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Hey Riddle Riddle.

Okay, now when we ring the doorbell, we'll just ask Ryan if he wants to come on the show. He's been on before, right? He's one of our favorites. He's been on the main feed, he's been on Patreon. This should be so smooth.

Okay, I'm sorry. Yeah, I just, I feel like we should talk about this before we get here because I shit in a bag and it's already kind of like halfway on fire. So are we not doing that at all? What?

We just we said let's get on our bikes. We'll meet over at Ryan's house. We'll knock on the door and ask him if he can come out and play.

And then I stopped listening because what else would we be doing? Ding dong ditch?

Yeah, I assume. To our friend Ryan? No, of course not. We're gonna ask his mom if he can come out to play.

Uh, okay.

Maybe play Flashlight Tag?

I guess I'll eat what's in the bag.

No, no, no, no.

Everybody wants me to eat what's in the bag. Why do you have a fork and knife? It's a Snickers.

Oh, it was a Snickers.

It's not a Snickers.

I don't like this at all. I don't like this. Let's get him out here. Come on. Now I feel nervous.

I don't see a doorbell. Okay, no doorbell.

Okay.

It feels rude to knock, right?

What if they're eating dinner?

Let me look in the window.

Okay, please.

Mom, this dinner's great. This is delicious. Thank you, Mom. I see him. His chair's facing someone else. I can't see Mom. Yeah.

Uh-oh.

Wait. My real mother, you have prepared another brilliant meal.

You are real and you love me. I see in the corner what appears to be the stick that should be connected to a mop, but I don't see the mop head.

Yeah, I don't see the mop head either.

And it is almost Halloween and there's no pumpkin out front. A kiss on the cheek? Well, sure. Why not? I'll take one. You'll take one? From the pumpkin?

Okay, I do see a pumpkin with mop hair. Seems to be perched on top of smaller pumpkins. And it's moving over to him to give him a kiss. I'm gonna knock.

I don't want to watch anymore.

On the lips.

Hello?

Hi, Mrs. Pumpkin. I mean, mop. I mean, Rosenberg. Can Ryan come out to play? Can Ryan come out and kiss? Play? I mean, pumpkin?

I'm real. I'm real. Yes, he can. Yes. Thank you, Mrs. Pumpkins. Hey, what's up guys?

Oh, Mrs. Pumpkins turned around and it's Ryan. Oh, uh, she's real. She's real.

She's real and she loves me.

Yeah, of course. And that was a real Snickers I ate. We're all... It's all real.

You got shit all over your face.

What's the movie where they put like a baby Ruth in the pool and everybody screams and runs out? Is that like a... What's the golf movie?

Caddyshack. Is that Caddyshack? It's Caddyshack.

Is it Caddyshack?

Yeah.

Something like that.

And he takes a bite of it, which you wouldn't do because even if it was a baby Ruth, it's been in a pool with chlorine and like... Piss and poo. Yeah, piss and poo.

Okay. Anyways, Ryan. It's so nice to have you. I don't think you've been on the main feed of our show since maybe 2021.

Yeah, it's been a minute. Yeah.

But you are famous for coming on to our Patreon episodes and making us laugh so hard that we cry.

Oh, it's a pleasure to be here. And it's a pleasure to make you sob.

And I guess we should go ahead and get the elephant in the room out of the way. We've all turned on Dan. We've soured on him. Too tall. What happened?

Too tall. Did he come on? Did he ruin an episode? He did. It's hard to believe. It's really hard to believe. He's a consummate professional. But I get it, I get it. He is tall. It's intimidating.

Yeah, he is tall. And that's one of the bigger problems.

You guys are in two of our most famous scenes that people love the most. The Lobster Bisque one from the Valentine's Day episode, a classic. And then the Haunted House one where we go down our YouTube rabbit hole in the middle of a haunted house. Two absolute classics.

Man, I love both those things. I could eat Lobster Bisque every day for like two weeks maybe. But for those two weeks, I'd love it.

Yeah, that's the question we ask all of our guests is how many days do you think you could have lobster bisque in a row?

Consecutive days, could you eat lobster bisque? Okay, it's 30.

What about clam chowder?

Maybe one. I'm not a big clam chowder guy. I like the chowder. I don't love the clam. But then you're eating just what? Flour and water? What is just the chowder? Like a roux? Yeah, a roux, butter.

You can get me going on that.

I don't mind eating just gravy. Yeah, that's true. Where do you stand on a bread bowl? I love them. I do feel I'm so thrilled when I meet a bread bowl in the wild because it's I feel like outside Panera you don't see a lot but every once in a while there'll be a mom-and-pop with like a chili or whatever in a bread bowl and it's heaven. Divine.

Like in the fall, a bread bowl in the fall.

And I feel like you usually get them in like a locale that is enjoyable. You're like, Oh, I'm in near the beach in New England.

Yes. Yeah.

Bread bowl.

Got it. You said locale and I heard locale and I'm like, I don't know where to get a fucking locale bread bowl in my band, but they're lying to you.

You need something light. What about 8,000 calories of cream and bread?

No, you'd never eat a loaf of bread just on its own, but if you pour a bunch of stew in there, now it's time.

That is true. Every time you eat a whole bread bowl, you eat a loaf of bread.

Yeah.

You don't eat another meal that day.

I do like a low-cal bread bowl.

It's like a bread bowl, but with a clear broth where it's like... Just flushes out the bottom completely. Fuck the integrity of this bread bowl.

A low-cal bread bowl is like a taco salad. This isn't really bread, but it's got the appearance of bread.

Miso soup in a bread bowl. A low-cal bread bowl is just a bowl of soup. You just don't eat the bread.

It's also, a bread bowl's better for the environment, right? Because you're not washing a bowl. No, I wash my bread bowls.

I use them two, three times a day. Put them on the drying rack.

Wow, you're so resourceful. I do a plastic liner in my bread bowl so that I can use the bread bowl over everything.

That makes me feel sick. It's like eating cereal.

You have to season the plastic.

Why did you go to these lengths? Who cares about this?

That would be a great visual gag for like a loser older brother

I'm always fascinated by regional foods.

You're from Southern California? Southern, Northern, a little bit of both. Like clam fritters or I don't know.

I mean, I guess in Northern California, it's almost like the Midwest because I was from like Sacramento area. So it's just sort of like country-ish but like suburbs. So there was just a lot of like casseroles and barbecue. I think California specific sort of is tri-tip. Do you guys have tri-tip?

We don't, but I've seen it on diners, drive-ins, and dines, and it looks incredible.

Tri-Tip is a fantastic cut of beef that for some reason they only do on the West Coast, but it's famous in the Santa Maria region, which is just north of Los Angeles. But up north, Tri-Tip is the only thing that all my friends grill, because it's just one huge steak that then you cut up and share with everybody. So it's like a roast, but you grill it. Man, it's delicious. Why don't we do that? Everybody's got their little recipe, you know.

Is it similar to burnt ends?

No, you kind of just like... It's just like grilling a big roast and then you cut slices. So it's like eating a steak all together or something like that. It's just the cut is a... Yeah, the cut is some... I think in other parts of the country, they just cut things differently so they don't end up with this one triangular piece of meat. And that's why it's called tri-tip because it's got three tips.

It's so weird how like some things are regional foods that make sense you're like oh yeah I guess it's like it's grown in this region but we were talking about this earlier it's like every time I come to LA I get breakfast tacos for every like what once a day for sure I get breakfast tacos. We're obsessed with breakfast tacos.

Breakfast tacos. Breakfast tacos. They're nowhere in the world I feel like except for Austin and California. They don't fucking exist in Chicago.

Yeah they're just out here and it's like why it's it's shit that we have like so it's not impossible.

It makes so much sense.

Yes. And you find breakfast burritos, they're ubiquitous, but I feel like burrito you can't get even sauce across the board, you can't get everything in one bite.

That is so weird when someone has knowledge of almost everything and then one thing they're like, I couldn't even fathom it. When my town was a very small little suburb that was growing a lot as I grew up, so we got our first Taco Bell, and it was like a big deal, there was like a long line around the thing and everything, but they didn't know what a quesadilla was. and Just fucking make the quesadilla.

They need it. It's like a deli being like, we have sandwiches. We don't have open-faced sandwiches. It's like, take the top piece.

It's just a chef in the back just staring wide-eyed.

Are you pranking my mom? What is this? Even me as a kid knows this is stupid.

It's also funny for Taco Bell because it's like, we've invented a bunch of shit that doesn't exist, but we can't do a quesadilla. That's insane.

So silly.

Don't you want an Enchirito?

Could we pinpoint the year the Taco Bell dog went the way of the dodo? Was extinct? Yeah.

You think the Taco Bell dog went extinct?

I haven't actually seen any chihuahuas lately.

It's the only way you get tri-tips. They're all gone now.

You can go to the National History Museum and see a chihuahua skeleton, right? What a

We were when we were kids, we were a huge on fast food. Fast food was our favorite fucking thing in the world. But also, we were huge on the novelty stuff that you got. And I remember several times in my life, like Pokemon was at McDonald's thing at one point, or maybe it's Burger King, but we would like be at the drive thru line being like, Hey, I know you can't request toys, but if you have like the Voltorb, like that's the one that we don't have. Is that a real Pokemon? Voltorb? Yeah. But I don't know if that was one of the real toys that existed, but we would like plead with people to like give us the toy that we didn't already have.

I was pretty addicted to the McDonald's Monopoly for a while. Oh yeah. My mom and I both, we would like, even when we, when I moved away and like lived separately, when it would come back, we'd be like, hey, it's Monopoly time. And it's like, I'm connecting with my mom long distance over fast food.

Very American.

Very American. Very Trumpy.

I feel like that probably jumpstarted a lot of gambling issues for people because I feel like I, Welcome back.

And that's why we have FanDuel now.

Yeah. Yeah.

And it's better. And it's just better for people. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And let's say when I advertise and then I guess I bet you a million dollars I'm going to get boardwalk.

You're betting on the chance of a lottery or something.

Ryan, we've probably asked you this several times before, but what is your relationship with puzzles, riddles, daily games?

I like them. I think I spent a lot of time alone as a kid and puzzle, I like figuring things out. I like knowing how things work. And so a riddle is like a perfect, you know there's an answer, you know it's figureoutable. So I love to sort of, I used to do those brain teasers in the newspaper. Oh, right. Is that what they're called? Brain teasers? No, I don't know.

The word search? You did a square.

Yeah, it's usually like a square and then it's like a thing that's hard to decipher. It's not a riddle, but it's like a... You know, it'll have like a line and then a over and then you have bits.

Oh, the rebus? Is that what they're called? What's it called? No, that was the guy who ran the RNC for a while. I think rebus are like, where it's like, the words, there'll be giant letters that spell out middle, and then the word stuck will be super tiny.

Stuck in the middle. And it will be stuck in the middle. Yeah, that's a rebus. Okay. But is that what you're describing?

How do you spell rebus?

R-E-E-B-U-S or maybe R... I think the other... I think with an H is the monkey. R-E-B-A apostrophe S. It's gibus with an R instead of a J. Yes.

A rebus puzzle is a picture representation of a name, work, or phrase. It portrays a common word or phrase.

Interesting.

Head over heels.

Yeah.

Yes. Okay, Adal. Okay.

We're learning a word. All right.

Okay, Adal. This really is a Riddle Podcast. All right. Leave it.

Take away a point because I said Rebus monkey, and it's that's not a thing You should have an app that's Aaron Shazam, and it just you can only use it if someone doesn't know the lyrics.

It's still Shaquille O'Neal.

Yeah

That's really funny. So Ryan, you are our third episode of the day and in the two previous episodes we played Connections and then we played, what was it called? Spottle. Would you like to play one of those daily games with us? Sure.

Yes, I love Connections, but I really like it and it really frustrates me. Some days I'm like, this is the best game, it's kind of easy and it's fun, and then sometimes I want to break my phone in half and throw it across the room.

Yeah, there's times where it's like, these are all gases that were discovered in 1600s, and it's like, nobody knows this. What are we doing?

I have two suggestions for games we could play. We could do my favorite, which is When Taken. Have you guys played When Taken yet? I don't really miss it. Yes.

You have to figure out when your daughter went missing.

No, they give you five photos taken different places and in different times in history, and you can earn up to 100 points for the place and the time.

If they're photos, they can't be that many different places and times in history.

Exactly, but like it's still kind of hard. So you'd be like, oh, I bet this is New York in 1920 and you get to zoom in on a map and then the closest you get to the year. So we could do that. Or we could do like movie wordle, where they give you like a screenshot from a movie. Screenshots from movies and you have to guess what movie.

If we do movie wordle, will it be easier for all of us to play at the same time?

I think they'll both be equally as easy to play. I'll let Ryan pick because you're our guest.

They both sound great. I like the first one.

Great. Let's do When Taken.

So what's the web address for When Taken?

Just type in When Taken into Google and it should be the first... No, it's actually not the first thing to come up.

Holy shit. We had a chance to do Today's Connections and blow Ryan's mind.

That would have been so funny. We do Connections three times a month.

Just cheating.

What is it called again?

When Taken.

I'm going to do Win Taken Game and see if that gets me anywhere. I think maybe since the trailer was out.

Daily game.

So I see zero out of a thousand at the top. I see a picture of a person rowing a boat with some houses in the background and some water.

Yes.

Is this the right? Yeah. Yes.

Go to the right and go daily game. Okay. Yeah. Perfect. The most I've ever gotten on this game is 934.

Okay, good to know. So it says explore the image and try to guess when and where it was taken, then navigate to the map and use your slider to place your guesses. Okay. I see. So Erin, what else do you see in this photo?

It looks to me like Southeast Asia.

I would say 100% either Thailand or Cambodia, possibly Vietnam, but the ornamental awnings look more Cambodian or Thai.

Okay. Yeah, I was going to say Thailand.

Okay, great. So we're thinking Thailand. What year do we think?

I was actually thinking Arby's, but Thailand works for me.

There's a bunch of, what are those called, satellites on top of some of these buildings.

Yeah, like DirecTV satellite dishes.

I'm thinking like 2009. Oh, and in the top right corner, is that like a skyscraper?

Yeah, it looks modern. So I would say, yeah, in the 2000s.

2014.

Interesting. So I'm going to guess Thailand.

I'm going Bangkok, 1971.

No, I'm going Bangkok and I'm going 20... I went Bangkok and I went 2007.

2007?

I went 2007. 2019. Everyone hit there. Um, yes, it was oh my gosh. I was 250 215 kilometers away in two years off. So it was 2017. It's 2017 in Thailand. Wow. It's 2017 in Thailand. Yeah battle. Oh

I was 208 kilometers away.

Oh my God.

209.

So close. Wow. I shouldn't have gone right in Bangkok. It's obviously not Bangkok.

Next round.

I mean, this doesn't look anything like fucking Bangkok. Okay. I was three years off and 206 kilometers away. Oh my God.

All right. Adal, you got Thailand, so I feel like that's a point to you. Next photo. Hmm. This looks like some sort of festival where there's children. Pass. Pass. Okay. Is this a church?

Okay, and this next photo is pass. And this next photo is pass.

There's a church with a painting of a cow somewhere. Oh, yeah. That's interesting. It's got a little, almost like a farmer's market vibe.

Yeah.

This feels like a Latvian festival or something.

Like Eastern European?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, I've definitely seen, I'm witnessing a murder in mine. Uh-oh. There's a person with a Jamiroquai hat walking backwards down a wall.

This is a Jamiroquai concert in Latvia.

Yeah, okay, so this is a Latvian Jamiroquai concert.

I'm going to do Latvia.

Yeah, if you zoom in on one of the posters, there's a word that I definitely don't recognize.

Oh, okay.

If you're doing Latvia, I'm going to do Poland, just to mix it up. I'm going to do right outside Warsaw, in Sedils, which I've never heard of this town. And I'm going to do- I'm going to do 2006.

It looks like I'm going to do Kansas, Lithuania. And this looks like it is going to be from 99, baby.

I am 16 years off and 355 kilometers away. Don't tell me where.

Wait, don't. Oh, I'm sorry. Ryan hasn't guessed yet. Ryan hasn't guessed yet. It's okay.

Sorry, sorry. That's okay.

Wow, I was- But Adal, you, so far, I feel like immediately have had a great gut for both photos. I feel like this game's about to be your game.

I was way off. I was fucking way off. 24 years off, 692 kilometers.

Slovakia in 2022. All right.

It's the European Folk Craft Festival at the Castle of Kismara.

Next round. How is anyone supposed to know that?

How is anyone supposed to know that? Now this one I know. We know this.

Taco Bell. We know this one.

This one is a temple in Taco Bell, Mexico.

Where in Mexico is this?

It's a shame that I know it and then go, hmm. How do I get it though?

And it looks kind of like the 90s to me. This looks like a... This looks like the 90s?

Is there anything in here, Erin, that says that screams 90s to you?

It's the photo quality. It looks like it was done on like a Kodak, like the CVS ones.

Yeah, that could be right. This was developed for sure.

Yeah.

This area doesn't look very developed to me. It looks like there's kind of just like an old triangular building there. It doesn't look developed at all. Oh, there's an oldies across the street. All right, I'm gonna lock in my guess here. Ooh, boy. Seven years off, 725 kilometers.

I was seven years off as well.

Yeah. Okay, this makes sense.

Did you guys guess?

I was five years off, and I was 1,300 kilometers away.

But I guessed Mexico, but it's small.

You guessed Mexico, but you didn't know the name of the country, which is... I was 30 years off and 812 kilometers away. 30 years?

What did you guess?

1973. Ryan does 2036.

I kind of stopped paying attention in the middle of doing it, I think.

Next one.

This is easy peasy.

Oh yeah. Central Park, baby.

This is Alaska. Aren't we so funny with our little jokes?

Yeah, I think we're pretty funny. Funny little jokes. This looks old.

Because it's not those places.

Yeah.

It looks like New Orleans.

That's the French Quarter, to be sure.

And it looks like 80s, maybe?

I'm looking at the cut of the jeans that people are wearing, and I gotta say, I have no idea what the fuck I'm doing here. I can't play this game at all.

I think this is like one street off Jackson Square.

Is New Orleans in Europe, or still they've moved it?

They moved it.

Piece by piece. Wow, you can get pretty granular with where you drop your pens.

That's pretty cool. It's the best feeling when you get the exact spot. That's happened to me, actually, in a place in New Orleans.

You know, I think all these pictures are surprisingly modern. I thought they'd be older. Like, it says 1860 as the end. I haven't seen a single one in the... before the 2000s even.

I was spot on with the location only one kilometer away. But I was 12 years off with my guess on the year.

I was 874 meters away and I was 26 years off. Whoa. Yeah, it was the 70s. I knew it was the 70s.

I was 25 years off. What a loser.

Damn. Adal, how close did you get?

Did you say 2000 or did you say 1950?

1950.

No, yeah, I said 2000. I'm still zooming into New Orleans. Is there a way to just type in like a location or you have to zoom? You gotta zoom. You gotta zoom. Sucks.

It's like the pandemic again. Baby, you gotta zoom.

How many meters away were you?

Um, 874. I was 325 meters.

Ooh la la, that's crazy.

Three football fields, pretty good.

Or one swimming pool. Did I grow up wealthy?

Alright, this is our last- Oh, Adal still has to guess.

No, he's obsessing over the fact that he's, um... Oh, interesting, okay.

On this one I got location, 100 out of 100. Year, 35 out of 100. Whoa. That's a big biff.

I don't know what this next photo looks like some sort of church.

It looks like either a church or like some sort of government building.

Yeah.

Okay, Sam is trying to get direction somewhere.

To get out of here. I'm feeling maybe London?

Well, and it's got some signs in the background that are more modern. Yeah, Philips TV.

Oh, Prince Philips. This is London. I would guess, yeah, England or Philadelphia. Maybe like Quebec City or Montreal.

This is either England, definitely England or Philadelphia is what I would guess. This looks like Birmingham.

What year?

70... Yeah, the photo has some nice grainy quality.

I'm gonna do 78.

Oh my god, I was 1,000... I was 1,314 kilometers off. Yeah, me too.

Ooh, I could not have guessed that. 14 years.

I couldn't guess that. I was only 8 years off. Okay, I'm gonna view my total results. My total results were 796. Erin, that game is pretty fucking hard.

Yeah.

This is very hard. Yeah.

My total results were 787.

It's 787? Okay, well, I beat you, so I guess the game isn't that hard.

When you guys said you were far off, I tried to make a guess on that, but I guessed in the wrong direction. So I'm 3,000 kilometers away, but I'm only three years off. Oh, wow. Okay, there you go.

Adal, what was your final score?

I don't want to talk about it. You want something from Taco Bell? Well, they don't have fucking quesadillas, so I guess get in line, buddy. They don't have Choco Tacos anymore? Erin, do you think that you have a particular, like, do you think that game works well to your skill set? Do you think that that's the kind of, like, deductive mind that you have?

No, honestly, when I first started it... Sorry, I thought I was teeing you up for something. No, no, no, but I do think, and this is funny because it's not like I'm getting any more information about the world, but I've gotten so much better. I've been playing it for maybe four months.

Okay.

And I would say that I've made an incredible improvement. The way that you, yeah, you just get better at guessing.

Have you guys seen that guy that guesses the location in the world? I'm obsessed.

It's remarkable.

I guess if you just play that a bunch, you just recognize the patterns or something.

Yeah, that's fair.

He just knows like types of grass.

It'll be like a country road and be like, that's a perennial. This only grows in the southern hemisphere. Oh, that's Russian dirt. I've heard him say that's Russian dirt.

What's that mean?

And there's no way that guy's cheating. I'm Yeah, I don't know. It's one of those skills that I'm like, oh, very cool. Like that's a great skill to have. But then I'm like, but is it?

Is that like a game you can win money?

It feels like one of those skills that actually is kind of a curse, because it's like, It doesn't really translate to anything except that.

Today we're

This is clearly Norwegian wind. You see the flag moving there? That's an east to west pattern. That's probably Norwegian wind. So he's probably somewhere far north.

It looks like maybe that's a painting of a flag. Sorry about that. Yeah, no, no worries. Yeah, but no, but that's, but wow, that's so impressive.

He's painting Norwegian wind, sorry. And in the background we hear, I once had a girl.

What should I say? Sorry, I'm just a little on edge, obviously, like my kid is gone. Our kid. Don't.

Oh, you're from Philadelphia. I can see that in you.

I'm from Canada.

I'm from Philadelphia. And I'm not a stepdad. Alberta. That's her name. But we did say that a little before. I'm not a stepdad. I'm the dad who stepped up.

You're technically a stepdad.

Well, I wouldn't have bought the t-shirt if I wasn't also the dad that stepped up. And I'm just as invested in finding our child.

So forget, I apologize, but what is your background? Why, they say you're the best, but like, why are we coming to you? Why are we coming to him?

Because I'm the Google locator. I can Google anything and locate it with my mind.

Yeah, it says that on your door and on the sheet of paper and it's written in crayon.

He's the Google locator. He can Google anything and locate it with his mind. I'm like a human Google. He's the human Google. With images. With images. He's the human Google images.

Thank you so much for having my back. Obviously, you've read the website.

Well, I actually, you know, game recognized game. I can tell you're a stepdad. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Everyone's deep. Everyone's deep.

I mean, technically I'm not a stepdad, I'm the dad who stepped up, but I hear what you're saying.

I can see it on your t-shirt.

Thank you so much. This is actually, I didn't mean to wear this shirt today. I meant to wear a blazer. Apologize.

Well I don't know it just this whole thing seems a little bit like your website actually looked like it was shut down. It looked like you couldn't quite afford it anymore when we tried to look at it.

You couldn't quite afford it. Well I had to post that I had to post that I can't afford to run the website and it will be taken down. Yeah. When the month is up. When the month is up. But I'm hoping that this gig pays well and we might be able to fix that. So you guys have tried everything? Everything. You've tried everything and now you're back here to the Google locator.

We tried the police. We went to the Mounties. Never. Yeah, those are the two countries that were... Canada. So you're talking about Canada and America. Exactly.

Both governments.

Neither government could help.

So here we are in your stepkids treehouse at the end of our rope begging for help.

Well, can I see a picture? Can I see another? Yeah, I'm sorry. So this is the picture. It's cute. It's really cute.

It's a cute photo.

Thank you. Thanks, yeah. Yeah, this is the kidnapper sent us this photo. Of my kid.

Of our kid. Sorry, the kid is... I can tell the kid is cute, but the photo's not cute. Thank you for saying that.

Sorry.

Yeah, because it's a kidnapping photo. But adorable child in a horrible situation.

Yeah, and they're frightened, obviously, because it's a kidnapping situation.

She looks a lot like her dad, her bio dad. So that's why she doesn't look that much like me.

And that's why she looks like nothing like me. I fully get it. You understand the struggle.

Now listen, I know this is an interior picture, but I do see a little light coming in from the west.

I didn't notice that. Alberta, did you clock that?

This picture of her in the canoe is an indoor picture, and there's a light coming in from the west.

From the west, though, because that's not something that I have seen.

Okay, so it is outdoor, you're right, that's a good observation, but the light is coming in from the west, which I can tell. I'm still thinking, well, no, Norwegian was from the old thing. I'm thinking American South. How long has this been? How far do you think they've been able to go? This photo was taken yesterday. Wow. Yeah. And when did they go missing? Oof.

Three days ago?

Three days ago, yeah. It could have been two. It could have been four. Between two and four days ago.

It was three.

I'm thinking American South. I'm thinking Florida Panhandle or Louisiana Toe.

Did he put you up to this? Because he's been wanting to do a road trip there.

No, I haven't. To the Redneck Riviera? The Redneck Riviera. I want to go to Destin, Florida. And that's not really Panhandle. It's Panhandle adjacent.

I went to Destin when I was in 8th grade and it scared the shit out of me. I was from Southern California, so it was the first time I'd ever seen the rebel flag flown everywhere. And I was like, Dad, these people are just being racist. What are we doing? And he's like, yeah, I guess welcome to the rest of the country. And it was truly scary. I didn't know it existed.

I went to Destin, Florida when I was I think I was 14 or 15. And it was in high school. I was I was a vegetarian. I was like rail thin. I had like, some blood issues were with nutrients. And I wasn't doing well. And I went to Destin, Florida and my friend with my friend's family and that someone took a picture of us as the dad or something took a picture of us on the beach. And later we had that picture, and one of our other friends said that I looked like I had escaped from a refugee camp. And I said, oh yeah. That's one of those burns that has stuck with me for the rest of my life.

Well, this has never happened before, but we're going to go on to a quick break without having done a single riddle.

Well, no, we did five riddles, but it was just like a game that we played on our phones. Yeah, that's so true.

Okay, see you after the break.

Forgive us.

We'll see you after the break. We'll apologize then. Sorry.

Let's screenshot them or something.

Screenshot them or something. Who gives a shit?

1, 2, 3, 4. Hey Riddle Riddle.

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Hi, Erin, GPC. I would like to formally invite the two of you to be my dates for the local square dance. Oh, wow. You printed up an invitation and everything. This looks very professional, Adal. And I'm wearing a little cowboy outfit. We like that.

Oh, and I see that you made a website using Squarespace. AdalRifaiSquaredancingPartyVeryReal.com.

Tried to keep it succinct.

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Uh-huh. And it also looks like you can upload video content, organize your video library, and showcase your content on beautiful video pages. You can even sell access to your video library by adding a paywall to your content. Look, I'm going to play this video. Oh, it's you teaching us how to square dance. All right, everyone.

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Hmm. It looks like I'm crying in the video because not enough people know about Squarespace.

Hmm.

Yeah. It actually kind of looks like you got square dance in your eye. That's why you're crying. I don't know how you get square dance in your eye.

Yeah, that's it. Yeah, it looks like that's what it was.

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Erin, do-si-do.

Okay, I will be there, Adal. I will be your date. GPC, you coming?

No.

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Back from the break. What? Back from the break. Why? I'm drinking. All right. Sorry. I've spooked everyone by coming back to the break. You went back from the break so fast you didn't even ask me my feelings.

Erin, do you mind coming back by yourself for a minute?

Yeah. Okay. Back from the break. No one's making eye contact with me. They're still checked out mentally. I'm ready. Oh, Ryan. That's so nice.

Yeah. It's hard to put my cut down when I can't see my coaster.

And Adal, you?

I'm dead inside.

Yeah, got it.

I'll always undercut two of my friends to be nice to someone. That's so lovely. You know what I mean? I think that is an issue that I have. I think I would be nice to my friend's siblings instead of hanging out with my friend. You know what I mean? Yeah. And they're like, why are you being nice to him? I'm your friend. It's like, yeah, but your little brother's cool.

Yeah, I'm trying to fuck your brother, man. Yeah, dude. What can I say?

I flirt with everybody. What's up with your mom over there? I made these for my D&D group. I am hoping they are baby level riddles.

My friends got them pretty quickly but don't worry I won't time you guys. I hope 2038 is treating you well. A little commentary on how long it takes for us to read these riddles. Love the podcast and can't wait for the 20 year anniversary concert.

Wow.

Answers are all one word.

I hope I'm dead. What does that give me? 14 more years?

Inside and out.

My child will be 14, that's cool.

To see me out of place is dreadsome. Hurt me, not by a shout, but sticks and stones I stay far from.

Erin, you are not going to believe this.

You weren't listening.

I was talking, in fact, and it's really hard to listen to me talking. I found in my life.

Inside and out. To see me out of place is dreadsome. Hurt me, not by a shout, but sticks and stones I stay far from.

This is cool too, but again, I was listening this time, but I was listening a little too well, because I heard a word that I hadn't heard in a long time and I really liked. What? Dreadsome. Dreadsome is an excellent word. Does it mean like dreadful?

Yeah.

Like feared?

Yeah. This one is not only a riddle, but just maybe hard to understand the words. It's just written in a very musical or magical way.

Well, they say that these are like Dungeons and Dragons riddles, right? Yeah. Yeah. You would want to stay away from sticks and stones if you were this.

The wording feels like gaseous where you can't grasp it, where it feels like it's just the phrasing of it is just out of reach of comprehension because they're not using like solid verbs.

That is true. And also, I'm terrible at reading. Inside and out, to see me out of place is dreadsome. Hurt me, not by a shout, but sticks and stones I stay far from.

I gotta give a compliment to my friend.

That is the weirdest word to pick.

Erin, a man gave you a compliment.

Oh, I love it. Sexy is the weirdest. I just know from the deep parts of my soul how unsexy that was.

Oh God, okay. But you don't get to pick what other people find sexy.

Mrs. Keif, I just want to say this riddle is delicious.

I'd like to see a scene.

You guys are like three preteens in the woods and you're stumbling across some bones.

Dude, what are we even out here for? This is so stupid. Let's just go back to the diner. Hold on. When we get there, you guys will see what I'm talking about.

It's gonna be worth it, okay? Is it a stash of magazines? No, man. It's not.

Why did we order, though, before we left?

Like, let's go either... It's only gonna take 10 minutes, and then the food's gonna be hot when we get back.

Justin, your Frisco melt will be eaten, okay? It better be by me. By you, Justin. By you. Justin, by you.

And it better taste like San Francisco, too. I'm fucking serious. What is this?

Okay, you guys are not gonna believe this. What the fuck? What the heck? Okay, that's what I'm saying. I think we're gonna be famous, okay? Because I feel like I've discovered like a fucking new species or like a really old species.

Yes, say it. It's a d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-

me and my cousin came out here yesterday and we promised not to tell anyone and my cousin like he's trustworthy okay he played it so cool at the diner dude you know you are an awesome actor you if you get famous it'll work no no i fucked up my order I fucked up my order. I'm sure you guys thought, because I ordered a dead body. And the guy said, what? Oh, I thought that was like, I thought that was hilarious. Like a slice of pie and coke or something. Yeah. Yeah, no, I said dead body. And he said, what? And I said, big gravy. And he said, what? And then I said, I want some big gravy.

Dude, I just thought you were being hilarious. I didn't know you were having a meltdown. You're so fucking funny. You're hilarious. What are you boys doing? An old lady!

No, it's my cousin. This is Gloria.

Oh God, Gloria, you look like an old lady. She is. Lantern when it's still light out. Yes! I can barely see.

Gloria, these are my friends. This is what I was telling you about. They can help with the body. Yeah, right.

Do you know this guy? This guy? That's my cousin. No, the body. That guy? No.

Cousin in like a, this is, you know, like your dad's friend. No. You guys are family? Like related family?

Yeah, my dad is her uncle.

Yeah, my mom's older brother is his dad.

Cousins can have big age gaps. That's yeah, that's how cousins work.

I guess scars don't run the family, but you're covered in them.

You can see those because of the lantern?

They're visible.

So who do you think killed this body? This is freaking me out. I was never here. Do not tell anybody that I saw the body. I don't want to be involved.

Don't go back to the diner. Solve the mystery. Have the summer of your lives.

I was about to. I was gonna kick it off with a Frisco melt. This is even better than a Frisco melt.

This is a mystery, okay? Forget it, boys.

This is sandwich summer. What?

I had my cool cousin Gloria set this whole thing up. This is just two dogs. Two dead dogs? No! Go boys, go! Whoa! We were going to have an awesome summer trying to figure out the mystery.

So you didn't need a real dead body?

No.

If my burger is cold, dude, I should have a dog.

So you do admit it's a burger!

Old is a scene and new is a horror. What? A screw, a slice, also a slice of pie and a coke being called a dead body at a diner is so good. I'll take a dead body. Old is a scene and new is a horror. A screw, a slice, a stab to uncork. Thicker than water is the juice of long pork. Pretty sexy, right? Long pork is human.

We know that.

Pretty sexy.

So the juice of long pork.

I'm not good at these. Juice of long pork. Let's talk about what juices come out of humans. Blood. Blood. You got it, Ryan. It's blood. Thicker than water?

These are easier than I think. I just got the first dumb word that hits my head, I guess.

These are easy as a dead body, which is pie.

A stab to uncork, I think, is pretty fun.

A stab to uncork. Oh.

Ooh. What? I think I need to see these written down or something. I'm almost getting none of this.

I just don't love the idea of being uncorked. Like me a man, me a person. Like someone stabbing me to uncork me. To celebrate? Are they paying the uncorking fee?

Yeah, they're gonna take a little taster. Let it decant. I've never in my life had... Never been stabbed? No, I've been stabbed. We'll have to get you stabbed. I do not have the palate for wine, but anytime friends order wine or there's wine at the table, whenever they pour a little sniff of it and then hand it to me, I'm always like, oh. Like, I don't know what to do, and I panic, and I'm always like, very good. And they'll stand there for a minute, and I'm like, do I say something else? Do I? It's so stressful.

The etiquette is you throw it over your shoulder to keep witches away.

Okay, Adal, if you had to, And I know you have no idea what you're doing, you don't have the palette for it. Do you think, if you were in a group of strangers who didn't know this about you, do you think that you could fake that you know something about how to, like, test wine?

No.

I wanna see a scene. Ryan, you own a wine bar. Adal, you're getting into wine, but you're too embarrassed to say that you don't know anything about it. So you're pouring wine and you're trying to do all the fancy things that you think is appropriate with wine. Sorry, he's pouring me wine? He's pouring you the wine, yeah.

Well, welcome in. I'm excited to give you this experience.

Thank you so much. Yeah, it was a gift, so maybe not my field of expertise, but I'm excited to learn.

Well, this one is a nice sweet wine. It's a Chateauneuf-du-Pape. It'll have a floral all the way from the bottom straight to the top. It's not meant to rhyme. That was an accident.

And sorry, Siri, can you search this? Can you say that name again?

Chateauneuf-du-Pape. It's floral all the way from the bottom to the top.

Search the word Timothee Chalamet.

I don't care. That's kind of rude. Your phone's not going to help you there, but I'm not going to stop. But yes, this is a good wine and I know all about it and I think you'll enjoy it as much as the last person did.

Good. And what notes will I be hitting with this?

There'll be an A in there. There's a G. Because you know, everything is everything. You know, the certain vibrations of the chord of a note is the same as the vibration that goes through your body when something hits your tongue. All that from these two ounces. Absolutely. Oh, that is a bit of a heavy taster there. Sorry about that. Oh yeah. It's two shots of wine there. Want me to pour some back in the bottle?

No, no, no, no, no. Absolutely not.

Absolutely not. I know this much. That's not allowed. I know a lot actually. I'm not, I'm not thinking.

Okay. And so it's like, there's this, there's acidity. Good. And there are, it feels like, um, there's like a granular chocolate.

And you said you didn't know about wine, this is perfect, a granular chocolate.

I'm lying, it tastes, it tastes, it tastes like booze.

Well let's try another one. Okay, alright. Let's try another one. So the Chateauneuf, sounds like you liked it. Did you say Timothy Chalamet? Um, I don't care about that. I don't, I'm not, I'm just gonna ignore that, it pisses me off, but I'm gonna ignore it.

Maybe something more exotic or do you have like natural wines I've heard? I do, yeah. Action Bronson talk a lot about orange natural wines. Okay, I see exactly what type of... Fuck, that's delicious. You watch? I don't. So good. I specifically don't.

I specifically choose not to. It is advertised to me often. But yes, here we have one of our skin contact wines. This is an orange wine. It's not made of oranges, even though a lot of people think that. Because it's got the contact from the skin of the grape, it gives it a little bit of an orange hue. I, for one, think this one tastes like shit. What do you think?

Now I don't want to drink it. Well, that's what I would do. Because I feel like your opinion feels like you're going into a movie and somebody walking out is being like, this blows, like fucking waste of money.

Well, you might like it.

It's got a bit of a funk.

You know, our people, yeah, you may like it.

But for a Somali to be like, I think it's shit, you might like it. That feels loaded. Searching for Timothy Somali.

Hi, do you have a minute? You may recognize me. I'm Timothee Chalamet. I'm here to pick up a bottle of wine for my date.

Oh, alright, wonderful. Uh, do we already, let's see, I'm not seeing any pre-orders here.

Let's see what a pro does.

A rich pro. Oh, you don't have an order, you just announced.

Yeah, I just would like to pick up a bottle of wine. What, are you mad at me?

No, just, if you don't have an order placed, you don't have to give me your name and the whole thing. You just say, hi, I'd like a bottle of wine.

I kinda wanted you to know this.

I don't know.

From Willy Wonka, Timothee Chalamet. Do you know who this is? Gene Wilder?

Are you meaning to say Gene Wilder?

I'm Timothee Chalamet. I'm here. Noodle Noodle, the new Willy Wonka. Noodle Noodle. Noodle Noodle is not Willy Wonka. Dude.

Lady, the pasta restaurant is down the street. And I was calling Timothy Lady, not you.

And what will the lady have?

Noodle.

Did you guys see the new Wonka on an airplane?

I watched a little piece of it. Is it good? Not only is it not good, it's just weird. It's like, why did they make this and who is supposed to like it? Because it's not really for kids.

I saw one of the funniest reviews, which was when the trailer first came out. I don't know if it was different from what was actually in the movie, but everyone was saying it was giving table read energy. Oh wow.

That's so funny and true.

I thought that was perfect. It is so funny to me that Willy Wonka to me is one of the all-time crazy characters. Yeah. And he plays it so straight. Yeah. Just like very regular. He goes, hello, I'm Willy Wonka. Yeah.

The question of who is this made for is so funny because it's also like it's definitely not made for me nothing about it speaks to me and I the person that exists that it is made for is outside of my like personal area of knowledge so it's like who is this made for And I feel like sometimes the answer might just be no one. It just got made by committee. Makes $200 million. Yeah, for a person that doesn't exist for a foreign market.

Do they still do... Oh, please.

No, that's the end of that thought.

Do they still do... Ryan, you might best know this. Do they still do, like, MGM just bought Keegan-Michael Key for five movies? I know this, I know this. Do they still do that, where it's like, we don't know what we're going to put you in, but we're paying you for five... Yeah.

Humphrey Bogart for the big ship in the sea and then we got him to do a lady dances around and the bonus movie.

I feel like what's more common nowadays is like the Marvel thing like you'll be doing Captain America for 11 movies and six theme park openings so like they they pencil that in but that's a character that you're playing so

I know a couple people that got it for a TV deal where it's like CBS paid them some sort of holding deal, like a talent holding deal, so that you're gonna be on CBS in some way, but then they usually just get paid to not work. They just didn't need you cast anywhere and you made $200,000 to not... I want that, but I guess you have to be anything first.

I know that Emily Blunt, when she was doing the press for Jungle Cruise, she was like, well, this is part of my Mary Poppins deal with Disney. Like, she just made it very clear that she would have never, like, agreed to do Jungle Cruise if it wasn't as part of this, like, package.

That's the thing, is it feels like we have Timothee Chalamet for five pictures, we already paid him, the contract is up in six months, and so they're like, quick, everyone, and someone's like, young Willy Wonka, and they're like, perfect.

Noodle, noodle, yeah.

So it feels like a scramble.

Stars floating around and then we have these movies floating around the only things left on the board are these so we either don't make this movie and all the rights go away or Being a Hollywood executive is just kind of like doing a word search and crayon every day.

We're like, I found Timothy Chalamet! And Raiden!

We're doing young Raiden We're doing Mighty Mouse with the buffest guy on earth Shoot, we didn't organize this well

I play to a crowd, but only one holds my fate. I hope they laugh at my jokes or my head's on a plate.

It's on a plate? I hope they laugh at my joke or my head's on a plate. This one doesn't feel as complicated.

It's not like a metaphor. I play to a crowd but only one holds my fate. I hope they laugh at my joke. A jester?

A court jester? I almost said Fozzie Bear for some reason.

Yeah, he's a court jester. They took off his head.

You can't eat a bear.

Ryan, do you have a favorite Muppet?

I'm not a big Muppet person. I mean, maybe Miss Piggy. She's funny. Great. Great answer.

I heard Ryan say, I'm not a big Muppet person, but in my head, he was like, I'm not a big Muppet person. I would love to hear it. Totally lying. He's like, I don't really like the Muppets.

I know nothing about the Muppets.

I do want to see a scene. Perfect. Ryan, you signed a five-picture deal with whoever owns the fucking Muppets. Disney, I guess?

Disney!

Probably Disney. And you are placed in this movie with JPC and Erin and myself, and we are in the Muppet world, and you are trying to keep your head above water, not knowing much or caring much about the Muppet universe. He's not a Muppet, but we are Muppets? Yeah, it's like a Michael Caine... Oh, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Yeah, Tim Curry. Um, Ryan, thanks so much for coming down here to Oklahoma City. We're so thrilled to have you. Thanks for having me in beautiful OKC, tall dog.

Kermit. Oh, sorry, Kermit. Yeah, of course. Are you making fun of him? I feel like you're kind of talking in a condescending tone. No, I didn't mean anything by that. I know tall dog rhymes with short frog, and it was just a little joke. I was figuring I might rib the Sesame Street gang. Oh, well, I guess we're not really Sesame Street. Sesame Street are Muppets. Hey, Miss Piggy does it, right? Shut up. Does what? Makes fun of you and... Okay, my apologies. It's great to see you guys.

Well gang, we only have a couple more days before they demolish the community center.

Oh no! Ryan, what should we do? Do we build another community center that's even bigger and even better? Talk to us like we're people, man. Oh, okay. Don't look down here.

Our mouths and eyes are up here. Right, right, right. And I don't mean that in like a sexual way. I mean like... Does that make sense? Yeah, yeah. Talk to the... The real guy.

But also how would we build a community center when we're so little and our hands can't hold tools? You're right, you're right. But also talk to us like we're real and we can do stuff.

Maybe what we need to do is protest, we chain ourselves to the building, and then the bad guys can't knock it down. Oh, uh, we don't really get political. I also see you pulled out a gun. Can we... I guess I'm just sort of trying to match your energy. And if I'm being honest, I have no idea how.

Well, yeah, we do have a pretty soft energy.

Well, gang, what do you think? Yeah, I'd like to try something new.

Yeah? Yeah! I mean, I could be convinced. Maybe if there's a song about it?

Oh, Ryan, is there a song? Yoda! Yoda, when did you start speaking forward? I love it!

He's been taking classes. Aww! And we're all so proud of him. Yoda, do you want to sing your song to remember how to speak forward?

Oh, yeah! I'll sing my song to remember how to speak forward.

Okay.

I use the fours to force the words throat from my- Oh damn it!

Oh no, dude!

You got me in my fuckin' head!

He got in my fuckin' head. The end of infinity when eyes see themselves. The wings on a swine when an immortal rings death's bells.

Very quickly, I do want to say, if they took Jason Statham and put him with the Muppets, that feels like fun.

What's the plot of that then? What classic story are they retelling?

That is tough because Muppets don't really do action. They could. It has to be something serious because Jason Statham is going to kill someone or beat someone up. So that feels tough.

Does Dumbo beat somebody up?

We could do Dumbo.

What if like, you know, someone captures Miss Piggy and Kermit wants to save her, but he gets hurt. And so Jason Statham has to do it the whole time with Kermit on his back, like a backpack.

Okay.

Like a Yoda back then. Like a John Wick but with Jason Statham holding Kermit.

Ryan, here's $80 million I want it on my desk by Monday morning.

It sucks that that's actually amazing. I would write that in a weekend for sure. Yeah.

100%.

Get a little high? A little.

Yeah, man. The end of infinity when eyes see themselves, the wings on a swine, when an immortal rings death's bells.

The end of infinity is the letter Y. It's not that.

Classically in a riddle, it would be something like that. This is sort of annoying.

When pigs fly, that's like a saying. This will never happen. Happen. Never.

If you are at work right now, and you're bored, make a poster for that. I do feel like there's a scene where Jason.

I don't think so. What's his name?

Right? No. Wait. They did a Dirty Muppet cop movie.

No they didn't.

Yeah they did. What? Yeah they did. It wasn't actually Muppets. Jason Segel did a Muppet movie.

But did he do the Dirty one? Because there was a Dirty Puppet movie, right?

But it wasn't Muppets though.

It wasn't Muppets.

But it was a parody. It was cops. You thinking of Crank Yankers?

Oh my god, I'm thinking of Crank Yankers. Once again, I do this once a week. I'm always thinking of goddamn cranky anchors! Oversold, under-delivered, cranky anchors. I remember the Dirty Puppet movie didn't go over well, I don't think, but I think an action puppet movie, even if it was, it doesn't have to be R-rated, you could do a PG-13.

The Happytime Murders is a 2018 adult puppet buddy comedy, black comedy film. It says buddy comedy, black comedy. Directed by Brian Henson, starring Melissa McCarthy.

Yeah, I mean if you shoot this movie like a Jason Statham movie, but then every five minutes you remind them that it's Kermit, you're a genius.

Also to have just like a little too few of Muppets in the background and in the universe. Like you don't see a Muppet for a while and then there's a Muppet driving a bus.

It's like not a Muppet movie, but it's just in the world where Muppets also exist. And then it's like, oh wait, it is totally a Muppet movie.

And I also think that to avoid the higher rating, you can do a bunch of violence to Muppets. It's like how you can shoot aliens in movies, but you can't shoot people.

I think they would rather you stab a person than a Muppet.

The ranking is like, actually, if you kill something that a child holds dear, that's worse than killing a pig. If you double tap pigs in space, there will be letters.

Double tap. Do you think you could... Get like make a movie as graphic as John Wick but with Muppet like there's just blood flying everywhere and also like Kermit is spinning through in slow motion. Yeah. That's so funny.

Half real, half puppety. The blood has to be like right like blue or brown.

And I think they could invent some really evil looking Muppets that are like oh these aren't really the Muppets we love.

Grab the Labyrinth Muppets from David Bowie.

Hey guys, wait for me! Shut up.

And he's famously been asking you out, right?

Yeah, oh my god, he won't. Stop! Every dating I'm on, he's like, hey, wanna grab a drink?

How did Sweetums get on Raya? Because it's an invite-only thing. You don't think Sweetums is on Raya? Well, it's invite. I just want to know who invited them. He would be on Raya! Of course he's on Raya.

I'm just trying to be a down-to-earth girl.

Hey, I got an invite from The Noid. But I only date famous women. I only date famous women. Also, surprisingly, on JDate. I saw Sweetums out with Zendaya. Oh my god.

I would love to get a... I've been saying this. I would love to get a Raya invite. Maybe end up with a famous chef.

I'm telling you, Erin, if you do get a Raya invite, I do definitely want to see your phone so I can see who's on. I would love to see who's on.

Are you on Raya? No.

Surely you know. You've seen a Raya account, I'm sure.

I have no people who have been on it, but they will not show it to me. They're like, you're not licensed to look at this. You can get blacklisted, right?

If you screenshot or if you... I think if you share photos or if you screenshot, I think there's something in the app that notifies them if you screenshot or something.

Don't you just have to have like a million followers? Isn't it like a social media thing? Because they do like a little, you get like an invite, but... You have to be famous or hot. Yeah, but like how famous?

Really famous.

I heard that the complaint in LA is from people who are actually famous are like, it's a bunch of fucking directors of photography now. It's a bunch of well-off grips. They're rich because they've been working for IOTSI for 40 years or something like that. Is this a fucking Best Boy on here? Jesus Christ.

When I search for DP on Riot, that's actually not what I'm looking for.

I want Sweetums and the Muppet with the firecracker. Out of a room, the cuffs off the wrists untangle the rope, all familiar as the lead artist.

Out of a room, the cuffs off the wrists, untangle the rope, all familiar as the lead artist.

Well Ryan, it means a lot that you came on to our Riddle Podcast again.

It means a lot that you had me here, and it doesn't mean anything that I didn't get any of the riddles.

Doesn't mean anything.

It's fine. Doesn't matter to me at all.

You solved the greatest riddle of all, which is how do we shoehorn Jason Statham into the world?

I can't believe it hasn't been done yet. It seems like the easiest thing in the world.

Even if it never gets made by Disney, it feels like you should write it just to do a table read, because it feels like the funniest fucking thing in the world.

I think the issue with Jason Statham is he's pretty discerning about what projects he selects, and he doesn't like just doing movies for money. You got to call it Crank 3.

But then it's Muppets. Yeah.

Yeah, it's like Crank 3 working title project. Kermit has to inject himself with some sort of endorphin every 20 hours.

He's got to put clamps on his nipples and then we're off to the races.

That's how they got what? That's how they got Bill Murray for Garfield, right? Yeah. It's because they said that it was being directed by Cole Coen. They called it Crank 3. Yeah. Even if it was Switch Coen. It's not that Coen.

Even if it was just pretty much John Wick where they killed Rolf or something, it's like... Not Rolf. is

Rick and Ralph.

We can't kill Grimace because no one would care. And he can't be killed by conventional means.

No weapons we have now or can think of can kill him. Did you guys see that meme about the Grimace Shake and everybody exploding? Great meme. Happened a while ago. The Grimace Shake was out. It was a purple milkshake. Disgusting. I think it was blueberry-ish. But people were doing TikToks and memes of being like, hey, about to try the Grimace Shake. They would take a sip of it and then it would just be them lying on the ground dead. Speaking of social media sometimes being great Ryan Recently, I don't know maybe the last six months or so.

You've had some of the funniest fucking videos. I've seen with your drone Thank you.

Where can people check this out?

They can check those out on my Instagram, Chosenberg. That's where those live. And I guess YouTube, but not really. I don't really do that that much. Or you can check out my podcast on ManDogPod on Instagram and all that stuff. And I just started a new podcast called The Greatest Conversation Ever.

Amazing.

It's just stupid conversations with friends.

It's

Origin story with improv comedy and stuff kind of like if WTF was for improvisers instead of stand-ups. Oh, yeah Yeah, yeah, that's on everything. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. None of it makes money yet.

So We've been a big fan of yours since 2018 it was an immediate connection as we all met it was so much fun. Thank you guys We're big teachers lounge people. So this was it's been a fun long journey to get to enjoy you. Oh

You guys are the best. Thank you.

You can check out HeyRiddleRiddle.com slash HeyRiddleRiddle.com slash live if you want to come see our East Coast tour coming up in a couple of weeks.

Translucent.

Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah.

There's this picture. There's a picture. It's fading away.

Portugal, maybe.

1974.

It's definitely Portugal.

Check that out. Adal, JP, is there anything to plug? I don't think so.

Is that Russian dirt?

Well, then, Jupiter. Check out later. Bye, everybody.

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