Speaker 1: Hello Puzzlers, and welcome to the Puzzler Weekend, where we
Speaker 1: bring you some of our favorite episodes from the vaults
Speaker 1: for your weekend listening. This weekend, we have a show
Speaker 1: in honor of Earth Day, which is coming up on Monday.
Speaker 1: Earth Day, by the way, a very anagrammable holiday. Lots
Speaker 1: of anagrams. Rearrange the letters in Earth Day and you
Speaker 1: get death ray, which could also be a danger to
Speaker 1: our planet, just like climate change, so very appropriate. Also
Speaker 1: yard hate, which is appropriate if the yard contains water
Speaker 1: intensive landscaping that might harm the environments. So there you go.
Speaker 1: And now our Earthday episode with comedian Roywood Junior doing
Speaker 1: a puzzle about trees. Hello Puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast,
Speaker 1: the extra legroom in your daily cross country puzzle flight.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, A J. Jacobs, and I am here
Speaker 1: with our guests, the amazing Roy Wood Junior, comedian, podcaster
Speaker 1: and jigsaw puzzle lover. Welcome Roy.
Speaker 2: Hello. Hello.
Speaker 1: I heard on another show that you actually glue your
Speaker 1: finished jigsaw puzzles and hang them up on the wall.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I have to give a shout out to you. Vet
Speaker 3: Nicole Brown from Community Fame. She and I got to
Speaker 3: talking about puzzles, and she was telling me how she
Speaker 3: does her puzzles and then just undoes them and reboxes
Speaker 3: them and then gives them to some one. And I'm like, no,
Speaker 3: it's mine. This belongs to me forever. We never passed
Speaker 3: this down. One day in twenty twelve, your dad was
Speaker 3: bored and in six hours he completed a seven hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty pieces, Like I want everyone to know.
Speaker 1: And are you in a room with any puzzles on
Speaker 1: the wall right now?
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: I just moved into this place, so I don't have
Speaker 3: anything up on the walls yet, but they're all out
Speaker 3: there ready to go up. I got to figure out
Speaker 3: my I gotta paint first.
Speaker 1: And your favorite is they You would mention the Las
Speaker 1: Vegas Skyline.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Buffalo Games. They do these seven hundred and fifty panoramas,
Speaker 3: and they've got a couple of really good cities. I
Speaker 3: probably have ten or twelve of those, from Vegas to
Speaker 3: New York to Vancouver, the pair of the Great Pyramids.
Speaker 3: You know, like it's just San Francisco, just random cities. Chicago,
Speaker 3: Like there's just no rhyme or reason I don't have
Speaker 3: a Pittsburgh when I'm not from Pittsburgh, but it's cool
Speaker 3: to put that on the wall.
Speaker 1: I will say Buffalo. I like their jigsaw. I think
Speaker 1: that's the one. They have very different shaped pieces, like
Speaker 1: some companies, they are all the same kind of shape,
Speaker 1: And am I wrong about that? Maybe I'm confusing it.
Speaker 2: They're pretty regular.
Speaker 3: I've bought puzzles for my son, and the thing I
Speaker 3: don't like about those puzzles is that they sometimes have
Speaker 3: Oh here's one that here's a piece that shaped like
Speaker 3: a dolphin or a hot air ballance. So there's nothing
Speaker 3: interlocking about it.
Speaker 1: You don't like those.
Speaker 3: That's interesting because it's just a loose puzzle, right, it's
Speaker 3: just loose stuff on the ground all together, held by
Speaker 3: what not physics?
Speaker 1: It's true, it seems a little unstable, not fair, got
Speaker 1: it all right? We won't give you that as a
Speaker 1: going away prize. But today's puzzle is based on a
Speaker 1: type of puzzle that was popular in the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1: It was called wordy gurdy and you might have seen it.
Speaker 1: It was next to the comics, and it was a
Speaker 1: two word rhyming phrase that was the answer to everyone.
Speaker 1: So if the clue was this is a hilarious rabbit,
Speaker 1: then the solution might be funny bunny. So that is
Speaker 1: wordy gurdy. But in honor of you, we gave it
Speaker 1: a little twist because this time all the answers are
Speaker 1: two word rhyming phrases. But one of those words is
Speaker 1: a type of wood. So it's not it's woody goody.
Speaker 1: If it's not wordy gurdy, it's woody goody. So if
Speaker 1: the clue for instant, I'll give you. For instance, if
Speaker 1: the clue is a headrest for your bed made of
Speaker 1: wood from a weeping tree, that might.
Speaker 3: Be willow pillow exactly, pillow willowpo.
Speaker 1: Okay, willow pillows, right, Yeah, we usually put the tree first. Okay,
Speaker 1: So are you ready? And some may be a little
Speaker 1: tricky re ready, especially if yeah, our producers like I
Speaker 1: don't know wood types, but maybe you do. So here
Speaker 1: you go a dip for tortilla chips made out of
Speaker 1: lightweight wood, very lightweight wood. And it's a dip for
Speaker 1: your tortilla chips.
Speaker 2: Drift chip.
Speaker 1: I like it, but it's not what we were thinking.
Speaker 1: Drift oh, drift wood. Oh yeah, that's good now that
Speaker 1: we're thinking of the the the little red sauce that
Speaker 1: you put your tortillas in is.
Speaker 2: All balsa salsa exactly.
Speaker 1: I like you, all right. Number two This is a
Speaker 1: boat you take to Staten Island, but it's made of
Speaker 1: reddish brown wood. Ah.
Speaker 2: I like this one, cherry fairy.
Speaker 1: That's it, cherry fairy. I'm on a roll, baby, you
Speaker 1: are all right. Here comes another. I think you got it.
Speaker 1: Number three a ballet dress made from a panda's favorite food.
Speaker 1: A ballet dress made from a panda's favorite food.
Speaker 2: A bamboo too too. That's it. Oh, you are on
Speaker 2: a rollo okay, almost cursed. I was like, oh, you're real.
Speaker 2: I got it. Okay.
Speaker 3: It's like a will of fortune when you just blind
Speaker 3: guess an X or a V. You know what, there
Speaker 3: are four exes in this book.
Speaker 2: What exes?
Speaker 1: Well, you got it, you got it, and uh and
Speaker 1: we are happy that you guessed randomly. But it wasn't
Speaker 1: so random, all right. Number four is a statue of
Speaker 1: a the King of the Greek gods, made out of
Speaker 1: a type of evergreen wood. So the King of the gods,
Speaker 1: the god of thunder in Greece, and it's made of
Speaker 1: evergreen wood.
Speaker 2: He's also.
Speaker 1: It's not pine t the god I think might be
Speaker 1: easier to get than the wood. The god is I'm trying.
Speaker 2: To see the thor of Zeus, thunder is.
Speaker 1: No, you got it.
Speaker 2: You said it. Zeus is the lightning or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Zeus so Zeus and it's a kind of moose Zeus. Weird.
Speaker 1: This was the crazy Howard.
Speaker 2: Hughes spruce spruce Zeus exactly.
Speaker 3: I was trying to think of other names for evergreens
Speaker 3: other than pine. But yeah, okay, that won. Well done.
Speaker 3: Well done puzzle master.
Speaker 2: On that one.
Speaker 1: Well done to you. By the way, fun fact which
Speaker 1: I found researching this, the spruce goose plane that crazy
Speaker 1: Howard Hughes had was not even made of spruce. It
Speaker 1: was birch, but I guess there was nothing that rhymed
Speaker 1: with birch that flies. All right, Well you you did
Speaker 1: great as expected. You know your woods. Thank you for participating.
Speaker 1: And where can people get more roy wood, the best
Speaker 1: type of wood, roy Wood.
Speaker 3: Get more Roywood at my website roywood Junior dot com. Also,
Speaker 3: you to watch some of my old comedy specials. Were
Speaker 3: there in free don't you.
Speaker 1: I watched them actually yeah, Comedy Central puts them up
Speaker 1: with no commercials.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: So before we wrap up, as always, for you puzzlers
Speaker 1: at home, we have an extra credit puzzle. This is
Speaker 1: a chef's hat made of a wood used for wine barrels.
Speaker 1: Wine barrel would but it's a chef's hat made of that. Puzzlers,
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Speaker 1: I'll meet you here tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles that
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