This is a HeadGum podcast.
00:00:02
Erin
This is a HeadGum podcast.
JPC
The doctor was the mother. He stood on a block of ice. Both of them were goldfish. It was the cabin of an airplane. He stabbed him with the knife.
???
And the horses came rising.
Erin
Okay Riddlers, on your mark, get set, go!
???
Oh wait, what are we doing? What are we doing? Uh, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, darn, darn. Eat this casserole, eat this casserole.
Adal
Done. Okay, belly dance. I'm still on the belly dance portion. What were we doing?
Erin
Okay, so that was a foot race, and neither of you moved.
JPC
I should say, I done hurt my foot, and I can't walk on it.
00:01:06
Erin
Uh, forget it. This is the last time we tried to do Hey Riddle Riddle Field Day. You guys didn't even try to- Hey Maybelline! I hurt my foot! I'm just packing everything up from Hey Riddle Riddle Field Day. You guys didn't even want to participate even.
JPC
No, it was fun. It's not that I didn't want to participate. I just said every time I tetherball, I hit myself in the back of the head. Without fail, I can't get another concussion from tetherball.
Erin
And yet we played tetherball, you did not get hit, and we both got hit in the head by you.
Adal
And also, JPC, I thought it was really cool that you had those fears and that you introduced us to Featherball, which was so light and so relaxing. And it knocks the wind out of you and it hits the back of the head though.
Erin
Instead of all these games, let's just do regular riddles. Fine.
Adal
Fine. Well, it was a good run. I'm Adal Rifai. I'm JPC. And I'm Erin Keif.
Erin
I love egg foods.
00:02:10
Adal
I don't think there's anything funnier to me than in a southern accent yelling. I think when I started improv, I feel like 95% of the scenes I saw or did were exactly what JPC did, which was like, hey, Darlene, come in the front yard. You'll never guess what's out here.
Erin
Uh, Gabby Dixon yelling, hey, y'all going to JCPenney from out of a window in the IOT theater is still one of my favorite things I've seen. And that was like 2015.
JPC
I do love that it's not just like a southern person yelling. The context is always that they're very far away in both of those examples. It's not like someone, because it's insane for a southern person to have like a shouting match with someone like in close proximity. That's what they would.
Erin
Oh no, they're always far away. And it's always asking if people are going to JCPenney. Hey, y'all going to JCPenney?
Adal
Hey, that's the river what took my son. I think that's the Tina Fey bit. Oh, Southern Voices. Um, speaking of Southern Voices, JPC, you are from the deep south of Indiana.
00:03:12
JPC
I'm from, well Indianapolis is exactly the center of Indiana. Couldn't be more the middle of Indiana. But it is weird though because every time that I went to southern Indiana or even just like south of Indiana, like I had a friend who just lived on the south side of Indianapolis which was not that far away and he had like a southern accent and it was like I felt like it was more of a rural accent than it was a like actual like southern draw accent.
Adal
It was just like... Well nobody speaks like that second one unless you're Colonel Sanders. Well I'm just a simple country chicken lawyer.
Erin
A country chicken lawyer from Savannah is what that voice is. What does his voice sound like?
Adal
You're on a 12-piece bucket.
JPC
Adjourned. It was more like a cadence thing. He just had more of a cadence to his voice. And he was from Indianapolis. Basically, not really. It was outside of Indianapolis. We were from the same place. That's why when people hear Indiana they think like, you know, two horses and ten cows and the horses are the mares.
00:04:27
Adal
And the cows are the wives. And the cows are the wives. I'm gonna feel dumb as soon as this leaves my lips but I'm gonna risk it.
JPC
Hey, I'd like you to feel dumb before it leaves your lips and then you'll just feel normal as you say it.
Adal
You're a true friend. So in my head, I always thought Indianapolis was like, the name Indianapolis is one because it's in Indiana and it's like a metropolis. So to me, Indianapolis is a combination. It's almost like Pizza Hut Taco Bell. It's a combination Indiana metropolis. Is that correct?
JPC
I think Annapolis means city. So like Indianapolis, like mini Annapolis. I think Apolis is like the Greek thing for like city.
Adal
Is that derived from Apollo? Apolis? Apollo's lisp?
JPC
Remember Apollo had that lisp? Yes, and it would only come out when he was saying the word city. So it's Apollo's lisp means... You just got yourself a salon? Uh, yeah, but that's, that's where, that's, I think that's where that's from. But, you know, I, I could be, I could be absolutely incorrect in the, in Appleus, but there's all, a bunch of cities have Appleus on them that are like, yeah.
00:05:45
Adal
These are cities.
???
Oh, okay.
Erin
Hold on. It's from a Greek word meaning citizen of no country. Polis was a city state of ancient Greece, adding the A in front means not of. So Minneapolis and Indianapolis, I have no idea, but they took the Apple from that Greek word.
Adal
Fascinating. And Erin, we should say that Erin climbed up her bookshelf ladder and knocked it to the side so that she whizzed by all her books, a la Belle and Beauty and the Beast. She grabbed a big old tome that said, city info?
Erin
Yeah, I gotta tell you, I got a concussion twice in that entire exchange.
Adal
You pushed the ladder too hard?
Erin
Yeah, going up the ladder, about my head, and then push the ladder too hard, going sideways. Man, it's not easy.
JPC
When Erin got concussed, she dropped that heavy book out of her zoom and it fell from the top of her zoom into the bottom of, or from the bottom of her zoom into the top of mine. I caught it. I did look this up. This is funny. So this is funny. This is interesting, I'd say as a fact. Polis, as we all know, means the thing that Erin just said it was. A polis sausage is a sausage that belongs to no one.
00:07:07
Erin
Okay, well if I pee right now, we'll go into your screen too asking for a friend.
JPC
Al, why is this hot? It's like an acid. It's not hot in temperature, it's hot like spicy.
Erin
Okay, well here you get two options. It's either hot like spicy or it's the consistency of hail. You decide.
JPC
Hey Riddle.
Adal
Oh no, sweetie, Giardina is the peppers that chopped up. It's what you get with the side of Italian beef. Oh, it's delicious.
JPC
When you say Giardia to people, you either go with Giardiniera or what's the... What's that cook on the fingerwork? No, what's the STI? Gonorrhea.
Erin
Anyway... I was thinking Geranium, so I guess I'm unique.
JPC
Yes, that's very unique. Anyway, she got super sick. She threw up like five times. But it was like, it was also kind of concerning, you know, when a pet's sick and you're like, oh no. But at one point she was like, we were trying to like, do you want to lay down? Like, where do you want to go? Like she was just kind of walking around, just getting everything out of her. So she was just like standing in the kitchen, just like her legs were shaking and she was just staring off into the distance. We were like, oh no. And we were like, do you want to drink some water? And she like went and drank some water and then she like threw up all the water. So I've cleaned up way worse today. This is just water and I'm like, well, thank God it's just water. But when I was like cleaning up her water, I was like, it's cold. It's cold like the water from her bowl was cold. And I'm like, oh, throwing up something that is cold is just like, it's gotta be the worst experience.
00:08:53
Erin
You go, I am not okay in my insides. I'm famously supposed to be around 98 degrees. And if this is coming out cold, then I am not 98 degrees.
JPC
If it was in me and it's coming out of me, it should be baked to the correct temperature, but this is not.
Adal
Well, speaking of in you and coming out of you, I believe you have some riddles that are dying to be regurgitated to our listeners' ears.
JPC
And I cannot wait to borf these little riddles into your chest.
Erin
This is fast. Yuck yuck.
Adal
Borf is my favorite Star Trek Next Generation character. He's got that crease on his forehead. Yes, you're thinking of six of nine.
JPC
That's it. Nice. Okay, so again, I'm digging deep into the listener-submitted mail bag for some of these, but I wanted to do just some listener-submitted ones, and these are from, you know, again, very beginning of the show. We're talking about 2018. These things are now... That's so crazy.
Erin
I was 20 then. That's wild.
00:09:53
JPC
I wasn't even born. These are from August, so they're not three years old, but they're getting close. They're getting close to that. Okay, so this one, and this is before we ask people if we could read their names. So I'm just going to read first names. This is from, I believe, Erem. E-R-U-M, Erem? Erem? Yeah.
Adal
Oh, I think this is, I know this person. I think it's Erem. Yeah.
JPC
Erem. Erem. Well, this is a person that Adal potentially knows and this is Erem. Erem says, hey there OMPs, you guys make my Wednesdays commute so much better. Please never stop further than puzzling and then take a stab at this Rizzy, if you dare. Like a Toyota or Civic, I'm just as good in reverse.
Erin
Stab.
JPC
What am I?
Adal
I'm just as good in reverse.
JPC
Now, Erin, are you stabbing Erem there?
Erin
No, I'm stabbing the riddle. He told me to take a stab at it.
Adal
Oh, is it? That's true. How do I do this? Hold on.
00:10:57
Erin
Oh, is it my ass that won't quit? Is it my ass that won't quit?
Adal
You're ass that won't quit I have a question about. Is it just as good in reverse?
Erin
Yeah, of course.
Adal
Okay. Is the answer sudugg?
JPC
What? I'm just as good in reverse?
Adal
Yeah, so Se-dug. One is the couple name for Se-dee-and-dug, my sister and brother-in-law. And then two, that's as good in reverse or backwards.
JPC
Well, it's not Se-good. What did you say it was?
Adal
Se-dug. Dook-sa? As good?
Erin
Wait, wait. Read the riddle again.
Adal
I took G-O-O-D, space A-S, and then I flipped that, so it's S-A-D-O-O-G. Well, you did good as. Oh, whoops.
Erin
Okay, I think I'm gonna need the riddle again.
Adal
I'm drunk.
JPC
Wait, you're saying that Erin just has a good ass? No, no, no, no, no.
Adal
I don't quit. For a local charity, I told people I would do a dump tank and I accidentally went to the drunk tank and so I am sloshed. And I'm gonna boar
00:12:07
Erin
Okay well honestly this must be your first dunk tank because every time I go to a dunk tank I get drunk as a skunk before I go. Otherwise it's gonna hurt my feelings.
Adal
I want to see a scene. The two of you are on the hit show dunk tank where you have to pitch an idea. We're gonna have Erin you're pitching an idea to JPC who's one of the dunks and if you don't pitch your idea in a quick enough time or he doesn't like your idea he dunks all over you.
JPC
Why should I, Mr. Waterfall, give you the million dollar prize?
Erin
I'm asking for a million dollars for 5% stake in my company. In my company, us. Hey, I'm sorry.
JPC
Mike, can we cut for a second? Cut. Thank you, Mike. Are you nervous?
Erin
Yeah, I'm really nervous. I've never been on TV before.
JPC
I'm on TV every week. I'm Mr. Waterfall. It's actually, you know, it's totally fine to be nervous. I'm going to give you a little, a little something that someone gave me back when I was first starting out that will help you feel less nervous. I want you to close your eyes and imagine me naked.
00:13:22
Erin
Okay. Okay.
JPC
That helps me a lot.
Erin
That is hysterical.
JPC
When I imagined myself naked, I was like, ready. Hell yeah. I'm ready. Okay. All right.
Erin
I think I'm ready. Okay.
JPC
Mike, we good?
Adal
Sorry, I was on my phone. What's up?
JPC
Just say action, Mike. Did you know that Stevie Nicks is still alive? Alright Mike, somebody's cut this.
Erin
That's surprising. I didn't say that was surprising. I'm sorry. Action.
JPC
Cut. Sorry, cut. Mike. Action. I had to say it. Action. I'm Mr. Waterfalls. I really want you to win that million dollar prize. Show me what you got.
Erin
I'm asking for a million dollars for 5% stake in my company, take money from Mr. Waterfalls, and give it to Stevie Nicks. We have raised over $100,000 for mother investors. How much over? Be specific.
JPC
We have raised over $100,000, so it's like more or less $100,000.
Erin
It's basically another way of saying $100,000. No, it's not. No, that's just business talk.
00:14:30
JPC
Hey, so you're lying to me. Dunk.
Erin
Are you not pissed?
JPC
Hold on. That alarm means that you have one dunk. So there are only two other dunks remaining. That means I have locked in a dunk on my right hand. Now I also have my left hand on my forehead, and if I lock in a dunk on all three, you will get dunked. Dunk, dunk.
Erin
What is this show? What happens when I get dunked?
JPC
Well, that's it. I've dunked you on my left and my right and my forehead. Mike, looks like he's still on his phone, looks like he hasn't hit the actual dunk button, so you have a few more seconds. Mike, you're killing me.
Erin
And action. When I worked at a summer camp on the last day, There was a dunk tank of like every session of the summer camp. And you really saw which counselors were most hated by the children because we would be the ones getting in the dunk tank. And you'd just see something in their eyes and they would really want to dunk.
JPC
It wasn't you, was it?
Erin
No, I think they were mostly apathetic towards me. Yeah, but there wasn't a lot of hatred towards me.
00:15:37
JPC
How old were you at this point?
Erin
I think I worked at that camp for two or three years. So it was probably like 16 through 18 or 19. 16, 17, 18 probably.
Adal
Erin, are you still working on that app called pathetic?
Erin
Yeah, it will never be finished. True to its name. That's sort of like how I'm branding it is.
JPC
I'm never going to finish it. I have an app that's also called Pathetic and what the app does is randomly at random times it converts your ringtone to the sound of porn and then it turns your volume on. So at any point, like you might get a call or a text and you're like, And everyone's like, oh my god, that guy's watching porn on the bus? How pathetic.
Adal
I have an app that's pathetic. Caprese Salad. What are we paying $14 for mozzarella and tomatoes for?
Erin
Shut up, it's amazing. Yeah, I tell you guys about- There's also basil!
Adal
There's also basil!
JPC
We've heard it all a million times before.
Erin
In balsamic vinegar, idiots. So, maybe like a year and a half. Two years ago, I went to an improv show and it was like at CAC and it was sold out. And I don't know how it happened, but my phone bumped and it was in the middle of the show, full volume. It went, this is a head come podcast. And our show started playing from me. My own podcast started playing in a quiet TIC theater and I was humiliated.
00:17:00
Adal
That's amazing because people assume the worst.
Erin
They're like, oh, she was listening to fucking Hey Riddle Riddle on the way here.
JPC
She was your own podcast to hype her up for this improv show.
Adal
This is funny because less than 48 hours ago, JPC and I were playing D&D, and as we're getting ready for D&D, it's like 10 a.m. or something, and all of a sudden my computer starts blaring, hey, this is Adal Rifai, welcome to Hey Riddle Riddle. And then it stops and everyone's laughing and I'm like, was that my computer? And people are like, yeah. And they're like, what do you like? Do you like to like listen to your, like they're all making fun. And it turned out it was JPC had turned on the link for our live show. And so it was just the intro, but I was humiliated because, and these are friends, but I'm like, but I'm like, I don't believe that it was Adal because it was Adal's voice that popped out.
JPC
And they're like, Adal, is that you? And I was like, I guess it is.
Erin
Oh God. Right under the bus.
Adal
Whenever I'm on tour with the Rolling Stones, I'll play one of their songs and I'll be like, that was Mick. No, Mick did that.
00:18:02
JPC
Did you guys have an answer to this riddle?
Adal
Like a Toyota or a Camry?
JPC
What was it? It's like a Toyota or Civic.
Adal
I'm just as good in reverse. What am I? So a Civic is Honda. A Toyota could be many things like a Camry. So one is make and one is model, right? So like a Toyota or a Civic?
Erin
It's a word going, it's one of, you like put the word backwards.
JPC
One goes is a make, one is a model. One always tells the truth, one always loves to dawdle.
Erin
Dodge.
Adal
Oh, they're, they're... S-S-Saturn. Civic's a palindrome. And so is a Toyota. Oh, a Toyota, yes. I know that from the Weird Al song.
JPC
Yes, you do. You do know it from that, and you know it from this riddle. Thank you, Erin. Yes, the answer is a palindrome. That's great. I like that one. Which is like a Toyota and I said, or like a Toyota. What's the name of that Riddle song? That song is called, That's your palindrome for today. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:19:15
Adal
That's your palindrome for today. Bring such nice bright colors. Aquarius. I am a man a plan a Panama Canal. A man a plan a canal Panama.
JPC
Go hang a salami. I'm a lasagna hog. That's my favorite palindrome. Pretty great.
Erin
That's a good one.
JPC
I think it was from like I got that from like a Garfield book or something. I don't know. Um, anyway, that has stuck with me for my entire life and will be with me until my dying day.
Erin
And you don't even remember my last name, so it's clear what you try to remember.
JPC
I know, I remember it. It's Keish, you love eggs. Oh, come on. I think it's, it's Cluedle, right? Cluedle? Yeah. Either way, Erin, you gotta admit, we are getting warmer.
Erin
Good, because my pee is so, so, so cold and I would like for it to heat up.
JPC
Hey, put it in my dog's body, that'll heat it up. Okay, hey, here we go. This one is from Annie. I like this one a lot. This one, Annie says, hey, love the show. I thought I'd contribute with a couple riddles from Sweden. These are from approximately the 18th and 19th century from various areas in Sweden. I'll include the Swedish text if you want to go at reading it out loud. What do you guys think? Do you guys want to hear me pronounce these things in Sweden?
00:20:36
Erin
I'm not trying to get an entire country mad at us, so no.
Adal
Well, I will say anytime we get a listener submitted riddle or email from Sweden, we do have to do a little segment that's the Swedish Chef Bop, which is Swedish Chef singing a popular song. So I'll go first. I'm just going to be a little snippet, just a line or two. Here we go.
???
Don't go cheating with the fools. Please stick to the river that you used to.
Adal
Okay. I tried to do the left eye wrap and then I realized it's way too long.
Erin
And we're done here? Erin's up next. Apparently, are we ready? Okay, let's see. That's that new song that people keep playing on the internet.
00:21:49
Adal
I don't know what song that is, but I did suddenly realize that the name Werner Herzog is absolutely just a Swedish chef saying, Werner Herzog. Okay. J.P. Z. Here we go.
???
This isn't a song. Was that Crazy Frog?
JPC
That was Love Yourself by Justin Bieber.
Erin
Okay, what are these Swedish riddles?
JPC
I'm ready. So here's the first one. Walks uphill and downhill and carries a bone in its mouth. Walks uphill and downhill and carries a bone in its mouth. These are hundreds of years old and they're from Sweden. It is not a dog. This might help you. Gar aap fr bakke, uck aap fr bakke, ack bar ett bin ett kaften.
Adal
Ack bar, let me just pause and say, dad stop, ack bar is not a Swedish word. Admiral Ackbar is not a Swedish character.
00:22:52
Erin
It's a trap! Up and downhill? Is it a literal hill?
Adal
It is not a hill, no. Walks up and downhill with a bone in their mouth. Is this a person giving a everlasting blowjob? Hey Adal, stop trying to sell your new Willy Wonka adult script. Everlasting knobsucker. Oh my god we have to write this.
Erin
Hey Riddle.
JPC
We're crying and missing you for a week and at one point he says that he was in a blowjob contest that week and his girlfriend's like, you were in a blowjob contest? He's like, no, no, no, no, no. Giving blowjobs. And then later on someone throws a Drake in his face and he says something about how they have a Drake named after him at this bar. And she's like, they have a drink called the Tom Samuels. And he's like, no, it's called the ultimate cocksucker.
00:24:11
Erin
That's weird. Perfect.
JPC
Bob Odenkirk, comedy genius. Bob Odenkirk, hey, and he can do it all. He can break bad with the best of them. But do we have an answer for this riddle? This one I think is hard.
Adal
I don't even truly understand it. I imagine it's like analogous like it's not a literal bone. It's not a literal bone. Is it like teeth or bone and we all it's like every every human?
JPC
Well, you know what actually let me let me just double check this.
Adal
Or is this like a man in the morning man in the evening man at night kind of situation?
Erin
Yeah.
Adal
Where uphill and downhill are like early stages, like the beginning half of your life and the last half or something.
JPC
I don't understand this one truly because it carries a bone in its mouth. I think it might be more if it's like walks uphill and downhill and carries a muscle in its mouth.
Adal
I will also say carries a bone in its mouth. I'm more of a Charlottesville bone in its mouth.
00:25:13
JPC
Erin, what are you?
Erin
I'm a Carries with a bonus amount.
JPC
Is it three? Are there three?
Erin
No, there's four. Miranda.
JPC
Miranda. Cari and Charlotte. Okay.
Erin
You're full Miranda. It's funny that you don't remember because you're Miranda. None of this matters.
JPC
Erin took a pause and the light left her eyes. Sex in the pity.
Erin
After a year of quarantine, you just are like fucking none of it. None of it matters.
JPC
Yeah, so maybe that's your clue. It carries a bone in its mouth. I would say it carries a muscle in its mouth. Maybe even the strongest muscle. The tongue. Hey Riddle. Oh, yes. It carries a bone in its mouth. Okay, cool.
00:26:18
Erin
Smart, Adal.
JPC
That makes sense. Okay.
Adal
I would say bones. That's a great riddle. I feel like the foot... Doesn't the foot famously have the most bones?
Erin
For most people, it's just one big one. Not mine. That's why I could never be a ballet dancer.
JPC
Yeah, the doctors have told me that I have eight bones, so who knows?
Erin
Erin? I think it would have been a great ballet dancer if I had cared about anything or I was good at being disciplined and showing up places, but I'm not.
Adal
Erin, I need you to plie. Your feet are like loaves of bread.
Erin
Thank you!
JPC
Okay, so this next one. What speaks and replies but has neither tongue nor mouth? What speaks or replies?
Erin
A telephone.
JPC
A simpler way to say this would be... These riddles were written in the 18th century. You heard me, bitch. Time travel. Time travel. The answer is the time traveler's wife, so thank you.
00:27:32
Erin
Ooh, a great film. Great film. No, it's terrible. It's terrible. I always think about how Hailey Palmer thought I loved that movie and she watched it and then judged me and she realized I was talking about About Time. Very different vibe.
Adal
Very different vibe than About Time, but About Time also kind of creepy. Time Traveler's Wife, famously set in Chicago, their reference Ann Sathers and the Metro. It's like they were here.
Erin
I'm so tired of things being set in Chicago and someone Googled Chicago once, so they're like, deep dish?
???
The Beam.
Adal
They lived in Chicago for their whole lives, so they proposed at The Beam. They went to the Navy Pier stained glass museum.
Erin
That would be an excellent bit. Hey, anyone out there listening, if you're ever going to propose to me, if you propose to me at The Beam, I will laugh out loud and then I'll say yes.
JPC
Hold on, are we all calling it The Beam? Yeah, The Beam.
Erin
What speaks and replies but has neither tongue nor mouth? An echo.
00:28:33
JPC
An echo? No. And Erin, I think that while telephone is incorrect, I think it maybe is like around, it can help you get to the right answer because you're on the right track.
Erin
Like a gramophone.
JPC
A postcard? Yes, but like in the olden times, like what would you... Telegraph. You don't know the location of a submarine, Erin.
Erin
I know the location of several submarines, bitch. I'm on Reddit.
JPC
Be more specific. What submarine are you talking about?
Adal
I know what morph code is.
JPC
No, so you're writing a letter, but it's not the paper and it's not the letter. We'll call it a pencil.
Erin
An ink quill.
JPC
It is an ink quill.
Erin
Interesting.
JPC
Yeah, it's very interesting. Okay, so I want to see a quick scene. Adal and Erin, you two are on a nuclear submarine. Erin, you are just sticking around and playing around with these controls. You don't actually know how any of this stuff works. And then Adal is the captain. He comes up to you to do a Morse code message. You're going to be sending a Morse code message, and you don't know how to do that.
00:29:57
Adal
And sorry, this is one of those new, clear submarines?
JPC
Yeah, it's a glass bottom boat, but all around the thing. It's from Florida.
Adal
Great. Professor Daniels, I need you to send a urgent message. This is the most urgent message we'll ever send.
Erin
Okay, sorry. I'm ready to do that. I just have... Snood is pulled up on here and I can't seem to find how to exit out of Snood.
Adal
Is Snood like sexy nudes?
Erin
No, remember Snood at the game?
Adal
Is that like chewing tobacco?
Erin
No, it's like a game you can play on your desktop. Also, Microsoft Paint is up. Sorry, I was just killing some time over here. And also, I want to apologize again and again for farting earlier. I know that's like number one rule here in a submarine is do not fart.
Adal
Here's the thing, you're new here. The first three months, every new recruit holds it in or they fart in their bed or in a sweater, a rolled up sweater, that they ball up in their hands. But after three, four months, you get the hang of it and we just walk around here, we're just propelling ourselves, blast off king.
00:31:00
Erin
Okay, that's great.
Adal
That's something a friend used to say, blast off king.
Erin
Well, I really appreciate you being nice about it. So what's the message?
Adal
Well first let me, it's an emergency so I have to rip open this protocol pack here and it says first thing I have to do is to outright ask you if you know how to send Morse code.
Erin
Oh and I put it on my resume for sure and that was under special skills so that is what I said.
Adal
Okay, well you also said that you knew how to use GarageBand, and yet when the commanders of the sub wanted to write and record an album, you suddenly seemed to not have the... I figured I would know how to use GarageBand because people say it's super intuitive, so that was just me like assuming I knew how.
Erin
Gotcha, gotcha. Okay, and I'm ready.
Adal
Do you think like Iggy Pop or the White Stripes lists GarageBand as like skills on their resume? Who? That's just something fun to think about. Okay, so let's see here. Second step of the protocol is I have to make sure that you have not eaten in the last two hours.
00:32:00
Erin
Ooh. Ooh, what am I going for a swim?
Adal
Well, we're in a submarine, so if something were to happen, we need to know that you can swim through the surface. Because if you've eaten, you will surely either drown or the food is fresh in your mouth to attract sharks.
Erin
Yeah, a couple things. Definitely put, I knew how to swim in my resume, so it must be true, right?
Adal
The other thing is... Well, you spelled swim with two M's, so we weren't sure.
Erin
And I have to swim in order to send this message?
Adal
No, no, no. We're just saying this message we're about to send is about to kick off a terrible, terrible war that will surely last for years.
Erin
I should just quit out of this game of snood. I don't have to like. I'm not going to get back to it soon.
Adal
Well, how do you play?
Erin
Well you do okay it's sort of like sort of like Tetris but opposite the stuffs at the top hold on sort of like Tetris but opposite so I'm connecting blank spaces no dummy to try and fill a board you're trying to break down a board but it's above so you're shooting little monsters up to the board oh god
00:33:04
Adal
You're shooting little monsters. This isn't Snood. This is our command system. What have you been doing?
Erin
Oh, I was having the best time. I thought I got a high score.
JPC
Shouldn't Admiral on the bridge? Which one of you fuck-knuckles has been farting in my sweaters?
Adal
Professor, raise your hand.
Erin
I killed a bunch of people because I thought the command center was Snood.
JPC
I'll repeat myself. Which one of you fuck knuckles has been farted in my sweater?
Erin
It was him.
JPC
What? No it wasn't. Court marshaled.
Erin
And action.
Adal
Night court marshaled scene.
Erin
This is snood.
Adal
Oh Gemma's obsessed with that game. Is it you?
Erin
Gemma plays that game.
Adal
Gemma found the app for it and was like over the moon and she literally plays that about an hour a day. Wow.
Erin
My dad and I used to play it on my childhood computer all the time. It's really addictive.
00:34:07
Adal
You know what else is really... She's not that much younger than me and I'm like, snake? Do you mean snake?
Erin
No.
Adal
Snake on a Nokia? You snooed, you looed. Well, it's that magical time. 7.17 PM.
Erin
Oh really is!
Adal
It's riddle o'clock. Holy shit, how did that happen? 69,420 minutes into the day. So we're gonna take a break. This worked out perfectly. We'll be right back with more... Hey Riddle Riddle.
JPC
I love how you keep saying it's 69,420 minutes into the day, which is insane. Whoops. Oh my god, Adal, Erin, I feel like such a fool. What happened? What did we do? You know how we all thought that these ads were kind of a safe space to talk about, you know, what's going on in our lives and our problems and our issues and kind of talk through them? Well, it turns out these are being broadcast to thousands of people in the middle of our episodes.
00:35:08
Erin
Yeah, you're talking into a microphone.
JPC
Wait, is that why we're getting paid for these? I know I'm just as surprised as you guys, but I have landed on something revolutionary that is going to help us out of this pickle that we all find ourselves in and we're all in the same situation.
Erin
You know what?
Adal
See, I was about to recommend better help, but if you found something... I was about to launch into how I love pickles because this is an opportunity for me to just rant and rave about what I like. Well, okay. Wait, Erin, what's better help? Oh, do you want to hear about Bradley Better Help Pickers?
JPC
No, I don't want to hear about your pickle theory. Why did I say pickles like that? From the South? I don't know.
Erin
Well, thank God I'm here because let me tell you about what my thing is and that is Better Help. It's not a crisis line. It's not self-help. It's professional counseling done securely online. This is my favorite kind of way to get therapy because you can send a message to your counselor anytime and they're professionals and it's awesome and you don't have to do that performative one hour of therapy every week that stressed me the heck out. It's more affordable than traditional offline counseling and financial aid is available.
00:36:13
Adal
And BetterHelp will help you with things like, you know, is there something interfering with your happiness, JPC? Is there something preventing you from achieving your goals, JPC? Sorry, I'm mentioning just what's affecting my happiness and affecting me from achieving my goals.
JPC
Yeah, and so with better help, not like our ads that go out to thousands of people, everything that you share is confidential, it's convenient, it's professional, and it's affordable, right?
Adal
Yeah, and you can start communicating in under 48 hours. That's less than an Eddie Murphy movie.
Erin
And it's available worldwide.
JPC
Okay, so you're saying that we want people to start living a happier life. And as a listener of our show, you can get 10% off your first month by visiting our sponsor at betterhelp.com slash riddle.
Adal
JPC, no 10%. That's too much.
JPC
I don't make the rules. I think that they should join over 1 million people who have taken charge of their mental health. Again, that's betterhelp, H-E-L-P dot com slash riddle. This is way better than the idea I was going to pitch.
Erin
What were you going to say?
00:37:13
JPC
I was going to say whisper ads. We just whisper all the ads and so then we can hear the ads if we whisper all the ads.
Erin
Okay, I say this every day, but thank God I'm here. What would happen if I wasn't here, everybody?
Adal
Oh wait, GBC. Stop whispering. All these birds started landing on you. The birds are my friends.
???
What happened? I wasn't here.
Adal
I understood meningitis and that's about it.
Erin
Yes, JBC, that's exactly what you should do to alienate our Swedish listeners. Good idea.
JPC
I think our Swedish listeners are pretty impressed with my phonetic pronunciation.
Erin
We actually have a lot of people who listen from Sweden.
Adal
I don't know. Well, we did. I don't know if I told you guys, but I'm, well, one, I'm like a quarter to 30% Swedish. My family's from Delarni, which is in Sweden where they make those little red horses. And then two, I went to Stockholm and it was truly like the most beautiful place. I didn't realize it's like 400 little islands connected by like bridges and stuff. And every single person I met was like six foot four and stunning. Truly, truly just a magical land.
00:38:36
Erin
Okay, let's go.
Adal
Damn, sounds like it was well-stocked homes.
Erin
Pretty good.
Adal
There's a guy, I was lost and I was looking for my hotel and a guy who's clearly like a businessman was like, do you need help? And I was like, yeah, I can't find this hotel. Can you tell me what direction? He goes, no, no, no, no. I will walk you. And he walked me like 28 minutes to my hotel. I was like, the people here are like the most kind, amazing, impressive, beautiful people.
Erin
I would love to travel. That would be amazing. You guys find me a rich boyfriend right now. Everybody, go. What are you doing still sitting there? I can still see both of you.
Adal
My name's Rich. Can we date?
Erin
Get out of my face.
JPC
I don't know. Sean's a friend. I don't think I would do that.
Erin
Go, run, run.
JPC
Okay, so for all of y'all who don't speak the King's Swedish, here's the, I guess, it sounds like this is fucking dog vomit in my mouth. American translation. I was born in the woods. While I lived, I was mute. But since I died, I sing pretty well.
00:39:44
Adal
Why mama?
Erin
A tree that got turned into a flute.
Adal
This is funny because I think the answer is Stevie Nicks.
JPC
No, she wasn't mute. She had the voice of a fucking angel. RIP Stevie.
Erin
No, we can't make jokes about that.
JPC
No, we can.
Erin
We've messed up before. I think this, guys, I think this show kills people.
Adal
Do you think Stevie Nicks and Nikki Six have ever fucked?
JPC
Hey, let me put it this way. If I accidentally kill Stevie Nicks by reading this riddle and saying, RIP Stevie Nicks, RIP Mitch McConnell, RIP Donald Trump, RIP former Vice President Mike Pence. The hashtag would have to be... I got a long list.
Adal
The hashtag would have to be rippublicans.
JPC
R.I.P. Nancy Pelosi, R.I.P. Chokeshuber.
Adal
I was born in the woods.
Erin
We don't need to kill them. We just need to encourage them to retire.
JPC
Hey, death is the ultimate retirement. It's the only retirement you don't need to plan for. 401K is amazing.
00:40:53
Erin
Okay, if you're not planning for your death, you're going to be a burden to your family.
JPC
That's true.
Adal
I keep telling my family, when I die, give me to a bird. That's the thing about life, nobody makes it out alive.
Erin
Okay, the answer to this riddle is not what I said about the tree being turned into a flute. Well, a wooden flute, Erin?
JPC
Yeah. Like a recorder. A recorder, I think, could work. Is it a little wooden boy? When I lived, I was mute. I think that this You're on the right track, but it's an instrument basically, but it's not that instrument. Is it a liar?
Adal
It's not a liar. So can you repeat the full thing again? I was born in the woods.
JPC
Yeah, but I was born in the woods while I lived I was mute, but since I died I sing pretty well.
Adal
So it's a wooden instrument.
JPC
Yeah, but this is not, it's a wooden instrument. This is an instrument that you need like another thing to play it.
Adal
Like you can't, I guess you could just. Hmm. Yeah. The drum guitar. It's a drum guitar. Not drum, not piano. The drum tar.
00:42:02
JPC
No, think of, it's woodwinds. I think, I think this is a woodwind. No, I don't know. So it's like a reed? Not a reed. It plays with your hands up with your mouth. A bow. You need a bow for it. Oh, a violin. A violin.
Erin
A stratovari. Stratovari? What are those expensive violins?
JPC
I want to see a scene. Well, I don't know, Erin Keif said stratovari several times, and her wand lit up, and then her wand lit up, and then her wand lit up, and then her wand lit dark.
Adal
Aloha, Beethoven. I want to see a scene. JPC, you are like a world-class spy. Thank you. And also a world-class asshole. And you are undercover in this famous orchestra to try and catch a killer. And you've never touched a violin and you're trying to fake it. And Erin, you are the conductor.
Erin
Alright, let's all play a C. C, why aren't you playing?
00:43:07
JPC
I'm sorry, you were talking to me?
Erin
Yeah, are you ready?
JPC
Oh yes, you wanted me to play a C?
Erin
Yeah, ready?
JPC
I'd rather take you to the high C's. I have a sailing boat, you know.
Erin
What? Okay, the performance is about to start. Sorry, I'm a little tongue-tied.
JPC
Sorry, if at any point tonight I'm a little sharp.
Erin
Oh my god!
JPC
Yes, sorry, that man, I threw a throwing knife at that man. I thought that's a bassoon. No, don't worry. That's a bassoon. I thought it was a rifle. I thought it was a rifle. Color me embarrassed.
Erin
He's just a bassoon player, don't worry. And also, he was a third chair, so not much of a loss.
JPC
Two bassoon! Do you mind if I switch over to flute? What do you mean? Well, I was going to play violin, but this champagne flute is more to my liking. Maybe a champagne flute for you as well?
Erin
I gotta tell you, you're really impressing me, but there is an audience out there, and we are a little bit delayed in our playing.
JPC
It's okay. We'll get started in just a second. Okay, maybe flute's not the instrument for me. Do you want sax?
00:44:13
Erin
What?
JPC
Do you want sax?
Erin
Oh, a saxophone. Oh my god, I'm bluffing.
JPC
I guess I could find one of those as well.
Adal
Pron, can you hear me? Pron, this is Mission Control. Pron here. Please, just fake play the violin. Stop trying to fuck everyone.
JPC
Hey, if you want someone to come here and do the mission, you can call James Bond, you can call Alec Travaglia, you can call one of the 00s. You can call it Frommed or whatever. I'm gonna fuck, I'm gonna try my best. I'm gonna try, I'm not gonna say, I'm not gonna call my shot. I'm gonna try my best to fuck the conductor of this orchestra. That's how I'm gonna do it.
Erin
Okay, just one, two, three, four, five, six.
JPC
One, two, three, four, five, six. I guess so, but I'm probably gonna need a sandwich in between four and five.
Adal
It's always sexy.
00:45:24
Erin
There's a movie there.
Adal
Frump took music class. He has an understanding of these things. He's just not good at his job. Speaking of having an understanding of things, I think when we went to break, I said that 7.17pm is 69,420 minutes into the day. That couldn't be more right. I stand by that.
Erin
No, it couldn't be more wrong. Please, please don't learn math from the show.
JPC
Who are you calling a more wrong? All right. This is the last one. This is the last one for Manny. Okay. What is longer than the tallest of trees, but still doesn't reach above the berry bushes?
Adal
Oh, in Sweden, that's winter.
Erin
It's something that's horizontally long, a river.
JPC
It's not a river, that's a really great guess. Maybe this will help. Vadr detsun aralang, and det, langstad, rad, minanda inte nar, oven for beresit.
Adal
Du hast, du hast mich.
JPC
You know what? I want to know. Give me a score. If you're a Swedish listener, scale of 1 to 10, 10 being 10, 1 being 1, tell me how I did.
00:46:32
Erin
Okay, so it's not a river, which I think actually works.
JPC
Can you repeat the Riddle Riddle? You think other long things that would be maybe next to a river. Big old snake?
Erin
Yeah, big old snake?
Adal
Yeah, a snake that's tall as a tree. Hey, enough with this playing around. Just give it to me straight. Am I right?
Erin
Adal got it, it's a snake. Adal, you are like a solo hiker traveler in the woods. And JPC, you're a big old snake and you're trying to convince Adal that you're like not poisonous or scary so he can relax.
Adal
I'm sorry, I just want to pass by.
JPC
Yes, yes. I'm sorry. I was just sunbathing here upon the path. If you want to pass by, just...
Adal
Climb over me and you can continue out your way.
00:47:44
JPC
You think it's from a book? You think it's from a book and snakes can't read books so I wouldn't get it.
Adal
Well it involves a frog and a scorpion which are animals like you so I think it's meant for humans to talk about animals but not to them.
JPC
Oh! So you think I don't know frogs or scorpions? I live in the woods and you live in a city and I don't know frogs or scorpions. Some of my best friends are frogs. Fuck scorpions. I'll say that right now. Fuck those assholes.
Adal
I don't know enough about the animal kingdom to be a frog. Some of my best friends are frogs. Okay, that's fine. Well, it's a frog who's going to swim across. The scorpion says, give me a ride. The frog says, no, you're going to sting me. The scorpion says, I swear to you, I won't. The scorpion gets on the frog's back. They're halfway across the water and the scorpion stings them. And as they're drowning, the frog goes, what the fuck? And the scorpion goes, I'm a scorpion. What did you expect?
JPC
Ah, so you're saying that me being a snake in the road, as soon as you try to climb over me, I'll eat you and devour you and I'll say something quippy like I'm a snake, what did you expect?
Adal
And I realize now that as I was telling that parable, you bit me on the ankle.
00:48:47
JPC
Yes. Now, I did do that, but I'm not a poisonous snake. Well, it's not a deadly poison. It will numb you. Oh. Emotionally. Wow. You'll still be able to feel physically everything I'm doing to you. Hypothetically. Hypothetically.
Adal
Oh, um, yeah, I guess I'm not one. What size are you? Medium?
JPC
Medium? Yeah, 30, what, 30, 34 long? Waist 36?
Adal
34 wrong. I'm a 34 32.
JPC
Okay. If you were thinking I'm going to eat you, do not worry. I have no desire to eat you. Now, I'm going to dress you up in some outfits. I'm going to put you in some outfits.
Erin
The snake is dressing up the, the snake is dressing up the hiker. The outfits, some of the outfits are very very good and some the outfits are very very bad. They're making friends and they're at the mall. Now they're getting a smoothie. Now they're wearing the very same outfit. Now they're wearing very different outfits. Now they're both dressed up like the village people.
00:50:02
Adal
The hiker steps out, presenting an outfit. The snake is reading a paper. He puts down the paper and shakes his head no. Uh-oh, back to the drawing board.
JPC
Okay, now I am going to eat you.
Erin
Ah, nerds. In action. Perfect.
Adal
What a great little montage song.
JPC
Oh, yeah. Put that on all of our montages. So it's not... River works, but that is not the answer to this hundred-year-old riddle. So it could be beside a river. It's also something that like one would maybe travel on like a river. It's like a bank or a trail. A path, a road, a trail. Yeah, a road. A road. Yes, you got it. It is a road. Annie never actually says that Annie is from Sweden. Annie also just said that they are riddles from Sweden. But either way, Annie, Freaking thank you for sending those in. Those were great. Those are amazing. We had a fun time reading them.
Adal
We need more riddles that are translated from like olden text. Mm-hmm.
00:51:06
Erin
Yeah, those are fun.
JPC
Yeah, I think Riddle National. Oh, J.P.C.
Adal
's having a stroke.
JPC
This happens once in a episode. No, I'm coming up with the episode title in real time.
Adal
That's why we created the character J.P. Riddle so we could brush that under the rug.
Erin
He's almost there. He's gonna get it.
JPC
I think that we need more Riddleternational Adal Rifai.
Erin
Sorry, I was rewinding him.
JPC
I love rewinding myself. Okay, this next one is from Patrick. Patrick says, oh, please.
Adal
Erin, do you feel like you'd be able to tell if somebody was playing Swedish backwards?
Erin
Yes, I'm a very intelligent person with a very good ear. Okay.
Adal
JPC, sorry, go ahead. Erin has one good ear.
Erin
Sorry guys, I'm fully in the middle of watching some episodes of Say Yes to the Dress, so if you're talking to me at all, I'm only half-listening this episode.
Adal
That's a game show, right? Where if they say no to the dress, they lose a million dollars, but if they say yes, they win a million?
00:52:09
JPC
Honestly, if even one of us is half-listening for an episode, that is a 100% improvement. All right, so Patrick is, I'm gonna read this, I'm gonna read this in its entirety. And there is an answer to this, but this is a paragraph that I will be reading. This is an unusual paragraph. I'm hoping you can find out quickly what is so unusual about it. It looks so ordinary and plain that you would not think, I'm sorry, that you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is highly unusual though. But why? Study it and think hard about it. You may not find anything odd at first, but if you work at it, it just might dawn on you why this paragraph is totally unusual.
00:53:09
Erin
I hate when paragraphs get self-aware. He went down to the lake and oh my god, am I a book? Holy shit, I'm a book. Fuck off. Oh god, am I a book? Am I gonna die? Am I even alive? Will I be remembered?
Adal
What purpose do I serve? More books should be like they walked up the path and then said, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, I'm a book, ah. Kill me, kill me.
Erin
Oh my god, oh my god I'm a book.
JPC
I sent you both a picture of this paragraph as well. It may be easier for you to figure out what is so unusual about this paragraph if you are looking at it.
Adal
I'm hoping you can find out.
Erin
My phone was on airplane mode so give it a second.
Adal
Erin's phone has landed. You are now free to phone about the cabin. Is it that they're all like run-on sentences or something?
Erin
It uses like only a few words.
JPC
Erin, yes, but there's something else to it. But yeah, I will say it uses very specific words.
00:54:14
Erin
Yeah. Unusual paragraph. Those are all said like three times.
JPC
It repeats a lot of words as well. Yeah. And I think that a lot of the reason why it repeats words is to make it longer to make it, but that again, it's the fact that it repeats words doesn't make it more unusual, but it is very unusual for a reason.
Erin
But every sentence uses, oh no, that's not true.
JPC
Yeah, so it doesn't have anything to do with a specific word in there or like a grouping of words as much as it has to do with the totality of all of the words.
Adal
Oh, I see what's going on here. Adal sees what's going on here. I thought I solved it, but I have found some discrepancies. I thought that it was every sentence ends with it and begins with it, but that is incorrect. But several sentences end with it and begin with it.
JPC
Again, it's less about individual words or groups of words as it is about every single word in here in this riddle. Has something in common, I would say.
00:55:19
Adal
Every single word in here has something in common. Yeah, to a certain extent.
Erin
Mowels.
JPC
Erin, can you elaborate? Can you use the answer in a sentence? Um, I do love the direction that you're going here, Erin, but I'm going to need to be, I'm going to need, the judges can accept it unless it's a little more specific.
Adal
Every word has at least one vowel.
Erin
O-A-I-I-U.
Adal
I-I-A-U-U-U-A-Ooo. Erin?
Erin
There's no E's in this paragraph.
JPC
You both got the riddle and described your method of solving it. No E's. Just like a church rave.
Erin
No E. Just like my ideal version of entourage.
Adal
No E. Well what about turtle?
Erin
That's my nightmare. I love the letter E because my name begins with E. It's also my nightmare.
JPC
Entourage without E? Where's the heart? And then why would you even have Sloane in there? She doesn't fit.
00:56:20
Adal
I want to see a scene. The two of you are at the aforementioned church rave where there's no drugs permitted. And the two of you kind of, you don't know each other, but you kind of bumped into each other. You're kind of grooving. And you both, one of you is trying to suss out the other to see if they're into drugs or if they're straight list.
Erin
Hey.
JPC
Hey, Bethany, right?
Erin
Yeah. Jerrod. Tyler. Oh, Tyler.
JPC
Tyler.
Erin
Tyler, oh my gosh. Okay, you look a little bit like Gerard. He's your cousin, right?
JPC
Yes, Gerard was my cousin.
Erin
Incredible.
JPC
This is so fun.
Erin
Your pupils seem pretty dilated. Are you high off of Jesus's love?
JPC
That's so funny, Bethany. No, I had an eye appointment a little earlier in the day.
Erin
Oh, they dilated your eyes. Cool. You must be in a little bit of pain.
JPC
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Actually, you know, as long as I'm wearing these big sunglasses, it doesn't affect me too much, but I kind of wanted to look cool here at the dance.
00:57:21
Erin
Gee, cool. What are you into?
JPC
Oh, yeah. Oh, man. I mean, I'm into pretty much everything that kids my age are into, right? Tech decks, Sunday school. Uh, alphabetical order.
Erin
Do you ever just like go and take like more communion than you should or like more of the blood of Christ than you should?
JPC
Oh no, I mean, not unless I was very hungry. Hey Bethany, I know that this is a kind of strange, but Gerard asked me if your cousin Mary Jane was going to be here at the dance.
Erin
Oh wink, wink, wink.
JPC
You want to get fucked up? I'm sorry?
Erin
You want to get fucked up?
JPC
The Lord. The Lord. What?
Erin
Yeah. The Lord. Do you want to be fucked up?
JPC
I mean, I don't know if that's Gerard's intentionist marriage with said woman.
Erin
Oh, you mean my actual cousin Mary Jane. Yeah, she's dead from drugs.
00:58:24
Adal
Scene. The perfect ending. Oh boy. And that could happen to you. That feels like a production they'd put on at like a religious high school, like right before prom. Oh, 100%. It's like this awkward scene and then it ends with them turning to the audience going, my cousin's dead from drugs.
Erin
I think I watched that in CCD, I'm sure.
Adal
Fantastic.
Erin
You guys, I have a Raffy song stuck in my head. You guys remember Raffy?
JPC
I do, yeah.
Erin
You do?
JPC
It's you, yeah.
Erin
The children's music musician who's amazing?
JPC
Yes.
Erin
He's the best.
JPC
We just talked about Raffy on Bill Buds the other day because Johnny was saying that a video from 1981 of Styx looked like a Raffy concert. That sucks.
Erin
That's amazing. Raffy's still alive, isn't that amazing?
JPC
Well, RIP Raffy.
Erin
You had one job to do. Oh God. Peanut butter sandwich made with jam. One for me and one for David and ma'am. Peanut butter sandwich made with jam. Stick, stick, stick, stick, stick. I know lots of witches good and bad, but the best witch that I ever had is a peanut butter sandwich made with jam. Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum.
00:59:40
Adal
I don't know the lyrics to any songs, and yet... Rifai sounds like what a three-year-old would call like the lottery. That is playing the rap for you.
JPC
What if like a week from now it was like Kevin McCarthy and Yani that died and we were like what is the power that we have?
Erin
It's strange, but it's more like... It's not specific. It's too chaotic. We can't predict where it will fall. We have to shut it out in the podcast.
JPC
Okay, I do want to do one more riddle for you guys. This one is from Connor, but Connor at the end of his email says, Cheers, Kevin. Goofed you one last time, it's actually Connor.
Adal
I don't think I've ever met a Connor who didn't punch me super hard in the shoulder and then go, what?
JPC
Okay so Connor, already off to a bad start. Connor says, got a little riddle for you, I've always remembered this one because I think it was the first riddle that made me mad and because it was such a wild scenario. Warning is weirdly biblical, fits right in on the show, and here's how it goes. In hell, everyone is punished by being forced to eat with chopsticks that are three feet long. Everyone in hell is angry and starving because they cannot pick up their food and get it into their mouths. In heaven everyone is gifted with three foot long chopsticks, but they are all happy and full.
01:00:59
Adal
Why come? How'd that happen? I know this. This is an old parable and the reasoning is because in hell the sushi is warm and in heaven the sushi is ice cold. Warm sushi
Erin
Sushi is always warm when you throw it up.
Adal
Nope, that's not true. I know the answer to this. Not if you're quick. Erin, do you know this one? No, I don't know this one.
Erin
So is it like they like turn it into something else? Like they turned it into a chair or table or something?
Adal
Yeah, it's like snowpears. Sure, it's bugs. In heaven they sit on the chopsticks and so they're all happy.
JPC
That's the noise that I make if I sit on chopsticks.
Adal
on a three foot chopstick.
Erin
Y'all are gross.
Adal
I'm guessing the end was the... dead. That's my death.
Erin
I hope my heaven isn't you two shoving stuff up top of your butt.
JPC
That's just how I'm hoping. I'm just sliding down the chopstick until I die.
01:02:02
Erin
Hey guys, that's me being optimistic. I hope I don't see you there. I hope you two dummies are far, far, far, much further south than I am. I hope I'm up there and no one's shoving stuff up their butt. Unless they want it to do and it's normal.
Adal
I want to see you soon. The two of you are on a first date. It's a sushi restaurant. JPC, you don't know how to use chopsticks, Erin, you do. I love this restaurant.
Erin
I hope you're hungry. I ordered like a ton for us.
JPC
Oh, that's so cool. I've never heard of, I've never heard of this, would you call it a style of food before?
Erin
Oh, weird. Really?
JPC
Sushi. Am I saying that right?
Erin
Wow. Yeah. I feel like of all of the international cuisines, it's one that has been in America for a very long time.
JPC
America. I do know that one.
Erin
Okay, I'm slowly, slowly seeing some red flags that indicate you're an alien. I noticed it sort of right out of the gate.
JPC
No, no, no, I was born in this country.
01:03:04
Erin
No, no, I mean sort of a space alien. When you picked me up, I said thank you for holding the door for me, like opening the door to the car for me, and you said glee blorp. I mean, you're welcome. Oh, okay. You got beamed up to space for a second earlier. That was another sort of indicator. You saw that.
JPC
Hold on, bleep blurb. Second check-in, Ishaan to you.
Adal
Negative, I do not believe I am... Don't make fun of my voice, speak how you speak.
JPC
I feel like you're always mocking me. I'm sorry, you know that I am a bit... Is that an accent? And I pick up accents when I... I froze time, by the way, before I left the table, so she is none the wiser to what is happening here.
Erin
You forgot to freeze it this time, I can hear you, and I'm asking you if that's an X?
JPC
Hold on, I'm picking up some interference from outside. You have to speak a little louder, Bloop Blorp. Pick up interference, but don't pick up the check.
Adal
Cause we don't have any earth money.
JPC
Again, I don't know what that means. Bleep blarp out. Sending you back them. Any hoozle?
01:04:09
Erin
Um... Yeah, you didn't freeze time.
JPC
Where do we keep the missiles?
Erin
You didn't freeze time. You don't have any money for this date. This isn't going well. Is that your ex on that call? You know what? I'm out of here.
JPC
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Please. I know that this date is not perfect, but you also work for the government and you know where the missiles are.
Erin
Okay. Goodbye. Brab's coat starts to walk out. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
JPC
Maybe before you leave, you could drink a little champagne out of this flute with me.
Erin
Oh my god, I'm blushing.
JPC
Scene. I'm James Schmron. I wasn't an alien at all. I'm a secret abib.
Adal
I love an alien at the- I love an alien that thinks he's freezing time, but is absolutely not.
JPC
Adal, did you know the answer to this, Riddle?
Adal
Yes. In hell, they can't eat the food because they're trying to feed themselves with these three foot long chopsticks, and it just will not work. That's not how math works. But in heaven, they use the three foot long chopsticks to feed each other.
01:05:12
JPC
Because they're good people because they're in heaven. I'll tell you this, I'm not really great with chopsticks, and if I can't get it in the first couple of grabs, going in with my fingies! And that's what I would be doing in hell.
Adal
In hell, the pianos only play chopsticks.
JPC
Adal, in your personal hell, what's something that you would like to be doing or something that you would like to plug?
Adal
Something I want to plug. I was recently on the podcast, The Small Wood Sessions, so please check that out. I feel like I was on something else, but I can't recall. I'll have to promote it next week if I remember what it was, but maybe I wasn't. Back to you. Bleed Blorp. Erin, something you'd like to plug?
Erin
Bleep Blorp, yes. Thank you so much. Follow me, Erin Keif10, on Instagram. I will hopefully have some fun projects coming out this year. So please do that. Also, if you are either working in this field professionally or it's a hobby of yours, please reach out to me on Instagram if you animate or draw for comic books or you're looking to get into that. Or you have a really close friend that you think deserves a spotlight for the work they're doing in that arena. Erin, keep 10 on Instagram. Reach out to me if that... and also link some of your work or some of their work so I can see. Thank you so much. Reach out to me if you're interested.
01:06:32
Adal
GPC, anything to plug?
JPC
Nope. You know, we've already done the live show that we were gonna do. I have absolutely nothing on the horizon, so I will be on twitch.tv slash shark, barkman, and playing video games almost every day until miserable life is over.
Adal
What the fuck? That was still a plug. You said, no, I don't have plugs, and then you plugged your Twitch.
JPC
That's not my Twitch.
Erin
Peanut butter sandwich raid with jam. One for me and one for David and Ram. Peanut butter sandwich raid with jam. Stick, stick, stick, stick.
JPC
Can you work a planet into that?
Erin
Yeah. I know lots of witches good and bad, but the best witch I have ever had is Jupiter. Goodbye. I love you Raffy. Call me.
Adal
Erin, I don't have much on this podcast. The one thing I have is bye forever. And you said Jupiter.
Erin
Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. Bye forever.
Adal
What was just Jupiter for 100 episodes has suddenly become Jupiter. Bye bye. Bye bye guys. Bye bye.
Erin
And then you say bye forever after that.
Adal
Totally invalidates my bye forever.
Erin
Oh my god. He's sitting on his swing on the playground going, I feel sorry for himself. Say goodbye after I say goodbye.
01:07:40
JPC
RIP Sasha Baron Cohen.
Erin
Bye forever.
JPC
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