Which Riddle Riddle?

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Hey Riddle Riddle.

Adal, Erin, I actually have some great news for the two of you. Now I'm a little worried that could be more that you're mad at me.

Hmm. No, I'm sure. I'm sure.

For saying the whole great news thing. It's not even really news.

Go ahead and say it real fast.

Is this like a good news, bad news situation? Because maybe you could start with the better news and then you can give us your news.

That puts me on the spot. Let's see. Better news. Okay. That shouldn't be too hard. Let me just look at the news real quick. Okay. No, no, no, no, no. All right. We're going to scrap better news. I could do, here's what I could do. I could do worse news than the thing I was going to say.

Uh, worse news.

Okay. Let's see. Worse news. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Can you say something that will rise all hosts?

Now we're back to that, huh?

We thought that maybe you could say something that would make all three of us feel better. We could all care about the same thing, hypothetically, right?

Yeah, I think that works.

Here's more of what I'll say. I'll just say what I was gonna say, and then everybody could just, we could just move the fuck on from it.

All right, but it sort of feels like you're starting the episode maybe on a foot that is negative for Adal and I. So you'll be in a good mood and then we'll be in a bad mood.

Here's the thing. I feel I've had a cold that's been like lingering for a week. So I'm already in a bad mood. So it's like we don't have to worry about mood kind of across. It feels like we're all going to be on an even playing field when it comes to mood.

Sure. How about you tell us the news and then you'll tell Adal something that'll make him feel better and then me something that'll make me feel better.

Oh yeah, like password. I'll pass it down.

Oh, I'm not gonna tell you one of my passports. Oh, you want me to share? Adal's always asking me to share my passports.

Give me a number.

I think I've told you this before, but I've been on the side of that the Paramount Plus app is the worst fucking streamer. It's like the worst streamer. And I told Mariah, I was like, we got to stop paying for Paramount Plus. It sucks. It crashes all the time. And Mariah was like, we don't pay for Paramount Plus. We share it with six other people and it's always crashing because whenever someone is trying to watch it, we're like, oh, okay. Yeah, that makes more sense. It makes more sense.

Doctor heal thyself.

Um, well, anyway, the news was I was talking with Mariah the other night, and I have been working under maybe the incorrect assumption that I have been 37 all year, but Mariah was like, because I just had my birthday yesterday, Mariah was like, you're turning 37, and I was like, no. I am 37. So the good news is I'm now 37, and I haven't been 37 all year.

And you're in charge of our finances? Just a quick reminder.

Honestly, one digit off when it comes to finances, that's not actually a big deal.

I don't know, I feel like a stroke of the pen can change nations or whatever the fuck that is.

Yeah, Dr. Spreadsheets over here, this is a little, well, I will say it's kind of fun to gain a year of your life back. That's, not many people experience that.

I know, I feel like, I basically get to live 37 twice.

It's like a reverse coma? Can I say that? Casey beeped that out.

Yeah, Casey beeped that out.

I don't know, I think it's when you say reverse and then there's a beep, I feel like people are gonna... It'll be sounded way worse. Um, JBC, well, what now? You're gonna live 37 twice. Yeah, I'm gonna get... Just bump the age, just say you're 38.

I should just be 38. I feel like it's just easier. I'm closer to 40, which is good, because once the year is 8 and my birth year is 8, once we get to 2028, that's icing on the cake, baby. I'll never forget then, because I can do that tens math.

Oh, you'll be in lockstep, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. But yeah, I mean, I guess basically what I'll try to do is I'll just try to live This next year of my life, Moss. Now speaking of living Moss, I don't want to talk about it. No, Erin, surprisingly it's not about you. This brings us to a little picture that we got sent in the group chat a few days ago.

This is exactly what I don't want to talk about. I'm literally going to throw up down my chest. It looks so gross.

Oh, this is Rob Schneider doing his De Niro impression?

Okay, that was something that Erin said to us. I have nipples, Greg. Can you milk me? And then one thing Rob Schneider does. Milking nipples. Milking nipples. Thank you. I was trying to do goat boy, but that's Jim Brewer.

Do you want to say what monstrosity you texted to us?

Yeah, this is something I thought possibly we could, well, JBC, do you want to mention what you threw in the group chat for us to review for review group? Yeah, this is actually important context. Riddle

But for review crew, I wanted us to all go and see a live Jeff Dunham puppet show in Rosemont. Now, if you're not familiar with Jeff Dunham, good. But if you are familiar with Jeff Dunham, it's like... It's he's he does ventriloquism but also like famously he has like a very racist like dead Arab puppet, dead terrorist is what he calls them.

A very racist jalapeno, a very racist A lot of things.

It's just, it's like right-wing puppetry. And I was like, that would be, I would be, it would be so funny for me to make you guys have to endure that with us and Casey probably as well for a review crew. But this year I finally was like, I'll get ahead of it. I'll check the tickets. I'll get some tickets. Check the tickets. Tickets were, the cheapest seats were $140. And I was like... Diabolical. Unreal. Unreal that that man can get off, that people are paying that.

I would have thought he would be playing Hammond, Indiana at the Horseshoe and tickets were free if you put down $20 on Blackjack or something. That's what I thought his career was at.

Well, it's not. He is apparently touring and he's hitting the Allstate Stadium in Rosemont where I saw Weezer play.

Stadium?

Adal, you've been to that venue in Rosemont, right?

It's Allstate Arena, I think, right?

It's an arena. I don't know the difference between an arena and a stadium. It's up to 22,000 people. Now sometimes what they do for shows like this is they'll just like close off the upper balcony. Jeff Dunham's not selling 22,000 tickets. Right. But, you know, he'll sell enough that they can cram people in. And also I've bought tickets to that venue before where I buy like a bad ticket and then you show up and they're like, you can kind of sit in the front if you want. Like we didn't sell the good tickets.

Could you imagine having a 400 level seat for a puppet show? For a live puppet show?

I mean, so anyway, we're not gonna do that. It's so funny. There is a lot, it's actually not that much that I would pay for a bit, but like $100 is, and to give $100 to Jeff Dunham as well, I'm like, that's just.

Yeah, I don't wanna give him that kind of money.

Plus we get sucked into the amazing merch, I'm sure he has. But then in response to that, I said, surely there's other stuff we can review. And then I sent a picture of the brand new And this is real. This is a real thing. I've seen people reviewing it. This is the Taco Bell Baja Blast pie. It's a baked pie filled with what looks like baked to be expired Colgate. And I've seen mixed reviews. I've seen people say it's delicious and I've seen people spit it out and throw the pie away and say this is the worst thing they've ever eaten.

I thought when you sent that picture, Adal, I thought you had purchased this. I thought, I thought we were about to hear you give your review of the Taco Bell Baja Blast Pie. But do you know, is it one of these like, because Taco Bell does this, is it like a test market item? Is it only like in like St. Louis and shit? Or is it nationwide? Can you get it anywhere? I haven't checked, but- Casey's typing.

Casey's- I will be checking. Uh oh, Casey said I'm- Casey said I'm pissed!

Whatever the context for that is, we can't know. We can't know why, what about this situation pisses him off.

Now has there ever been a beverage turned into a pie before? Has there ever been a beverage turned into a pie?

Who's all been puzzled?

Um, no, right?

No, there surely has been. Okay, this is not the same, I admit, but I bet there's a place where you can get like Dr. Pepper pie.

Okay, I just googled Baja Blast Pie to see if it's nationwide, and the first article I see is from the New York Post that says Taco Bell's new Mountain Dew Baja Blast Pie horrifies customers, quote Chernobyl Cheesecake.

Yikes. Here's the thing, not that the New York Post doesn't do great journalism, because I believe that they do, but so much of like writing now, I won't even call it journalism because that's not what the New York Post does, is just like searching for tweets where people said something and then putting that in their headline. Like someone tweeted Chernobyl cheesecake and, you know, to be funny. And then the New York Post is like, that's our headline. And I'm like, this seems like It seems like we're in a downward cycle here, right?

We're circling the fucking train. Somebody said something so everybody feels that way and it's news.

Yeah. It says nationwide.

Okay.

So, GBC, you probably got one of these for your birthday. That sucks. That sucks.

And you probably ate the whole thing, huh?

You probably ate the whole thing. If you told me that it was a Baja Blast cheesecake, I think I'd be way more interested in that than like a Baja Blast baked pie.

Yes, because these pies, when I've seen people review these, they look like, did you guys watch Double Dare growing up at all? Yeah. They look like the Double Dare pies where it's like there's no, if you turn this thing upside down, the crust is staying and the middle is just, it's like Nickelodeon gacking

See, this is why I said I was going to get nauseous. I knew we were careening towards this. Oh, oh, I do have good news.

I don't believe you. No, this is actual good news that you guys are both going to love. Do you remember the last time that I was Old Man Puzzles? I had like an orange book of riddles and we did riddle set up them and they were very hard to comprehend and no one had a good time with them? Yeah, yes. Well, I was planning to do at least one more of those riddles on the episode today, but it is that book is now under two different things on my desk that would take me a couple of seconds to move around. I'd have to like read Jocelyn. So we're not going to do that unless we've run out of other riddles and then I'll have to rejostle. Maybe it's under even three things. Wouldn't that be something? So we're going to do some listener submitted riddles. This first one is coming to us from Ben. In Australia... Okay, he... Ben lists the place in Australia where it's from. Erin, I think you're the only one who may be qualified to, like, pronounce this.

What do we... Oh my gosh, I don't know.

What do we think that word is?

Wormamble.

Wornamble? Wornamble.

Wornamble. Wornamble.

I don't know. Wornamble.

Morning Bill. My favorite place I went to in Australia was, I think it was a park called Tidbinbilla. Tidbinbilla?

Tidbinbilla's in Wornamble.

No, I have no idea. Sorry.

We can't just be saying things. Okay, I know exactly where Warrnambool is. First of all, what coast do you think Warrnambool is?

East coast.

Northeast. It is the East Coast, Erin, but it's not the Northeast. It's the Southeast. It looks like it's maybe an hour or two outside of Melbourne. Right above Tasmania? Is it right above Tasmania? No, Warrnambool's on the coast. It's on the water. It actually looks fucking fantastic.

And we're sorry if we're saying it wrong.

No, I'm not.

I am. I'm sorry.

Warnambool has a Red Rooster, a KFC, a McDonald's. Wow, they're just like us.

They have a Waves Motel. The Waves Motel looks really nice. Let's see if I can get prices.

Oh no, it's not giving me available prices. Sorry guys. You have to contact the property for rates.

Are we doing riddles?

It's probably about a Jeff Dunham ticket per night.

No, now I want to move to Warrnambool, Australia and go to Discovery Park's Warrnambool and the Deep Blue Springs Warrnambool hot springs.

And you don't have time to move two things?

No, I actually don't have time because I have to rent a Warrnambool heritage cottage. I actually don't think you could rent it.

Are you getting paid by their tourism board?

I would love to. I do have an open Venmo, so if they have some extra scratch and they want to send me... Listen, this Riddle submission is probably from like six years ago, but Ben, if you're still in Warrnambool, Australia, I don't believe you ever told us what it's like there, but I would love if you could email the show and just give us an update on like, is Warrnambool cool? Is it nice?

Yeah, just a snapshot.

I mean, right now, if you hear this, it's summertime in Warrnambool, right?

Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, real quick before I forget, just because we brought up Australia. I had a thought last night right before I went to bed, seconds before I went to bed, because they shot in New Zealand. Oh, seconds before you go into bed. You shouldn't be eating before bedtime. Viggo Mortensen. Is there anyone, is there any actor who's like, seems as good a dude as Viggo Mortensen?

No.

I don't know if I've ever seen him look mad. He's very gentle.

I mean, I worry about saying that about Viggo Mortensen because someone's gonna be like, can we check his Wikipedia page for a controversy section?

I worry about saying that about any man, really.

Yeah, yeah.

He just, like, the way we all, like, Keanu, we've all rallied around Keanu Reeves, it's like, he's the best guy in Hollywood. I feel like Viggo Mortensen is right outside the door, just kind of quietly smoking a clove cigarette, and we should give him his due.

Yeah, I feel like if Viggo Mortensen was the same celebrity level as Keanu Reeves, I think that he would probably be in that same category of conversation.

There could be a Viggo John Wick.

It'd be more like at this point like a Viggo, like nobody, right? Because like Viggo's, he's no spring chicken anymore, right? He's like in his 60s probably?

Yeah, he's probably in his 60s, right? Jesus.

Well, you know, I guess.

I don't know any of this. I don't want to know any of this.

That's the real riddle. Well, the real riddle is the one that we're about to do from Ben in Warrnambool, Australia. Okay, here's your riddle. On, Stanley, on, were the last words of Babalon. If I were to stand in Stanley's place, it would bring salty tears to people's face.

It's one of those little mermaids that is in the front of the boat.

It's one of those goddamn little mermaids that's in the front of the boat. He smashed the champagne bottle on their head.

I want to see a quick scene. Okay, Adal, you're a boat captain and you just hit Erin, who's one of those little mermaids in the front of the boat.

And bon voyage.

Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh shit.

Oh that's a lot of blood. Or sap, I don't know what that is.

I just got dental work done.

I am so sorry. I thought you were like um... I thought you were wood.

I am, I am. Oh. I just got veneers though. Oh. I got a full face of veneers. This is going to be like $8,000 at least, man. Oh my God. Reconstructive work. I don't know if you want to sell me or what's going on.

Oh, um.

Oh my God.

Are you able to like rest yourself off the front of the ship and like walk around or you're kind of firm?

No, you got to bring the boat to the dentist.

Yeah, okay. Well then I'm not going to pay.

No, come on man.

Because you can't like, I mean, you have to wait for a lawyer to take a boat trip and then you have to wait for them to get back from their journey.

You're looking at this wrong. I got nothing but time. Also, this is not real champagne.

Okay, what do we, okay, all right.

Let's make this go away.

Let's make this go away.

Hey everybody!

Guard, a captain not be using champagne! Mutiny! Mutiny! No, no, no, hold on, hold on. This is Moet, M-O-W, hyphen, W-E-T.

And this is my wife!

Mrs. Captain, enchanté. Listen everyone, crowd about to board the boat.

It's not real champagne. It's bad luck to not use real champagne.

Listen, cheersing with water never killed anyone.

Yes it did. It killed a lot of people.

Oh my god. They didn't pee out the poison?

No, it's bad luck. It brings a bad omen on you and yours. But I guess you can't pay the $40,000 to fix my tea.

It was $8,000. Just listen. I used fake champagne because I went the real champagne for all the passengers.

I curse this ship. I curse this ship and these inhabitants. Unless you give me real champagne and you pay $70,000. Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah, just chip away at that. You're gonna put a hole in your boat. You're gonna put a hole in the front of the boat.

That's fine.

I balance out the weight.

You what?

I balance out the weight.

You balance out the weight?

Yeah.

Sounds like more pee out the poison stuff to me.

Alright, fine. Take me off your boat, see how it goes. But then you'll find out about the curse of the... uh... Throw some termites in your...

See, gotta work boys.

Joke's on you, the termites are her friends.

Yeah, joke's on you, the termites were her hair. And actually it's a glow-up.

And they've never heard her.

And actually it's a glow-up.

Erin, if they're your friends, name three names you would give a termite.

Term. Mate. It's a Mr. Bug.

Okay.

All right.

Case closed. You know what?

A professional improviser, everybody.

The thousands that you spend on classes, it's not thousands for making up names.

You're so smart, JPC. You gave me three names for a term mate.

King Shandy, Mr. Terrific, and Lord Wilbington.

That second one seems a little suspicious.

Oh yeah, I feel like that might be from a Superman movie.

All right, Adal, if you're so smart, give me three names for termites.

Jeff, Doug, Tony. This is how they name minions. He's just doing minions names for termites.

Banana, banana, banana.

Okay, you guys were so close to getting this riddle. Oh my God, we're in the middle of a fucking riddle. Oh, I thought Erin got it. Well, no, no one even tried it. Well, I guess Erin did say mermaid on the front of the ship, which was wrong.

Oh. We never got that information.

I'm Why do people cry? Because they're sad.

Because they're sad.

Because they're happy.

Because they're in pain. This is actually a great line that I think will really help you. You're on a really good position here with why do people cry.

Having a wedding. A baby.

Kids going off to college.

The wind.

Now Babylon was a Dominic Chazelle movie from two years ago, which I thought was actually- Did you see it? I saw so much negative press about it and how people were like, womp womp flop. And then I watched it and I was like, I kind of love this movie.

I never saw it, but Mariah watched it and it was one of those things where like, sometimes she'll like start watching a movie while we're recording or something, then I'll come upstairs and I'll catch like the last 40 minutes of the movie. Catching the last 40 minutes of Babylon, by the way.

It's bonkers, which is why I liked it so much. It's just nonstop. Why do people cry? Because someone's going away, because someone's returned. I mean, there's a lot of reasons people

Now, let's think of more like things that make people cry that are not like emotional things. I think that's really giving it away.

Yeah, I said the wind.

Oh, onions?

Edel! Onions. Onions.

The answer is onion. Now, do you know why the answer is onion? And I posted in our chat the text of this. Okay. On, Stanley, on were the last words of Babylon. If I were to stand in Stanley's place, it would bring salty tears to people's face.

Stanley's the guy cutting the onions?

Yeah.

If I, and if you put quotes around I, were to stand in Stanley's place, what does that do to the start of the riddle?

Rocks.

Wow. This is a good riddle, actually. This is a good riddle, and doesn't this kind of make you think, like, maybe Warren Bull Australia is, like, the fucking place to be, you know? Yeah. The only thing I know about it is one good riddle came from it.

What's in the water in Warren Bull?

I'd like to see a scene. Yes, please. Adal, you are going to HR, which is JPC, and you're complaining about being bullied at work by an onion who's making you cry.

Hey, sorry Todd, we had a 3 p.m.

Oh yeah, come on in.

Okay.

What's up, penis breath? Sorry, I just saw ET last night for the first time.

Oh, do they say penis breath in there?

Oh my god, don't they? Oh no, I could get in huge trouble.

Um, hey, listen, I don't want to make a big deal out of this, just because this is about someone in the office, which I guess most HR complaints are. Sure. Yeah. Yes.

Otherwise, it's all anonymous. Even the stuff that I say to you, penis breath. I think it is it I'm googled it and it is an ET.

So is this because I have Reese's at my desk all the time? Reese's pieces? No, I know you say Reese's Pieces, but I prefer mine.

I promise you it has nothing to do with you. It's just because I saw E.T. for the first time last night, and they do say penis breath in E.T., which is crazy.

Just walking by an open door.

Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit.

I don't want to eavesdrop on H.R., but.

Please don't. Then just keep walking by.

Wait, this isn't this isn't my this isn't the bathroom. Zip. Well, well, hey, Onion. How are you doing?

Hey, penis breath.

Come on. How is this spreading?

How you doing today?

Ow. You shoved me into the wall, which is good because we're co-workers and that's, this is... So you, you're okay with that?

Because that could be like a serious HR violation, but you're okay with it. You said it. No tixies-baxies.

I got a question for HR. It's totally okay to take your co-worker's wife out on a date, right? Because I already did that. Last night. High five? High five? High five me, I'm an onion. High five me, I'm an onion. High five me, I'm an onion.

I'll high five you. Move away. Move aside. Brian, I'm gonna high five this onion. Uh, yeah, I guess it's outside of the workplace, so as long as it's not like a work-sanctioned event, I think you can kind of do whatever you want.

Alright, well I'm going to keep on keeping on. I'm going to go text your wife that I had a great time last night. My wife? No, no, not you. Don't worry, of course, I would never do that.

That explains why this morning my wife came home in her same clothes and was walking while saying, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.

Yeah, that was me. I'm going to get back to my desk.

I think everybody better get back to their desk.

The onion's been bullying me. I want to find... I want to... This onion needs to go. For the last two weeks, she's been non-stop bullying me. What? She has been harassing me physically, mentally... Penis breath.

That is a very serious allegation, okay? Are you sure you want to file an official complaint?

Yeah, I'd also love it if I just wasn't referred to as penis breath.

It seems like maybe there was a... Alright, I'm gonna log it here, but just so you know, I'll have to phone the home office. Oh! God, E.T. is just living in every part of my brain. Phone, home, office. Oh my God.

I'm putting in my two weeks.

Well, sad to see you go, penis breath, but happy to not smell that smell no more.

Hey, Onion again. I would like to put in a complaint.

Oh, please. Absolutely.

It's actually a two-part complaint for penis breath.

Okay.

Um, why his breath stinks so bad and also his wife just broke up with me and that's not nice. So I'd like to make a complaint. I feel bullied. Are you kidding me? I feel bullied. His wife broke up with me. I feel bullied. Hey, penis breath be nice.

Onion's going through a breakup.

I'm going through a breakup.

You have no emotional sensitivity. That's one of your big problems.

Apparently it gives you a UTI to have sex with an onion. I didn't know that. How was I supposed to know that?

What do you think you'd get if you had sex with an E.T.?

Uh, copyright lawsuits?

I was trying to think. Is there an extraterrestrial something there, huh? Oh yeah, an E.T.D. Scene?

E.T.D.? Scene? Give me like 40 minutes.

Estrategical. Estratextical.

We pick but don't choose.

We don't come in twos. Periodically smaller, we won't make you taller. The top of the tip, we scratch and we click. Some fancy, some plain, but what is our name?

It's not an apple.

Erin, that is exactly correct. It is not an apple. You're so fucking good at this.

Wow. I'm so smart.

The top of the tip.

Is it a food? Is it a plant?

Erin, it is not a food, but I hesitate to say eat, but some people do bite these. Hmm. I guess some people eat them, too. We pick but don't choose. Boogers. We don't come in twos. Interesting. His mind went to boogers, Erin. Do we want to do anything with that? That was the first place his mind went. It's not food that people eat.

I can proudly say never had a booger touch my tongue.

Oh, you've never tried a booger?

No.

You guys, I will take my headphones off. I'm a little nauseous this morning. I will take my headphones off. And then you'll have to beg me to put my headphones back on. You'll have to bribe me with money. Human money. New York Post is saying Baja Blast Pie called Booger Baked Good throws headphones into the garbage disposal, turned on garbage disposal. Sounds the same as when JBC talks. High fives though.

High fives on you.

Can you read this riddle one more time?

We pick but don't choose, we don't come in twos. Periodically smaller, we won't make you taller. The top of the No, the top of the tip we scratch and we click some fancy, some plain, but what is our name? I like this riddle a lot. I think Jess did a good job. It's man-made.

Picking fruit.

Is it man-made? Not really, Erin. It's not really man-made. No, no, it's natural. It's not man-made. Fingernails. Adal. Adal. Fingernails? It's fingernails.

Oh, those are not man-made. You're making them right now, man.

But they're like, they're constructed, they're like natural, right? They like, they occur. I don't have any say over making fingernails. Honestly, if I could just stop making fingernails, I think that would be for the best.

If you put a Q-tip in at a certain angle, I bet you could turn that button off.

It's a really risky procedure because it's not based on any science, but I bet you could do it.

Erin, you wouldn't stop growing fingernails? No, because it protects my little nail beds.

Welcome back.

No, they're like a sensitive part of your body. Have you ever had like a nail completely fall off?

It's incredible. What if it was just like the other side of the finger? I think that's what Adal's saying. What if we had double-sided fingers?

You know what? You know what? Okay, here's the thing.

ET does.

Here's the thing. I was going to defend how smart our bodies are at just doing what they need to be doing. Our breathing hole and our eating hole is the same hole.

Not all of us, Erin. Not all of us.

So, you know what? We're not that well designed. I'm not going to die in the hill of humans.

Erin thinks the Baja Blast pie is so disgusting because she's putting it in her breathing hole. Oh, Erin, no. Erin, that is not the hole you eat the Baja Blast pie. That is not what you do.

Guys, I cannot get another UTI. E-T-I.

What's your scene, Adal? What's your scene?

Yeah, please, good for the love of God.

Um, I want to see a scene... I can't even remember what I wanted to see.

It was fingernails! It was fingernails! We need it!

Let's go to a break.

No, no, no, we can't go to a break yet. Let's do one more riddle, and then I promise we'll do a break, okay? Okay. Kevin Kevinson submitted this riddle, so that should give you an idea of how long ago this riddle was submitted. That sounds like a 2019 riddle. I'm one-fourth of a score and used by many. You might find me on the floor. I'm more tempting than a penny. I can get you many a thing, but when spent I am gone. So get the gift worth giving and use me on Patreon. What am I? Whoa.

Five dollar bill. Erin, it's a five dollar bill.

Five, five dollar. Cause four scores for a score is what, 20 years? A score is 20 years? Yeah, I think so.

I'm a fourth of a score. Yeah, yeah, score is 20 years. Whoa. Good job. Kevin says, I'm the $5 that just shelled out to join the Clue Crew. Thanks for the laughs. Much love. Hey, and if you got $5 and you want to join the Clue Crew, you're going to be just in time for one of my favorite things of the year, which is our 2025 Out of Context Clips bracket.

I don't know, maybe wait a few months if you want to join the Patreon. I don't know, maybe skip it this year. Hey Riddle Riddle has really fallen off, huh? Yeah, I agree, Erin. Okay, go ahead.

Erin, you're Abraham Lincoln. You're doing the famous four score in 20 years speech. JPC, you are a heckler who feels like Lincoln is sort of out of touch with lingo. Okay.

Four score and seven years ago, our great... Sorry. It's like a seagull or something flew by. All right, here we go. Four score and seven years ago, our...

Hold on. Larry, get my abacus. The president's making me do a math problem. What am I solving for?

Okay, I gotta laugh. All right. Yeah, we're all having fun. I'm like sort of part of this. Sir, where are you from?

Oh, don't make me say.

Sir, where are you from?

Well, I'm heckling Lincoln, so... Oh, looks like this guy's from the South. What's it feel like to lose? Not good. We really wanted slaves.

Yeah, yeah. Okay. So, uh, what was I saying? Four score in year... Four score... Sorry, I messed up this time. Damn, Larry, the president just drained all my status. Four score in seven years ago, our great nation brought forth a new nation.

I kind of had to think about who would be heckling Lincoln right now. Oh, man.

There are a lot of seagulls out, though. They keep swooping down. Yeah, it's Georgia.

There's a civil war. Okay, I feel like I lost the sauce on this one.

Same. Oh, if Lincoln had only said, lost the sauce.

Poor, poor Lincoln.

If he said lost the sauce in the same speech that he said four scores, what he is.

We would have had a President Douglas.

Poor, poor Lincoln. Erin, don't feel too bad for the guy. The guy's on frickin' money.

All right. Yeah, you're right. He had it pretty good, especially at the end. You're right.

Other than that, Ms. Lincoln, how was the money? Hey, why don't we do this? Why don't we take a little break? Oh, and I'm looking at what we have planned, and we'll be back with something pretty special.

All right. Mysterious.

E.T. take break.

Adal JPC, so sorry to come to you in a panic. I have literally one minute to get a last-minute gift for a loved one in my life. I don't know what to do. Panicking. I could make something out of trash. No, that's nothing. What do I do? What do I do? Erin, slap, slap, slap.

Ow, why'd you slap me?

Slapped Adal.

Well, that's what we were doing when Erin merged in here. Guys! Yeah, we're gassing each other up. It's almost Christmas. What do I do? Oh, Erin, if you need a last minute gift, you gotta check out Aura Frames. Oh, right.

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I feel okay. Erin, Adal, can I share a real life story brought to you by the fine folks at Quince. So it's Thanksgiving. We do a thing every year where we go to a friend's giving at a friend's house. My wife is dressed. My child is dressed. My wife says, I say, I'm going to go upstairs and take a shower. I come downstairs and my wife says, you are not wearing that to Thanksgiving. And I said, well, I thought, I thought I was going to wear this. And she said, no, you go upstairs and change it. You change it to something nice. And I went upstairs and I went into my closet and what did I find? But my quince long sleeve Henley and I said, this actually looks pretty nice. And I think that if I wear this downstairs, my wife will shake her head. Yes. That's something we could leave the house. And guess what? It happened.

But I'm sure that was like so expensive. That sounds pretty luxe.

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And not the dump where they just bury it, the dump where they burn it. Feels specific to you. Get your wardrobe sorted and your gift list sorted. What were you wearing when you came downstairs? Full turkey costume. Knew it. Ah, nuts. I missed out on getting the worm this morning.

Wait, but you talked all about wanting to be the early bird.

I know. Well, what I say and what I do is two different things. There's quite a discrepancy.

You've been practicing the worm all year. You said you were going to get out of bed, flop down on the floor, and start writhing around. I know.

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For squirrels. Hey Riddle Riddle Water.

Water. Oh my gosh, you're crawling on the ground. Your clothes are in tatters. Are you okay? I need water.

It's too sandy in here. Sandy's in here.

I can't believe I fell for it. You ruined your clothes to do this intro? These are pre-ruined clothes. They were more expensive. Oh, you're dumping out your canteen and Sandy's sort of forming into ether. Whoa.

Cool.

Yeah, Thomas Hayden Church doesn't have a monopoly on this move. That's a Spider-Man 3 reference. Actually, not bad casting. Not terrible cast. I mean, they didn't hire me, but short of me, which would have been the best choice. Thomasin Church? Sure. Why not? But he's sort of an everyman. He's got that gravelly voice, which is what you want for the character. Striped sweatshirt, of course.

Big striped sweatshirt guy.

That's mostly on costumes. No, I think that's his. Well, Sandy. Yeah. Let's get into some fun little games or puzzles, whatever you have for us. Yeah. Well, I don't know what to call these. I guess they're just riddles. I've come up with a bunch of, I guess, dad jokes for you guys to suss out. Love it. I'm leaning in. We all know what I'm talking about, but just in case, let's give you an example. If I asked you, what does a mountain climber and a stoner have in common, you would say, well, they both like to peak early. God damn it.

They both like to get high.

They both like to get high. Thank you. The dad chimes in. Erin was pinching the bridge of her nose like a mom in an 80s movie who sat at the kitchen table and the bills piled up. And the dad's like, I got a new business idea. I'm just going to write these jokes.

What if you went down to the factory and you asked if they could hire you back?

And she just keeps saying, I don't know how we're going to do this.

How are we going to do this?

I was at the zoo the other day and I was looking at the camels and I heard someone say to someone else next to me, not to me, what do you call a three humped camel? Which of course I know the answer to and the answer to that joke is pregnant.

And I turned to... Hold on, hold on, I've got to write this one down.

Dads Will Enjoy, which I feel like is a pretty classic dad joke. It's like a dad joke that I've heard a lot before. I turned to my right to see who had said it. It was a maybe five-year-old boy to another five-year-old boy. What? Whoa. And I was like, so that is a joke that you've heard, like, your dad. I want to say your dad. They were alone. They were like, they were probably with a chaperone who was not, like, directly next to them. But I was like, that is a joke that you probably heard your dad say. But I'm like, do you know what that means? I was like, I really wanted to drill in on this five-year-old to be like, what do you think that means?

That's crazy.

Yeah, it's pretty wild.

Yeah, are you outraged that they know what a pregnant woman looks like or that they've heard of dromedary camels?

It was, you know what, it was more the dromedary camel thing. I'm like, you identify that these are humps, huh? Okay, you just don't think this is like his like fucked up back that you're seeing. It was more just the bodiness of the joke.

Sorry, I made, fuck, I fucked up the camel joke. I should have said Bactrian. Bactrian's the one with two, dromedary's the one with one.

That went way over our heads. Thank you for not correcting me.

No, no, no. You're being very kind. Obviously, we all know the difference between Camels, and I was the one who fucked up. Sorry, Sandy. We're going to loop in Jack Hanna real quick for a big laugh.

Sandy, what if it was a dromedary, but it was with twins? I guess you don't need to hump twice to do twins. I don't really know how Camels do it.

How do they do it? Hump twice with twins? Who are you, Dan Blazarian?

God, we're going to be piping in laughs all over this.

I haven't even answered one riddle yet. But I like how you have a zoo story for every occasion, JPC.

I'll have to fucking think of one for the goddamn next segment.

JPC's like, I'm out of material, I gotta go down to the zoo again.

Listen in on strangers' conversations. Me with a tiny little notebook at the zoo, just writing down observations that I see.

This is gold, kids. Field recording equipment, start a new podcast. Okay, what is, what is, what does a fireplace have in common with a party thrown by new neighbors? Ooh, they're both stoking heat. They're both.

Okay. They're both swingers. Getting smoke in your house. They're both allowed to smoke in your house? A party thrown by new neighbors? Oh, they're both housewarming. Nice one.

Wow. That one's so good.

I have dad energy coursing through my body and it's connecting me to the dad god of the sky who powers all of our dad-abilities.

Yeah, you might have access to this list of jokes that I've written down. I store them in a database. Okay, what does a synchronized diver have in common with a billiards player? They both love pools. Pool player. Pool player. Pool is part of it. Pool is part of it. They both dip their toes in pool.

Why is it a synchronized diver? They're both weary of pool sharks.

They both hit the eight ball. They both synchronized. If you're synchronized, you need to be on pool cues. They both have pool cues.

They both focus on pool cues. But I do think that pool sharks are real because my cousins wouldn't have lied to me when I was a kid.

No, I'm not going to correct you. I think that a little bit of fear will do you good.

Was your cousin a shark?

Is that why? Oh, I mean, my cousin, name was Bruce, don't necessarily know that they were a shark. I mean, they were animatronic.

It makes sense that you're related to a shark because you're all cartilage and no bone. Right?

And you can't stop moving.

Is that a dad joke? Is that a dad joke? No, that's just an observation about you.

It has a setup of a dad joke.

It's just an observation about you.

God, all cartilage and no bone.

Okay, hey, I'll take it.

You got those little fish on your stomach that I guess clean you. I fucking love those little fish. I love those little fucking fish.

You're always biting surfers.

Robert Charles trying to blow you up. There you go. I'll kill you, JPC.

You could say that I'm a great white. I wouldn't say that, though.

But they said that in Carmel, Indiana.

But remember, truth and comedy. You gotta do truth and comedy.

Alright, you want another one?

Yes.

What does a clueless person have in common with a broken sword? Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd. What does a clueless person have in common with a broken sword?

No handle on the situation.

Oh, that's pretty good. I mean, that's an alternate answer. I'll give it to you. What is a broken sword? What does a clueless person have in common with a broken sword? They don't, both of them don't get to the point.

They're not sharp.

That's it. They're missing the point. They're missing the point.

Making my way downtown.

I made that Clueless joke and Sandy looked at me for one second like, what the fuck? And then he started laughing. He had to remember who's in Clueless, which we all do.

What is an idle chatterer have in common with an unskilled marksman? Idal Chatterer have in common with a lazy archer? What was it? Unskilled marksman. Unskilled marksman.

I like lazy archer though.

They don't hit the target. They don't bullseye. They don't...

Yeah, something about off-target, is target part of it?

They're looking down the scope, they're idle chatter, unskilled remarks. If you're just talking a lot and with nothing really on your mind, you're rambling, you're rambling, you're... Missing the point kind of works. You're kind of walking in circles. The good news is that I get to decide what's right and wrong here. That's right, that's great news for you. Yeah. It is a term that means to chit chat. It's an expression. Shooting the shit? You're very close. Unskilled marksmen typically don't shoot at shit.

Shoot the... breeze? Shoot the breeze! Shoot the breeze!

Bang, bang, bang.

God, hey, I'll be honest with you. I don't think I've heard the term shoot the breeze. I feel like we may have just brought that one back. I think that that one may have been on its way to extinction.

You caught it right before it fell off the cliff.

Yeah, but maybe the last person almost forgot it and it's like, it's Cocoa Rules, so it was about to disappear into the ether. Sorry, it's what rules?

Cocoa.

Erin got it. The Pixar movie. Erin got Cocoa Rules.

You should watch it. It's really good. It's very moving.

I don't want to spoil it. I referenced it in the last game, the last episode, but I don't remember Cocoa Rules.

Cocoa Rules is when the last person who's living forgets you, you now disappear from the afterlife or whatever. That's what the whole remember me is all about.

Remember me. Got it. Got it. Spoiler for Coco. What do popular people have in common with shivering goat babies? Whoa. They both faint. They both need milk.

They're both cool.

Cool kids. Cool kids. Cool kids. Wow. People say that? Or is that coming back because we were bringing it back?

I feel like cool kids is still going to be in the vernacular. Do people still say that kids are cool? The cool kids?

I think they say like, because we used to say like the cool kids table. Like, yeah, it's still around.

Sandy, have you heard your kids reference cool kids? I would just say like us or we. Yeah, right. The laugh he gave! The laugh he gave! I hope Ezra never hears that laugh. What does a musically inclined philanthropist have in common with a consenting patient? Okay, what is a musical philanderer having... No!

They both cheat on their... What is a musically talented philanthropist having in common with a patient? What was it? Confused patient? A consenting patient. They both signed waivers. They both...

Musical philanthropist, donate, donation, charity. Uh, oof, boy.

They both have their salaries.

Donor. Donor.

Donor's right. They both pray for donors. They're both donors.

Is it like, but musical, do we have to do like singing donor or like song donor?

There's a word that is a, that is a thing that precedes the word donor that also is a musical instrument. Oh!

A... Saxa donor.

Saxa donor.

Is it saxa donor?

It's a saxa donor. A gong donor. Speaking of sex donors.

A triangle donor. No, you'll get it. Trump donor. Fuck me.

I don't know. It's not an instrument that you see in a band, but it is an instrument that you- Lila Foner donor. That just sounds like a Bob Duca ailment.

It's not an instrument that you'd see in a band, but it's a musical instrument?

Oh yeah, it's a big one too. They can be really, really huge. Whoa, theremin donor.

Timpani donor.

Organ donor. Oh my god.

Organ donor.

Nice one, Erin. My brain is moving so slow. Oh my god.

You should try spinking. I hear it helps.

Say a prayer to connect yourself with the Sky Dad, Erin. The Sky Dad that gives all dad jokes and all dad wisdom.

What religion is this? And how can I run from it physically? Read my emails.

And join. If you want. But donate. Cult.

Cult. Cult.

I'll tell you, this one involves a homophone, so we're changing the spelling in one of the words. What does a menu have in common with Bowdoin College? I know nothing about Bowdoin College. Is that New York? Is it sports? But knowing where it is is important. No, it's not sports.

New York City.

Where is Bowdoin?

Upstate New York.

Nope.

Not in New York State at all.

I think nowhere to New York.

Oh, Barnyard is in New York though.

Barnard? Nope. Barnard?

Barnyard. I called it Barnyard. And that is my roast on Barnard.

You're thinking of the cow workers. Is Bowdoin East Coast? Yeah. Because Erin seems to know it, so I feel like it has to be East Coast.

People I went to high school with went there, so I don't know.

What is a restaurant menu have in common with Bowdoin College? I'm Uh, yeah, but you can get it the other way.

Maine!

It is able to have maines. Main course, main course, main course.

Main courses.

Whoa. God damn it. Erin's so upset because she loves Maine more than anything.

I do.

So much that she knows all the colleges that Lincoln has.

I knew it was in New England, but I didn't really know where.

What does, this is another homophone, what does a certain pop star have in common with a very quick seamstress? They're Swift tailors. They're Swift tailors. Taylor Swift. Wow. Taylor Swift. What does the Parcheesi have in common with fatigued pheasants? They're both played out.

They're both... Which one is Parcheesi? Does Parcheesi have dice?

Yeah, but it doesn't matter. Welcome back. More like uninterested pheasants. Disinterested. Bored. Bored chickens. They're both board game. Board game.

That's awesome.

God damn it. Erin, you got us there.

No, you got us there.

Parcheesi? Parcheesi is the one you went with, Sandy? Knowing what I know about you and Parcheesi is the one that made it into this, Riddle?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Parcheesi. What's wrong with Parcheesi? I mean, other than it probably sucks as a game, but it's a great board to say. It's fun to say, Parcheesi.

It is fun. It is fun.

I do admit, Parcheesi is fun to say. It probably sucks as a board game, but it is fun to say. You know what else is a fun board game to say but not to play? Stratego. I like Stratego.

What the hell is Stratego?

Balderdash. It's a 1v1 game where you have a bunch of tokens that represent different ranks, but you turn them so that your opponent can't see which one's which, and you hide a bomb among them.

It's military guess who? It's Battleship.

Let's play it!

No! I hate it! I played it a lot when I was a kid because that was one of the board games my grandparents had, I remember. Stratego.

What does the coronation of a new queen have in common with the birth of a baby? Oh, crowning.

Crowning.

It's a crowning. You're there. You're there.

Just one more word. Crowning a head. Crowning a head of state. Crowning... The head is crowning.

I'll give it to you. You got the important word. It's a crowning achievement.

Oh, crowning achievement.

Fun. What does Popeye have in common with someone who gets almost nothing on their salad?

Nose olives oils.

That was olive oil. Put it together.

Someone gets nothing on their salad. Almost nothing.

No dressing. A very plain salad. You guys had it. Just put those two together.

Is it olive oil? They both only love spinach and olive oil.

I had a dirty version of that that my wife eats. Say it.

Honestly, I was trying to think of the dirty version of that because there is some sort of like dad joke and like eating olive oil or something.

Yeah, they only munch on spinach and olive oil.

There you go. Yeah, there we go.

Yeah.

Finally.

Finally.

What about- Because you look at Popeye and you think that guy definitely eats pussy, right?

Oh my god. Logging off. Logging off.

Or he's a sailor. Is Sweepy their kid? They have a kid, right? What's the guy from Popeye who's like, oh that's the hamburger guy, right?

I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today or whatever he says. Fucking awesome, awesome guy. Just a mooch, just a total mooch. Jay Wellington Wimpy is his full name.

I mean it's a classic guy that doesn't exist anymore but existed for a long time which is just a hamburger liar and I fucking love that.

Yes, Sweet Pea is... Oh, Sweet Pea, yeah. Yeah, Sweet Pea, no T. Oh, Sweet Pea. Which is what I'm getting. I guess... I can't read this fast enough to tell if it's the child of Popeye and olive oil, but I think it is. Can I just say very quickly, for listeners who haven't done so, please get high and watch the Robin Williams Popeye. It's so fucking weird. Is it worth doing that? Is it worth doing? Rob Williams and Shelley Long. And it's so weird. So here's a fun fact. Here's a fun fact. Not about Popeye the movie, but the fast food chain Popeye's is not named after Popeye the comic strip or Popeye the movie. But it is named after another movie. It is named after the lead character from the movie, The French Connection, whose name is Popeye Doyle, played by Gene Hackman. Yeah. That's wild. They named Popeye's after that, which is wild because in public consciousness now, Popeye the Sailor Man is way, way, way more well known than Popeye Doyle.

Well, that's because Gene Hackman died and somebody cocoaed him. What does an old car have in common with a director who quits a Mission Impossible movie? They both make G. They both make G. An old car with a director that quits a Mission Impossible movie? Out of ire, out of peak. They both? Damn, I feel like I know who finished all the Mission Impossible movies, but I don't know about a director that quit them. They both gave up.

No, no, it's not a name of someone. I'm just saying conceptually. Oh, okay. A director who gets so frustrated that they quit directing a Mission Impossible movie has something in common with an old car. Cruise control. They both don't have cruise control. They both lack cruise control. Wow.

That's so fun.

I really like that one.

Awesome, Sandy. Thank you so much. Where can people find you? What are you doing around this world?

Well, I'm still making my daily word game called Rattle, R-A-D-D-L-E, at rattle.quest. It's a daily word game where you transform words into other words using clues. Still going strong. And I run a company called The Mystery League, which is out of Chicago, where I'm putting together team building events or other kinds of fun ARGs and puzzle hunts for anyone who wants them. So check me out there.

Very cool.

For people who don't know what ARGs are. Alternate reality games. So this is like a puzzle hunt, but there's a story, a narrative woven through it. And the community works together to solve puzzles, to unlock more parts of the story. There's lots of them. There's a new one probably every day. There's like a subreddit direct committed to them. Usually they're tied into like video game franchise releases or movie releases. Very cool. I've done some for musicians. I'm doing some for another musician soon.

Jason Mraz?

It doesn't matter. We don't have that.

Jason Mraz. Don't. Don't tell us.

Blink three times if it's Jason Mraz. He blinked! Bye Sandy! Bye Sandy! Bye! Okay, Adal, anything that you have coming up that you would like to plug?

Yeah, I'd like to plug Gumshoes and Dragons. Oh, hell yeah. It's a podcast the three of us do with Anthony Birch. It's a rollicking good time. We also have a Patreon. You can check that out. Also, give a listen to Hello from the Magic Tavern, a podcast that I do, and it's a very good time. And Happy New Year to everyone. Erin, anything to plug or promote?

I would say just take care of yourself. Drink a big glass of water right now. Go and drink water right now. JBC, any review to read or anything to plug and promote?

You definitely need that water around the holiday times. Well, one thing I definitely want to mention is that it's been, thank you so much for listening to Hey Riddle Riddle this year. We've had an absolutely great time. If you want to check out our new content through the end of the year, patreon.com slash heyriddleriddle, we'll be doing new content throughout the rest of the year on our Patreon. But for the next two weeks, we are going to do our annual best ofs. So it's going to be the best of 2025 to get us through the year, and then we will see you all at the beginning of January for a brand new episode of Hey Riddle Riddle. And again, yeah, it's been, this is the highlight of my week every week that we do this for hanging out with the two of you. And I really appreciate all of the people that listen. We are really humbled by your continued support and continued enjoyment of the show.

Erin, what was in the Baja Blast pie?

And I am... I got a little announcement of my own, I guess. Oh, this is a trap. Well, I was going to be asking for a threesome. All right. It's a trap.

Jay Jupiter.

Throws up. Created by Adal Rifai.

Starring Erin Keif and John Patrick Coan. Casey Toney did the editing. Barry Perrins in the music.

Hey there! Gibbity, gibbity, gibbity, huh?

And... Ooh, when were you horny?

If you liked that, you're gonna love this week's Patreon episode. It's the end of the year, so it's time for another Out of Context Clips Bracket. You can listen to that plus our entire back catalog at patreon.com slash heyriddleriddle by joining the clue crew for $5 a month, or start your 7-day free trial, or the review crew for $8 a month, plus you get those ad-free episodes. See you there!

That was a hate gum podcast. Hi, I'm Nicole Byer. Hi, I'm Sasheer Zameda. And this is the podcast Best Friends. And we're here at HeadGum. So this is just a podcast where we just talk. Yeah. We're best friends.

Yeah.

We talk and then we have a segment where we answer questions and queries. So the audience members can ask questions about friendships and we can answer them to the best of our abilities.

Yes.

We are professional friends. We are professional friends. Subscribe to Best Friends on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And watch videos on YouTube. New episodes drop every Wednesday. That's the middle of a work week. I was deeply unhelpful to you during that whole thing. You were.

I'm really sorry.

I called the support. Okay. I was trying to be supportive. Yeah. But I was like, I don't know, reading seems pretty hard right now. It's a lot. I think you did good. Thank you so much. You're welcome.