Speaker 1: Hello, Puzzlers. Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast the brand new
Speaker 1: car hidden behind Puzzle Door number three. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: AJ Jacobs, and today we are lucky to have Vanessa
Speaker 1: and Jonah Mayer, multi talented siblings. Jonah is a music writer, musician,
Speaker 1: and much more. Vanessa is a writer actor, former cast
Speaker 1: member of Saturday Night Live. Together, they host the lovely
Speaker 1: podcast How Did We Get Weird, where they reminisce with
Speaker 1: a guest about wonderful things from our childhood or not
Speaker 1: so wonderful, sometimes creepy, sometimes weird, always weird. First Welcome,
Speaker 1: Welcome Vanessa and Jonah.
Speaker 2: Thank you having us.
Speaker 1: We have loved having you as our guests, and you
Speaker 1: both have so many projects that are so interesting. One
Speaker 1: of my favorites is I Love That for You, which
Speaker 1: you can stream on any number of services. It was
Speaker 1: created by and starred Vanessa as an aspiring host for
Speaker 1: the Shopping Channel or ESPN, who lies that her childhood
Speaker 1: cancer has returned in order to keep her job. So
Speaker 1: delightfully weird, very funny, very touching. This puzzle is very
Speaker 1: loosely based on the title of that show. So yes,
Speaker 1: it is I perhaps your first. I Love that for
Speaker 1: you based puzzle. I think it is good. I'm glad
Speaker 1: no one scooped us. So in this puzzle, all the
Speaker 1: clues will lead to a phrase I love that for
Speaker 1: you blank. So it sounds a little tricky, but all
Speaker 1: of the answers will have I love that for you something.
Speaker 1: So if the clue, for instance, is tinted glasses for
Speaker 1: Bono and a new guitar for the Edge, the answer
Speaker 1: would be I love that for you too. I love
Speaker 1: that for you too. So everything has to sound you
Speaker 1: and these are gifts that you think that you thing
Speaker 1: will love. Great. All right. So there's the premise, and
Speaker 1: here's the puzzle itself. Coupons for flying saucer washes, for
Speaker 1: flying saucer car washes. That might be I love that
Speaker 1: for if this were a gift for something that a
Speaker 1: flying saucer might.
Speaker 3: Need, I I love that for u.
Speaker 1: F O's that's it. That's it. Set. You can say
Speaker 1: it with confidence. Okay, you got it right. Yes, And
Speaker 1: by the way, Greg Pliska, the chief puzzle officer, wrote this,
Speaker 1: all right, okay, so how about what about if the
Speaker 1: gift were or the product being sold were an emery
Speaker 1: board designed to keep the horn on your head, nice
Speaker 1: and sharp, the horn on your only one horn on
Speaker 1: your head. I love that.
Speaker 3: For got it, Jonah, Do you want me to beat
Speaker 3: you to it?
Speaker 1: Or unicorns? You nic corns? Exactly? There you go? All right?
Speaker 1: What about a trophy stand for the Best Actor Emmy
Speaker 1: for this man who starred in Shit's Creek? I love that.
Speaker 2: For Eugene Levy.
Speaker 1: That's it. Eugene Levy is a little tricky because it's
Speaker 1: not spelled you, But yes, exactly, have about a one
Speaker 1: billion dollar alumni donation. What that? I love that for?
Speaker 1: Yes exactly. You always say it with with such trepidation,
Speaker 1: and you're always right, all right, Well, this one's a
Speaker 1: little trick here, a little tricker. But matching socks with
Speaker 1: scylla and charryptis on the matching socks with scylla and
Speaker 1: chryptis a little high brow. But I love that for
Speaker 1: I believe it was. It was the whirlpool and the
Speaker 1: rock that this ancient character had to navigate through. And
Speaker 1: it's not I always think of the Greek name, which
Speaker 1: is Odysseus. But I love that, exactly. I love that
Speaker 1: for Ulysses Joy. I was going to say, I was
Speaker 1: going to say Unique, Well, you might buy you might
Speaker 1: buy Ulysses socks at Unique Club. Exactly, that's right. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you you both did great. Don't that's you a question?
Speaker 2: And this is your podcast. I was such a big
Speaker 2: fan of your book, no at all, and I know
Speaker 2: it's like twenty years old. I'm wondering how much that
Speaker 2: book comes up with your puzzle knowledge, like the stuff.
Speaker 2: Do you retain any of that from back then or
Speaker 2: not really or what's that like for you?
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for asking. Yeah, they I would say
Speaker 1: I've And for those who don't know, I that was
Speaker 1: a book where I read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica and
Speaker 1: tried to learn everything in the world, and I have forgotten.
Speaker 1: I don't know the exact percentage, but I would say
Speaker 1: somewhere in the ninety nine point nine percent, which sounds terrible,
Speaker 1: but actually zero point one percent of the encyclopedia. I
Speaker 1: still there's still a lot of facts floating in my brain.
Speaker 1: The sad part is they're not the facts I want, Like,
Speaker 1: they're not the wiz that they're things like a possums
Speaker 1: have thirteen nipples or Renee Descartes, the philosopher had a
Speaker 1: fetish for women with crossed eyes like these are the
Speaker 1: things that cling to my neurons, and I wish it
Speaker 1: were not, but I would say, yeah, that's a great
Speaker 1: question about puzzling. I'm trying to think of an example
Speaker 1: and it's not coming to mind. But I do think
Speaker 1: I've incorporated weird trivia into the puzzles. And I had
Speaker 1: forgotten how to spell scylla and charybdis. So I'm lucky
Speaker 1: that Greg wrote this puzzle and not me, But thank
Speaker 1: you for asking. Thank you, of course. Well where can
Speaker 1: people find more Vanessa and Jonah content?
Speaker 3: Well you can find me and Jonah on our podcast
Speaker 3: How did We Get Weird, which you can find wherever
Speaker 3: you get your podcasts, and we talk about nostalgic stuff
Speaker 3: with some really great guests like Andy Samberg, God who else,
Speaker 3: Bridget Everett, We've had it on there, Yes.
Speaker 2: Bill Hayter, a lot of musicians too, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: a music journalist, so Jason, Isabel Craig, Finn, Laura, Jane Grace,
Speaker 2: a lot of great ones.
Speaker 3: Well, you can find a lot of great guests and
Speaker 3: a lot of great nostalgic talk on our podcast. And
Speaker 3: again it's how did we get We're doing whereever you.
Speaker 1: Get your podcasts, any platform. It is a lovely show
Speaker 1: and it is nostalgic but also relevant, and I love
Speaker 1: the tangents and great guests. Thank you for coming on
Speaker 1: our show. And as always, I have a puzzle for
Speaker 1: the puzzlers at home, a little extra credit. What is picks?
Speaker 1: That's pic ks, not pics. Picks with pictures of tiny
Speaker 1: Tim on them. Picks with pictures of tiny Tim on them.
Speaker 1: I love that for you blank, what might that be?
Speaker 1: Please tune in next time to get the answer, and
Speaker 1: don't forget to subscribe to the Puzzler podcast and we'll
Speaker 1: meet you here next time for more puzzling puzzles that
Speaker 1: will puzzle you puzzlingly. Hello, puzzlers, it's Greg Blisker here
Speaker 1: with the answer to last episode's extra credit. We played
Speaker 1: a game with Vanessa and Jonah Bayer in which each
Speaker 1: answer is the name of an SNL cast member and
Speaker 1: a word that rhymes with their name. Your clue was
Speaker 1: Leslie's Doppelgangers and the answer is Jon's clones. I bet
Speaker 1: you all got that one, and I'm hoping you'll be
Speaker 1: back to join us next time.