4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Special Bonus Episode! Eric joins his friend, AJ Jacobs, on his new podcast called "The Puzzler!
"Finally, your daily puzzle fix—in audio form! Every day, in 10 minutes or less, New York Times bestselling author A.J. Jacobs and his celebrity guests will puzzle–and laugh–their way through new spins on old puzzle favorites, like anagrams and palindromes, as well as quirky originals such as “Ask Chat GPT” and audio rebuses. Plus, Chief Puzzle Officer Greg Pliska joins A.J. each week to present new puzzles from the Puzzle Lab. And there’s a daily Extra Credit Puzzler for our Puzzlers at home. (Answers revealed in the following episode.)
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Jane Marie, host of The Dream, and I'm excited to announce that we're back with a brand new season. |
0:07.0 | A lot has changed since last season, like, you know, the whole world and everything, but also my butt. |
0:12.0 | I have been sitting on it for a couple of years and |
0:14.8 | we're gonna get me off it by hiring a life coach. We'll talk to the pros and |
0:20.8 | some of the cons and figure out if gurus are worth the hype. |
0:25.0 | Listen to the Dream on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your |
0:29.8 | podcasts. |
0:30.8 | Hey everyone, so Eric was recently a guest on the fantastic podcast called |
0:36.4 | The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs. You may remember A.J. because he's been on the |
0:40.6 | one you feed podcast as well. But it's so fun to listen to so we |
0:45.1 | decided to release an excerpt from it as a short bonus episode on our feed. |
0:49.7 | They do talk a little bit about our parable and then AJ made a bunch of puzzles that relate to our |
0:55.6 | parable. |
0:56.6 | So here's the mini episode from the puzzler with AJ Jacobs. |
1:06.0 | Hello, puzzlers. Welcome to The Puzzler Podcast, The Apple Cake and your puzzling Swanson's TV dinner. I'm your host A.J. Jacobs, and I'm here with our guest, the awesome Eric Zimmer, host of the wonderful |
1:26.9 | podcast right here on I-Heart, the one you feed, which I have been lucky enough to be a guest on. Welcome Eric. |
1:36.0 | Hi AJ, thanks for having me on. |
1:38.0 | We are delighted. I love your show and I also love the way you start your show. You always start your podcast with the same parable. |
1:48.0 | So would you mind telling it to us? |
1:51.0 | Sure, it's an old parable. We don't really know where it to us. Sure, it's an old parable. |
1:53.0 | We don't really know where it comes from. |
1:55.0 | Some people think it's a Native American parable. |
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