A.J. Jacobs (on puzzles and living biblically)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 102 minutes

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A.J. Jacobs (The Puzzler, The Year of Living Biblically) is a journalist and author. A.J. joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why he loves puzzles so much, why he decided to follow every rule in the Bible literally to study religion, and what happened after he read the entire collection of Encyclopedia Britannica. A.J. and Dax talk about what their favorite riddles are, what it's like to be a clue in the New York Times crossword, and how it's human nature to want to gossip about each other. A.J. explains that he wants to get healthy by walking to space on his treadmill, what crazy things he sees outside his New York apartment, and how he ended up representing the U.S. in the world jigsaw puzzle championship. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Dan Rather and I'm joined by Minister
0:06.4	Miles, the Duchess of Duluth.
0:08.0	Hello. We had a really fun time talking to this gentleman.
0:12.4	Extremely. Yeah, because we get to this gentleman. Extremely.
0:13.0	Yeah, because we get to play games and puzzles on this episode.
0:16.0	It's a kind of an interactive episode in some ways.
0:19.0	It is, and if you like brain teasers, boy, there's a bunch in this episode.
0:23.7	A.J. Jacobs is a best-selling author, journalist, lecture, and human guinea pig.
0:28.3	He, as you'll learn a lot about, he had this incredible book that got our attention
0:31.4	called The Year of Living Bibiblically where he lived
0:34.3	to the letter of the Old Testament for a whole year, which is way crazier than you can imagine.
0:39.6	He has a new book called The Puzzler, One Man's quest to solve the most baffling puzzles ever.
0:45.4	From crosswords to jigsaws to the meaning of life.
0:48.8	It's a raucous good time.
0:50.2	Please enjoy A.J. Jacobs.
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1:20.0	He's an our chance for.
1:23.8	Hello.
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