Which Riddle Riddle?

#149: JustinVernon42069

00:00:02

Erin

This is a HeadGum podcast.

Adal

Good evening everyone. Breaking news. Three Chicago improvisers are being held hostage by a Riddle podcast they started in 2018. These three improvisers started the podcast on a whim, thinking it had legs. They were wrong. We now go to Melissa on the scene.

Erin

Thanks Larry. I'm Melissa and I'm on the scene. I'm here and I can't see much, but I do know that they are in a lot of trouble. They're having a really hard time finding riddles, Larry. It's a horrible, horrible thing to see. We're going to go up to Jeff and the helicopter to see if he has a better view. Jeff?

00:01:20

JPC

Hey Melissa, thanks. This is Jeff from the helicopter. Loud as shit up here, and I literally can't see anything. I'm looking at the floor of the helicopter. I said, guys, does anyone read my email? I said glass bottom helicopter. That's gonna let me see so much better. The guy keeps turning it upside down so I can see, but every time he fucking does that, I lose my goddamn lunch. And we're scraping it off the inside of the hell. Melissa, I cannot do this. Back to you in the field.

Erin

Awesome. Thank you so much, Jeff. I love you. All right. Well, back to you, Larry.

Adal

Whoa, whoa, back to Jeff. Melissa, I have a wife. She watches. Melissa, I love you.

Erin

Um, I also have a wife and she watches. I love... What did I name you in the helicopter? I'm Jeff! Jeff, I love Jeff. Um... We'll keep you updated as the story unfolds. I can hear them screaming inside.

Adal

Actually, breaking news. We just received the names of these three hostages. Adal Rifai. Melissa, to you.

00:02:28

Erin

Oh, um, I don't have the teleprompter in front of me, Larry. You're gonna have to take that one, okay?

Adal

Okay, I'm getting the other names. Erin Keif and John Pasai.

Erin

That sounds right to me.

JPC

The helicopter guy did it again. I threw up.

Adal

Hey, it's helicopter Riddle Riddle. We are a Riddle Lateral Thinking Puzzle podcast. We're going to have some fun.

Erin

We're fine. We're not being held hostage.

Adal

We're not being held hostage. We like to be here. We like it here. Although, if you're ever solving a riddle, never go with a riddle to a second location.

JPC

That's really good advice.

Erin

KBC, can I give you a little bit of a different line, Reed? Sure, absolutely. We like it here.

JPC

Got it.

Erin

We like it here. Yep, go ahead.

JPC

So I'm hitting like?

Erin

Yeah, we like it here.

JPC

Hey Riddle.

00:03:36

Adal

We like it here. Speaking of it, Erin and JPC, what's going on with you two? What's new?

???

What is new?

JPC

Adam, I am so glad that you asked now. This is not an advertiser on the show. This is just a product that I very much enjoy. I did something nice for myself, which I very rarely do, and I bought some new socks. And I'll be honest with you, every time I've ever bought socks in my entire life, I've bought them in bulk. I've bought them by the pack of 200. Of course, and they're usually like athletic socks, I like the no-shows, and they're usually very thin, and they fall apart very quickly, but I've been running more and I'm like, no, I need to get some actual good socks. So I sprung for some Bombas socks, which by the way, Bombas, if you're listening, come and sponsor the podcast, I love your socks. They are some of the most comfortable socks I've ever worn in my entire life, and I am so grateful for them. You know how bad the blisters on my feet have gotten.

00:04:40

Erin

Walk us through this. Are they breathable? They're not falling down?

JPC

What's going on? They're like a lightweight, like merino wool. So they're like very breathable and they kind of wick as well. And they're like... Merino wool?

Adal

So they throw for 25,000 yards a season? You know I don't get that reference my man. Adal is disappointed in us. I'm sorry, merino wool? So they're an Ace Ventura? Dan Marino, right Adal?

Erin

Are you disappointed?

Adal

Erin, I'm not not disappointed.

Erin

Alright, well fine. Well how many of these socks did you buy?

JPC

I did the same thing that I always do when I bought like a ton of them. But they're nice. They're like a good quality. And they're great. They're like, they're thicker than socks that I'm used to, but they have a lot of like, I don't know, cushioning in them and man oh man. I've been running on these for about a week now and my feet are thanking me.

Erin

Are you? Go ahead.

Adal

More cushion for the pushing. I, Bombas sponsored Magic Tavern so they sent us a bunch of free socks. Those Bombas socks paired with Allbirds? Ooh, walking on heaven.

00:05:50

Erin

Ooh, I would pair those socks with a nice white wine. Oh yeah. White wine? Maybe scallops?

JPC

But I would just like to say that it's gotten to the point where my life is so fucking boring that a new pair of socks Hey Riddle. And in my chipped tooth saga, because I think maybe on an episode, a previous episode, a previous episode, I talked about having a chipped tooth, just chipping my tooth. I got into the dentist. On bread. Old bread teeth. Got into the dentist. They filed it down. I said, Doc, what can you do for me? Can you put a little cap on it? Can you do anything? And he goes, I'm not going to do a thing to that tooth because it's absolutely going to chip again. You're going to keep chipping that tooth until you straighten those teeth, young mister. So now I'm going to get an Invisalign. Thanks for watching! I did just tell us I have a lot of nerve. I don't know what that means. But they were like, your wisdom teeth are just going to grow in. You got plenty of space for them. And then one of them grew in like sideways and they were like, we got to take them all out, which was a whole ordeal. But when that one grew in sideways, it kind of fucked up some of the teeth on the bottom of my mouth. And now one's pushing into the other, which is causing the chipped tooth. So I got to get braces. I'm excited. I've never had braces.

00:07:30

Erin

Well, JPC, what can we do? I have a new passion project. And it's going to be talking you into getting braces instead of Invisalign. What do I gotta do to get you, and then you go in every month and you change the color of the elastics, you can do Halloween color, you got the full-blown rubber bands connecting your top jaw to your bottom jaw, and then you're going to fucking school like that's not a nightmare? Come on man, get braces.

JPC

I truly wanted to do that. I truly wanted to do that. Mariah was like, you absolutely are not allowed to. I was like, give me the old school braces, baby. Give me like, give me, you know, sixth grade and nobody wants to talk to me. Give me like social outcast braces, but it's a no go. And also, I don't really think they do those anymore.

Erin

I love braces and I love seeing adults with braces. I've always thought, I was like, that's the best. Whatever.

Adal

No, I think that's one of those things where it's like, oh, you're so brave. Like, I don't think it's, I don't think it's.

JPC

It's not, it's not that even anymore because I don't even think that there's much of a price difference between the Invisalign. So it's not even that you're brave. It's like, really? Like, why did you choose this?

00:08:37

Erin

I don't know. I looked pretty cute with braces. I was living my best life. All are you? Don't talk to me.

JPC

There's not a single thing that you could do to that mouth that wouldn't make you look cute.

Erin

What if it was mostly blood? What if it tipped over to mostly blood?

JPC

Well now we're getting into my preferences and you know.

Erin

He is into vampires.

JPC

Adal, what's new with you?

Adal

Yeah, what's new with you Adal? Oh boy, what is new with me? We're trying to get our backyard all settled, trying to get some landscaping because right now it's a jungle back there and we need to put in some like mulch and brick, put a little fire pit.

Erin

I love mulch.

Adal

A lot of landscaping decisions need to be made.

Erin

Are you going to Lowe's? Are you going to Lowe's? You picking up mulch on a Sunday afternoon? Are you going to Lowe's picking up mulch, getting a coffee?

Adal

Not yet, but soon.

JPC

Adal, is this decision to build a fire pit outside anyway influenced by the fact that we came over and recorded a livestream for Patreon last week and we filled your entire house with smoke because we did the fire wrong?

00:09:40

Adal

Yes, well to be fair, I filled the house with smoke because I did the fire wrong. I set a log too high up and it fell down and scared us and smoked up the whole house.

Erin

I broke so many things and still so many things in such a short amount of time of being alone.

JPC

Sounds nice. I love a project. You needed an extra set of hands in the yard. You just call me and I will be busy that day. Yeah.

Adal

Well you two, I think this was, JPC, this is your second time over to my house. Yes. Since we moved in. Erin, this is your first time. What were your thoughts on my house?

Erin

I'm just going to free associate all of my thoughts.

Adal

Okay. This can't go wrong.

Erin

Cozy.

Adal

Okay.

Erin

Hilarious old timey ovens that you've never brought up to us. So far two negatives. So many books.

Adal

Two many books. Three negatives.

Erin

Uh, washer, dryer, second wash and dryer in the room behind it. I called you selfish. You kind of laughed. I feel like I deserved a little bit more of a chuckle from that. There's a stage. There's a bar. There's two cats with soft butts. You're a beautiful fiance, what else is there?

00:10:48

Adal

We call our cats, just so you know, for future reference, in our house we call our cats butts rumps. We squeeze their little butts and we say, look at this little rump. So just so you know, for future reference, they won't respond to butts, but they'll respond to rumps.

Erin

Okay, they had soft butts.

Adal

Okay.

Erin

Rumps.

Adal

Standing, you're dying on this hill.

Erin

They had soft rumps. Mine is in rumps.

JPC

I would just like to say in reference to your house, I thought about this while I was over there. They say that after this, you know, pandemic, after this lockdown, we've all spent so much time in our homes. You can be whoever you want to be after this thing. You know, now that you're vaccinated, you're rejoining, you know, your friends and society, you can be whoever you want to be. The person that I want to be is the guy that goes over to people's houses and gets way too excited about what brand of toilet they have. A decision that no one actually makes. I want to come out of Adal's bathroom and be like, Oh, so you're a Kohler guy, huh? Went with the 2100. Not bad. I can see you're putting a lot of miles on that thing. You went with something with a little more torque and a little less cushion. Interesting choice. That's who I want to be now.

00:11:51

Erin

My cousin was a Kohler guy, but they're pretty sure that's what caused the surgery. So just keep an eye on that.

JPC

Keep an eye on it. I'm an American Standard man because it's all normal with my pisses and poos.

Adal

I like going over to somebody's place, leaving the door open, like kicking their toilet and go, what is this, a 67? Or lifting up the top and going, what do we got under the hood? Oh, nice, nice.

Erin

Well, JBC jokes on you. I pee in the sink.

JPC

I was trying to think about what possibly people could have in their homes that they don't ever think about and never made a decision on. And a toilet feels like a necessity item that was probably there when you got the house. If you've remodeled the bathroom, that's probably a decision that you've actually had to make. But to me, it's like any other thing that you get, you probably have an opinion on. But a toilet is like, it's just a door.

Erin

I'm not moving that toilet.

00:13:02

JPC

Dude, maybe the other toilet was high, maybe this one, but it felt like falling when you were on it. I was like, what? I remember being a kid and being like, how do we make these decisions? Are we making financial decisions about the height of toilets? Don't save money this way. There has to be a better way.

Adal

If you use that, I think you're obligated to go pee, pee, pee, poop, poop, poop, pee, pee, pee, poop, poop. That's for all our five-year-olds who are listening. GBC, you also had some strong thoughts about my basement and how crowded it was.

JPC

Well, yeah, I mean, it was way too many people for COVID. It was just us. I know that you're like a happening guy, but it's like, don't invite us over. Hold on, Davis is joking. Davis is joking. No, you have what I would like to describe in your basement as a lot of trash. Excuse me? Would you call me? Boston Trash. The filter that I put on over my eyes is I see anything that's not of immediate value and use to me as a lot of trash.

00:14:07

Erin

Hey JPC, you see that room is full of trash? And I see that room as full of potential. Adal, which one of your friends said, this room is garbage. Please let me help you clean up all this garbage. And which one of your friends said, this is what I see here. Paint this this. Put a stool here. Put this here. Put a light here. Which one? What?

Adal

I think it's clear. It's pretty clear.

Erin

I don't remember. I remember one of us saying one of those things and I just don't remember who.

Adal

JPC was very much like I want to Marie Kondo the shit out of this mess because I have garbage everywhere. And then Erin was like, I see so much potential. I would put this here and this here. So I'm very excited for Erin to help me from afar. And I'm very excited for JPC to come over and help me landscape the backyard. I truly will.

JPC

I do like doing some yard work. What I actually said was Gemma said, Next time Adal's out of town, I'm calling you to come over to help clear this place out. And I said, I've got a rule that I don't come over when a fiance calls me from out of town. I've been burned on that one too many times and it's not happening for me anymore. So Justin, I had a great joke. I had a great joke that didn't get talked about.

00:15:16

Erin

That's how I felt about when I was joking about how many washers and dryers he had. So we all had great jokes that were underappreciated.

Adal

We should also mention when Gemma said I'm going to call you to clear this place out. We should also mention where Gemma pointed. But we won't. Is it time? Is it time for riddles?

Erin

Yeah, but I just wanted to get a quick update on how I am, what's new with me. Oh yes, please. Yes. Yeah, okay, yeah. Okay. Yeah, we have to talk about it. Holding with me, can't stop crying. Moving, really overwhelmed, so much change, way too fast, can't stop crying, having to stop crying several days. A lot going on, good news, bad news, haven't stopped crying. Went to go see my roommate who I lived with for like six years, five years in Chicago. I've known her for about 12 though and I walked into my old apartment and I started crying and I was there several hours and I did not stop crying the entire time. Saw my old room. There's a young, very funny, cool young woman living in that room and I walked in and I saw her room and I sobbed and I thought about my 20s and how much I loved living in that house and how much I loved doing Chicago comedy.

00:16:20

Adal

Well you're still, you're not 30 yet.

Erin

I don't know what I am anymore. I can't stop crying. I might cry in this episode.

Adal

You can't be in your 20s and say, I thought about my 20s.

Erin

Oh, I'm already 40. Guys, I'm burning through this. I'm bored. Let's get this show on the road.

Adal

And this is a challenge to our listeners. 300 pushups. Go now, bitch. Let's see you do it.

Erin

You think you're strong? Pause, go. Go now, bitch. Go.

Adal

You weak little tigers. Here's a challenge. Is to tag something on Twitter, a video perhaps, that'll either make Erin cry from how sad it is, or cry from how joyous it is. You're gonna use the hashtag can't stop crying.

Erin

And it will work. And I will cry at literally anything. If anyone wants to tell me anything right now that you want someone to cry as a reaction to, I'm your girl. Let's do some riddles.

JPC

With the and riddle from last week, I feel like we can get a riddle that will make one of us cry.

00:17:24

Erin

Oh boy. Oh yeah, let's do it.

Adal

And can, let's, how about this episode versus doing riddles. This episode should just be unpacking the and and and and and riddle.

JPC

That was what the first half of last episode was called.

Erin

It is so it's so close to Clark. It's so close to the Red Line. Live in that area. It's so beautiful and awesome and has the best vibe and everyone is so neighborly and lovely. You should move. This is your sign. Move to Andersonville in Chicago.

Adal

And Erin, just for reference, where in Andersonville is Carmen?

Erin

It's in between like Argyle and Foster.

Adal

And then you're going to want to go to Taste of Lebanon for lunch every day.

Erin

It's pretty good.

JPC

You're also going to want to frequent the Upstairs Gallery, a performance space that hasn't been open in six years.

00:18:26

Erin

And the Swedish American Museum.

Adal

And Lunkers, I think that's the name of the place, where a man walked in on me in the bathroom and then tried to fight me.

Erin

Or you're going to want to go to Hop Leaf, where you're going to only be going on third dates there. I think you can't get in unless you're on a third date.

Adal

Hopley, before you order a beer and the waiter goes, um, can I actually direct you to this part of the menu? What's going on? You fucking snobs.

Erin

Okay, sorry, Riddle, sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, Riddles.

Adal

Riddles, riddles. And, and, and, and, and, and. Okay, so here we go. Here we're gonna do some warm-up riddies and puzzies. We're familiar with these. You just get the juices flowing. The juice is loose. Juicy fruit. Is that still a gum? Is cinnabar still a gum? Is Cineburst still a gun? What was the fruit stripe one with the zebra?

???

Do they still make ships out of wood? Fuck off!

JPC

I haven't seen Cineburst in a long time.

Adal

Okay, here we go. Here's our first warm up Riddy.

00:19:28

JPC

Hold on, I think it's worth saying to everyone listening, we are friends in real life.

Erin

Oh god, they are. I'm not. Guys, that's a fucking lie. I barely know them. Go ahead.

Adal

Although by the time this comes out, we're friends.

JPC

Erin has this whole thing where she thinks that men and women can't be friends together and we are getting in a car and we're driving from New York to some other place. I don't remember the plot of this movie.

Erin

Yeah, and you're a dick and then it's New Year's and I decide to be with you anyway. I'll have to come sandwich. Right before we recorded this podcast, I said to them, whatever you do, don't fall in love with me.

Adal

Thanks for watching.

JPC

We were on a work trip together because we used to work together and we were in Santa Fe. Yeah, we were in New Mexico. It was not Santa Fe, but it was New Mexico, but it was outside of Santa Fe. We were at this resort for work and we were at this fire pit at night and she said, she told me this story because I didn't remember it. She said that she said to me, hey, whatever you do, don't fall in love with me. And she said, you laughed and laughed and laughed. And she was like, that's funny. And I was like, I was laughing because we're fucking coworkers. Totally inappropriate thing to say. Hey Riddle.

00:21:15

Erin

Fall in love with people who are so great. How the hell did you both pull that out? It's so funny.

Adal

We're gonna make her cry. We're gonna make her cry.

Erin

Erin? It's so funny.

Adal

JPC and I have talked about this. You also deserve the goddamn world and you found Sean who is absolutely incredible, but we do hope that you will change his one gallon of milk a day drinking problem.

Erin

Mm-hmm.

Adal

Because if he can solve that, he's the perfect man. But right now, as it is... Guess what?

Erin

He won't.

Adal

He is what doctors have coined the term lactose tolerant because he is out of control.

Erin

It's an issue. He is also fully lactose intolerant and like I saw him and don't tell anyone I saw this. We won't. This goes out to no one. Feeds a three separate time. He drinks too much milk. He's six pack abs. Drinks a whole gallon of milk. Pizza, pizza, pizza. Pizza, pizza, pizza. Nobody should drink that much milk. Nobody. They're with people who are so beautiful and funny and smart and it's just the best. It's so funny and great.

00:22:15

Adal

If I start calling Sean Milky Coil, will he be upset by that?

Erin

Wait, sorry. Say that again.

Adal

If I start calling Sean Milky Coil, Which sounds like an Irish lobster.

JPC

What if we could have infinite energy made out of a cow's milk? Uh, milky, come on.

Erin

Oh, milky coil.

JPC

We're just going to use light bulbs. Fuck off both of you. You take your weirdest cousin out of here. He's not with me. I have a really good invention. Both of you out. Out of science hall. Out of science, out of mind.

Erin

Okay, we're sorry, we're sorry. Warm up riddles. Go.

Adal

We truly wanted you riddles. Okay, here we go. Here's our first warm up riddle. This is the only type of error a machine can't make. This is the

00:23:36

Erin

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Adal

OK, JPC, you are an inventor. You have created a robot. Erin, you are this robot. You're perfect in every way that a robot would be perfect, except you recognize that maybe JPC is a little disappointed you're not human. So you're trying everything you can to be more human.

Erin

I invented a different kind of surgery today. So I'm done with my work. Oh boy, could I use a drink and a foot rub.

JPC

Okay, well, that's odd. 1614. Do a systems diagnostic.

Erin

Systems diagnostic. I'm doing that. And everything seems to be normal, except there's a guy at the office who's been a real thorn in my side. Honey?

00:24:48

JPC

Oh, what the fuck is going on here? Okay, let me check my logs.

Erin

We should go to Target and get a blender this weekend.

JPC

Huh. I don't see anything in my logs that would be explaining this behavior.

Adal

Burning, burning, burning, burning, burning, burning, flame, flame, fireplace. Let me get a little cocoa.

JPC

Let me get a little eggnog. Okay, enough Christmas. Back to work. Back to work, Jerry. You gotta go back to work. 1761? Did I run an update on you?

Erin

Jerry, I am your human. I live here and am just as human as you. So I am not a failure of a robot and you should not unplug me because I am basically a person.

JPC

You heard me screaming in the other room.

Erin

Maybe.

JPC

Look, 17671, or whatever I said the first time, or what I said the second time, which was surely different.

Erin

You can call me Shirley.

00:25:48

JPC

Shirley, look, you're a robot, okay? You don't have to be a person because you're perfect as a robot, okay? And I made you to invent new surgeries. You're going to save lives, Shirley.

Erin

Work-life balance. We should buy the tickets to go see your parents soon.

JPC

No, no. The tickets to Alcatraz where my parents are being housed are far too expensive. Don't worry about it, Shirley.

Erin

Would you like to play spike ball on the beach? We could have a beer and play spike ball on the beach?

JPC

First of all, Shirley, you would destroy me and the spike ball. And if you poured a beer inside of you, you would die.

Erin

Thank you for believing in me. No, it's not like that.

JPC

No, I don't want tickets to see KISS. I threw these out because I hate Gene Simmons. Stop handing them back to me.

Erin

I am a human woman. Isn't that nice?

JPC

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

Erin

Very, very human.

JPC

Wait a second, wait a second, wait a second. This isn't about, this isn't about, you didn't overhear me secretly wishing for, you know, to be married one day and to meet someone and to fall in love, did you?

00:26:59

Erin

I heard you screaming from the other room and then praying to God.

JPC

First of all, it was a secret wish in the context of, I'm the only one here so I could be as loud as the fucking wet. I didn't know Robot was going to be listening to me.

Erin

I got us tickets to the opera. Maybe we could go for a walk before.

JPC

Kiss? Let me look at these tickets to the opera. Scratch this. These are more kiss tickets. Stop. You're not going to get me to see them live.

???

Why not?

Adal

And that's Batman's new origin story, his robot is killed in an alley, and he takes on the mantle. Two quick things. One, J.P.C. my new favorite- Are these notes? Yes. One, my new favorite thing you've ever said is, enough Christmas back to work.

Erin

Alright everybody, enough Christmas. Back to work.

Adal

Yes, it proves my theory that JVC is actually Ebenezer Scrooge.

Erin

If there's a Christmas Carol musical, that would be the lead into a song.

Adal

Yeah, that's true. I love somebody like a boss in an office going, Merry Christmas. Alright, enough Christmas. Back to work. And then two, I had a thought during the scene, which is, is Edward Scissorhands a robot?

00:28:08

Erin

No, but he's a pervert.

Adal

Edward Scissorhands a pervert?

Erin

He freaked me out.

Adal

I feel like all the women of that suburb were perverts because they all tried to, like, fuck him.

Erin

Oh, for sure. All those women were kind of scary.

Adal

Yeah. Well, is he a robot or is he, like, is he an android? I don't know because he's made of gears.

Erin

I don't like his scissorhands. I would like to move him more if he didn't have those scissorhands.

Adal

That's his defining trait.

Erin

I would like to move him more if he didn't have those scissorhands.

Adal

That's like saying you'd like Sophie except for all her choices.

Erin

Yes, exactly.

JPC

This is like a network note, and you're like, the show is called Edward Scissor. We literally can't change that part.

Erin

I don't like his scissor hands.

Adal

Okay, we can give him normal hands, but then he's have a scissor's head.

Erin

Okay, well fine. If you're gonna make the show lost, can you, I like everything, but just have them be found. Instead of lost, how about that?

JPC

That would be, if they made a spinoff called Found, I'd watch that. I think it would be funny if Lost Hour Long Drama, airing directly after it, 30 minute comedy called Found, which is just a parody of Lost.

00:29:10

Erin

You can make the office just have everyone work from home.

Adal

I am very curious listeners if you happen to have any insight or knowledge if Edward Scissorhands is a robot please let me know because I'm curious with what the what the consensus is surely this conversation has been had before.

Erin

Also I want to know what if people could replace his hands with something that are not Scissorhands I would love to hear your pitches on that please.

Adal

I think it would have to be another tool, because otherwise we're doing him a disservice.

Erin

Hoe hands.

Adal

Edward spatula hands? Hoe hands? What?

Erin

Hoe. Like a hoe. A garden hoe.

JPC

Oh, the other use of that word. The one that makes sense in context. I was like, is he a pimp? Like, is he back slapping people?

Erin

No, it's ho-hands. Ho-hands. Slapping. What's the answer to this, Riddle? We must know.

JPC

No, no, no, no, wait. Didn't I get it? It's like, to err is human, and the only error a machine can't make is to be human or something like that?

Adal

You pretty much have it, but I think you're using it as, it's sort of, the correct answer is like aftermath in your answer. So what is a word you're saying? There's just one word that's the only type of error a machine can't make.

00:30:16

JPC

Like A-R-A-I-R?

Adal

No, although I do want to see a movie called Error Bud, which is a dog that just cannot today.

JPC

I thought it was a robot that plays basketball.

Adal

The only type of error a machine can't make. JPC, you've said it multiple times. It's one word. There's only one type of error a machine cannot make. Human. That is correct. A machine cannot make a human error. Oh, got it. How do we feel?

JPC

So, the other thing that I thought you were saying, because you were saying like error, was like, error or?

Adal

I was trying to really enunciate and I think I failed you in that regard.

JPC

H-E-I-R, the I can't make a human air, or?

Adal

Oh yeah, if you're a Baron, if you're a Baron Baron.

JPC

Baron Baron. And now we're doing what the palindrome riddles, not palindromes. The other one that's not palindromes, homonyms.

Adal

Homophones? Homonyms. Erin, do you want to take a break or will it make you cry?

00:31:22

???

Well, let's see.

Adal

What sponsor, if we cut to ad right now and there's a sponsor, what sponsor would make you burst into tears? Like if we got, it's not a sponsor we currently have, but if like... Puppies.

Erin

We'll be right back.

Adal

Hey everybody, this is Hey Riddle Riddle here to tell you about something you need in your life. Puppies.

Erin

Uh, Adal, I can't help but agree.

???

Puppies are like dogs but small. And their little snoots are even shorter than when the snoots get longer. And that's crazy. They're like babies but dog babies.

JPC

Do you see? I know what you're thinking. Puppies surely don't need me. They don't need my help. I'm a busy man. I'm a socialite. I walk about the city. I'm a man about town. Wrong. Puppies need you now more than ever. Because all the puppies.

00:32:31

Adal

They're all drowning in debt. They've been trying to sell their chow mix and it's just not moving in the manner they thought. So if you buy a puppy today, we're going to give you 20% off that puppy. That means they will cut off its nose or snoot or its tail. You get to choose, but it's 20% off. If you go to HeyRiddleRiddle.Puppies.Supplies.

???

Puppies.com slash HeyRiddleRiddle slash snoot.

JPC

They really wanted us to get this right, guys, so it's patreon.com slash heyriddle.com slash puppies.

???

I didn't even know they went in by me.

Adal

JPC, I feel like if that was a real ad for puppies, it would have started by you saying, Erin Adal, I went to yuppies.com and all I got was a couple of 30-somethings with expendable income.

JPC

Hey, I just got back and I got a big bag of poofies. You guys fucked me on this one.

Erin

Oh, JPC.

JPC

Oh, JPC. That's exactly how our ads start.

00:33:32

Erin

Let's just do so many riddles. I'm so excited.

Adal

Okay, let's get into some more riddles. They're in the tax code at the very core and also found in a gymnastics score. What do we think that is?

???

Points. Points. Period.

Adal

It's not points. They're in the tax code at the very core and also found in a gymnastics score. Is it as simple as numbers? It should be.

Erin

I would like to see a scene.

Adal

Okay.

JPC

One, two, three. Not a moment ago did you say, I'm so excited to do Riddle.

Erin

Yeah, but then people can change, JPC. I'm evolving. I would like to see a scene. You two are the commentators at the Summer Olympics and we are watching gymnastics and this is like the most tense moment of the whole evening and something's about to go horribly wrong.

Adal

Okay, here we are in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, home of the Summer Olympics. Now, coming up next, we have the horse. What is this? The pummel horse. This is where each woman is going to take a turn walking up to a horse and just beating the shit out of it. If they pummel the horse enough and the horse dies, they will lose points. But if they pummel it within an inch of their life, they'll get a perfect 10. Rob?

00:34:47

JPC

Thanks Jeff. Of course Jeff the best color man in the business. We love him because he has no idea what he's talking about when it comes to gymnastics. Now let's watch Nadia Avankanov from Canada go ahead at the pummel horse event. Here we are. She approaches the pummel horse.

Erin

Please don't. This is typically not a female gymnastics event. Please. It's usually being bars, floor.

JPC

It looks like our strategy right now, Jeff, is to try to talk down the horse and convince it that she isn't supposed to be here today. We call this the clerk's defense.

Adal

She's lowering the horse's defenses because the horse is going to think it's safe.

Erin

Hey.

Adal

Oh, hey is for horses.

Erin

You look great today. Where's that fur from, girl? Oh, I love it. That's so great.

Adal

Okay, here she goes. We pulled out the Black Eyed Peas because it's boom, boom, pow.

00:35:49

Erin

Okay, she has the bell.

JPC

She has the bell. Now, that's a pretty, I mean, Ivanikov doing some pretty impressive work to that horse. Let's see how the judges liked it.

Adal

Okay, now the official is checking the pulse of the horse. Oh, and it looks like it is still alive. Let's see here, we have an 8.5, a 7.5, a 10, and a 4.

JPC

All right, on to the next event for Avangonov. The horse fights back. So now the horse is going to get

Adal

It gets its shots, and speaking of getting shots, this is the Beam event where Naughty will now take three shots of Jim Beam and the horse will pummel her. Here we go.

Erin

We call that the Wyclef Gene because it sets a new if I were president for beating up a Canadian gymnast. Let's see how the judges scored that one.

00:37:14

Adal

Oh, and it looks like Nadia is dead. So the horse has lost.

Erin

Okay. Dead's dead on killing this horse.

???

Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, the Thursday.

Adal

They're in the tax code.

???

I can't wait for the Summer Olympics.

Adal

Gonna be very fun. They're in the tax code at the very core and also found in a gymnastics score. And before we get a bunch of emails, it was a police horse, so it's okay. And that woman was his cousin.

Erin

Okay, okay.

Adal

Decimals. Uh, no.

Erin

Nerds. Is it like a gymnastics term?

Adal

I believe so. I mean, I don't think it's inherently gymnastics related, but it is a word used during gymnastics as well as well as other events, I assume.

Erin

Sticking the landing.

Adal

Well, like I said, I think it's most events during the Olympics.

Erin

Competition.

Adal

Yeah, it's a term that would be used during competitions. A place? Like a placement? No, but it's also in the tax code at the very core.

00:38:26

Erin

Like would they score them on? Like they were being scored on our... What is the word I'm looking for? Like qualifications? What is the word?

JPC

Good list. Oh, Erin, I think I can help you out here. So I think what Adal is referring to is the Ben and Jerry's flavor tax day, which I believe has a cookie butter core. So final answer.

Erin

Disgusting. Adal, I'm ready for the answer because I want to do more riddles.

Adal

Let me give you another clue. Well, it doesn't make sense to get the answer to riddles to do more riddles. That makes no sense.

Erin

Yes, it does. Yes, it does.

Adal

That's a paradox.

Erin

No.

Adal

Give us the answer to all these riddles so we can get through more riddles.

Erin

That doesn't make sense. Yeah.

Adal

At what point is the Riddles no longer Theseus's ship? So this is a term, again it's in the tax code and it's during gymnastics, but it's a term that would come after the scoring. So you would use this term, this term comes into play during gymnastics specifically, post-scoring I believe. Post-initial scoring, post-initial scoring. A leaderboard rank... Tally? Tally? So look, maybe go to taxes. So during tax season, you're always looking for this bad boy. Ooh, I'm looking for this. Deductible. Ah!

00:39:45

Erin

But... Deductions.

JPC

Deductions. Oh, yeah, you get deductions for like stepping on the squirrel and like hitting a ring and all that stuff. The duck, yeah.

Adal

You step on a duck, you break your mother's fuck. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Erin, you ready for another Riddle?

Erin

Uh-huh. Unless I get distracted.

JPC

By the way, I would just like to say that earlier Adal said paradox and I thought, but I didn't say just like a his and hers like house.

Adal

A Fair Dux. Speaking of, I forgot to mention I got a pair of Crocs. Gemma and I both got Crocs. So where are those people now? I'm going to cry.

???

I'm going to cry.

Adal

Hey Adal, I've never owned a pair of Crocs. How does it feel? It feels weird. I got them because I'm like, I need shoes to walk around. Speaking of backyard, I need shoes to like take out the trash and walk around the backyard, but I don't want them to be full on slippers and I don't want to like tie my shoes every time. So I was like, fuck, I got to get Crocs, but I'm not bragging about it.

Erin

I got off-brand Birkenstocks for the same reason. I've been wearing my, like, off-brand Uggs to walk Lew and I go, seasons are changing. My life is changing so much, so fast. I need to get sandals.

00:40:52

Adal

Can I blow your mind? What if they're Birken Crocs? Is that a thing?

Erin

Adal, you're about to have the government come knock on your door and take you somewhere far, far away from us.

Adal

Dear government, make me a bird so I can go far, far, far away from hell. Let's get into another riddle. Erin, does that make you happy?

Erin

I'm pretty happy he also makes me cry, makes me really sad. I think about the context of how many riddles we've enjoyed as a group together.

Adal

Can I just say, that musical, I wouldn't put it in my top 10 musicals, but I do think it's number one in terms of insane voices.

Erin

Kids, I don't know what's wrong with these kids today.

Adal

Paul Lind. Circle gets the square.

???

Speak to us, O beautiful one. Tell us how you make that glorious sound.

00:41:55

Adal

You gotta be sincere.

Erin

Today I remember the song We're in the Money from 42nd Street and how funny the big getting dialogue of that song is because it's a little girl going.

Adal

I know the song, but I don't know the beginning dialogue.

Erin

Oh, it's so funny because it's a girl going.

Adal

This is We're in the Money. That's all. Okay.

Erin

So the beginning of it is this girl goes, I almost got it. And another girl goes, What is it? A penny? A nickel? And then she goes, no!

???

And then she goes, hold your horses! I'm trying to get some of the gunk off or something like that. And then she goes, a dime! We're in the money! What is it? A penny? A nickel? Hold your horses!

Adal

That makes that song so sad that it's like two hobos fighting over a nickel and a dime.

Erin

Yeah, and then also like 20 women tap dance about how much money they now have and how their landlord is going to let them stay in their apartments and even by like inflation standards, 10 cents is not enough for 25 women to live.

00:42:57

Adal

I love 25 women handing a landlord a dime and going, I think everything's in order and the landlord fights the dime and he goes, very good.

Erin

Adal, can I tell you what makes that song even sadder? The name of that character who sings that song in the program, her name is Anytime Annie. Right? They're just calling her a slut and she's excited about a dime. It's crazy.

???

A dime!

Adal

We're talking about sluts and dimes. Sluts and dimes. I fell in love with you. Sluts and dimes. Let's do another Riddle here. Erin, does that make you happy?

Erin

Very.

Adal

Weapons aren't used in this crusade, a dilemma where ethics are weighed. Weapons aren't used in this crusade, a dilemma where ethics are weighed. My first thought was, is a crusade a type of car? It should be.

Erin

I would like to... I'm too late. I want to hear a commercial. JPC, you're doing the voiceover for the Lincoln crusade and then Adal, can you just like...

00:44:01

Adal

Be Matthew McConaughey.

Erin

Be Matthew McConaughey, but I want you to just tell us in between each line what visually is happening in the commercial.

Adal

Okay. We open up on a road on Maui, twisting around every turn. We zoom in on the top of a car. It's the Lincoln crusade.

JPC

They say in order to be an American, you have to understand how breakfast is made.

Adal

We zoom into the window and we see that the man driving is in a full suit of armor and I say, all night, all night, all night.

JPC

Bacon, rye bread, milk, never water. These are the ingredients that make an American breakfast strong.

???

We zoom over to the passenger seat where there's a hot plate with a full breakfast cooking.

JPC

The Lincoln Crusade comes equipped with everything you need to make a full breakfast while driving. The back seat is super small because true Americans crusade without children.

00:45:09

Adal

We zoom into the orange juice in the cup holder and the camera frits us out, but we can still hear the narration.

JPC

Damn, that's good motherfucking orange juice. Yeah. We're probably gonna get fined a lot for saying motherfucking orange juice. But it doesn't matter. Because we're gonna sell so many of these fucking cars, your head's gonna spin off its axis.

Adal

I love what you do for me, Lincoln Crusade.

Erin

Zoom zoom.

Adal

Zoom zoom. And scene scene. When life hands you Cruz, make Crusade.

Erin

I need to get a Lincoln Crusade. I love breakfast.

Adal

Honestly. Oh yeah. I'd love a Lincoln Crusade.

Erin

Do you add a letter to crusade that makes it like a debate, like a debate crusade?

Adal

Erin, you are correct. If you add a word to crusade and a word to dilemma, you get your answer.

Erin

Dilemma's Crusades.

00:46:11

Adal

Excuse me?

Erin

Ignore me. I might cry. Ready?

Adal

Weapons aren't used in this crusade, a dilemma where ethics are weighed. So what kind of dilemma are ethics weighed or what kind of crusade is there without weapons?

Erin

A court case.

Adal

A moral crusade. That is correct. Ding, ding, ding. The answer is moral. Moral crusade, moral dilemma. Okay. Erin, how about this bad boy? It's found in every single word. Two for brainy, yet one for nerd. Vowel?

Erin

Vowel.

Adal

Vowel. So you think every single word has a vowel in it?

???

Yes. Any good word.

JPC

A syllable?

Adal

Here's one. No vowels. Yeah. Cell E. Cell A. Any time I see Paul Thompkins I go

JPC

That's why you show up to the first day of class, because that's when the teacher hands out the syllables. It is syllables.

00:47:18

Adal

Two for brainy, yet one for nerd.

JPC

Correct. Can I ever tell you about the time in college where I showed up to Psychology 104, this entry-level psychology class, and it was Friday? At 8 in the morning, and I said, Friday in the morning, well I gotta get this credit, I gotta get this psychology credit, showed up to class, they handed out the syllabus, and I looked on that syllabus and not anywhere on that fucking syllabus was there an attendance score, like a grade for attendance. No part of your final grade was factored into attendance. It was all go to the lab, take the quizzes, blah blah blah.

Erin

JBC, can you pause and then Adal and I will each just take a turn of guessing what you did next.

JPC

Please.

Erin

I just want to see how well we know you.

Adal

My guess is that you didn't show up again until the final and you got a B or an A. My guess is that you didn't show up ever again and you had a friend in the class who would tell you what each assignment was.

JPC

No, I barely talked to a single person the whole time I was in college. I was there to get my grade and get my little diploma and leave. But what happened was I didn't show up, of course, for the rest of the classes. Didn't talk to anyone about it. Didn't communicate with my professor. We went to a lab to take all of our tests and quizzes. And everything else, you could just submit your papers online and all that. So you never had any reason on the syllabus to go into class. Didn't go into class. Got an A in the class. Got my final grade back for the class. Got a B in the class. I emailed the professor. I said, what the fuck? I took all the things and I got, what's this B? And the professor said, you didn't show up for any of the classes and that's 10% of your grade. And I said, I got a copy of the syllabus right here that doesn't say anything about that being 10% of your grade. And he said, that was a misprint because on the second week I gave an updated syllabus that had the correct information. Psychology. That's psychology 104. Psychology 104. Psychology 101 is I went to the fucking Dean and I was like, this is bullshit. This is bullshit. He has to honor this. This is the syllabus that he handed out on the first day of class. I can't be expected. He never posted the updated syllabus online. He only handed out hard copies to people who happen to be there. And the Dean made him change it.

00:49:21

Erin

I need to just say something. I guessed the exact right thing. I said you never showed up again and you ended up getting a B.

JPC

That's true. You said a B or an A, but you're both right because I got a B, but then I got it changed back to the A that it was supposed to be.

Erin

Go ahead.

Adal

This is the most JPC story I've ever heard.

JPC

Now the most APC story from college is the time that I told one of my professors that I had self-diagnosed myself with a dissociative personality disorder so I couldn't complete any group projects. So I was exempting myself from all group projects. And instead of just failing me like they should have done, they were just a fucking tired person. They were like, okay, you'll get up and be honest. Whatever you want.

Erin

You need to write a how-to book on how to just completely fucking avoid most things.

Adal

How to mentally dominate other people.

JPC

Don't go to college. Do not go to college. Here's the thing, every job that I've ever had, they've been like, did you go to college? And I said yes. They never asked me to see any of this information. How hard would it be to just tell people that you went to college? What are they going to check? I don't know where in my house my diploma is.

00:50:27

Erin

People have a lot of time, JPC.

JPC

I don't know. I mean, I don't think I've ever had a job where they checked, especially like, you know, 10 years out, like who gives a shit? I don't know. In my mind, it's an easy thing to lie about, but I have no idea.

Erin

I'm going to start a nursing home where you can't get in unless you have a proof of your degree. So people are like, I got rid of that years ago and I'll go dig it up.

Adal

I flunked the class one time and I went to the Dean because I had an F and I said, is there anything I can do?

Erin

And the Dean said, yeah. I think we've mentioned that the last 10 episodes. We did it guys.

JPC

It's a rare day that goes by where Adal doesn't do a Howard Dean scream.

Adal

And we love it. Usually when I'm cooking my Howard Dean sausages. Yeah! In my Lincoln crusade. Okay, here's a new one. Yes. If I'm looking to find you, worry about each limb. I am still a shark, but my job's not to swim.

00:51:28

JPC

Okay, worry about each limb. Is this like a pool shark? Lone shark.

Adal

Erin, ding, ding, ding. It's a loan shark. I want to see a scene. Erin, you are a actual shark who has loaned money to another sea creature. JPC, you are that sea creature who's begging for some time extension.

Erin

Hey man, is now a good time?

???

Oh, I was just sitting down for my Christmas dinner.

Erin

Okay, man.

???

My whole family's here.

Erin

Yeah. Yeah.

???

I see that. Please. Which is poor little sea urchins. We have nowhere else to go.

Erin

I feel like you just sort of could kind of go anywhere. You just need sort of a surface to be on. I'm actually not going to stop swimming. I'm not here. I'm not going to even take my hat off. I won't be here long. Um, man, I led you money a long time ago. And I think because you know I can't eat you because it would hurt my little mouth.

???

It hurt your mouth? We're so spiky.

Erin

I know. So you know I can't eat you and I feel like you're taking advantage of me. And I thought you were my friend and I thought we were cool because we're both like a little bit dangerous.

00:52:32

???

No! I would, we, I would never. I needed those sand dollars that you lent me. Hey man. Hey man. Can I talk to you outside?

Erin

Maybe not in front of your family.

???

Oh yes, family continue eating Christmas dinner. I'll be right back after a talk. Cut the shit.

Adal

We cut to the beach, which is outside for the ocean.

Erin

Hey man. Fuck, okay, fuck.

???

Now you're on my turf. We see a- Okay, get back in the water, get back inside.

Erin

Hey man, cut the fucking shit, please.

???

Okay, what do you want from me?

Erin

Stop fucking pretending to be old and poor. What the fuck is this? Stop. You're fine.

JPC

Give me the fucking money. I have an image to maintain in front of my fucking kids, man. Okay?

Erin

Okay, then give me the money. I don't want to bother you. I didn't want this to be like this.

JPC

I can't. I can't give you the money.

Erin

I'm going to try to punch. No, I got little fins. God, I'm so kind. I'm like a little bit cute.

JPC

You can't do any punches. You know what? I don't have your money. Where is it? What's that?

Erin

Where's my money?

00:53:32

JPC

I gave it to an orca.

Erin

A whale?

JPC

Yeah, not just any whale. Fucking killer whale.

Erin

They're not, they can't, they can't kill shit. They're fucking eating kelp. They're like, I'll eat the smallest of ocean bucks.

JPC

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Erin

You're so small. What?

JPC

They kill sharks, my friend. I see them do it.

Erin

What the fuck?

JPC

What the fuck? When I lent him the money, I went to his gym, and I watched, I watched him rip a shark in half.

Erin

You lent money to someone, I lent you money, and then you lent money to someone? Fuck you, man.

JPC

I'm eating you. I'm eating you. You can't. No, I'm good.

???

Fuck.

JPC

Look behind you, chomp.

???

It's the cutest little snowfish. It's so sweet.

Adal

All right.

???

Enough Christmas back to work.

JPC

Oh, that's our new merch, baby. That's our new merch.

Erin

Enough Christmas back to work.

Adal

Holiday 2026. Holiday. Here we go. Let's do, let's do, we have time for just a few more. Memorized and kept discreet. Enter with your fingers, not your feet. Is this a computer password? It's a password. Ah, yeah. Let's do another one.

00:54:39

Erin

A conspiracy with- I would like to see a scene really, really quick. Really short scene. You two are two hackers who are trying to get into someone's computer and you're looking around the space to try to guess what their password may be.

???

Okay. Okay. Let's, okay. If we, let's, let's sit, let's both sit in the chair and then let's look around the room to see what they would have been looking at when they put in the password. Okay.

???

Okay. I got dibs on lamp. Okay, let's try a lamp. No, no, no, I said dibs on lamp. If we're both sitting in the chair. Oh, yeah, sit on my lamp. I'll sit on your lamp.

Adal

Okay, okay.

???

I got bony knees. Let's try that. Bony knees. Oh, wait, what about this? It's a bony there album.

???

Oh, but his real name is Justin Vernon. So let's try Justin Vernon 42069. Okay, let's try it. We're in! We got it in one. Let's keep trying.

Erin

No, you got it.

???

Just for the fun.

Erin

Password accepted. Just for the fun. Do you want to go to Target with me to pick up a couple things?

00:55:40

Adal

I love sit on my lap, bony knees, bone of air, Justin Vernon. Justin Vernon42069, we're in!

JPC

Imagine, it was that easy to break into Justin Vernon's house.

Erin

You want to break into his computer for new music? Is that what you want?

Adal

Erin, if you listen to Bon Iver right now, you would destroy yourself with how sad that music is. He has the voice of a dead angel in a good way.

JPC

That's the weirdest compliment. Oh my god. I love your music. You have the voice of a dead angel.

Erin

I was just saying to Chase Lilly the other day. We're talking about the Bright Eyes singer.

Adal

Connor Oberst.

Erin

Yeah, and I always thought that Connor Oberst had the voice of a kid at a talent show who fell right before he was about to sing, sort of wiped up and wiped out in front of his entire grade, and then had to get up and sing the song after the whole school laughed and saw him falling.

Adal

He does have the shakiest voice. He's trying to keep from crying himself. Outstanding. Let's do a few more here. Let's do two more and then we're going to be done. Okay. A conspiracy with no room for chickens, a piece of land, or phrase with thickens. That's hard to say. Phrase with thickens? So it's three things. A conspiracy with no room for chickens. That's one. Hint. Hint number two is a piece of land. Hint number three is a phrase with thickens. Oh, a phrase with thickens. Yeah, it's Alan. Alan thickens.

00:57:23

Erin

What's the most helpful third of that?

Adal

I think a piece of land is probably, well, a piece of land and phrase with thickens are going to be your two breadwinners. What about a lot of land or a plot of land?

JPC

The plot thickens. JBC, you got it. Yes.

Adal

Ding, ding, ding. Very nice. Here's our last one. Erin, hold back your two. Okay.

JPC

Wait, before he gets to that last one, which we really want to get to, we just can't. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to see a scene where Adal, you are a private detective and, Erin, your husband has gone missing and you're inviting this private detective into your husband's study to kind of do their private detective thing. Adal, you think that everything that you find is an important clue, even though it's mostly just mundane stuff.

Erin

Oh, my name?

Adal

I was saying my name, I'd rather not say. And please don't ask me anything about my family or my personal interests.

00:58:26

Erin

All right. Well, mister, I'd rather not say this is where, um, this is the last room I saw him in.

Adal

Is this the room he died in or just the last one?

???

I don't know.

Erin

It's your job.

Adal

Saw. Seesaw. Playground. Coffee grounds. Coffee. Fee. Payment. Payment. Cineburst. Gum. I found some gum in his desk. Does this mean anything to you? It must be a clue.

Erin

He liked to chew gum. I don't know.

Adal

Are your batteries winding down?

Erin

You little fish are also sad because my house is busy.

Adal

Dead. Head. Grateful. Great. Less. Pay less. Pay less shoes. Where are his shoes? Please show me where his shoes were kept.

Erin

In his bedroom. We're in his office study.

Adal

Aha! His shoes are a men's eight.

00:59:27

???

How do you know?

Adal

By looking inside the tongue of the shoe.

Erin

How did you find his... Wait a minute. His shoes weren't in... You're the murderer! Murderer? Killer, killer bees, bee yourself. Murderer works.

Adal

You can just stop at Murderer. Murderer works. Scene. Bony knees, Bon Aver, Justin Vernon.

???

You're the murderer.

Erin

I was trying to get there.

JPC

Just hold on because we're going to need this pickup so I'm going to have to get this clean. I want to see a scene. Adal, you're going to be doing M&M but without the voice and no rapping.

Erin

We quote Adal's rap so often. Both raps around our house all the time. I'm tired. I'm tired. A man made of tires. A man made of tires. I'm tired.

Adal

We have fine, oh Riddle. And here's, this is going to be our challenge for this Riddle. Okay. JPC, you are not allowed to answer. Okay. Erin, you're the only one allowed to answer, but JPC, you still have a role to play. Oh, thank God. Your job is to try and get Erin to cry before the end of this episode. Okay. Okay. Erin, is that okay with you?

01:00:41

Erin

Yeah, duh. Hello. Fucking love weird shit. Let's do this.

Adal

Here we go. A name when affection is shown, by definition, a project of your own.

Erin

Baby.

???

Oh God, J.B.C. didn't even get a chance.

Erin

He didn't even have a fair shot at making me cry. That's not fair. What's up?

Adal

A name when affection is shown by definition a project of your own. So you think when you have a project of your own, it's a baby project?

Erin

Yeah, this is my baby. Like when you go like I'm writing my book. That's fair.

Adal

That's fair. Okay. You're right. I was wrong. You're right. It's not honey.

Erin

Pumpkin.

Adal

And I can't sweep you off of your feet.

JPC

Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love? Will your eyes still smile from your cheeks? And darlin' I will be lovin' you till you're 70.

01:01:59

Adal

A name when affection is shown by definition a project of your own.

???

And baby that heart could still fall as hard as 23.

Adal

I half expected him to sing like he does in the Patreon episode. Well, your legs don't work quite like they used to.

Erin

And this is how I know that wasn't making me cry because I was literally trying to force myself to cry and I said not like to do it.

Adal

In your cries, get some tears, your cries. Come on, Erin.

Erin

I'm trying to think, sweetie, pumpkin, lover.

Adal

A name one affection is shown. So this is all the names that you gave are under the umbrella of this word. So honey, baby. This is my diorama.

Erin

Hey diorama, is there anything I can help with you or help you with in the house?

Adal

That's what Rob Schneider calls his wife Diane as a name. Diorama! And I actually just accidentally said the word. A name and affection is shown by definition a project of your own.

01:03:01

JPC

I know it too, and I've been trying not to say it, but I was trying to think of like, is there a song that has that word in it that I could sing?

Adal

Oh, I have a clue. It's not in the song, but it's relevant. Pet name, pet name, pet name.

Erin

I would like to see a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very,

Adal

Hey baby, did we want the thins or the crisps?

JPC

Um, let's get the thins. No, let's get both. Why not? We have the rest of our lives together.

Adal

We do, and you're my little graveyard.

JPC

Oh, Smushkin, um, should we get taste of salt or hint of salt?

01:04:02

Adal

Ooh, um, Beckley Boy, I want hint of salt.

JPC

Oh, hint of salt, okay. And I can't quite read your writing on this.

Adal

Is this four pounds of bacon? Oh, dunk throat. Yes, it's four pounds. What did you think it was? But bacon, bacon shrinks when you cook it.

JPC

Okay. Okay. Okay. Oh yeah. Bacon shrinks when you cook it. Speaking of shrinks when you cook it, I'll get the spinach bottom rose baby teeth. Adult teeth on the bottom. Adult teeth on the top bottom rose baby teeth.

???

Now I'm hurt.

Erin

Oh fuck, alright. Well, you guys are free to use those in your relationships, but don't- I know- you know what? I just need to say this. Do not blame us if your relationship fails. I'm so tired of people having all sorts of reasons why we're the reason that your relationship failed. It's not our fault.

Adal

It's our fault. It's not our fault. It's yours. Look in the mirror. That's as fault it is.

01:05:03

Erin

It's not your fault either. It's no one's fault.

JPC

You're perfect. Speaking of some stuff that is intentionally our fault, Erin, do you have anything that you would like to plug? I would like to plug crying.

Erin

It's not so bad if you give it a shot. You can follow Wet Bus on Twitch. It's my improv group. Even if I'm not there, they're doing really awesome, very fun stuff. They're very cool. If you have any L.A. recommendations for me, or I'm driving from Chicago to Los Angeles, going like the Nebraska, Colorado, Utah Ute route, so if you have any recommendations of places to stop, I'm traveling with a dog, so keep that in mind. Adal, anything to plug?

Adal

Yeah, his name's Sean. You dog? You milk dog? That's his name, milk dog. Milk dog.

Erin

Eww, he's gonna love that. Anything that you guys throw at him, he's such a sweet, positive guy. He'd be like, Adal and JPC called me milk dog? That's so nice.

JPC

Woof woof, milk dog needs a milk bone. It's me, milk dog.

Adal

Little Milky Bones? It's a game show hosted by my friend Stodd. It was an absolute blast. I played it with my friend Matt Young. It's called You Can't Be Serious. Serious is spelled S-I-R-I-O-U-S. And you can find that at twitch.tv slash city of Stodd. Stodd is spelled S-T-A-D. So please check out that game show. It was very, very fun even though I did very, very poorly. Also, you can check out the three of us, Hey Riddle Riddle hosts. We guest it again on one of our favorite podcasts, Escape This Pod. That episode should be out now, so please check that out. And then finally, I was a guest on a show called Aristotle Asparagus, which I believe you can find that podcast on Spotify. It was a bunch of 16 year old guys who invited me on their podcast. They didn't tell me anything and I hopped on and they just started going and what a ride. Can I just say, I didn't know what was going on, but I definitely talked. So check that out. Also, I highly recommend eating an edible and then watching the Adult Swim show off the air. That's going to be the best night of your life. JPC, anything to plug?

01:07:17

JPC

Follow me at social media. Well, no, not at social media because my social media handles are all different. I'm at JPCofly on Twitter and I'm at Sharkbarkman on Twitch and I'm streaming video games for a lot of the time on Twitch still. So that's that's it.

Adal

And Erin, there's one... No, don't. There's one astronomical delight.

Erin

I'm gonna start crying, I'm gonna start thinking about JPCs, thinking about Sharon.

Adal

Now, there's a certain type of tears that really are out of this world. What kind of tears are out of this world?

???

Jupiter?

Adal

Well, what type of tears?

???

Tears for Jupiter, they have ears.

Adal

Hold on.

???

John from Jupiter. Did I hear Jupiteers? Jupiteers. It's a mad, mad world. Jupiteers. Bye forever. Jupiteers.

Adal

Jupiteers. Jupiteers. I can sing higher than that.

???

I can sing higher than that.

01:08:29

???

What is it?

JPC

A penny? A nickel? Want to come in baby? Just go ahead now.

???

Same.

JPC

Hey there coffees and wines. If you like that, you are going to love this week's Patreon. We return to Erin's morning show. You can listen to that plus our entire back catalog by joining the Clue crew for $5 a month or the Review crew for $8 a month at patreon.com slash Hey Riddle Riddle. See you there.

Erin

That was a hate gun podcast.