The Puzzler with A.J. JacobsHello, Puzzlers! Puzzling with us all this week: Chuck Bryant, host of the long-running podcast "Stuff You Should Know."
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Hello, puzzlers, Welcome to the Puzzler Podcast, the Extra Strength Cortizone ten for your daily puzzle itch. I am your host, A J. Jacobs, and I am here with our guest, the delightful Chuck Bryant, co host of Stuff You Should Know right here on iHeart and My podcast, Hero Chuck.
Welcome, Thanks, AJ boy. Those intros you're getting me with those, there's a great you're tearing up. Yeah, I love them.
Okay, well, court Zone, oh those intros I thought you men. Yeah, I said, oh, well that's nice, thank you.
Well that was that was touching as well, but no, I love your clever intros. These are great.
Gotcha. All right, So Chuck, we have another movie puzzle for you today, since we know you're right movie buff, that's right, and your favorite movie. I just looked up his Jaws. Is that still true? Is it still number one?
Yeah? I mean it's one of those things where it's kind of hard to pick a favorite, as you know, but Jaws is a movie I can watch anytime and really really still enjoy, so it's a it's up there excellent.
All right. So this puzzle has nothing to do with Jaws, but it is called name that title drop and you've okay, I probably heard the phrase title drop, which is when a character says the title of a movie during the movie itself.
So like you want to know something, AJ I did not know that's what that was called.
Oh wow, I feel this is exciting stuff stuff. You should know.
This is exciting title drop. I like that.
My kids taught it to me, so maybe it's just like for the youngsters. But let me give you an example of a title drop. One of the more famous ones was when Doc Brown tells Michael J. Fawks next Saturday night, We're sending.
You back to the future exactly. So that's that I thought you were going to say, like in uh al Pacino when he said.
I'm the Godfather.
Oh well yeah, oh no, wait he never said that.
Did he never say that?
No, of course not. I was just kidding.
Interesting, Well, it sounded so real because your al Pacino impression.
Is so working on that one.
Yeah, a new dad mozeltop to al by the way, eighty three.
Years old, never too old, I guess. Huh.
All right, so no comment for this quiz. We're going to play you a clip from some movies and we've actually bleeped out the title drop, so you have to tell and we didn't quite bleep them out. We decided I would say the phrase title drop where the movie is because I wanted to express my acting chops like you with al Pacina. All right, So your job is to figure out what the movie is. This one is one of the more famous ones. So the first title drop is you do not talk about title drop.
Oh that's wonderful. That needs to be mixed in with some d M music or something.
Well, thank you, I'm so wired.
That's that's fight Club exactly.
Fight Club.
Huh, that's great.
All right, this one's a little tougher.
Okay, Jody, let's.
Play my my brilliant acting on this one.
We're going to live on. We're going to survive.
Today, we celebrate our title drop.
I believe that is Independence Day, right, Yeah, you got it.
Side note. My reaction when I saw that is like, if the aliens were smart, they would not attack New York City on July fourth because all of the powerful rich people are away, like in the ham Cuffs or Connecticut.
Sure, yeah, they should attack the Hamptons exactly.
All right. Next, is this happens to be one of my favorite movies of all time top five, just as a hint, since I know you know all of my tastes goes.
How happy is the Blameless vessels lot the world forgetting by the world forgot?
Title drop, title drop, each prayer accepted, and each wish resigned.
That's just so great. I have no idea on this one.
Oh good, that's good.
I'm actually and I don't know. It's not something you can probably figure out.
Like, well, no, I'm going to walk you through it because okay, all right, Well, first of all, I said title drop, title drop because it is a long title. I could have even gone three title drops.
Oh wow.
The character is quoting a poem by Alexander Pope and the last word rhymes with resigned, which was the last word she said, and designed resigned resigned, so ined. Jim Carrey, what is this movie? Uh?
Man?
You know it's funny because it's one of my favorite movies, and I always forget the title.
Boy when the brain starts to go south, Now I can't Kate Winslet Eternal Sunshine in the Spotless Mind.
Exactly, you got it, all right? Two more? I want to end with two welcome twos. Okay, because that's like a classic title drop.
Yeah, I can think of a few already.
Oh really, well you might have this one. All right, So our first welcome too is.
Doctor, My dear doctor, such welcome.
Title drop.
Thank you for appreciating my I could do this all day.
That is uh, Attenborough welcoming people to Jurassic Park, right exactly?
That is it? All right? One more, and this one I actually would not have gotten, but I wanted another welcome to so uh, maybe you know you you know more.
Ladies and gentlemen. This is your captain speaking. I have the only gun on board. Welcome to the title drop, I don't recognize. That's yeah, that's.
A tough one. I agree. That was well if you can't tell, that was my John Malkovich impressions.
Okay, so it's not welcome to the dollhouse. I'm going through my welcome to list.
Oh that's good, John. Do they actually title drop in welcome.
To the dog? No? No, no, I don't think so welcome to.
He's saying, welcome to. Well, this is your captain speaking. So when would a captain be speaking on.
An airplane flight? Probably?
Right exactly, John, play a pilot. He played. I think he was the villain.
Okay, oh oh uh con Air exactly.
Welcome to con Air.
Right, Okay, I saw that one once back then when it was out exactly. Not high on my radar, but yeah, good one.
Well, thank you, Chuck. That was super fun. And thank you for letting me express my my theatrical talent.
Yeah, I appreciate you having me on title Drop.
That's perfect. And feel free to title drop your own show too. Where can people find and listen to more of you.
At title Drop You Should Know? Or my movie show where I interview people about their favorite movie that was called title Drop as well.
And just to try, I'll close the loop for people. Stuff you Should Know and movie cross those are the ANSWER's right, all right? We do have one an extra credit for Puzzlers at Home.
Well, that's a great idea.
That's a great idea. You think we'll do it Tony in the family.
Draw? Do you know? Uh yeah, I think I've got that one. But that's uh, just keep sending me these randomly, please.
Well it sounds like a spinoff, it sounds I'm excited.
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Hello puzzlers. Greg Pliska here up from the Puzzle Lab with the answer to last episode's extra credit. We played no you should stuff with Chuck Bryant, a game where we took a word inserted the letters no into it to get a new word. The extra credit clue was this, I want to host a neat and tidy Better Call Saul party tonight, so I need to blank up the living room before we view that blank from Breaking Back. The answers that go in the blanks are spiff We need to spiff up the living room. Then you insert no into that to get spin off, since Better Call Saul is a spin off from Breaking Bad. I hope you all got that one, and I look forward to puzzling with you next time.
