Speaker 1: Hello, Puzzlers. Welcome to the Buzzler Podcast the Mystery Meat
Speaker 1: at your nineteen eighties puzzle Cafeteria. I am your host,
Speaker 1: aj Jacobs, and today we have with us Vanessa and
Speaker 1: Jonah Bayer, siblings and hosts of the awesome podcast How
Speaker 1: did we get weird? Welcome Jonah and Vanessa.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're such big, fancy yours. By the way, I
Speaker 3: almost tell you before I went to the Year of
Speaker 3: Living Biblically book reading you did in the West Village,
Speaker 3: got a sign book, and then you sent me a
Speaker 3: postcard when I moved out here. I moved from Brooklyn
Speaker 3: to the Berkshires, and you said it was like a
Speaker 3: good movie idea because for which is great, because you
Speaker 3: firs start promo for one of your books. You sent
Speaker 3: out postcards right.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, yeah, it was all about thankfulness and gratitude.
Speaker 1: And I sent you a thank you card and I'll
Speaker 1: send you another. I'll send you a listen.
Speaker 3: I was so excited to get it, so thank you again.
Speaker 1: Well, I love it. I love that we're friends and
Speaker 1: epistolary chums whatever that is. So Jonah and Vanessa are
Speaker 1: not just podcasts hosts. They both have multiple hyphens. Jonah
Speaker 1: is a writer, a musician, a licensed counselor, and Vanessa
Speaker 1: is a writer actor former cast member of Saturday Night Live,
Speaker 1: where she was known for many of her brilliant characters,
Speaker 1: including child actress Laura Parson and Jacob the bar Mitsva boy.
Speaker 4: By the way, sort of based on Jonah No way
Speaker 4: is that true? Yeah, realized it when I started doing it.
Speaker 4: And then Jonah's friends, adult friends, I will say, said,
Speaker 4: you're doing an impression of Jonah, and and then I
Speaker 4: realized it was taken partially from all the barnbut mits
Speaker 4: as I went to as a kid, but very much
Speaker 4: from from Jonah.
Speaker 1: Wow, this is big news. That is so cool. And Jonah,
Speaker 1: did you have a theme at your bar Mitzvah?
Speaker 3: I didn't. I don't remember. Apparently our mom thought themes
Speaker 3: were tacky quote unquote tacky, which I get.
Speaker 1: It, got it.
Speaker 4: We were not allowed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, theme with judaism right.
Speaker 3: I'm also I'm not a license counselor yet. If I
Speaker 3: do have a master's degree in clinical metalth counsel, I'm
Speaker 3: working towards licensure, So next time I'm on I will
Speaker 3: be licensed.
Speaker 1: All right, or maybe when this airs, you'll already maybe, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm manifesting. It's nice. Well, thank you for that. Now
Speaker 1: Here at the Puzzler, we are huge fans of SNL,
Speaker 1: so of course we did have to have one SNL
Speaker 1: themed puzzle, and it's a rhyming puzzle. The answers are
Speaker 1: going to be two word rhyming phrases where one of
Speaker 1: the words is the last name of an SNL cast member. So,
Speaker 1: for instance, if the clue is Jim's raw Fish, that
Speaker 1: would be Jim from the original cast. Jim's raw Fish
Speaker 1: might be Jim the lushi sushi Belushi's Sushi, So they're
Speaker 1: always gonna rhy I see, I see. And I'll give
Speaker 1: you another example. Because Vanessa's coatings it's actually a little hard.
Speaker 1: Vanessa's slabs strata sheet coatings. Vanessa's that would be Bayars
Speaker 1: synonym for levels tears. Lads, got a layers nailed it.
Speaker 1: That is a tough one. It is because layers layers
Speaker 1: is a hard like. It's not an easy these ones.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it'll be a little more accessible, all right, how
Speaker 1: about this Amy's back teeth, Amy's back teeth. I got it,
Speaker 1: I've already got it.
Speaker 4: Nice, I want to give the audience a chance to
Speaker 4: catch up to me. But I would say, you're kind
Speaker 4: polars molars, polars.
Speaker 1: Molers is correct? All right? How about we keep with
Speaker 1: a dental theme and go with Bowen's sharp canines. Bowen's
Speaker 1: sharp canines.
Speaker 4: This one's I got this one. This one's a slam dunk, Jonah,
Speaker 4: do you have it?
Speaker 1: Yang's yangs yangs fangs exactly all right? Look at that,
Speaker 1: you're on fire. How about Kristen's Irish dances, Christen's Irish dances?
Speaker 4: Oh, this one, this one, I got it.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Look at that. You guys are fast. Yeah. Wiggs Jigs,
Speaker 1: Wiggs jaggs excellent, all right, This one, this one a
Speaker 1: friend of mine suggested, and I actually didn't get it,
Speaker 1: but so I decided to try it on you and
Speaker 1: kills Vindaaloo Bill's vindaloo. The original cast, Oh, original cast, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this one going back, legendary, also very successful. Actor also
Speaker 1: bus Hurry Mury's curry exactly all right. A couple more,
Speaker 1: A couple more, because how about Jimmy's clause. Jimmy's clause,
Speaker 1: this was I think this was your era.
Speaker 4: I got it.
Speaker 1: Oh, she got it, she got it.
Speaker 4: I'd say Fallons talents.
Speaker 1: Falence Talents is absolutely correct. All right, how about one more?
Speaker 1: What about Rachel's lacerations. Rachel's lacerations? I got it, she
Speaker 1: got it already. Oh my god, do you have it?
Speaker 3: Scratches scratches.
Speaker 1: Nice, you got it now, I will say before we
Speaker 1: close out, there is actually a a cast member, former
Speaker 1: cast member, who you don't even need to make a
Speaker 1: clue because her name is like an answer. Her name
Speaker 1: is a rhyming phrase. I don't know if you let
Speaker 1: me give you she was. She was a cheerleader at
Speaker 1: one point. She oh, Barbara Walters was one of her characters,
Speaker 1: and she is hilarious. Exactly who you're talking about, Terry exactly?
Speaker 1: Say you lay that rhymes and I didn't even have
Speaker 1: to write any clues. Well you did fantastic. Thank you again.
Speaker 1: Where can people find more? Jonah and Vanessa content.
Speaker 4: Well, we have a podcast, funnily enough, called how Did
Speaker 4: We Get Weird? And on it we talk about nostalgic
Speaker 4: stuff from growing up with some really great guests like Jonah.
Speaker 4: Who are some of our great guests. There's so many
Speaker 4: it's starting to keep track. Dave Holmes, a friend of mine,
Speaker 4: Dy Ratmans our cousin, cousin Ricky Racman.
Speaker 1: And I will say one of the running theme I've
Speaker 1: noticed is that Vanessa, you will do a boast at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the show where you will say, and
Speaker 1: I am very good at and one of them was
Speaker 1: word games. He said, I'm very good at word games
Speaker 1: if I do say so myself. Oh well, there you go.
Speaker 1: You just proved. You just proved your boast not a liar.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I have one for the puzzlers at home,
Speaker 1: Leslie's doppelganger, Leslie's Dopplegangers. Yeah, plural, let's go with plural.
Speaker 1: Please tune in to find out what that is, and
Speaker 1: don't forget to subscribe, and we will meet you here
Speaker 1: tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles. They will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 2: Hello, puzzlers, this is Greg Pliska, your chief puzzle officer,
Speaker 2: here with the extra credit answer from our previous episode
Speaker 2: we played with Ben Thompson and Pat and the extra
Speaker 2: critic clue you got was knuckles, tacks or rings might
Speaker 2: be made of this material. The answer, of course is brass.
Speaker 1: Thanks for playing