Which Riddle Riddle?

#388: Best of 2025 Part 1

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This is a HeadGum Podcast.

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Hey Riddle Riddle.

Adal

It's beginning to look a lot like Best of.

Erin

Best of.

Adal

All the clips from this year. A little bit JPC, a little bit Aaron C, and Adal's there and Casey as well.

00:01:13

JPC

And Erin, thank you so much for taking my last name.

Erin

Of course. That's what good husbands do. Wait, what happened this year?

Adal

You're Aaron P.C. now. Yeah, you're Aaron P.C., isn't that beautiful?

Erin

I called you Aaron C. Aaron Plain Comedy. I love it. I love it, you guys. Well, we done did it again. We did a whole year of riddles, puzzles, lateral thinking problems, plus all the Patreon episodes. And we all lived to tell the tale. How does everyone feel?

JPC

You know what? I think this year was the best year yet.

Adal

And next year will be even better. Oh.

JPC

It's easy to know if I'm lying by listening to all the best ofs, you know, kind of like back to back because they're out there now and being like, well, this one, obviously this year is kind of, you can do your own ordering. But to me, this year was the best year yet.

Erin

And you might think it was a B-minus year comparatively to our other years. And we'll say, we'll do better next year.

Adal

Yeah, we'll get them next year, Tiger.

Erin

We'll get them next year.

00:02:13

Adal

Should we do a best of the best of?

Erin

I actually would love to do that. I want to put together an episode of all the times we've laughed the hardest, which I know is self-indulgent, but I want it just for myself. When I'm 90, I can listen back to all the times we've laughed the hardest.

JPC

Oh, I think, so for what Adal was saying, if we have Maybe five minutes of us doing like a bumper for the best of every year. And then if we do what, 10 years, that's 50 minutes. So we have to do about 10 years of this. And then we can do a Best of the Best of Bumpers compilation. And by compilation, I mean we use the whole five minutes. So I guess we have to do 20 years. If we do about 20 years, no, there's two best ofs. So it's like five each. Yeah. Okay. Ten years. So meet back here in 10 years.

00:03:27

Erin

Wait, did you guys do something worse than what I did?

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I don't know.

Erin

Alright, well.

???

Wait, what did you do?

Erin

What did you do?

JPC

Oh, that's great. That's a fun thing. On the count of three, let's all say the worst thing we did this year.

Erin

One, two, three. Backed over a bald eagle. Stole $40,000 at JPC. What did you say?

Adal

I said backed over a bald eagle.

Erin

I didn't say anything. Well, everybody, Merry Christmas Eve. I think that's one that's coming out or you're in that weird interim between Christmas and New Year's, in which case, muah muah muah, kiss kiss kiss, love love love.

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Bang bang bang.

Erin

Go eat cookies for breakfast and play video games for 18 hours. We love you.

???

And we hope that you enjoy some of the best clips of Hey Riddle Riddle all year.

Erin

Bon appétit. Adal, can you say bon appétit? Bon appétit. There you go.

JPC

I've got that bon appétit to pick with you. I watched Star Wars Episode 1 recently, and after the credits hit, there's like a big, like, you know, explainer text that comes up. It's the Star Wars crawl, but it just is like, Jake Lloyd's parents were actually a lot, and it's not really his fault, because most of what you see on screen is like projections from what his parents were kind of making. There's a reason Bacali Calkin doesn't act much anymore. I'm sitting there watching, and I go, yeah. I like this movie a little better. And then at the end it goes, Jerjer Banks! Huh. Well, that one got away from us.

00:05:01

Erin

If someone's bored at work right now and you know how to make that Star Wars scroll, can you please put what JPC said verbatim?

Adal

There's gotta be some easy way to make this. I love, in the credits, it's like... I would fucking die. The movie's not even released yet, and they say, Jar Jar Binks, ooh, that one got away from us. And it's like, there's still time. If you could put this crawler on.

JPC

A galaxy at war. The Imperial Trade Federation is blockading the planet of Naboo. Also on Naboo, Jar Jar Binks. Now, hold on. Because, now, the actor who plays him is black. Not that it matters. You're sitting there, it's 1999, you're watching the scroll and you're like, oh, this is going to be the worst movie I've ever seen.

Erin

This is going on way too long.

Adal

Some of these aliens look like a certain race, but we didn't mean for that.

Erin

So anyways, enjoy the film.

JPC

So anyway, enjoy the film. Oh, and this is Hey Riddle Riddle.

Adal

Erin, please Google, do sharks fart.

00:06:01

Erin

Erin, go ahead and Google, do sharks fart. Most sharks do not fart. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

???

But sand tiger sharks... One shark.

JPC

One shark. He's throwing off all the data.

???

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

JPC

Adal's dead. This is the funniest thing I've ever heard.

???

They are calling out one shark.

Erin

Casey loves it too. That's so embarrassing. I would be so embarrassed if I was... It feels like the answer is also written by sharks.

JPC

Do sharks fart?

Adal

Most sharks don't. And then whoever, whatever shark said that turned their head to look at like Kyle to look at like one shark specifically.

JPC

Famously can't turn their head. Turn their whole body. It's not subtle at all. They turn their whole ass body to look at one shark. One-star reviews do truly tell you the most information, but never about the thing that they're reviewing. They just tell you about like, because you have to be pretty mad to write a one-star review, right? No one just is like, offhandedly, yeah, they think about it like a week later and you're like, you know what? That was a one-star experience. And reading like one star reviews of gas stations is so fun because it's like, you are so bothered because everyone has to use a gas station. And you really don't like, the only thing that people do is like, hey, I'm out of gas, I have to go or like, hey, what's the best price? But never will people read a review of a gas station and be like, yeah, it sounds like this guy had a really bad experience with a candy bar here. Maybe we don't want to steer clear of this shell.

00:07:38

Erin

Are there any five star reviews of gas stations?

Adal

I'm sure there's one.

JPC

Yeah, I mean, because civilization is done. We have reached, Fukuyama is the end of history. There's nothing left to do. There's nothing left to do but, like, enjoy your miserable existence and write fives or reviews of gas stations.

Adal

It's funny to me of, like, whenever people write reviews and complain about the bathroom of gas stations, where it's like, the only thing that's happening in those bathrooms is emergency shits. And everyone's partook in that. No one is innocent in this regard.

Erin

I wouldn't know what you're talking about.

JPC

If you had a job, let's say a thought experiment. You have a job and the job is to clean up bathrooms after people take emergency shits. What do you think that job deserves to be paid? Because for me, it's like six figures minimum. So if you're complaining that a bathroom at a gas station is disgusting, it's because that job that no one would do isn't being done because they're not paying someone to do it. Agreed.

00:08:40

Erin

You guys, I'm reading some 5-star reviews of gas stations and they're actually kind of warming my heart. These are lovely.

Adal

Great gas?

JPC

Pumped well? How do you compliment a gas station? Are you in L.A. though? Are you searching for gas stations in L.A.?

Erin

Yeah.

JPC

Because this is just a town of aspiring writers. These are just people. These are just the most insane, deranged people on the planet trying to get their screenplay out there. It's like, hey, exterior gas station.

Erin

Yeah, I was just about to say that.

???

I was just about to say that. Oh my God.

Erin

Exterior gas station night.

Adal

We open on a 22-year-old's perky tits.

Erin

Can I tell you something, Adal, about that dream? Yeah. So normally, if a friend told me they had a premonition dream about me being pregnant, I'd be like, oh, fuck, am I pregnant? But guess what? And this is a little bit of an overshare, but maybe it's relatable. But literally, 10 minutes ago, I felt myself get my period. So actually, We are in the clear. If everybody wants to go back to exactly 10 minutes ago, and I guess I'm at the year where I'm telling people when I'm getting my period. But if we want to go exactly, I think it like, yeah, about 10-11 minutes ago, I went up. And you know that feeling if you're a person who gets their period, you go up.

00:09:58

Adal

Casey, can you pinpoint that moment and put like a bell chime, like a ding?

Erin

Yeah, put a bell chime. Put a bell chime. And so guys, that's what the bell chime was. Holy shit. I'm actually, I'm actually glad that this is happening.

Adal

Erin, you are a mermaid. I love it. JPC is like on the shore of the ocean, kind of like just walking along, and you are in the ocean trying to flirt with him as he's walking along as a mermaid, but the ocean is just absolutely pounding your ass.

Erin

Uh, yoo-hoo.

???

Hello? Is there someone there? I was having a tranquil morning walk.

Erin

Someone's here.

???

Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!

Erin

No, no, please! I live in the water, if you could... Oh my goodness!

00:10:58

???

Help me, help me, help me, help me!

???

Oh my, it's a woman with the lower half of a fish or sea creature of some sort. She's both graceful and incredibly not.

Erin

Hello, if you come in here for a tranquil swim, I could perhaps give you a kiiiid?

???

There's a... Oh, look out for that buoy! Ow!

???

Ooh! Ooh, it knocked the wind out of me!

JPC

There's a wind advisory today. It's very, it's very rough water.

???

Oh, I have, I have, I have, I have... There's a bay.

JPC

I'm seasick. There's a bay like a little ways down. If you could, if you could make it to the bay, that's, it's, it's calmer in there.

Erin

Ah, yeah, I don't look as majestic in the bay.

JPC

You- I'm sorry, but you don't look- you don't look at- Just go under the waves!

Erin

Hold on, hold on! Shark! Shark! Shark! Oh no, please no, not now. I just saw so much speed-

???

I scared my dog.

00:12:00

JPC

I hope it's worth it. It should be. It will be. And it shall be.

Erin

Adal, you're a guy named Pete, and you're lending JPC money for the last time. This is his last straw.

Adal

All right, here you go. This is $8,000 cash and I want you to know. Yep. I expect it paid in full in 30 days. Yes. And this is the last time.

JPC

And, and, and please just whatever you do, don't tell my sister because I, I thank you for letting me, you know, meet you at your job. Um, but this is the last time I just don't, I don't need it to hear from her. Um, well she's in the kitchen of course.

Adal

You're my brother-in-law, I'd do anything for you, but this ends now. So I guess, I'd do anything for you up until just now, and now there's a limit.

00:13:05

JPC

Is it 30 calendar days to pay you back?

Adal

She's coming, she's coming, she's coming.

JPC

Hey Carol. You know I won't suck your dick?

???

Whoa, what's happening?

JPC

Carol! What the hell? Your husband just gave me $8,000 to suck his dick.

Erin

Oh my god, did you? No, sweetie, what are you- Strike three.

Adal

Shit, I've done this two times before. I did this two times before.

Erin

Three. Strike. Three.

Adal

Sweetie, come on, give me... Strike.

Erin

Today we're

JPC

I earned this.

Erin

You sucked his dick?

JPC

I already did, a little bit.

Erin

Oh my god! You both are just as bad as each other. Why are you mad at me? You sucked his dick for $8,000. My husband. My own brother.

00:14:13

JPC

That's my job.

Erin

I know, I know.

Adal

My job is to do that. Here's the crazy thing. I don't even know if $8,000 is a deal or not. I don't know the going rate.

Erin

Yeah, right. You don't know the going rate, Mr. Strike 3. You don't know the going rate.

JPC

You know what? Here's what I'll do. I'll take half. That's fair. I'll take half.

Erin

And I'll take the other half. That's fair.

JPC

And she'll take the other half. That's fair. What? Pete. Pete. Get out of here, Pete. Why don't you go and think about this? Strike 3 Pete. Strike 3 Pete. Go to the other room and think about this. Okay, how many more times do you think we could do this? Three? Florida's invasive herpes monkeys can now be found from Jacksonville to Tampa.

Erin

Hold on.

JPC

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

00:15:22

Erin

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

Adal

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

JPC

has expanded considerably over the years and the monkeys are now being spotted in northern cities like St. John's, St. Augustine, Palatka, Wallachia, and Elkton, and as far south as Apopka and Tampa.

Erin

What's up guys.

JPC

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

00:16:33

Erin

Can someone check Colonel Tooey for STDs? Oh, interesting.

JPC

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

Erin

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

???

Yeah.

Adal

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

Erin

Don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pick up

Adal

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

Erin

Yep.

JPC

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

00:17:33

Erin

Uh, okay.

JPC

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

Erin

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

JPC

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

Adal

Well, Jake as in Greasy Jake? Are you Greasy Jake?

JPC

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

???

Wait, what are people calling me?

Adal

Nothing, nothing, doesn't matter, doesn't matter.

Erin

What's your name? Oh my god! Ugh! I knew it, I knew it, I knew it, I knew it.

JPC

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

Erin

You don't think I've tried?

JPC

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

Erin

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

Adal

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

JPC

Saltines! It's a pleasure to meet you. My name is Mr. Banana Pop. Oh no. Oh, so you've heard of me. Oh no, I have to go.

00:18:40

Adal

I need to go.

JPC

Greasy Jake just left. We have this whole bottle to ourselves. I can kind of reach my prehensile tail over the bar and grab whatever bottle you like.

Erin

Bottle smashes on the ground.

JPC

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

Adal

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

JPC

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

Adal

Do these names sound familiar? Sarah. Lil Lisa. Oh, fuck. Melinda Bonkers. These are all of my friends who have slept with you. Unbeknownst, they didn't know that everyone else, they didn't know how much you were getting around, okay? And you broke their hearts.

JPC

Well, getting aroused, more like it. Look, Mr. Banana Pop is a lover, not a fighter, okay? They all had a pretty good time, you know, if you ask them. Now, did they like the fact that they all slept with me? Maybe not. But individually, during the act, they were all having a lot of fun.

00:19:47

Adal

I think, um, throw us the martini in your face.

JPC

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

Erin

We cut to them in bed the next morning.

Adal

Oh my god, I hate myself.

JPC

I guess I probably should have said at the bar, but I have an STD. You piece of shit. Oh, let me finish. First drink in your face. Gulp. A saltine-tasting deficiency, because I gotta get a little more saltine. No, but I do have a monkey disease. Alright everybody, gather around, gather around. Good stuff out there, I would say, um, in the first act.

Adal

Lotus position?

JPC

What's that?

Adal

Should we be in lotus?

00:20:48

JPC

Yeah, uh, and Brian, go ahead and just let us know what you think lotus position is.

Adal

Put my head by my feet?

JPC

No, uh, incorrect. Brian, no, Brian, that's, that's more of like a yoga position.

Erin

Hey guys! Yeah, what if we all just broke the joint and went and got root beer floats? That sounds pretty good after...

JPC

Uh, Kelly, I love that. We might be doing that after the game, but for now, even though we're still down six points, let's try to, like, just do our best to play Ultimate Frisbee.

Erin

Oh, we're in the middle of a game.

JPC

Yeah, yeah. So, a real quick reminder of how Ultimate Frisbee works. You're allowed to move when you don't have the Frisbee. You only have to be standing still when you have the Frisbee.

Adal

Wow. Well, the path to enlightenment is moving with or without the Frisbee.

JPC

Ryan, I don't know what that means, but it can't have anything to do with Ultimate Frisbee, right?

Adal

I gotta admit, when she said smoke weed and get a root beer float, I already started smoking.

JPC

Yeah, no, yeah, I can see that. So, basically what we're doing right now, and I love it, is we're all standing at the goal line, smoking weed, and drinking root beer.

00:21:59

Adal

And reading Howard Zinn.

JPC

Yeah, I have seen, Brian, I have seen you. That's a big book, too. People's History of the United States, that's a pretty big book. For a game of Ultimate Frisbee. Pretty big history.

Erin

Coleman, can you remind us of the stakes of this? It's just us playing another dorm, right?

JPC

Yeah, just an eight-year-old.

Erin

We're playing East Hall.

JPC

Yeah, we're just playing East Hall. Um, well, here's the thing. I guess there are no stakes.

Adal

That's good, because we're vegans.

JPC

Well, we're all having root beer floats. So I don't know how vegan we are, huh? What do you mean? That's- Ice cream is dairy and that- What? Huh? I actually- I knew about this earlier and I didn't want to introduce a whole thing that was gonna make us not focus on the fact that we're not playing Ultimate Frisbee. And it's fine if no one wants to play Ultimate Frisbee, but this is like a volunteer thing. So if you don't want to play the game, like you don't have to be here.

Erin

No, I like- I like Frisbee.

Adal

I like Frisbee.

00:23:00

Erin

We should play. We should get a group together, and we should play.

Adal

Oh, that would be amazing. That's truly what this is.

Erin

Yeah, we could get a group together, and maybe it's like all of us in West Hall, and then we could like- We play East Hall. Like East Hall and North Hall and South Hall. And then there's like a tournament every year, and whoever wins the tournament gets a trophy. We should put something like that together.

Adal

We should put something like that together.

JPC

Yeah. I'm gonna run over and pitch the idea to the East Hall guys. You guys, hang out. Hang out real quick. I'm just gonna run over and pitch the idea to the East Hall guys. Hey guys, we're gonna forfeit again.

Erin

Good news, because we are high over here.

Adal

But we did have an idea. What if we... Nah, I'm all good on ideas.

Erin

Yeah, we get a bunch of people together.

Adal

Nah, I'm all good. See? See? Well, the scene that I want to see has now changed. I want to see JPC as someone on a tour at Graceland who just wants to see the bathroom. Can we go back to the bathroom? I actually don't want to see this scene.

00:24:04

Erin

Oh, wait. No, Adal, I want to do that scene you just set up. You're both on the tour, ready? Here we go. Elvis obviously didn't get to spend too much of his life here because he was always on the road traveling and then obviously he's really associated with- If we have to use the bathroom on the tour, can we go upstairs? Sorry?

JPC

If we have to use the bathroom on the tour, can we go upstairs? If someone has to go to the bathroom really, really bad upstairs, can we go upstairs?

Erin

We have our bathrooms right by the entrance.

JPC

They're full. That's not the one he died on though, right?

Erin

No, also-

JPC

Excuse me one second, I have to go behind this door.

Adal

Sir, you can't- Sir, you can't do that.

00:25:06

Erin

Sir, put on clothes. Sir.

JPC

Sir. Sir. He can't do the voice if he's wearing clothes. It's kind of like a... It's an image thing. It's kind of like Dumbo's feather.

Erin

What?

Adal

It's kind of like Dumbo's feathers.

Erin

You're sneaking like a cartoon character up the stairs? Other guy? Me? Yes. Stop.

JPC

Don't perceive me.

Erin

No, you think that this is my first rodeo? You think this is my first rodeo? You think that there's not freaks like you coming in here every day trying to use that toilet? We'll have three security guards.

JPC

I'm sure there's not freaks that work as a team. Hi-ya!

Adal

Erin, are you happy we saw this scene?

???

Yes!

Adal

The two of you are snakes and you are in the studio about to lay down your first album. I'm getting a lot of feedback in the mic.

00:26:07

JPC

That might be a mic issue. Are you sure it's us?

Erin

It's a mic issue.

Adal

Yeah, it is you, okay, and we are recording.

Erin

Where are you?

Adal

She was responsible for the deaths of many people, yet she was never charged. How come?

JPC

Does charged mean charged with a crime or is it like a battery? Okay.

Adal

Yes, and this is almost like I've This is such a dumb riddle. This is like when people call their boat like oh, she's a butte So this is a man-made thing being an object.

???

Yes.

Adal

Yeah historical think historically responsible for a lot of deaths and and and

Erin

Can you read it again?

Adal

Is this the fucking Titanic again? No. She was responsible for the deaths of many people, yet she was never charged. So this is something where when you see it, you're like, yeah, of course it's responsible for death. Like, no fucking duh. Not like when you see a rat and you're like, oh, what a weird little creature.

00:27:11

Erin

She was a guillotine.

Adal

Erin, she was Madame Guillotine, the devil's invention of Joseph Guillotine that was used in France to execute people.

Erin

We gendered a guillotine and decided it's a woman? Absolutely not.

Adal

I guess they called it Madam Guillotine?

Erin

Oh, interesting.

JPC

Was the guy single? This is my wife, Madam Guillotine.

Erin

I hope that that's the cruel nickname my exes have given me.

JPC

Madam Guillotine.

Erin

Madam Guillotine.

JPC

Erin, you are going to be- I want to see a scene. Erin, you're going to be playing a woman. Again? All right, yeah, let's mix it up. Okay, Erin, you're gonna be playing a kaiju.

Erin

Hey, Ringo, do you have a minute?

???

Oh, yeah, I was just staring at my drumsticks trying to see if I could get some inspiration. Yeah, I, um... What about like, dum-ba-da-dum-ba-bum-dum-bum-bum? Hey, oh, you don't come to me. I should have written it down. Uh, Ringo, I... How would you write down a drum sound?

00:28:22

Erin

What would that even look like? I feel like that famously people can write down drum parts.

???

Can they?

Erin

Yeah. Ringo, um... Wait, there's like sheet music for drums. Yeah, there is.

???

Oh boy.

Erin

I'm gonna just pull up the chair.

???

I guess I've got a lot to learn. Huh? Next to you. Hey.

Erin

So, I would consider our... That's a chair!

JPC

Oh God. Oh, I thought that was a drum.

Erin

Ringo, honey, focus. I've been playing it like a hi-hat. Look at me. Look at me. Hey, you're here. There we go. Yay, look at me. Yes. I would consider... How long have you been here?

???

What's that?

Erin

Several minutes. I consider our love story sort of like a sweeping, beautiful love story. We're really in love. You'd agree, yeah?

???

I'd agree, yes. I'd say we're in love.

Erin

Um, I noticed your new album came out. And the song... The Beatles! Yeah, the Beatles, buddy. Yeah, you're a Beatle, buddy. I'm one of the members. Yeah, you're in the fourth one, bud. Yeah, it's really cool, huh?

???

They said it's not about who's one, two, three, or four.

Erin

You're four. You're for sure four.

???

They just said it's all four of us.

00:29:23

Erin

Yeah, yeah, but you're four. And that's okay.

???

Where am I on the position on the album cover where we're all walking across the road?

Erin

Today we're Hey Riddle Well here's what's not funny is that we simply must do riddles.

???

I love doing riddles. It's like one of my favorite jobs.

00:30:32

Adal

A man appears in hundreds of family photos. He is not closely related to anyone else in the photo, and almost all the families don't even know his name. Nevertheless, they still keep the photos in frames and scrapbooks. He is not hidden in any way, and it is, in fact, the central element of these photos.

???

Just hear those sleigh bells jingling, ring-ting, tingling.

JPC

That's right, it's Billie Holiday. This man is the Slender Man.

Erin

He's in all your photos.

JPC

Me and the Slender Man. Armored around his shoulder.

Erin

He went to summer camp with the Slender Man.

JPC

Yeah, his name's Greg. Solid dude. He was just a svelte man, right? He gets a bad rap because he told three kids to go kill somebody with hammers or whatever, but he's a solid dude. Yeah. He never killed nobody with hammers. He was at your wedding. He was at my wedding.

Erin

Santy Claus.

Adal

Erin, you're correct. It's Santa Claus, specifically a mall Santa, just because we say nobody knows his name. Yeah.

00:31:32

Erin

I'd like to see a scene. Yeah. Adal, you are a mall Santa, and JPC is a kid that has been here at least four or five times this season, and you think enough is enough.

Adal

Ho, ho, ho. Come on up. Welcome back to

JPC

So I've been body shaming my dad all day to get him to come back to the mall to buy a new suit.

Erin

He pans over to the dad, and the dad's looking at his reflection and sort of pulling at his clothes because they all of a sudden feel like they fit wrong.

JPC

Because he didn't want to bring me back here to do Santa again, but now I am back here.

Adal

Ooh, you're an intense little boy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I am. Okay. You're the same guy, right? Santa's always Santa. Smell like Paul Mauls and old whiskey. Paul malls. You think I smoke Paul balls? I don't know what you're dealing with. Your dude's pulling in $3.50 a day for mall santing and you think I smoke Paul malls? $3.50 a day? Oh yeah. And the tail? The moms? Do you know how many single moms want to come sit on Santa's lap?

00:32:58

Erin

It pans to a mom and she's adjusting her clothes but sort of in like a confident, I can't wait to see him kind of way.

JPC

Hey man, the next two words out of your mouth better be switch to and then for you, Jeffrey. So that's five words, okay?

Adal

I wanna switch to. Oh, I have two words for you. Get fucked.

JPC

Oh, I'm gonna get fucked. Oh yeah? Maybe I pay Mrs. Claus a visit. Oh, oh yeah?

Adal

You think we're together? Well, I don't know. You think I'm with her?

JPC

I haven't really learned your mythology.

Adal

She doesn't leave the house. She's a hermit.

JPC

How could I hurt you?

Adal

We haven't slept in the same room in 400 years.

JPC

Maybe I go out to the parking lot.

Adal

Oh? Find one of your reindeer. Oh? Cook him up and eat him. You're gonna eat and cook a Toyota Tercel? Because that's what I came here on. You think I have reindeer? You just told me to make a model of your car, dumbass. Sold them for meat. Sold the deers for meat. Hold on. Are you- is that a threat? Yeah, it's a threat.

???

Is that a threat?

Adal

If I don't get my- Hey Toby? Toby! Ho ho ho! Yeah, what's up? Hey, I got a kid threatening me. He wants to make a model of my car.

00:34:02

Erin

Okay, you fucked my mom last night, so I guess you're on your own.

Adal

Well, that bonds us, right?

Erin

I told you. No, dude. We were getting a beer. You're asking about my car.

Adal

Don't tell anyone about that. How old's Toby?

???

Seventeen.

JPC

Well, oh boy, oh boy.

Erin

He wasn't sexual, he was just buying me a beer.

JPC

Oh boy, don't say it's not sexual.

Erin

It wasn't, he fucked my mom.

JPC

Don't say it's not sexual. I think it's the beer thing. I don't think Toby, well.

???

We don't even, we shouldn't even be safe.

Erin

We shared a six-pack of beer, we were throwing rocks at the mall.

JPC

I'm ruined.

Erin

And then he fucked my mom. Oh, I'm ruined.

JPC

There's nothing wrong.

Erin

It's not weird, he just fucked my mom.

JPC

Oh, I'm ruined. Toby, nobody's saying that there's anything wrong with that.

Adal

And real quick, A lot of kids ask, I had nothing to do with those Christmas time Kevin Spacey videos. You know when he dressed up like the guy from... You know how every Christmas... Why do you talk about this so much?

Erin

I'm saying... I'm saying I didn't. I'm saying I didn't. You talk about it a lot for someone who didn't. I associate with you because you talk about it so much.

00:35:06

JPC

Who?

???

Who? Don't, don't look it up.

JPC

You gave a kid, okay, you gave a kid beer. You pull $3.50 a week, that means in two weeks you can buy me a Switch package. Switch 2, Switch 2.

Adal

Well, no, because they're all out of stock.

Erin

Get that kid a Switch 2 or I tell everybody about the beer and the mom. That's... I'd have to buy it on, like, Bakari for, like, $6.75.

Adal

Steal it, motherfucker.

Erin

You drive a nice car.

JPC

Santa doesn't steal. I don't know if you know anything about cars, Toby, but that's not a nice car. That's a car they haven't made in 30 years.

Adal

Well, because they got it right the first time.

Erin

How did my mom fuck you, man? You're a loser.

JPC

She's a woman with agency, Toby. I mean, nobody forced her to fuck. Well, don't say that.

Adal

I say nobody did. Listen, I'm gonna head out. No, your ship just started. You can't. You can't. Hey everyone, hey kids, everyone gets what they want.

JPC

You can't just say I'm gonna head out.

Adal

Let's do a big group photo. Let's do a big group one.

Erin

All the kids are sort of adjusting their clothes for the group photo.

JPC

I've been getting to work on all these motherfuckers in line. I know exactly how.

00:36:09

Erin

All the kids are going like this. You didn't want to live in that another 40 minutes, Adal?

JPC

I mean, I could've.

???

17.

JPC

Erin saying 17 completely fucks Adal.

Erin

Sorry, Adal. It's fake, though, so that's good. It's fake. It's fake.

JPC

Well, you shouldn't have to say that. Please.

Erin

When Gertrude entered the plane, she caused her own death and the deaths of 200 people, yet she was never blamed or criticized for her actions. What happened?

Adal

Gertrude's a kaiju? Yeah, kaiju.

JPC

Godzilla type?

Erin

Not this time.

JPC

Gertrude is like a Mr. Magoo-ass pilot.

Erin

Ass pilot?

???

Oh, is this my sandwich?

JPC

Is Gertrude like a duck or like a goose or something?

Adal

Ooh. Yeah, went to the engines?

Erin

Yes! Gertrude a goose had been sucked into the jet engine. I would like to say that.

JPC

But wait, wait, wait. Before we see a scene, did it not also say that nobody blamed Gertrude for it?

Erin

Well, dead people don't blame.

00:37:27

Adal

If anything, they murdered a goose in its own home.

Erin

That's true. You're in the goose's house. Yeah. I'd like to see a scene. JPC, you're a goose who brought down a whole plane and you're drinking at a bar and Adal, you are one of the family members of someone who's on that plane and you recognize him at the bar and you go to confront him.

Adal

Yeah, so we've been doing okay, but it's... Can I get another four goose fingers over here? Oh my God. Don't look, don't look, don't look.

Erin

Who is it?

Adal

Naked.

Erin

That's fucking him, isn't it?

Adal

That's one of the geese.

Erin

You should say something. He's counting on you not saying something. He's counting on you being too polite.

Adal

This is good.

JPC

What is this? This is well. This is good.

Adal

Carol hated when I was confrontational. Go, go. But you know what? She's gone now. You're gonna regret not doing this. Excuse me, excuse me. Hi. Oh. Honk. Honk, I guess. Oh, what the fuck?

JPC

Honk honk. Huh? What the fuck? That's our word. That's our word. Hold on. You're the... I'm not the bad one here. Oh yeah? You just walked up to a goose and said, honk honk.

00:38:37

Erin

Hey gentlemen, take it outside if you're gonna fight, okay?

Adal

Yeah, let's go outside. Let's go outside.

JPC

I'm actually, that's actually where I live and I'm not ready to go home yet.

Adal

Well, that's actually where I fight. That's where I work. So let me take off my jacket here, Canadian down. What the fuck? Canadian goose coat here. Goose feathers in the lining.

JPC

Everything I buy now is goose feathers. You're wearing a goose feather jacket around me?

Adal

Yeah, that's right.

JPC

Thank you. I got paid huge money for that.

Adal

What?

JPC

We're very well paid to put those feathers... That kills us?

Adal

Yeah, feathers are like your skin or something. Come on!

JPC

Nah, man. Feathers are not like our skin.

Adal

So this is like when I get the sperm sample?

Erin

Tell him that he's... Tell him it's his fault. The plane.

Adal

Tell him. It's your... Hey. What's your woman saying? No, I have an index card for this exact moment. I knew this day would come. Webster's Dictionary defines revenge as... Hey, man.

JPC

Huh? If your chick has something to say to me, hard hog, she can say it to me.

00:39:37

Adal

Oh, um, Carol?

Erin

Punches goose in the face.

JPC

Joke's on you, man. You hit beak. Your hand's a mess.

Erin

Oh, let me try to hit you right in the stomach like Houdini.

JPC

Whoa, three eggs came out.

Adal

I'm a male goose. Oh, those are testicles.

JPC

Oh no! Scene. The doctor said, if it doesn't feel better by two's blank, kuh, to the pharmacy for more painkillers. Dagobah.

Erin

Day.

JPC

Dagobah.

Adal

Dagobah. Me say Dagobah.

JPC

It is Dagobah. Dagobah. Can anyone tell me what the biome on Dagobah is?

Adal

That's Swampland.

Erin

Swampland.

Adal

Yoda's a little swamp frog.

Erin

Yoda's a little swamp frog. I knew that one. It's easy.

Adal

I do want to see a scene.

Erin

Is he from there?

JPC

I think he just, like, hid there, right?

Adal

I think he lives in the swamp. Yeah, he's a swamp guy.

JPC

I think he's embarrassed, and he's like, just visiting, I am. Not my home, this is.

00:40:41

Erin

Clearing mugs. Yoda, I just saw a pillow in it.

JPC

No, see, nothing you did. No throw pillows here. Brought these postcards on fridge from home, I did. Do this while traveling.

Adal

Yoda, I just saw a frog in lingerie hop away. No, no lingerie in frog. I do want to see a scene. Yes. Erin, you are a... What is Yoda?

Erin

Whatever that is.

JPC

They've never said. A lot of Star Wars aliens have names, but like Yoda is just a Yoda type alien, basically.

Adal

Yeah, Erin, you're a Yoda type and you're on Dagobah and JPC is just sort of a random traveler whose ship broke down and you're going to interact with him.

???

Well, great. I don't think there's anything on this star system and I just can't fix the ship myself.

00:41:41

JPC

Oh, hello? Excuse me?

Erin

Adal, you can't be laughing at how bad I am at this.

JPC

Hello? Did someone say something? Excuse me? My ship broke down. I'm trying to get back to space, which is where I live.

Erin

With that attitude, it might be hard for you to get back up in the air.

JPC

Do you have anything that could help me fix my ship, or are you from here? I'm sorry, I don't want to assume.

Erin

George, I make you nervous, I do. You nervous talking. You never seen a yoga with an open robe before. A yoga with an open... Yoda with an open robe before. Uh, yeah, I would say it's... My robe is open, I'm Yoda. It's fair.

JPC

It's

00:42:55

Erin

Yoda needs what he needs to get energy to fix ship. Yoda needs what he needs to get energy to fix ship. Yoda needs what he needs to get energy to fix ship.

JPC

Yoda needs what he needs to get energy to fix ship. Yoda needs what he needs to get energy to fix ship.

Erin

Yoda needs what he needs to get energy to fix ship. Yoda needs what he needs to get energy to fix ship. Yoda needs what he needs to get energy to fix ship.

JPC

Yoda needs what he needs to get energy to fix ship. Yoda needs what he needs to get energy to fix ship. Yoda needs what he needs to get energy to fix ship. Yoda needs what he needs to get energy to fix ship. Yoda needs what he needs to get energy to fix ship. Yoda needs what he needs to get energy to fix ship. Yoda needs what he needs to get energy to fix ship. Yoda needs what he needs to get energy to fix ship. Yoda needs what he needs to get energy to fix ship.

Erin

Yoda needs what he needs to get energy to fix ship. Yoda needs what he needs to get energy

JPC

Oh, I'm married. Yeah, I'm super, I'm super married.

Erin

I'm not hitting on you. You're just not hitting on you.

JPC

God, I broke your form out there. Kind of made me getting flustered. I'm sorry. Yeah.

Erin

Hey, listen, man, I have to be honest with you. You landed and I started talking and I panicked. And I picked a voice that was not sustainable.

Adal

Can I tell you guys, I got super high the other day and thought about Home Alone for some reason and I have a new theory. Which is that Kevin McCallister was a sleeper agent and he was activated. Because he's a little boy who knows how to... Alright, weed has to be illegal again.

00:44:03

Erin

I'm calling it.

JPC

Yeah, they need to take it away. Zoe listed some more of these animal parade riddles that we did last time I was in charge. And I love these. Can I just say, I love these.

Erin

Wait, sorry, is Old Man Puzzles in charge all of a sudden? Is Old Man Puzzles the one that is allowed to make the final call? Like if I got really hurt and had a medical situation right now, would you get to make the choices for me because you're Old Man Puzzles? Do you become like the default?

Adal

DNR. Do you not resuscitate? Oh, is that what that means?

Erin

You didn't even ask what was medically wrong with me. I don't like that. Don't ask, don't tell, Erin.

JPC

Don't ask, don't tell. DMB. Not my business. Just kill her. I don't need to know.

Erin

It's a broken arm, asshole.

Adal

Sir, she's up in bed and talking. No, DNR. What the fuck is an arm, asshole?

JPC

I mean, if that breaks, you're pretty fucked, right? I didn't even know that I had one.

00:45:03

Erin

Adal, you're going to be making all my medical choices. Adal, you are the default old man puzzle. You created the show, you were the first old man puzzle, so if anything goes awry here, I think you need to take over.

Adal

You're saying I have power of attorney?

Erin

I regret breaking any of this up.

Adal

Several times a day, people from all over the world visit me. Some may think I'm dirty, even on my best day, but no one wants to live without me. I would say seeing Erin, you're a toilet. Adal.

Erin

Adal. Adal. I was in your wedding. Okay, you're a hammer. Adal, I was in your wedding, man. Come on, man. I stood next to you while you got married.

Adal

Erin, you're a toilet.

???

You're pooping in her mouth. Hey, I still love you both, but listen... What is this scene?

00:46:06

JPC

It's just... It's just a guy pooping in a toilet? You both take turns turning into toilets and pooping in each other's mouths. Hold on, you teach improv.

Erin

Adal, you teach improv.

JPC

The scene that you called for, is you're in the toilet and I'm pooping in her mouth?

Erin

Adal, the last time I had a panic attack, I texted you.

Adal

Yes, yes, but, but, listen, hey.

JPC

But just in general, a premise for a scene is like, you two are at a party and the lay on is like, and you both figure out that you dated the same ex. But your whole scene is just she's in the toilet and I'm pooping in her.

Adal

This is more like fetish content than a seed. Heard, chef. Okay, so, you two were friends, you find out you dated the same guy.

JPC

That's the thing I just said!

Adal

Hold on! That you were asking for, right? I'm giving you what you're asking for. Okay. So you're friends, you both find out you're dating the same guy. Now, quick little caveat. There's a layout. Every full moon, one of you turns into a toilet and the other one shits in his mouth. What am I saying that's so taboo? This is a scene. And don't forget, and then a few seconds later the other person turns to the toilet and the person who was in the toilet turns to the human and shits in their mouth. But you both find out you dated the same guy. And that's sort of the entree into the scene. Crazy that full moon's over, huh? No, it's back. Full moon. We see a full moon.

00:47:41

JPC

What do you mean it's back?

Adal

It's back. A full moon doesn't go away. You're talking about sunrise. You're saying you guys are up at 6 a.m.?

???

Yeah!

Adal

No.

Erin

Adal, you bought everyone a Ninja Creamy because I wanted one.

Adal

Yeah, I'm bad with money. And that doesn't mean that my premise should be shot down. Okay, you're both toilets.

Erin

You found out you dated- Adal, you once said that you'll take me everywhere you go. That I'm one of your favorite people and that anywhere you go, I go too.

Adal

I just want to see my seat, okay? I love you both so much. I would do anything, I would die for both of you. I don't know. Okay? Sometimes it doesn't feel like it.

Erin

But all I want to say is- You understand why it doesn't feel like it when he said, okay, Erin, you're a toilet and GPC's gonna shit in your mouth.

JPC

I understand that it doesn't feel like it. But there's a way- But you have to understand how it's coming across to us.

Adal

There's a way to do it that's like fun for everyone. You do it. You're judging it. You do it.

00:48:43

JPC

Show us how to do it.

Adal

You want me to do it?

JPC

Show us.

Adal

You do it alone and show us how to do it.

Erin

Here you go improv teacher, go ahead.

Adal

Because I'm going to knock it out of the park, right? Those who can't teach. And then you're going to be like, oh. Those who can't teach, I am teaching.

JPC

You're a toilet who shits in its own mouth, and it's a full moon.

Adal

That's the dumbest fucking premise I've ever heard. You two are toilet best friends.

Erin

Hey guys, we're sort of at the comedy point where we know we can't end the episode unless someone does this scene, right? Okay, compromise.

Adal

Compromise. Compromise.

JPC

That's so smart.

Adal

It's healthy. You're both toilets, and you find out that the same guy shit in both your mouths. Got it.

Erin

Compromise.

Adal

Compromise. No, no, Erin, that is a compromise. That's a scene.

Erin

Okay, but I can I add one little add-on to it.

Adal

I'm sure yeah, please.

Erin

Adal, you are also there. You are also a toilet. Solidarity. We go in together.

Adal

But brand new, but brand new saran wrap. Nobody's touched me.

Erin

No, no.

Adal

Brand new, brand new. It has to be. Spotless. Never been, virginal, virginal. Never been touched.

00:49:44

JPC

This is an awesome party. This is crazy. Did you guys have the Clorox?

Adal

It's not a party. Hold on. It's not a party.

Erin

You said it was a party.

Adal

What would toilets be celebrating?

Erin

I don't know.

Adal

Biggest shit? What?

Erin

She's a virgin toilet who can't drive.

JPC

Yeah, it's Megan's coming out party. Someone's going to shit in her mouth, you know, later today and kind of christen her. Did you guys try the Clorox? It's so good.

Erin

It's so good.

JPC

It's blue. It's like, okay.

Erin

I'm trying to stay hydrated though, so I've been drinking a lot of pee today. Adal, we're doing the thing you wanted. I just talked about drinking pee.

Adal

Hold on, hold on, hold on. Quick time out. It sounds like you're both being sarcastic. The way you guys are talking is like, you're like, have you tried the Clorox? Oh my god. Like, you're talking as if you don't enjoy it.

JPC

We're at a party! We're being social!

Adal

We'll skip to it.

JPC

We'll skip to it.

Erin

We'll skip to it. We'll skip to it.

JPC

Skip to what? Oh my god, Jerry's here.

Erin

Oh my god.

JPC

This is crazy. You're never gonna believe this. Okay, here we go.

00:50:45

Erin

I dated Jerry.

JPC

A couple weeks ago. What? Okay, here we go. Here we go.

Erin

Did you date Jerry too? No, you were about to say something else.

JPC

No, I never dated Jerry. We had like a thing, but it was never like, it was not like a serious, we didn't like label it as, um, I got wasted and Jerry... Yeah, say what he did.

Adal

Well, he, you know, he did what he, he did what you do. Do a toilet? Say it, say it, say the full thing. Pause, say the full thing.

JPC

Yeah, Jerry, you know, he shit in my mouth.

Erin

Yes, yes, yes! Oh my God. He said that he would never do that with anyone else besides me.

JPC

What? Yeah. He said that your double water flush button was just for him?

Erin

Just for him.

JPC

Oh my God. He said the same fucking thing. Unbelievable.

Erin

That same line. Can you come here for a second? Adal, you're Jerry.

Adal

Uh, yeah, what's up?

JPC

Can you come down here, come a little closer, a little closer to the ground?

00:51:47

Adal

Yeah, what's up?

JPC

Dunks your head, gives you a swirly, swirly, swirly, swirly. Scene, scene, scene, scene, scene.

Erin

No, no, no, Jerry. Swirly, swirly, no.

JPC

Scene. Other toilet, swirly, swirly, swirly. Come on.

Erin

Swirly, swirly, swirly.

JPC

Feet and head. Now it's fucking death proof and Jerry is getting... Feet and head. Yeah, feet and head, Jerry.

Erin

Jerry.

JPC

Piece of shit.

Erin

Piece of shit, Jerry.

JPC

Scene, scene. I can't imagine doing a bad improv show.

Erin

Thank you, Casey.

Adal

And this is a podcast where it's two in the morning, you go into the kitchen, turn on the light, this podcast scuttles under the fridge. And you go, tomorrow I gotta call somebody about this podcast.

Erin

This podcast is like when you can hear something under your front porch, and then so you have to lift up one of the stairs to see what's under the front porch. And if it's under there, the podcast's under there, and its eyes are like really beady in the dark, and it's like... The podcast feels cornered.

JPC

This is the podcast that is the can of pinto beans deep within your cabinet and it's got like dust all over it and you blow the dust and you go, oh, certainly this has to be expired. And then you check the back and it's like 2045. How can pinto beans be good for this long?

00:53:03

Adal

Well, they're always good this long if they're Goya. Goya beans.

Erin

Let them collect dust and have them in a pinch.

JPC

I think the Goya guy is like a Trump guy, right?

Adal

Never mind.

JPC

Any other beans?

Adal

Any other beans in the world?

JPC

Any other beans by any other name would smell as sweet. Don't buy... Don't buy Goya beans unless something has changed from like 11 years ago when I heard about Goya beans.

Erin

This podcast is like when you there's like an ashtray outside and people have been putting cigarettes out in it and then it rains. We're like the water in the ashtray and that is like sort of the vibe of our podcast.

Adal

This podcast is like when you're on a flight and you have like a 20 ounce bottled water and you take a little sip and then you go to put it in the back of the seat but then it falls on the ground and then the plane kind of does a tip and it rolls forward under the seats and you're like, oh no. And then someone looks behind like, could you just kick me? And it's like, can I get that, my water bottle?

JPC

My water just, can I get... Did you just kick me with this water bottle?

00:54:08

Adal

That's what this podcast is.

JPC

This is just going to be a quick solo scene. Adal, you're going to be playing Harry Ferry. You've got to stop doing impressions while people are doing things or else you're just going to get called out. And it's going to go right into break. Adal, you're going to be Harry Ferry, and you're calling a baseball game.

???

Top of the ninth, two out, two strikes, two balls. And hey, if you believe in this game, clap. I would never want to clap. Clap if you believe in the game. Wow. What a great game. Christopher Walken. It's melting into Christopher Walken. It's walking immediately.

???

Hi, I'm Beck Bennett. Like, kindergartners? They wanted to do something about that, so we built a flawless, beautiful, perfectly designed website live on the pod with our very special guests and very web-savvy guests. Should we tell them who it was?

00:55:29

???

Let's play 20 questions.

???

I don't think we have time for that.

???

Is it a person?

???

No, it's not.

???

It's Finn Wolfhard, but Finn had a bunch of great ideas for the website. Beck, you had some amazing ideas for the website, too.

???

Thank you, and you had some amazing ideas for the website.

???

Well, I was sort of driving the thing. I was sort of, like, clicking and tapping.

???

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00:56:51

JPC

It's so funny I have no idea why it gets to be this time of year and I'm thinking about how I'm not as young as I once was.

Adal

Oh same girl same but also JPC your birthday's in December.

JPC

Okay that makes sense.

Adal

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Erin

Relaxation.

Adal

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Erin

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JPC

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00:58:07

Adal

Age is nothing but a number. The number of years I've been on earth.

JPC

Years are also nothing but physical manifestations of time passing.

???

I feel okay.

JPC

I feel okay. Erin, Adal, can I share a real-life story brought to you by the fine folks at Quince that happen to allow it? 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, 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 and say that's something we could leave the house. And guess what? It happened.

Erin

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

JPC

No, Erin, it was affordable. It was downright affordable. Because Quince makes the essentials every guy needs. I'm talking Mongolian cashmere sweaters for $50, Italian wool coats that look and feel designer, and denim and chinos that fit just right.

00:59:22

Adal

Oh, and don't get me started on their outerwear line. It's no joke. They have down jackets, wool top coats, leather styles. They're all built to last.

Erin

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JPC

So guys, stop getting sent back upstairs by your wife to change because what you picked out is not something that you should even own anymore and actually should go to the dump.

Erin

Feels like a you thing.

JPC

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Erin

What were you wearing when you came downstairs? Full turkey costume. Knew it.

01:00:24

Adal

Ah, nuts. I missed out on getting the worm this morning.

Erin

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

Adal

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

JPC

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.

Adal

I know. I love breakdancing, but I guess I didn't get it. I gotta get up more early. Oh, you know what else I need to do early? Acorns early.

JPC

Oh wait, you mean Acorns Early, the smart debit card and money app that grows kids' money skills as they grow up. That Acorns Early?

Adal

Yeah, when my kids get out of their eggs, out of the nest, I want them to be prepared and set up for success in the world.

Erin

That would have changed my life, because I was growing up being like, why aren't they teaching us how to handle our finances in school? They're kind of just throwing us to the wolves when we turn 20, and I don't know anything about money. And if I had had Acorns early, this would have been way easier.

01:01:24

JPC

Yeah, with Acorns early, you start with the in-app chores tracker and teach your kids the value of a dollar. Then you can let your kids set their own saving goals and start building healthy money habits early. Kids can spend what they've earned with their very own customizable debit card, giving them that extra sense of independence.

???

Plus, with acorns' early spinning limits and real-time spin notifications, parents always stay in control.

Adal

What do squirrels do with acorns? Are those like their pillows? Is that their money?

Erin

These are really good questions.

Adal

They treat them like pillows.

Erin

If your kid, I don't know, is starting a winter lemonade stand and you need to help them stretch that dollar, really start their business, Acorns Early might be the answer.

JPC

When my kids are old enough, because they're not quite old enough yet, I'm definitely going to be using Acorns Early to help teach them financial literacy. I've played around with this tool. It's really awesome and it teaches a lot of great lessons for younger children to start with good money habits early on.

Erin

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01:02:34

Adal

Let's all say what kind of bird we are on three. One, two, three. A pretty bird.

JPC

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Adal

OK, next up, I'm very curious about this next lady. This is Ragdoll. Come on in, Ragdoll.

Erin

Can someone lift up my neck? I can't see.

JPC

Yeah, I mean, we're not supposed to really assist with the audition. If you need us to, we can.

Erin

If you're like in dismay... Flings head backwards.

JPC

Oh! Yeah, this is an audition to join Tattle and be a superhero. Yeah, I know.

Erin

I thought you could use me. What's up? My name's Ragdoll. Buttons for eyes. That much is obvious. And I'd like to tell you that I would be a great fit for Towel. I know what you're thinking. I bet she can't get hurt because she's sort of a rag doll. She gets thrown around like a rag doll. It would be a great, an awesome thing to have a member of the team that can't get hurt. Strong. I have bones and blood like the rest of you. I just move like this.

01:03:58

JPC

But you're small. I'd say you're no more than 10 inches tall, and you look like you're made out of a cut-up mop.

Erin

My hair is made of yarn, cut-up mop, yarn, sort of felt, paper mache nose.

JPC

There's bones and blood and organs and tissue in there, huh?

Erin

Yeah, there's all the stuff you got. Reproductive organs.

Adal

Oh, I do see, it looks like written on the bottom of your foot, it says Tammy.

Erin

Yeah, Tammy is a bitch I met at a bar.

???

I asked her to give me a... Wait, can we use that for official superhero merch?

Erin

Yeah, I asked her to give me a peace sign tattoo because she was giving out free tattoos in the parking lot. She wrote Tammy on my foot. I hit her with a beer bottle.

Adal

I was like a kid who owned you or something, but yeah, that makes way more sense.

Erin

No, no, and I'm not a kid. I'm not a kid. I know I look very small. I'm a kid.

JPC

Was she given tattoos with Sharpie? This appears to just be written on in Sharpie.

Erin

Yeah, but look at this, the texture of my skin. This is there forever, brother.

01:04:59

JPC

Yeah, you're right.

Erin

God, that is... And I went through the wash once, but remember, I got bones and organs and all that stuff. I ended up having an episode and going west after I got put in the wash. Full of existential dread.

JPC

Okay.

Erin

In the dryer, too.

JPC

I don't want to dismiss Ragdoll out of hand because... Can I smoke in here? No.

Adal

Was that your power? You are a little bit on fire.

???

Power?

Adal

Yeah, the light. I'm sorry. Let me dim the light I'm shining on you. I think I'm cooking you alive.

???

Yeah. Power.

Adal

Uh-oh.

JPC

Oh, yeah. So if you do have a super power, we're also going to want to know that as well. I move like a ragdoll. That's the power. It feels more like a super... I'll just say drawback. I feel like that's the most polite and kind way to say that.

Erin

Why? No one can predict how I move. I sort of... Oh, I heard some bones.

Adal

I heard some bones snap.

Erin

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No amount of calcium is keeping these bones safe in the way that I'm moving.

01:06:01

JPC

If you know you have bones, why are you tossing yourself around like a rag doll?

Erin

This is how I have to walk.

JPC

That's right.

Erin

I have the proportion of a ragdoll. I look like a ragdoll. Again, though, I feel everything. I'm feeling all of this. Can I smoke in here?

JPC

No, please no. Can I ask you about your superhero origin? How did you come to be a 10-inch tall ragdoll that has human bones?

Erin

I mean, probably same as how you got your power.

Adal

I was hit by a truck containing a big supply of light. Big boot.

JPC

I was obviously crafted in a lab by an eccentric plastic surgeon.

Erin

And I had cold brew that was too strong. And now I can't read minds. Wait, wait, hold on, hold on. Yeah, what's up?

JPC

You're telling us that you can read minds?

Erin

Shake my cold brew.

JPC

Because you had cold brew that was too strong one time?

Erin

Yeah. You know when you overly caffeinate and all of a sudden you can hear people's minds?

01:07:04

JPC

So is your thing that you have to keep drinking- Can I smoke in here? No. No, hold on, no. You have to keep drinking the cold brew or now you're just drinking cold brew like as a person who's drinking cold brew?

Erin

I'm just drinking cold brew as a person that's drinking cold brew.

JPC

I forgot to mention that we all have the voice style chairs and we have to turn around when we are all in agreement. I think we let Ragdoll go. I don't think we're in agreement.

Erin

Oh, we all like Ragdoll, right?

Adal

I think that's a huge yes for me. Hits the button, my chair turns around.

JPC

Whoa, I didn't know you looked like that. Hitch button, turn it back around. Chair whips around so quick you spill out of the chair. Whoa, whoa.

Erin

Hey, that's a little rude. Can I smoke in here?

JPC

No.

Erin

Alright, well, whatever. Tammy and I are gonna go get some whiskeys.

Adal

So you're still with Tammy? I thought she was a bitch.

Erin

She is a bitch. Okay, covers Mike.

Adal

I will say Tammy is the bitch I met at a bar. It's my favorite catchphrase so far.

01:08:06

JPC

Yeah, I just don't think with the volatile nature of Ragdoll and Tammy's relationship, I just don't think we can afford to have either one of them on the team.

Adal

Yeah, that makes sense.

Erin

Tammy in the wings sheds one single tear and like blinks it away. All right, come on Tammy. Crack bones.

Adal

Tammy flies across stage. Whoa, Tammy in the wings! Tammy in the wings! That would have been amazing. She could have dropped Ragdoll on a pole. Oh, okay.

Erin

Burger, hot dog, cheeseburger.

JPC

What do you want? You do cheese hot dog?

Erin

Melted American cheese on a hot dog?

JPC

No. No, just a regular hot dog or cheeseburger.

Erin

Sorry, man, you seem really nervous. Oh, by the way, I'm Kyle. I've lived in this house about 15 years. Oh, cool. We got two little ones. I know that you moved in recently. Welcome.

JPC

Yeah, just me.

Erin

Great. Love it. Beautiful house. Jorgen.

01:09:06

JPC

Jorgen.

Erin

Jordan. Jordan. Nice to meet you, Jordan. Love it. I mean, my wife, she went to like every open house because she was just obsessed. It's like a great fixer-upper. Yeah, it's cool.

JPC

Wood.

Erin

It's got wood.

JPC

Floors and walls.

Erin

Yeah. Yeah, beautiful. You're gonna restore those, I assume. I mean, you bought a historically protected house. Yeah. I'm really excited to see what you do with it.

JPC

Yeah, for sure.

Erin

Well, Jordan... Jordan. Jordan.

JPC

Jordan.

Erin

Jordan. Jordan.

JPC

Yeah, like Michael Jordan.

Erin

Michael Jordan.

JPC

Yeah. How's that hot dog?

Erin

So you want a burger with cheese or a hot dog? You want both? You want both?

JPC

Um...

Erin

Hey man, don't be nervous. We don't bite. I know we seem like a pretty close-knit community. We're doing stuff like this all the time.

JPC

I've never had neighbors before.

Erin

Great. Oh, yeah, it's easy. It's just like we'll mow each other's lawns. If someone needs like a cup of sugar when they're baking. Hey Riddle Riddle Oh, it's free. I mean, we all pay everyone. Everyone pays everyone? No, no, like, like three weeks before this, it was before you moved in, you came around and everyone sort of gave like whatever they could. Sometimes people give like 100 bucks, 80 bucks, sometimes people do more.

01:10:31

JPC

100 bucks for a hot dog?

Erin

No, no, for the whole block party. Sort of it pays for like the music and the food.

JPC

Pays for the music.

Erin

And the bouncy house for the kids and the water balloon fight.

JPC

How much, $100 music?

Erin

No, I mean, I don't... I'm not a part of the planning committee.

JPC

What if I just mow your lawn all year?

Erin

No, I'm not... I'm not the one that you would pay even.

JPC

OK, so I've got to find somebody else to pay.

Erin

Yeah, like the... The Sullivans are the ones who organize it.

JPC

They're really... I think I'm going to go home and draw the shutters and just kind of... Hey, no man, you're doing great.

Erin

I don't think so. No, you're doing really good.

JPC

I think I've embarrassed myself.

Erin

No, I mean, Jordan, you've come over... I think you're being really brave.

JPC

My name's Michael. You panicked and... Yeah, because I wanted to say like Michael Jordan. I said Jordan, but I meant Jorgen, or no. My name's Michael.

Erin

And you wore a Halloween costume over here.

JPC

I got the dates wrong.

Erin

Yeah, it's the middle of summer.

JPC

Well, yeah, of the block party I got the date right, I got the dates of Halloween wrong. I've never had neighbors before, so I didn't really know when Halloween was. I've only lived in apartments and we didn't do Halloween.

01:11:40

Erin

Right.

JPC

Because it was a walk-up.

Erin

Sure. And I think that, you know, Michael, I think you're doing better than you think. You're doing, this is hard and I totally get it. And you seem like a really sweet introvert that like wanted to restore a historical home.

JPC

I didn't know about the historical home part either.

Erin

Well, you had to like sign a bunch of paperwork that said that you weren't going to make any changes that ruined the integrity of the house.

JPC

This house was a gift.

Erin

From who?

JPC

My uncle.

Erin

Oh, okay.

JPC

Yeah.

Erin

Well, my wife actually knows a lot about that stuff. Our home is historically protected as well. She'll give you all the resources.

JPC

I can mow her lawn for a year.

Erin

No, you don't have to do any of that. This is what being a neighbor is.

JPC

She's going to help me for free?

Erin

Yeah, she'll give you some advice.

JPC

Oh, but not help.

Erin

Oh, no, that's what helping is.

JPC

OK, I'll just help her.

Erin

Hey, man, you're really, really, really nervous. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm going to go back. You're leaning on my grill.

Adal

Some of us know what we want.

JPC

Okay, just give me $100 worth of hot dogs and hamburgers and I'm gonna go home.

Erin

No, no, no, no.

JPC

I think I have to go home.

Erin

Michael. I have to definitely go home because my hand's all burnt. I'm gonna give you a normal amount of food on your plate.

01:12:43

???

You're gonna go... Can you grill potato chips?

Erin

What?

???

Can you grill potato chips?

Erin

No, I'm just gonna put the normal potato chips on your plate. That's all I like. I know, it's great. We're gonna put stuff on your plate. Okay. You're gonna... Here, wrap your hand in this paper towel.

???

Should I mingle with people? No. Okay.

Erin

I would go sit. Sit in the grass? No, not the grass. Find a chair. Grass is for children and animals.

JPC

Okay.

Erin

Go find a chair.

JPC

In my house?

Erin

No, no.

JPC

Bring my chair out. No, no, no. In the grass?

Erin

Look, I'm pointing right now at the chair on my deck. See, there's a few of the neighborhood dads are up there talking golf.

JPC

Can I go in the deck, the upstairs deck?

Erin

No. I'm

JPC

Those are really tall guys.

Erin

There's one that's 5'11 and he's the tallest. So... Hey!

JPC

Here's what I'm gonna do.

Erin

See, look, they're waving at you. They're waving. They're excited to meet you. They're gonna want to talk about golf. They also have a jam band.

01:13:49

JPC

I'm gonna take a plate of grilled chips.

Erin

No.

JPC

An open Coke.

Erin

Nope.

JPC

I'm gonna go to your bed.

Erin

No.

JPC

I'm gonna sleep for an hour.

Erin

No.

JPC

Then I'm gonna go out onto the balcony.

Erin

Nope.

JPC

I'm gonna jump.

Erin

No.

JPC

I'm gonna jump off the balcony.

Erin

Michael, you wouldn't even get hurt.

JPC

I could get hurt.

Erin

I'll fall on my fingers. I'll land on my fingers.

JPC

I could really hurt my fingers. This was nice. It's so overwhelming, but here's what I'm gonna do.

Erin

Who's Michael? My name's Clayton. My name's Clayton. I was thinking Michael Clayton. I said Michael Jordan. It's not Clayton. It's Layton. My name's Meester. Meester, little Meester. Meester? There's lots of single ladies in the neighborhood. Deeds.

JPC

My name's Deeds.

Erin

Meester Deeds.

JPC

Just Deeds.

Erin

Deeds? Is your name Adam?

JPC

My name's Adam.

Erin

Yeah.

JPC

My uncle died. Sure. Buying this house.

01:14:51

Erin

Yeah.

JPC

And I kind of swooped in at the last minute.

Erin

I actually think you're doing better than you think you are. We're going to introduce you to some beautiful ladies. It's the summer. Okay. You know what might relax you? Have a beer. Here's a beer. Catch.

JPC

Uh oh. Oh, okay. So I should go find that?

Erin

No, no. I'll give you another beer. I'm going to hand it to you. Ready? One.

JPC

No. Kick it to me.

Erin

Two. No.

JPC

If you put it on the ground and kick it over to me, it's going to be way easier.

Erin

You're literally in arms. I'll drop it.

JPC

I'll drop it.

Erin

I promise you I'll drop it. We're going to pretend this is a funny bit between us that we do. Okay.

JPC

So you're going to introduce me to a woman?

Erin

Nope. You're going to go.

JPC

She seems nice.

Erin

She's going to introduce herself to you. Just go up there, be mysterious, smile, nod. They're going to love you. Got it. Say your name is Adam.

JPC

My name's Deeds. Say my name's Adam. Say Adam. Okay.

Erin

Okay. Good luck. Thank you so much. I'm watching.

JPC

What was your name?

Erin

Hi, welcome back to I Will Knock You. I'm coming to you from the local dive bar where I am going to get into some fights with people who definitely deserve it. Hold on, hold on. You have to spin. My name is Michael and I'm not drunk. My first guest is the guy sitting next to me. Excuse me. Excuse me.

01:16:07

Adal

Hey, come on. Hey, come on. Knock it off. Knock it off.

Erin

Excuse me, sir.

Adal

Knock it off.

Erin

Do you have a freaking problem with me?

Adal

Michael, I don't have a problem with you. You do this every week.

Erin

Do I? Because I have a show to produce every week. I will knock you. There's a camera. Put the graphic in here. Put the graphic in here.

Adal

Graphic of what?

Erin

Talking to my line producer. Put the graphic in here.

Adal

Okay. Can we cut him off? Can we cut him off, please?

Erin

Me? No. He's technically not over-served.

Adal

He's only had one drink. I just think it's a reaction to his medicine.

Erin

I can only stop after three drinks, so legally I have to keep serving him.

JPC

Joel, this is not how you run a bar. I told him not to take the medicine.

Erin

Another mojito, please, Joel.

01:17:07

JPC

You have two-thirds of your mojito sitting there.

Erin

Joel, Joel, but I drink fast because I have a straw and I drink faster with a straw.

JPC

I'll make you another mojito.

Erin

And guess what? After that, I'm going to knock you.

JPC

That's not going to happen.

Erin

To the ground. I'm going to punch you. I know you were a Marine, Joel. Oh, Joel was a Marine. Joel has big arms. I'm gonna knock you down, Jules.

???

Hey everybody, it's me, Norm! Norm!

Erin

Norm, I will knock you down to the ground, Norm.

???

Oh, Michael, you little so-and-so. You still making that show here? What's up, buddy? High five!

Erin

Tries to high five, goes to punch, falls to the ground.

Adal

He used to fuck with Catwoman. So now I feel like every time I'm turning around, you know, a corner, I'm like, is Catwoman going to come out of nowhere and just like, you know?

Erin

This is so crazy. And like, you should be even more scared of her. But she goes to my Zoom book classes and she's like crazy strong.

01:18:12

Adal

In the outfit with the whip?

Erin

Oh, yeah, of course. And she looks like so good. I'm in the mirror and I look like a wet rat. Kind of like sweating in the mirror and I'm like, oh my God, she looks amazing.

Adal

Don't talk about my friend like that.

Erin

Hey, hey, I know. I mean, I went to class and that's what matters, right?

Adal

Yeah.

Erin

That's what matters.

Adal

I saw a car almost hit her one time and I was like, oh my God, yes, it's happening. She did 13 somersaults in the air, landed on all fours, scuttled into the sewers.

Erin

Like that's incredible. Like my life would change if I could do that.

Adal

Her ass looked amazing the whole way through.

Erin

Didn't break a sweat, I'm sure. So anyway, Robin was going down on me for like three hours. I just could not make me come.

Adal

And the last one is stop that laughing at the back, which is my favorite one listed.

Erin

Stop that laughing at the back. Okay, everybody take a seat. Quiet down, okay? Okay. This is about what happened yesterday. This is not funny. I cannot stress this enough. This is not, look at me, this is not funny. Your teacher, hey, Hey, is he gonna be okay? No, he farted himself to death. Now hold on. I didn't know it was to death. This is being streamed to the whole town and this is very serious.

01:19:39

???

Okay?

Erin

You were the last class. that he had. You guys saw it go down. Hey.

JPC

Question. Yeah. Could we just laugh for like.

Erin

No. You can't get out of your systems. You can't. Why not? Because yesterday. Can you imagine the hell of dying by far. And there is an entire classroom of children not not calling for help not running for help but laughing in your face. That's the last sound he heard.

JPC

Well not the last. I mean, yes.

Erin

Hey.

JPC

We lived it. We lived it. We could imagine it.

Erin

He hit the ceiling. We have the footage. We know the momentum. Play it. Play it. Play it. Stop the laughing in the back. Play it. Stop the laughing in the back. Hey.

Adal

You simply must play the footage. No.

Erin

No. We will in a minute. We will in a minute because we all need to talk about what happened. We're gonna do a play-by-play and you're gonna let me know what happened, okay?

01:20:43

JPC

Okay. Well, you know what happened. He farted himself to death.

Erin

What happened before the farting?

Adal

It's

Erin

I shouldn't have had so much jelly. Hey! Stop!

Adal

And then I guess after that... Stop! That's what he sounded like. After that was the first fart and then the class hamster died.

Erin

We know. Double tragedy, and I know, it's not funny.

JPC

We don't know that he died. He died. He held up a little sign that said, ay carumba, and then he keeled over.

Erin

Hey, stop. Stop it. Stop it. Which of the farts, how far in, was the one that blasted him back into the chalkboard? Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop the laughing in the back!

01:21:49

JPC

It was all the farts. Every part blasted deeper into the chalkboard. Look at the hole. You're seeing the hole. It was a process. You think you get a four foot divot and a chalkboard for one part?

Erin

This was not just a teacher.

JPC

He worked for it.

Erin

This was not just a teacher. This was a father. This was a husband. This was a volunteer firefighter. This was someone who did community theater at night. Yes.

Adal

Can I ask something?

Erin

Yes, Declan, what?

Adal

About 12 to 13 minutes in, all the other teachers came into the classroom and also watched along. Are they in trouble as well?

Erin

Are we in trouble? You're in the biggest trouble. You had, this was a 50 minute episode. You had 50 minutes to call 911, call for an ambulance, run and get help from me, the principal. You could have done anything and he died because you guys were laughing and laughing. Hey, stop it. Stop that laughing in the back. In our defense, it was riveting. Stop it.

JPC

It was the best 50 minutes of my life. I could tell he had community theater chops because of kind of how he was milking it and hamming it up to a certain degree.

01:22:54

Erin

He wasn't. He was in agony.

JPC

He was making sounds that didn't necessarily equate to agony. Like what? Like, don't make me do it. A wooga! A wooga!

Erin

Stop the laughing in the back!

Adal

Hamana hamana help me. Hamana hamana help me. Doink! He said doink a lot, and he was saying doink. Yeah, and he kept saying, my pants!

Erin

Oh, my pants! Speaking of his pants, how far in did his pants blow off?

Adal

Well, they were Carhartts, so they lasted longer than they should. They lasted much longer. Right. Built farm tough.

JPC

Yeah.

Erin

Don't.

JPC

But it wasn't really that the pants flew off in one burst. It was more that they were shredded as it went on.

Erin

His family is planning a funeral right now, and they don't know what to say. They don't know what to put in the paper.

Adal

I would say don't do open casket. Closed casket for sure. His ashes ruined.

Erin

Stop that laughing in the back. Stop it. People are watching this at home.

Adal

Why?

Erin

Because we're holding you accountable.

Adal

This is being streamed out?

Erin

Yes, of course.

01:23:55

Adal

At one point he went in the air like, you know those wind tunnels that you can go into? You're wearing a suit where you can open your arms or close them? Indoor skydiving. Indoor skydiving. At one point it was like 50 minutes of that and it was beautiful. He looked like an angel.

JPC

He tried to use the eyewash station and he blew all of the water back into the eyewash station and then it corroded the spout that it was coming out of like it was the stinkiness was like acidic in some way.

Erin

Okay let's just try to get the timeline right. What order do you remember happening? You walked into the classroom and then what happened?

JPC

Sat down a big bowl of chili. Sat down a big bowl of chili. On the desk. I would say three- I thought you said it was cheese. No, it was chili, but there was definitely cheese in it.

Adal

Yeah.

JPC

I don't think that what came out of him would have been possible without the assistance of caring.

Erin

Stop that laughing in the back.

Adal

Stop it. I also want to mention, I don't know if anyone has gone on record, but at some point it got so bad he put his finger in his, I don't know the medical term, butthole.

Erin

Don't do this.

Adal

And then he got a real funny face and he started coming out his mouth.

01:24:59

JPC

And he clapped his hand over his mouth, and then it started coming out the butthole. Then he did the hand over the butthole. Started coming out his penis.

Erin

Stop laughing in the back!

JPC

Then it came out of his ears.

Erin

Oh, then the steam came out of his ears.

JPC

Well, it wasn't steam. It was farts. It was farts. But it looked and sounded like the whistle of steam. And then he clapped his hands over his ears, and his eyeballs bulged out with farts.

Adal

Like a Looney Tune. And at some point... I wouldn't say like a Looney Tune. It was very human. Yeah. Like the mask, maybe? Yeah, like the mask.

Erin

Stop that laughing in the back!

Adal

He kept saying I'm being cooked alive.

Erin

Stop. And then he tried to open the windows.

Adal

He did.

Erin

Which I thought was very kind and then you guys closed them to keep the pressure in the room.

JPC

That's not why we closed them. We opened the window and then he unfortunately did see a very pretty lady out on the street and I think he was getting horny. Well, it doesn't matter if he's married. He's a man. He was getting horny. He's a red-blooded American man. He was getting horny by seeing a very- and we don't know if the woman could have been his wife, because I know his wife works close by, but he was getting very horny and he was starting to make a, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga, a wooga,

01:26:15

Adal

At one point he did call the hospital, but he was farting so much they thought it was a prank and they hung up on him.

Erin

And remind me again, what sign did the hamster hold up?

Adal

Icaramba.

Erin

I made the sign.

JPC

I made the sign for Spanish class. I don't know how the hamster got it.

Adal

It wasn't for him. But then on the reverse side, he turned it around and it said, die, caramba. And then big Xs formed over his eyes. And then there was a big, I don't know where it came from, but there was sort of like a noise that was like, Sort of like Ren and Stimpy when they should do a close-up of someone's armpit or something. Oh yeah, I didn't even associate that with the farting, but now that I'm thinking about it, that was definitely an image that came out of him.

Erin

One of the farts turned all the pages of the book that you guys were reading to a certain page. What book was it, and what did the page say? Stop that laughing in the back. Stop. Don't!

JPC

We were reading The Catcher in the Rye, and it blew some letters off of the cover and turned it into The Farter Smells Like Stye.

01:27:16

Erin

Adam Bovary, shit. And, oh fuck.

JPC

Uh, we were reading The Giver and I got changed to The Shitter.

Adal

Yes, we don't know where the S is in the- And we don't have all the answers to these questions.

Erin

Okay, well, you guys will be assigned a new teacher, obviously. No.

Adal

No, we want our old teacher. He's dead. Oh, that's right, he died. Did he leave us like a VHS or something to play?

???

Stop the laughing!

Adal

I forgot he died. Did he leave us like a VHS to play in case of death?

Erin

He did. He wanted me to roll in the TV into the classroom and show you guys the video.

Adal

Have you seen the video yet?

Erin

I know what it is.

Adal

I haven't seen it. You're laughing. You haven't seen it.

Erin

I'm not.

Adal

Is it going to be like sports bloopers where it's like da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da and it's going to be him farting?

???

Yes.

JPC

I forgot. I forgot he died because he did. He stopped farting and he said, oh, I'm OK. I don't know what that was. And he walked out of the classroom and then we heard him kind of fart and like bang off of things like a rocket ship going down the hallway.

01:28:24

Adal

He hit the ceiling fan at some point.

JPC

Yeah.

Erin

Yeah. You could hear him hitting lockers.

JPC

Yeah.

Erin

And then what happened? Welcome back.

JPC

And he kept going, it was kind of like, as he went up, it was kind of like, um, what's it called in Dr. Strangelove? Uh, guy dro- on the bomb.

Erin

We all know what you're referring to. Cowboy on the Bomb. Cowboy on the Bomb. Slim Pickens. Slim Pickens. Okay, you know what we're gonna do. It's fine.

JPC

But it was reverse Slim Pickens just going up into the clouds. Fat Pickens.

Erin

I hope you earned a valuable lesson about actually asking for help.

JPC

Yes.

Erin

Um, this is sort of a bystander effect that no one- We have learned our lesson. Okay, great. And let's just do a moment of silence.

???

Can we watch the video?

Erin

We can, but one moment of silence in honor of the teacher.

01:29:25

Adal

Whoa, we haven't had a moment in silence in 50 minutes. Okay, when he was dying.

Erin

Do not laugh. Don't laugh in the back. Okay, moment of silence.

Adal

Oh, his family's coming in.

Erin

Yep, this is super serious. Nobody laugh.

???

Do not laugh. Do not laugh. They're in mourning.

Erin

Ready?

JPC

This is his family?

Erin

It's a moment of silence starting now.

JPC

Why are they all eating chili?

Adal

Is that to honor his memory? Is it to honor?

JPC

Yes. Does the whole family really like chili? Stop asking questions. Okay, but I'm just wondering because they're eating a lot of chili. Oh no! Oh, too much chili!

Adal

Oh no, it's happening again.

Erin

I'm eating too much chili! Sorry, no, I made the video start playing. Turn it off, turn it off, turn it off. Turn it off.

JPC

Wait, he's eating chili in the video too?

Erin

I don't think this is on us! Scene. And Casey, cut that. We don't need it.

???

Yeah.

Erin

Danny, we done did it. We're back to what we did before.

JPC

Wait, does that mean purgatory's over?

Erin

I don't know. Let's go on a new adventure you and I. What was that?

01:30:30

Adal

What was that that you just did? And as you lean in for a second kiss.

Erin

You can't reject. You cannot leave me alone in that. That's the meanest thing ever. That is being abandoned on my birthday level mean.

JPC

I just don't remember. I'm still half a suit store.

Adal

That is sort of booking a week-long cruise together and then one of you backs out. That is brutal.

Erin

And I'm on the boat.

Adal

For one of you to be like, we don't kiss anymore. That was never a thing. That is, JPC, that is brutal.

Erin

That's not like I got invited to the movies by people in my class and I went to the movies and saw the movie and they're like, we changed your mind and went to a different movie. Like that level of like absolutely cut down on everything.

JPC

What are you guys talking? Erin, stay in it. What are you guys talking about?

Erin

Adal, you are Bear Jesus Christ, and you are about to perform a bear miracle.

Adal

Everyone, everyone, you see this water? Can everyone see the water?

Erin

Was it water or is it honey turned water to honey?

01:31:38

JPC

You will put me in a cave and roll a rock in front of it and I will hibernate and come out a few days later. And that's normal.

Erin

That's just normal.

Adal

This is normal.

Erin

Scene.

Adal

These options are from British Children TV. And here's what I'll say. I just realized how much I love when Brits say something along the lines of like, that's tasty that, that's beautiful that.

Erin

Yeah, that's so cute.

Adal

That's tasty that.

Erin

Whimsy, whimsy, whimsy. I mean, they also were colonizers.

Adal

I got a question for you about Brits before we really truly launch into it. Who is the British actor working today who you think has the worst American accent? Ooh, that's a good question.

01:32:49

JPC

Can I say, I love Tom Hardy, but when he does American, it's like, I am American.

Erin

Like, it's always just like... They all seem to be doing a Jason Statham American.

Adal

Like, it's such a weird... Has Statham ever done an American accent?

Erin

I don't know.

JPC

What if Statham thinks he's doing an American accent in every movie he's doing?

Erin

And I'm like, good job!

JPC

His real voice is like super high-pitched and he's like, definitely lowering it, but it's still very British.

???

When I was playing the beekeeper, I tried to get into the mindset of... When I was playing the beekeeper then!

JPC

It's Jason Statham and he's got a big curly wig and a big apron on and it's like... That's tasty, that.

Erin

He's holding the handbag, he screams like E.T.

JPC

E.T. E.T. is the one British actor who does a terrible American accent.

Erin

Found home. I heard that E.T. 's really rude to waiters too. He grabs butts. He grabs butts.

Adal

Yeah, E.T. stands for, eww, stop it.

Erin

I couldn't think of anything. Lowercase s, capital T. I will say.

01:33:52

Adal

Top it. And I do think he's a tremendous actor. Who, E.T. ? Tremendous.

Erin

I think E.T.

Adal

's great.

Erin

Yeah. E.T. won the Oscar Best Supporting Actor role in Michael Clayton, right?

Adal

Here's my thing about E.T., though. He jumped up on the seats and walked across.

Erin

After the one movie... And then he dip-kissed Halle Berry.

Adal

In a Rastafarian cap. Adrian Brody did both of those things.

JPC

Who did Adrian Brody introduce as a Rastafarian? Does anyone remember what band it was?

Erin

I can't. Oh, it's so funny though.

JPC

Then E.T.

Erin

went... Adele Dazeem. It wasn't like Sean Paul? It was literally Soundgarden?

JPC

I don't think it made sense. It did make sense, okay. E.T. can wear the Rastafarian wig, because he's not from anywhere.

Adal

Oh, Sean Paul. And it says the mock Jamaican accent was definitely unscripted, and allegedly Sean Paul was very pissed off by Adrian's introduction.

01:34:57

JPC

What? Why? Did he not get the joke? 71 weeks of spit on the charts. For a while there, it was rough. But lately, I've been doing better. Then, the last four cold Decembers, I recall, and I see my family every month, I found a girl my parents love, Adal.

Adal

Counting crows, cold December.

JPC

Cold December, it's been a cold December. She'll come and stay the night, and I think I might have it all. And I thank God every day for the girl he sent my way. But I know the things he gives me, he can take away. And I hold you every night, and that's a feeling I want to get used to. But there's no man as terrified as the man who stands to lose you.

Adal

Buzz. Oh, Adal? I think I'm going to hate myself if I don't at least try to say... Don't tell some beautiful thing that you know. Is it that song? Hey, I don't know what that means. What is that?

Erin

Don't take... It's a little fella who does the backflips.

01:35:57

???

It's beautiful... Yeah, it's like the goose. Oh, is that the one?

JPC

Hey, this is one I didn't look up for the show because I had no interest. I was like, I know I don't know this one, but yes, it is the little backflip boy. Benson Boone. Adal, Benson Boone. Do you know the name of the song? Sounds like a goose is singing this song. Don't take blank blank that I got.

Erin

Do you know that Benson Boone is three geese wearing a jumpsuit? It was really hard for them to learn how to do one backflip together.

JPC

If you pause the video where he's doing a backflip, you can see the three geese. You can see the three geese. They never stop touching, but they come apart a little bit.

???

I mean, they're athletes for sure.

Adal

His album is called Untitled Benson Project? With goose crossed out?

Erin

Gensengoose. Thank you, Casey.

Adal

Gensengoose.

JPC

Gensengoose. It was right there.

???

Hey Riddle Riddle.

JPC

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01:37:44

???

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.

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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. I'm really sorry. I was trying to be supportive, 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.