RAY: I'm in a quandary today because I came on to what I thought was a mediocre puzzle, and I wasn't willing to accept its mediocrity.

TOM: Until you read it again.

RAY: No, I didn't read it. I happened to share it with our producer, assistant producer, associate producer.

TOM: Yeah, and they didn't like it?

RAY: They dumped on it. I mean geez.

TOM: Aw, use it anyway. Come on. Who are they? What do they got to say about it? Go ahead. Go ahead. I'm going to be with you on this.

RAY: Well, very few people know that we have a barber shop quartet at the garage even though we have six guys. The reason it's a quartet...

TOM: One of the guys been out sick?

RAY: Couple of them can't sing. So one of the guys decides he's going to go to the library, and he is going to get a book on how to sing. But he realizes that he is so bad that he has to learn -- he has to go to square one. So he figures if he learns how to hum first, then in fact he's got a shot at it. So he's going to hum first, and then he is going to learn to sing.

TOM: This is going to turn into a puzzler? Go ahead, no, I'm all ears here.

RAY: So he goes to the library. He's never been to the library, and he doesn't know anything about the Dewey Decimal System or anything -- a card catalog. He walks around until he finds a book that says how to hum. He says great, takes the book, sits down at a table, and begins to read. There is nothing in it about singing music or how to hum.

TOM: Really?

RAY: Really. What was this book that he pulled off the shelf? You know the answer. I know you do.

TOM: Of course I do. This is the worst puzzler that you have ever used.

RAY: Then I will use -- well, Mayer.

TOM: But ah! As long as Mayer doesn't get it, that's it. Yeah.