Speaker 1: Hey, you're welcome to the short Stuff. I'm Josh and
Speaker 1: there's Chuck and this is short stuff. Let's get started
Speaker 1: starting now. Do you like puzzles? Um? Sure, Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: is this like literal jigsaw puzzles? Okay, Um, yeah, I've
Speaker 1: got no problem with jigsaw puzzles. That's as far as
Speaker 1: I mean anything these days, Chuck, don't you know the
Speaker 1: world's ending? Well, I didn't mean like, do you want
Speaker 1: to fight a puzzle? I mean do you do you
Speaker 1: enjoy sitting down and doing a jigsaw puzzle? Yeah? Sure
Speaker 1: I do. I mean it's been a while, but yes,
Speaker 1: I like a good puzzle. Um, a jigsaw puzzle in particular,
Speaker 1: I'd like to say, like a very heartwarming one, like
Speaker 1: maybe a jigsaw puzzle of a Thomas Kincaid painting, or
Speaker 1: of flowers or kittens or something, and nothing's terribly hard,
Speaker 1: just something like occupying rather than challenging. Yeah. I didn't
Speaker 1: uh do a lot of puzzles. I mean I guess
Speaker 1: I did when I was a kid, and then probably
Speaker 1: didn't for a long time. And we weren't a puzzle
Speaker 1: family really, Um, but I did. There was one week
Speaker 1: in college where a dude down the street for me.
Speaker 1: A friend got a big puzzle and it was just
Speaker 1: one of those things in college where you've got time
Speaker 1: and three or four of us got together and drank
Speaker 1: a lot for like a week and did this huge
Speaker 1: puzzle and just had so much fun. And that's the
Speaker 1: last puzzle I've done except for, you know, doing little
Speaker 1: puzzles with my daughter. That sounds like a fun fun
Speaker 1: that's a great puzzle story. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I imagine that whole like weekend starting with a musical
Speaker 1: number where like your friends sticks his head out the
Speaker 1: front door. He's like, gets here and you stick your
Speaker 1: head out and you're like, sort of here, it's here,
Speaker 1: the puzzle finally here. Uh, that's exactly That's exactly how
Speaker 1: it went down. This is a lot of jibber jabber
Speaker 1: for his short stuff, isn't it. Yeah, So we should
Speaker 1: just go ahead and get to it and say that
Speaker 1: a named Sir John Spillsbury. They called him the dough Boy.
Speaker 1: He was a engraver in England and a map maker
Speaker 1: in the mid seventeen hundreds and he gets credit in
Speaker 1: seventeen sixty six for creating the first jigsaw puzzle when
Speaker 1: he Uh, put a map on a piece of wood,
Speaker 1: cut it out, cut the countries out, and said, here
Speaker 1: you go. Teachers, use this to teach geography. I love
Speaker 1: things where it's just like there, it is right there.
Speaker 1: That was the first time it ever happened. That's the
Speaker 1: beginning of it. There's your origin story. It's nice and tidy.
Speaker 1: So UM. It was kind of a teaching tool at first,
Speaker 1: but also people were like, it's kind of fun putting
Speaker 1: the countries, and let's do this at home too, or um,
Speaker 1: at our friend's house over a long weekend while we drink.
Speaker 1: So it kind of kind of took off and then um,
Speaker 1: in very short order. It also became a marketing tool too,
Speaker 1: where companies would kind of, you know, maybe give away,
Speaker 1: um a jigsaw puzzle that was a photo of a
Speaker 1: mobile gas Asian or something like that. Um. So they
Speaker 1: became very ubiquitous pretty quickly. Yeah, and they still do
Speaker 1: stuff like that to promote your company. Um. They can
Speaker 1: be little marketing tools. I no, Kodak has one that
Speaker 1: they sell that they say is the world's largest at
Speaker 1: fifty one pieces plus eight and a half feet by
Speaker 1: six point to five ft. None of those things are
Speaker 1: even close it's not the biggest at all. They're really
Speaker 1: full of it, Chuck. I think they can just say
Speaker 1: whatever they want their code. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: I guess so. Yeah, So Codak does sell that one.
Speaker 1: It's like four hundred bucks, and I mean, it's nothing
Speaker 1: to sneeze at. It's a giant, huge puzzle. Our problem
Speaker 1: with it is that they call it the world's largest
Speaker 1: jigsaw puzzle. And I'm guessing it's not just us who
Speaker 1: have a problem with it, but the people at the
Speaker 1: Guinness World Records probably have a bit of a problem
Speaker 1: with it too. Either that or Codex lawyers were like,
Speaker 1: we have to ward this just perfectly, or else were
Speaker 1: getting some trouble here because it turns out that this
Speaker 1: Kodak world's Largest Jigsaw puzzle is fairly mediocre compared to
Speaker 1: some of the other jigsaw puzzles that are around that
Speaker 1: take the cake for world's largest anything. Yeah, there was
Speaker 1: one in two thousand eighteen in Dubai that Guinness recognized
Speaker 1: and it was an honor of the Year of Zaid,
Speaker 1: which is a year long tribute to the person who
Speaker 1: founded the U A B S Sorry the U A E. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Shaik Zayed been Sultan all nine in Nice. I think,
Speaker 1: I think I got it. And this thing was sixty
Speaker 1: five almost sixty six thousand square feet. Yeah that's um,
Speaker 1: that's pretty pretty impressive if you have you seen it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was pretty it was awesome. I mean, like the
Speaker 1: pieces themselves are giant. They're like about a foot or
Speaker 1: so square, and you know, the whole thing was a
Speaker 1: little it was like kind of light cardboard, but when
Speaker 1: put together, was quite impressive for sure. And Codex had
Speaker 1: fifty pieces in change. There was one in Ho Chi
Speaker 1: Min City in Vietnam that the students at the university
Speaker 1: there put this thing together and it had over a
Speaker 1: half a million pieces, right, so um, that was I
Speaker 1: think of a giant lotus flower, right, beautiful it is. Um.
Speaker 1: So there's definitely bigger puzzles than the one that Codex
Speaker 1: touting is the world's largest jigsaw puzzle. Um. But some
Speaker 1: people say, okay, that's great. Yeah, that's really time consuming.
Speaker 1: But any schmo with all of the pieces can put
Speaker 1: that thing together. Other people and this is totally unsurprising
Speaker 1: to me that there's like a whole subculture of people
Speaker 1: who are like, I want to be challenged by a
Speaker 1: jigsaw puzzle. As it turns out, you don't have to
Speaker 1: have a football field size jigsaw puzzle to be challenged.
Speaker 1: You can do it with some very small surface areas.
Speaker 1: There's one in particular called ice Puzzle nine that's just
Speaker 1: nine pieces, but it's possibly the hardest jigsaw puzzle on
Speaker 1: the planet. All right, well, let's take a break there
Speaker 1: and we'll tell you more about ice Puzzle nine right
Speaker 1: after this. Have you seen this thing? I have? Have
Speaker 1: you seen the video of someone putting it together? No?
Speaker 1: I saw a video of the guy putting jigsaw puzzle
Speaker 1: twenty three together or twenty nine. So this is a
Speaker 1: designer and I think he did both of these. Name
Speaker 1: you Osaka. And if you look at ice Puzzle nine,
Speaker 1: it's a tray, a blue tray that's about as big
Speaker 1: as your two hands put together. It's very small, and
Speaker 1: it's only got those nine pieces in there. You know,
Speaker 1: they don't look like your standard puzzle pieces there sort
Speaker 1: of you know, they can be flattened places and curvy,
Speaker 1: just like a puzzle, but like a jigsaw puzzle, but
Speaker 1: there's just something a little different. And when you look
Speaker 1: at it, when you look at you think how hard
Speaker 1: could that be And then I went to a YouTube
Speaker 1: that showed a guy putting it together and it was
Speaker 1: so easy, and I was like, how do people not
Speaker 1: get that? That's how easy it is. And the only
Speaker 1: thing I can think of is that it's it's easy
Speaker 1: when you see someone doing it, but very hard when
Speaker 1: you're just have the puzzle pieces. It must be because
Speaker 1: this famous puzzler, Chris Ramsey took him two hours and
Speaker 1: nine minutes and said that it was exhausting, right, and
Speaker 1: he's yeah, he he doesn't seem to be the kind
Speaker 1: who would take like a dive for a puzzle maker,
Speaker 1: like he seems legit. You know, there's a There was
Speaker 1: another one. I saw a video called from a guy
Speaker 1: named the Puzzle Guy. Who have you ever heard Croatian
Speaker 1: people talk speak English? I think this is the video
Speaker 1: I saw. Okay, so that guy did he Jiggs. He
Speaker 1: did Jigsaw Puzzle twenty nine too, and he had some
Speaker 1: real trouble with it. In fact, at the end of
Speaker 1: the um the puzzle, when he had the last two pieces,
Speaker 1: he was explaining how he couldn't get them to fit,
Speaker 1: when he accidentally got them to fit and was actually
Speaker 1: surprised that he finished the puzzle. Yeah, but it's great, man,
Speaker 1: I love I love that accidents so greatation people speak English,
Speaker 1: if they just sound so just friendly and amiable, it's awesome.
Speaker 1: But as he was putting this together, one of the
Speaker 1: big problems with Jigsaw Puzzle twenty nine, which was also
Speaker 1: made by u Osaka, as you were saying, um, it
Speaker 1: has five corner pieces, so one of the corner pieces
Speaker 1: actually fits into the inside of the puzzle, and it
Speaker 1: just seems to be extraordinarily difficult to put together. One
Speaker 1: of the reasons why it's tough is all the pieces
Speaker 1: are exactly the same. It doesn't form a picture. Um,
Speaker 1: I should say they look exactly the same, not shape wise,
Speaker 1: but but colorwise. They're this translucent blue or whatever. Um.
Speaker 1: So you just have to tell from the shape. And
Speaker 1: then some of the shapes look like they should fit
Speaker 1: certain sizes um of like holes and that what they're called.
Speaker 1: The shapes go in the holes in the spaces spaces, um.
Speaker 1: But they just don't quite fit. It looks very mad
Speaker 1: and it was maddening just to watch the video Yese
Speaker 1: and Ice Puzzle nine. I wish I hadn't watched it,
Speaker 1: and that I would have just bought it to see
Speaker 1: how I would do. Um, and and I think, and
Speaker 1: I don't want to give it away. But when you
Speaker 1: put the last piece in it, the idea is that
Speaker 1: you have to get all the pieces inside that tray.
Speaker 1: It's not necessarily what you think of as a puzzle,
Speaker 1: which is they all fit perfectly together and form a
Speaker 1: perfect picture. Um. That's the only kind of hint I
Speaker 1: will give is that, uh, you know, there can be
Speaker 1: space in that trade. They just gotta all fit in there, right,
Speaker 1: That makes sense. That's a good hint. I don't want
Speaker 1: to ruin it. So speak of ruining, man, did you
Speaker 1: see the video of Dave Evans from Dorset, England, who uh,
Speaker 1: basically created the I guess it was certified as the
Speaker 1: world's largest hand cut wooden jigsaw puzzle. No. So this guy,
Speaker 1: this poor guy, he created a jigsaw puzzle, an enormous one.
Speaker 1: It was like, um, twenty ft by eight feet and
Speaker 1: if you're in the UK, it's six meters by two
Speaker 1: and a half meters. It was just this giant puzzle
Speaker 1: and he had it completed. He spent two weeks putting
Speaker 1: it together, after assembling, like cutting it and then it
Speaker 1: took him another two weeks just to put it together.
Speaker 1: And he had in this giant piece of plywood in
Speaker 1: his workshop showing it off and it somebody was filming
Speaker 1: it and it just collapsed and he walks into the frame.
Speaker 1: It just like about to lose his mind. He just
Speaker 1: can't believe that just happened. Was captured. Yes, yeah, that
Speaker 1: moment was captured on video and his reaction was captured
Speaker 1: on video. It's worth it's worth checking out because you
Speaker 1: just agonize for the guy. It took him another sixteen
Speaker 1: days with a bunch of assistants to put it back together. Well,
Speaker 1: here's another interesting record, and this these are the records
Speaker 1: that kind of cracked me up. There are two people
Speaker 1: seemingly battling it out for the largest collection of jigsaw
Speaker 1: puzzles record. Uh Louisa figure Redo I Guess of South Paulo,
Speaker 1: Brazil and then Georgina gil Lacuna of the Philippines. Um
Speaker 1: have over a thousand puzzles each, and they keep kind
Speaker 1: of coming back and forth. And this is just such
Speaker 1: a weird record because the only thing you have to
Speaker 1: do is just buy more puzzles. Yeah, that's it, That's
Speaker 1: all there is to it. Yeah, like where does it end?
Speaker 1: I guess one of them is gonna have to kick
Speaker 1: the bucket. I guess so. But then someone else takes
Speaker 1: over the collection and they're like, I'm gonna buy eight
Speaker 1: more puzzles. I'm winning. You would hope so, but but
Speaker 1: I mean, like, um, you would hope that your arch
Speaker 1: nemesis would have enough class to be like, my puzzle
Speaker 1: collection must be destroyed upon my death. Oh that's what
Speaker 1: you do. Yeah, just set it ablaze or distributed in
Speaker 1: a bunch of different pieces to different people. Now, set
Speaker 1: it ablaze. Don't give it to children, all right? You know,
Speaker 1: how about this, chuck, If you're in favor of setting
Speaker 1: in a place, you could give them to children a need,
Speaker 1: But you have to stipulate in your will that a
Speaker 1: piece is taken from every single one of those puzzles,
Speaker 1: and those pieces are set ablaze. How about that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the worst. We've gotten a lot of hand me
Speaker 1: down puzzles, which is what happens when you have a
Speaker 1: kid and all of them are missing pieces. Why you
Speaker 1: should just know not to even take a hand me
Speaker 1: down puzzle because it's happen, you know. So, Uh, you
Speaker 1: want to talk about this last thing, this seventred person puzzle.
Speaker 1: March of last year or two thousand nineteen, more than
Speaker 1: seventeen hundred people um got together to form the largest
Speaker 1: human jigsaw puzzle on record. And this one was cool
Speaker 1: because it raised awareness for autism spectrum to order. And
Speaker 1: the piece itself that they formed out of human beings
Speaker 1: is the symbol for the Autism Speaks organization. And I
Speaker 1: think there were I don't know if there was controversy,
Speaker 1: but that was surely no one like got mad about this,
Speaker 1: but the question did arise. Is it a puzzle if
Speaker 1: it's just a puzzle piece, or is it a puzzle
Speaker 1: piece if there's no puzzle for it to fit into?
Speaker 1: Oh well that too, uh, And Ginnis said, you know
Speaker 1: what this is, everybody. This is a largest human image record.
Speaker 1: In other words, everyone getting together, and when you look
Speaker 1: at it from space it looks like something else. Some
Speaker 1: marketing research assistant saved the day. Oh yes, I guess.
Speaker 1: The last thing we have to say about jigsaw puzzles
Speaker 1: is that that one great Simpsons reference where there there's
Speaker 1: some people sitting at a bed and breakfast putting a
Speaker 1: jigsaw puzzle together. It's clearly of a donkey, and a
Speaker 1: woman puts a piece into like the donkey's shoulder and says, oh,
Speaker 1: it's a donkey. Right. That's like, well, you're not watching
Speaker 1: what we do in the shadows, are you. No, I'm
Speaker 1: saving it all up, I think. All right, Well, for
Speaker 1: the fans, just let me say that's like Jackie Daytona
Speaker 1: and his toothpick. Okay, there you go. I don't want
Speaker 1: to know anything else about it. Well, thanks for joining
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