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Okay, JPC, just stand still. Almost done with your tattoo here.
Almost? Okay. I haven't really felt anything yet.
I mean, it's not a big tattoo. It's just the name of the show. I'm at the end. Wait, hold on. How do you spell Riddle?
Okay, Adal? Yeah? How do you spell Riddle?
Whoa, what's this? Hey Rubble Rubble?
Come on, Erin. A Hey Rubble Rubble tattoo? Actually, that could work. I do love Rubble.
Oh, God. What are D's and what are B's? I should have asked. You know what? I thought to ask before I started the tattoo.
Your parents didn't give you the D's and the B's speech? No. That made more sense in my head. Did we get the delay over? Okay, we all got it. I got it. Everyone's nodding.
That's okay. I can't blame you for this.
Erin, your line work is exquisite. Thanks. I spelled it wrong. No, it's dumb. I probably am not going to get one at this point, though, because it won't match yours because I wanted Hey Riddle Riddle, so... You could get a tattoo that matches the one that you messed up on me. No, no, no. You'll get the tattoo. We'll... We'll... Pay for it?
You'll get that, and we'll keep going with our day as it was.
Wait, pay for it? Erin gave it to you. She's charging you?
Yeah, well, she's learning. It'll be $6,000. So I have to pay for, you know, I have to pay for the inexperienced fee, basically.
And Erin also charged me an idiot tax?
You'll have to explain that to me one day, because I just don't get it yet.
Yeah, you never will, and that's why you have to pay it.
Okay. Oh, and this is Hey Riddle Riddle. It's an improv and riddles podcast. I'm one of the guys. There's another one, and Erin's also here as well.
And me as well, and also me. And also me.
Huh? Huh? Special guest, huh? Uh-huh. Yeah? Uh-huh.
Special guest, huh? We have...
Niccole Thurman with us. I was kind of hoping that none of you guys remembered my name and that was what was happening. I was like, great. Yeah, the guest is Niccole Thurman.
Right before we started, Adal was like, I want to introduce Niccole. And I was like, okay, I'm kidding.
Nicole, we got to do improv together for the first time a couple months ago. And I immediately felt such a Chicago kinship with you on the stage. My body could just feel that you were a Chicago person and it was like, I felt like flying. I had the time of my life.
I agree. First of all, you I did have a good set that day, which I don't normally say because but because I've like lately I've been very rusty and improvising. Like, I keep saying like, that was the worst show of my life when I leave and I'm like, well, it could get worse, I guess every time I just try. But no, I'm just joking. But it was that was a fun. That was a really fun show. It was. It was just great. Yeah.
You did something and it was the hardest I've laughed in the last three years. I was a teacher.
I do a comedy show with you so that sucks to hear.
I know, but you guys are so funny and this is how funny this was. I was a teacher who was trying to gain control of her class and I pointed at Niccole and I went, Do cursive! And you made what is the craziest noise I've ever heard a human person make and I lost my mind.
Immediate tears. Cursive.
That's a person doing cursive. Yeah.
All the letters are correct. Exactly. And I was just like, that was the first thing that came to my head. It was a very funny.
I immediately burst into tears. I was like, well, that's the best moment of my life. I'll never recover from it.
And you definitely can feel the Chicago energy on that too. You're right. It was a very fun show because, yeah, there's something about the Chicago kinship, the community, the love, the like, my manager didn't make me take an improv class, it's not why I'm here. It's something different. It's more for like the love of the game. And so the people, the performers are different. It's fun. Yeah, I love it. It's kind of refreshing I think that's also I mean when I first moved here a reason why a lot of people like LA or Chicago people in LA because they know that we come from like off-loop storefront theater and make no money and we're cool with it we do shows for nothing so they're like they want to work they love it like I said they do it for the love of the game so it's like it's you know it's a different I think it's it's like when you're What am I talking about? It's like when you're a kid and you're just like playing games, but then suddenly you grow up and you start thinking about the games you're playing. And so you worry about like, is this game fun or whatever? You know what I mean? And so instead we just Chicago people just like to have fun. They just like to be together and play.
You know what I think helps with that that I don't feel like happens as much out here is in Chicago and the people in your classes and teams. would be some people who have absolutely no interest in going into show business, like lawyers or therapists and people who are like, I'm doing this sort of like as my pickleball league or my church every week where I go and I have a drink and I hang out with people. And I think that adds to the community of it and adds to like the low pressure of like, this is the event. This is not as a means to something else.
Definitely. I was telling my boxing teacher the other day because I'm thinking about teaching boxing. I love boxing. I just take classes, so I'm not like, I don't spar with people, but like, I'm a pretty good boxer. Punch-typically. As hard as you learn! He's so sweet! I got his ass, he did!
Oh, he did. It wouldn't be hard before, it would be easy to kill me with a punch, okay?
Yeah, okay, it wouldn't be that hard.
It wouldn't be that impressive.
Yeah, you'd be like, you don't have to hit me that hard, my face is made of cheese, so get over it. No, but I was telling her about it, and I was like, you should take an improv, like, everybody should take, because she was saying she wanted to take one, I was like, everybody should take an improv class. Welcome back to
Because the only way that I would ever ask that question is if someone volunteered, am I too old? And he was like 56. And I was like, no, you're, you could obviously take an improv. I'd say if you, if you answered 89, I'd be like, yeah, maybe, maybe make a mince or something.
I've ever seen improv not work for someone or a group of people was I've done a lot of corporate improv and it's always pretty cool to be there and it's like a breakthrough of like oh yeah if I support someone else's idea that feels good or at least to them I did a workshop for Boeing, so they came in from, I think they're based in Seattle or something, but we're running exercises.
They were, now they're based in Chicago.
It was like an eight day, are they really? Yeah. It's like, not an eight day, it was an eight hour workshop, but we were doing some exercise and at some point this one guy just like got frustrated and goes, can you tell me what the answer is? And I go, huh? And the exercise is something where it's like one word story or something. And he goes, can you tell me what the answer is? And I go, There's no right answer. And he's like stopping the whole thing and I'm like, this is not for, for these people, this is useless.
He's like, could you just script this for me? But then at Boeing, they don't even read all the directions, do they? Because planes are crashing. That's a really good point. So like, what do they care about the rules?
Just say a word, man. Turns out that only happened after all the improv classes because they started like improvising, putting doors on
What is your relationship with puzzles, riddles, escape rooms, lateral thinking problems, daily word puzzles? That's an interesting question, actually, because if I think about it, my immediate answer is I'm not big on them. But actually, it depends on what it is. Oh my god, I just hit this mic. It depends on what it is. If it's trivia, word puzzles I like, crossword puzzles. I've never done a Sudoku or like Wordle, but I feel like I would like them. People are annoying that talk about it, so I just don't do it. It's like, I don't want to be that person. I don't want to say I got the word steam in two. I don't even know what that means.
That's exactly what they say!
The title of this episode is Steam In Two.
I love when I can give you guys the title.
And they text 20 friends to be like, eh, it's like, yeah.
They used to post it on Twitter. I'm like, bitch, no one cares. You got 56,000 followers. None of us care. But yeah, so I've never been into that. I like puzzles. I like things. Okay, yeah, it's interesting because I think if you were like, let's sit down and do a puzzle, I'd be like, ew. But if you were like, let's put together this thing. I'm not exactly sure how to do it. I'd be so into it. And I wouldn't want to be done until I did it. So I think it's like a mixed bag with that kind of stuff. Yeah. If there's rules to be explained, I'm out. You know, if it's pretty clear, I can do it and I'm having fun and like riddles. I don't know how I am with riddles. I think I'm going to find out on Hey Riddle Riddle. Have you done an escape room? No never. I think an escape room would be fun if you were with the right people. It's like everybody has to be like chill but adding ideas or like whatever the thing is. You guys have to like answer questions or whatever like somebody has to be you have to contribute but I would never want to go in with like somebody who was super hyper and stressed out because that would just give me anxiety and I'd be like I gotta escape the room now. Riddle Riddle
It does tend to highlight people's hidden personalities, where you see people turn into Type A, where they're like, shut up, put stuff here, and you're like, whoa, we're supposed to be having fun. And people get intense. Hopefully, Erin, we've done some rooms. We've done some rooms, JPC.
There was one time, I will say.
I think it doesn't count for you, Adal, because you're hyper-aware of that fact. So it's very easy to not fall into it because you're so aware of it.
We did a world new show in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and as a warm-up, me, Adal, and two other improvisers, Brett Lyons and Atra Azduz, right? Because that was the four of us, right? Did an escape room, and we had a two-hour improv show right after this escape room. So I was like, we're gonna have fun, we're gonna do bits, and we're on this submarine, and I'm like, guys, we're on a submarine! And they're like, shut up! Okay, this is Morse code, and the numbers, and it was the most stressful hour of my life, the most stressful escape room, no one was being funny, Three of the funniest comedians in Chicago. The fun left the room, and then we got to the show and everyone was like... Oh god, what a terrible energy for this improv show.
Oh no, oh no, oh no. We fucked up.
That's like when people used to talk about like couples taking trips to Ikea. It's like the new thing, the challenge, or the way to test a relationship is like, can we escape a room without killing each other?
Let's get into some riddles. Okay, and Niccole just so you know they are good Aaron Last episode Aaron don't knocked it from the bottom into her face and almost Punched myself in the face.
I'm gonna do that too. Why is this so it's so wobbly, okay?
No, you're like you're you're like boxing them. It's like you're not punching it towards you you're you're Absolutely clobbering.
I'm giving it uppercuts and whatnot. That's why I
So riddles can be very bad and very sort of frustrating, so keep that in mind. Yeah, I mean, like, they can be frustrating, but, like, you know, you can choose. You can choose to get frustrated.
How do you want to receive it, really? That's the thing.
But here's the first riddle, and I feel like this will be a good one, especially for Niccole.
Ooh, sounds challenging. Okay.
There's one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. What is it?
The score or the leader, and the spectator and the participants don't know the score or the leader until it's over.
I was gonna say like a track race, but the spectators would know.
Yeah, there's a... You said it's a sport? Yeah, it's a sport. And are we using like sport in quotes? No, it's a sport. Okay, this is an actual sport.
There's one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. What is it?
Wait, is it like hunting?
Ooh, that's a great guess because- Because the animals are like, what the hell?
And then the spectators are like, we don't know who's winning. We heard shots. Yeah, exactly.
Until the dogs go grab the foxes. Hunting is a great guess. It's not hunting, but Niccole, I think this is a good one for you especially.
Is it boxing? It's boxing. Wait, the spectators and the participants don't know that they're watching a sport or playing? I mean, that's what it says here. But also when you're watching, you know who's the land dude. Well, maybe if you're like watching two dudes just like punch each other back and forth on the street drunkenly, you're like, hey, we're watching a boxing match and nobody knew it.
The Sweet Science. Because I know that you don't end a round of boxing and they say, you got 13 points, pretty good. Like I know it's not that, but how do they decide who wins, is basically my question.
I think it's like... Well I was gonna say, I was only gonna say that I'm thinking of it right now, think about the end of like boxing matches when the ref is like, woo, and holds up the guy and the guy's like, yeah! And so I think it's like that unless it's a clear knockout because I think there's so many rounds and you could go round for round until the round runs out and both be good and not knocked out all the way till the end. And by that point, somebody's got to win somehow.
Is it subjective? Do the refs just be like, I think this guy did the best?
I think they count punches landed versus punches thrown. And then also like,
That sucks. My ratio would be dirt. I throw a thousand punches and maybe get ten.
But I guess you do see... I think you'd be more tired that way, so like... Every once in a while, you do see a boxing match where you're like, oh, clearly it's this person, and then the other person wins, and you're like, that's an upset. So there is some subjectivity, but I think for the most part, they're counting punches landed. Sure. Yeah. Okay. Okay.
I'd like to see a scene. Oh, please. Niccole and JPC, you are two drunk guys boxing on the street, and then you realize that you don't really know why you're mad at each other.
Get over here! Stand back up!
It's not even gonna happen anymore.
Yeah, well it's gonna be true and it's gonna be next time it's gonna be you on the ground and I'm gonna be upstairs.
Yeah, right. I've been going to Knockout USA for three weeks, so I know what up.
My favorite water park is Wild Wild Knockout World and my favorite ride is Shut Up.
We're gonna keep fighting until you apologize what I do
Mmm. It was not what you did, it was the way you did it.
No, you don't even know. I don't do anything mean. I'm very nice. So nasty. No, you didn't do nasty. I meditate.
Before I take boxing class, I go to transcendental meditation.
That seems odd to do. That seems like a very weird order to do.
I gotta get in the zone before I knock bitches out. And that's what I'm doing right now!
I don't think you can knock someone out by hitting them in the leg.
That's okay, I'll try again.
I'm getting pretty sleepy.
Why are you mad at me, man? Just give it up. I don't do anything mean. Was it your girl?
I think you took my pillow. I think we're both trying to go to sleep in this bed.
See, I told you, as roommates, we gotta get our own rooms, bro.
I know, but the hospital won't let us have our own rooms because we don't have insurance.
That is fucked up that they do make you split a room in a hospital.
Yeah, every time I've been that, I've been like, hi. I got so lucky and had two personal rooms. Wow. When I was in two hospitals last year. Wow. I was very lucky. I was laying there with a broken back like, bitch. I'm alive. I'm rich in life. They said something like, your SAG insurance got you a private room, and I was like, yay?
I don't, what are we doing?
No, but that is crazy that they make you share rooms and like I feel like those it's always like a crazy loud Yeah, that would be traumatizing because it's I guess it's like they probably do it when it's not like a contagious Whatever between two people but even like a hospital I'm always worried about germs in a hospital because I'm like this is where sick people go That's the worst isn't that the place you can get the sickest at a hospital? Yeah, they play too much. They don't care about us.
They don't care about us I was in a room with someone and they just wanted to watch Wheel of Fortune and it ended and I was so happy and then they picked up their remote and changed it to a different channel that was playing Wheel of Fortune.
Hey Riddle Riddle I just gotta be honest here, I was controversial. They ate differently back then. They must have! They just chomped it, mushed it. They get it all over their face, they don't move it. But anyway, she was doing the like eating and sighing thing. Do you ever hear people? And you're like, what are you doing? But luckily I got to leave like that day.
Yeah. I had to split an ambulance with somebody one time and they kept apologizing to me because it was their fault I was in the ambulance. It's like an Uber share. Yeah, and I had to say, dude, don't talk to me. We're at an ambulance. Can you please not talk to me about this? Yeah, makes sense. Yeah, I know. And I think that they charged me full price for that ambulance ride. Shouldn't I get half price? Yeah. It's like Uber Pool, it's a little bit less, right?
You're sitting in a car with somebody you don't know, you're gonna pay less.
The other guy said, like, I'm with him. He's like, oh yeah, actually he's got me on this ambulance ride.
Was the other guy hurt too, or was he just there to apologize?
It was a car accident that he caused. So he was like apologizing for the car accident, but I'm like, I'm not in a space where I can receive this apology. Not ready to forgive. In ten years we can talk.
Find me when I'm older and we can talk.
Let's do another riddle. Please. Okay. The letter. Oh, okay. If there are 40 cups. The letter. Is the answer the letter? If there are 40 cups. If there are four teacups on the table and one cup breaks, how many teacups are left? The answer is three. We started with four teacups and one broke.
Now, Adal, did you intend to mystify that or did you, because you, you kind of, I was trying to grease the wheels.
I need to hear this Riddle again. So it was four teacups and then when you take one away, it's three.
If there are four teacups on the table and one cup breaks, how many teacups are left? Three.
Okay, so riddles suck. Is it trying to make you think that it's 40 cups?
What are these from, Adal?
Yeah, that's why. Because some riddles are bangers and then some are like that. Because that's just math, right? Four minus one is three.
I mean, that's kind of how books work though, too, because it's like a lot of the stuff in books is page filler.
I can't tell you how many chapter books I read where I'm like, first paragraph, last paragraph, that's all you need in a chapter book.
I would like to see a scene. You three are three members of high society having afternoon tea and you're trying to like out fancy each other a little bit.
So I just bought my chauffeur a chauffeur.
So the way that it works is my chauffeur will drive me around all day, and then when they're ready to go home, they have a chauffeur that takes them home.
Oh, I love that for them. Yeah, that's perfect.
What do you call the chauffeur for your chauffeur, so there's no confusion? We just call him Ed.
I almost lost my tea on that one!
I recently bought myself a Vince Vaughn. Now, not a Vince Vaughn type, but Vince Vaughn, so what he'll do is I'll come home and I'll step into the foyer and
He'll talk very quickly and with confidence. Yes. And he's so tall. Tall. And the missus and I just adore it. So he's always around and he stays in the guest house. But it's just a little something we picked up.
Is this a Swingers era Vince Vaughn? Or did you buy vintage? I know it's a little more pricey if you want to get the original model.
We all want Swingers era. This is made era Vince Vaughn. So close to Swingers. Close, but...
Chauffeur sounds like the job title of someone who cleans a couch. Driving is not a one-to-one. It's like you chauffeur the couch.
Yes, absolutely. What else? What else? What else?
I was gonna say, does anybody want to eat one of these tiny cakes? It's, you know, it's sitting there on the tower of cakes and cheese.
Yes, I would eat one, but the people that we've- that the cakes are stacked on top of are moving a little much for my pleasure, so I'm wondering if that their movement has somehow upset the cake.
I've seen rich eat sushi off naked people.
We should eat cake off naked people. That should be a thing.
Yeah, cake would be way better to eat off a naked person than sushi.
It's so decadent. Actually, you know what would be the coolest? Make a person and then you cut into them and make cake. Oh! Is it cake? That's a rich person thing. They look very real. And then they turn out to be cake. Is this murder or dessert?
Because if you're rich and they're not cake, it's fine as well because you're like a rich, you know, you're a psychopath.
Murder or dessert. Yeah, why not? New TV show.
In which sport do winners move backwards and losers move forwards?
I bet, wait, that's wrong. I was going to say rowing.
Rowing is such a good guess. It's a good guess. But no one goes forward. But the boats go forwards when they row backwards. No, this is nothing. Adal's looking at me like it is maybe something.
I know he's got those eyes, but no. He's doing the teacher eyes like that's a good answer and not correct.
Share with the rest of the class. He's excited for me to have a bad answer.
They go backwards to win, forwards to lose.
I was thinking also like, but this is, you said sport, and this is a sport, Adal. It's like checkers or something like that?
It's not like an Olympic level sport.
That's a great guess. I don't even know how to play chess, but I guess because they go backwards.
I could tell that you didn't know how to play chess because you keep moving your pieces backwards. Off the board. I don't want to do this.
You know when roller skaters like skate backwards and it's really cool?
Whoa, yeah, like a 70s rollerblader. Is that it?
You don't like my answer? Why not?
You don't like my answer, sir?
Erin, it feels like you'd be someone at a roller rink who'd be like, look, look, look, look, and then would like slam into someone else.
Last time I was at a roller rink, I fell backwards and I hit my tailbone and I had to sit on a special pillow for eight weeks. Eight weeks! Yeah, you guys remember that?
Erin, you know I hate hearing stories about your life, right? I know.
They make me sad to hear.
Maybe it was six weeks. Erin, you bought more special pillows than any person I've ever met.
We were recording the podcast at the time.
I would talk about it all the time.
Yeah, about your special pillows. Yeah.
Did they give it to you at the hospital? Was it the donut one? Yeah. I think that, to me, seems like one of the most painful injuries. Did you break it?
No, I bruised it or something, but it hurt so bad. The next day I just couldn't walk. Makes me kind of barfy.
I've hurt my tailbone before and it's like, oh, so bad.
And Erin, you had stomach surgery and they put one of those cones on your head so you wouldn't lick the stitches.
Yeah, but I got them off anyway.
What if it's golf? Wait, did you already say golf was not it?
Because you know how sometimes in some sports you have to get a low score to win and a high score to lose, so that's backwards and forwards, right? Kinda.
That is a phenomenal guess. That is not what it shows here, but we're gonna give that points for sure. Points? Okay. What about tennis? Is tennis anything?
No. Tennis is nothing. Tennis is nothing?
They move backwards? Say this again? In which sport do winners move backwards and losers move forwards? And I really, I do have to stress, sport is, this is not something where you hear it and you're like, oh, you're an athlete. This is a sport you play.
Could it be like bowling or something?
It's a more casual happening. Or like an eating contest. I'm not sure. I'm trying to think of how that would be backwards. It's definitely an event we're all familiar with, but it's, to call it a sport is pretty strong terms. Oh my gosh, I really wish I could figure this out. Maybe you'd see this at like a picnic or a... Frisbee? Frisbee's a good, I mean... So what about like a three-legged race?
Oh, croquet or something?
Not croquet. Gym class? Cornhole?
Not cornhole. Cornhole is correct. Swimming forward. Gym class, camp, a picnic. Climbing the rope! You're close. You're very close. Spelunking! Cold. Spelunking worse though.
I guess you're not moving backwards, you're just moving down. And this is a quote-unquote sport that involves teams. Typically.
Oh, tug of war. It's tug of war. Nice! I never would have guessed that. That's amazing.
I want to see a quick scene. We're gonna see a scene. So you, you three are going to be on a tug of war team. But, and I'll be on the other team, but I just I don't have a team. It's just me on the other team.
Okay, let's huddle up game plan game plan. All right, so should we do one big yank? Should we?
Oh, I think, um, I think Hank said that it's, uh, it's two on two for the day. No, sorry. Can you give us a sec? We're having a little time.
It's a team versus you. Hold on one second.
No, I know. Yeah, we are, we all work at the same Starbucks.
Just gonna talk real quick. Sorry. Yeah. Jesus. That's so awkward. You know what? I think we should just go over there and just push him over.
I mean, why use the rope?
That won't get us any points, but I think he needs it. It's worth it.
I think he might be like 17 and we're like 30 something.
Yeah, I thought Hank said, Zach, I thought he said that you're on my team because he was like... Sorry, what did Hank say? I thought Hank said that Zach was supposed to be on my team and there's going to be a two- Are you like a Brent? You look like a Brent. Oh no. Oh no, I work with you guys. It's Bradley. Yeah. What is it? Bradley, I've worked here for two years with you guys.
Bradley, can you give us a quick sec? We're having a team meeting. Can you just give us one second? Sure, Brad.
I feel like I should be a team. Would you like to fuck off for one second? Whoa, okay. Okay.
Does he understand that we are not on his team?
Don't think so. This is so sad. This is so awkward.
Hank's picking up his son from college. Bradley, put your hands on the rope and just get ready, okay buddy? It's happening.
Oh, well, I don't know. I mean, everyone's so much bigger than me and I just... Oh, my pants!
All the skin off his hands.
Oh, no. Seed beads. His skin came off like gloves. Who's gonna clean that up?
Oh, skin came off like gloves. I hate hearing about that.
Yeah, I know. Sorry. Skin came off like gloves. Skin came off like gloves! Yeah, what happened here? Skin came off like gloves.
You know how that happens.
You know how gloves is basically skin.
Yeah, that's why they came up with skinny. Like someone took their skin off, they're like, there's got to be an easier way.
Skin is gloves I regrow. Wow. Wow. Gloves I regrow, oh my god. Let's take a break to reflect on that. Kinda ponder that, yeah. And we'll be right back with more skin. The skin is the gloves we made along the way.
I'm gonna try not to throw up during the break thinking about this imagery. Good luck to me! Wait guys, stop fistfighting. Argument over. I have a solution to all of our problems.
What? Stop fistfighting? Okay, I guess I can stop. I never even thought of that.
We don't have to argue about what we're watching tonight anymore on the TV. I know what we're watching.
What's that? Okay? Our diets?
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Okay, I've heard of this. I've heard of this. But wait, Erin. I will not stop farting and I will not watch what you say unless I can stream stone-cold animated favorites like Family Guy, Futurama, and Bob's Burgers. So help me.
Put down your fists. That's what's on there.
What? Cut to JPC pulling off his fists and setting them down, not realizing what Erin meant. Cut back to now.
Okay, but that's fine for me, but I know Adal's not going to stop fighting unless he can watch his favorites like Solar Opposites, Hit Monkey, and American Dad.
Take off your fists, Adal.
Cut to me taking off my fists, not realizing what Erin meant, cut back to now.
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Okay, now we cut back and it's Adal and I, we're like hanging out without our fists and we're trying to drink coffee and we keep reaching for the coffee cup and like bumping into the coffee cup and then like a big chicken breaks in and we start fighting the chicken and we're like rolling around with the chicken.
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I'm going to kill Erin and I'm going to be the third host of Hey Riddle Riddle.
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Um, yeah, I think the internet works underwater. Yeah, I- wait, what? I think the internet works underwater, right? It must.
It works everywhere, right?
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Oh, I mean, then if you did that, then you should be able to check analytics with Squarespace. You know, you can measure your end-to-end online performance with powerful website and seller analytics. Have you heard about this?
Yeah, I know that works with Squarespace, but I've been doing it all underwater.
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Yeah, it's just hard because it's underwater. I don't think I have an underwater camera for down there. It takes forever to upload because it has to upload through all the water.
Cameras should work underwater.
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I did actually keep the $250 because I've been learning through Babbel. Have you heard of Babbel?
Oh, wait, Babbel, isn't that the science-backed language learning app that gets you talking? But they don't even teach you GPC on that app. That's not even one of the official languages you could learn.
Well, it's just I've been holding back on travel plans because I'm afraid of the language gap. But with Babbel, there's no need to mind the gap because they teach you whatever language you want to learn.
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Yeah, but Babbel is designed by real people for having real conversations. Babbel, you know, gets you talking. But, you know, JPC is designed by one crazy man to talk in a language that only one person in the world understands. Isn't that better?
I mean, I'm going to Japan soon, and I've been using Babbel to learn some Japanese.
Yeah, but with JPC you can learn to say thank you like a thousand different ways. You can go, and those are both thank you in JPC.
Oh boy. Yeah, a lot of JPC is just going, hey, get out of here.
Oh, okay. Thank you. I have lost a little weight.
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Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't.
Adal, JPC, you guys are not going to believe what I've been spending my money on.
We'll probably believe it. Well, don't lie to us. Tell us the truth.
Oh, okay. Well, the truth is that I have been sending an acapella app $50 a month for the last six months. I downloaded it rocket money, and they caught it for me, and then they canceled it for me. Thank God, right? That's so much money.
Yeah, that's a lot of money. And what would an acapella app even be, right?
Don't ask questions you don't want the answer to, answer to, answer to.
I don't want the answer to that, so that makes sense.
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Do you guys think Kathy's in an acapella group? Dude, I love that. Hey Riddle Riddle And we're back, and Erin, how are you doing? Nausea-wise?
She's not opening her mouth because I saw her put a bunch of pennies in there. I'm sorry, Erin, but I want my pennies back. And I'm not on your team here. And, Erin, there's some puke seeping out of your nose.
God. What are the next three letters in this riddle? How would I know? How would I... No, that's four. That's four letters. What are the next three... What are the next three letters in this riddle? O-T-T-F-S... Sorry. O-T-T-F-F-S-S... Blank, blank, blank. Man, fuck you.
I'm gonna write this down. Only one TikTok french fry shall stay.
Was that what the letters- were those the letters? Niccole, you got one of them correct.
Wait, I did?! Well, one of the- you got something right.
What are the next three letters in this riddle? So here's what's already in place, and then there's three blanks.
O-T-T-F-F-S-S and then blank, blank, blank.
Is this going to involve me like knowing the fucking alphabet or whatever? Like the number, like what number is O? Nicole is blazing hot.
A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O. Was that 10? A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O. Was that 10? A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O. Was that 10? A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O. Was that 10? A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O. Was that 10? A-B Oh, it's 15.
I would say transfer this focus onto another sequence.
But Niccole has said a few things that are blazing hot.
15... So it's like 10, 15, 20. Right? I think that's what it is.
It's not that. Are we thinking like Roman numerals or some shit? Like, no, no? Pullback, pullback. Time?
I think y'all are complicating it more than you need to. Don't tell me what I'm doing, okay? I'll tell you what I'm doing. I'm complicating it more than I need to. And I'll say, I'll complicate it more than I need to. The answer, the three-letter answer, is a type of creature in Lord of the Rings. Oh, a shmeagle. Is the answer Schmeagle?
I was so excited thinking you were just going to nail it.
Is it O-R-C? Orc. No, but that's a game. Is it E-L-F? You got one of those letters right. Is it M-A-N? Wow, one of the creatures in Lord of the Rings, man.
So he said E-L-F, one of those letters was right. What kind of creature is a Gandalf? It's like an angel. O-T-F-S? O-T-F-S? Lord of the Rings.
One of the letters in elf is correct. Yes.
Okay, this is E. Yes. It's E. It's E. Elk.
Elk? That's nothing. That's an animal.
Erin, are we thinking that there is an elk in the Lord of the Rings? Yeah. No, don't.
Don't. Come on. Come on. No. Aren't you bored of bullying me?
Niccole, you are Gandalf the Wizard. JPC, you are Aragorn the Strider. The Ranger. Yeah. And Erin, you are the lost character who's an elk, and these are the lost chapters where an elk tries to join the fellowship.
Gandalf, I just don't think that Frodo has the strength of will to take the ring to Mordor.
Well, you know, as Gandalf, I have seen things happen. And so, yeah, maybe he could do it.
Your wisdom knows no ends, Gandalf. I put my trust in you.
I believe in you and your power. Tell me about it.
Are my ears burning? You guys talking about me?
You don't have antlers. I don't? No.
Well, you have nothing but... I mean, elk do shed antlers. Did you think that you still had... Oh, my antlers.
Did you drop them somewhere? What's happening? I'm Gandalf, I don't know Elk.
Oh, Gandalf, it's my birthday. You're obviously playing a prank on me. You gave an elf the ability- an elk, I'm sorry, the ability to speak. This is like a big- it's a wizard joke.
Uh, no. Uh, no. I, uh, sorry. No, what? Hold on, this was more impressive when I had antlers to help. Um... I saw that you guys were sort of starting a club where you're helping that little one ring a ring, and I thought I could help. No one can ride me, and I have a lot of food allergies.
We're super full up right now.
Yes, I would take months to train you.
Because Gandalf has Shadowfax, which is kind of Gandalf's horse, and so we don't necessarily- Right, but again, you can't ride me. We wouldn't, yes.
How would it benefit us to not ride you? Would you walk beside you and go slowly? Yeah, you'd have to go slow.
How would it benefit us to not ride you? Because we're gonna ride you if you can't come up with a compelling reason.
If you can't come up with a good reason, I'm going to. Yeah, we're gonna get on you.
Okay. Well, I could help. I could, um...
We, a big part of this journey is gonna be about, uh, how- Thwack!
Ah, my elven eyes, did spying elk, I, Legolas, have- Not Legolas. Oh wait, were you talking to this thing?
Legolas, did you just thwack that elk?
And Legolas never misses. That's kind of his whole thing.
Yeah, it's right between my eyes.
Yeah, it's in your brain. And I think sometimes when you get an arrow in the brain, you don't know you're dead for like a week. You know what?
We will take you to Mordor as cut up steaks, kind of like dried and jerkified.
You're not supposed to tell them.
We're going to cut them and dry them. But I do want them to know that they're going to contribute to- A win's a win. We'll use all of you. It's cake.
You know, it's like you think you've seen all the Lord of the Rings and you have, but then you remember you have a terrible attention span. And so you're like, you know who I get confused as Gandalf and the Harry Potter... Dumbledore. Dumbledore. Yeah. Same guy though, same actor. Who does the You Shall Not Pass? That's Gandalf, right?
Okay, I was right. I had the right in my mind. Dumbledore is gay, but not in the books, just after.
Just after, yes. Just after. So, I want to change my answer from orc to int. So, E-N-T. That is correct. But, you need to tell me why that's right.
Are these Myers-Briggs types? That's the guy from American Pie?
Oh yeah, Myers-Briggs, the guy who puts his dick in a pie.
He tells me what my personality is.
We'll just tell your mom we ate the pie.
I would love to take an online quiz where he's just on the other side being like, I don't know, you're an introvert I guess.
You take the whole Myers-Briggs test and it just tells you what Jason Biggs movie you should be in. It's like, you're a loser saving Silverman. So, yeah, so just move on, I guess, with the next riddle because I- You're dead right, but- E-N-T, you said, right?
And it was right. E-N-T, yeah.
That is right. So, Niccole was blazing hot when you said, I can't remember what you said, you said one of these something. Okay, so it's O-F-F-T-T-S-S-E-N-T. O-T-T-F-F-S-S-E-N-T. Now, how many in total are there in this pattern? What? I have to do a different riddle now? O-T-T-F-F-S-S-E-N-T How many is that?
Okay, so these are all types of doctors. An ENT is an ear, nose, and throat doctor.
You split an ambulance, I'm your ENT.
An OTS is on the side if you work at a restaurant.
FF is fast forward, as we all know, on a remote.
Are we done? And I think we're done.
And I think we're done. And we're done here.
We have to know, but I want to guess, because this is why I can't do these kinds of games, because then I will not, I'll be like, no, don't tell me, but tell me.
I don't know if this applies, but I have a very strong Diner Dash feeling right now where I just want to dash. I feel like I want to leave without paying.
I'll come back in and pay you. What's the answer?
I'll say I'm sorry about my friend. It's his last day.
He's a make-a-wish kid. His make-a-wish was to dine and dash one time.
He doesn't know, but today is it for him.
Can I say something about this riddle? This riddle feels how medicine tastes. Does that make sense? Which feels uncomfortable.
Erin, that's a trick question because Flintstone vitamins, in my opinion, in my household is medicine. And those are fucking delicious.
No, they don't. They taste like fruity chalk. Flintstone vitamins?
That's insane. Erin, did you ever have Flintstone vitamins as a kid?
You didn't love eating them?
I remember them being chalky too, but candy is chalky. Wait, Advil has candy coating, right? Ollie gummy vitamins are real good. I can eat them like beans.
Where do you get Ollie? Is that a brand?
It's like at Walgreens. It's like a little trendy, cute brand. It's O-L-L-Y. You can take melatonin and it tastes like mango. And you're like, yum. I'm into it.
I don't know, I don't think that it should have any taste.
I think, yeah, and I think this riddle feels like it should be on the SATs or the ACTs or something. Because it feels like an analogy problem.
It'd be at home there. So here's what I'll say. When Niccole said one, that correlates to one of the letters in this sequence. And I'll say the very first one. The very first one. O is one? Yeah.
And the next one is TT. I'm
Four, five, oh it's the number, oh my god, it's the first letter of the number. It's the letter of the number.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and then ENT is eight, nine, ten.
My brain's too slow for this right now. One starts with an O, two starts with a T, three starts with a T, four starts with, and you know, I don't have to say what four starts with.
I spied Engineer Sam over here, punched a wall. He knew this.
Did you know right away? I still don't understand it. Someone gotta write it down for me. Okay.
Well, Engineer Sam beats us again. I do want to see a scene. God. I want to see a scene. Niccole, you are a teacher in a, we'll say like a second grade classroom. Erin and JPC, you are two students who are called upon to say the numbers and you're trying to help each other out because you did not study for this. Got it, got it.
Okay, so we're going to just go through what went through yesterday. It should be easy. It shouldn't be a disaster at all like it was yesterday. Okay, so we're talking about numbers. Okay. Danielle and Leroy, do you want to volunteer to come up to the front of the class and do your numbers for us?
It's not volunteering for you to be here. Yes. Yes. Yes, Miss Pickles.
Leroy, I watched like eight hours of YouTube last night. I didn't think about this at all.
Are we supposed to do these in cursive?
I can hear both of you and I just say go for it.
Okay, okay, we know the first one. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, 4, 5, 6, and 17.
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, 4, 5, 6, and 17. Okay, that's close. 81, 90, 64, 32, and 64.
Now we've said our 1-2-3's Next time please don't call on me
As an outside observer, Mrs. Pickles' teachings were unorthodox, but they had results.
You said things out loud at the end. You sang a Lumber song, so I guess Mrs. Pickles did it.
You won't know math, but you will write a musical.
That's more valuable, honestly, in your life. Are you going to be an engineer? No, you're going to write musicals.
Who's name do you know better? Lin-Manuel Miranda or... Jonathan Groff. Math. Wait.
Mr. Math. Mr. Math. Alright, more riddles. Oh my gosh, I'm so frustrated about this OTT FFS. I'm gonna look it up.
A dead man. A dead man. I'm obsessed, Niccole, with Gandalf starting sentences with, as Gandalf.
I have to remind myself sometimes what I'm doing in an improv scene by just being like, yeah, I'm that person.
My favorite movement in improv scene is to go, hey, real quick, who are we and what do we mean to each other? Of course, the best initiation in improv scene is, fuck you, where are we?
Fuck you, where are we is so fucking funny. Fuck you, where are we?
I was walking, my wife and I were walking on the beach yesterday when we got into town and there was a full beach and I was like hearing people's conversations and snippets which is something that I enjoy picking up on as I walk and I heard it was I think it was a young that looked like maybe a couple on a blanket together and as we were walking past the woman said not too busy to text a bunch of girls and as I was walking by I told Mariah I was like Hey Riddle Riddle.
In any other place in the world, I would be like, yes, that is the most salacious fun conversation over here. I guarantee you that they were rehearsing lines. Yeah, they were rehearsing lines? I guarantee you they were rehearsing lines for an audition. Yeah, that's probably true.
That's funny. The worst. Yeah, right? He sounds like a jerk.
He sounds like a cheater.
You know, I'm already on her side.
And I told Mariah, I was like, that's my boy! That's my boy, how could you do him like that?
You should have ran up and been like, I did it, I grabbed the phone.
Blame me. I took his phone, he's a good guy, take him back, Teresa!
How does he know my name? A dead man is discovered in a locked office. He's the only person in the room.
This is a psychopath test.
Yeah, that's sad. Can I just say, like, legitimately, what's so funny that you said that? I was just at home watching Signs of a Psychopath, so I know all of that. What are they? Oh, I don't know. Killing animals or some shit? Okay, you were glued to that TV. Didn't I say earlier, was it on the podcast or before, that I don't pay attention when I watch things?
I think I just said it like 10 minutes ago.
That's confirmation that you were telling the truth when you said that. Yeah.
My brain kind of checked out a while ago, but there's a lot of signs. Killing animals, wetting the bed, killing small animals, obsession with fire, obsession with violence, any violence or fire, disasters, serial killers. And what's crazy too is to see how many parents are like, it was so weird when he killed the cat and put the cat's head on a spit, but then I didn't think he was going to murder 10 years later. And it's like, what made you think he wasn't going to do that?
I think it's also like referring to your mom as either mother or mommy dearest. Those are big red flags. But not your wife, so Mike Pence is fine. Mike Pence is fine.
Mommy. Oh no, what does he call her? Mommy?
Mommy, yeah. Yeah, and is it okay that we think Mike Pence is fine? Is that okay for the podcast? No, you're right. Yeah, it's probably pretty bad. Okay, I'll go the other way. I think Trump should have killed Mike Pence. Which, who wants to love me? I want to be loved.
You know who had the opportunity and missed it was the fly that flew onto his head? I'll never forget it.
God, the fly that hit Mike Pence's head. I remember going on Twitter right after it and there was like four different accounts that were like Mike Pence fly, fly Mike Pence, Pence fly hat. I was like, what are we doing here?
Trying to feel something. Trying to feel something.
Trying to feel anything. There's a scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Is that the third one? It's the one with Sean Connery. Yeah. Yeah.
There's a scene where it's like a guy, it's maybe the main villain, where he's like tracking Indiana Jones and he finds him in Petra or something. And as he's talking, a fly lands on his face and crawls into his mouth, disappears. And the actor kept going, like didn't flinch or anything. And it's one of the wildest little, it's not an outtake because they kept it in, but it's like, How impressive that this guy... No, not impressive. With a fly crawling on his face and going into his mouth and down his throat, this guy stayed in character.
Was he supposed to be evil? Yeah, he was supposed to be evil. Well, he was like in character.
Here's what I think happened. That guy had like three strikes already on set and his job was dangling. If you cough one more time. He felt a fly in his mouth and he goes, I cannot ruin this take. I cannot get fired again. I'll eat a fly. I'll eat a fly to keep my job.
I would eat a fly to get a job right now. I would eat a lot of flies!
There was a lady who swallowed a fly. I don't know why.
Well, actually, it was for... She got a gig out of it. She did get a writing job out of it.
Yeah, she ate a fly, but the show went three seasons, so... It's all like... correlation?
A dead man is discovered in a locked office. He is the only person in the room. He did not commit suicide. There are no weapons in the room. Oh, so he'll go to heaven. So what are we talking about here? The only clue is a sealed envelope on the desk in front of him. How did he die?
He cut his little fingie on the envelope. Yes, he cut his little fingie on the envelope.
That is the answer we're submitting. Like the nursery rhyme. When you said sealed envelope... Wait, nothing rhymes with envelope.
The only thing I had in my head was, kiss for my rooves. And I was like, yeah, it's a sealed envelope. And I was like, what am I doing here?
What's that poison that you send in the mail? Yeah, that's what it is. He licked the... that envelope had poison on it when he licked it.
Oh, like Costanza's fiancé.
Anthrax. Is that Seinfeld? Did it get dark?
Isn't there a thing on Seinfeld where George was like cheap and he bought the wrong envelopes and his fiancée was licking them? The wedding invitations, yeah, yeah, okay. Oh yeah, that would be a big one. You just do an online invitation, you don't waste paper.
I thought Adal, when you were reading this riddle, that the answer was going to be, because you were like, a man was found alone in an office and it was locked or whatever. I was like, well, who found him? If he was truly alone, the killer must have found him. But it wasn't that, so hardly worth mentioning even.
Well, no, you were thinking of a more advanced riddle, I think.
Honestly, since I guess that is a pretty basic riddle. Okay, I'm just gonna be real with y'all. I guess the easy one.
I think it was impressive. I wanna see a scene. Okay, Adal, you're going to be like a famous detective. And you have been brought into a crime scene and everyone expects you to do like a Sherlock Holmes thing and like tell them the answer and you two are like the the bumbling like you know officers who are already at the crime scene but like nothing that he's saying actually pans out to how the crime was committed.
Can I just say it's an absolute honor to meet you, sir. We're part of your fan club.
Oh sir, we're such big fans of yours. We studied your whole career. We love you. We love your books.
I appreciate that. It's always nice to meet a fan of Dick Suspicious. Now, I think I see what happened here.
Yeah, tell us. Tell us. Tell us. We've always wanted to see this in person. I've heard he's amazing. He just solves crimes immediately.
Clearly this man on the ground before me, naked and nude, which are different, which are different,
I know, we saw your scandal in the paper. We know. We know. With a sock and without. I get it.
I was naked at Applebee's. There's a difference.
You were drunk and naked at Applebee's.
Naked is when your clothes get caught in a door on the way in and they rip off. Nude is when you're... We'll see you next time.
The man in front of us is clearly a clown.
Because what happened was he blew up a balloon. Here we go! started the meter, the taxi drove across town, the car flipped as it hit an oil patch, right? As the car flipped, the man started to sing an opera song, being a baritone The opera song attracted a audience of people who were clapping and applauding and throwing roses, which is where the marks on his neck come from, thorns.
This is a male man with an arrow in his chest.
Yeah, I thought it was the arrow too. I thought it was the arrow that killed him. But listen, we don't know. What do we know? What do we know? Fuck you, where are we?
Hoisted on your own, Picard. Make it so.
You're brilliant. JVC's not so bad after all, I've decided.
Wow. Was it from the eye contact? Fuck you.
Here's my impression of Patrick Stewart as a magician. Picard! Any card. Wow. Oh, good one. If I get too hot, I simply freeze. What am I? Oil.
If you get too hot, you simply freeze. I mean, that's me. Like, if you see somebody that's really hot, and you're like, oh my god, I'm so horny for them, I freeze. Yeah, right? Like, you get tongue-tied. Like a socially awkward lady.
A woman meeting Channing Tatum, I presume?
I don't know who the hot guys are these days.
I don't want to get into too much of anything, but it could also be a man meeting Channing Tatum.
From She's the Man? Don't mind if I do.
Jenny Tatum's in a movie called She's the Man?
Is that Amanda Bynes? Of course, have you seen that movie? I know of it.
It's like early Tatum. It's the earliest.
His breakout role. Oh wait, he's in that?
He's the love interest in that. His role is a breakout role? Oh my god, Adal, you have not seen She's the Man. We have to do it for review too. She does the craziest voice in the history of cinema in that movie.
The whole premise is that she, it's Taming of the Shrew? Twelfth Night.
Right? Yeah, Twelfth Night.
It's one of those... Or the one where they have the woman masquerading as a man. Yes, whatever that is. But it's like a Shakespeare in modern times. Yeah, 10 Things I Hate About You is the other example.
Well, that was Taming of the Shrew.
Yes, exactly. Or She's All Richard III. But Amanda Bynes has a brother in this movie that looks kind of nothing like her, and she pretends to be him by just being Amanda Bynes wearing makeup, and everyone is just like, Yeah that's the brother and it's true and no one ever addresses the fact that She just looks like Amanda Bynes wearing like a fake mustache.
Adal doing the craziest voice in the history of cinema.
Can I hear an impression of it?
No, I'll save it for the pot. Niccole, have you seen this movie? I don't think I've seen the movie, but I have so many friends that talk about it.
But even if Niccole hadn't seen the movie, canonically now, we wouldn't remember the movie. The details would not be there.
It's so true that it's almost scary. You'd be like, did you see it? And I'd be like, yes. And you'd be like, what was your favorite part? And I'd be like, I could not tell you.
I don't know. I play video games sometimes where my wife watches something and a lot of times she will say, you didn't watch that movie. And I'm like, they didn't do a good enough job making a movie that I would want to watch. Two people are at fault here. This is a failing on a systemic level, I would say.
For me, it's me, the movie, and Steve Jobs because I'm just looking at my phone. And my mom for giving me ADHD.
What's the lead character? And she's like, Karen? I'm like, we're Karen! And she's like, you don't remember the lead character? We just watched five seasons in three days? And I'm like, I don't fucking know.
I'm like that with, uh, not Lord of the Rings, but Game of Thrones. Seven seasons? Uh-uh. I didn't know who was anybody.
The current House of Dragons is like Damon, Daenerys, D'Angelo D'Angelo the R&B star?
I gotta watch Lord of the Dragons!
I want to see a scene, I want to see a scene. So you three are going to be in a focus group, I'm going to be leaving the focus group. And we have just watched the most recent episode of, what's the Game of Thrones show, the new show called? House of Dragons. House of the Dragons. We've just watched the newest episode and none of you and I'm asking questions about the show and none of you retained anything from the episode. Great. Okay, I'm seeing a lot of smiles. How did we how did we enjoy the episode? Oh, we were just telling jokes. Oh, I'm sorry. Uh, yeah, but okay, but we did watch, we watched the episode. Oh for sure, but we're smiling because of jokes. Got it. Would you like to share one of the jokes? Was it a joke related to the episode or?
Well, Amber was saying, um, House of the Dragon, if you just take the first letter that spells hot D, and we thought that was funny.
They all laughed when I said it.
Like hot dick. Like hot dick. Okay, yeah.
It was such a short joke, but you said it and we laughed the whole rest of the episode. Yeah.
Oh, that was said at the beginning of the episode. Right, yeah. But we kept remembering it.
Okay, well, what did everyone think about the big twist of this episode?
Are we gonna get second lunch? Oh, I want a second. Y'all got more of those sandwiches or no?
We haven't had a sandwich like that in a long time.
Is that a Quiznos? It was a Quiznos, yeah. Hot subs.
You know what I liked about this show? That time when those two were talking and that one girl goes, uh, Negroni Spagliato. Oh, yes. With Prosecco in it. And the other girl goes, what'd she say, brilliant or something? I was like, that is
Yeah, you know my I have my favorite part of the episode. Oh, yeah, that could be helpful I liked when it was like really that the bread was toasted really really well sure yeah, and then it was like teriyaki chicken With like the melted cheese on it, okay?
Yes, and it like a little yes, that was that that was the Quiznos the Quiznos sub that you had amazing I'd love another I have some feedback sure Oh feed that great per I think it would be so and I think we all agree right it would be so Cool, yeah If there was an ad campaign that was Pop Quiznos, it's a teacher, and they say Pop Quiznos, and the kids go, what? And then they pull out of their desk a Quiznos. Who was everyone's favorite character in the show? Teriyaki with cheese.
I like the dragon. I'm going to keep on the topic. Uh, a dragon. Anyway, buy that Quiznos sandwich!
Okay, we didn't have a dragon in this episode. Could the dragon eat Quiznos? Well, there was no dragon in this episode. They could toast their own subs. They could toast their own subs.
We watched a funny Dragontails TikTok that I capped on the... You watched a Dragontails... Okay.
None of you are gonna get the $12. None of you are gonna get the $12.
But another sub, please? No, I got the $12. I signed a W-2. You're giving me money. I signed a W-2!
You are all gonna be employees.
If I get too hot, I simply freeze. What am I?
Fuck! We didn't do this one yet? Just tell us.
I hate you, Adal! I have another recording I gotta get to. Oh, I know what it is! Is it like nitrous oxide or something?
That's a great guess. Erin, just get it fast. Get the answer fast.
This is something that's in this room right now. This is something that's visible.
I knew it! Nicole got the riddle at the buzzer beater. That wasn't really an easy one. I think I challenged myself.
That was a tough one. And there's like a million things in this room.
I was gonna say a Sam, but it wasn't Sam.
A missile battery. I saw Sam pull out his phone and order Quiznos.
Do you guys remember those commercials? You heard me sing it.
We love the subs! I do think all the Quiznos are gone though, so Sam may have been ordering it from the past.
It's like firemen would make it. Erin is trying to end the episode. I have to go, I'm gonna be so late.
Niccole, you were the champion of the episode. Thank you so much for coming. Do you have anything you'd like to plug? Any shows?
I really don't, but you can follow me on social media because right now I'm just hanging and posting stupid stuff on social media. It's Niccole Thurman, N-I-C-C-O-L-E-T-H-U-R-M-A-N on all platforms.
And Niccole, and I'm repeating something you said, you are willing to swallow a fly for parts.
Oh yeah, yeah. I'll swallow all the flies. You wanna sting me with some bees? You wanna just look at me and say, no, but then give me the job? I'll take it.
It sounds like, Niccole, you could do Fear Factor from like 20 years ago. Yeah.
Okay, I'll do Fear Factor. Is it pay? Is it union?
I'll eat a scorpion for Fear Factor. What do I have to plug, Erin? I'll just keep plugging our tour of the Northeast this fall in October. We're going to Boston, D.C., and New York. So it's a mini tour.
HeyRiddleRiddle.com slash live for tickets.
Adal, do you have something to plug? Yes, I want to plug our upcoming review crew at some point where I guess we're watching... She's the man. You're the man to dog binds?
You're the man to dog binds. She's the man, I can't wait.
It's great. I watched it recently. I'd love to watch it again. Are we doing this for a review?
Oh my gosh, I love this. And I would like to plug our Patreon, where you can find our review crew. Patreon.com slash HeyRiddleRiddle. Lots of my favorite episodes of all time are over there. So check it out. Come hang out for a week for free.
And as always, we're going to do two or three closing riddles.
Where are your parents in the music? Bogo Creek.
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