Which Riddle Riddle?

#382: The Jewel Heist

00:00:01

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This is a HeadGum podcast.

Erin

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.

JPC

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

Adal

Oh yeah, I sort of like tweaked my back playing Kung Fu Shrimp. Remember that character, Kung Fu Shrimp? I sort of threw my back out. So I'm looking for like a natural way to like relieve aches and discomfort. You know, I'm not as young as I once was. Yeah, maybe, oh maybe like cornbread hams, CBD gummies? Right! I feel like that's been a huge piece of my wellness plan recently.

Erin

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Adal

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00:01:07

JPC

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Erin

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JPC

Don't just take it from us. Take it from, what is it, Kung Fu Shrimp?

Adal

Hello, I'm Kung Fu Shrimp. Everyone, let's chop these boards.

Erin

The doctor was the mother.

Adal

He stood on a block of ice. Oh, that were goldfish. It was the cabin of an airplane.

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He stabbed him with an icicle.

Adal

And the horses didn't ride it.

00:02:32

Erin

Guys, I wasn't going to show up today, but I got really excited about something, so I decided to come to the show.

Adal

This is like a 382-week streak of you doing that, Erin.

Erin

Yes. But guess what? I read the news, and I read a piece of news that sounded like a Hey Riddle Riddle scene premise, and it warmed my heart, and it made me really happy.

JPC

Can we hear it?

Erin

There was a jewel heist at the Louvre.

JPC

I didn't know they sell jewel pods at the Louvre. That's pretty cool.

Erin

No, I mean they have a full display of like old French jewels. Jewel pipes.

JPC

Because you'd think with how much they smoke in France, they really wouldn't be on like the whole e-cigarettes kit.

Erin

When was the last time you opened a book?

JPC

I guess I've hollowed out a book to hide my jewel pods in. Does that count?

Erin

Adal, does that not feel like a scene that we did in 2021 where I'm like, okay, Adal, you're a French thief. You are going to sneak into the Louvre and steal jewels in four minutes. They took four minutes.

00:03:41

Adal

Now we have to assume that these three Frenchmen, or Frenchwomen.

Erin

Three French hens.

Adal

Thank you. Two turtledoves. Two calling birds, one theft. We have to assume that they are Hey Riddle Riddle listeners. Of course. They heard us do a scene exactly like that, or somewhat similar, and they were inspired to pull off a heist.

Erin

That's exactly what I was thinking. You know how I know they were inspired by us? Is on their way out. They did it. They managed to get away, but they dropped the most expensive thing that they got on the sidewalk, which is a $10 billion crown. Napoleon crown with like a hundred and something different types of diamonds.

Adal

Did you say three people?

Erin

I don't know how many, I think there was like four. One guy had a little ladder on the outside, cut a hole in a window. Two guys went in when the museum opened, which I thought was super polite. Interesting.

Adal

Give them a chance.

Erin

Jewels through the window. They took off, took four minutes. And I read it and first of all, I was like, no one got hurt. Those jewels are definitely stolen from somewhere. This is just the world turned around and round and round.

00:04:46

JPC

I don't know. I mean, let's see. Do we think France ever did any colonialism? I can't Google it right now.

Erin

Open a book that isn't filled with cigarettes or jewel pods, please.

JPC

I'll think about it.

Erin

And I couldn't believe it. I was like, are people gonna just continue to be inspired by the whimsy of our show? I hope so. I'd rather the news be filled with stuff like this.

Adal

I do want to ask, where were the three of us while this was happening?

Erin

Was this us?

JPC

Judging by our intros, I don't think that we could get anything of substance done in four minutes.

Erin

Hey, that's so real. You can't hit us with that much reality in our first recording of the day.

JPC

Now Erin, I'm fully willing to believe that this was Is it possible was influenced by the new Shane Black movie that just came out. And by came out, I mean, I think it's like streaming. I don't think it was perhaps got like a theatrical release.

00:06:04

Erin

Also, Ocean's 8 did a Jewel Heist. Jewel Heist's Great Muppet Caper was a technically a Jewel Heist. I think it's been in the culture for a while. But I think the fact that they dropped the fuck on the way out points the arrow right at us.

JPC

Is there a thing to where it's like, that kind of feels like a prestige-y thing to do, like the art of misdirection? Like we drop the most expensive thing on the sidewalk accidentally to like throw someone off in a way?

Adal

I don't know, man. It does feel like a message of like, isn't there a meme of like, you drop this king and it's like, someone dropped a crown? That's right. Are these like youths and they're trying to like recreate memes using priceless artifacts?

Erin

I'm gonna make a joke like a boomer would make about that. I don't think they would go into a museum for anything, those youths.

JPC

By the way, Adal, I don't think the youths are using memes in relation to their overt public acts. I don't think that that's like a thing that's happening. It's well documented at all.

00:07:06

Erin

Adal, it's good that you don't know that. It means you're alive and you're living a white life.

JPC

It's good that you don't know that. It's good that you don't know that.

Erin

I would like to see a scene. Adal, you are the getaway driver and JPC, you're the one who just dropped the crown on the sidewalk and you're trying to break it to your friend that you dropped the most expensive thing.

Adal

And JPC, we should decide right now, are we French or no?

Erin

I'd go no.

Adal

Are we French or no? Are we French or no? Are we French or no? No.

Erin

I love how the episode title just presents itself so early in the episode.

Adal

What's French for no? Is it like nuff?

JPC

No.

Adal

Nuff. No. No. Are we French or no? Are we human or are we French? No. Okay, okay, okay.

JPC

Merde! Merde! That was quite a daring robbery. Drive! French for drive. Erin, could you be on just like... No, not necessarily what I want. Maybe just like pull up a French translation and kind of feed us some French words.

00:08:14

Erin

Oh, I can't make an offensive guess?

JPC

All right, Erin, French for drive.

Erin

Do it in an American accent.

JPC

Fuck that, Erin.

Erin

Start over. You got to do the little French fun at the beginning.

???

Start over. Why didn't?

Erin

Here we go.

???

Here, I'm French, though.

Adal

I'm French.

???

Okay, okay. Merde. Merde, come on. Where is he? Come on, hurry up. This Vespa is not going to wait too much longer.

Erin

Merde, hurry!

???

Merde? Oh, good merding.

Erin

Yes, I've been that route.

JPC

Was someone commenting on my horse? My merde?

Erin

You're playing a different character before your character shows up.

Adal

Why does JPC get to... He keeps being French. I thought it was my turn.

JPC

I'm a different character.

Erin

We're going to start the scene over, Casey. I'm going to need you to cut the fuck out of it.

JPC

I'm not my character yet. I am a man who is stroking his mare.

Adal

Oh, I want to see a scene.

Erin

Okay, great.

Adal

Erin, you're French Bugs Bunny. Great.

Erin

Hey, what's up?

Adal

A long drag of a cigarette.

Erin

Hey, what's up? He's smoking the carrot. Hey, what's up, duck? And he's talking to the duck from the show. There's a duck on Looney Tunes.

00:09:26

Adal

Huh? The duck on the show?

Erin

The duck on the show. The duck. There's a duck on Looney Tunes. Daffy? Daffy Duck. Because Donald Duck is Disney.

Adal

Yes.

Erin

I want to see a scene. Okay. One of you is Daffy Duck and one of you is Donald Duck and you just stole necklaces from the Louvre.

???

Got it. Suffering Succotash, where is he? We got to get out of here. Oh, my car's not starting.

Adal

The engine won't turn over. I got what I wanted.

Erin

I got what I needed.

Adal

I do really enjoy that what's up doc became like the searching for the word. How much of that do we think is affectation and how much of that is sincere? In terms of when especially French people do that pause. Is that a normal speech pattern for a French person, or is that them searching for the word? I think so.

00:10:28

Erin

Think about how often I say, um, on this show. I think that that's what that is for them. And I've gone to France twice with Harrison Lott, who speaks French incredibly. And he was like, it genuinely helps to It almost is going to feel like you're joking the affectation that you put on it like luxuriate in the Frenchness of the sounds and that makes the language easier to like communicate in.

Adal

Is there any other language or country though that says how you say or is it just the French?

JPC

I think they're mocking us. Are they only saying how you say because they're bilingual?

Adal

I think people who speak in a non-native language oftentimes search for... Well, that's what I'm saying is, I mean, my dad is ESL, but he never says how you say or goes, eh. He doesn't do that.

Erin

I wonder what Americans are doing in other languages. What are little silly things?

Adal

I have no doubt that there is a process in the head where you have to translate, but I'm saying, how you say, I've only heard the French say... What's up linguists?

00:11:37

Erin

Now's your time to shine. Email hrpodcast at gmail dot com. We'd love to hear from you.

JPC

So you're saying specifically the words, how you say. Yes. Because I've heard other people say, like, I don't know the word, or... Yeah, Hilaria Baldwin. How you say cucumber? Speaking of Hilaria Baldwin, the other thing is like that French pause. The other thing that is absolutely like a real thing that people do is like the Italian hands. I mean, you don't realize it until you're like interacting with an Italian person, but a lot of Italian people really gesticulate with their hands a lot.

Adal

Oh, yes. I saw it in action in Italy.

JPC

I'm

Erin

How would you say... I don't want to be someone who makes excuses, but I want to be honest with our listeners.

00:12:43

JPC

So you want to be like a completely different person? When is this? Is this starting now? When did you decide that you wanted this for your life? Is this like a thing that... Like right before your 34th birthday, are you gonna do like another 34 years as like a different guy? Or what do you think is happening? Or what do I think is happening?

Erin

Is there anything better than being teased and it's so true and you cannot argue. There's no universe in which you have the evidence to argue that. Like, I could not, there's no lawyer in the world that would take that case for me. Not one lawyer in the world that would take that case. I literally had a moment this morning where I went, I'm so tired of hearing myself complain. I can't, I'm so bored of it.

Adal

So you complained to yourself about complaining?

Erin

Yeah, I literally, it was a stink eating itself. Well, well then I'm actually not going to make, you know what, a new lead.

JPC

No, wait, but hold on. I'd love to hear the observation. I just, maybe you could frame it in a, here's an observation.

00:13:46

Erin

Here's an observation. This is the first episode of Hey Riddle Riddle I've done since, in four or five years, where I've done it on no sleep.

Adal

Wow.

Erin

And so this is sort of an experiment to see if it changes the alchemy at all. It could be better. I'm genuinely, it could be better. I could be better at riddles. I could be better at reading them. I don't know.

JPC

What's the data going to tell you, Erin, if you're exactly the same?

Erin

It's going to really fuck me up. Mentally, physically, spiritually.

JPC

Interesting. See, I would go the other way because I would be like, it's an invitation to know that like, In whatever context you exist in outside of the podcast, within the podcast, you are static, right? Like, within the podcast, like, you could get into, like, a serious car accident, like, you know, sway out of the car into, like, a recording booth and be like, Hey everybody, it's Erin Keif, it's Hey Riddle Riddle, let's do some riddles. Like, it's comforting to know that you could always exist in this.

Erin

That's a really beautiful way of putting it. And I got a question for you guys about doing this show and being able to show up and sort of exist in it. Do you feel, you know how celebrities get frozen at the age that they become famous a little bit?

00:14:58

JPC

Oh, we're talking like mentally? Yeah, mentally. Yeah. Sexually for Leonardo DiCaprio?

Erin

Yeah, sexually for him. Do you feel a little bit like when you show up and we're doing Hey Riddle Riddle that you are the age that we started this podcast? Like the way that you would joke at that age and the way that like, because sometimes I feel like in sometimes in a way that feels like so fun and like such a gift is I get to go back to being like 25 and the way that I was joking. And sometimes I'm like, I feel like I have to go. I have to put my 25 year old Erin mask on today.

JPC

Interesting.

Adal

Adal, what do you think? I haven't really thought about it. I feel like we have an established dynamic, but I don't know if I necessarily feel like I'm beholden to any sort of representation or humor channel that I've tapped into when we first started.

JPC

Yeah, I don't know. I would say I feel every year, every month, every day, every hour, every minute of my age at all times. I'm constantly, you know, constantly feeling it. So yeah, I don't know. I don't think that I think about myself in whatever those... Like persona of age things? 28, 29, whatever I was. Yeah, I don't think so.

00:16:19

Erin

I would have made that guess, but I feel like I only feel like that because of the age I was at. Like if I had started the show at like 29 when I felt a little bit more established in my sense of self, but like my frontal lobe developed and then I sat down at a recording booth with you guys. And I think I was just like that age is sometimes, I think it's a thing I put on myself. I feel like beholden to the version of myself that started the show. But then I but it comes very naturally to me to joke with you guys. This is the kind of non-comedy that will be happening today, I guess. Well, I'm a little tired.

Adal

Nomody.

Erin

Nomody. Aww.

Adal

Deep bow, hands clasped, deep bow.

JPC

Now, Erin, are you old man puzzles today?

Erin

I am.

JPC

Oh, okay. Well, then you don't even have to worry about doing riddles.

Erin

Oh, right. Oh, yeah, right. I don't have to solve them.

Adal

Although, would it be fun for Erin in her sense of non-sleep stupor to read the riddles and then try and solve them?

00:17:23

Erin

Oh brother, I think that would make me... Hold on. I think I should solve problems that aren't riddles. If you guys have any concerns, any big life things you need untangled, I'm your gal this morning.

JPC

So it has to be individual personal problems and it can't be like societal problems that you can solve?

Erin

I'll start with personal and then by the end of the episode I'll do some societal.

JPC

Yeah, I mean, the personal becomes the professional, the professional becomes the societal. I mean, we all know this. This is Nietzsche, I believe.

Erin

Nietzsche.

Adal

Nietzsche's rungs.

JPC

Okay, wait. Do I have a personal problem that I could... He's going to say me. Erin, to solve for... No, I'm really trying to, like, search... Oh, boy. I don't know. Adal, are you coming up with anything of a personal problem that you can get Erin to solve for?

Adal

How do I let go of stuff? Physical stuff? Physical stuff.

Erin

Mm-hmm. You remember you can't take it with you? Where? In that they don't actually- If the suitcase is big enough.

00:18:26

JPC

He took it with him when he moved.

Erin

You can't take it with you after you die. Oh. The fuck? Who brought that up? As someone who has some hoarder tendencies, the emotion that you're attaching to that thing is not actually in there. Like, it's in your body. It's in your physical being. Thank you, Erin. After the LA fires, I started to have really bad anxiety about all the sentimental stuff in my house, and I had to really work on trying to be like, you know what? These memories of the Hey Riddle Riddle fan art that I have that I'm like, I don't want to lose that, or a painting from my friend, or this painting behind me that Adal bought me for my birthday. I'm just like, Adal's care for me and our friendship does not live in that painting.

Adal

Well, actually,

Erin

Don't tell, do not tell me you did a witch thing with that. Adal, I swear to fucking God.

Adal

My soul is in that painting, so if it burns, I burn.

Erin

Adal, this is literally how my brain can think you cannot tell me that.

Adal

Erin, protect, this is my horcrux. Please protect that with your life.

00:19:30

Erin

Next LA fire, I'm looking at the painting, I'm looking at Lou, I'm looking at the painting, I'm looking at Lou. I have some riddles.

JPC

Wait, I thought of my personal problem.

Erin

Oh yeah, of course.

JPC

Okay, so my homeowner's insurance went up like $500, so I switched homeowners insurance to something that was the exact same price as my old one, so it was like an extra hassle for no additional benefit for myself. But then I got a letter from my mortgage company being like, hey, we don't have any record. We have a record now that you don't have homeowners insurance because I guess my new company didn't notify them and they're like, we're now gonna buy homeowners insurance for you unless you can prove that you have it. But the only way I can prove that I have it, which I do, is to fax them my policy. How do I get, what do, it's 2025, what, how do I do a, how would I even go about doing a fax at this point?

Erin

I think you can do it at your local UPS and FedEx.

00:20:33

JPC

Okay.

Erin

Or at least they, I, you used to be able to, I also think you can do it at some local libraries.

JPC

Oh sure, you used to be able to, yeah, like in 2008, I believe.

Erin

Well no, the last time I had to fax something was maybe 2021, and that is what I did. But also, I, I also think local libraries have it, but I, I also am willing to call that company and go, hey, I got no skin in this game. Wake up. Wake the fuck up.

JPC

I do love when a company makes it like absolutely, I mean, it's on purpose, right? They could be like, you could email it, you could scan it, you could email it, but they won't do that. They'll just be like, it's just a fax number because fuck you. That to me is like, that's how you exercise power if you're like an absolute total bastard. You're like, it's actually harder for me to get a fax. I have as a company now I have to own a fax line, I guess, but fuck you because that's why we do it.

Erin

I did a therapy years ago that my therapist told me that I will no longer be notified 24 hours before my appointment because that is when the cancellation charge gets kicked in. And so they stopped doing that notification because people were canceling it in time or moving their appointment in time to not get charged. And so all these companies are just trying to squeeze.

00:21:47

Adal

That's so funny. Sneaky, sneaky, sneaky.

Erin

Sneaky, sneaky, sneaky, sneaky.

JPC

Also on the flip side of it, and I don't mind putting this company on blast, but my internet's through AT&T. AT&T sent me a little email that was like, hey, in two months, we're going to up your price by $5 a month. So I went to their chat on my phone, like I just opened my phone, went to their chat and said, hey, you're raising my service price. I'm going to cancel my service. And they were like, oh, well, please don't cancel your service. Let's see if we can get you a deal. And they were like, what if we lower your price by $30 a month? What a terrible email for the company AT&T to send. To send an email being like, hey, we're gonna actually have to charge you $5 more. And I was like, no, you won't. They're like, you're actually right. And we're gonna charge you less. I'm like, that seems to be like a company that doesn't know what it's doing. Because what they should be doing is being like, fuck you, man. Like, you can go. But when it's a mortgage, they're like, you can't go anywhere. Like, you cannot go anywhere. But when it's an internet provider with other providers in my area, they're like, fuck.

00:23:01

Erin

Buy a fax machine, motherfucker.

JPC

This guy just remembered that he has options versus like, hey, if you want to, you know, drink some water, you're going to have to pay the water company, buddy.

Erin

Yeah.

JPC

There's no secondary water company for you to go begging to.

Erin

Ugh, the world is working perfect. And I think I would- Yeah, it's a good world. Change a single thing about it. All right. These are from Will Parsons. He, him, we can use his full name. And I thought this was very sweet. I want to read his PS first. Shout out to my long distance friend, Andrew, who now lives in Boston. He was delighted to see you all live. Whenever we catch up, we enjoy talking about your latest episodes. Love you guys like sisters. Will and Andrew, I want you guys to solve mysteries together. What if you moved to each other's cities so you could hang out all the time? Come on, fellas.

JPC

What if there's a good reason that they have to keep apart, Erin, like they're in witness protection or something like that?

Erin

You think they're both in witness protection?

00:24:03

Adal

Okay, maybe they both swallowed magnets, but they're opposite charged.

JPC

I think Will and Andrew were probably contract killers who worked as a team, who kind of, you know, flipped on some of their old clients, and now they have to live separately.

Erin

I think Will and Andrew are twins and one parent took one and one parent took the other and then they're both going to go to the same summer camp and then they're going to switch spots and then they're going to get to be a family in the end.

JPC

I mean it's not a new observation but it's fucked up that in that at no point in the movie The Parent Trap do they ever talk about how fucked up it is to just each parent take one kid.

Erin

I think about it all the time.

JPC

There should at least be one line of dialogue in that movie where they're like, what were we thinking?

Erin

This was morally horrible.

JPC

Traumatizing.

Erin

I mean, this is the classic debate, but both houses are very dreamy. Both parents are very dreamy. Which are you picking? Are you going to Napa?

00:25:04

JPC

This is a tough question.

Erin

Because Napa has Chessie who's their like housekeeper who's super charming and then you're like riding horses and you get to be outside and then but the mom is in London.

JPC

And the mom's got the butler right?

Erin

The butler and the sweet grandpa.

JPC

Yeah. I mean just based on the current state of the world. Kind of? Well, no, London's not much better. Oh, can I die? Yes.

Erin

So JPC chooses death. Adal, what do I put you down for?

Adal

I go to heaven with Jesus. I'll go Napa.

Erin

See, okay, I'm glad I asked this because I've been a London girl through and through my whole life. The scene where Halle gets to go and stay with her mom for the first time and she's at her mom's dresser in vanity and she's touching her necklaces and her lamp and all of her things is like, What I imagined being a grown woman is like. My whole apartment looks like I'm trying to live in that space.

Adal

Is that why you're always touching jewelry?

Erin

Yeah, I'm always like, don't implicate me more with the heist. I was already there. I was there. I just wanted to see the Mona Lisa.

00:26:12

JPC

Based on Adal saying that he would like to go live in Napa, I do want to see a quick scene. Adal, you are going to be a child who owns a winery. And Erin, you are just a person, you know, kind of doing like a winery tour a la sideways. And you're at this child's winery.

Erin

Great. All right. Map says this is the best place for a vermentino. Let me... Welcome.

Adal

Come in. Come in. Hello? How are we doing today? Sorry, I know you're just one person, but I've seen on TV where adults say, how are we doing today?

Erin

Is someone here?

???

The bar seems empty.

Adal

Sorry, look down.

???

Oh, hey little boy. Where are your parents? Hello. My parents currently are on vacation in Jamaica. They're on their third honeymoon.

Erin

Okay, are you wearing khakis and a blazer?

???

Uh, you know it, baby. My name is Chance, and welcome to Napa Time Wineries.

00:27:14

Erin

Oh, your eyes got a little heavy when you said that.

Adal

Sorry, talking about wine makes me sweepy. Especially Napa time wine.

Erin

Can I hit you up with some samples?

Adal

We are the number one child winery in Napa Valley. We've been weighted number one child winery in the world, actually. We're actually the number one only child winery in the world. We've been awarded that.

Erin

You keep looking over at your blanket like you're a stuffed animal.

Adal

No, I've left those things in the past. I'm an adult man.

Erin

Every time, if I said Napa again, that would trigger a yawn. I thought it might.

???

Do you know how to turn on the oven? Also, would you like to try a shot of wine?

Erin

Um, you know what? I'm a little tipsy already. I'll try whatever this is.

Adal

Okay.

???

So what this is, is pressed apple juice. We add just a drop of wine to make a wiggly wine. Oh, there's no alcohol in this? No, there is. Legally, it's wine. It's a .0001 proof alcohol.

00:28:20

Erin

I'm kind of eat, pray, drinking right now, so I'm gonna head out.

???

Not sure what that means.

Erin

Nap-a-nap-a-nap-a-nap-a-nap-a.

JPC

Sending the little kid to sleep by just saying nap-a-nap-a-nap-a-nap-a. When in fact, a lot of times, you say nap to a kid, it's the opposite. The absolute opposite. Yeah.

Erin

GBC, does your kid just take off running from you sometimes?

JPC

Um, yes. Also, if I ask them a question that they don't want to answer, they'll just kind of turn around and walk away. That's smart. That's awesome. But they've been doing this recently where when it's bedtime, when it gets to be like 6 o'clock, 6.30, it's time for bed, they have a little play kitchen, they start making coffee for everyone. And they're like, coffee, coffee. And I'm like, no, no coffee.

Erin

Like a grown-up at a dinner party.

JPC

Well, I think it's more just like, it could be grown-up at a dinner party. More what I think it is, is we make coffee when we wake up. So I think that they are like, hey, the day is just starting. It's time for coffee. No need to think about bath time.

00:29:31

Erin

Has it ever gaslit you into thinking it was the morning? I'm a very simple bitch, Erin.

JPC

Of course it works on me. It'll be like 3 in the morning, I'll be like, wait a second, I've been tricked! I've been tricked! My child's made me coffee!

Adal

I've been over there when they do that and it's like, they get out a frying pan and they're like, coffee? And I'm like, I don't know what you think you're doing.

Erin

From Will Dedicated to his friend Andrew Could be a cross, could be stars, could be plain. Atop certain graves, I am lain. If there's reason to frown, I'm likely half down. In this camp game, my capture's your aim.

JPC

Flag.

Erin

Flag.

JPC

Flag. Well, any more brain busters for us, you former professional assassins?

00:30:34

Erin

First of all, they never claimed to be that. Also, these are warm-up riddles, so this is good. We're warming up.

JPC

They wouldn't claim to be that. I mean, I'm reading between the lines a little, but it's like, I fucking know, you know? I'm pretty fucking sure.

Erin

I just realized that the next few hours of recording for me, I'm going to be tired, but this is going to be weeks for everybody listening at home. You're going to have to deal with this version of me for weeks. Sorry.

Adal

Can we design and sell Hey Riddle Riddle flags? Like, what if we made a certain design? Like, not just our logo, which is awesome, but maybe, like, a design of, like, here's a flag if you support Hey Riddle.

Erin

Okay, I love it.

JPC

Okay, so everybody, flags are usually multiple colors. I don't think that there's any one that just uses a single color flag. Maybe, like, someone who uses, like, one color with different, like, shades could be a flag. But there's three of us, so a lot of flags have three colors. I say we each pick a color.

Adal

Okay.

Erin

Okay, great.

Adal

Neon green.

Erin

I'm going to go with neon green. So the flag's two-thirds neon green so far.

00:31:38

JPC

Well, I wanted to go first because now you guys are going to make me look like an asshole because I wanted to say neon green.

Erin

Okay, we invented Brat Summer again. All right, hear me out. What if it's three people sneaking into the Louvre to steal jewels?

JPC

Okay. And that's a flag that you hang outside of like art museums and stuff?

Erin

New game. If anyone feels inspired at home, you can design a Hey Riddle Riddle flag and we'll take a look and then we'll let you know if it's a winning choice.

JPC

The new game is that we'll take a look.

Erin

We'll take a look. We'll take a look. Some keep me, others do not. In Exodus, I'm speaking and hot. Could be George, could be Rose, where the blueberry grows. Old mazes did use me a lot.

JPC

I like this riddle, and I think that the longer it went on, the more sure I was that I got it. I feel like if it had been the first two rhymes or first two lines of it, I would have been lost. But I think it's Bush.

00:32:48

Erin

Yes, it is. It is Bush. I do think that that makes for a good riddle, is it gets more specific and easier to get the longer the riddle goes.

JPC

Yeah, for sure. It's like, I think like a riddle like that, like the rest of the riddle should be the hint for the riddle. Like I don't think I've ever heard, has anyone ever given us a riddle where the hint was like more of the riddle, you know? You know what I'm saying? Like sometimes the hint is like, think about, you know, an aviary or something like that. Whereas this hint could just be like two more lines of the riddle.

Erin

Well, would you like to try that for these? There's three more and we can do line by line to see if that feels fun.

JPC

No, I like to feel smart. I like to hear the whole thing and then just, like, feel really smart about getting the riddle. But I guess we'll try it your fun way, Erin. If it's as much fun as we'll take a look, then maybe this is the game.

Erin

We'll take a look was the real indicator of no sleep. I was like, I don't know how to end this sentence.

JPC

Erin, like, devising a game, and she's like, and at the end of the game, we'll all count up how many fingers we have. We're like, well, hold on. What was the point of the game?

00:33:49

Erin

Okay, here we go.

JPC

Yeah.

Erin

Could be physical or over the air. Used to signal a friend over there.

JPC

Okay, stop there. Could be... Could be physical or in the air.

Erin

Or over the air.

Adal

Over the air. Used to signal a friend over there. Is this like internet? Is this like smoke signals? Is this... Ham, like ham radio. Telephone lines.

Erin

You just throw a full Christmas ham at your friend to get their attention.

JPC

With empty seats at the game, I become rather lame.

Adal

Hmm. Empty Ticketmaster with empty seats at the game.

JPC

Empty seats at the game. So we're thinking about like those chairs that automatically fold up when you sit up from them. Is that the answer? Okay.

Erin

But I do, I actually, I think this might be my favorite riddle of the pack. Although I did like the one before it too. But this one's really good. Could be physical or over the air. Used to signal a friend over there. With empty seats at the game, I become rather lame.

00:35:00

???

Oh, got it. Oh, is this a wave? Yes, wave of waves. I'd like to see a scene.

Erin

JPC, you and Adal are at a baseball game and JPC keeps trying to start the wave, Adal, but he's like doing a bad job and you're really embarrassed that he's causing this ruckus.

JPC

Hey, excuse me? Yes? Hey, I'm from section 213. It's about six sections over.

Adal

Oh, I don't need that information.

JPC

What do you want?

Adal

Sorry, my son's about to pitch his first game.

JPC

What do you want? Oh, wow. Your son's on the Yankees?

Adal

Yes.

JPC

Oh, congratulations.

Adal

My son is Mariano Rivera.

JPC

That's awesome.

Adal

I think he's going to have a very good career.

JPC

I hope so. I am a huge fan of your son and of the institution and of the sport.

Adal

Are you mocking me? This is his first game.

JPC

Well, it's not his first game of baseball.

Adal

No, you're right. I'm sorry.

JPC

I apologize. Yeah, I mean, I follow the sport that deeply. Whatever comes before the MLB is where I kind of start.

00:36:06

Adal

I've been Kurt. My name is Jason. Oh, hey Kurt.

JPC

Oh, sorry. I didn't know you were going to say that.

Adal

Sorry. Let me give you my full attention. You're from section something. What do you want?

JPC

I'm from 213. Yes. I have been trying to start the wave in 213. I saw that, yes. And it's not going well. So I'm kind of just running around the stadium identifying people of charisma, people I think that have leadership potential, leadership qualities. And I'm trying to enlist them.

Erin

Hey, you came up and looked at me and then kind of blew right by me.

JPC

Oh, I thought, oh, I'm so sorry. Are you with this person? Yes.

Erin

Hey, honey, come on. Well, ex.

JPC

Ex-wife. You're both here for your son, but you're not married anymore.

Erin

I'm his mother. I made his bones and his teeth.

JPC

Him?

Adal

You're Kurt's mother?

Erin

Yes. No, not Kurt.

Adal

My name is not Kurt. Well, I'm sorry.

Erin

I get to have the wave. I have charisma.

JPC

I think that's great. If you maybe want to work together like co-captains of this section or something. I just... I'm sorry. On my way over here, I watched you yell for a hot dog three times and you got ignored. And so it just didn't feel like you had like the leadership qualities that I was looking for.

00:37:26

Erin

Yeah, and one of those times, the hot dog guy asked me if I wanted anything. I told him what I wanted and then he walked away.

Adal

And the second time he said, get back to work to you. I think he thought you worked there.

JPC

I do think it is the polo that you're wearing, which I think looks nice, but it kind of does look like when you see someone wearing like a blue polo at a Best Buy and you go up to them and say, excuse me, do you know where the DVDs are? And they like just turn around and it's just a person wearing a blue polo. You know what I'm saying?

Adal

Yeah, if you go to Target and you see someone wearing a red polo at the Target, and you're like, where are the DVDs? And they turn around, it's just the person.

Erin

This is my lucky polo and my lucky visor. And my lucky tray that I bring to every baseball game.

JPC

Oh, okay.

Erin

Yeah. Well, then it's... No, you're talking to my ex. Ask him to start the wave. I'm not here. I'm not here.

JPC

I actually have a lot of sections to hit, so maybe it's like one of the things that your whole section could decide kind of by themselves. And then when I start the wave back in 2013, it's gonna be a while because I have to make it through most of the stadium just to get enough people kind of to rally to my cause, then you guys join in and maybe kind of put aside everything else that's kind of going on and just kind of focus on the spirit of the wave and the joy of baseball and How does that sound?

00:38:44

Adal

Yeah, I just feel like I'm not a big fan of the wave. It feels like the whole point of the wave is for whoever started it to get like validation. No offense.

???

We missed it. We missed the game. It's over. Oh, shit. How do they do? How do they do?

Erin

Oh, brother. Here we go. You know what? I want to take a break.

JPC

Oh, okay. We've done two riddles.

Erin

We should take a break. We did three riddles.

JPC

And that's why we deserve a break.

Erin

A nappa, if you will.

JPC

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00:39:49

Adal

Yeah, Found eliminates the clutter by giving you one platform that handles it all. Banking, bookkeeping, invoices, taxes. No more paying for multiple subscriptions and dealing with clunky, outdated apps. Blech. Barf. Outdated apps.

Erin

They've automated things like tracking expenses, finding write-offs, and budgeting for tax time. You can even send invoices for free and pay your contractors. Everything from one

JPC

We're back.

Erin

That's so scary, Mr. JPC, sir.

Adal

Yeah, Mr. JPC, don't use lost, use found.

JPC

One thing that I love about Found is that it automatically tracks expenses, which means that I no longer have to carve out time every week, and believe me, I was doing this every week, where I could have spent that time on something much more important to go through my purchases and make sure everything is accounted for. Ugh! Found fixes it. Honestly, I use Found, and you should too. If I could go back to when we were starting Hey Riddle Riddle, Found would have saved me so much time, so much effort, and so much needless data entry that I wish that I could not have done. I love Found.

00:41:14

Adal

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Erin

Thank you, Mr. JBC, sir.

Adal

Thank you, Mr. JBC, sir. Why are people thanking me? And I had just settled down for a long winter's nap. End of story.

Erin

But what mattress were you sleeping in?

Adal

Yeah, Mr. Adal, what mattress? What mattress? Oh, kids, the only mattress I would take a long winter's nap in, which is a Helix mattress. Have you heard of this? You seen this?

JPC

Do your kids like Helix? I took the Helix sleep quiz and it was the only quiz I didn't flunk all year long.

Adal

Oh, yikes. Jeremiah, we gotta get you studying.

JPC

No, it matches you with the perfect mattress based on your personal preferences and sleep needs and it makes buying a mattress easy, Mr. Adal.

00:42:17

Erin

Mr. Adal, Helix is the most awarded mattress brand, tested and reviewed by experts like Forbes and Wired.

Adal

Oh yeah, I mean I used to toss and turn in my sleep until I got a Helix, and now I sleep like a log. I would say sleep like a baby, but from what I know babies don't sleep terribly well, so I like to say sleep like a log.

Erin

Pulling on your sleeve, pulling on your sleeve.

Adal

Ow!

Erin

Mr. Adal, sir, I have a Midnight Lux and they delivered my mattress right to my door with free shipping inside the U.S.

Adal

Yeah, I have a Midnight Lux. It's not a contest. Pulling on your sleeve, pulling on your sleeve. Ow! Stop pulling on my tattoos.

JPC

Maybe you could say, like, sleep like a toddler, because my toddler sleeps for like 12 hours at a time, but then I know that not all toddlers do that, so I don't want to make it seem like I'm bragging, Mr. Adal. You have a toddler? I'm a grown man.

Adal

Wait, are you both adults?

Erin

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00:43:21

JPC

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Adal

Yeah, not to dox myself, but now that my secret's out, my name is Adal Adal. Sort of a Mario situation.

JPC

I love it. I love it, Mr. Adal.

Erin

Thank you.

???

5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

Erin

Countdown over. It's the holiday season. Time to buy gifts. I'm so excited. I'm going to decorate. I'm going to buy gifts.

JPC

Erin, Erin, slow down. You sound and look stressed. But Uncommon Goods takes the stress out of gifting with thousands of unique, high-quality finds you won't see anywhere else. Now, Erin, how does that make you feel?

Adal

Oh, I feel way better. Yeah. And Erin, you should feel even better because Uncommon Goods, their items are crafted by independent artists and small businesses, making every gift feel meaningful and truly one of a kind. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

00:44:32

Erin

And with every purchase you make at Uncommon Goods, they give back $1 to a nonprofit partner of your choice. They've donated more than $3.1 million to date.

JPC

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Adal

I'm not sure if you'll find stuff from the major motion picture diehard, but you can look. And Miss Keif, can I tell you, last year my parents got me Common Goods. I got like a bag of flour and a brick. Well, that's no fun. No, I want Uncommon Goods.

Erin

That won't do. You know what? If you're like me, buy some Christmas ornaments. Get some Christmas candles. Get some stuff for Christmas and put it on your house.

JPC

Hey, whatever you do, don't wait. Cross those names off your list before the rush. To get 15% off your next gift, go to uncommongoods.com slash riddle. That's uncommongoods.com slash riddle for 15% off Uncommon Goods. We're all out of the ordinary.

00:45:40

???

But don't take it from them, take it from me, Cousin Kringle.

Erin

That's fun. That's fun. Probably should have done it at the beginning though, right?

???

Huh? Stay on that side of the street. Oh. Stay over there. Do you need me to start the ad? No, stay there.

Erin

Everybody say, thank you Miss Erin. I thanked you guys in the other ones. You want to thank me?

???

I'm not getting thanked. Hey Riddle Riddle.

Erin

All right, we are back. I'm going to get right back into Will's riddles. So the ratio of riddles in this episode ends up being pretty good. We're going to do a lot in this back half. Here we go. Likely on birthdays.

Adal

Are the Yankees still good? They should be. They've brought in enough. That's a palm. Huh?

Erin

That's a palm. If the Yankees are still good, they should be.

Adal

Likely on birthdays or after a storm, providing an ambiance soft and warm.

00:46:43

JPC

Blanket. Lightning. A blanket fire. Which can happen if you have a heating pad and you leave it plugged in, you can start a blanket fire.

Adal

You might start a blanket fire. If you use an extension cord on a heater, you might have a blanket fire.

Erin

If you throw a blanket over a fire to stop the fire, you might have a blanket fire. You guys, I can't participate in any fun today. I really can't do it.

Adal

Jeff, blanket fire?

JPC

There's a joke in the original Cars movie where Larry the Cable Guy implies that he thought he heard some characters say that they were drinking piss. Oh, sounds like I need to watch Cars.

Erin

What was that, Adal? Did you mean to say that out loud into the mic?

JPC

Because it's something about, like, flooding, like, a piston, a piston in my mouth, and he's like, he did what in his mouth? And it's just a, it's a funny joke to put in a kids movie because it doesn't, it sounds like, it sounds like,

00:47:45

Erin

Sounds like a you problem. Sounds like you were listening for that.

JPC

I do listen for it. I have Piss Mouth Dar.

Adal

Huh. A radar that susses out echolocates. Here's what I'll say is I used to make fun of, I have nursing cars, I used to be like, ha ha, Larry the Cable Guy is in cars, ha ha. Then I found out recently that, I guess when he got notified that he got the role, he started crying from joy. And now I'm gonna ease up on the guy.

Erin

Yeah, he loves being a part of those movies, it's really sweet.

Adal

I think that's cool, yeah.

JPC

Yeah, who wouldn't love, like, your job being going into a sound booth, like, recording some dialogue, and then getting paid a lot of money.

???

That sounds like an awesome- If I could get paid money to just sit in front of a microphone and talk, I would be- Wait a second, wait a second.

Erin

I'm

00:48:57

JPC

I almost said he has a normal voice, but he doesn't inherently sound like Larry the Cable Guy, that character, but then it seems like it really popped off for him and he kind of got put into the role of Larry the Cable Guy for the rest of his life.

Adal

He's a modern day Gilbert Gottfried or Bobcat Goldthwait.

Erin

That might happen to you, JPC. You're going to get stuck in this persona.

JPC

Oh, and this persona? This one wouldn't be so bad because it is closer to myself. But, I mean, what I'm really looking for, and it's not going to happen yet, but we're a couple years away from it, is my right-wing pivot. When I just go full evangelical, full prosperity gospel grifter. That's really going to pop.

Erin

Your heart's not going to be in it though, right? This is just for money and for attention.

JPC

Oh, Erin, none of their hearts are in it. There's not a single one.

Erin

What hearts?

JPC

Yeah, exactly. Tucker Carlson keeps his heart in like a black tabernacle. It beats like once a year.

00:50:05

Erin

That is way too like high end. I feel like it is in like a caboodle box.

???

Yeah.

Erin

Under his sink. God, I hate that guy. My favorite thing that's happened in the last 400 years in pop culture is Jon Stewart making fun of his bow tie and him stopping wearing bow ties. It's maybe the only thing that has kept me going. I got to go back to this riddle. Likely on birthdays or after a storm, providing an ambience soft and warm. Find me in Clue as a centerpiece to Before Edison I was the norm. Yeah!

Adal

Is it candle or candlestick?

Erin

Candle.

Adal

Okay, because in Clue it's a candlestick, right?

Erin

Yeah, but if you're strong enough, you can go for a candle. In the library.

Adal

I do want to see a scene. The two of you are, you're sort of inside, you know, the clue world, right? You're in a large house with other people and weapons. And the two of you find yourself in the library and you both have sort of atypical quote-unquote weapons that you found to try and kill each other the next opportunity you get.

00:51:18

Erin

Ah, professor. You thought I wouldn't figure you out. But guess what? It takes one to know one. Picks up Bible. Stands in a ready pose.

JPC

Big talk from you, Lieutenant Lettuce. I was just... What?

Erin

Mine. It's fine.

JPC

You can say my name. You just called me professor, but if you want to say my name, you can. I don't mind.

Erin

Professor Dumbass? You thought I wouldn't figure you out.

JPC

It's pronounced dumbass. I thought you wouldn't figure me out, Lieutenant Lettuce, because you're not the sharpest romaine in the... Salad? What is it? Is it a bunch of lettuce? Is it a bunch of? A head! Head! Head! Salad also works. Um, let's see.

Erin

You're weaponless and I have the best weapon of them all.

JPC

You've got the Bible, the only weapon in this room.

00:52:19

Erin

A slightly heavy book.

JPC

Well, something they taught. It's not that heavy. It's one of the heavier books.

Erin

I don't know. There's encyclopedias I could have picked up.

JPC

Well, one of the things that they teach me in university is how to think On my feet! Picks up my feet. Aha!

Erin

Oh God, that looks like it hurts so bad. You fell backwards on the back of your head.

Adal

Oh boy.

Erin

Is there a doctor? Doctor?

Adal

I'm a doctor.

Erin

Rigatoni, come on in.

Adal

Hey, I'm a doctor Rigatoni. I see. He doctors with his hands. I got my doctorate in pasta.

Erin

You might say I'm crazy or perhaps legume. You might say I'm crazy or perhaps legume. I feel like you guys could get it from that. Found near the bolts, it's safe to assume. These are such good riddles. Can be tough to crack and bought in a pack.

00:53:21

Adal

Walnut. Close.

Erin

For some, eating me could mean doom.

Adal

Cigarettes. Pistachio. You cannot eat cigarettes. Peanuts.

Erin

You're being too specific.

???

Nuts.

Erin

Yeah, nuts.

???

Nuts. I love it.

Erin

Thank you so much. Those are great riddles, Bill.

???

Those are very good.

Erin

Those are fun. Last night, when Lou was getting sick every 20, 30 minutes and going outside, You guys, I've lived in the same apartment since 2021, and I have never seen a skunk until the last like three months around here. And last night, Lou would cry. We'd go to the bottom of the stairs, and then I'd have to wait out the window Two skunks were patrolling our front lawn, like going back and forth like this, two skunks. And so Lou would be crying. I'd be like, we cannot go out. We cannot go out. We're going to get sprayed by two skunks. And I had, guys, I was a little delirious. And I know I'm acting a little paranoid right now. But speaking of things feeling like Hey Riddle Riddle scenes, it felt like you guys said those skunks. I was like, I don't know how I can prove it, but Adal, JPC, and sorry, Casey, you too, are behind those skunks. Going back and forth. There weren't skunks at my house before. Did you guys pay someone to let a bunch of skunks loose?

00:54:40

JPC

Erin, how dare you accuse me of being behind a skunk? I would never stand behind a skunk. That's skunk 101, baby!

Erin

That's a really good dad joke.

Adal

Erin, I do really appreciate that you think this is some sort of red wall situation where the skunks are like guardians of the gates of your home. I feel like were they maybe just like doing a little mating dance or something? Or do you think they're like looking for you or protecting you?

Erin

I mean, they were causing me harm.

Adal

Were they patrolling on two legs or four?

JPC

Do you think somewhere, Erin, there's like a badger who is like, for her crimes, she must be imprisoned in her home?

Erin

Okay, you guys, and this is gonna sound insane, but I will say a few hours before that I had my quality time show, and if you went to that October quality time show, you'll know that we had a taxidermist as one of our guests. She was incredible. And I did touch a skunk skin briefly right before this happened for the first time in my life.

00:55:52

Adal

So you've awoken the skunks. They were there for their dead comrade.

JPC

But I'm trying to blame you guys.

Adal

They can smell their dead family members' pheromones on your skin.

Erin

Skunks walk really cute.

Adal

They do.

Erin

They're really cute. We should have domesticated them when we had the chance.

JPC

Erin, a person I knew in college had a de-stinkified skunk. They had a skunk as like a pet, which you're not supposed to do, but it had its stinker. Removed in whatever fashion you get a skunk stinker removed.

Erin

This is a crazy sentence to navigate. That looks so hard to do. I'm really happy for you. You got through it.

JPC

I didn't really know this person. I was at a party and they just had a skunk at the party and it's one of those things where you like see a skunk at a party and you're like, I gotta get out of here.

Erin

I'd like to see a fucking scene.

JPC

You see it's on a leash and you're like, oh interesting.

00:56:53

Erin

Adal, you were just trying to find a beer pong partner at a party, and JBC, you're a skunk that's at this college party.

JPC

I'm the skunk?

Erin

You're the skunk.

Adal

Gotcha. Tyler, come on, man. Tyler, no? No? Yeah, no?

Erin

Sorry, man. I'm hella low. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Adal

Okay, shit. Who else? Who else? What about you, little dude? I'm sorry? Sorry, do you play beer pong?

JPC

Uh, hey man, um, act like I just said something really funny.

Adal

Nah, I'm good. Who else? Who else? Uh, who? Micah. Micah, you in? No?

Erin

Uh, sorry, I already got a teammate. Sorry.

Adal

Yeah, okay. Who else? Who else? Hey man, come back over here. Come back over here.

JPC

I wasn't there with you, man.

Adal

Come on, come on.

JPC

What's up? What's up? Act like I just said something really funny.

Adal

Why would I do that?

JPC

I'm trying to flirt with this other skunk here man and she's like not giving me the time of day but it's like I know she likes funny skunks you know?

Adal

Well here's the thing she is looking over here but right now I have such a look of like confusion on my face that if I start laughing she's gonna know it's like a weird...

00:57:59

JPC

Okay, well then, now that I'm talking, wipe the look of confusion off your face, turn it into a slow smile, and then when I'm done talking, just fucking laugh, man. Help me out.

Adal

Couldn't you just say something funny?

JPC

I don't know anything funny. I only know things that skunks find funny. I wouldn't know anything that a guy like you would find funny.

Adal

Maybe I find what skunks find funny funny as well. Try me, try me. What do skunks find funny? Say something a skunk would say.

JPC

Okay, what has four fingers and stinks like shit?

Adal

Uh, Mickey Mouse?

JPC

Don't guess. You ruined the joke. Yeah, it's Mickey Mouse.

Erin

Fuck. Oh, he's laughing. Hey, Tony, what's going on? Did you tell your long, confusing joke and then you tried to make me jealous?

JPC

Oh, Angela, you're here at this party?

Erin

Yeah, you knew that already, didn't you? Throws beer in your face. This is how college girls talk.

00:59:00

Adal

Whoa, can you throw a ping pong the same way you threw that beer?

Erin

I could try.

JPC

This beer is spoiled. It must be skunked. Looks around party.

Erin

Tony, that kind of joke's not going to work on me anymore. You're the last skunk I'll ever date, Tony. You broke my heart.

JPC

Hey Angela, what's got four fingers and stinks like shit?

Erin

Mickey Mouse?

JPC

I was gonna say me if I play my cards right.

Erin

Oh, Tony.

JPC

Have either of you ever been sprayed by a skunk?

Adal

No, but I've had my car sprayed. Oh, you went and got it professionally done? I had it detailed.

JPC

They like clean it, and they're like, it's 400 bucks, but for another 50 we can get a skunk to spray it. The apartment where I used to live, when we first were recording this podcast remotely, there was a dog who lived upstairs as well, and I had just brought my dog in, and they had let their dog out, and a skunk was in the yard, unbeknownst to either one of us, and sprayed their dog. And the whole yard stank, but luckily it did not get on my dog because you have to like, a dog is hard because they have lots of hair and they don't like taking baths. I think if I got skunked by a skunk, it would be pretty miserable, but I at least am like, I think I can clean me, you know, I think I could do the requisite steps, but to like do it with an unwilling dog sounds fucking awful.

01:00:37

Erin

I think it's only a matter of time until Lou and I get sprayed by one of these skunks.

JPC

What are these two that are out there?

Erin

Yeah, I mean, they are... You think they're in the bushes making a play? Yeah, I think that's exactly what they're doing. You know, I think we can get through... Yes?

JPC

Anything?

Erin

Five more riddles, but I think we can get through them quickly. There's no way. Yes, I think we can do it. Okay. These are from Chris, they, them. And Chris handed us these riddles at the Atlanta live show. But I'm happy to be doing them in front of Why don't we say ups?

Adal

Adal, that's a great question. We should either say UPS and or F-E-D-E-X or we should say UPS or FedEx. B to X. I'm tired of vacillating between these two.

01:01:46

Erin

Here are some riddles I wrote for y'all. Here we go.

JPC

Here we go. I also get so tired of vacillating. I'm like always vacillating. It sucks.

Erin

The sweetest flowing Canadian blood will slowly dry to sticky crud.

Adal

Seth Rogen?

JPC

Nope. This feels like a threat.

Erin

Also, all these riddles have a theme, but I don't... The sweetest something Canadian blood.

Adal

Something, something, something. Is this a mosquito?

Erin

Sticky crud. Something... It doesn't just exist in Canada, but it's associated with Canada quite often.

JPC

Maple syrup.

Erin

Yes.

JPC

Yes.

Erin

A white Chrysler LeBaron will serve you quite well to cover the distance to bring goats to hell.

Adal

It's

01:02:51

Erin

Take No, but we'll skip that one. We'll come back to it.

JPC

Okay.

Erin

Make seltzer water marigold hued, add sugar and poison, and say that it's food.

JPC

Oh boy. Sugar and poison and say that it's food. Give me sugar and poison.

Erin

I would say the first half makes it easier, but JPC, I bet you this would be a harder one for you to get.

JPC

Oh, okay.

Erin

Make seltzer water marigold hued.

JPC

She's red and expansive and made of the earth, and she'll bloom in your onion from Brisbane to Perth. Whoa. Chili's?

01:04:04

Erin

Close. Another one. The Sun?

JPC

I heard Blue and Onion. Outback Steakhouse?

Erin

Yes, Outback. The Outback. Brisbane to Perth.

JPC

Okay. Ice cream. Awesome blossom.

Erin

Now you know the answers are maple syrup, cake, Outback.

JPC

What could be the theme of these? Stomp on my balls?

Erin

My knees turned to jelly.

JPC

Oh, these are Review Crew things.

Erin

These are Review Crew things. Oh, grapes. Grapes, and then make seltzer water marigold hues.

Adal

Orange soda.

Erin

Yes.

Adal

Oh, these are all things that we've done on Review Crew.

Erin

Review Crew episodes with some regrettable outcomes. I love y'all and your shows, and I'm glad nobody got sick after Outback.

JPC

That's, by the way, every Review Crew has a regrettable outcome.

Erin

And then Chris says, travel safe and have a beautiful autumn, which I think is so sweet.

Adal

So JPC, when you guessed chilis, you weren't wrong. I guess I wasn't wrong. You were tapped into the theme.

JPC

Because Chili's is called an Awesome Blossom, right? And there's only one Chili's in the United States that still serves it? Or was Chili's called, was Chili's called the, uh, which one?

01:05:06

Erin

Bloomin' Onion and a- Hey JBC, I went into a white hot rage during our Chili's episode, uh, so I don't remember it. It's filed under, uh, worst hours of my life, so I don't really remember what I learned from that episode. Do you remember why that happened?

JPC

And no one can. And no one will.

Erin

Any memory of why that happened?

JPC

I don't have any memory. I have no memory of anything.

Erin

Great. Adal, anything to plug or promote or talk about?

Adal

Nope. How about you?

Erin

Okay, well, check out our review crew. That's right. Really great vibes over there. No one's ever gone insane on one of those episodes. And also, we have a little bit of tour left. So if you want to see us in Philadelphia, DC, or New York, there might still be tickets left for that. So heyriddleriddle.com slash live. JPC, any review to read or anything to plug?

JPC

Yeah, you know, I haven't read a review in a while, so let's highlight this one. This one's from wwj8. It's titled, long time, 5-star review. It says, listen to the 6th anniversary episode and just wanted to say I'm 20 and have been listening since 2018. You guys have been part of 1 third of my life. That's crazy, right? Oh boy, yeah. I was just... I'd say that was pretty crazy.

01:06:20

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Jupiter. Yeah, yeah. Created by Adal Rifai. Hey there Breaks and Careers. If you liked that, you are going to love this week's Patreon.

JPC

We're answering your questions on another ch-ch-ch-ch-chatterbox. You can listen to that plus our entire back catalog at patreon.com slash hey riddle riddle by joining the clue crew for $5 a month or start a seven 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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That was a hate gum podcast.