Fill Me In
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Weekly podcast since 2008 (or 2018, whatever). Mostly crosswords, but also sandwiches, Thor, theater, useless banter. Hosted by Brian Cimmet and Ryan Hecht. https://bemoresmarter.com/fmi
This week, Ryan and Brian learn about nicknames, heavy metal music, and history from 1981 -- plus, a brand new Contest of Now (a Rows Garden puzzle) available at available at bemoresmarter.com/fmicontest! #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This week, Ryan and Brian learn about nicknames, heavy metal music, and history from 1981 -- plus, a brand new Contest of Now (a Rows Garden puzzle) available at available at bemoresmarter.com/fmicontest! #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
This week, Ryan and Brian talk about vacations and children and fanfic, oh my! This is your reminder to always get what it's called ... plus, there's a Contest of Still Going On (available at bemoresmarter.com/fmicontest)! #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This week, Ryan and Brian talk about vacations and children and fanfic, oh my! This is your reminder to always get what it's called ... plus, there's a Contest of Still Going On (available at bemoresmarter.com/fmicontest)! #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
Ryan is in Sweden with all the furniture and meatballs, Brian is in Syracuse with all the recording equipment. More baseball than sandwiches, but not as much as you might think. All that plus a new Contest of Now (available at bemoresmarter.com/fmicontest)! #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
November 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Ryan is in Sweden with all the furniture and meatballs, Brian is in Syracuse with all the recording equipment. More baseball than sandwiches, but not as much as you might think. All that plus a new Contest of Now (available at bemoresmarter.com/fmicontest)! #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
Ryan struggles between his needs of traveling the world and watching the World Series, while Brian just struggles. There's a Contest of Still Going On (it's a variety cryptic!), and lest you thought the sandwich stories were a thing of the past, they're not. #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
October 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Ryan struggles between his needs of traveling the world and watching the World Series, while Brian just struggles. There's a Contest of Still Going On (it's a variety cryptic!), and lest you thought the sandwich stories were a thing of the past, they're not. #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
Go tell your plowman! This week, Ryan challenges Brian with Broadway history, Brian challenges everyone with a brand new Contest of Now (forms.gle/sy5JNUPS6E7q...), and Alex Verdugo can't leave well enough alone. #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
October 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Go tell your plowman! This week, Ryan challenges Brian with Broadway history, Brian challenges everyone with a brand new Contest of Now (forms.gle/sy5JNUPS6E7q...), and Alex Verdugo can't leave well enough alone. #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
This week, Brian is joined by Shannon Rapp for a super-sized episode with an insider's recap of the Midwest Crossword Tournament, hefty sandwiches, and a non-NYT Thunder Round with puzzles from the LA Times, Apple News, Universal, USA Today, and Fireball! #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
October 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
This week, Brian is joined by Shannon Rapp for a super-sized episode with an insider's recap of the Midwest Crossword Tournament, hefty sandwiches, and a non-NYT Thunder Round with puzzles from the LA Times, Apple News, Universal, USA Today, and Fireball! #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
Next week, FMI will be guest co-hosted by Shannon Rapp aka Norah Sharpe (the name is fake, but the puzzles are real)! Thunder Round: 10/6 NYer, 10/7 USAT, 10/8 Fireball, 10/10 Apple, 10/10 and 10/11 LAT, 10/12 Univ. Visit dailycrosswordlinks.com to find these puzzles (and more)! #crossword #podcast
October 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Next week, FMI will be guest co-hosted by Shannon Rapp aka Norah Sharpe (the name is fake, but the puzzles are real)! Thunder Round: 10/6 NYer, 10/7 USAT, 10/8 Fireball, 10/10 Apple, 10/10 and 10/11 LAT, 10/12 Univ. Visit dailycrosswordlinks.com to find these puzzles (and more)! #crossword #podcast
This week, Ryan and Brian eat on the show. Sorry. Also: Blue Jays, Buckwheat Boyz, Bakers, and a Brinck Report. #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
October 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This week, Ryan and Brian eat on the show. Sorry. Also: Blue Jays, Buckwheat Boyz, Bakers, and a Brinck Report. #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
This week, Ryan and Brian sound like a couple of grumpy middle aged men -- but maybe that's what you're here for. It's almost October, which bears the bad news of post-season baseball. With any luck, everyone will lose this week and it can all be over. #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
September 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
This week, Ryan and Brian sound like a couple of grumpy middle aged men -- but maybe that's what you're here for. It's almost October, which bears the bad news of post-season baseball. With any luck, everyone will lose this week and it can all be over. #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
This week, the Thunder Round features Ryan and Brian attempting the Wall Street Journal meta-week of contest puzzles. In addition, there's at least 6.022x10^23 sardines, bananas, and beets, as well as a battle of classic literature. Shana tova! #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
September 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
This week, the Thunder Round features Ryan and Brian attempting the Wall Street Journal meta-week of contest puzzles. In addition, there's at least 6.022x10^23 sardines, bananas, and beets, as well as a battle of classic literature. Shana tova! #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
This week, everything is fine. Ryan and Brian get new insight on asymmetrical grids, dig unnecessarily deeper into peanut butter sandwiches, and find irritation in capitalism. Next week, the Thunder Round will be Wall Street Journal puzzles! #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
September 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This week, everything is fine. Ryan and Brian get new insight on asymmetrical grids, dig unnecessarily deeper into peanut butter sandwiches, and find irritation in capitalism. Next week, the Thunder Round will be Wall Street Journal puzzles! #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
This week, Ryan and Brian find more sandwiches in the viewer mail bag, ponder the power of the throat lozenge, and enjoyed the Fri/Sat puzzles more than the rest of the week (and a lot more than 1/7 of the week). #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
September 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
This week, Ryan and Brian find more sandwiches in the viewer mail bag, ponder the power of the throat lozenge, and enjoyed the Fri/Sat puzzles more than the rest of the week (and a lot more than 1/7 of the week). #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
This week, Ryan and Brian find their thunder in a new set of puzzles -- August's Sunday puzzles from the Washington Post, all constructed by Evan Birnholz. Also, if this show evolves into a sandwich podcast by the end of Season 11, that'll be a success. #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
September 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This week, Ryan and Brian find their thunder in a new set of puzzles -- August's Sunday puzzles from the Washington Post, all constructed by Evan Birnholz. Also, if this show evolves into a sandwich podcast by the end of Season 11, that'll be a success. #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
In 2008, nobody thought that two idiots like us would get to something we could realistically call "Season Eleven," but here we are. We start with sandwiches, continue with crosswords, and there's only the tiniest sliver of baseball at the end. #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
August 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
In 2008, nobody thought that two idiots like us would get to something we could realistically call "Season Eleven," but here we are. We start with sandwiches, continue with crosswords, and there's only the tiniest sliver of baseball at the end. #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
This week, Ryan and Brian recap Lollapuzzoola (puzzles are still available!), get a beatdown on beaming up, learn that some people believe cake cannot be savory, and in a post-Lolla stupor, Brian concedes that tacos are sandwiches. #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
August 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This week, Ryan and Brian recap Lollapuzzoola (puzzles are still available!), get a beatdown on beaming up, learn that some people believe cake cannot be savory, and in a post-Lolla stupor, Brian concedes that tacos are sandwiches. #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
This week, Brian can barely think straight, what with Lollapuzzoola looming in five days. Ryan tries to pick up the slack with talk of potato cakes, Paul McCartney, and Scott Weiss's newest Anti-Match Quiz. #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
August 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This week, Brian can barely think straight, what with Lollapuzzoola looming in five days. Ryan tries to pick up the slack with talk of potato cakes, Paul McCartney, and Scott Weiss's newest Anti-Match Quiz. #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
This week, Brooke Husic drops by the FMI studio to offer the Announcement of the Year — who is making puzzles for Lollapuzzoola! Is there more? Well, yes: how to count, how to order food in Russia, how to alienate a brilliant web designer ... typical stuff. #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
July 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This week, Brooke Husic drops by the FMI studio to offer the Announcement of the Year — who is making puzzles for Lollapuzzoola! Is there more? Well, yes: how to count, how to order food in Russia, how to alienate a brilliant web designer ... typical stuff. #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
July 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This week, Ryan and Brian can't say real words ("reminiscences"), create fake words ("touichisón"), attempt to explain things astronomical, acoustic, and binary, and argue about (so sorry) sandwiches. #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
July 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This week, Ryan and Brian can't say real words ("reminiscences"), create fake words ("touichisón"), attempt to explain things astronomical, acoustic, and binary, and argue about (so sorry) sandwiches. #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
This week, Ryan and Brian celebrate 500 episodes with fond memories, celebratory tributes, fictional performances, little known facts, sticks, canes, deckers, Dodgers, and an overwhelming sense of gratitude to everyone who has been part of the FMI universe. #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
July 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This week, Ryan and Brian celebrate 500 episodes with fond memories, celebratory tributes, fictional performances, little known facts, sticks, canes, deckers, Dodgers, and an overwhelming sense of gratitude to everyone who has been part of the FMI universe. #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
This week, Ryan and Brian predict patterns, fear asteroids, and reminisce spreadsheets – plus a brand new audio Contest of Now, courtesy of Jenna LaFleur! #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
July 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This week, Ryan and Brian predict patterns, fear asteroids, and reminisce spreadsheets – plus a brand new audio Contest of Now, courtesy of Jenna LaFleur! #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
This week, Ryan and Brian recap Westwords, sports from many years ago, trees from Connecticut, Ryan's once and future middle name, and Menudo. In other news, there are now Fill Me In t-shirts!!! #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
July 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This week, Ryan and Brian recap Westwords, sports from many years ago, trees from Connecticut, Ryan's once and future middle name, and Menudo. In other news, there are now Fill Me In t-shirts!!! #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
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June 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
LOLLAPUZZOOLA 18 is coming up in just 50 days -- Saturday, August 9 to be exact. We hope to see you there!
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This week, Ryan is on vacation, so Ben Zimmer saves the day and joins Brian with renewed excitement over the National Spelling Bee, the National Puzzlers' League, and the National League East-leading Mets. #crossword #podcast buff.ly/3K5FPyh
June 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
This week, Ryan is on vacation, so Ben Zimmer saves the day and joins Brian with renewed excitement over the National Spelling Bee, the National Puzzlers' League, and the National League East-leading Mets. #crossword #podcast buff.ly/3K5FPyh
This week, Claire, the kids, and I learn more about hot lead in the New York Times, the Pope in the mini crossword, and Phil Silvers musicals in the 1950s. #crossword #podcast buff.ly/3K5FPyh
June 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This week, Claire, the kids, and I learn more about hot lead in the New York Times, the Pope in the mini crossword, and Phil Silvers musicals in the 1950s. #crossword #podcast buff.ly/3K5FPyh