Which Riddle Riddle?

#178: … and Whatnot w/ Janet Varney

00:00:02

Janet

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JPC

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Adal

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Adal

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JPC

Erin, my dear, when he defined the relationship, it ruined it for me.

Erin

Me too, fake husband. Me too.

Adal

I'm getting beat up every day.

Erin

Now point me in the direction of this witch. I'd like to have a word with her. It's me. I'm the witch. I'd put the curse on Adal. I'm really sorry.

Adal

What? Give me five seconds here. I'm gonna tell my sister to turn down the goddamn TV.

00:02:21

Janet

Oh, that reminds me. I should do my math homework. Oh, wow.

JPC

God, get a hammer because we are nailing his ass to the wall. Hold on, my grandma's making cookies too loud.

Janet

Hang on, my cannon string phone just rang.

???

It was the captain of an airplane. He stabbed him with an ice cream. And the horse came riding.

Adal

Here's JPC and Erin. They're two people who love podcasts. We've replaced their morning podcast with an episode of Hey Riddle Riddle. Let's see if they noticed. The fuck is this?

00:03:24

Erin

Honey, our podcast is broken.

JPC

The fuck is this?

Erin

I hate this. I miss our old podcast. Who did this?

Adal

Enjoying your breakfast podcast? Ha! Jesus Christ! Sorry, I'm the table. The table's talking to me.

Erin

Honey, I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning because the table is talking to us.

JPC

Why are you making your voice sound like that? What's going on? What is this podcast?

Adal

What? What? You're listening to Hey Riddle Riddle. It's a podcast. I'm not.

JPC

I'm listening to a table tell me that my wife's on a TV show.

Adal

It's a podcast where people try and solve riddles and along the way they do improvise scenes.

Erin

How do you like it? GPC, GPC wake up. You're having a nightmare.

JPC

Oh God. I was having the worst dream. We were blowing it in front of a guest.

Erin

Oh no.

Adal

GVC, that's what's happening because we have a very special guest. One, I think last time we gave her a nickname because that's what she needs is more podcast nicknames. We have Janet Morph herself, Janet Varney.

00:04:33

JPC

Welcome back to the show, Janet Morph.

Janet

Thanks for having me. It's great to be here. It's great to see everybody. Oh, we did it.

Adal

Mm-hmm. Although you shit on Casey pretty hard when you popped on the call here.

Janet

I did, but I shit on you harder when you went to go tell your sister to turn the TV down.

Adal

Okay, well now everyone knows my business. Now everyone knows that my sister uses my TV.

Janet

Point of clarification. Yeah, it's more likely someone can locate you because now they know your sister has a TV over there.

JPC

Is Janet's nickname, is it Janet Morph or is it Janna Morph?

Adal

I think it was Janet Morph.

Janet

So Janet, how was your last four years? Do you think events will happen to you or the world? I think so. I'm trying to think. I think a couple of years ago, oof, I want to say I had a really good quiche, like a piece of quiche that I just was not expecting to be because it had smoked gouda in it. That's what's coming up for me right now. Interesting.

00:05:45

JPC

So I would expect a smoked gouda quiche to be out of this fucking world. I would expect to love that.

Janet

Really good.

JPC

Okay.

Janet

It was really good. It was like stay inside your house for two years and don't go outside and wear a mask good. Do you know what I mean? Like that is what it makes you want to do.

Adal

So since we haven't, I don't think we've recorded with you since quarantine, you have a new podcast. Do you want to tell us about that?

Janet

I do. I have a podcast on the iHeart Network. It is a Nickelodeon podcast about all things Avatar-verse, which means Avatar the Last Airbender and Legend of Korra and not the James Cameron Avatar movie. I mean, that has got to be tough on everyone associated with both projects. And then no one is gonna yield, you know what I mean? No one is gonna be like the project formerly known as Avatar.

Adal

Did you, can I ask, with your new podcast, which I'm very excited to listen to, I'm planning on doing a rewatch and listening to the episodes along the way, did you insert something that's almost like a The Wall, Pink Floyd's The Wall, Wizard of Oz, where if you do happen to watch the James Cameron version, the podcast syncs up and tells some fun little story or something?

00:06:58

Janet

That is my number one priority for season two because we are almost done with season one and I might need some help orchestrating that because now I feel like it does need to be something hey riddle riddle level good. Like maybe there is like an elaborate scheme that we come up with where there's lots of we plant lots of little Easter eggs.

Erin

Just for future reference, if you ever decide to start a new podcast, I would listen to you talk about James Cameron's entire filmography.

Janet

I would love, you just being like, um, and not, I don't want you to rewatch any of the movies, just being like, such a titanic was As I recall, I was very interested in the water in the abyss in this almost sensual way. If I recall, without a rewatch, that was really sexy water.

Adal

Yes, it's almost like, what's his name? Robert Patrick in Terminator? It's almost like a liquid metal, but the water does present itself in a very sensual way. And I remember the first time I saw that movie, I was very much like, what's up with this water? Where I'm like, does anyone know, is this water single or what's going on?

00:08:12

Erin

The people died, Adal.

Adal

What?

JPC

I just put it together that we were talking about like the James Cameron Avatar with the Navee. I was like James Cameron directed the Avatar movie? I was like that can't be right. I was like, everybody's getting the detail wrong. I think that was in the shuttle. But I can't be sure.

Janet

OK. You can be sure. OK. You can be sure. OK.

Adal

I do need to. This might be the earliest scene we've ever called for. I do need to see just a very, just the smallest little sprinkling. It is 7 a.m. The smallest little saffron sprinkle of a scene. Janet, you are whatever age you were when you watched Abyss. Erin, you are the water and you two are on a first date.

Janet

Splash. Hey. Hey. I was going to try to play it cool, but I'm going to tell you I am starstruck. I'm waterstruck right now. I get that a lot. Oh my gosh. Have you ever been on a date with a celebrity before? I haven't and I did not realize how truly long you are. I mean your water body is stretching out of the cafe. I can see it going down the block. I don't know where you end. I guess I know where you end. I don't know where you begin.

00:09:35

Adal

We cut to the end of the water where the back end is having another date. So where are you from? Splash.

Erin

Hey, have you ever been on a date with a celebrity before?

Adal

No, I haven't. You're my first. You are, I'm sorry, you are stunning.

Erin

Sorry, this is a little difficult. I feel like I'm having two conversations at the same time.

Janet

I knew it! I knew you were a worm like water. Same.

JPC

So Janet, I mean normally we ask our guests what their relationship is with Riddles. We obviously don't get returned guests. People kind of get a vibe with the show. They say thank you though, thank you. But it's been years since we last spoke. Has your relationship with Riddles changed in the last few years?

Janet

I think if anything, my relationship with Riddles has grown. It's deepened. It's galvanized. I feel great about it. I feel no less apt at solving Riddles, but I feel Look at fucking Dr. Library over here busting out the words. Yeah, I have Dr. Library.

00:10:37

JPC

Okay Adal, you just used Dr. and Library, so watch out college.

Janet

I have Dr. Library. And Dr. Library CPA. I also knew people's doctors.

JPC

I needed a third. Your timing couldn't be more perfect because this is actually the year that we love Riddles again. So we are all on the same page. Our love and appreciation for Riddles has only grown more and more over the year. And even better news, we're almost done with that. We're almost done with the year that we like Riddles.

Janet

Oh, okay. So I'm sneaking in just at the end before we hate Riddles again.

Adal

Buzzer beater. Buzzer beater.

Erin

We gave ourselves a lobotomy and now we love Riddles and we're all smiling and it feels great.

Janet

Wait, but I got asked a serious question. Have I only done your podcast once? I thought I'd done it twice.

JPC

It goes an hour and most people do end the podcast by saying, can we get two episodes out of that? Surely there must be an effort too.

00:11:47

Janet

More and better than I remember almost all of the guest appearances I've done to the degree where I think I've convinced myself that we recorded together in person and then sometime between then we recorded like streaming or we recorded together in person again or something. I don't know how I've done that, but I really have created. If this is my second appearance on Hey Riddle Riddle, something has happened to me. You've recorded with us in a dream. It might have been a beautiful dream.

JPC

Okay, I did just Google Janet Varney podcast guest, and this is an anecdote that she shares on a lot of podcasts.

Janet

And I could swear.

JPC

It looks like.

Janet

I will say Janet. I know I did it. I know I did it.

Adal

I remember all the worst things that happened to me too. Janet, I will say you've recorded, I think since quarantine you've recorded with Tabi Tavern.

Janet

I knew you were going to try to push Tavern on me as like your reasoning. I wish I'd gotten out in front of that faster because I was immediately going to follow up by saying, and don't try to tell me it's because I've seen you a couple of times because you also did my podcast. I know all of those. I can cite all of those.

00:12:58

JPC

It could have been a lot of things. You could have been mugged. A lot of people times they're like, Did your podcast be like, no, you probably went through something like violent and dramatic.

Adal

Give me your purse. It's like, oh, let me solve this. Okay. So the purse is like the mother? No.

Janet

I remember I was trying to get into the country. I had been abroad and the customs agent took me to a room and had a series of riddles that I had to solve.

???

Very common.

Janet

So it was you, but it wasn't your podcast. I just happened to engage with you in your regular jobs as customs agents.

Adal

Yes. Erin was wearing a mustache and JBC and I shaved her. Split a mustache. As is your custom.

Janet

As is your custom. I'm going to lean in just a little bit more to the mic and leaning back, leaning back.

Erin

So speaking of riddles, I found riddles and I went, wow, these are some of the most difficult, ridiculous riddles I've ever found. And then I went, why not tonight? You know what? Let's do this together. Maybe with one extra brain we can also do that.

00:14:00

Janet

Maybe with a doctor library we'll be able to get through these things that immediately sound to me like problems in a class in school. Exactly. There's a point at which they become so complicated that you're like, oh no, you're trying to fool me. This is education. Don't you dare.

Erin

So I'm going to do some warm-ups before we get into the really difficult ones.

JPC

I licked my cousin's lollipop. He told me, stop it, John.

Erin

Do, do, re, do. Do, re, mi, re, do. And then we're good.

Adal

I found a little kitty and the kitty had 10 titties.

Erin

Okay. So these are listeners submitted. They're from Razz. They, them. And these are riddles that Razz wrote for their D&D campaign and they're themed. I like the sound of this razz.

JPC

You said razz they then? Are you sure it wasn't them saying razz them? Because I'm fully capable of razzing them.

Erin

Yeah, do like a fun little razz.

00:15:01

JPC

Alright, let's see. Let's assume that you're from Philadelphia.

Erin

He has a lot of material in Philadelphia.

Adal

Mainly Philadelphia. Softball, softball. Any rust belt city, it's a little softball.

Erin

No Razz is super sweet in their emails, so let's leave them alone. Alright, so here are the themed riddles from Razz. Silver maiden, pearl of light, shifting yet the same. A sister, present, yet out of sight. Pray tell, what is her name?

Adal

Erin, I'm onto your little game. Those are Led Zeppelin lyrics.

Erin

Damn it! Get out of here, Adal! No, honestly. And I would have gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for the god of my podcast.

JPC

Your Zeppelin Dar is firing on all cylinders because that is spot on.

Adal

Zeppelin? I know that you only date members of Led Zeppelin. My Led Zeppelin Dar is unreal. Let me set you up. I know a few bottoms.

JPC

Any guesses? Yeah, I'm going to say oyster.

00:16:06

Janet

Okay, I like that guess a lot, but no. I mean, I need to hear it again. Of course. Silver Maiden, Pearl of Light.

Adal

Japes and Varney, when you hear this, please think of Led Zeppelin singing this.

Erin

I can't focus on the riddle. Silver Maiden, Pearl of Light, Shifting yet the same, A sister present yet out of sight, Pray tell what is her name. So, I would just focus, like, what are some things that, like, create, not, this one doesn't necessarily create life, but kind of light, it reflects light?

Janet

How, I mean, listen, hearing it the second time, I gotta say oyster. Come on! Yeah, pretty good, huh? Who's the sister out of sight?

JPC

What about a chandelier, Erin?

Adal

A clam?

Erin

I like that. You're getting, but I would say think bigger.

Adal

Okay Erin, what about a wall-to-wall mirror?

Erin

No.

Adal

Okay, you could have said close.

00:17:06

Janet

It's a tiny bit closer, but still not close. Sister out of sight.

JPC

Okay, so you think bigger than a chandelier?

Erin

Silver Maiden. Is it a giant menorah? The beginning of this is more helpful than the second half. Silver Maiden, Pearl of Light. It changes, but it's still I wish I wait. I wish I might. Silver Maiden, Pearl of Light. I'm on your wavelength. This is very cool. This is a great warm-up for me.

Janet

I feel very warm.

Adal

It's just like the guests to come on and do way better than us. But Janet was on the cover of December's issue of Escape Room aficionados, to be fair.

Janet

That's right. But also I was smoking a cigar because I was also doing the I had a joint it was a joint cover thing. Yeah.

00:18:11

Adal

And our own source anger was sitting on your lap. That's right. I'd like to see a scene. JPC, you are the sun. Janet, you are the moon. And Erin, you are the sun and the moon's parent. And you are you are having a chat with them about maybe life and what to expect as they get older.

JPC

Can I go? Can I just go?

Janet

No. You can't go wearing my Led Zeppelin t-shirt. Thanks.

JPC

Okay, yeah. Your Led Zeppelin t-shirt.

Janet

Oh, I'm sorry. Hey, guess what? It's daytime. I'm going to borrow her stuff and she won't know. Thanks.

Erin

I do know. I see you. You just have one school drop-off that is peaceful. Please.

JPC

Could you just drop us off? Could you just drop us off like a couple hundred light years away from school and then we'll just walk?

Janet

I would actually love that also. Are you embarrassed by me?

Erin

No.

Janet

What? No. Yeah. No. No.

JPC

We love your huge white beard and your flowing white robe. You're so cool. Super cool.

Janet

I'm cool.

00:19:11

???

I create the whole universe.

Janet

Oh my gosh, it's winter but you have sandals on. That's awesome. We're not going to hear about that in home ec. You don't like my sandals?

Erin

I created the whole universe in like six days. And you don't think that's cool? Look, I made a giraffe. This is hilarious. Oh no, really?

Janet

Yeah, you know what? You have to stop leaning so hard onto the giraffe thing. Like, yes, it's very funny and hilarious and cool.

Erin

Look at this, a puffer fish.

JPC

That's funny too. Every time you show me one of these things, you get it way too close and it burns up. I have so many millions of dead giraffes in me, and that takes an emotional toll.

Janet

Yeah. Yeah. And I have, you know, a lot of people who just worship me. I guess I started out that I was going to be complaining, but then I realized I didn't have that much to complain about.

Erin

Okay.

???

All right.

Erin

I'm just going to drop you off. Well, one of you hurts people's eyes and the other one of you causes periods. So I guess have a good day. I don't cause periods. Yeah. It's something like that. I don't really, the women's bodies are gross. I don't really look into it too much.

00:20:20

Adal

God, thank you so much for coming into the parent-teacher conference. I just want to talk to you about your daughters.

Erin

What did they do?

Adal

Well, one of them is having a lot of flare-ups in class, and one of them feels like they're only sort of half there a lot of the time. So I don't know what's going on at home. Is there anything at home that might be going on? Is it just you, or do you have someone else with you?

Erin

That's a little rude. No, I'm on my own, okay?

Adal

Well, you created me, so What does that mean?

Erin

Is this my fault?

Adal

Well, you make no mistakes. You told me you make no mistakes.

Erin

I know, I don't make any mistakes. I did make it so my moon kid causes periods and my sun one's gonna explode after a while. I guess that's sort of a mistake.

Adal

Okay, I would just suggest bringing down the hammer a little bit more around the household. Like really set boundaries and really lay out the law.

Erin

You know what? Fuck this. Flood. New flood. I'm starting over.

JPC

Whoa, it's me. Flood.

Erin

Bud, get down there.

00:21:20

JPC

I cause periods instead.

Adal

Splash. Hey, God. Nice to meet you.

Erin

Steve. Oh, man. What does the moon do? Tides and periods?

JPC

It's the moon plus the tides. It's the tides that are the ones that really cause the periods.

Adal

Well, the moon causes periods, but it also causes waxing and waning, which is very convenient.

Erin

Remember that these riddles are themed, and there's two more. Ready? Great.

Adal

Oh wait, so they all have the same theme?

Erin

Perfect.

Janet

So the next answer will also be the moon.

Erin

Kind of. Thanks for blowing that for me.

Adal

You went to the Martin Scorsese School of Theme. What if he's a gangster?

Janet

I want to hear his voiceover. I want to hear his air monologue.

Erin

I'm laughing, singing, skipping along. I'm in such a state of bliss. Why might I just mimic the cow in that song and vault that celestial mist?

Adal

So in the song, the cow jumps over the moon.

00:22:22

JPC

Oh moon.

Erin

You got it. Over the moon. Yes.

Adal

Is it?

Erin

Yep. Should I spread these out?

Janet

All right. Anyone else have a guess? Oh, the Cheryl and Fen movie, Two Moon Junction.

Erin

I would love it if it was and you pulled that out right now. That would be amazing. Can you imagine?

JPC

I'm sorry. My Zoom froze. I want to say Two Moon Junction.

Erin

All right. None of you got it. So this might still be a challenge.

JPC

Okay.

Erin

Two twins living cheek to cheek. Hiding for most of the day. Sometimes, however, they take a peek in a most improper way. If you should see this peeking act, you might cry out in rage. Incidentally, you both should be smacked and blame it on their age.

00:23:33

JPC

If I saw someone pooping, would I cry out in a rage? Probably not. That's not going to be my gut reaction.

Janet

This is most improper.

Erin

I think Janet said something that was definitely on the right track.

Adal

Oh, is it like mooning someone?

Erin

Yeah, it's mooning someone.

Adal

That's all Janet. I just listened to what she said and then I just said it louder.

JPC

Congratulations, Adal, you count as yours. Good business. This guy gets a promotion. I'm so sorry. Let's advance him to the top of the corporate ladder.

Janet

We joke, but as I'm sure you say every time you read a listener's riddles, those are great. And I would be hard pressed to come up with anything as clever and as poetic. So those were terrific.

JPC

Well, Janet, you're going to hate this next segment, where it's Janet comes up with the riddles. So, oh boy.

Janet

Can mine all be the moon? I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing that I would have to attack on and come up with more stuff.

Erin

Thank you Raz. Janet said they were great and I agree. Congratulations Raz on Great Riddles.

00:24:34

Adal

Yeah Raz thank you so much that was fantastic. Yeah Raz do something about that big crack of the Liberty Bell. I do want to see just the briefest of moments. I'm not even going to call this a scene. It's going to be a moment. JPC, you are Dean Martin. Dean Martin. And you are coming up with the lyrics for That's Amore, like 30 seconds before you have to go on stage and debut the song. You overslept and you forgot to leave it.

JPC

Okay. Okay, let's see. Cocaine? The older version of cocaine? Okay, here we go. Umora. Umora, I love. Yeah, I love it. Poppin' when the moon hits your eye like a big stack of dye. No, that's Too nerdy. We can't let them know I'm a D&D guy. Pizza Pie. I'm Italian. Why not? Okay. Moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie. That's a moray. When the floor hits the door. Guess what's in store? More a moray. Let's see. When the knob hits your key fob. That's a moray. Okay. What else? What else?

00:25:36

Janet

Your mic is on.

JPC

My mic is on? Your mic is on.

Janet

All the nerds have bum rushed to the front. They're so thrilled you're a D&D guy.

JPC

When the voice hits my brain, oh I think I've been saved. That's amore, right?

Adal

I'm definitely having voices.

Erin

Perfect.

Adal

When an eel bites your heel, that's amore.

Erin

Well I say, well I say, we go to an early break and then when we come back I will destroy you with these new kind of riddles that I think will truly be the end of the show. I'm so sorry, I gotta be honest. I read these and I went, uh-oh, how is this going to go? So let's go on a break and then we'll be back and stretched and ready for these riddles. I don't want to come back. No, I didn't do a good job selling that.

Adal

Let's go to break. JPC or Dean Martin again, and you just found out Sammy Davis Jr.

00:26:37

JPC

died. Uh, when my friend hits the grave, we'll go to a break.

Adal

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JPC

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Adal

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Erin

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JPC

You are from the 80s or I lived through them.

Erin

Let's not plug a spread.

JPC

Okay, okay. I don't want to know. I don't want to know.

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00:27:46

JPC

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Adal

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JPC

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Adal

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00:29:01

Erin

Adal, you're back. Thank God. Thank God. Hi Adal.

Adal

Hello. I should have been Ray Connie Britton. It was right there.

Erin

Oh, I love Ray Connie Britton. I love that.

Adal

I love that. Next time.

Erin

Hey Adal, hey Erin, I got bone to pick with the two of you. I'm sitting this one out. Alright Adal, I got it, but next time.

JPC

So remember how I told you guys that I couldn't really quiet my mind, I was having trouble relaxing, I was just going in circles, in low circles, circles spinning, circles spinning, and the two of you said, my man, what you gotta do is eat as much bread as you possibly can. So I went into that bread space, I ate every loaf of bread that I could find. First of all, I felt awful. Hey Riddle.

Adal

Now it just feels like thoughts are running in endless circles in my mind, and I feel like with the stresses of this last year, it's more important than ever to practice living healthier and happier lives, and that means not taking JPC's bait. I'm sorry, Erin, you go ahead.

00:30:13

Erin

Hey JPC. Okay. Headspace is one of the most science-backed meditation apps in the world, proving meditation works. A study proves in just two weeks Headspace can reduce your stress by 14%. 14%!

JPC

Oh, so Headspace is the convenient dose of meditation, mindfulness, and sleep exercises to relieve stress and anxiety and help you get a good night's sleep all in one app, make it easy to catch your breath, and make time for your mental health. And Breadspace isn't something that exists, it's something that I said will get yelled at by literally every Panera employee.

Erin

Exactly.

JPC

Okay, okay.

Erin

JPC, I use Headspace right before bed. It helps so much to unwind from my day and use some of their sleep meditations. I can't recommend it enough.

Adal

And you know, Erin and I can't control what happens in the world with JPC in it, but with Headspace, you can learn to take control of your own mental health and choose how you respond. So JPC, I want to apologize how I talked to you earlier. I just used Headspace, I calmed down, and you're my friend and I love you. You know what?

00:31:14

JPC

I think that this is very good for me. I'm just going to make a quick stop at a corner bakery. I'm just going to do some of my bread space. No, no, no, no. I'm not going to. What I'm going to do is I'm going to find some Headspace at Headspace.com slash Riddle and get one month free of their entire meditation library. This is the best Headspace offer available. So go to Headspace.com slash Riddle today. That is Headspace.com slash Riddle.

Adal

Actually, can you pick me up some honey grain?

Erin

Adal.

Adal

I'm just saying all this talk about bread and I'm hungry. I'm just saying.

JPC

I got bread blind when I go in there so whatever you get is what you get my man.

Erin

Adal.

JPC

Adal. Bread blind.

Erin

I'm just saying. Hey Adal hey Erin I got a bone to pick with you.

JPC

Yeah I got a bone to pick with the two of you. What is it? What's going on? So you know how I told you that around the house I was looking for kind of a place to lounge and be comfortable and you guys told me that I should build an all-fort? So I took all the pillows out of every room in the house and I stacked them up and I made a little drawbridge and then Mariah came home from her real job and she said, what the f*** are you doing? I left you home to take care of the dog.

00:32:23

Adal

Hey Erin, this is my bad. I actually did send him allfort.com.

Erin

I did too, but I actually thought of a better solution just now.

Adal

Well you and I know the better solution because we have furniture from all form.

Erin

Yeah, we love our all form couch.

JPC

Oh, Allform. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You guys are talking about the company that comes from Helix Mattresses, except now they're leaving the bedroom and they start making sofas, and they just launched a new company called Allform, and they're already making the best sofas in the game. That Allform?

Adal

Yes. Yes. I mean, for starters, it's the easiest way you can customize a sofa using premium materials at a fraction of the cost of traditional stores, you idiot. Man.

Erin

And you can pick your fabric in its spill, stain, and scratch resistant. And I have a dog and these are the easiest couches to clean, I'm obsessed.

JPC

Okay, so they've also got armchairs and love seats all the way up to an eight seat sectional, so there's something for everyone. You know how many pillows it took? I had to go to a neighbor's house, just had to ask for their pillows just to build a love seat. Oh my, this is so much easier. We're ruining your life.

00:33:28

Adal

Actually, JPC, they not only have armchairs, but your birthday was literally yesterday, so what I did is I ordered you a parm chair. What it is, it's an all-form armchair, but you can eat Parmesan cheese in it.

JPC

That's all of their chairs.

Adal

Not only just like Helix is my favorite mattress I've ever owned, Allform is my favorite couch I've ever owned. I built my own with two shea lounges. I don't know how to spell that, but I know my feet and body like it.

Erin

And the good news is they offer financing and flexible payment plans, so an amazing sofa is never far away. They even offer a forever warranty. Forever. Literally forever.

Adal

If you currently own like a futon or something, it's time to grow up, it's time to become an adult, I did so at the age of 39, and I got myself an all-form couch. It's adult furniture you're gonna love, it looks great, it's comfy, it's the best.

00:34:34

JPC

And if getting a sofa without trying it out in a store sounds a little risky, you don't need to worry, because it can't be riskier than what I did with all of our pillows. Plus, you get a hundred days to decide if you want to keep it. That's more than three months. And if you don't love it, they'll pick it up for free and give you a full refund. Mariah's saying, who's gonna pick up all these pillows? I'm not gonna do it for free. They also offer exclusive discounts for teachers, students, military, and first responders, so to find your perfect sofa, check out allform.com slash riddle. And Allform is offering 20% off all orders for our listeners at allform.com slash riddle.

Adal

What are you going to do with the palm chair I got you? Eat it?

Erin

And we're back. I have to pee a little so the second half of this episode is going to be really manic. Let's do this. All right. These are from Sandy Goldman. Sorry, Erin, who? Sandy Goldman.

Adal

Sorry, what was the first name?

Erin

Sandy Goldman.

00:35:35

Adal

Erin, I still can't hear it.

Erin

You're messing with me? us in emails if we have interesting jobs to tell you, and he does the storyboards for Rick and Morty. So that is a very cool and interesting job.

Janet

Yeah, that's a talent. You just outclassed us. Not cool, Sandy. Not cool. You heard it here, you heard it here. You made us all look very dumb.

JPC

You want your riddles read on the show? Go up and harass Erin at one of her live shows. Go up to her and say, hey, I sent you an email two years ago. Never been read on the show. My name's Sandy. And then she'll have to do it, so I guess it works.

00:36:37

Adal

It sounds like Janet, but it's a pickle version of Janet. Let's get that happening.

Erin

I think they do a pickle thing on the show already. You know what? Probably not. Nobody googles it.

Adal

I think there's a cucumber.

Janet

Cornichon too many syllables.

Adal

Cornichon Barney? That sounds like a French ambassador.

JPC

Can we slip like a Sharon Beef onto the show? I think that people would enjoy that. A little Erin Keif character.

Adal

And just real quick, we're well versed in Hollywood. Storyboard artists, they write the show, right?

Janet

Yeah.

Adal

Okay.

Janet

Yeah, of course.

Adal

They're showrunners. If it's on the board, it's in the show.

Janet

That, now that could be, you could argue that. It could be like the Lost in Translation thing. Like, I didn't see that in the script. They're like, nope, it was a late ad. It was there. I saw it. And then it goes to the animators. Bada bing bada boom that's amore.

JPC

I've seen a lot of things and a lot of things like on television or in movies and I thought a hundred people must have signed off on this. A hundred people must have been like I think this is a good idea. So I think you could get Sharon Beef in there. I think you could slip it in.

00:37:39

Adal

Every episode of Rick and Morty is art by committee. Twitch plays Rick and Morty.

Erin

All right, well Sandy, thank you so much for these because I truly love them and we'll see how everyone does. Sandy, I'm scared. It's okay. We'll unplug the show.

Janet

I'm very intimidated by Sandy right now.

Erin

A while ago, he says, hey y'all, a while ago I came across- Oh, never mind.

Janet

I'm not intimidated by you at all. It's very warm. And he knew that that would disarm me. You got me, Sandy. You got me.

Erin

A while ago I came across my new favorite type of Riddy slash Puzzy. Word avalanches. Have you guys heard of these? I have dangerous. Yeah, it's very.

Adal

I feel like I might know it when I hear it.

JPC

A word avalanche. Is that like a word search where all the letters are like really crammed into the very bottom of it?

Erin

You can barely see them because they're overlapping. I wish.

Adal

There are words that you're supposed to have P so they can know which way to dig to get to the surface. That's true.

Erin

Yes. So Adal, Sandy thinks that you especially will like these. So we'll see.

00:38:42

Adal

Oh, they're puns.

Erin

Yeah. Well, kind of. Well, not at all actually. I wonder if it is kind of, we'll see. A word avalanches a phrase or something that is made mostly of homophones, creating something that sounds like a silly repetition of one word, sound, or short phrase over and over and over. For example, well, farewell, welfare. Each riddle will be a sentence or a phrase that has the victims, I assume, Adal and JPC, because Sandy knew I would read these, but didn't predict that Janet would be coming back on the show. Again, we'll have to rephrase these into a word avalanche that mean the same thing. Okay.

Janet

Definitely like school.

Erin

Exactly. A cool substitute. I like it. The prompt for well, farewell, welfare would be, damn, goodbye to my health and happiness. Okay, yes.

00:39:44

JPC

You know what? This is finally clicking because Janet said like school and I'm like, this is like school, except unlike school, I have no idea how to cheat. Like if this had been normal school, I would have been cheating from day one. Three years ago I would have been cheating and I just don't know how.

Erin

I don't know how, but it feels like you've been cheating. I actually am going to pee really quick, but I don't want to stop recording and I would like you all to time me. I will be right back. Keep talking.

Adal

Just to create a word avalanche of my own for YouTube, because I think I understand what's going on. So to go back to Sandy, if Danny Zuko saw a group of fish going to an Institute of Learning, he might say, It's cool, it's cool. Now I'm going to admit that Reese is the movie I've seen the most in my life. There's a moment where Rizzo shoves Sandy in front of Danny. He wasn't expecting to see her. And she's like, Danny, what's wrong with you? He goes, school, baby. You know how it is. Rockin' and rollin'.

00:41:00

JPC

I just want to make sure that you think that anything that a character says in a movie is their catchphrase. That just becomes their catchphrase. Okay, 100%. He's got a ton of catchphrases in that movie.

Adal

You know how Leonardo DiCaprio's catchphrase in Titanic is, I'll never let go?

Janet

Totally misthought that and thought that the person's catchphrase was just the character saying the title of the movie. I like just twisted it in my head so I was about to be like, yeah, you know, like Holly Hunter's like, I guess we're going to be raising her or something. But that's not what you were saying.

Adal

And she looks straight at the camera.

Janet

That's not what you were saying at all.

Adal

Janet, I'm almost 100% sure, maybe not 100%, 99% sure that Danny Zuko does not say, it's cool baby, you know how it is, rockin' and rollin' and whatnot. But from this point forward, I will always say that out loud whenever I watch groups.

00:42:04

Janet

Wait, I think he might. I think he's, I've been walking around saying that he says that, like, and I know it seems like how could I Really? I think he might.

Adal

Here's the funny thing.

Janet

Cause that's in my head.

Adal

Here's the funny thing. I'm going to do something and nobody can make fun of me for this, but I have that clip from Grease on my phone.

Janet

Why? Why? Asking why is not the same as making fun of it, but why? Why?

Adal

Okay, so we're going to listen to this clip. We may have to cut out this clip, do the copyright, but we're going to listen to this clip very quickly. We might have to cut it out and then we'll be right back.

JPC

We can use it if we also say that this is a high school production of Grease.

Janet

Penny, what are you doing here? I want you to go back to Australia. We had a change in front of him. Thank you.

JPC

That's cool, baby. Coming in the house.

Janet

Oh no. Oh no.

Erin

Oh no. Oh no.

00:43:05

Adal

Oh no.

Erin

Does it feel? Oh no.

Adal

Kasey cut out everything I said before the clip.

???

No, no, no, no, no.

Adal

Janet, Janet, I'm going to carve out some time. to formally apologize to you. I've seen Greece a hundred times. I've never caught the whatnot. Janet, you're a hundred percent right. I owe you my life.

Janet

You know why? Because you were still puzzling over your early understanding of the Australian accent vis-a-vis, we had a change of plins. Plins is like the first time as a kid your life should wait. Because I feel like I saw that before I saw Crocodile's N.T.

Erin

I wish more people just did that.

00:44:15

JPC

Can I sit out the rest of the episode for being wrong? No, wait, I was wrong too. Please let me sit out.

Erin

We all want to sit out, but that's not how this works. So Sandy gave another example, which I was going to have you guys solve, but this one's impossible. It would have taken forever. So here's another example. This would be the prompt. A white supremacist musician is tasked with determining the rules to a marathon that takes place in a biodome on the moon. To determine the racer's positioning at the starting line, he decides to review the files of each person entered and make no sweeping judgment.

Adal

Wait, this is another word, Avalanche?

Erin

Yeah, this is an impossible one.

Adal

Because the first one was like, say goodbye to your health. And then this one was like a paragraph.

Erin

Yeah, this one's long. So it's racist, racist, want to try JPC?

JPC

Well, I was racist, the operative word at the beginning, but yeah, go ahead.

Adal

So it's a Toby Keith. It's a Toby Keith Keith. Keith in the face.

Erin

Yeah, we're really stuck on the Toby Keith thing. It is race, but as you were.

Adal

Kenny Chesney.

00:45:16

Janet

A racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist.

JPC

Erin, when you said that these were going to be hard, this is akin to handing a second grader some trigonometry homework.

Adal

Please little girl, bring them home.

Erin

And she pushes up her glasses.

Janet

I definitely want to see that movie, which means I need to see a short scene. Adal, you are the person who hands over the portfolio to Erin, the little girl. And JPC, you are the brother of one of the astronauts who for some reason is hysterically there to freak out about it.

00:46:26

Adal

Excuse me, are you Bethany Sullivan?

Erin

Who's asking?

Adal

I'm with NASA, ma'am, and we have a bit of a situation. Now, I've heard from your teacher that you're the best in class.

Erin

Yes, that's what I say. I'm the best in class.

Adal

Well, we're going to need your expertise. We have some astronauts who are, how do I say this, they're experiencing some difficulties in space.

Erin

Say no more, let's go. I'm going to need a booster seat, a carton of Red Bull. And a bunch of chalk for later.

JPC

Give this little girl a booster seat, the Red Bull and the chalk for later. My brother's dying in space.

Erin

Sidewalk chalk for fun.

JPC

Anything you want, anything you need, just bring my brother home.

Adal

Right away, ma'am. And while I go and grab that stuff, I want you to meet, this is Commander Armstrong. His brother is up in space right now.

Erin

Sir, we're going to get your butter home.

Adal

Thank you.

Erin

If it's the last thing I do, I will get your butter home from space.

JPC

Thank you so much.

00:47:26

Erin

Onward! And there's a montage of her doing it. She's wearing those 60s horn-rimmed glasses. She takes a nap. She has a little snack. She gets them home from space. She throws a tantrum.

Janet

Moments were seen, moments where I did feel a little bit like she was evolving into a Martin Scorsese title character.

Adal

Ever since I was a little girl, I always wanted to solve problems.

Erin

There's a body in the trunk of her car and she stares at the camera.

Janet

I bet you're wondering how I got here. They didn't tell me how addictive cocaine was, either.

Adal

Boy, was it. You're walking through the school cafeteria to get the class and your date is like, I thought you said you were a student.

Erin

Exactly. All right, let's actually do these. I'm going to give you hints. We're going to figure it out. But did you guys like how I bought us time by doing a theme?

JPC

Yeah. Very good.

Adal

We've only listened to examples of this one. Oh, God. Erin, we failed to ask. I feel so rude. How was your pee?

Erin

You know what? It was kind of funny because my boyfriend heard that I had to pee. He can hear me. And I started running to the bathroom. And he pretended that he had to go to the bathroom too and started running there too to stress me out. He was like, me too. I go to the bathroom. And I was like, no. And he was like, I'm just kidding.

00:48:38

Janet

I thought I'd say that he like lifted the toilet cover seat and not because he wouldn't lift the second seat because that's weird unless you were going to be standing up and then taken out a little pile of toilet paper and was sort of, you know, escorting you to speed up your experience, not prank you.

JPC

It's not always as cute as you think it is for your partner to leave you a little toilet paper pile. I'm not saying that I know anyone who has dealt with this issue, but actually it does cause big fights.

Erin

We actually had a discussion that it's sort of romantic when you have to pee on top of someone else's pee. Like you pee and then the other person's pee and you do one flush right after the other.

JPC

Oh, Erin, so this isn't therapy. This is a Zoom recording for a professional podcast. Oh, are you sure? Not like secrets you whisper into a journal.

Erin

This is my pee Zoom where people will be talking about pee? Okay, I am very late for something else.

Adal

Janet, is this similar to working for Nickelodeon?

00:49:46

Erin

Yeah. The guy who sketches crossbreed dogs is good enough for now. Okay. Yes.

Janet

The doodler, the doodle, the doodle doodle, the doodler of doodles.

Erin

I knew this would happen. And that's why I picked these.

JPC

The doodle doodler. It's doodle doodler. Definitely doodle doodle.

Erin

More than just doodle. That's the full name for the dog. The labradoodle doodler.

Adal

The labradoodle doodler's laboring over noodling.

Janet

That avalanche came to a skidding stop.

JPC

The labradoodle doodler. It's not doodler, it's the The labradoodle diddler.

Erin

What's the name of something that someone would it was just a single sketch. The word that we're going for. The doodle. So the labradoodle doodle is the first two words.

Janet

The labradoodle doodle doodler.

00:50:49

Erin

No.

Janet

Aren't we talking about the man?

Erin

Yeah, but think of another way to say man.

Janet

Is this a bad time to say that there was a serial killer in San Francisco at some point called The Doodler?

Erin

I would say that this is the exact right time for that.

Janet

100% serious.

JPC

It is never the wrong time.

Janet

Please know that there was a true crime podcast that came out called The Doodler. And, unfortunately, I don't think it ever addressed, like, you gotta start out at the beginning and be like, okay guys, this is a big thing we gotta get over. Big hurdle. We are calling this podcast a doodler. That is what he was called, but this is very serious subject matter.

Erin

Did they ever catch him?

Adal

Jeff Bridges played in the movie.

Erin

Oh God.

Janet

The doodler.

Erin

The doodler.

Janet

The labradoodle doodler.

Erin

So it's just, it's a labradoodle doodle, and then think of another way to say man or guy.

Janet

Dude.

Erin

Yeah.

Adal

The labradoodle doodle doodle doodle.

Erin

Yeah, you kind of got it.

Adal

I'm a labradoodle doodle doodle.

???

That's the whole thing?

Erin

The labradoodle doodle doodle doodle doodle doodle.

00:51:53

Adal

Stuck a knife in her neck and called himself the doodler.

Erin

The labradoodle doodle doodle do.

Janet

And I sound like a fool and I'm sorry. Oh, the labradoodle doodle doodle do. I like that.

Adal

That's great. So just to backtrack slightly, and I'm very curious. Janet, was this killer, was it like the sidewalk folk who have a little easel and they'll draw somebody on a skateboard with a big head kind of thing?

JPC

I'm going to have to refer to the internet for that. I'll be honest with you, I know a little bit about this case. Oh, good. Big true kind of thing. The reason why they never caught the doodler is because they are yet to commit a crime. They were working backwards on him. They had the name, and they were like, if we find a perp that matches the name, this is what he'll be. But so far, there's no crime.

Janet

It's what we call double jeopardy. The nickname was given due to the perpetrator's habit of sketching his victims prior to their sexual encounters and slayings by stabbing. Interesting. You claim not to know anything about this, but yet you knew that it was stabbing. There are many ways to kill a person. Many ways to kill a person. You knew it was stabbing. And let's just sing a couple.

00:53:03

Adal

I want to see a scene. Janet, you are a labradoodle doodler. JPC, you are a labradoodle. Erin, you are the labradoodle's handler, and you've paid for sort of like the equivalent of a Sears family portrait for your dog, but sketched not photos.

Janet

Okay, and I just want to I'm taking it a little bit longer because I really want people to get that it's hypoallergenic, and that's kind of hard to convey in a sketch, but I think I'm getting there. Take all the time you need. Oh, thank you. She's the light of my life, aren't you?

JPC

Wait, let me ask you a question. You're just not gonna fuck me. No, this is- Why'd you bring me here? I thought we were going to a labradoodle doodler.

Erin

No, excuse me. She's painting us, sweetheart. She's painting us. You're disgusting. I'm so sorry. I have the horniest dog in town.

00:54:04

JPC

First of all, you don't, okay?

Janet

I would love for you to not just apologize for your dog being horny. I think we've skipped past the part that he's speaking. About his horniness.

Erin

You're Zeppelin Dara's officer. Go back to the mall.

JPC

Yeah, it's horny dog Dara, but what you have, my man.

Janet

I've got, I'm going to have to start from scratch. I have to start with the story. I have to sketch out. I'm a storyboard artist. I should have mentioned that. So I'm going to have to storyboard that whole process before I feel comfortable ending with the panel in which I myself am shown sketching. It's going to be very meta. And yes, I will make love with you.

Adal

That dog. So how do we feel? Quick Hey Riddle Riddle meeting. How do we feel about new merch that says, I have the horniest dog in town?

00:55:07

JPC

But you came up with it, Erin. Alright Erin, it's December 15th. You only have a hundred more vetoes.

Erin

And I will use them all. Alright, next one. We have a few more and I'd love to get through them because these are very impressive. Why not? To surrender a French city to the Velvet Underground singer and his pair of toilets.

Adal

Lou Reed? to Aloo? Toulouse? Aloo? Aloo? HUH? Aloo-reed. Just aloo-reed. Aloo-reed. Very underground.

Janet

Do it like a nickel. Toulouse? Toulouse? Toulouse? Toulouse? Toulouse? Toulouse? Toulouse? Toulouse? Toulouse? Toulouse? Toulouse? Toulouse? Toulouse? Toulouse?

00:56:09

Erin

You got it! Wow.

Adal

Can I just say Janet, that this was the podcast equivalent of that janitor solving that math problem on the board in that movie?

Janet

You had me a janitor because it has Janet in it.

JPC

Wow. She's our janitor.

Janet

You're thinking of a we bought a zoo.

Adal

We bought a zoo. We bought a loo. Can he stop smoking please?

Janet

That was great. I said it was great because I got it. That's a classic case of complimenting something because you yourself solved it.

Adal

No, hyperbole. That was maybe the most impressive moment of actual riddle flogging on the show so far. In the history of the show, not this episode.

Erin

All right, here we go. The thing I have is going to agitate this prickly plant from Hey Riddle Riddle's home state. Our show started in Chicago.

Adal

Hi Riddle Thistle Thistle. So it's not my aloe, Angela?

00:57:27

Erin

You guys sound like that Danny K. movie where he's trying to remember where the poison is. The pestle with the poisons and the vessels with the pestle.

JPC

But we say Illinois in it? Thistle Thistle Thistle.

Erin

And then agitate, yep. Thistle-anoi. Thistle-anoi. Thistle-anoi. This. Illinois. Thistle-anoi.

Adal

This Illinois.

Erin

Illinois. And then one more word.

Adal

Can you repeat the whole thing one more time?

Erin

The thing I have is going to add to this. This Illinois, this thistle. Yeah. This Illinois, this.

JPC

This Illinois, this thistle.

Erin

No, you need one more word. This Illinois.

Janet

This Illinois, this Illinois thistle.

Erin

You got it.

Janet

That was not me getting it. That was me saying everything, everyone said something and then I put those things together. I found it like you got it. After you told me exactly how to put them together.

Adal

Janet, you know that thing, I think like the lead singer of Tool has this, Maynard Keenan, whatever his name is. You know where they, people can like hear in colors. I think you think and word avalanches. Yeah. You have avalanches-thesia. And I mean that in a bad way.

00:58:28

Janet

Yes. I take it in a bad way. I take it in a very bad way.

Erin

All right, we got three more. A Man Vandalizes an Important Sign for a film starring Mark Wahlberg in a progressive Massachusetts senator.

Adal

Oh boy. I thought the beginning was already the answer. What was it? A Man Vandalizes?

Erin

A Man Vandalizes is an important sign for a film starring Mark Wahlberg in a progressive Massachusetts senator.

Adal

Graffiti. Graf- Graf- Graf- Firdy. Fear. Roller coaster. Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf- Graf To mock, I'm mocking mock with a mock. Ex-mock the mock. Mock five. Let me hear this again.

Erin

You sound like I put a bunch of peanut butter in your mouth and you're trying to get it out. A man vandalizes an important sign for a film starring Mr. Wahlberg in a progressive Massachusetts Senator.

00:59:35

JPC

I don't know. So it's a movie starring Mark Wahlberg. So it's not Mark Wahlberg.

Erin

No, it's Mark. It's Mark Wahlberg. There's no actual title to a movie in here. It's an important sign for a film, like when there's a sign for a film. Perhaps over a theater. There you go. And then vandalizes. You could key something, like when you key something. It's the other one. It's more of like a blanking your territory. A tagging.

Adal

Oh, marking your, okay, well. We had that, right? Marking. And it's Ed Marky is the end.

Erin

Marking Mark, something Marky Mark. So this one's, I think this one might be my favorite because it's really dense. So it's also very dense.

Janet

So by definition we should be able to solve this. Walk us through it a little bit at a time.

Erin

He and then the word for vandalism.

JPC

So is it he marked? With an S. He marks.

Erin

He marks. That's how it starts. And then the next word is important.

01:00:39

JPC

Important.

Erin

Yeah, well, it's the word that's the important key. Yes, it's key. Key marks.

JPC

Key.

Erin

And then the name.

JPC

Mark.

Erin

But I would say maybe the name he went by when he was deaf.

JPC

Marky Mark. Hey Riddle.

Adal

I want to see a quick scene. This will be fairly short so we can hear the rest of these, Erin, because these are outstanding. Erin, Erin, Erin. The three of you are going to be three Bostonians with the accent and you're all friends and you're hanging out and you're all gossiping about Mark Wahlberg.

01:01:43

Erin

He thinks just because he's from Dorchester that he's better than us and now he's rich and now he thinks he can come back here and show off all of his wealth. Unbelievable.

JPC

How dare he? He's not like us. By the way, I'm sorry, I just got back from my semester at Rob.

Janet

Oh great, now you're showing off. I don't know how to do an accent from Boston, so I'm just going to kind of fly blind here.

JPC

I could try to get into a Boston accent. I was in France, as you know, for so long, for the summer, and now I'm back.

Erin

Yeah, you keep talking about it. You think you're fancy all of a sudden because you went overseas?

JPC

It's truly not fancy over there. We just, you know, we wake up at 11 o'clock. We drink our French word for coffee. We eat our French word for bread. Look, I didn't learn the language, but the accent really rubbed off on me.

Erin

You've changed, man. I've seen you throw up in a Dunkin' Donuts iced coffee cup. You think you're better all of a sudden? Fuck you.

01:02:47

JPC

They don't have iced coffee in the fans, obviously.

Janet

I don't even get to say Walburgers.

Adal

Oh wait, hold on. Unseen.

Janet

Hey, France isn't that fancy because they got a Walburgers. That's how you do a Boston accent.

Erin

I had to put him in his class.

Adal

Is Marky Mark's version, is he covering the Beach Boys in Good Vibrations? What?

Erin

I don't think so.

JPC

You're like the janitor in the movie and they walk into the room and you're like, you got chalk and you're all over the board and they're like, this is an art history class. What the fuck are you doing? You're ruining this board with your questions. I'm solving history.

01:03:47

Erin

All right, we got two more.

Janet

Ready? Okay.

Erin

Sandy, these are great. Oh, I love them.

Janet

Wait, was Andy right? Adal, do you appreciate these for the sort of silliness?

Adal

A hundred percent. Yeah, any sort of wordplay I'm obsessed with. I will say that first one that Erin read was maybe the most daunting task I've ever heard.

JPC

Wait, Adal just said any sort of wordplay he's obsessed with. And he just said that grease, which is a one-word play, is his favorite thing. So I guess he's consistent.

Janet

One word play loves word play. And he also ends everything when he agrees with word.

Erin

I'm high all of a sudden. Behind that woman, a preacher walked by an advertisement for noodles.

Adal

Did you say a preacher or a creature?

Erin

A preacher. Behind that woman, a preacher walked by an advertisement for noodles.

Adal

Ramen. Amen. I wish it was ramen. No, it's not. Can we do like a fun pop-up? Can we do a fun pop-up that's like we serve ramen noodles in a church and we have everybody slurp and then we go ramen? Can we do that please?

01:05:03

Erin

Adal, I don't like crushing your dreams, so yes.

JPC

Word, word, word, word, word, word, word. There it is. There it is. And whatnot. Priest, Erin, is it priest? A preacher.

Erin

So, no, it's not priest. Pastor? Yeah, there you go.

Adal

He walked past that pastor. Now you're doing a Boston accent, Janet.

Erin

I got it!

Adal

That's all I needed.

Erin

I just needed to think of fathers.

Adal

You're going to take a left and then go a little bit farther towards the pastor with a cow's oar.

Erin

That is not a Boston accent. That is a slowly melting JFK. So walked by, passed, and the pasta, and then like a sign, or like a poster.

01:06:05

Janet

Wait a minute, that feels like it's one thing is not like the other.

Adal

I know. Slant rhyme, slant rhyme.

JPC

No, pastor the pastor. Pastor the pastor. Kill, kill.

Janet

Louis Pasteur was a pastor. So you can add in, past her, past her, a pastor. You're the ewer. I slipped in the ewer. We broke past. We passed you a pastor. Past er. And then it's like a person who can't remember what they're going to say. Past er. Past a poster.

Adal

Hey Riddle.

Janet

Oh God.

Adal

So Erin, I think we got all the parts. Yeah. Can you say it all together?

Janet

So behind the woman.

01:07:06

Erin

Uh-huh.

Adal

Past her, the pastor.

Janet

Uh-huh.

Erin

Walked by.

Janet

The in Louis Pasteur who became a pastor.

Erin

Louis. I just need to augment this. So behind the woman.

Adal

Past her. A preacher.

Erin

The pastor. And then walked by.

Adal

Past her. Past her, the pastor. Past.

Erin

The noodles.

Adal

The pasta.

Erin

And then the last word. Poster. Yep, there you go. Someone say it all in order.

Adal

Past her, the pastor. Past her. Past the poster. The pasta poster.

Erin

Yeah. Someone say it all together. Someone has to get it.

Adal

Louis Pasteur.

JPC

Past her. The pasta poster.

Erin

Oh, thank God. Great. Amen. One more. And this one is Actually, I'm not going to say anything.

Adal

Lisa Did you just fast forward? Come on, that's not fair. I've never seen a person fast forward before.

JPC

You just fucked up the audio.

Erin

She might have been rewinding. Yeah, I rewinding to yesterday when I was reading this riddle. Casey, as a joke, have Erin's audio out of sync for the rest of the episode. That sounds exhausting. Poor Casey. Okay. And that's my plug for the episode. Lisa Kudrow urinated a piece of air rifle ammunition that came from a Massachusetts town.

01:08:31

Adal

Is she okay?

Erin

She's dead. She's not okay.

Adal

That killed her.

Erin

You were so close. You kind of got it. I think you might have got it. Lisa Kudrow.

Adal

Phoebe.

Janet

More than just our character on Friends, but whatever.

Adal

Yeah, the comeback's actually way better than Friends. Exactly. All right, so start with that comeback. The comeback?

Erin

Nope.

Adal

Okay, so Phoebe Peed.

Erin

Yeah. And then the town from Massachusetts.

JPC

Phoebe Peed.

Janet

There's a lot of Massachusetts-centric stuff happening here. I'm starting to think Sandy's from Massachusetts, I think.

Erin

Nobody tell her I'm from there too, and that's why I like things. Phoebe Peed. Yeah, you got it. Peabody. It's pretty much Peabody. And if you're from Massachusetts, we say Peabody. No, you're so close. Yeah, Phoebe peed Peabody and then air rifle ammunition. That's it. There you go. Phoebe peed Peabody.

01:09:36

Janet

That's a very fun one.

Adal

Did you know that the Arabic word for baby is Habibi? Yeah, so if Lisa Kudrow had a baby, it'd be Phoebe's Habibi, Phoebe Phoebe Phoebe Phoebe Phoebe Phoebe Phoebe Phoebe Phoebe Phoebe Phoebe Phoebe Phoebe Phoebe Phoebe Phoebe Phoebe Phoebe Phoebe

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A traditional Irish good morning to you.

Janet

The flirty, hurdy, gurdy David Mamet.

Adal

Dirty.

Janet

Dirty. Writes a lot of dirty lines in his plays. Sure.

Adal

Sexual persuasions in sexual persuasions in Chicago.

JPC

Something about a duck. So I guess now we have to pour all of our brains back into our heads and figure out a way for them to like harden back up into brain again. Not possible. Not possible.

Erin

That sounds like a lot of work.

Adal

I'm just not going to do it. The cerebral.

Erin

Oh no, this is really going to change Adal. The funny joke writing center square wrote a cascade of words

Adal

The Paul Lind laughing.

01:10:37

Janet

No, we got to go a little later, but it's impressive that you went even further back because it's not okay to even go as far back as I did, but his name is Bruce Valanche.

Adal

Oh, Valanche.

JPC

The Valanche avalanche.

Janet

That's what I'm trying for.

JPC

Adal adding ad-libbed dishes.

Erin

All right, we got to get out of here. Sandy says, I love these things. No, Erin, this is our life now. I expect you guys to either love them or hate them, but I hope they're fun or enjoyably infuriating. If they're fun, there's loads more with that. I think to all of the above. Yeah, right way. Here's what I'll say. Thank you, Sandy.

Adal

I think besides that first one, not the example, but the first one that you saw for us, besides that one, the rest of these might be my all-time number one riddles we've ever done.

Janet

Yeah. All right, here we go. Hold on. Hold on. Take all the time you need. Having been to the beach, Olivia Newton-John picked up her Oscar.

Adal

Grammy. Sandy, Sandy won a Grammy. Yeah, the Oscar's a Grammy.

01:11:37

Janet

No, I'm bringing in gold man. Sam bringing in Sandy Ann gold man. Sandy, Sandy, gold man. Sandy, gold man.

Adal

Sandy, gold man. The macho man's savage. Sandy Sandy, Gold Man, and Randy.

Janet

But the Oscar is in the freezer. Sandy, Cold Man, Gold Man. Oh, Cold Man, Gold Man.

JPC

I've never watched people work harder to get their souls ejected out of their body. I've never seen people work harder to shoot their souls out of their noses.

Adal

But JPC, can we agree that when Santa Claus and Frosted Snowmen are together, they are Cold Man and Sax?

Erin

Uh, veto. I got 99 more vetoes.

Adal

I want to see one final scene and then we'll do a plug. Final scene. Um, uh, JPC, you are, Erin, I don't think Erin's been in a scene.

Erin

Oh, Adal, you haven't been in a scene. You put yourself in it.

01:12:40

Adal

Okay, so I am Santa, Janet, you are Frosty the Snowman, and this is a very quick advertisement for our law firm, Coldman and Saks. Ho ho ho! Has this ever happened to you?

Janet

Hee hee hee! I sound like the Pillsbury Doughboy! Alright great, that was a great take. I think we want to focus more on the law for it. I don't remember what I sound like. Do I sound like this?

Adal

Sorry, I keep taking the hat off and then putting it back on and that kind of, uh, fucks with her memory.

Janet

Yeah, that resets the memory. Don't do that.

Adal

Sorry. Becca, we've been here all fucking day. I think that was as good as they're ever gonna get it.

Erin

Alright, print it.

Adal

Oh wait, but I also have a, I also have a bowling alley and my belly shakes like a certain substance. Uh, and my partner is jealous of me. Is he pitching us another business?

Janet

We're packing up the camera. Jelly much, jelly belly belly jelly. You took the hat off again.

01:13:47

Adal

Don't tell anybody else, you're our favorite guest of all time. Do you have anything to plug for the listeners?

Janet

I think we should plug the Hey Riddle Riddle show at Sketchfest coming up on Sunday, no, yep, Sunday, January 8th. I'm not looking at anything, this is from memory.

Adal

That is incredibly impressive.

Janet

Sunday, January 9th. The Sunday's the night. Sunday, January 9th. 4pm. Gateway theater. The gateway to comedy heaven.

Erin

It's Cookie Monster. He's here. He came.

Janet

He's gonna announce gateways to heaven if it's comedy heaven.

JPC

We have not announced our special guest but we might as well say it here on the podcast.

Adal

It is Cookie Monster. And he will be there with Chewbacca and he will take a crap. So, cookie woofy dookie.

Erin

And if you want tickets Adal, if you call me in the middle of the night with one of these, I'm going to be so pissed.

01:14:47

Adal

It is, uh Erin, you know what's happening.

JPC

Hey, heyriddleriddle.com slash live. And that is And we do slash live instead of slash live because we think our live shows are kind of like our live shows.

Janet

Oh, that's so beautiful.

JPC

Yeah. And we also say That's an expression of love.

Adal

We wear little bands on our wrists that are yelling and say, live strong. Oh, I love it. Just to support our live shows. I love it. JPC, anything for you to plug? Nope. Erin, anything for you, Flug? Nope.

Erin

Just go back and listen to Janet's first episode, too, because that's one of my first. So good.

JPC

You know what? I'll say Janet's second episode is good as well, so if you just keep scrolling through the catalog and tell me about that second episode, that one rocks.

Adal

We will say you can only access it in your dreams. Also, the song from the first episode, The Three Mommies Making Salad, I sing around, my fianc and I sing that around the house constantly. Janet, do you remember that song?

Janet

No, I don't remember The Three Mommies Making Salad.

Adal

Three mommies making salad. This is in a beat bag. You all created that. I do have one thing to plug. I'd like to join everyone else in saying nothing. But I do have to plug, I was a guest on a podcast called Cruise Control. Cruise spelled C-R-E-W-S. Erin, I believe you were on that as well. So check out my episode of Cruise Control, wherever you find podcasts.

01:16:04

JPC

And since no one else said it, I'll go ahead and say happy birthday JPC.

Erin

Alright, go ahead Adal, whatever you are. This is nice.

Adal

The day after your birthday?

Erin

That was a trap. That was a trap.

Adal

J.P. J.P.

Janet

J.P. J.P.

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J.P. J.P. J.P. J.P.

Janet

J.P. J.P.

JPC

This is where I just hear adorabilly. I just hear adorabilly.

Janet

The moon made our jokes sync up. I'm telling you. It happened. It's real.

Adal

Wait, Erin, was it the moon or was it?

Janet

Jupiter.

Erin

Goodbye. Bye forever. Oh, fuck that made me so happy.

Adal

Very funny. That was incredible.

Erin

Happy birthday, J.P.C.

Adal

Thank you.

Janet

Happy birthday, J.P.C. Happy birthday, J.P.C.

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01:17:19

Adal

Janet, that was phenomenal.

Janet

Thank you so much for coming on. I can't believe I made up a- I really probably did have a dream that I- That I did your podcast. I feel like I've told people on other podcasts that I've done your podcast.

Adal

Yeah, last week I was just on the show. Check out the episode. So you're just admitting you're a liar. It does 100% feel like you've been on more than once.

Janet

Wow. I mean, yeah, I just feel very close to you all right now. Casey, not you so much. You're very new to me and very straight and scary.

JPC

Sorry, Casey. Hey there, bops and flops. If you like that, you are going to love this week's Patreon. It is part six of our Name That Tune, the 2000 series. It's not really Name That Tune, it's something completely different. You can listen to that plus all of our 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 and starting January 1st, ad-free episodes at the Review Crew level. See you there.

Janet

That was a hate gun podcast.