Parenting is a JokeIn this mini-episode, Ophira puts AJ Jacobs to the test with a game we're calling, The Constitution.
Hey listeners, we're back with a snack sized bonus episode for you. I hope you listen to my conversation with the funny and brilliant AJ Jacobs that just came out. If not, you can go check it out now. It's super fun and be sure to grab his new book, A Year of Living Constitutionally. So when you listen, you know and you'll learn that AJ loves games, loves puzzles. His podcast is called The Puzzler. After all, it's very fun, so check that out as well. So for this episode little snack side bonus, we decided to turn the tables around and make AJ play a game with me. So here you go, the Puzzler becomes the Puzzle.
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So I had a great chat with AJ Jacobs. He's got a wonderful podcast called The Puzzler. He just came out with a new book called The Year of Living Constitutionally. And you know what, we thought we should put a puzzle together for the Puzzler.
Oh my goodness.
So it's just it's just very very right.
They're giving me my own medicine.
It's just this is, I think, hilariously dumb. Which this is a play on the Constitution because it's about human body composition and therefore.
The Constitution Constitution.
That's right. I love it.
In this game a j this is what you have to do. You just have to guess does it digest?
Yes or no?
I am going to give you an everyday item, and you haven't guess if a human can digest it.
Hilarious. I love it. Now, Can I actually try to digest it? And that would be the book? But the y my next book. Can I digest a staple?
I don't know if I have anything around here? Okay, but we'll see what we got about leather?
I say no, no, you cannot. I mean it is skin. It is just again. But I feel it's been treated so much. What do you think you can shockingly yes, I'm already over one.
But you must boil it for a very very long time.
Oh ok, that's delicious, delicious.
Berner Herzog famously did it supposedly well.
Also, Charlie chaplin ate his shoes the spaghetti with the shoelaces. Very How about chalk? I feel there's like a whole disease of chalk eating. Is that right? And I think it has like its own name. But I could be wrong. Oh I think see now I'm going to get it wrong, but I think that one you can digest, you can.
That is true. It's not good for your lungs. The dust. That's like the number one thing that people and you can't.
Eat a lot of chap, right, But other than that, I'm going to go for it.
I mean, you shouldn't eat any of it. Let's just be clear.
Oh, okay, this is not These are not food record.
This isn't your next delicious new We are chokovars or whatever. No chocolar Okay, popcorn.
Well, that that's very funny. I mean, obviously it's a trick or I'm super dumb like and you just think I mean, I'm guessing. I will say, you know, there's the if you think about corn like you do see corn kernels in the poop, that's right, So that might indicate that there's not digesting going on. I guess I have to say, no.
You're correct, Yeah, it's corn. Can't digest corn.
You can't digest corn. Why are we eating it? I don what's going on?
I know those ears are just so delicious looking.
They do look fun and the action of it is I feel like the action of it is not like anything else.
Now what else can you eat like that? Do you do the round or the typewriter?
Oh, I'm a typewriter?
Are you what I feel? That's in the minority, right, don't I don't want to. I don't want to like you know, ye cast dispersions. But I always thought the round was more than the sides typewriter, I mean, side.
Yes, side decide?
All right? Well, lines, I'm not judging. Okay, I'm not judging. Sound a little judging, I agree?
All right?
How about fiber, Well, fiber, I don't think so because you are like it flushes out the body.
Yeah, that's right.
It helps intestine muscles push out waste and adds bulk and mass to our poop, but not digestible in itself. All right.
How about gummy bears?
Gummy bears? I feel, well, do they have geladine? Isn't gelatin like crushed horse hoofs or something crazy? Supposedly?
Yeah, I don't mean in its truest form. I think there's a way to make it right, Yes, right.
Well wikipedia that folks. Don't take my word for it. I'm talking out my ass, but speaking about my ass, I would say yes, they are.
Yes, gummy bears. As far as candy goes, it's actually one of the better ones. Benet for digestion. Candy corn, even though not related to corn, and licorice, are harder to digest it. Oh interesting, So stick to your gummy bears, everybody. How about a wooden stick?
That is interesting. I've seen my dog eat lots of wooden sticks and without like and it somehow goes down. I'm gonna say, yeah, why not, no, no, no.
No, sorry, we can't digest wood.
It contains cellulose that's indigestible that will typically pass in the pooh too without causing so much damage.
But is it worth the risk? I don't think so.
Well, it depends how delicious the wood is.
I know, a little wood with mustard. Oh yeah, all right, you got two more for you.
I'm ready. Jellyfish jellyfish, I say yeah, because I've seen people Well, that doesn't mean you can digest it, but I'm still gonna say.
Yes, yes, you can, totally yes, But there's only specific types that are edible. So yeah, Just if anyone's like, oh, I'll go fishing for jellyfish off of Cape May right, and then I don't know curate, No, do not do that.
Don't just shown into your mouth.
That's right.
You have to order at a restaurant where they know what they're doing and they properly prepare it good.
All right. And finally sunflower seats.
Oh well they see I I'm a vegetarian. I like all that. Yeah, but I don't like sunflower. No, do not eat leather. I do eatcummi bears, which maybe have that horse as we talked about. Yeah, so I'm gonna say, wait, what was it again sunflowers? I say, no, they just seem like husks of they seem fiber.
I'm still going to give you that one.
But the real answer is I mean sometimes the answer is sometimes Okay. So it's very hard for a body to digest all raw seeds. I will tell you right now from my recent experience. When you get it, I went, I had a kolonoscopy.
Everybody, this happens.
And you're setting a good example.
Yes, and also bad things round in my family. So I get I get my high risk for everything. That is awesome.
So, but the.
Woman who was my doctor.
Didn't have the best bedside manner, and she was talking to me about prep and she just said, and absolutely no pumpkin seeds.
You wouldn't believe what I've seen with pumpkin seeds. I guess pumpkin seeds are extremely hard to digest.
So I found out that actually most raw seeds are very hard for our bodies to digest, and sometimes they pass through without being digested at all.
So that's why you may have heard. And sometimes with baking and stuff that you're supposed to soak seeds. Oh that makes them easier to digest. Otherwise it's a bit of as they say, a crapshoot.
I love it. This was like, this is not only an entertainer podcasts, but it is news you can use, like I am learning soaking seeds. Don't eat do eat chalk? In must eat chalk, but don't eat what was then sticks but yesterday.
And you know what, buy yourself some gummy bears people.
There you go. They're so good for you.
They're the best. You did great, Thank you so much.
AJ's book is The Year of Living Constitutionally. It is out now, it's brand new. Go get it and listen to his podcast. It runs by the way five days a week and you get a bonus on the weekends.
That's true. And by the way, listen to Ohfira's episodes as because they were fantastic.
That's the Puzzler with AJ Jacobs.
Thanks, thank you.
