Which Riddle Riddle?

#216: Pigs on a Train

00:00:02

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This is a HeadGum podcast.

Erin

All right, so our first riddles are warm-up riddles and they come from Darryl Fraser.

Adal

Hey Erin. What's up? What the fuck is happening? It's the start of the episode. We're supposed to like bullshit for 20 minutes.

Erin

Wait, what? I thought this was a riddle podcast.

Adal

It was, but that riddle podcast burned down seven years ago on this very night. Like 200 episodes ago as a riddle podcast.

00:01:03

Erin

Oh shit, we don't do... Oh, okay. No, no, no, no, no. Oh, let me see my shuffle's paperwork.

Adal

Oh, so, sorry Erin, maybe we start and it's like we're all in like a haunted manner and like our uncle just died and we have to figure out how to stay the night and then win a million dollars and then like maybe minute 42 we do our first riddle?

JPC

I'm actually still in a bad mood because I was assaulted as soon as I got to work today. I feel like you're exaggerating a little bit. By the threat of doing a riddle? I'm actually still fucked up and I do need two weeks.

Adal

Okay, okay. I think I got, Erin, I think I got it. Just, Erin, give me one second here. Come on in, John Patrick Coan. I'm HR, and what is your complaint? Yeah, I got a big complaint. I showed up.

Erin

Hi HR. I have a complaint too. Sorry. I don't mean to cut off JPC. Oh, a Falcon just threw in the window.

Adal

A Falcon flew in the window.

Erin

Hello. JPC planned a two-week vacation and is trying to find any excuse to let us Let him leave for two weeks. He didn't let us know about this video.

00:02:08

JPC

How dare you? How dare you? You know what? The first people I'm telling about this are the fine people in Napoli who run the Airbnb that I booked. Because when I tell them, their faces are going to hit the floor. They don't necessarily speak English so well. So I'll have to count the exclusives.

Erin

Welcome to this haunted mansion your uncle has passed and you need to solve... Witch Uncle! Um, am I doing this right now?

Adal

No, I'm saying Witch Uncle. W-I-T-C-H.

Erin

Yeah. My Witch Uncle. But this is going well, right? This is what you wanted?

Adal

Yes, yes, yes, yes. This is what I wanted. Thank you.

Erin

Well, now that that bit's out of the way, I saw a big tree this weekend. The tallest tree? No.

Adal

The widest tree?

Erin

No.

Adal

The silliest tree?

Erin

I saw General Sherman tree. It's the heaviest tree in the world.

Adal

General Sherman Oaks, I get it.

00:03:08

JPC

How do we know that it's the heaviest in the world?

Erin

That's what I asked. I went, how do they know? It's the most tree that's inside of a tree and it's 2,200 years old.

Adal

And they checked all the trees?

Erin

I'm not sure if, you know what, that's also a very good follow-up question. I'm not sure we've checked every tree, but it's huge. And I can't believe a human hasn't cut it down yet because I saw it and immediately was like, I want to hollow it out. I want to make a tree house.

JPC

Yeah. We do love doing that to trees, don't we?

Adal

Not even a tree house. That could be like a tree, like a pneumatic tube tree. Like at the bank. Remember the bank?

JPC

Pneumatic tubes. Oh, I remember the bank.

Erin

Oh yeah.

JPC

Oh, I remember the bank.

Erin

But how was your weekend? I saw a big tree.

JPC

I like trees because trees are like, we need those on the planet to breathe. They're actually doing the thing with, they turn what we turn the air into back at the air, right?

Erin

You gotta go back to teaching high school science, JPC.

Adal

How turned into air are they?

00:04:11

JPC

Hey, what do we do when we see these trees? We say, let's cut these motherfuckers down. Let's see how many hot dogs we can fit inside of them. Let's see how many Wayfair bookcases we can make out of them.

Erin

Yep. Oh, so sad.

JPC

Let's see how many Björnfjörns we can make. Drive out to fucking Skokie and fill up a warehouse full of them. That's my Thor. Björnfjörn.

Adal

I went to New Jersey for the first time.

JPC

How was it? Oh, I'm so sorry. Sorry that happened to you.

Adal

Well, there's parts of it that weren't so great. Mostly the driving. But then I went to, there was a wedding I went to on the campus of Princeton. Absolutely gorgeous campus. Unbelievable. And I learned a bunch of little factoids about America there. And I didn't know Thomas Edison. No, not Thomas Edison. Albert Einstein.

JPC

He still doesn't know.

Adal

Whoops, Albert Einstein taught at Princeton. That's where he developed his E equals MC's, rappers. Yeah, sure, they would tell you that.

Erin

Adal, I'm actually really sensitive about Princeton because I didn't get in there. I also didn't apply, but I'm still a little bit pissed that they should have known. They should have sought me out and asked me to go to their university.

00:05:22

Adal

I had amazing ice cream and bent spoon, I had delicious sandwiches at Hoagie Haven, I went to the grounds for Sculpture Garden, which was beautiful, so I had a very good time.

JPC

I applied to Princeton. I was accepted on a conditional rowing scholarship to Princeton. And the condition was that I spent 10 to 12 years getting really good at rowing. And I did not, I will say, did not meet the conditions or the, I guess, scholastic requirements or whatever.

Adal

I had a conditional scholarship. They demanded I wash my hair.

Erin

Um, so I don't know. That sounds like a good weekend though.

Adal

Very good weekend and a lovely wedding and I'm trying to think it was a bunch of banned kids, a bunch of banned nerds, and then a lot of, have you guys heard of hashing? There's a lot of hashers.

Erin

Don't know what that is. Don't think you'll learn.

Adal

Yeah, that's people who make hash in washing machines or whatever. It's like a running club. It's more like you run smiles and you chug beers and then you run into more and then you chug beers and then you do little dances.

00:06:25

JPC

How old are these people?

Adal

How old are these people?

JPC

I want to see. If the answer is anything above 17, unacceptable. Unacceptable. That's the last age that you should be if that's a thing that you're into.

Erin

And JBC, did you have a good weekend?

JPC

No.

Erin

Well, I saw a big tree. Adal hung out with 17-year-olds.

JPC

And JBC had a bad weekend. No, they were aspirational 17-year-olds.

Adal

And JBC, you have a beautiful new fire pit.

JPC

Oh, thank you. I call it a burn pit and it's for my documents.

Erin

Oh, great.

JPC

I call it a burn book and it's full of people I went to high school with and the nasty things that I can say about them.

Erin

Okay, my name is Darryl Fraser. No it's not, Erin. What are you doing? I'm a middle school math teacher in Bloomington, Indiana but grew up on the north side of Chicago. Does it sound like a character? I found out about you guys when you guessed it on Dungeons and Daddies.

00:07:32

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Oh nice.

Erin

Dungeons and Daddies, we love you. I immediately went to episode one and started listening. You have entertained me on long drives, half marathons, good for you. And when I needed a pick me up, that's so sweet, I have warm up riddles for you all. I hope you enjoy them as much as I've enjoyed your work. If you do, I have more.

Adal

Thanks. I think someone from our guest spot on Dungeons and Daddies got a flight risk tattoo.

Erin

I know. I don't think it was Daryl. I think Daryl would have mentioned it. But Daryl, you were impressed by your email until we realized you didn't get a tattoo of something we said.

JPC

Honestly, we don't know that because if I got a flight risk tattoo, which is a joke that we made on someone else's podcast, I don't necessarily think that I would lead with that. When I was telling people about stuff for my life, I don't necessarily think that that would be number one of my conversation sheet.

Erin

Darryl, I think you should get a tattoo of JPC crossing his arms. And what should he be saying, Adal?

JPC

Have there be like a word bubble? Like I'm going to say something, but then instead just have the tattoo artist turn it into a big sandwich. Like I'm just eating the big sandwich, but it is a word bubble.

00:08:37

Erin

Okay, yeah, Darryl, get that.

JPC

Or have him say not in my backyard. I do wonder if someone got a tattoo of me, just of me the person on their body, like what's the reference that they're using for that? Are they like looking at a picture of me?

Erin

From memory.

JPC

From a local nightmare.

Erin

Someone describes your voice.

JPC

I feel like I don't see a lot of tattoos of real people. Like tattoos of like a face of a real person.

Erin

Smart, because what if that person ends up being a shitty person and you tattoo them on your body?

JPC

This is my whole thing with, I got a Pikachu tattoo. And then that was like 2016.

Adal

He turned out to be a detective, which is basically a cop.

JPC

Yeah, exactly. When that shit dropped, oh my god, embarrassing.

Erin

Should not have taken a sip of water right before Adal.

JPC

ACAB applies to you, Pikachu. All Pokemon are bad.

Erin

Does this make me laugh really hard that when people haven't seen you yet they think you're like a tall blonde surfer 80s movie villain?

00:09:43

JPC

80s movie villain, yeah.

Erin

And it just makes me laugh that that's what your voice sounds like to other people. He looks like Waluigi. Is that his name?

JPC

At one point, this was like maybe five, six years ago. This is before Hey Riddle Riddle. Someone sent me a like Waluigi hat. And when I was wearing it around for a while, I was like, this is like a vibe. Like I can do this vibe. I was at the point where I had a big mustache too. So I could do a Waluigi vibe. I'm not as Italian as I'd like to be, but I can come off more Italian than I am. That's what should be in the word bubble.

Erin

Let's do these warm-up riddles. I think that they're really fun and you're going to enjoy them.

Adal

And these are from Brandon?

Erin

They're from Darryl.

Adal

Darryl, I do have one quick question.

Erin

We're going to turn our listening ears on today, boys and girls. Absolutely not.

Adal

No? Erin, I do have one question, which I just realized, the Super Mario Brothers, famously Italian, is Yoshi, an Italian dinosaur.

00:10:46

Erin

I can call him and ask.

JPC

Italian dinosaur sounds like rhino, like a republican in name only. Italian dinosaur sounds like short for something. I'm not really sure what you're trying to call something.

Adal

It sounds like if someone cuts you off, if you're driving and somebody cuts you off on the interstate or something and your brain is frazzled and you don't have time to think up a good insult, it's like, hey you Italian dinosaur. And then the person in driver's seat is like, what was that about?

JPC

If I'm doing the ADR for the TV version of Die Hard, I'm going to be calling people Italian dinosaurs Yippee-ki-yay Italian dinosaurs. It's making it there a lot.

Erin

What do you call a lamb covered in chocolate?

JPC

Ooh, lamb covered in chocolate. Not a bad start. Hold on, I can do these all day.

Erin

Not a bad start.

JPC

Oh, is it you? No. Think like real simple... Nougat.

00:11:48

Adal

Oh, milk lamb?

Erin

Milk lamb?

Adal

Chocolate lamb.

Erin

Just to give you a sense of how these are going to go, I'm just going to give you this one. No!

JPC

Don't give it to us.

Erin

Then you'll understand what the... I'll set the precedent. Ready?

JPC

Fine.

Erin

What do you call a lamb covered with chocolate?

JPC

What? As soon as I understand... Hey Riddle. Oh, so these are Boston jokes.

Erin

No, they're not all Boston jokes. They just don't come little. There could still be five.

Adal

JBC, Daryl.

JPC

Wait, Daryl? Who's Brandon?

Erin

Brandon lives with Daryl? How does a beaver know which tree to cut down?

00:12:50

Adal

Because damn, that tree's fat. No. How does a beaver know which tree to cut down? Oh, trick question.

JPC

Beavers don't cut down trees. They just take the fallen trees and turn them into industry.

Erin

Sorry, JBC used to teach high school science as you already know.

JPC

I know what you were going to say, I used to teach beaver. Hey, this is not a screwball 80s comedy. Don't tell me I used to teach beaver.

Erin

But it's a good start.

Adal

They're made of wood.

Erin

I love that you're thinking like that, but no.

JPC

That's like something that Van Wilder would introduce himself as.

Erin

I'm going to tell you.

JPC

Ready? Wait, wait, wait, wait. Which tree, how does the beaver know which tree did she cut down? And Erin, will you tell us, is this a pun? I really want to get this right. Yes. It's rotted. It's a pun.

Erin

These are all going to be puns basically. Or like little like... It's timber. It's timber. We're back, we're, you're back on the sheep. You've looked back around the sheep, buddy. You're gonna, hold on, we're gonna tie Adal, tether him back to the podcast.

00:13:58

JPC

Is it something sassy, Erin? Is it something sassy like, wouldn't you like to know? Like, would you like to know?

Erin

That's, I love where your head's at. You are officially in the right mindset, but no.

JPC

Fuck, okay.

Adal

How does the beaver know which tree to cut down? It'll find out soon, but first a break for rest, Boris? Adal, again, you are so- Is it like a big long sentence?

Erin

You're right there.

Adal

Is the answer like a big old sentence?

Erin

How does a beaver know which tree to cut down? Whichever one he chews.

JPC

Oh, I was so close to teeth. I was like, beavers have big teeth. That's improper grammar. Yeah, it's chews.

Erin

They're animals, Adal. You think they have good grammar? They're animals.

JPC

Hold on. Brandon and Darryl are not animals. They are human people who love the podcast.

Erin

Prove it.

JPC

We don't know that.

Erin

Where do you find the center of gravity?

JPC

Earth. G-R-A-V-I-T-Y. Is it A? No.

00:14:58

Erin

V. Come on.

JPC

It's V. Oh, you're right.

Erin

It is V. You guys got it. I'm proud of you. Yeah. Which train do pigs ride?

Adal

Oh, that one in Six Flags. Which train?

Erin

Can I tell you, I went yesterday, I was driving on the highway and I went, whoa, are those roller coasters? Whoa, is that Six Flags? And then I blacked out and I was on a roller coaster in Six Flags. No, no. I pulled over to the side of the road and I went to Six Flags and I rode two roller coasters and one of them was the worst roller coaster I have ever been on in my life. Erin, is it Ham Track? It is Ham Track.

JPC

Okay. Okay, so it was ham track. Wait, Erin, is this real? You drove by Six Flags and then you just pulled over and went in? Mm-hmm. Is there like a... Six Flags isn't like Disney, right? Like, what's the admission fee? Is there an admission fee?

Erin

Well, so Sean, like two, like a year ago, went to Six Flags with his college friend. Okay. And he came back in the house and he talked for 20 minutes trying to justify that he had bought a two-year season pass.

00:16:06

JPC

Of course he had.

Erin

With free parking and he tried to let me know how actually he's saving so much money and I was like, you're probably never going back there. And then we got to the front and since he had a special pass, I got in for like $30, which is expensive, but isn't like $170 or whatever the hell Disney is.

JPC

Yeah, I don't... Disney is so expensive. Disney is like... It's like $400. It's insane.

Adal

Did you know when I first went to Disney back in 1970 that they had Disney bucks you had to buy in order to spend money in the park? Wait, you want to carry on a huge deer with you just to spend money in the park?

Erin

You went to Disney in 1970?

Adal

No. But when I first went, it was probably like 89 or something. You had to exchange your money for Disney bucks and they're like, they look so fake because they are. And it's like a little Mickey Mouse instead of George Washington. And that's the only way you could buy anything in the park. And then I feel like there's something where it's like you couldn't re-exchange it. So I feel like my dad exchanged X amount and then at the end we were left with like 32 extra Disney bucks we just couldn't do anything with.

00:17:12

JPC

That's also how they pay their people right? They pay them in Disney bucks and then you have to like use the Disney bucks to like rent your shovel and your lantern.

Adal

You have to pay your mortgage in what's the name of that area.

JPC

Yeah and then I guess if you don't like they hire a bunch of Pinkertons to come and shoot you? It's weird there, but we love it. If you want to advertise on the show Disney, we love it. She-Hulk coming everywhere. Check it out. Or not coming, it's up to her. It's totally her call. That's why it's different.

Erin

I haven't spoken in like 40 minutes. It's been 40 minutes, right? I think it's been 40 minutes and I've spoken.

JPC

Well then Erin, we have to take a break. She come on her schedule.

Erin

No, I actually... Oh, my sister texted me.

Adal

Don't make me come. You wouldn't like it when I come.

Erin

I'm sorry, Erin. She help makes me uncomfortable. Like, the idea of it, everything makes me feel kind of sick. And I was like, yeah, well, Marvel went off the rails and there's no getting them back. Okay, I would like to see a scene. Yes. You are a la strangers on a train. You are two pigs on a train and you're strangers and you get to talking and you realize you're in a unique position where you can do a favor for each other.

00:18:24

JPC

Got it.

Adal

Sorry, it was I. I must have woken myself up and I apologize. Must have been me who was sleeping and then I woke up. Will you murder my kids?

JPC

Sorry, I was having a dream. Did I say that out loud? Tommy, Jimmy, why don't you give Dad the room here? I want to talk to this man.

Adal

Yeah, Claire, Marshall, why don't you head out as well? Here's ten pig bucks. Go buy yourself some slop.

JPC

Yeah, that's for both of us. What? Yeah, for my kids too. That's for both of us. Come on, are you going to tell me that you don't know me? That we're not old friends? That's not for both of us? Considering what you're going to ask me in just a second.

Adal

That's for both of us. Yes, yes. Your dad's uncle piggy? Come on, man. How did you know? How did you know that's my name? Uncle Piggy and I have to talk. Why don't you kids head on? Yeah, head on. They're gone. Listen. They're gone. I need you to kill my kids because pretty soon they're going to grow up and they're going to need money for college. Daddy doesn't have that money.

00:19:40

JPC

Well, we are in a position, my friend, to help each other out. Because Tommy and Jimmy, my kids, actually not my kids. They're professional assassins that I'm smuggling into St. Louis on this train.

Adal

Oh, this worked out great. I guess I was going to say, your kids look pretty old. The one has an eye patching goatee and military fatigues, so I was curious.

JPC

Yeah, but that's Jimmy. But Tommy, he's the one with a lot of cool shit. Oh yeah. Yeah. I mean describe how he looks. Jet black. Jet black straw hat. Jet black straw hat. Slick black straw hat. You never get a straw hat. There's slick black jet black straw hat.

Adal

Uh-huh. Instead of legs he has fence posts. Fence posts, yeah. Big old tattoo of his back on his front. He's a killer.

JPC

He's a killer for sure. Now, this solves your problem because you need professional hit pigs to hit your pigs.

Adal

Yes, but it has to look like an accident.

JPC

Of course. They're professionals. They're out of town pigs. They'll do a good job. Don't worry about that.

00:20:44

Adal

Like they tripped and fell into a bullet.

JPC

Okay, yo, I don't go to your work and knock the broom out of your hand, okay? Don't tell my guys. How'd you know?

Adal

How'd you know I sweep up Slop?

JPC

That gets to my problem that you might have a solution for. Okay. You smell fucking awful. Get out of this train car. This is a private sleeper car I bought for my family. It's a deal. I don't know how you got in here. Okay? A deal? We got a deal? Deal. Okay, good. I want to see your fucking pig ass again.

Erin

Seen.

Adal

Erin put on sunglasses. At the end of that scene. Was the scene getting too bright?

Erin

Yeah, you are too shiny of stars. I'm on a podcast with a couple of shining stars.

JPC

Erin, I have a question for you. Are those sunglasses from that sponsor that we had that one time?

Erin

No, I bought these with my human money. Not the Disney kind. The real kind. I saw Bullet Train last week.

JPC

Okay. How was it?

Erin

I don't know Bullet Train. I loved it. I like a good, now I feel like I'm comparing every action movie I see to RRR in terms of how fun it is. And I put it in like a 7 out of 10 on the RRR scale. Like it was a blast.

00:21:56

Adal

I thought that.

Erin

I was going to say there's a couple performances in it that I thought were truly excellent and very, very fun. So I would recommend going to see that in theaters if you like that kind of thing.

JPC

I have a question for you guys. Have either one of you seen, I think it's called the 355 yet? It's on one of these streaming services. I texted you about it. You gotta watch it. I really want your opinions on it. It's very good. Watch the whole thing. You told me it sucks. No, no, no, no, no. It's over two hours. Watch the whole thing. I'll watch it tonight. I hope you do. I hope you do. It has one of my favorite sequences in an action movie that I think I've ever seen. Mariah and I were both baffled by it. We were just watching it, absolutely baffled by it.

Erin

I can't wait.

JPC

Which is what you want. You want to be baffled. You want to be baffled.

Erin

Why is a stick of gum like a sneeze?

Adal

Because you a chew it?

Erin

Yeah. It's a chew.

Adal

Because you a chew it.

Erin

How did the hunter get hurt while bending over to study some tracks?

00:22:59

Adal

Deer came up behind it and rammed him in the ass?

Erin

Adal, do you really think that that's the answer?

Adal

I'm hoping.

Erin

I know it's not though.

Adal

Were they tire tracks going in reverse?

Erin

That's funny. It's similar to that. You're not totally off.

Adal

So what was it?

Erin

How did the hunter get hurt while bending over to study some tracks? Yes, GPC.

JPC

It's moose tracks like the ice cream. He was bending over, but he didn't see the protective glass that bit a Jerry's and he just smashed his face into the glass.

Erin

No, we're not asking for you to tell us what happened to you this past weekend. We're asking you.

JPC

Wait, I never said I shit my pants. Look, if a face slams against ice cream blast that hard, you get a shit your pants.

Erin

It's a compliment.

JPC

The energy has to go somewhere. This is a compliment to the ice cream chef. They should feel very grateful.

Erin

That's insane. But that's a pretty good answer too. I know, but it's not bad. How did the hunter get hurt while bending over to study some tracks?

00:24:03

Adal

Got it.

Erin

Yes, Adal.

Adal

It was Hunter Biden. He left his laptop at home.

JPC

And the tracks he was ready to cover were him. I think it was like having sex with prostitutes, I believe.

Erin

What was he doing?

JPC

Quite a dog on that Hunter Biden.

Erin

How did the hunter get hurt while bending over to study some tracks?

JPC

Can I ask a question, Erin?

Erin

Yeah.

JPC

Is tracks like animal tracks or is it like a train tracks? Wow, train tracks. Him got hit by a train.

Erin

Yeah, Train hit him. I love that one. I'd like to see a scene. Adal, you are a hunter and JPC, you are a deer and JPC, you're just getting annoyed that he's following you and you're telling him to back off.

JPC

Hey man. I don't have any money. I can't help you. I can't help you. Are you trying to use a deer call? I hear you man. You've been following me in this forest for I want to say 10-15 minutes now.

00:25:05

Adal

Do you need something? Your head? I'm out. I want to mount your head.

JPC

I thought so. So you're a hunter. I can see you're in head to toe camo. It's the wrong camo for this environment. What? What is orange camo for?

Adal

Is this if you're going to like a Six Flags? What is this? I don't know. I mean, I went to Bass Pro Shop. Okay. Which I guess is my first mistake. I should have gone to the Deer Pro Shop. But this is what they said I'm supposed to wear in the deer nest or whatever they call it. Were you set up in a tree?

JPC

Yeah, and they gave you what? They gave you this fishing pole? Because you've been trying to hook me with this fishing pole as you're just... Yeah, so that's not going to work. You're going to need like a gun or a bow or like a knife. You're not going to give you a fishing pole.

Adal

I don't have the money for that. Don't you want this worm? Eat this worm. Put your mouth around this worm.

JPC

Dude, get that out of my fucking face. I'm going to hurl. I'm going to throw up. Get that worm out of my legs. I'm rearing back like I'm going to box your ass. Any closer to me, I'm going to deer-hoof you right to the head. I swear to God I will. Where'd you get your jeans? These are Jinko. I got these at the Gathering of the Juggalos. I go every year. What? Yeah. It's in Ohio. It's always a great time. You get fucked up. I got so fucked up on ketamine, but it's worth it. I met some of my best friends there. I met my wife there. Ex-wife. Well, ex-wife sister.

00:26:34

Adal

Oh. Do you all spray each other with phago? Is that real?

JPC

Man, you're so out of your fucking element. You're asking fucking basic-ass questions. No, I've been to Riotfest.

Adal

Which is, uh, similar. Okay.

JPC

Yeah. Go ahead. Please. Please tell me how Riot Fest is similar to the... This is Woodstock, uh, uh, 1979 and Woodstock 2000, baby. Or 99? Windows. Windows is the bad one.

Adal

Uh, Riot Fest, you know, I, like I saw Trent Reznor there with Nine Snails, and there's like a fun little circus, and, um, you know, there's little carnival games and stuff, and there's a lot of, like, stripes going on. It's kind of silly.

JPC

Is Trent Reznor secretly Christian? Then don't talk to me about that shit.

Adal

Oh wait, it's not snails. They nailed Jesus to a cross. Yes, I guess he is.

JPC

Okay. All right. Well, cool. Fun story. I guess I'll catch you later. I guess our business is done. It's concluded.

Adal

I want to fuck you like an animal. Didn't Abraham slaughter a lamb?

JPC

Now we're getting there. Now we're getting there. Now I know why you came out here. Now I know why you came out to the forest.

00:27:42

Erin

Why was the fencing champion so honest?

Adal

Um, foil.

JPC

They had a point. Fencing champion's so honest. No one could point out, everyone could point out his flaws.

Adal

He wasn't on guard.

Erin

Smart, but that's not the answer.

JPC

What's the, the, the fencing foil is called like an eté, eté? This was like always a crossword.

Erin

Yeah, you're thinking too hard about it. What would someone who doesn't know fencing call that?

JPC

Sword. Why was the fencing champion too honest? What was the question?

Erin

Why was the fencing champion so honest?

JPC

He swore it had to be.

Adal

He kept his sword. Yeah, he was a man of his sword. He was a man of his sword.

Erin

And we have just three more of these and I'll let you take a break Adal.

Adal

Oh, I do want to see a scene.

Erin

Okay, great.

Adal

The two of you are fencing. JPC, you are wearing the full regalia and a foil and everything. Got it. Erin, you are wearing no protective gear and you have like a big broadsword.

00:28:49

JPC

Judge? Judge?

Erin

And I'm gone.

JPC

No, you all allow it. Time, timeout, timeout. I'm taking one of my timeouts.

Erin

What?

JPC

We get three. Judge, can I- Did you want to use a lifeline?

Erin

Time in. No, time out.

JPC

I like to call a friend. I like to phone a friend. Okay, who would you like to call? Okay, I'm gonna call. Jesus Christ, I don't have many friends left.

???

No! Oh, thank God.

JPC

She got herself with the sword. She tried to lift it over her head. She came right into her shoulder. I'll allow it. Can I get a default win, Judge?

???

I don't even have protection on it. He's coming at me with this thing. I'm not. Can I help myself with my own sword? Are you serious? Judge, are you gonna allow this? I'll allow it. Judge!

JPC

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

00:29:53

Erin

Nope.

Adal

She's obviously bleeding.

JPC

She's losing a lot of blood. That could be Ian's blood. It's hers. Judge, you can't see this. You should definitely hear it. As soon as you turn your back to her, she is screaming. She is just screaming.

Erin

I'm not. I'm not. I'm not.

JPC

Who else could that be? Who else could that be in here?

Adal

Well, could have been me. I do suffer from night terrors. Judge. Were my eyes closed? Yes. Okay, there you go. Time in.

JPC

Can I forfeit? I'd like to forfeit.

Erin

No, Josh! Time out, time out, time out, time out, time out.

Adal

Oh, you just used all three.

Erin

Oh no.

Adal

Did you judge with your timeouts?

Erin

Look, listen, in my one time out, I'm gonna win, but it doesn't feel fair that he can come at me because I don't have protective gear on, so I feel like I should only have to get to go after him. And I'm not bleeding, I'm winning.

Adal

That sounds fair, I'll allow it.

JPC

Time in? Judge, no, Judge, I forfeit. I do want to forfeit. Princeton is not worth it. Princeton is not worth it. I don't want to be in that battle, find another weird upper-crust sports activity. Stab! I'll try polo. Judge, she stabbed herself. I did not! She stabbed herself. We don't know that.

00:31:11

Adal

Judge, the sword is in her shoulder blade and it's also pinning her foot to the ground. I'd argue I saw the amazing Jonathan do the same thing 20 years ago. Judge.

JPC

And he turned out fine. No, did you watch the documentary? Yes, he didn't turn out fine. He did. He didn't want to be fine.

Erin

Perfect.

Adal

That's how you get into the skull and crossbones. Skull and crossbones, skull and bones.

JPC

I do remember I maybe did watch that documentary, and I think it has a sad part in it, but I don't really remember his story. He does heroin on camera. Yeah, that's the one.

Adal

That's the part that's like- It's very sad. Yeah, very sad. No bueno.

Erin

What did the mechanical man do when he ran out of money at the poker game?

Adal

He robot in more for a moment. Yeah, robot in.

Erin

What was that?

Adal

He robot in. He robot in.

Erin

Adal fell asleep mid sentence. Night tears. What did the robot do?

Adal

He asked Richard Gere for some money. What did the robot do when he ran out of money in the poker game?

Erin

It's a poker pun.

00:32:11

Adal

He folded his house. He flushed. He flushed. He straight up yelled. He caught it on the river. He ring toss.

JPC

He gave a guy a hand job. He folded his hand. Wow.

Erin

He threw his hand.

Adal

He threw his hand.

Erin

Is that a poker term?

Adal

I've heard the term, I've heard fold but not under your hand.

JPC

I gotta see another scene, I gotta see another scene. Erin, Adal, you are professional poker players in the World Series of Poker and I am the dealer and I'm gonna keep reprimanding. You're the last two in but I'm reprimanding your bad behavior. Okay. Jeff, you are the big blind. But I will say this one time, and this is the last time I will say this. I will say this one time. Please listen. This is the last time that I am saying this. After the hand, do not throw your cards at me. You can scoot them across the table. Michelle, I feel like you're trying to get them in my mouth and you're doing a really good job.

00:33:15

Erin

What? And do you think I'm pretty?

JPC

Do you think I'm gambit? Hey, stop slapping me. And Michelle, please, this is odd TV. I'm not drunk. I know, I didn't say you were.

Erin

You have a drinking problem.

JPC

I can't answer the question, do I think you're pretty? Because I don't want, that's a, you're putting me in a really uncomfortable situation.

Erin

Oh, so you don't. So you don't. I'm peeing.

JPC

Oh, okay, that's allowed. Get off your phone. You can't have a phone at the table. Let me look at the number. It says bookie. Is your wife's name bookie? Yeah. Do they not call themselves Dixie Chicks anymore?

Erin

No.

JPC

No, they dropped the Dixie part like, I think like 20 years ago. Really? I think so. A couple years ago. Was it really just a couple?

Erin

Yeah. Can you play it?

Adal

But there was something with the Iraq war where they got mad at the president. I'm all in. No, sorry. I'm a huge all that fan. Sorry, that's what I wanted to say.

00:34:22

JPC

Okay, I haven't dealt the cards yet for the new hand, so no one needs to be calling for all in or...

Erin

You're right, we should take shots. For your birthday, right?

JPC

It's not my birthday.

Erin

Oh.

JPC

When is your birthday? It's not my birthday. It's tomorrow. Happy early birthday.

Erin

We can do shots for your birthday. Damn it. I wish I had them. Let me get these cards in your mouth.

JPC

Dustin, you could have just said... Stop!

Erin

Stop!

JPC

Every time I look away, you try to put cards in my mouth. Well, those are birthday cards. These are birthday cards. Someone threw up. No, you just threw up poker chips.

Erin

I don't know.

JPC

Have you been eating these poker chips? It looks like this is salsa and poker chips.

Erin

Yeah. Thank you, little guacamole, and then you eat them. You gotta get hooked!

00:35:29

JPC

I don't know, I don't think you know.

Erin

Under P? P-E-E. Oh no, I just P. I'm sitting in P. That's not my last name. Let me see.

JPC

No, your name is Gloria Urin. You peed in my tab. Gloria of Urin, you peed in my tab. I was gonna drink this later.

Erin

I'm spitting on poker chips all over.

JPC

You're spitting them into my mouth. Stop. How do you have such... My runny is such good aim.

Erin

Do you like, do you think, oh my god.

JPC

You know what, here's what we're gonna do. Here's what we're gonna do. We've been here for 14 hours. What we're gonna do, everyone's all in. We're just gonna do high card wins and then we all get to go home. Does that sound good?

Erin

And then we should skinny dip.

Adal

Okay, so I'm 6'2 and I'm standing on a chair and I'm holding my card way up here.

Erin

I'm just gonna take the money off. I'm just gonna go. I'm just gonna get the fuck out of here.

JPC

Turn that man into chili? This buddy for myself. Your Honor, she does it all the words.

00:36:35

Erin

We never expected Erin to know all the words. I know all of the words to that song. Do not suggest.

JPC

Erin, if you knew all the words to that song, there was no better time.

Erin

She's ringing them off the screen. She's opening her eyes wider. She's gonna realize one that she doesn't know quite too well. She got married and Wanda started getting abused. She put on dark glasses and long-sleeved blouses and makeup to cover her bruise. Oh, she finally got the nerve to fall for divorce.

JPC

I heard dark glasses and long-sleeved glasses.

Erin

Blouses. We let the law take you from there. And Earl walked right through the restraining order and put her in intensive care. Right away, Mary, and this part, that makes me cry. I flew in from Atlanta on a red-eye midnight flight. I don't feel tears. She held Wanda's hand in it like that. Oh, she used that laugh to skip over some lyrics.

00:37:39

Adal

Nah, nah, nah, nah, break!

Erin

Let's go to her break! No, I got one more! I'll do the one to get back.

JPC

Erin, I'm looking at it right here. You got a 0%. No, I didn't! You were trying to say Blues Traveler's the hook, and you didn't do a good job of that at all. You got the right. I could keep going. Yeah, you got the right. We'll be right back.

Erin

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 gonna 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. And so now I'm flushed with cash and now I'm competent. Pretzel money? Well, maybe we'll talk about that. Rocket Money is a personal finance app that binds 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.

00:38:48

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

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00:39:58

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 painting. Run. Everybody run. Oh no. Maroon.

Adal

Is that DaVinci?

???

Yeah. Yes.

JPC

And bye.

Erin

All right, we got a couple more riddles from Darryl. Everyone learned their lesson that I knew all of the words to Earl by the chicks.

Adal

Now we all learned our lesson. 10 weeks ago. Nobody is surrounding you.

Erin

Whatever, man. It was literally 30 seconds ago. What was the truck doing with a load of hogs?

00:40:59

Adal

What was a truck doing with a load of hogs? What was the truck doing with a load of hogs? Umm, huge lorry.

JPC

Yes. Adal, play in that garden. The truck has a load of hogs.

Adal

Is this a truck pun or a pig pun?

Erin

Yeah, that's the hard part. Pig pun.

JPC

Did the truck have four squeal drive?

Erin

Love it. Not it, though.

Adal

That's better than anything that is going to be said. Four school drive. Truck is loaded with hogs. Bacon. Yeah, there's bacon.

JPC

Pork. Ham. Ham to consider.

Erin

Ham right here. Pork. Pork.

JPC

Pork. Pork. Pork lift.

Erin

It was... Trying to find a... Porking spot. Yeah.

JPC

Okay. Was it trying to parallel pork?

Erin

Oh, that parallel pork would have worked too.

JPC

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Parallel pork.

Erin

Why did the ant wear a bathing suit in the kitchen?

Adal

She was trying to make her uncle jealous.

00:42:03

Erin

Microwave. Why did the ant wear a bathing suit?

Adal

What? You said microwave and that's the answer? Oh, there's a microwave like an ant is so tiny it has to swim in a microwave.

JPC

Oh, okay, okay.

Adal

So it's a surfing ant.

JPC

It's a surfing ant. This is Ant-Man. This is the plot to Ant-Man. A tiny little it serving on a microwave.

Erin

So, thank you. Those were great riddles. Not, nope. These next ones are from Joel and they're Limerick riddles. And Joel is from Illinois and just started listening to sitcom D&D. Thank you Joel. Check out sitcom D&D, Adal and JP. They've both been on it.

JPC

You can also check out Bill, Buds, or... No, how Erin picks the emails now.

Adal

Wow, just dropped the hello from.

Erin

I've never ever heard you use the hello from when you were describing magic tavern. Not one. Have you guys made that joke?

00:43:05

JPC

No.

Erin

Well, I guess they're not firing at all cylinders over there, are they?

JPC

That song from 10 years ago. You certainly got like emails or tweets from people being like, hey, you didn't do a hello from the other side.

Adal

We get a lot of stuff where they're like, you should have done this. And it's like, all right, buddy. You missed it. Armchair podcasting, love it.

JPC

Oh God, I'd love to do that. I'm sitting in this, I'm doing gaming chair podcasting right now. It's fucking awful.

Erin

Hey, here are the Limerick Riddles. Bottle of red, bottle of white. No, it's not that. Billy Joel Lyric Riddles. Oh, I love it. Someone will do that now when we said it. Sorry, whoever feels the burden curse of that to write those.

JPC

I hope someone just writes riddles and makes us read them like we didn't start the fire.

Erin

Some use them to make you feel glee. Some use them to cause you to flee. Some use them to play you and sway you and delay you. And this Riddy has 33. Leah Michelle.

00:44:15

Adal

I'm out of answers.

JPC

Yeah, if it's not Leah Michelle, I... Can't find a funny girl. What comes in 33's? Adal? Famously your favorite number.

Adal

Famously my lucky number, my favorite number. 33 and a third has to do with records.

JPC

Jesus died at age 33. Jesus?

Erin

You're on the wrong track I'd say. Some use them to make you feel glee. Some use them to cause you to flee. Some use them to play you and sway you and delay you. And this Riddy has 33.

JPC

Vowels?

Adal

Tongues.

Erin

You're close with vowels. Tongues is insane.

Adal

Oh, uh, syllables?

Erin

Oh, syllabus. When you put letters together, they make words.

Adal

Oh, when you put letters together, they make tiny little letters.

Erin

I used 33 as two words, LOL. Just trying to make it work, but I thought that was great.

JPC

Very nice. I like that. Well, I guess that's really good.

00:45:17

Erin

Sorry. JPC, what's the word I'm looking for? Sucks. He sucks. Sorry.

JPC

Hold on. I have my tone thing. I got my tone voice modulator on. I don't know how that... It's stuck on sarcasm. I guess it's stuck on sarcasm.

Erin

Oh, it's stuck on sarcasm.

JPC

Uh oh, I guess I'm in big trouble.

Erin

Holy shit, yeah, it's definitely. I think it's been stuck on sarcasm for like 200, how many? 16 episodes?

JPC

Oh, has it? I wish someone would call a wellness check.

Erin

Okay, use me when I'm on a ring. The city might give me as blank. Tap me for letters, the skeleton unfetters, and Erin can use me to sing.

JPC

Did they say Roger Federer? Because it's a tennis racket.

Erin

No, it's not.

JPC

Damn it.

Adal

Diamonds.

JPC

I know this one. I know this one. Let's see. Let me think of another rhyme for this one. I think I got this one because I am rewatching while Mariah is watching for the first time a lot of Better Call Saul. And so this is very, very on the brain for me, which is also really fun because I'll catch like one out of every three episodes or like parts of episodes and they'll be like, what happened? And she'll be like, I don't know. Don't ask me that question. I can't tell you what's happened on this show.

00:46:35

Adal

Everything and nothing. Is it a pay phone?

JPC

No.

Erin

No.

JPC

Erin, I'll be taking out duties of giving him the correct answer when he gets out.

Erin

Oh great, okay. I use me when I'm on a ring.

Adal

Okay, you use me when I'm on a ring.

Erin

You can put it on a ring.

Adal

The city might give me as bling.

Erin

The city gives this to people.

Adal

Key to the city.

Erin

Yes, you got it.

Adal

Oh, it's key.

Erin

Thank you James. I'm sorry, I forgot that you were speaking on behalf of me now. JPC is my press secretary now, so anything, any information that comes from me is going to go through him. So Adal, if you have any questions right now to ask me.

JPC

Erin, can I be your bench press secretary? And can I be your bench press secretary yet? Too much weight for the horse.

Erin

And JPC, you do need to answer Adal's questions on my behalf.

JPC

What's the question Adal?

Adal

Can I be Erin's bench press secretary? Oh, I don't care.

JPC

And that'll be the answer going forward.

Adal

You're fired. I do want to see a scene. Erin, you're the mayor of a town and you are giving JPC the key to the city for a pretty wild reason.

00:47:53

JPC

I wore, I think in the email you said business casual, so I'm hoping that this is okay.

Erin

Hello everybody and welcome to the yearly key giving ceremony. I am your mayor, mayor, and I am here to present the key to the city to Jeffrey.

Adal

Do your slogan about your last name.

???

Mayor Doop-a-doop-a-doop. He'll trail off at the end of every- That's why we love him.

Erin

We are giving the key to the cities- Thank you. To the locksmiths- That made the key. Sort of like a snake eating itself. You hear Jeffrey say some words, make your speech.

JPC

Wow, this is such an honor. Thank you Mayor Doop-a-doop-a-doop-a-doop. I gotta say, this key is too big. It won't do anything. It won't open any doors. It's too big. It's a big key. I made the key too big. Here's the thing. If I'm reading the email late at night, sometimes I'm going to flip inches and feet and I'm going to make a key too big. So I guess what I'm trying to say, Terry, if you're out there in the crowd, I do apologize. We're going to get you into your house. I know you've been locked out for a couple days. I got swept up in this whole thing because I made the key tube egg. We're gonna get you in there, buddy. As soon as I'm back to my shop, just bear with me. I guess to everyone else, just write the word. When you're sending me emails, write inches or centimeters. Also, can you have standard sizes? Just say it's like a number five. That's all I need to know. I love when you measure it.

00:49:56

Erin

I'm sorry to interrupt. Why aren't you echoing? Something wrong with me? Or your voice voice voice?

JPC

Oh my god. You took the mic.

Erin

Oh, so you have to start your speech over. Over. No one can hear you.

JPC

You can hear me, right? I mean, basically it's a speech tool. Okay. So, so, so, so. This is awkward. We've been doing this for a couple of days. I'd love to get you back in your house as soon as I get back to my shop. But we keep restarting the speech.

Adal

Wait, have some fun with it. Say the word money and make it be like money, money, money, money. But that's not an echo.

JPC

I mean, you understand. Don't you understand? Look, if anyone thinks they can do the speech better, there we go.

00:50:56

Adal

Scene, scene, scene, scene.

Erin

A lemon's a bit like this fellow, which makes sense. He's right next to yellow. If he's with champagne, you will not complain. God damn it, why won't this rhyme?

JPC

Colonel Mustard. Orange.

Erin

Yes, it's orange. Fuck. I sometimes stand up after bed, and I can be black, brown or red. Some say my loss results in a gloss and getting me back costs some bread.

JPC

Is this like a white comedian from the 80s?

Erin

It is.

Adal

No. Paul Reiser? Can I hear that one more time? Sometimes I rise after bed. That's everything.

Erin

Sometimes I stand up after bed and I can be black, brown, or red. Some say my loss results in a gloss and getting me back costs some bread.

JPC

Oh, okay. Getting me back across some bread. I think I lost it on that one.

Erin

I can be black, brown, or red is I think very helpful. I think there's also another color it can be.

00:52:02

Adal

These are matches.

Erin

I stand up after bed, something that when you get out of bed, it stands up.

Adal

My penis? After.

Erin

Something you want to share with the class?

Adal

After bed. No.

Erin

Are you sure?

JPC

No.

Adal

My grandpa fought in World War II. Yeah, but which side? Teacher. I guess that's interesting.

JPC

He wasn't an Italian, was he? He's an Italian dinosaur. They chose the wrong side. Let's see. So at first I was thinking like yeast or something, something that rises after bed. Is there like something that like, there's certain plants that do that?

Erin

It's attached to your person.

Adal

It's attached to your person. Peanuts. It's attached to your person.

Erin

Getting it back after you've lost it is expensive.

Adal

Oh, hair.

Erin

Mm-hmm. It's here.

Adal

Thank you, Joel.

00:53:04

Erin

I forgot to ask Casey to do voicemails. I forgot to communicate voicemails, so... Well, not only that, but you forgot to ask the wrong person. Yeah, you. I know, I'm just saying. The whole process I did not do, so we're going to do this.

JPC

Erin, I do have mail upstairs if you want to read a letter. I can read a letter. I think one of them might even have a riddle in it.

Erin

I would love that.

JPC

Alright Casey, let's play that mail back to you. That we all love so much. We'll definitely like it in tune with that. Mail! Hey Riddle. I always love to hear that. Your show has carried me through hard times and through the best times of my life and I can't thank you enough for that. Shortly after we started dating Megan quickly learned every word of your theme song and the two Patreon ones and also fell in love with your show. It is something we take time to listen to together and laugh with each other. There have been times where we have followed asleep listening to the show and Megan has woken up to Erin's voice, sinking there was another woman in our house. Thank you for creating something. We both love that together.

00:54:36

Erin

Sorry, I was there and then I was like, I actually think this was a boundary cross. I gotta get the hell out of here.

JPC

Doesn't seem upset that there's two loud dudes in her eyes.

Adal

Yeah, I was gonna say, when it's our voices, she's like, oh, that's like the guy moving the lawn or something.

JPC

Yeah, my voice famously sounds like a fucking lawn, but I can hit the same decimal count. Thank you for creating something we can both laugh at together and bring joy into our lives. We truly do love your show. Don't Die. And thank you, Eric and Megan. It says you can use our names if you read this.

Adal

I think Don't Die is a magic timer thing, right?

JPC

Yeah. Well, I guess fuck you, Eric and Megan. Here's what Eric and Megan said to us.

Adal

I might be confusing myself.

JPC

Eric and Megan said to us, Hey Riddle.

00:55:40

Erin

Oh, okay.

JPC

So when? I will say it's in, I will say mid-November in Virginia. So we have to RSVP, I think we have to RSVP soon. Oh, and we're invited to the night before. Wow. We could do light bites and beverages. Light bites and beverages.

Erin

I want light bites and beverages.

JPC

I love this.

Erin

Will you send me their wedding website so I can stalk it?

JPC

Yeah, of course they have the not website. Oh, and they even have hotel information on here as well. Well, this is very cool. It looks like if we wanted to, we could ruin a perfectly nice party in Virginia sometime in November. So that's something that we could... Good that we opened this mail pretty quick, huh?

Adal

We should all show up dressed as the Riddler and crash his wedding.

Erin

I will say there's something... Would you guys mind if we had our Hey Riddle Riddle convention? Same weekend, same hotel? Same venue?

Adal

Same venue, same moment. I will say there's something that they mentioned in the letters, something like, your podcast helped carry me or something, which gave me the inspiration. Should we make a motivational poster? And it says, it's like two footprints in the sand and then on either side of them are three other footprints. Mine is maybe like dinosaur footprints. JPC's is like a dead body being dragged. Erin, yours is like rooster feet or something. And then it says when there's eight footprints in the sand, that's when you were listening to Hey Riddle Riddle.

00:57:14

Erin

I'll tell you what, I'm not going to make it, but will I talk to a bunch of people at Eric and Megan's wedding about it? Sure. I can't wait to come to your wedding and tell people about my business ideas. I'm going to dance so hard it's going to make other people not want to dance. Should we show up?

Adal

I'm going to go and make you wish you had never had an open bar.

JPC

We have about a month to decide if we're going to go to this wedding. I think we show up. I think we show up. Maybe we don't go to the wedding, but we do go to the night before light bites and appetizers. I think they'd be very funny.

Adal

The funniest thing to do is for the three of us to go, dress to the nines, show up right before the wedding, meet the couple, and say, our apologies we cannot make it. And then we head out and go grab dinner. We're in town for a burger cake.

00:58:15

Erin

What a nightmare for them that they invite three podcasters sort of as like a bit Where they go like, it would be kind of sweet to send them a wedding invitation knowing full well that we are so bad at reading social situations that we show up and go, oh my god, it's so expensive. Three extra guests. That's like $200 a head. Are they fucking kidding me with this? And we're like, hi, we're going to be so annoying. We don't know anyone.

Adal

If we can sit at the table with the bride and groom, we will come.

JPC

We'll come. Here's what I'll say. The wedding is in November. You probably have a lot of this stuff locked away and planned. I will come. I will come to this wedding if I have three conditions. I get to officiate and I get to pick the flowers and the food. And if you let me do that. Famously they don't decide that until the day before.

Erin

And I'm only going if I get to pick the seating arrangement. I get to decide what relative is sitting with what college friend. I'm in charge.

Adal

And I will come on two conditions. One, I get to like Mystery Science Theater 3000 the entire speech as JPC officiates.

00:59:19

JPC

Okay, I love that.

Adal

The whole vowel ceremony. And then two, I get to have the first dance and it's me alone on the dance floor. I get to dance however I want.

JPC

Adal, do you have your first dance song up and down? Monster Bash.

Erin

Well, he was ready. Don't invite us to your wedding because one day we will show up to one and it will not be funny and you'll go, actually, guys, okay, seriously, try... Can you remind me of the names of the two people?

JPC

This is Eric and Megan.

Erin

Eric and Megan, I need you to actually consider what it would feel like when your aunt comes up to you and goes, who are those three? And you go, oh, um, we listened to a podcast and we reached out to them sort of as a joke to invite them and then they flew here for the free meal.

Adal

There's like a dinosaur dead body and a rooster and they kind of, I don't know what they do.

Erin

They kind of run around. Also, who knows all the words to Earl by the chick.

JPC

I mean, we get this invitation. It doesn't really say like, do we all get plus ones?

01:00:22

Adal

Like are we bringing six people to the wedding? That's fun. Okay, a new caveat, a new condition. The three of us will come if we all get plus wands. So we all have to find, make friends with someone named Juan and bring them.

JPC

Well, here's the thing. When we do a live show, we get 10 comp tickets usually to give out to like friends and family who want to come to the live show. So if we go to a wedding, we should also get 10 comp tickets, right?

Erin

I agree.

JPC

Yeah.

Erin

I actually do agree with JPC just this month. Yeah.

JPC

Well, the science... So we're going.

Adal

We're definitely going.

Erin

Erin? I'll be there. I think, can we do some plugs? Adal, you need a plug?

Adal

Yeah, I want to plug three things. One, I want to plug Eric and Meghan's wedding. Have a wonderful time. We can't wait to see you there. Please be prepared and please warn all the guests so that you're not taken by surprise. Two, I want to plug, I was recently a guest on a fantastic podcast called Braving the Elements. It's an avatar review podcast hosted by our own Janet Morph, Janet Varney, fourth host. And Dante, the voice of Zuko. So I was on there with the two of them talking about the episode Zuko Alone, which is famously one of the best episodes. So please check out my episode of Braving the Elements and all the previous and future episodes of that. And then three I want to promote. Yes.

01:01:42

JPC

Well, what did John Travolta say when Olivia Newton-John left him for a second on the set of Greeds?

Adal

Um, is Danny Zuko alone? Thank you. Oh, to ship paper. And three I want to plug are it's got to be coming up in the next little bit here are upcoming live shows.

JPC

If you're if you're near if you're listening to these now this now that was last week.

Adal

No, never mind. Well, I do have a live show coming up. I want to plug an upcoming live show. Hello from the Magic Tavern or Magic Tavern as Erin calls it, lazily. We'll be performing at the Bell House in New York City. Hey Riddle Riddle was just there last month. So, or this month. So please come check out October 14th, which is a Friday. Come check out Hello from the Magic Tavern at the Bell House in New York City. Go to... I want to say hello from the magic tavern dot com. I cannot remember. Or go to the Bell House venues website to buy tickets now. JPC, do you have anything to plug?

JPC

I wonder, is it magic tavern dot com or is it hello from the magic tavern dot com?

01:02:45

Erin

And Erin, if you were making the website, what would you... Well, I'm a regular so I can call it whenever I please.

JPC

Of course, I'm sending my plugs time to read a five-star review if you want to get your review read on a future episode of Hey Riddle. Just go to Apple iTunes and submit a five-star review and then I will read whatever you put. For instance, this one coming in from Steven H. In parentheses, use my name. Guess what? I use all the names, Steven. This one says, JPC is a dog. JPC is a slimy rat man. But God, do I love him. Erin is underappreciated. I wish Adal was my dad. Thank you, Steve and H, for submitting that riddle. Maybe talk to anyone else in your life about that. And Steve and I want you home by 10. Wow, Ted, cool that.

???

Wow.

Adal

This is cool by an A. I'm not really good at that.

Erin

Hell yeah. I would like to ask people to watch the TV show, 101 Places to Party Before You Die, featuring John Gabris and Adam Pally. John Gabris, also another Headgum-er. I want like 100 more seasons of it, so I just need other people to watch so it gets more seasons.

01:03:52

JPC

It's so fucking funny.

Erin

It's so good and so comforting.

JPC

What, it's like at least 12 or else it can't fulfill its promise, right? Gotta be. It has one. Yeah, it has to, I can't do the math. Nobody can do this math. Can I tell you, I got irrationally upset because I watched the first two episodes and then realized that that was all there was at the time. Like it was, it's, it comes out like week to week to week. And I was like, Brian, I were pissed. We were like, what the fuck is this? Like they're still doing TV like this? Come on. You gotta be kidding me.

Erin

It's so good and it really does feel like the type of show that I want there to be like hundreds of episodes of it so you can just like it just it's so watchable. I love it. I hope that they do it for many more years.

Adal

I'll never forget, it was not the last time we were in LA, but the time before that. We were walking, I can't remember where we were walking in LA, and a car pulls up to a stoplight and we're crossing the street. Oh, we were on Melrose. We were on Melrose, and a car pulls up and somebody rolls down the window and screams, it's Hey Riddle Riddle! And I was like, oh, this is funny, a fan spotted us, and we look over and it's John Gaberson.

JPC

You're like, oh, I'm being made fun of. It was Gabriel leaning out of the passenger side window of his car, and his wife was acting like it was like, this is it. This is life with this guy. It's normal. It was very funny. Nothing famous.

01:05:03

Erin

It was very cute. Anyways, Jupiter. Oh, God, I did it myself and it felt terrible.

???

Ew, ew.

Erin

Bye forever.

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Starting Erin Keif and John Patrick Coan, Casey Toney could be editing. Have already paired in the music. Logo created by Emily Tartamus and Emma Inamora.

JPC

Casey, don't you have a clip of Erin saying Jupiter that you can put in at the end of the episode?

???

That's too much effort.

JPC

Yeah, hell yeah, Casey. Hell yeah, buddy.

Erin

Love that attitude.

JPC

That's the attitude.

???

No notes for this one, right?

JPC

No, Casey, you killed it, man, as always. Massive restraint from Casey. You didn't hear a single sound board. Proud of you.

???

You're really killing it. I'm not proud of you guys for saying nothing worth a funny drop.

01:06:03

JPC

Oh, shit. Wow. He nearly brought it back to us. Hey there, rules and tides. If you like that, you are going to love this week's Patreon. It's another entry into our state series with Alabama. You can listen to that plus our entire back catalog at patreon.com slash HeyRiddleRiddle, but join the Clue Crew for $5 a month or the Review Crew and get those ad-free episodes for $8 a month. See you there.