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Adal? Yes? Ask me what I'm doing right now.

Erin, what are you doing right now?

Praying. I'm praying before this episode. Smart. I'm also holding a crystal to energize my thoughts and keep me strong.

Smart, yes. Yeah, that's so smart. That's so smart, Erin. If you put that under your tongue, you're sure to rap the best you've ever rapped.

It was a cabin in the woods. He slept in the tricycles, the works, and the horses, they danced.

1, 2, 3, 4, Bleh Riddle Riddle. 1, 2, 3, 4, Bleh Riddle Riddle. 1, 2, 3, 4, Bleh Riddle Riddle. 1, 2, 3, 4, Bleh Riddle Riddle.

Oh man, JPC, I'm so excited for this concert. I think this is going to absolutely rock.

Well, yeah, I hope so. You said it's a rock concert, right?

Well, I lied to you a little bit. I'm so sorry, friend. It is a rock and roll concert, so...

Well, I'm already here. Um, okay. Yeah, I'm actually doing this thing now where I'm trying to pre-judge events. So even though I think that news is probably... A month ago, that would have ruined my night. Um, but... Okay, I'm gonna go to our rock and roll concert. I'm gonna try to have fun.

All right, here we come, Die Antwoord. Oh, who's this? Oh, there's like a... Oh, yikes. It's raining pretty bad, and there's a young woman in like a white dress. I'm gonna pull over. It looks like a hitchhiker here.

She's got the thumb out. I haven't seen the thumb out yet. Maybe pull over.

Yeah, yeah. Hi, do you need a ride?

Uh, yoo-hoo. Are you going this way?

No chocolate milk, but we are going that way, the direction of your thumb.

More for me then. Hop in the car. And we're not weirdos. Me think the ladies doth protest too much. That's okay, I like a weirdo.

Do you have a car around here? You were kind of just standing by the side of the highway. Did you get a breakdown or something?

Yeah, something like that. Where are you two headed?

We're headed to a concert. It's at that new venue, the rock mat. I think there used to be a high school over there.

Ah, yes. A high school over there.

Okay, well buckle up. Yeah, anyway, buckle up. It's west, basically. I don't know if that was unclear. We're heading west.

Oh, great. That's perfect. I'm headed west as well. What kind of concert you going to, fellas?

It's actually kind of a sore subject that we don't really want to get into. But it's, it's rock and roll. It's rock and roll music.

How can you complain about rock and roll music? It's the best kind of music to dance to.

Oh, yeah. Who are some of your favorite bands?

Elvis.

Riddle Riddle Riddle Riddle

We're almost done with it. Last chance for a sip.

No. We're all good on sips.

She seems so young. It feels like she's getting her musical taste from like Target graphic tees.

I had a cousin who was so into Elvis and he was like 10 years younger than me. Sometimes it's just like young people will get, you know, they call it hyper fixation.

Okay. Wow. That's interesting. Whoa. What the fuck? GBC, she's gone. We, we drove past that cemetery and she disappeared.

Oh, oh my God. Oh, this is going to be one of those things where we're going to get accused of murder. This was a setup. I've seen a TikTok about this. Oh no.

Fuck, do you think she opened the door and rolled out?

Yeah, people do this for like insurance scams like either she's gonna kill someone or we're gonna get like Indicted or something. I should have paid more attention to that tick-tock They told me what to look for Damn it.

Well, I guess Should we go on a killing spree? Oh wait, here's another hitchhiker. It looks like a young woman That can't be the same hitchhiker, right? Yes

Guys, it's me, Erin. Oh, Erin! You left me back at the gas station like... like 15 miles ago.

Erin, we didn't leave you. Adal and I agreed that we thought you were vibing with that trash can. So we thought you would see where it went.

Turns out he was married. Oh, God, it's fine. I don't even care. I saw a woman in a 1950s prom dress barrel roll out of your car and take off running to a cemetery.

Yeah, we saw a TikTok about it. We're gonna get indicted basically.

No, y'all. I think that was a ghost.

No, we're gonna go on a crime spree now because we're gonna get indicted anyway. So we might as well go on a crime spree. Erin, you down? Erin, let's all get our story straight.

You down?

I'm in improv class, and they say when someone says something, you go, yes.

No, Erin, you should not apply that to all areas of life.

Hands in the middle, and 1, 2, 3, Hollow Bridesmaids! Happy Halloween! It's a new year of Halloween.

What if every holiday had like a baby that was that, like baby new year, but like basically what if there was baby Halloween? I want there to be baby Halloween.

Well JPC, my dear boy, you've never seen baby Halloween. He's a little baby with a pumpkin for a head. What?

Babies basically already have little pumpkin heads.

That's true. Oh, well, hold on. I'm not being clear. So, the pumpkin head makes this baby sort of unstable, so when it tries to walk, the weight of its head sort of leads the baby forward.

Have you ever seen videos of babies and you put their hands up like this over their head and then when you do it, it's their whole head? That's the proportion of a baby? It's so, so dumb. How far into this are we?

Erin, would you believe that this is Bleh Riddle Riddle number 7? Lucky number 7, and not only is this a bleh riddle riddle, it's a mummy mummy mummy spider spider spiders give me such a fright a ghoul terrifies haunted doll hair giveaway based on a tome Adal tood my death in Riddies and Puzzies Undead Adal writes a check.

But we've done that before, right? That sounded new to me.

Is that new? No.

David, see, we do this every year. Every year. Every year. What is the show? What is... Happy... Hey, let's take it to Baby Halloween, who has a special announcement for all the people out there. Hit it, baby. Hit it, baby.

That little baby with a microphone was looking up into it to laugh, trying to figure out what joke to make.

That baby's 11 months old and it came up with ghoul ghoul gaga, so that's pretty good.

It took a second though, didn't it?

A, it's early. It basically hasn't mastered language yet.

Oh, and it's got a little Snickers. It's got a fun-sized Snickers in its diaper.

And it looks like a regular-sized Snickers proportionate to him.

Wow. Hey, Halloween baby, how are you doing this year?

I'm okay.

Okay. Okay. I thought it would say something spooky, but I guess it's spooky.

Don't pull the thread of that.

He wants us to ask. Looks like it wants milk from you. We're

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I'll see you next time.

Well, yes, in a way I have. It is very early.

But it is the morning. We are recording a spooky morning.

We are staring down the barrel of multiple episodes that I think, based on the schedule that I looked at, are all going to be improv based. I feel this is the most afraid I have felt going into a Halloween episode. Wow. I know these are famously not my best, everybody. Hey, I know. I have the level of awareness that you tell me how bad I do in these episodes. And I'm telling you, this year is not going to be any better. 2025 is our year. Stay tuned. One more year. I'll get it right next year.

Alright, that sounds pretty good.

Yeah, Erin, that's pretty cool. It's kind of like how Adal reads a riddle every Halloween episode, but you don't get the answer until next year. Erin gives a performance every Halloween episode, but you don't get the good performance until next year. Exactly. Yes. But it's every year. What if every year they just keep getting better, Erin? Huh? How about that? Just constant improvement?

We're still having fun.

It's like how every year of my life has been the best year of my life. Wow. That's quite lovely.

The fall off on that is going to be pretty rough. Speaking of the riddles from last year, last year I asked you, what does a witch do when she goes to a hotel?

I had this thought, Adal. I don't know if I've ever done this before. What does a witch do when she goes to a hotel? I knew that we were going to hear the riddle from last year, and I had this thought.

Okay.

I don't care. I don't care what the witch does. She can do whatever she wants at the hotel. That's her business.

I care. I care. What does a witch do?

You don't even know her name, Erin.

Okay, fair enough.

You don't even know her name. Erin, do you want to take a guess at her name?

Janine?

Twist, his name is Fred. It is Janine.

The witch was a man, Erin. Witches can be men.

I'm sorry. Okay, what... I'm gonna get it. I'm gonna get it.

What does the witch do when she goes to a hotel?

Checks in. She goes to her broom.

What is broom service in that context? Is it the same as room service? Is she eating a broom?

on the show.

So wait, are we positing a situation where this witch is traveling, and it's a witch traveling, and didn't bring a broom? What do you think, you're just gonna buy a broom in your destination city?

No way. Best witch-tern. What was that, Erin? Best witch-tern. We'll get them next year. Think of a better hotel. No, no, no. We'll get them this year. We get them this year! We get them this year!

Think of a better hotel witch pun than best witch-tern, Adal. I dare you to! I dare you to!

He's thinking. Okay, Double Marled Tree. Witch Carlton.

The Witch Carlton.

That's good, too.

I'd do like Double Double Boil-It Trouble Tree.

That's awesome. That's way better.

That's so good.

Now, Erin, of course, the Witch Carlton is like 800 new ties a night, I think? Yeah, it's something insane. Also, before we get into the full-blown game show, and it is full-blown this year, Erin, I want to bring up something regarding you. Now, this past Thursday, you sent me a text at 5.14am. It says, it's two texts. The first one says, I think I just saw a ghost. The second text says, are you awake lol. I wake up Thursday at 1.30 p.m. and I text you, this is the most bummed I've ever been to not, this is the most bummed I've ever been to have not been awake for a text. I'm going to need full details. Erin, you never replied to my text.

I got too embarrassed.

Yeah, that makes sense. What did you see? Tell us this, you saw a ghost.

First of all, JPC, mister, I can see your face right now. There's a reason why Adal gets these kinds of texts and you do not, okay?

Well, I said it was at 514 AM.

Yeah, that is also true. So, okay. I woke up with a start, okay? I had completely sweat through my clothes and then my sheet, that first layer of sheet. That is how much I was sweating. And I've been a little sick, and I look up, and there is a woman petting my dog at the end of the bed.

Wow.

And I look, and I'm blinking, and I keep blinking really hard to try to make it go away, and it doesn't. And then she is petting Lou, and then looks up at me, shocked. And we're just staring at each other.

Oh, so she treated you like you were a ghost.

Yeah, which I'm like, oh. That's so funny.

In my own house? No.

I'm paranoid enough. I'm in another situation, like Nicole Kidman, spoiler alert, where I think that I'm not a ghost, but I am a ghost in my own home. And then I went, okay, this maybe is a dream or something. I'm going to shut my eyes and close them so hard for 30 seconds. And I opened back up and she was gone. But then my heart started beating so fast and I was like, I never have like dream stuff. I never have stuff like that happen. I immediately was, who's awake? Who would get it? Who won't make fun of me? I'm so scared. And I was so scared. Texted Adal, he wasn't awake. So I just laid in bed like this and I stared at the ceiling. Today we're

Welcome to the show.

I will. Please call me. And Erin, I wasn't listening to that story because I was trying to think about how to do Omni Hotel and then the word zombie. So it's like zombie, zombie, zombie, zombie, zombie hotel.

Beverly Hills have eyes.

Dread Roof Inn. Motel 666. Motel 666.

Motel 666.

Holiday Inn, parentheses, the holiday is Halloween.

Okay, yes. That one's heaven to me. You knew I'd love it, and I do, I do, I do.

What about, um, Unravel Lodge, in parentheses, Mummy? Ooh!

Honestly, you should've listened to my story. Okay, well hold on, this is much better.

Do you think it was better than Unravel Lodge, parentheses, Mummy?

I do.

Okay.

Scarier? Um, yes.

Yeah, interesting. Okay. I'll listen back with the episode coming out. How about that?

You won't. You never have and you never will.

Ramada-racula. Rema-deracula.

Rema-deracula. Rema-deracula.

Rema-deracula. Rema-deracula. That's kind of fun. That's fun. I like that. Sounds like the start of something fun.

Casey, hit us with that theme song one more time because I want to hear it. No.

Hit it! Hit it!

Okay, so our first game today is going to be very spooky. This is a costume game. I need you two to guess the top 10 Halloween outfits for 2024 based on a Time magazine recent article. Okay. You'll go alternating guesses, and for each guess you get correct, you will get 10 points. Okay.

Erin, would you like to go first or last?

I'll go first. I think Chaperone.

As a Halloween costume?

Yes.

Okay. Erin Chaperone is not in the top ten. Oh my god. Now Chapel Rowan Atkinson, number one with a bullet. That's fun.

Do we, Adal, does this article, or is there any information about the age range that we're looking at? Am I going to list off a bunch of slutty costumes that these are all costumes for kids?

This is Time Magazine's biggest slut costumes of 2034. Wow. It does not- It doesn't have an age. Mention an age. It just says, here are the top 10 trending Halloween costumes from this year, and it's a 1 through 10.

I will say, I think one of them, I have like a double guess, but I think, well, I'm going to say Deadpool.

I knew, that was my next guess.

I was like trying to think of what movies came out this year.

Yeah.

Okay, JPC, I am going to give it to you. Number 10, the very bottom one is Lady Deadpool.

Lady Deadpool.

That works. Deadpool's in the name. That is 10 points. I will say if anybody gets the number one answer, that'll be worth a hundred.

Do these all say lady in front of them, by the way? Because is this also just a women's costume list?

Yeah, I should say, I'm so sorry Erin, Lady Chaperone is on here.

Oh, makes sense. I'm gonna go Wolverine.

Lady Chaperone seems like, oh fuck. Erin, I'm so sorry, Wolverine is not on here.

There's no lady version of Wolverine. Probably Eleven, Erin. Probably Lady Wolverine was Eleven. Is this list all pop culture things from this year, or are some of them witch or whatever?

Now Erin, I'm going to say four of these I've never heard of in my fucking life. Oh my god. One is someone I've heard of but I have never heard. Someone I've heard of but I've never heard. Are we doing a riddle right now? What the fuck is going on? And then two, three of them are, two of them are like references from this year in pop culture.

Okay. Who died this year, which would be very inappropriate to do in a Halloween costume, because you know someone's going to be doing that. Okay, so we have Lady Deadpool. Whose turn is it? Erin went with Wolverine, right?

Yes, so it is back to JPC.

Oh, okay. I'll steal one that Erin probably would have guessed. Sabrina Carpenter.

Or Espresso.

Is someone doing Mi Espresso?

What's Mi Espresso?

It's her song. That's her song, right? Oh. I've never heard a single Sabrina Carpenter. Oh. Every song is a single, so get in line.

Number 9, JPC, is Sabrina Carpenter.

Is it really?

It is. Wow.

I'm going to go Taylor Swift.

Wow, Erin, swing and a miss.

Seriously?

Yes, seriously.

What the fuck is happening?

I don't know. I mean, like, can I just say, can I just say skeleton? Like, is skeleton one of them?

I'm so sorry, skeleton is not one of them.

Okay.

Could we start getting hints?

Are these things from, like, TikTok or some shit? Like, is this just gonna be, like, stuff that I've never heard of before?

Now, one of them, JBC, is a character that you and I experienced in 40X recently, but it's not the titular character. Oh. It's not the titular character. Okay. Well, whose turn is it? Mine. Erin, guess yours.

I would like a hint that's more specific to me. Oh, no, you're right. It's not my turn.

Oh, so it's me. Mm-hmm. the show.

Trending Halloween costume for 2024 is Shrunken Head Bob, a fan favorite character- What is that costume?

Is it just like a thing that goes on over your head with a tiny shrunken bob head?

Yeah, it's like a big safari outfit, like a big safari outfit, and then a little tiny head.

Man, they did him dirty in that movie. Spoilers for Beetlejuice Returns or whatever. Awful, awful movie. But they really did Bob dirty. I really thought that Bob was going to make it through, but no. He just got shit on and then died.

We're gonna give you one final chance. You're gonna get three guesses to try and get one of these in the top ten. And Erin, I'll give you a hint. What the fuck? What do I do? You hang tight, my man, because you're up 120 points.

Okay, I guess I just... I guess in basketball, when the team is up 20 points, the ref is like, okay, clear the court. We're going to give them five minutes to get as many baskets as they can.

Now, JPC, hold on. You said earlier you've been on TikTok. You saw something about cemetery law. No, that was a character. Surely you've seen a TikTok where a basketball team is winning by 80, and then the coach puts in a little Rudy type. You're shooting the ball and the opposing team gets the rebound and accidentally hands it right to the little Rudy type until they get a basket.

Can I be honest? Can I be completely honest with you? When I said that thing about basketball and clearing the court if you're up enough points, I wasn't 100% sure that that's not something that happens in professional basketball. I feel like there's a non-zero chance that there is some sort of mercy rule that I'm not familiar with.

That's how the Warriors won their first title. Is that rule?

They said emergency rule five minutes and then they fucking went off just like they practice it. Half court passes.

Now Erin, I'm going to give you a hint for, I'll give you three different hints.

Okay.

Hint number one is I'm going to say, um, down under.

Okay. Australian ref. Oh, is it the break dancer lady?

I'm going to need a name. I don't know.

Or at least an attempt at a name. I know her name. I know her name. Can I steal? Yeah, steal. You can steal, yes. Her name is Ray Gunn.

Oh yeah, I did know that. Her name is Ray Gunn.

Her real name, Rachel Gunn. Well? Ronald Ray Gunn, right? I think we've done Ronald Ray Gunn on this show before.

Okay.

Erin, your next hint, let me just check with you. Does Poppy Playtime mean anything to you?

It means nothing to me.

Okay, because that would be Catnap, a royal purple cat who is a character from Poppy Playtime. The indie horror video game series? Wait, what's it called? Poppy Playtime?

Oh, so I don't know what this is, but it seems very scary, and my nephew asked me to get him this game for Christmas one time. My nephew is young, and I gave my nephew the game for Christmas, and I checked in with his dad before I bought it because I was like, This game looks like scary as shit. And this is like a little kid like, are you sure? Like, I think it's definitely rated like teen or something. And my brother was like, yeah, man, like, he loves it. This is what he wants. I was like, okay.

Like a Five Nights at Freddy's situation?

Yeah, it seems it seems like I don't know. I mean, look, I'm not a spooky guy. So it's like, I never got into that. But maybe maybe it's fine for kids to get into spooky stuff.

Are there any athletes on the list?

There aren't well, there's one at number eight.

Sabrina Carpenter is the same height as Simone Biles.

That's

Doom.

Yes! Erin, you said that with zero confidence, but you are correct. The number 8 costume is Doctor Doom. Erin, you're on the board with 10 points.

Yay! Is that because, did the Fantastic Four movie come out? I think just the announcement.

Because isn't Robert Downey Jr. Okay, okay. Just the announcement of the cast and whatever storyline they're following. Erin, one final guess here, and this is going to be one of the new characters introduced in the Pixar film Inside Out 2.

Anxiety!

Oh, Erin, I'll give you one more guess.

Oh, en oui!

Here's what's next!

Yeah, I heard they didn't bring back Bing Bong. Come on. How are you not going to bring back the emotion of Bing Bong? I have not seen Inside Out 2, and I have not seen any animated movies, because I feel like I'm going to have to watch all of them eventually. So I can just wait, and then at least when I watch them for the first time, I'll be like, oh, okay. Yeah.

I haven't seen this. That's smart to put it off until...

I will say that for people who have babies, truly terrifying being a parent.

Are you okay man?

It's very hard to clip their little nails but you have to do it because they grab everything and they'll scratch you with their little nails. So we've tried a lot of things to distract the baby while we're clipping their nails and we don't have any screens on around the baby. And so I think they think that the TV is just like a mirror because they could just like see themselves in the mirror. I don't think it's ever really been on when they're in the room, but we decided that we would put the TV on. Because, oh, when we go out to like breakfast and stuff, sometimes we're in a restaurant and the baby just like stares at a TV like they're like, what the fuck? What is this thing? I'm like, oh, you're watching SportsCenter at a pancake house right now. But we started putting on the movie Frozen while we clip the baby's nails. And I think, like, over the past month, the baby has watched, like, six minutes of Frozen. But it always just picks up exactly where it's left off. And I got about six minutes into Frozen, and I'm, like, working. I'm not really watching Frozen. And I realized, I've never seen Frozen. What? Wow. I don't think I've ever seen it. Everything that's happening in the first six minutes of Frozen is completely new. I'm asking my wife, I'm like, who's that? Elsa has a sister? Is the sister in the movie?

That's wild. And she's like, yeah, and I'm like... A hundred thousand times. But when I was moving out of their house, because when you're an au pair, you live with the family. That's not right. And so I lived with this four-year-old and this eight-year-old.

An au pair is basically a nanny that you're allowed to sleep with.

That's not true. I mean, if you want, but not true.

I guess I've been sold a bill of goods and I'm going to have a conversation with my wife.

When I was leaving the little one was trying to like get me to stay in any way she could and so I'm literally like rolling my suitcase out the door and she's like Please! And she takes off running to the living room and her hands are like shaking and she's opening the DVD of Frozen and like trying to put it in quick because she knows like we used to love that movie and watch it together and she's like, come on Erin, please! Erin, stay! Trying to get Frozen on the TV and it is the saddest fucking thing I've ever seen in my life. Oh, I just, I get a lump in my throat just thinking about it of her being like, this will work. This will get, this gets Erin to stay.

Erin loves Frozen. For sure. Erin loves Frozen. She's not leaving.

The irony is the whole message of that first movie is letting things go. Okay, well I haven't seen the movie yet. Well, JPC, the first ten minutes are just basically geopolitical warfare.

It seems like it's a lot of setup, and I was like, does Frozen need setup? I'll get to it. Give me about, let's see, how long do I think it'll take me to see Frozen? Maybe like five months. Five months from now, ask me how I think Frozen was.

And please show it to your baby when they're 11 and see if they like start looking down at their nails and like have a response.

Their nails should start growing. Absolutely nailed it. Nailed it. You nailed it. For 10 additional points, 11. Is the last costume on the... No, I'm joking.

I was like, how is that relevant this year?

Yeah, no, I'm joking.

Yeah, no, you didn't get it.

I do want to do a riddle.

Wait, Adal, can you really quickly just list the rest of those costumes? Because I'm just kind of curious about like what the fuck the... Because we only got like four of them, right?

Let's see. Number one is Shrunken Head Bob. Number two is Ray Gun. Number three is Catnap from Poppy Playtime. Great. Number four is Dolores, Beetlejuice's ex-wife. Oh yeah, best part of that movie. Really necessary. Number 5 is Pomni, the protagonist of the animated web series The Amazing Digital Circus. Okay. Number 6 is Envy from Inside Out 2. Number 7 is Red, a protagonist in the Disney film Descendants. Okay. Number 8 is Dr. Doom. Number 9 Sabrina Carpenter. Number 10 Lady DePaula.

Wait, what was number 2?

Number two was Ray Gunn. What's Lady DiPolo? What the fuck is that? Lady DiPolo, she's like an Italian cat. She hates Fridays. She loves rigatoni. I'm all good. I'm fine. I'm fine on that. She's like an anti-Garfield. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. I'm Auntie Garfield! She's like a Garfield who gesticulates more, and she smacks John around.

Oh, yeah.

I love Italian Garfields. Oh, just the best. I do want to see a quick scene. Sure. Of course, when we're playing any sort of game show, you can win the scene, so keep that in mind. That's right. Winner will get 100 points. I want to see a scene. Erin, you are Garfield? JPC, you are John, the owner of Garfield. Owner, the term used loosely in this case because he owns Garfield.

Yeah.

And you two are at an Olive Garden.

They're not going to see this, Garfield, okay? I don't know why you made me drive you to the Olive Garden, but they absolutely won't see. Two, please. Table for two.

Right this way. Is the window fine?

Yeah, I guess the window's fine.

God damn it.

Do you think the waiter knows I'm high on catnip? And I'm about to absolutely house that lasagna.

Yeah, you're zoned out. You're absolutely zoned out. You're like, paws akimbo, just kind of like loose. And it's okay. I'm sorry, Waiter. It's okay that I brought a cat into the Olive Garden. That's fine.

He tried to bring a date, but she cancelled.

Yeah, before 5 p.m. I noticed the cat is sort of moving its arms around, but I can't understand meows. Before 5 p.m. cats, dogs are welcome. Yes.

Okay, yeah, great.

Um, yeah, so just... His date cancelled.

She didn't cancel, Garfield, okay? She had a death in the family.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, it's true, okay? She sent me the information. It was fingerprints and everything. There was dental records to confirm.

Well, when you hear your family, so that's like someone in our family died. So we'll all wear black for the rest of our shift today. Thank you. We'll be right back with specials.

Great.

Thank you so much.

In any way to Garfield, I'm not even sure. I'm not even sure if me and the nurse are gonna, you know, work out.

I know you're not gonna work out. Well, that's because when we went in,

to

You know what you said. Yeah, I said it.

We'll take three lasagnas to go, please.

Is this cat trying to talk to me? No, no, no.

Earlier, you could tell that I was talking about the girlfriend. Sir, you can understand me.

Sorry, cat's getting mad. It's just, they really wanted the lasagna. Sorry, sorry.

Meow, meow, meow.

Meow.

See? Is that right? That's the Garfield where John drinks cat cum, right?

I'll give you a million dollars to never say those words in that order again.

JPC, I think that's every Garfield comic strip. I think it's just implied.

Oh, you know what? He drinks dog cum.

Oh, that's why Garfield keeps kicking Odie.

Adal, I would like to give you 100 points for that scene. Oh, really? Yeah, thank you so much. It's so good.

I'll take the 100 points, that means there's none left over for the two of you, but I thought that was a fantastic scene.

Thank you so much. John takes a big swing out of a cup and the nurse says, congratulations Mr. Arbuckle, you're about to give birth to a fine healthy litter of puppies.

What are you talking about? And Garfield says, I hate puppies. Erin, there is a three-panel Garfield word, John. Is that the vets? And he drinks a cup full of- Erin- No, you're- No, no. No, it's true. It's real.

I'm going to start screaming on the top of my lungs. What are you talking about?

Well, that's what John does after he drinks the dog coat.

Okay, hold on. Garfield cartoonist denies John drinks a cup of dog semen in the comic strip. Jim Davis, creator of the lasagna-loving Garfield, has violently commented on his infamous May 30th, 1999 comic strip in which- 1999?

1990.

1990. Appears to guzzle a cup of dog semen at a veterinarian's house.

There's a point where Jim Davis was like, there's nothing left to say with this cat. And so, it took a real hard turn. Now, Erin- Hey Erin, here's the thing. Here's the- Exactly. Erin, here's the sticky situation. Well, poor choice of term. We do need to go to break, but legally we cannot go to break and have advertisers after we say .com more than three times.

Can I let you know what Jim Davis' explanation was? Yeah, yes. Jim Davis says, in an interview, On the farm, we used to give first calf heifers a high-protein supplement to help them deliver healthier calves. The supplement was provided by our vet. I assumed that there would be a similar supplement for dogs. So John is drinking a protein-enriched drink formulated for a pregnant dog. There you have it. I don't know, Jim. Seems like you made the guy drink dog gum.

Do you ever notice how Odycombe is very close to modicum? A modicum of Odycombe. A modicum of Odycombe.

How sweet the sound.

No, we're not doing spooky trailers until after the break, Erin.

Casey, let's put Claire DeLune with Ody orgasms.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Break. Break.

Break. Break.

Break. Break. Break.

Hey Erin, I went to knock on the door to your house, but it's just a big stack of money?

Uh, yeah. Uh, yeah.

When was your house made out of money? Has that always been the case?

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Wait, Rocket Money? The personal finance app that helps you find and cancel your unwanted subscriptions, monitors your spending, and helps you lower your bills so you can grow your savings? That Rocket Money?

Oh yeah, and I've been using it for years, way before they were a sponsor of the show, because I love it.

You know, most Americans think they spend about $62 per month on subscriptions, but the real number is closer to $300. Kicks a guy down a well.

Thank you! I subscribe to a well kicking subscription that- Splash. Oh, boy.

This is savings! That's a big difference. Even if just a couple of subscriptions fall off your radar, those reoccurring payments you didn't even know about can really add up. I mean, Erin, you have a house worth.

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I just got $85 a month off of my well-kicking website. God, no one cares.

Stuffing some of Erin's walls into my pockets. We don't know that guy. So stop wasting money on things you don't use. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to RocketMoney.com slash Riddle. That's RocketMoney.com slash Riddle. RocketMoney.com slash Riddle. RocketMoney.

It'll be well. It's well that you'd... Take your time. Take your time.

Take your time.

RocketMoney. Careful. Use it in a well.

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Oh, JPC. Why are you smiling? What's wrong? You're smiling.

Yeah, I don't know. It's just, that's probably part of it. Smiling through the pain or whatever. You know, it's just, it's a bad brain day. The old JPC brain is not firing on, how many cylinders does a brain have? I'm down a few.

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Now, isn't that online therapy?

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You can, and you can too. And even me. And even you, JPC.

Okay, one of those things that you pointed out was a toucan, Erin. And I just want to say that toucans are birds. And unless it's the Froot Loops toucan, I doubt that it... I am the Froot Loops toucan!

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I've actually just been having a really rough time, so it just feels really nice to be acknowledged.

Well, yeah, because your beak's like 80% of your body or something.

Can we eat a toucan? No, no, no.

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And we're back. Let's see what the scoreboard is. It looks like Adal has 100 points, Erin has 20 points, and JPC is sitting there with a hefty 130 points.

Whoa. Wow. I'm really in this. I'm really in this. Pretty good.

He's really in it. For the next part of our game show today, Undead Adal writes a check, we are going to do... Undead Adal writes a check. We are going to do trailer, Damn Near Killed Her. Now this is a movie trailer game we've played a few times. You both will have two minutes to improvise the perfect horror movie trailer based on the title I give you. You'll do all the voices, all the sound effects, the narration edits, any music, etc. casting, listing the cast. Your mission basically is to make me scared to miss this movie. Do we remember this game?

No, but I'm willing to try.

JPC, that's the sort of moxie I'm looking for, so that means you're going to go first. And I'm going to give you two titles, actually, and you can choose between the two, which one sounds more appealing for your trailer. Are you ready? Sounds more terrifying. Sure, yes. Again, you'll have two minutes. I'll give you a warning at the one-minute mark, and we'll go from there. So, JPC, your two options are Werebud, sort of a play on Airbud, but with a werebud, or Clown by Law.

I guess that's clown by law? Clown by law. Not like, okay, what is clown by law? Not like clown in law, but clown by law.

There's a Jim Jarmusch movie called Down By Law, starring Tom Waits. Got it! And so I decided to say instead of down by law, this will be clown by law.

Okay, and is it clown by law, like three separate words? Yes, and by is B-Y. I thought it was going to be like a clown bylaw. Like, this is like a... Oh, yes it is. ...like a operational procedural rule for clowns. I'm taking the other one.

I was going to say, you could have creative control.

Yeah, sounds like it. Sounds like were-bud.

You said were-bud? This is were-bud. JPC, you have two minutes starting now. Hey, buddy. It's okay.

You know, sometimes things like this just happen. Dogs don't live forever. But Dad, I miss him. Well, a little part of him will always be here, buried in the backyard. Your old pal Air Bud. He was 14. That's pretty old for a golden retriever. Will I ever see him again? Well, let's just say, Jimmy, I hope not. Shhh! Lightning strikes! Lightning strikes! Rain! A single paw shoots up through the ground from the dark and... Dad! Dad! Oh my god! There's mangled crow meat all over the front porch! One minute left. Oh god, Timmy. Must be one of those loose neighborhood coyotes. You have to be very careful. And when you come home from school, make sure you lock all the doors and never open the door. P.O.V. shot of a werebud tearing a crow to pieces. Nothing in the rules says a dog can't come back from the dead. That's like an old man by the side of the road. This Halloween, Air Bud returns, but not in the way of all those ones where we made Air Bud return and do other sports and then there's not the ones where he's a bunch of puppies. He's bad to the bone. John Tesh as Timmy, Marlon Wayans as the father, and introducing the voice of Air Bud, Dev Patel. Wow.

All right.

Oh my God, that was so good.

Outstanding.

Sort of a waste of Patel's talent to have him just go, a-woo!

Miranda and I watched Monkey Man last night. Oh yeah. It was okay. Yeah, it was okay.

Yeah, it was just fine. There's a dog in that movie. Yeah.

Yes, there is a dog in that movie.

There's a stray dog he takes care of.

And it's a very good dog. I remember when that dog popped on screen, I said, that's a good dog.

I'm reading the IMDb interesting trivia about Air Bud. It seems like at the wrap party, a lot of the champagne flutes were actually filled with... Uh oh, Erin.

Erin's interested. She's like, what could it be?

Maybe we won't read that on air because it sounds like Air Bud played a little nasty little trick.

I don't think it was necessarily Odie playing the track.

We could have left that bit before the break. We could have left that behind. We didn't need to bring it on this side of the break. Who just drinks a cup of something at a vet's office? You guys, I'm fighting for my life over here. I'm staring down the game I am the worst at. Okay?

Erin, would you like to pep yourself up? I left a cup of coffee in your immediate vicinity if you just want to take a quick sip. And that's regular dog coffee, Erin.

That's regular dog coffee! Okay, yeah. You think that I'm scared of dog cum? No, I'm not. Okay? I'm not scared.

Wow. I'd afraid of no cum. Maybe the most... Maybe the most political statement that's ever been said on the show. I think that's going to be new merch. I think we're going to make dog leashes that say, I ain't afraid of dog cow.

We just gave a couple a new inside joke. There's a couple out there that's going to say, I ain't afraid to come in and do the Ghostbusters theme.

I'm doing a project right now that I won't get into too much specific stuff, but it involves me re-listening to a lot of Hey Riddle Riddle episodes and trying to pull out of context things that we say from Hey Riddle Riddle episodes. Erin and I have no problem I think loudly saying dog cum a lot on the podcast, and it's pretty easy to pull clips. You might notice that Adal, he kind of threw away dog cum. That's not going to make for a very, if I tried to pull Adal from this episode saying dog cum, I would get, oh there's a dog cum. And that's not good enough for a clip. So I think we, Erin, we gotta be much more careful with this guy. When we're saying insane things, we gotta make sure he's saying them too. Because I think he's trying to get, I think he might try to be running for president one day. Because we could go back to this thing and he's like, hey look, my other guys were saying dog cum a bunch, but me... Scott Free!

Did I say it?

Yes! You screamed it. You sang it. Erin, you said, I'm not afraid it'll come, and then you went, do do do. That's a clip, baby. That's a clip. That's a falling clip.

That yes is so funny. Yes!

Now the ABC did get 100 points for the trailer for We're Bud. That was so good. Maximum points allowed. So you're up to 230. Erin, are you ready for your two titles? Okay, so I guess... No, here we go.

I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready. And this year I got it.

Now Erin, here are your two options. One of these movie titles we've used in the past but with a different twist on it. Your first option is She's All Bats. Your second option is What Witches Want. Your third option is Dogma. It's a play on Dogma with Kevin's

She's All Bats, please.

She's All Bats. Erin, here's the trailer for She's All Bats. This will be two minutes. I'll give you a one minute warning.

I'm cold but I'm happy. I'm glad that I'm alive. Jeffrey something was a typical high school student. He was popular. Hey, what's up, man? He was captain of the football team. Touchdown! And he was posed to be prom king until a new girl came to school. Um, hi, I'm very shy. I'm so shy. He made a bet with his friends. I bet you can't get the new girl to think that she's hot and cool. Wanna bet? Yeah man, that's what I'm trying to do right now. Cool, we'll make a bet. You have to take her out and make it seem like you're sincere. And they're on a date, and this is just clearly a bunch of bats wearing a dress of glasses.

One minute?

Oh god, um... I'm Then he falls in love with the bat. The girl that's made of bats. She takes off her glasses and he goes, wait, are you just a bunch of bats? And she goes, yeah. But everyone sort of has their thing in high school. Also, my mom died. That's so sad.

Uh-huh.

Wait, we're at the dance and I just found- I'm in a cute little black dress, a bunch of bats. I just found out that this was a trick. And then...

This Halloween, Freddie Prinze Jr.

and a bunch of bats in She's All Bat. Kiss me, cause I'm a bunch of bats. Lean me onto the moonlit floor, cause I'm a bunch of bats. I am some bats in a dress. I'm a bunch of bats in a dress. So kill me.

She's All That.

I'm gonna have to do another one because I felt too beholden to She's All That and I got lost in the sauce.

Mm. Because you know she's all that too well. It's like you prepared too much. You over-prepared. Exactly. You were feeling over-prepared for that.

I'm going to do another one. It's going to go, it's going to, I get, I'll be, it will be fully my creative.

Well, Erin, hold on now. Adal has an awarded points.

I don't want any points for that.

What? I'll take them. Erin, here's what I'll say, Erin. When you said, starring Jeffrey, or you said, Jeffrey something went to high school. I think more trailers should be brave enough to do that in terms of like, in the small town of, come back to this later. Two men where, you know, I think there should be more placeholders in terms of like, hey, when a trailer comes out, the movie may not be done done.

Right. They haven't CGI'd all the cats yet. This is just a trailer.

So, Erin, based on Jeffrey something alone, I was going to award you 90 points.

I don't want them. I want to do another quick, in and out, other trailer.

Now, I did hear JPC say he wants the points.

I'll take the points, yeah.

So JPT gets 90 points. He's going to be up to 320 points.

I do want to do this, and I know that this is atypical. This is not something I think we've ever done on one of these episodes before. But Adal? Yes? I've prepared two options for you to do a little movie trailer.

Oh boy.

Yeah, and Adal famously, he does his movie trailers where he gives us like a scary pun on a non-scary movie. Adal, you are going to get a non-scary pun on a scary movie. So your two choices are, it's a brand new horror film that I believe is out for this season, which is Speak No Evil. So your first option is Speak No Email. And your second one is a classic, Drag Me to Hell, which is going to be Drag Me to Email. Oh my God. You can do Speak No Email or Drag Me to Email.

Okay, I'm going to be doing Drag Me to Email.

Drag Me to Email. Okay, hold on. I'm going to give you two minutes and I'll hold up my hand when you have one minute left.

Okay. Chicken, the Chinese, the Chinese, chicken, chicken, chicken. Starts licking, licking.

Ding!

You've got mail. You've got mail. Ding! You've got... Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding. Fills up whole screen. Fills up whole screen. Doug Reynolds didn't want to reply to his emails. His correspondence was null. Mom, I'm going out for the day. Okay, sweetie. Did you respond to your emails? Uh-huh. He lied. Beverly D'Angelo is... the emails.

What?

The emails? What?

Well hold on, well hold on.

Keep going, you have a minute.

Let me sit down at my desk, minimize window with my emails. Computer starts talking. Hi, it's me, Beverly D'Angelo. She plays herself. You might remember me from such movies as Endless Fall, I Am Dewey.

One minute.

I used to be married, or I used to be something with Al Pacino. Maybe not married, but we used to be something. How was that? It was good. Oh man, were you upset when him and Melissa Flockhart got together? That's Harrison Ford. Who's Al Pacino? Wow, really? Check your emails. Okay, let's see. Yeah, I do have an email here. Al Pacino was in The Godfather. Yeah, that's right. How did you two meet? I don't know. Hollywood? You guys have kids or anything?

This Halloween.

Did someone say kids or something? Harrison Ford! No. No. That's Al Pacino. Whoa! Al Pacino's in my bedroom! Let's get to those emails, kid! I'm- Nope! Come back here! Grabs the back of his collar, pulls him to the computer. You're gonna sit here with Al Pacino and finish your emails. Drag me to emails.

Alright! Wow! That's great! Woohoo! Alright, Adal, how did it feel? Did it feel harder than you thought?

I feel like I'm gonna quit the podcast to write this screenplay. Yeah, I think you should. That felt so easy and amazing.

Is it fu- Al Pacino had a child at 83, right? Yeah, so last year he had a child when he was 83. With his 29-year-old girlfriend! Holy God!

I believe the 29-year-old girlfriend just left Al Pacino for Bill Maher? Hey, you know? Good for her.

She has a type.

Yeah. That's gonna be wild to be like, when someone's like, yeah, who's your dad? It'd be like, Al Pacino. And they're like, the 114-year-old guy who died last century? That is a wild situation. God bless. Hey, God bless. When you've got all that money, God bless. No God bless for this game because it's all Hallows' Eve. Here's what I'll say. Do we want to do another round of trailers, or would we rather go straight into Rap 4 Daddy?

Trailers, please.

Okay. I'm obsessed with Al Pacino's 30-year-old ex. This is awesome.

You suggesting Rap 4 Daddy makes me feel like the toys in Toy Story 3 when they're holding hands and falling into the fire. I'm like, no, no, no. A terrible fate awaits us. I should just accept it.

Yeah, and famously everyone has cried during a rap for daddy at least once.

Yeah, sometimes when people are too empathetic, they can't listen to it. They're like, it's too cringe. It's too much for people who are sensitive to cringey things. And I understand that. It doesn't hurt my feelings if you have to fast forward through my raps.

Her and Bill Maher are just friends, so we can put that to bed.

That's how it starts. 68-year-old TV host.

Too young for her.

Too young. Yeah, too young. OK, Erin votes for another round of trailers. So, Erin, I never see this feedback. You said people hate the Rap for Daddy segment.

No, no, no. They don't like me doing Rap for Daddy because it hits their cringe scale too much. They feel too bad for me that I'm so bad at rapping. They enjoy when JPC does it.

I'm so good at empathy that I feel bad for people I don't know.

Yeah.

Wow.

Cool. OK, well, we'll do another round of trailers. Yes. This time, Erin will have you go first.

Great.

Your options are Screamin' Demon and There Will Be Bones. Oh, wow. These are both good. What's Screamin' Demon a play on? Um, Screamin' and Demon kind of rhyme. Got it.

Love it. Enough. I've had enough.

I'll do Screamin' Demon.

Okay, Erin, this is Screamin' Demon. You have two minutes. Your time starts now.

We cut to the outside.

Cut to? Erin, it's the start of the trailer!

No, there was 10 seconds of... That is the equivalent of a gymnast breaking her leg when she turns to the judges and does the first pose before doing the vault. I didn't even get to run!

Okay, go for it. Hey Erin, how about this? We start just whenever you start. That's when your time starts.

We open on a church. It's like a drone shot of a church and we hear, people are singing in the church. And then it's raining outside this Halloween. And the door to the church kind of swings open a little. And it's this, like, young, scary demon. And they're about to come into the church and kill everybody. And they walk into the church, and then all of a sudden they're overtaken by the music. Whoa, what is this? I've never heard it sound like this before. Ah! A demon! Hold on, hold on, hold on!

One minute?

I just want to hear you guys sing. That's such lovely music. We don't have music like that in hell. Well, auditions for the choir are next Friday. You have to sing Amazing Grace. But you're a demon, so you probably can't get in. Yeah, dumb demon can't get into the church choir. Okay, we'll see about that. And then it sort of like feels like inside Llewyn Davis meets like a 90s... What am I thinking of? What's the movie I'm thinking of?

Can't know. Couldn't know.

And then he's practicing. He's like, hell, hell, hell, hell, hell, hell, hell. He's doing scales. And he goes back to hell and his dad, the devil, goes, You think you can be in the church choir? Hell, you can't even scream good, let alone sing good. You're the worst demon. That's actually how the trailer starts. Yeah, that's how the trailer starts.

Oh, yeah.

Is the dad goes to the dad.

Yeah.

Yeah, go kill all those people in that church, but you probably are going to fail at it. You can't do anything right, stupid demon. Then he goes to the church and then he hears music. And then it's the day that he sings for the choir. And he gets up on the stage and goes, Sing, Grace. And yes, the walls start bleeding blood, but everyone starts crying tears because Discreet Demon has a beautiful voice. And then it cuts to him and he's in the choir and he's having the best time and he gets the big solo. Jeff Goldblum as the devil. Air Bud as Screaming Demon. Yes! Coming this fall to Peacock.

Erin, I'm so sorry about your movie. That was fantastic.

I'm so sorry it got relegated to- Yeah, it's going straight to streaming. That's fine. I think people will see it and it'll be so nice.

It's going somewhere, though. So a lot of movies don't even come out on anything. So the fact that it's getting a release, Erin, is something to be proud of.

Thank you so much. What did you think? Would you see it?

My favorite part I think of the trailer, Erin, is about a minute into the trailer where the trailer decides that the trailer actually meant to start in a different place and then it just gives you a scene and then there's like little text that comes up on the screen that says slot this into the beginning of the trailer. I thought that was fun because it was obvious that they kind of ran on a trailer budget so they just had to kind of make do with what they had. Thank you.

I feel very seen.

Erin, we're going to give you a full-blown 100 points just for the opening being cut to. Cut to? So that's going to bring you up to 120, JPC's at 320. JPC, your options are, there's something about scary, play on something about Mary, or clowns, play on Jaws. Let's do clowns!

Today we're going Alright, alright, you're the big blind. Come on, let's get this going. Are we playing cards here? Are we pulling each other's puds? Something JPC's been saying a lot on the show lately. We're playing cards, we're playing cards. Just deal, shut up and deal. Hey, whoa. Hey, I got a little... You guys ever heard of night fishing? Night fishing. Everybody knows you don't catch fish at night. Fish are kind of doing sleeping things, I think. I don't really know why we don't fish at night. Probably light is the issue. One minute. I heard out here on the open water, which we've been out for days and days and it's been a long time since we see land, night fishing is the way to get the best haul. I don't know. What do you think, Skipper? Cut. This camera freezes on Skipper. He hasn't said a word this whole time. He was the last one to be panicked. He has a pipe in his mouth. Night fishing. Well, I'd say night fishing is a surefire way to catch a clown. Uh, it's obvious that the skipper is played by Adam Sandler. By the way, I mean, it's just like, he can't do anything else. That's what we have. We have him for the thing. It's obvious. It's obvious, Erin. Al Pacino. No, you're so, you don't know anything. Come on Skipper, come on, let's go, let's just try, let's try one round of night fishing. They're on the board, they're all drinking bottles of beer, Skipper throws at his thing and he's running and he gets a bite. They're all cheering and he starts pulling in the bite, pulling in the bite, pulling in the bite. And then all, it's coming above the edge of the boat, and then it's just a full clown. Wet. Dead. Holy shit! Skipper, that's... we caught a dead clown! Oh no! Somebody must have killed a clown and dumped his body in the river! Oh no! He made it out to the ocean! Skipper, what are we gonna do? That clown ain't dead! Dab-a-doo-la-ba-da-boo! What do you mean, Skipper? And then the clown's eyes snap open and his teeth bare and the screen goes to black. And then in big block text, it says, awww, clown. And then below it, it says, in parentheses, like jaws.

Yay!

Oh, okay, okay. Hold on, I didn't do my cast. It goes Adam Sandler, Scarlett Johansson, Heath Ledger's cousin, but we have the AI thing, so it's his little cousin, but he's gonna look like the Joker, basically. It says all of that. Selena Gomez, Samuel L. Jackson, Mel Gibson, and then Mel Gibson is crossed out. I'd be like, no, not Mel Gibson. It was Mel Gibson, but then we got Vin Diesel AI put over it, so it's- it's- Look, Mel Gibson was there. We fucked up. We shot the whole movie with Mel Gibson, then we realized people wouldn't like that. So now, it's Mel Gibson. And then, the next screen goes, and then it's all- you know how it's like very quickly, it shows all of the names, like the other people's names, like, oh wow, this movie's got a lot of people in it. It's just all the people from the American Pie movies. But you don't know their names. You see Jason Biggs and you're like, Jason Biggs, yeah. But the other ones go by so fast that you're like, do I actually know everyone's names? Sean William Scott, that's American Pie, right? Is that Stifler?

Yeah, yeah.

But it's fast, and then it's just like, theaters, this Halloween, yeah.

That's so fucking funny.

Tara Reid, I think, maybe? Tara Reid, yeah, she was in there too as well.

Is that what it says? Tara Reid, maybe?

She has a question mark because we can't remember if she's dead or if we did AI for her as well. We may have done, I don't know, we may have done Drew Barrymore. Yeah. Was she in Sharknado or something? That is correct. She was in Sharknado. This is all on the screen.

This is all on the screen. Now, fantastic job. Here's JPC. Here's the rug. Obviously, I want to give you 100 points because that was stellar, but the minute you bring Mel Gibson into the mix, immediately your points are halved. That's what the focus group said, and it's like, well, we already shot the movie. So you're at 50 points, but then you say one of my favorite things that's ever been said on the podcast, which is a full clown period, wet period, dead period.

Yeah, that was my favorite part as well. I want a t-shirt that says that.

A sentence like, a full clown, wet, dead, deserves an additional 50 points. So you're up to 100, but... Yes.

One baby shoe, never sold. What's that? One baby shoe!

What is it? Clown shoes for sale, never worn.

Oh yeah.

Hey, what's the story with one baby shoe? I know the classic tale, but what's going on with one?

Wait, is it just baby shoes for sale, never worn?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, okay, well that- your thing is as good as that.

Well, if it had the tagline, we're gonna need a bigger shoes. Yeah. I think full- so I'm gonna give you 99.

We're gonna need a bigger shoes!

I'm gonna give you 99 points.

All right, I'm ready to rap.

Man, dammit. I'm so sorry, we're out of time.

Oh no, I can't rap! Oh good!

And Erin, I think you knew that. I think that's why you... I've never heard you in seven episodes of Bleh Riddle Riddle. I've never heard you say, I'm ready to rap. I think you knew right at the time, which is why we're going to have you record a rap on your own. Send it to Casey and Casey will... Clowns are dead.

Clowns are wet. Clowns are scary. Wanna bet? Clowns are fun. So are you. Clowns are cool. They wear shoes.

And obviously Casey's going to slow that way down to embarrass you, but it was very fast and very tight. It was fast and tight. Fast and tight. Great job, Erin. Adal, hey, do we have enough time for just one riddle? Can we just hear one riddle, please?

Yes. We must have enough time for one riddle. Absolutely. You know what? I've had some, and I just... Okay, so here's one. Okay. What do you get if you cross a ghost with a detective? What do you get if you cross a ghost with a detective? Yeah, and we'll find out next year.

Oh, he did it.

He ding dong did it to us. Erin, you want to say... I feel like John Arbuckle at the vet's office right now.

I got switched. Die forever.

I hate cum days.

Oh no! Yes! No, no! Yes! I got my soundbite!

I got my soundbite! Wait, no! Yes! No! I'm running for president! I'm running for president!

Were we recording? Were we recording? Oh, we did a whole episode and he didn't say anything and then I got- I got cum days at the very end. Oh, that's making it- that's going- hold on, I gotta write this down. I hate cum days. What is this? I hate cum days. Hey there cakes and chandeliers, if you liked that, you are going to love this week's Patreon. We bring you some more improvised TED Talks. You can listen to that plus our entire back catalog at patreon.com slash heyriddleriddle by joining the clue crew for $5 a month or start your 7 day free trial or the review crew for $8 a month. Plus you get those ad free episodes. See you there.

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