Which Riddle Riddle?

#15: Bleh Riddle Riddle! a.k.a. RiddleWeen!

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This is a HeadGum Podcast.

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Hashtag Riddle Wednesday is close at hand, as improvisers and workforce cats will terrify y'all's podcast apps. And whosoever shall dare try to lampoon Erin's close-at-eyes must sit through Adal's puns and barbs as JPC steals their magic cards. The foulest noises in the air, the groans of 40,000 listeners, as the solution to each riddle asked ends up being such fucking trash. Although the puzzies posed seem fine, the answers will be shitty, for no mere mortal shall resist the evil of these readies. I'm very tired. Play the theme.

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Adal

Welcome to Bleh Riddle Riddle. This is Adal Rifai, and I'm Count Puzzula. Do we like that?

JPC

Count Puzzula. Yeah, that's an approving.

Adal

And my phrase, of course, is I want to suck your butt.

Erin

Oh, gosh, right at the beginning of the podcast.

Adal

Well, that's Count Puzzula's... I don't make it up. I'm just channeling Count Puzzula.

JPC

Okay, Erin, do you have a spooky name for what you are for this week?

Erin

I didn't think of one.

Adal

I thought you were going next. I have one for JPC, if you need one. Yeah, please. David S. Puzzies.

JPC

Annie Riddies. You read that off notes.

Adal

Yeah.

JPC

Yeah, fine. This is JPC, a.k.a. David S. Puzzies, Annie Riddies.

Adal

And Erin and I are a part of it. Someone doesn't watch SNL Weekly? Is that what you think the show is called? SNL Weekly?

Erin

And I'm Erin Keif and you have one for me that you want to say.

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Adal

I'm

Erin

I work with kids and over the summer I dyed my hair darker.

Adal

Oh thank God you said your hair cuz what a cliffhanger.

JPC

Over the summer I dyed!

Erin

And they ran up to me when school started, they were like, Erin! And then they all made a horrible face and they were like, oh. And one girl was like, you look like a witch!

JPC

Damn. So that must have been hard for you.

Erin

No, it made sense. I look a lot more like a witch.

Adal

Well that brings us to our first, and this is a Halloween episode of course, or Puzzyween. Puzzyween?

JPC

That doesn't... So this is Puzzyween, everybody knows this is Puzzyween. The podcast is Hey Riddle Riddle.

00:03:52

Adal

Well Erin and I was going to say that brings us to our first segment which is going to be called Witch Court, where you as a spooky sleepy witch get to take these kids to court. So let's go ahead and pop right into that.

Erin

We've taken a day off from bitch court so this can happen. We allow witch court every October 31st.

Adal

Okay, and you are the witch on trial?

Erin

Yes.

Adal

Okay, then I'll make the statements. Don't just make big statements.

Erin

No, I thought I'd just walk in and start talking. Is that how court works?

Adal

Don't look at me, I'm a bailiff.

Erin

And I'm the woman who types so fast.

Adal

Oh, the stenographer.

Erin

No.

Adal

Oh, we still got it.

Erin

We're not warmed up. I have a question for both of you. Yeah. What is the best Halloween costume you've ever had?

JPC

Hmm. Sexy or unsexy. Well, Adal, you were wearing it, so I don't think sex is gonna be a problem!

Adal

A-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom into my life! Because one year I won a Jackie O. Lantern, which was like Jackie O., but a carved pumpkin.

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Erin

Did you really?

Adal

And she had brain innards all over her dress. Interesting, yeah. That's a fun costume. No, I didn't. I never did that.

JPC

But it really does go along with the way that you're young.

Adal

All those kids know Jackie O, right? She used to be Jackie Kennedy. I, one year, dressed up as a mom, and then I had a wrapped swath of, what do you call that, swaddling. And then I had this goblin puppet that my right hand was in. So I basically wrapped my right hand in swaddling, had a goblin puppet, and then had a fake arm on my right that was attached underneath it. So it looked like I had both arms in use, but I was controlling this puppet. So I'd hold my baby and then I'd be like, do you want to see my baby? And people would say yeah, thinking it was just like a dummy. And then I would turn it and make it move and people would flip out. How old were you? Big hit. I was probably, this is probably 10 or 11.

JPC

Oh, okay.

Adal

Years ago? I'm sorry? Years ago? When I was 47.

JPC

My mom used to, like, sew our Halloween costumes.

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Adal

Cool story. We're talking about costumes.

JPC

Great, and she made us Ninja Turtle costumes one year. Can we guess which one you were? I made Power Rangers costumes too.

Adal

I feel like you're a Raphael. Interesting. You would have gone for Michelangelo, but you're a total Raphael.

JPC

I'm not a Michelangelo. No, you're a Raphael. I'm probably, because Raphael is like sarcastic. Donatello's smart, that's my older brother. My little brother's a Michelangelo, and I'm definitely a Raphael. But everybody looks up to me like I'm a Leonardo.

Erin

I was a lamp for Halloween once.

Adal

From the Brave Little Toaster?

Erin

Oh no, I wish. That movie is scary, by the way. Has anyone revisited Brave Little Toaster? And that brings us to our first dead star!

Adal

You're claiming the movie Brave Little Toaster is scary. Oh, I'm sorry, have you not seen it? I haven't revisited it, why is it scary?

Erin

Okay, and I'm remembering bits and pieces because I'm still traumatized.

JPC

Oh good, so this is an incomplete memory?

Erin

So, um, uh, the radiator, terrifying. There's a vacuum that I think is scary. They fall into quicksand together. And then the blank, it's like, help!

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Adal

Well, what is it supposed to yell?

Erin

I don't know. It's scary. I'm telling you. People get me out there.

JPC

I don't know what I expected, but I honestly expected for you to describe something that was scary. But what you described was like, I remember three characters from the movie and a scene.

Adal

I love just the radiator. Scary. I don't think she's talking about the movie. I think it's just life in general.

Erin

But I was a lamp and it would turn. My dad put a flashlight. It was like a headband on a lampshade and my dad put a flashlight in it. I would just be like, Oop, I have an idea!

JPC

And you were 23, 22.

Erin

Yeah, I didn't get kissed for a long time.

Adal

Didn't they base a Drew Barrymore movie on you? Mm-hmm. Ever after?

Erin

I couldn't think, uh, Charlie's Angels.

JPC

No, wait, what's the one in Boston? Fever Pitch.

Erin

Oh, Fever Pitch. Which we reenacted on this very show.

Adal

Erin, before we get into the warm-up riddles, I have to, because the three of us took a road trip the other day to do a spooky escape room, which we'll do something with eventually. But you were telling me, while we were in the car, you told me a story about the first time you watched The Ring. Oh, yeah. Which I think we need to let listeners know about. Wait, how did I miss this? Because it was before we picked you up.

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JPC

Gotcha.

Erin

That was before you got in the car.

JPC

So... Now people are going to know the car ordered. I fucked up. Stupid JPC.

Erin

I was in the fourth grade, I think, when the ring came out and I was under explicit instructions to not see it. Like I was forbidden. But I went over to my friend Julie's house and her sister was babysitting us. So we fully watched it. Older sister or younger sister? Older sister. And we watched the ring and it was, it's everything I hate about everything. And it was terrifying to me.

JPC

And you were what, 10 years old?

Erin

10. And it's my friend Julie, so when we were growing up we used to just sleep over each other's houses for like a full weekend. And I think her and I stayed up for 48 hours fully. Like we could not sleep. We watched 10 hours of Winnie the Pooh after the travel. After the ring? Just to like calm ourselves down.

Adal

Cleanse your palate.

Erin

Cleanse our palate. And then I got picked up by my mom and I went home and I started taking a shower. And I fell asleep standing up in the shower with shampoo still in my hair. Wow. My mom was like, she's been in there for like an hour and a half, and she came in and she saw me sleeping standing up, and she's like, you watched The Ring!

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You watched The Ring!

Erin

I told you not to, and I was like, I'm gonna be scared for a year!

Adal

Mothers, if you see your daughters sleeping standing up, know that they watched The Ring.

Erin

And I still feel like I'm messed up from that movie. That and The Exorcist messed me up.

Adal

Yeah, those movies aren't for 10 year olds. Didn't you say anytime you smell a certain shampoo?

Erin

Yeah, when I smelled Dove shampoo, I think of the ring, because that was the shampoo I used in the shower. Oh, brother.

Adal

Just some more insight into Erin Keif's scary, sleepy witch brain.

JPC

And also, Erin, thank you for blowing Dove as a sponsor, because they'll never sponsor the podcast now, and Unilever is one of the biggest companies in the world, so.

Erin

That's true. And real women. Isn't that their slogan?

JPC

What's that? Unilever?

Erin

No.

JPC

Unilever. We make products of real women.

Adal

Let's go ahead and get into the... I'll call these thriddles. Is that fun?

JPC

I don't know. Is anything fun?

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Adal

Not anymore. Thriddles. Wait, what is that a play on? Like riddles, but they're thrilling. Thriddles.

JPC

Hmm. Okay.

Erin

Can't wait for Halloween to be over. Let's do this.

Adal

What else? I have also here in my notes to mention R.I.P. Riddies is Puzzies.

JPC

Oh, Riddies is Puzzies. I was going to say like R.I. Puzzies. Wow.

Adal

This is the same thing you're just not fully saying.

JPC

Welcome back to Hey Riddle Riddle, the podcast where we all shit on each other's ideas.

Adal

Here we go. So the first warm up we're going to do is actually from a horror movie. This is from A Nightmare on Elm Street. Erin's eyes are closed. Wait, so this is a riddle that took place in a horror movie? No, this is just something you have to answer or suss out. So, in A Nightmare on Elm Street, that involves which villain? The Christmas guy. That's right, Freddy Krueger, the Christmas guy. So he terrorizes kids in their sleep, in their dreams, and there's a little childhood nursery rhyme that the kids sing about Freddy Krueger. It does rhyme, it is a nursery rhyme, so it does rhyme.

00:11:31

Erin

But does it rhyme?

Adal

It rhymes. So each line is going to have an AA rhyme within the line. So for example, I'm going to give you the first one. The first one is, one, two, Freddy's coming for you. Cool? Cool. So it's two numbers, and then the last word of the line will rhyme with the second number. Make sense?

JPC

One, two, Freddy's coming for you. It makes sense.

Erin

Three, four.

Adal

Here we go. Three, four.

Erin

You're a bore.

JPC

Three, four. Your mother's a whore. I've never seen these movies so I'm assuming, is that what he sounds like?

Erin

One, two, ready, it's coming for you, three, four, lock your door.

Adal

That's what it is.

Erin

Lock your door.

Adal

It's better lock your door, but Erin, no. Five, six. I'm gonna suck your dicks. Five, six. Yeah, because the kids in the movie have many dicks. Like one kid has two dicks.

JPC

No, no, okay, well, I haven't seen the movie.

Erin

A kid he will pick.

JPC

Five, six.

Erin

Six, what does six rhyme with? Six.

Adal

Think religion.

Erin

Crucifix.

Adal

Yep. 5'6 grab a crucifix. Grab a crucifix. Does that help against him? And next part is 7'8... Let's go on a date! Yeah, because eventually he tries to scare him and then it doesn't work so he's like let's... It's a romantic comedy. You've earned my love.

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Erin

7'8... My period's late.

JPC

You're gonna hate!

Adal

7'8... No, it's my period's late. My period's late?

Erin

Is it? Okay. I'm gonna put you on a plate! Bait.

Adal

Remember, this is the kids singing and not Freddy Krueger.

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What?

Adal

I've been playing this game wrong the whole time.

Erin

Is the rhyme hate?

Adal

Uh, no. Okay, wait, wait. So it's one, two. Freddy's coming for you. Three, four, better lock your door. Five, six, grab a crucifix. Seven, eight.

Erin

It might be too late.

Adal

Very close.

Erin

Before it's too late.

Adal

Before it's too late? Very close. It's already too late? If he kills them in their dreams, they don't want to what? Go to heaven. Yep.

Erin

Oh, stay awake.

Adal

Stay awake. But you have the... Awake, awake too late. Stay up. Too late.

Erin

Stay up too late.

Adal

Gonna stay up late. Gonna stay up late. Yeah.

Erin

I didn't get it.

Adal

Homestretch. 9-10. Along the same lines as what we were just talking about. 9-10.

JPC

sweet dreams little children mm-hmm 910 this is from a kid's perspective kids call themselves little children JPC so effortlessly slips into the villainous role

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Adal

9, 10, when I suck your dicks! 9, 10, never sleep again. That's what it is. Nice. Does that make you want to watch the movie?

JPC

This is crazy because I just watched the movie like a day ago. I've never seen it. I've really never seen like any scary movies. I've seen The Ring, but I watched it at an appropriate age, like sixth grade or whatever.

Adal

That's what Erin was in. Yeah.

Erin

I hate horror, scary movies. I hate horror movies so much.

Adal

Here's some more warm-up. These are, I gotta be honest, it is very hard to find quality scary puzzles. A lot of them are just jokes.

JPC

If you're listening out there and you can make quality scary puzzles, you're a millionaire.

Adal

Then hit us up next year for the 2019 Riddleween.

Erin

We'll be long dead.

Adal

Puzzleween? What did we say? Puzzleween! Here we go. Here's another warm-up one. You're in a room and there's a ghost in the room, but you're the only one in the room. How is this possible?

Erin

You're a ghost.

Adal

That's what it is? You're in a room and there's a ghost in the room. This sounds like a third grader who wrote a book report. You're in a room, but there's a ghost in the room, but you're the only one in the room. How is this possible?

00:15:03

JPC

You're the ghost? And not only does it sound like that, that's most likely what it is.

Adal

On the website that I found this on, it says, is this worth sharing? And it has 1,020 downvotes. 1,020 downvotes!

JPC

That's so funny! I hope it's like a dad who posted that for his kid and had to go back to his kid and be like, actually, Timmy, the internet hates you. I have a question.

Adal

You have to be homeschooled.

Erin

What are the movies where people are ghosts and they don't know they're ghosts?

Adal

What are the movies?

Erin

Yeah, there's like, I feel like there's a few movies where you're a ghost and then the people are like, oh, I was a ghost the whole time.

Adal

The Sixth Sense. Sixth Sense Thunderature. There's that one.

JPC

But he knows he's a ghost, doesn't he? Yeah, he does.

Erin

What?

JPC

No, he doesn't know he's a ghost? That's the whole thing of the movie.

Erin

I don't think so. She doesn't know he's dead! I don't think so.

Adal

No, Bruce Willis doesn't know he's dead. But there's also the others, which I think is like Nicole Kidman during like Civil War or something. Yeah, Mark Wahlberg.

Erin

She's in her house and she's like, someone's haunting my house!

Adal

She's in her house and someone's haunting her and then it turns out she's, her and her family are ghosts.

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Erin

Because she smothered her kids.

Adal

And the people that are haunting her are actually the new tenants and they're haunting them.

Erin

Did she have a British accent in that movie?

Adal

Um, I think so. Because I think it's set in Britain.

JPC

Is that movie any good? Because what you just described sounds bad.

Adal

I thought it was pretty good. Okay, so it is good. It's been a while since I saw it, so I remember liking it.

Erin

It's no Moulin Rouge.

Adal

Let's get down to business. Oh wait, what did you say? What? What movie did you just say? That's so mean.

Erin

Oh! Moulin Rouge.

Adal

Let's make Moulin Rouge. Moulin Rouge. Let's get down to business. I have consumption. Because you can, can, can.

JPC

Is the old lady in Titanic a ghost at the end of Titanic? She's a ghost and she's telling... Because she died on the thing. She froze to death, right? She's the diamond.

Erin

Oh, brother.

JPC

Where art thou? He's a ghost in that as well.

Adal

Oh, brother, where art thou? Yeah. Oh, Brave Little Toaster. Brave Little Ghoster.

Erin

The Blankets of Ghosts. Other people will agree with me that it is scary.

Adal

We'll see. We'll leave it up to Twitter.

JPC

We'll leave it up to Twitter, but you can't do votes on Twitter anymore.

00:17:09

Adal

That's right, because Trump took it away. Here we go. The man who makes it doesn't need it. The man who buys it doesn't want it. The man who gets it doesn't know it. What is it? Poop. That works for most of them. I've never seen Erin look so disappointed.

Erin

Get used to it. Can you say that again?

Adal

Sure, the man who makes it doesn't need it. The man who buys it doesn't want it. The man who gets it doesn't know it. What is it?

Erin

Killed. Yeah. I'm trying to think of spooky answers because you wouldn't say it unless it was a spooky answer.

JPC

HPV!

Erin

Oh, a gravestone.

Adal

Very, very close. A coffin. Yes, that's it. Damn it.

JPC

That's it. That's nice. That's nice.

Adal

And Erin is right too, just for JPC and for our listeners, keep in mind this is a Halloween episode so it's Riddies and Puzzies and Weegees and Zombies and every answer will be scary.

00:18:10

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Weegees and Zombies!

Adal

What is dead, cold, hard, and surrounds a cemetery? I feel it.

JPC

Erin's butt. Dead, cold, hard, and surrounds a cemetery.

Adal

I mean, I want to say fence. What?

JPC

How is this a riddle?

Adal

Who is old, has a white beard, performs magic, but is forgotten on Halloween? Santa! Santa Claus.

Erin

I cannot believe how easily I'm getting these. But are these riddles?

Adal

No, these are riddles.

JPC

Yeah, these are kids, like, jokes for kids to tell other kids.

Adal

But they're horrifying, which is fitting for the theme. Apropos, this is my favorite one. Apropos, Edgar Allan Poe. That's fantastic actually. I can't get mad at that. Because it's great content and that's what we're looking for.

Erin

That's the first time that's happened on the show where Adal's going, okay.

Adal

You've earned my respect. I want to get mad but I can't because it's too good. Let's get down to business.

Erin

This guy's got me scared to death. That's the best part of Mulan, isn't it? I don't remember that part. It's from I'll Make a Man Out of You. Oh, from Mulan, yeah. This guy's got me scared to death.

00:19:18

JPC

It sounds like Lin-Manuel Miranda's like popping into Mulan.

Adal

That's three times you've said that. If you say it in the mirror two more times, that character will appear. My favorite part is that Harvey Fierstein is playing a Hun.

Erin

Oh yeah.

Adal

Right? Yeah, that ages well.

Erin

This guy's got me scared to death!

Adal

Four times. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the ugliest lady of them all? This is my favorite one so far. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the ugliest lady of them all?

Erin

It's not me, because I'm hot as hell.

Adal

For sure. 100%. Hashtag hot as hell. Hashtag keeping it real.

JPC

Hashtag Boston 8. Hashtag Chicago 9. Hashtag LA 2. Hashtag... Hashtag 8 is enough.

Adal

LA 2! Erin literally just fell out of her chair. How did that happen? Wouldn't happen to an LA3, I'll tell you that.

00:20:21

Erin

I'm definitely an LA2. Oh, that's fantastic.

Adal

I just fell out of my chair. Oh, also last episode Erin said, I think you said hashtag AdalTude? AdalTude. And I didn't pick up on that and Twitter was upset that nobody picked up on that, but that's pretty great. So Erin has KeifNotReal, I have AdalTude, JP has PapaHornyForPuzzies. Or what else do you have?

JPC

JPSoHorny, it's just JPSoHorny to be simple. And I'm proud of that, and I do have a mom that listens to this show, and we all do to a certain extent.

Adal

We're just going to move on from this one. So it's mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the ugliest lady of them all?

JPC

The answer is... Oh, hold on, hold on. I feel like... You're not going to get it. Well, no. Not only am I not going to get it, I feel like there's no right answer to this, because any answer that I say is like me calling a woman ugly, correct?

Erin

But you did that to me just before the podcast started. A woman, Erin! A woman!

Adal

You just called Erin an LA2, and then you're concerned about insulting these hypothetical riddle people.

Erin

Wait, I really want to slow down for a second. Did you call me a Boston 8, a Chicago 9, but an LA2? That math doesn't work out.

00:21:25

JPC

I feel like the East Coast and the West Coast is harder. In the Midwest, it's all easy.

Adal

What's great about me and my looks is that I'm a 1 wherever I go.

JPC

I'm a straight one, a gay dead.

Adal

We're going to move on from this. So it's mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the ugliest lady of them all?

JPC

And the answer is... Hold on, I just want to acknowledge, when I said that I was a gay dead, KJ died.

Erin

We finally got him to laugh.

JPC

Most of the community will agree with me that I'm a gay dad.

Adal

Sorry, what's the answer? No, we're never gonna hear it. I tried to say it three times and I got interrupted each time. No, we're moving on. I'm Count Puzzula. What I say goes, I vant to suck your butt.

Erin

You can punish us, but don't punish our listeners. They didn't do anything wrong.

Adal

Our listeners really want to know who the ugliest woman is. Here's what I'll say. I'll give the answer for the Halloween episode in 2019. That's a promise. I'm willing to wait for it. Here we go. We're moving on to our full riddles.

00:22:40

Erin

Shouldn't there be like, there's no ceremonious thing that happens in between our warm-up riddles and our regular riddles. Should we start something?

Adal

Yeah, let's do something. Let's go ahead and just say that Riddikitty died.

Erin

Oh god! Each time?

Adal

Each time Riddikitty dies and we have to resuscitate Riddikitty by getting right answers.

JPC

This is so dark!

Adal

Or else Canoe Dog will take Riddikitty across the river of sticks. The river of sticks? Paddling across the river of sticks.

JPC

We've fully sunk into this Halloween theme.

Adal

So what do we want to do in between warm-ups and the full-blown?

Erin

I didn't have an idea when I said it, which is usually how my brain works. I just talk and I wait for something good to happen or bad to happen. I don't know. I'll think about it.

Adal

Should we give each other compliments? Okay, why don't you start? Oh, I didn't have any. I just want compliments.

Erin

Well, maybe because we're so mean to each other at all times, we should say something nice.

00:23:42

Adal

Okay, yeah.

Erin

Someone should say a positive nice thing.

Adal

But since it's a Halloween episode, it should be inverted. So something nasty.

JPC

Yeah, so normally we're all very mean to each other, and so we're going to start saying something nice to each other. But since it's Halloween, let's all say one nasty thing.

Adal

I think I have it. I think I got what it is. And I'm expecting full support as soon as I finish my sentence.

JPC

Just so you know, I'll give it to you, but that's a really stupid thing to expect.

Adal

Each of us has to tell the other how we think they're gonna die.

Erin

Oh, okay. We should all say it at the same time.

JPC

Yeah, that's good podcasting. That's good podcasting. I love this. So we're gonna think about how we think that the other person is gonna die. Yeah. Okay.

Adal

So I'm going to say, I'll start first. Okay. So I'm going to say, Erin, a fight in Boston. Okay. Yeah. Like at a pool party. JPC, I'm going to say in Indiana.

JPC

That's not a bad guess.

Adal

I'm just going to, yeah. Cause of death, Indiana. Indiana.

00:24:44

JPC

Yeah. Indiana is a big cause of death. So there we go. I feel like going into Indiana, I have secondhand diabetes just from like existing in that place.

Erin

Well, let's insult an entire state. I know how JPC's gonna die. JPC's gonna be at a zoo, and he's gonna be so annoyed that an animal's being boring. He's gonna be like, wake up lion, wake up! And then the lion's gonna kill him.

Adal

Okay, now we have to see that. So JPC, you're JPC. Yes. Erin, you're gonna be the lion. I'll be the local zookeeper.

Erin

Okay.

Adal

And here we are in a zoo in Indianapolis. Welcome to the Indianapolis Zoo! Is this the best lion you have? It's the only animal we have, sir. Is this the only animal you have? JPC, you know me. Oh my god. It's me, Uncle Greg.

JPC

I do have an Uncle Greg. You really? Yeah.

Adal

Duh, because it's me.

JPC

Oh, Uncle Greg. What are you doing at the zoo?

Adal

Well, I started working here. Remember when you stole those Magic the Gathering cards? Yeah. I went to bat for you and got fired from my job as an astrophysicist. And now I'm working at the zoo.

JPC

Uncle Greg is a scientist. Are you joking? Yeah, this is funny.

Adal

Of course you're not, because it's me. Yeah. So that's what I do now. Sorry, let me put this gremlin away. I got that wet and put it out in the sunlight. Two things I shouldn't have done. So, since I'm your uncle and this... I'm sorry, did you say you got a gremlin wet? Yeah.

00:25:59

JPC

You got a mogwai wet turned into a gremlin.

Adal

We've done this one before.

JPC

I know, I know Uncle Greg!

Adal

Listen, since I work here, I'll let you into the cage, okay? So why don't you... Here, let me open the door. Why don't you... Let me kill this gremlin. Why don't you go into the cage with the lion?

Erin

Roar, roar, lion sound, lion sound, lion sound.

Adal

This gremlin's being a real big shit. Let me kill it.

JPC

And here's your lion. Alright. Meow! Hey lion, do something interesting. Do something interesting.

Erin

I'm a gremlin! I don't want to do this. It's a living.

Adal

That's the new way we end any scene is, I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this.

Erin

Adal, what was the answer to that?

Adal

Honestly, I'll say next year. I'm not saying it.

00:27:00

Erin

That's so mean to the listeners.

Adal

I tried two or three times and I kept getting interrupted so we're moving on.

Erin

We had to acknowledge KJ.

Adal

Because that's my personality is I get upset and I'm passive-aggressive.

JPC

This is how I think that you die. I think someone gives you a compliment that you misunderstand as an insult. You get into a fight with them and then that person kills you in an act of self-defense.

Adal

100% that's gonna happen. I'm way too sensitive. I'm a little Faberg egg of a person.

JPC

And Erin, I think you die of old age on a very luxurious bed, surrounded by a very loving family, and all of your ex-husbands, they get back together, and they do a doo-wop band, and they all sing on your deathbed.

Erin

They're all much younger than you.

JPC

These are the living ex-husbands.

Adal

It's a living ex-husband. What if we made the movie Mulan Mia?

Erin

It's a lot of singing.

00:28:01

Adal

KJ, can we mash it up real quick? KJ's in the studio. They're gonna mash it up real quick. Just, yeah. Do your audio work.

JPC

KJ, just real quick, put together Mulan and Mia.

Adal

They're brilliant, so they'll figure it out.

Erin

If you're a listener, I will Google the answer to that puzzle and just tweet at me and I'll give you the right answer.

Adal

Here we go, Count Pazula is getting into the full riddle. I want to suck your butt.

JPC

Here we go. This is the first you've gotten into this, Count Pazula.

Adal

We're an hour into the show and we're getting into our first riddle. So this is from a website, and I don't want to scare you, but I do because it's Halloween. This is from a website called Solve or Die. So... Ooh! The stakes are high! Oh, what if a Dracula was smoking a stake like it was like weed? That'd be funny.

JPC

Well, it would only be funny if they said something. What would they say in that situation?

00:29:04

Adal

Dab on your grave?

JPC

Dab on my grave! Not the stakes are high.

Adal

Well, the stakes are high is how I got to that image.

JPC

Yeah, I know. I was setting you up to say it again with the image.

Adal

I want to be cool and hip and young. Jackie O. Here we go. One day, and this is like from a first-person point of view, I should describe this. This is from a first-person point of view, and there's like two or three of these. What you're going to want to do is figure out what's so creepy about this story. So it's not so much a question as it is a story, and then you have to figure out what's creepy about it.

JPC

What's creepy about it? And the voice is gone?

Adal

The voice is gone. Great. One day when I was six years old, my little sister wouldn't stop crying. It annoyed me so much that I killed her and threw her body down the well. It keeps going. The next day when I peered down into the well, her body had disappeared. When I was 12, I got into an argument with my best friend over something stupid. He made me so angry that I killed him and threw his body down the well. The next day, when I checked the well, his body disappeared. When I was 18 years old, my significant other got pregnant. I didn't want to be a father, so I killed her and threw her body down the well. The next day I looked in the well and her body had disappeared. When I was 24, I worked in an office and my boss was very mean to me. I couldn't take it anymore, so I killed him and threw his body down the well. The next day when I checked the well, the body had disappeared. When I was 30, my mom got sick and was bedridden. I didn't want to take care of her, so I killed her and threw her body down the well. The next day when I looked into the well, her body was still there. I checked the well every day after that, but her body never disappeared.

00:30:50

Erin

I have a guess.

JPC

Wait, so we're trying to think about what's creepy?

Adal

Yeah, I mean obviously the whole story is creepy, but you have to figure out like what I guess there was something to solve in terms of like why did the mother's body not disappear?

???

Yeah.

Adal

So you're just trying to suss that out.

Erin

I have one. I have a guess.

Adal

Okay.

Erin

I think maybe He burned or like All the other bodies were ashes and then this is the one body.

Adal

He like killed in a different way I think it has to do with how he oh, it's it's a it's a the way that the murder happened well in the in the story He throws the body down the well and then every day the next day he peers down into into the well and the body's gone so he's not He's not doing anything to get rid of them Because he throws the bite on the well. So I see what you're saying, but it's not ashes that he dumps. It's full bodies. It's like they're full untainted cadavers.

JPC

So there's five bodies that go down the well over the course of this sister, friend, lover, boss, mom.

00:31:54

Adal

Only the mom didn't disappear.

Erin

And they actually died.

Adal

They all actually died.

JPC

They all actually died.

Adal

Although here's some of the comments on this one are just outstanding. One of them is, how can you kill your mother?

Erin

Oh, and the other ones make a lot of sense.

JPC

Yeah, you're like, I could never kill my mom. I've killed my boss before. So I'm, this is, I'm puzzled.

Erin

Does who they are to him matter? No. Okay.

Adal

Well, I guess the final one matters obviously because it's there's something different and that goes along with who she was to him. Oh, so she was sick. Mm-hmm. But you're right in terms of like who they were to him to some degree it does matter.

Erin

And does it matter how they got killed?

Adal

No.

Erin

Okay.

JPC

Hmm. So what's different about the mother? She was sick. She was sick.

00:32:55

Erin

He didn't want to take care of her so he killed her.

JPC

Yeah. Is it something about the well? The well is different.

Adal

It's a magical well, that's the answer.

JPC

Is it a magical well? I was thinking it was like, it was a, like, did the well just get full of bodies?

Adal

That is, in the comments, that's somebody's guess is, oh, so the water was only four bodies deep and the fifth body landed on top.

JPC

The water was only four bodies deep.

Adal

You know how you measure water with, uh, by number of bodies? When you sit down at the bar, you're like, give me two fingers of whiskey.

JPC

Yeah, so give me four bodies of well water. Oh boy. Is there a hint? Can we get a hint? I have no idea. I'm absolutely stumbling over this.

Adal

Somebody, one of his victims, loved him very much.

Erin

His mom?

JPC

His boss didn't love him? My boss loves me. I'm fun at work. Hmm.

00:34:00

Erin

The woman he was supposed to marry didn't love him. That makes sense because he's a murderer. Yeah, how do you know?

Adal

I said somebody loved him very much. It was his mom. His mom loved him very much. If you love someone, what would you do for them? Let them go. Let them go.

Erin

Oh, did he put her in like a put her in a box or something?

Adal

It's more to do with what the mom did for him. She gave birth to him. She gave birth to him. That's it.

JPC

Oh, okay, I don't get it.

Adal

This is a bad post. I don't get it. The mom would remove the bodies from the well and dispose of them because she loved her son so much. Okay. He never caught on to that and then when he killed her and threw her body down, she's not there to remove it, so she dead. So she dead.

Erin

Oh, that makes sense.

JPC

Yeah, it makes sense because she rewarded kind of his behavior of like killing people throughout his life.

Adal

Isn't that a fun, spooky story? Yeah, it's very spooky. Let's go into another one here. This is another from the same site, so it's going to be equally bad. This is a way shorter story. This one's titled, Burglar. That's the name of it. A few minutes ago, I was taking a shower and I heard a scream from the living room. I got out of the bath and ran out there naked. When I got there, I saw a burglar standing over the dead bodies of my mom, my dad, and my little brother. When the burglar saw me, he jumped out the window and ran off. I'm so scared I don't know what to do. What's wrong with that story?

00:35:38

Erin

What's wrong with this story?

Adal

You would never touch your cell phone while you're wet.

Erin

Could you read it again?

Adal

A few minutes ago I was taking a shower and I heard a scream from the living room. I got out of the bath and ran out there naked. Naked's all pointless. When I got there I saw a burglar standing over the dead bodies of my mom, my dad, and my little brother. When the burglar saw me he jumped out the window and ran off. I'm so scared I don't know what to do.

Erin

You said shower and then bath.

Adal

Yeah, some people shower in a bathtub. That's not anything.

JPC

That's not it. I was for sure that that was it. Why would you think that has anything to do with it? I was taking a shower. I got out of the bath. Your story don't check out, asshole.

Adal

Your stories is garbage.

JPC

So it doesn't matter that this person is naked?

Adal

No.

JPC

Okay, but talk to me about what they're working with.

Erin

Although I often sit down while I'm taking a shower. Because it's hard to be a person. But you fall asleep standing up?

JPC

Yeah, it's hard to be a person and I like to... You're saying that holding a Diet Coke so I could just see you taking a shower bath with a Diet Coke?

00:36:43

Erin

Yeah, sometimes I just sit.

JPC

Why though?

Erin

I was told recently that that's gross.

Adal

Yeah, well, um, I don't know. I mean, it's... Why do you do that? While we're trying to solve this, why don't we... We're not trying to solve this.

JPC

We're actually talking about why Erin sits down in the shower.

Erin

Um, cause I'm tired.

JPC

Okay.

Erin

Uh, it feels nice. Sure. It's a very relaxing thing. Also, it's helpful to, you guys just saw me fall out of a chair for no reason a moment ago. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So if I'm shaving my legs or something, it's easier.

JPC

I've almost slipped several times in the tub and thought, or like in the shower, like getting out. And I thought, oh, if I died like this, someone would have to just like come and find me naked and, you know, put me in a coffin, I guess. I would hate for my roommate to come home and have to shove my naked body in a coffin, but that's what would happen.

Adal

To get in the spooky sort of spirit, why don't we, um, backtrack slightly, uh, JPC, why don't we have you play that boy who murdered and threw people down the well? Oh, thank God. And, uh, Erin, you be the mom who's, uh, on her sickbed.

???

Okay.

00:37:43

JPC

Cover your mouth. What the f- What the fuck?

Erin

But my hands are gone.

JPC

What do you mean your hands are gone? Mom, they're just in your afghan.

Erin

No, they're gone.

JPC

Mom, they're in your afghan.

Erin

If I can't see it, it's not there.

JPC

Okay, here, let me help you.

Erin

I'm an atheist. I don't believe in anything I can't see.

JPC

You're an atheist. Okay, here, let me get your hands. Here you go, Mom. See, there's your hands.

Erin

These hands can talk, but they can't.

JPC

Okay mom, I know you want to do one of your puppet shows, so you might as well just do it.

Erin

I am the left hand, and I'm the right. And the left hand says, son you have no idea what I've done for you. And the right hand says I've done it too.

JPC

Okay, Mom, look. Is there anything I can get you?

Erin

My hands are gone again. They're gone.

JPC

I put them in my pockets, Mom. Because I wanted you to feel this. See, that's my cell phone and that's $20. So call and get yourself a pizza or something because you're freaking sick.

Erin

Son, I'm probably gonna die soon. What? And I just have to ask you something. Okay. Why?

00:38:51

JPC

What do you mean why?

Erin

Did you hit your head really hard when you were a kid? Why have you done? I don't know what you're talking about mom. Why have you? Why?

JPC

Why have I done all the murders?

Erin

Yeah. And with our water source too. We drink from that water.

JPC

I know. It's like a convenient world.

Erin

My hands, where are my hands?

JPC

They're right here mom. It's actually, it's actually kind of a funny story. Or it's a sad song. So you pick. Do you want to hear the sad song version of why I killed four people? Well when I was but a boy, I only had one dream.

Adal

The camera zooms into this boy's face and as the camera pulls out he's on top of a Parisian rooftop. A windmill in the background.

JPC

I wanted to make people feel, but the only way was to make people scream.

00:39:56

Adal

Smash cut to Toulouse-Lautrec. He's drinking absinthe. Smash cut to the interior of the Moulin Rouge.

Erin

This guy's got me scared to death!

Adal

Do we have any guesses on The Burglar? A hint is that it's called The Burglar. So remember when the guy got out of the bath, he saw the burglar standing over the dead bodies of his mom, his dad, and his little brother.

JPC

Yeah, I guess is it just because it's a misnomer and this should be called The Murderer because the primary thing that happened here was a murder?

Adal

Yeah, but it's not called The Murderer, so... Is he a twin?

Erin

Nope. Oh, he's called a burglar. Oh, okay, so the guy killed his family, he was taking a shower because he had blood all over him, and the burglar came in to rob the house, saw these bodies, and then saw the murderer.

00:41:02

Adal

That's it. So it's not called the murderer, it's called the burglar, which means the burglar was standing, it says the burglar was standing over the bodies, saw the guy, and ran out the window screaming. Meaning he's like, I came to rob this home, this guy killed his fucking family, I'm out of here. Isn't that wild?

JPC

That's such weird timing. That's crazy timing.

Erin

Honey, you wouldn't believe the timing. Just the weird... Oh God.

JPC

So I'm robbing this... Okay, so here's what we're going to do. We're going to see a scene. Adal, you are going to play the burglar. Perfect. You have just gotten home to your loving wife, Susie, which Erin, you'll play Susie. What's my name? Your name's Kevin. You almost fell out of his chair again. Very fun. And you're going to be telling your wife Susie about the weird coincidence that you just discovered.

Adal

Oh, sweetie. I'm so glad you're home, Robble Robble. I had the worst day.

Erin

Oh yeah?

Adal

Robble, yeah.

Erin

What happened?

Adal

I was, um, securing us some money, wink, robble robble wink, and, um, I ran into this fucking sociopath. He had killed his family.

00:42:06

Erin

No.

Adal

Yeah, all these dead bodies.

Erin

Well, not that you asked, but my day, I went to go kill someone to get us some money, wink wink. And guess what?

Adal

Susie, no need to wink when you say you're going to kill someone.

Erin

Blink, blink, blink, blink, blink.

Adal

Oh, is it a wink or a blink?

Erin

Blink, wink. I went in and they had already been killed. So I guess we've both had a day.

Adal

Wait, did we hit up the same house? Let's say the house address on the count of three.

Erin

1, 2, 3, 4, 17, East Elm.

Adal

Oh, so no.

Erin

Same street though.

Adal

Oh, same street. But you were at 1, 2, 3, 4, I was at 4, 17, so we're about 30 minutes apart.

Erin

Yeah, but mine is a number that makes more sense and is easier to say in unison, so who's the assholier?

Adal

Can I ask you why 1, 2, 3, 4 makes more sense?

Erin

Because that's an easier number to say in unison if we're just someone's trying to say a number randomly.

Adal

But we're trying to say the right address. We're not trying to sync up. You have to stop watching Moulin Rouge.

00:43:09

Erin

I can't help it.

Adal

You know what my favorite part is? What? Eddie Murphy's that little dragon.

Erin

Mmm.

Adal

Oh yeah.

Erin

Mooshu?

Adal

What's his name? Mooshu. Nah, I want Chinese food.

Erin

Oh god.

Adal

That's a type of pork.

Erin

Mm-hmm.

Adal

I'm not being racist.

Erin

I know. It's a type of pork. I know. I don't want a divorce.

Adal

Me too.

Erin

Yeah, let's get out of here.

Adal

Rubble rubble.

Erin

This guy's got me scared to death.

Adal

I don't want to do this anymore.

Erin

I promise I'll only do that in this episode. In the rest of the episodes, I'll do my other favorite lines from Disney movies.

JPC

For example... No, save him! Save him! No, save him! I got so nervous! Wait, Eddie Murphy plays a dragon in Mulan? And he plays a donkey in a Shrek? Yeah. And he plays the Golden Child in the movie The Golden Child?

Adal

That's right! No, he doesn't play the Golden Child. No, he plays Bo Finker. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back with more Riddies, Puzzies, Ouijies, and Zombies!

00:44:10

???

You're listening to Hey Riddle Riddle with Adal Rifai, John Patrick Coan, and Erin Keif.

Adal

Hey Erin, you're a pretty unique person, would you agree?

Erin

Yeah, I'm pretty and unique.

Adal

You're unique.

Erin

Okay.

Adal

Or are you nitty? Yeah. What do you sleep on?

Erin

Sometimes it's just like a bunch of newspapers stacked on top of each other of like when I've been in the news. And sometimes it's JPC. That's a pretty thin amount of newspapers.

Adal

Local girl falls downstairs. What? I said local girl falls downstairs. Does it on purpose. Goes to jail. Well Erin, because of your unique pretty makeup, I don't know how to phrase this, you should be sleeping on the Helix mattress that JPC and I got you.

JPC

Yeah, yeah. I mean, we know that sometimes people have been like, don't sleep on an episode of Hey Riddle Riddle, but they mean don't side sleep on an episode of Hey Riddle Riddle, don't hot sleep on an episode of Hey Riddle Riddle, because we know that everybody sleeps different. Well, the Helix Sleep Mattress is designed for people who sleep in a variety of different ways.

00:45:16

Erin

And you can take a quiz, and it's not the type of quiz that you can fail, so don't worry about that. I worry about that. But it's just a quiz to get to know what kind of sleeper you are.

JPC

You took the Helix Sleep quiz, Erin, and you got a don't sleep, right?

Erin

The first F ever.

Adal

You can find that quiz at helixsleep.com slash riddle. It only takes two minutes and it's going to match your specific makeup to a mattress that's right for you.

JPC

Yeah, that's why they call it Helix Sleep because it relies on double helix. So you just enter your DNA into the quiz and then it tells you what kind of mattress is your soulmate, basically.

Adal

And it tells you what kind of mattresses your ancestors slept on. I mean, you'll see that in your dreams.

JPC

Yeah, that'll be something that... They don't promise that, but that is something that comes in most people's dreams.

Erin

And they have a 10-year warranty, and you get to try it for 100 nights risk-free.

Adal

They have a 10-year warranty?

Erin

Warren G. Yeah, 10-year Warren G. And 100 nights risk-free.

JPC

There is a little loophole here because they say 100 nights, but you also get the 100 days as well.

00:46:16

Erin

Oh, do you?

JPC

So you can sleep in the mattress 24 hours a day for 100 days.

Adal

And for me specifically, for Adal Rifai, those are Arabian days and Arabian nights. That's true. All 100.

JPC

And that's not something any of the rest of us feel comfortable saying.

Erin

And if you sleep next to a partner, half the mattress can be for you and the other half of the mattress could be for your partner.

JPC

Or, you know, you could do three-quarters. Just with sprawl. With arms and legs. But right now Helix is offering up to $125 off all mattress orders. That's $125 off. To get your $125 off at helixsleep.com slash riddle. That's helixsleep.com slash riddle for up to $125 off your mattress order. Don't sleep on this deal. That's not theirs. That's mine.

Adal

I guess the way I sleep is I clutch a pillow and I kiss it.

JPC

Yeah, I do the same thing but the pillow's in between my legs.

Erin

How I sleep is, you know when you get someone in that choke hold with your leg?

JPC

Oh, like Xena did for James Bond in that movie?

Erin

Yeah, that's what my blankets do to me.

Adal

That's HelixSleep.com slash Riddle. Of course on the pillow I write, not a pillow. So when I kiss it, it makes sense.

00:47:23

Erin

Naturally, you're pretty unique.

Adal

HelixSleep.com Slash Riddle!

???

And now back to Hey Riddle Riddle. Here's Adal and Erin and GPC.

Adal

Bweh! Welcome back to Bleh Riddle Riddle. I'm Puzzula.

JPC

And I'm like David S. Pumpkins or some shit. David S. Puzzies. Yeah, I guess I'm David S. Puzzies.

Erin

And I'm something with dabbing?

Adal

You were, no, because you hated that. And you gave yourself Scary Sleepy Witch. Yeah.

Erin

Scary Sleepy Witch. Spooky.

JPC

I said Scare and Keif and you said Spooky Sleepy Witch.

Erin

Scare and Keif makes the most sense, I suppose.

JPC

I wanted to have a fun Halloween name, but there's no good one for John Patrick Coan. Like, it's just like John Patrick Moanen.

Adal

Moanen. Moanen. Like Moana? What's your favorite line from Moana?

Erin

I'm a little chicken! That's my favorite line. You ain't never had a friend like me. I like, and no one leaves. That's not a funny one though.

00:48:25

Adal

Is that part of a song?

JPC

Yeah. It's the opening song about living on the island and no one leaves. I saw Moana in the theaters three times.

Erin

So good.

JPC

So good.

Erin

My favorite part of the movie is when she flips her hair and her hair goes in front of her face.

JPC

That's a pretty fun story. That's your favorite part of the movie?

Erin

Yeah, I think so. It made me laugh out loud in the theater filled with kids.

JPC

How many times do you cry?

Erin

Oh, a bunch.

JPC

I cry twice.

Erin

Yeah, there's like, I feel like two crying, which is the water parts. Yeah.

Adal

And the grandma.

Erin

Oh, the grandma. No, I can't do it.

Adal

Welcome back to Podana, your podcast for all Moana related things.

JPC

That's fun.

Adal

What can I say except you're pussies? That's gotta be 14, 15 times.

Erin

I'm sorry.

Adal

At this point you have to hit 100.

Erin

A hundred bad guys with swords. That's the best line I've heard.

JPC

Mine is, uh, but I think he's rather tasty.

Adal

That's by far the best part.

JPC

Yeah. Cause those old ladies are horny as hell for that young, young boy and his monkey. Do they wanna fuck him or eat him? What's going on there?

00:49:34

Erin

Is that what she sounds like? Wanna fuck a kid? Wanna eat a kid?

Adal

Uh oh, that's not a good soundbite. Yeah, I gotta say, there used to be a part where they eventually, in the movie, cut to Aladdin's song, but there is a version where they stay on the women, and it says what JPC just said, but then they put that in the vault.

JPC

It's terribly upsetting those women.

Adal

I'm going to do one more. What do we think? One more and then I have something special planned. Okay, well how would we know? What do you think? This one is called... I won't say what it's called. Here we go. I was walking home last night when I felt the urge to poop. I had to use a creepy old public bathroom. It was down at the end of a street full of abandoned houses. Very spooky. I went into the bathroom, opened the door to the first stall, and peeked inside. There was graffiti on the walls. On the right it said, this bathroom is haunted. And on the left it said, this writing will change. Creepy, huh? I went into the stall, pulled down my pants, and sat on the toilet. While I was pooping, I started thinking about this strange graffiti. Maybe I'm superstitious, but I just had to take another look. On my right it said, this bathroom is haunted, and on my left it said, this writing will change.

00:50:45

???

Hmm.

Adal

So if the writing doesn't change, that means the bathroom isn't haunted, right?

JPC

Solve. Solve for poop. So was he not wearing underwear? He pulled down his pants and began to poop? Or is he pulling down his pants, sitting on the toilet and shitting in his underwear?

Adal

I think the last 40 minutes have proven that you are a pervert.

JPC

No, I just know my riddles. I'm taking you to pervert court.

Erin

I don't know. I don't want to make you read it again because it was long. Can I maybe read it off your phone while we talk about it?

Adal

No.

Erin

Because there's like a part in it there I missed.

Adal

Here's what you need to know. When he's looking into the stall, on his left it says, this stall is haunted, and on his right it says, the writing on this wall will change. He gets a little spooked, he pushes through, he sits down, starts to do his biz.

JPC

Pooping.

Adal

Then he looks again, because he's curious, and on his left it says, this stall is haunted, and on the right it says, the writing on this wall will change.

JPC

Is it just a perspective of him turning around when he's pooping? Oh my god, he's doing an upper decker. This makes sense. Bless you.

00:51:54

Adal

JPC!

JPC

I'm trying to suck up to Erin's family. Bless you, Mrs. Keif. So he is doing what I do when I shit in a public bathroom, which I would never shit face. I always face the tank. I straddle my legs around and face the tank.

Adal

Which is also good advice for when you're pitching a new idea on a show. Face the tank? Yeah, always gotta face the tank.

JPC

Or if you're in Tiananmen Square.

Erin

Oh.

Adal

I wanted to say too soon, but too late.

Erin

Something about a mirror. Being upside down. Wait, no, am I crazy?

JPC

JPC, you got it. Yeah, the left and the right, and then he turns around and it's the right and the left.

Adal

So when he's facing this doll, one's on the left, one's on the right. When he goes inside and sits down, it should be swapped, but it's the same, meaning that it did change.

JPC

What an awful way to be haunted. That's like, what ghost is like, you know what my whole thing is? I do this thing on the walls where I change the words. Just go to heaven. If that's what you're doing on this earth still, just go to heaven.

00:53:02

Adal

All right, let's see a scene. JPC, you're going to be St. Peter, who I believe guards the gates to heaven. Yeah, well that's what I believe too. And Erin, you're going to be a ghost who has been haunting public toilets for a long time and has eventually kind of figured it out, and now you're trying to get into heaven. And we start in heaven.

Erin

Whoo! It is good to see you. Hello, hello, hello, hello. Can I stop you right there? Yep.

JPC

I see people here all day every day. That's my whole life.

Erin

Absolutely.

JPC

I've never seen an entrance like that. Who the hell are you? I'm St. Peter.

Erin

Oh my gosh, hi, hello. It's so good to meet you. I've heard so much about you. I have a reputation. Yeah, you're actually sort of the first celebrity I've ever met before. No way. Yeah, you're very normal though. It's good to meet you.

JPC

Okay, thank you.

Erin

Tell me, I know people probably ask you this all the time. Please. Who is just the most famous or surprising person you've turned away?

00:54:05

JPC

Hitler. Yeah, it's Hitler. He comes about every day with a new little disguise on. He got pretty close one time, he was delivering bread. But I was like, wait a second, people don't deliver bread. And I pulled off the mask and I was like, get out of here, Hitler.

Erin

Good, that's great.

JPC

Yeah, keep him out. That's my number one job is keeping Hitler out of heaven. I'm sorry, your name? Oh, no, it begins with an O. Let me just go to my O section.

Adal

St. Peter, St. Peter. It's me, St. Gabriel.

JPC

Oh, yes, St. Gabriel.

Adal

Do you not know who that is? No. She goes by O, but her first name is Jackie.

JPC

Oh, I'm sorry, this is Jackie O? Yeah. Oh, wow.

Erin

Yeah, and we're making it so one of our prized first ladies has been stuck in bathrooms for many years. Just a woman who had a really traumatic experience and handled it with a lot of grace and tried her best.

JPC

And she married a shipping baron later, huh?

Erin

Yeah, so we're gonna have it so she's been stuck in bathrooms.

00:55:07

Adal

For sure.

Erin

She was really smart and lovely in her own regard.

Adal

Jackie, I'm sorry. St. Peter, St. Peter, I'm so sorry. I'm mistaken. That's Hitler in a costume.

JPC

Really? Excuse me, Jackie, because I have a sneaking suspicion, Gabriel, that you told me that you were going down to Earth to do some business. Let me just wrestle... Hitler.

Adal

You caught me. You go to hell. That guy's got me scared to death.

Erin

Get me out of here. Thank you for watching. They also show some of his report cards. Kennedy's? From the White House? Yeah and he like didn't do well in some places.

Adal

Oh I can imagine that's true. Well his family had ties to the mafia so he can just skate on by. Yeah also he's a fucking Catholic which don't even... The only Catholic president. We're going to move on to a section I call Brains Teasers.

00:56:21

JPC

That's the first good thing that we've done.

Erin

Quick, one more time, just speaking for the listeners. Adal, do you want to tell us the answer to that riddle so we don't get a bunch of people really mad at us?

Adal

No, we'll hold off until next time. If you dress up as Sexy Old Man Puzzles, or Old Man Puzzles, or Sexy Riddikitty, or Sexy Canoe Dog, or Sexy Kid Riddles, I will tweet out the answer.

Erin

Can they just do it?

Adal

Oh, you're right. No, you're totally right. You're absolutely right. I was making a joke and then I realized the implications of what I'm saying. So yeah, just regular. Remove the sexy. Just make it regular.

JPC

And I would like to say, Erin said, that we promise our listeners one thing. The only thing that I've ever promised our listeners is that I will go on a date with one of your siblings and I will pay for 25% of the date.

00:57:23

Erin

And then I'm gonna break their freaking heart.

JPC

It must be within a week of their birthday. I could do one week on either end. And I don't care about the gender of the sibling. I do have a height requirement.

Adal

Ladies and fellas, ladies and fellas, listen up because you know the whole time he's going to do Isle and Alda. That's a promise. That's a Hey Riddle Riddle guarantee. So let's move on to this section. Like I said, it's called Brains Teasers. Nobody's having fun with it. What am I supposed to have fun with a segment name? So each one is going to be like three seconds tops. So really, first thing that comes to mind, I'll allow a quick answer from each of you. Sometimes there won't be time. Sometimes you might get it and we'll move on immediately, but this should be very quick.

JPC

You're going to say the movie and we're going to say the character's name?

00:58:23

Adal

I'm going to say the character you tell me what movie they're from. Gotcha. Here we go. Pinhead.

Erin

I don't know.

Adal

Bowling for soup.

Erin

Sewing. Scary sewing.

Adal

Hellraiser. Norman Bates. Psycho. Ghostface. Wu-Tang, the documentary. It's from Scream. Jack Torrance. Jack Reacher. That is the lead villain from Jack Reacher. And also The Shining. Hannibal Lecter.

Erin

Hannibal.

Adal

Silence of the Lambs. Both correct. I got it. Chucky.

Erin

Chucky. Rugrats.

Adal

The two scariest things as a kid. Brave Little Toaster and Rugrats. Rugrats scared the fuck out of me.

JPC

Chucky is Bride of Chucky.

Adal

Child's Play. Leatherface. Field of Dreams. Oh boy. Leatherface, Erin?

Erin

Mulan, Mulan Rouge.

Adal

Wait, wait, wait. Leatherface is... Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Erin

Fuck!

Adal

Here we go. Jason Voorhees. Friday the 13th. Lark Voorhees.

00:59:27

JPC

Friday the 13th?

Adal

Nope. Friday the 14th. Lark Voorhees. Friday in Space.

Erin

Friday.

Adal

Next Friday with Ice Cube. She played Lisa Turtle on Saved by the Bell. Damn it. Freddy Krueger.

Erin

Nightmare on Elm Street.

Adal

Freddy got fingered. Nightmare on Elm Street is correct, Erin. Go ahead and both of you recite back to me that nursery rhyme.

Erin

1, 2, 3, 4, your mom's a whore. 5, 6, pick up sticks. 7, 8, don't wake up too late. 9, 10, never sleep again. Here we go, Michael Myers.

Adal

So I'm married to the expert mirror? Nope, it's Shrek. Other Michael Myers. Halloween. Pennywise.

Erin

It. Jigsaw.

Adal

Starscream. Ellen Ripley. Ripley's Believe It or Not. Samara. Lion King. Buffalo Bill. Seth Phillips, Patrick Bateman, American Psychohistory X, Sidney Prescott. Some of these aren't villains. Sidney Prescott. Damien Thorne. Sounds like a porn name. Ash. Pokemon.

01:00:42

JPC

Captain Spaulding.

Adal

Boats. The Xenomorph.

JPC

I don't know. Xenowarrior Princess. No! Alien!

Adal

Mm-hmm. Annie Wilkes.

JPC

Annie Wilkes. I don't know. Binfold 5. The Thing.

Adal

That thing you do. What was it? That thing you do. Remember that thing you do when they're like, you, doing that thing, and then all of a sudden that thing pops out of his chest with the head?

JPC

Wait, Adam Sandler.

Adal

No, that's Cousin It. The thing should be the easiest one to get. The thing. That's what I said.

Erin

Did you?

Adal

I'm so sorry. I missed it. Lubbin. Lubbin or Lublin. It's pronounced two different ways. McLubbin. Superbad. The Leprechaun. Hal 9000.

JPC

Oh, 2001 A Space Odyssey.

Adal

Yep. Now we're going to move on. Pretty good job.

JPC

Now we're going to move on to... No way that that was a good job.

Adal

We're going to move on to, these are lines, famous lines for movies. You have to tell me what movie this line is from.

JPC

Okay.

Adal

Are you saying Lion? Famous lines, so like Mufasa would be from Scar.

01:01:46

Erin

Oh wait, I truly wasn't listening.

Adal

I'm gonna keep going, you gotta figure it out.

Erin

These are famous lines.

Adal

Why are you mad at me? Tell me what it is. Erin, you weren't listening and you're mad at me?

Erin

Just tell me what it is.

Adal

I'm gonna say a line from a movie. You have to tell me what movie it's from. So example, if I said I see dead people. Sixth Sense. Sixth Sense and Sensibility. What was the joke you made? It was pretty good.

JPC

Sixth Sense and Sensibility, that's pretty good.

Adal

Sixth Sense on the Retro, which is great.

Erin

Kill me under the milky twilight. Lead me under the moonlit night.

Adal

Dead the whole time. No, it has to be... Here we go. Wendy, darling, light of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just gonna bash your brains in. Gonna bash them the right... I'm gonna bash them right the fuck in.

JPC

Oh, Wendy, that's Peter Pan.

???

Her name is Wendy Darling.

Adal

It's from Hook.

Erin

That's from Hook?

Adal

No, it's from The Shining. But her name is Wendy Darling. Yes. My sickness. Okay, what's my sickness, mom? Know what these pills are? These pills are gazebos. They're bullshit.

01:02:53

JPC

That's definitely from a Puddle of Mud song.

Adal

No, that's Papa Roach. That's from It. That's from It? I met this six-year-old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face and the blackest eyes, the devil's eyes.

JPC

The Exorcist?

Adal

Halloween. I'm your number one fan. I'm your number one fan. I'm your number one fan. Hey Riddle Riddle live show. Swim fan.

Erin

Uh, close. Swim fan?

Adal

No, fan swim. From Misery.

Erin

Oh, Misery. Oh, Misery's good.

JPC

Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Yep.

Adal

Oh yeah. That's from Friday the 13th. Here we go. In the morning, I'm making waffles. It's Mushu from Mulan. Groovy.

JPC

Austin Powers.

Adal

Groovy. I don't know. Evil Dead 2. Do I make you horny, baby? I like gold. You should both get this. Whatever you do, don't fall asleep.

01:03:55

Erin

Friday the 13th. No, Nightmare on Elm Street.

Adal

There you go. Seven days. Seven.

Erin

The Ring! Dove shampoo, dove shampoo, help me.

Adal

What's your favorite scary movie? That's from Scream. That's from Scream. What's your favorite scary movie? Scream. Scream. A boy's best friend is his mother. Psycho. Not my gumdrop buttons! Shrek. Handyland? That's Shrek. That's Shrek again? Get away from her, you bitch. Shrek. It's from Aliens.

JPC

Oh yeah!

Adal

Your mother sucks cock in hell.

JPC

That's Con Air.

Adal

That's what JPC said earlier. That's Con Air. That's from Exorcist. Oh, that's right. Yeah, because of the little girl with filthy mouth. I hate that movie. Come and play with us, Danny, forever and ever and ever.

???

Oh, Grease.

Adal

The Shining. Smile, you son of a bitch.

JPC

I don't know. Is that another one from Alien?

Adal

Smile, you son of a bitch. No, but it's a very similar delivery. Here's another one from the same movie. That's some hat, Harry. When Harry Met Sally. Yep. When Harry Met Hattie. When Harry Met Spooky. What is this movie? It's from Jaws.

01:05:07

Erin

Jaws is good.

Adal

Yeah, it's about boat. Let's just do ten more. We're gonna do two more here. Okay. I'm sorry, we're gonna do three more. Great. Goddamn foreign TV. I told you we should have bought a Zenith.

JPC

Oh, Vegas vacation.

Adal

That's what it is, gremlins.

JPC

Damn it.

Adal

If I wanted to listen to an asshole, I'd fart.

JPC

My dad?

Adal

Hellraiser. Yeah, I was right. Wolfman's got nards! Teen Wolf. Monster Squad. What's Monster Squad? It's a movie about kids who collect a squad of monsters and then fight. Pokemon? Mm-hmm. Good. What do we- everyone's looking at me with furrowed brows.

JPC

Those work hard.

Erin

Yeah.

JPC

I don't- also I've never seen like any scary movies.

Erin

I feel like that is a cool format though, and I would love to do that with movies I wish I knew better, I wish I knew more.

Adal

Well, maybe we'll do it sometime with... Regular movies? Better movies. Romantic comedies, please. Romantic comedies. I also had a section that we didn't get to and we're not going to. Okay. But it was the taglines for movie posters. So when the movie was in theaters, this was what was on the poster.

01:06:15

Erin

Do you want to do a couple of them?

Adal

Yeah, let's do a couple.

JPC

As a couple?

Adal

You two will be a couple and you have to answer them together at the same time. So almost like 1, 2, 3, 4 Elm Street. Here we go. And some of these you should be able to just kind of suss out even if you haven't seen it. They're all spooky movies. The monster demands a mate.

JPC

Bride of Frankenstein. Yes.

Adal

Sorry. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water. Jaws 2. Yeah, Erin got it. In space, no one can hear you scream. Space Jam? No. It's Space Jam. Someone please photoshop a movie poster of Space Jam that says In Space. No, it should say In Space No One Can Hear You Jam.

JPC

Also, that would have been a great tagline for a space jam.

Adal

Is it Alien, Ellen? It's Alien. Did you just call me Ellen? I thought you called me Ellen. I was gonna start dancing.

01:07:17

JPC

It's Alien, right? Yeah.

Adal

So that was In Space No One Can Hear You Scream. The next one is In Space No One Can Eat Ice Cream. This movie was directly making fun of Alien. Good Burger, too. Killer Clowns from Outer Space. What? Here's one of my favorites, and the words I'm going to say are spelled differently. They're homonyms, but they're spelled not the way you normally would say them. Okay. This tagline is, exercise your rights. Exercise. But exercise and rights are spelled the spooky way. Exercise your rights.

Erin

Exorcism.

Adal

My sister loved this movie.

Erin

Exorcism something.

Adal

Think of my sister. Think of Saidiya. Saidiya. What movie would Saidiya like? What spooky movie would Saidiya like? When she was a teenager. Oh, when you're at camp you do arts and craft.

JPC

The witch is spooky and sleepy.

Adal

Here's a good one. This one's semi-spooky. Okay. This is not really a horror movie, but it's semi-spooky. Tagline is, his story will touch you even though he can't.

01:08:23

JPC

Oh, ghosty. Casper. Is it Casper? Edward Scissorhands. Oh yeah, he also can't touch you because he's a ghost.

Adal

The greatest fairy tale never told. The Greatest Fairytale Never Told. That's from Shrek.

Erin

Oh my god, we keep falling for it.

Adal

And the last one. You Can't Get Rid of the Babadook.

Erin

Babadook.

Adal

From Babadook. Baba don't duke, I'm keeping this baby.

Erin

Doing that thing you do.

Adal

Baba that thing you do.

JPC

I like how you said, Baba don't duke, I'm keeping this baby, which is like, those aren't the lyrics at all.

Adal

Isn't it? Papa don't preach.

JPC

Oh no, it's I'm in trouble. Yeah, they just give away the ghost.

Erin

I have to pee and it's an emergency. I'm sorry. I've been trying to hold it.

Adal

Well, we're doing the outro.

Erin

It's like that bad.

01:09:24

Adal

Well that wraps up our Halloween episode. We hope you had fun. No, we hope you had murder! What's the opposite of fun? Murder! We hope you got spooked. I can't urge you enough, please tune in next year for our 2019 Puzzleween episode because you are going to get the answer to a very terrible question.

Erin

I tried to bail you out so many times.

Adal

We're on Twitter at HeyRiddleRiddle. We're on Instagram. We're on Facebook. You can email us at hrrpodcast at gmail.com. People have been sending us so many riddies and puzzies. Please continue to do so. But also, if you don't have a riddy or puzzy and you just want to say hi to us, if you want to tell us if you're enjoying the show, please do. Because I feel like we get people who say that, but it's mostly along with puzzles and riddles. Please just reach out to us and let us know that you're listening, if you're enjoying it, or any comments you have, any notes for JPC, whatever you might have.

01:10:28

JPC

Never wait too long before you tell someone that you love them, because I did that once. And I went to, I knocked at her door, and I said, hey, I wanted to tell your daughter that I love her. And she said, you're under arrest. Well, no, and the woman said, my daughter's been dead for a hundred years. Yeah. Yeah. She's a ghost. She's a ghost. She didn't know though. She didn't know.

Adal

Didn't know I picked up a graveyard. But the moral of the story is, always tell ghosts you love them. You can also buy merch. We have merch now. You can buy that at www.tpublic.com slash Hey Riddle Riddle. We have some Kevin and Susie and Riddies and Puzzies shirts. Please snatch those up. We're going to be selling some more stuff soon. And we've also been talking recently about possibly doing some live shows, so if you want to bring us out to your city, here's our demands. We gotta have working chairs.

JPC

You have to have a friend named Dave and I have to be able to sleep in his truck!

Adal

And you have to bring a dog to the show that has to be a good boy.

Erin

It has to be a really cute dog, or a picture of your dog.

01:11:29

Adal

Or a picture of your dog.

Erin

Don't forget the paper from episode 6, 7? Oh, yeah. That, uh, I'm gonna eat the paper and drink your pen.

JPC

Paper for Erin to eat, a pen for her to drink.

Adal

Oh, you gotta cash that check. Yeah, I'm going to. JPC, you just got a new dog, right?

JPC

I did, yeah. How's Spaghetti? She is a delight. She's an absolute delight. I can't wait to go home and have a big bowl of spaghetti, if you know what I mean. Does she talk yet? She's a dog.

???

So yes.

JPC

She's a dog, not a witch, though she never will. But no, she does know sit and down.

Adal

I am Count Puzzula. I have been played by Adal Rifai. You can check out my podcast Hello from the Magic Tavern, Siblings Peculiar, which is a podcast I do with my sister, Sadia, who loves the craft. Big Farrukha Balkh fan. Is that her name? Could be. From Return to Oz. And yeah, come check out World News Tonight at IOW Chicago and have a wonderful Halloween!

Erin

I'm a spooky sleepy witch and my name is Erin Keif and I am in a sketch show that I wrote that I'm really proud of called Emerald County Bank and Trust that's going to be at Second City in November starting November 17th and it's at 730 but follow me on my Instagram Erin Keif 10 and I'll all informations about all informations oh no All information about my shows and stuff will be on there.

01:12:58

Adal

Can I say when you got a little flustered you were looking right at JPC and it seemed like your brain was saying something like your brain was saying that you were upset about JPC or like you were frightened or what was your brain saying? This guy...

Erin

A hundred bad guys with swords!

Adal

Bump set, deflate the ball.

Erin

This guy's gonna scare the death!

JPC

And I'm David S. Rittes, or Spooky Puzzle Man, Papa Horny for... we're all part of it, if you... Whatever, fuck that guy. If you want to check out anything that I do, just follow me on Twitter at gpsofly. All my stuff, all my plug-in stuff is in my bio.

Adal

What about your glades?

JPC

Oh yeah, plug it in, plug it in.

Adal

As we leave you, Erin, I'm really sad to say that Riddikitty is dead. We didn't resuscitate Riddikitty. Where do you think Riddikitty's soul went?

01:14:00

Erin

Back into its body. Riddy Kitty's alive again! Riddy Kitty!

Adal

Riding on the wall.

Erin

I picture Riddy Kitty as like a Mary Tyler Moore type. Like a working gal who's throwing her hat up into the air.

Adal

She throws a mouse up into the air.

Erin

You're gonna make it after all.

Adal

You're gonna solve it after all. She throws her mouse up into the air!

Erin

She eats the mouse! And puts it back on her. She puts a mouse in her! She wears the mouse as a hat!

JPC

Okay, so everyone who drew Riddikitty drew her wrong. She's got a mouse for a hat.

Adal

Let me try this again. Erin, in space no one can hear you jam, except for one planet. Jupiter! There it is.

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This has been Bleh Riddle Riddle, evoked by Adal Terrifai. Starring Scarron Keif, And John Patrick Coan, he's scary enough. Casey Spiders did the editing. And Cardi Gareth on the theremin. Logo created by Emily Cardedras and Emma Stein-Mortis. 1, 2, 3, 4, Bleh Riddle Riddle!

01:15:18

JPC

That was a HeadGum podcast.