Which Riddle Riddle?

#33: The One With The Most!

00:00:02

???

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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