and
Speaker 2: they think about, oh, decor, decor. There you go.
Speaker 3: You got it from the music ango, I like that
Speaker 3: and sixty five days of decore daycre Yeah, all right,
Speaker 3: here's here's another one.
Speaker 2: It's funny because like interior designers can think of think
Speaker 2: about the gajillion things, I mean theoretically, so.
Speaker 3: You know, that's a very broad clue. They think about
Speaker 3: the fabric.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just like me criticizing your clue.
Speaker 3: I'm here for it, gin I can, we can this
Speaker 3: is this is otherwise.
Speaker 2: I think you're a great person. But that clue, my god.
Speaker 3: See if I can do better with the next one again, right,
Speaker 3: let's see it's a rating from experience or it's a
Speaker 3: music genre all about the list of people who worked
Speaker 3: on a film.
Speaker 2: Credits radio.
Speaker 1: Yes, so fast, so fast.
Speaker 3: So quick, so quick? Credit score or credit score.
Speaker 2: Credit score? Nice guys. Okay, this the ore sound coming
Speaker 2: in hot in different spelling.
Speaker 1: Well done, folks.
Speaker 3: So I'm one for one on the clues now, I
Speaker 3: think you that's a good clue.
Speaker 2: That was a good clue. Yeah, yeah, it was a
Speaker 2: good clue.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you're two for two. You've gotten both. But
Speaker 3: I'm just one for two. That's all right, I can
Speaker 3: I can take see if I can catch up on
Speaker 3: the next one.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: It's a tuna, uh or it's a music genre by
Speaker 3: the actress Jessica from Dark Angel in Sin City.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, the actress Jessica from Dark Angel in
Speaker 2: Sin City is a sentence that I don't know any
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 3: Okay. She was also in Fantastic four, but that probably
Speaker 3: isn't going to help.
Speaker 2: You in this is where, this is where you wonder
Speaker 2: why did you direct the movie Nerdcore Rising. I let's see.
Speaker 2: I know, because I'm like ned, I'm not in the
Speaker 2: I'm not in the world in so many ways. Okay,
Speaker 2: what was the first other.
Speaker 3: Kinds of tuna? It's a tuna. It's a tun when
Speaker 3: you go to the store.
Speaker 2: Yeah, albacore, albacore exactly.
Speaker 3: Jessica Alba is the actress Alba.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, Jessica alb of course.
Speaker 1: Very good.
Speaker 3: Felt good, Yeah good, this is great, Assier.
Speaker 1: It's ezz listen, it's good. It's the struggle and then
Speaker 1: the aha moment. It's work, right, you live.
Speaker 3: For the aha moments. All right, I got two more
Speaker 3: for you, Okay, it's an extra song. It's an extra
Speaker 3: song at the end of a show, or it's a
Speaker 3: music genre that never turns off.
Speaker 2: Right, so it's an ooh, an extra song at the
Speaker 2: end of a show. Folks. I recently saw you two
Speaker 2: at the Sphere so oh cool h and they played
Speaker 2: an encore.
Speaker 3: Yes, you got it very good and you invoked the sphere.
Speaker 2: Hey, I just I had to throw that in there.
Speaker 2: I mean, that was like the last concert I saw
Speaker 2: in which I saw an encore.
Speaker 3: All right, I'm gonna give you one more warning. This
Speaker 3: is gonna be nerdy, but it's okay, you're gonna be
Speaker 3: all right. All right, it's the number eighty, or it's
Speaker 3: a Jedi's favorite music.
Speaker 2: The number eighty. Now, I mean, I feel like Lincoln
Speaker 2: once said, for score? Was it Lincoln? Wait? Was it
Speaker 2: Lincoln for score?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well, or speA or a speech writer. You probably had
Speaker 1: a really good intern or.
Speaker 2: Something right right right, one of those like little you know,
Speaker 2: mid eighteenth century interns.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: So it's the number. It's four score, or it's force
Speaker 3: core a Jedi scab done the game. Yes, yeah, you
Speaker 3: got it all that?
Speaker 1: Was it five for five or six for six? Whatever
Speaker 1: it was you did beautifully? Where can people Well, first
Speaker 1: of all, they should, they should get the documentary. But
Speaker 1: in addition to the documentary, what else? What else can
Speaker 1: people enjoy you on?
Speaker 2: Folks? I mean you should subscripe to my podcast Bakes
Speaker 2: the Nation. It is available wherever podcasts are downloaded. And
Speaker 2: you can also read my book How to Make White
Speaker 2: People Laugh is available wherever books are sold.
Speaker 1: And it made this white person laugh. So thank you.
Speaker 1: Did you get some reviews like that?
Speaker 2: I would imagine it did. I got a fair number
Speaker 2: of exactly that one review.
Speaker 1: There you go, all right, Well, do you have an
Speaker 1: extra credit for the puzzlers at home? Greig?
Speaker 2: I do?
Speaker 3: I do, And I've decided to save the hard one
Speaker 3: for the puzzlers at home. A Beast with the Body
Speaker 3: of a Lion, The Tale of a Scorpion and the
Speaker 3: Head of a Man, or music all about underwater rays?
Speaker 1: Okay? Is Google allowed? Because I feel I might need
Speaker 1: a little Google help.
Speaker 3: People are allowed to use whatever reference sources they wish.
Speaker 3: They're not being graded on this. It's just for their
Speaker 3: own fun and enjoyment. I never makes them happy.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Come back tomorrow and you will
Speaker 1: get the answer to that extra hard extra credit. And
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Speaker 1: puzzling puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 3: Hi, puzzlers, this is Greg Pliska, your chief puzzle officer,
Speaker 3: here with the extra credit answer from our previous show.
Speaker 3: Nagine Farsade was our guest and we did some I
Speaker 3: rhymes pairs of words that look like they should rhyme
Speaker 3: but don't. The clue for the extra credit was top
Speaker 3: notch food for a carnivore, and that, of course clues
Speaker 3: great meat. Bring your great meat with you next time
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