Speaker 1: Hello puzzlers. Let's start with a quick puzzle. Our guests
Speaker 1: today are Will and Mango, hosts of the excellent podcast
Speaker 1: Part Time Genius. So in honor of Will and Mango,
Speaker 1: we are looking for things with the.
Speaker 2: Initials w M.
Speaker 1: Phrases are people with the initials WM. For instance, something
Speaker 1: that you step on before entering a house is a
Speaker 1: welcome Matt. That's a WM. Here's a hint to another.
Speaker 1: A big obelisk in Washington, d C. Is also a WM.
Speaker 1: Think of as many wms as you can during the
Speaker 1: break and we'll return with our guests, W. Pearson and
Speaker 1: m Hot ticket order. Hello puzzlers, Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Puzzler podcast the Accent Ball in your Downtown Puzzle Artists Loft.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, AJ Jacobson. I'm here, of course, with
Speaker 1: Chief Puzzle Officer Greig Pliska Greig. Before the break, we
Speaker 1: asked listeners to come up with phrases and people with
Speaker 1: the initials WM in honor of our guests, Will and Mango.
Speaker 1: Anything come to my the obelisk for instance?
Speaker 3: Maybe yes, I know the obelisk is the Washington Monument.
Speaker 1: That is correct? Anything else come to mind?
Speaker 3: I can I have a snake the water moccasin.
Speaker 2: Nicely done.
Speaker 1: And I thought it name, by the way, first name.
Speaker 3: The Women's movement as a kind of general thing, right good,
Speaker 3: and and I wrote down wild man.
Speaker 1: I like it, all right. I'll just give you a
Speaker 1: couple others. But people send in your favorite w M
Speaker 1: step the puzzler dot.
Speaker 3: You want to give me clues to the couple others
Speaker 3: so I can guess.
Speaker 1: All right, sure, Madam Tussou's is.
Speaker 3: One of the wax Museum.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: And this is a film about a daydreamer, remade by
Speaker 1: Ben Stiller.
Speaker 3: Oh, Walter Mitty, exactly.
Speaker 1: There you go, good to Washington Machine Whole Milk. But
Speaker 1: of course our favorite w M. Combo is the host
Speaker 1: of Part Time Genius, the podcast asked right here on
Speaker 1: iHeart Will Pearson and Mango hot Ticketer.
Speaker 2: Welcome Will and.
Speaker 4: Mangesh Hey, glad to be back.
Speaker 5: Day two.
Speaker 1: Day two. You are making it. You don't look too sweaty.
Speaker 1: Part Time Genius, as folks should know, is an awesome
Speaker 1: podcast with fascinating facts on every topic under the sun
Speaker 1: and over. When you started Part Time Genius several years ago,
Speaker 1: this was interesting. I hadn't remembered. You actually used to
Speaker 1: do some games and puzzles, including a true false quiz
Speaker 1: that you gave to me Aj Jacobs when I was
Speaker 1: a guest on your show.
Speaker 5: I'd forgotten that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I did not. I it's payback time, it's payback.
Speaker 4: How did you do?
Speaker 2: I did I do well?
Speaker 1: I listened again. It was four out of five. You
Speaker 1: got me on one.
Speaker 4: Pretty good. I feel like that's pretty good.
Speaker 6: Well, well, it was always that was always the first
Speaker 6: tration when teachers would give quizzes that only had five
Speaker 6: questions or a few questions, Because you miss one and
Speaker 6: you're already down to a low B.
Speaker 4: It's a problem. It's a big problem.
Speaker 1: We've got, like I think we only have five too.
Speaker 4: So you're here, we go.
Speaker 6: Why we're doing this together. I like our chances. We'll
Speaker 6: see what happens.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, you could split up. So one says true,
Speaker 1: one says false, So then you could have a coverab
Speaker 1: like this. Your true false quiz was about rats lovable rodents.
Speaker 1: You asked me, for instance, was the original Chuck E
Speaker 1: Cheese mascot a RNT? And the answer was, if you remember,
Speaker 1: it is true, it is true. Rick the rat until
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three he transitioned into a mouse.
Speaker 5: And the world has been so accepting.
Speaker 2: Beautiful it is.
Speaker 1: It is a nice lesson in tolerance. And but I
Speaker 1: also love that he started out chomping cigar like he
Speaker 1: was just like a maybe not like yeah. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he was drinking, but he was certainly smoking.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: So, as I said, I've been waiting to get back
Speaker 1: te at you. And my true false quiz has a
Speaker 1: little puzzly twist. It is a true false quiz about
Speaker 1: things that contain the word true or false, So it's
Speaker 1: a meta true false quiz, thank you exactly. For instance,
Speaker 1: I might give you a true false question about George
Speaker 1: Washington's false teeth true or false? Where George Washington's.
Speaker 2: Teeth made of wood?
Speaker 1: And you might remember, No, oh, I guess I should
Speaker 1: sphrase it. George Washington's teeth were made of foot true
Speaker 1: or false? That's how true false were.
Speaker 4: Answer.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm learning. I'm learning.
Speaker 1: It's only our four hundred show, all right, So yes,
Speaker 1: that is an herban legend. George Washing his teeth false
Speaker 1: teeth were not made of wood. They were when he
Speaker 1: was president, made of hippo and Elephant Ivory. Uh, all right,
Speaker 1: so your first true false question is about false starts
Speaker 1: in track and field, true or false. The definition of
Speaker 1: a false start is when a runner moves before the
Speaker 1: starting gun is fired. True or false? True?
Speaker 6: Right, I think, Well, I'm trying to decide whether this
Speaker 6: is a semi trick.
Speaker 4: Question because I don't know that movement is illegal.
Speaker 6: So much as leaving their block, like leaving their starting block,
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I just feel like these guys may be tricking as
Speaker 4: many I didn't.
Speaker 3: Also tell you guys, I don't know the answers. I
Speaker 3: haven't seen this one, so I could be more. I
Speaker 3: could either be helpful or hurtful by weighing in with
Speaker 3: what I think.
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, may or.
Speaker 4: What do you think?
Speaker 3: What do you think? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I want to call my friend Greg.
Speaker 3: Would I'm with the wheel that he could be trying
Speaker 3: to trick it. Yeah, But I also don't think you
Speaker 3: have to completely leave the starting block right because it's
Speaker 3: hundreds of a second. Your foot might start to go,
Speaker 3: but you're still touching it. So so I'm no help
Speaker 3: at all really for you guys.
Speaker 5: Let's let's go with Greg's at Greg and Will's answer so.
Speaker 1: You're saying false or or no or yes, you say false, Okay,
Speaker 1: false is correct? That is you got it. I enjoy
Speaker 1: the tricks, but it wasn't that. The difference was you
Speaker 1: can be busted for a false start even if you
Speaker 1: begin to run after the pistol is fired, because you
Speaker 1: can if you start within point one seconds of the pistol,
Speaker 1: that counts as a false start.
Speaker 4: Even if you got it for the reason you had
Speaker 4: it for.
Speaker 1: The wrong reason. The idea is the human brains cannot
Speaker 1: react that quickly, so that means the runner guessed when
Speaker 1: the gun would be fired instead of waiting to hear it,
Speaker 1: and that's not allowed. Psychic gifts are very much looked
Speaker 1: down upon and penalized and running. So I love that one.
Speaker 4: So that's a good one.
Speaker 5: Gamble should like you should be rewarded for that gamble exactly.
Speaker 1: Well, I will say the problem with that would be
Speaker 1: because I thought about it, like the running races would
Speaker 1: start about forty two times because everyone would try their
Speaker 1: own time to Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think there's a rule like in the Olympics, if
Speaker 3: you false start twice, you're disqualified.
Speaker 1: Right, still got you still get like eight fall starts,
Speaker 1: So right. I've got another true false question about the
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one Madonna documentary Truth or Dare true or false?
Speaker 1: Warren Baby, who was Madonna's boyfriend at the time of filming,
Speaker 1: demanded more screen time in the final cut.
Speaker 6: A clarification here, more screen time than Madonna or more
Speaker 6: screen time just generally.
Speaker 1: The great question for terrifying more screen time than he
Speaker 1: had in the version he saw got it.
Speaker 4: What do you think, Mango? If it's not true, it feels.
Speaker 5: Like it should.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Isn't it true that you're so vain? By Carly Simon
Speaker 3: was written about Warren Batty.
Speaker 4: Oh Wally?
Speaker 3: Is that true? Is that just a pocket? I don't know,
Speaker 3: but that's the you know.
Speaker 1: Well, I remember a couple of years ago they actually
Speaker 1: she auctioned off the secret for like one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: So I don't think anyone but the person who one
Speaker 1: knows for sure, but that's always what I've heard as well.
Speaker 3: Right, So that could imply I don't claim that Warren
Speaker 3: Baty is vain, but.
Speaker 2: Very good, but very good. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what do you think, Mango?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it feels true.
Speaker 4: It feels like we I want it to be true.
Speaker 4: So I feel like we.
Speaker 1: Should go in the direction that is you know what,
Speaker 1: that is a very twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Do you want something to be true?
Speaker 4: Yeah? True?
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 1: Well, I got you, I got you, so we are
Speaker 1: it might be down to a B minus. It is false,
Speaker 1: quite the opposite. Warren Baty was Madonna's boyfriend at the
Speaker 1: time of filming, and but then they broke up and
Speaker 1: he called his lawyer said he did not agree to
Speaker 1: be in the film. Should they called, they threatened. Madonna
Speaker 1: basically said, screw off. He saw the signs that said
Speaker 1: we're filming. He doesn't get to see it, and it
Speaker 1: is a hiltious I rewatched some of it and it
Speaker 1: is hilarious caause he this is like the beginning of
Speaker 1: reality TV, and he is so unco comfortable. He is
Speaker 1: like an old man who is just like, why are
Speaker 1: we Why is this on?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 5: Old?
Speaker 3: Anyway, that's crazy. He must have been like thirty years
Speaker 3: older than her at the time, right it.
Speaker 1: Was I think about twenty twenty two or something, but
Speaker 1: definitely yeah.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 1: By the way, I mentioned George Washington in the intro,
Speaker 1: and I feel I need an update from you because
Speaker 1: I was listening to an episode a Part Time Genius
Speaker 1: where you had serious plans to start a mount rushmore competitor.
Speaker 1: If you recall this because you found an actual mountain
Speaker 1: with a rock formation that looks exactly like Martin van Buren.
Speaker 2: I need an update. How is that? Have you?
Speaker 4: How are planned the permits it's got on the pyramits.
Speaker 6: There's there was some conflict there, but yeah, and we
Speaker 6: decided mainly just to make it only.
Speaker 4: Van Buren's it would just be different van Buren poses.
Speaker 4: So it's evolved over time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it, so like Van Buren is a
Speaker 1: kid Van Buren.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, van Buren playing tennis, which I don't think
Speaker 6: he did. But it just sort of makes it more modern,
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah yeah, vaping maybe venture and vaping.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is great. Well, that is going to be
Speaker 1: huge when it does open, and you will you can
Speaker 1: even quit your side hustle because people might not know.
Speaker 1: Part Time Genius really is a part time job for
Speaker 1: Will and Mango.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: They both do other things, believe it or not. Mango
Speaker 1: produces awesome shows with his company Kaleidoscope, including some he
Speaker 1: does himself, some he he does not host, but he
Speaker 1: did one called Skyline Drive, a deep dive into astrology awesome,
Speaker 1: the sad, and Will happens to be a big wig
Speaker 1: at iHeart, which happens also to be our platform. So
Speaker 1: you will you deal with lots of shows like not
Speaker 1: just us, believe it or not, but like maybe.
Speaker 6: Mainly mainly, so I'd say probably eighty percent of my
Speaker 6: time is dealing with you guys. And then there's some
Speaker 6: we know every once in a while with the NFL
Speaker 6: or Will Ferrell or you know, some shows like that,
Speaker 6: but but mainly you guys.
Speaker 1: Yes, we feel like, yeah, we wanted to hear that.
Speaker 1: That is exactly what we were waiting that feat. All right,
Speaker 1: I got we're not going to make all five, but
Speaker 1: we'll make four, all right. Next question is already gone down.
Speaker 1: It's true, you guys are screwed. I'm sorry. Maybe we'll
Speaker 1: end there just so you have a terrible show half
Speaker 1: and half to screw you, all right. The next question
Speaker 1: is a true or false question about falsetto voices, which
Speaker 1: is as you know, when men saying.
Speaker 5: Like, don't stop doing it.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Yeah, all right, true or false? The
Speaker 1: year nineteen seventy five was the high point for falsetto
Speaker 1: voices in pop music. It was when falsetto voices from
Speaker 1: Males was at its most popular that very year, nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy five.
Speaker 2: True or false?
Speaker 4: What do you think, Mango? It does feel? I mean,
Speaker 4: it definitely was of the time.
Speaker 6: I keep I now can't stop thinking about the justin
Speaker 6: Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon doing the very gifts thing.
Speaker 5: It's so funny how life infuses everything, like the true
Speaker 5: or false like thing. I was just thinking about the
Speaker 5: Wayne and Garth and Madonna doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah oh yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think true as well.
Speaker 6: It feels yeah, that feels right, It feels it was
Speaker 6: out that era.
Speaker 3: Like it it true is true? Saturday Night Fever, that
Speaker 3: was it.
Speaker 2: Exactly the Begs.
Speaker 1: And this, by the way, is objective fact because Vox
Speaker 1: Media did an an in depth investigation. They analyzed hundreds
Speaker 1: of thousands of songs. It's hilarious watch the YouTube video
Speaker 1: and uh and Beg's it was the Beg's era. Fox said,
Speaker 1: we are having another golden age of false shadow. There's
Speaker 1: like a lot of false shadow going on.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, you know what. I love that type
Speaker 5: of analysis where you and and for the back page
Speaker 5: of Mental Philosopher for a little while after you'd run
Speaker 5: through the A to Z of the know it all
Speaker 5: a because you said, to the back page for short
Speaker 5: bit we would uh test the veracity of different slogans
Speaker 5: and things. And and one thing we did was tested,
Speaker 5: is Virginia really for lovers? And and then we we
Speaker 5: we went through all the states and figured out like
Speaker 5: how much berry White was played on the radio, how
Speaker 5: much wine they were drinking, flowers were set like, Virginia
Speaker 5: was like thirty seventh or something.
Speaker 4: I think Ohio was dead last if I know, well.
Speaker 1: What was do you remember the number one state for lovers.
Speaker 2: Have been like white?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was weirdly like and I think part of
Speaker 6: that was because of the population.
Speaker 5: I think that they were more than wine.
Speaker 3: And you know, yeah, you're stuck inside, it's cold. What
Speaker 3: else are you gonna do? That's right on the very
Speaker 3: white and light of fire and you're set all right?
Speaker 1: All right, So there you go, people who want romance
Speaker 1: move to Alaska, all right?
Speaker 2: Last one.
Speaker 1: And you know what, I will give you like an
Speaker 1: extra ten bonus points if you get it, so you'll
Speaker 1: get back up to as good this is about false advertising,
Speaker 1: true or false. Two men sued Universal Studios for false
Speaker 1: advertising over the movie Yesterday Did You See That One,
Speaker 1: a romantic comedy about the Beatles lovely movie. The men
Speaker 1: said that the studio engaged in false advertising because the
Speaker 1: actress Anna de Arma was in the trailer but not
Speaker 1: in the movie itself, and they wanted their three dollars
Speaker 1: and ninety nine cents back, but ended up spending seven
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars on legal fees.
Speaker 4: Holy moldly true or false? So that whole thing has
Speaker 4: to be either true or false.
Speaker 3: God, Anna day armis with an end.
Speaker 1: No, it's it's this other actress named Anna de Arma. Yeah, yep,
Speaker 1: sorry about that, Anna.
Speaker 3: Would that would very false if it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that could have That was the trick. That was
Speaker 2: the trick. You caught it.
Speaker 4: This sounds vaguely familiar. I did not see this film,
Speaker 4: but Mango, what about you?
Speaker 5: I didn't see the film either, but she wasn't on
Speaker 5: my radar back then. But I don't know.
Speaker 3: That's This is the film about the guy who.
Speaker 5: Like has a mesa and then like yeah.
Speaker 3: But it's like he he remembers the Beatles, right, Everyone
Speaker 3: else's doesn't know the Beatles exist, so he ends up
Speaker 3: writing quote unquote all the Beatles songs because he knows
Speaker 3: them and.
Speaker 1: Nobody because I love the premise. I think it is
Speaker 1: a hilarious premise, very fun movie.
Speaker 2: So what do you think? True or false?
Speaker 3: So you're saying they filmed scenes with her and him, right,
Speaker 3: we're in the trailer, but then they cut them out
Speaker 3: of the final movie.
Speaker 1: And these guys were pissed because they had spent their
Speaker 1: three dollars ninety nine cents to see Anna dey Are
Speaker 1: Moss and she was not in it.
Speaker 3: So I will just add I think this rings a bell,
Speaker 3: this thing about her not actually being in the movie.
Speaker 3: That doesn't really help with us knowing whether it's true
Speaker 3: or not. That people sued about it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I you know, like we said before, this is
Speaker 6: a twenty twenty five answer, because I want.
Speaker 4: This to be.
Speaker 5: Show.
Speaker 6: I always want the weird things to be true. The
Speaker 6: weird things should always be true, well when they're.
Speaker 4: Good, should be true.
Speaker 2: So true, what do you think?
Speaker 5: Mango true?
Speaker 3: I'll support that all true.
Speaker 1: It is true, well almost, I'm gonna I was gonna
Speaker 1: give it to you either way, because I think it,
Speaker 1: but it is true. Almost everything is true except that
Speaker 1: they had to pay the seven hundred thousand in legal fees.
Speaker 1: It is true that the case racked up seven hundred
Speaker 1: thousand in legal fees for Universal, but there was a
Speaker 1: big arbitration and they ended up just saying all right,
Speaker 1: everyone pays their own.
Speaker 2: But just I love the story.
Speaker 1: I feel it's like a David and Goliath, like they
Speaker 1: were outraged by this injustice and they are like, this
Speaker 1: is a social justice campaign that everyone should get behind.
Speaker 2: Well, you were terrific.
Speaker 3: You got I'm going to read out on four plus
Speaker 3: the extra ten.
Speaker 4: Point ninety eight points. Oh wow, Okay, I love the
Speaker 4: math on the.
Speaker 1: Well Van Tat, thank you Mango and will you are
Speaker 1: you have ben you well? I guess I did not
Speaker 1: avenge myself successfully, but I loved having you on. And
Speaker 1: we get you for one more day. I've got one
Speaker 1: more true false about true false for the folks at home.
Speaker 1: True or false? The name of the town in New
Speaker 1: Mexico Truth or consequences that is a real town truth
Speaker 1: or consequences that started as an April fool's hoax? Is
Speaker 1: that true? Where is that false? Come back and find
Speaker 1: out and In the meantime, if you have a little time,
Speaker 1: check out our Instagram feed at Hello puzzler.
Speaker 2: No, it's not that. It's at Hello false alert.
Speaker 1: And we will meet here tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles.
Speaker 2: They will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 7: Hey, puzzlers, it's Greg pliska chief puzzle officer, here with
Speaker 7: the extra credit answer from our previous episode. We had
Speaker 7: Will and Mango with us to do a whole bunch
Speaker 7: of fun, and we started with some earbuses our favorite
Speaker 7: trademark pending audio Rebus puzzle. Your extra credit AJ actually
Speaker 7: gave you two that used the same the kind of
Speaker 7: same mechanism.
Speaker 3: One was Bizna Bizna and the other one was Franz
Speaker 3: Schubert's sympon. The answer, as you've probably gotten, is unfinished,
Speaker 3: unfinished business and unfinished symphony. But don't leave your puzzling
Speaker 3: week unfinished. Join us here tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles
Speaker 3: that will puzzle you puzzlingly.