This is a HeadGum podcast.
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JPC
This is a HeadGum podcast.
Adal
Here we come to solve the day. It's Hey Riddle Riddle. I'm Adal Rifai.
JPC
I'm JPC. And I'm Erin Keif. Here we come to solve the day.
Adal
Here we come to solve the day.
JPC
If you would have sung it, I think it would have resonated. Okay, take that one more and let's take it back.
Adal
Here we come to solve the day.
JPC
I was wrong. It was better the first way, so let's take that back.
Adal
What if I did it in like a, what's that guy's name? Andy Sandberg? Kaufman. Who's yes? That's us. Do it like a... Oh, he died? He's in a Kaufman? Give me a coroner office. Do you want a coroner office? No, I want a coroner office.
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Erin
Do another one.
Adal
For my Andy Kaufman.
Erin
Do another one.
Adal
Another what?
Erin
I don't know. Playing word.
Adal
I'm Adal Rifai. I'm JPC.
Erin
And I'm Erin Keif.
Adal
And you're listening to... And you're missing in the hammer in the middle. And you're missing out on the...
Erin
Full disclosure, we haven't recorded in a very long time.
Adal
And it shows. Six months, correct? Yeah. In audio, I mean, it doesn't sound, but it shows. It shows. If you were in the room with us, you could see that we're on a bunch of futons. And I also put on weights during the break. Well, you ate nothing famously for six weeks except for spinach. Muscle milk. Which doctor said, do not eat muscle. You're supposed to drink it. But you would freeze it.
JPC
I froze it and gnawed on it. Like ice cubes. I ruined my teeth. I fucked up all my enamel. My gum line is completely receded.
Erin
I did the same thing but with breast milk for the last six months. Just chewed on the ice first.
JPC
It's the baby diet. I'm back on the baby diet.
Erin
Do you think that would be good for you? No.
JPC
You don't think so?
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Erin
I think breast milk is specifically good for the baby who's mom's breast milk.
JPC
Wait, what? So what about like wet nurses?
Erin
I think it's good for you, but it's not as good.
JPC
It's not as good for you?
Erin
Because I think it's like your hormones and like your, there's all this like weird magic that happens between a woman and her baby.
Adal
Were you at the strip club for a wet nurse now?
Erin
Weird magic that happens for women. If your baby has a cold, your body can tell and will give the baby the nutrients it needs. Body magic. It's like body magic. Your boobs just know. Look it up. That's real.
JPC
I'm not going to look up a boob magic. You've tricked me into this before.
Erin
I'm trying to sabotage baby things.
Adal
Hey Riddle Riddle, your boobs just know.
Erin
This is my work computer. Women's bodies are so smart.
JPC
Women's bodies be shopping for the health of their babies.
Erin
Women's bodies are magic and they also be shopping.
Adal
Women's lips be chappin'. You can't stop a woman's lips from chappin'.
JPC
I don't know enough to refute you about the whole women's bodies being magic and giving a baby the cold or whatever you said. Maybe I'll Google it. I do want to know how valid this is, but it sounds like Maybe like this is like some anecdotal, is there like a scholarly journal I can read about?
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Erin
This is a very real thing like it's it's not like an exact Obviously, you know, there's a lot of things that's just like constantly in your breast milk But I also know that sometimes you will crave something like a nutrient that your baby is Needing or craving because like oh you need magnesium or your baby needs magnesium.
Adal
Okay, that makes sense. Oh
Erin
It's very, very interesting. I would read about it.
Adal
If you hate your baby, will your boobs poison the baby?
Erin
Yeah, if you hate your baby. Your baby's like super rude.
JPC
Can I just say that's my favorite sentence I've ever said. This is weird because when I was a baby, I guess my mom must have been craving cigarettes and alcohol.
Erin
Was your mom Rufus Wayne right? Add that to the playlist, everybody. Whoa, wait. Rufus Wayne, right? That's the best Rufus, right? Well, no. Actually, I like the song that's like, California, California. That's Katy Perry. Here we come. Way back where we started from.
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Adal
Have you ever heard of Wainwright and his dad? Oh, so good. The Swimming Song is one of my favorite songs. Wounded and Wainwright, yeah.
Erin
Also, Rufus Wainwright, look up an album. I think he did a bunch of Judy Garland songs with a big band behind him. There's a whole album. It's very cool. All right. Anyways, I'm Old Man.
JPC
Have you guys heard Bruce Wainwright? Cigarettes and chocolate milk.
Erin
These are just a couple of your nightmares.
JPC
That's how Batman sounds, not how Bruce Wayne sounds.
Erin
How does Bruce Wayne sound?
Adal
I'm a millionaire.
Erin
Sort of similar.
Adal
Yeah, very similar. Hold up. Dead stop. Hard stop. Full stop. You think Bruce Wayne is a millionaire. Every billionaire is a millionaire, too.
Erin
T-shirt.
JPC
That's a riddle right there. How can you be a billionaire and not a millionaire? Ooh. What's the answer? It's not. You can't.
Erin
Oh, okay.
JPC
So it's not a riddle.
Erin
I'm Old Man Puzzles. Great. Sorry everybody, we forgot how to do this.
Adal
Yeah, so sorry. Or did we never know?
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Erin
I said that to Adal last night in World News Show.
Adal
Yeah, we came out for the 8 o'clock show, Erin did one scene, ran to the sides when it was edited, and just like grabs, tugs on my suit coat and says, I forgot how to do improv.
Erin
I just don't know how to do it.
Adal
Erin also had the line last night, which is my favorite Erin Keif flying of all time, where in a scene, I'm not going to explain the context, but in a scene she said, I can piss on my own tummy. She did. She volunteered that.
Erin
I did. And I cried laughing at my own joke because I was like, I've said a lot of dumb stuff, but nothing as dumb as that.
JPC
Are you actually ever afraid that you've forgotten how to do improv if you haven't done it for a while?
Erin
I think I'm bad at it 80% of the time. I think most people are.
Adal
Oh, sweetie, I'd say 85. Oh, thank you. And I'm bad 100%.
JPC
I think being bad at it is different because we're all certainly bad at it, but I don't think I've ever been like, I forget how to do this. I'm like, I know how to do this bad. I know how to be wrong at this.
Erin
Yeah, I sometimes, just my brain, like the way you listen is different and sometimes I forget how to lock into the way you listen on stage. Interesting. Yeah, that makes total sense.
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Adal
I love that we're all self-depreciating in terms of like the more time goes on, the less valuable we are. Yeah, for sure.
Erin
Oh, so true. All right, so I'm gonna do some listener submitted. Riddies and Pibblies. This is from Celine. I think it's Celine. It could be Selena, but I think it's Celine.
Adal
Who's that singer that got killed?
Erin
Celine.
Adal
Lisa left her Lopez.
Erin
She's great. Celine's from Melbourne, Melbourne as they would say. And I got some... That's Australia. Riddies, yes it is.
JPC
You can give me any city in the country and I'll tell you where it's from.
Erin
Oh, okay. Great. Yeah.
JPC
Montreal.
Erin
Here's our first fiddle.
Adal
Not in the country.
Erin
You throw away the outside and cook the inside, then you eat the outside and throw away the inside.
Adal
Egg, we've had this.
Erin
What? Nope.
Adal
Watermelon, we've had this.
Erin
Egg, we've had this. No.
Adal
Watermelon, we've had this. A baby.
Erin
You throw away the outside and cook the inside, then you eat the outside and throw away the inside.
Adal
Rifai, we've had this.
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Erin
What did you eat? Turducken. Did someone say baby?
Adal
Turducken.
Erin
Turducken.
JPC
You cook the outside. You cook the outside.
Erin
No, you throw away the outside, and cook the inside. Then, you eat the outside, and you throw away the inside.
Adal
That's an egg. No! I only want the whites. Oh, this is the fruit that they eat in hook, where it's just like, it's just colors. It's called hook fruit. I remember that in Hook, vividly as part of my childhood, the food that they eat in that scene is insane. Everybody wants to eat it. It's basically just like colored Play-Doh. Yeah. Which is just Play-Doh.
JPC
But it must have been for those actors. It doesn't sound good.
Adal
Have you seen Hook? I bet it was like mashed potatoes with food coloring. I want to see a scene. Just full of food coloring. I want to see a scene. Do you have an idea for a scene? Do you have an idea for a scene? I just want to see a scene. I want to see a scene. Erin and JPC, you are two, we may have done this before, you are two rejected Lost Boys. We've definitely done this before.
Erin
It doesn't matter. We haven't done this one.
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Adal
Okay, so you're two new rejected lost boys.
JPC
Hold on, we're not worried anymore about repeating riddles. We're only worried about repeating seeds. We've done a hundred Adam and Eve seeds. We've done like Adam and Eve gardeners.
Adal
We've done like a thousand times. Improv is bad. It's Adam and Eve, not adamantium.
Erin
All right, we're two rejected lost boys.
Adal
Gotcha. Is that it? No. If we've done that before. No, we haven't. KJ said we have.
Erin
No, we've been lost boys who rap, but we haven't been rejected lost boys.
Adal
KJ, hold on. KJ, do you trust us enough to make this different?
JPC
Wow!
Adal
I thought for sure I was going to give a 100% certainty. I want to see a scene. OK. JPC, you are a single dad. Great. Erin, you are the child. And you specifically want food that you've seen in movies and TV that's maybe not feasible.
JPC
Honey, I think Dad was going to make just a red bear and frozen pizza tonight. No. Green pepper and black ham.
Erin
No, I want the bread from Aladdin.
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JPC
You want the bread from Aladdin?
Erin
The loaf of bread at the beginning of the animated version of Aladdin.
JPC
I've only seen the new version. What? I've never seen the animated version. I know the bread from the new version.
Erin
Did you see it by accident?
JPC
I saw it on accident. Prepositions are important. What do they teach you at that school?
Erin
They don't.
JPC
Okay.
Erin
They show us movies. Like the animated Aladdin.
JPC
Well, okay, so I don't know the bread for me. I have wonder bread. Can I just heat you up a loaf?
Erin
No, no, no, you don't understand. Can I heat you up a loaf, honey? This bread looks better than any other bread and I want the animated kind. I'm gonna go stay at mom's house. She has movie food.
JPC
Honey, you're not sleeping in the graveyard again, okay? It's cold.
Erin
Name of movie food. Name of movie food.
JPC
I think that they ate a pulled pork sandwich in Con Air at one point.
Adal
We're going to pivot to, I want to see, JPC, you're a different character now, but you are in the room. Could he have the same voice in this position? You're in the room and you just watched Robin Williams' audition for the Genie in Aladdin. Okay. And he crushed it more than anybody's ever crushed anything. And now it's your turn to audition. Hey man, just wanted to say really great. You did really great. Oh, thank you very much. Up next, what's your name? My name is Clive Owen. Do we even have to fucking watch this?
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Erin
I guess we might as well.
Adal
Yeah, do whatever you want. Okay, there are sides. Is someone going to be reading with me? Yeah, there's broccoli and potatoes. Whatever side you want, grab.
Erin
But I think we're done here.
JPC
So I'm going to do my addition in front of this table full of sides and just kind of make it my own. Yeah, can I be honest? That guy got the part.
Sandy
Okay, I'd still love to... Yeah, go nuts.
JPC
Here we go. Ooh, ooh, yes, what is this? Mmm, broccoli. Ooh, ooh, might as well have, ooh, ooh, mashed potatoes, hot potatoes.
Adal
Hey, are you just aping the guy before you?
JPC
Uh, first of all, that, I don't think you're in 2019, you should be saying that. Second of all, uh, I don't think so. I think I'm just doing an audition. I'm just riffing with what's on the table.
Erin
He had a bunch of hilarious impressions. He did like a Reagan impression. He did all sorts of stuff. He's lots of funny voices.
Adal
Yeah, a lot of tropical stuff for this 1991. 1991. Uh, yeah, I can kind of launch into that.
JPC
I did not have sexual relations with that country. What's that?
00:12:03
Adal
It's 1991. That's Bill Clinton. I thought Clinton was 92. Born in 92. I thought Clinton was born in 92. He was governor of Arkansas. Yeah, you're right. He was born in 1992.
Erin
But he hadn't said that line yet.
Adal
He hadn't said that line. So Clinton was president in... No. In 91?
Erin
No.
Adal
Hold on.
Erin
George Bush was.
Adal
That's what I'm saying. 92 was Clinton.
Erin
But Clinton was in the mix. The political mix was a winner. Clinton was in there.
Adal
But he hadn't said that phrase. No. I just need to be right. Not in public. Erin, what's your rule? You don't think Hillary had asked?
Erin
You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside.
Adal
Cadbury egg.
Erin
Asshole.
Adal
We've had this before.
Erin
It's not.
Adal
It's not an egg?
Erin
It's not an egg.
Adal
Is it? Okay. Is it delivery? You throw away the outside.
JPC
Is the outside a box?
Erin
No.
JPC
Fuck you. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That came out of nowhere.
Adal
Oh, she's crying. Oh no, she's gonna do her Miss Piggy impression. How cool of a dad would you be if you get your kid for the weekend, your kid comes over, and he goes, Dad, can I have some pizza? And you go, it's not delivery, it's this porno. And you put it in a porno.
00:13:16
JPC
I don't know, cool dad? I know that you didn't really have much of a dad growing up, but between you and me, that would not be great.
Adal
Hi Riddle.
Erin
You're getting closer with the idea of like... You throw away the outside.
Adal
You cook the inside. Is it a meat? Is this meat?
Erin
No.
Adal
Not meat. So, okay, so it's a potato. Yeah.
JPC
Do you skin the potato?
Erin
Is it a potato? It's not a potato. Okay.
JPC
It's not a water move. You throw away the outside. Is the outside that green?
Adal
Like, is it like leaves, basically? Uh-huh. Bamboo. This is what Akwala eats.
Erin
Oh, coconut. This is a pretty common food.
Adal
It's a vegetable. Common food. That you throw the leaves away? Green onion. Is it green?
Erin
So you throw away the green part. You cook it and then you take it out and then you eat. Eat it and then throw away the center part of it.
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Adal
Is the hypothetical person eating this eating it wrong?
Erin
No. You do have to cook it.
Adal
You do have to cook it?
Erin
Yeah, you do. Avocado. But there's lots of different ways to cook it and prepare it and it can be turned into other things.
JPC
This is a plantain?
Erin
Is it a plantain? Well, a lot of, sometimes they take it. I don't want to totally give it away.
JPC
Okay, don't give it away.
Adal
Give it away, give it away, give it away now. Is it a red hot chili pepper?
Erin
No.
Adal
Is it a flea? Okay, so it's a vegetable.
Erin
Yeah, it's something people eat a ton, especially during the summer. Watermelon. No.
Adal
I say that ten times. We fucked that up so much. It's a vegetable. Tomatoes. Tomatoes? Tomatoes are vegetables, Erin. You are going crazy, but what are some fruits? No, tomatoes are fruits.
Erin
Yeah, and... Pineapple. They're like a staple at like a barbecue.
Adal
Peanutball.
Erin
Celery. No, you see them at barbecues. They're also... Peach. I would associate them with summertime and... Asparagus. Watching things.
JPC
Popcorn. Oh corn!
Erin
Nice, it's corn. What about corn do you throw away?
00:15:27
JPC
The part you cook?
Erin
The husk?
JPC
You throw away the husk, then you cook the corn.
Erin
Yeah, and then you throw... Then you eat the corn, and then you throw away the center cob.
JPC
The center cob. They have corn in Australia.
Erin
Nope. No? No. She says she's only seen it on TV.
JPC
You've only, she's only ever seen corn on TV?
Erin
No.
JPC
In Australia they have maize. That's like, I have cousins from Florida and they came up to Indiana for Christmas and I showed them corn and they'd never seen it before.
Adal
That's kind of a even... I was going to say that's an upgrade but from Florida to Indiana that's a stalemate. I've said it many times that Indiana is the Florida of the Midwest.
Erin
Oh boy. Here's another riddle.
Adal
Which five- I don't want to do any more Riddles! Was it sent in by, uh... Same. Same.
Erin
Same person.
Adal
Her name's Same?
Erin
Yeah, her name's Same.
Adal
Is that Australian name?
Erin
No. Her name's Celine.
JPC
Same girl, same. Same, same.
Erin
Which five-letter word is pronounced exactly the same when its last four letters are removed from it?
JPC
Penis.
00:16:30
Erin
I love this show. I don't care what you two say. I love it and I think we should keep doing it.
JPC
Is it tummy?
Erin
No. It's my letter word. It's pronounced exactly the same when it's last four letters are removed from it.
Adal
Whee! When it's last four letters are removed. So it's only leaving, so it's got to be a word like TCP. Adal my dear boy, these must be vowels.
Erin
You're definitely on the right track, Adal.
Adal
Just do every letter. Wait, wait, wait. You're gonna just let him do every letter and that's how he's gonna solve this riddle?
Erin
Unless you get it faster than him.
JPC
B, C, D. D, E, I. No.
Erin
So it's not E, Y, E, but you get, you know what I mean?
JPC
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not E, Y, E, because that's three. Can you look at your phone real quick, Erin? Can you legit check? Are you sure it's not penis?
00:17:30
Erin
Oh, it changed. The letters rearranged to themselves and now it says penis. I can't believe I just said penis.
Adal
Is it?
Erin
What?
Adal
Is it?
Erin
No.
JPC
Okay, hold on. I want to see a scene.
Adal
So we are all, we are all, oh god. Insane and you're our puppet?
JPC
We're all very old-timey Roman people, and we are inventing the alphabet. So this is the 26 letters that we're all familiar with, but we haven't named any of the letters yet. We just have their shapes.
Adal
So we are the council that is in charge of taking the shapes. And you did say old-timey Romans?
Erin
Oh no.
Adal
Hey there, hey there, Claudio.
Erin
Yeah.
Adal
And Brutus, come in. Oh yeah.
Erin
All right, here we go. Dada-dada-dada-dah.
Adal
T-t-ta-ta. We're trying to invent something new, a new way to communicate. Understood, understood.
Erin
All right, well gentlemen, we can all get our ideas in. What about this sound? Flerp!
Adal
Okay, that's... Now, we know all the sounds. We don't have the name of the individual character.
Erin
Okay, how about this one's called Bingo, Bango, and then this one's Ha, and this one's Ta, and this one's Ha again.
00:18:33
JPC
Okay, now you're just selecting random ones in the middle. Do we at least want to make those sounds like together?
Erin
Alright, let's see. Bingo, Bango, Ha, Ta, Ta. That's fun for an alphabet, wouldn't you say?
Adal
Kind of fun, but it sounds a little too close to the Greek alphabet. Of course, I rushed bingo-bango-hat-ta-ta, but I didn't get in.
Erin
Yeah, of course.
Adal
I became a sig-ep. That's why I'm such a prick. Okay, now let's take this one, for example.
JPC
Now this one's just a little circle. What do we think we would call a little circle? A pee-hole.
Adal
Oh, a pee-hole. That's good.
Erin
A snake that's giving its tail a little nibble.
Adal
Ooh, how about Ouroboros? It's a snake eating its own tail. I like Nibble Snake better than that.
Erin
Nibble Snake by this one's Nibble Snake. Can you milk it? All right, let's go. Let's go letter by letter.
Adal
Okay. All right. But that's what we're... Well, we haven't been.
Erin
No, I know, but we will be now. And you will go in a row and we're going to get all 26 letters, okay?
Adal
Can I say something real quick?
Erin
Yes.
Adal
Claudio, you're being a real alpha.
Erin
Am I?
Adal
Yeah, I bet you a hundred dollars. I'm sorry. What a dollars. A hundred gold coins. That you're being a real alpha. I bet.
00:19:37
Erin
Alpha. Interesting. All right. The first letter's name is... BLEEP! You do the next one.
JPC
Okay. We got BLEEP. This one looks like it's a straight up line with a little circle on the end.
Adal
I'm going to call you Kevin. Hmm. Okay. This one here has a... Shaniel, you're up next.
Erin
We got to move quicker than this.
Adal
Cabo Wabo.
JPC
Oh, what? Uh, every man. Gee, Bippa.
Adal
A cup! Chilies! Baby back ribs.
Erin
Oh my gosh.
Adal
There's a snake in my boot!
Erin
And that's 26.
Adal
See you soon.
Erin
I wanted to get through all of them.
Adal
This is a five letter word. I lost count. It's the same when you remove the last four letters. X. Gonna give it to you?
Erin
Go letter by letter now.
Adal
What? Y?
00:20:37
Erin
Alright, it's in the second half of the alphabet. Second half?
Adal
After L. Are we cutting it down the middle?
Erin
Yeah.
Adal
It's the letter after L. No, it's like between L and Z. Oh.
Erin
Go letter by letter.
Adal
Q. Q. Q-U-E-U.
Erin
They got there eventually. We had to do an entire scene before they got there.
Adal
And it's in the letter Q. Yeah. Okay, okay. Oh boy, I'm gonna get roasted for this lambastity. Can't wait. Is Q the person in James Bond that makes all the weapons and stuff, right? No, that's money penny.
JPC
Yes, Q is the science person who makes the money.
Adal
I want to see a scene. JPC, you are James Bond. Yes. Erin, you are Q. The role I was born to play. But the actual Q, the real Q who's brilliant, was killed. So you're Q's like replacement who's totally not prepared. And you're trying to cobble together what you can spur of the moment.
00:21:41
Erin
Okay.
JPC
Blofeld's really got it in for me this time, Q. So give me everything you've got.
Erin
Right, yes. So, this I just made. It's great. It's a fork on a fan. And if someone stands too close to the fan, there's a fork in them.
JPC
Oh, right. So, this is a fork in a fan.
Erin
Yeah.
JPC
Ooh, a dinner guest best not know their place. What else have you got for me, Q?
Erin
All right, how about, right, okay, this is a knife and I figure if you're by a slide in the, this is an Australian awesome, if you're by a slide and your enemies at the bottom of the slide, you can put the knife on top of the slide and drop it down the slide and it can maybe stab them if there's enough momentum.
JPC
That's quite a rush.
Erin
What else have you got for my cue? This is sort of a psychological weapon.
00:22:44
Adal
Hey, put my daughter down.
Erin
Never mind. I was going to walk up to your enemies and say, this is your son. This is your son. But I guess I don't have to do... Let's see. An elbow can hurt, right?
JPC
An elbow can hurt.
Erin
Who played Q in the most recent?
JPC
I want to say... She's a woman, right?
Erin
No, she's a woman.
Adal
No, that's M. It was Judi Dench.
Erin
Oh, what's his name?
Adal
I feel like I've heard so many people... I know his name. So, Moneypenny is the... Moneypenny. ...overall boss or the... Moneypenny's like the secretary. I've heard a lot of chatter where people want Phoebe Waller-Bridge from Fleabag to play Moneypenny.
Erin
Well, I think she's writing. She's rewriting the next James Bond.
Adal
Oh, really? That's great.
Erin
I love Fleabag. Season 2 Fleabag is my favorite thing in the world.
JPC
They also wanted Idris Elba to play James Bond for a while, which I think he would have been awesome. But Idris Elba's in the new Fast and the Furious movie, which is going to be fucking insane.
00:23:52
Adal
It looks so good. We're gonna go see that open right now. Yeah, for sure. Did you know they got the new James Bond as Jason Biggs?
Erin
I'd say.
Adal
Patter blue suit.
JPC
Thanks for watching! But I would see another one, I guess. And also, the guy who did it, like Ian Fleming or somebody Broccoli, he died like years ago. Someone Broccoli?
00:25:02
Adal
Yeah, there's the person... Ian McKellen wrote James Bond. Ian McKellen, Sir Broccoli of the Round Table.
JPC
Of the Round Table? Yeah. What if you were knighted and you got a vegetable name? Our eyes, Sir Pomegranate.
Erin
I thought my name was Kenneth Branagh.
JPC
You kneel, Ian McKellen. You stand. Sir Corn!
Erin
Are you ready for another one? Yes. A horse jumps over a tower and the tower disappears. It's not an illusion or a dream. So where could this happen?
Adal
Chessboard have had this.
Erin
No, not this exact one. Mr. Jerk. I'm calling Adal Mr. Jerk for that one.
Adal
Because I look like Steve Martin.
Erin
Who's a real asshole. Nothing to do with this movie. Wow. Wow.
Adal
Yeah.
JPC
Take it back.
Erin
The Jerk is a good movie.
JPC
Yeah, and he's not an asshole, I don't think. He just likes the banjo.
Erin
Ready? I know you belong to somebody new But tonight you belong to me Oh yes! JPC's not gonna join in.
00:26:13
Adal
No, I don't, I don't fucking want to. He's a tenner. That movie is very funny though.
Erin
So is your ass.
Adal
First of all, I told you that in confidence.
Erin
I'm so sorry, I just blew one of your secrets.
Adal
You're famously born with an ass with a clown birthmark on it, right? Yeah, she's the born with a middle.
Erin
Oh my god, scary. Sammy loves books and spends all of his time in the local library. In just one month, he's worked his way through three volumes of an en... Oh, sorry. He's worked his way through three volumes... Did you just read the answer? No. He works his way through three volumes of an encyclopedia in two volumes of a dictionary, yet he could not remember one word that they contained. Why was that?
Adal
Dumb. Because the volume was loud and very loud.
Erin
The volume... Oh! It's not the answer, but I like you!
Adal
What was Steve, you said? Sammy.
Erin
Sammy loves books and spends all his time in the local library.
Adal
I know what it is. Sammy is actually Lee Harvey Oswald, book depository. He's racked with guilt, can't concentrate.
JPC
Yeah, it's bullets is what it is. Bullets is the volumes.
00:27:19
Erin
No. Sammy loves books and spends all his time in the local library, and just one month he worked his way through three volumes of and his second video.
Adal
It sounds like the beginning of a shitty Bon Jovi song. Oh, is Sammy an actual bookworm? Sammy loves the library books!
Erin
Yeah, Sammy was a bookworm, a little bug that eats its way through books. I would like to see a scene. I bet you would. You sicko. JVC, you're a bookworm and you've gone back outside and you're talking to Adal who's like a regular worm and you're being really pretentious and Adal's just like had enough.
Adal
Mmm. Oh, just get some fresh air. How is the dirt? What is this new accent you have? I'm sorry? You're talking differently. No, this is how bookworms talk.
JPC
What'd you call yourself? A bookworm?
Sandy
Bookworm?
JPC
I'm sorry, your mouth is full of the dirt from the ground? Yeah, I was eating dirt on earthworm. Sure, good. By the way, how are the birds out here? They're asleep.
Adal
They're asleep. For the most part. Okay. Can you fuck off? I'm trying to have sex with myself. I'm sorry? I'm asexual.
00:28:27
JPC
Well, uh, that's not what that means. I know that because I'm a bookworm, so I've read up about that. What are you fucking now, huh?
Adal
Tell me three facts. What am I fucking now? Huck Finn, never heard of it. Isn't that banned?
JPC
Yes, that's why they put it in the bottom of the library. The bookworm could have his way. You can say basement. I know that word. You know basement? Mm-hmm. That's because you spend all your fucking time in the basement, isn't it? Mm-hmm, yes. No, I'm in the dirt most of the time. Yes, dirt, dirt, dirt. Dirt's the word's basement.
Adal
Dumb as dirt. What else?
JPC
It's really hard to remember.
Adal
What's another fact?
JPC
Needle at you because you're so proud of who you are. What else do I know? What's that? Give me another fact. Okay, let's see. The Earth is 6,000 years old. It tastes older than that. Well, your mom tastes older than she really is. No, we're asexual. I wouldn't even derive any sexual pleasure from eating your mom. Be honest with me. Yes. Did you eat my mom? Yes, I did. I'm your new daddy now. Call me worm daddy. Say it. Worm daddy? Yes, I'm your worm daddy. Be a good little boy and play around with the director of daddy.
00:29:53
Erin
That's my new favorite play. People are going to be doing that scene in acting classes for the next 70 years.
JPC
I'm teaching acting classes by the way for the next 70 years.
Erin
What's the name of your acting class?
JPC
Worm Daddy.
Sandy
It's called Worm Daddy and how much is it?
Adal
It's called Worm Daddy Learn to Perform Like a Worm. And that's your new website, WormDaddy.com, right? Yeah, it's performed like a worm.com. With Danica Patrick.
Erin
Yeah, be careful about typing that website in, though.
JPC
Yeah, you might get Dennis Rodsman's site. Or teach you how to dance. It's called Dances Rod.
Erin
How much is one of your classes?
JPC
It's 189.
Adal
189 what? Uros. We got to see a scene where Erin and I are enrolled in an interacting class. Me, me, me, me. You know you need unique New York.
Sandy
Attention, attention, attention.
JPC
Okay, it's going to be just probably the two of you for today. Not even you? What's that? You're not going to be here? The teacher is never here. So I'm going to leave class.
00:30:56
Adal
I just heard that sometimes the teacher becomes the student and sometimes the student becomes the teacher. Well, we all have something to look forward to aspirationally, I guess. Is this a method acting or a Sanislavski? Mm-hmm.
Erin
Yes, it's a... Sanislavski.
Adal
It's a Sanislavski. Is this Santa's lost key?
JPC
It's a Sanislavski. I want you to pick a partner. Everyone pair up, pair up, find a partner.
Erin
I pick you.
JPC
Okay, you can't pick me because my partner is Jesus. He walks with me and that's why there's only two sets of footprints.
Erin
Sorry, I pick Adal.
JPC
Okay, great. And Adal and Erin. Great.
Adal
Now I know your names, and now if I can just use context clues to decide which one is Adal and which one is Erin. I'm Erin, A-A-R-O-N. And you're Adal?
Erin
U-U-E.
Adal
Finish it.
Erin
Are you spelling quest love? I'm trying to spell cute.
JPC
Okay, face your partner. I want you to look in your partner. I want you to look deep within your partner's eyes. On the count of three, I will count one, two, three. I want you to say a character flaw that you recognize on the other. One, two, three. Cares too much. Okay, good. Now we've gotten to the truth of acting. Do not break eye contact. Do not break eye contact. Do not break eye contact. On the count of three, I want you to name the person who you've had the most recent sex dream about. One, two, three.
00:32:13
Erin
J.P.
JPC
Riddle.
Erin
Riddle. See you then.
JPC
Francis Ford Coldplay.
Adal
Is this how the show normally goes? Yeah, pretty much.
Erin
I forget how to do it.
Adal
No, no, this is the show. No, this is the show. As we help Erin recall how the show goes, we're going to take a quick break, and we'll be right back with more Hey Bim-Bim-Baba. And we're back.
Erin
We're back. We're back.
Adal
JBC, we have to go back.
JPC
We've got to go back in time. To the break? Yeah. You want to go back to the break, Doc? You fuck your mom.
Erin
What?
JPC
You fuck your mom in the break, we have to go back. Okay, she listens to the show. Oh no.
Erin
Ready for another riddle.
JPC
Yes.
Erin
Still from the same person. What kind of flower enables you to see it?
Adal
Chris and The Nem. What kind of flower enables you to see it? Oh, cooking flower? Nope. All-purpose flower. Peonies. I see you.
00:33:22
Erin
Peonies are my favorite flower. No one's ever bought them for me.
Adal
That can't be true.
Erin
Truly. Really? All-time favorite flower and no one's ever talked to me.
Adal
Does your boyfriend listen to this? No.
Erin
He stopped listening around episode like 15 or 16.
Adal
Cool, and we're happy with it. Throw it on the stairs.
Erin
In his defense, he has to talk to me all day.
Adal
He doesn't have to.
Erin
He gets to you, Erin.
Adal
Can I ask you why when you said that you put a briefcase up on the table, you straightened your tie, and suddenly we were in a courtroom?
Erin
Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, in his defense, this is why my boyfriend is not the worst. Okay, this... Yeah, someone buy me peonies. No, no. Somebody message my boyfriend and tell him to buy me peonies. Yes.
Adal
No, no, no. When Erin dies, leave peonies.
Erin
Yeah, that's nice. If I die, I would like there to be constantly... When you die.
Adal
When you die.
Erin
You will die. All will die. What kind of flower enables you to see it?
Adal
Enables you to see it. Iris.
Erin
Mm-hmm.
Adal
Yeah.
Erin
He got it. That's interesting. He got it. I think he's confident.
00:34:26
Adal
When I die, I want cooking flour. People put cooking flour on my coffee. It just looks like people are dousing your graven coke.
Erin
What do you want your gravestones to say?
Adal
What do you want on your tombstone? Pepperoni. What do I want on my tombstone? Sam Elliott, Kurt Russell. Oh boy, who else is in that? What if I had a headstone?
JPC
Boy, what would I want on it?
Adal
Gotta have my name. Gotta have my name. Gotta have my name. Gotta have my name on it. Gotta have the dates that I
JPC
Plus or minus 10 that I lived and died.
Adal
It doesn't have to be exact. Don't care about exact. Approximate. I want an arrow pointing down that says I'm with stupid. That's great. That's funny. And in parenthesis dead.
Erin
I want like, shh, I'm sleeping. Or like, relax, I'm fine.
00:35:28
Adal
What if yours just said, help?
Erin
Help, help, exclamation point.
Adal
Buried alive.
Erin
Buried alive. You know, I want shh, I'm sleeping.
JPC
That's pretty good. Whatever my child's name is, for the purposes of this, let's just call my child Bradley Cooper. I want to put on my gravestone, Bradley Cooper, why don't you visit more? So whoever they are when they see it, they'll be shamed.
Adal
And listeners, what do you want on your tombstone? Tweet it and use the hashtag morbidasfuck. But also tag tombstone the pizza brand. Yes. Oh, you have to. And tell them in so many words to sponsor us.
Erin
I actually can only... I'm loyal to one pizza brand right now. Contractually. I did a commercial for a pizza brand and now I can't wait.
Adal
Oh, earlier JPC mentioned Red Baron. What's your pizza brand?
Erin
Hungry Howie's. That's Michigan.
Adal
But yeah, but Hungry Howie's is a delivery brand.
Erin
Oh, okay.
Adal
You can still do frozen pizza, right? What was your commercial? Can we see it somewhere?
Erin
Yeah, it might be on the internet at some point. I filmed it a few months ago though. Pornhub.com slash Hungry Howie's. It was a blast. They flew me to Detroit and I had a fake baby.
00:36:38
JPC
By the way, I flew you to Detroit.
Erin
Yeah, and I had a fake baby.
JPC
Fly me to Detroit.
Erin
I played life.
JPC
Get me the fuck out of here immediately.
Erin
My name was Wife, and I had a six-month-old baby, and I got to hold a baby all day. It was fun. I left my husband. I went, we're leaving.
JPC
Hungry Howie's, by the way, pretty good pizza.
Erin
It's so good.
Adal
It's cheap and cheesy.
JPC
It's cheap and cheesy and boy oh boy.
Adal
I've had Jets. Jets is Michigan-based as well, right? Jets is Detroit-style pizza, and I don't know if it's Detroit-based. It must be, it must be.
Erin
Hungry Howie's is the best gluten-free pizza I've ever had.
JPC
Jets is in Chicago, too.
Erin
They have Jets in Chicago, yeah. After I filmed that commercial, I was so hungry for pizza because I had been smelling it all day and I didn't get to eat it in the ad. And so I went to Hungry Howie's and they were like, what kind of crust do you want? And I went, what kind do you have? And then I went, oh my god, I know every kind you had because I've been listening to the list of your crusts all day. What is wrong with me?
JPC
Erin, did they give you Hungry Howie's when you did it?
Erin
No, because in the commercial I didn't eat, so they had tons of pizzas around. I'm sure I could have eaten them.
Adal
I'm always so confused about like, I guess as a young adult, I always assumed that if you did a commercial for a food brand, you would get free food from that brand. Is it because you watched Happy Gilmore and it's the free subway car for life? But I know like George Clooney has a red card, so like any time he goes to McDonald's, he can get unlimited red lobster. Wait, does George Clooney do McDonald's commercials? I don't think so, but he promoted them or something on Ask4. Why would George Clooney ever go to McDonald's? Unsolicited. I don't know, but he has one of those cards where he can just get his free McDonald's.
00:38:12
Erin
Sometimes when you smell McDonald's, you just need it.
Adal
Well, like I assume TJ got free Sonic because he's been the Sonic guy for 12 fucking years.
Erin
I don't think that's true though.
Adal
They don't get free Sonic.
Erin
No, yeah. Yeah, I can't recommend Hungry Hallies enough. It was so good.
Adal
Why are you reading that off a card?
Erin
I don't know. Are we ready for another Riddle? Yes.
Adal
No.
Erin
Peter the Pirate has caught Felicity the Fairy and put her into a bottle with the cork in to stop her escaping.
JPC
Oh, she's dead.
Erin
She dies in that bottle. She's not dead.
JPC
Erin, if she doesn't put blow holes in the bottle, she dies.
Adal
Can you help me? You think... You think... You think holes punctured in the top of a bottle for air are called blow holes? If you put the hole in the whale, it's a blow hole. How is the whale different than the bottle? Both have necks, both have large body. Blow holes are what you put in the side of a bathroom stall at a truck stop. I went to see newfound glory, but I found a known glory hole.
00:39:18
Erin
Peter the pirate has caught Felicity the fairy and put her into a bottle with the cork in to stop her from escaping. Can you help get her out but without taking out the cork and breaking the glass?
JPC
Are pirates and fairies in the same universe? Is that what we're here to hear?
Erin
YAR?
JPC
I've heard of Tinkerbell and Captain Hook, and that's the only instances of pirates and fairies existing in the same universe that I know.
Adal
Can you name one more?
JPC
Is that true? Oh, interesting. I didn't know that. That's a children's story, right? No. Okay. Yeah, anyway, I'm right about the Pirates and the Fairies thing. That's two different fucking universes.
Adal
What's Stardust? The Neil Gaiman book? Ziggy? Okay, okay, okay, okay.
Erin
She's in the cork, or she's not in cork. Tinkerbell? She's in Ireland?
Adal
I went to the fairy museum in Dublin. Blarney? Blarney.
Erin
She's in a bottle with a cork in from stuffing her. How do you get her out but without taking out the cork or breaking the glass?
00:40:18
Adal
Is magic involved?
Erin
No.
Adal
Is shadows involved? No. Is it something we have to do to the sentence? Like we have to omit a word or something?
Erin
It's not a wording thing.
Adal
Do I have to kidnap Peter the Pirate and force him to do it on my behalf? We clap our hands, we believe. We stop believing when she disappears. Do we hold her over the fire, melt her, and then pour her out of the porous opening of the wall?
Erin
No!
Adal
Okay, that's why I asked.
Erin
No, that's so dark.
Adal
That's why I asked. Does it have something to do with magic? No, it's nothing to do with magic. Is it body magic, woman magic? Are you just asking me to create a magic trick?
Erin
No, it has nothing to do with magic.
Adal
No, no, magic doesn't have anything to do with magic.
Erin
It's not like red-speeding, it's not magic.
Adal
Is this like a Yahoo answers, like somebody's asking this question, we need to hurry up and answer it? Yeah. Okay.
Erin
She's stuck in the bottle. She's a fairy in the bottle. You gotta help her get out now.
Adal
I can't use my hands but I can use my mouth?
Erin
No.
Adal
You can't remove the cork and you can't smash the bottle. How do you get her out or how do you help her?
Erin
How do you get her out?
00:41:19
Adal
Does she exit through the neck of the bottle?
Erin
Yes.
Adal
Okay, and I can't remove the cork?
Erin
No.
Adal
Can I perforate the cork?
Erin
What's that mean?
Adal
What if you push it in? Do you push the cork in? Yeah! That's what perforate means.
Erin
I'd like to see a scene. Um, let's see, what do I want? What do I want? Ooh, dealer's choice. She's looking at a menu. So, uh... Adal, you are a fairy, and you are stuck in a bottle, and JBC, you're a pirate, and you're just trying to, like, get your way out of there.
Adal
Wait, am I in the bottle as well?
Erin
No. Gotcha. You're holding the bottle. I'm holding the bottle. Your bottle's on your desk.
Adal
Gotcha. Help me. Help me, please. I'm stuck in this bottle. Pardon me, I'm trying to work, okay? I'm running out of time. Please let me go. This bottle isn't even empty. There's clearly Tito's vodka in here. Please let me out.
JPC
I'm getting drunk. If you want the Tito's vodka, then feel free to drink.
Adal
Or at least transfer me to a bottle of...
JPC
I can't take you out. You're a decorative piece I bought you at an Urban Outfitters. So you'll just have to stay. I bought you.
00:42:20
Adal
I purchased you. You bought me at an Urban Outfitters?
JPC
Yes, I purchased the whole thing at an Urban Outfitters.
Adal
Can I ask you something?
JPC
You're a window display, 30% off.
Adal
Can I ask you something?
JPC
I'd love to hear it.
Adal
You're a pirate?
JPC
Yeah, I'm a pirate.
Adal
What's that steering wheel attached to your crotch? This? Yeah. Well, there's a steering wheel attached to my crotch. We'll say it. Well, if I'm being honest, it's driving me nuts.
Sandy
Now, are you happy?
JPC
That's all I wanted.
Sandy
Are you happy?
JPC
I was in a serious boat accident, and I have a steering wheel attached to my crotch. And it's making me a kind of kooky. You're having fun? You're having games? Yeah. Well, you'll stay in the bottle. Now, if you wouldn't mind, I'm trying to write my spec script for the office. Alright, Dwight comes aboard.
Adal
Dwight comes aboard and Jim... Dwight comes aboard. Are you writing The Office on a pirate ship?
JPC
Hold on now!
Adal
I'm writing what I know! Sounds a little close to Gallivant. I'm sorry? Which was a show that only lasted two seasons. Then how would anyone fucking know what that is? Can I get some advice? You should write a spec strip for Bob's Burgers. Okay. Who are the characters? Who are the characters? So there's Bob. Okay, Bob. There's Linda, his wife. Linda on a pirate ship. There's three crazy kids. Three crazy kids.
00:43:31
JPC
Wait, this is Peter Pan. You're just doing Peter Pan movies.
Adal
There's a big dog. Okay, as a nurse. Yeah, okay. I like this. What'd you say your name was, Fary? You're my best friend. Huh? You're my best friend. Well, you're not my best friend. What? You're not my best friend. No, you asked my name. Yerma? This friend. I'm not fucking friends with you.
JPC
I know! You're crazy. First of all, I'm not crazy. I'm nuts because of this wheel driving me that way.
Adal
What's under the patch? Are you trying to quit smoking? Yeah, I've tried to quit smoking with an eye patch. If I can't see the cigarettes.
Erin
And she also said, love the podcast. I know you're running out of Riddies and Puzzies. So here's some from a Riddle and Lateral Thinking puzzle book that pissed me off as a kid. Cheers from Melvin Celine. So there's one more from her. Okay, great. I saved this one for last because you're gonna get it right away, but I really want to do it just so I want to see a scene based on this.
JPC
Adal, I think I'll race you on this one and I'll try to get it faster.
00:44:36
Erin
There's no such thing as an original Riddle. Sure. A new prison has been built in the middle of a vast lake. One morning it's discovered that a prisoner who can't swim has escaped. The only evidence he leaves behind is a strand of a shoelace. How did he do it?
Adal
Drink the lake. Was eaten by a shark. He drank the lake? No. He was eaten by a shark. The lake was dry.
Erin
No.
Adal
He canoe-dogged himself across the dry ass lake. It was Lando Lake's butter.
Erin
Yeah, it was Lando Lake's butter!
Adal
Butter prison. Present on a lake, an inmate who couldn't swim escaped and the only thing that's left is a shoelace?
Erin
Like a part of a shoelace.
Adal
Oh, the lake was only two feet tall.
Erin
Is he dead? He's not dead.
Adal
He did escape.
Erin
He did escape.
Adal
He rode his shoe ashore.
JPC
He took off his shoe, threw it as hard as he could, tied the lace to his finger, and then flew across the lake.
Erin
That's the cutest thing I've ever heard in my life.
Adal
Wait, this is an easy one? Yeah. Read it again.
00:45:37
Erin
A new prison has been built in the middle of a vast lake. One morning, it's discovered that a prisoner who can't swim has escaped. The only evidence he leaves behind is a strand of a shoelace. How did he do it? No boats.
Adal
Is the prison on an island? In the middle of a lake. Oh, the prisoner was Jesus, the walker on her. But he had to take out his shoes. The prisoner was Jesus.
Erin
You're the closest with canoe dog.
JPC
Wait, is it frozen? Blake's frozen?
Erin
Yes, but yes, and?
JPC
He walked across?
Erin
No.
JPC
He skated across. He skated across.
Erin
He skated across. The shoelace was from an ice skate.
JPC
Why did the shoelace fall off?
Erin
You know when you're like those like get cut like I break ice skates shoelaces all the time.
Adal
What? I've never ice skated.
Erin
Really?
Adal
Man, I don't think so. I've ice skated once and I hated it. Yeah.
Erin
It really, really hurts your ankles if you're not used to it. I used to do it growing up and then the only time I've done it recently was... Different muscle groups. The Olympics? Downtown, you know when I went to the Olympics for ice skating? I did the couples' skate. He threw me too high up in the air and I landed in this.
00:46:40
JPC
He threw you up and then he just left, right? He threw you way up in the air and then you were grabbing under the scoreboard?
Erin
Yeah.
JPC
And he just left, right?
Erin
Yeah, I know what I'm talking about.
JPC
He went to Cabo?
Adal
With your best friend. And that Will Ferrell movie is based on that, right? Yeah, Kicking and Screaming.
Erin
Yeah, the only time I've ice skated in the last several years was, it's really fun, this is why I'm mentioning it, is in Millennium Park when it's winter, like by Christmas.
JPC
That's the perfect time for ice skating.
Erin
Like it's right by the bean and you can go and there's... Right by the bean!
JPC
It's really fun.
Adal
Okay.
Erin
Or I'll just go with Mariah.
Adal
Yeah, that's fine. I notice you haven't mentioned your boyfriend as a possible date for the... Ladies and gentlemen of the jury!
Erin
No, I went with him ice skating.
Adal
Hey, so I have a special surprise for us.
Erin
Do we know who... Is it cookies?
00:47:41
Adal
What is it?
Erin
Is it cookies?
Adal
Is it cookies? Well, it's a certain kind of cookie. You do want us to guess the surprise. What's up? You do want us to guess the surprise? I do, but I had more to offer before you interrupted.
Erin
Oh, great.
Adal
So it's like when we read Riddles and you just start guessing immediately. Yeah, absolutely. It's like that, but this shoe's on the other foot, so it feels bad. It feels terrible. It's too tight of a fit.
Erin
I guess it's cookies.
Adal
It's a sandbox. Which is a type of cookie that is a little gritty. You're thinking of Sandy. What's up? Sandy's. Hey, it's Sandor Weiss.
JPC
Please, Cookie Man, do not talk.
Adal
Holy shit, how we never called you the Cookie Man. Hold on, new intro. The cookie jar. Welcome back to WZR4. This is Adal Rifai in the morning with the Zoo Crew. We got Erin Keif on the mics.
Erin
I want cookies. Nailed it. We all have JPC, the Wolfman.
Adal
And, welcoming to the studio, our special guest, the Cookie Man, Chomp Chomp.
Erin
Oh, he already has a catchphrase. Crumble Crumble. I was so jealous.
Adal
Erin, what's your catchphrase?
00:48:42
Erin
I want cookies. That's a cookie monster. Holy shit. That's cookie monster's catchphrase. Never mind, I need another one. You just glommed onto. I need another one.
Adal
I like that Sandy's a cookie man. He says chomp chomp. And then it's like, what's your catchphrase? And you're like, I want cookies?
Erin
We want cookies.
Adal
But Warri, he's the cookie man.
Erin
I don't know.
Adal
The wolf man's catchphrase is, I'm Big Bird Bitch! Sandy, welcome to the episode. Thank you. It's good to be back. We're glad to have you back. Now, per our agreement, you haven't done any other puzzles since I was here last week. We've done no other puzzles. We've solved nothing. Cool. Awesome. Glad to hear it. I have been, I went to Boston. What have you been up to?
Erin
We did that in backwards order. You go first.
Adal
What have you been up to, Sandy? I went to Boston and I bring it up because two things happened to me that made me think of you guys. Number one is within a few minutes I was riding that bus you take from the airport. What's it called? Airport bus. No, it's a tram. There's no train to the Boston Airport. You have to ride this crappy bus. And I get on and it's crowded and it's hot and it's loud and the bus driver comes on and I start cracking up for no reason. And I'm like, why am I laughing at this person? And it's because I realized because they just had a really thick Boston accent and you just ruined it for listening to this show. Everything about Boston is hilarious.
00:50:00
Erin
Yeah, now everyone's a cartoon when you go to Boston. Oh no.
Adal
And then also I was there for the MIT Mystery Hunt, which is in January, but whatever. Yeah, how it had the Mystery Hunt go. It was great. The Mystery Hunt is an incredible weekend-long hunt for like teams of hundreds of people or hundred people or so. Our team had over a hundred. And you're trying to find Red October? You're hunting a hundred people. It's like the most dangerous game. It's Fortnite but real life. So the best place to be is second place, which is what we got because first place has to write next year's hunt. Oh Jesus. Except you know like everyone still wants to win. Was it you who said that you might be getting to this that there was something from our show that was referenced in The Hunt? Well here's the weird thing. So the the the the puzzles are mostly online or in PDF form like you can download them but occasionally they'll come to your headquarters and bring you something or you have to go to their headquarters and pick up something physical and for example like one puzzle was a box of a dozen Dunkin Donuts actually with little USB drives in them that had files on them that were puzzles.
00:51:08
Erin
You couldn't eat the donuts?
Adal
You could eat it, I mean. Wait, there were what in the thoughts? Oh, no! But at the same time, we also got a book that was a puzzle, and the book was called Swan Lumps. Wow. But it was not a reference to this show. Fuck that.
Erin
What was it a reference to?
JPC
A different, more popular.
Erin
Yeah, but how is it?
Adal
They came up with the same name. That's our IP. Wait, are you telling me the laziest thing that I've ever done was come up with by someone else? I hate to tell you.
Erin
I came up with that because it's easy to come up with that.
Adal
Well thanks for coming on Sandy. Anything to plug?
JPC
Well hey Adal actually Sandy why don't you do one of your fucking segments where you ask us questions and stuff.
Adal
I mean I guess I could do that. Why not? Okay cool.
JPC
I know we invited you on to hear about your Boston trip that we didn't ask about.
Erin
I don't like this place.
Adal
We're bullies and we own it. But please, yes, we'd love to do some puzzles. Cool. Alright, so here's the puzzle for today. These are clues for rhyming phrases. Two word phrases where the two words rhyme. They're common phrases, but in addition, one of the words in the clue also rhymes. So like howdy-doody. Uh-huh. So, I don't have that on my list. Wait, that doesn't work. Howdy Doody does not rhyme. Good work, all of us.
00:52:32
JPC
Howdy Doody. The most important part of this is figuring out what one isn't.
Adal
So, for example, if I said a hokey way of saying sure, you would say Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie.
Sandy
Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie.
Adal
Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Okie-dokie. Nilly Willy. Willy Nilly? Willy Nilly. Willy Nilly, is it?
Erin
Nilly Willy. Oh no, I love it.
JPC
Adal, stop trying to make your character Nilly Willy get onto the show. Why is Nilly Willy back from the war? If you're listening to this, we've cut Nilly Willy out of maybe seven episodes.
Adal
Listen, I came up with the character. It's basically Willy Nelson, but he loves Nilly Wifers. He gets eye and eats Nilly Wifers. I call him Nilly Willy. Okay, wait.
JPC
Wait, now I want to go back and put him into seven episodes.
00:53:34
Erin
No, it's too late.
JPC
It's just Nilly Willy.
Erin
Alright, I'm ready for another one.
Adal
We need some fan art of Willy Nelson smoking Nilla Wafers. Just call it Nilly Willy. Nilly Willy. Okay, itty details worth sweating over. You said itty? Itty bitty details worth sweating over. Nitty gritty. Nitty gritty. Nitty gritty. Fudge. And actually, that's a character JPC's been doing, which is Gritty, the Philadelphia Flyers mascot. That's an old grandma. Giving out where there's a knitting. All of our characters suck. Do you think he uses his own fur to like... Oh, absolutely.
Sandy
He's a psychopath. That's a nightmare.
Adal
He grows at a rate that is... It's all his pubes. Okay, next clue. And fur is just pubes.
Erin
I don't need to talk to you anymore today. I think I've had enough of you today, sir.
Adal
Erin, did you know that guys' pubes are just feathers?
Erin
I need to get out of here. Oh, there's walls. No door.
Adal
Old Buddy Who's Boring. Nutty Buddy. Boring. Snoring. Fuddy Duddy. There you go. Duddy Fuddy. Duddy Fuddy. Duddy Fuddy. Duddy Fuddy. Duddy Fuddy. Duddy Fuddy. Duddy Fuddy. Duddy Fuddy. Duddy Fuddy. Duddy Fuddy. Duddy Fuddy. Duddy Fuddy. A person who might enjoy the song Tennessee Jed. Tennessee Jed. A Deadhead. Was that a Grateful Dead song? It's the first Grateful Dead song I could find that rhymed with dead and head. I don't like the Grateful Dead but I saw them, they played it like some speedway in Juliet or something and Bob Dylan opened but I went to see Bob Dylan. He was a nightmare and then I seen him twice and once he was phenomenal and once it was like this is like a goose dying moaning on stage.
00:55:20
Erin
Oh my god!
Adal
It was bad. He's weird. He got busted for peeking in people's windows. He's walking around like Boston peeping in people's windows and they busted him. Fucking pervert. They busted him? Yeah.
Erin
What is happening?
Adal
And the windows. Grateful Dead, their lead singer for the night was Joan Osborn.
Erin
Weird.
Adal
Which was weird. Weird. Wait, Joan Osborn opened for Bob Dylan, opened for... No, Bob Dylan opened for the dead and then the dead sang and Joan Osborn took Jerry Garcia's parts.
JPC
Oh right. I'm just now learning that the Grateful Dead have lyrics to their songs.
Adal
Yeah, what if God was one of us? 20 minute jam, 20 minute jam. All right, here we go. This is from CA on Twitter. Mario's body slam move when he's around enemies. Ground pound. Ding dong. Wow, damn it. This is from Abby. Teeny legume-based sausages that come in a can. Green beans. No. Legume-based sausages that come in a can?
JPC
Mm-hmm. They're teeny.
00:56:22
Adal
We need beanies. Beanie weenies? Oh, so some of these are fucking nonsense. That's a real product.
Erin
Beanie weenies?
Adal
Wait, those are the collectables, the Princess Di beanie weenies? Of all the people, that edible Princess Di beanie weenies.
Erin
That took my brain so long. I've been sitting here 20 minutes, not a lot of much time this
Adal
Beanie Weenies, also called Frankenbeans, is a dish. It's not a brand, it's a dish. Beanie Weenies. How'd you get the beans above the francs? A lively ABBA song that can break you out of your stupor. Dancing Queen, Schmancing, Splendid. Mamma Mia. Well, one of those is a rhyme. Which word do you think it is? Stupor? Supertrooper. Yeah, Mamma Mia, here we go again. Don't give your honey this counterfeit bill. Funny money. You're good at this. Vibe you might get when freebies are too good to be true. Swag bag. Which rhyme? Freebies. Swagabedis. Freebie weebies. That's my favorite Ben and Jerry's winner.
00:57:34
JPC
God, I went on a date with this guy and he just gave me the freebie weebies.
Adal
He paid for everything. He gave me the Nilly Willys. I think you know. It's Freebie, right?
Sandy
Peepy Geebies.
JPC
By the way, Sandy said, I think you know, I didn't know. I was just saying Freebie Weebies did not put two and two together.
Adal
Hit song by that Scottish fellow Donovan. Oh, that'd be Ray Donovan. He's from Australia. He plays Sabertooth in X-Men. They call me the... Yellow, mellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, a squawky, handheld communication, squawky-talky, squawky-talky, squawky-talky, squawky-talky, squawky-talky, squawky-talky, squawky-talky, squawky-talky, squawky-talky, squawky-talky, squawky-talky, squawky-talky, squawky-talky, squawky-talky, squawky-talky, squawky-talky, squawky-talky, squawky-talky, squawky-talky, squawky-talky, squawky-talky, squawky-talky, squawky-talky squawky-talky squawky-talky squawky-talky squawky-talky squ
00:58:37
Erin
Thank you Erin. Crank turned string instrument that looks like a sturdy violin.
Adal
Crank turned string instrument that looks like a violin. It was sturdy, right? 30 and 40. Horny Kitty. Fucky Bucky.
Erin
Willy Dilly. Honestly, it's all of them. Is it Orgy? Is Orgy the word? Mm-hmm.
Adal
Orgy and Bess. It's from Orion. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy.
Erin
Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy.
Adal
Clergy. Clergy.
Erin
Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy. Clergy.
00:59:38
Adal
Clergy. Clergy.
Erin
Clergy. Clergy. Clergy.
Adal
Clergy. Clergy.
Erin
Clergy.
Adal
Clergy. Clergy. Clergy.
Erin
Humpty Dumpty. Sat on the wall.
Adal
No. Rhymes with orgy. Orgy.
Erin
Porgie.
Adal
Porgie. Porgie. That's one of the words.
Erin
Porgie. Porgies. Oh, Horgie Porgie. What's his name? Georgie Porgie.
Adal
Georgie Porgie.
Erin
Georgie Porgie.
Adal
Must be hard running around with a name that rhymes with orgy. Yeah. I'm sure nothing bad happened. That's my PG.
JPC
All right. Thank you, PG. And thank you, Sandy, for all of those great little puzzies.
Adal
Anything to plug? Oh, just come onto my Twitter and see more of these things every day. And what's your Twitter handler? You're Chelsea Handler, I'm sorry. P-Z-L-R and you can go to the Mystery League. Actually, there's no the. Go to mysteryleague.com and you can learn all about the stuff I do, which is team building puzzle activities and games. It's good stuff. I will say, and we haven't discussed this prior so I don't mean to put you on the spot, I've played two or three of your home brew escape rooms. So Sandy makes these like, basically like in a briefcase, take it out and it's everything you need to do like a... Yeah, it's like an escape game at a table. Yes, and the two or three I've done are phenomenal. Thank you. Do you have any plans to... One, you brought to my birthday party. Do you have any plans to do any more of those or take those ones that you made on the road? Yeah, I occasionally take them on the road. If a client brings me out to another city, I'll try to put on a public event where I can sell tickets. And to find out about those, I have a newsletter called My Dispatch, which is at dispatch.mysteryleague.com. You can subscribe and put puzzles out there too. But to answer your other question, Yeah, I'm actually in the final stages of my next one. Hell yeah. But I did the museum one and the like Fantastic Beasts. And those are two of the best, having done Escape the Rooms and other whatever else, those are two of the best ever. Thank you. Can I also plug, did you do The Last Defender? Yeah. Yes. The Last Defender was a show, escape room type immersive experience that I did with the house theater in Chicago. And it'll be coming back eventually, hopefully soon, but it is actually scheduled to open in Denver at the end of this month. Like the last day of May, I think.
01:01:45
JPC
Where can people in Denver go to find that information?
Adal
That would be a good piece of information for me to know. And what's the best dispensary in Denver? Hold up.
JPC
Now that is a riddle.
Adal
So if you are listening and you are in Denver... Google Last Defender Denver. Yeah, Last Defender Denver. And that works for the rhyme scheme of today's puzzle. Last Offender Denver. DenverCenter.org is the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Okay, and Sandy we're just gonna have you stand over here by this cliff and we're gonna give you a tight little shove. Thanks for committing. Cookies. Munch munch. Thank you Sandy. Thank you my daddy.
Erin
Ew, bye! Anything to plug?
Adal
Do you ever call teachers daddy?
Erin
Only when they're good teachers.
Adal
I feel like I remember in class kids calling the teacher mom. Yeah, that's a embarrassing thing.
Erin
You don't recover from that in a second.
Adal
No they didn't. They're still in school.
Erin
Adal, anything to plug?
Adal
I have too many things to plug. I want to plug Magic Tavern, which comes back season three starts on July 22nd. We recorded with a bunch of special guests and I'm very excited for that. So check that out July 22nd, season three starts. We also have two Magic Tavern live shows in Indianapolis, coinciding with Gen Con. That's August 2nd, Friday. We have an 8 p.m. and a 10 p.m. show. Please check those out. We did those last year and it's so, so much fun. Also, I guess it on some podcasts recently while I was in LA, so check out new appearances on Off Book, Hollywood Handbook, How Did This Get Played, which is a new podcast about video games with Nick Weiger and Heather Ann Campbell, and also I recorded a bonus episode with Voyage to the Stars, which was very fun. JPC, anything to plug?
01:03:26
JPC
Let's see. Can you beat that? Let's see, is there anything that I have to plug? I'd like to plug all the same podcasts. I did all this as well. I'd like to plug help from the magic tavern. I was asked to be on the podcast. I couldn't make it work with my schedule and I was actually never asked again. You can follow me on Instagram at sharkbarkman. Follow me at Twitter at JP. So fly, Erin.
Erin
Follow me on Instagram at Erin Keif 10. A web series I filmed a while ago and wrote and produced is coming out. We're not coming out. We're just doing a night where we show the whole thing before we take it to festivals. And so I will promote that on my Instagram and then you can buy a ticket to watch my web series.
Adal
And Erin, do you mind? There's some thin crust hungry Howie's pizza there. Could you take a bite of that and just say whatever comes to mind?
Erin
Yum! Jupiter!
Adal
Bye forever!
01:04:27
Sandy
created by Adal Rifai, starring Erin Keif, and John Patrick Mullin, KG Snyder did the editing, M.R.E. parents in the music, logo created by Emily Cardamus and M.O.E. Nemours,
JPC
That was a head gum podcast.