Speaker 1: Hello, puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast the bowl of
Speaker 1: warm cash. Youws in your puzzle's first class service. I
Speaker 1: am your host, A J. Jacobs, and today's guest is
Speaker 1: the wonderful Noel Brown, producer, podcast or, co host of
Speaker 1: Ridiculous History, also co host of Stuff They Don't Want
Speaker 1: You to Know. Also just a great guy. Welcome Noel.
Speaker 2: I've been upgraded from great to wonderful. What's gonna happen
Speaker 2: on the third episode? There's nowhere left to go?
Speaker 1: Oh no, there's many. I've got many.
Speaker 2: Is that when you insult me you mentioned I was
Speaker 2: going to be crushed?
Speaker 1: Well, we'll see. I think you're gonna be okay. This
Speaker 1: puzzle is in honor of you, your name Noel Brown,
Speaker 1: because all of the answers are going to include a color.
Speaker 1: They will be two word phrases with one of the
Speaker 1: words being a color. So if the clue were, for example,
Speaker 1: Christmas time Hazel, then the answer.
Speaker 2: Might be, oh goodness, Oh I like that.
Speaker 1: This stumped you.
Speaker 2: This would be a color Christmas time Hazel.
Speaker 1: I'm not a chest nuts. No, it's the more basic
Speaker 1: with color for bas what my what my hair used
Speaker 1: to be? It's been turning increasingly gray. But it used
Speaker 1: to be brown brown. Christmas time brown is Noel brown.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry, I was so I was. I was thinking,
Speaker 2: like ate a shade of hazel that only appears around Christmas.
Speaker 2: I wish why I said chestnuts. Yes, you see, I do.
Speaker 1: I like that. I would just I felt I wanted
Speaker 1: to focus in on your name.
Speaker 2: I was thinking outside the box. Agent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you were too smart. You're too smart for this show. No,
Speaker 1: all right, well, this puzzle, as I say, it's about
Speaker 1: colorful phrases. At first swears, well these are these are
Speaker 1: literally colorful? Okay, no cussing. When I originally wrote the puzzle,
Speaker 1: I was gonna do movies. So I was going to
Speaker 1: do things like the olive one point six kilometers, so
Speaker 1: that might be.
Speaker 2: The green mile, the Green Mile exactly. I do love movies. Aga,
Speaker 2: I do love movies.
Speaker 1: Well, maybe I should have gone with movies.
Speaker 2: But you don't know. I like colors too.
Speaker 1: All right. Well, wait, I decided. Weirdly, I discovered when
Speaker 1: researching this, there are a ton of beverages with colorful names.
Speaker 1: For some reason, they love to name. So I decided
Speaker 1: today we're going to focus on rejected names for beverages.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, all right, so are you ready?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: What is this rejected name for what was the actual
Speaker 1: product that came out? Crimson cattle? Crimson cattle.
Speaker 2: That's terrible. Why cattle cat?
Speaker 1: Well, it's not really a rejected name. It's what I
Speaker 1: made up.
Speaker 2: Oh, you made it. Okay, it's a funny joke. I see,
Speaker 2: it's good.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure about funny obviously, but it is. This
Speaker 1: is the ideas. Yes, this is a sort of a
Speaker 1: fake version of the actual beverage. So this is a beverage.
Speaker 1: They would sell it at a deli or grocery. It's
Speaker 1: an energy drink. It's got a lot of care.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I have it. That would be red bull.
Speaker 2: A red bull absolutely gives you wings apparently.
Speaker 1: Oh I didn't know. That's their Oh that's their catch, right,
Speaker 1: I didn't even know. All right, here's another one. Are
Speaker 1: you ready?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: What is this beverage? Silvery water fowl? Silvery w don't.
Speaker 2: Even no, No, these are great. I really wish they
Speaker 2: were real though. So cool. Silvery water fowl. Oh goodness,
Speaker 2: this is tricky.
Speaker 1: It's a type of vodka.
Speaker 2: Grey goose.
Speaker 1: Grey goose that was it. That's all you needed.
Speaker 2: That enough of a beat.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was great, it was great. What about
Speaker 1: this one? You ready ivory talent? Ivory talent, Now it
Speaker 1: is possible. I know that's just because I have teenagers,
Speaker 1: but oh, you got it.
Speaker 2: Your teenagers are drinking this stuff.
Speaker 1: No, their friends are.
Speaker 2: They have their friends with the cool older kids. Exactly
Speaker 2: the New York right there. I will say a funny thing.
Speaker 2: Did you see the news that this company in question
Speaker 2: came out with a non alcoholic seltzer Seltzer. They promoted
Speaker 2: it like it was some sort of novel invention. This
Speaker 2: would be white claw hard white. Isn't that ridiculous? That
Speaker 2: is hilarious, made for internet memory.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is what an innovation taking the alcohol out
Speaker 1: of seltzer. Brilliant. All right again, this one is an
Speaker 1: alcoholic one. This is a ebity tag, ebony tag.
Speaker 2: Wow. Oh I got it.
Speaker 1: Oh you did. Oh I was ready to give you
Speaker 1: a clue, but you got it.
Speaker 2: Blue label joking, it's black label, right.
Speaker 1: It is black label, which is a Johnny Walker.
Speaker 2: These are all the Johnny Walker's right, that's.
Speaker 1: Right, Johnny Walker black is black A.
Speaker 2: Really nice one. Yeah, there's definitely a.
Speaker 1: Blue blackest age twelve years or at least twelve years.
Speaker 1: I looked it up. There's green label is fifteen years.
Speaker 1: Gold label used to be eighteen years, but now they
Speaker 1: don't tell their age. But so blue label, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think blue label might be the nicest one.
Speaker 1: Oh okay.
Speaker 2: It's says for every ten thousand casks of whiskey aged
Speaker 2: by Johnny Walker, only one on average displays the necessary
Speaker 2: flavoring character for it to acquire the blue label status.
Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. I didn't know.
Speaker 2: It's quite expensive.
Speaker 1: I am learning a lot. All right, Well, this our
Speaker 1: last one is a little tricky. I just to go
Speaker 1: a little tricky. Are you ready? Here's the hint. Squash, squash, squash,
Speaker 1: squash that monster. Goodness, thank you for acknowledging.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming one of the squashes is maybe referring to
Speaker 2: the sport no interesting and wondering, because if you're having
Speaker 2: two squashes and you're being you know, with your puzzler sensibilities,
Speaker 2: I'm assuming they're two different uses of the word you
Speaker 2: are correction that okay, okay.
Speaker 1: But there are two others non racket sport related, So
Speaker 1: the I mean the first remember that the theme there's
Speaker 1: a color.
Speaker 2: So right right? Yellow?
Speaker 1: Actually no, no, okay, I look, I mean as far
Speaker 1: as I can tell when you google it that that
Speaker 1: it's not yellow. It's more of a pumpkin, an alternative
Speaker 1: to pumpkin.
Speaker 2: Can you give Is this an alcoholic beverage or no?
Speaker 1: This is no, it is a beverage, but it is
Speaker 1: just a one that that I used to drink. I
Speaker 1: don't see it around that much anymore.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's it a hot beverage.
Speaker 1: No, it's called it's a soda. It's a type of soda.
Speaker 1: And the first word is the color, which is pumpkins.
Speaker 1: Or it's very the Halloween type color.
Speaker 3: Orange orange, orange crush, orange crush, exactly. Squash also a
Speaker 3: great ram song. Oh, I didn't know off of a
Speaker 3: monster Master, which you called me earlier in this in
Speaker 3: this episode.
Speaker 2: Literally moments ago when you said squash squash, and I
Speaker 2: mean that would love as you know, I just think
Speaker 2: it's I knew that it was going to be very brilliant.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know about that.
Speaker 2: Did not disappoint, by the way.
Speaker 1: Quiz, did you do you know which came first, the
Speaker 1: fruit or the color? I didn't until I looked it up.
Speaker 2: It Wait a minute, Oh.
Speaker 1: The color or the fruit orange?
Speaker 2: No, I got it. I got it. It's like a
Speaker 2: chicken or the egg type situation. I am going to say,
Speaker 2: the fruit.
Speaker 1: The fruit is absolutely correcting.
Speaker 2: Is there an esoteric pre orange name for the fruit?
Speaker 1: Well, according to my very shallow research, orange used to
Speaker 1: be called yellow, red, yellow, red. I mean that's what
Speaker 1: I think it was.
Speaker 2: That is what orange is.
Speaker 1: Oh no, red yellow, red yellow in old English, yallow
Speaker 1: red yellow mix.
Speaker 2: When you mix those colors though, you do in fact
Speaker 2: get orange.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean it's not a crazy thing. It's
Speaker 1: just let's let's give oranges due. So fifteen twelve is
Speaker 1: the first use that they could find of the color orange.
Speaker 1: The fruit was back to the twelve hundreds.
Speaker 2: All right, that was a really quickly. Are you familiar
Speaker 2: with the britcom Faulty Towers. Of course, there is an
Speaker 2: episode there's a character, a regular in the hotel where
Speaker 2: John Cleese is the very deranged manager and he's called
Speaker 2: the Kernel, I believe, and he always ordered an orange
Speaker 2: squash that is his very British sounding cocktail of choice,
Speaker 2: which is very close to squash squash.
Speaker 1: Yes, that and his orange squash. That's not orange crush.
Speaker 1: It's actually like, no, no, it's a cocktail.
Speaker 2: It's some sort of some sort of weird classic UK
Speaker 2: cocktail that we don't get them interesting.
Speaker 1: I am learning so much. This is great, Thank you
Speaker 1: so much, This is fantastic. Where can people hear more
Speaker 1: of you? And these these fun facts?
Speaker 2: Well, you can find me on the podcast Ridiculous History
Speaker 2: with the Inimitable. Is that a word?
Speaker 1: Yes? A word?
Speaker 2: Right, It's good. I'm not accidentally insulting my friends Ben
Speaker 2: Ben Bolin, where we talk about various obscure and ridiculous
Speaker 2: history topics. And Ben and I also host a critical
Speaker 2: thinking approach to conspiracies with our colleague Matthew Frederick called
Speaker 2: Stuff They Don't Want You to Know. Both of these
Speaker 2: podcasts are available wherever you get.
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Speaker 4: Hey, puzzlers, it's your Chief Puzzle Officer here with the
Speaker 4: extra credit answer from our previous show. We played et
Speaker 4: et in which each answer was a two word phrase
Speaker 4: where each word has the bigram et in it. Your
Speaker 4: extra credit clue was super low Carb Eating Plan and
Speaker 4: that answer, of course is Keto Diet. So enjoy your
Speaker 4: Keto diet and come back here for a carb free
Speaker 4: episode of The Puzzler with AJ Jacobs