Brooke knows words. She does not know actors.📼💿 - Monday NYT Crossword - 10-23-23

it's Monday and here it's all with Steve Tuesday through Sunday I like to go fast Monday I like to slow things down invite one of two very special guests today's one of two very special guests is Brooke Brooke would you like to say something about yourself no okay Brooke would you like to solve a crossroad puzzle let's do it then let's solve this Crossroad puzzle the crossroad here it is Stella zowy is the Constructor the solers names are Brook and Steve and we're going to have a lot of fun we hope you have fun with this here we go are there any of these that you know you might know five across device connected to a router uh no no okay cool let's see you might know uh election Victor of 2008 and 2012 Obama Obama that's right very good you you remember when you were one no you don't remember that but yes very good all right so let's see one of things um you might know H one of a pair of shakers moraca moraca singular moraca usually a pair but why not we have Obama and Maraka is sort of rhyme first responder for short do you know that no okay uh actor comedian Ki I'm sure I guess you don't know that probably don't he was on Saturday night live uh when I was in school Dana Carvey uh very very very very funny person follow orders obey Obe painting known for its enigmatic smile uh I it's a famous painting and the person it's a portrait and the person is smiling and yeah Mona Lisa but why why is she smiling we don't because she's taking a picture like people smile when they get pictures Tak of that so it's not really a mystery at all is it no except that back in the day no one smiled for pictures well maybe people smell for pictures now because she smell thought it was a good idea she she was the trend Setter she started it all modem M go modem yeah very good all right what do we have here listing of disciplinary infractions 1950s to early 1980s I wasn't alive then no you weren't so we'll see if that's a that's looks like a it's a long one okay actress comedian Rudolph also from Saturday Night Live I think she was wait was she in no maybe she wasn't but she's very very funny and her name is Maya Rudolph and she's the voice of some some cartoon character too I can't remember what she's a she's a funny she's very fun all right where Fairbanks is what's Fairbanks it's a City Alabama doesn't fit Alaska are you just naming States in order or do you think that's it's in Alaska I'm just naming states that start with a cuz it is Fairbanks is in Alaska um American blank oh you know this one Idol yeah uh pigeon shelters cages could be could be cages could be CS CS could be caves or Coes so that a few options tan adhesive 1970s to early 1990s what's going on the stuff people put on their skins they T better yeah I think you're probably right but I don't know what that would be and what's with this decades in in the brackets there I don't know broadband connection initials so a long time ago your modem wouldn't be uh hooked up to uh to the the phone lines or to to Cable you'd have a DSL I guess it would be your phone line but it wasn't fiber optic it was just a regular phone line that you wouldn't have connected for your phone it was it was a big deal when you got a DSL was like a separate line just for your uh your computer all right anyhow wildly out of control I don't know I don't know let's see how about a nightmare on blank Street you know this is a scary movie no A Nightmare on Elm Street uh having a liking for no how about this one gemstone with a fire variety you know a four-letter gemstone that fits that um no no okay let's uh let's go over here by Alaska and see if anything if you skip the elaborate wedding you can run away and get married you know this one it shows up in crosses it's to elope is to run away and get married instead of having a big ceremony so I don't think it's cages could be coups could be Coes Let's uh hold off on that one for now finds on a map if you find something on a map what have you done located yeah so locates CU it finds on a map uh stood c um nothing certain song birds or escapades yeah I don't know about that Allen of marriage story you know this he's an old actor his name is Alan Alder yeah you would not know that spoken it's not written but it's it's spoken um um no you might have like a quiz or something like that that's not in writing it's out loud out loud yeah it's another word for out loud four letters audible audible also another yeah all right we'll come back to that one song syllables LA but syllable is plural so it can't be la la la yeah la la la la la la exactly la la la la la okay anything pigeon shelters oh they're called pigeon coats I think I've seen that in Crossroad recently I didn't know it at the time and here it is on a Monday puzzle which is supposed to be easier have you ever heard of a pigeon coat no me neither but I I I guess I have now but not until then all right um certain song words or escapades do you know it now no stood do you know that one no no okay let's uh abbreviation on a year before a year on a business sign H yeah I don't know that one either by on self Solo solo very good uh Marissa of Spider-Man no way home do you know her no she's also an actor her name is Marissa to I don't know any actors yeah I just none no guts no you know this phrase no okay a v-shaped cut if you cut it into a piece of paper I don't know you don't know that you can cut it with a knife kind of little V I don't know you don't know okay parts of molecules atoms woo science you want to say science no science try science oh you got to be enthusiastic science science oh man all right uh the indigenous people of Canada are one set of indigenous people of Canada this shows up in Crossroads a lot the cre it's uh one of the first in Canada so us we call them Native Americans right in kind they like to call them like First Peoples or First Nations I think um because it makes sense all right here we go easy to eat as some grapes and watermelons what easy to eat there's this eight letters easy to eat as some grapes and watermelons what would make a seed yeah very good right that makes sense cuz they're easier to eat there okay do you know this no guts no no okay all right fixed term bank offering that pays well 1990s to 2000s what's up with this I don't know I don't know either way in or out what might be the way in or out of a room a door a door yes indeed okay blank work blank all work out in the end um all right show girl at the one down I don't know and one down is club in the bar Manalo hit oh you know this one no her name was Lola she was a show girl at the Copa Copa Cabana music and passion were always in fashion at the Copa they fell in love the whole story song tells a St song but her name was Lola she was a show girl so I'm going to put in Lola for that yeah all right that's a it's a classic from the 1970s late 70s I think uh all right handle difficult matters satisfactorily it's really tough yeah but you learn how to cope very very good whoa whoa ah what's going on what I'm doing here is that still on okay I'm not sure what happened there with uh I think I I zoomed out or something but okay we're good we're good it doesn't look look right but okay it does look good okay I don't know what happened there sorry uh gemstone with four letters opal very good opal listing of disciplinary infractions the list of all the things that you've done wrong in your life if you break the rules it might go on your um um record something record yes something record good good good um so let's put that in there uh insect in a colony ant ant how about this ready for business if you have a store and it's ready for business open yeah having a ling for yeah I don't know about that but you might know this one now stood no I don't know if a bunch of people got up they arose right whatever like arise is to stand up but the past tense is aose sure okay all right and now do you know spoken oro oro and certain song birds are Larks and do you know now we have that P in there what kind of record it is it's your permanent record and the first responder is an EMT like they work on the the ambulance emergency medical technician yeah okay uh wildly out of control they're running Mo a Muk a Muk a Muk AR his friends they're running a Muk okay a v-shaped cut they cut it into like a piece of wood I don't know you don't know okay um let's see let's see how about we go here end of class sound bell bell do you have a bell or do you have a beep at your school I think it's a beep yeah most places now have a beep but everybody calls it the Bell right interesting interesting is that what your beep sounds like yeah yeah do you have a beep Orel chime in nothing chime in get it chime in that was funny okay or nothing under nothing all right article under a blouse what might you wear under a blouse a bra yeah bra really yeah you know what a blouse is no it's a it's a loose fitting shirt typically for women uh women they used to wear and no one actually wears now no like if you wear like a like a women's dress shirt that doesn't fit tightly it's loose fitting it's called the blouse oh yeah okay so under that you'd wear a bra okay McDonald's you might get a happy blank meal yes you would McDonald's had very good uh see we love to sing here on on saw with Steve and Brooke singing is what we do I sing bar Manalo she sings e e all right here go cousin of a mouse sing Old McDonald is cousin of a mouse rat a rat cool and distant do you know this word aloof someone's like oh I'm not going to talk to you they're being aloof like they're ignoring you like they're ignoring you or they're just like they're too cool for you they're above you the word is aloof it's like oh look at you're aloof okay all right now do you know what this is It's a tan adhesive it's not like tan stuff that you might put onk something tape yeah what kind of tape is tan masking tape masking tape yes yes yes that makes more sense yeah so what's up with these years here 1950s to early 80s permanent record is like people get a permanent it's like a hairstyle and then masking tape would people get a masking is that a hairstyle I don't remember that I don't know what's going on here um H I don't know all right textur astonishment spelled cutely cutle what does that mean cutely I don't know it's like it's like cutesie but it's an adverb so it's Cil oh yeah I don't think I've ever seen that word before well done Stella o m m g g that is pretty cutesy I think I think that is spelled cutely that I think that's what she's going for all right last I don't know all right now I think you know the v-shaped cut no I don't okay I don't know when we get the next letter we'll see if you know it yeah I probably okay fix term bank offering that pays well okay you don't know that one chaotic spectacle so-called Missing Link in our ancestry do you know that one no blank all work out in the end well will we will all work out in the end I don't know I don't know um it'll yeah it'll all work out in the end right right right your genealogy chart you know that no you know what genealogy is study of genes spy one you trace your ancestors and so if you make a chart that lists all your ancest tree yeah the family tree all right wool sweater annoyance I don't like a wearing W fibers fibers cause you to itch itch yeah very good campfire remains what is there after the campfire is over burnt stuff burnt stuff how about ashes yeah yeah bad habits bad habits okay what are some bad habits you probably don't know this word vices yeah I don't know that one Bros sibling SS yeah convention hosting Swiss City you know a city in Switzerland would they have a con vention about like the rules of War it's called the Geneva Convention yeah all right let's see how about um let's see recycling option that collects paper Plastics and metals together you know what that's called no it's called single stream but then we need another letter maybe single streaming I'm not sure uh we'll leave that part off Network that air Jersey Shore you don't know about Jersey Shore do you know Jersey Shore the TV show stookie and the situation no yeah it's called it's called it's called Jersey Shore and it was on MTV all right star and Lyra lra you know this is the name of a star it's reasonably close to to our son has stars but it's called Vega is the star the old Russian leader you know what they used to call like the the dictators of Russia they were the Zar and so you could spell CZ a r or TS a r it's getting a little bit late if it feels like I'm pushing Brook along it's getting kind of late so that's why I'm doing this sound like something in a folk tale I have to read in school and write an essay on and then like oh the Zar is going to be passing by our town or something like that or the Zar decreed that everybody had to do a certain thing yeah probably you probably did read about the Zar home of the Taj Mahal it's a city in India where the Taj Mahal is located it name is I don't know Agra uh an unforeseen problem Oh our plan was going great until um no okay let's see USA USA you okay now you know the unene problem no it's a snag um oh man all the actors do you know who's in this no his name is Tom Cruz I don't know any actors I know present or past what about future no you don't know them either no would be if she's like this person is going to star in some movie and then yeah you wouldn't know that I don't know who stars in anything okay to be in the red you know what that means if you're in the red no you're in the black if your business is making money but if your business has lost more more more money than you have you're in the red and then you owe money so it's owe like that um let's see how about blank and Jerry's Ben yeah you knew that okay ice cream it's ice cream right prayers end what word might be amain right uh a big fuss is an ad do um amazed is odd do you know that one like oh that was amazing say a oh you're right I'm sorry you know not with a d oh so so because of the past tense in the clue that's why we have to have the D there all right oh I don't think you would know this one fixed oh I get it I don't I get it okay I don't think there's a revealer for this one but maybe there is let's keep going okay fixed term bank offering that pays well so is a high yield CD okay so I'll tell you all about the CD is a certificate of deposit yeah oh not you got it right right and high yield means you get a lot of money so um all right so high yield the the downside of a CD you have to put your bank in your money in the bank and you're not allowed to take it out for a certain amount of time uh but the good thing about it is that you're guaranteed to make that money if you wait that long um but there's other Investments are riskier but pay more CDs generally don't pay a lot but there's almost no risk um all right last the last thing is the final The Final Countdown do you know that song no I probably heard you sing it before probably okay The Missing Link in our ancestry if you're trying to trace human evolution somebody there's there's no evidence of the eight man which would be like the link between apes and humans uh and so so-called Missing Link here a chaotic spectacle don't make a scene scene yes very good uh pennies I think you know this one scent yeah and okay do you know he wasn't an actor he was the vice president for Richard Nixon and then he resigned in in shame uh like now in shame there was some sort of Scandal I don't know what his scandal was but he resigned and then Gerald Ford was selected as a vice president and then Richard Nixon uh was going to be impeached but he resigned in shame uh and so gereral Ford was never elected as president or vice president but he became president um after both um Richard Nixon and spear agu resigned so there you go so Spiro agnu Is His name his first name Spiro last name agnu sit for a portrait POS pose and the very last one works by Picasso pormo or like now ASAP ASAP and so works by pic AR because po hemp is in Spanish so if the clue has Spanish the answer sign you want to do the last letter and then we can dance all right was that fun yes yes I had a lot of fun so the theme we can take a look at whoops we have to admire our puzzle the theme there's no revealer uh and that's tough for a Monday puzzle but so permanent record it say say 1950s to early 80s and then next one's n7s yep 70s to early '90s masking tape and then this is the one I helped me figure it out high yield CD 1990s to 2000s and then single streaming 2010s to present do you have any idea what the what they all have in common and what that has to do with the decades no no because you're too young to know many of these things you're too young to know two maybe three of these things so in the 1950s through the 1980s if you wanted to listen to music at home you would have to play a radio radio yes but if you wanted to pick the songs they didn't have CDs until the 1990s to 2000s okay so if you wanted to listen in the 1950s to early 80s you listen with a record you have a record player that's right but then uh in the 19 197s the early '90s tapes were more popular and then the CD took over from tapes and now you listen by streaming yeah when you were a kid when I was a kid the the thingy yes he used you well that was for TV I was the remote control yes that was the joke that I like to tell the the the remote control in our family was Stephen go change the channel and I would go I have to get up and I have to turn change the channel yes but if you wanted to listen to records so I did not we family had a record player I never had one in my room but I got a tape player uh and I listened to tapes and then I got a CD player and I listened to CDs and now I have a streaming player is what's a streaming player sticky tape we have now like a tape thing so so came first I think sticky tape came first and audio tape was about this about this big have you ever seen one of those there's like two little reels on the side and you would take a pencil eraser if it got stuck to to to advance it cuz you you couldn't reach it with your finger maybe you could reach your pinky in there but then the tape would come out and be like oh no what are we going to do cuz it was inside this little cassette and so you have to get a pencil eraser and it would it would turn it up but the the the music was stored in magnetic little bits of information on the tape was it tape like the shape of a bol of tape no it was shaped like a rectangle on inside there was two spools and you would yeah with the spools like rolls of tape I mean yeah but they were they were thin they were maybe I don't know four or five millimeters wide uh and then the tape would roll up on one it would go from one side to the other side like a scroll like a scroll very much like a scroll yeah and then you would play from one side to the other side and then you'd have to open it up eject press the eject button flip the tape over and then put it back in and then listen to the other side of the tape and it would go from one side to the other and then when they invented Auto reverse that was the coolest thing in the world because then your tape player could play play the forward or the reverse could play the a side or the B side of the tape without flipping it over that was really cool and then you could listen to a tape just backwards and forwards without having to take it out can you imagine listening to the music without having to press a button after you press it the first time how great was that but you still couldn't listen to any song at a time you had to be at the right spot on the tape and so if you wanted to get from one to the next you had to press it fast forward and then if you're good you knew exactly how long to fast forward and then stop and you try and get your song Just Right records on the other hand you could move the needle to whatever song you wanted to but the records themselves were big and they they could break and they were combersome and they were they were harder too so tapes were were nice and and and Compact and then CDs you could do both you could listen to one song immediately and they were small and you didn't have to press the you could just press the press the uh button and it would do autoplay and and now now you people you just ask for a song and you get it anywhere in the world which is pretty cool and you know what else is pretty cool the fact that you should get some sleep tonight uh yeah so we're going to say goodbye to all the people we're going to thank them for watching thank you for watching um anything they should do if they have enjoyed this like they should like it and they should also if they haven't yet subscribe subscribe thank you to so many people who have subscribed recently you are awesome awesome awesome we feel the love we feel the love we don't feel the love we're not Mak our hearts for love yeah 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