Speaker 1: Hello, Puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast the t k
Speaker 1: O in your Puzzled Prize Fight. I am your host,
Speaker 1: A J. Jacobs, and today's guest is the Great Noel Brown,
Speaker 1: co host of the Ridiculous History podcast and Stuff they
Speaker 1: Don't Want You to Know and just an all around
Speaker 1: mench Welcome Noel.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's so kind of you. Agent. Maybe I would
Speaker 2: take the just fine Noel Brown. But great is I
Speaker 2: love it. I will lean on some hyperbole here and there.
Speaker 1: I'm standing by great. I'm and in future episodes, I
Speaker 1: may go, I may go bigger.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll see how I perform. Okay, it's yet to
Speaker 2: be determined.
Speaker 1: There you go. One of your shows is the huge
Speaker 1: hit Stuff they Don't Want You to Know, which is
Speaker 1: about conspiracies and secrets involving everything from assass Nations to UFOs,
Speaker 1: And in honor of that, today's puzzle is about aliens,
Speaker 1: or more specifically ets. And before we begin, I thought
Speaker 1: I'd ask, what is your favorite conspiracy that you've heard about?
Speaker 2: ET's There's just so many, but there was one of
Speaker 2: recent note that made some delightful memes. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you remember. In Mexico, some officials at the National
Speaker 2: Autonomous University of Mexico purported to be the mummified remains
Speaker 2: of an Et, an adorable little fellow, quite gaunt, with
Speaker 2: a very fun little very et esque like as in
Speaker 2: the Spielberg Spielberg and Et face. And it generated so
Speaker 2: many memes because he's just a chill looking little guy.
Speaker 2: They had him like with like a blunt, you know,
Speaker 2: in his mouth, and fun like you know, like hype
Speaker 2: beast type clothes like street wear on and it just
Speaker 2: really tickled me. Of course, it was determined to be
Speaker 2: a hoax quite quickly, but the closest to allegedly were
Speaker 2: you know, we'll see the juries mainly in but we'll
Speaker 2: just for the purposes of this podcast, say it's still out.
Speaker 1: That is interesting. That gives me an idea. I'd like
Speaker 1: to see sort of a spectrum from the cutest ets
Speaker 1: to the scariest ets, like who would who would be
Speaker 1: the cutest like this guy? Would it be Et? From Spielberg?
Speaker 1: All right, Well, this puzzle is all about looking for
Speaker 1: hidden ets. Every answer will have the letters E T
Speaker 1: appear in it, not once, but twice. So for example,
Speaker 1: if I said, since we're talking about movies. If I
Speaker 1: said this is what a director says before shooting a scene,
Speaker 1: you might say quiet on the set. So you see
Speaker 1: there's two ET's, one at the end of quiet and
Speaker 1: one at the end of set.
Speaker 2: That would have taken me a minute. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2: Am terrified.
Speaker 1: But that was a tough one. That's why I put
Speaker 1: it in the intro. I was just to terrify you.
Speaker 1: I guess. Okay, all right, well, let let's start. You
Speaker 1: may not be terrified after the ready. Ace Ventura is
Speaker 1: one of these. Ace Ventura is one of the.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I'm gonna give a beat for the for
Speaker 2: the audience to give it a go beat. And he
Speaker 2: is a pet detective.
Speaker 1: A pet detective exactly there. It is two ET's right
Speaker 1: in there. All right, what about this one? This is
Speaker 1: a toy in the National Toy Hall of Fame, and
Speaker 1: you draw little pictures using two knobs.
Speaker 2: That is an Etchus beat. It beats given a beat?
Speaker 2: Do you cannot go? Just for the people at home
Speaker 2: on our podcast, when we make a mistake or want
Speaker 2: our editor to know we'd like something edited out, we
Speaker 2: say beep out loud and having been doing this for
Speaker 2: so long that sometimes finds its way into our normal,
Speaker 2: everyday life where I'll be having a conversation and we'll
Speaker 2: do a retake and say beep out loud. People think
Speaker 2: it's like a glitch in the matrix, or that I'm
Speaker 2: some sort of you know, et myself perhs glitching out. Okay,
Speaker 2: that was enough of a beat. I would say that
Speaker 2: would be an etch a sketch.
Speaker 1: And etch a sketch is correct?
Speaker 2: Sketch?
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know what did you say?
Speaker 2: I said a sketch? I'm joking.
Speaker 1: Oh, I say, yes, Well it's my northern accent and
Speaker 1: you've got the Atlanta accent.
Speaker 2: I will say, I have an accent. How dare you?
Speaker 1: I do like the idea of the beet during normal
Speaker 1: conversation because you realize they can still hear you. Don't.
Speaker 1: You can't go back and edit.
Speaker 2: It just not real life. Unfortunately, we haven't figured that
Speaker 2: out quite unless it's at all a simulation exactly, all right?
Speaker 1: What about this?
Speaker 2: What is this?
Speaker 1: Is what hester Prinne or in a novel by Nathaniel
Speaker 1: Hawthorne Hester Prinne or this and it might be.
Speaker 2: A giant a.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's a giant a. But there's another name for
Speaker 1: it that includes two.
Speaker 2: A burgundy character nail that. Oh no, okay, it would
Speaker 2: be a scarlet letter.
Speaker 1: Scarlet letter exactly, well done, well done, by the way.
Speaker 1: I had a good idea for hester when I read that,
Speaker 1: and which was so other letters around the A. So
Speaker 1: it spells badass with the scarlet A in the middle,
Speaker 1: and then you can own it. And you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm so anyway.
Speaker 2: Do you think that's an odd choice for like early
Speaker 2: education reading. It feels a little slut shaming or something like.
Speaker 2: I know that's not the point of the of the book,
Speaker 2: but it just feels it's an odd one. I don't
Speaker 2: think they maybe they don't do that as much anymore.
Speaker 2: Seems like it's in the in the curriculum.
Speaker 1: My son, my son did read it, and I agree
Speaker 1: with you. I would not put that in. It's a little,
Speaker 1: as you say, it's a little slut shaming. All right,
Speaker 1: are you ready for your next one?
Speaker 2: This is what you go I'm doing Okay, I'm sorry rough,
Speaker 2: I'm feeling good.
Speaker 1: Okay, as a host, I should have mentioned that you
Speaker 1: are killing it.
Speaker 2: Yes, thank you so much, Matt.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry all right, what this is what you go
Speaker 1: through in an airport or what you use on the
Speaker 1: beach when you're looking for coins. Oh, you might have stumped.
Speaker 2: Them or no, no, no, I'm giving the early beats. It took.
Speaker 2: It took an internal beats, and then I'm giving the
Speaker 2: external beat. And now I will say a metal detecture.
Speaker 1: A metal detector is correct? Should we do just one? Well,
Speaker 1: I have two more.
Speaker 2: Let me do themit to me. Oh no, I'm in
Speaker 2: I'm in this. I also just recently played twenty questions
Speaker 2: for the first time on a special crossover episode of
Speaker 2: Ridiculous History with our sister podcast, Ridiculous Crime. Uh, and
Speaker 2: had a really lovely time doing that too. So this
Speaker 2: is my week of firsts for me.
Speaker 1: Oh interesting.
Speaker 2: I want to listen to never participated in a in
Speaker 2: a puzzle off?
Speaker 1: I want. I'm very tempted to ask what the answer was,
Speaker 1: but I guess that would I have to listen to
Speaker 1: the episode. Listen, yeah, listen to uh. All right, here's one.
Speaker 1: This is a little harder. Perhaps a buzzkill. A party
Speaker 1: pooper might be called a shoot. Okay, okay, well, let
Speaker 1: me let me do this. Let me throw this at you.
Speaker 1: It's a more I got it. Oh yeah, you don't
Speaker 1: even need the end.
Speaker 2: I got a clue.
Speaker 1: Okay, what what do you got?
Speaker 2: I sometimes, much to her chagrin, call my girlfriend this
Speaker 2: actually a wet blanket.
Speaker 1: A wet blanket. It is absolutely true.
Speaker 2: I say it with love less less to anybody in
Speaker 2: the audience think that I'm being emotionally abusive.
Speaker 1: Maybe you like wet blair. If you're hot, a wet
Speaker 1: blanket can be very helpful. All right, Well, let's end
Speaker 1: with this one. This is the full name of Romeo's lover.
Speaker 1: So it's Romeo's lover a little tricky. Oh, but they
Speaker 1: think he's got it beat.
Speaker 2: That would be Juliette Montague.
Speaker 1: Oh no, that's Romeo's last name is Montague.
Speaker 2: And there's Montague. Wait, hold on a second. What is't
Speaker 2: Yeah this on his turkey because he's actually Montagues and
Speaker 2: the Montagues and the copula populate.
Speaker 1: You got it. You got it very well. Look at
Speaker 1: that one hundred percent. You didn't have to worry.
Speaker 2: There's a T. There is an E N a T
Speaker 2: in Montague.
Speaker 1: That's not the subsequence that well, lovely job. As I said,
Speaker 1: I'm sticking with the great that I used in the intro.
Speaker 2: Confidence is up significantly.
Speaker 1: Well, this is the way we do it. We we
Speaker 1: give you a nice ego boost and then we crush
Speaker 1: you the next one. So I'm crushing.
Speaker 2: I'm ready to be crushed. Now I'm ready.
Speaker 1: Where can people find more Noel Brown content?
Speaker 2: Well, as you said at the top of the show,
Speaker 2: I am the co host of Ridiculous History with the
Speaker 2: great Ben Bolin, also a previous Puzzler guest, and also
Speaker 2: the Stuff I Don't Want You to Know podcast, a
Speaker 2: critical thinking approach to conspiracies with also Ben Bollen and
Speaker 2: the also great Matt Frederick. You can find that anywhere
Speaker 2: you get your podcasts.
Speaker 1: Both fantastic podcasts. Uh, thank you for doing them, and
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on the show. Before we wrap up,
Speaker 1: as always, there's a extra credit for the puzzlers at home.
Speaker 1: This is a super low carb eating plan, a super
Speaker 1: low carb eating plan. If you want the answer, please
Speaker 1: coming back tomorrow. We've got Noel and we've got more puzzles,
Speaker 1: and we will meet you here tomorrow for more puzzling
Speaker 1: puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 3: Hello, Puzzlers. Chief Puzzle Officer Greg Pliska here with the
Speaker 3: extra credit answer from our previous show. We played with
Speaker 3: doctor Scott Barry Kaufman a game we called the Psychology
Speaker 3: of Puzzles, where every answer is a word with a
Speaker 3: silent P, and every clue has all the p's removed from.
Speaker 2: It as if they were silent.
Speaker 4: Your extra credit clue was this is an ease of
Speaker 4: aper which lists the rice of an object. This is
Speaker 4: a ease of apor which lists the rice of an object.
Speaker 4: The answer, of course is.
Speaker 5: Receipt our eceei silent p T. We love silent letters,
Speaker 5: but we love active listeners. So come on back tomorrow
Speaker 5: for more
Speaker 3: Puzzling puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly