Which Riddle Riddle?

#160: Percy Pig Fun Dippin' w/ Max & Ivan

00:00:02

Erin

This is a HeadGum podcast.

Adal

Hey, what's up, JPC, Erin? I'm your substitute teacher for today, and I'm not like those other old fogeys. I'm young and hip and cool. You have wooden shoes on. Yeah, you can call me Zach.

Erin

Zach, can we point you in the right direction?

Adal

No, I'm going to point you in the right direction, youth culture. I'm going to tell you about something called... I don't have anything. What are kids today up to? What are kids today using?

Erin

I'm glad you asked. We're going to talk to you about StockX, the only live marketplace for what's now and next, not what's wooden shoes and sad.

Adal

I'll have you know George Washington had wooden shoes in his mouth. That doesn't make it cool. That doesn't make it cool.

JPC

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Adal

I have on a Serpico hoodie, uh, jorts and wooden shoes already self-described.

00:01:05

Erin

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JPC

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Adal

Okay, so I've been taking notes in a lot of the classes that I substitute for. Kids are mentioning stuff like Supreme, Off-White, Louis Vuitton, Gauci. Are these all things that kids are into?

Erin

Read between the lines there, everybody listening at home.

JPC

I think you kind of get what he was going for. He didn't really get the names right, but we understand that those are like products.

Erin

Start shopping today at StockX.com. That's StockX.com.

Adal

Class dismissed.

Erin

We taught you something, okay?

Adal

So just... Okay, the student became the teacher. Much like David Carradine. Remember him? Do you want a response or is this the button? The button.

Erin

Yay! Yay, keep it!

Adal

Now I gotta go walk to my 1986 Honda Accord parking lot.

00:02:10

Guest0

The doctor was the mother. He stood on a block of ice. Oh, the miracle finished. It was the cabin of an airplane. He stabbed him with the knife in my hand.

Guest1

And the horse was deep riding.

Adal

Okay, GPC. Okay, little Erin, get in bed. Get tucked in here. Time for your bedtime story. Separate beds though, right? Um... Bunk beds!

JPC

Well, just, yeah, bunk beds. Hey, dip some whatever Erin doesn't want.

Adal

Well, they'll be bunk beds, but the top one will be upside down. Just so you can kind of see each other. Yeah, just how I sleep. Okay, here we go. All right, tucked in. We'll strap you up into the top bunk. Here we go. Here's your bedtime story. Braham, braham. Open the book. All riddles are bad by Adal Rifai. Once upon a time, there was a riddle.

00:03:17

Erin

That soothes me to sleep. Good night, everybody.

Adal

Well, the moral of the story is all riddles are bad. So go ahead and take your little asses to, tight little asses to sleep. And ponder that. And while you're sleeping, remember, I'm Adal Rifai. I'm JPC. Hey, I'm asleep. Leave me alone. And this is Hey Riddle Riddle, a podcast where every episode we talk about how we don't wanna do riddles anymore, and yet we still do them and try and solve them and do some improvised scenes along the way. Today, we are joined by two very special guests. They're actually new members of the family, the Headgum family. Welcome to the family. Thank you, Vin Diesel. Yeah. You should check out their new podcast, Sound Deals, on the Headgum network. Please welcome Max and Ivan. Hello guys.

???

Hello, hello. Thank you so much for having us. It's an honor to be- are we head gum cousins? How does the family tree set up work here? Are we siblings?

Erin

We have the same blood now.

Adal

Yeah.

Erin

That's all we know.

00:04:17

Adal

If our exes sleep together, then we're head gum cousins. Otherwise, we're step potters.

???

We're stepfathers. Right. I think we're just not allowed to have children together. Not on this, that's the rule.

???

Not on this podcast at least.

Adal

No, no. That was very clear in the instructions. And I'm actually only going to say this one time, drop the fake accents. Listen, if only we could.

Erin

Too charming.

???

This is this is what this is what we've got. We can we can try and converge. But now this is where we're recording live from Swinging Mayfair in central London. And we're happy to be here.

JPC

Are you the first head gum podcast in England or are there other other head gum podcasts in England?

???

Well, we enthusiastically wrote up on our press release that we were the first Headgum podcast in England. And I believe that's simply a lie.

???

No, I think there is another British man who is a Headgummer. And he was an actor in the play War Horse.

00:05:18

???

Oh, the D&D. Yeah, he's got a D&D podcast.

JPC

Oh, okay. So well, so you're maybe you can just say that you're the first like English duo head gun podcast. That sounds better.

???

That sounds better. We tend to, we like to be the best at what we do by ensuring that what we do is so extraordinarily niche that no one else has actually attempted to it.

JPC

Hey, you're talking to the number one Chicago and LA based Riddle podcast.

???

Mazel tov! Congratulations you guys! That's huge! It's very big for us. What a mountain to climb.

Erin

Are the first British Headgum podcast not done by a horse? I assume he played the horse in War Horse.

???

Yeah, yeah. He was the arse as they would call it over here.

???

Behind. The titular roll. Classically trained. The titular roll. No, he was on the horse. He was the main kid.

???

Oh my god. We should have him on the podcast.

Adal

What have you brought us on? We're gonna kill our Booker. So Max and Ivan, you two are, are you primarily known as a sketch duo?

00:06:20

???

Is that correct? We peddle an arcade in an esoteric form of narrative sketch comedy around the UK, Australia, and the world at large where we play thousands of characters On an incredibly low budget. Someone once described it as like incredibly low budget movies, which kind of sums up what our shtick has been in the past. Thousands of characters. Can we meet 400 of them now? I'm glad you asked. Because Ivan's actually got a couple for you here. Like this guy. Well, hello there.

???

My name's Paul. That's perfect stuff.

Adal

Shaky Paul for you. Even down to the name, you were just playing Paul Lind. My name is Paul. Bye bye birdie. Circle gets the square.

???

That 400 of those characters are just that one, am I right? Yeah.

???

Paul has multiple personalities, all very similar to that guy you heard.

JPC

Love it, love it. If the two of you are plagued by the stigma of low budget, then I got to say the world of podcasting is exactly the right place for you. I mean... Oh, it's like a breath of fresh air. Yeah, it's like a low budget fairy tale that we're all living in. We love it immensely.

00:07:29

???

Absolutely. We're delighted to be here. We think we're possibly the very last English comedians to get a podcast, which is kind of, you know, an achievement in its own right. But it's a wonderful thing.

Adal

Well, I think Steve Coogan is still struggling to shop his around.

???

Just hasn't found his network yet. No. We are willing to have him as a guest on season two. We're in talk.

Adal

We always ask all of our guests, what is your relationship with riddles? Do you enjoy puzzles, riddles, lateral thinking problems? Did you do them as a kid? Do you hate them? What is your relationship with them?

???

I would say I love them if I get them right. And if they make me look stupid, then egg on their face because that's not how it should be.

Erin

Oh, you're gonna fit right in.

Adal

That's what I always say about prom dates. I love my prom dates unless they make me look stupid, Sarah.

Erin

Why are you still going to prom? You're like 40. No, no, no. In the past. In the past.

JPC

Don't know. You're getting into a time machine and going to proms in the past? Oh, okay.

00:08:36

???

I believe my initial relationship with Riddles was formed when I read popular fantasy book The Hobbit at a precociously young age and then went and tried to talk to my friends in school about the sequence where Bilbo does a riddle for Smeagol, Gollum, as he then is, about what he's got in his pockets. Well, looking back, the real riddle was, why on earth was I, at the age of seven, trying to include my friends in this conversation that in fact alienated me from all of them?

Erin

All my favorite people went through a phase where they talked a little too much about Lord of the Rings at school. So you're, I think, pretty good company.

???

Thank you, Erin. Thank you. Finally feel accepted.

Adal

Well, for our episode today, our JRR Tolkien is going to be JPC, I believe.

JPC

Yeah, and I was actually in the war of the puzzles. I was never in a war. Which side did you fight on? I was just a mercenary, gun for hire. I'd sell riddles to whoever was asking for them, more often than not riddles to people who were not asking for them.

00:09:44

Adal

Did you know that the Volkswagen was created by riddles? And that Fanta is a riddle drink?

JPC

Riddle Coke, that's what they call it. So for today's episode, I will be asking everyone in Riddles, and knowing, Ivan, especially, that you don't like to be embarrassed, we are going to do as best we can to protect your feelings. Max, unfortunately, your story is not as harmful. I should have specified. It's too late. Much like those seven-year-olds on the playground, we will be trying to demolish you.

???

Grief, it's all coming back.

JPC

It's a podcast about riddles and also unpacking trauma from our childhood. We just kind of mixed everything in. So yeah, I'll be starting us off with I think maybe some listeners submitted riddles that I think are a little bit on the easier side and they maybe will scale up in difficulty. I even kind of went out of my way to find one that had, I would say like a more British flair. Not necessarily sure that the person who submitted it is from England, but it's got at least a couple of words in there that I'm like, those sound like British words.

00:10:49

Erin

I can't wait to see what you think has a British flair.

???

And instead of a chop, he just patted them gently on the chest. Great job.

JPC

This first riddle comes to us courtesy of Rachel. Rachel writes specifically, give these to JPC specifically, as requested by yours truly, signed Rachel. This riddle reads, What tastes better than it smells?

Adal

What tastes better than it smells? Interesting, interesting.

JPC

Now, like I said, these are kind of warm-up riddles. They're just meant to get the kind of juices flowing. There's not a lot to them. It's just something that tastes better.

???

I've already got the riddle sweats, to be honest.

???

Can I just say, for the benefit of those without Zoom, at the moment that you said, and we're going to start off with an easy riddle, I just saw it and left eye just switch. And a bead of perspiration formed like a Tex Avery cartoon on the side of his temple. Egg on your face, Rachel. Ivan, you can't start distributing egg on everyone's face immediately. That's absolutely unacceptable.

00:12:11

JPC

People ask us all the time, they're like, why don't you have guests on the podcast more often? And I say, we're not sadists, we understand what we're asking.

Erin

They hate it.

???

People don't enjoy this. I genuinely think that if you'd said one more sentence about how easy the riddle was before you said it, Ivan would have just got up and left the room and just walked out. Okay, okay. I've got a possible answer.

???

Oh, I can't wait. Could you repeat it please?

JPC

I absolutely can. What tastes better than it smells?

???

Okay.

JPC

Okay. Let's take some pressure off of you Adal, Erin, how are we feeling about this Riddle that we have potentially and probably done on the show before?

Erin

I don't mean to stir the pot, but I think I know it.

JPC

Now keep in mind Erin has 160 episodes of this show under her belt.

Erin

Yeah, I broke my brain in just the right way in order to do these.

Adal

I myself am oscillating between two possible answers. One is kisses from grandma and the other is I believe the actual answer. So we'll let Max and Ivan take a stab at it.

00:13:17

???

So, I mean, so we have potentially two different answers. I mean, unless we've telepathically thought of the same one.

???

No, I think you should go first and then I'll let you know.

JPC

So, ease of pressure. There are no losers on this podcast, besides the five of us doing the podcast.

Adal

Everyone listening.

???

We're all in the same boat. So my answer would have been something along the lines of a dog with no nose.

Erin

You just wrote a great joke.

???

Oh, no. Am I not a hey joke joke?

???

And that's very clever because it can taste, but it can't smell.

???

Well, I mean, yes, and that's... You see what you're doing there, Max. The old thinky pee there, the old thought process.

JPC

Could also be like a very, like a popular country song too. I love the idea of a dog with no nose. It's kind of got like a boy named Sue energy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Adal

A truck with no steering wheel. Sure. Oh, that's a whole bus. That's all I see. A dog with no nose. A truck with no wheels, yes.

00:14:20

Guest1

A man with no heart and no how he feels. Someone grab a pen! We're writing a hit!

Adal

I want to see a scene. It's just going to be a continuation of our writing a hit. So Max and Ivan and Erin, the three of you are in a country band that only does country songs that are very, very based on tropes, beer, horses, trucks, etc. JPC, you are their manager and you are trying to help them write and record their brand new song.

???

Well hey there folks, I've just bought myself a new beer horse truck and it's inspired me to rattle out a couple new verses today. I think it could take us in a different direction to our previous album, Horse Beer Truck. Alright, alright.

Erin

Well yeehaw, I'd love to hear it.

JPC

Yeah, I love that. Now just so I have clarification from the three of you, you're all the primary That's the way it works.

???

God bless America. That's right. All right. Each one more primary than the next. Sure.

JPC

Yeah. Well, there are three primary colors, so that makes sense.

00:15:21

???

Yep. Beer, horse, and truck.

JPC

Beer, horse, and truck.

???

Gotcha. That's right, Ivan. Them are the three primary colors as far as we're concerned. They work for us.

JPC

We're all set up on my end. We're recording everything, so whenever you're ready, please take it away.

Guest0

Yeah, take it away, Ivan. All right. Bye-bye. Buh buh buh buh buh beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer

Erin

I spent maybe six months studying abroad in England and everyone I met who learned that I was an American

Adal

They'd be like, where in America are you from? And I'd say Chicago and they're like, oh, Chicago, bang, bang, bang, like Al Capone guns. And I'm like, please. That's so. And then I thought about it. I'm like, yeah, no, that's pretty accurate. He got it going and then we just ran with it.

00:16:31

???

Yeah, exactly. I'd go for that or deep pan pizza.

Erin

Question mark.

JPC

Yep. It's it is. It's lasagna basically.

Erin

It's terrible.

JPC

It's really the worst food. It's pizza soup and it's awful. Although, my fianc Mariah, she was away this weekend and I was at the store and I was like, I'm gonna buy a deep dish pizza.

???

Oh, sorry, deep pan pizza is what you think of Chicago.

???

That's not the answer to the riddle.

???

I thought I'd had a stroke and Ivan had solved the thing and very casually was like, well of course, it tastes best. Deep hand beads, of course, taste better than it smells. At which point you will nod him like, well, but of course. I was like, well, I've clearly been, I've got locked in syndrome and my brain is just awoken and the rules of life have completely changed because none of that resonates with me at all.

Erin

The answer is Al Capone.

Adal

Okay, fabulous. I love if we invited you on and it's just all Chicago based riddle.

00:17:33

JPC

Why don't you get, go more niche, go more niche always. You're at the corner of Clark and Diversity. There's a stand, donuts, and... False. False. That's a hot dog stand.

Erin

This doesn't check out. Shit, how'd you know? I'm ready to answer it, I think.

JPC

Okay. Wow. Erin, I would love to see you. I would love to enter. Wait. No, wait. Did we get Ivan's answer?

???

Okay. So you didn't get it. Okay. So it tastes better than it smells. Now I'm thinking of success, but in some kind of sport where you, where you sweat a lot.

Adal

I will say one of my favorite Broadway musicals, The Sweet Taste of Success.

???

The sweet taste of success. But you know, if you win in a very sweaty sport. In competitive bikram yoga.

???

Then you smell. I love where your head is at.

???

Thanks for watching.

00:18:49

???

Egg on your face, Rachel. Van, please, you must stop egging every- that's like the third egg that you've flung at Rachel.

Erin

You're going to run out of egg!

???

Rachel, there is no egg on your face. I'd like to qualify. Ivan doesn't know what he's talking about.

JPC

Ivan, you have 10 eggs remaining. Okay. We gave everybody a dozen at the start of the episode. We've got a dozen, yeah. Fair enough, fair enough. Erin, would you like to solve the puzzle?

Erin

Is it a tongue?

JPC

Oh, bingo bingo, hot hot hot. Erin, it is a tongue. Congratulations. OK, very strong.

Erin

It sucks.

JPC

So it's actually great. Thank you, Rachel. But hopefully that'll give you like a speed of where Rachel's mind is at for the next riddle that Rachel submits. Oh, she's a twofer. It's a twofer. Here we go. How do you spell candy in two letters? What's a candy spelled in two letters? Butterfinger. Bee-bee!

00:19:55

Adal

Remember those? Remember Bart Simpson couldn't get his yellow little mitts off those?

JPC

I just love where your head's at because you think that is the candy that is two letters that is the most common two-letter candy.

Adal

I love that those old ads were like, the whole slogan for Butterfinger was, nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger. So they basically rhymed finger with finger and Slant rhymed better with butter. Just an awful campaign.

Erin

Well, this is my big question as I think we're going to be running into some cultural differences here. You have very different, do you call them sweets?

???

Do you call them Bart Simpson? Bartholomew Simpson, as he's known him. Bartholomew Simpsonalia, weirdly, is his name here in the UK. Yeah, I mean, we recognise candy and in fact Oxford Street, which is just outside our office, has a In the pandemic, these shops flourished. They're all called something like World of American Candy or like Essential Candy Store and they sell nothing but American candies. But that's a bit of an anomaly. In the rest of the UK, we'd call them sweets and they'd be sold to you in like little paper bags by like a kindly old man who fought in the war.

00:21:05

Erin

Okay, well I have a million questions. So I actually would like to, instead of a scene, I'd like to play a game. And I would like the two of you to list some British sweets and candies. And if you want to make some up and throw them in, you can. And we have to try to guess.

???

I love it. Very nice, very nice. Okay, licorice ulcer. Okay, so what I heard was licorice ulcer. And that's what you get. That's what you get if you eat one too many licorice all sorts.

Adal

I'm with Erin, I think real. Is it licorice, all sorts? As in you get all sorts of licorice?

???

Weirdly, it should take a comma, but it doesn't. All sorts is a plurality of licorice varieties. Got it. It speaks to a bag of stuff. So it's just a jumble of licorice. Yes, indeed.

Erin

That sounds like it's from Lord of the Rings.

JPC

It's the Jumble of Licorae. You must find the Jumble of Licorae only that can decode the languages of Aldman.

00:22:11

Adal

And my sweets. I'm going to say that licorice, what you said, is a correct. That's a correct one.

JPC

That is correct. I would like to put the distinction. It doesn't sound correct. It sounds like it exists. It does to me. Completely incorrect.

???

And to clarify, they are utterly revolting among the most disgusting things you could ever possibly consume. I'm not a fan. Truly despise them.

Adal

Okay, Max and Ivan, I'm gonna do one real quick. This is maybe an American candy, maybe I'm making it up. Fun dip. Fun dip.

JPC

Hey Riddle.

???

Candy vendors on a daily basis. I feel as though, you know, if Fun Dip were out there, the UK, you know, would have hurt. Sure, we've got kind of mysterious Victorian alchemists selling sweets that you guys haven't heard of, but I feel like the American dream is huge over here. I feel as though, I mean, have you, Ivan, have you encountered Fun Dip in your day-to-day?

00:23:25

???

I've never Fun Dipped myself. But I don't know. Maybe it's so good they're keeping it to themselves.

???

It's one of those things like taffy that I know exist but like don't really know. Like, couldn't tell you what it is. Like, if I had to point it out in a lineup I would like... It's a fabric. I need to talk to you about your taffy jacket that you've been wearing about because that is... It tastes better than it smells. Prey. Gorgeous. Fund it. I'm saying it's... Fake. I'm saying it's fake.

Guest1

It's real.

???

Oh!

Adal

The most American expression, the most American sentence you can ever say is, I drove my Prius to Cracker Barrel for some Fun Dip. Love it. What please? What is it? So Fun Dip is, this does sound very fake. I'll admit it as I'm saying it. It's a rounded This is a white candy tongue depressor that you put in your mouth and wet and then you dip it into a separate pouch full of flavored powder and the powder clings onto the wetness. It's not like pop rocks, it doesn't really tingle. But you wet the end, dip it in the powder, the powder sticks to the wetness of the tongue depressor and then you can either lick it off and keep dipping or you can bite it off and start chewing on the hard candy.

00:24:50

JPC

As Adal describes how you consume fun dip, I totally believe that in the time of COVID, nobody's doing fun dip. Like fun dip does that. Like a candy that involves taking it out of your mouth, dipping it in an extra bag, and then putting it back in.

???

Not really the... It is not a fun time to be the fun dip CEO.

???

They've had to just rename it dip in these troubled times. I also like the way you said doing fun dip. Like it's like a drug.

Adal

You want to do some fun dip, bro?

Erin

Little kid drug for sure.

???

It's a starter drug, absolutely.

Erin

I would like to hear some more British candies.

???

What about if you were to go and buy a bag of Percy Pigs?

Erin

Okay, hold on.

???

Oh boy, oh boy.

Erin

Oh man, what a silly country.

JPC

Any questions? Here's what I will say. If Percy Pigs exists as an actual candy, then J.K. Rowling is just a fucking liar. She's just a plagiarist. She stole everything that she has. Because if that exists in that country, then what she was doing wasn't magical. She was just going to a sweet shop and, you know, writing things down.

00:26:04

???

She famously sat and wrote a little in a coffee shop. She was just looking out of the window. And all of the children frolicking past with their bags of Percy Pigs.

JPC

I choose to believe in a world that Percy Pigs is not a real sweet. That's what I will say.

???

Interesting.

Erin

It sounds like the Queen's Butler or like a children's TV show. So I'm going to say not real. Percy Pigs.

Adal

I'm going to say that it's not real. And then also once we hear the answer, I do want to see a scene. Okay.

???

Well, we can confirm that Percy Pigs are in fact Real. Not only are they real, they are among the most popular confectionery sold by one of our most upmarket grocers, Marks & Spencer. And Percy has a whole family, I think he's got a girlfriend. There's Colin the Caterpillar. There's Colin the Caterpillar. Which you can buy in cake form as well. You can buy Percy Pigs, Fizzy Tales. When, like, when the, uh, when the, when Marcus & Spencer had a bad year, I'm fairly certain, like, Percy Pigs literally kept them, kept them in the green. And they've recently, uh, gone vegetarian. They've all gone vegetarian. The whole range. Yeah, absolutely. So no jealousy.

00:27:23

Erin

You guys are having way more fun than we are over here. This way sucks. You guys are having fun.

JPC

British Candy has family? What are we doing over here? Absolutely. That's what we're about here. Family values. I've never had this thought go through my brain before, but you guys deserve Boris Johnson. I will say that. We deserve Trump. We deserve him. That is sadly true. We're all sleeping in the beds we made.

Erin

Our candy has a girlfriend.

Adal

I want to see a scene. Max, you're going to be playing a fancy little pig on a first date with Erin at a coffee shop.

Erin

Hi, I'm, oh, sorry you go.

???

After you, after you, after you, terribly sorry, terribly sorry.

Erin

Oh my goodness, I love your little monocle in your fancy hat.

???

This old thing, I just threw it on. Do you come to this trough often?

Erin

I've been here a couple times. It's in your profile that you just moved to town.

???

Yeah, yeah, I'm new here. I live in a star, in my parents' family's star back home. But I've moved out to make it big in the world of confectionery.

00:28:32

Erin

That's amazing. And you're a teacup pig? That's so cute.

???

Yes, I am, yes, half chihuahua. So, yes, yes.

Erin

Oh, here comes the waiter. Hi, yeah, excuse me. I would love your breakfast special, and I'll take the bacon. I would like it with bacon, please. Thank you.

???

OK. Right. Yes. How wonderful. Yes, I'm sure I could enjoy a fun dip into that special of yours, except this is slightly embarrassing, but I've recently become vegetarian, you see. Yes, I'm only eating vegetarian produce, which is why my butler who I brought with me has it on a little plate. Hello. How do you do? Hello, Samuel.

Erin

Well, your butler is rather out of breath. Yes.

???

I've just been around the back. Master, the specials, my brother, he's been taken for the breakfast special, Master. Good grief.

00:29:48

???

Oh, here comes my breakfast! Oh, well, I'm too late, so... Jerry. Oh, Jerry. Well, you know, listen, I said it before, Samuel, and I'll say it again. Jerry didn't do a great deal of work, and it appears now he's giving Erin a great deal of pleasure on the plate. And, you know, despite my misgivings, it would be, you know, immoderative of me not to join her in a slice of your brother and potentially my distant relative.

Erin

Oh yeah, please help yourself.

???

Thank you. Please don't do it. Delicious. It's always the bacon that pulls you back in when you go vegetarian. Seen.

Erin

That was so dark. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean for it to be.

JPC

I just feel sorry for poor Samuel. The darker part was the butler was not a pig. The butler was a human man.

???

No, you can't get pig butler. No, no, no. He was very much.

JPC

That'd be ridiculous.

Erin

The pig kid was human, for sure.

JPC

Yes, it was, man. All right. Well, here. Rachel's riddle demands an answer. And I will say that the word candy is operative in this riddle. So how do you spell candy in two letters? If you want to change it out for sweets, the riddle is not going to work. So you have to use the American candy to make this riddle make sense. GBC is D one of the letters? No, Adal. D is not one of the letters. That's a great question. And you can ask as many questions as you want. The questions are always on the table.

00:31:20

Erin

What's your favourite colour?

JPC

In Erin, I will answer any yes or no.

???

So I will say no. And was that a clue in itself? What you just said? Um, the questions are on the table. No, no, your answer. Basically, I'm saying, do you think you've got it? Are the letters N-O?

JPC

Oh, no, the letters are not N-O. I guess you are definitely on the right track, though, I will say.

???

Okay, okay. And the question was, can I hear it worded one more time?

???

Actually, yeah, please do. How do you spell candy in two letters? Oh, right, sorry, it's not Can you? No, of course. Rachel, no egg was thrown at that point. Go for it. I may have an answer.

JPC

We love the confidence.

???

With great difficulty?

???

Or with great confidence. I kind of want to go with you on that. It's just a very confident person at a spelling bee.

00:32:31

JPC

That is great, but that is not the correct answer now.

???

Fair enough.

JPC

Fair play. When you said Butterfinger Bebe's, I thought you were going to say M&M's. Oh. Because that's two letters, but that is not the answer as well. So I wanted to go ahead and take that off the table because that's not the right direction for this for a moment.

???

It has to be candy, not sweets.

???

Oh, I've got it.

JPC

Okay. C and D? It's very close. I'll give it to you because you were halfway there.

???

It is C and Y because the way that you spell candy has A and Z. I like completed about two-thirds of a thought and then I announced I had it whilst I didn't. Yeah.

JPC

Nice one. That's okay. You were definitely using the British spelling of candy, which is C-A-N-D-D. Yes. As we all know. Candida D. Yes, that is very good. C and Y candy is the way it's spelled. And Rachel, that one absolutely rocked. Now that first one, that was a real tub of shit, but the second one really brought it home.

00:33:36

Erin

Wow, that was actually a good riddle. I actually enjoyed that. And I'm very impressed that you got it. I don't think I would have ever figured it out.

JPC

And now that we got a riddle correct and we actually got one, what we can all do is we can take a nice little break in here from some of our advertisers. Sweet.

???

Riddle Riddle.

Adal

What do Percy Pigs taste like? Are they chocolate or are they?

???

No, no, no, no. They're jelly. And they're real.

Erin

They're jelly? Oh, I'm all turned around.

???

They're real, real good. They're chewy. You basically, everyone has a preference. You basically want, in my opinion, the original Percy Pigs. Oh yeah, it's got to be the original. But the fizzy, the fizzy tails are pretty strong. They've got Reversy Percy's, which have the different types of gelatin-esque constituents reversed.

Adal

So the translucent bits are... Reversy Percy sounds like a euphemism for vagina. Yes, it should.

00:34:40

Erin

Oh my god!

Adal

That's amazing.

JPC

Well, this should be a surprise to no one, but we are actually back. We have been talking about Percy Pigs again. Now, I have a question because famously on this show, Erin spent some time in Australia and developed a liking for caramel koalas. Have you had caramel koalas?

???

We've not. When we toured to Australia and performed at some comedy festivals there, the big talk was Tim Tams. That was the... That was the... Tim Tam slam. That was the shack. That was the like... Interesting.

Erin

Do you have any Freddo Frogs? Because the Caramel Koalas are the brothers. Oh!

???

Okay! Freddo... Yeah, we've got Freddo Frogs galore here. Freddo's a classic. Here in the tuck shops of the UK.

JPC

So Freddo Frogs, how do they compare to Percy Pigs?

???

I mean, they don't. One's chocolatey and the other is lovely gummy.

???

A freddo frog is a diversion, but a bag of Percy pigs is a show-stopping crowd, please. You know, if you produced a freddo in a room full of people and kind of chucked it onto the table for communal consumption, you'd get publicly hanged in the UK. That's weirdly the one crime that it's still legal to do that for.

00:35:56

Adal

I will say, Ivan pulled up a picture of the Percy Pigs and I have never been so sexually attracted to a candy. Please immediately Google them. They're adorable slash sexy even.

JPC

I'm sorry, you've never been so sexually attracted to a candy? Well I guess I got a box of snickers in my apartment that's fucking ruined for nothing. For a lie.

Erin

I have a quick question before we continue, and I know you've probably answered this a million times, but what is your origin story? How did you meet and become friends? I've been watching some of your sketches on YouTube and I just was very curious.

???

Oh, and this definitely isn't a riddle. You'd actually like us to answer this one.

Erin

No, I'd like it to rhyme, like your answer to rhyme, please.

???

The story of Ivan and me begins in university.

Guest1

Oh my god, did you get it?

???

Two men on a comedic mission, bonded in a play audition. Well, this fucking rules. Oh, now it's so good you have to keep going.

Erin

You guys, we look like losers. They're so talented.

???

Yes, please Max, carry on. And also, don't make me rhyme. Don't make me rhyme, Ivan Kvetches, and won't tell about how we wrote our sketches.

00:37:04

Erin

Nobody talk, nobody move.

???

We wrote some shows and then some more and Edinburgh and then on tour.

Adal

Not fair. Their English actions are carrying a lot of the rhymes.

???

When we're live, we might appear to perform regularly at the Soho Theatre. Oh, very nice.

???

And very true.

???

Yeah. We've got a show, if it appeals, on head gum, and it's called Sound Deal. Excellent work. Excellent work.

Erin

Okay. Well, okay. Okay, that was incredible. But where are you from?

???

I'm rhymed out. That was a very primitive form of battle rap that we practiced here in London. I mean, it was all true though. It was. It was all true. We met at university. I'm from the south of the UK and Ivan is from the north by way of Europe. The rest of Europe, which thankfully we are now exited from. Absolutely. So we've got our sovereignty as our small island gradually sinks into the water. Take that Europe. Yeah.

00:38:16

Erin

And everyone's thrilled about it.

???

Everyone's happy. It was a great idea that won't result in a giant civil war before we all starve to death sometime before Christmas of this year. Yeah, we started writing, the UK's got a rich tradition of kind of university comedy reviews. And we both very ingeniously went to a university with zero comedy tradition at all. So quickly found one another as the only two people who were kind of into it and made the wise decision to become a full-time comedy double act.

Erin

That's so cool. Well, I'm really glad that I asked. I'm glad that I asked.

JPC

And I'm glad that you asked too, Erin, because it's nice to learn a little bit more about our guests, isn't it? Thank you. But enough learning because now it's time to take everybody's ass to school with our next riddle. This one comes courtesy of Tom. Thank you for the riddle, Tom. Okay, Tom writes, this riddle is the most stupidly hard riddle I have ever heard of. It's not fun because it's stupid, but I thought it might be interesting to hear your thoughts on it. That's the way we're being set up for this riddle. I promise you, our fans do like the show. I've got 10 eggs and they've all got Tom's name on them. Oh Tom, be careful here. Okay, so the riddle is, you see a letter that originated from senselessness. What does it read? You see a letter that originated from senselessness? You see a letter that originated from senselessness. What does it read? Now I will say, I couldn't make heads or tails with this fucking thing.

00:39:59

Adal

Can I say, so this is right in my wheelhouse because I once, I was pen pals with a gentleman named senselessness who was staying in Norway and he once sent me a letter and it read,

JPC

Ah, now is that good king senselessness? Okay, gotcha. A song I know on recorder.

Adal

A letter from senselessness, what did it read?

JPC

Yeah, so okay. You see a letter, here's the operative word, originated from senselessness. What does it read? So you're looking for a letter, and it originated from senselessness.

Erin

Like a letter of the alphabet.

JPC

Yes, like a letter of the alphabet. Now, Adal, you bring up a great point. You can just guess every letter of the alphabet and we'll get this riddle correct.

???

That'll take at least 50 goes, though, guys.

JPC

I'm sorry. Yes, we are using the British alphabet, so we are looking for 50 letters.

Adal

Is it like double U where it doesn't make sense to have U and W? I don't know. No, it's not. Originated from senselessness. Is it a letter of an alphabet that that composes, that helps make up the architectural structure of the word senselessness?

00:41:12

JPC

Yeah. I love the way that you phrased that.

Erin

Wow, that was amazing.

JPC

I love the way that it sounds like a fucking college professor. But yes, correct. That is, the answer is yes to that question.

???

Okay. So would it, I mean, is S the first letter of something which originates?

JPC

So that's a good, yeah, a letter that originated from senselessness and S is the first letter, but the answer is not S. Sure, I'm glad because that would be very unsatisfying. Oh sure, it was just the first letter.

Adal

So of course they want you to guess E because that's the second one, but surely we cannot choose the second letter. So I must choose N. This is a Wallachana.

JPC

You will get the answer like I said if you just guess all the letters but there is like a reason why this does make sense. It's just it's kind of abstract. There are clues. Do you want me to give you a couple clues? I would appreciate a clue. Oh, no, I'm sorry. I should have read these clues ahead of time. I saw that there were clues. These aren't helpful. Clue one is the letter is not one that is posted. So it's not like a it's you already got that part that it's an actual letter, not like a postmarked letter. And the second the second clue is there are hidden instructions to follow. OK, I think you got it.

00:42:31

???

Oh, OK. So if we take out Ness, N-E, because it's sense, less, ness.

JPC

So if we take our N-E and S, we are left with L. So my answer is L. So you are so close, but it is sense, less, ness. Sorry, what? So you are taking sense, less, N-E-S-S. So basically you're taking N-E-S-S out of sense.

Erin

So it's E.

JPC

So correct, you were right there, but the letter is E. Wow. We're removing the letters in E-S-S from the word since, since less ness, which gets us to E. When you started on that road, I was like, oh.

???

So close.

Erin

I just wept in at the last second.

???

Egg on mine. I think I'm throwing the egg up in the air and I'm head butting it.

00:43:34

Adal

I think I understand how you got there. So since less.

JPC

This is more in tune with the Nintendo Entertainment System that your parents bought you, the NESS.

Adal

Which was just my mom and dad standing behind a cardboard box with a window cut out and they say, you tell us what you want to play. And I said, not divorce. And they played it anyway. I want to see a scene. Ivan and JPC, you two are brothers, but you are separated by a vast many, many miles. This is maybe in like the early 1900s or late 1800s. So you are separated and you're writing letters back and forth to each other to keep each other abreast of what you're up to. And the letters make less and less sense as they go on.

JPC

My dearest brother across the sea, things go well in America where I have made my home. I got a job as a dock worker unloading ships and loading cargo onto ships. I hope that it is enough to support me and my family, of which it surely will. I hope you are well, brother. Love always, Charles.

00:44:42

???

Dearest brother, it brings me great joy to hear of your safe arrival in America. I would like to let you know that mother is doing well and father is tending to the oxen. Please, please send some money desperately. We need urgent care for the oxen. Yours, Robert.

JPC

Dearest Robert, I got your last letter and hope to support the oxen soon. Little bit of a hiccup with my job. I'm working at a dockers packaging plant. I thought I was going to be working at the docks. I wore waiters, those little rubber boots and everything. Turns out I'm just folding pants. They're paying in pants though, so if the ox need pants, I'm your guy. Next ship over, full of pants. Until then, all my love, your brother Charles.

???

Dearest brother, I know it takes a while for these letters to cross the seas and I appreciate your offer for pants and would like to take you up on that offer so please do send a pair urgently. The oxen are now hungry and we are willing to feed them anything.

00:46:01

JPC

My dearest brother Robert. Again, pants, incoming, I mean, it's possible. Here's the thing, totally messed up again. Not a Docker's factory plant. Apparently it's just an old Docker's warehouse where people are now doing a thing called docking. Which, as I understand it, is when two people put their penis. You know what? I don't really want to write it down in a letter. Google it. I'll say. I'll say Google it. Anyway, no money yet, no pants. Kind of opening up my mind to some sexual possibilities that didn't know were a thing for me. But more coming soon. All my love, your brother Charles. Dear Charles, this is your father.

???

Robert read your last letter, attempted to make the oxen dock, and he was trampled to death. The funeral is next Thursday. Do come home. Frederick.

JPC

Dad, next Thursday, it takes like a month to get home.

Adal

I've been thinking that was worth a whole letter.

00:47:07

Erin

Dad.

???

That cost $800 to send.

JPC

But no, Tom also said at the end of the email, love the podcast, keep doing what you're doing and Tom will never stop. Until someone stops us, some brave person stops us.

Adal

Okay, so now the only person who can stop Hey Riddle Riddle is a good guy with a podcast.

JPC

Jake and Amir. The next riddle, this is the one that I was excited about because I think that this riddle has, you know, I believe some British flair to it. So this is from Allison. Allison writes, These are some of the classic knights and knaves logic puzzles. They're probably best for Erin since she likes math, and I actually did more complicated versions of these problems in my college math class, but they're fun, I promise. Erin, did you say that you loved math on the show at one point?

Erin

I said I kinda liked math in 2018 one time, and now people keep sending me math.

JPC

Sounds like we got ourselves a math head over here, guys! Okay, so you find yourself on the island of knights and knaves. Knights always tell the truth, and knaves always lie.

00:48:18

Adal

And real quick, just for historical context, I know what a knight is. What is a knave? I think it's a type of bread.

Erin

It's one of the pig's cousins.

Adal

Yes.

JPC

Okay, no further questions, your honor. Okay, so... Knights always tell the truth, knaves always lie. Whenever you meet someone, you don't know if they're a knight or a knave. They both look like bread. So, question number one. You meet Billy and Franklin. Billy says, we are both knaves. What are Billy and Franklin?

Adal

Any adult who goes by Billy when their name is William is just full of shit and a piece of shit.

JPC

Billy Holiday? Huh? Oh no, oh wait, wait, wait, wait. Yeah. Walk it back, walk it back.

Erin

Billy, and what's the other person's name?

JPC

Franklin. And Billy says, we are both knaves.

Erin

And what does Franklin say?

JPC

Franklin, quiet as a fucking doormouse. And what does Bash say? On Tuesdays, 7pm TNT, I don't know. Okay, okay.

00:49:27

Adal

We are both naves, is that what they said?

JPC

Yes, Billy says we are both naves. Now remember, knights always tell the truth, and naves always lie.

Adal

And did you say that there has to be one of each? Cause if so, clearly, this guy is lying.

JPC

No, there does not have to be one of each. You just can't discern just by looking at them what they are, because they both dress the same. But we need to know what the two of them are.

???

Sure. So the paradox is, of course, that if Franklin is a knave, then Billy is telling the truth, but he can't possibly be telling the truth because he's claiming to be a knave.

JPC

Exactly. Yeah, so if he says we're both Naves... Yeah, exactly. He can't be telling the truth because Naves lie, so he's claiming to be a nave.

???

So surely he has to be a nave and Franklin has to be a knight.

JPC

Bingo bingo hot ta ta, Max. You got it right. Nice try. Immediately, immediately nailed it.

???

Wow. Listen, we have to deal with knights and knaves every day here in London.

00:50:32

???

You have to answer that question just to get to the Percy Pig Isles. Yes.

Erin

I would like to see a scene. Yeah, I'll just have to be everybody. Adal, Max, and Ivan, you are going to be knights. And Max, let's have you be a knight who's sort of like stretching the truth of some of your conquests. Like you're trying to impress your knight friends, but you're clearly lying.

Adal

Ah, hail and well met's good night. Yes. Not, sorry, good night.

???

Good night for the good, comma, night is just beginning. Good evening, nights. Good evening, nights.

Adal

Much easier to say. Good nights and good luck and good hail and where whence from you came?

???

When whence cameeth I, oh baby, baby, baby. Let me tell you. Please do.

Adal

Well, you know, I... Oh, Sir Pillows, you are too modest. Please, regale us with your stories of adventure.

00:51:33

???

Well, there were rumors that I drunk too much ale and fell asleep in the sheep pen. Oh, hello. But actually, your boy here was up to some pretty heroic stuff. Don't know if you've ever heard of real big dragons, anyone?

Adal

Oh, yes, never seen, but yeah, definitely heard of.

???

Yeah, well, there's a reason you've never seen them, because when my twin brother was asleep with the sheep, not with, not comma, caught many commas between me or he and they, Sheep, and it could have just been one sheep, or even none, but that doesn't matter. The point is, I was elsewhere with those soft sheep because I was... I was dueling bravely with the biggest dragon this kingdom hath ever witnessed. Really? Yes. Us knights can only tell the truth.

00:52:35

???

Yes, yes. And you were dueling with a dragon. Congratulations! This is one of the biggest stories that I have ever heard in my life.

Adal

Yeah. Yes, this is amazing. This is like that time that you told us you pulled that sword from a stone and many witnesses had said that it was a sword that was just laying on the ground, but there must have been a stone somewhere because surely you're a knight and you only tell the truth and I believe you all the time. Well, this, I mean, this is it.

???

And, you know, egg on their face, as I say, if, you know, listen, I'm very clear that the sword was It was pulled either from or by, or at least near, a stone. People get hung up on detail, frankly, and maybe we should all just chill out a bit and accept. Oh Sir Pillow, you are sweating profusely. Yes, well, it's all the wool fibers which are on my body for... They fell from the dragon that I was... It's in vague, embroiled with, and quite a tussle. It sure was. Wow. So, pillows, how big we talking? Oh, you know, it was, you know, 15. 15? Wow, that's huge. Yes, the biggest number yet invented.

00:53:52

Erin

Oh, Knight, thank goodness you're here. There's a huge dragon on that hill that must be slain.

???

Oh, quick, some pillows. Anywho, I've got a- Off you go. I'm part of this new roller derby gang, and we say we've got a meat just down the- Listen, it's quite a thing. We'll be right behind you. No, no, no. Lead the charge. Lead the charge. It's a wimblethorpe. I think you could probably give it a real good go. No, I'm only good at fucking sheep.

Adal

What a great Welsh night.

Guest1

Yes.

JPC

I'm only good at that. Okay, so the Allison has included two more riddles now that we get the basic we get the basic premise on Knights and Naves. Still on the Knights and Naves. Next you meet Stephanie and Diane. Stephanie says Diane is a nave. Diane says, neither I nor Stephanie are knaves. What are Stephanie and Diane? Okay. Okay.

00:54:55

Erin

I know it.

JPC

So Stephanie says, Diane is a knave and Diane says, no, neither one of us is a knave. I know what I think it is. That is almost the same as just knowing the answer. That's a guess. We call that a guess here across the pond.

???

Oh, really? Okay. In England, you call them a guesticles.

Adal

Who said neither of us are knaves? That was Diane?

JPC

Yeah. Stephanie says Diane is a knave and Diane says neither one of us is a knave.

Adal

Sounds like the lady doth protest too much.

JPC

Could be.

Adal

I'm gonna say... I'm gonna say Diane is a knave and Stephanie is a knight.

JPC

Okay, any other takers on this?

???

Can you repeat, please? Because I feel like I know what it is, but also I've completely forgotten it.

00:55:55

JPC

Stephanie says, Diane is a knave. And then Diane says, neither I nor Stephanie are knaves. So Stephanie is claiming Diane is a nave and Diane is saying neither one of us are naves. And Adal's guess is that Stephanie is a knight and Diane is a nave. I have the same guess as Adal. Erin is submitting the same guess as Adal. Now, if you do bill us for your logic receptors being fried, keep in mind that we use the American Medical Insurance Program. We do not have a National Health Service. Well, Hey Riddle Riddle is responsible for a portion of it. The grand portion is good, unfortunately.

00:56:59

???

I'll solder them back together myself. Don't worry, honestly.

JPC

But that is correct. You're correct right there. Stephanie is a knight because Stephanie is telling the truth, saying Diana's a knave, and Diana's lying, saying neither one of us are knaves. That's a lie. She's a knave. Stephanie is a knight. Bingo, bingo, ha, ta, ta. Congratulations to Adal, Erin, and Max. Ivan, unfortunately, Egg on your face. Yes. Egg, once again.

???

We are running out of eggs rapidly over here.

Adal

I want to ask real quick, so Yvonne, your name is spelled I-V-A-N, which I assumed was Ivan. Is that typical of England in terms of pronunciation or is that unique to your name?

???

It is not typical to England. So the typical English spelling would be Ivan. You are correct in assuming that. But I am, my dad's Argentinian. My parents met in Spain. So I go by Iban, the Spanish pronunciation. Very nice. And I would appreciate if you could sexually say it in a Spanish accent every time. Iban.

00:58:09

Erin

Ivan. There we go.

???

Thank you.

Erin

I need to work shopping more. I need more time.

Guest1

That was good.

???

Hang on.

Adal

Ivan. No, I had it in Lassit. Now you sound like Cookie Monster.

Erin

No, no. Speaking of everyone. I don't sound like Cookie Monster.

JPC

Speaking of everyone getting their bang on, you meet Marla and Brian. Marla says, we are both knights. Brian says, either Marla is a knight, or I am a knight, but we are not both knights. What are they? Brian's a coy little character, isn't he? I guess I should say that Brian is wearing like a turtleneck. He's drinking a little sniffer brandy. He's very odd.

???

Well, let's just say one of us is a nine.

JPC

I'll do that to remember. Brian also like he's trying to get everybody's email because he has a poetry reading coming up. And so he's like, yeah, yeah, we're getting bad vibes from Brian. So yeah, Marla says we are both knights. Brian says either Marla is a knight or I am a knight, but we are not both knights.

00:59:12

Erin

I feel like there can be two answers to this.

JPC

Erin, interesting. Well, what do you think those two answers would be?

Erin

Well, this is going to sound lame, but I think they could... they're one of each. So, like, I feel like Marla could be a knight. Oh no, it can't. No, it can't. There's only one answer. It's the only one answer.

JPC

Oh, Erin. She's narrowed it down. Okay.

Erin

She's Marla's a nave and Brian's a knight.

JPC

Interesting, interesting. Does anyone want a cosign on Erin's answer there?

Erin

Please, I can't get this apartment without a cosigner, please.

???

I feel that is correct. I think that's correct as well. Also, is it Brian? Sorry. He is Brian, yes. I mean, he's putting out quite a lot of options there, you know. Marla is just saying one thing. Brian's like... It's a little sweaty. Yeah, you know, three different... It could be this, or this, or this, you know. I feel like he's hedging his bets.

JPC

Did he offer three? Well, he said either Marla is a knight or I am a knight, but we are not both knights.

01:00:13

???

So there's technically three. Okay.

Adal

J.P.C., I have an answer, but I don't know if it's permitted. Can I run it by you? Absolutely. Everything is permitted here. They're both knights, but they're very, very drunk. You know when you're drunk and sometimes you forget how old you are and stuff like that?

JPC

Yeah, there's some additional context for this. It's last call. Brian and Marla, they weren't really talking for most of the night, but they've kind of taken a view of the bar. They've seen that there may be their only options. She's already given them the email for the poetry contest, so it's pretty much a foregone conclusion what's going to happen here. But yeah, we're just humoring them with this last one. Good, good, good. But Adal, no, that isn't correct.

Erin

Thank you. And by the way, that's me and JPC's origin story. He didn't have it rhymed, but that is how we messed up on the bar.

JPC

Oh, it's beautiful. Americans, we don't usually have it rhymed. That's something that we typically do over there. That is very old-fashioned way of doing it. Wait, wait, wait.

Erin

Not as much Shakespeare in school, so. Mm-hmm. Worked against us.

???

We're doing around. I'm going to change my mind. Yes. I'm changing my mind, and I'm saying that they are both knaves.

01:01:24

JPC

So, here's the fucking shocker. Both Ivan... I'm sorry, let me take that again. Both Ivan. That's too vampire. Let me do one more. Ivan, Ivan to suck your blood. We'll leave it. Ivan and Erin are both correct because the answer to this riddle is that you just don't have enough information to determine what Brian is. Marla is definitely a nave because she's saying that we are both knights and that can't possibly be true, so she's a nave. Brian could either be a knight or a knave because if Marla, let's assume that Marla is a knave, if Brian is a knight then his statement is true because he's a knight and Marla is a knave, but if Brian is a knave then his statement is false because neither he nor Marla is a knight.

Adal

Wait a second, you said the answer is we don't have enough information? That's not a fucking answer. Fuck you. I want to see a scene. I want to see a scene. Erin, you are the head of some sort of secret organization. Ivan, you are one of the top agents of this organization, much like a James Bond type. And, Erin, you are sending Ivan on a mission, but you are not giving him at all nearly enough information.

01:02:40

Erin

Ivan, will you step into my office, please?

Adal

Yes, mom.

Erin

Here is your envelope with your next mission. It's very dangerous, the most dangerous one we've ever sent you on. Be sure to tell your family goodbye before you go.

???

Well, look, first of all, I don't have a family because my only family is my loyalty to the country.

Erin

And I guess I... We didn't ask you to do that, by the way.

???

No, and I'm willing to do it because I love this country. And I'll do anything for it. And I'm willing to risk my... Sorry, it doesn't seem to be that much in this envelope. It just says... Off you go. Sorry, what's the actual mission? I mean, the letter just says complete mission.

Erin

Yes. I figured that would be enough. And then I wrote this little diagram. It's a map.

???

Okay.

Erin

Let me scratch it out. It's like you, when you get there, you're going to do like a loop.

???

Okay.

Erin

And then, no, sorry, let me start over.

01:03:42

???

And just, just clarify where there is. First of all, I just need to know where that is.

Erin

Oh, um, what is that place? Oh, it's like, uh, it's like America's little hat to like above it.

???

It's like, shoot. Canada.

Erin

No, you know what? Southeast Asia.

???

Right.

Erin

You're going to Southeast Asia, and oh gosh, they said, it's urgent, you have to be there now, and ooh. Hello. How would you go? And then I'll give you a call when I remember any of the details.

???

Mind if I pop my head in? Q here, you're superior. Good luck with all the older, more, you know, I assume you've been briefed. Here's the piece of string you'll need. Anyway, Tata, I'm clocking off and going on quite a long summer holiday now, but all the best. Cheerio. Right.

Erin

You just fill out the window.

???

Drop and roll, and off we go. Straight to the NHS hospital.

JPC

Seen. That was what the string was for, to catch Q as he was falling out the window. So yes, thank you so much, Alison, for that riddle. Max and Ivan, thank you for surviving a recording. Oh my goodness, guys. You did aces. You did absolutely aces. Thank you guys so much for having us.

01:05:00

???

And thank you for finishing on a riddle which was, you know, one of those where you go, oh, oh, okay. And that's really, that's how I feel when I meet most riddles. So, you know, my expectations were met.

Adal

That's how most riddles go. There's not enough information. You've been initiated into Headgum. Anyone who has a new podcast in Headgum always swings by our little abode and you get kind of initiated into it like a fraternity. So congratulations. Thank you for hazing us and we look forward to... We can't call it that. We can't call it that. We can't call it that.

???

We can't call it that. We can't call it that. We can't call it that. We can't call it that. We can't call it that. We can't call it that. We can't call it that. We can't call it that. We can't call it that. We can't call it that. We can't call it that. We can't call it that. We can't call it that. We can't call it that.

Erin

We can't call it that. We can't call it that. We can't call it that. We can't call it that. We can't call it that. We can't call it that. We can't call it that. We can't

???

And we can't wait to have you guys on our podcast at some point once we're recording the next series. Absolutely. If you would join us.

JPC

Speaking of the first series of sound deals, we would absolutely love to. We would love to join. Tell people about sound deals. Obviously you can find it on the Headgum Network, but give us your plug.

01:06:07

???

Clearly Sounddeals is the world's best and indeed only podcast shopping network where every week in the Sounddeals warehouse, Ivan and I, in the manner of two enthused QVC style presenters, sell a whole series of objects which are completely made up by our producer and by our listeners which we get told about in real time.

???

Yeah, we've got wonderful special guests and they don't know what they're selling until they are selling it either.

???

So if you enjoyed these two English comedians and want to hear some other English comedians that you may not have heard of, and some that you may have heard of, and indeed some Americans down the line, then yeah, please give us a listen. We're thrilled to be on the head gum part of the head gum family.

JPC

I can say if any of those products that you are pitching involve coming up with impromptu rhymes, going to be a home run. Slam dunk, 100%, nail it, out of the park.

???

Extraordinarily hasn't come up yet, but I mean, I'm sure down the line. Next episode, baby.

Adal

And JBC, thank you for saying it would be a home run.

JPC

I think that really connects with- I was using this American nomenclature as I could possibly fit into that for a score.

01:07:11

???

In England it's a homeward runwood. Yes.

JPC

Erin Adal, do you have anything that you would like to plug?

Erin

Nope just I would say check out Max and Ivan on their like all their stuff on YouTube was making me laugh really hard when I was watching it so give it a Google.

Adal

Thank you and I would say if you don't plug us at this point yeah you know. We're not for you. I would say I want to plug our Patreon. You can go to patreon.com slash Hey Riddle Riddle and subscribe to our Patreon and get some bonus content weekly. And also I would urge you all to send us an email to submit your own riddles or to tell us about candies from your region and maybe send us some Percy pigs. That's hrrpodcast at gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you.

JPC

You can email us those pigs. No, Erin, I just want to congratulate all of us because Max and Ivan were our first British guests. But, Erin, next week we have another special guest coming from a place even farther away, and that place is... Jupiter. Cheers forever. Waka Waka.

01:08:20

Guest0

Created by Adal Rifai. Starring Erin Keif and John Patrick Coan.

Guest1

Casey Tony could be editing. Every parent in the future.

JPC

Hey there walls and drugs, if you like that you are going to love this week's Patreon. We go back to the well of our state series with South Dakota. You can listen to that plus our entire back catalog at patreon.com slash hey riddle riddle by joining the Clue Crew for $5 a month or the Review Crew for $8 a month. See you there!