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Whoa, guys, that recording was crazy. We played all sorts of characters, and my brain's like, we-whoa, we-whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I need to find a way to unwind. What to do, what to do, what to do.

Erin, you are not wrong. That last recording that we did for the podcast Hey Riddle Riddle was a doozy.

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Take it from, what is it, Kung Fu Shrimp? Hello, I'm Kung Fu Shrimp. Everyone, let's chop these boards.

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I spent the last hour or three hours or whatever in my yard collecting kind of ingredients for some potions. Okay. And so I thought a fun way to kind of start things off would be if everyone takes like a bunch of- You're so dirty.

It was only three hours outside? It wasn't like weeks or months?

Yeah, but in the yard. But in the yard, Erin.

Yeah, I know, but you look like you've been missing for, like, months.

You have tulips growing out of your scalp. It's all dirt out there. Oh.

Okay.

That's pretty impressive. It's November. I'm growing tulips? Come on. All right. Okay. Okay.

Fair enough. Something's working.

Yeah, you're right. So we all take just, like, several big gulps out of some of the potions I've made and kind of see what powers we get.

We can't say big gulps. 7-Eleven is litigious. What can we—uh, hmm. Huge. Superbowls.

In GBC. I hate to be this way. It's safe, right? This isn't just a bunch of like nonsense you found in the yard. It's not like lighter fluid from the grill and mud.

Oh, it's all natural. That's a great point. But I, because I want to be clear. You say it's safe, but I feel like it's a thing, right? That like nature can't hurt you?

Just because something's natural doesn't mean it's good for you, right? Like venomous spiders are natural. Okay, then why are we drinking it?

You didn't say good for you, you said safe. That's so different.

Okay, so I guess here in this vial you have, it just looks like a worm that you gave Mountain Dew to, for example.

Okay, well, so here's the thing. I gave Mountain Dew to a worm, but there's no Mountain Dew in the vial.

What am I doing? Yes, Anne. Gulp, gulp, gulp, gulp, gulp, gulp, gulp.

Erin, no. What power? What power? We don't know if it'll be a good power or a bad power, but we know that potions give you powers.

Okay, teeth are bleeding. Good start. Ears are bleeding. Eyes are bleeding. Butt is bleeding.

Can you fly though? Nope. Nope. Okay. So not polite.

But I'm invisible, huh?

Now we can see you. Yeah, we can see you. It's pretty bad.

It's bleeding pretty bad. It's real bad.

I'm going to try to go five seconds into the feature.

You wait. You wait on your powers because maybe it's like a slow burn. Adal, why don't you go one down and maybe see what kind of power we can get from you, my man. Okay.

I just got real sleepy.

Okay. I think your organs are shutting down.

Yeah, there goes the left lung and right lung.

It's like an apartment building where everyone's slowly turning off their lights to go to bed.

If you live, then go into a coma, but then wake up from it, that's kind of like time travel. That's kind of like a power.

Whoa.

So, okay, yeah.

Yeah, you go.

Because you don't age in a coma, right?

I don't think so. I'll see you guys tomorrow. You go. Where's the third vial?

I wanted my friends to have potions and powers, and I didn't make enough potion for myself to have any powers. I guess I solved some of the Mountain Dew I fed the worm. Okay, I have to go. Well, no, I don't have to go. I have to sit. I have to stay. I have to sit first still.

What if we did a quick episode of Hey Riddle Riddle, and then we did a field trip to the hospital?

Hello, can you hear me, my Mountain Dew X-Men? Butt bleed. Sleepo.

Oh God, wait, wait, wait, wait, are we workshopping names? Are we workshopping names?

Buttbleed, I'm sorry, I already made the uniforms. You can't be Sleepo. You can't be Sleepo. Casey Toney is very good at this. Oh, brother. Oh, yeah, I'm not taking Adal. I'm taking Casey Toney. Did I not make that clear?

That's why I'm so fucking confused. I'm going to be Dr. Mountain Dew.

That's my name. That's pretty good. Thank you. Better than Buttbleed. Fucking goddammit.

Something else that is pretty good is the podcast Hey Riddle Riddle. Hi, I'm JPC.

I'm Erin Keif, and I'm Erin Rifai.

I've never gone second before. Why did I go second, Adal?

I like you going second.

No, no, it makes more sense.

No, let's do that. JPC, run that by one more time.

Hey, speaking of butt bleeds, welcome to Hey Riddle Riddle. I'm JPC. I'm Erin Keif. And I'm Adal Rifai. Wow, that was fun. That was a little Erin sandwich.

I'm the meat.

We've passed all of this, but I do, in case you make a quick note, I'm going to be grabbing that for something I'll be doing on the Patreon in just a couple of weeks.

Speaking of butt bleed, did you guys see that Arby's has steak bites?

We talked about this on our road trip, Adal.

Have you tried them yet?

No, but JPC during our road trip was like, Arby's has steak bites. And I'm like, what are you saying? And he's like, they have steak bites.

No, I think they're called Steak Nuggets.

Steak Nuggets. And then I was curious and we saw an Arby's and GBC was correct, they had Steak Nuggets.

They had a big sign out that said Steak Nuggets are here.

You didn't order them?

You said, I'm not thinking Arby's?

We tried to, but all Arby's are Ghost Arby's, I guess? How do I say this?

Erin, if we're being honest, we saw an Arby's from the drive-thru of what I want to call a Mormon coffee place. We were out in Kansas, and I don't think that they have them here in Illinois, at least I have not seen them, but it was a drive-thru coffee place, I can't remember the name of it, it was like Zippy's or Shaggy's, something like that. But they had dirty sodas, which are like a soda with the trappings of a vanilla latte.

So they take a soda- It would be like Pepsi with pumpkin. Spice, whipped cream, plus whipped cream.

Well, so I have not watched this, but someone we talked to about this said that they were very big with Mormons and they're kind of spreading outward. We did not try it. We will, and before, just to cut it off at the head right here, we will not be doing dirty sodas on Review Crew. They don't have them in Illinois. They do not have, I don't, but do you know of a place that has them here in Chicago? I just don't know that they've made it this far out here.

No, but I think that we inconvenienced ourselves to an extreme degree and we all have to go to Utah for a review crew.

And I thought Mormons had to drink soda through a straw that was in a hole in a sheet.

That's, yes, 100% true.

That is true.

And Mormons can have many different sodas. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Mormon men. Yeah, right, right, right, right, right. And I think, if I'm being honest, I think they don't like Mormon anymore, right?

The term?

Aren't they all LDS?

Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?

Yeah, don't they want to be called Latter-day Saints?

Yeah, I guess the TR for Mormonism has not been fantastic, so maybe they're trying to pivot.

This is so snappy and cool.

Yeah, Mormon. Who do you think has the worst brand and just public perception? Scientology. You think it's Scientology? Scientology over Mormonism?

Absolutely brutal.

Yeah, I do think Scientology's brand is pretty bad, but I think Mormonism is not much but a little bit older than Scientology so they have like they have like a lot more like Like did Scientology ever exclude black people because like Mormons let black people into the church and like it was like impossibly late It was like 81 or something like that.

They were like, oh yeah, God just let us know that he changed his mind

But I don't think Scientology, as far as I know, they feel like they maybe didn't do that, but who knows?

You want to know what it is? I think why Scientology has it slightly worse is Mormons talk a lot about being Mormon. It's really like they talk about going to church and obviously there's these like super secret things inside their church, but they're like really open about it and it

They have missionaries, they proselytize.

They have missionaries. They talk about it on the TV shows that they're on. It doesn't feel like some sort of secret. It feels like other religions that way. In Scientology, you try to talk to a Scientologist about it, and they're like, am I a, huh? No, I actually never heard that word before. I'm unfamiliar. And that is obviously so much worse.

It's an alien word I heard in quite some time.

Yeah, door-to-door Scientologists being like, hey, can I interest you in, I don't know, I'll say like a pretty mid book about spaceships and stuff. It's not the best piece of science fiction, but if you've read everything else, L. Ron Hubbard stuff isn't bad to burn through some time.

Do we know what the L stood for? Loser!

This is some advice for you kids out there. Your faith can be personal and your spirituality can be personal. Your religion shouldn't be a secret or personal. If it is, you might be in a cult!

We talked about at some point opening up a church of riddles. That's right. Is that still something we're interested in doing?

And then we saw the future and we smashed cut to all of us being in prison for starting a horrible cult.

But Erin, you forgot about all the compounds and money we had before that.

Right. Yeah, those compounds and money.

Is it worth three to five years of living high on the hog?

Speaking of compounds, I actually have a couple more potions for you guys to try unless you would rather move on. You want to move on? Erin, you said what? Riddles. You said riddles. Don't act like a Scientologist with me right now.

Own up to it if you're going to do puzzles.

Maybe like a collection of not necessarily mammals, but like a wide spectrum of creatures kind of marching to a river. Oh, like an animal parade. A cheetah with a leopard skin.

A cheetah blowing out a birthday candle.

A mosquito on a motorbike. A duck with a comb over.

A bunny in a marching band.

Cheetah's back. What's up, man? Animal Parade!

Hey, Cheetah. You want to be on the episode? It's good to see you. We love how normal your head is. Can I do a red horse? Wait, what? Guys, I'm panicking. Say something to Cheetah. I love meeting someone and going, oh, I love how normal your head is. I do that to Lou sometimes when she comes in the room and it feels awkward. I go, hey, normal head. It's not shaped like a peanut at all. How are you?

What everyone working with John Cena has to say. Hey normal head.

Okay, we have an animal parade and this one I love because it is submitted, I don't want to say five years ago, but it was over five years ago, but it was from Nolan and Nola. That's fun. It's fun when your name kind of matches the place that you're with except for an extra N.

It is fun.

If my name was Nindianapolis, that'd be fun, right?

Yeah, if my name was Anne Faye, Anta Faye, come back to me.

If my name was... Come back to me. Skip.

My name was Anne Diego? This one is called, this article from Orlando Weekly from 2020. This one says, Florida's invasive herpes monkeys can now be found from Jacksonville to Tampa.

Hold on. Hold on.

Silver Spring State Park has been home to a large troop of invasive STD-carrying monkeys for almost a century, but now sightings are becoming more frequent in Florida cities hundreds of miles from the park. According to a new report from First Coast News, the population of rhesus macaques, um... Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

I think we just need to let this wash over us, Adal. I think we deserve this kind of joy, and I think instead of fighting it, let's just give in.

It sounds like the comeback of a seven-year-old of like, do you want some Reese's? And the kid's like, Reese's is my co- And the whole lunch table is like, yeah!

Like, you got chocolate in my penis butter? Reese's Pecaux's? You know what I'm saying? has expanded considerably over the years and the monkeys are now being spotted in northern cities like St. John, St. Augustine, Palatka, Wallachia, and Elkton, and as far south as Apopka and Tampa.

Thanks for watching.

It was called Colonel Tooey's Jungle Cruise in the 1930s. And a survey performed in 2018 found that Silver Springs Troop now consists of roughly 300 monkeys and 25% of that population carries herpes.

Can someone check Colonel Tooey for STDs?

Oh, interesting. Yeah, Colonel Tooey probably wasn't the name of a monkey. It was probably the man who ran the cruise.

Yeah, can we check his... Can we check his hard drives?

Yeah.

Herpes B. which, while extremely rare in humans, can cause brain damage or even death if not treated immediately. So I think we know what Colonel Tooey died of.

No. Not you too, Colonel Tooey.

Monkeys tore him apart.

Jealous monkeys. And then it finishes here by saying, the report states that efforts to control the rhesus macaque's population ceased in 2012, but a feeding ban was put in place by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in 2017. Doing a quick Google to see, okay, a regulatory body in Florida that is now dead. The FWC reported 43 incidents of human injuries between 1977 and 1984, but has not kept record since. Wow, that sounds like Florida. Hey, let's stop keeping records of the disease, monkeys.

I do want to scream a scene.

Oh, we all want to see a scene, Adal.

I'd like to see a scene. Erin, you are a rhesus macaque monkey, and you found out you have an STD, and you're calling your past partners.

Great. Don't pick up. Don't pick up. Don't pick up. Don't pick up. Don't pick up.

Colonel Tooey.

Scene.

I would like to see another scene.

Okay, sure. JPC, you are one of these STD monkeys and you're at a bar in Tampa and Adal, you actually like know about his reputation when he's like trying to pick you up and you're kind of putting him in his place.

Can I get a banana martini, please? Thank you.

Yep.

Let me get that. Huh? Jake, let me get that.

Uh, okay.

Yeah, a beautiful lady like you shouldn't be paying for her own banana martini. Let me, please, put on my tab, Jake.

Jake, I'll be, uh, dude, you gotta pay in money this time.

Oh, yeah, yeah. No. Yeah, put on my tab. Yeah, I'm good for it. I'm good for it. Okay, whatever, man. I'm good for a lot of things, pretty lady.

Oh. Jake as in Greasy Jake? Are you Greasy Jake?

So, I wasn't saying my own name, I was talking to Jake the bartender.

Wait, what are people calling me?

Nothing, nothing, doesn't matter, doesn't matter. What's your name?

Oh my god! I knew it, I knew it, I knew it, I knew it.

Take a shower. Take one shower and we will stop.

You don't think I've tried?

I don't think so. No, I don't think you've tried. Crazy Jake, are you telling me you are a daily showerer?

I'll be in the back if anyone needs anything.

There's no shower back there so there's... My name's Saltines. What's your name?

Saltines! It's a pleasure to meet you. My name is Mr. Banana Pop. Oh no. Oh, so you've heard of me. Oh no, I have to go. I need to go. Greasy Jake just left. We have this whole bottle to ourselves. I can kind of reach my prehensile tail over the bar and grab whatever bottle you like.

Bottle smashes on the ground.

Okay, so I can only lift like half a pound. These bottles are heavy. These are handles. You said your name was Saltine.

Yeah, forget I said that. Have a good night.

I'm about to have a good night if maybe I could talk to you for a little while.

Do these names sound familiar? Sarah, Lil Lisa, Melinda Bonkers. These are all of my friends who have slept with you. on the show. I think, um, throw us the martini in your face.

Gulp. Let me ask you a question. He caught that in one... I've had a lot of drinks thrown in my face. That was unbelievable. I've had a lot of practice. Oh no, don't be impressed, Saltines, don't be impressed. Saltines, have you ever had every grain of salt licked off your cracker, if you know what I'm saying? I don't know.

We cut to them in bed the next morning.

Oh my god, I hate myself.

I guess I probably should have said at the bar, but I have an STD.

You piece of shit.

Oh, let me finish. First drink in your face. Gulp. A saltine-tasting deficiency, because I gotta get a little more saltine. No, but I do have a monkey disease. Which is not okay. You should never tell people after the fact.

You always have to disclose- No, tell them whenever!

Tell them whenever. Tell them whenever. Whenever you get to it. We did an animal parade because I'm very excited to be- Recently, we went to a few places. We went to Atlanta, Nashville, and Denver for like a week-long leg of our tour. And in, I want to say, one of those places, someone handed me some riddles that they had made, and they say that they really enjoyed the Animal Parade segment, which inspired them to write puzzles based on Animal Parade. So these are kind of Animal Parade puzzles, and shout out to Zoe Foley, who gave us permission to use the full name, who gave us these riddles. Here's the instructions. In an animal parade, each animal has an item that fits a certain rule. But on their way to the parade, three animals got lost and forgot what they were supposed to bring. Based on the first four animals in the parade, figure out the rule and match up the three lost animals with their three lost items. Oh, interesting.

Oh, fun. Okay. Do we need a pen and paper for this or anything?

I don't think you'll need it. Okay. Here's your example. A llama with a coma, an antelope with a cantaloupe, A manatee with a vanity and a pheasant with a present.

I think I get it.

So your lost animals are cheetah, gecko, and rabbit. What are their lost items?

A cheetah with pants that have a pleata. What were the other two?

That's a big stretch. Cheetah, gecko, and rabbit.

A rabbit with a habit. Okay, got it. Rabbit with a habit. Absolutely.

A gecko with a... Cell phone?

So you guys, you guys are using some slant rhymes here.

Gecko with a echo.

Erin, a gecko with an echo. Cheetah, you didn't get, Adal, it wasn't a pleetah. It's a full word, not a... Not like an A. There's no A or article in front of it.

A cheetah dating Sia.

I will say that cheetah, cheetah is spelled C-H.

Waddy boys, don't get hurt.

It's very funny to see Riley walk in the background, Erin, because he was bending down. You don't need this knee. He thought the top of him wouldn't be...

You bending down when we can see your full body is so funny, dude. It's awesome.

So, cheetah is spelled C-H-E-E-T-A-H, and the word that it's rhyming with is spelled nothing like it.

Oh, um, cheetah. Cheetah. But it sounds just like it.

Cheetah with... Mita. Erin, it's not Mita, but it is food.

Ooh, cheetah with a... Cheeto. Cheetah with, um... Uh, let's see. Cheetah with feta.

Adal, you have the right nationality. Greek. Yes.

Cheetah with Spanakoupides. Cheetah with Zeta.

Pita. Cheetah with Pita. It is Cheetah with Pita.

I'm so glad that you got... I could be the character from Hunger Games. You got Theta, which doesn't rhyme, but it was the right, like, you were so close with Theta. Baby steps. Yeah, it's baby steps.

Good thing we did such a good job on the example one. That came really naturally to us. It's going to be easy.

The clue there was that the animal names rhyme with their items, okay? But that will not always be the case. That was just the case for that one. Okay.

Ready for your second one?

Yes.

Okay. A goat in a toga, a flea with a leaf, a horse on the shore, and a snail with some nails.

Okay, I get the pattern. Okay, you want to solve the pattern? Because you have to solve both things.

The pattern is whatever they have is a rearranging of the letters in the name of the animal. Correct. There's an anagram of their items.

I'm trying to think what mine would be.

And Erin with a rhine.

Yeah.

Oh! Your lost animals are a hornet, a parrot, and a serpent.

A hornet with a... Ron-het. With the Ronettes. A hornet singing with the Ronettes.

I have to write this out, I think.

It was parrot, hornet, and what was the last one?

Parrot, hornet, and serpent. Which is funny because I feel like they, for the parade, you could have used parrot, hornet, and serpent as items and then been like goat, like a four-letter one to get the answer to, but now you have to do six-letter answers. So there's six-letter anagrams of these things. Hornet, parrot, and serpent.

Ugh, this is hard. I don't want to think.

Yeah.

A hornet with a throne? On a throne?

Hornet with a throne. Hornet with a throne.

Okay.

You got that one. Um... Erin, did you know that you would be thinking this morning? No, I, uh... To... Because, not to give too much of a peek behind the curtain, but you forgot that we were recording.

No, got the wrong time.

Got the wrong time. We tried calling you, phone was off.

On to your sister.

We called Riley.

Yes.

Or, I'm sorry, texted Riley. Riley was like, she'll be there in one minute.

Yes. Lou has been bleeding out of her butt.

Okay. Everyone does that.

Okay. Wait a minute. What potions have you been drinking?

We've all been drinking the same potions. I mean, let's be honest. We've all been enjoying the potions.

Why am I rot?

GPC, I'd like to solve for the last two. Please. Is it a parrot on a raptor?

A parrot on a raptor?

And a serpent with a present?

And a serpent with a present! That makes sense. Three out of three. You also nailed the anagram part. Erin didn't really nail any of it. But Erin, maybe you'll do better on this next one. Here you go. Ready for parade number two?

I am.

Oh yes. And can I just say, Zoe, these are fantastic.

An emu with an instrument.

Okay.

An elk with a pickle. A new with a plunger. Welcome back.

These are all three-letter animals that the three letters appear somewhere in the word, right?

Not only do they appear somewhere in the word, but they appear in a certain order that's not like the order... Backwards, but they appear backwards. Emu with an instrument, elk with a pickle, new with a plunger, new is G-N-U, with a plunger, and dog with a pagoda. All of those are examples of the letters being inverted and appearing backwards. So, bat, cat, and rat are your guesses.

A bat with a tab.

I mean, bat with tab just works, because that's just tab, bat spelled backwards. But if you can put tab, is there a way to put tab into a word? I'll give you a hint. Tabernacle choir. Yeah, that could work. I don't see why not. So I'll give it to you. The one that Zoe had was Database. Oh, nice.

Can I see a quick scene? Sure. Adal, you are a new, who is my plumber, and you're working on the bathroom at my house. And JPC, you'll be my husband, and you'll be like, why is there an animal fixing our bathroom?

Yeah, so I'm just gonna use the, I have sort of a, what we call like a pipe snake, and that's gonna pull out any hair or debris that might have gotten flushed down here.

Amazing, I'm so sorry. I'm sorry if this is also like beneath your expertise and it's just... No, no, no, no, no. Yeah, thank you so much. And we'll definitely get a better cover for that, yeah. And let me know if you need anything like water, tea or something.

Oh yeah, do you just mind doing the thing that I described with the pipe snake? Do you mind doing it? Because I don't have hands.

Yeah, I will grab you a water really quick.

Hey, how's it going in there? I didn't want to interrupt.

Good. He just was complaining about not having hands. What? I think he'll be done soon.

The plumber that you heard?

Yeah, I think he'll be fine. He's a professional.

Okay.

I don't want to be- Honey, you didn't want to do this. You said, I'm too busy to call the plumber.

No, for sure. And I just don't know kind of how I don't have the tools. I don't want to be ableist, but you said he doesn't have hands, but he has, he has- Like hooves.

That's the best way to describe him. But I just don't, let's not do this whole song and dance where you complain. You, if you don't want to fix something in our house and I bring someone in to fix it- That's a wildebeest.

I just took a peek. That's a wildebeest in there.

Do you guys have any short grass?

on the show. We're hosting a party in three weeks.

It's a hair clog. Are you having a party? I'm in a cover band, New Found Glory, but new spelled GNU.

Oh, I love that. Yeah, well, I'll grab your card for you before you leave.

Hell yeah. Yeah, I think we should book that. That sounds fucking actually fucking awesome.

Yeah, OK.

But baby, baby, look. What? I love you, but it's a hair clog. And that, Will DeBese is one of the hairiest motherfuckers I've ever seen in my life. I don't think he's going to help.

He's not going to shower in our shower.

I'm Isn't spirit a good rule? But it feels like maybe you're pushing that rule too far in a way that makes a wildebeest that's now taking a shower in our clogged shower.

I would think you'd sing New Found Glory, right? Not Sia? You don't think he knows a New Found Glory song? I couldn't think of a single New Found Glory song. I know the name. I know, I know Taking Back Thursday, I know Spitting for Wednesday or whatever it's called.

You're thinking about Thursday and Taking Back Sunday, two completely different bands.

I know Thrice, I know Pennywise, I don't know a single song, any of those.

Lagwagon.

Taking Back Sunday. Goldfinger for sure. Thursday.

Alright, hey look, let's do one more, let's do one more and then we're gonna take a break, okay? Fine. Wait, hold on. Oh, we didn't finish this one. Let's finish this one.

A cat with a tactile... Tic-tac-toe.

Okay.

Love that.

If we get one that works, does it even matter if we get the right one? Yeah.

Rat with a tarp. Done.

I think you did. Tactile will work. And Erin, don't say we like you helped.

I am here. I'm doing that thing where like when you help lift something and then you go over to help and they didn't really need you.

Yeah, the ones that Zoe had for cat was mustache and for rat was a rat with a guitar.

I mean, those are much better than what we had.

But you're right. If you get one, you should be allowed to move on. And I do accept that you two are both allowed to move on. And so now we must move on. And maybe we'll do some of Zoe's animal prey diagrams a little later. But now we must move on to a break.

Okay, GPC, open it, open it. Just as a heads up, it is a gift for me that I just want you to open for me.

And it's in this lion's mouth?

Yes, and.

Okay.

Adal, huh? Pretty good?

Opening the jaws of the lion. My sweater!

It's my new quint sweater.

It's covered in lion inside.

Yeah, but it's $50 and it's cashmere.

Oh, well, you actually got a pretty good price on the sweater.

I know. I love quints. I recently got some curtains and a rug from there. And I point to two other animals that have eaten my curtain and rugs that you need to fight to get them back for me. I love quints.

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Well guys, I built us a sandbox to play in. Sandy's not here, just built a sandbox, a nice square sandbox so we can go ahead and build some castles, play pretend, whatever.

Would it be okay, Adal, and you can say no, can I use this square space that you built as a all-in-one website platform designed to help me stand out and succeed online so I can kind of use this to build my own website? Is that okay with you?

Chief, you see, the sandbox is for pretend. What you described is an actual thing. It's called Squarespace.

So it's not a litter box. It's not a litter box?

Uh oh.

That's fine. That's fine. I'll make a call. I'll make a call. Keep going.

Make one for me. And make one for me. And make one for me.

I got it. I saw it. I saw it. I'm making. I'm making.

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Drop kicks my ball down the street.

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Hey Riddle Riddle.

Hey, hey guys, I got a riddle for you.

Oh, okay, yeah. You're not Old Man Puzzles, but I guess, yeah, whatever.

Why is sand the best thing to have on a improv and riddle podcast?

Why is sand the best thing? Well, it's gonna get everywhere.

It's spelled S-and. Yes, and. You like that?

You know what, I was working on a version of that myself, so thank you, Erin. Oh my god! What the fuck?

Yeah, but guys, Sandy's here. Sorry, I invited Sandy over for dinner.

And Sandy, when you say you're working on a version of that yourself, what?

I would notice that I'm on an improv podcast, I've been here about a couple dozen times, and I've never mentioned that my name is one letter off from Yes And. Well, two letters off. No. Well, because you're using the Y and the E. Well, but his name is Sandy.

He's putting the Y, if his name was a circle, the Y. Yeah, but names aren't circles.

But mine is.

But if they were.

That's what I'm trying to say. Well, I mean, someone's name could be Circle. I mean, Circle is a first name. It's in the Bible. What?

Okay, hold on. Circle gets the square. That's a biblical passage. If you take away four of the letters of my last name, then you get yes and. And you treated it like a circle. It's not a big F. Names have been through worse.

I love that we had an opportunity to do yes and with this and we decided not to.

We decided not to, no. No.

Okay, fun. Okay, cool. Sandy, thank you so much for coming back. It's great to be here. You've been here for eight years.

Sandy's a nickname though. I mean, that's not his real first name.

Oh my God, yes and.

Speaking of Ian, you've got Orr. You've got Orr in your first name.

Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. The great thing about my full name is there's Orr there as well. Yeah. So it's Improv 2.0. You can, yes and, or, yes or. And no, isn't it? No, isn't it? Yes, yeah. Sandor. Sandor. Yeah, N-O.

Yeah, N-O's in there. Yeah, if names are a circle, Sandy, hoist it by your own petard, I guess.

I just like keeping these petards around. Make it so. Yes, there it is. Captain Kirk.

Alright, we gotta do something.

Sandy, welcome back to the show. Thank you. How have you guys been? Erin has not been really well.

What's that answer for each other?

Pretty bad. I'm okay.

Yeah. How have you been? Oh, I've been great. Been still working on this rattle project, this word game that I have. It's been going great. It's awesome. It's so fun. Up to, I don't know, like 8,000 people a day who play it.

That's crazy.

Yeah, and we're up to maybe around 250 of them so far. 8,000 people a day and we've done 250 of them.

Oh, so you're like using their names and stuff like... Oh, I've done 250 of them.

Yes, that's what I meant. Yes, yes. I'm anding you.

Yeah, yes. Sandy is using his rattle project to fuck the people that are doing it. So, and then he's keeping track. So, pretty high body count for Sandy, I have to say.

Is this the press you wanted? Get, get her done. That's what I was told. So anyway, that's mostly most of what my attention has been spent on is, is making these rattles work and people seem to enjoy it. And I thought I would try to bring a version of that to you guys today. A little, hey, rattle rattle. Ooh, I love it.

So the way

The way Rattle works, of course, is that you get a series of clues out of order that you have to apply to each step of this word transformation ladder. That's a little hard to do in audio form. So instead of giving you a bunch of clues, I just came up with a more direct version of word transformations. So here's the way it's going to work. I'm going to give you a starting word, and I'm going to tell you to change one letter in that word to a full word. So you're going to like change a letter in the word to another set of letters, and then I'll tell you what the result will be. So for example, if I said the starting word is glee, and I want you to change one letter in it to a grain, and the answer will be a kind of facial hair. So you would change a letter in Glee to replace it with the name of a grain. In this case it would be Oat. And then Goatee. And then you get Goatee.

Fun! Okay, fun.

Does that sound good?

Yeah, I'm going to be really bad at this. Let's do it.

I think you'll be great. I think I have no idea how it's going to be. Let's find out. The starting word, the first word is decoy and you want to change one letter in decoy to a licker and the result will be a word that means good behavior or describes good behavior. I'm gonna say gin is probably the liquor we're changing it to. It's gotta be gin. Not gin.

It's got... Sandy? Sandy, I love you. Christ, I love you, brother, but it's gotta be gin.

You know? It's rum, yeah.

Okay. Decoy, we're changing one letter to rum. Rummicoy. Durumoy! Um...

In the middle of that, JPC, you suggested, I think, rummikoy?

I think, Adal, did you say Rummikoy?

I said Rummikoy, but we sounded so much the same. Right. Except I can actually see you and I could tell who's talking. So Rummikoy, I'm going to write that down for an idea to use later. Okay, just make sure I get credit for it because he thought I said it. But I said it.

But he thought.

Well, let's move on to the next one. The word is the name Brian. Okay. And you want to change one letter to a zodiac sign, and the answer will be a profession.

But here's the thing. You can spell Brian like two different ways. Okay, put it with an I. Okay.

Leo in librarian, and I haven't thought about it.

You know what? You're half right.

How?

How? But also, Erin. Libra.

Oh, Libra in librarian.

That makes way more sense. Libra, there we go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I knew something was there. Leo would be a Leorian, which may be something for all I know.

Leorian sounds like a profession in like a D&D world.

Totally, yeah. I'm so tickled by Erin getting it right but using the wrong side. Using the wrong side, yeah. Or a Scorpiorian. That's what I am.

You're a Scorpio?

I'm a Scorpio, yeah.

I'm a Scorpio too!

Hell yeah. Whoa. Cool. What does that mean?

It means we're mysterious and loyal. No, Sandy could have an October birthday.

Oh, are you an October Scorpio, Sandy? No, I'm in November. Oh, okay, good. Shame on you if you're not going to respond.

What's the day of your birthday?

13th.

Oh, I'm the 10th. Amazing. We should have a joint birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese.

Sandy, does your birthday ever fall on a Friday? Absolutely. No, somehow, in all the years I've been living, they've chosen not to do it.

Yeah, I loved it.

In fact, for one year when I was, I want to say 10, we rented a spooky house on a farm and watched horror movies. Pretty good. What about this for a rule?

So Halloween is always the same day every year, right? It's the 31st? 30th? What is it?

31st.

31st, we know. I think if there is a Friday the 13th, also in October, we should do double Halloween that year. Oh, I love that. I think there should be Halloween on Friday the 13th.

Was Friday the 13th a thing before the movie or did they make that up as a scary thing? I think it was before the movie, I think it was just like a day to be cautious.

What is it when the guy who knows more than anything that you'll ever know, I mean this is the guy that knows all of the stuff and now he's asking me a question about what is going on with some stuff? That's insane, right? Does anyone else feel insane when the smart guy asks you a question?

I don't know all the stuff. I just like asking questions about all the stuff.

That's even worse!

And here's my reasoning behind saying that it was a thing before the movie, is because if it wasn't, that's insane to be like, let's just trust that people are going to go see a movie that's a date. Well, yes, counterpoint though, there's a lot of stuff in our culture that is actually ascribed to just a movie that came up with it, and we forget about it. Like, for example, the idea of a bucket list did not exist before that dumb movie, Bucket List, came out. That's crazy. Is that real? Is that actually real? They made that up. Yeah. And now we all use it as a common term. Or like the idea of saying you're toast to mean you're done. Do you know where that comes from? That is something that Bill Murray made up in the movie Ghostbusters in 1984. That was not an expression before that. And now we don't even think it has an origin. Yeah, the idea of saying you're toast. Same with having a heart attack. Bill Murray was like, I smell toast. And they're like, what? And they had a heart attack. That's right. That did not exist. Came from the movies.

One of the better improvisers. That is so fucking wild that the bucket list thing is really throwing me because that feels like an inconsequential movie that has made a huge impact.

They didn't come up with the term kick the bucket. And Rachel Dratch, people forget that Rachel Dratch created Debbie Downer

We'll see you Certainly possible, it's just not as interesting, I think, as replacing it with for. Okay. I've said that right to my face. I'm not as interesting.

Take the note.

How about porker? So here's the word porker. Replace one letter with an animal to get a colleague.

Hmm. Hmm.

Poor pigger.

Poor pigger. Poor pigger.

Poor poor pigger.

We'll replace one word with an animal to get a companion, is that what you said? A co-worker. Oh, I gave you the answer, god damn it.

Oh, it's co-worker.

Oh, it's cow. Is it cow? A cow-worker. It's a cow-worker. I'm back in black and there was okay so the clue was back in blank and he and blank the answer or the question i guess was what is black right and but he said back in black probably because black and blank are so close together that his oh yeah he did a little slip anyway i hope he got punished let's see the scene Thank you, Sandy. I'd like to see a scene. Erin and JPC, you two are coworkers, two cows who work at the office. And this is a day at work right after one of the famous office parties.

Oh, Moo, I am hungover.

Me too.

Hey, did you see that we got a notification on Slack that we have an all-hands HR meeting today?

I had an all hooves on my calendar.

Oh, are you sorry? I misread it. I'm a classic. I'm one of those Ken Jennings types. All hooves meeting.

Uh, yeah. Okay. Yeah, I saw an all hooves. Uh, you don't think it's, you don't think it's about like the party, right? I mean, it was, I felt like it was pretty tame.

I mean, we were, I don't know. I'm a little worried.

What did we do? I mean, I guess we played pin the tail on the donkey. Um, I don't think, uh, yeah, with the donkey and accounting. Maybe she didn't love that.

We, yeah. Yeah.

We scan across the, um, the cubicles and we see that there's Xeroxes of udders and condoms filled with milk. Tied off.

Um.

I mean, what else? I mean, what else could it be? Uh.

I just, I feel like, I mean, how many strikes do you have right now?

How many strikes do I have?

Yeah.

Um, four, maybe five?

Yeah, I feel like we could be sent to the butcher today. I'm just having that like kind of sinking feeling and maybe it's anxiety. And maybe it's anxiety. But like, we were- Are you saying hangxiety? Yeah, like hangover and anxiety.

Like hunger and anxiety?

No, like hangover and anxiety.

Hangover and anxiety. Okay, got it. I'm only familiar with hangry, which is hunger and angry. Sure.

Well, let's just, like, we'll focus on taking care of ourselves. Wait a second. Wait a second.

Hold on. Hold on. Oh, my God.

What?

Look around the office. What? Xeroxes of udders, condoms full of milk.

Oh, my God.

One of the goats must have gotten so wasted at the party.

Erin, you might have just invented anxiety.

Did I? I thought that was a common term. But history will say it was me. History will say I'm the Bill Murray of the Hey Riddle Riddle podcast. I'm ready for some more.

Let's do another one. All right. How about the word row? R-O-W. Replace one letter with a state to get a part of a salad.

Rhode Island salad.

Love those local commercials. Replace one letter with a state to get a type of salad. Okay.

A type of salad.

That's part of a leaf of the salad.

That is the leaf. It is the main part of the salad.

How about the word bean, speaking of salads, B-E-A-N. Replace one letter with a cereal to get a woman's name.

One letter of bean with a cereal to get a woman's name. Cheerio-ing.

Cookie Crisp.

Bee Golden Grads.

Bee Captain Crunch Bean. Captain Crunch Bean. Sandy, are you mad at us? Yes. No, you're doing exactly what I wanted. Okay, so I'm writing to my hand. Life is a cereal. I'm trying to think of shorter cereal names. Kix? It's not Kix, but think short, yeah. Short, short. Kix, Life. So like Eileen would be a name, is there a cereal called that?

But bean, een, so it's replacing bean, so is there a cereal that ends in een, maybe? Or Trix, Beatrix. Bingo. Beatrix. Beatrix is for kids.

She's a babysitter. Is Beatrix, would you say an old-fashioned name? Beatrix Potter, yeah.

Yeah, I think so.

Yeah, okay, cool. I think one of the princesses or queens of the Netherlands is named Beatrix, but... It's always fun for me to stumble into Oh, that's where we get this shortening. So I think I'm just realizing now that Trixie was probably a nickname for anyone named Beatrix. Who wants to use that? Oh, yeah. Or like Beatrix Arthur. Yeah, probably. I learned that Tilda Swinton's full name is Matilda. It's like a Topher Grace situation. She's the last. Okay.

Huh?

Topher is just short for Christopher.

I was at the zoo the other day and I was like kind of walking slowly because I was with my kid but I was walking behind these two. They were probably like in their 70s or 80s older women who were also walking very slowly and they were having a discussion about like Welcome back to They were just running through a list of people that I'm like, these are just like names that are like on the verge of leaving the planet. Although now old names are coming back. I feel like... Yeah.

Yeah. We encountered that when we named our kids, like we were looking through all the obviously names in that were coming up in popularity. And they're all a lot of them are names that were really, really antiquated for a long time, but were popular like 100 years previous. And then my wife tells a story about her grandma, who's named Ruth, but they wanted to name her Rebecca. This is back in the 20s probably. And everyone was like, that's such an old-fashioned name. Do something modern like Ruth. I've mentioned it before, but my great-grandma's name was Fern. I love that name. Which I think is just such a wild… Such a wild swing for a parent to take. Like, this baby's going to be a fern. Right, right. Hell yeah. Isn't fern in Charlotte's Web? Isn't that the name of the girl? Yeah, you're thinking of where the red fern grows.

You're thinking of fern gully.

Oh, that's right. I'm always thinking about fern gully.

That's my secret. Well, fern is also short, Adal. It's a nickname. The full name is fernacular, which is part of language.

Someone should pull the plug on this podcast.

Sandy, did you do the thing when you named your kids where you named them after like relatives, but just with the first letter of their name?

Okay, well.

Okay, and we'll move on. And that's an edit point. And Casey, just mark that as an edit point because Sandy can't get into, well, Jewish heaven, what is that? I guess you messed up.

The answer is yes and no. I didn't love the idea of doing just the first letter. So uh you did a rattle you did a rattle on your kids names you did a baby rattle i did a puzzle on my kids names it's true so my my son's that's true my son's name is Ezra and uh my wife wanted uh wanted that name And I was like, okay. It was kind of gaining a popularity, which I didn't really love, and it's gained even more in the last 15 years. For sure. But then I realized that we could make it an acronym based off of four of our, well, I guess three of his great-grandparents. So the E, the Z, the R all stand for our grandparents. And then his middle name is Stanley, which is another grandparent.

Okay, so you kind of did it. You kind of did your little puzzle stuff. I thought you were going to say, you picked a name and your wife was like, I want something better. And you were like, better than Ezra? And she's like, that's it.

That's the ticket.

It's if that joke, as you can imagine, lives in the subconsciousness and like in the in the like the current of our family discussions there. So but it's we only pull it out like once or twice a year. Can't overuse it. We can't overuse it. But it is a very, very good one to go to. What's one better than this song? All songs are better than. Oh, I don't know. I truly don't know a better than this. I don't know. Oh, please. But we also have a dog named Cleo, and so we've made letters to Cleo jokes, too.

Wow. I think a better than Ezra song is that one that's like, I think that's a better than Ezra song.

Good.

Yes, it's called good.

Want some more puzzles?

Yes. No, we could do that for a little while.

Let's do some puzzles. All right, take the word sting. Change one letter to a color and you'll get something done at a baseball game. Blunting, um, blue... Bun, I guess, is a color, but it's not the one I'm thinking of. Cinnamon bun brown.

Sandy, don't give me bun, I guess, as a color. I should go to jail for that.

Actually, cinnamon bun brown might be my new teenage detective. Cinnamon bun brown.

Don't worry, cinnamon bun brown is on the case. All dessert related mysteries.

Okay, that's actually rules. That actually is incredible. Alright, sting and you change one letter and it's something you do at a baseball game or you see at a baseball game?

I would say the phrasing would be, something done at a baseball, you don't do it, no, the players do it. Something done at a baseball game.

Swinging.

Is wing a color? Switing. Switing. Switing.

So yeah, you do swing, but it's sting, so it's S something I N G, I think is it. That's right.

Just go through all the colors, how many could there be?

64?

Soaringing. Yellowing.

Red, green.

Not in the rainbow. Speaking. Not in the rainbow. Pink. Tan. Standing.

Turquoise.

Speaking. I think. Might be something in baseball.

Speaking. Speaking. No. Speaking. I'd like to solve the puzzle. I'd like to say spinking, Ken. And Ken, I... This sucks, but... I'm Pat Sajak.

No, you're Ryan Seacrest now, right?

Oh, sadly. Sadly, Ryan Seacrest got another job opportunity. Has anyone said spinking yet?

No one in the history of the human race has said it. But now we've said it twice. I'm naming my child Spanking. Grace Gregging. Spanking, that's kind of an old-timey name. Splacking. Boy, oh boy. I don't know. Sandy, can we get a little hint? This is tough. I mean, there's not many things you can do in a baseball game. You can hit. Oh, thank you. You can throw. Catch. Catch. Strike. Catch. You can run. Catch. Catch. You can walk.

You can... Stealing? Teal! Teal!

Teal!

Wow, nice one, Jabes. Stealing.

I said turquoise and not teal. So, bad day for me.

Sandy, I have a question. Once again, I have been given more evidence than operating sports into this milieu.

And this is something that you said earlier when you said there were 64- Spinking? Spinking. And I have a question. Spinking? You said there were 64 colors. Is that how many colors there are? Or are we talking just box of crayon? Crayon.

I'm from Indiana.

So am I. Yeah, there's 64. Name one more. Name a 65th. You can't do it. Burrup Sienna. Peach. Spinking. Cinnamon Bun skin tone. Dude. All right, here's another one. Now they're going to get a little trickier.

Wait, Sandy, you're from Indiana?

Yes.

Where in Indiana are you from?

Carmel, Indiana.

Yeah, it's huge.

I think it's actually now the biggest or one of the biggest by population in the country.

Yeah, it truly is. Carmel High is humongous, but a lot of people who live in Carmel go to, and I want to throw this out there, private school.

Park Tudor.

You can go to Park Tudor, you can go to Cathedral.

I went to Park Tudor for my freshman year of high school.

You could have gone to Cathedral of Sanity, we welcomed Jewish people, we had one.

Or Barbof, Barbof had Jews.

Or Barbof! Any Jesuit, you pick a Jesuit, you could attend their school.

Okay, I know, I know. I lived pretty close to Barbof too, but I went to Carmel. Yeah, was assistant editor of the yearbook, The Pinnacle. Had a great time, eventually.

Did Carmel, at the point when you were there, did they have an editorium?

Oh, I don't, I think so. It was so big.

It was so big. It could have been added later. I remember I had a cousin that went to carnival and they were talking to me one time about the like Olympic swimming pool that they had at their high school. And I was like, wait, what is this?

I go to a nice high school.

You have a swimming pool? They went to, they won all the state championships every year. Which high school did you go to? Cathedral. Oh, you did. Okay. Catholic. I learned that the other big high school on the north side was North Central. And this new movie, one battle after another, has a new star named Chase Infinity, who lives in Chicago. She went to North Central. She grew up in Indianapolis.

Oh damn, I would have gone to North Central if I had not gone to private school. And I will also say that Chase Infinity is the most made-up movie star name I've ever heard.

It's her real name. It's her real middle name. Yeah, it's her first name and middle name.

Yeah, I feel like that's close enough to a made-up movie star name if you throw the middle name as the last name.

Yeah, love this JPC. Go after that kid. Love that.

They're 25. They're not a kid. They are 25.

She is named after a character that Nicole Kidman played in Batman Forever. Chase Meridian. Oh, cool. And the word infinity. But yeah. Okay. Are you on another puzzle? Yes. Yes, please. All right, change a letter in the word piper to a number and you'll get a word that means a trailblazer. Hmm. Piper to a number. Number spelled out, yeah.

And how many numbers could there possibly be?

64.

16 tops.

And what do we get when we change a letter to a number?

A trailblazer.

A trailblazer. Is this a sports thing? No, it's not a sports thing. Rock road. Oh, I see what you mean. No, no, no, no. Pithreeper. Pithreeper. Pithreeper, no.

No, it's not it. Um, okay. Uh... Pi... Pipe-a-five.

This is tricky because the pronunciation of this word changes when you insert it. Oh, nine? Pi-a-nine-ear? Pi-a-near? Pi-a-niner? Pi-a-niner. You're there, just what's the number? One. Is it not nine? Pi-o-near.

It's pi-o-near. Oh, of course. Whoa. Oh, that's a absolute mindfuck. Yeah.

Well, Sandy, you've fucked our minds so much this this episode. Can we have one more just to really finish fucking them?

Let's go. Let's let's let's finish that. Yes. How about the word stem? Change one letter to a skin ailment and you'll get a late show host. Ooh, this is fun. Seth Meyers.

It's... Rash. Okay. Carson, Johnny Carson. Carcinogen.

Johnny Carson.

What's the name? We're changing one letter of skin? Stem. Stem.

One letter to a skin ailment, is that what you said? Yeah. Skin condition. I don't know if that's necessarily the right description, but I think you'll get it.

Stephen Colbert, Stephen, Stephen, Stephen, Stephen.

Is this person still on the air? Yes, although not as much as they used to be. I guess late show hosts. Stuart. John Stuart. Stuart. Stuart.

Stuart. Yes. That's a good hint with not as much as they used to be because he is still doing the same job, just kind of not as much. Just on Mondays. That's the dream. Yeah. Sandy, thank you so much for those. Thank you, Sandy. What else do you have to plug? Where can people find Riddle.Quest? I guess there.

Yeah, you can find it there on the internet, rattle.quest, R-A-T-T-L-E dot Q-U-E-S-T. Go there for a new puzzle every day. I also run a company called The Mystery League where I put on team building events. So if that's the kind of thing that you're in charge of hiring for your company, by all means, get in touch. Mysteryleague.com. And I just launched a puzzle hunt with Zach King, the YouTuber and guy on Instagram who makes magic trick videos. He's running a puzzle hunt that has a $10,000 prize. I helped design the hunt. You can find that at ZachKingMysteryHunt.com or go to his TikTok, YouTube, or Instagram. And other than that, I don't know, that's about it. Well, let's take the word T-I-U, T-I-Y-O-U, and change the I to a character from King of the Hill. Okay. And that's what we want to say to you, Sandy. Thank you. Thank you. Damn it, Bobby. I'll keep kicking the tires on this. Sorry, Sandy. Sorry, Sandy. Bye.

Bye.

Wow, thank you Sandy. What else do we have to plug? Oh, I will plug, it has been so wonderful to see everyone on our Hey Riddle Riddle Across the Riddleverse tour. We've been selling a lot of our posters. I hope people seem to really enjoy our posters. But you still have, I want to say We have three more chances to catch us this year, and that is in Philadelphia at City Winery on Tuesday, November 18th, and then we will be in D.C. at the Miracle Theater on November 19th, and then on Sunday, the 23rd, we will be back in Brooklyn at the Bell House in Brooklyn. All of those, you can still get some tickets, I believe. That is heyriddleriddle.com slash live. For all three of those shows to get tickets. Sorry, the Boston show is sold out. Yeah, and we've really been enjoying seeing people and the shows have been super fun and I think we'll probably end up... There was only one that we couldn't get audio for but the rest of them we'll probably end up selling over on the Patreon a little later in the year. Erin, do you have anything that you would like to plug?

Just come see us live and then go check out our Patreon, patreon.com slash HeyRiddleRiddle. We did a mumbles month, which was a blast, and lots of fun stuff happening over there. Adal, anything to plug?

Yes, please check out our other podcast with Anthony and Birch called Gum Shoes and Dragons. And then recently, I was a guest on two podcasts you can check out now. One is called Cartoon Island. Had a very good time with those folks over there. And then the other one is our friend PG Law, who was a guest on Hey Riddle Riddle before from Survivor. PG Law has a podcast with David Spira from Room Escape Artist Fame called PG's Playhouse. I was a guest on that recently and it was an absolute blast. Did a lot of puzzles. Which really fucks the brain and was a very good time, so please check out PG's Playhouse podcast.

Erin, something else that fucks the brain is that we are on a little blue rock spinning uncontrollably through an infinite black void.

What?

Jupiter! Jupiter!

Scary stuff.

How are your parents in the music? Bogo Creep.

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