This is a HeadGum Podcast.
00:00:02
???
This is a HeadGum Podcast.
Adal
JPC, Erin. Hey JPC, Erin.
Erin
What?
Adal
I'm up. Sorry, I just got my ballot. Who are you voting for? Riddies or Pussies?
Erin
So, Adal, I feel like you're not supposed to crawl under ballot booths and check and see how your friends are doing.
Adal
You're not supposed to sleep in them either, but you just woke up, huh?
00:01:05
Erin
It's really warm in here.
JPC
It was a long ballot. We took a nap. There's a lot of like, you know, local propositions that we have to vote on.
Erin
So many judges. How am I supposed to learn facts about all these judges?
JPC
I just, first of all, I just don't believe in the two-party system, so I don't think it should have to be Riddies or Puzzies. No! Why not lateral thinking problems? Why not, you know, the world is bigger than just Riddies and Puzzies, Erin.
Erin
Don't be that guy, JPC.
Adal
Isn't a vote for lateral thinking problems, isn't that just throwing away your vote? Hey, I could have thrown away my vote at home. I'm here for the snacks.
Erin
Adal, are you using a crayon? I feel like your vote's not gonna count.
Adal
And I'm writing in Jill Stein for every blank space.
Erin
Okay, cool. I voted for Kanye, what?
Adal
It's Kanye West, not Kanye what. They're not gonna count that vote. Here, I'm gonna write in a new vote. I'm gonna write in Adal Rifai. I'm JPC.
Erin
And I'm Erin Keif.
Adal
And welcome to Hey Riddle Riddle, a divisive political podcast. About all things Riddies and Fuzzies and what each platform they're running on. We're living in a post-election world, hopefully, and we're in Chicago. Chicago's having some unseasonably warm weather. What have you guys been up to? Anything fun? Any outdoor time? How are the animals doing?
00:02:27
JPC
We're also having an unseasonably large spike in COVID cases as well. We're the state with the most COVID cases right now.
Erin
Probably unrelated. I have been inside my apartment.
Adal
Monday goes into effect the lockdown, right? We're going back to lockdown, Monday?
JPC
I think so, yes. Interesting, in the last three days, every sink in my apartment has broken. Now, there are only two sinks in my apartment, but we were doing the dishes the other night and the pipe underneath the sink just fell off of the connected pipe and flooded everything underneath. And then today we were running the bathroom sink and a hole just appeared inside of it.
Erin
Are you shaving at every sink? And that's why it's like filled with hair and starting to break?
JPC
I think I might kick in my sleep. I feel like I may be kicking the sinks in my sleep.
Erin
Well, we're not alone.
Adal
We have guests. We have guests, and not just any guests. We have very important guests. Guests where all of us are wearing suit and ties.
Erin
Weakly, I think they are our dads.
00:03:27
Adal
Yes, we have on our network daddies, our network dad and dad. You might know them from College Humor, the Jake and Amir show. You might know them from If I Were You podcast. You might know them from the Vimeo series Lonely and Horny. Please welcome, ooh, and I'm going to switch things up. Please welcome Amir and Jake. Whoa. Finally.
JPC
Yeah. I am your dad and now you're in trouble. Who's the chill dad and who's the dad like who's worried that we're not back from our party yet?
???
Ooh, great question. Jake is more of a party animal, but I don't know if that would make him a chill dad or a strict dad, because he knows what kind of nefarious shit's going on out there. Yeah, that's true. I'm at home sort of just doing nothing, but I also don't believe in anything very staunchly, so I'm like, do whatever the hell you want.
00:04:28
Adal
I feel like Amir's the dad that sits you down and is like, buddy, if you're gonna masturbate, I prefer you do it in the house. You're gonna masturbate, do it in my room.
???
I prefer you do it in the penthouse. Dad!
Adal
And use my websites. Yes. Lonely and horny. Yeah. Give me your logins. The founders of HeadGum Podcast Network, Amir and Jake, Jake and Amir, thank you so much for doing this. We have to ask, since we are a podcast somewhat about riddles and puzzles, what is your, the two of you, what is your relationship with riddles? What's your relationship with puzzles, lateral thinking problems? What do we got?
???
I have a history of like joke books, buying like joke books as a kid. And when you're like up until the age of 12, I would say every joke is just a riddle. So I have that basis. Like there's no difference between a joke and a popsicle stick and a riddle. It's just a silly question. And that kind of... informed my sense of humor for probably a third of my life, so I feel uniquely qualified to try to answer some of these riddies and or puzzies.
00:05:34
JPC
Perfect, perfect. I'm a bad mix of competitive and dumb, so I will, I'm gonna be very frustrated right away when I can't solve a riddle. Perfect, we call that dumb-petitive. Yes, that's me. That's a golden retriever syndrome. Yeah, my wife says that I am a dog, a golden retriever specifically.
Erin
When we get frustrated and angry around here, we call JPC names. So if you are looking for like sort of a punching bag or a place for your anger.
JPC
That sounds great. Yeah, and to me it's an expression of sexual bliss. So I welcome it.
Adal
Sexual bliss, the teacher from Saved by the Bell.
???
Nice, good morning sexual bliss. We're all 38, oh baby.
Adal
While we have you two here, we have to ask, we gotta get the inside scoop. When you found out that you had brought on board a podcast about riddles and puzzles, what were you guys thinking? What was your reaction? What has it been like being father to a riddle podcast?
00:06:50
???
I was kind of jealous that I didn't come up with it myself. It's a great idea. It's like, fuck, that could have been our podcast. It's like, we don't ever know what to talk about. Ours is sort of Riddle adjacent. It's like advice. So, people are asking us like what we should do. So, it's kind of like an open-ended Riddle, but it's like, ah, if only we just thought of the Riddle podcast, then we wouldn't have to like rely on people's sexual trauma to figure out answers, questions we should answer. So, yeah, it's probably filled with rage.
JPC
I vaguely remember talking about this show when it was like a pitch and we were talking through a riddle and it just like fully was dawning on us like oh this is such a good podcast look at us look at us discussing riddles what's funny is you know we're like 120 episodes in right now we're almost completely out of riddles by the way we have been saying that since like episode 15 so soon we will just be an advice podcast so Write up your sexual trauma, send it over to our email address. We ran out of sex questions I think around episode 100 also. We're running on fumes now. We're at 400 or 500 episodes. We have nothing left. Nothing in the tank. Don't you guys worry. Don't let a little thing like running out of riddles stop you.
00:08:05
Erin
I would have respected it so much if you had said no to us and then started a riddle podcast that week. I'd have been like, you know what? Awesome. Game on.
Adal
They're way better equipped to do this than we are.
Erin
And I would listen to it.
Adal
I never realized, I never even thought about it, that advice is just like personal riddles. So every time you guys answer a question with your advice, you're solving riddles.
???
Yeah. And you guys have done the show before, so you guys are familiar. Absolutely. It's only a slight departure.
Adal
Well, let's get into some warm-up riddles. We'll see how you guys do, keeping in mind your relationship with riddles. So here's the first one. They can bring back the dead. They can make you cry or laugh. Or make you young again. They are born in an instant, yet last a lifetime. What are they? Memories. Amir, I should say to the audience, we had one stipulation before we had you two on as guests. At no point should you sing any Andrew Lloyd Webber songs. Now, one second into the first riddle, Amir busts into a cat song. This is absolute garbage. It is the right answer, but I'm still pissed off.
00:09:19
???
Can you sing the whole song, Amir? Memories all alone in the something. I am answering a riddle.
Guest1
I can't wait.
???
I am getting real hard. Ew. Unrelated, I'm still thinking about the penthouse joke from earlier.
Adal
Perfect. This is going to be a scene. Are you guys cool doing an improvised scene? Have you guys taken improv classes? Thanks for watching.
???
So we're going to see our first scene.
Adal
I want to see a scene. Erin, Amir, and Jake, the three of you are coming up with the idea for the musical Cats or something close to it. And JPC, you are Andrew Lloyd Webber, who's overhearing this all with a glass to the wall, who's going to steal the idea. Got it.
00:10:25
Erin
Okay, boys, here is the bag of drugs. Just sort of close your eyes, reach in, and then we'll get started.
JPC
Oh, ow. Pricked myself. That's a serious one.
Erin
I guess you already did your drug. All right, I'm gonna pop this pill. And are you ready? Let's talk musicals.
???
I am so high out of my gourd. I want to write a fucking musical about cats. I'm serious.
Erin
Hey Mike, normally when people are high, they don't really announce that they're high like that.
???
I took an edible four seconds ago. I think I have the song figured out too. It's like memories I am thinking about riddles. I am getting real hard.
Erin
I love it. I love it. And I'm going to write that down. We don't have context for it yet. We sort of just launched into a song. Who would be singing about their memories?
00:11:29
???
The Jolly Rancher is kind of sliding out of my ass. I don't even think it hit yet.
Erin
Well, take as long as you need. Kyle, what inspires you? We're talking about memories in a song. So like, what can we write a musical about?
JPC
Sorry, the Jolly Rancher that's from your ass, it's just on the couch. Can you do something with it? Can you throw that away?
???
Wait, wait, that's perfect. Can you throw that away?
Guest1
Can you actually throw it away?
???
You're holding your guitar already. Jolly Rancher's in my ass. It is hanging on the couch. Every day I get real high. And I want to eat your thighs.
Erin
Why did you need your guitar? You didn't even play it. You just wanted to hold it?
???
It's like an inspiration thing for me.
00:12:30
JPC
You're holding it so tight.
???
I broke the neck. I have a capo actually. I think you're sitting on it.
Erin
I'm gonna grab this Jolly Rancher.
???
Okay, thank you.
Erin
In or out?
???
I think I want it in me.
Adal
Scene.
???
Perfect. Nailed it.
Erin
That made as much sense as cats make that sound.
JPC
Andrew Lynn Webber, by the way, on the other side of that door listened for about 10 seconds and then moved on.
Erin
He heard the melody from Memories and then just walked away.
Adal
Erin, in my head, I pictured you saying in or out and then saying we aren't heating the whole goddamn neighborhood.
Erin
Did either of you see cats?
JPC
I never saw.
???
No.
Erin
You should.
JPC
It's on Amazon Prime now, I think, and I still haven't seen it.
Erin
I saw it in theaters. I went with one of my friends and she walked around to everyone in the theater and she went, we're all here as a joke, right? And everyone was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was the best time.
00:13:32
???
Was it entertaining?
Erin
It made no sense.
JPC
The three of us were all supposed to see it together, but Erin went to see it, and then a week later, Adal and I were like, let's go and see it, and it had left the theaters. It was gone from everywhere. They got it out so quickly. That was fast.
Adal
I have to ask, Jake and Amir, are you okay if we make merch that just is a t-shirt that says, this Jolly Rancher is sliding out of my ass?
JPC
We cannot even split those royalties. It was all bloomin' felt. If you guys want to do it, I won't partake. Don't give me any action on that.
Erin
Maybe we'll put on the ass of sweatpants. I'm not trying to get sued by Big Jolly Rancher. I'm not trying to get sued by them.
Adal
Big Jolly. As a mask or something. Asked me about the Jolly Rancher sliding out of my ass. Let's do another, here's another warm-up riddle. Amir absolutely destroyed that first one. Very good job. Very impressive. Thank you. Jake, still not on the board.
JPC
You're trying to make me dumb-petitive and it's working.
00:14:33
Adal
Wishes!
???
Wishes? By the way, can you read the thing again? I want to hear how many of those actual clues wishes works for.
JPC
It would have worked for all of them, but let's not, let's not.
???
I think there was one about they make people alive forever.
Adal
I'm so sorry. As soon as we solve a riddle, we burn it for good.
Erin
I would be dead without my wishes.
Adal
Fortunately, we're recording this, yeah. Here's the next one. I have only two backbones and thousands of ribs. I go around the world without moving. What am I? I have only two backbones and thousands of ribs. I go around the world without moving. What am I?
JPC
Barbecue food truck at Epcot.
Adal
Two backbones. Excuse me, are those backbones for sale?
???
No, no, no, we're mostly ribs, but... The thousands.
JPC
The devil with two backbones, that's a way to describe making love. And Marilyn Manson famously took his rib cage out so he could better make love to himself. So I guess my answer would be a barbecue food truck at Epcot. Final answer. Locked in.
00:15:49
???
And it goes around the world without moving.
Adal
It says it goes around the world without moving. I do want to see a quick scene. JPC, you're going to be playing Goofy and you're in character and you want some ribs from Epcot and I'll be the barbecue truck salesperson owner.
Guest0
Oh gosh, I sure am hungry.
Adal
Hey Southern Man, can you move out of the way? Goofy's behind you.
Guest0
Pardon me, sir. Scene.
Adal
I never realized what a southern belle Goofy is. Yeah, Goofy's all southern. He's ha-ha. Gorsh, I do declare!
Erin
Goofy is very sinister to me. I don't like Goofy. I don't like him.
???
Is that why you called for a scene eight seconds into it?
Erin
Yeah, it's like, I'm done.
JPC
Honestly, after I got Gorsh out, I was all downhill from there, so I'm glad that you did.
Adal
That's fair. Peaked. I have only two backbones and thousands of ribs. I go around the world without moving. What am I? Wait, I have only two backbones? That's what it is. I have only two backbones.
00:16:54
???
I have an answer but it only works for I go around the world without moving.
JPC
I can't think of something that does any of it.
Adal
The equator. The equator's a good guess. It is wrong in this instance, but it is the answer to something.
???
Yeah, right? Is it like longitude?
Erin
Latitude? Longitude?
???
Is it ever like, oh that's a metaphor when it said two backbones. It's like it represents the two poles or something like that. You're not far off.
JPC
What the hell has lots of ribs?
???
Yeah, thousands of ribs.
Adal
You have to really think outside the box.
JPC
Would it be like a globe? Because all those lines on a globe for Latitude and Longitude could be like ribs, but what are the backbones?
Adal
Yeah, again, a great answer, but wrong in this instance.
JPC
Let's keep digging into it. I think it could be right. We could get there on this one.
Adal
I will say, around the world is a little bit misleading. I'm just reading the riddle verbatim, but around the world is misleading in terms of this does go around the world, but not completely. So for example, we are recording this right now with Jake in New York, me, JPC, and Erin in Chicago, and Amir in LA. So this would go from, you know, New York to Chicago to L.A., but after L.A., it can only go, you know, around the U.S. and Canada maybe. It's not going to go overseas. No, this podcast goes overseas. No, we have no listeners overseas.
00:18:24
JPC
Oh God, we're ruined.
Adal
So other parts of the world have their own of these, but it's not all one thing. It's not all connected like the equator is. Trains.
JPC
What are train tracks if not the roads of trades? He said trains. He said trains. I feel like you meant tracks.
Adal
Jake what the fuck I'm trying to give this to you. What are you doing? Wait the answer is train tracks?
JPC
Yeah you idiot. Of course it's train tracks.
Adal
Two backbones? The answer is a railroad or train track. So if you think of the two track, you know the two rails themselves that the wheels go on, those are the backbone and then all the interstitial connectivity boards are the ribs. That's the ribs.
JPC
Oh yeah. I'd like to I'd like to pitch a different answer. I would like to pitch the answer of a Daft Punk concert Okay, because we've got the two people in Daft Punk They both apparent they have you know spines and then they're playing the song around the world to an audience of thousands of ribs. Whoa That's good. See? Okay. Thank you. No, thank you And I'd also like to change my answer one more time to a barbecue truck outside of Epcot.
00:19:45
Erin
Outside of Epcot?
JPC
Yeah, you can't it's like you can't die at Disneyland. You also can't get ribs there. It has to be like 1,500 feet from- You can die at Disneyland. No, they take you out.
Erin
They won't tell you about it.
JPC
They pronounce you dead on the street outside. No one's ever died at Disney.
Erin
That's amazing. That's not real. It's true, it's true.
Adal
They don't pronounce them dead until off the site.
Erin
But what if you get like decapitated on a ride? How is it possible?
Adal
So there's an old ride in like the 70s or 80s where like a wall turned, where it's like an actor standing behind a wall and the wall turns and rotates to show like a bookcase or something. And the woman got caught and literally got decapitated and they flew her, they choppered her head and body off site, outside of celebration, and then pronounced her dead. This is a true story.
Erin
That's not real. That's true. It was an actress who worked there.
Adal
This is worse PR for them than just allowing people to die there, I think. Do you know how many, do you know how many prostitutes Chip and or Dale have murdered? And there's no consequences?
JPC
The Rescue Rangers?
00:20:45
Adal
Yes. JPC you are Chip, Jake you are Dale, and the two of you are getting your story straight before your court case.
???
What the hell did you do?
Adal
Which way, which way am I?
JPC
Jesus Christ.
???
Oh my God, oh my God, this is a disaster. I'm Chip, you're Dale, okay? That's not even the worst part. We gotta get our story straight. Oh my God, there's a dead oaker in here. Okay, okay, wait, that could have been, that could have been here, that could have been here before we got in here because we are in a, we are in a courtroom, so they, she, excuse me, ma'am? Okay, no, she's just sleeping. Okay. Okay. It's really hot in here. I know, it's so hot in here. We'll lower our volume. This is how we talk. Okay, okay. We gotta get our story straight, okay? Sure. I pulled up to park. I said, it's just going to be 15 minutes. Why would I pay for that? It's just going to be 15 minutes. That's right. Then I walked away, and the guy's putting a fucking ticket on my car. And then you killed him? I stabbed him in the neck. I stabbed him in the neck, and I said, fuck you, pig. I'm not going out like this. OK, so that's what happened. Right. So? So we have to get the lies straight. Yes, now we add the layer of lies onto it. Okay, and just real quick, ma'am, you're cool, right? Me? Yeah, you're cool. Oh, no, I'm just a judge. You can chill. Oh, man. Well, I'm so sorry that we mislabeled you as a prostitute. By the way, that outfit is absolutely working for you. You look smoking hot 10 out of 10. My robe? Thank you. Is that what that is?
00:22:33
Adal
Same.
???
Beautiful, Your Honor.
Adal
Anybody ever play the Rescue Rangers Nintendo game?
???
Yes.
Adal
Fucking awesome. That game ruled. It was mostly, was it Launchpad? Not Launchpad. Who's the big guy? Who's the big bruiser? Oh. In Chippendale? Munster? Isn't it Munster? Monterey? Monterey Jack. You're thinking of Frankenstein's monster. I knew it was cheese.
JPC
I knew it was cheese related.
Adal
He was like this big slab of a mouse who helped him out. With a mustache. With a mustache, and maybe he had a sidekick that was a fly, like a blue fly maybe? I don't know. Regardless, that game fucking slaps. What is this? Is this a side character with a sidekick? I think so.
JPC
That's a hat on a hat.
Adal
Yeah, exactly. That's too much. And also, I think you were playing Mickey Mouse in that scene, JPC. I was definitely playing Donald Duck. Okay, here's another riddle. And so we're past the warm-up riddles. We're into our main course, our main entree riddles. Oh yeah. And Jake and Amir, just to prepare you, these are bad. There's three good riddles in the world. We've done them all. And so these are going to be absolutely maddening. These are going to be frustrating. Amir, you said no to the answer to the last one. I can't wait to hear what you say to the answer to this one.
00:23:52
???
Like even after we get the answer, we'll be disappointed. Why did a woman send out a thousand anonymous valentines to different men?
Erin
I don't know, Adam. Why did I do that?
Adal
Because it's Erin and she's fucking desperate. Sorry, I had to get that slamming. Now let's read the real riddle. No, this is the full riddle. Why did a woman send out a thousand anonymous Valentine's or Valentine's cards to different men?
Erin
She was a dentist and she was reminding them to get a Valentine's Day cleaning.
Adal
Women can be a dentist. Erin, you're not far off. That's a wonderful answer. You're not far off.
JPC
Was she a dental hygienist?
Adal
That is correct. Thank you. Yes.
JPC
Oh my god.
Adal
Epic. They're the ones that do the cleanings. That is incorrect.
JPC
Hey, can I ask you guys a question? Have you ever had a cleaning done by a dentist before or is it always a dental hygienist that does the cleaning?
00:24:58
???
I think it's the hygienist and then the dentist comes in at the end and is like, all right, now I'll do the real hard stuff. Yeah. Looks good to me. Bye.
JPC
It's always been my experience. I went to the dentist at a place I've never been to two days ago and the dentist came in, gave me like an exam and I was like, am I going to get a cleaning? And he was like, yeah, I'm about to do it. And then the dentist did the cleaning. I was like, guy, what are you doing?
Erin
That guy's a dental hygienist pretending to be the dentist. Dude.
JPC
I don't know, I don't know where, I don't know if he was a plumber, a dental hygienist, I've never had a cleaning done at a subway restaurant before, but it was amazing.
Adal
I was gonna say, when you clogged up your sinks and you called the guy over, did you suddenly get dental surgery?
???
The guy said mask off open up and I was like cool I haven't been to one of these in a while so You know what they say a mechanic doesn't clean your car Amir name one person that says that James Dean Jr. James Dean Jr.
00:26:00
Adal
You mean Jimmy Dean?
???
The ugliest high schooler in the world.
Adal
We have to find out, why did a woman send 1,000 anonymous Valentine's cards to different men? Erin, you were on the right train of thought. She had a job.
JPC
She had a job that required her to communicate with a thousand people. What other jobs besides being a dentist allow you to do that? She works in marketing for AshleyMadison.com, which is a website for, by, and for cheaters.
Adal
The cowards. Oh. The people. I will say Jake and JPC you are exactly on the right track in terms of this person is doing it to to do what you kind of along the lines of what you guys said and also they're being mischievous they're being a little mischievous scamp by doing this.
Erin
Well that's half the fun of AshleyMadison.com JPC you would tell us if you were being paid by them right because it seems like you mentioned
00:27:02
JPC
First of all, I love the service that AshleyMadison.com provides so much that I would hardly think to accept money from them. But if I had to accept money from them, my bank account number is...
Adal
While you guys think on this, I do want to see a quick scene. Erin, you're going to be the director of the 1980s classic sequel, Rebel with a Cause, starring Amir as James Dean Jr., who doesn't quite have the charisma or acting chops of his dad, but still makes a go out of it. So let's see this scene on set from Rebel with a Cause.
Erin
Alright, James Dean Jr. I just need you to lean against this car.
???
Call me James Dean Jr. When you say James Dean like that with a pause it makes me think of my dad who actually died in a car crash on this day 58 years ago. Carry on.
Erin
I can call you a nickname if you want. I can call you just Jr. if that makes you feel more comfortable.
00:28:05
???
Call me Jay.
Erin
Okay, great. I just need you to lean against this car, take a smoke of the cigarette, just look really handsome and suave, and then deliver the line. Alright?
???
I have asthma.
Erin
What? I have asthma. I went back behind the camera. Okay, excellent.
???
So I can't do the cigarette thing.
Erin
You know what, just pretend and we'll add it in post.
Adal
Sorry Carol, sorry Carol, before we start, for some reason there's a Jolly Rancher on the seat of the car. Can we get that out of screen? Out of shot?
Erin
Yeah, that keeps showing up. Every time he sits down, that keeps showing up.
???
I don't know if that came out of whose ass or what happened there.
Erin
We didn't imply that came out of anyone's ass, James Dean Jr. Alright, here we go.
JPC
Sorry, Carol. Sorry, Carol. It's just it's Jeff from costuming. Do you want him to be wearing the costume that we agreed on or should he continue to be naked? Because I kept trying to get him into the costume, but... I told him we'll add it in post. We'll add the costume in post. Okay, great. Thank you. So what do you need me to do?
Erin
Just lean against the car, look real cool, smoke the cigarette, and then deliver the line, alright? And action!
00:29:07
???
Hi, I'm Jake! My dad's a fucking dead actor! And we got it, that's a wrap!
???
And we got it, thanks! What is this for again? Oh man, perfect.
Adal
I'm a dumbass. You guys are circling it. You're almost there.
Erin
I like her style. Send out a thousand valentines.
JPC
I know it. So she is a divorce attorney. And she is drumming up business by sending these cards out.
Erin
That's very clever.
Adal
You hit the railroad spike on the rib. The answer is she is a divorce lawyer drumming up this... Divorce lawyer!
???
Divorce lawyer! I'm a divorce lawyer!
Adal
Divorce lawyer! So that's so shitty to make all these wives think that their husband is cheating on them.
Erin
Pretty smart though.
JPC
When they could instead just go to AshleyMadison.com and get all of the fun and excitement for half the price.
00:30:12
Adal
Does HeadGum have actually Madison as a sponsor yet, Jake and Amir? Because we can really push for this. It doesn't.
JPC
Yeah, we have, we only have, right now we have OnlyFans, SpankBank, and PornHub. Perfect. Tinder Bumble, of course. Hinge. Of course. Minge.
Adal
Hinge. Minge. We should say Tinder Bumble has sort of a KFC Pizza Hut situation going on or Taco Bell. Yeah. Yeah.
???
Yeah. They put the same humans on this in different back ends and just call it two different apps, but it's the same thing.
Adal
Well, we're going to take a quick break and hear from one of those amazing sponsors and we'll be right back with more Riddies and Puzzies. 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.
00:31:12
Adal
Oh, I thought that was like Vince Quince or something. Yeah, that's us.
Erin
We look amazing.
Adal
I thought that was like Quince Diesel or something.
JPC
We look like that?
Erin
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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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00:32:20
Adal
Did someone say Vince Quince?
???
Whoa!
Adal
Yeah, like five minutes ago.
JPC
Yeah, like a long time ago.
Adal
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Erin
For a Cause. That's the 2020 version.
Adal
Getting into fundraising. Let's get into another full course riddle. Here we go. A kidnapper sent a ransom note. He prepared it carefully and ensured that it contained no fingerprints, yet it was used to prove his guilt. How?
00:33:25
JPC
I think I know the answer.
Adal
Oh, please.
???
Whoa.
JPC
Go ahead, please. He was cutting up a magazine and the address, it was addressed to the killer.
???
Oh, Jake, buddy.
Adal
Oh, I want to say you hadn't lost it, but you never even had it. What? I was sure that I was worried that I ruined this the next half of the podcast.
???
By getting it right so fast?
Adal
I love the idea of somebody cutting out letters from a magazine to make that stereotypical weird ransom note from like Bodyguard or whatever, but they actually cut out their own address on the front. That is 100% what I thought happened. That's fucking brilliant. That should be in like, if they ever remake like Airplane or something, the Zucker Brothers need to use that bit. That's phenomenal. Phenomenal bit, but wrong answer.
Erin
That is really funny.
Adal
Anybody else have a guess or a gander? It was his handwriting. Also a very good guess, but not correct. Could you guys write a ransom note with your offhand? Oh, that's good. Yeah.
00:34:33
JPC
No, they would be like, someone would read it and be like, okay, so he was kidnapped by a nine-year-old. Scrawling.
Adal
I believe Jake is trying it. Jake, can you tell us what you're writing for your ransom note? Like what your demands are or what you've actually done?
JPC
So I'm writing, well, actually, you know what? I'm almost done and I'll show it to you guys and then you can tell me if you know what it says. Okay.
Erin
It's not the address from the magazine.
JPC
It's not the handwriting. Okay, so the kidnapper wrote the ransom note. They did it, whatever, they hit it, they didn't put their fingerprints on it, but then they hand-delivered it. And they caught him because they were like, hey, buddy, hey, asshole, you're giving me the ransom note? You took him. Aw, nerds.
00:35:40
Erin
He spelled something wrong, and then they could tell by the bad spelling.
Adal
Yeah, he put, you better give me the wicked fucking money and they knew he's from Boston. Boston, yeah. Who do we feel like is the most, if you had to kidnap someone, so I feel like Ransom notes, Ransom implies that you've taken a person, right? That's the definition of Ransom. So I feel like we need to ask, we need to answer the question, who would be the most valuable person to kidnap in 2020?
JPC
Donald Trump Jr. Barron. Eric. Eric Trump. Eric Trump? I would take Eric. Fred Trump. You get the fucking bones. You get the dead dad Trump. That's what you need. I'll take the niece that doesn't like him. I can't remember what her name is, but we'll take her Trump. Mary. Mary Trump. Mary Trump. That's right. uh no he's famously broke so i don't think that and and also famously does not care about his children so does it pay definitely he does not pay debts yeah you owe others 400 million dollars and me a hundred bucks and i'll give you back mary i think that the queen of england has a lot of money so i'm kidnapping someone in that line that she cares about
00:36:55
Adal
I would say, well that's, there's your trouble. There's the rub, Erin. She doesn't care about fucking shit or anything.
Erin
She does care.
Adal
She cares about them dogs. So kidnap a corgi.
Erin
Oh, I'd kidnap all of her corgis. But she doesn't like her son.
Adal
That's fair. Corgi reminds me of what I think the actual answer is. You have to think of someone who's worth money themselves and who comes from money. And to me, the only person that fits that bill, Little Bow Wow. That's true. Dadmaster P, Dadmaster P, No Limit Soldiers, his uncle Silvashaka, he's got all that Like Mike money. It's gotta be Lil Bow Wow. But he's Bow Wow now.
JPC
He's regular size. He's no longer Lil Bow Wow. That's a big mistake. You go to kidnap him as Lil Bow Wow, you bring a tiny little net, and it's like a full-grown man who's beating the shit out of you, just wailing on you.
Adal
Who's this grown man who looks like Lil Bow Wow?
Erin
Are you bringing a cartoonish dog-catching net to kidnap people, JPC? What are you doing?
JPC
What, what, you want me to leave it at home? I have it, I bought it, okay? I can't get the money back for it. I bought it two years ago, then I can return it. They bring a tiny net, you bring a big net.
00:38:01
Adal
That's the little Bow Wow way. Yep, exactly. Do we have any other guesses for what happened with this kidnapper?
JPC
We really have to try to find out who they're kidnapping to get this answer right? Or is that all an insane detour?
Adal
That was just an insane detour. Shame on you. So let me read it one more time. Please. A kidnapper sent a ransom note. He prepared it carefully and ensured that it contained no fingerprints, yet it was used to prove his guilt. How? Dude, I got it. I freaking nailed it again. Okay, Mr. CSI, Mr. JPC CSI, what do we got?
JPC
Hold on, I don't have any glasses except I have, oh wait, hold on.
Adal
Okay, we'll have to scream when you take them off.
JPC
These are Mariah's sunglasses that are on this desk. Oh, because they look bad on you.
Erin
I think they look nice.
JPC
I was joking. I didn't have the heart to tell you that they are my sunglasses. Why does it have sunglasses? Okay, here we go. Also, I've got her a blue blocking work glasses. I'll try these instead. Do these look better, Adal?
00:39:03
Adal
Yeah, you look cookish.
JPC
Thank you. So the kidnapper
Adal
Licked the envelope. JPCCSI Bingo Bango Ha Ta Ta, that is correct. The police were able to get a DNA trace from the saliva on the back of the stamp that matched the suspect. Which stamp, envelope, either one, you're getting some DNA right?
Erin
What a dummy.
JPC
Either way, you're getting DNA. So we did mail-in voting this year when I voted for fucking Jill Stein. Just throw my vote away. But I was about to lick the thing, like lick the envelope to mail it in, and then Mariah, my girlfriend, wetted a paper towel and ran the wet paper towel across the thing and then sealed it. And I was like, holy shit, you can do that? Yeah, but then you don't get to taste glue.
Erin
Yeah!
JPC
That's the best part of writers. That's the best part!
???
You don't get to taste democracy.
Erin
Yeah, and then the paper towel gets charged for the murder.
???
Yeah.
Erin
Don't throw me away.
00:40:04
Adal
You've been going away for a long time, paper. Brawny man, you're under arrest. So, JPZ, you didn't realize that it just had to be... You thought there was some secret ingredient in saliva that caused stuff to be...
JPC
I guess in my defense, I had never really thought about it before. But yes, in that moment, I did realize that the thing that I had never thought about before was that I thought that there was a secret adhesive ingredient in your saliva that made the envelope stick.
???
I have a similar thing that I learned as a kid or I had as a kid and I just never unlearned, which was, remember the straws at 7-Eleven? Or no, the Icees. Was that an international thing? I-S-E-E? We had Icees, yeah. The straws were like little red spoons at the end of them, you know what I mean? It opened up and then you can use it as a spoon. So I used to think that as you use the regular straw, it would open up like that. And then every time I took it out, I'm like, I nailed it. I got it in the perfect amount of time because I used it as a straw and it slowly opened into a spoon. And then like one day when I was like nine, I was like, wait a minute. that straw came opened to like a friend of mine he's like yeah that's how it works i'm like oh yeah that's how it works obviously it it doesn't open over time with use you thought you were a genius i thought it was always nailing the exact amount i'm like every time i looked i'm like got it i used just the right amount of time that's that's kind of like thinking the adhesive is from your saliva yeah that's true except in your story you were a young boy and i'm a full-grown man who is and can vote
00:41:37
Adal
I will say I was like when I was 16 or 17, the first like five times I ordered McFlurries when I was like 16 or 17, I would try and suck up the McFlurry through the spoon because I was like, oh, it's like a strewn. It's like a spoon in a straw because there's a big square opening at the end of the spoon. I was like, this is brilliant. I can suck it through a straw, and then when it gets to be too much, I can just eat it. Come to find out, it's not a straw at all. It's like what they use to put the mixer in. It holds the metal mixer component that then mixes the whole mixer.
Guest1
Stirs your McFlurry, yeah.
Erin
Okay, I didn't know that, and I sometimes try to use it as a straw.
Adal
And I was also like 34 when I realized what those little mustard cups are actually supposed to do. You're supposed to like pull them open to where they hold like 10 times as much ketchup.
JPC
Same with the Chinese like food boxes. Those containers open up as plates. Yeah. Excuse me, wait, slow down.
???
What's the mustard thing and then what are you talking about?
???
You're going too fast!
Adal
Chinese to-go boxes open up and become paper plates? Yeah. I misspoke and said mustard. It's like the little ketchup thing, so if you go to like- Like a little ramekin. If you go to like fast food, there's like the little paper cups you put ketchup or mustard in. If you grab the rim of those and pull them open, it stretches out and that's what you're supposed to do so that it holds a ton of sauce and then it's easier for you to dip or like lathe your fries in.
00:42:57
JPC
Oh, I didn't realize that.
???
I'm
JPC
Now you can't you they're usually like stapled so you can't put them back together but if you if you want to just like have access to everything at the very bottom of your dish you just snap open the sides and open it up and it's a little plate.
???
Is it a plate like a circle or is it a plate like you just deconstructed a box and you're using it as a plate?
JPC
Like, was it designed? Was that its intention? Well, yeah, I believe so, because... Or did you hack this? If I, like, opened up a cardboard box, I couldn't, like, turn... I'm like, hey, it's a plate. Like, no, you just... That's what I do with my pizza, too.
???
Yeah, is it like saying, a basketball, if you explode it, you can use it as a toilet seat cover. It's like, yeah, you can, I guess. Wow, look at that.
JPC
So, are they designed like that? I think that they are designed like that. I believe so. What's your dog's name? Luke. Named after Luke Kennard I assume?
00:44:14
???
Named after my girlfriend's favorite movie character, Cool Hand Luke.
JPC
I thought it was after her other ex, that guy that she was... Oh no, that guy was jacked.
???
That was Lucas. Oh, that's who's here.
Guest1
Yeah, she's here.
???
She's here. He's already fucking her.
JPC
Luke loves them. That's so weird. They're just supposed to be playing tennis. That's so wild. He's got such a sense of humor on that one.
???
Fantastic. Oh wow, he's spreading his dick open. Such an awesome life hack. Life hack. Sad about that.
Adal
This actually works out, this is very apropos. So here's another quote-unquote riddle, but what it actually is is a medical life hack, like we were just talking about. So I don't know where I sourced these riddles from for today, but this absolutely blows. But here it is. This is a bit of a medical life hack. Okay. How were insects once used in the diagnosis of a serious disease?
00:45:26
Erin
I know.
Adal
What did Erin say?
Erin
I didn't say anything about putting a Jolly Rancher up your ass. That's what I didn't say.
Adal
I will say I heard seven different answers. I don't know if I heard the right one. Do you think you know what this is? No, no.
Erin
I was going to say something about leeches.
???
I like using leeches to bloodlet or something like that. It's a great guess.
JPC
This is Erin and I's wheelhouse too because Erin has had most of the diseases and I have eaten most of the bugs. So between the two of us, we should know how to do this.
Adal
I'm gonna say that Jake needs a win because, Jake have you solved one yet? I think I solved the first two in a row.
00:46:33
???
Yeah, I think I did. After I gave you the answer you said wishes.
JPC
Yeah, because it was wishes, railroads.
???
You didn't even cheat correctly. I said memories and you could have just repeated it and said I said at the same time.
JPC
I've got a new word for how I've been behaving which is confidum. as my confidant. I'm always so sure. I have not, I don't think I've said a guess yet and like been half and been unsure. I, I'm always pretty positive that I'm right.
Adal
Well, let's, let's hear what your answer is for this one. Do you have an inkling? Do you have, I didn't hear what you said.
JPC
I think it's, I think it's the mosquitoes. I think the mosquitoes are eating blood. Dr. Swatnam putting them on a little Petri dish thing, uh, under a microscope. That's what I think.
Adal
You're very close. So what doctors used to do is take mosquitoes and then they would take out the blood and clone dinosaurs and that would help them tell if someone was a dinosaur. You're making a game of me, Adal. You've made a fool of me. I'm making the most dangerous game of you.
00:47:37
???
Does that just mean that, like, they thought everyone had malaria because it's like a mosquito-borne illness? It's like, yeah, this guy had it too. He also had mosquito blood. See, this is what I'm talking about with coronavirus. They're only finding it because they're testing more. And it's like, I know it's a punchline or whatever, but the numbers, the disease is a hoax. Secondly, the only reason the numbers are going up is because more people have it. Why are more people being dead then? Because they all have this nasty China flu.
JPC
I'll be honest, when it didn't kill Trump, I thought, maybe this is a hoax.
Adal
Well, JPC, you're gonna get a chance to play a doctor right now. JPC, you're an esteemed doctor, top of your field.
JPC
Hell yeah, I'll tell my mom to listen to this one.
Adal
So you're Dr. JPC. Jake, you are a patient who is awaiting results, and JPC, you have the unenviable task of letting him know he is in fact a dinosaur.
00:48:41
JPC
You look well. You look well. Yeah, if you need a water, the water that's out, it's right there for you. You can take this. Cut that on the back of the clipboard.
???
That's a big one.
JPC
That's a big sneeze. look I'm his son if you have anything to tell him you can just say it to me yeah damn it you can you can be you can be in the room you can be in the room son look there's there's no there's no easy way I am sorry I didn't catch your name Tan Tan? Tad. Tad. Tad your father but oh yeah yeah he's a T-Rex but continue Okay, okay. So you know that your father is a dinosaur, which is great.
???
Yes, I know it, but he doesn't get it because he has a reptile brain.
JPC
Well, we're past that because that's great. That's a great first step. Now your father, I know he's told you that he is a T-Rex. Yes. Your father is, unfortunately we got the results back, he's not a T-Rex. What are you talking about? He's a brachiosaurus.
00:49:57
Erin
Wait, here he is! I'm sorry, this is not a doctor, this is a plumber. Nice try, guy! Get the hell out of here! Go! Run!
JPC
Wait, wait, wait! This guy's like a Jolly Rancher in my ears! Hold on, hold on, hold on!
Erin
You just have the common cold, sir. I'm sorry, you and your son can go home.
JPC
My dad has never spoken English before. Before you cast a stone at me, before you throw me out of here on my ass, I only have one thing to say. Do you need a plumber? Is there pipes that need fixing?
Erin
Yeah, some guy's kicking our sinks in his sleep. So yeah, we'll give you a call. Get the hell out of here!
JPC
Okay, okay.
Adal
I can take one of these waters. Are these waters for everybody?
Erin
No.
Adal
And I'm so sorry. I've been here the whole time. I'm famed movie actor Christopher Plummer. Can I be of any assistance?
Erin
Get the hell out of here, Christopher Plummer. You were, oh wait, which one's Christopher Plummer? Yeah, you can stay. You can stay. You are great. I was thinking Christopher Walken and he was there when that lady died on that boat.
Adal
I'm the rich man's Kevin Spacey.
Erin
You really are. You're great in Sound of Music. Get the hell out of here, Christopher Plummer. I love you. I had a crush on you when I was a kid.
00:51:03
Adal
Sane.
JPC
Get the hell out of here.
Adal
Wasn't it Christopher Plummer? They totally re-shot a movie with him.
JPC
Yeah, it was about ransom too, I think, right?
Adal
Yeah, it was a true story about one of the world's wealthiest families and the kidnapping. I think I saw that one a couple years ago.
Erin
Christopher Plummer was great in Knives Out, I thought.
Adal
Oh yes.
JPC
Christian Plummer? That's his name? Christopher Plummer. Christopher Plummer. Christopher Plummer. Wow, this guy's so old. He's so old and he has a name like that? How old is he? He's a true dinosaur. He's 9'3".
Adal
9'0". And he's still acting? God damn.
Erin
He was Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music.
Adal
I think he just won an Oscar a few years ago, so he's still got it.
Erin
And a lot of the kids in Sound of Music are dead, and he's still acting.
Adal
Goodbye, farewell.
JPC
And almost every dog in Sound of Music is dead.
???
You don't know that! You don't know that!
Adal
Did I tell you guys about when I went to Austria and did this on a music tour?
???
Yeah. No, but yeah. It's fine. I don't need to know.
00:52:05
Adal
The main takeaway was basically that everyone on the tour learned my name was Adal, but they thought it was Adal. So the entire bus was singing Adalweiss to me and thought it was like super funny and like nailed it. And I was like, I hated them all. Very bad time in my life. So, back to the topic at hand. Riddles, how were insects once used in the diagnosis of a serious disease? Oh fuck, we didn't solve this? One final stab at it, and then I'm going to reveal the answer. How is it possible we didn't solve this? We dicked around for hours on this one! JPC, I will say, even the phrase dicked around is circling the target. Pretty close to saying dicked around. Woah.
JPC
So insects were used as a diagnosis for a disease. For a serious disease?
???
A penis disease?
JPC
Oh, micropenis. They would put an animal's penis next to a human penis. And they would be like, wow, your penis is the same size as this tiny little animal. You have a tiny dick.
Adal
People don't know this, but if you show ants a tiny penis, they will laugh. They're the only animals that are honest. So they'll laugh at a tiny penis.
00:53:12
???
I know my aunt does. Isn't that right?
Adal
Curtis, no! Oh no, Lucas is fucking your aunt. I'll go ahead and say the answer. Again, this is a bit of a medical life hack. So what happened was if ants, people, doctors used to bring ants for this exact scenario. If ants gathered around a place where a person had urinated, it was a very strong indication that the person had diabetes. The ants were attracted by the sugar in the urine. And sugar in the urine I believe is a Limp Bizkit song?
Erin
Okay, I would like to see a scene. The four of you are ants and you're drinking pee and maybe you're wondering if this is the kind of life you want to be leading.
???
Oh, this is so fucking good. Right? Right? Clinkies. Clinkies. Clinkies. Bottoms up, boys. I'm shrunk from this diabetic's fucking urine. I love piss. Call me a pissant cause I'm a fucking pissant.
00:54:34
Erin
Hey Riddle Riddle.
???
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, we love it here. You know, can we just, can we just call, you know, call this what it is and make this thing official? Maybe we just live in your toilet.
???
Don't you have a queen?
???
Oh shit. Hey, I'm ready to announce her. Fuck her. You could be our new queen. And with piss like this, who needs enemies? Yeah, fuck the queen, huh? The queen is mostly a figurehead nowadays. She's mostly for, like, the tabloids. We have our own government that really runs things. Yeah, I saw she has corgis.
Erin
Those are gigantic dogs for an ant to have. Yeah, they're terrifying. And their piss tastes like shit. Yeah. Alright guys, you're at the point where you're drinking each other's piss, so I'd say it's time to call it a night. Give me your keys. Oh, but wait, I can lift up my car, look. Look how strong I am. Alright, now you're just telling me all the things you know about ants. Go home. Yeah, my thorax will go home.
00:55:49
???
Give us more piss! Give us more piss, you bitch.
Adal
You called the scene way too early The only reason we stopped is to celebrate an anniversary, that's the 50th time that exact phrase has been spoken on this podcast Streamers come down to my house It's an anniversary
Erin
I got mugged today. Oh my God, did they get your phone, your wallet? No, I don't want to talk about it. Forget it. Forget it.
JPC
They got your piss. Well, we came up with two awesome t-shirts on this episode.
Adal
Let's do, we're going to do one more, one more riddle. And this is one. One more riddle, and Erin this is one, I forget the name of the show, this is a la, what's the British game show you like?
00:56:52
Erin
Oh, Only Connect.
Adal
OK, I wanted to say Connect 4, but you're correct. So this is in the vein of Only Connect. So Jake and Amir, what's going to happen is we have four Little kind of trivia questions or little puzzles to solve and then the answer for all four of those collectively are sort of a greater answer. So you're trying to get the answer for all the four questions and then try and macro view the four answers to see what they all have in common. The four answers will have something in common. Cool? Question 1. Which UK comedian gained fame guest hosting The Daily Show before getting his own HBO show, John blank?
???
Oliver. It's John Oliver.
Adal
What protein-based filament grows only on mammals? What protein-based filament grows only on mammals? The penis? Hair? Hair. Number three, who was the, and I'm not saying yes or no for these right now, who was the lead singer of the Eurythmics, blank Lennox? Annie? Oliver? Okay, and number four, name the pet with breeds called Maine Coon and Tonkinese? Cat. Cat. Great. And so you have the four answers and you have to see what they have in common.
00:58:13
Erin
I know. I know too.
Adal
Olive or pear. And we're gonna let Jake answer. We're only gonna let Jake answer. This is the last one. He really needs this win. Olive, pear.
JPC
Oliver, Annie, cats, and penis.
Erin
Hair.
JPC
Whatever. I'm sorry, Erin, penis hair is called pubes. Don't correct me.
Adal
Wait, pubes is the name of my cat.
JPC
So, hair, Oliver, Annie, cats.
Erin
Penis.
Adal
Let's all just stare at Jake.
???
Hair all over her Annie cat.
Adal
What? And that's not how it's played.
???
Imagine hair that's olive colored all over Annie, and Annie's a cat.
Adal
These are, it's two names, a cat and hair. So we have Oliver, hair, Annie, and I, just to nudge you along Jake, it's not cat, it's plural. Cats. Oliver, Annie.
00:59:16
???
No, no, no. Let's let him fucking sit in this. Shut up. Shut the fuck up.
Erin
Stay in your piss.
???
I don't care if it's silence for an hour. I want it all.
JPC
Low and slow. Low and slow. I'll leave. I will leave. Alright, hold on, hold on. Jake's getting up, he's leaving. Wait, what's that on his chair? It's, oh my god, it's a Jolly Rancher.
Erin
Sample Jolly Ranchers.
Adal
And Jake, I should say, the reason I read this question is because earlier in the show we actually did a scene involving one of these answers. And that's a huge hint. Like that could not be more of a hint. In fact, it's the answer. I don't remember this.
JPC
Do you have a specific memory of us doing this?
Adal
Do I have memories of it? I don't have any memories. Nice. I don't know what's going on right now. Jake's in gaslit. Jake, here's a little phrase we have in my house. Oh my god, Jake is crying. You can lead a horse to water, you can put the horse in the water, you can bucket water onto the horse, but eventually that horse is just going to drown because he doesn't know he has a mouth.
01:00:17
Erin
This is what it felt like to bully someone at a lunch table. You guys remember doing that? Remember when we would bully one person?
JPC
I was always the person getting bullied. I'm used to this feeling. I don't know that anyone who's ever bullied can relate to not knowing musicals. I don't think that that's a valid form for a bully.
???
It's a musical theater bully. You're at musical theater camp and the cool kid gets bullied.
JPC
Alright, let's see a scene. Hold on, we gotta see a scene. Hold on, I just want to say something real quick.
Adal
I want to say something because otherwise we'll have to edit this part out. If I can be real and sincere for a moment, I just want to apologize to Jake. I feel so bad because When you see someone who's had so much success and has so much money and is so fucking handsome as Jake, it just sucks to pick on them because they must have such a hard life. And it feels like, you know, this guy probably has 20 fucking homes and, you know, I just feel bad. And I'm so sorry. You have a beautiful wife and a beautiful wife. And I'm sorry I picked on you. It must be really hard for you.
Erin
He could have a lot of pain we don't know about. Anyways, those were from musicals.
01:01:20
Adal
That is a great answer. They're all musicals.
JPC
Annie, Hare, Oliver, and Cats.
Erin
I get it. Food, glorious food. The sun will come out tomorrow. This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius.
JPC
There was, yeah, there was a major disconnect between, I thought I had to string together all of the words from those answers into a coherent sentence.
Erin
Sister was in hair in college and the performance we went to go see all the lights are supposed to come down when they get naked Right before intermission and the lights broke And that's the first penis I saw in real life was sitting next to my dad in between my mom and my dad I was 14 and I saw a bunch of people strip while singing and they looked horrified That's it all And I was like, oh no, oh no, and it was just supposed to be their silhouettes, but I saw full penises and boobs.
JPC
Just so everyone's clear, the only reason that Jake didn't know the answer to that and all of us fucking nerds knew the answer to musicals was during high school when we were all singing musicals, Jake was in the parking lot getting the shit kicked out of him by the local sports jocks. Did you have a scene you wanted to see or too late? One more second it would have been gone forever. So we are going to see, let's see a scene where Jake, Amir, you are the two bullies at musical camp, and Erin, Adal, and I are the three newest kids to musical camp. We're so excited to be here.
01:03:00
Adal
Oh wow, gee. Oh, it's so beautiful. It's glorious. Shut the fuck up, you little bitch.
???
That's right.
???
I can swear. I can use the B word. Your mom's not here.
???
My sheep music! My sheep music! You knocked it out of my hand!
???
Shut up, bitch.
JPC
I'll say bitch all the time. I know we're supposed to be bullies, man, but you're going a little too hard, right? I don't know. I mean, these three little bitches, they don't even know what they're in for.
???
Here's my piss. Here's my piss. Just take it.
JPC
No, we don't want your piss. Let's not bully them so hard, huh? They're giving us their piss.
Adal
Here, take mine as well. Take mine. I'm piss perfect.
???
Dude, let's take a piss.
JPC
Here's my piss and a Jolly Rancher from my ass.
???
Please. This is perfect. This is awesome.
JPC
Why is it awesome?
Adal
We could fucking sell this at a gas station. Wait, could we please put on a production of Piss Saigon?
???
Okay, fine, let's hear you.
Adal
No, we should definitely not do that. Oh, okay.
JPC
We could do Urinetown.
???
That's a real musical. Let's hear that, you little piss bitch.
01:04:03
???
Wait, why are you even here? Why are you here?
???
I'm a counselor at this school.
???
Oh, no.
???
Oh, like therapy? Thank you so so much for being on the show.
Adal
It's so wonderful to finally have you on. Anything that you want to mention that our listeners should check out?
???
Wow. Listen to Hey Riddle Riddle on the HeadGum network.
JPC
Which you just did, so it came just for us. There's many more better episodes than the one we did, I'm sure.
???
Yeah, and if you wanted to listen to more of all five of us hanging out, you can listen to our episode on If I Were You, which is our advice podcast.
Adal
Hell yeah, and check out all the- I can't stress enough, I can't stress enough, because I'm- no. The HeadGum network, everyone there, the two of you, the offices, like, you all have been an absolute dream to work with, so- Wow.
01:05:11
Erin
Thank you so much for including us.
Adal
Thank you for being a part of the team. We feel so taken care of and so, you know, supported, so thank you so much for that, genuinely. And also check out all the other podcasts on HeadGum. I feel like you guys have one of the best kind of hit rates in the game in terms of like really making sure every podcast fits your like the brand and is it is wonderful. Hell yeah. Thank you.
???
There should be something for everybody. Hell yeah. That's the goal.
Adal
JBC, anything you want to plug or a new podcast you want to pitch to Jake and Amir?
JPC
I have a podcast, I know we do riddles and puzzles, I have a Puddle and Umbrella podcast that I would love to talk to you about. Well, it's not. You would think it was. Maybe I'm explaining it wrong, but it's very much not interesting. I don't want to give the wrong impression. The twist is that it's not interesting. I will send you an email. We could talk about this offline, but yeah. It sounds like a forever dog show. Uh-huh, uh-huh. Erin.
Erin
Okay, my podcast. We bring on people who don't know about musicals, and we bully the shit out of them. Not about that. We find new things. We get to know them, and then we bully them.
01:06:23
???
That's cool. Do you use the B word?
Erin
Yeah, we use the word bully, bitch. They send us a cup of their piss instead of letting them do plugs at the end.
???
That's cool. A drug test of sorts.
Adal
And Erin, you have written a musical. I've actually seen the demo version of it. It's brilliant. It's a musical that's out of this world. Of course, the title of that musical is... Jupiter. By Forever. Oh.
???
Huh.
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Created by Adal Rifai. Starring Erin Keif, and John Patrick Coan, Casey Toney did the editing, and Marty Perez did the music. Logo created by Emily Cardenas and Emeline Morris.
JPC
If you liked that, you're gonna love this. This week on the Patreon, it's Adal's Most Famous Things. You can find that plus all of our back catalog by going to patreon.com slash heyriddleriddle and joining the clue crew for $5 a month or the review crew for $8 a month. See you there. That was a hate gun podcast.