Speaker 1: Hello, Puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast the balsamic Glaze
Speaker 1: on your puzzling Cupraise Salad. I am your host, AJ Jacobs,
Speaker 1: and today's guests are the awesome Vanessa and Jonah Bayer,
Speaker 1: multi talented siblings. Jonah is a music writer and musician.
Speaker 1: Vanessa is a writer actor, former cast member of Saturday
Speaker 1: Night Live, and together they host the delightful podcast how
Speaker 1: Did We Get Weird? Right here on iHeart? Welcome Vanessa
Speaker 1: and Jonah.
Speaker 2: Hey, j thank you.
Speaker 1: Great to have you. And today's puzzle is actually brought
Speaker 1: to you by Chief Fuzzle Officer Greg Pliska, and he
Speaker 1: has emerged from the Puzzle Lab to deliver it to
Speaker 1: you only. Welcome Greg, Thank you.
Speaker 2: I get out once a week and it's so nice
Speaker 2: to see new faces to it. Thank you guys for
Speaker 2: being here. I don't know. You guys seem to get
Speaker 2: along so well when you were growing up. Was there
Speaker 2: a lot of rivalry?
Speaker 3: We were into very different stuff as kids. I was
Speaker 3: very into music. I'm nasa was more into studying. But
Speaker 3: I think as adults we've gotten closer. What do you think, Vanessa?
Speaker 4: You know Jonah used to sort of make fun of
Speaker 4: me a little bit, like there was a little bit
Speaker 4: of like back and forth, like our mom would say,
Speaker 4: you know, if you don't have anything nice to say,
Speaker 4: don't say anything at all, And then Jonah would just
Speaker 4: look at me and he'd be like, aha, I'm just
Speaker 4: thinking in my head of all the mean stuff I'm
Speaker 4: saying about you. They're like little jabs like that, but
Speaker 4: nothing too serious. And if I ever seemed like I
Speaker 4: was upset by any of them, he would immediately apologize. So, oh,
Speaker 4: pretty nice dynamic between us.
Speaker 2: Well, we're going to try to ruin that right now
Speaker 2: because we've alway have a little head to head game,
Speaker 2: a game of categories, and we're going to use your
Speaker 2: last name as the letters in the in the category.
Speaker 2: So if I give you a category, you have to
Speaker 2: come up with things either are in that category that
Speaker 2: start with B, A, Y, E, and R. And we'll
Speaker 2: play it round robin, so you'll take turns and you
Speaker 2: can answer with any of the letters. So for example,
Speaker 2: if Vanessa went first and I said colors, you might
Speaker 2: say red, and then Jonah you get a turn with
Speaker 2: the remaining letters and you might say yellow. So now
Speaker 2: it goes back to Vanessa and you've got the A,
Speaker 2: the E, N, the R to work with. And if
Speaker 2: at any point you're stuck, the other person gets to
Speaker 2: steal a point, and the person with the most points
Speaker 2: per category wins that category and bragging rights at least
Speaker 2: until the next episode. Okay, okay, that makes sense. Name
Speaker 2: exactly you're going to think of. I'll give you a category.
Speaker 2: You got to think of something in the category that
Speaker 2: starts with B, A, Y, E, and R. So once
Speaker 2: a letter is used, then you only have the other
Speaker 2: ones remaining.
Speaker 4: I see.
Speaker 2: So all right, here we go. Your first category is
Speaker 2: bands musical acts. I was going to actually make this
Speaker 2: bands in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because
Speaker 2: that's a little more contained. I think it was Jonah
Speaker 2: who said on another episode, like all the band names
Speaker 2: are taken, so probably anything could be a band you
Speaker 2: could justify, but let's try to go with well known
Speaker 2: bands that start with B, A, Y, E, or R.
Speaker 2: And Jonah, since we introduced you as the musician, you
Speaker 2: get to lead. You had to pick a band that
Speaker 2: starts with one of those five letters.
Speaker 3: So I just name one.
Speaker 2: The name of a band that starts with any one
Speaker 2: of those letters.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going to go with yes, no.
Speaker 2: But yes, but name a band. Thank you for participating. No,
Speaker 2: I got it. Yes, in fact, the band that's in
Speaker 2: the rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That's the why.
Speaker 2: So Vanessa, we toss it over to you.
Speaker 4: You got do they have to be in the rock
Speaker 4: and Roll Hall of Fame?
Speaker 2: No, they don't. We're letting it be ba okay, rancid, rancid, okay,
Speaker 2: very good. Not in the rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: They should, they probably should, they will be someday, someday.
Speaker 1: I feel that's one you've written about a lot.
Speaker 2: Jonah.
Speaker 1: Did I make that up.
Speaker 3: Late Spin? Very great in ninety six?
Speaker 2: All right, so back to you, Jonah. You've got the B,
Speaker 2: the A and the E left. Bad religion, bad religion.
Speaker 2: Also not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: But we'll take that for the version. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like this because you know it's not the Beatles.
Speaker 1: It's like a right, you are creative.
Speaker 2: All right, Vanessa? What do you got? A and E
Speaker 2: are left?
Speaker 4: Does your your rhythmics count well?
Speaker 2: Yes, you rhythmics absolutely count.
Speaker 4: That count well because I don't know if they have
Speaker 4: the before that they actually don't have the they don't,
Speaker 4: and I know that.
Speaker 2: If you were stuck, we'd allow that we could ignore
Speaker 2: the leading article like the Everly Brothers would be acceptable.
Speaker 2: But your rhythmics is perfectly good and in the rock
Speaker 2: and roll Hall of Fame. All right, So Jonah, it's
Speaker 2: back to you. Your chance to win this round with
Speaker 2: three points if you have an a.
Speaker 3: Not a band I listened to, but Ace of Bass
Speaker 3: game to mind.
Speaker 2: Ace of Bass very good. There's that one song that
Speaker 2: you probably can't get out of your head whenever. Yeah,
Speaker 2: now it's stuck in our heads. Thank you for loving
Speaker 2: all right? Good, So that excellently. You guys got through
Speaker 2: those five technically three points to two for Jonah, but
Speaker 2: he did get to go first. So next category, Vanessa,
Speaker 2: you get to go first. Great, And the category is sitcoms.
Speaker 2: Oh great again it's a huge category. There are a
Speaker 2: lot of sitcoms.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, but okay, Brady Bunch.
Speaker 2: Brady Bunch very good, a classic when old school. I
Speaker 2: like it, all right, Jonah, what do you got a
Speaker 2: Y E and R left?
Speaker 3: This is a show we talk about a lot on
Speaker 3: the podcast Empty Nest.
Speaker 2: Empty Nest very good. I like it.
Speaker 1: It's true.
Speaker 2: You got all in the family, all in the fa Vanessa,
Speaker 2: you can keep going further back in time. I like this,
Speaker 2: we going we had all the contemporary bands, and then
Speaker 2: for sitcoms, we're just going old school. All right? Good,
Speaker 2: so you have two left. You got the Y and
Speaker 2: the R. Jonah, what do you got stuff?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: I keep thinking of the show's not saycoms, though I.
Speaker 1: Might, well, are they dramedies? Would you accept dramedies?
Speaker 2: Greg depends? Maybe you know there are plenty of sitcoms
Speaker 2: that start with these letters.
Speaker 1: He's top.
Speaker 3: I was thinking, like, you can't do that intelevision, not
Speaker 3: really a sacom at all or dramed.
Speaker 4: I was thinking that too.
Speaker 3: I was thinking that I'm gonna have to tap out.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I have an R Y.
Speaker 2: All right, Vanessa, you got an R or Y for
Speaker 2: the steal Roseanne? Roseanne very good a classic, right, all right?
Speaker 2: So that gives Vanessa the win on this round. But
Speaker 2: to anybody got a Y, I.
Speaker 4: Was thinking, you can't do this on television too. I
Speaker 4: couldn't think of another why.
Speaker 2: There's a I think the easiest one to get is
Speaker 2: a spin off of the Big Bang theory. It's on
Speaker 2: now or on more recently.
Speaker 1: Oh, that is always popping up on my Netflix algorithm,
Speaker 1: even though I have no desire to watch it.
Speaker 2: It's about one of the characters, Oh, the young Sheldon,
Speaker 2: Young Sheldon exactly. There were a couple other I found
Speaker 2: on the list.
Speaker 1: Yes, dear, I remember, yes, dear, anyone remember that.
Speaker 3: I don't remember that one.
Speaker 1: I worked at Entertainment Weekly, so I kind of had
Speaker 1: to know sitcoms and that.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, it looks like we're tied up for
Speaker 2: the final round a j You get to decide who
Speaker 2: goes first.
Speaker 1: That's too much pressure and I don't want that.
Speaker 2: Flip a blanket in the closet, whatever you want to do,
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm clipping my cell phone. That's the only
Speaker 1: thing I okay, all right, Face up is Vanessa, Faced
Speaker 1: down is Jonah? Jonah goes?
Speaker 2: All right. So we flipped the coin before the episode,
Speaker 2: and Jonah won the toss. So the category is articles
Speaker 2: of clothing, things that people wear. Boots, Boots is a bee, yes,
Speaker 2: Afghan Afghan very good? Okay, I like that.
Speaker 3: Ear muffs.
Speaker 2: Ear muff's also very good for wintertime. I like that.
Speaker 2: If you got a y and an R raincoat. Raincoat
Speaker 2: also very useful. All right, so it's down to the
Speaker 2: why something you wear?
Speaker 1: So wait, what's the score?
Speaker 2: Why? It's tied to too.
Speaker 1: If Jonah gets us win.
Speaker 2: This is this is first time on the Puzzler Podcast
Speaker 2: we've had a categories head to head final round. It's
Speaker 2: a tie. If you don't get this, we go into
Speaker 2: a penalty shootout where you throw things at each other
Speaker 2: until you hit it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is how I keep thinking about a yak People.
Speaker 1: Were yacks jacket. Yeah, what do you think Greg does he?
Speaker 1: Does he get?
Speaker 4: I think I could steal what do you guys can
Speaker 4: steal here?
Speaker 1: Yamaica?
Speaker 2: Oh oh that is a good I didn't even have
Speaker 2: that on the list. That is an excellent answer because.
Speaker 1: We were talking about Jacob the Barnitspa boy the other day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fit's right. In the other one I had was
Speaker 2: yoga pants. That's like a thing that people. Yeah right,
Speaker 2: but yamaka is excellent. Well well done you guys. That
Speaker 2: was fantastic.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I guess I won.
Speaker 2: And you can play it at home with any five
Speaker 2: letter word you want.
Speaker 1: So fun. How does this work with the puzzlers at home?
Speaker 1: Can they play with their siblings?
Speaker 2: I I think what I'll do. I'm going to give
Speaker 2: the puzzlers at home an extra credit category. Okay, so
Speaker 2: your extra credit category, still using the letters B, A, Y, E, R,
Speaker 2: is fruits and vegetables. I have a big list here
Speaker 2: that i'll you know, give on the episode next episode
Speaker 2: when I give people the answer question.
Speaker 4: I have a clarifying question. Okay, yeah, do legoomes count?
Speaker 2: You know? I chose fruits and vegetables to avoid the
Speaker 2: question of whether, like tomato is a fruit or a vegetable? Right,
Speaker 2: and I didn't expect trouble from the legume camp.
Speaker 4: Oh, I guess I'm thinking of tubers. Oh too, I
Speaker 4: think I'm thinking of tubers. Legomes are like peanuts, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we accept tubers on this show. Tuber friendly podcast
Speaker 2: we love.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: I'm so sorry for the legum controversy. It was unnecessary.
Speaker 1: I'm glad we cleared it up. Also, night shades are allowed.
Speaker 1: Night shades are fine.
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, now there's a major night show.
Speaker 2: Said puddlers were pedantic.
Speaker 1: Come on, Well, thank you Vanessa and Jonah. You did
Speaker 1: great and your I love that your relationship survived this
Speaker 1: this very difficult competition, and uh, thank you all for
Speaker 1: tuning in and remember to come back tomorrow. And also,
Speaker 1: you know what, tell us what your vegetables, tubers, night shades,
Speaker 1: and fruits are at the puzzler dot com. Go to
Speaker 1: the puzzler dot com and we'll meet here tomorrow for
Speaker 1: more puzzling puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 2: Hello Puzzlers.
Speaker 5: Chief Puzzle Officer Greg Pliska here with the extra credit
Speaker 5: answer from our previous show. We played Really Weird Stuff
Speaker 5: with Vanessa and Jonah Bayer. Every clue gave you a word,
Speaker 5: include its anagram.
Speaker 2: Your extra credit was these really weird salesmen came to
Speaker 2: my door the other day. They insisted on remaining anonymous.
Speaker 2: You're looking for an anagram of salesman that is synonymous
Speaker 2: with anonymous and that would be nameless. Well, you're not
Speaker 2: nameless to us. You're our favorite Puzzler listener. We'll catch
Speaker 2: you next time.