Speaker 1: Hello, Puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast, the eighteen cent
Speaker 1: Spotify Royalty for your Grammy winning hit Puzzle Song was
Speaker 1: that you? Greg? Did you write that as a musician?
Speaker 1: I think you did.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I did, but I know the feelings.
Speaker 1: Okay are I am your host AJ Jacobs and today's
Speaker 1: guest is the wonderful Nagheine Farsade, comedian, writer, director and
Speaker 1: host of the Fake the Nation podcast. Welcome Nagein.
Speaker 3: Hello, so great to be here.
Speaker 1: We are delighted you have puzzled with us this week.
Speaker 1: And Nageane, you are part of a very cool club
Speaker 1: that you might know about. It is peoples whose last
Speaker 1: names break down into two different words, specifically two three words,
Speaker 1: so you, for you, it's far and sad, which are
Speaker 1: not adjectives that come to mind when I think of you.
Speaker 1: But anyway, you are part of this club. And I'm
Speaker 1: going to give you clues to other people who are
Speaker 1: in this club, other people who have two three letter
Speaker 1: words making up that our last name, and then you
Speaker 1: will hopefully get it and get the first name as
Speaker 1: well from that. Okay, So the first one is a
Speaker 1: beloved singer, so her last name is six letters and
Speaker 1: two three letter words. The first word is a good
Speaker 1: score in golf. The second is two thousand pounds. So
Speaker 1: put those together a good score in golf two thousand pounds,
Speaker 1: and you might get a good score.
Speaker 3: Oh god, I don't remember golf. Golf birdie, something about
Speaker 3: a birdie.
Speaker 1: No, no, this is your.
Speaker 3: Trying to cut, something about putting.
Speaker 1: You got the right word, you got the right first letter. Okay,
Speaker 1: it is you're trying to shoot, or you go above
Speaker 1: this or below this. You're above playing. If you're really good,
Speaker 1: you're a b par pr Okay, So you got that,
Speaker 1: and then great.
Speaker 3: This is coming from zero knowledge of golf. So that
Speaker 3: is impressive.
Speaker 1: Nicely done myself, very impressive.
Speaker 3: Okay, But it's a musician.
Speaker 1: This is a musician's name, a beloved singer country and
Speaker 1: Western singer. So par But then the second word in
Speaker 1: her last name two thousand pounds. What's that? Two thousand pounds?
Speaker 3: Two thousand pounds? Is that a ton or something?
Speaker 1: It is not a par ton, par ton, par ton, Oh,
Speaker 1: par ton, Dolly Barton, exactly, you got it?
Speaker 3: Say hey, you know, I only it is embarrassing. I
Speaker 3: feel like I only vaguely knew that a pun that
Speaker 3: a ton, that a pun that a ton was two
Speaker 3: thousand pounds.
Speaker 1: I have a feeling and maybe Andre can, our associate puzzler,
Speaker 1: can look this up, because isn't there like a British
Speaker 1: metric ton. It's a little confusing. So so no judgments,
Speaker 1: no judgments.
Speaker 3: Well, if you stopped me on the street and asked
Speaker 3: me how many pounds are in a ton, I would
Speaker 3: have I don't know that I would have said two thousand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it is possible. It is only one type
Speaker 1: of ton. So we are going to get back to
Speaker 1: the listeners with that important information. In the meantime, are
Speaker 1: you ready for your second yes? Please? All right, this
Speaker 1: is a person. The person is a former network newscaster.
Speaker 1: A former network newscaster. Huh so his last name is
Speaker 1: going to be six letters and the first three are beloved,
Speaker 1: Subway past pizza. Do you remember New York's favorite mascot,
Speaker 1: the pizza blank Rat? Yes, rat, pizza Rat. Okay, so
Speaker 1: rat is the first part of his last name. Then
Speaker 1: the second word is well this was This is one
Speaker 1: of my favorite movies. I do love this movie. It's
Speaker 1: a twenty thirteen movie with Joaquin Phoenix where he falls
Speaker 1: in love with an Ai voiced by Scarlett Johansson. Do
Speaker 1: you remember that movie?
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Yes, And now that we have Ai, it's closer and
Speaker 3: closer to a reality.
Speaker 1: Oh you be her exactly? Name is So it's Dan rather,
Speaker 1: Dan rather exactly. You got it.
Speaker 3: I love the idea that we were mispronouncing it the
Speaker 3: whole time, and it was Dan rat Her.
Speaker 1: It's true. He was just too polite to correct us.
Speaker 3: July.
Speaker 1: He's a good guy. Are you ready for for your
Speaker 1: next six letter?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Two word club member? All right, this person is a singer.
Speaker 1: Greg Pliska has a ton of information about ton. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: come on in, Greg, we need your expertise on ton.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 5: Well, you know what I did as I do down
Speaker 5: here in the lab is I looked at a dictionary
Speaker 5: and here you go. I'm ready and this is going
Speaker 5: to confuse the hell out of you. So a ton
Speaker 5: is a unit equal to twenty long hundredweight or two
Speaker 5: and forty pounds.
Speaker 2: That's in England. In the United States, it's twenty short
Speaker 2: hundredweight or two thousand pounds. That's the US, Canada, in
Speaker 2: South Africa. It's also the unit of internal capacity for
Speaker 2: ships equal to one hundred cubic feet, also the volume
Speaker 2: of a long ton of weight of seawater used in
Speaker 2: reckoning the displacement of ships, and equal to thirty five
Speaker 2: cubic feet. A unit of volume for cargo freight, usually.
Speaker 5: Reckoned at forty cubic feet, a unit of quantity for
Speaker 5: timber equal to four hundred and eighty board feet, and
Speaker 5: a unit of capacity equal to the cooling effect of
Speaker 5: a ton of ice melting in twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: Why come on, tons, people.
Speaker 3: I want to say that that's too many things, that
Speaker 3: it is a.
Speaker 2: Problem with language.
Speaker 5: I will say that the fifth definition I'm looking at
Speaker 5: Mirriam Webster right now, the fifth definition A great quantity.
Speaker 1: Well, that's say that one covers that covers, yeah, two
Speaker 1: thousand forty. But yeah, I mean it seems I mean
Speaker 1: we were talking English is crazy. I mean this this
Speaker 1: is a measurement, like you're supposed to know what a
Speaker 1: measurement is. That kind of helps, like say your ship
Speaker 1: doesn't sink and this is all over the wonder.
Speaker 3: You're I just hope everyone's using the same one of
Speaker 3: those fifty three definitions, right, that's my only hope.
Speaker 1: My guess is the Titanic did not sink because of
Speaker 1: the iceberg. It's because like they were using British tons
Speaker 1: and they were using American tons and it was like
Speaker 1: a big comedy.
Speaker 3: And someone else just thought they were talking about something
Speaker 3: being a lot, so nobody knew.
Speaker 2: I'm glad exactly make things more confusing, thank you?
Speaker 1: Yes, that all right? So this next one, this person
Speaker 1: is a singer, a well known singer. The first word
Speaker 1: in his last name is a body part associated with
Speaker 1: Tina Turner and the Rockets.
Speaker 3: Okay, so first, the first word is a body part
Speaker 3: associated with Tina Turner and the Rockets, specifically like legs.
Speaker 1: Yes, or the singular since it's only three letters leg, okay, leg.
Speaker 1: And the second word is it's a word that often
Speaker 1: follows bitter, rear, back, dead, or weak. So the bitter
Speaker 1: blank rear, blank blank back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna say end. And the musician is
Speaker 3: John Legend.
Speaker 1: John Legend, exactly, you got it? Very good? Nice, that was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the bitter end. That's a good. That's a good.
Speaker 1: I wonder if he's ever played the bitter end. That
Speaker 1: would make me look more clever than I am.
Speaker 3: Oh I feel like playing the Bitter End in New
Speaker 3: York City is a write of passage, so.
Speaker 1: He probably did. Maybe that can be an In addition,
Speaker 1: he must have Yeah, all right, well should we do
Speaker 1: one more?
Speaker 3: Let's do it?
Speaker 1: All right, let's do our second newscaster. I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: a second newscaster.
Speaker 3: Well the newscaster.
Speaker 1: This one is a more current news caster. This is
Speaker 1: the first part of his last name. A sound that
Speaker 1: a dove makes. A dove makes this sound.
Speaker 3: And this is a tough What is a dove?
Speaker 1: They do? They coop, they do coup exactly. Okay, you
Speaker 1: often say things with a question mark when it's fully
Speaker 1: on it. Uh, so you got.
Speaker 3: I get. It's one of those things that I don't
Speaker 3: I never I haven't thought about for several years, that
Speaker 3: what they call the sound a dove makes. So I'm
Speaker 3: surprised I was able to summon that.
Speaker 1: Okay, dead and when you're when you're talking to your
Speaker 1: daughter about animal sounds, that's another good one for your
Speaker 1: for your roster.
Speaker 3: And when I and when I passed this, you know,
Speaker 3: mortal coil, my final thought will be the sound of dove.
Speaker 1: Makes I hope, so I hope that we put that.
Speaker 4: We'll think back to this very moment.
Speaker 1: It's important information, all right. So you got coup and
Speaker 1: then the second word is, uh, the the P and mph,
Speaker 1: the p and mph.
Speaker 3: So okay, the p and mph, which is like PubL.
Speaker 1: Blick no, no, as when you're in a car and
Speaker 1: you're you can't go over sixty mph.
Speaker 3: Oh mph, oh oh oh. I thought it was you
Speaker 3: were talking about a master's in public health.
Speaker 1: For the record, That's what I thought. You are hilarious.
Speaker 1: You are way too smart. That's the problem. You're way too.
Speaker 3: Educated, was my first my first thing. Okay, so you're
Speaker 3: not talking about that degree, you're talking about miles per hour.
Speaker 4: Okay, Sadly, you've got Coop Cooper, that's right, a CNN
Speaker 4: wait newscaster, Oh Anderson Cooper and Cooper Egg exactly.
Speaker 3: Yes, the Silver Fox, Silver News.
Speaker 1: Now wait, what was the P and masters of public public?
Speaker 1: So it's coup.
Speaker 3: Public public, mass public health.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 3: I know it's like Coop public. That doesn't make any
Speaker 3: sense to me, but it has to be public. He's
Speaker 3: simply talking about it in massa's of public Health.
Speaker 1: Well, you have definitely given very good publicity for those people.
Speaker 1: Pursuing Masters of Public Health. It's very it's a good degree, folks.
Speaker 3: I have an MPa, which is a Master's of Public Administration.
Speaker 1: Oh my godness, why.
Speaker 3: I think about that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, very good. Okay, well you did fantastic with that
Speaker 1: one public per thing notwithstanding, and we loved, we loved
Speaker 1: having you as a puzzler on the show. We are
Speaker 1: so glad you came. And we hope that you've gotten
Speaker 1: over your fear of puzzles.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm actually just surprised and craving more so. Yes,
Speaker 3: I feel like I have gotten over my fear of puzzles.
Speaker 1: All right, well we'll have you back. And for the
Speaker 1: puzzlers at home, we do have an extra credit. We
Speaker 1: do have an extra credit, which is this person is
Speaker 1: an actor, and the first part of his last name
Speaker 1: is a dish served at many Christmas dinners, and the
Speaker 1: second part is a word you might find before repute
Speaker 1: equipped or mannered. Okay, so a main dish at Christmas
Speaker 1: dinner plus a word before repute equipped or mannered. Tune
Speaker 1: in next time to get the answer, and don't forget
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Speaker 2: Hello puzzlers. Greg Pliska here up from the Puzzle Lab
Speaker 2: with the extra credit answer from our previous episode, we
Speaker 2: played Core Competence with Nigeine Farsad.
Speaker 5: This is a.
Speaker 2: Puzzle where every word ends with the sound core, and
Speaker 2: we clude it both as the word that it is
Speaker 2: and fancifully as if it were a genre of music.
Speaker 2: Your extra credit clue was tricky. It is this a
Speaker 2: beast with the body of a lion, the tale of
Speaker 2: a scorpion and the head of a man or music
Speaker 2: all about underwater rays. That of course is manticore m
Speaker 2: A n t I co o r e. That's a
Speaker 2: mythical beast with those body parts. But if you spell
Speaker 2: it m A n t A and add core to it,
Speaker 2: then it's a genre of music all about manta rays.
Speaker 2: I hope you listen to Manticre, have a manticore, enjoy
Speaker 2: Manticre's and bring your mant core with you when you
Speaker 2: listen to the Puzzler.