This is a HeadGum Podcast.
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This is a HeadGum Podcast.
Adal
Oh, hello you two. Welcome to Hotel Riddles. What's the occasion? We are getting a divorce. To be divorced. Oh, okay. You're being engaged to get divorced.
Erin
Uh-huh. We just were.
Adal
Yeah, we were gonna do it all backwards. I have to write this down before I give you your room keys. What is the reason for a divorce? Just like bad sex?
Erin
Staying in hotels too much?
00:01:02
Adal
Irreconceivable differences. I am going to give the two of you the 13th floor honeymoon suite, and that is haunted. Will there be riddles? There are riddles. There's a young boy who died in the 1800s. He'll be asking you some riddles. You had me. A young boy who died in the 1800s. I hate the people of that age. Yeah. Yep. Well, you didn't hear how he died. Oh. Okay, well, great.
Erin
Well, thank you so much. We'll take our room keys. And free breakfast in the morning or?
Adal
No. It's free bird brunch. It's a Leonard Skinner and cover band does brunch. And you know, checking out? I don't know. Well, you can't leave. You can check out but you can never leave. You see this is the hotel Arizona. We do things a little bit different here, and I'm your Major D, Adal Rifai. I'm JPC.
00:02:02
Erin
And I'm Erin Keif. There are other people here.
Adal
And there's other people here. This is maybe the most guests we've had on. We have an embarrassment of riches because we have three of the stars of the amazing podcast Dungeons & Daddies. Please welcome to the show Freddie Wong, Beth May, and Will Campos. Hello, everyone.
Guest0
Yay. Hooray. We're here. We've made it. We've finally made it. Top of the podcast heap. We're done. Fuck you. Fuck you. Say it. Say it.
Adal
Conan.
Guest0
Fuck you, cereal. Yeah. Get them best anyway. Yeah. The nerd dude from This American Life. Ira Glass. Fuck Ira Glass. I don't know Ira Glass anymore. We're the king of podcasts.
Guest1
Yes.
JPC
Ira Glass is our guest next week.
Guest0
Stay with us.
Adal
The three of you broke the Ira Glass ceiling by being guests on this, the pinnacle of comedy podcasts.
00:03:09
JPC
We're not really a comedy podcast, just so we're clear. We're very niche for our games. We are a riddles podcast, and so being a riddles podcast, we have to ask every guest who comes on our show, what is your experience with riddles? Famously, in one of our first episodes, I think we all revealed that Adal likes riddles, I'm indifferent to riddles, and Erin doesn't like riddles. That's changed over the years, and now we all don't like them. But what is your experience with them? Do you like them? Did you have riddles as a child?
Guest0
So I actually have a weird story about this which is that I for like a hot second in fifth grade got like super into riddles and I remember hearing like the one with the guy in the forest and he's wet and how did he die and all that and then the riddle that broke my heart was, and I'd forgotten all about it. And then I was listening to your podcast and then you did the riddle like a week ago. And I remember how dumb and terrible it was. It's the one where it's the guy in the room with the wood chips and the shavings on the ground. And then it turns out that he's like, you know, in the circus. And then like, it was like, he killed himself because he was, you know, like a short person, but he was, he thought he was growing taller because of another short person. And I was like, I remembered how, how angry that riddle made me when I was a little kid that it got me out of riddles.
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Erin
I'm so sorry that riddle broke up with you.
Guest0
Beth, what is your relationship with riddles?
Guest1
Uh, my name is Beth and this is my relationship with riddles. Sexual- no I'm just kidding. I love, I love riddles. I'm very bad at them. And so it's like, I, you know, I don't know. I'm like a huge admirer of the New York Times trossword. I've been playing it for years. I have never gotten past Wednesday. I just love the heck out of it.
Adal
We should say you're wearing a t-shirt that says, eat my will shorts.
???
Yes.
Guest1
That's exactly- Those would be better shorts than a shirt. I'm looking at a Will Shorts Monday omnibus over there, and I'm like, that's never going to be solved by me. I'm going to have to cheat.
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Adal
We should also say Beth has a, her background is Jim Carrey in Batman Forever, which is just outstanding.
Guest1
Yeah, that's my relationship with Riddles.
Adal
And there are kiss marks all over his face. Freddie, what is your relationship with Riddles?
Guest0
So for me, y'all remember Mind Trap, one word? Oh yes. Do you know about Mind Trap?
JPC
Yeah, we do a riddle podcast, Freddie. We're familiar with Mind Trap.
Guest0
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course. But in third grade, my teacher brought Mind Trap out, which was like, it's almost like, it's just like a deck of cards with riddles on them and on the back. It's like, they claim, you know, they're lateral thinking puzzles, and most of them, like, and that was like the treat in third grade. It was like, ooh, we'll do a mind trap. And she would pull them out, and we would sit there and lob yes or no questions at her. And she would always, looking back on it, it was so clearly a delaying tactic, because she would pick the dumbest fucking ones. And we, as third graders, would just be, like, completely unable to comprehend. Like, I know the clown, you know, the wood shaving one. I remember that because none of us got it because there's such foreign concepts to the idea of like suicide? And he wants to be taller? Like all this stuff is just completely outside of our wheelhouse. So that was my relationship with Riddle. That was how Freddie and I learned what suicide was.
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Guest1
Yeah, most of us were learning in second grade, but Freddie learned in third grade.
Adal
And those were also the original lyrics to the MASH theme song.
Erin
Before we get into riddles, because I know JPC is anxious to get going, just to warm us up for the comedy, Freddie, I did notice that you had a truth and comedy book standing right in front of you.
Guest0
Yes, I do. I was studying. I was studying as hard as I could.
Erin
I would love if you flipped open to any random page and then maybe found like a nugget of wisdom for us for this episode.
JPC
Famously, there is an Andy Dick quote on every page of this book. Alright, here we go, from page 102.
Guest0
As soon as an actor begins to see his environment on stage, the audience sees it through his eyes. Kind of sexist. Kind of a piece of shit book. Yeah, thank God it said he and his.
Erin
Also, Freddie, that doesn't apply to us because this is an audio podcast, so thank you for literally nothing. You know what I'm saying? Like, time to fucking throw this book away.
Guest1
I've also got a comedy book next to me that I must have purchased and never opened, obviously. Let's see.
00:07:47
Adal
What do you got? She's holding up a far side calendar. Infinite chest.
Guest1
Sorry, you can't see it through Jim Carrey's head, but it's the hidden tools of comedy by Steve Kaplan, the serious business of being funny.
JPC
Wasn't Kaplan assassinated for giving away those hidden tools?
Guest1
You know what, we better not share them then. I need one, I need one. Okay, here you go. One of my favorite movies is Groundhog Day. That explains everything.
Guest0
I mean very good. That was the line that got him killed.
Erin
All of a sudden there's a red dot on Beth's head.
Adal
JPC you are going to be old man puzzles today, but before we get into it I do want to see a very quick scene just based on Freddie's story. I do want to see a scene with Freddie and Beth. You two are students. You're in... Freddie, what age were you when you were introduced?
Guest0
Third grade.
Adal
How old are you in third grade? 10? No.
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9.
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JPC
9 years old.
Adal
So, Beth and Freddie, you are 9 years old. JPC, you are a substitute teacher here to teach the kids about riddles. And your name is, you're a famous sleight of hand magician, a la Criss Angel, and your name is Mind Trap. Got it.
JPC
Your teacher is dead. Lee Sirius about this syllabus that she left me for today. Because of her funeral.
Guest1
And why can't we go to the funeral?
JPC
I think it's family only. I wanna go to the funeral. Yeah, it's family only.
Guest0
My name is Mind Trap, and you are now in my dun-dun-dun mind prison.
Guest1
Before that, it's time to enter dun-dun-dun-dun the Learning Zone.
00:10:03
JPC
Sorry, that's my bad. You're all looking at the bat that's trapped in here. I did leave a bat. I let a bat out. I brought a bat in.
Guest0
And that's not the only bat.
Adal
We cut to a Meineke auto where Will is helping the mine trap change his oil. So I'm allowed to be back here, right?
Guest0
Yeah, I don't know how you got back here.
JPC
Well, the door handle came off. Here you are.
Guest0
Here's the door handle. I'm pretty sure that that was a securely affixed door handle, sir. This is a Meineke. It's not a place to practice escape magic. I did break that.
JPC
I will pay for that.
Guest0
About your Toyota Corolla, you haven't changed the oil in about 15,000 miles, and I found a dead dub stuffed in there. What was that about? When you say stuffed in there... I'm
00:11:16
JPC
the show.
Erin
Yay! There's a history there.
JPC
We'll begin. This is an easy one. I think it's more of a softball for the Dungeons & Daddies crew. This is a riddle from Rebel. They sent this in and their email says, I heard a riddle. I think that you'd like. This isn't mine. This is from Matt Arnold of Dungeons & Daddies. We already know this one. You may have a slight advantage with this Riddle. Here it goes. How long ago was this email sent? This was sent in February of this year. That makes sense. I did search our email for Dungeons & Daddies and found, but surprisingly a lot of people have mentioned you and emailed us. No kidding.
00:12:21
Erin
We get a lot of your love letters.
JPC
I think it's because our podcast email is dungeonsandzaddies at gmail.com. Because we wanted Hey Riddle Riddle, but it was just taken.
Guest0
Our email address is Ira Glass at thisamericanlife.com.
JPC
Great. Now we're going to get in trouble for doxing Ira Glass again. Here's the riddle. It keeps a little creature warm. You can buy it in a package, and when it passes through two arms, it goes back to the start. What is it? Space Eater.
Guest1
It's dumb.
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That's what it is.
Guest1
I don't like this riddle. Actually, okay, but Matt came up with this on the fly, which I think is incredible, but also to imply that this was a thought-out riddle, I think is... He's like that freestyle Eminem of riddles.
Guest0
It was pretty impressive.
Guest1
He really is, but it's also dumb.
Adal
Oh, well then the answer is Mom's Spaghetti.
JPC
You're in the ballpark, it keeps a little creature warm, you can buy it in a package, and when it passes through two arms, it goes back to the start. What is it?
00:13:32
Guest1
The creature doesn't need to be little, you know? It's like, it can be big at times.
Adal
Yeah, that's true. When it passes through two arms, it goes back to the start. Is it one of those like water snakes you buy at like a museum gift store? Um, I don't think so, no.
Erin
I was making up a riddle on the fly and that was the answer.
Guest0
Gift store water snake! Gift store water snake! This also did stump our DM as well, so, you know, don't feel too bad.
Adal
It keeps a little creature warm. When it passes through two hands, it goes back to the start. What was the middle portion of it? When it passes through two arms, it goes back to the start.
JPC
You can buy it in a package. I think that that might be one of the most crucial components to this.
Erin
Is it a sweater?
JPC
Buy it in a package. It's not a sweater.
Erin
A hug?
JPC
So safe to say that everyone from the Dungeons & Daddies crew remembers the answer to this riddle very well, correct? Can you give them a hint?
Guest0
I'll proffer a hint. So the dad in question in our podcast is a sports dad. That's like his thing. He's into sports. And this was an in-character riddle. What'd you say, Adal?
00:14:48
JPC
Welcome back.
Guest0
We'll see you next time.
JPC
It keeps a pig warm, you can buy pork rinds and footballs in a package, and when you catch a football it goes back to the starting line. Thank you Rebel for sending that in, and thank you for, well I guess you didn't really stump the Dungeons & Daddies crew because they'd heard that one very recently.
Guest1
Thank you Matt Arnold for really stumping us and giving us a lot to aspire to.
Guest0
Matt did stump everyone on our podcast when he came up with it.
00:15:49
JPC
It's a stumper. And we typically start with a warm-up riddle, and that warm-up is just to kind of get the juices flowing. So let's go to some additional riddles. These riddles come to us courtesy of Rome and the Sphinx. Rome says that they've always loved riddles, even when they stumped me, so was excited to discover the podcast. Thank you so much. But they also DM a Dungeons & Dragons campaign where their players encountered a Sphinx. And they wrote all of these riddles in the voice of the Sphinx, and I guess presumably the Sphinx would, you know, maul them if they got it wrong. You won't be mauled if you get this wrong, but you will definitely be forced to do scenes. Here is the first of the riddles. I have feathers, and I fly, but have no beak, nor do I cry. So weak you can break me in your hand, but so strong that, too, I can kill a man. What am I? Baby penguin. Yes, the strongest animal with no beak, the baby penguin.
00:16:50
Guest1
Wait, but it does have a beak or it has no beak?
JPC
It has no beak, nor a cry.
Erin
Someone asked me recently what the biggest animal I would fight was, and I said a penguin.
Adal
See, I got that question as well on a guest spot, and I said a beached whale.
Guest0
Hey Riddle Riddle How do you determine when you've won a fight against a beached whale? It's eyes closed.
Guest1
When you're in a dove oil spill commercial, that's when you know you've won.
Guest0
So it's, I have no beak and I must scream. I have feathers. But cannot fly. No, feathers and I fly.
Guest1
Feathers and I fly.
00:17:50
Adal
No beak, no cry. Okay. I want to see a scene. Erin, you were going to do a scene with Beth, and Erin, you are yourself, and Beth is the, turns out, she is the largest animal you would fight. So, whether that's Beth wants to choose that animal, or Erin, you want to name it, that's the scene.
Guest1
Was it a penguin?
Adal
I said that.
Guest1
We'll find out. I don't know how to improv.
Erin
I'm gonna put on my boxing gloves. Are you ready? I'm ready. Is it true that the dads sit on the eggs for a long time? Is that true?
Guest1
I can't understand you.
Adal
You got this, sweetheart. You got this. I'm gonna sit on the eggs, and I love you for life. You're my one mate.
Guest1
Oh, hey, are you talking to her, too?
Adal
Huh? No, I'm talking to you, Gloria. Oh, okay, okay.
00:18:52
Erin
Oh my god, a dad penguin and daughter.
Guest1
There's a person here, and she's trying to talk to me, and I'm like, well, if you keep talking to me, we're gonna have to throw down. So I, you know, I don't know how to communicate that to her other than, you know, going forward.
Adal
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you got this. You got this.
Guest1
Okay.
Erin
I'm like... Oh my god, you're so cute. Oh my god, I'm gonna have to kick you so hard though, right in the stomach. This bitch is going down. Oh my god, it's so cute. Oh my god, there's paternal penguins. Erin, Erin, Erin, Erin, Erin. What?
JPC
What? Erin, you have to take a dive. You have to let the penguin win. I got bad men who I owe a lot of money to. Please take a dive.
Erin
You want me to have a penguin beat the shit out of me? This penguin is an eighth of my size. I know how to win this.
Guest1
You ever seen Happy Feet, babe? We don't have to dance with our fists. We can dance with our feet.
Erin
Oh my God, I think these penguins are gonna have a dance-off with me. Oh my God, they're lacing on tap shoes.
00:19:54
Adal
Just lose. Whatever you do, lose.
Erin
I can't. I'm amazing at tapping.
Adal
Oh no, I can't stop sliding on the ice. Scene.
Guest1
That's what a penguin tap dancing sounds like.
Adal
In honor of Beth, for the rest of the episode, we have to start every scene by screaming, I don't know how to improvise.
Guest1
I hope that helped.
Guest0
Does anyone have an answer to this riddle? So I started this podcast, before we record I said that I walk into every riddle with insane confidence. I know the answer to this. Does anyone else know the answer to this?
Erin
I think I have a guess.
Guest0
Freddie, I want you to guess. Freddie's like the Warren Beatty of riddles.
Adal
You walked into this riddle like you were walking onto a yacht. Yeah, I was just like, I own this.
Erin
Freddie, like, push through saloon doors into this riddle. Wait, can I hear it, like, one more time, or is that- Alright, let's hear it one more time.
JPC
You can absolutely hear it one more time. I have feathers and I fly, but have no beak nor do I cry. So weak you can break me in your hand, but so strong that I too can kill a man.
00:21:01
Guest0
All right, ready? Let's say the answer at the same time. Ready? On three. One, two, three. A beakless bird that I throw really hard at somebody. At their head. If you throw a bird... Have you seen those, like when they test turkeys against airplanes? What?
Guest1
Oh my god. Oh yeah. Hold on, explain yourself.
Guest0
Not a live turkey, it's like a butterball turkey. They'll shoot it at an airplane's engine to see if like, cause in theory, like you know what happened with Sully, like where the plane went down cause the birds tried? Oh yeah. That's not supposed to happen. They're supposed to be rated that like you could shoot a turkey through it and it'll just shoot out the other side of the turbine. So the engine's all good. So they test birds on that. You get hit by that, that's just killing you. That's what happens to the turkey when the president pardons it. They actually take it over to Air Force One and they launch it straight through.
JPC
Wait, it comes out fully dressed and cooked like a Thanksgiving meal?
Erin
Will, Adal, and JPC, you are all turkeys, and one of you just found out that you are going to get pardoned by the president, one of you found out you're going to be a turkey dinner, and one of you found out you're going to be one of the airplane turkeys.
00:22:14
???
Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble.
JPC
Gobble, gobble, sorry suckers.
Adal
You lucky son of a bitch.
JPC
Oh, baby, baby, baby. Did you get pardoned, bro? No, better. I'm gonna get shot into an airplane.
Guest0
Oh, I wanted to get shot into an airplane. I got pardoned!
JPC
Yeah, well, enjoy living the rest of your miserable life as a fucking turkey. I'm going to heaven, baby!
Adal
What do you think heaven's gonna be like for a turkey?
JPC
I think God's a duck. I think we can get up there. I think I can peck Benjamin Franklin's balls. How dare you try to make me a national bird, motherfucker.
Guest0
I respect our turkey POTUS, Benjamin Franklin, and I won't hear him besmirched by my fellow turkeys. I'm southern now. I'm a southern turkey, kind of. And you're a wild turkey. You're a wild turkey. I'm a wild southern turkey and I'm proud of my turkey heritage. This is getting weird. This is getting weird now that I'm a southern turkey who's proud of his heritage, but I'm sticking with it.
00:23:18
JPC
One part had really changed you, man. It really changed you.
Guest0
You know, I support our president because he pardoned me, and I'm standing with him. Yeah, and you call all cola Coke. It's all Coke. If I hear another word, I'm going to lose my damn mind. It's not pop. It's not Pepsi. It's Coke. And that's why the president pardoned me. I hear he's going to take me on to Air Force One.
Adal
Oh, damn it. That's great. And I don't know if I told the two of you, but the third thing's happening to me. You did, but we forgot what that was.
Erin
Adal Turkey, this is your five-minute warning before you turn into Thanksgiving dinner.
Adal
Oh, I guess I'm in a community college play. Thank you, five.
Guest1
I think I have a guess.
JPC
Go ahead, please. Erin's got a quill, right? Correct, Erin? Yes. Which is not correct.
Guest1
I was gonna say a pen because it's one of those like pretentious kind of answers like, oh, it's life. It's mightier than the sword. I thought it should have been right, but I guess not, you know, even though I'm a guest on this podcast.
00:24:25
Adal
JPC give it to her.
Erin
Beth, you have the right idea because it's always like the wind, a whisper, like always bullshit like that. Damn.
JPC
I will say Erin is a little closer with quill. You're thinking along the right lines, but it's not really a writing instrument.
Guest1
Is it a plane that is sky writing?
JPC
No.
Adal
I think it's an arrow. Oh, it is an arrow, isn't it? Oh, damn. I was going to say Gamora.
JPC
Yes. Well, you're both right. Right? Is everyone happy with me?
Guest1
I'm sorry that my reaction was so hostile to Freddie for getting it right.
Erin
You guys, this isn't fair. Freddie has a leg up. Freddie, you got it right, right? Or did Will get it right?
Guest0
I got it right. Oh Riddle, sorry. No, Freddie got it right. I was just doing great.
Adal
But to be fair, Freddie is dressed like Dr. Morgan. He does have a leg up.
JPC
It is an arrow. It's feathered. It flies. No beak. It cries when it shoots through the air. Correct. Okay, let's move on. This is the second riddle.
00:25:29
Erin
This is because Freddie read Truth and Comedy. He knows all the answers now.
Guest0
I know all the answers. And he's watching Steve Martin stand up. Oh, and then no joke. No joke. So I bought Mind Trap, and then I read all the answers. So then out in school, I would be like, I know the answers to all this shit. And then everyone thought I was smart for one year.
Guest1
What an evil thing to do.
Guest0
I bought it with money I made blowing bubblegum, not even kidding.
Guest1
No, see me, I just looked up the Hey Riddle Riddle, like, archive of previous riddles and then I got hired after four riddles.
Guest0
Oh, the wiki that's exhaustively maintained? Yes.
Adal
Freddie, are you the type of person that, like, records Jeopardy, watches it, and then, like, casually puts it on DVR and pretends it's live and then says all the answers while people are around you? Is that your thing?
Erin
My boyfriend did that to me during quarantine because he had nothing better to do that day and I almost had a nervous breakdown.
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I was like, how do you know this?
???
What is gaslighting?
Guest0
Exactly.
00:26:30
Erin
And it was like not an easy board. It was like, like rivers and shit.
Guest0
No one, no one, no one. The hardest category in Jeopardy, rivers. River Phoenix?
Adal
This river died at the Viper Room in 1994. What is Johnny Depp?
JPC
All right, your next riddle is, I am grown, then cut, then grown anew, taken off to put on from a creature, then to you.
Guest0
Is it a flower, right? Like a flower stem? Or a sheep? You are correct. It is a sheep.
JPC
It's wool.
Guest1
No, it's the sheep itself. I wasn't being smart. I was like, no, the sheep is cut down and given to somebody. We can move on now.
Guest0
Yeah, the sheep carcass. That's what the background's hiding is the rack of sheep carcasses in your room, right?
Guest1
That's the largest animal I would fight to the death, is a sheep.
00:27:31
Adal
I want to see a scene. Let's say, Freddie, you are a farmer. You raise sheep, and specifically for their wool. JPC, you are a sheep whose time has come for you to be shorn, and you are very reluctant. It's your first time. You've never been shorn before, and you're just trying to talk your way through it.
Guest0
Oh there, why don't you come over here? You look like you got a right thick coat on you. We're going to just take this right off you. Come on over here.
JPC
Yeah, it's just my first time, so, you know, just, like, you know... Well, verbal consent is quite important.
Guest0
It's something that I believe here on the farm. I need to get your verbal consent. Okay, very good then.
JPC
Maybe we just do scissors and no clippers for the first one? And we just take, like, a little bit off and then I look at it in a mirror and I, like, let you know?
Guest0
See, that's not gonna work for me. That's gonna get me quite frustrated here. When I need to go in, I need to go in all the way, as they say.
???
Okay, I brought in a picture, a photo, if that helps. This is Tom Cruise from Top Gun.
00:28:38
Guest0
I'm not gonna be able to do that. We only do buzz cuts here. We only do full-on buzz cuts. And Tom here, you just don't have the right hair in the right places, as they say.
Erin
So I'm just going to... Okay, um... Peter, why in God's name does our sheep have a bob haircut?
Guest0
I've just been experimenting. You know that this is my one passion.
Erin
I don't want to be shearing sheep for the rest of my life. This is not a salon, Peter. We're trying to run a farm.
Guest0
Then where else am I supposed to learn the art of shaving? Where else but on our sheep, on our willing sheep on our land, that my father's... That my father's given it to me. One day I'm going to go to that Supercuts in Dublin, I'm gonna walk right in there and I'm gonna tell them that I've gotten more experience than any of them, them, them, them school, them school kids have learned all the proper way.
Erin
There's someone at the door, Peter.
Guest0
Oh, yes. Is it? Who is it?
Adal
Hello, I'm a sheep from a neighboring farm. I heard that you can do the Rachel? When you give a sheep the Rachel, do-do-do-do-do.
00:29:46
Erin
Hi, so please can someone photoshop the Rachel onto a sheep and send it to me?
Guest1
I don't ask for many things, but I'm asking for this. I want a sheep with like the emo 2003 haircut where it's like super short in the back and then long in the front. And like a Hot Topic shirt.
JPC
I'll take a sheep with Leia buns.
Guest1
I need my sheep to be bad.
Guest0
An Instagram with just sheep and just like fat-ass fades and shit would go so hot right now. People would be like, yo, this guy's Instagram, this sheep got a fade and it's like they're doing all the like close-ups and they're doing like the burning things and stuff, man, that'd be great. With a million dollar Instagram idea right there. Someone wants to do it, it's right there for the taking. All the Instagram ad dollars coming your way. While we figure out
Adal
Who's gonna get this IP? Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back with more Hey Shibby Shibby.
Guest0
And then IP during the break.
00:30:52
Adal
Whoa, who's that new hunk? He's dressed so well. Whoa, look at him. He is dressed so well.
Erin
You guys, you're looking in a mirror.
Adal
Oh, I thought that was like Vince Quince or something. Yeah, that's us. We look amazing. I thought that was like Quince Diesel or something. We look like that?
Erin
Yes, it's because you are wearing your new Quince high-quality wardrobe staples. Look at you, Adalyn, your 100% Mongolian cashmere sweater. And JPC, you look incredible in this button-down, if I do say so myself.
JPC
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Adal
Also, everything at Quince is priced 50-80% less than similar brands, and they work directly with ethical factories and cut out the middlemen, so you're paying for high quality, not brand markup. And Erin, you're doing the splits!
Erin
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00:32:10
Adal
Did someone say Vince Quince?
Guest1
Whoa! Yeah, like five minutes ago.
JPC
Yeah, like a long time ago.
Adal
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???
Hey Riddle Riddle.
JPC
Okay, well that was a great break. I think that we successfully did all the sheep haircut puns that we needed. Wait, wait, wait.
Adal
One more. Sheepin' it real. Okay. Delayed reaction. Oh wait, Ben Stiller and Edward Norton in Sheeping the Faith? Do you want to take another break? Wake up sheeple, we're back on the air.
00:33:16
JPC
And we have more riddles, and these are more riddles from Rome and their Sphinx. The next riddle is, I can have one or two faces upon my head. Do not drop me, but let me fall instead. I beat and crush and can even kill. With you I have life, but alone I am still.
Guest0
John Travolta and Nicolas Cage in Face Off.
???
Just do the waterfalls.
Guest0
See anything you like? It's just gonna be just face-off quotes from here on out.
Erin
I wish that there was a sound that accompanied John Travolta putting his face down his loved one, or hands down his loved one's face. He does that so many times in the movie.
Guest0
It's how everyone knows it's him. Have you ever tried that on another human being? Just to see what they would be like?
Guest1
Freddie, I haven't seen another human being in months.
Erin
Only if I'm sure they've seen that movie, because if they haven't seen that movie... Yeah, I did it once and they called the cops.
00:34:21
Adal
It's so invasive. So, James, can you read that one more time?
JPC
Yeah, I absolutely can. I can have one or two faces upon my head. Do not drop me, but let me fall instead. I beat and crush and can even kill. With you I have life, but alone I am still.
Adal
Is it those big blocks in Mario in the dungeons? The Thwomp? Oh, a Thwomp. Is it a Thwomp? it is not a thwomp but I mean I'm not gonna say that you're close that's insane also can I just can I just say thwomp is where the lisp Shrek lives
Guest1
Is it like the clock thing, like the uvula of a clock, the thing that goes back and forth?
???
The pendulum?
Erin
Yeah, the pendulum. I can't wait until they start putting real body parts into clocks.
Adal
I never thought about it, but a pendulum is the balls of a clock. Thank you, Will. Clock balls.
00:35:24
JPC
Yeah, I got clock balls on my clock.
Adal
Truck balls on my truck and clock balls on my clock. My fork's got fork balls.
Guest0
That's why it's the grandfather clock. That's how they know it's not the grandmother clock.
Guest1
It's the grandfather clock because it says real problematic stuff.
Adal
My clock is always Werther's o'clock.
JPC
It is not a clock, it is not a clock.
Adal
Or the pendulum.
JPC
I'm sorry, Erin?
Erin
Water?
Guest0
Like a river? No. Is it a D20? I feel like one of these is gonna be a D20. The icosahedron, the dice of D&D, this is the answer indeed.
Adal
I was trying to think of what coin has two faces and I'm like, a coin? Or what dice has two faces?
JPC
Is it a moon? You're focusing very hard on the two faces, so let's go down a little farther in the riddle. Do not drop me, but let me fall instead. I beat and crush and can even kill. With you I have a life, but alone I am still. Oh, Harvey Dent. This is Harvey Dent. He has one or two faces. Sometimes people call him One Face, famously.
00:36:37
Guest0
To be fair, only his priest calls him that when he's in confessional.
Adal
What'd you do this week, One Face? You don't know the half of it. One faith, one faith. We do have to see a scene. We do have to see a scene. Will, you are Harvey Dent's Two-Face, and you have come to a confessional. Erin, you are the, what's a female priest?
Guest0
A priest. The Catholics. Yeah, the Catholics are like super not against it.
Adal
They're pretty touchy about that, actually. Female priest is a prius, right? You're a prius, you're a prius.
Erin
Adal, you play the priest, and I'll find a way to get into the scene in a really fun, creative, hilarious way. Great.
Guest0
Okay. Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. Well, we'll see. Yeah, good, good. Let me check if I'm gonna sin or not. Heads, damn, I gotta sin. Forgive me, Father, I have to sin. What sin should I do?
00:37:46
Adal
Okay, well, child, thank you for coming back. It's always good to... I mean, I'm not supposed to... It's been... Hold on one second.
Guest0
It's been... It's been one week since my last confession, since you looked at me. What are you, bare-naked ladies? That was the sin! I was with a bare-naked lady! I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Father.
Adal
Even priests have fun. Well, here's what I recommend. If you feel like you're about to sin, what I'd recommend is, and this is a little crazy, so call me crazy, what I'd suggest is plopping down on the couch and making yourself some good old-fashioned popcorn.
Guest0
See, I hear you father, that sounds great, but what if instead I flip a coin to decide whether I'm going to do my sin or not? Hey, it's God. Please don't involve me in this. I'm super busy. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm just really busy and you guys are just like talking about me so much and it's just like hard to focus.
00:38:55
Adal
Wow, this is incredible. I have so many questions. God, I can't believe you came down here just to say don't talk about me.
Erin
Hi, you're doing it again. Oh man, it feels like you didn't hear what I just asked you to do. Oh boy, I'm back here.
Guest0
Excuse me, God, I have a question as well. Hi, I'm Two-Face.
Erin
Yeah, you are one of the more forgettable Batman villains.
Guest0
Well, I disagree with that, and since you chose how the coin fell, you agree with me disagreeing with it. I'm a lawyer as well, that's why I'm a little pedantic. Is it alright for me to kill Batman?
Erin
You know what? I was in the middle of saving a bunch of lives and then you distracted me, so do whatever you want to do.
Guest0
Sounds like God is the one who sinned, Father. Sounds like this is her confession time.
Adal
God, I have a question.
Erin
Mm-hmm?
Adal
Does the penguin mate for life?
Erin
Hey, I have a question for you.
Adal
Yeah?
Erin
Does Bane go to your church? Because he's... I don't know, I'm a little bit attracted to him in a way that I don't quite understand.
Adal
Just on Christmas.
00:39:56
Guest0
Don't ever say Bane! Ugh! Hello again, it is me, it is me, Ben.
JPC
Hey God, that's just Two-Face with his face hanging from his head. Insane, insane.
Adal
Shut up! I'd watch a one-man Batman show put on by Will.
Guest0
The poster's Batman and the underline's on this man. One man show.
Erin
Actually here's $50,000. Please, please make that happen.
JPC
Oh, it blew away. You're still, I would say, nowhere close to solving this riddle.
Guest1
Is it a card?
JPC
It is not a card.
Guest0
Gosh darn it.
Adal
I can have one face or two. Yeah, that's a good one because yeah, half the card is a face.
JPC
It's a sandwich! Don't drop me, but let me fall. I could fall into your mouth. You can crush a sandwich like a panini press. You could like beat a sandwich. It could kill you with a poisonous sandwich. Choke on it.
00:40:57
Guest0
Airway. Compromise.
JPC
You're fucked. With you I have life, but alone I am still doesn't quite work, so I can't really give you sandwich. Yeah, if you don't touch a sandwich, it ain't going anywhere.
Adal
Oh, is it one of the little creatures from Fall Guys? It is not a Fall Guy creature, because they can wear like pigeon heads and stuff. Adal, stop doing promotional content for Fall Guys.
Guest0
You guys saw that the Fall Guys are six feet tall, right? Like the Twitter revealed that the Fall Guys are actually the size of human beings. That's amazing. Holy shit.
Erin
Freddie, I think that sandwich quote is going to be a really big part of your legacy.
Guest1
Is it a big family photo that is like heavy and then if it falls on you there are faces in it and you die The spirit of the show award goes to Beth That's the airplane that Lindbergh will take around the world
JPC
Alright, no it's not. So one of the crucial clues here, I think, would be, do not drop me, but let me fall instead. This is definitely something that you would describe as letting fall, but you wouldn't want to drop.
00:42:03
Adal
Well, I do want, if I can talk through it a little bit, JPC, with you, since you know the answer. I do know, famously, Gimli did not want to be tossed. Right? So is it a dwarf?
JPC
No, Adal, but you are- Like a base-jumping dwarf. You are the closest with Gimli that anyone else has got to this riddle.
Guest0
Well, I don't feel good about that. I'm gonna venture a guess. I'd like to venture a guess here. I think it's a tool. I think it's a hammer.
JPC
It is a hammer, a Gimli's tool.
Guest0
And my axe.
JPC
Well, yeah, I guess he uses an axe.
Guest0
Yeah, so where did the Gimli thing come from? Whoa, yo, bro, are you saying that all dwarves use hammers, bro? That's like, yo, kind of problematic.
JPC
Well, I'm fucked. This is it. This is my last show. The dwarves are coming for me.
Erin
You know what I finally made the connection? What's the actor's name who plays Gimli?
Adal
John Rhys-Davies? John Rhys-Davies?
Erin
So he's in Indiana Jones and stuff, but he's also the villain in Princess Diaries 2. Oh, I didn't know that. Actually, that might not be true. It's true.
Guest0
This is a misinformation podcast where we just put out lies into the world.
00:43:08
Guest1
No, actually, I know that is true because I was the princess in Princess Diaries 2.
Adal
It was so funny because I was about to say I've never seen Erin have so much confidence about something she said, and then she immediately backtracked.
JPC
Erin, somewhere out there listening, Anne Hathaway just dropped her phone in a pool. Bad stakes.
Erin
He played Viscount Mabry. He's the villain. Him and Chris Pine are the villain, but she ends up falling in love with Chris Pine. Please check out Princess Diaries 2.
JPC
Take a break from playing Fall Guys and check out Princess Diaries 2.
Guest0
Enter promo code HeyRiddleRiddle on your copy of Princess Diaries 2.
Erin
Write it on the back of your DVD.
Adal
And you can play as Anne Hathaway in Fall Guys.
Guest0
Unlock the Anne Hathaway skin!
Adal
I eat and sleep while my brother fights. You trap me at home and ignore his plight. He is the meaner, the fiercer of us two, yet I am the one who more oft killed by you.
00:44:14
JPC
Who is my brother and who am I? It's the Hemsworth Brothers.
Erin
Oh I would be so so happy if the Hemsworth Brothers were an answer to a riddle. Oh man.
JPC
You heard them listeners. You want to get on the show? Write us a Hemsworth Brothers riddle.
Erin
What would that riddle be?
JPC
I don't know.
Erin
Two matter and one does not. One's the hot one.
Guest0
Westworld's a good vehicle.
Erin
You don't know which two I'm talking about. Fuck Liam.
JPC
One was Thor and one is Liam.
Guest1
But real girls love Luke. That's true.
JPC
Unfortunately it is not the Hemsworth brothers. Can we hear that riddle one more time? I eat and sleep while my brother fights. You trap me at home and ignore his plight. He is the meaner, the fiercer of us two, yet I am the one more oft killed by you. Who is my brother, and what am I, and who am I?
Adal
Is it fucking like Day and Night or Salt and Pepper or something?
00:45:17
JPC
Um, it is not Day and Night, it is not Salt and Pepper. Is it in Vogue? TLC. No, you're so close, Adal, just give me four or five more. You're circling.
Erin
Tango and Cash. Rizzoli and Isles.
JPC
No, I'm sorry, it's not. Twitter and Facebook.
Guest0
No, the answer is Franklin and Bash. It seems like such a crude answer, but is it like right hand, left hand, and the left hand is like Like playing with your ding-a-ling on your crotch or whatever, and your right hand's out doing in the world, you know, shaking hands.
JPC
Well, Freddie is right about the location of the ding-a-ling that is not the correct answer to the riddle. Is it a frown and a smile?
Guest1
It is not a frown and a smile.
JPC
Is it the left and right brain? By chance. These are all really great answers. Let me help you I think this maybe gives it away a little too much.
00:46:24
Adal
Wait, when I'm asleep, my brother fights. Oh, Erin, it's Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger. I'm the Danny DeVito one. And twins. And I'm the Danny DeVito one. And twins.
JPC
These are... Oh, wait.
Guest1
Is it Jacqueline Hyde? Like literally just Jacqueline Hyde?
JPC
No, but that is close because I think that these are... Well, I mean, I guess that's maybe not...
Erin
It's a living thing, calm down Jeff Lynne.
JPC
It is, thank you, it's a living thing. Creatures, I will say. Creatures.
Adal
Is it like a mouse and a rat? Or, let's see here.
Guest0
A bear? Is it a bear that's asleep?
JPC
It's not a bear.
Guest0
Creatures.
JPC
He is the meaner, the fiercer of us two, yet I am the one more oft killed by you. It's kind of the same animal, but it's not really the same animal. A dog and a wolf? Very close. No, not Housecat and Lion, not Dog and Wolf.
00:47:34
Guest0
One You Eat, yes. Listen, I'm just saying if you're an omnivore, you better fucking be an omnivore. Omni means everything.
Guest1
Is it some kind of bird? Is it a goldfish and a fish?
Adal
It's not a goldfish and a fish, it's a chicken and a velociraptor. No.
JPC
I'll give you one more time. I eat and sleep while... Erin? Yes, a pig and? A boar? A boar!
Guest0
Erin and Will with the combo win.
Erin
Will, we did it!
Guest0
I feel like I just kind of swooped in on Erin's answer there, so I feel like Erin should get the credit.
Erin
I would have never said boar.
Guest0
I would have never said boar.
Erin
My eyes got really wide and I was like, don't say hog.
Guest0
So I was close with the ding-a-ling, cause the hog. Closest of anyone.
Guest1
Damn, I can see they didn't give you that, Freddie.
Guest0
I know, listen, the scoring's a little bit suspect.
JPC
Freddie's got maybe three of them right, but yes, the scoring is sus. Speaking of sus, we have to move on. It's not my purpose, but I'm often thrown by humans having fun and steeds having none. And occasionally, I'm also a decoration shown. What am I? It's a horse shoe, I believe. I like the idea of steeds having none.
00:48:54
Guest0
I bet horses fucking love running. You can't look at a horse and be like, I bet you one thing that fucking guy hates is running. They're having a great time.
Guest1
I bet horses are like those bros that are always like, yo, check out this book, Born to Run, changed my life.
Adal
I'm literally looking at that book right now.
Guest1
Literally every person.
JPC
In that spirit, I would like to see a scene. Let's do Freddie, Beth, and Adal. You are going to be like three very catty horses on a farm and you're like surveying the rest of the animals on the farm and you are having none of it.
???
Heh.
Adal
Yeah. Look at all of these freaks. Oh my god.
Guest1
Oh my god, she thinks that that's a mane. More like a lame.
Adal
Oh, look at those pigs rolling in shit. Oh, disgusting. You think that's a bat?
Guest1
They don't even know.
Adal
They don't even know. They don't even know.
Guest1
I've got a fly near my tail. If you could just kind of with your tail, like, like get it off.
00:49:58
Adal
Yeah, Grandpa Stories, let me get that for you. Whisk, whisk.
Guest1
Oh my god, thank you. Thank you.
Adal
You're welcome, Grandpa Stories. We all have weird names because we're horses. That's just what we do. Chachki Williams. Yeah, you've been quiet. Who have you been observing on the farm?
Guest0
I was just checking to see if any of these animals had a bigger dick than mine. I can assure you that they do not. I'm quite well endowed, comparatively.
Guest1
I know, I would know, and they do not. Yes, yes.
Adal
Look how they gaze longingly upon it, yes, indeed. Longingly is a relative word. Joshki, I've told you time and before, the horses, or at least our click, uh, clip-clop, uh, we tend to, um, be the mean girls at the table, if that makes sense. We tend to judge the other barnyard animals.
Guest1
We're the Maine girls. That's the second time I use the word Maine.
00:50:59
Adal
Girls on Maine. But Tchotchke, I've seemed to notice that for the past two weeks since you've been eating with us here at this trough and through the oat bags, I seem that all you do is compare your dick to other animals.
Guest0
Is that, I'm sorry, is that not what we were supposed to be doing?
Erin
We cut to the three cows who are talking about them. Guys, they're gonna figure out that he's a cow and not a horse. I feel like he's blowing it over there.
Guest0
That's what he gets for abandoning the nerdy cow clique. You know, like, we're all cows here. Cows are supposed to be cool. And he just was like, I'm gonna peace out and be a horse now. So, frick him, I say.
Erin
I can hear the hurt in your voice.
Guest0
He hurt me. He was my friend. Watch, I bet he doesn't even recognize me anymore. Hey, hey, hey, hey, Couchki. Hey, hey, you're a cow. You're gonna blow it, Jeff. The cows, the cows talking to us, pay them no mind. Oh, did you hear him say that? He's changed, man. I told you. Ice cold.
00:52:05
Guest1
He has the worst disguise I've ever seen. Cows are so, um, mundane. Get it? Like a main joke again, but it's a mundane.
Guest0
Girls, while you're here, I was just wondering, um, could one of you milk me? I need to be milked. You mean just these things under here, yes.
Adal
Just say jerked off.
Guest0
What are you doing? No, no, no, it's not quite there, but just, you know, it's just I've got a lot of, um, milk.
Adal
Okay, let me reach down here to your bag of dicks that we seemingly brush under the rug. It's normal.
Guest0
It's totally normal. I told you, it's a genetic thing. Everyone has it. My family's had it. It's totally fine.
Adal
It's fine if it's normal. I'm just saying, compared to us, you have a bag of dicks.
Erin
We have to step in. This is horrible to watch. This is so weird.
Adal
Same. Same.
Erin
No, I'm kidding.
Guest0
We didn't get this riddle, but we solved improv? I'm confused as to whether Freddie was a male cow or a female cow that would have an udder, right?
00:53:10
Guest1
In this economy, it doesn't matter.
Guest0
Oh shit, you're right. I didn't even realize that. My god. Clearly, I've now grown up on a farm. I know nothing about farmyard animals. There are horses out there jerking off a cow.
JPC
We just read the original Charlotte's Web that got banned. Half of me burns, but I feel no pain. At night I'm called lovely, but in the day I seem plain. Sorry guys, I don't know why I'm being so mean tonight.
Guest1
I'm normally... That's the energy of our show.
00:54:11
JPC
That's okay, you were just mean to the listener, Rome.
Guest1
I'm normally super mean.
JPC
Rome, you're mom. Half of me burns, but I feel no pain.
Guest1
At night I'm called lovely, but in the day I seem plain.
JPC
A candle?
Guest1
Yeah.
JPC
Ooh, that's so good. I love that, but no, it's not a candle. I think that kind of works though. Half of me burns, but I feel no pain. I will say that the burning is, it's not like literal fire. Is it a firefly? The moon. Adal is correct, it is a firefly.
Adal
Or I guess some people call them lightning bugs. Some people in Indiana call them lightning bugs.
Erin
I have a question for the group about fireflies. My boyfriend's family, they grew up in Illinois, and they said that growing up they used to go out with a wiffle ball bat and hit fireflies every night during the summer to see them fly. I heard that, was horrified, have never heard of that before. What a horrible way to die. Do people do that?
00:55:24
Guest0
You're correct that it's horrible.
Adal
I knew people who, I didn't do this, but I grew up in a small town, well I grew up all over, but I spent time in a small town where other kids would wait, because if you kill a firefly while they're glowing, they stay glowing, and so I know people who would like put a firefly in a jar, and as soon as they lit up they'd like shake the jar to like knock them out or kill them, and then you could like smear their butts and it would like Today we're I want to say that kid's name was Ron Wayne... Ron Wayne? Jason? John?
Erin
If someone killed me in a jar and then smeared my butt everywhere, no way! I want to see a scene.
00:56:27
Guest1
That's how I want to go.
Adal
I want to see a scene. This is Erin, Beth, and Will, and the three of you are three Southern kids on a star-filled night out in the countryside, and you're playing with fireflies.
Erin
I don't know y'all, I feel like we gotta upgrade to real fire.
Guest0
I was gonna say, we gotta upgrade to a real bat. I'm sick of this wiffle bat. Why don't we just hit a big old fire with a bat, with a metal bat?
Guest1
Well, because then you don't see it go on and off again. The big thing about the bugs, they go on, they go off, and they go on, and they go off, and they go on, and they go off. Tommy, you're gonna be an incredible scientist one day if you ever get out of this town. That's what my mama says. That's what my mama says. She says, uh, Tommy, your brain, it goes on and it goes off, it goes on, it goes off, it goes, yeah. You got a future as bright as these bugs' butts. I'll tell you that much.
00:57:28
Erin
Me and Will aren't going anywhere.
Guest0
Shoot, and this dead-end one horse with a dick in a cow water town? Shucks, forget it.
Guest1
Hey guys, look, I caught one.
Guest0
You caught one?
Guest1
Yeah, firefly. I mean lightning bug. Let's try not to name it. Okay. Okay.
Guest0
Hold it real still, I'll get the bat. Okay. Just hold it up. I'm gonna use the metal bat this time.
Guest1
Well, can you see it against the dark or should I put it in front of my face so you can see, like, the light?
Guest0
Yeah, put it right in front of your face. I'm gonna swing my metal pad at it.
Erin
But, Tommy, if you make eye contact with it, you're gonna connect to it, so be careful.
Adal
And we cut to later that night. Erin, you were sleeping in bed having nightmares about what you and your friends did. And visiting you in your dreams is Firefly's own Nathan Fillion, played by JPC.
00:58:30
JPC
Erin, wake up.
Erin
Oh my god. If I were 48, I would find your sex appeal unmatched.
JPC
Alright, 48, that's kind of cruel.
Erin
No, I mean you're hot to any age, but I feel like specifically...
JPC
Okay, fine. I mean, yeah, but I I correct me if I'm wrong and you can tell me because I can't really see what I look like. Am I Firefly era Nathan Fillion? Because then 48 is kind of too old. Or am I, uh... Oh, what's the one where I'm like the... Castle. Thank you. I'm sorry. This is this is Alan Tudyk. He drove me.
Erin
He drove you. He drove you to my dream?
Adal
Hey, hold on a second. Let me count again. One dick, two dicks. Hey, I'm Alan Two Dicks. I'm sorry.
JPC
That's stand-up comedian Alan Two Dicks. That's Alan Two Dick. I'm Nathan Fillion.
Erin
I'm trying to tell you that you're Castle Nathan Fillion. Hey, Nathan Fillion, do you remember Dr. Horrible?
00:59:30
JPC
Yeah, that was like 20 fucking years ago. I'm Castle Nathan Fillion?
Erin
Yeah.
JPC
Oh, shit.
Erin
Well, I can't tell if this is a dream or a nightmare.
JPC
Do you have whiskey?
Erin
Do I?
Guest0
Seen. Six seasons in a movie!
Guest1
I can't believe you had a dream about the rookies making whiskey.
Adal
I love somebody visiting your dream and going, can I get a drink?
Erin
Or saying that another person gave them a ride to your dream.
JPC
So, real quick, I want to get this in because this is a listener, his name is Scott, wrote into the show and said, he says some very nice things about the show, but specifically Scott says, I found you guys through a recommendation from the DM of the podcast Dungeons & Daddies and I have been hoping for a crossover episode ever since. So since Scott was hoping for a crossover episode and Ever since this email came like a month ago, so you didn't have to wait very long Scott Scott sends in a game for us to play and it's a game I think that we'll all be kind of on equal footing to play so we have a segment on this show where if one of us says something that is Absolutely wild another one will say that's gonna be a dead stop So, Scott has designed a game that replaces that dead stop with things that rhyme with those two words. So, an example that Scott puts is, what's it going to be when you don't want to burn a rhyme in the samples, but want to show the form, and that's going to be a Ted Strop. Now, I know that that's a very confusing example.
01:01:14
Erin
Couldn't be more confusing.
JPC
But the rest of them get easier. I think you understand though that it's like dead, something that rhymes with dead, stop, something that rhymes with stop. Cool.
Guest0
And these are all like full-on rhymes, no Emily Dickinson slant rhyme, like...
JPC
Scott put a bunch of these in here, and I think that they degrade in quality as you go on. No, no. Scott, in fact, did say they become a stretch to be considered a riddle. The difficulty stays the same the entire way through.
Adal
Can I just, I just want to give a quick shout out. Thank you to Freddie for someone finally having the guts to take Dickinson down a peg.
Guest0
Yeah, right? About fucking time here.
Adal
She's had it too good for too long.
Guest0
We get it. It's a hummingbird guy.
JPC
So what's it gonna be when you're looking for a business that just sells Nutella, peanut butter, and jams? A spread shop? It's a spread shop! Will has one point.
Guest0
I won't keep track of these points. Will just wrote a rap album so we gotta be careful. I take you to the spread shop.
01:02:25
JPC
What's it going to be when you finish your spaghetti, but there's still some sauce at the bottom of the plate? Bread mop? Not mop.
Adal
Sop.
JPC
I'm sorry, bread sop. It is a bread sop, thank you.
Adal
Mop is, I guess, what you do to barbecue. Sop is what you do with bread.
Guest0
Is spaghetti bread? I promise I promise you we will have you back on our other podcast to talk about is spaghetti bread, but I did make a huge I fought I
Adal
Thanks for watching.
JPC
Again, I invite you all to come back on the other show and we could really get into this. The next one is, what's it gonna be when someone dies in Greek mythology and the camera cuts to three Greek fates? Can you read that one again? What's it going to be when someone dies in Greek mythology and the camera cuts to the three Greek fates? When you die in Greek mythology, like there's a metaphor for your life that kind of stretches out.
01:03:55
Guest0
A thread.
JPC
A thread. A thread.
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Dead. Dead. Chop.
JPC
Drop. Drop. Thread chop. Thread chop. It is a thread chop.
Adal
If you see Hercules, the fates cut that little string, yeah. Yes. And James Woods is being a fucking piece of shit.
JPC
What's it going to be when King Louis XVI goes post-potatoes, dies, during the French Revolution?
Guest1
Head chop?
JPC
Behead? Head drop? It is head, it is head. What's another word that rhymes with that? Plop. Plop. Take off the P?
Guest1
Lop.
JPC
What's it going to be when everyone shows up to see Adal get married, but instead Erin and Sean take the altar? What's it going to be when an innovative janitor invents a new way to clean the floors of the downhill corridors?
01:05:04
Guest1
A sled mop.
JPC
It's a sled mop. No, we should. We should have to suck it.
Adal
Can I ask one? Yes. Instead of what's it gonna be, it's gonna be, how's it gonna be when you're sure I'm not there? Third Eye Blind? Okay, go back to the fucking riddles or whatever.
JPC
That's gonna be a jumper. What's it gonna be when you hire people to cover up a scandal and destroy records such as Watergate?
Adal
I'm
Guest0
What's it gonna be when Canada's linguistic differences matches their relational position to the United States?
01:06:16
JPC
Honestly when I read the answer Zed Top, I thought it was gonna be a ZZ Top thing. What's it gonna be when the terrible lunch person scoops servings of amorphous food adjacent goo that the children are expected to eat? This is the last one that Scott puts on. What's it going to be when a child, who is incorrectly using a thesaurus to sound smarter, teaches other children to play a game with squares they drew on the sidewalk? I don't know, Scott couldn't have known that you were going to be on the show for this, but they did say it was a crossover, so I will give it to you. He said tread hop, but I will give a fred hop. Because you did say that when you were a child you would cheat to sound smarter.
01:07:24
Guest0
Yeah, yeah. Using a thesaurus and learning the English language. Cheating.
Erin
Education is stupid, and you can quote me on that. Stupid!
Adal
I just thought of one. What's it going to be when you wear your outdated white shoes into a cornfield? A KED... KEDCROP?
JPC
Yeah, KEDCROP.
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Nice!
Adal
Speaking of KEDCROP, let's go ahead and get into our plugs. Thank you so much, Scott, for sending those in. Those are great. Let's start with Will Campos. Do you have anything you want to plug?
Guest0
Yeah! Yeah, I'll plug, we do a podcast called Dungeons & Daddies and we do another one called Story Break. That's a lot of fun. It's a writer's room podcast where we have an hour to come up with a plot for a movie based on an IP or whatever. Bombing the pitches. One of our most recent episodes, we just took Disney Channel original movie posters and we had to come up with the movie for it. What do you want to plug and what's your favorite 90s sitcom?
01:08:44
Guest1
Um, okay, so yeah, I'm also on this podcast, I don't know if you've heard of it, called Dungeons & Daddies, um, and- We have, yes. That's great. Um, I- you can follow me on Twitter or Instagram if you want, at heybethmay, that's hey, like, saying hi, Beth, like, my name, then May, like, the month. And then 90s sitcoms, um, you know, I gotta go with Seinfeld. I know I'm like ultimately not really smart enough to have been influenced by it, but like, you know, I mean, you know when you go on a date with somebody and they're like, oh, my favorite show growing up was Seinfeld and you're like, really? And this is the result of that? Like, um, yeah, but it is my favorite. Genuinely.
Adal
Outstanding.
Erin
That is so funny.
Adal
Freddie, anything you want to plug?
Guest0
Yeah, so my appearance is brought to you by Herbalife, nutrition made with your goals in mind. Go to Herbalife.com, use my promo code FWONG to get 15% off your first order. Make money, make a difference. I need you guys to sign up under my affiliate code, that's under my Twitter, under FWONG.
Guest1
Hey hun, you heard of Mary Kay?
Adal
JPC, anything you want to mention?
01:09:46
JPC
No, you can follow me on Twitch, at Shark Barkman, and then all the other stuff that I do and stuff. Erin?
Erin
You can follow me, ErinKeif10, on Instagram, and my favorite 90s sitcom is maybe Will & Grace.
Adal
And I want to plug a little game called Fall Guys. Also, Princess Diaries 2 should be re-released in theaters in the coming weeks. And also, the three of us, myself, JPC, and Erin, we did a bonus episode of Dungeons & Daddies, which should be out around this time or sometime soon, I believe. Yes, either today, yesterday, or tomorrow. And we, oh, holy shit, we had such a fun time. I don't know, can I, should I say what the premise was? Is that gonna? Yeah! Well, we did a, basically a D&D game inside the movie Con Air, and it was such a fucking blast.
Guest0
We didn't know it was Con Air until a little bit. Yeah, until maybe halfway through.
Adal
So please check that out as well. And Erin, I don't know, we've talked now about two different Nicolas Cage movies. He did one where he was an astronaut that got shelved because he did it under the name Nicolas Coppola. Do you know the name of that movie?
01:10:54
Erin
Jupiter.
Adal
Bye forever.
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Where are your parents in the music?
JPC
Hey, if you liked that, then you're gonna love this. On this week's Patreon, we talk about some scary stories and we have some improv scenes about them. So, if you want to hear that, go to patreon.com slash heyriddleriddle. You can join the clue crew for $5 a month or the review crew for $8 a month. See you there!
Guest0
That was a hate gum podcast.