April 16, 2025 • 17 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello puzzlers. Let's start with a quick puzzle. What do
these three people have in common? Actress Brie Larson, rapper,
Swiss Beats, and sitcom Dad Herman Munster. The answer and
more puzzling goodness after the break, Hello puzzlers, Welcome back
(00:30):
to the Puzzler podcast, The Loyal Vallette for your mid
level puzzle nobleman. I am your host, A J. Jacobs,
and I am here with chief puzzle Officer Greg Fliska.
And before the break, Greg we ad.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I'm sorry, I'm just you had to you had to
be a mid level puzzle nobleman.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I just not a regular nobleman just because I'm a
mid level I didn't want to be pretentious. I just
you know, I'm a regular guy, a regular nobleman, protested Vallette.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, yeah, I think a Viscount Marquis.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
That.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
By the way, it was one of our guests who
will introduce momentarily. But before the break, we asked, what
do these three people have in common? Actress free Larson, rapper,
Swiss Beats, and sitcom Dad Herman Munster. They are all, Greg,
I have I have a good idea. Yeah, they're all cheese.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
They all have cheese in their names, and Swiss and
the other one.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Munster, exactly all cheese homonyms because Brie is spelled correctly,
but Swiss is with di Z's and Munster is missing,
and maybe regardless, they are all cheese related names. Today
is National Cheesecake Day, so I thought it was important
to highlight for our cheese loving listeners and cheese cheesemongers
(01:53):
out there. But admittedly it does not have a huge
amount to do with our guests who happen to be awesome.
They're my friends. They're comedy geniuses. Cindy Kaplan, Karen Bergreen.
Welcome Cindy and Karen.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Karen and Cindy are wonderful. You can see Karen's stand
up on Comedy Central The View. She's authored two novels.
Cindy is a hilarious author and sings delightful songs, including
ones about the Donner Party. A very upbeat song about
the Donner Party, my favorite upbeat Donner Party song.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
In fact, thank you now.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
The other thing I happen to know about both of you,
I believe it's true you both have dogs. In fact,
your book, which we could see in the background. Oh no,
it's not your book, it's your one of your your
Cindy of Arc poster has your dog in the little
little head cone. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Yes? Oh I do. I do.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It's not okay, yeah, and you I love your your
bit Karen about when you come home after a long day,
how your dog treats you. You remember, I do.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
It's my dog and he tells that joke a lot.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
My dog.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And she peas when you get home. That's a nice compliment.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
It's so good.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
I'm telling you, like, if I lose the game, I'm
gonna leave, come back, live, come back just to.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Like get just to see her peace several times.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
Yeah, because it's amazing like that sh like it's like shoot,
I mean honestly, if somebody loved you that much that
they peed you like, it's an amazing feeling.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
What I feel like with you guys here, I've laughed
so much, so flattering.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Oh that's good. That makes just because I didn't tow.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
I don't mind that if it's from laughter or love,
because they're both they're connected.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
AJ.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Can I just say why my dog has a cone
in the poster? Yes, it's because he's the baby Jesus,
but my dog, and he's riding on the back. He's
like he's riding on the back of my horse because
I'm Cindy of Arc, which is like Joan of Arc
and I'm wearing I'm wearing armor and I have my dog. Well,
(04:09):
he's not really baby Jesus. He's kind of like the
baby Jesus, but it's like one of those it looks
like he's one of those illuminated babies from from old
dog and it's like a yes, he's like a dog angel.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Makes sense. See, I'm learning, always learning.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Well, this is a dog based puzzle. This is just
for you.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
And the type of puzzle is called charades. Now it's
not acting charades because that doesn't really work on podcasts,
but it's the original charades. The original charades were literary charades,
they called them, and you would get clues to parts
of the words, the syllables and the words. Jane Austen
used literary charades in her novels. So I'm going to
(04:53):
give you clues and you put the parts together and
you'll get the breed a famous breed of dog. So
here's an example. Winnie the blank and voodoo blank. So
fill in the blanks, Winnie the who oh you got it?
Yeah poo, and then voodoo blank voodoo yes, yeah, I know,
(05:20):
dotal All right? Are you ready? So you keep an
open mind because it is a puzzle. It is. They're
not going to be exact, all right. This is a
shopping centers collection of Earl Grays and Lipton's, a shopping
center's collection of Earl Grays and Lipton's. I know, Oh,
(05:43):
she got it, raising both hands, I got it. I
got it to okay, she got it.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
To okay because my jog. This is part of her
muck dumb mall cheese.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
That's it, mall teese. You get teas at the mall
and you get the maltese, which is part of Karen's
dog so lovely. All right, This one's actually a little story.
Are you ready for the little story? Suppose you're in
the army and your commanding officer said, who wrote the
Brandenburg Concertos? You might respond with this two word phrase,
(06:17):
who wrote the brand So who wrote the Grand Brandenburg Conservators?
Who was the Oh, Cindy's got it.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
The first half?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Yeah, what's the second half?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Well, when you're talking to a commanding officer. Get it, Oh,
I got it too, Okay, say it, yes, sir, exactly,
So Johannes Sebastian.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Boxer like boxer.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
That's right, nicely done.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
You all right?
Speaker 6 (06:46):
This one movie with Richard Gear and Jebra Winger.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Nicely done and they box and they call him sir.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Oh yeah, good point. All right. So here's one. This
is when you rip the donkey from Winnie the Pooh.
You rip it, you shred the donkey from Winnie the Pooh.
You are well, who's the first to the who's the donkey?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Yeah, yeah, okay your.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, yeah. Now what are you doing with.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Your bear.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
In front? You're ripping it? Your your is the end
of ripping? What's another r rry terry? Your wait, isn't that.
Speaker 9 (07:38):
Your My dog's a Welsh terrier. It's a Welsh.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Cookie blank ice cream? Oh this is a three parter.
I think you're ready for a three part cookie blank
ice cream plus I'm cold, plus actress Olivia Blank, So
cookie break it down.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I got it, I got it.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I got Oh she got so fast, our Karen gott
I think.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
So I think I have it?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
I think okay, so I do you want to say it.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Is it dob men? Is that what it is?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yes, it's dough Bermon.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, it's Dober month.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I'm going to be dogs.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
That I got dough Burr. I was focused on Berr.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Okay, there you go, thank you so polite. Alright, just
back to a two parter. I'm no judgment. I hope
you blank in hell plus then her director William Blank
I got this, Karen, all right, whoever wants I don't
(09:00):
want to dictate who says it, so.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
You can each say half.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Oh, yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
I'll say the first half.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Rot Wilder, Weiler, Weiler clod.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
No, it's it's William Wyler.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
There is Billy Wilder and also William Wilder. It's very confusing, Yes,
William Wilder. William Wilder.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
No.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
D won the Best director three times. Missus men ivor Miniver.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Missus Miniver. That's a movie.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Is it a good movie?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
It's a great movie?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
City which one?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Missus men? It's missus Miniver. It's a great movie.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Louise Rainiers in that?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Who?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
That's not it?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
That's not it?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Somebody else? But anyway, I got a couple more. Are
you ready?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
This I think plays into your cultural knowledge. Blank naguila
plus bees blank, blank naguila.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Okay, got it?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Is that your dog's mother, Karen, No, it's my dog
had a had a cousin, a boyfriend of this of this.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Yeah, they're cute.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
No they're not.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
I think they're cute.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
They'll tell people what it is they're dying.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
And it's amazing. Karen's only half Jewish. So the fact
that she got this all Jewish. Oh wait, I'm sorry.
Her marriage is half Jewish, my kids are she's she
only seems half Jewish.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Well you only needed half of the.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Other part of me is knees.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Yes, I get the.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Nice, very nice, very nicely done. All right, I got
one more, and this one. This one is going to
require a little bit of creative thinking. It's not the
exact pronunciation. Pronunciation, all right, Chairman of the blank plus
(11:11):
Novitsky or Diggler plus mohammed blank. Okay, So take it
one at a time, Chairman of the yap board like
a border. Yeah, it's definitely Karen. You got it for Lee.
(11:37):
Well done everybody. That was fantastic. And uh, yes, your
dogs would be very proud.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I think they'd embarrassed they would they pee on us.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
If I would be like, where's my food? Like, she
wouldn't care.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I know it is kind of sad. I have a
dog too, and just how much the love is premised
on me giving her food? Like I just I try
to ignore it and think she loves me for my soul.
But I really am not.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Sure my dog would have liked the cheese puzzle?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Does your doggie cheese? I don't.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
He knows cheese.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
He hears the cheese drawer open, and he's right below you.
He knows all the cheese sounds.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
He's not lactose intolerance.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
No, the rest of us are, but he's not all right.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
That is good to know. But I do have before
we go, Before we go, I have one extra credit
for the folks at home. This was written by associate
puzzler Andrea Schomberg. This clue what plus downhill sport. That's
what in quotation marks plus downhill sport. So think about that.
(12:56):
And I just want to thank my friends Cindy and
Karen for coming on and having a wonderful week where
we uh, we puzzled, we learned, we what else did
we do?
Speaker 5 (13:10):
I thought we cried?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
We cried, We definitely cried. We embarrassed ourselves, and then
we came back strong.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yes, oh no, you triumphed learned.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Did you say that we learned? I did?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
I think we taught?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Very well, it wasn't. It was a very nice arc.
I feel for the week because Cindy, you know, she
had some struggles in the beginning, and then she just triumphed.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
She was so dead. But I'm going to confess to something.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Everything.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
I'm at the end where you go, there's one more thing.
I literally thought you were going to give us a gift.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
You're on a trip.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Okay, Disney World.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Sorry, I really thought it the first time, and you
would have think I thought I but I kept thinking
it all three days.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
So oh man, we have pens. We have pens. Andrea
was going to get you each. How many pens you want?
We got lots.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
You're gonna have six hundred each. We have a lot coach.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Do you have I'd like a mug tote or a
mug all right, we're going we need more.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
A hat all right, this is.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
A little puzzler cap would be pretty totally like place.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
To put your pencil like, I'd like.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
A baseball jacket. That says the puzzler on the back
into the leather and wool ones with.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Your name you get when you do a Broadway show.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
I had one of those for drama School.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Yeah, excellent, it's a puzzler going to Broadway.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
I think you could do a musical about this great idea.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, if only we knew a really funny songwriter or
two or two.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
You're definitely gonna write your theme song.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I love it all right. Oh and by the way,
we're gonna leave, we're gonna play a little of one
of Cindy's songs as we go out, and while you
listen to that, if you want to go on the
Puzzler Instagram feed, it's at Hello Puzzler, and we will
see you here tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles that will
puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Hey, Puzzlers, it's Greg Pliska, You're chief puzzle Officer. Here
with the extra credit answer from our previous episode. Karen
Bergreen and Cynthia Kaplan joined us once again and we
played an initials game where every answer starts either with
c K or KB, but your extra credit mash those
two together. It's a clue to a three word phrase
(15:55):
with the initial c KB. Your clue the title I
rejecting a song by Rihanna in which we are ten
thousand miles apart, and that, of course is a California
king bed. Be thankful I'm not singing the song for you.
Go listen to Rihanna. She's much better at this. But
we're better at puzzles. So come back tomorrow and play
(16:17):
some more puzzles with us.
Speaker 10 (16:28):
We set up for the coast in eighteen forty six,
ninety pioneers from Illinois. Our dreams were made of California
real estate, but we would need a very different faith.
Just as we were moving out, a man can hasty
stall to stake another round.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
This time many are way things. Boy, there was a
big misting.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
We were then party.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
We were the don party
Speaker 10 (17:05):
But not parting with his wine and many honts and
money
Hello puzzlers. Let's start with a quick puzzle. What do
these three people have in common? Actress Brie Larson, rapper,
Swiss Beats, and sitcom Dad Herman Munster. The answer and
more puzzling goodness after the break, Hello puzzlers, Welcome back
(00:30):
to the Puzzler podcast, The Loyal Vallette for your mid
level puzzle nobleman. I am your host, A J. Jacobs,
and I am here with chief puzzle Officer Greg Fliska.
And before the break, Greg we ad.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I'm sorry, I'm just you had to you had to
be a mid level puzzle nobleman.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I just not a regular nobleman just because I'm a
mid level I didn't want to be pretentious. I just
you know, I'm a regular guy, a regular nobleman, protested Vallette.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, yeah, I think a Viscount Marquis.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
That.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
By the way, it was one of our guests who
will introduce momentarily. But before the break, we asked, what
do these three people have in common? Actress free Larson, rapper,
Swiss Beats, and sitcom Dad Herman Munster. They are all, Greg,
I have I have a good idea. Yeah, they're all cheese.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
They all have cheese in their names, and Swiss and
the other one.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Munster, exactly all cheese homonyms because Brie is spelled correctly,
but Swiss is with di Z's and Munster is missing,
and maybe regardless, they are all cheese related names. Today
is National Cheesecake Day, so I thought it was important
to highlight for our cheese loving listeners and cheese cheesemongers
(01:53):
out there. But admittedly it does not have a huge
amount to do with our guests who happen to be awesome.
They're my friends. They're comedy geniuses. Cindy Kaplan, Karen Bergreen.
Welcome Cindy and Karen.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Karen and Cindy are wonderful. You can see Karen's stand
up on Comedy Central The View. She's authored two novels.
Cindy is a hilarious author and sings delightful songs, including
ones about the Donner Party. A very upbeat song about
the Donner Party, my favorite upbeat Donner Party song.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
In fact, thank you now.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
The other thing I happen to know about both of you,
I believe it's true you both have dogs. In fact,
your book, which we could see in the background. Oh no,
it's not your book, it's your one of your your
Cindy of Arc poster has your dog in the little
little head cone. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Yes? Oh I do. I do.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It's not okay, yeah, and you I love your your
bit Karen about when you come home after a long day,
how your dog treats you. You remember, I do.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
It's my dog and he tells that joke a lot.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
My dog.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And she peas when you get home. That's a nice compliment.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
It's so good.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
I'm telling you, like, if I lose the game, I'm
gonna leave, come back, live, come back just to.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Like get just to see her peace several times.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
Yeah, because it's amazing like that sh like it's like shoot,
I mean honestly, if somebody loved you that much that
they peed you like, it's an amazing feeling.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
What I feel like with you guys here, I've laughed
so much, so flattering.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Oh that's good. That makes just because I didn't tow.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
I don't mind that if it's from laughter or love,
because they're both they're connected.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
AJ.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Can I just say why my dog has a cone
in the poster? Yes, it's because he's the baby Jesus,
but my dog, and he's riding on the back. He's
like he's riding on the back of my horse because
I'm Cindy of Arc, which is like Joan of Arc
and I'm wearing I'm wearing armor and I have my dog. Well,
(04:09):
he's not really baby Jesus. He's kind of like the
baby Jesus, but it's like one of those it looks
like he's one of those illuminated babies from from old
dog and it's like a yes, he's like a dog angel.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Makes sense. See, I'm learning, always learning.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Well, this is a dog based puzzle. This is just
for you.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
And the type of puzzle is called charades. Now it's
not acting charades because that doesn't really work on podcasts,
but it's the original charades. The original charades were literary charades,
they called them, and you would get clues to parts
of the words, the syllables and the words. Jane Austen
used literary charades in her novels. So I'm going to
(04:53):
give you clues and you put the parts together and
you'll get the breed a famous breed of dog. So
here's an example. Winnie the blank and voodoo blank. So
fill in the blanks, Winnie the who oh you got it?
Yeah poo, and then voodoo blank voodoo yes, yeah, I know,
(05:20):
dotal All right? Are you ready? So you keep an
open mind because it is a puzzle. It is. They're
not going to be exact, all right. This is a
shopping centers collection of Earl Grays and Lipton's, a shopping
center's collection of Earl Grays and Lipton's. I know, Oh,
(05:43):
she got it, raising both hands, I got it. I
got it to okay, she got it.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
To okay because my jog. This is part of her
muck dumb mall cheese.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
That's it, mall teese. You get teas at the mall
and you get the maltese, which is part of Karen's
dog so lovely. All right, This one's actually a little story.
Are you ready for the little story? Suppose you're in
the army and your commanding officer said, who wrote the
Brandenburg Concertos? You might respond with this two word phrase,
(06:17):
who wrote the brand So who wrote the Grand Brandenburg Conservators?
Who was the Oh, Cindy's got it.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
The first half?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Yeah, what's the second half?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Well, when you're talking to a commanding officer. Get it, Oh,
I got it too, Okay, say it, yes, sir, exactly,
So Johannes Sebastian.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Boxer like boxer.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
That's right, nicely done.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
You all right?
Speaker 6 (06:46):
This one movie with Richard Gear and Jebra Winger.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Nicely done and they box and they call him sir.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Oh yeah, good point. All right. So here's one. This
is when you rip the donkey from Winnie the Pooh.
You rip it, you shred the donkey from Winnie the Pooh.
You are well, who's the first to the who's the donkey?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Yeah, yeah, okay your.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, yeah. Now what are you doing with.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Your bear.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
In front? You're ripping it? Your your is the end
of ripping? What's another r rry terry? Your wait, isn't that.
Speaker 9 (07:38):
Your My dog's a Welsh terrier. It's a Welsh.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Cookie blank ice cream? Oh this is a three parter.
I think you're ready for a three part cookie blank
ice cream plus I'm cold, plus actress Olivia Blank, So
cookie break it down.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I got it, I got it.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I got Oh she got so fast, our Karen gott
I think.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
So I think I have it?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
I think okay, so I do you want to say it.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Is it dob men? Is that what it is?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yes, it's dough Bermon.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, it's Dober month.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I'm going to be dogs.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
That I got dough Burr. I was focused on Berr.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Okay, there you go, thank you so polite. Alright, just
back to a two parter. I'm no judgment. I hope
you blank in hell plus then her director William Blank
I got this, Karen, all right, whoever wants I don't
(09:00):
want to dictate who says it, so.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
You can each say half.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Oh, yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
I'll say the first half.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Rot Wilder, Weiler, Weiler clod.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
No, it's it's William Wyler.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
There is Billy Wilder and also William Wilder. It's very confusing, Yes,
William Wilder. William Wilder.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
No.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
D won the Best director three times. Missus men ivor Miniver.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Missus Miniver. That's a movie.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Is it a good movie?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
It's a great movie?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
City which one?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Missus men? It's missus Miniver. It's a great movie.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Louise Rainiers in that?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Who?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
That's not it?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
That's not it?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Somebody else? But anyway, I got a couple more. Are
you ready?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
This I think plays into your cultural knowledge. Blank naguila
plus bees blank, blank naguila.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Okay, got it?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Is that your dog's mother, Karen, No, it's my dog
had a had a cousin, a boyfriend of this of this.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Yeah, they're cute.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
No they're not.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
I think they're cute.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
They'll tell people what it is they're dying.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
And it's amazing. Karen's only half Jewish. So the fact
that she got this all Jewish. Oh wait, I'm sorry.
Her marriage is half Jewish, my kids are she's she
only seems half Jewish.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Well you only needed half of the.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Other part of me is knees.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Yes, I get the.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Nice, very nice, very nicely done. All right, I got
one more, and this one. This one is going to
require a little bit of creative thinking. It's not the
exact pronunciation. Pronunciation, all right, Chairman of the blank plus
(11:11):
Novitsky or Diggler plus mohammed blank. Okay, So take it
one at a time, Chairman of the yap board like
a border. Yeah, it's definitely Karen. You got it for Lee.
(11:37):
Well done everybody. That was fantastic. And uh, yes, your
dogs would be very proud.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I think they'd embarrassed they would they pee on us.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
If I would be like, where's my food? Like, she
wouldn't care.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I know it is kind of sad. I have a
dog too, and just how much the love is premised
on me giving her food? Like I just I try
to ignore it and think she loves me for my soul.
But I really am not.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Sure my dog would have liked the cheese puzzle?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Does your doggie cheese? I don't.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
He knows cheese.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
He hears the cheese drawer open, and he's right below you.
He knows all the cheese sounds.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
He's not lactose intolerance.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
No, the rest of us are, but he's not all right.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
That is good to know. But I do have before
we go, Before we go, I have one extra credit
for the folks at home. This was written by associate
puzzler Andrea Schomberg. This clue what plus downhill sport. That's
what in quotation marks plus downhill sport. So think about that.
(12:56):
And I just want to thank my friends Cindy and
Karen for coming on and having a wonderful week where
we uh, we puzzled, we learned, we what else did
we do?
Speaker 5 (13:10):
I thought we cried?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
We cried, We definitely cried. We embarrassed ourselves, and then
we came back strong.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yes, oh no, you triumphed learned.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Did you say that we learned? I did?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
I think we taught?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Very well, it wasn't. It was a very nice arc.
I feel for the week because Cindy, you know, she
had some struggles in the beginning, and then she just triumphed.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
She was so dead. But I'm going to confess to something.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Everything.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
I'm at the end where you go, there's one more thing.
I literally thought you were going to give us a gift.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
You're on a trip.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Okay, Disney World.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Sorry, I really thought it the first time, and you
would have think I thought I but I kept thinking
it all three days.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
So oh man, we have pens. We have pens. Andrea
was going to get you each. How many pens you want?
We got lots.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
You're gonna have six hundred each. We have a lot coach.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Do you have I'd like a mug tote or a
mug all right, we're going we need more.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
A hat all right, this is.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
A little puzzler cap would be pretty totally like place.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
To put your pencil like, I'd like.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
A baseball jacket. That says the puzzler on the back
into the leather and wool ones with.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Your name you get when you do a Broadway show.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
I had one of those for drama School.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Yeah, excellent, it's a puzzler going to Broadway.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
I think you could do a musical about this great idea.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, if only we knew a really funny songwriter or
two or two.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
You're definitely gonna write your theme song.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I love it all right. Oh and by the way,
we're gonna leave, we're gonna play a little of one
of Cindy's songs as we go out, and while you
listen to that, if you want to go on the
Puzzler Instagram feed, it's at Hello Puzzler, and we will
see you here tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles that will
puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Hey, Puzzlers, it's Greg Pliska, You're chief puzzle Officer. Here
with the extra credit answer from our previous episode. Karen
Bergreen and Cynthia Kaplan joined us once again and we
played an initials game where every answer starts either with
c K or KB, but your extra credit mash those
two together. It's a clue to a three word phrase
(15:55):
with the initial c KB. Your clue the title I
rejecting a song by Rihanna in which we are ten
thousand miles apart, and that, of course is a California
king bed. Be thankful I'm not singing the song for you.
Go listen to Rihanna. She's much better at this. But
we're better at puzzles. So come back tomorrow and play
(16:17):
some more puzzles with us.
Speaker 10 (16:28):
We set up for the coast in eighteen forty six,
ninety pioneers from Illinois. Our dreams were made of California
real estate, but we would need a very different faith.
Just as we were moving out, a man can hasty
stall to stake another round.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
This time many are way things. Boy, there was a
big misting.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
We were then party.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
We were the don party
Speaker 10 (17:05):
But not parting with his wine and many honts and
money
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Greg Pliska
A.J. Jacobs
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