This is a HeadGum podcast. Don't panic. It's not the theme song. We're really sorry, but we have to tell you something.
00:00:02
Erin
This is a HeadGum podcast. Don't panic. It's not the theme song. We're really sorry, but we have to tell you something.
JPC
But, but, but, but, but, but, but. Yeah, we have to tell you. Our lawyers say we legally, we have to say this.
Erin
We have a live show this Sunday, the 12th of May in LA. It's this Sunday. So you are, if you're listening, like a good little boy or girl, the week or day this comes out.
JPC
You're sitting around this fireside chat. Go grab your daddy's wallet and steal.
Erin
So where can they find tickets?
JPC
They can go to headgum.com slash live, go to the Hey Riddle Riddle, click the link and it'll send you off to the LA Improv's website where you can buy tickets.
Adal
What do they bring? If you come, bring yourselves, bring a good fucking attitude because we don't want to fucking hang out with people who are sad.
JPC
You hear that mom?
Adal
Also, you're going to want to bring some puzzies and riddies because at the end of the show we're going to take some audience puzzies and riddies, we'll call upon you, you might hear yourself on an episode so bring those please. Also, you can dress up as your favorite characters. Wear your merch. You can wear your merch and we're going to have new merch for sale. We have a brand new poster that's smoking hot for our LA show. We have some pins that we're going to sell and some pins that Erin's going to drink. So come to our live show. Check it out. There's limited tickets remaining. We hope to sell it out, but we will see you there.
00:01:22
JPC
Happy Mother's Day. We love our moms! It was the captain of an airplane.
???
He stabbed him with a knife and a...
Erin
No, my brain is basically just water and mashed potatoes. With no electricity going through them, it's just that.
JPC
I mean a little bit of water ruined mashed potatoes. And that's gonna be our opening for this episode of Hey Riddle Riddle. I'm Adal Rifai.
Erin
I'm JPC, and I'm Erin Keif, and that was a personal statement I sent to Fred.
Adal
We were doing some mic tests, Erin said her brain is mostly water and mashed potatoes, and that is awesome.
00:02:25
JPC
But while we're kicking off and while we're talking about this, this is something that I'm glad that we brought up at the top. I'm glad Erin brought up at the top of the episode because shining a light on brains being mashed potatoes is an important issue that we did to talk about. But I found it to be a very controversial thing. What is your favorite way to eat potatoes? Like your favorite method?
Erin
To eat a brain.
JPC
And your two options are live or dead. Ooh, live. Yeah, live, of course.
Erin
So you can get their memories.
JPC
No, uh, yeah, favorite preparation way to eat a potato? Scalloped.
Erin
I was gonna say scalloped.
JPC
Scalloped? Scalloped is a sleeper. Uh, because I feel like people wouldn't say scalloped.
Erin
My mom makes excellent scalloped.
Adal
My mom made excellent scalloped potatoes. Do we have to say mom? One, two, three.
Erin
My grandma!
Adal
Do you say my grandma? Yeah, my grandma makes great scalloped potatoes. My grandma and your grandma making scalloped potatoes.
Erin
Well, I would argue that there's really no horrible way to prepare them. I love... I love mashed potatoes and I love french fries. Adal just handed me a box of french fries and he didn't even have to text me to know that I wanted them. He just brought them for me because he knew I'd eat them.
00:03:32
Adal
For those who can't see it is a bank box full of fries. It is about three and a half pounds and Erin went through them very quick.
Erin
I blinked and they were gone.
JPC
I think my favorite way to eat mashed potatoes is waffle fries. I think waffle fries are, that's my favorite type of potato. What do you dip those into?
???
Ranch?
JPC
Ranch. Chick-fil-A does, but we're not allowed to go there anymore because they're canceled 2019. Sorry. But yeah, you see at the Chick-fil-A on my college campus when, again, it was still bad to eat them. I used to love those waffle fries.
Erin
Well, how do we feel about sweet potatoes and sweet potato fries?
JPC
I'm generally into sweet potato fries, but I don't want a full order. I want three sweet potato fries, because I feel like it's diminishing returns when I eat sweet potato fries. The more I eat them, the less I want to like, I feel like French fries, I could just eat and eat and eat forever, but sweet potato fries.
Adal
That's why I feel about candy corn versus real corn.
Erin
I could eat candy corn forever.
Adal
I could eat candy corn forever. Real corn, one or two lines on the cob, and I'm done.
JPC
Alright, I get the subtext. You guys are not invited to my dinners anymore. You don't like my side dish of candy corn. I have free candy corn. Oh my god.
00:04:37
???
I love it here.
JPC
Okay, you two billionaires are too big for candy corn on the cob. It took me hours to put that together.
???
You're just gluing candy corn.
Adal
I'm not a money doctor, but I have to assume candy corn is way more expensive than real corn.
JPC
So you're the millionaire, my friend.
Erin
Really using real glue.
JPC
Real glue fake corn. Okay, so the other question is what is your least favorite way to eat potatoes? Like your least favorite preparation? Or when it's in a butt. Oh, butt potatoes? Gotta disagree. Yeah, honestly, I'll eat any potato out of a butt. So raw is Mr. Genius's response. You feel good?
Erin
I'm not like constantly ordering baked potatoes, potato skins.
???
You mean a jacket potato? No.
JPC
Oh boy. Baked potatoes take so long to make. Mariah and I made baked potatoes the other night and it takes like an hour and 15 minutes just to bake a potato.
Erin
You had nothing to talk about.
JPC
We just sat in silence.
Adal
I feel like just like new potatoes. That's not really a preparation. What does that mean? Just like baby red. Oh, okay. If you just get a plate of like quartered potatoes that are like baby red with seasoning. Okay.
00:05:45
Erin
Here's some new potatoes and you're like... Oh, I love like breakfast. But those sound like breakfast potatoes. Yeah.
Adal
No, they're not like fried. It's just like seasoned and... And baked? Maybe baked but...
JPC
Oh, yeah.
Adal
I love potato salad, but I don't like, just like a quartered potato. I love baked potato. Baked potato is probably my second favorite preparation. Mashed potato's near the bottom.
Erin
You know that?
Adal
Oh really? I don't, I hate gravy. Oh wow! No! Adal said it so!
Erin
Oh no, we thought we loved you. We thought this was gonna work.
JPC
What are the fucking gravy pulleys? One of the things that sucks a lot about being a vegetarian is gravy is made with meat stock and so like and wheat and wheat well yeah so fuck so I think it's because I miss it I think it's because I miss it so much I loved gravy and you can make vegetarian gravy and I do but it's gravy I go to brunch every Sunday at the same place and the things I get has gravy on
Erin
You know that really cold day we had this year? Wherever I had to stay inside? Well today, but also like in January. Polar vortex, yeah. I just bought like eight potatoes and then cut them up in small pieces and put a bunch of olive oil on them and then just ate that for three days.
00:06:54
Adal
This has been Pod Tato, your podcast for all things potato. We hope you enjoy the show. Give us an email at podtato.potatoes at we're so sorry dot com.
Erin
Is this a regular episode? We gotta do Riddles. This is a regular episode. I forgot what was happening.
Adal
Old lady potatoes. This is Erin Keif. My least favorite is Home Fries.
Erin
Oh, and they say potatoes.
Adal
Potatoes and risottos.
Erin
That's what we should, instead of puzzles and riddles.
Adal
Oh my god.
JPC
Today we should do potatoes and risottos. Potatoes and risottos.
Erin
I love it. During that time, so my boyfriend came over for the polar vortex and I said that, I was like, we should watch that show Post Potatoes. And then we laughed and we talked about how Post Potatoes sounds like how Irish people saying died. I'm so sorry to hear that he's Post Potatoes.
???
How's Carl? He's Post Potatoes.
Erin
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but he's post potatoes.
JPC
The poor boy went post potatoes in the river.
Erin
Which is probably not great to Irish people, but I think about all the time. I hate to be the one to break this to you, Mary, but he's post potatoes.
JPC
I know, Erin, you're Irish, right? Yeah, I'm Irish too. So we can all make these jokes. Okay.
00:07:57
Erin
By nightfall, he'll be post potatoes. Sorry, I can't stop thinking about it. Alright, I am old man. Old lady potatoes.
Adal
How's your new boyfriend?
Erin
Potatoes. Potatoes. How's your old boyfriend? Post potatoes.
JPC
How are the kids? Oh, they're all potatoes.
Adal
And in bed are things like pre-potatoes. Oh, he's pre-potatoes. Oh, he's pre-potatoes. Oh, he's pre-potatoes.
JPC
Oh, he's pre-potatoes.
Erin
Oh, he's pre-potatoes. Oh, he's pre-potatoes. Oh, he's pre-potatoes.
JPC
Oh, he's pre-potatoes. Oh, he's pre-potatoes. Oh, he's pre-potatoes. Oh, he's pre-potatoes. Oh, he's pre-potatoes.
Erin
Oh, he's pre-potatoes. Oh, he's pre-potatoes. Oh, he's pre-potatoes. Oh, he's pre-potatoes. Oh, he's pre What can be empty and full at the same time?
Adal
Are these warm-up riddies, or are these our main potatoes?
Erin
Well, it depends on how good they are. How good you are at them.
JPC
Is this our main potato, a baked potato, or side potatoes? Potatoes are rotten.
Erin
Is this episode going to be called potatoes?
JPC
This episode should just be named potato, and that's it.
Erin
Potato, potato.
Adal
Did we just invent a restaurant called Bubba Potatoes?
Erin
You say potato, I also say potato.
Adal
We all eat potatoes, then we go to bed. Potato, potato, potato, potato.
00:09:00
JPC
Too many carbs tonight. I must say this at least once in an episode, but I feel truly insane right now.
Adal
And we're your puppets. You're potato puppets. I feel like truly... Potatoes and pajamas are coming down the stairs.
JPC
Like seven minutes ago, reality broke and split in two, and now I'm on a different path in my life.
Adal
You mean reality fights with Ben Potato and Gene Groff off of potato.
Erin
I think what our issue is is we frequently forget as we're sitting here that we're on a podcast and we're being recorded.
JPC
And there are these men with guns holding their heads saying, make the comedy, make the joke. Real quick, rolling on top of my dining room table.
Adal
Right?
Erin
Make the comedy, make the joke.
Adal
Make the comedy, make the joke.
Erin
What menu item does B-A-N-A represent?
JPC
Banana. B. Anna. What menu item? B-E-E-A-N-A?
Erin
No. B-A-N space A-N-A.
JPC
B-A-N. A banana split.
00:10:00
Erin
Yeah.
JPC
Ooh. Noics. Somebody. Somebody. Shock me. Oh, do you guys think that a banana split would be good if instead of bananas it was long fingerling potatoes? Is everything else savory? So it's ice cream, fudge, what's the other one? Caramel? Cilantro.
Erin
Well then you just you would need a savory. Oyster.
Adal
Cilantro. Oyster. Oyster crackers. Santana.
Erin
You have to do a substitute for each sweet thing.
Adal
Substitute. Let's pick on her.
JPC
It's fingerling potatoes instead of bananas. Instead of ice cream, it's sherbet.
Adal
I want to see real quick where Erin's a substitute teacher. JPC and I are some rowdy rowdy boys. And we're letting her know how things usually happen.
Erin
You can do this. You're talking into a megaphone.
Adal
What? You're talking to a megaphone?
Erin
Oh my god. You're talking into a megaphone. Okay, sorry.
Adal
What's your name? Diane.
Erin
She yelled at me. But you need to call me Mrs. Anderson. Mrs. Anderson?
00:11:03
Adal
I was going to say I don't see a wedding ring. But there's a tan line where there was a ring. Details. Usually our teacher starts off by talking about her divorce.
JPC
If you're divorced, you have to say that or else it's entrapment.
Erin
Technically not a divorce. I just got one of those rings from a vending machine stuck on my hand for many years. Okay. And now I have a tan line for it for the rest of my life.
Adal
Did you used to live somewhere warm with a lot of sun? Because it looks like you maybe haven't seen the sun.
Erin
Sex education.
JPC
Whoa. This is history class. Hey, shut up. Shut up. Go with it. This is awesome.
Erin
Oh, okay.
JPC
We're nine.
Erin
Who knows what's going on?
Adal
What happens in sex is that the ping pong goes in the gooble-a-gop. You put your ping pong in the dime store, you pay the bill, and you pull it out.
Erin
Well, he gets it. Do you get it?
JPC
No, I was told that it was like a penis in a vagina. All that sounded insane. What? What are the words he said?
00:12:04
Erin
Diane, you can do this. You've got this. Don't let them intimidate you.
JPC
Can you please tell us what the truth is?
Erin
History started in 1840. Win.
JPC
Win. I really wanted to know what the end of that would be and I never will.
Erin
Nope.
JPC
I'd never get to know.
Erin
It's pre-Civil War. John Adams was long dead, so I don't know what was going on.
Adal
No, I'm sorry, he was what?
Erin
Long dead.
Adal
He was what?
Erin
Long dead.
Adal
He was post... He was post potatoes!
Erin
I already forgot what we were talking about.
Adal
I like your default to be like, he's dead.
Erin
Yeah, you want me to say my wife?
JPC
If it's Adal and he's like, say it, say it, you can be pretty sure that it's my wife.
Erin
At that point in history, children, John Adams was post potatoes. Okay, what can be thrown but never caught?
Adal
Good luck. Your voice.
Erin
Say that, do it then. No. It's all that. What can be thrown but never caught?
00:13:09
Adal
What can be thrown but never caught? Oh, I know what it is.
Erin
A football with your dad.
Adal
I was just going to say baseball with my dad. Yay! Because he left.
JPC
Thrown but never caught.
Adal
We're so similar in it. You said football and I said baseball. Go Pats. So close but worlds apart. Do you say Go Pats?
Erin
Whatever I do, I do it too. Show me everything and tell me how.
???
One of the cats in the cradle and the sail by spoon. Post potatoes dead, dead in his room.
Adal
But yeah, is the answer a potato? No. Are you sure? What can be thrown but not caught?
Erin
Here's a hint, it's something I did at Ellis Island when I was four.
JPC
A gun.
Erin
No, something I did.
JPC
Oh, you can throw a fit. A tantrum. You can throw a freaking tantrum.
Adal
You can throw a lot of stuff that you can't catch. Throw a party.
Erin
It's a tantrum.
Adal
Can't catch a party. It's a tantrum? You can throw shade. Oh yeah.
Erin
But you can catch a shade. A window shade.
JPC
You can throw one type of shade and catch another type of shade.
00:14:12
Erin
Were you bad kids? Did you throw tantrums?
Adal
No. I was super, super quiet as a kid because my sister was a wild child. So I made up for her by being very, very quiet.
JPC
I want to say that this is something that my mom did for us. And I may be getting this wrong. But I definitely would do this if I had a kid. Which was in a store wanting a toy and not getting it and like laying down on the ground and throwing a tantrum. And then my mom just got down on the ground and also started throwing a tantrum, which embarrassed me, the one throwing a tantrum, to stop throwing a tantrum.
Adal
Holy shit, that is brilliant. And you told us just before this episode your mom was in Mensa. She qualified for Mensa. Yeah, we know a lot. And that proves the point.
JPC
Mom's a very smart lady. What a, holy shit. That is brilliant. That's good parenting. That's one thing that has stuck with me because I have no shame and I can't get embarrassed by shit. So if someone... Which is why you're currently just wearing a bread bowl. Hey, this is an expensive bread bowl asshole. He told us to call you Panera. This is one of the most expensive bread bowls they make. This is the Gucci of bread bowls. But yeah, I would absolutely do that. If a kid was throwing a tantrum, just sit down and throw a tantrum too. That sounds fun.
00:15:28
Adal
I never threw tantrums, but I definitely got everything I wanted. I was definitely spoiled. But in a way that my parents were just very generous. And I think rewarded me for being good.
Erin
For bad behavior. What you said?
JPC
What I said. I was also spoiled too, but also we didn't have a lot of money, but I was spoiled. And then I ran into kids later in life that were also spoiled, but had money. And I was like, oh, that's like this whole different kind of spoiled. Oh, sure. But I was still very spoiled, for sure. We had everything that we wanted, basically. Do you get a horse for Christmas? Same. I had a horse for Christmas and I had my uncle kill it. With his hands. That's power. That's power. Have your uncle kill your horse. That's power. Don't talk to me about power. Commissioner Gordon.
Adal
Now all I have to do is look at people who kill the horse, their nephew, and then I find out who Batman is.
JPC
First of all, that horse was pre-potatoes when I met him. Pre-potatoes? You mean post-potatoes? No, no, no, no. When I left that horse he was potatoes. He was coming?
00:16:30
Erin
It won't surprise you to know that I threw tantrums quite a lot.
JPC
Uh, did it work? Did it work out in your favor?
Erin
Uh, no. I was just sort of a nightmare, made my mom tired, hurt her feelings.
Adal
Do you remember... Big train on everyone's energy. Do you remember what you threw a tantrum about at Ellis Island? Was it Ellis Island or what did you say?
Erin
I said, I think it's Ellis Island. Ellis Island. If I'm remembering correctly.
JPC
Did you throw a tantrum because they were trying to change your name? Yeah, they're trying.
Erin
They told me I was Irish and I was like, no!
Adal
Hi guys, I see a scene. GPC, you're a Ellis Island tour guide in, I don't know, 2008. I don't know when you were four. Wow! Thank you!
Erin
Wow, you think of a child!
Adal
Thank you, splits. Erin, you are a four-year-old, Erin Keif, and I will play one of your parents, we'll see which one, and you're gonna throw a tantrum at some point.
JPC
Ellis Island actually has a very robust history and it goes back... That's one way of putting it. Robust? Yes. Thank you. There's a shit show.
00:17:33
Adal
Okay, I'm sorry, there are children here on the tour. Yeah, my kid. Yeah. Erin, speak up. Okay, so the history... She's doing a Marge Simpson. Erin, do your Marge Simpson.
JPC
That's a very good Marge Simpson.
Erin
Do you have snacks?
JPC
No, so there were no snacks at the original Ellis Island. People would wait in long lines.
Erin
You got a cute little bow tie though.
JPC
Okay, thank you so much. I actually learned how to tie this in the authentic manner. Do you have cheeses? I don't have any cheeses, no.
Erin
Do you have fruit by the foot?
JPC
Okay, so I don't have any snacks.
Erin
What about Dunkaroos?
JPC
I don't have snacks. On the way out after the tour.
00:18:33
Adal
Can I ask you something? Here's an extra two dollars. I want to know what Keif used to be. What was the full name?
JPC
My name is Mama Keif. This is my daughter Erin. So we can go to the big book of names. And so Keif, do you know roughly where your ancestry were from? Erin, tell them.
???
Ireland.
JPC
Keith, Keith, Keith, Keith. Ah! So the original was Thief, which was short for Horse Thief.
Adal
That horse was Post Potatoes when we found it.
JPC
It looks like the Keifs that came over, the horse thieves that came over for the first time, had their hands cut off for stealing horses, so they couldn't sign their own names, so the Ellis Island people gave them the name Keith.
Adal
Grandma and Grandpa said it was bit off by a Dracula.
Erin
Same. My name is an accident. My last name. It happened after Ellis Island, but during the census they spelled the name wrong.
00:19:34
Adal
What was your, do you know the original name?
Erin
K-E-E-F-E. So it's O'Keefe. It's still Keef, but it's a different spelling. And then we were O'Keefe in Ireland.
Adal
O'Keefe. O'Keefe.
Erin
And that's what is a thing that is real.
Adal
Yeah. That's why we did the scene.
Erin
Great. What always tastes better than it smells?
Adal
Poop.
Erin
Potatoes.
Adal
Potatoes. What always tastes better than it smells? Your mouth. Erin's mouth.
Erin
No, I don't taste good.
JPC
Oh, honey. So you taste like Skittles. Yeah, you taste like Skittle sweet candy.
Erin
I do now. Hey Riddle Riddle fan brought Skittles to World News last night and I had like a meltdown and was so excited and was like, I'll have a couple.
Adal
Let's set right now, because with Hello from the Magic Tavern, my character... Caught the badger. At some point became fascinated with Snickers, so every time I would meet fans, or like we'd have a live show, I would get dozens of Snickers, and I eventually grew to hate them, but I still like them. But let's set for each of us... Put that caveat in there because they could be a sponsor for the show one day. I love Snickers, satisfied hunger. Let's set for each of us. Joe Pesci. If you want to bring us some candy, what do you bring? So Erin, what is your kind of choice that appreciators of the show, I won't illusion myself that we have fans, but appreciators of the show, what should they bring you?
00:20:58
Erin
Skittles? They have a choice.
Adal
Okay, we'll give choices.
JPC
So you're also effectively picking the candy that you want ruined for you forever.
Erin
Yeah. Okay. Um, I like peppermint patties. I like orange starbursts.
Adal
I've never in my life seen a single person eat a peppermint patty.
Erin
They're in my freezer in Massachusetts.
Adal
You've only ever seen four people? I've met four people? Go to town on what? My reflection, my shadow, my penis, and me.
Erin
That's sort of my mom's thing is cold peppermint patties. Like a treat night at night. Oh, you put them in the freezer? Yeah, treat late at night.
Adal
So are the commercials real or like they breathe out mountain breath air?
Erin
This is what they do.
Adal
Yeah, cold, cold, cold candy is good. Like in the quiet place?
Erin
Cold candy is good.
Adal
Cold girls got cookies, cold thin mints, I like cold rifs. We used to put Charleston cheese in the freezer. So you said orange starburst? And that's just orange starburst?
Erin
Yes, orange.
Adal
Okay. So a fan, an appreciator of the show would have to buy multiple packages of starburst.
Erin
Or just bring me one single orange starburst and I'll be happy. I don't need a whole, you don't need to bring me a bunch of candy.
JPC
So one peppermint patty or one orange starburst? Full Bag of Skittles. Okay, so those are your three?
00:22:03
Adal
Wow. JPC, what are yours? You said earlier you said like one of those cans of peanuts when you open it up and it's snakes?
JPC
Yes. But I want the can, this is so crazy, I want the can to say snakes. And when you open it up it's not. It's candy. If you give me a can of snakes, it doesn't matter how many snakes are in there as long as there are snakes in there, I'm happy. Favorite candy to receive? If I have my druthers... Is that like Werthers, but Sam's Club? Druthers are original.
Adal
Hey Grandpa.
Erin
They have no taste, but they make a noise when you open them.
Adal
I want to see a quick commercial. JPC, you're an old grandpa. That's redundant. You're a grandpa. The grandpa's going to be young, but this one's old. You're going to be an old man who's doing a commercial for druthers, which is obviously the ripoff brand of Werthers.
JPC
Alright kids, you wanna whirthers, go bother your grandma. Well, you can't because she's in Mexico with teeth. If you want to stay here at Grandpa's house, you'll have a druthers and you'll like it. Mmm, druthers. Pop that into your mouth and taste the subtle flavors of goat's milk, hay fever, pine cones, and salt taffy. That's the original druthers flavor. What do you kids think?
00:23:23
Erin
I just had a druthers and now my tongue is white.
Adal
Is teeth her boyfriend?
JPC
You heard it here folks. If these ingrate shitbird kids don't like druthers, then I'll be a motherfucker.
Erin
Scene. I can't believe JP Riddles became his daughter for druthers.
JPC
Can you guys believe I have two characters? Alan Alda? Alan Alda? Everyone else? Everyone else. There's two characters, Alan Alda and everyone else.
Adal
I would like you to bring me a payday, and by that I mean bring me a checkbook written out for $1.25 so I can buy my own candy. What are you going to get, a candy for $1.25?
JPC
This can't count because it's so specific, but it's, oh man, now Samosa Girl Scout Cookies? What are those called? Samoas. Samoas. Yeah. Or wait, wait. No, no, not samosas.
Adal
Samoas is a Pacific island? No. That's a sumo. That's a Samoan. Samoan. Are they called Samoas?
00:24:25
JPC
Oh fuck.
Erin
We should maybe cut this part out.
JPC
No, no, no. I want this in. This is my part and I want this in. But it's the ones with chocolate and coconut. I think those are Samoas. Samoas, right? Those are great in the freezer. But that's not really a candy. Those are the best cookies. Yeah. The best girl's cookies. The best girl's cookies. So I will say that a KitKat, I think a KitKat is... Really? Good call. I'm a chocolate guy.
Adal
And mine is Whatchamacallit. To me, Whatchamacallit is the absolute best candy bar ever made. I used to love paydays and now I'm all about Whatchamacallit. Whatchamacallit is like puffed rice. It's not rice, it's rice. There's caramel, there's chocolate, there's maybe a little bit of nougat. It's just delicious.
Erin
So, I also care about koalas. Sorry.
JPC
Oh, yeah, cuz Australia like a couple weeks ago on TPK, which is my stream that I do on Thursday nights. It's your fight club. My fight club. It's a total knockout.
Adal
Total. Deep as your pants.
JPC
Hey, this is talking to you piss your pants. But I was making Eddie and James do this bit where I kept making them eat candy bars to do a challenge. And I was like trying to get specific ones to like fit a theme. But I got watchamacallits and I haven't had a watchamacallit in forever. And Eddie chickened out and he couldn't eat his watchamacallit. So I took a bite of it. And I kid you not, I hated it. Really?
00:25:42
Adal
They're so good. Those and a thousand grand, a hundred grand. Those are also delicious.
JPC
One of the other ones that we had was a hundred grand. And they're kind of the same thing. They have like nougat and caramel and chocolate. And I had both of them. I had a bite of both of them. I did not like either one of them. So good. Which is crazy that those are your favorite.
Adal
I like KitKat, but I like the Japanese kind. So there's like, in Japan they have like red bean flavor, green tea flavor. Like the Japanese, we've had some... You can get them online too, I think, or maybe you can see them from Japan. Absolutely, Amazon, but you can get them, but they're like $36 for $10 or something. But the Japanese flavors are fucking crushing what we have here in the States. Like, we have, like, milk chocolate to me is boring, unless there's like a whatchamacallit going on.
JPC
I just don't believe in the year, you know, 2019, the year of our Lord with globalization, we just can't get these Japanese flavors in America.
Erin
I don't think we deserve them.
JPC
We don't.
Erin
We don't deserve them.
Adal
Here's what we'll say. Send us as many different KitKat flavors as possible. We will review each one. This has been Candy Corner. I can't eat them. Please do not send me candy. Please send us an email to candycorner at we'resosorry.com.
00:26:45
JPC
I would die if I had candy, please no.
Erin
Are we ready for another riddle? A man is trapped in a room with only two exits. The first door leads to a tunnel made from magnifying glass. The blazing hot sun instantly fries anyone that enters. Through the second door, there is a fire-breathing dragon. How does the man end?
Adal
So one exit has glass made out of magnifying glass that fries anything that... Oh, this is easy. Adal knows it. I think this is easy. Maybe I'm crazy and you're my puppets. You wait till the sun goes down.
JPC
Yeah. Wow, but how do you know? Oh shit. Oh, the light goes away.
???
Oh yeah, you got it right.
JPC
Alright. You wait till the sun, hold on, I have the answer. Do let the sun go down on me. You wait till the sun goes down on the dragon. It's not the dragon's sun, it's just someone's sun. He's so distracted his eyes are rolling back into his head. You sneak right out. My little scales.
00:27:57
???
What a good voice. I think I'm going to puff. I think I'm going to puff. I'm a leaf.
JPC
We just ruined somebody's childhood.
Adal
Pizza dragon has a whole different plot line we never saw.
Erin
Puff the magic dragon.
Adal
That's why I said I think I'm going to puff. That's why I said I'm a leaf.
Erin
Pre-puff. Any other brain busters? I want to see a scene. Sorry, that's what I was going to say. I want to see a scene. In JPC, you are this like maniacal, Saw-like... Give him a character. Saw-like serial killer who like cooks up all these very expensive, intricate ways to mess with someone. You're sort of the... You're the guy he's kidnapped and you're presenting this behavior. I'm the carry-l-ways. You're poking holes in his place.
Adal
Please, please let me go, please. I'll do anything. Of course you're free to go at any time. Why do you talk like that? It's a voice modulator.
00:29:01
JPC
No, it's clearly you playing around with accents. Okay, well, the voice modulator is on backorder. You have a way to
Adal
Can I just stop here real quick? You said I must enter through the door? That means if I open the door and I go through it, I'd be entering into another room. If that were the actual exit, you'd say I would leave through a door, exit through a door. You said enter. Okay, so there are multiple rooms, but you were supposed to know that.
JPC
Hold on now. You have to eat your toe. That's what I'm getting at here. Eat my toe? To get the bone to open the door. Now, there are two different kinds of relish in the fridge. And there's pickle relish?
Adal
Hey, earlier you said your name was Reggie. You were real open about that. Did I say that? Yeah, and you never- I said that out loud? Yeah, you never took my cell phone, so the cops are on their way.
00:30:04
JPC
They know who you are. Oh, I have a little surprise for the police. Oh? Because I have shotguns positioned at every door.
Adal
And when the police come- Who's manning the shotguns? Do you have somebody holding them or are they just propped up against the wall?
JPC
So... Damn dude. Well... You fucked yourself. No, no. Yeah, Reggie, you fucked yourself. First of all, I never said my name was Reggie, okay?
???
Did I? Did I say that?
Adal
You did. Okay. You said it multiple times. You said Reggie's plan and Reggie's game. Here's what I'm gonna do.
JPC
I'm gonna come in there and I said Reggie's plan? That's really what... That's what I was gonna call this whole thing.
Adal
Reggie's plan. Can I just go? I'm not even tied down or anything. What? Can I just go? Oh my god. Did you have an assistant who like died or something? I was the assistant. You need to outsource something.
JPC
No, the whole time at the end you were supposed to trust the assistant and then you were gonna realize that it was me. Did I not come in there and do a whole assistant thing? The door started, the door knob started to turn and then it stopped. Oh, that's right. I got that phone call where I was having to give all of my personal information to renew my cable. I got the mic on.
00:31:21
Erin
Honey, how was work today?
JPC
I would say that there were good parts and bad parts today.
Erin
Yeah, I did kill him.
JPC
I went in the room and shot him with one of my door shot guns, but he didn't die the way that I wanted to die and he didn't learn any lessons and he never felt fear, so it kind of wasn't perfect for me. Oh, I'd really love to have sex. I guess that's not in the cards.
Erin
No, no, that's not really in Reggie's plan.
JPC
Okay!
Erin
You said your goddamn name!
Adal
Alright, well... Alright, Reggie Miller, you all set? Poop it up baby. Indiana Pacers. I was like, you can either be Reggie Wayne or Reggie Miller. Reggie Watts. Reggie's I know and both of them are from Indiana. Not from Indiana, but from Indiana. Remember Reggie Miller's classic phrase whenever you sink a deep three you just say, hoops up.
JPC
No, was that really what he said? I guessed. Oh man.
00:32:22
Erin
Here's another Riddle. I am a seed with three letters in my name. Take away the
JPC
You got it.
Erin
It was pee. One night a king and a queen walked into an empty castle. The next day the king, the queen, and someone else walked out. What happened? She had a baby. It's a boy. She had a baby. It's a king. One night, a king and a queen walked into an empty castle. The next day, the king and the queen and someone else walked out. What happened?
JPC
The castle was empty. Was this such a situation where someone was frozen in some sort of carbonite or crystal and the king is a myrtle of sorts and they had to unfree.
Adal
Or a job of the hut. Or a job of the hut. Or a salacious crumb. Oh, I was at the Star Wars celebration today. And boy are my arms tired. And boy are my arms tired. And I visited my friend Hilary and Demon worked for Funko, and so they brought me over to the booth to say hi and to grab some stuff. And they said that the guy who played Salacious Crumb was just at the booth, the guy who voices him, and I was so pissed I missed him because that's my favorite character. Plot ploy for the whole convention was to have Salacious Crumb leave my Regis plan was to have him leave a voicemail that was hey this is Adal leave a message after that
00:33:53
JPC
Why don't you just do that? You do a pretty good salacious grub.
Adal
No, it's bad.
JPC
Do you know what this person looks like, though? Yeah. Okay, cool. I was gonna say, because if you just know them by their voice for salacious grub, they probably aren't always doing that voice. And if that is just their laugh... No, he only laughs.
Adal
I guess he did it like 20 times at the booth. Here's what he looks like, and JPC, I want you to try and describe him. Okay.
JPC
So this looks like an old white man. Here you go.
Adal
Sorry, that's a picture of me on my screensaver. A king and a queen enter a castle. They leave, what was it? Yeah, they leave with a third bird.
Erin
One night, a king and a queen walked into an empty castle. Got it. The next day, the king, the queen, and someone else walked out. What happened? Wait, before you say, JPC, have you solved it?
JPC
I have not solved that. I keep trying to make jokes and I think that something else is a poop. And so there were no toilets in the castle. And so they didn't want to leave just a poop in the castle, so they picked it up, put it in a bag, and carried it out with them. And is that right?
00:34:56
Erin
Yeah.
JPC
Is that what you do with poop? If I'm in a castle, no toilets. So the answer that I will say, my real final answer, is the next day they left? So they left with the king, the queen, and the sun. The sun rose in the sky and they left with the sun.
Erin
That is way, way, way better.
JPC
What's the answer, Adal? I believe this could be huge.
Adal
We're gonna miss. Just like mine? That's Erin and I's two man, two man, that's Erin and I's two person comedy show, Swing and a Miss. Swing and a Miss.
Erin
You're a swing man, I'm a lady.
Adal
I say, put your cockies in this bowl. You're so muddy you don't even know it.
JPC
Here's Miss Erin!
Adal
The beginning of the riddle was one knight, a king and a queen, entered a castle, were to believe that knight is spelled N-I-G-H-T. I believe it's spelled K-N-I-G-H-T. So it's one knight, a king and a queen, enter a castle, and then the three will leave. And then the knight leaves, yeah. Erin's shaking her head no but clapping and I am so confused.
00:36:05
Erin
You figured it out.
Adal
You're getting the wrong class.
Erin
Well done.
Adal
Well done son. That was Erin making her ass clap.
Erin
I want to be the king and JPC you're the queen and Adal you are a knight and you're like not taking the hint that like we're just like trying to enjoy some like time alone and you're the third wheel and that like we kind of don't really need you right now.
Adal
Hail and well met into the castle.
JPC
Lord and Lady. Thank you so much, and everything is secured. Yes, Lord and Lady's not right.
Erin
You've done an excellent job securing the castle.
Adal
What do you prefer to be called? Mrs. King Queen? Let's not worry about it, Mark.
Erin
Your Highness?
JPC
Mark, you're doing great. Your Highness works. I'll take your grace. That works as well.
Adal
Well, we're about all wrapped up here, we're really in it. Get in. Let's all take her down. We're sorry about that.
Erin
You must be tired. I'm wanting to see your family, sir.
Adal
Yes, I want to see my family, but of course they understand that I'm here to impress you with my demo tape. So let me just put this in. Do you have a cassette, Clears?
00:37:07
Erin
Oh, I think it's broken.
JPC
Yes, it is. And if it's not, it will be soon. So it goes. Can I show you some sword stuff? Yeah! Okay. Very cool. Hey, Mark. You know what? Hey, Mark. Hey, Mark. Go ahead and put that away. Hey, Mark. We're all very hungry.
Erin
And you just tore up our... drapes?
JPC
They're all cut to ribbons. Oh, sorry. No worries. Put the sword away. We're all hungry. How about you go take that sword over to the kitchen and whip us up something to eat, huh?
Erin
And then you know what? Grab something for yourself. We'll go down to the kitchen and pick up whatever you may and then you can make your way home before it gets too dark.
Adal
And it's getting darker now. That sounds wonderful. That's delightful. Thank you so much. Very good. What gracious host you are. I'm sorry. I'm a little upset. My child is post potatoes.
Erin
Oh, and so it goes. That's what they say. Post Potatoes is... Sing me a song.
JPC
Wait, what?
???
Sing me a song, Queen. Call it Post Potatoes.
00:38:07
JPC
You're the Queen, I said at the beginning. Yes, that's right. I'll sing you a song. Marcus, what was your boy's name? It was my daughter. I'm sorry? What was your daughter's name?
Adal
Penelope.
JPC
Penelope. That's not going to work with a song. Penny? What about Penny? Okay, whatever you want, your grace. Penny Lane is very dead. She's post-potate.
Erin
Can you actually play a horn, King? Can you just play a horn?
Adal
Wish I could get him to play my horn.
JPC
What?
Erin
Uncles go down on your wives!
Adal
I have a horned dragon, can you blow me?
Erin
That was a fun scene. Yes. What's your favorite scene we've ever done on the show?
Adal
That one. That one. That one's my favorite as well. Speaking of favorite scenes, my favorite scene is when we take a quick break to hear from our advertiser for this show.
00:39:09
JPC
And today's advertiser is Quick Break, the new cereal candy. Oh boy, I fucked that up.
Adal
Give me a quick break. It's like a Kit Kat, but it crumbles real fast. We'll be right back.
JPC
Yoo-hoo! Oh, I love yoo-hoo. Chocolate milk.
Erin
It's the potato crew back together again.
JPC
Technically, you can't call it milk. It's a chocolate drink.
Adal
We'd love to call it milk, but we can't get sued. Also, we looked it up over the break, and a quick break is not a candy bar.
Erin
That is now.
Adal
We were duped. Somebody paid us five dollars, told us to advertise a candy bar, and we have been doxxed.
JPC
Yeah. If ducks, we got ducks. Somehow we got paid five dollars, all we had to give them was our address. So we got ducks pretty hard. I have info Fokker, can you dock me?
Erin
I've never had YooHoo.
JPC
It's not great.
Erin
You've never had YooHoo?
JPC
When my grandma used to pick us up from school, she would bring a YooHoo and cookies in a cooler.
00:40:14
Erin
Really? That's a fun grandma.
JPC
Yeah, it was great. That's a fun-ass grandma.
Erin
All I got to eat was Cape Cod potato chips for 18 years.
Adal
All I got to eat was salted cod. Erin, drink your Old Bay. I used to like Nesquik. We used to have Nesquik in my household.
Erin
Oh, I don't think we had. We had Horned Stratharms chocolate milk for a couple years.
JPC
Horned Stratharms! I heard as a child, I don't know if this is true, I heard that chocolate milk is made from the milk that has blood in it
Adal
So like sometimes when they milk cows they'll be like blood swirled into it from whatever for whatever reason and so they just add chocolate to it and then they're like still good.
Erin
Think about what you are doing and what you're saying. Kids, remember, only drink chocolate drink.
00:41:15
JPC
You have an audience, Adal, and you have an obligation to that audience.
Erin
And you've ruined chocolate milk for thousands of people in one swoop.
Adal
Here's where I'll do my part. Remember those ads that were like somebody looking in the mirror and there was like a buff big version of themselves and they had like a milk mustache? Like I want to be you when I grow up? I'll do the same thing but I'll just have, it's gonna be me shirtless with a real bad body and like a smear of blood above my lip.
JPC
We have an obligation to our listeners, we have an obligation to inform them that if you get into your car late at night there is a killer in your car. Most of the time, most of the time.
Adal
We're not trying to scare you, we're just playing the percentages. 85% if you're driving in a car there's somebody in the back seat who's going to... This is money ball. This is classic money ball from what I understand from that movie.
Erin
Don't shoot the messenger but something bad is going to happen to you today.
Adal
I love scaring people. In my childhood home we also had almonds syrup because my dad is Palestinian so we also had like alongside like we'd have typical like a bundt cake and then there'd be like baklava and all these like weird lady fingers and stuff so I had a real weird I walked the line of like normal crap and then like super weird like magluba and all this other stuff. I do love baklava. Mmm, dark love us. Very good. That was the cousin on Perfect Strangers.
00:42:42
Erin
Yeah. Name an age-letter word that has K-S-T in the middle, in the beginning, and at the end.
Adal
Sun-kissed. K-S-T in the middle, at the beginning, and in the end. Kiss, kiss, kiss.
Erin
That's what I say to my boyfriend before he falls asleep. Kiss, kiss, kiss.
JPC
Kiss, kiss, kiss. So it's got K-S-T. It's eight letters. It's got K-S-T at the what? Hey Riddle.
Erin
That just reminded me. Was it yesterday that I was doing a bit where I was drinking a water bottle like a hamster? And I said, JVC, do I look like a hamster without looking up from what he was doing? He said, yes.
Adal
So KST was the letters? KST. Okay. Read that one more time.
Erin
I think I solved it. Name an eight letter word that has KST in the middle, in the beginning, and at the end.
00:43:45
Adal
And you think you've solved this? So the letters K-S-T are in the middle, in the beginning, I-N, and at the end, so it's A-N-D. That's pretty good, right? It's asking us to be literal. Ink stand. And that's one word, ink stand? You know, ink stand is when you can't afford a kickstand, so you put a pin to hold up your bike. All the kids call you porky. I understand.
Erin
That one's fun, right?
JPC
Yeah, I like that one. It's very fun. That's a good riddle. Here's what I'll say.
Adal
I said it before, I'll say it again. I'll say it a million times. I love riddles that I solve.
JPC
Honestly, I love the ones that you get right more than the ones that I get right because I love seeing you happy. And I wish you could see it a little more often, huh? How about a smile? How about a smile for my guy? I got a lot going on.
Erin
Don't give up.
JPC
I got a lot going on. A lot of sad stuff. We got a lot of sad irons in the fire. We got a lot of sad deals.
Erin
I got a lot of sad irons in the fire. Sorry pal, I can't make golf. I got a lot of sad irons in the fire.
00:44:50
JPC
I'm talking to a guy who's got my kid. I gotta get my kid back. I'm losing money on a boat.
Adal
Hey, can I ask you, you work at this dick sporting good? I bought a golf club from you and it's a sat-on.
Erin
I also lost my kid on that boat.
JPC
Talking to a boat about getting my kid back? I got a lot of sad shit going on.
Erin
What do you got for me?
JPC
What do you got for me?
Erin
Make me cry. Okay, I was going to read one that is so easy, but I thought that maybe it would be fun to see.
JPC
Give us a wind saw.
Erin
In 2000, a 40-year-old doctor told his son that when he was a little boy, he decided to be a doctor by seeing a website about performing a heart transplant on a puppy with a defective heart so that the puppy would live a normal life. I then thought that I would be a doctor so I could help people in a similar way. What is the defect in that story?
00:45:55
Adal
The defect is a 40-year-old man in 2000 said he was on the internet as a little boy. Fuck that shit, unless he's Al Gore. No, it's the puppy's heart that was the problem.
Erin
Yeah, that's the defect. Is the puppy's heart?
JPC
The puppy's heart was three sizes that day.
Erin
No, you were right, but I'm so tired of you getting things right.
JPC
I need these.
Erin
Oh, Erin, I need these. Oh, my eyes and the fire are sad.
JPC
Speaking of iron, Stugger Woods, huh? One of the masters.
Erin
First diamond.
JPC
I was recording that to delete.
Erin
So I want to focus on one listener and the email that she has sent us.
JPC
Let's really drill down to this listener. Where is she from? Let's dox her.
Erin
I'm going to share her first name because I don't know.
Adal
Well guess her last name. If we get it right, we say it.
Erin
Excellent. Her name is Liz, and she listened to a few riddles I originally heard while trapped in a 13-hour car trip.
00:46:57
Adal
If you're in a car, there's an 85% chance you're being kidnapped.
JPC
Sorry, Liz, but I need to see a scene. Adal, we are going to see a scene where you and Erin are driving down the road. She has trapped you into a 13-hour car trip. You are hour one of this 13-hour car trip.
???
You've been trapped.
JPC
I've been trapped? Yes, Adal's been trapped. I don't know what this is, but we're going with it.
Adal
All I'm saying is what if the song, Oh What a Night, was about a K-N-I-G-H-T and it's like touting the escapades and victories of a specific night. Oh what a night.
Erin
How hard do you think I would get if I rolled out of the car?
Adal
How hard would you get? I don't know. How hard do you think I'd get? I don't know.
Erin
I don't know. I was asking how turned on I would get if I rolled out of the car.
Adal
How hard would you get if you jumped out this door? I can't tell you.
Erin
Okay, Adal, just new rules for the rest of the trip. No, nothing that has to do with the musical Jersey Boys.
Adal
Awwww. But I love them. I love Frankie Valli.
00:47:59
Erin
I know we're going for New Jersey right now. That's them, right?
Adal
What if there was a thing that was called Frankie Valley, Frankie Hidden Valley, Sweet Valley, Sweet Valley, Erin, Adal! Is he doing his puppet voices?
Erin
Eh, I don't. I'm just about to-
Adal
You've got to go back!
JPC
I love it, buddy. I'm just about to give them my sub sandwich. Just about to take a big bite.
???
That seems like a perfect... Just like JP Riddle says?
JPC
Yeah, I'm working my way across the country. You're gonna get every Jimmy God's.
Erin
It feels like you can probably eat and listen at the same time.
Adal
Oh, you know what? Erin, look how I'm driving. Look how I'm driving, Erin. How's your driving? Can you describe it?
Erin
Yeah, like this.
Adal
I can't see it. You called me.
Erin
Like this, I'm showing you.
Adal
You called me. Oh. You called me.
00:49:01
Erin
Alright, well here's the phone.
Adal
My name is Erin and I'm here to say I'm having a great time on this road trip.
JPC
Turkey Tom. Uh, nope. Oh shit, she jumped out.
Adal
Jesus!
JPC
Oh, she is rock hard.
Erin
All right, Liz, back to your email. We're really sorry. At the end of the email, she does say, that's all I've got for now. Love the show so much. Shout out to my own resident Old Man Puzzies and fellow listener, Carrie, for being the source of most of these. Keep it. No shit. All Sherlock. P.S. Erin's laugh is the best, most joyful thing I've ever heard.
Adal
Wow. Let's all laugh and let's have a laugh off.
???
Here's the first riddle.
JPC
You draw a line on a piece of paper.
Erin
Now, without altering that line, you draw a line on a piece of paper.
JPC
Now, without altering that line in any way, either with your writing implement or manipulating the paper, how do you make it shorter?
00:50:08
Adal
You're cute, but like not super cute. Things are shorter. What? Hold on, I'm manipulating the paper. You're making the paper? Hey, can you grab lunch? I forgot my wallet.
Erin
Hey, that thing you thought I said I didn't say it. Gaslighting you.
Adal
Gaslights. So with my writing utensil or manipulating the paper, what do we do?
Erin
You draw a line on a piece of paper. Now, without altering that line in any way, either with your writing implement or manipulating the paper, how do you make it shorter?
JPC
You draw a second line that is longer than that line, thereby making that line shorter. And the genius is Adal.
Erin
Congratulations, Adal. Thank you so much.
Adal
What I did is I put my penis next to it, therefore making my penis look very small. Wait, shit. No. Was I right there?
Erin
Yeah, you got it right.
Adal
Wow! Really? I was, wait, could you manipulate the paper? No, you can't. Oh, you can't.
JPC
But you can draw? You just can't manipulate the line. You can't manipulate the line or the paper. I was going to say fold the paper. Can I still have the win? I could have gotten that riddle right if I could break one of the central tenets of the riddle.
00:51:14
Erin
Oh God, that's the theme of this show. In the middle of the woods there are two men. In the middle of the woods there are two men. One is alive and one is dead. Post potatoes. One is alive and one is post potatoes. They carry identical backpacks. The backpack of the living man is empty. The backpack of the dead man is full. The backpack carried identical contents. What is in each backpack?
JPC
They were transports full of pencils. Fuck. I mean parachutes. Parachutes. Parachutes. Parachutes. Parachutes.
Adal
Oh, I'm sorry. I have a bit of an accent. A pair of shoes. They both had a pair of shoes. They went to Payless. One of them was real depressed about it. And wasn't paying attention, walked into a bear.
Erin
I'm mad at you for getting that so fast. Remember when we were bad at these? Those were the days.
JPC
Those were the days when the riddles go sailing.
00:52:18
Erin
This is their Vegas act that they're going to be doing in 2050.
Adal
Swing and a miss. And I'm the Miss!
Erin
I would love if Artie Pare is your piano player and it's you two in like pretty cheap taxes in Vegas in 2050.
Adal
I've got a question for you. Ring a ding ding and a pause a pause pause.
JPC
I've got an answer for you. A leg a ding ding and a rizzy rizz rizz.
Adal
Excuse me while I pour four fingers of Scotch and bourbon in vodka right now.
Erin
Hey fellas, you can't have live alligators in here.
Adal
Excuse me, that's part of the show. Let's get these alligators drunk now. Let's get these alligators drunk.
JPC
And they won't be live by the end of the show. We're gonna feed these alligators chocolate.
Adal
Chocolate and feed those alligators to some crocodiles.
Erin
Yeah, there hasn't been an audience in the show since the beginning.
JPC
I'm insane and these are my puppets!
Adal
Fly me to the moon, literally.
00:53:19
JPC
This guy's gotta be scared to death! I can see me and Adal doing that. We're both like boozed out of our minds. 23 hours a day. Here's what we need to do.
Erin
I'm there.
Adal
I look great. You're just presenting us the whole time?
JPC
Erin looks like she's 22.
Adal
We look like a magician's assistant. But secretly just drinking the whole time. Here's what we should do. We should do a live show that's like a Vegas old-timey Rat Pack show. And then also I had an idea, JPC I don't know if you remember this, a year or two ago I had an idea to produce a show that was JPC as a haunted tour guide and it would leave from I.O. for only the month of October, it'd be once a week, we leave from I.O. and he has a group of people that he takes around like a 10 block radius and he tells an improvised haunted history of Chicago
JPC
I would love to do that just to take people to whole foods across the street and do an improvised ghost tour of whole foods. We're buying stuff.
00:54:20
Erin
You can't tell us to leave.
JPC
Somebody died in that salad bar. That's about as good of an improviser as I am. Somebody died in the salad bar. Somebody died by those breakfast cereals. What else? What else?
Adal
What else? I think the best thing to do is be like, does anybody know? Because this is what real Hana Tour guides do, which is like, you see that building there? Does anybody know what happened there? And somebody would be like, a nurse died? That's right, a nurse died.
Erin
And do you know her name?
Adal
Monica?
Erin
That's right, Monica. When we do our Vega show, I want to have a straw connected to my bra that has tequila.
Adal
The straw is connected to bra. The bra is connected to tequila. Tequila is connected to...
Erin
Sadness!
JPC
Let's call the whole thing sad. I did an improv rehearsal once at the Whole Foods. The Whole Foods are across the street from I.O. where we all do comedy shows and our coach gave us partners and scene prompts and then we were supposed to go into that Whole Foods and like live scenes as people.
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Immersive theater.
JPC
Immersive theater, yeah. And two people had a their thing was that they had just broken up and they were like walking through Whole Foods like crying and holding hands and it was like people were like turning around and being like what?
00:55:30
Erin
What happened there?
JPC
Wait, how do most people break up? They're crying and holding hands? I think the scene prompt was that it was the end of a long relationship. Wait, I'm just bailing out of a moving car. I just tuck my nuts and roll. Kids, toss your nuts and roll.
Erin
That's so funny. Wetbust did that once.
JPC
It's a fun thing to do.
Erin
I remember walking by the table that Sean Coyle and Willy Mansour were doing their thing and they were like two 50-year-old cops. They were like, yeah, we've been doing this a lot. I was like, this is a stretch, boy.
JPC
There's nothing funny than watching two 22-year-olds play 50-year-old cops.
Erin
And they were just like drinking beers and hop leafs and pretending to be cops.
Adal
I remember like my level one IO class it'd be like somebody the teacher would be like now let's uh pretend you're like uh 50 years old and then somebody would enter the scene as a 50 year old and be like who's there is someone in the basement and he's like nailed it and then and then everyone else is like have you ever your parents are 50 like what are you doing and now that you're 36 you're like they were fucking right they were i'm so close to that dad wasn't even close
00:56:44
Erin
I would love to do one more. I'm really laughing now. I wish I had done this warmed up at the beginning.
Adal
I'm having a lot of fun.
Erin
Me too. This is Liz's?
Adal
Is this still Liz's riddle?
Erin
Yeah.
Adal
Honestly, Liz brought us so much joy. I don't know if you're still listening. You might have checked out. Checked out? You mean post potatoes?
Erin
Kevin enters a room. In the room there are several masked people covered in blood.
Adal
Sleep no more.
Erin
They surround a dead body in the center of the room. Kevin does not call the police. Who are you?
Adal
Um, cause he's at a initiation, this is the movie Skull and Bones. Oh, starring Paul Walker.
JPC
This is the movie The Strangers, and they only kill them cause they're fine.
Erin
You know that Yale secret society?
JPC
Oh yeah, the one that was, yeah.
Erin
Um, my uncle, Judge Smoot, I know Judge Smoot got asked to be in it and then said no, and then they messed with him.
Adal
How do they mess with him?
JPC
In a number of different ways. You have to do weird stuff. You have to piss on a sitting president or something like that.
Erin
And I think one guy, because to become a judge you have to get the approval of all these people and a person that wouldn't give him approval was in that group and was like, shouldn't have said no.
00:57:47
Adal
That's crazy. Also that's my favorite Pavement song is piss on a sitting president. I could piss on... spit on a stranger as well.
JPC
The answer to this riddle is I think it's a hospital room and I think that the people with the masks uncovered in blood are surgeons and nursing staff.
Erin
He got it.
JPC
Yes, thank you ma'am.
Erin
Thank you. I definitely want to see a scene. So you two are surgeons and you are in the OR and it's clearly this person who's post potatoes and JPC you're just going to be relentlessly positive. You're just trying to keep the mood in the room up.
JPC
Okay Erin, and I was only half listening, but you said that we are sturgeons who live in Oregon? Gulp, gulp, gulp. And got it. I'm going to eat this.
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I'm going to drink this.
Adal
How dare you? Erin, I would like to ask you to also be a surgeon in the room. Okay. A woman surgeon? Are you out of your mind? The doctor was the mother. That's true. Is that your way of saying you're pregnant? Oh my god.
JPC
What an episode. We've got to go to the same. Well, okay, 10.26, official time of death. Did you say 10.26? Is that a Freudian slip? Sorry, but it's my anniversary and I'm horny. 10.26, official time of death. I did say 10.26. I am thinking about going home.
00:59:10
Adal
I don't really have a good bedside manor. I get farty when I start to tell people bed news.
JPC
You know what a good bedside manor would be, right? Seaside Cottage. Bedside. M-A-N-O-R.
Erin
This person had kids.
JPC
Oh, yes. Okay, so... Hat kids, they all died.
Adal
You mean Post Potatoes? They're all Post Potatoes. Is that the medical term we use now?
JPC
Yes, absolutely.
Adal
All the textbooks say Post Potatoes. That's what we use. We have to go out and we have to inform... The new medical book is written by Nathan Lee.
JPC
We have to go out there and we have to inform the family. Does anyone... we do want to draw straws to do it?
Erin
Not it. Nose goes.
JPC
I guess we can't draw straws anymore because the straw embargo. I guess they're really saving the planet on that one.
Erin
This is a really easy surgery and we really blew it.
JPC
Yeah, this is a routine surgery. We're 18 hours, that's way too long for an appendectomy. Okay, okay. You know what? I will go out and I will inform the family.
Erin
Oh, thank you so much. Great.
JPC
Thank you so much.
01:00:12
Erin
But Greg, maybe like take it down a notch with the whole like smiling and bouncing about and being horny.
JPC
Okay. Also when you drink- I guess I'll just undo this cocaine. Just kidding. Doctors can't do drugs because we have to be doctors.
Adal
When you drink Sprite, you always hold the can so that the label's facing outward like you're in a commercial. Can you, I feel like it's really disarm- Can you not do that?
JPC
I also like to hold my fingers so that I make the can spell spit, and so people are like, oh, are you drinking spit? And be like, no, I'm drinking Sprite. Spit would be gross.
Erin
Okay. This person donated a lot of money to a lot of beautiful and really important charities.
JPC
Okay, I'll go out there now. Oh, there he is.
Erin
Okay, it was nothing but good news.
JPC
Are you the Smoot family?
Adal
Yes, we're the niece and nephew of Smoot.
JPC
Okay, I have to tell you that the surgery was successful. Oh, what a relief. Doctor, please come here. Let me give you a hug. Bringing three doctors closer together. I see.
01:01:15
Erin
Is that it?
JPC
Have we done it? That's all the scenes that we have.
Erin
If you want to be just like Liz and give and submit riddles that aren't your own but are your friend Carrie's, please email us at hrrpodcast at gmail.com. Also follow us on Instagram and Twitter at HeyRiddleRiddle to chit chat with us and talk to us.
Adal
You're also going to want to pick up that phone or laptop. You're going to want to throw out the window. You're going to borrow your roommate or neighbor's phone or laptop. You're going to subscribe to our Patreon. $5 gets you a bonus episode every single week. Every Friday we drop a new Patreon episode. That's four or five a month. And I got to be honest, I am self-loathing. They're a great episode.
JPC
If you're listening to the main episodes and you're thinking, oh wow, these have really taken a dip in quality, all that quality is going over to the Patreon. We shifted it over like a dam in a lot.
Erin
This sounds like a bit, but it's the only thing that we accidentally do. It's probably a problem that we need to examine.
JPC
You can follow me at jpsofly on Twitter, you can follow me on Instagram, at sharkbarkman. You can listen to the campaign podcast. You can also watch my Twitch stream that I mentioned earlier in the show. It's called TPK. We play the board game Gloomhaven. We just celebrated our one-year anniversary, which is huge for us. And you can follow us. It's Thursday nights, seven p.m. central twitch.tv slash one shot RPG.
01:02:35
Adal
You can follow me on Twitter and Instagram at Adalrifai. It follows on Netflix and Hulu. It's a wonderful horror movie. You can come see us at World News Tonight every Saturday at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. All three of us are there. Please say hi afterwards. We've had a wonderful run of people saying hi. Please give us a shout and we'll come talk to you. Also, hello from the Magic Tavern. Check out Siblings Specular, my other podcast. Erin, what do you have to book?
Erin
Come see Wet Bus every Thursday at 10 p.m. at the I.O. theater. It's me and my best friend. It's really, really fun. I'm really, really proud of that show. So come see that. And then follow me at Erin Keif 10 on Instagram. I'm private to keep all of the mold away from my Instagram.
JPC
You can also, I would say, go visit our tea public store and buy some of our merch. We have a really cool shirt. Erin happens to be wearing it right now. It says, Keifing It Real. And Erin, what's that little guy living on that shirt?
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Jupiter! Bye forever.
JPC
created by Adal Rifai, Starring Erin Keif, and John Patrick Coan, H.C.
01:03:39
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Snyder did the editing, M.R.E. Parrot did the music, Loco created by Emily Cardamus and M.O.E. DeMorris, That was a head gum podcast.