This is a HeadGum podcast.
00:00:02
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This is a HeadGum podcast.
Adal
Riddle Set Go. It's Hey Riddle Riddle. I'm Adal Rifai. I'm JPC.
Erin
And I'm stressed. Are we supposed to be running? I'm Erin Keif.
JPC
Erin, let's dish. You're stressed.
Erin
Well, not really. Having a great weekend. Doing great.
JPC
You're having a great weekend even though this is a Wednesday.
Erin
Yeah, I guess so. You're full of shit.
JPC
We canonically record these episodes at midnight on a Tuesday so that they get released on a Wednesday morning.
00:01:02
Erin
Just so we're super topical.
JPC
We're like South Park. We're just like South Park. Oh boy.
Adal
Every week we kill one of our co-hosts and then they come back the next week.
JPC
Do they still do that on South Park? You know what? Don't give me any spoilers. I'm about 15 seasons behind. Don't tell me how it works.
Adal
Who's our Old Man Pussies?
Erin
I am Old Man Pussies. Whoa! He was having a great weekend with his Old Man Pussies. Two of my friends got engaged. I took an Advil, two Advil PMs, and then I slept. You accidentally took two... No, I took them on purpose. And then I woke up and then I ate breakfast and then I fell asleep the rest of the day.
Adal
And that's good news?
00:02:07
Erin
But then I had a great rest of the day. I did world news with you idiots. Someone came to the world news show dressed as Nintendo Cafe, which blew my sister's mind, and now I'm here with you.
JPC
Okay, this timeline has got me all fucked up because I don't understand.
Erin
You took an Advil PM. On a Friday evening. I took two.
JPC
Then you went out and fucking partied.
Erin
No, I didn't.
JPC
You just had dinner and went to sleep.
Erin
No, I didn't eat anything. Advil PM.
JPC
Oh, the PM stands for Post Meal. So this is what the show has come to.
Erin
Yeah. Sorry. I'm holding puzzles and I'll get into it.
JPC
I have to discover Erin's lies. Because if I let her lies go unchecked, it's chaos. It's anarchy.
Erin
Alright, name six lies I've told.
Adal
You are under the age of 20.
Erin
Oh, thank you.
Adal
Wait a second.
JPC
You tell me six lies that I've told. Oh, thank you.
Adal
Thank you so much.
JPC
No, Erin, I don't think that you're a liar. I just couldn't follow the logic of the story because I thought it was a riddle. And I thought, I'm already in a riddle brain, so my riddle brain is working at maximum efficiency, which is 20% of a normal person's brain. And 80% of a dog's brain. I'm like limitless, except I have a bad defective dog's brain.
00:03:19
Erin
Does that make sense? Yeah, it actually makes a lot of sense.
JPC
But he's still a good boy. Yeah, I'm like Bradley Cooper, limitless, although I have the body of a soft-boiled potato and the brain of a dog who's all horny.
Erin
So, what's up? Other than the fact that I'm old man puzzles, are we ready to get into it? Or does anyone else have any questions about this? Well, I was handed a box by Joe Gallagher. Do you know him? He's in the community.
Adal
Yes.
Erin
Great. He's great at taking pictures if you want to hire him, but he knows that I do the show and he handed me a box of riddles. Are we ready?
JPC
What?
Erin
What?
JPC
A man handed you a box of Riddles? Okay.
Erin
And then he disappeared when I turned around to look at him again.
JPC
And he's great at taking pictures.
Adal
Erin, first of all, that's a burlap sack. Second of all, that's full of snakes. Oh, well, he said they were... You are being bitten repeatedly.
JPC
Wait, a burlap sack full of snakes, and Erin, which is the real one, who do I shoot? Erin, did you hear what I said?
00:04:22
Erin
I heard it was mean.
JPC
I called you a burlap sack full of snakes.
Adal
Was that your margin question?
Erin
I thought we could do something a little different. And the risk in this is we might have a riddle we've done before, but even better. I'm going to try to do these as quickly as possible. And if you miss it, I'm going to do a you got it pile and then you don't have it pile.
JPC
When you said that you wanted to try something a little different, did you mean that we should all be nice to each other?
Erin
No, I don't think that people would like that. It would be like watching a puppy hang out with an alligator. People would be like nervous the whole time.
Adal
Yeah, that's true. Actually, that's what they're doing for the puppy bowl next year. They're tossing in a Cayman. Neil Cayman, American Gods.
Erin
Oh, are we ready? Yes. And do you want it so I give a win for JPC, a win for Adal? Should this be a competition?
JPC
No. Adal and I prefer to work together. We're best as a team.
Erin
Alright, so you two are the alligator and I'm the puppy.
JPC
We're doing a buddy cop spec script, it's called Dipshit and Nobody. I play nobody. Yeah, me too.
00:05:29
Erin
Okay, alright, are you ready?
JPC
Yes. Papa, horny, four, pussies. Okay, I'm gonna put Dipshit and Nobody in my office. We're both nobody. We've been in your office. It's nice in there, Chief. You've got nice quaintons.
Erin
This movie sounds really bad. Yeah, it's a TV show. Are we ready now? We know our limits. On your mark, here comes the timer. Get set.
Adal
Can't you just say Riddle, set, go like it did up top? Just to support that.
Erin
Riddle, set, go! What can be returned without being borrowed?
???
Package.
Adal
What can be returned without being borrowed? Return of the Jedi.
JPC
A boomerang.
Erin
A greeting.
JPC
A boomerang works.
Erin
If I am your brother, but you are not my brother, who are you?
JPC
Sister. Adal.
Erin
Adal. What is covered in holes and yet still holds water?
00:06:34
Adal
A net. Somebody who's been shot in the wild west.
JPC
Covered in holes but still holds water. Net.
Adal
Covered in a hole that still holds water.
JPC
Airplane. Airplane.
Adal
Airplane. Airplane.
JPC
Airplane.
Erin
Airplane. Airplane. Airplane. Airplane. Airplane.
JPC
Airplane.
Adal
Airplane. Airplane. Airplane.
JPC
Airplane. Airplane. Airplane. Airplane. Airplane.
Erin
Airplane.
JPC
Airplane. Airplane. Airplane.
Erin
Airplane. Airplane. Airplane. Airplane. Airplane. Airplane.
JPC
Airplane. Airplane. Airplane.
Erin
Airplane. Airplane. Airplane. Airplane. Airplane.
JPC
Airplane. Airplane.
Erin
Airplane.
JPC
Airplane. Airplane.
Erin
Airplane.
Adal
Send in those Nimbus cumulus clouds.
Erin
All our three listeners who know about the musical A Little Night Music are going to love that joke.
JPC
And our four cloud listeners as well. Please say Stratus.
00:07:38
Erin
That's who I am. Who's the biggest? Mr. Larger, Mrs. Larger, or their baby?
JPC
Mrs. Larger, women are bigger.
Erin
Okie dokie.
JPC
In terms of their personalities.
Erin
No.
Adal
And in Japan.
Erin
Who's the biggest? Mr. Larger, Mrs. Larger, or their baby?
Adal
None of them. They're all the largest. Nope. Uh, their baby.
Erin
Quickly? Mr. Larger. Yeah, why?
JPC
Their baby?
Erin
Yeah, why?
JPC
Because, baby, it's cold outside.
Erin
Nope. Quickly?
Adal
Who's the biggest? Their baby because... Because he's the biggest baby. He has the baby's... Is it fucking sensitive?
Erin
Because it's a little larger.
Adal
Mother... Woof. ...skunker.
JPC
Can I see that card? I'm gonna put that in the fireplace. I'm gonna tear that down. No, don't!
Erin
Don't! How do you say race car backwards?
Adal
Race car. It's a palindrome. It's a palindrome. How do you solve a problem like Maria? Race car.
Erin
How do you say race car backwards?
Adal
You turn around and say it.
Erin
No, race car backwards. Race car backwards. In what way can five come before four and three?
00:08:41
???
If five eats four out.
Adal
I was going to say if there's four play. If there's four play.
JPC
If there's four play. That's funnier.
Erin
In what way can five come before four and three?
Adal
If you're counting backwards. If you're dumb.
Erin
We've had something similar to this before.
Adal
In what way can five come before? Oh, in the dictionary.
JPC
Is this about cuckolding? Okay, dictionary never mind.
Erin
Never mind. Okay, what comes next in the following sequence? Oh, T-T-F-F-S.
JPC
O-T-T-F-F-S. FFS stands for fuck's sake.
Erin
No.
JPC
Yes it does. Yes it does.
Adal
O-T-T-F-F-S.
JPC
O-T-T-F-F-S. I don't care. This one is one that I don't care about.
Erin
No you do. O-T-T-F-F-S. Friday, Saturday. O-T-T-F-S-S.
Adal
Overtime. Tell me fuckface.
JPC
A-B-C-V-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-A. Do it again.
Adal
O-T-T-F-S. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
00:09:44
Erin
So what comes next? Your parents have five sons and each son has one sister. How many children are there in your family?
Adal
Everyone. Everyone's a child. Wait, what?
Erin
Your parents have five sons and each son has one sister. How many children are there in your family?
JPC
Six.
Adal
Sisters are related to brothers by brother or sister relations.
Erin
What?
Adal
But if you say how many children are in your family, every person, every human is a child. Every kiss begins with K. And K stands for kid.
Erin
You got it. What needs to be fed to stay alive but dies if given a drink?
Adal
What? Erin. Erin. The answer is Erin.
Erin
Oh.
Adal
You get drunk so fast.
JPC
This is fire. The answer is fire. And the drink is piss.
Erin
Oh my gosh. What flies when it's born lies when it's alive and runs when it's dead. Don't say me.
Adal
River.
Erin
What flies when it's born lies when it's alive and runs when it's dead.
Adal
Man. What's the second part? Are you saying lives?
00:10:45
Erin
Lies. L-I.
Adal
So it flies, lies, and runs.
Erin
What flies when it's born, lies when it's alive, and runs when it's dead.
JPC
It runs when it's dead. The Senate?
Erin
It's a snowflake.
JPC
It's a snowflake.
Erin
From what five-letter word can you remove two letters and yet only have one left?
Adal
Any word that has one in it.
Erin
Yeah.
Adal
Twuns. Twuns.
Erin
Twuns! And twuns! A word that isn't a word, so congratulations to you, sir. I'm going to put this in the baby girl. Here we go.
Adal
Erin, Erin, loner.
Erin
Nope. Stoner. What? The word I was looking for was stone. The timer has gone off.
JPC
Let us count how we did. Remember Adal has one in his hand that he also... That he said he was going to rip up, but he didn't.
Erin
I'll add that to the note pile. You got five correct.
Adal
Erin just built her Wendy's.
Erin
No, I got it.
00:11:50
JPC
But let's count to maybe as a right.
Erin
No, we will not. We'll count it as a wrong.
JPC
Okay, well here's a compromise. I accept your terms. How about that?
Erin
The reason why I decided to do this, and we're going to do it again in a second, is we get a lot of complaints that we don't do enough riddles on this show. So I was going to try to have this be the episode where we do the most riddles.
JPC
Also, when we get a lot of complaints, every week about, and I'm going to skew our numbers here, about 90 million people listen to this show. We get maybe 45 million people asking us, telling us that we don't do enough riddles.
Adal
Maybe 45 million. How about we do this? Here's what I'm going to pause it. Let's say for the rest of this episode. Did you say pause it or pause it? We're going to pause it. Let's like press pause.
JPC
Okay, press pause. Okay, hold on. Okay. KJ, keep recording, keep recording. This is definitely being recorded, but we're pausing it.
Adal
So this doesn't count. Oh, I'm sorry. I mean PAWS.
JPC
Yes, go to Paul's Chicago, adopt a spaghetti.
Adal
Adopt a doggy. Adopt a doggo. Here's what I'm going to say. How about for the rest of this episode, we just do as many riddles as we can. We don't bring any fun or joy to the show. We don't do any jokes. There's no banter or humor. No improv scenes. We just do riddles at as many as we can. Just kind of serve up a heaping play to fuck you. Does that make sense?
00:13:08
Erin
I think we should do scenes because that's what brings us joy.
Adal
Well, it's not about us.
JPC
It's about... I want to see a scene right now in the middle of this pause. Adal, you're going to be playing the role of a lifetime. Adal Rifai. You're going to be playing Adal Rifai circa, let's call this, June 2018. You're going to be approaching Erin. You're going to be playing JPC. You're a young hotshot improviser. Talk of the Walk, one of the biggest names in town.
Erin
I don't know.
JPC
And I will be playing the character Erin Keif. Erin Keif is kind of this like effortlessly gorgeous country bumpkins from Boston. And Adal, you're gonna be approaching the two of us, and we're out on a roller skating date, but you're gonna be approaching the two of us.
Erin
Were we dating of June of last year?
JPC
We were dating the roller skates.
Erin
Okay.
Adal
Wait, we were dating Judith last year.
JPC
Yeah, we both dated. We all three of us dated a man named June in July of last year. But you're going to be approaching the two of us about coming on your Riddle podcast and we're going to have some pitches to make it better.
00:14:19
Adal
Okay. I'm glad I skated up to you two and caught up.
JPC
Yeah, we're all going at the same pace and we don't have to pant very hard.
Adal
Oh, Erin, you lost your country accent.
JPC
Did you notice that like a year ago I stopped wearing bandanas? Call me interesting? Call me interesting.
Adal
So I thought to, I mean, we've talked a little bit about this, but I thought to go ahead and do that podcast I was thinking about.
Erin
I am podcast fogger, can you milk me?
Adal
I love riddles. JPC pump that breaks me.
JPC
I love riddles, and I'd love to do your podcast, and I do love riddles.
Adal
Oh, Erin, I'll hold you to that. Yeah.
Erin
So basically what I was thinking... And I love attention, and I got attention fogger, can you milk me?
Adal
We both do that, JPC.
JPC
We both love attention and we need it or we die. I like it, but can we maybe do a segment on the show where I bring in a lot of my bullshit from my Boston family and I maybe just talk about the departed once or twice and maybe the movie The Town every episode. And we talk about maybe my dirtbag brother-in-law Mitch. That's kind of my pitch for the direction of the show. Yeah, that's kind of fun.
00:15:53
Erin
JPC? Can I just be a garbage villain who just continues to make everything I touch worse?
Adal
Like a reverse King Midas?
Erin
Yeah, exactly. And I'm gonna talk about spaghetti, my dog, and the dish that I love, and then I'm gonna keep bringing up gremlins, and I'm gonna keep bringing up the same quotes from Robert De Niro says, and that's sort of gonna be my thing.
Adal
Okay.
Erin
But I am, Erin and I are gonna form a really beautiful friendship that will last well into 2025. Okay, so you're in.
JPC
Uh, Urine, I'm getting thirsty. No, I'm just kidding. It's not true that I drink piss, even though it is widely accepted and known about me. And it is one of the reasons I get so many UTIs. By the way, could we maybe do a segment on the show where I talk about my UTIs and then act shocked when people on Twitter message me about my UTIs?
Adal
Even though in fairness, they should not be doing that. Hey friends, I think I'm just gonna stick with magic to everything. Yeah, that's a good call.
00:16:54
Erin
Shark Barkman on Instagram. That was the most fun scene I've ever done. Also, I stopped drinking piss in 2016, but I've heard enough about it.
JPC
Yeah, exactly. Doesn't Gwyneth Paltrow drink her own piss, or there's some celebrity... Oh, in New York there's Piss Rat.
Adal
Yeah. There's that rat they found drinking its own piss. Piss Rat. Piss Rat.
Erin
Do you want to try to beat your record?
Adal
Hey, real quick. Are we happy that we did this podcast?
Erin
Oh, I'm so happy I did this podcast.
Adal
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a great question. Why are you making a jerking off motion? Oh, this is a talking motion. Oh my god, is that what people associate this motion with? I don't know if I've ever said this on air. If I have, please stop me. But it was JPC and I for maybe two years were talking about doing a podcast. And I think what we had settled on was maybe being like Zoo Crew. We had some bad ideas. We had some bad ideas. We're going to be like a Zoo Crew team. Like a morning radio team. Like a morning radio team and just like do like interviews with like fake people promoting whatever they're in town for and stuff like that. So this podcast. So this podcast. And then at some point we thought to bring on and then the whole idea changed. That's sweet. So I want to just let everyone know and blame Erin. You're the reason we don't have that amazing morning zig-proof show.
00:18:15
JPC
106.4 The Bear. I'm Donkey Kong. And I'm Kongy Donk.
Erin
That's what you would have been missing out.
JPC
Yeah, can you imagine that for 60 episodes?
Erin
In October of 2017, Adal mentioned that to me offhand, and I was like, I'll say yes to this. It'll probably never happen. Everyone's so busy, Adal's so busy. And then in April of that year, we recorded seven episodes. Hey Riddle.
JPC
Yeah, I was like, I have too much of my life going on to do this podcast right now, so I have to stop doing some things. So I wrote both of my brother's letters and said, I'm no longer going to be your brother. It's been chill. It's been a nice... It sounds like such a seven year old move of like... It's been a nice 30 years, but no longer are we brothers. If you see me on the street, you will be a stranger to me.
00:19:24
Erin
The one thing I know about siblings is it's not chill.
JPC
No, it's not true. No, me and my brothers are pretty chill with each other.
Erin
I can't relate.
JPC
Yeah, it's because my family's not Boston trash. We're all Indian and nice.
Erin
We're nice.
JPC
We're actually all nice to each other. We say, no, you go through the door. And I'm saying, no, no, you go through the door. And then we realize.
Erin
And then no one goes through the door.
JPC
We're not even going into this prison.
Erin
Are you ready to beat your record? This time it's serious. There's higher stakes.
Adal
Okay, this time it's serious.
Erin
I'm going to throw a cup of water into one of your faces.
Adal
Hey Riddle Riddle, this time it's serious. We should do Hey Riddle Riddle Nights. How much time do you guys have?
JPC
Oh, I was thinking we should do a show on Sirius.
Adal
Yeah, Sirius Radio, if you're listening, please give us a show.
JPC
If serious radio is listening to this podcast, how? That's a riddle.
Adal
But we should do Hey Riddle Riddle Nights, where it's way more serious, a little more adult. Let's all try to talk in a very serious after dark.
00:20:25
Erin
Oh, it's 10 p.m.? It's 10 p.m.
JPC
The kids are asleep.
Adal
Take your boobs out of your shirt.
Erin
Say hello to them.
Adal
Just like USA Up All Night. Remember when USA Up All Night and they'd be like, We're about to take some boobs out of shirts. Silk stockings.
Erin
And on that note, we're going to try to beat our record. Are we ready?
Adal
Yes.
Erin
Papa Horny.
JPC
Papa Horny for boobs out of your shirt.
Erin
Puzzies, you idiots. Poppy Goobies out of your shirt. Which is happier, a pound of feathers or a pound of rocks? Same weight.
Adal
They're both a pound. Speaking of pounds.
Erin
Two fathers and two sons went fishing and each caught a fish, but only three fish were caught. How is that possible?
Adal
It was three people, a grandfather, father, and son. We've had that. Yes.
Erin
Why is letter B always wet?
Adal
Because it's covered in cum.
Erin
Oh my god! Wait, why is letter B always wet?
JPC
B is for boobies. Because it comes before C. B is always wet. Gah, I died.
00:21:26
Erin
That's sort of it.
JPC
Is that right?
Erin
It's always right before the C. Because it always sits by the C. Yes, it's on a C. What is measured by yard and then worn by the feet?
JPC
By the foot.
Erin
What is measured by the yard and worn by the foot?
JPC
Fruit by the foot. Oh, fruit by the foot.
Erin
Not fruit by the foot.
JPC
Fruit by the yard. Measured by the yard.
Erin
Oh, milkshakes. Milkshakes brings all the boys to the yard. Everyone's super jealous of me at school because I brought a foot by the yard. Everyone wanted to trade their lunch with me, dude. I got 17 Lunchables for that one foot by the yard.
JPC
Whoa! Your mom packed you gumshires?
Erin
What is measured by the yard and worn by the foot?
Adal
Cloth. Clothing. I bet it's shoes. Measured by the yard. I bet it's like backyard or something.
Erin
Nope. It is a carpet.
Adal
Fuck.
Erin
What comes next in the sequence? 31, 37, 41, 43, 47. Death. 69, 429, 11. Death. 69, 429, 11. Yeah, you got it. What comes next in this sequence? 31, 37, 41, 43, 47.
00:22:31
JPC
I don't know. I hate these. I hate these and I refuse to do them.
Adal
What goes shorter? Erin, this is Hey Riddle Real Nights. Take your boobs out of your shirt.
Erin
I know, sir.
Adal
And let your penis get shorter. Take your penis out of your shirt.
Erin
It's a candle or a pencil. You didn't get it.
JPC
There's a video on Twitter that I saw last week of this, it's like Russian people yelling at each other and there's either a very drunk or sleepy man trying to put I haven't seen it, will you send it to me?
00:23:34
Erin
What two letters in the alphabet say goodbye?
JPC
F you. F you.
Erin
You got one of those right.
JPC
F off. No. U up. U two. U bb. Buh-bye. U is second.
Adal
See you. See you.
Erin
Has anyone ever read the book CDB? No, no. It's an entire children's book written like C-D-B-D-B-S-A-B-Z-B. Has anybody ever listened?
Adal
Has anybody ever seen a concert case in Jeju?
Erin
What? What is it?
Adal
Casey and JoJo?
Erin
Everybody dance now!
Adal
CNC JoJo.
Erin
What do the following words have in common? Almost below first, ghost, glory.
Adal
All words. They're all words.
Erin
Yeah, they are.
Adal
They're all holes. Ghost hole, glory hole. Almost.
Erin
The classic ghost hole. Watch out in the backyard, Timmy. There's a ghost hole. I don't believe in ghosts.
Adal
I want to see a scene. Erin, you're a kid who fell through a ghost hole in the backyard. JPC, you're the aforementioned ghost in the hole. Okay. And this is like the Japanese anime Ghost in the Shell, but it's Ghost in the Hole.
00:24:42
JPC
No, me too.
Adal
Okay, so it's just a kid fell through a ghost hole and they were talking to a ghost hole. Gotcha.
JPC
Boo. What are you doing here in my private ghost hall?
Erin
Are you a ghost?
JPC
Yeah. Hey, are you a kid?
Erin
Yeah, I'm a kid.
JPC
You want to see a dead body?
Erin
You are a dead body.
JPC
Well, yeah, it's my little joke. I'm a dead body. I'm a ghost.
Erin
I'm con... I can't... Are you like a 70s ghost?
JPC
What does that mean, a 70s ghost? I can button the rest of this shirt, but it's breezy down here.
Adal
We cut to just a quick snippet of your sitcom that you used to be on called That 70s Ghost. And this is just the two-minute flashback. Uh, you're a dipshit, Eric. Come on, why'd you say that? Hey, pass me some reefer. I'm your dad! I just won some reefer, dad. You said you found it under my bed. I was in Robocop. Don't be so square.
00:25:43
JPC
I'm also realizing I think this actor's dead. We got back to the present.
Erin
Anyway, uh... I'm too young to know that reference.
JPC
You're too young to know that 70s show?
Erin
Fuck you! I was born in 2005. I'm a kid!
JPC
Oh, that's right. I forgot we were still doing a scene. This is just how I talk. Okay, kid. Well, look, you fell in my... Oh, and scene.
Erin
The timer went off. So here's the thing. You tried to beat your record. You couldn't. You cowards. One, two, three, four. You got four riddles right.
JPC
Wait, but we were doing a scene during the time.
Erin
I know. Well, that's what happens.
JPC
Okay.
Erin
We're trying to break our world record for riddles. Wow, this is fucking harsh. This is so harsh. But I didn't finish that. The almost below first ghost and glory, all their letters are in alphabetical order. Oh, we never would have gotten that. That was probably one that feels like a second half of the episode. It's a little bit harder.
???
Yeah.
JPC
That feels like it's gonna be a little bit harder.
???
Hey Riddle Riddle.
00:26:43
Erin
Nights. Nights. Nights. I'm new to the job and I don't know
Adal
You're new to being a knight? You just wear armor, you have a sword?
JPC
Also, you went through a two-week training program, so you're claiming to be new to the job now.
Erin
I'm new to it, though.
JPC
Well, you keep saying that, but you... You were being paid for it. You were paid during training.
Erin
Yeah, but 50% of what I was going to end up getting paid.
JPC
Well, you just had to buy your own uniform, and it's a suit of armor, and that's expensive.
Adal
Hey listen, I know sometimes when you're scheduled to lose and you're out there and the crowd's going crazy and they got their turkey legs and coke that you might want to feel like a big shot and win. Throw your fucking matches.
Erin
Why?
Adal
There's medieval times, baby. Yeah baby, this ain't Creed 2.
Erin
You know what I'm not going to? Glory or nothing? And we kill, we kill for real?
JPC
Oh yeah, we kill for real.
Adal
Why do you think we had to train you?
JPC
Why do you think we had two weeks of training?
00:27:44
Erin
Alright, well.
JPC
We kill for real.
Adal
Medieval times.
JPC
We kill for real. I went to Medieval Times when I was a kid and I legit watched a night get killed. For real?
Adal
No. No. What a terrible thing to see as a child. I went for a friend's bachelor party for Jeff, you guys know Jeff Griggs. I went for his bachelor party and it was me, Jeff Griggs, Brett Lyons, and Jason Chin. And we were sitting pretty close to the pitch. Hey Riddle. Hey Riddle.
???
A rose for the fellas. A rose for the fellas.
Adal
And the guy was trying to ignore me and then started laughing so hard he was crying and then he tossed me a rose. Nice! And that man is... Dead.
???
He was killed.
Erin
Yeah, they killed me the evil times.
Adal
Well let's go ahead and take a quick break. This is so that the three of us can change out of our armor back into our normal clothes because of course for every scene we do get into costume.
00:28:46
JPC
Full costume, and we do post pictures on our website, and again, that website is hey nevermind.com. So do check that out for all the pictures from our shows. Shit, now we gotta buy that domain. Oh no. And we'll be back after these messages from our Spumplers.
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 you nitty? Yeah. What do you sleep on?
Erin
Um, sometimes it's just like a bunch of newspapers stacked on top of each other of like, when I've been in the news. Um, and sometimes it's JPC. That's a pretty thin amount of newspapers. Oh, okay. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. And sometimes it's just JPC.
Adal
Local girl falls downstairs. What? I said local girl falls downstairs. I heard you. Does it on purpose, goes to jail. Well, Erin, because of your unique, uh, pretty makeup, I don't know how to phrase this, you should be sleeping on the Helix mattress that JPC and I got you.
00:29:51
JPC
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.
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.
00:30:54
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?
JPC
There is a little loophole here because they say 100 nights, but you also get the 100 days as well. So you can sleep at the mattress 24 hours a day for 100 days.
Adal
And for me specifically, for Adal Rifai, those are Arabian days and Arabian nights.
JPC
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, the mattress can be for your partner.
JPC
Or, you know, you can 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?
00:31:55
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 like choke hold, like with your leg?
JPC
Oh, like Zena 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?
Erin
Naturally. You're pretty unique.
Adal
Helixsleep.com slash riddle.
Erin
Welcome back to the fastest episode we've ever done. We're going to do every riddle in the whole wide world. We're going to break a world record in this Hey Riddle Riddle episode. Are we ready? You two guys.
???
Yeah, that's right. It's the fastest episode we've ever done. Hey Riddle Riddle Nights. Hold on. Hey Riddle Riddle.
Erin
And pause for the laughter that's inevitably happening across the nation.
JPC
90 million people clapping into their podcast apps.
Erin
That's how I know you like it.
JPC
Clap at us. Clap on your app.
00:32:55
Erin
Yeah, everybody, I need you. Okay, here's your homework for this week. Hey Riddle Riddle listeners. I want you to film yourself listening to Hey Riddle Riddle and at any joke in this episode, I want to watch you applaud us.
Adal
Yes, that's what we want.
Erin
And maybe I'll post a montage on our Instagram.
Adal
And just so you know, we will not post sarcastic applause.
Erin
Yeah, we wanted to look truly earnest and enthusiastic.
JPC
Yeah, no little snappy golf applause. We don't want that. Obviously you get moved. We don't want any Trump coming into the State of the Union applause.
Adal
Yeah, no Pelosi claps. Also, if you make your cat or dog clap, we will post that.
Erin
Oh yeah, certainly. Any animal.
Adal
A puppet?
Erin
A puppet clapping? Really get creative with this.
Adal
But no sex dolls.
JPC
No sex dolls. If you make that ass clap, now start a booty quake. And if you start a booty quake, people could die. So if you do that, just know that you're taking your life in your hands and you're taking the life of- Hey JPC.
00:33:57
Adal
I know we're having fun. We're doing a podcast trying to have a good time. My uncle died in a booty quake. Oh my god. My uncle died in the booty quake of 83. He was in Nevada and right near the fault line.
JPC
I know this in no way diminishes your pain, but my uncle passed from an Oreo cheese quake. He ate it too fast at Dairy Queen and he was... My uncle. My uncle died in the quake or oats. Am I playing the game late? Yeah, he died in Quake. That's terrible. I actually had an uncle pass away from... He was playing the video game Quake for original computer. You know, the first computer. For original computer? Yes, for OC. And he did pass away. I'm so sorry to hear.
00:34:58
Erin
I had no more uncles. I had two uncles and that was it. We're going to stick to this and you're going to keep trying to beat your five minute record. And I'm going to not pause it if the scene starts, but I don't want that to make you hesitate to do a scene. I think you can have it all.
JPC
Okay, but when you say our five minute record, Just so I'm clear, that is specifically the record for answering riddles quickly, correct? Okay, because I have several five-minute records that if I wanted to try to beat, I could try to beat them now, and I could do that while answering the riddles.
Erin
But you don't want me to do that. You took all your teeth out in five minutes. You got back together with all your exes in five minutes.
JPC
What am I forgetting? I can do it all underwater.
Adal
Are you ready Grundy? Thank you.
Erin
All right, on your mark. Riddle, wait. Riddle, set, fuzzy.
JPC
A cloud, a cloud.
Erin
How many times can you subtract the number two from the number 50?
00:36:02
Adal
Once.
Erin
Yep.
Adal
Because then it becomes 48. You're right.
Erin
How far into the forest can you travel?
Adal
Halfway, because then you're traveling out of it. Wow, Adal.
Erin
A girl fell off a 50-foot ladder but was not hurt. Too bad. Why not? If my girl fell off a 50-foot ladder but was not hurt, why not?
JPC
Because it wasn't upright. She caught herself on the glass ceiling.
Erin
Alright, I want to quickly see a scene. Dad should work. Oh, it doesn't. Why? But it doesn't work. I want to see a scene. JPC, you are a girl who just fell off a ladder and you're going back into your house for sympathy and you are her mother and you're not going to give it.
JPC
Great. Mama, I just fell off a ladder outside.
Adal
Okay.
JPC
Mama, I'm hurt.
Adal
If you're hurt, you would still be laying outside. You wouldn't be able to carry your sorry ass in here.
JPC
Mama, that's not true. I can take pain and I can still carry on. That is what it means to be a woman.
Erin
Janine, I just saw you fall off that ladder. Ask me how high up she was.
Adal
How high up she was.
Erin
She was at the very bottom rung, that liar. She fell for the attention.
00:37:06
Adal
Okay, well you fucked up. Go outside and grab a switch. Grab a Nintendo Switch outside.
JPC
What? I don't want to play Mario Party right now.
Erin
You're gonna play Mario Party. You're gonna win the whole thing. We're gonna play the fun levels and you're gonna have to go to the water levels. And guess what?
Adal
Guess what? I know you're fucking little shenanigans. I know every time you play Mario Party you say, I'm all-time Yoshi. Guess what? Everyone's all-time fucking Yoshi. No Yoshi.
JPC
No, wait, is everyone all-time Yoshi or is no one all-time Yoshi? What can sit in the rain without getting any wetter?
Erin
What can sit in the rain without getting any wetter? I can't stand the rain. What does an island in the letter T have in common?
Adal
They're both getting a lot of songs.
JPC
They need the IT department. What is an island in the letter T? They're both so close to the C. They're far away from the C. They're both surrounded. They're in the middle of the C. They're both surrounded. They're in the middle of the alphabet.
00:38:16
Erin
No, middle of. The night. They're both in the middle of.
JPC
The C. They're both in the middle of.
Erin
T and island.
Adal
Oh, they're both in the middle of Long Island Iced Tea.
Erin
No. What is an island in the middle of?
Adal
The ocean. The ocean? The water. The sea?
JPC
The sea? The water?
Erin
Yep. They're both in the middle of water. W-A-T-E-R. I got to give you too many hints, it's going in the notepad.
JPC
Damn it! What menu item KJ hated that you put that in the no pile.
Erin
Well KJ KJ Do not tell KJ to suck your dick, Erin. I won't.
Adal
I like that you're offering us help, and then when we get it, you're like, uh, shouldn't have gotten that help.
Erin
No, because it took you too long. I'm the I'm the king.
Adal
Okay.
Erin
And KJ can live. Ooh. KJ's not getting killed at this medieval times. What menu item does B-A-N-A-N-A represent?
Adal
B and A. What minuet? Banana. Banana Fosters. Banana bread. Banana... Banana split. Come Mr. Tellyman.
00:39:17
Erin
What can be opened but never closed?
JPC
Your freaking mouth. Oh my god.
Erin
Frogs.
JPC
Oh my frogs. I'll talk forever. Oh my frogs.
Erin
I'll talk forever.
JPC
What can be opened but never closed? The Bible.
Erin
Oh my goodness gracious.
JPC
What can be opened but never closed? Pandora's box.
Erin
No, but I feel like that's true, I guess. Yeah. But this is an answer that is, it's always an answer.
Adal
A present, a gift.
JPC
What can be opened but never closed your relationship? Your eyes. Oh, two, one.
Erin
An egg.
Adal
An egg. You can close an egg.
Erin
No.
Adal
It's hard. It's hard as hell. I have nipples, fucker. Can you milk me?
Erin
There it is. What can be empty and full at the same time?
JPC
Heart. Birth bag. Can be empty and full.
Erin
Oh, this is so stupid. You're not gonna get this.
JPC
Oh, then I give up.
Erin
A car park. If it's empty of cars, then it's full of spaces. What word looks the same when turned upside down but not backwards? Pterodactyl. No.
00:40:21
Adal
Oh, lol. No. Mom.
Erin
What word looks the same when turned upside down but not backwards?
Adal
So it's gotta be Turned upside down. If it's like W-O-M, right? If W-O-M was a word and you put that upside down it would still be... This word has W and M in it. So it's something with W's and M's because when you turn it upside down it's gonna stay.
Erin
What's another letter that when you turn upside down?
Adal
Oh.
Erin
Yes, but that's not what else. So it has I, W, and M in it. And I'm one more letter that's in it twice.
Adal
My wife. My wife? I don't know.
Erin
It swims. Let's do a count. How did they do KJ?
00:41:21
Adal
Let's does the KJ for the score and KJ wasn't paying attention.
Erin
KJ was reading their book. KJ was taking notes.
JPC
KJ was taking edit notes.
Erin
I didn't think it's so funny to throw at a KJ.
JPC
And KJ tell them what they've won.
Erin
KJ has gone home. One, two, three, four. So far your record is five.
Adal
Get that 30 on the floor.
Erin
You got five in the first round and then you got one, two, three, four, five. So even if I had given you that one, I gave you all the hits. We still wouldn't have beat a record? Yeah, you still wouldn't have beat your record.
JPC
Damn it!
Erin
So let's take a big deep breath.
Adal
Okay.
Erin
Let's do some bunny breaths. Two through the nose, out through the mouth.
Adal
I'm sorry, what are these?
Erin
Bunny breaths.
Adal
Then this is the thing?
Erin
This is how bunnies breathe?
JPC
Two in the nose, one in the what? And you know this. This is how you do what to a bunny?
Erin
Two in the nose, one in the butt. Two breaths through the nose, one out through the mouth.
00:42:23
Adal
Two breaths in the nose, one out out the mouth. That's how you smell a flower in a garden.
Erin
That's a breath that you do to help you calm down. Sometimes when you're crying you naturally start breathing like that and it helps your body calm down.
Adal
You are talking a mile a minute.
JPC
Sometimes when you're crying if you breathe two in through your nose and one out through your mouth it'll help you calm down.
Erin
Like look how I'm breathing. You have seen someone who's crying start breathing like that without consciously realizing it.
JPC
One of my favorite ways to breathe is taking a spray-pant bottle and putting spray-pant into a paper bag and then breathing in the fumes from that. It's called huffing.
Adal
It's called Indianapolis breathing.
JPC
It's called Indianapolis beer and you do it at parties and stuff and it gets you super, you have a good time.
Erin
Oh, fun. Well, I use bunny breaths when I teach yoga for kids, but I should include that next time I talk.
JPC
Oh, when I do yoga for kids, I also do some huffing stuff there. It's for teens.
00:43:25
Erin
But that's a technique I use with them to help them calm down if they're getting really worked up.
JPC
What would they be getting worked up for in yoga?
Erin
No, not as, but they will be like recalling something on their day. They'll be like, someone pushed me and bullied me, and they'll be getting worked up. Damn.
Adal
Oh, you should be teaching them martial arts.
Erin
Or they'll be like, how many times are you going to keep doing that? What? Oh no. Every time you say bye, you do it.
Adal
And surely people have thrown down their headphones.
Erin
I'm so sorry.
JPC
But for everyone else, look around, grab some headphones, free headphones on the ground.
Adal
Erin, do you mind if I come in and teach the kids the martial arts?
JPC
Let's see a scene right now. Adal, you are going to be teaching a children's martial arts class and Erin and I will be children in that class.
Adal
Alright everyone, listen up. I want to let you know that you need to have... Are you Jason's dad? That's correct. I am Jason's dad. What happened to him? Jason got beat up pretty bad. Oh.
Erin
I heard he just picked his mom.
00:44:26
Adal
He picked his mom.
Erin
Yeah, it's a divorce.
Adal
Yeah, and the courts. That is also true. He picked his mom, he went to a new school, and he got beat up pretty bad at that new school. Oh.
Erin
I heard he's doing really well.
Adal
Is this about Jason or about me teaching you martial arts?
JPC
Oh, I don't know. You didn't declare what it was about. You just said listen up and we're kids.
Adal
Okay, well, here's what's going to happen. I want you to grab Emily's milk over here. Okay. Now Emily, what I want you to do is before he gets away with that milk, I want you to grab his arm by the wrist. Now you're going to make your hand flat, your other hand flat. You're going to curl on your fingers and you're going to jam the palm of your hand into his nose, pushing it upward.
Erin
Before I do that, Jason said he didn't want to spend Christmas with you, right?
Adal
Yeah, that's right.
Erin
Okay.
Adal
So push your palm into his- Are you going to be alone?
Erin
Or do you have a girlfriend? Or what are you going to do?
Adal
I'm figuring things out. I'm in between things.
Erin
Yeah. But yeah, I know. I mean, last time I talked to him, he said that your side of the family doesn't talk to you anymore. You talk to Jason?
00:45:27
Adal
You talk to Jason? When did you talk to Jason?
Erin
This morning.
JPC
Aren't you a little old to be figuring things out? I mean, if you were maybe 30, you'd have the luxury of time to figure things out. But you look to be 50, 55.
Adal
I'm 32.
JPC
You're 32? You're 32.
Adal
Now jam the palm of your hand into his nose.
JPC
Okay, before I grab the milk, would you mind if I said something threatening when I was grabbing the milk? Can I hear what you're going to say? Sure. I was going to say, I have nipples, Fokker. Can you milk me? Okay, you should know that reference as a kid. What do you mean? We have a substitute teacher we watch meet the Fokkers. I love Owen Wilson.
Erin
Wow! Carpool with Jason and his mom. She's a beautiful woman. She seems really happy with her new husband.
Adal
Oh, she's remarried?
Erin
Oh, yeah. It was like a huge wedding. He's the mayor.
Adal
We got divorced days ago.
JPC
He's the mayor. He's John Mayer.
Erin
Yeah, but they've been together for two years. Weird.
Adal
Her body is a wonderland, but I guess I no longer am tall enough to ride that ride.
00:46:32
JPC
John Mayer's tall, laying down. Is what I've heard.
Erin
Ow! My nose! I did it! I don't think so. Alright, let's try to beat your record again. Are we ready? Yes. How are you?
JPC
We're not gonna do it.
Erin
What's your confidence level? Zero.
JPC
How do I get your confidence up? Okay, my confidence is also zero.
Erin
You are handsome, you are kind, you are smart, you take up space, you are interesting, and you can do this. Oh my god, now I'm at a zero.
JPC
Okay, now do one for me. You are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are... you are
00:47:37
Adal
I was gonna say I want to see a scene where the two of you are the siblings in the band Schmansom. Okay. Clearly this birthday party has hired Hanson and spent a pretty penny to get them and Schmansom shows up.
JPC
Okay.
Erin
I'm sorry, sorry, sorry.
Adal
Are you saying the words dope? This is my child's birthday party.
JPC
Yeah, well, I mean we're singing our biggest hit. Also, I don't think that's a Hanson song.
Erin
What am I thinking of?
JPC
I don't know. Are you Hanson?
Erin
What's the Hanson song?
JPC
We're Schmansom. What? We're Schmansom.
Erin
What's the Hansen song?
JPC
It doesn't matter. We're not Hansen. It doesn't matter. We're not Hansen. We don't do Hansen songs.
Erin
It doesn't matter.
Adal
No, put down that phone. Tell her to get off her phone.
Erin
I'm looking it up.
Adal
Or I'm going to mmm bop you on the head.
Erin
Oh, um, uh, shmoom, shmoop, shmoop, shmoop, shmoop, shmoop, shmoop, shmoop, shmoop, shmoop, shmoop, shmoop, shmoop, shmoop, shmoop, shmoop, shmoop, shmoop, shmoop, shmoop, shmoop, shmoop,
00:48:45
Adal
Okay, that was one terrible. Two, your boobs are out of your shirt.
Erin
Well, the radio told me to! Look! And his penis is out of his shirt! What are you trying to say?
JPC
Look, you hired Schmantham for this party, and we're just trying to sing her a hit. I'm meant to hire Hanson. This happens all the time.
Erin
That sounds expensive.
JPC
Yes.
Erin
They're old now.
JPC
Why don't we do this? They're like 32. Why don't we do this? We'll give you 10% of the money that you paid just back and we'll leave and we'll just have cake and we'll leave. No.
Erin
What do you mean no?
JPC
Okay, you ready to go shit? Fuck off. Okay.
Adal
Here's what's gonna happen. You give me 20% back. Okay. You pretend that you're cake the band and you perform for my kids.
Erin
Okay, we got a schmort, schmurt, and a shmog. Smack it!
Adal
You know that you can just sing the actual words.
JPC
I mean that's what cover bands do.
Adal
So you have to put a SCH in front of everything?
00:49:46
Erin
Maryland Manson. The Beatles.
JPC
Shmeetles.
Erin
The Spice Girls. Don't make it schmud.
JPC
If you want to schmud my schmud, you gotta schmud my schmud.
Erin
The Smiths. I'm Smashmouth. We called scene on that 20 minutes ago. Yeah! Okay, let's do this again. I'm glad your confidence is up, because shmoo, shmakeup, schmace.
00:50:46
JPC
Okay, so we have to beat five. Okay.
Erin
What gets tighter each time it's used?
JPC
Pants, belts.
???
What gets tighter each- You know that's gonna be a vagina.
Erin
Knew you were gonna say that, and I'm disappointed.
JPC
Snowboard trick. Snowboard trick. That's funny.
Erin
I went on Tony Hawk's Wikipedia page for like three- Wait. Like 20 minutes.
JPC
What gets tighter the more it's used? A zip tie.
Erin
What gets left behind whenever it is taken? What gets left behind whenever it is taken?
Adal
What gets left behind the more it's taken?
Erin
A tip. What gets left behind whenever it is taken?
JPC
A vacation. I don't know. I don't know. I give up. I should move up. A break.
00:51:49
Erin
We are fucked here.
Adal
I want to see a scene where J.P.C. is walking on the beach and he notices his footprints and then Erin I want you to come in and play God and you're attempting to carry J.P.C. vis-a-vis the poster, the famous poster or saying. I have so many troubles.
Erin
What up buddy, wait up! Wait up! Hold on, you're moving a little fast.
JPC
Hey, who are you?
Erin
Hey, who are you? Are you getting any closer to me? I've stopped moving. I'm walking towards you now. Billion? What, are you the god of the dinosaurs? Okay. Yes.
00:52:59
JPC
Yes. No, you're not. You're moving towards me, but you're getting further away.
Erin
Okay, I'm going to keep going. This has been, it's been good.
JPC
It's been real.
Erin
Enjoy the dinosaurs. Okay. That was a workout. Holy smokes, I'm gonna feel that tomorrow.
JPC
I gotta say, you may became 25 feet.
Adal
Erin, here's what I want to ask you. Did you do cocaine before this episode?
Erin
Do you think does it feel like I did? Am I talking really fast?
JPC
Um, well we did also, we hung out with you for two hours before this episode.
Erin
Well I'm also, I had this plan going in where I thought I'm gonna try to do as many riddles as possible.
Adal
Here's what I'll say. I fucking love the energy. I just don't know where it came from.
Erin
This is coming from the Spooky Sleepy Ghost, canonically. Actually, this weekend I started listening to this new musical called Six that is really big in London.
00:54:23
Adal
Oh, Matt Young saw it and he said it was amazing.
Erin
Yeah, it's coming to Chicago and I already bought tickets. I'm so excited. When's it coming? May and then I think it plays through June, but it's about Henry VIII's wives and it's presented like a Spice Girls concert and it is amazing.
Adal
Can the three of us all go together? See what? We should see the six. Yeah, we're gonna go. We're gonna have a better time.
Erin
Oh, I'm sorry.
JPC
I was saying Adal, but I meant me and Erin. Oh.
Adal
I said hey Adal. That makes sense.
Erin
We should go see. They have the same middle name. Who does?
JPC
Henry the 8th Kermit the Frog. Yeah, that's a big deep sigh for me.
Erin
Kermit the Frog here.
Adal
Kill Anne Boleyn. I am!
00:55:26
Erin
It enters dry and comes out wet the longer it's in. The stronger it gets.
Adal
Okay, okay, okay. Stop, stop, stop.
Erin
I tried to say it with no inflection.
Adal
You picked up the romantic comedy that you've been writing, the romance novel. Yeah. The romantic comedy. Erin, I'm gonna stop you right there. It's poop.
Erin
It enters dry and comes out wet. The longer it's in, the stronger it gets.
Adal
It enters dry and comes out wet. It's a tampon.
Erin
What does it get stronger when it gains blood?
JPC
We've done so many of these why all of a sudden is there like a fuck Riddle in here.
Adal
Erin, what gets stronger when it consumes blood? Ticks. Mosquitoes. Vampires. Why is a tampon any different? Any time you give a tampon blood, it's like if you give a mouse a cookie. Some mosquitoes die.
00:56:29
Erin
If you give a tampon blood, it's going to want your organs. If you give it your organs, it's going to want your brain.
JPC
Watch out because these tampons are very thirsty.
Adal
I want to just get some legalese out of the way here. Legally, listeners, the three of us are going to write the children's book if you give a tampon blood. A tampon? A tampon. So nobody else can write that. That is our children's book. Look for it. In spring of 2000. I have blood tampon. Can you milk me?
Erin
And you think I'm the one who did cocaine before this episode? Unbelievable. Has it been really that annoying?
Adal
No! It hasn't been annoying in the slightest. It's just a matter of we've been hanging out for two hours and then suddenly you just have all the energy of a son. Or a daughter.
Erin
Can you imagine what it's like to date me?
Adal
Yes! Let's see a quick scene with Erin and JPC. You're on a date. You're at the musical 6.
00:57:30
Erin
The answer was a teabag. Keep going.
Adal
You're at the Musical 6. This is your first date. You two have never met. You matched on Bumble. And Erin, you're playing yourself. JPC, you're playing whoever you like.
Erin
Hey, I don't think these are our seats. These are front row center. We're actually back there and I don't want to get into a tiff with whoever's seats.
JPC
Hey Erin, it's Adal! Oh my god.
Erin
Hey!
JPC
I don't know that guy. You don't know this guy? He knows your name.
Erin
It was probably a guess. I sort of look like an Erin.
JPC
Oh, alright. Good to see you. Are you sure? Hey man.
Erin
No, hold on. I would love to deal with this. Okay. Why did you so boldly and arrogantly walk to the front and pick these things?
JPC
Oh, I kind of can come in and sit wherever I want. I don't mean to make a big deal of this, but I'm Luke Skywalker.
Erin
That's not what your name said on the Bumble.
JPC
I have to use a fake name on Bumble because I'm Luke Skywalker and I'm kind of fake.
00:58:32
Adal
Ladies and gentlemen, the musical Schmix will start in just a few minutes. Did he say Schmix?
Erin
Yep. Oh, this is Afran 6. Let's get out of here. Well, I'm not going to tell Adal, so.
JPC
Okay, okay, okay. Don't tell Adal. Let's get out of here. I got a spaceship parked outside.
Erin
Yeah, I've dated enough weirdos.
JPC
Shmeen. Shmeen. Smash mouth. Ask me how many you got in that one. Zero. Yeah, we're getting worse at this as time goes on and let that be an indication. Ooh, an indication.
Adal
How would Cajun boys say that? Bobby Boucher and a mud dog won a Super Bowl. I was prompting you for indication, but I'll take what I can get.
Erin
I think sometimes I don't realize when my energy has spiked because a couple weeks ago I walked into my boyfriend's apartment and then talked to him for 20 minutes and then he got really quiet and I was like, what's wrong? And he's like, you came in here with sort of a manic energy? And I was like, oh no.
00:59:37
Adal
Just the other day I walked into a glass plate window and is it because the Diet Coke I got you?
Erin
Maybe. I think it's just because I was trying to get my energy back up after being here a while.
JPC
Look, we've got lightning in a bottle. Let's not open it up and try to examine it.
Erin
Again, not the song. Alright, well, we don't have a ton of time left, but I really want you to beat your thing, so we're gonna... There's gotta be a better way to say that.
JPC
Also, we don't need a ton of time for me to beat my thing.
Adal
Hey Riddle Riddle, nice. Wait, would you say I had to beat my thing in five minutes?
Erin
Yeah, you have to beat your thing in five minutes. Beat the thing.
JPC
It's going to be really hard for me to beat my thing in five minutes. Would anyone mind insulting me and maybe spitting? Stepping on my bones.
Erin
Okay, well, you have five minutes. If you lose, then we lose all of our listeners.
Adal
So this is the final round?
Erin
And also, everybody, I really tried to do an episode where we did a ton of riddles.
01:00:40
JPC
Just end the thought there. I really tried to do an episode.
Erin
I really tried to do an episode and it really fell apart in my hand. Okay. On your marks. No, Riddle. Canoe dog puzzles. Each day a boy rides an elevator up to the fifth floor and then walks to the 10th floor. Why?
JPC
He's too small to hit the buttons. Yes, we've had that a thousand times.
Erin
I know. I'm like forwards, but in reverse. What am I?
JPC
I'm like forwards, but in reverse, the boy.
Adal
I'm like forwards.
Erin
Don't overthink this. Just word associate.
Adal
JPC, I'm like forwards, but in reverse. Oh, is it four words? Nope. The number four? I'm like forwards, but in reverse. I don't know.
Erin
I'm not going forwards. I'm going backwards. You didn't get that one.
Adal
Come on.
Erin
Fuck. How can you pick up a piece of string, one hand holding each end and then tie a knot in it without letting go of either end?
Adal
Be a cat.
JPC
Um, you can't.
Adal
With your tongue, like a cherry stem.
01:01:40
Erin
How can you pick up a piece of string, one hand holding each end, and then tie a knot in it without letting go of either end?
Adal
You let go of both ends.
Erin
Nope, you cross your arms before you pick it up. Ugh. What is special about the number, oh you're gonna hate this, eight million, oh eight billion, five hundred forty nine million, one hundred seventy six thousand, three hundred and twenty.
JPC
Turn it upside down, it spells boos. Next!
Erin
Thank you, Snake. Thank you. It's the only number which contains all the digits in alphabetical order.
JPC
Cool!
Erin
Yeah, fun. Which word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?
JPC
Incorrectly. Incorrectly. We've found that before.
Erin
Whoever makes me, tells me not. Whoever takes me, knows me not. Whoever knows me, wants me not. What am I?
Adal
Coffin. I've had that before.
Erin
Nope. Whoever makes me, tells me not. Whoever takes me, knows me not. Whoever knows me, wants me not. Secret. I knows. Knows job. Nope. Counterfeit money. FOMP! Most people need it. Some ask for it. Some give it, and nearly everyone ignores it. What am I talking about?
01:02:45
JPC
Sex with me. Say it one more time.
Erin
Most people need it. Most people need it. Some ask for it, some give it, and nearly everyone ignores it. What am I talking about? Advice. Advice. From what can you take away the whole and still have some left? Donut. You've done this one before. Take away the whole. Wholesome. What is put on the table and often cut, yet never eaten?
JPC
Daddy.
Erin
Uh... Often cut. A cutting board. What has an eye but cannot see? What do people spend a lot of money on every year but never want?
Adal
Um, income tax?
Erin
Mm, like, something that you're like, you're older and you're obligated to buy this.
01:03:45
JPC
Oh, a birthday present for a loved one.
Erin
What? A truck is stuck under a bridge and the driver cannot get it out. A woman walks.
JPC
Can't get it up?
Erin
Can I get it out? A truck is stuck under a bridge and the driver cannot get it out. A woman walks by and stops to help. She easily gets the truck unstuck. How does she do it?
JPC
It's a bridge that opens at the top and she deflates the tires.
Erin
Yeah.
JPC
Fuck.
Erin
Amazing. Good job. What is always behind time?
JPC
Ghosts. What is always behind time? The second hand.
Erin
A battery. Gears. Sort of.
JPC
Gears.
Erin
I'll give it to you. The back of a clock. Yeah. A cowboy went into a bar and asked the barmaid for a glass of water. Hiccups. The barmaid pointed again.
Adal
Hiccups. I had that one.
Erin
I know. But this wasn't cowboys before. Hiccups. What is bought for eating it never eaten?
JPC
Ass. What? What is bought for eating but never eaten? A silverware.
01:04:48
Erin
Yeah, that works.
JPC
What was the right answer?
Erin
Cookery or cutlery? Cookery.
Adal
Cookery is what I said so far.
Erin
Cookery or cutlery? Cookery! Cookery! There's a man who shaves several times a day and yet still... Barber.
Adal
He's a barber. I had that one just literally two episodes ago.
Erin
Tiki Barber. What comes next in the following sequences? WTFSS?
Adal
Mark Marin. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Erin
So, what was the last one you said? S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S,
Adal
Oh, it's paper. Yep. We've had that one before.
Erin
If it asks questions, it never asks questions, but yet, oh my gosh, it never asks questions, yet is often answered. What is it?
01:05:50
JPC
Sphinx. It never asks questions, but is often answered. Well, that'd be my frickin' life. Doorbell.
Erin
Yeah, doorbell. And buzz, buzz, buzz goes the buzzer. Aldrin!
JPC
Your moon is calling.
Erin
You got one, two, three, four, five wrong. And I think you beat your record right at the end of the episode. How many? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve,
Adal
Call us orange soda because we fucking crushed it.
Erin
Fourteen. But I wonder how many of those are ones we've had.
JPC
All of them. Most of them. And KJ, what did we win? You had all episodes to be prepared for this. Boy, okay.
Erin
I don't think KJ likes us.
JPC
But in fairness to us, we don't like us either. That was great. Adal, do you have anything that you would like to plug?
Adal
Yeah.
JPC
Okay.
Adal
I want to plug Hey Riddle Riddle Nights. It's a little more salacious, a little more naughty.
01:06:51
Erin
And that's over on our Patreon.
Adal
That's on our Patreon. Every every time you log on at Patreon past 8 p.m. You can also check me out on Twitter at Adal Rifai. You can listen to my podcast Siblings Peculare or Hello From The Magic Tavern. I say or because you have to choose. Yeah, you can only choose one. And come check out JPC, Erin, and myself in the show World News Tonight. We've been getting a weekly, we've been getting a lot of fans coming to the show.
Erin
We had laser come last night and he's named after the guy from Fiddler on the Roof.
Adal
Yeah. Laser Wolf. Zero Mustel. Nice. And we are going to be heartbroken if we now have a show and there are no fans afterwards. Please keep our egos afloat or else we will stop performing.
JPC
Speaking of weather up and die, you can watch me on my Twitch show. It's Thursday nights at 7 o'clock central with Eddie Clinker and James Dugan. We play the board game Gloomhaven and that is twitch.com slash one shot RPG. Speaking of one shot RPG, you can also listen to my other podcast, the campaign podcast. And that's about politics? It's about campaign finance reform.
01:08:00
Erin
Hi Riddle in the sky.
JPC
We make it kind of horny, so it's a horny podcast about campaign finance reform. Corporations of people, unlimited donations, super packs, and just getting down to fingering. So find that on the One Shot Podcast Network.
Adal
Erin, anything to plug?
Erin
Come see Brady at 10 p.m. on Mondays at IELTS. Is that like a guy? Brady is like a pretty sweet bartender. He's really nice.
Adal
Go check out Clark. He's usually on the corner of the McDonald's.
JPC
I was like the plug. Doug at Mondays at noon. What is Brady?
Erin
Brady is an improv team I'm on with Leila Gorestein and Olivia Nielsen. They are both great. You know them. Yeah, they're wonderful. Yeah, they're really really funny.
JPC
I won't copter that on the air.
Erin
Yeah, you like both of them.
JPC
I don't know them.
Erin
You don't like both of them. Not on the air. He likes both of them. I do great. And we have a show every Monday at 10 and follow me, Erin Keif 10, on Instagram for my other shows that I'll plug.
01:09:00
Adal
And Erin, if somebody was hiring a planet for their kid's birthday party but they got a knockoff version, that planet would be... Shmoop-it-er. Bye forever.
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created by Adal Rifai, starring Erin Keif, and John Patrick Mullen. AG Snyder did the editing, and Marty Perrin did the music. Logo created by Emily Cardamus and Emmoe Nemours.
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