Which Riddle Riddle?

#275: Bleh Riddle Riddle 6!

00:00:01

Erin

This is a HeadGum podcast.

JPC

Alright, Halloween.

Erin

Let's do it.

JPC

I gotta get in the fucking mindset. Boo! Give me ten minutes to have to change my pants.

Erin

Ten minutes? That's way too long.

Adal

Ten minutes if you shit your pants, that's too long. I guess if it's liquid shit ten minutes, but if it's solid shit, you should need two max. Wow.

Erin

I actually don't want to talk about this.

Adal

No.

???

One, two, three, four, bleh.

00:01:03

???

Good evening, folks, and welcome to another episode of Terrifying Sounds. Tonight we're playing the audio of a very scary incident. Here we have Colonel Tillamandu and Dr. Savannah as they made their way into the pyramids of Egypt. As they went further and further down into the bowels of the pyramid, they came upon a sarcophagus of one Tutankhamun. Here now, the audio of them opening the sarcophagus, which is the last known audio of both Colonel Telemundo and Dr. Savannah.

Erin

Dr. Savannah, uh, it's a little bit dusty in here. I'm afraid I might sneeze.

JPC

That's okay, Colonel. It's the times where sneezing is not a big concern to me. Just go ahead and make sure you don't cover your mouth. Uh, sneeze it out as hard, as fast as you can. And if a little gets on me, a little gets on me. Little dirt never hurt nobody.

Erin

Dr. Savannah, the people back at base are sort of accusing you of being a pervert for sneezes, and that moment didn't quite help your case.

00:02:08

JPC

Well, we're not back at base, are we? Kind of feels like out here in the wild, a two gentlemen can just kind of be who they really are. No need to judge each other, or judge each other's perversions.

Erin

And there's no one here. Who could wake up from a thousand, two thousand years sleep to judge us for me sneezing directly in your mouth.

JPC

Colonel, I love your famous dry sense of humor. Now, I also love your famous wet sneezes.

Erin

Stepped on your joke.

JPC

Well, yeah, you did. We've been working together for too long, Colonel. Too long.

Erin

I'm so sorry. I really... I do feel bad about that.

JPC

Is it the way I hit dry? Is it the way I hit dry? I telegraphed it too much when I said dry. It's a humor.

Erin

I think I'm just overly caffeinated, doctor, and I stepped on your joke. I felt it coming and instead of letting you do it, I sort of cut the ribbon for you, if you will. Not a problem, Colonel Rifai.

???

Here's where I'll pause this audio to let you know I should have skipped ahead. Sorry, let me fast forward here. And now we get to the moment of the opening of the sarcophagus.

00:03:10

???

Wow, that was scary as all hell.

???

Glad that's over.

Erin

Yes, we got away unscathed.

???

And here's where I'll pause. It seems I fast-forward too far. Now, of course, fast-forward is a new technology in 1910, so I'm still getting used to it. Let me try and rewind slowly, see if I can catch it right in time.

Erin

Here's an idea. I have to tell you, Dr. Soap. Ah! Zombie!

???

Erm... Mummy! Zombie?

Erin

Sorry. No, I'm not. Don't get offended. I know you're a mummy.

JPC

Do I apologize to him? You're a British gentleman. You shouldn't have to apologize to him.

Erin

Curse!

JPC

Curse!

Erin

Curse! Thank goodness we got away unscathed.

JPC

Hey, why don't we go back to base camp and... Why don't I take off all my clothes and you can try that sneezing thing again. There we go.

???

Come on, cover my mouth. No!

00:04:10

Adal

Turn tape over and welcome to another episode of Bleh Riddle Riddle. This is Bleh Riddle Riddle number six. I'm Adal Rifai. Number six? Yeah. Yeah, introduce yourself with a spooky little name or something.

Erin

Um, trick or Keif?

Adal

Hell yeah.

JPC

Oh, okay. I will be John Pumpkin Coan.

Adal

Okay. And that's, of course, we've been for the last six years mentioned that's very similar to David S. Pumpkins.

Erin

Happy six year anniversary of the maddest I've ever been of you. Thank you, Erin. Maddest I've ever been at you. And of you. Other than the ball pit. We made it six years after the time where I was the angriest I've ever been.

Adal

Speaking of the angers you've ever been, Erin, right before we started recording this episode, you mentioned that you were mad at Lou, your dog, and you said something that made me laugh very hard. Can you repeat what you said?

Erin

Trying to remember what I said. Did I say, she's a stinker and I'm going to send her to space?

00:05:14

Adal

You said, she's a little stinker and I'm going to send her to space. And I couldn't stop laughing and I said, that sounds like something Catherine Hepburn would say in like an old-timey movie.

Erin

You're a little stinker and I'm going to send you to space.

Adal

And we've decided to write a movie starring CGI Catherine Hepburn and a dog, where all Catherine Hepburn does is dress down to dog and keep threatening to send it to space.

Erin

Our budget is negative two thousand dollars.

Adal

How have you already spent two thousand dollars? We had a dinner to talk about it. It was a very expensive dinner. Okay, so speaking of the madness you've ever been, we should answer last year's riddle. Which was, if you remember from one year ago today, it was, why didn't the monster eat the crazy person?

JPC

I wonder if everything that makes you mad can eventually be something you don't care about at all. Because that's progress in my mind.

Adal

Yeah. From anger to apathy?

JPC

From anger to apathy.

Adal

The JPC story? Letting go. Letting go. Letting go. Let go and let God. Why didn't the monster eat the crazy person?

00:06:15

Erin

Because he wasn't hungry for Adal.

Adal

Wow. He was allergic to nuts. JPC, did you look this up?

JPC

No, but I have a little bowl of cashews right here, and I have been snacking on my little cashews.

Adal

Like a little rabbit. The answer is he was allergic to nuts.

JPC

I was going to do a thing where I opened the coffin in the opening and started eating some of the coffin bugs inside, but then I was like, you know what? Even though people, no, I was going to call them coffin bugs. I have that all planned out. I had that all planned out. Even though that move was telegraphed, I don't think people enjoy eating on Mike and so I said I can wait. I can wait to eat my little cashews until we take a little break.

Adal

That's very pleasant of you. Let's take a moment of silence to just appreciate how thoughtful that was of JPC not to smack his little cashew lips on Mike. Oh no, he's doing it.

JPC

Well, you asked for it! You don't do the moment of silence. I'm sorry for all the people that have the fake disease where they can't listen to me eat a cashew or whatever. Fuck off. Happy Halloween.

00:07:22

Erin

Hi. I'm on your side. I wish I could lay in bed with a microphone and eat Cape Cod potato chips the entire time we record an episode. That's my secret wish, so I'm rooting for you.

JPC

Yeah, I guess I have the easiest job of the world, but it's still too hard.

Adal

My obsession, my little crunch obsession has been, uh, Trader Joe's has these mung bean crackers. Oh my god. They're just the fucking perfect, sweet, salty snack. I gave JPC a bag and then I gave JPC five bags.

JPC

He gave me five bags and guess how long they lasted in this fucking house? 14 minutes. Yeah, it was about 15 minutes. It was a mung bean feeding frisbee in my kitchen. Well, mung bean shark.

Adal

Gotta get the mung.

JPC

I do. Also, God, it's so fun to say mung bean.

Adal

Mung bean top tier bean. I'd say cashew king of nuts and mung bean king of beans.

JPC

I think. Mung Bean sounds like Kong Bean and King of Beans makes me think of like King of Beasts. So now I want to see like a Mung Island where like the big Mung Bean lives.

00:08:31

Adal

Erin, do you remember anything? I'm having a bit of a brain fart. Maybe we can cut this out. Do you remember what Tutankhamun is? You know Tutankhamun, he's sort of like a... A mummy? Yeah, that's right. Mummy, mummy, mummy. Spider, spider, spiders. Give me such a fright. A ghoul terrifies haunted doll hair giveaway. Based on a tome attitude, my death in riddies and puzzies. Undead Adal writes a check. It's time for another spooky, spooky game show. Are you two ready to play?

JPC

Ready to win. I have a question. Have we done this before?

Adal

Yeah, we've done it before.

JPC

Several times. Okay, okay. We've done this several times. This version, the spooky version.

???

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I said. Hold on, hold on. That's new though, right? I've never heard that in my life. Is that correct? Who was that man? That's brain speaking new. That's Carney.

00:09:37

JPC

Parrot. Casey says it's not. Fuck. This is concerning to me if that's not new.

Adal

Oh, man. Well if you've never heard it, it's new to you. That's right. Here's what I want to do first. I want to play a little game called A to Z. We played this last year with spooky words. This year I want to play A to Z with possible Halloween costumes for this year. Now Halloween I think when this comes out is I want to say six days away, something like that. So people still have time to cobble together a half-assed idea. And I want you to give some costumes. Ideally your response takes no more than just a few seconds. Erin, why don't we start with you? We're going to go in alphabetical order. We're going to bounce back and forth. So Erin, you'll start with A. JPC will go to B. Erin, you'll have C, et cetera, et cetera. And I'll give points at the end for who I thought did the best. Everybody ready? Yes. Yes. Erin, take us away.

Erin

Abe Lincoln, sexy.

JPC

Bebop and Rock Slutty. So that is a combo costume where one of you can be more conservative and the other one could be a little more sexy. Okay.

00:10:47

Erin

Cat, Slutty.

Adal

Okay, a sense of theme.

JPC

Doja Cat, not Slutty. I want you to do your most chaste Doja Cat.

Erin

Erin Keif, Slutty.

JPC

Kurt. Frank. And then in parentheses, like penis, in Stein. So it's like a, it's like a, cause like a Frank Farad of, yeah.

Adal

When has Frank been slang for penis?

JPC

I was thinking more like hot dog, like a hot dog is like phallic, you know, but like.

Adal

I can think of one instance and it's something about Mary where it says he got the Frank above the beans, but I don't know if that movie's on.

Erin

Casey is typing.

Adal

Okay, we gotta go faster. We gotta go faster.

Erin

Uh, he said Fucking Stein was right there and I agree with Casey.

Adal

You play the goddamn game. Frankengrind.

Erin

Uh, ghost!

Adal

Okay.

JPC

Uh, horse. Jesus Christ. You said faster!

00:11:50

Erin

Ice cream cone.

JPC

Joker, comma, sexy.

Erin

Keith, comma, slutty.

JPC

Uh, Lincoln comma Abe comma Slippy. Hold on, I'm proud of that one. I like that one a lot.

Erin

I like that one a lot. Mom.

Adal

All right, for the first time ever, I'm stopping the game.

Erin

No, no, no, why? What did I do wrong? Mummy. A mummy. She's a mummy. She's a mummy.

Adal

Okay, okay, clear. I just want to make sure that we're all in the Halloween spirit, because it just seems like, I don't know, I don't know.

JPC

I have my next one.

Adal

We're repeating a lot of stuff. I just can't even next one. Okay.

JPC

Knob Goblin. This is kind of sexy. There we go. Back on track.

00:12:53

Erin

Um, ostrich comma sexy.

JPC

Uh, okay. Can't picture it?

Erin

This one's more conceptual. You're not trying hard enough.

JPC

This one's more conceptual and it's only for kind of like adult Halloween for like sexy Halloween and it's, it's, it's penis. Mm-hmm. There's a costume.

Erin

Didn't we say that we were going to turn this podcast into a spirit of Halloween for the month of October? Didn't we promise together that?

Adal

We promised that this year we're going to have the Hey Riddle Riddle Halloween logo and then have a spirit banner Halloween draped across it as if it's taking over.

JPC

Now, did we promise that on an episode that's come out already or did we promise that on an episode that hasn't come out yet?

Erin

I don't think we talked about it on an episode at all. I think it was in between. I did penis.

Adal

I was singing the song.

Erin

Queen Elizabeth, comma sexy.

JPC

Rugrats, comma Tommy, comma sexy.

Erin

Spirit of Halloween.

JPC

Tommy Pickles, comma Rugrats, comma sexy.

00:13:56

Erin

You. Umbrella, comma not sexy.

JPC

Victorian child, comma, dying of dysentery, comma, sexy.

Erin

Oh, dibs. With love. That's my costume of the year. Which, comma, sexy?

JPC

Xena, hornier, princess.

Erin

What's something that begins with a Y?

Adal

Y. Well, if you did which, JPC has Y. U. No, I did X. Come on.

JPC

You're up, JPC. Y is just you? You just said you? You.

Erin

Be yourself for Halloween.

JPC

Okay.

Erin

Um, Z. Sorry, be the sexy.

JPC

Uh, Z, this is a little bit of a cheat, but it's gonna be, uh, buh, comma, zinga, comma, young Sheldon, comma, sexy.

Adal

Why is there a comma between buh and zinga if the letter was Z? Should it be zinga, comma, buh?

Erin

I'm reading off the list you gave me. I don't know. You told us to say all this. Adal sent us a list before in an email and then we just read it verbatim.

00:15:00

Adal

R.I. R.I.P.

JPC

because this is the first ever Bleh Riddle Riddle dead literal literally dead stop. Uh oh. Who got it?

Adal

We both win the money? Jamie's here. What's going on? Huh, what is going on? That's the longest a game's ever taken and that's the worst you've ever done in a game. Hold on, hold on. Half of those were good, half of those were good costumes. Here's what I'll say. Aaron and JPC, zero points. Casey, Tony. What? One thousand points for Fucking Stein.

Erin

Are you kidding?

Adal

No, I'm not kidding.

Erin

I could have said Fucking Stein. Couldn't.

JPC

Did we explain how all the costumes would have worked? It would have taken way longer.

Adal

Too many commas, too many sexies, too many outfits that were not in any way associated with Halloween or anything scary or spooky in general.

JPC

Alright, too many sexies. Let's not be going to Adal's Halloween party because apparently he don't want the hotties with the bodies up in his spot.

Adal

I like them frumps. I want to make sure that we're, are we in the Halloween spirit? Is there something I can do to help better set a spooky table? What do you, what do you need from me in order for this to be a little more Halloween tinned? It's just a table.

00:16:12

JPC

Oh, I wouldn't say no to a pumpkin spice donut.

Erin

Yeah, pumpkin spice latte, some candy corn, apple cider donut.

JPC

All right, perfect. A Reese's varietal. I would, I would pick that up for eating crackers.

Adal

Okay, here's what I think is going on. I think me, Adal, I'm not very scary. I have a beard. My eyebrows look kind of angry, but that's not necessarily scary, more annoying. So I'm going to bring in someone I think might scare you into shape. So let me just step outside this door. I'll be right back.

Erin

Who do you think is going to be? Pussbot?

Adal

I mean, it's usually Puzzbot.

???

Who is Puzzbot? I don't know who that is.

Adal

My name is Blood Clot.

Erin

Adal, when we have meetings with your therapist, we talk about why Puzzbot exists and it's when you feel so disappointed by us that you disassociate from yourself and you have to send Puzzbot in.

Adal

That's a question for Adal, but that sounds right. Here's what I'm going to do. Blood Clot would like the two of you to do. Hey, wait, what does that sound? Sorry, my gears must be broken. Looking inside chest. Nope, not in here. Looking inside butt. Nothing there. Looking inside head.

00:17:30

???

Nothing there. It must be a... bop bop bop bop bop bop bop. Halloween Animal Parade.

JPC

Oh, okay Blood Clot. Yeah, was that, was that necessarily the beat? It doesn't matter Blood Clot, you're doing great.

Adal

Here I'll play a recording of Adal doing it. That's better, that's better.

Erin

And one of you... Yeah guys, a hamster dressed as a ghost.

JPC

A vampire who is a barracuda.

Erin

A horse bobbing for apples.

JPC

A cheetah on holiday. A wolf trick-or-treating. A marmot with a costume.

Adal

A bird rest as Iron Man. The cut-off is gone. I award you both zero points. Is everything okay? Still tight? Still tight is pretty good.

00:18:39

Erin

Wow, no points.

Adal

Is everything okay with you two?

Erin

No, I have no points. I said ostrich comma sexy and I got no points. What is this place?

JPC

Is it because an ostrich is already inherently sexy?

Adal

Hey guys, I just saw someone leave out the door that I came in through. Was that, did I know that person?

JPC

No. In a way, yes, but it's way too much for us to unpack now.

Adal

Wipes off metallic paint. Oh, I was just doing a Mad Max audition.

???

How'd it go?

Adal

I think I got the fart.

???

Oh, cool.

Adal

It was me and Anya Taylor-Joy auditioning for the female lead.

???

Again.

Adal

Okay. I think it went well.

Erin

Great.

Adal

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, why don't we, I don't know what happened while I was gone here, but why don't we pick up with A game that we started doing last year that instantly became my favorite thing we've ever done on this show. Erin, I think you remember your trailer. Do you remember?

00:19:39

Erin

Yes, my publicist told me not to confirm or deny the existence of that episode and how I actively was not listening when you gave me the name of the trailer and then dove straight. Basically, it was like diving into a pool without water. It's one of the most dangerous things I've ever done on this show.

Adal

It was a disaster. You and Bugs Bunny, the only two people who have ever done that. That could happen to anyone. Honestly, it could happen to anyone. I think Dead and Breakfast was the name of your trailer. Anyway, this is called trailer. Damn near killed her. What's going to happen is you both have two minutes to improvise the perfect horror movie trailer based on the title I give you. You will do all the voices in the trailer. You do all the sound effects. You'll do the narration, the overlaid narration, if you like. Any edits, any cuts, any songs slowed down to sound spooky. You'll list the cast if you want to say like who plays who. Your mission is to make me scared to miss this movie. Are you two ready?

Erin

Yes.

JPC

Now, I have a question. It's more of a question of logistics. Is Erin going to get the same name of the trailer she did last year? Just as a true test to see if she can remember the name?

00:20:50

Adal

I've already said it once. Erin, did you hear what I said?

Erin

Dead and breakfast.

Adal

Okay, then she shouldn't give it.

JPC

She should get something different. If she remembers it, she shouldn't give it.

Adal

JBC, let's have you go first so Erin can learn from watching.

JPC

Get a sense of how the game is played.

Erin

I'm gonna dance. I'm gonna dance. Okay, we're ready.

Adal

Wow, Erin's doing a real fun dance. It looks great. Okay, JBC, the trailer I wanna see, and I'm gonna give you two options just because I think that might be helpful. Oh, thank you. Your two options are nobody's ghoul and bansheez all that.

JPC

Nobody's ghoul? Is that nobody's girl? Is that the play there?

Adal

I'm not gonna confirm or deny the play on anything. This is just the title.

JPC

I don't think bansheez all that. Okay. I'll think bansheez all that. Okay. Melissa Rosemont was a very plain girl. And no one at her high school noticed her at all, until one day she took off the glasses, let down her hair, and got struck by a city bus. And then we cut to, we cut to that, we all see that happen and we cut to like her funeral and you know people are just talking through it and like no one really cares. But then there's like a, you know, you see one loner kid who's at, you know, who's left at the funeral after everyone else is gone. Except the local necromancer. That's right. He's bringing Melissa back and she's about to be hotter than ever. But, can she adjust to high school while her body is literally falling to pieces? Hey boys, nose falls off, arms fall off.

00:22:43

???

Oh my god! Motherfuck! Holy shit!

JPC

Didn't that girl die? Who? One minute left. This fall. This Halloween- no, that's not this fall. This Halloween season, Adya Taylor Joy is bringing the Hold on, what is she bringing? She's bringing something back to high school. She's bringing the... She's bringing the... Okay, the scary back to library. That's nothing. This Halloween season, Ban She... Hold on, that's nothing either. Don't get your band saw. Well, no, that's nothing.

Erin

The frog that you're dissecting isn't the only dead thing at school.

JPC

That's less than nothing. That's not helpful for me. BAM! She's all that.

Adal

Scene. Wow. Very nice job. What's the opposite of stuck the landing? Got stuck in the landing? You got stuck in the landing, but... Landing got stuck on me. Landing got stuck on you. His foot's trapped and he's going... But here's what I'll say. I want a t-shirt that says, hi boys. Nose falls off. I think that's one of the better things I've heard. Also, I thought it was very nice, Erin, that you came in to try and help, so I'm going to give Erin 25 points for coming in. Oh, thank you. Just a nice sweet assist, a little bit of a John Stockton move. Hate to use that reference. But here's what I'll say. Anya Taylor-Joy, of course, just competing against me for this new Mad Max Furiosa movie. So I'm going to have to deduct a few points from what I would have given you. So JBC would have got 100 points. I'm going to bump it down to 99.

00:24:27

JPC

Honestly, I think what they're doing there, Adal, is they know they want you, but they're trying to drive your price down. So they're like, they're putting Anya Taylor Joy there so that they know that you're going to accept a lower offer because you think that Anya Taylor Joy is going to get the part.

Adal

Interesting. I said if they cast me, I'd take him out for a $2,000 dinner. So I'm already out to go.

Erin

Ah, yes.

Adal

Yeah, that's what we like to call a weak negotiation. So Erin has 25, JPC has 99. Erin, I am going to deduct one point, which is going to take you down to 24, because I believe, I could be wrong, and we don't have time to parse through this, I believe when JPC said the local necromancer, I think you heard the local necrophiliac, because you went, eh.

Erin

I wasn't even here. That's audio Casey used from a different episode.

JPC

Oh my god, no, no, no, no. Yeah. Oh, no. I'm a necromancer. I just put the quote suspect together. If they want to fuck, they want to fuck, but that is not something I'm even into. That is their decision.

00:25:27

Adal

Erin, are you ready for your trailer? Damn near killed her.

Erin

No.

Adal

Okay. Will you do it anyway? Yeah. Okay. Erin, your options are cemetery Sarah. Or my teacher's a goblin.

Erin

Okay. I'm going to go with cemetery Sarah.

Adal

Okay. Whenever you're ready. Two minutes.

Erin

Sarah's 16th birthday party is right around the corner. And then she's walking through the hallway. She goes, Hey guys, and no one pays attention. He goes, Hey, are you guys off? And no one pays attention. The bad news is she has a party hall booked, but no guests to go to her party. She'll have to try a different hangout spot to find some friends who can come to her party. And she walks upon the cemetery and there's a thunderstorm and all the gravestones get struck and they come alive and they go, Hey, what's your name? Are you dead? And she goes, yeah, I'm dead. As long as you're actually dead, we'll come to your sweet 16.

00:26:45

Adal

One minute left.

Erin

Cut to the party. Let's get it started. Are you sure you're dead, Sarah? Totally.

JPC

Totally dead.

Erin

Yes. She blew out her candles. That means she has human breath in her body. Sarah, you lied to us. No, but you guys are the best friends I've ever had. You guys are the best. Please, I'll die. No, Sarah, don't try to die to become friends with us. Stay alive. We love you so much, you should live a long life. Margo Martindale is cemetary star. I just have to say something. I literally was like, I genuinely went in going like, I'm going to do such a good job. Because the second time I did it last year, it went really well. I thought I was proud of my trailer. And I went in with that confidence. There's something about, I'm crying, there's something about this game though. I start doing it and I get really scared. I got really scared in there. Good. Good.

00:28:14

JPC

Martheil's a powerhouse. I got to say that is a strong pick.

Adal

Yeah, honestly, absolutely not seeing that movie up until the casting reveal, and then I was like, tickets for opening night.

JPC

And if the casting reveal is the end of the trailer, you gotta go back and rewatch the trailer because you're like, I watched that girl for the whole trailer. And that is Margot Martindale.

Adal

That was Margot Martindale? I've had that with movies before. Wait, that was Gary Oldman?

JPC

Yeah, with Gary Oldman. Yeah, he's a Transformer.

Adal

He's a Transformer. Uh, okay, okay.

Erin

Oh god, I can't remember what happened again.

Adal

Erin, I do love the idea of, in the middle of a trailer for a movie, the narrator going, I can't.

Erin

I can't. I just was like, oh god, I lost. I stumbled.

Adal

If you haven't heard last year's Bleh Riddle Riddle, I recommend you go back and listen to that because this trailer game with both GPC and Erin was just so fun. Uh, Erin, um, I think a lot of what you had happened in that trailer was very reminiscent of what JPC had happened in his trailer.

Erin

What else was I supposed to do?

00:29:16

JPC

The first part of her trailer was pretty much the same situation as mine.

Erin

Are you accusing me of plagiarism?

Adal

Erin, here's the thing.

JPC

Yeah, yeah, I guess so, sure.

Adal

Is it the ants bugs life? We all know what happened there. Armageddon Deep Impact?

Erin

I'm a bug's life. He's ants.

JPC

Which one had Woody Allen? That's what I wrote.

Adal

You. That's the one you want?

JPC

To watch. Wait, fuck!

Adal

So Erin, I'm going to say, I think your trailer probably garnered you like 15 points, but Margot Martindale inspired choice, so I'm going to bump it up to a full one hand.

Erin

Wow, Adal, you think that there can't be two movies about a teen girl in the same year? That's too similar?

Adal

Yeah, when they go back to back and listen to the other two.

Erin

Those are different. Mine is alive and his is dead. Those are two different teen experiences.

Adal

Yours wants to be dead.

Erin

Yours wants to be alive.

Adal

I think it's not really different. It's the odd couple.

Erin

Let's call the whole thing off.

00:30:17

Adal

JBC, for the assist, I'm going to add 25 points to your total, but you did use the song, Let's Get It Started in Here, which, if you've ever heard the real lyrics, is very problematic.

JPC

But I used the okay version.

Adal

All right, we'll keep it to the full 125. So it looks like it's 124 to 124.

JPC

Did I ever tell you I had a dream where the Black Eyed Peas were playing on a party and they came on and they played that song but they were playing the not okay version and I was in the dream I was at the party being like, are we gonna stop this? Should we stop this? Then I woke up and I said, what a weird dream to dream in 2022.

Adal

Was it Fergie? Was it her and the Black Eyed Peas that sang the national anthem and they cut to the faces of all the players and then they're cracking up? Yeah. That was a terrible moment in history.

JPC

Well, she didn't. First of all, National Anthem Bad Song. Second of all, she did that song Dirty. You just gotta sing it kind of vanilla if you want to do the National Anthem. And nobody should. We should have a better song. I think Miley Cyrus' Party in the USA should be the new National Anthem. Because it's just so much more fun. I like that. Erin, what do you think?

00:31:23

Erin

Yeah. Yeah, moving my hips like, yeah, not a man. Like, yeah, yeah.

JPC

Yeah. And a Jay-Z song was on. And a Jay-Z song was on.

Erin

Mm-hmm. We'll be right back with more Bleh Riddle Riddle. 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. And so 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.

00:32:31

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.

00:33:41

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. Run. Oh no. Maroon.

Adal

Is that DaVinci?

Erin

Yeah. Yes.

JPC

And bye. This show is sponsored by BetterHelp.

Adal

Heck, with my machete clear the overgrown grass. I've done it. I've found it. This ancient city of Better Help. Oh, what is, let me walk through here. This doesn't look ancient. It looks like there's people thriving here. What's, hello?

Erin

Hey Adal. Hey Adal, what's going on? Oh, you know me. Yes.

JPC

What a weird thing to say to Hey Adal. Oh, you know us, right?

Adal

You're citizens of Better Help, this town?

00:34:44

Erin

Yeah, better help is therapy that's entirely online. It's designed to be convenient, flexible, and suited to your schedule. I've been using it for a long time. It works for the way that my brain works, and we're just here talking about it, celebrating it.

Adal

Yes, I am here too celebrating it. You all seem very happy. This seems like a happy bunch of folks. Hey man, why don't you lose the sword? Oh, it's a machete, not a sword. Yeah, you're right.

JPC

It's all good. Why don't I take that from you, huh? Yeah, we'll put this somewhere safe.

Adal

Okay, thank you. Thank you for that. I appreciate your better help.

JPC

Well, I'm not doing better help, but better help as therapy is actually pretty toned to a person like me because I want to learn positive coping skills, I want to learn how to set and enforce boundaries, and I want to check in with someone on my own schedule. I love online therapy for that specific reason.

Erin

Adal, if you wanted to try it, all you would have to do is just fill out a brief questionnaire to get matched with a licensed therapist, and you could switch therapists any time for no additional charge.

00:35:45

Adal

Wow, you said fill out a stone tablet?

JPC

So there are some things that better help is not going to be qualified to help with, Adal. This may be one of them. Maybe we get you to some other type of specialist.

Adal

And this is a perfect example of something that not you Adal, but I would be sharing with my therapist.

JPC

Okay, okay, everyone gather out, gather out. As I finish dusting off the ancient structure. Boring. It says this podcast is sponsored by Squarespace.

00:36:48

Adal

Oh, well that's actually interesting. Squarespace, I've heard of this. Yes, it's the all-in-one website platform for entrepreneurs to stand out and succeed online. Whether you're just starting out or managing a growing brand, right? Squarespace, what I hear, makes it easy to create a beautiful website, engage with your audience, and sell anything from products to content to time, all in one place, all in your terms.

JPC

Yes, that's what Squarespace is, but the question, what is it doing buried here? Yes, yes doctor, yes doctor.

Erin

Well, I think that they're pretty cool because they can host video content, organize your video library, and showcase your content on beautiful video pages and sell access to your videos on the member areas. It's super intuitive to use. That's probably why it's buried down here.

Adal

Yeah, and Dr. Dustoff, world-famous archaeologist, they even sell custom merch. So we could get some Dr. Dustoff merch going. You easily sell it, you create passive income, it engages your audience, scales your brand. Does that sound good?

00:37:49

JPC

Yes, yes, yes, we all know about Squarespace and its amazing features, like the Asset Library, where you can organize and access all your content from one place, where you can manage all your files from one central hub and use them across the Squarespace Platform. We know about the value of Squarespace, but the question is, what is it doing buried here?

Adal

Okay, Dr. Dustoff, we don't know. You're the archaeologist.

JPC

I'm sorry, what? You're- I drove! Oh! They call me Dr. Dustoff because when I get into a car accident, I make it kind of go away. I'm a smooth talker, I'm an easy walker, and I'm not bad looking either. Dr. Dustoff tips his fedora to the two of you.

Adal

He just gave his fedora $20. That's too much of a tip. And there's more when that came from a hat. Head to squarespace.com for a free trial, and when you're ready to launch, go to squarespace.com slash riddle to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Dr. Dustoff, um... You're my new favorite character.

00:38:55

Erin

Please sign everything.

Adal

Yeah, please, please show up in an episode, will you please?

JPC

Okay, if you insist. Now hold on, I'm taking a call. Hello? They're burning it down. Good. Oh, do we have insurance? Oh, I gotta take this. Okay. Yes.

Erin

This is just JP Riddle.

JPC

Go left.

Adal

Yeah, this is JP Riddle's in a fedora.

Erin

Forget it. I take everything back. I can't believe I fucked up that game again. That felt bad.

Adal

Well, that was amazing. But don't worry, we are going to move on to something else.

Erin

Casey said I can't believe it.

Adal

Is everybody ready to come back? Yes. And we're back and let's launch immediately into more trailer damn near killer.

Erin

No, no, no, no, no. Or no, you know what? I could do it because I would be redeemed.

Adal

Okay, Erin, do you want to go first?

Erin

Oh my god, we're actually doing it.

Adal

Yeah, we are.

JPC

Oh, okay. I think I can do better than what I did, and I think I can add some more dynamic stuff into my trailer thing. Oh hell yeah.

00:40:01

Adal

I do think the one thing causing a little point deficit is that if either of you used a song, like Erin, I don't remember, last year you kept saying, it's raining, it's pouring, etc. Like if we use a song especially, I think that's really going to be atmospheric and cool and good. Erin, would you like to go first or would you like to pass it to GBC?

JPC

Okay, I got points off for using an awesome Black Eyed Peas song, so I guess I don't really understand that note, but typical studio behavior.

Adal

I kept it 25. I kept it 25.

JPC

Okay, okay.

Erin

Typical studio behavior. GBC, you go to pick.

JPC

I think I'm going to do Erin first and then I'm going to go. Great. Sandwich style.

Adal

Erin, your options are... And if there's something that was previously mentioned you want to use, you can absolutely use that. So let's see. Nobody's ghoul has not been used, and my teacher's a goblin. But if you don't want to use either of those, the other options for you, Erin, is going to be, this purse is cursed and that's the worst. Or, haunt it if you've got it.

Erin

This purse is cursed and that's the worst.

00:41:02

Adal

Great. Whenever you're ready. Two minutes.

???

Wow.

Erin

Wow. I got it. I got it. I got it.

Adal

Okay. And Erin, a new rule because this isn't fair to GPC. Erin, every time you stop, every time you stop, we're going to add 30 seconds onto the clock.

Erin

No, no.

Adal

So your trailer right now is going to be two minutes, 30 seconds. Whenever you're ready.

Erin

Money, money, money, money, money. Carol Smith has a shopping addiction. Money, money, money, money. She's hundreds of thousands of dollars in credit cards. But what if her credit card had a mind of its own? Who are you looking for? You're looking around your room for something. Two and a half minutes left. Money, money. What if your credit card started murdering people? I swear it's not me. I'm not the one murdering people. It's my credit card. Yeah, right. You're just trying to get rid of your credit card and all its debts. No, I'm not. I'm Carol and I'll fix my shopping addiction and stop my murdering credit card.

00:42:32

Adal

Two minutes?

Erin

This fall.

Adal

Uh-oh.

Erin

This Halloween. This curse. This curse. This curse. No. Two minutes, three seconds. This curse. This curse is cursed and that's the worst. Margo Martindale and Alfred Molina. Stop. And this curse is perfect. That's the worst. Money, money, money, money. And then the credit card goes like this. Like you can just slit your throat.

JPC

Oh, I like that. Yeah.

Erin

And end. I'm exhausted. Minute and a half left. I'm so tired.

JPC

I liked it though. I liked it. Even it was short for a trailer, but I still liked it.

Erin

Okay, Erin.

Adal

You had a minute and a half left. You didn't fill it. So we do have to deduct a point for every second. So that's 90 seconds.

00:43:35

Erin

But Adal, I did a creepy song. Can I get some bonus points for that?

Adal

Well, here's the thing. You did a creepy song, which was money, money, money, money, which is number one, very hard to make creepy. And number two, last year, if you listen to last year's episode, if you listen to last year's episode, um, an example I used for a song to make creepy was Money by Pink Floyd, which goes a little bit differently, but still is just a repetition of the word money.

Erin

So I don't listen to the show, huh?

Adal

Okay, so 100 points added to Erin's total.

Erin

I heard it's good.

Adal

Smart. Erin, world's better. World's better. I'm going to give you 100 points for doing a better trailer. I'm going to give you... I was going to deduct points for using Margot Martindale again, but she's a national treasure. So another 100 points for using Margot Martindale for being smart.

Erin

And Alfred Molina is the voice in the credit card.

Adal

Wow. And Kevin Kline, for some reason, we don't see them in movies anymore. They both are phenomenal actors. We deserve to see Alfred Molina more. So another 100 points. I think that makes 300. Plus you used... What did you use? No, that's it. 300 points. So that's going to be a total of 434 points for you, Erin. JPC, are you ready for your second trailer? Damn near killed her. Uh-huh. I am. So you, up for grabs if you would like them, is... So up for use if you would like them are Nobody's Ghoul, My Teacher's a Goblin, and Haunted if you've got it. Otherwise you can use Ouija for free and Full Moon Monday.

00:45:06

JPC

Ouija for free and Full Moon Monday. Great options. I'll go with Full Moon Monday.

Adal

Great. Whenever you're ready, two minutes.

???

This is the story of a girl who cried a river and drowned the whole world.

JPC

The full moon rises over New York City. We have action shots, people hustling and bustling, talking, yelling, getting into traffic altercations. Everyone is acting kind of aggressive towards each other. New York City, 2023.

???

Only the strong survive. But this Monday, will strength be enough to survive? One minute left.

00:46:12

???

This is the story of a girl who cried a river and drowned the whole world.

JPC

As that music plays, we see a shot, it's moving through this crowd of New York City, it's in Times Square, and then there's a girl just in like a white dress, and she's, you know, she looks like she's wet, like she just crawled out of a river and her hair's in front of her face, and as it hits girl, her eyes pop up, and you see the full moon, and then you see werewolf things coming at her teeth, and then suddenly, the crowd, it's chaos, it's panic. People are running, people are screaming, there's blood, people are like holding limbs,

???

This Halloween, werewolves come to New York City. Full Moon.

JPC

Hold on. There's a difference between pausing for dramatic influence and doesn't remember the title.

00:47:17

Erin

And this is doesn't remember the title.

Adal

Full Moon Monday. Did we hear any of the cast? Well, you saw it. Yeah, that was Kevin Fine.

JPC

That's Millie Bobby Brown, my friend. My man, if you can't see Millie Bobby Brown when I show you Millie Bobby Brown, you don't deserve to see Millie Bobby Brown. Fine, I'll give you the cast. I'll give you the cast. They don't do that always. Millie Bobby Brown. Tom Holland. Tom of Hisholmab. Shamik Moore. Tom Holland daysauce. The girl from the guy who's did all the Netflix stuff. I think his name is Noah. The girl from Game of Thrones. She's in there. A couple of Zendaya's. Why not? A couple of Zendaya's? Probably a Colkin. He's the mayor.

Erin

Sounds like you won an award and you don't know what you're winning it for.

00:48:21

Adal

I'd like to thank all parents, the moon.

???

And introducing as the moon, Saoirse Rowan.

Erin

Is this from the past?

JPC

What is this movie? Sometimes they do introducing as like a fun joke. They're like introducing Kevin Kline.

Adal

And he's like, come on, it's Kevin Kline. We don't know who that is. Introducing, again, because he's been gone for a while. He does Bob's Burgers, but not much else, I don't think. He does Bob's Burgers, but he does a lot of Bob's Burgers. He does a lot of Bob's. He's the mayor of Bob's Burgers. Um, JPC. Yes. Very good job. Thank you so much. It's very hard to make, um, to put, this is the story of a girl. It's very hard to put that. to the tune of It's Raining, It's Pouring. But somehow you did it.

Erin

That was an inspired choice, JPC. I thought that was excellent.

Adal

It was a long walk, but we got to the destination.

JPC

I'm glad I've never sang it that slow before, and I was like, oh, I don't remember the lyrics when it's coming this slow. You remember the basic stories. You tried to remember. You tried the whole world.

00:49:24

Adal

Me and Cinderella can drive it home with one light. Jacob Dillon, one light. Uh, I'm gonna get, JBC, we're gonna go ahead and say 500 points total. Thank you very well executed incredible cast.

JPC

Thank you so much.

Adal

Wasn't that fun? Thank you, I really appreciate it.

Erin

Erin? Five hundred points, good.

JPC

Erin? Sorry, that's my little, that's my little hand talking. Sometimes I draw little eyes on my finger and do a little hand talks.

Adal

It's just like Erin. A little hand. Erin, I have other stuff prepared, but if you like I'll give you another chance to do a trailer.

Erin

I got to get the hell out of here. Well, you know what? Actually, okay. Yeah. No, this time I'll do it. I'm not even kidding. I'm about to blow this up for water.

???

Hit me. Isn't she confident?

Erin

I feel like I'm at 20 and I just said hit me.

Adal

No, Erin, this is 21 and you're saying hit me. Okay. Okay. Erin, your options are seance anything. Or cult from the same cloth. Or you can still do My Teacher's a Goblin or whatever else that was.

00:50:36

Erin

Sayance anything.

Adal

Okay, whenever you're ready, Erin, two minutes.

Erin

All my instincts, they return. A grand facade, though soon will burn. Without a noise, without my pride, I reached out from the inside. I'm so happy in our new relationship. Yes, we're in high school and we're falling in love. I'm so glad we found each other. I was such a perfectionist during high school. Enough out of humor. I'm so sad that I spent all of high school just trying to get straight A's. I could have been dating a cool guy like you. Everything's going so well. I hope a demon doesn't take over my body. There's a demon inside the girl from Say Anything. That's what the movie is. She's reaching out from the inside of her to try to kill John Cusack.

00:51:47

Adal

One minute left.

Erin

He's starting to notice something a little off about her. We gotta get that demon out of her body. Does anyone know on Exorcist? Turns out the dad sent the demon to get the daughter to focus more on. The school work that happened to a boyfriend so she has a contentious relationship with her dad but they get the demon out at the end. Margo Martindale and John Cusack and seance. There has to be a seance.

???

Yeah, there should be.

Erin

There should be. Go back, go back, go back, go back. Oh, we're just dating. Everything's going well. Let's do a seance for fun for Halloween. To the beginning? Back to the beginning? That's how the demon gets in. All my instincts, they return. I thought the dad put the demon in. That was the first try.

00:52:57

JPC

That was my first try. Oh, okay.

Erin

So is the dad character cut completely? This Halloween. Alfred Molina and Marco Martin Depp.

Adal

And John Cusack. Oh, Sam. Time perfect. Erin, time perfect.

Erin

Can I do another one? I have to get out of this episode while I'm doing one that is good. It's a sunk cost. It's not a sunk cost. It's not a sunk cost. I can do this.

Adal

We're going to do it. Erin, your only option, you have this one option, that's it. My teacher's a goblin.

Erin

My teacher's a goblin.

JPC

I think you can do it, Erin. I have faith in you.

Erin

Okay.

Adal

JPC just texted, I do not have faith in it.

JPC

That was about something different though.

Erin

It's a cruel, cruel summer. Now you're gone.

00:54:07

Adal

You can't sing a song normally and then just go woah woah woah.

Erin

Can't I? Kim, it's so annoying that you have to do summer school just because you failed one class because you missed a test by sleeping in. That stinks. We wish you could come to all the fun summer partying we're going to do by the lake. I wish. But I guess his name is Mr. Goblin and he's the summer school teacher. I hear he's nice but really hard. Um, yeah, whatever. Have a good summer. See you in the fall. Hopefully. What was that? Nothing. Hi, I'm here for summer school. It's so cool. And then he, the goblin teacher, is writing his name. Mr. Goblin turns and he looks and there's just something off about him.

Adal

Sure, he's a goblin.

Erin

And then she goes, is there anyone else in this class? And it's one other cute boy. And then they're walking out from the first day of class and she goes, don't you feel like there's something weird about Mr. Goblin? Doesn't he sort of seem like he could be a goblin? Kim, you're so funny. It's just that his name is Mr. Goblin. Wouldn't that be a hat on the hat and too obvious? You're crazy. He's just a weird guy. You know what? Let's sneak into his house to prove that he's not a goblin. Okay, yeah, I like to flirt and go to a house with you. That sounds awesome. It's a crew. And then they get in the house and the door slams and lock and he goes, I'll show, I need to, I'll teach you a lesson. Never coming to a goblin's house. Murder, murder, murder, murder, murder, murder, murder, murder. It's a cruel summer. And then I'm this Halloween. Margo Martindale and Alfred Molina are in my teachers a goblin.

00:56:04

JPC

Time perfect.

Adal

Give her one more chance. No. I'm going to give 10,000 points. Thank you. To JPC for being so patient and sitting through.

Erin

All right, fine. Send me a list and I'll do it on my own time.

JPC

I barely interrupted at all, Erin. I barely interrupted at all.

Erin

I felt judgment. I felt the heat for setting it in high school again. I felt judgment. I felt judgment. From who? From you?

Adal

From you. I was quiet.

Erin

No, you weren't.

Adal

Erin, you were absolutely right to feel judgment from both of us, but it's not for why you think.

Erin

Why? What is it for?

Adal

Everything else except for the school thing.

Erin

What are you talking about?

JPC

How do you, how do you feel, how do you feel judgment because you said it in the school again and you used Margot Martindale four times?

Erin

It was about a teacher! What else, where am I, where else am I supposed to set it? Not a school?

Adal

To go back, I can't even, I'm in heaven. This is the best day of my life. To go back to the trailer you did before this one, if studios would be smart enough to have their trailer go turns out and then explain the ending and then also go, go back, go back, go back, go back. I mean, I would go see any movie where the trailer was bold enough, had the balls enough to pull that move.

00:57:17

JPC

I think that's- It's a really cool move. for a trailer to do. Is that what you think is the thing that's going on?

Erin

When someone is this consistently bad at a thing after this many chances, it seems like I'm throwing this on purpose and I am not throwing it on purpose.

JPC

But just no one's here, no one said Erin's throwing this.

Adal

Okay, here's what I'll say. Erin, you have 434 points. JPC, you have 10,624 points. JPC, since you have the higher amount of points, you get to decide. Do we go on to some scary spooky riddles? Do we do our annual Rap for Daddy rap segment, or would you like to hear Erin do another trailer damn near killer?

00:58:23

JPC

This sucks because obviously I want to make Erin rap, I'd love to have Erin do one more trailer, and then you have to do the classic Riddle at the end. I'd love to do all of these. Every one of these options makes me look like a bad guy though, right? I mean, I don't get away looking clean on any of these things. You think I'll fail?

Adal

JBC, I'll absolve you. Erin, you have one minute to wrap a trailer for the movie.

Erin

It's all been leading to this, huh?

JPC

At least this is not my fault. At least this is not my fault.

Erin

Slamming into each other.

Adal

You have to wrap a trailer or wrap the plot, whatever comes out. For the movie, Colt from the same cloth. Colt from the same cloth. Erin, whatever you're ready.

Erin

It will take me a minute, but I'm gonna get there. Hold on.

JPC

Yeah, you'll get there. Yeah, you'll get there.

Erin

Your husband died and you're full of guilt, so come over to my house and make a quilt with all the girls they know how to sew. They're really weird though, Adal. You can't do that. Your body can't shut down. You can't shut down if I do this. You think I'm not cringing? You think I don't want to cover my face and tie right now?

00:59:48

Adal

Close your eyes. Close your eyes.

Erin

Close your eyes. You're going to be okay. We're making quilt. It's a quilt knitting group and they turn out to be a cult, a murdering cult. If anyone else wants to jump in and do a verse of it.

Adal

Okay, we'll stop there. Anyone else? What on earth? We'll stop there, we'll stop there.

Erin

What on earth?

Adal

JBC, I think I'd be remiss if I didn't give you a chance to respond rap to Erin's trailer.

Erin

It has to be the same title though.

Adal

JPC, you have higher points. Do you agree to that? I can give you a different title. I can give you just a one word suggestion because you've earned this. You are the clear winner of this episode.

JPC

Thank you for telling me that I have earned it. I do feel like I have earned it.

Adal

Hey Riddle Your title for this.

01:01:09

JPC

Oh, I thought you were giving, I thought you were leaving it up to me to see if Erin has been a good sport because I'm like, I don't think so. It doesn't seem like she has been a good sport.

Erin

What's my title? I'm typing this into Google. How to delete a podcast episode while you're still recording it.

Adal

Huh. I would love to hear Tupac doing a rap track and in the middle of it he goes, wait, no, you can't do that. Come on, Dre. Don't put your body like that. You can't do that.

Erin

Delete this. Adal's organs were shutting down. It was so cringy and so painful for him that his body started to shut down.

Adal

Which is funny because in my brain I feel absolutely like this is the happiest I've ever been. JPC, the movie that you're going to rap about, it could be a summary, it could be a trailer, whatever you choose. The movie is Blood Brothers. Blood Brothers.

JPC

Blood Brothers. Hey, let me tell you about my bro. He is made of hemoglobin. That's right, he's blood. He's an exact copy of my mud. And when I say mud, I mean my atoms. And also, my name is atom. I'm an average high school kid, except... I got blood for a sieve. That's right. He's my blood brother. And we, to one another, are as close as brothers can be. Even though he's made of me, I made him in a lab one night. It was quite a fright. I cut myself when I tried to dig into a frog's skin. And my blood went into frog. Casey. Casey.

01:02:53

Adal

Casey.

JPC

Casey. Put it back. Put it back. Thank you. I was not dealt with my story. And I put it in a frog. And he started hopping on a log. And then the frog spoke to me. He said, Adam, your majesty. I am your brother inside a frog because I made it your blood. I said, whoa. This is trippy. Now get into my zippy little monster 3 that I have. Well, actually, my parents paid for it. But it doesn't matter. I'm in high school. My name's Adam. My brother's a frog and he's made of my blood. Coming this summer. And that's the end, Casey. That part was the end. I was done after that. Wow. Wow. Yeah, that one, that part, that one I felt really good about, and I felt really strongly about that, about how that went.

Adal

You should, that was incredible. Here's the rub. JPC? Yeah. I'm deducting 10,500 points for you because... This makes sense. Let me explain myself. Yeah, no, I get it. This is like when a football team is up 100 to 1. Sure. And they keep in there for starters.

01:04:10

Erin

I'm the Bears right now.

Adal

I'm the Bears. And the other coach is like, what the fuck are you doing? You're good. Like, why take out your starters? That just felt unnecessary.

Erin

Okay, can I just say something about this episode?

JPC

But I'm there to play. Those guys want to play. They wouldn't be professional football players if they didn't want to have a little fun on the field. Here's my worst fear.

Erin

If this is your first episode ever, I'm having an off day. This is not like me, okay? I actually am so good at making up trailers. If this is your significant other showing, this is like, oh my God, it's unlistenable to have the one who's bad be also the girl on the show. I hear your comments. I am not mad at this. It's just today, okay? I'm good.

Adal

I just, I have to say this. I just have to say this. In no way is this misogyny. I would hope and I would pray and I'll do some self-reflection. I don't think any of the points reflect the fact that you're a woman. I don't think that factors.

01:05:27

Erin

Here's what happens. Last night I went out and I had one dirty martini and I am still hungover. I don't feel so good.

JPC

If anything, Erin, people are not going to be saying that about you. What they might be saying is, wow, the one woman on this show Really doesn't have any self-awareness about her ability to make trailers.

Erin

I did such a good one last year. Last year I did such a good one. I was so good. My dog ate chocolate yesterday and I am hungover because dirty martini is just vodka, they don't tell you. And I am sweating through my shirt. It's hot in here.

Adal

Oh. Erin, all of that, I mean if you just would have rapped with, can you rap what you just said? Here we go. Casey?

Erin

What did I just say?

Adal

No, don't do this. Why are we doing this?

Erin

I'm a grown adult and I'm in a cult and what we do is we make quilts and we're full of guilt because we kill each other if the quilt's not good enough. Okay, I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. Puts all of my Hey Riddle Riddle stuff in my briefcase. Here's what I'll say.

01:06:38

Adal

Here's what I'll say. No, Erin, hold on. The rap you just did was actually very good.

Erin

Did I just rap? What happened? I'm blacking out.

Adal

You rhymed. You rhymed a bunch. You rhymed bunches.

Erin

Remember the episode during COVID where I lost it? I'm coming up against that right now. I'm hitting that same wall.

Adal

Casey, I'm going to keep an eye on the chat. Are we able to clip the trailer from last year and put it at the end of the credits of this episode?

Erin

Yes. Thank you.

Adal

The good one. Well, we'll put both.

Erin

Yes. The good one.

Adal

And here's what I'll have to say. Thank you all so much for supporting another Bleh Riddle Riddle. I don't even... points don't matter. Points are nothing at this point. I think we've lost the concept of points, but I do have to say... Well, we will never know.

???

I thought you read a check at the end of this. Do you not read a check? The song said you had read a check. Not for this one.

01:07:55

Erin

And I get that. We have to respect that.

Adal

It'll be an IOU.

???

It'll be a Venmo request.

Adal

Venmo request.

Erin

I do have something to plug. Yes. So this Friday, the thing maybe I've been most looking forward to since I moved to LA, it's a show. It's called Live Band Scaryoke. And it's a remount of my favorite thing that used to happen in Chicago. Where it's like a live band karaoke show where a bunch of comedians and then also very, very talented singers are going to be singing in costume at the Cat's Crawl this Friday, October 27th at 10 p.m. It's a costume party, a Halloween party. If you need a Halloween thing to do in L.A., please come. Sean will be playing the drums. I'm going to be singing a song. It's the first time I've publicly sang, I think since like 2017 or 2018. But I can't stress to you enough how outside of my involvement in it, everyone who goes to one of these, it ends up being like one of the most fun nights of their life. It's so silly, it's so fun, and it's $10 for really great Halloween plans. Please come in costume. If you need any information about it or if you can't afford it and you'd like a comp, please reach out to me on Instagram, erinkeif10, because I would really love for you to be here. If you haven't seen any of my shows in LA, This is the one to come and see. I promise you'll have the best time. That's this Friday, October 27th at the Cat's Crawl at 10 p.m.

01:09:22

JPC

And you're doing the karaoke as well, Erin?

Erin

Yeah, I'm singing a song.

JPC

Will you be rapping?

Erin

I will not be rapping, but I'll be doing some fun harmony on a song that you wouldn't know.

JPC

You're going to lose a lot of people if you say that you're not going to rap.

Erin

Maybe I'll rap.

Adal

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm going to cede my plug to just tell Erin just straight out. If you rap, I will fly out to LA to smash a show. Yeah, I guess I'm rapping. JBC, do you have anything to plug or review to read?

JPC

Yeah, I got a review to read. If you want to get a review featured on the show, just leave us a five-star review wherever you leave reviews. I might find it. If I find it, I might read it. In this case, I'm reading this one from Toph R, and there's four R's, and the name of the review is... Discord just rolled out native soundboard capabilities in its voice chat. Naturally, I immediately added the Dean scream to my gaming group server. In the course of a night of intense gaming, a friend mentioned that she loved that I added it, and it was commonly used by one of her favorite podcasts. And that's how I learned we were both huge redheads. That's what fans are called, right? No, it's Ridiots. Howard Dean, still uniting people after all these years. Well, Tofar, to you I say. And congratulations.

01:10:27

Adal

Outstanding. And keep an eye out folks for on my website, I'm going to be doing a supernatural episode and it's going to be Sam and Howard Dean. Are those the two characters? Sam and Dean? But it'll be Sam and Howard Dean. So I'm going to replace Dean with Howard Dean. It'll be Howard Dean Winchester, Erin.

Erin

No, I just realized I just, it came to, we didn't do any riddles. It's my fault.

Adal

Well, Erin, you're in luck. That's your fault? What do you mean? Erin's right, we're gonna do a riddle. Here we go. Erin, what does a witch do when she goes to a hotel? And we'll find out the answer next year. Erin, what's the spookiest planet in the sky?

???

Erin, die forever. She lost.

01:11:27

???

I'm sorry.

???

Look, I know you talked about the good trailer after the credits, so I can still do that, but can I make one possible option to have after the credits? Erin, would it help you at all if I played a track I have that is a horror movie trailer soundtrack?

Erin

Yes.

???

Do you think maybe you could get the one you want?

Erin

Yes.

???

Okay, let me... Yes. Alright.

Erin

JBC, give me a title. Adal, give me a title. Someone make up a title.

JPC

It has to be like a pun to it, right?

Adal

Something with boo maybe? Boo's talking now? Boo, what's a- Look Boo's talking now? Thank you, look Boo's talking now.

JPC

Alright Erin, your redemption topic is, look Boo's talking now, whenever you're ready.

01:12:29

Erin

Yep, I'm 40 weeks pregnant. We're just sort of waiting for the baby to come. We've been nesting. We're so happy we have that new house up on the hill. And yeah, it's been hard to move in there. Obviously it's an old house, but we're so excited to meet our new baby. It's a boy! And everyone's so excited and they're celebrating and they come home from the hospital. And hello, mother. This Halloween. Why can you talk? You're like three days old. Of course I can talk, mother. I lived in this house for a very, very long time. A very long time ago. I just want my baby back. But mother, I am your baby. There's just a few things I need you to do or else I'll cry and you'll die.

01:13:35

Adal

Margo Martindale ends. Look, Boo's talking.

Erin

Mother, where are you? I don't have object permanence and I can't see.

Adal

This Halloween.

Erin

Look Boo's talking now. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck Adal. Fuck JPC. Fuck Casey. Fuck all y'all. I nailed it. Erin Keif is back baby. Not a hungover at all anymore. Love y'all. Happy Halloween.

???

Oh, very good.

Adal

Very good.

Erin

Was that better?

Adal

Yeah, that was much better. That was fantastic. Hello, mommy. You can't talk. You're three days old. Hello, mommy.

JPC

Hello, mommy. Yeah, Erin, that was very good. You killed it on that one. Thank you. That was fantastic. Cool. Any notes?

01:14:36

???

Cut the whole thing.

JPC

Hey there, Davids and S-Pumpkins. If you like that, you are going to love this week's Patreon. It's a Halloween party draft. You can listen to that plus our entire back catalogue at patreon.com slash HeyRiddleRiddle by joining the Clue crew for $5 a month, or start your 7-day free trial, or the Review crew for $8 a month. And you get those ad-free episodes. See you there!

???

That was a hate gun podcast.