Speaker 1: Hello, puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast, the final burpie
Speaker 1: in your puzzle CrossFit routine. I'm your host, AJ Jacobs,
Speaker 1: and today's guest is the awesome and hilarious Adam Felber,
Speaker 1: co host of Nobody listens to Paula Poundstone, writer, actor,
Speaker 1: lots of other stuff. Frequent panelist on Wait Wait, don't
Speaker 1: tell me. Welcome Adam, Thank.
Speaker 2: You, it's great to be here. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: You've really fixed the place up nice for me.
Speaker 3: Yes, so, Adam.
Speaker 1: I believe in addition to your many talents, you are
Speaker 1: also a puzzler. You're a fan of puzzle. What are
Speaker 1: your favorite types?
Speaker 2: I love, I love the excursions that I like, the
Speaker 2: puzzles that lead to other puzzles. Occasionally I'll get involved
Speaker 2: in these things called puzzle hunts, whether online or live,
Speaker 2: and it's just it's really fun to be part of
Speaker 2: the puzzle community. I am the part of the puzzle
Speaker 2: community that isn't particularly good at what's the word I'm
Speaker 2: looking for puzzles, But I do love I do love
Speaker 2: doing them, and the more elaborate the set up in
Speaker 2: window dressing around them, the happier I am.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna turn it over to Chief Puzzle Officer Greg Pliska,
Speaker 1: who has written a special puzzle just for you.
Speaker 4: Welcome, well, thank you. This is a puzzle about a
Speaker 4: character I created called the letters Witch. I don't know
Speaker 4: if you know who that is.
Speaker 3: I know her brother Doug switch dougs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go. So the letters Witch is the
Speaker 4: evil crone who turns one phrase into another by moving
Speaker 4: one letter. Oh. She's best known for her appearance at
Speaker 4: the end of the NFL season when she takes the
Speaker 4: Championship game and turns it into a really great bird
Speaker 4: of prey.
Speaker 3: Right, the Championshi game and she turns, she switches. She
Speaker 3: makes it super foul.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, she takes the Super Bowl. Good no,
Speaker 4: but good, but no. She takes the Super Bowl and
Speaker 4: moves the b and turns it into a superb Owl.
Speaker 3: Oh. Oh, she doesn't switch the letter. She switches the letters.
Speaker 4: Right, she switches the location of the letters the letters letter.
Speaker 4: They shift from the second word over to the first word.
Speaker 4: So this the way this works. I'll give you a
Speaker 4: clue to the original two word phrase, and then a
Speaker 4: clue to the phrase when the letter gets switched over
Speaker 4: by the letters Witch.
Speaker 3: Fair.
Speaker 4: All right, here's your first one. Legware for a winter
Speaker 4: sport turns into Noah's command to leave some insects behind.
Speaker 3: Legware for a winter sport.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, I think I just got it. I think
Speaker 1: thanks to you, Adam, I haven't seen the answers.
Speaker 4: By the way, so just because he repeated the clue,
Speaker 4: you got it.
Speaker 3: Well, it's not ski boots. It's not ski boots. It's
Speaker 3: leg wear for uh so, you got the right sport.
Speaker 3: It's leg ware, legware. So it's uh so it's like
Speaker 3: ski pants.
Speaker 4: Yes, and then it's Noah's so so he wants behind.
Speaker 2: So he says skip ants exactly, skip ads.
Speaker 3: But that's what's the transposition there? What do we do?
Speaker 3: We just moved the P.
Speaker 4: We just moved the P from one word over to
Speaker 4: the other one.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, okay, we just moved the space as it were.
Speaker 4: Well, fair, if you want to it's you know, figure,
Speaker 4: it's a figure ground problem.
Speaker 3: Okay, got gotcha.
Speaker 4: You're just moving one letter from one word over to
Speaker 4: the other, or one space or one space.
Speaker 3: Sorry, Craig, that was that was delightful, delightful.
Speaker 4: Well here we have some more delight coming. Okay, new
Speaker 4: England sports team turns into a large bovine belonging to
Speaker 4: a communist.
Speaker 2: Now I'm oh, okay, okay, this one jumped to mine
Speaker 2: because I baseball.
Speaker 3: Season is upon us and and so it had to
Speaker 3: be the Red Sox.
Speaker 2: And then what you did is you you once again
Speaker 2: transposed the space.
Speaker 3: This is the reds Ox, reds Ox. Great, that's just wonderful.
Speaker 4: All right. This one is an HBO drama about a
Speaker 4: fundamentalist Mormon family, and it turns into handwear for someone
Speaker 4: who is attracted to both sexes.
Speaker 2: Okay, the Mormon dramas are thick in the ground over
Speaker 2: at HBO if you count white lotus.
Speaker 4: But but it's not.
Speaker 2: But it was not white lotus, is it? Because what
Speaker 2: would what would that be? White old otis?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes no sense at all.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say it's gonna be big love, which turns
Speaker 2: into big glove.
Speaker 4: No no, no, no, no, no, just move the g
Speaker 4: turns into by glo by glove. Yeah, it's the hand
Speaker 4: where you wear if you're attracted to both sexes, gloves gloves.
Speaker 2: That's tremendous and instructive for me for going out on weekends.
Speaker 4: They don't I don't know if they had by gloves
Speaker 4: in the show Big Glove. No, but I never watched it,
Speaker 4: so I don't know.
Speaker 3: It was very entertaining, I remember.
Speaker 4: All right, I have two more for you. Okay, Spend
Speaker 4: the night in a tent, which turns into a kind
Speaker 4: of mopey face you might make for Instagram.
Speaker 3: Spend the night in a tent.
Speaker 2: Okay, the mopey face for Instagram has got to be
Speaker 2: a pout right that you're you're doing some out and
Speaker 2: pound things. So it's gonna be spend ninetennis camp out,
Speaker 2: camp out or camp out.
Speaker 4: Which becomes your campout.
Speaker 3: That's fantastic.
Speaker 1: People can't say it, but Greg just did a fantastic pout.
Speaker 3: Oh he did.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that this is not more visual for you. Yep,
Speaker 1: there it is good pounding, Adam.
Speaker 4: Take you all right? This is your final clue. Jesus,
Speaker 4: what this clue is turns into the general vibe of
Speaker 4: the largest city in southern California.
Speaker 2: Okay, So what this clue is turns into the general
Speaker 2: vibe of what.
Speaker 4: The largest city in southern California.
Speaker 2: Okay, The general vibe of big metropolis of my city
Speaker 2: is laid back.
Speaker 3: That's what they always say.
Speaker 2: But I'm guessing that's that's that doesn't look like the
Speaker 2: thing though, Uh no, that what was that clue?
Speaker 4: It was your final clue.
Speaker 3: It was the Yeah, it was the last hint.
Speaker 2: So what's so it's l A's fintint.
Speaker 4: Exactly, well done, Thank you for being with us, Adam.
Speaker 4: You did great. No, no, no, no, wait a minute,
Speaker 4: not fint a word for the general vibes, the overall thing.
Speaker 4: It's l A's that.
Speaker 3: It's not last hint. Then it's the last.
Speaker 4: It wasn't the first of the clues. It wasn't the
Speaker 4: second clue. It wasn't the third clue.
Speaker 3: It was l A's third. No, it was LA's fourth.
Speaker 1: It was the last, counting, keep counting the last.
Speaker 4: I'm lost to Adam by the way, single stumped, the
Speaker 4: last single thing.
Speaker 1: Last last is good because it's got say to your.
Speaker 4: Kids, say can I have another cookie? And you say, okay,
Speaker 4: this is your last chance.
Speaker 3: This is your last cookie, last time.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, oh I think I got it that. It
Speaker 1: was the it was the parenting thing. You can have
Speaker 1: two more, you can have last one.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's Ellie's tone, exact last one. It's simpler. Than
Speaker 2: I thought.
Speaker 1: Well you did great and thank you Adam, wonderful work.
Speaker 1: Where can we hear more of you?
Speaker 2: Well, on the aforementioned nobody listens to Paula Poundstone is
Speaker 2: a great place to hear me and my new podcast,
Speaker 2: stark Raving Reviews, which is some very very funny movie
Speaker 2: reviews written in character of two extraordinarily enthusiastic movie reviewers.
Speaker 1: I love it, As I said, we need more positivity,
Speaker 1: and I also love nobody listens to Paula Poundstone because
Speaker 1: this is a very puzzly. It's a paradox, so I
Speaker 1: feel our puzzling.
Speaker 2: She is a puzzle incarnate, is that lady and a
Speaker 2: gene So I encourage everybody to listen to very.
Speaker 1: And also are we should have her own because pound
Speaker 1: Stone like those are great.
Speaker 3: Well, it actually works for this puzzle that Greg just did. Yeah,
Speaker 3: oh pounds tone.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 4: Well, that's the version of this puzzle where you take
Speaker 4: a single word and you insert a space into it.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, take pound stone and you put the space
Speaker 4: to get pounds tone.
Speaker 1: It's all that's the letter switches. Well, thank you again
Speaker 1: Adam and Greg. Do we have a extra credit?
Speaker 4: We do as we are known to do. Here's your
Speaker 4: extra credit clue. A term meaning only partly correct turns
Speaker 4: into fear of the computer in two thousand and one.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know it. I'm gonna think about it
Speaker 1: and I will listen tomorrow to figure out the answer.
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Speaker 5: Hi, puzzlers, this is your chief puzzle Officer, Greg Pliska,
Speaker 5: here with the extra credit answer from our previous episode,
Speaker 5: we played B Movies with Adam Felber, in which every
Speaker 5: answer is a mashup of two movies, the first of
Speaker 5: which starts with the letter B.
Speaker 4: In this one, the extra credit was actually a movie
Speaker 4: TV mashup, and this was your clue. This sex comedy
Speaker 4: stars Tom Hanks as a man trying to manage a
Speaker 4: quintet of kids who have lost their parents, and that
Speaker 4: is Bachelor Party of Five, a mashup of the Hanks
Speaker 4: movie Bachelor Party and the TV show Party of Five.
Speaker 4: Glad you were here to play with us, and we
Speaker 4: hope you're with us again next time on the Puzzler