This is a Headgum podcast. Pop, pop, pop, pop to the top. Stripped inside in my dad rhythm.
00:00:02
Erin
This is a Headgum podcast. Pop, pop, pop, pop to the top. Stripped inside in my dad rhythm.
JPC
Erin, was that high school musical?
Erin
Um, what are you? Oh no. Oh no, you guys, we can't do an episode, please. I already know that I'm not going to be funny. I couldn't think of anything to say. Oh no, oh no, oh no.
JPC
That's not sure. You thought of the lyrics to High School Musical, kind of.
Erin
Oh God. God, stay with me. Stay with me in this recording. Oh, then we're going to finish.
???
It was the cabin of an airplane. He stabbed him with the knife in the head. Hello Riddle Riddle!
00:01:10
Adal
Excuse me, sir, do you mind if I step inside and show you this brand new vacuum? Absolutely sir, but before you do, let me put some pants on.
???
Okay. Oh, hello, ma'am. I'm the pants! Oh, I'm sorry.
JPC
I thought you were his wife. Play along, fella. Play along. Me and my wife are in the middle of something that we can't explain, but you should be able to pick up with context clues.
Erin
I see.
Adal
I've walked into some sort of role play where you're a human man and you're pants and somehow that gets you off.
Erin
Saying the quiet part out loud I see. Come on in.
Adal
Okay, I'm going to dump this glitter into your carpet if you don't mind. There we go. Dump, dump, dump. I don't mind. It'll be right at home with all the other glitter we've dumped into the carpet. Oh yes, there's quite a lot of glitter in here. So this vacuum here is state of the art. Do you want to know why?
???
There's so much glitter in the carpet.
00:02:11
JPC
Do tell. She's the pants and I'm the glitter. Now you're getting it.
Erin
It makes us feel sexy for each other.
Adal
So when you play the glitter sir, you just dump glitter on the carpet. But man, when you play the pants, you pretend to be a pair of pants.
Erin
Sir, you're following.
???
Can I leave please? I hope your vacuum's as quick as your fucking wit. I can't get the door open. That door don't open. But I just came through it. It's a one-way door. Oh no.
Erin
I bet you've sussed it out audience. Wear a throuple and this whole thing is a sex thing. Whole thing is a sex thing.
Adal
Whole thing was a sex scene. The vacuum salesman was in on it the whole time. And I'm the glitter.
Erin
So that's our pilot idea. Do you guys like it?
Adal
So CBS, will you air this? Because you did air that sitcom with what's his name as a bowler. He's like a bowling guy and he says, what's that called? Shit my dad says? Yes.
00:03:19
JPC
Who's the Buller? Is this based on Kingpin with Bill Murray?
Adal
No. Who's the comic who's like pretty tall? He used to be in Chicago. Real tall guy.
Erin
Is it Kingpin with Bill Murray?
JPC
Tall guy who used to be in Chicago.
Adal
Yes, and he's known for like being a clean comic like he doesn't really curse and I think he's fairly religious.
JPC
Jim Gaffigan? He's Catholic.
Adal
No, but he's from Indiana. Is it tall Ross Kimball? No, I love Ross Kimball. This guy had a TV show on HBO and it was about, it's called Crashing maybe?
???
Oh, Pete Holmes. Pete Holmes.
Adal
He has a sitcom where he bowls and that's the sitcom.
Erin
Good for him, isn't that really a funny baby?
JPC
I did see that. I saw the trailer for that. Did that ever come out? Must've. I think it did. Why not?
Erin
Well, how is everyone doing? Be honest.
JPC
Well, a little less good now that I know that they really did make that show and it wasn't just like a bad dream that I had.
00:04:21
Erin
He's making money, and we haven't seen it. It could be good.
JPC
Erin, are you dating me at home?
Erin
No, I'm just saying. I don't know.
JPC
Erin's out in LA trying to keep her options open.
Erin
No, you know what I'm trying to do?
JPC
She's not about to say, like, fuck you to this, like, uh... No, I'll say fuck you to everybody.
Erin
I'm never going to be on TV. But you know what I am trying to do? Not die on weird hills anymore. I die on too many hills, and so I have to be more particular about the hills that I die on.
Adal
That's true. And that's our show, CBS Do You Like It? So the pilot is basically... Three people, two of them start to talk shit about someone, the third refuses to and they say they won't die on that hill. The name of the show is King of the Hill.
JPC
And CBS, Pete Holmes is attached to not talking about the project or not answering our calls. He's very attached to not answering our calls.
Erin
I get it. So my weekend was fine. And I went to a bar that was an outdoor bar and then I went to the bathroom and there were girls... outdoor bathroom this has been answers to questions no one asked and the girls in the bathroom were having a discussion they were strangers to each other and the girls in the bathroom were having a discussion about what aura what color aura the two of them have So I heard these two women meet each other and then immediately start talking about each other's aura.
00:05:42
JPC
Sure.
Erin
And one girl said the other girl's aura was yellow and she got emotional in her voice and she says, you have no idea what that means to me. And I thought, wow, this is a part of humanity that I missed a lot when we were in a complete lockdown. I forgot about how quickly women can become soulmates to each other in a bathroom.
Adal
I always forget, I will say Erin, that's a fascinating story. But no one asked. But no one asked. I am always surprised and shocked to remember so many people. Chakra. Thank you. I'm only shocked and surprised that so many people when I leave the house and go out into the real world, I forget how obsessed so many people are with astrology. So I'll be out grabbing a cup of coffee or something and someone will be like, oh he was a total Taurus and I wish he was an Aries. And I will hear that constantly and I'm like, oh yeah, I guess this is a pretty big thing that Steers a lot of people's relationships to some degree. It's very interesting to me because I have zero I cared nothing about it. I don't believe in it I feel like we as humans we as as a people have created the construct of time and years and months and so to me it's just interesting I mean, I guess there was like a lunar calendar or like the stars aligned to some degree but Erin are you going to say it?
00:07:02
JPC
Are you going to say it or am I going to say it? Because Adal? I read Jim and I. I read Jim and I of you.
Erin
That's a real Gemini thing to say, Adal! Whoo!
JPC
Erin, do you believe in astrology?
Erin
Well, you know what? In a young girl's heart! I think, honestly, the moon and the planets are doing something. Sure. So, I don't think it's any less ridiculous than, say, Scientology, or other religions.
JPC
Well, weird hill to die on. Okay, I guess you don't want to be in a Mission Impossible movie, Erin.
Erin
I guess I won't be in a Mission Impossible movie, although I'd be great, so give me a shot.
JPC
Yeah, give her a shot, Hollywood. I do believe in astrology. I am a scat-a-terious, which is... Scat-a-terious.
Erin
You play with shit.
JPC
I believe I'm a poop sign. I'm a poop rising because I will not hire a plumber. I could do it myself.
Adal
If I were to believe in astrology, I think that I'm probably a dark knight rising.
00:08:03
JPC
Does that make sense? Yeah, it makes sense to me.
Adal
I make a lot of pencils disappear. A Sagittarius values independence and the ability to do what they want when they want, above all else. No, I was going to say that perfectly describes the Sagittarius. They have those big plates on their back. They were one of the biggest sinosaurs, but they kind of did their own thing. Yeah, but they weren't vegetarians, complete vegetarians.
Erin
They are adventurers, risk takers, and have a sharp business and sports mentality.
Adal
And what about a Torex?
Erin
Uh, doesn't say.
JPC
It says the Ford Taurus was a dependable mid model.
Adal
It's insane to me, this reminds me, it is insane to me that the Ford Taurus went the way of the dinosaurs because that was, that's the car I've seen most on the road my entire adult life. I've been, I'm 40 years old. I've been on this earth for 40 years. I've seen more Ford Taurus vehicles than any other car in my life, but it got discontinued like 10 years ago or something, 12 years ago.
00:09:10
JPC
Yeah, the four tourists in my mind was just like a classic staple car of my childhood.
Erin
I'm not listening, I'm reading about Sagittarius's. This was such a bullshit.
Adal
Classic, classic cancer.
Erin
If this was such bullshit, then why would your soulmates, your list of soulmates, GPC, be Leo, Aquarius, Ares, and Libra? And Mariah is a... He's too old for Leo.
JPC
Uh, well, yeah, at this stage, Leo don't want me anymore. Seven years ago, though? Ooh, I would've been all over Leo. Uh, Mariah is a January. What's that?
Erin
Yeah, but what- Capricorn?
JPC
Capricorn.
Erin
Oh.
Adal
Well then, never- It's all turned to dust in your mouth.
Erin
You're a Gemini, Adal?
Adal
I'm a Gemini, yeah.
Erin
You're not safe. You're not safe here.
Adal
You know what? Everybody's getting roasted. Everybody's good. Here's what I'll say. I was a Gemini, but then at some point, maybe around the time the four tours got discontinued, didn't they shift the months or something?
00:10:15
Erin
No, yeah, but that was people born from that time of the shift.
Adal
I see, because at some point they pulled a weird fucking move where they're like, actually, you're this, not that.
Erin
Playful and intellectually curious, Gemini is constantly juggling a variety of fashions, hobbies, careers, and friend groups. They are social butterflies. They are quick-witted.
JPC
Adal's a social dead moth. I'm an indoor mosquito.
Erin
I'm an indoor mosquito. And you buzz between happy and sad. Am I a bug?
Adal
There's a lot of insect terminology.
Erin
And your soulmates are Aquarius and Libra.
Adal
Gemma is March 28th. Do you know? I think that might be in Aries.
Erin
Well, this isn't wrong. You're with the wrong people.
Adal
Erin, what are you?
Erin
Ah, fine. I'll read about me, even though I'm mysterious.
JPC
I do know that my Chinese Zodiac, I get to be a dragon, and I always thought that was really cool, because some of them are like sheep and a rat and stuff like that, and I get to be a dragon.
00:11:23
Adal
Dog is fine, but there's cooler ones out there. Dragon, for what? Dragon, for one. And I think dragon's like the big one, like that's supposed to be, you're the luckiest.
JPC
Yeah, it's very funny to have like the Chinese Zodiac where it's like, okay, so you get to be a dragon. It's like, what are you? It's like, I guess you're just food for the dragon. Hamster. Everybody's food for this dragon. This dragon has to grow big.
Erin
I'm bold, creative, determined, mysterious, mythical, and passionate, but I'm not too proud to read my weaknesses. They'll hold a grudge forever. Scorpios are expert grudge holders who aren't quick to forgive or forget. They don't like being played or betrayed, so if it happens, they're liable to hold it against the person for the rest of time. Once a traitor, always a traitor.
Adal
Okay. JVC, here's what's going on. I just pulled up the New York Times review for Pete Holmes' new sitcom, and I quote, New York Times calls this new sitcom, bold, creative, mythical.
JPC
Pete Holmes is, uh... Okay, so we found out what's happening here, and although I haven't quite put it together yet, I definitely will by the end of the episode.
00:12:31
Erin
And I suppose I should be with a Virgo or a Taurus.
Adal
And what's John?
Erin
Who's to say? Pisces? Pisces, Erin. You're to say.
Adal
So is there something where the three of us, the R3 signs, is there something you can look up to see if we are supposed to be hosting a podcast together?
Erin
Yeah, this is a Riddle podcast, by the way. So sorry.
JPC
We're not, to be clear, we are not sorry about not getting to the riddles. We're sorry that you're listening to a riddle podcast.
Adal
Erin, we had it until you called it out.
Erin
Alright, I'm gonna look up Scorpio Gemini friendship compatibility. Okay. Oh, uh oh.
JPC
Wait, J.P. said Scorpio? Paywall. Paywall. I'm a Scorpio.
Erin
A Scorpio, a Gemini Scorpio.
JPC
No, I'm a Sagittarius. I'm a Sagittarius.
Erin
Well, we're gonna, we're gonna get to you in a second. A Gemini Scorpio friendship is certainly not impossible, but it's not exactly going to be a cakewalk.
JPC
I would describe your friendship as not impossible. Well also I don't like cake walks, so this is good news.
00:13:31
Erin
Adal's Scorpio Facilitating Growth and Transformation for the Gemini.
Adal
Wow, okay.
Erin
Wow, Erin, I really needed to hear that. You're welcome. We're good at working together and forming a team to do whatever it takes and we succeed. I guess we're good co-workers. That's great. I'm going to look up Sagittarius Gemini friendships.
JPC
And then I'll do some riddles. To be like, do these two people work together? Well, they're good at working together and forming a team. It's like, cool. That's great. Perfect.
Erin
Gemini and Sagittarius make incredible partners, be it friendship, love, or marriage. Although their natures are slightly contrasting. Gemini and Sagittarius is highly rated. The credit largely goes to the Sagittarius. I wish I hadn't read that part out loud. I'm sorry, Adal.
JPC
But it also sounds like Adal, we could have a pretty kickass marriage.
Adal
Ooh, I do think a lot of this seems like self-fulfilling, where it's like, if I was dating a cancer, read a horoscope, and it was like, Gemini and cancer don't mix, and then I break up with that cancer, I can't then two years later be like, it didn't work out. Isn't that... Isn't that just how the horoscope said? It's like, well, I took action based on the horoscope.
00:14:38
JPC
Don't come at me if this is not the way that it is, but I believe from my limited interactions with this that it is the way that it is, and I don't think Capricorns and Sagittarius really get along, and Mariah's a Capricorn and I was a Sagittarius, but there are little things where like, yeah, but this is something that they do, and Mariah's always like, this is like us, and I'm like, yeah, but the other thing is that we don't get along, like, come on, we gotta know that.
Adal
You see what you wanna see.
Erin
It sounds like the strength of your friendship is that you solve problems quickly and can forgive each other easily. And I think that's really lovely. And I'm the one holding grudges in the corner. And then let's see. Erin, put down that copy of the grudge. I won't. I'm too scared to watch it, but I like to hold it.
Adal
I like to know where it is at all times.
JPC
That actually makes me feel better if I know where it is. Where is it? It's in the DVD player I'm watching.
Erin
We are quite compatible as friends, JPC. It can be rocky at first, but it develops into a good friendship over time.
JPC
Skip to the good part. Do we fuck? Do we ever fuck?
00:15:40
Erin
I gotta know. Oh, no.
Adal
Thank God. That would ruin my marriage. This is like verbal Rorschach. It's like you shouldn't be compatible but sometimes you are. Or the reverse is like you are worse enemies unless there's a breakthrough. It's all right in the middle. It's all skating that middle line.
JPC
I would say that this is when Kevin Spacey auditioned for Watchmen. Verbal Rorschach. But we get it, right? I mean, it's not good. It's not good, but we get it. We get what the joke is.
Erin
Sagittarius men can be quite blunt and passionate. Female Scorpios can be a bit too secretive at times with their abundance of feelings.
JPC
Damn, dude.
Erin
Scorpio women open up to Sagittarius men. They have to soften their words with each other. That's their advice to us. Anyways, I have some riddles that are listening to me submitted. Sure. So let's get to it. Sorry.
JPC
Erin, can I try softening my words to you? Yes, please. Okay. This is my, this is my attempt at softening my words. Yes.
00:16:43
???
Butter pillows, feather butter pillows, pillow butter feathers.
Erin
I love it.
???
Would you turn into Will Forte? I guess so.
Erin
Well now we have an episode title.
Adal
Welcome to pillow-butter-pillows. Feather-butter-pillows. My name is Will Forte. Feather-butter-pillows.
JPC
I wish.
Erin
These are from Kat and we can use their name.
JPC
Should we say Meow when you say Kat or is that inappropriate?
Erin
Not spelled like that kind of Kat. I have some homemade riddles and fuzzies for you. I really enjoy the show. It's helping them at their job. But they're only on episode 124, so it's going to be a while before you hear this cat. You might never even get to hear your riddles, which would be good to start. Erin!
Adal
Sorry! How dare you? What are you saying?
Erin
I'm sorry.
JPC
Wow, so that means that Kat will eventually hear this riddle, but where they're listening now, are they 124? Are they in the year that we like riddles? Because that year's over. Because we don't have to like riddles anymore.
00:17:44
Erin
Even worse, I think they're like beginning of the pandemic.
???
Oh no! Oh no!
Erin
Kat, run!
???
We could be in the year of the dog.
Erin
Okay, so these are probably some warm-up riddles. Some of these might be better than others, but the format is simple. The answer is a two-word item, and the clues are phrases that describe the individual words in the name. For example, the answer to knowledge that guides to the solution to a problem or mystery, plus another word for the staff of the ship or boat would be... Brain GPS ore. Yes, Adal, yes!
JPC
Here's what's going on with me right now. Erin, as you were reading that, I was like, oh, this is eighth period, you know, seventh eighth period. I'm done with the day. I'm not learning anymore. I am making paper airplanes in the back of class. I am just throwing the paper airplanes and I don't care what happens to them. That's the energy that I've been perching solving these riddles.
Erin
Jokes on you because you're in physics and you just got an A for that paper airplane. Cool.
00:18:47
Adal
And Sweetie, can I just say as a school nurse, eighth period, you need to go home and see a doctor.
Erin
All right. So it's clue crew because it's knowledge that guides to the solution of a problem or mystery to another word for the staff of a ship or boat.
JPC
Oh, clue crew. I get the, I get the setup.
Adal
I get the setup. Okay, I was thinking staff is in an ore and it's the staff is in the client. You shall not pass. The client ownership.
Erin
I came up with all of these on the job and if you need him, keep in mind that and then actually I'm not gonna tell you that hint unless you need it. Oh no.
JPC
Okay. Save it. I don't need it yet.
Erin
Delicious mold that may make some people get upset stomachs.
JPC
Okay.
Erin
Plus what you do with a cigarette. Or the name of a magic dragon.
JPC
Shroom butt. Penicillin puff.
Erin
Yeah, penicillin is delicious. Mommy, I'm sick.
???
Can I please have some more penicillin?
Erin
We have a burnt brioche bun with a bit of penicillin on top in joy.
00:19:50
JPC
Who ate all the goddamn penicillin? I just bought a jar of penicillin down at the market.
Adal
Delicious, I will say as a kid I used to eat all the Flintstone vitamins. I don't know if you had those in your house. Oh, yeah, we have. They were so tasty.
Erin
My son only eats locally sourced penicillin. Okay, delicious mold that may make some people's stomach.
Adal
Cheese?
Erin
Cheese. Yes.
Adal
Okay.
Erin
Cheese puff. The cheese puff. Yes.
JPC
Oh, a cheese puff. Okay, cool.
Erin
Every plant needs a strong foundation, plus a drink that doesn't taste nearly as good as frat boys make it seem.
JPC
Stop your pepper.
Erin
Yes. I cannot tell a lie. This is the tastiest fruit, plus the leader of the powder puff girls.
JPC
Apple. The boy who cried wolf blossom. Apple blossom? Damn it. Oh no, Blossom wasn't the leader. I've never seen Powerpuff Girls.
Erin
No, you have the right idea, so who chopped down a cherry tree?
00:20:54
JPC
George Washington. George Washington Bubbles.
Erin
Yeah, so it's Cherry. Cherry Blossom. Yes.
JPC
Cherry Blossom, okay. Who's the third Powerpuff Girl that I'm forgetting? Mojo Jojo.
Erin
Buttercup.
JPC
Buttercup. Yeah, Bubbles isn't one of them.
Erin
Bubbles. Na na na na na na, Blossom. Na na na na na na, Buttercup.
JPC
Okay, okay, we got there.
Erin
Okay, okay. A word to encompass the whole of something. I would like to see a scene actually. Damn it. The three of us are the Powderpuff Girls.
Adal
Okay. Is it Powderpuff or Powerpuff?
Erin
What did I say? I've never seen the show, so I don't know. It's Powerpuff.
JPC
Did I say Powder? Okay, I will settle this. I will settle this.
Erin
It's Power.
JPC
I said Powder.
Erin
Okay.
JPC
Now, do you want to see a scene where we are the Powderpuff Girls or the Powerpuff Girls?
Adal
So Powder Puff, and Erin before you decide, Powder Puff is slang for doing cocaine.
Erin
I would like to see a scene where we're the Powder Puff girls.
Adal
Okay. Sure. Okay.
00:22:03
JPC
We all did it.
Erin
We all did the nose thing. I just talked about astrology, and then we did one scene that was just a sniff. This has got to be our last episode ever, right?
JPC
Hey, I got to say, I think I fucked up one of my ear trumps when I did that big sniff. I think I did a big sniff too hard.
Erin
I don't know how, but I have swimmer's ear. Okay. A word that encompasses the whole of something, plus a bread product that gets its distinctive texture from having a nice hot bath before it's baked.
Adal
description french toast?
Erin
Lacrosse knees.
???
Lacrosse legs.
Erin
Lacrosse face. Because lacrosse face is when you have a punchable face. Yeah.
Adal
Cricket neck.
00:23:04
JPC
Cricket neck. I don't know, man. You should have saved golf balls. A racquetball butt hole.
Erin
A word that encompasses the whole of something plus a bread product that gets its distinctive texture from having a nice hot bath before it's baked.
JPC
Does the ass encompass the whole?
Adal
Ooh.
Erin
No.
Adal
It's not ass. Also, JPC, I forgot to mention I one time had to go home from school sick with swim fan.
Erin
I wanted to watch that movie.
Adal
So badly. I'm a fan of swim fan. A word that encompasses, what was it again? A word that encompasses the whole of something? So that would be the scripture, a definition, a... No, if we're talking about... Yeah, all or... All things in the world.
JPC
Everything? Everywhere? All at once? Everything. A family. Oh, everything?
Erin
Oh, it's everything. And then a bread product. Bagel. Yes, everything bagel. Oh, yes. I would like to see a scene. You two are some bagels in a bath.
00:24:11
???
Okay.
Erin
Having a nice hot bath.
???
Okay.
???
My back is killing me. My back is absolutely killing me. This, I needed this. I needed to soak today. Oh boy.
Adal
Hey Sesame, Sesame, can you pass the butter please?
JPC
Okay, Garlic, I'm only doing this because you asked me to do this. Come on, come on. You said I had to cut you off. Garlic, you said I had to cut you off at a certain point and you had a lot of butter today. This bathwater is almost all butter.
???
I'm feeling so hot. I just want to, you know, I want to rub it on before I look before I get stale. What about a little schmear?
JPC
What if I give you a little schmear just to tide you over?
???
Okay. Okay. All right. Hey, let me let me cut myself in half.
JPC
Oh, yeah. Not all the way. Not all the way. Not all the way. Leave a little connection.
???
Let me just splay myself open. Yeah, get some in there. Okay. Let me get my knife out. Oh yeah. Slower. Slower. Schmear. Slower.
00:25:14
JPC
Hold on, I'm gonna wipe it back the other way because there's a little bit of schmear. Somehow, they got schmear on the other side of the knife by wiping it across you with that side.
???
So, flip it, flip it, and oh yeah, there we go.
Adal
Now just toss on some locks. What, am I made of money? Well, won't you, I mean, do me a favor, I'll pay you back.
???
Oh, you'll pay me back. Come on. The garlic bagel's gonna pay me back. Sesame, I'm good for it. Come on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What can I do for you, huh? What's that?
Adal
What can I do for you, huh? You want me to kill someone?
JPC
Why don't you kill someone? Now, would it kill you to put some sausage, egg, and cheese inside of me?
???
Disgusting. That goes inside a croissant or a potato roll. It does not go inside a bagel. Can I tell you something?
JPC
I'm a brioche bun.
???
What?
00:26:14
JPC
I put sesame seeds in a brioche bun, but maybe I've never been a pickle.
???
What? I'm a brioche bun!
Adal
What did I- I just learned today, earlier today, late last night, 2am this morning, I just learned that ciabatta was invented in like, 1987. Wow.
Erin
What a day you had, buddy.
JPC
All right, Gundy your bagel hole. What is the difference between a bagel and a Bialy?
Adal
Bialys are flatter, right? I don't know.
JPC
Unless you're a tough guy.
Adal
And there's no such thing as a bagel sock and bloom.
Erin
The producers. I'm allergic.
JPC
So I can't- Not two bagels. Erin's just allergic.
Erin
I'm just allergic to this conversation.
Adal
I thought bagels were just like kind of flatter maybe? I really don't know.
JPC
I really don't know the difference. I went to a place called New York Bagel and Bialy and I got a Bialy sandwich and then I got a bagel and I could not tell the difference through the two of those things.
00:27:17
Adal
That place is fantastic. They're black and white cookies are usually in the fridge are very good. And then they also sell my favorite drink, which is the cherry. It's like Dr. Brown's cherry cola, which is the best drink of all time.
JPC
Can I tell you I had a very weird interaction there because I placed an order online. No, I called in an order because they don't do online orders. So I called in an order and then I went to pick it up and there was a line around the block. Like it was a long line.
???
Very popular place.
JPC
And I walked up to the door and there was a guy standing outside like waiting to go in. And the first guy to the door and I went up to him and I said, hey, are you picking up an order or? No. Yeah. So are you picking up an order or placing an order? And he goes, we're all just placing orders. And he said it like there's no such thing as picking up orders, but I was like, oh. And then I like went in front of him, and he like moved to like try to like block me from going in the door. And I just went in the door, grabbed my bagels off the counter, and then like walked out. And when I walked out, he was not looking at me at all. He was like looking down and at his phone. But I was like, what the fuck?
00:28:18
Erin
He must have been so embarrassed.
JPC
Insane energy. An insane energy of like, hey, we're all waiting here, guy. I don't care if you call the head and know something I don't. We're all waiting.
Adal
That place is great. Go to Coffman's. That's the best place in Illinois for bagels. In Illinois for bagels? Yeah, go to Coffman's.
JPC
So you're telling me, not just Chicago, but all of rural Illinois with all their dipshit people can't make a better bagel. Look, it's mostly dipshit people there.
Adal
Let's be honest.
Erin
All right, let's do one more.
JPC
Yes.
Erin
I couldn't participate in that because I'm allergic. Yeah, that's sad. Japan's Parliament, or in science, what you call the eating habits of an animal, plus the shortened name of a drug derived from the leaves of a cocoa plant.
JPC
Okay, leaves of a cocoa plant.
Erin
David, is that in unison? Yay.
00:29:18
JPC
Japan's Parliament, or what is it? What, a dinosaur eats an animal?
Erin
This is going to be easier for you.
JPC
Yes.
Erin
What you call the eating habits of an animal. Diet. Yes.
JPC
Oh, okay. Just for the taste of it, diet coke. Yes. Diet squirt.
Erin
And now I can admit to you that Cat works at a grocery store.
Adal
Thank you Cat. So they just walked up and down the aisles and then reverse engineered stuff snacks they saw.
Erin
Kind of fun. Thank you so much for listening, Kat. I hope that you make it to this episode and you get to hear your riddles. Let's go on such a quick break. So quick, I promise.
JPC
Kat, don't go anywhere. Except, I mean, do listen to the commercials. And we're back. Wow. Are we? Holy shit, we're back so fast. Wow. I got whiplash from how fast we were back.
Adal
Not my tempo. Sorry, that's not my Ford Tempo. Is this your car? Can you move it? I'm sorry, this is my Taurus. Not my Taurus?
JPC
Do a little hand section, a little hand symbol. Not my Taurus. Not my Taurus. I don't like Miles Teller. I don't. I'm not gonna like Miles Teller.
00:30:24
Erin
There's nothing you can say- JPC did so much coke this episode. We're so sorry, you guys. He's really on one.
Adal
Well, let's take, Erin, if I may. I'm not the host of this episode. I'm not Old Man Puzzles. Let's take a bit of a longer break.
Erin
Let's take a break. I know what you're thinking. Do I have a new hat, Adal and JPC? New haircut? Why am I walking around with so much confidence?
Adal
I bet you're wondering. I wanted pretzels from the food court.
JPC
And I was just going to let you know that it looks like you leaned on paint.
Erin
Anyways, I just had a bunch of subscriptions canceled for me by Rocket Money that I wasn't using until now I'm flushed with cash and now I'm confident. Pretzel money? Well, maybe. We'll talk about that. Rocket Money is a personal finance app that finds and cancels your unwanted subscriptions, monitors your spending, and helps you lower your bills all in one place. I've been using it for years, even before they were a sponsor.
00:31:29
JPC
Erin, it looks like you may have leaned on like with someone painting a rocket money like billboard or sign or something because it's all it's all down your back it's like and it's I could ock it ock it
Erin
People think they're spending $80 on their subscriptions when in reality, the number is closer to $200. And when you signed up for so many free trials, like streaming services, you watch one show and then you completely forget about it, you lose track and then all of a sudden you're like, why am I bleeding money? Rocket money? They take care of that for you. They go, sit back, relax, we got this. And they make everything color coded and easy and super intuitive.
Adal
You're also color-coded. A little birdie told me that Rocket Money also lets you monitor all your expenses in one place, recommends custom budgets based on your past spending, and they'll even send you notifications when you've reached your spending limits, which sounds like something my friend would like, but I forget which friend I'm so hungry for pretzels.
JPC
Speaking of pretzels, you don't get all twisted up by salty and the bread of your finances. With over 3 million users and counting, Rocket Money customers have saved an average of $720 a year.
00:32:39
Erin
Stop wasting money on things you don't use. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions and manage your money the easy way by going to rocketmoney.com slash riddle. That's rocketmoney.com slash riddle. rocketmoney.com slash r-i-d-d-l-e.
JPC
Hey, what's going on? Somebody leaned over my rocket money paint thing. Run. Everybody run. Oh no.
Erin
Maroon.
???
Is that DaVinci?
Erin
Yeah. Yes.
JPC
And bye.
Adal
Hey Powerpuff Girls. It's me. I think your dad or a scientist who built you. Yeah, what do you need? Listen, someone went into my room and there's a certain thing I kept under my bed and all of it's gone. Do you know what might have happened to it?
???
Oh, yes, it's all gone. Little monkey bones? No, I have buttholes. I'm a perfect clone. I'm a perfect clone. I don't think you're a perfect clone of whatever you think you are. No, I'm a clone of bubbles. Uh, listen.
00:33:53
Erin
Yeah dad, this is buttholes, a perfect clone of Bubbles.
???
Okay, well where is Bubbles? Uh, she had to go, she has, uh, it's court-appointed anger management therapy. So I'm gonna be filling in every second Wednesday. Uh, buttholes, I'm the same.
Adal
Okay, stop saying it. Stop saying it. Well, I'm gonna go on vacation. Can you girls handle the city, I guess? Did you get any a clone?
JPC
I'll get you a clone! I'll get you a clone!
Adal
What was that era was like, Samurai and Jack? Samurai Jack, baby. Powerpuff Girls. Powerpuff Girls, baby. What else was on Virgin Network?
JPC
Dragon Ball C reruns. Dexter's Laboratory. Dexter's Laboratory, baby.
Adal
And they all have a similar art style, right? I feel like it's a very similar vibe.
JPC
Yeah, Dexter's Laboratory and Powerpuff Girls, I felt like, yeah, was it maybe like a similar color palette too?
Adal
I never watched any of them, but I was aware of them because I would watch Dragon Ball Z on Cartoon Network.
00:34:54
JPC
God, love that Dragon Ball Z. I think my little brother liked Samurai Jack, or maybe someone I knew in high school liked Samurai Jack.
Adal
I hear it's good.
JPC
I never really was able to watch cartoons because they give me headaches.
Adal
Huh, so Simpsons?
JPC
No, but I just, I could just listen to that opening. Sorry, I'd always listen to cartoons. Okay. Erin, why about you? Are you allergic to cartoons?
Erin
Yeah, I'm allergic to cartoons. I was going to say, I understand that. Cartoons and video games make me feel motion sickness in my brain and my head. You know my brain and my head.
JPC
Do you ever get lotion sickness, Erin?
Erin
Yeah, when I put on way too much lotion.
JPC
And then I slip and fall down the stairs and then I feel sick. You take a look at some lotion that you keep by your sink that sometimes you put on your hands after you're done washing dishes to kind of rehydrate them in a way. And you take a look at the back of the lotion You don't even know why you're doing it. It's just kind of an off-the-wall, hey, I'm going to take a look at the back of this lotion. And you just see something you can't unsee that said it expired in 2016. Now this bottle is still half full. Do you keep the lotion or do you throw it out knowing that it has been expired for, I want to say six years?
00:36:13
Erin
JPC, I throw it out so fast that I'm trying to turn back time. I am so trying to not live in that moment of the disgust of that that I'm moving faster than lightning.
JPC
You don't do one more pump just to get a little goodbye to be like, this is fine motion. I will throw it out, but I will prove to myself that it's still fine.
Erin
I am throwing it out and then hitting myself super hard in the head so it leaves my brain.
Adal
Oh no. Erin, you also said you were allergic to cartoons. Weren't you married to Launchpad?
Erin
We weren't married.
Adal
We were having fun.
Erin
We were having fun.
Adal
Erin, I do want to see a scene. You're Erin Keif. GPC, you are a fairly well-known cartoon character and the two of you are on a date and Erin, you're trying to get out of it any way you can.
Erin
Well, this is me. Or should we get dessert?
Adal
Come on!
Erin
The episode of short scenes. I love it. That was amazing.
Adal
This is Robert Altman's Hey Riddle Riddle.
00:37:15
JPC
Aren't you gonna ask me up?
Erin
Okay, so these come from Dan C. He him. Thank you so much for sending us these riddles, Dan. I'll thank you.
JPC
I'll thank you at the end, Dan, if I deem the riddles appropriate.
Erin
Inspired by a before and after runway challenge on RuPaul's Drag Race, I've decided to carry a list of some for you guys to figure out.
Adal
So remind us how this works.
Erin
Is there an example? Yes, so the Golden Girl did a dirty but catchy duet with Meg The Stallion.
Adal
The Golden Girl did a dirty duet with Megan Thee Stallion. Blanche Dubstepbois. Dubois Dubstepbois.
Erin
Think of another Golden Girl.
Adal
Okay. Rose.
Erin
No, it's the actress.
Adal
Bea Arthur. Bea Arthur. What's the other one? Bea Arthur.
Erin
No, you gotta be. It's Bea Arthur.
00:38:17
Adal
Okay, Megan Thee Stallion songs.
Erin
Well you do. The one that she does with a very famous rapper. Be Arthur Wap. The rapper name comes before.
Adal
Wap Arthur. Wap Be Arthur.
Erin
Yeah, but who else sings?
Adal
Wet Ass Be Arthur.
Erin
Who else sings?
Adal
Oh, Cardi B Arthur.
Erin
Yeah.
Adal
Okay, okay.
Erin
We got it. That's the example.
JPC
Wait, wait, wait. The answer is Cardi B Arthur? Oh, oh, oh, I get it, I get it, I get it.
Adal
Erin, just for clarification, in that instance, I believe Golden Girl came first in the clue.
Erin
Yeah, so it doesn't really matter what- It doesn't matter. Okay, okay. You just combined two things. I just got it. This past season of Drag Race, the all winners, was so good and I enjoyed it so much.
JPC
Maybe the best season yet.
Erin
And I loved the format.
JPC
Yes. I swear to God I thought I was hearing a clue. I was listening to Erin say that like I was like, this past season of Drag Race was so good. I'm like, what the fuck kind of clue is this?
Adal
I won't spoil it in case anybody's running very behind, but the winner of this season is my all-time favorite drag queen. Gemini is both. And I think the only thing that could have made this season better is to not replace anyone but to add Alyssa Edwards and then it would have been the perfect season.
00:39:31
Erin
I will say the second half of the season has some of the hardest crying moments I've ever had on a TV show. Monet exchanged us something that I get goosebumps just thinking about and some of the best everything. The best version of everything is in the season. I cannot recommend it enough. Okay. Anyways.
JPC
I can't watch because I'm allergic.
Erin
No, you're not.
JPC
I am. Too many feathers.
Erin
She quit being a spy for Charlie so she could have a little Monica in her life and some Erika by her side.
Adal
Okay. She quit being a Charlie's angel.
Erin
Mm-hmm, so she could have a little bit of Monica in her life.
Adal
I do not know.
JPC
Lu Bega Cameron Diaz.
Erin
Come on.
JPC
Lucy Lu Bega.
Erin
Yeah. Lu Bega Cameron Diaz. Perfect. Thank you. He not only uses chairs in the wrestling ring, but he also sits in them centrally without underwear on. Like from a movie.
00:40:31
Adal
Oh, oh, oh. Hulk Hogan from a movie?
JPC
I think this is my favorite. Yay!
Erin
Isn't that so good? That's my favorite. Dealing with her co-hosts on The View is like playing chess with the Russians.
Adal
Whoopi Goldberg.
Erin
This one's kind of hard. This actress is amazing from...
JPC
From the view? An actress from the view?
Erin
No, the chess.
Adal
So chess is Queen's Gambit and her name is Anya Taylor-Joy.
Erin
And then you add the last name.
Adal
Behar. Nice.
JPC
Wait.
Erin
Anya Taylor Joy Behar. Joy Behar is the view. She looks like Pam Anderson, but has the voice.
Adal
Oh wait, Erin, I'd like to see a scene.
Erin
Oh, I'm so sorry. Pardon me.
Adal
Hey JPC, real quick. Dead stop. If you're about to make Erin the Queen of England and me gambit, I am walking away from the pocket.
00:41:34
JPC
I shall stay. I guess I play gambit. No, Erin, how's your Joy Behar impression?
Erin
Uh, terrible. I don't know. I haven't heard her speak in a while.
JPC
What? Okay, so hold on. I'm sorry, Adal. Pre-seen. So what do we know about Joy Behar? I know nothing. Is she an actress?
Erin
She's like the liberal one.
JPC
She's older.
Erin
Yeah, but she's like old Democrats, so she's still not in touch.
JPC
Joy Behar. Can we just try, Erin? Like, try her accent? Maybe just try to get into it a little bit?
Erin
Okay. Alright, I'm ready.
JPC
Okay, so that's it. So Erin's ready. So Erin is gonna be playing Joy Behar, which is a horse with peanut butter. Erin is Joy Behar has made it to the finals of the Russian chess competition. Adal, you are a Russian chess player and you are trying to play like mind games during this match with each other.
Adal
I have to say I'm very Disappointed to see you in the finals, I thought as an American, you would not even be in the competition. No.
00:42:44
???
Scene.
Adal
You ski.
JPC
No, you never, you never intended to do a Joy Behar impression.
Erin
Whoa!
JPC
Me? J'accuse!
Erin
J'accuse!
JPC
J'accuse!
Erin
J'accuse, eh, the better Zealand is to your liking, sir.
Adal
Casey's video is off right now, but I guarantee you he's grinning ear-to-ear and rubbing his hands together because this is gonna be the easiest episode ever for him.
JPC
Casey's gonna get off and Mike McDuffin across the hall is gonna be like, Casey, how's the editor going for that episode? He's like, perfect, I only need yackity sacks. I only need four seconds of yackity sacks, and that's gonna get me to the whole edit.
Erin
You just use yackity sacks, thank you.
JPC
Casey, please, four seconds of yackity sacks. I don't think we can get sued if it's just four seconds.
Adal
No, and that's a hill I would die on.
Erin
And it's also so fun because now you know, because Yaketty Sacks has been playing throughout the whole episode, but now you know why it's because of this moment. So you're hearing the birth of it, but you will have been experiencing it already. So that's interesting.
00:43:51
Adal
I wish to Christ. I wish to God. That a modern-day artist would be brave enough to sample Yakety Sax in a song that at least is soon. I would love that.
Erin
Hey man, it's me, God. Can you pray for more important shit?
Adal
It's me, God. You know that Yakety Sax song you were looking for? Listen to this.
JPC
This is a few months old, even while we're recording it, but did you guys see that, like, base Hugh Grant moment, where, I think it was around the time when, oh, old What's This Fuck was getting fired, Boris Johnson was getting fired, and the Tories were supposed to come, they were like in front of Parliament, and they were supposed to come out there and like talk about what was going on, and Hugh Grant tweeted at some protester, It's perfect. I sent that video to my dad and I went, I'm so glad we were alive at the same time. It was even funnier that it was fucking Hugh Grant, who was pretty based on Twitter by the way, who was going after him. Does he tweet like he talks?
00:45:10
???
Oh god, fucking romantic.
Erin
Whoopsie-jesus. Alright, let's do a few of these from more of these from Dancy. Dancy! He's Dancy!
Adal
Ignore me.
Erin
She looks like Pam Anderson, but she has- Pam Anderson. She looks like Pam Anderson, but she has the voice of an evil cyborg.
Adal
She looks like Pam Anderson.
Erin
Who played Pam Anderson in a TV show recently?
JPC
Lily James. I don't know the person. I know that there was a show that was like Pam and Tommy.
Adal
Alan. Collins.
Erin
James.
Adal
Lily James. Lily James Marston. Lily James and the Giant Peach. Lily, what was the second part?
Erin
What actor does the voice of an evil cyborg?
00:46:10
Adal
Evil Cyborg. Voice. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Lily James Invader.
Erin
I'd say the most famous, one of the most famous lines in cinema.
Adal
I'll be back. Weesa gonna die?
Erin
Yeah. Yes, Adal.
Adal
Frankly, my darling, Weesa gonna die.
Erin
Yes.
Adal
God with the binks.
Erin
Adal, Adal just, I just, it's basically, have you guys ever seen it phone charge itself? Adal just completely re-energized himself with his own joke.
Adal
I don't know why, but inserting Jar Jar Binks in the classic movies just really tickled me.
Erin
Yeah, we're going to get a text in two hours. I know how this goes. Adal's going to think of a hundred of these and then we have to deal with the text.
Adal
What else? What else? If I only had a pink, what else? What else? Sorry, so you said the most famous cyborg in history. Is this like Darth Vader?
Erin
Yes.
Adal
So... Is he a cyborg? Who does the... James Earl Jones. Lily James Earl Jones.
00:47:15
Erin
Thank you. That was exhausting. My God.
JPC
Wow. Thank you. Exhausting? Me? Thank you.
Erin
When he's holding his hammer, he can fly. But when he's behind the wheel, he drives fast and furious.
Adal
Maxwell Vin Diesel.
JPC
Bang bang Thor, Silver Mule, and there goes... Wait, now, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Maxwell Silverhammer... Uh, excuse me.
Erin
Oh, the white album. You just snorted it.
Adal
Uh, by far the best Beatles album of my opinion. Um, Thor, and then, uh, Thor Walker.
Erin
Thor... Who plays him?
Adal
It's never going to be the character. Chris Hemsworth. Chris Hemsworth Vin Diesel.
Erin
It's attached to Luda.
JPC
Oh, Luda Chris Hemsworth. Luda Chris Hemsworth.
Adal
What in the world is in that bag? What you got in that bag? What you got in that case? Cocaine.
Erin
He's always looking for new deals on bright neon pictures of unicorns. This is his second favorite. Bob Barker.
00:48:18
JPC
Right, Max Landis.
Erin
This is a person that comes up on our show so often, mostly on our Patreon. Oh, Howard Dean. Howard Dean. No, but this, okay, I cannot believe it. I've been trying to dodge Howard Dean references for months and they keep happening. So it's a woman we mentioned the most in the show. Erin Keif. If Howard Dean is the man we talk about the most for Howard Dean, and who's the woman? Stevie X. She's infamously private.
Adal
JK Rowling.
Erin
She's infamously private and cheap. She has bright neon pictures of unicorns. Oh, it's Lisa Frank.
Adal
And her little diary.
Erin
Over on the Patreon, I tried to buy a Lisa Frank zoo. I wanted a zoo that only had Lisa Frank down at the minute. That is right.
Adal
No one's going to comment on my Lisa Frank story.
JPC
So the answer is Howard Deed Lisa Frank? Wait, oh, I'm sorry. The answer is Lisa Frank.
00:49:24
Erin
No, it's think of who did the New Deal.
???
Frankly, my darling, I don't give a... Wait, wait, wait.
Erin
The New Deal, F.D.A. It's Lisa Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Adal
Oh, so it was F.D.R. but it's the full, we had to say the full Monty. Okay.
Erin
Nothing compares to a bald Irish native who can fight in an octagon.
Adal
Sinead O'Connor, what's that guy's name? Connor McGrath? Oh, yeah. Wow. Nice job. Damn.
Erin
A robotic revolutionary in Zombieland.
Adal
General Grievous. General Grievous. This guy's got Star Wars on the fucking brain.
Erin
Can you repeat that one? A robotic revolutionary in Zombieland.
Adal
You said think of Westworld?
Erin
For robotic revolutionary. Ed Harris? No.
Adal
Who else was in that? It was, um... I know that there is more episodes of it that I've never seen. Who was like the big stars in Westworld? Uh, Erin Paul was in this third season? The biggest. The biggest? Ed Harris.
00:50:28
Erin
No, I mean, I think that it's the biggest role.
Adal
Biggest role. Oh, uh, Thandie Newton?
JPC
It has to be Boston Market. That has got to be the biggest role in all of Fast Food.
Adal
And it's unlimited.
Erin
No, I think that she was, like, especially the first season, super proud.
Adal
Yes, yes, yes. The daughter from The Wrestler, what's her name? She was in the Beatles movie. What's the Beatles movie? Lucy and the Sky of Diamonds?
JPC
Oh, she was in 13 Going on 30 or?
Erin
Very famous. Evan Rachel Wood.
Adal
Thank you. Evan Rachel Norwegian Wood.
Erin
I have Evan Rachel Wood and then... Would you rather?
Adal
Evan Rachel?
Erin
Was in Zombieland, what act?
JPC
Would Evan Rachel love you, Harrelson? Harrelson, that's right, yes.
Erin
And then he says, hope you have fun, love you guys, and hope to see a live show soon. Well, if you're in New Jersey, it looks like Dan, so maybe you can come to our New York live show. If you want to get on a train.
JPC
Yeah, if you want to get out of fucking Jersey.
Adal
If you want to woke up this morning and get yourself busted.
00:51:31
JPC
All right, I did say that I would wait until Dan's riddles and I have to say Dan, very good riddles. Thank you.
Adal
These are wonderful.
JPC
I do thank you. Very good. I do decide. This is my choice to thank you, Dan.
Erin
Thank you, Dan.
Adal
I'm so sorry. May I see a scene?
Erin
Uh, yeah, you can. Let's see how it goes.
Adal
So based off of, based off of inserting Jar Jar Binks into old-timey movies, I want to see a scene.
Erin
I knew it. He hasn't been listening since that happened. I knew it.
Adal
Well, my eyes went completely white. So you can always tell. I want to see a scene, so this is like a 1930s or 40s movie, definitely like black and white era. JPC, you are a legit, you're like whoever the lead is in Maltese Falcon or whatever, like Clark Gable, whatever you are, you are a legit 1930s actor, you are of the times, you speak in the lingo, you have the cadence, you're totally that. Erin, you're a time traveler from now who goes back in time and finds yourself accidentally on the set of a movie and you're trying to play along but you clearly are not of this era and it's a little out of place.
00:52:37
???
Great.
JPC
Ooh! Look at the getaway sticks on that getaway vixen.
Erin
Not you hitting on me.
JPC
Oh it's me, it's me alright and I'm hitting on you. You're a cool glass of soda poured by a jerk. And I'd be a jerk if I didn't take this chair and pull it out from behind you and say would you like to sit down, rest those limber legs?
Erin
Okay well you're problematic AF. Hold on let me treat this. Hold on.
JPC
Girl you're literally sending me. Wait what's happening? Uh oh.
Erin
Hey, you are hotter than a hot bun on a Tuesday. Whoa, what's happening to me?
Adal
Uh, cut. That take hit different? Wait a second. What's going on?
JPC
This- This director?
Erin
Thanks, doll. Let's do another.
JPC
This director should be off this project. It's cancel culture run amok. I should be off this project.
Adal
You're mid. What am I saying?
00:53:37
Erin
And now I'm back in town. Oh no, we've switched!
???
Deb! Deb!
Erin
Adal, you fell asleep and you're cocaine! We're still gonna die. It's always fun recording a lost episode.
Adal
I want to get a clip of Darth Vader going, but through the filter.
Erin
Oh, it's worse than I remember though.
JPC
It's so much worse.
Adal
Hold on. Here we go. Casey, you're going to know when I want you to play it. Here we go. I'm going to say a quote and I want you to punctuate it. Luke, I am your He fucked you. He fucked you. He fucked you big time. He fucked you big time. Which brings the all-time total of times anyone on this podcast says yes and at Adal to, zero.
00:54:51
Erin
Okay surf's up my guy, 100%. I didn't say that, just said that wasn't me. I like saying you all the time.
Adal
That's fair. That's fair. Oh, okay.
Erin
But Casey, I do want to do this. Okay. Hey guys, we're going on tour soon. We want to go to Rhode Island. We want to go to Montana.
JPC
I'm so happy we have that. Do we have any voicemails?
Erin
Howard Dean, do you want to come on a road trip with us?
JPC
Hey Aaron, Adal, and JPC.
Erin
I thought I would just share a fun little story about when I was listening to your podcast.
???
A couple weeks ago I got an email that told me I was going to be bad. My husband and I have been trying to adopt and I was on a walk and I was listening to you guys as I read the note that we had been matched. So you will always be in my life now because I'm going to remember that moment for the rest of my life. So thanks for all the laughs and for keeping me laughing through lots of diaper changes and bottle feedings and late nights and listening to you guys a lot while taking care of my new baby. You're all the best. That's incredible.
00:56:18
Adal
Wow. Happy Howard Day. Happy Howard Day to the screen. Can you name a baby Howardine Scream? Howardine Scream. This child's name is Howardine Scream. Name him Dean Scream.
Erin
That's our first and only suggestion.
Adal
Or Riddle. Or Pinch.
JPC
What about, whatever your last name is, Ditcha. Name this baby Dean S. Cream.
Erin
Well, congratulations. That's so nice. That's amazing.
Adal
Congratulations.
Erin
And when it's the middle of the night and you're feeding that baby, turn us on and we'll make you feel worse, buddy. We'll make the baby madness even crazier. That is so exciting. They just gave me goosebumps.
Adal
That's wonderful.
Erin
Congratulations to you and your husband.
Adal
You're gonna see Earl Stein is laying next to you? What? Earl Stein is in bed next to you.
Erin
Yeah, we're together. Do you know that he didn't write goosebumps until he was 49? Something to think about?
Adal
Wow. Did you know that Alan Rickman didn't read goosebumps until he was 52?
Erin
Do you know that Howard Dean didn't scream until he was 15?
00:57:23
JPC
So there's still time. This whole show is ruined.
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Okay, here's what I'll say.
Adal
There's still time. Here's what I'll say. I know that Wes Craven has passed away. RIP Wes Craven. We stand a king. Whoever handles Wes Craven's estate. I am willing to pay upwards of $5,000 if you will have a new scream come out. Call it scream, call it scream 2, whatever you want to call it. When people show up to theaters they get their popcorn, they see Nicole Kidman go through her whole spiel, we see an hour of trailers. Lights come up on the screen, the lights go down in the theater, light comes up on the screen, it's just Howard Dean doing that one scream, roll credits. If you could make that movie scream happen, I would pay $18 to see it at least five times. You heard it here, Craven family, $5,018. You tell us when and where.
JPC
Here's what I love. I love that the inspirational thing of being like Kurt Vonnegut didn't sell a book until he was like 42 years old. Yeah. And I love the other side of that, which is like, because that message is you can do it, you know, it's never too late. You can always do something. The Howard Dean scream is like Howard Dean didn't scream until he was 55. It's like you could fuck up your life at any moment and it would be done forever.
00:58:42
Adal
You could fuck your whole life up. He expressed enthusiasm and his career was ruined. Ruined.
Erin
Ruud. He must have been so devastated watching Donald Trump get elected. Anyway, but you know how my dream is to host a three-day festival? Like, for the Riddle Riddle to host it? And it's like a bunch of different podcasts and improv teams and all the merch is like summer camp themed and we have all sorts of events.
Adal
We were planning on this actually 2020. We plan on doing it, I believe July, the weekend of July 17th or something. Yeah, we were planning on this. We were planning on it. We invited another podcast we enjoy and it all fell apart.
JPC
I would say planning is 100% a strong word to describe what we were doing.
Erin
Well, I reached out to a theater about it and they said yes, so what do you mean? But anyways, I think that one of the events should just be a small theater that plays the Howard Dean scream on a loop for the whole festival. And some people can sort of go in and recharge.
Adal
Team scream.
00:59:43
Erin
Would you buy tickets to that, everybody?
JPC
We have to put a moratorium on the Dean's scream. We have to end the Dean's scream.
Erin
Let's do one more voicemail.
JPC
Oh yes, thank you.
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Hey, Adal, JPC, and Erin. I've got a fun and slightly terrifying story. I was taking a nightly walk. It started raining. So I picked up the pace to try to head back to my car. Thunder and lightning and no exaggeration, maybe 200 feet in front of me, a power line got struck by lightning. And my ears are still ringing. I'm sitting in my car trying to process the consequences of my own mortality. And I just wanted you guys to know that that happened while I was listening to your podcast. Do with that information what you will. Yeah. Love the show. Thanks for doing it.
01:00:48
Adal
That is fucking bonkers.
Erin
What a devastating way to find out that God doesn't like our podcast.
JPC
I don't know. There's not a court in this land that would convict us. I think we're fine.
Adal
Lightning crashes and old mother dies. Here's how I would spin it. If that was me, if there but for the grace of there is no God, Uh, goes I. I would start wearing, what is it, a very goofy movie? The band Powerline? I would start wearing exclusively Powerline sweaters and shirts and everything, and when people came out to me to talk about the shirt, I would parlay that into me being like, did you know I almost got hit by lightning the other day? By a Powerline?
JPC
If that were me, I would just tell people I got hit by lightning, and that's why I am the way I am.
Erin
It's a concerning trend that it seems like people might start calling us in an emergency. If you almost get struck by lightning or get struck by lightning, I'd say have us be your third call. I would say that's number one. If someone sees a car crash, they call Hey Riddle Riddle.
Adal
We're going to start having voicemails that are narrated by Werner Herzog with a disclaimer of like, please do not listen to this voicemail.
01:01:53
JPC
When I got into that car accident where I almost died, the very first person I called was this person that I was working on this, like I was on my way to shoot a 48 hour film project. I called like that person to be like, hey, I'm not going to come because I got this really bad car crash. They were like, call the hospital. Or your family. Call a doctor. Outstanding. Outstanding. I'm glad you're still alive and I'm glad you're still listening.
Adal
Yes. Erin, besides Howard Dean, is there anything else you'd like to plug?
Erin
Sure. I was recently on an episode of Improv is Dead with some of Webbus and it was really fun and that's already out so you can check that out. Adal, anything to plug?
Adal
JPC and I were recently on an episode of Too Scary Didn't Watch. I think we plugged it last week or two weeks ago, but just want to say if you haven't listened to it, please check it out. We had a really good time talking about Dead Zone and I really enjoyed it. And also, I maybe already mentioned this. Erin, you recommended a game called It Takes Two. Gemma and I started playing it. It is some of the most fun I've ever had playing a video game. I think you have to have two people in the same room to play it, I believe. Maybe you can play it online, but it is some of the most fun I've ever had playing a video game. Could not recommend it more enough. Erin, thank you for putting that in my field of vision. JPC, anything to plug?
01:03:08
JPC
As always, I am ceding my plug time to read a five-star review if you want to get your five-star review. Featured on the show, just leave us a five-star review on iTunes. This five-star review is from Slablo Picasso. Is that a big grande?
Adal
That's a big grande reference.
JPC
Yeah, Slablo Picasso writes, Very, very funny. Earnest and joyful in an infectious way that will more often than not leave you beaming as the credits play. And not because the episode is finally over. Erin Adal and John Patrick Coan make every week brighter without fail. P.S. The Patreon is somehow even better. Truly one of the reviews of all time. Anyway, I've been wanting to talk to you guys about this cool new idea I'm jazzed about called Reaganomics.
Adal
Did he say in the review, truly one of the reviews of all time?
JPC
It's just truly one of the reviews of all time. Now here's what I will say. I do think that when you type in a review on iTunes, I don't think it gives you like a spell check thing.
Erin
It gives you a word count, so you have to be...
01:04:09
JPC
Yeah, you're typing into a form, so there's a lot of mistakes in these reviews, and I do think it's very funny to read them as is.
Erin
That's so funny. I actually have one more riddle for you guys. Oh, please. From Kat earlier. Okay, Kat earlier. I think these were the snack ones. I am the last child of a Titan, who ate all my siblings before me. When I overthrew him, I married my sister, who I discovered was really quite boring. I slept all around, and the proof can be found in the stars and space above you. For much to my shame, the astronomers gave the names of my partners to my moon.
Adal
Well, I know the guy, the God who ate his own son, very famous portrait. Uh, maybe it's a photo. We don't know. We don't know. The technology that they had, but I know that was Chup... Chup... Uh, what is his name? Juniper... Chronos. Juniper... Chronos. Bye forever.
01:05:18
JPC
And that's why Boris Johnson is stepping down. The parliamentary elections will be head. The Tory leadership must remain strong if we are ever to overcome. It is actually a very important distinction. It is that the Labour governor... Frankly, my darling, we are gonna die.
Adal
I'm not stopping it. You're closing the whole thing.
JPC
I'm not doing it. Turn it off, Casey. Why is it so fucking long?
Adal
What the fuck? We regret to inform you that JPC, Erin Keif, and Adal Rifai have died.
Erin
Oh my god, that's what you would hear if you went to Hey Riddle Riddle hell.
Adal
Is that... Oh my god. I think my neighbors are banging on my front door.
JPC
Yeah, there's definitely banging coming from inside of my head.
Adal
The banging is coming from inside your head.
JPC
I honestly keep all of it. If anything, add more Howard Dean students in post. Hey there, JF's and DB's. If you like that, you are going to love this week's Patreon. We have Jesse Farrar and Mike Hale from the Your Kickstarter Sucks podcast on to play a little game of real or fake. 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 and you get those ad-free episodes for $8 a month. See you there!
01:06:46
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That was a Headgum podcast.