Which Riddle Riddle?

#401: Goodfella's But They're In Love

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Hey Riddle Riddle.

JPC

Hey everybody and welcome back to the $8 tier review crew. That is right, based on your votes, this month we reviewed the 1981 porno, Sherlock Bones and the Adventure of the Engineer's Cock. So, Adal, Erin.

Erin

Some of us reviewed it several times.

JPC

I gotta say, you know, the 80s, that was the time for porn parodies. Tell me why.

Adal

Tell me why.

JPC

I think it was the lighting. It was before the hoolification came along and turned all of the color of the world down, you know, to the level that we're at now. But the 80s, man. Oh, they knew how to light a porno.

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Adal

Let's list some more. Today we're

JPC

Yeah, from 81. Shut up!

Erin

Shut up! I did it, didn't I? I followed the rules. I did it, didn't I?

Adal

Erin is so young, so young, she can't possibly fathom a time before Mission Impossible 1 with Tom Cruise.

Erin

Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Apocalypse Now.

JPC

Apocalypse Now. Apocalypse Now.

Erin

That was out by 1980. Yes. Right?

JPC

Yeah, sure. Apocalypse Now.

Adal

I love the smell of nips in the morning. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Cock.

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Oh no.

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JPC

Butch Cockity and the Sundance Cock. Cock Cassidy, we gotta do it. Butch. Oh, you know what, Casey says, Erin, Mission Impossible the show was in the 60s.

Erin

Oh, so everybody shut up for one second.

JPC

We were talking about the 80s, so that worked out. That was great.

Erin

Rear window.

JPC

Okay, what would that be? Yeah, rear window, that works. You're right, that works. Yeah, it's just a one and done. I have something to say. This is actually a big joke on you guys because this isn't even a Review Crew episode. I made you guys watch those 80s pornos for absolutely nothing. Well, not for nothing. Not for nothing. The bass guitar was incredible.

Erin

I learned so much about the bass guitar.

JPC

About the bass guitar. This is just an episode of Hey Riddle Riddle the podcast. I'm JPC. I'm Adal Rifai.

Erin

And I'm Sherlock Bones himself, Erin Keif. I'm going to solve all the riddles and puzzles today.

JPC

Is there a better one than Sherlock Bones for a porn parody of Sherlock Holmes? I don't know. Sherlock Bones and White Sun. And Watch Some. Watch Some. That was Shercock.

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Erin

Could it be like Shercock Holmes and Watch Some? You know? I studied two in the pink. What else? The Hounds of Buttserville.

Adal

Sherhotwife Holmes. The Hounds of Buttserville.

Erin

That is one of my worst ever.

Adal

Pretty incredible.

JPC

Have you guys ever read a Sherlock Holmes book?

Adal

I read The Hounds of Baskerville in eighth grade.

Erin

I remember having to read like a section of it for school, but I've never read a book.

JPC

I don't think I ever read any Sherlock Holmes, because they're from like the early 19th century, right? Or I guess late 19th century.

Adal

I think, yeah, early 1900s maybe. I remember reading, in the same school year, we read Hounds of Baskerville, and I was like, this is fine. And then we read Mask of the Red Death, I think, which is by Edgar Allen Poe. And I thought that was incredible, and I thought Hounds of Baskerville was fine.

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Erin

Doggy style day afternoon. Twelve anal men.

JPC

Doggy style day afternoon delight. We play that game where we just keep adding to it. Back up the taxi driver. I haven't investigated it, but I don't know if the Sherlock Holmes books are books where You as the reader can get the mystery, or if Sherlock Holmes is like, I know the mystery because of secret information that, you know, I haven't given you yet, type of thing. Where he's like, I intuited this, but you, the humble reader, did not.

Adal

Yeah, I feel like there is, it is a little tricky in terms of like, they hold their cards close to the chest, from what I remember, but this is 8th grade, so.

JPC

Yeah. It's a crapshoot. You remember the title from 8th grade. That's, hey, to me, that's still pretty impressive.

Adal

Well, I think Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman gave a little bit of a help.

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JPC

They kind of gave you the bump sell on that one for later in life. Oh, yeah.

Erin

I'm trying to think of one for Jaws. Hey, Erin. Yep, what's up? Hey, Adal. Sweetie. It's a kiss a mockingbird, and it's sort of like romantic sex. Okay.

Adal

Yeah, let's make it more romantic and less horny. More romantic and less horny. Twelve kissing men, kissing impossible.

JPC

Twelve angry kisses. Talk to hate after kiss.

Adal

Kissfellas.

JPC

Kissfellas.

Erin

Godkisser.

JPC

What if you watched a porn parody called Kissfellas? It's like two steps below softcore.

Erin

You guys are sort of like henchmen in Godfellas. You're in that universe. And you guys are in a car on a job. You're about to like So I took him to the desert and I said, I said, start digging.

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Classic. Classic move. Did he do it? He did it. They're never gonna find him. Oh, I got so many holes in the desert, no one's gonna find him.

JPC

I can never get him to dig in the desert, cause they know. You know? Yeah, yeah. They're like, I don't think I'm like... If you're gonna kill me... Doing sewer pipes out here. I think... I'm probably digging my own grave, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fair, that's fair.

Erin

Fellas, if you're gonna kill me, just kill me.

JPC

Oh, yeah. Start digging. No. Yeah, well, not in the car. Hold on, not in the car. I just... Oh, no, the floorboards. I just had this Cadillac detailed. Ah, dang.

Adal

And we gotta clean out brain. Maybe. Maybe. Depends on if you... We could clean out butt. Hey listen, uh, hey Johnny, um, I've been wanting to tell you something, I've been thinking about it since the last 12 holes I had people dig.

JPC

Sit tight back there, sit tight back there, we're having an adult conversation.

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I think your smile- You guys shot me in the chest! Huh? You shot me in the chest and it didn't kill me dead, oh my god.

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Adal

They always say aim for center mass. And I'm from center mass.

JPC

I'm from center mass. We've got so much in common. It's like we finish each other's... ...gaba ghoul. Oh, brother. We finish each other's sopressat. We finish each other's... We finish each other's peschies. Sandwiches. Peschies.

Erin

Murders. We finish each other's murders.

JPC

Aww. Stand by cock.

Erin

Stand by second person I'm about to sleep with.

Adal

Hey, let's do riddles.

JPC

Why? Yeah, I guess we could do riddles. It's probably better than what we were planning on doing.

Erin

Pulp friction.

JPC

Okay. Pulp friction sounds- That's not good.

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Adal

All right. Yeah. Okay.

Erin

God with the winded after sex.

JPC

Erin, get on top, sweetie. This is just lower than Spital Tap.

Erin

Okay, we really ran out. All right, now I'm convinced we ran out. Let's do riddles.

Adal

Yeah. All right, let's do some riddles here. Okay. How is everyone? We doing good? No!

Erin

JPC just came up with the best one and now we're done with them and he did the best one. I'm miserable over here.

JPC

Asking how is everyone 10 minutes into a group conversation in 2026 in late March of 2020 is a whore crime. That is a war crime to do to people.

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Erin

Yep.

Adal

Okay, here's a riddle. I am constantly on the move and yet always at home. What am I? Is this a snail? Snail? Crab? Crab? It's a snail.

Erin

Oh, that makes more sense than what I said. Mute what I said.

Adal

And Erin, I do have to have a quick side conversation with JPC.

Erin

Of course. I'll see you guys later.

Adal

JPC, do you think crabs are kind of like snails where they can get out of their shells? I mean, we can take them out of their shells, of course.

Erin

I think... I bet they're talking about me. I bet my ears are burning.

JPC

Hold on now. I really do think that they are. Do hermit crabs find different shells? Now, okay. Now hermit crabs can find different shells. Oh, okay. Now I get what you were saying and I do sound insane.

Erin

I'm starting to think that they're not talking about me because they're smiling.

Adal

That's like saying, like, a lobster takes off a shell and, like, changes little, like, what do mermaids do? They put little starfish pasties on or whatever. Clamshell pasties.

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JPC

That's like saying, like, as dogs grow older, they, like, crawl into different dog hair.

Adal

Sort of Ed Gein their way in. Yes, it is a snail, and I would like to see a scene.

Erin

Hey guys.

Adal

Oh, Erin. I'm so sorry. I forgot to let me open the door.

Erin

Sorry about that.

Adal

You're trying to squeeze through the mail slot.

Erin

No, that's fine. I got I'm fine. I peed outside. I did my business. I'm ready to come back in.

Adal

You seem stuck in the mail slot.

Erin

Can someone just either pull me from the front or push me from the back?

JPC

Casey, clip it, clip it all night long. Casey, go ahead and clip that all.

Erin

Yeah, for me. CBC, aren't you numb? Aren't you numb at this point?

JPC

It's actually, Erin, it's like stabbing myself with a little needle. It's the only thing. I don't love the way it makes me feel, but just to feel, just to feel anything.

Erin

All right, I'm ready for my scene.

Adal

Snail makes me think, of course, of snail mail. Not the artist, but the post person. So I do want to see a scene where JPC will have you be a postman. Erin, you are someone who owns a home, and JPC, you're dropping off the mail, and Erin, nowadays it's just all junk mail, so you're having sort of a hard conversation with your mailman about not wanting what he's giving out.

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JPC

Here's what I won't do, Adal. I won't play Post Malone, but only because I don't know how to do it. I don't know what he sounds like, but it was all I was thinking about. But I will instead do the scene that you described. I want to say a song that's like... I know Sunflower, you're my sunflower. I know that Spider-Man one. But I think he's done like a bunch of countries since then. That's the same one I was singing. Alright, so instead I'll be a postman who is delivering the mail to Erin and then the lay-on is what?

Erin

Oh my God, you truly wasn't listening.

JPC

No, I was, but then I talked about Post Malone too much.

Erin

You're bringing me mail that I don't want.

Adal

I feel like nowadays, all mail is junk mail. So it's just Erin kind of trying to shut this down.

JPC

Unfortunately, this is the only thing keeping the postal industry alive, because the only people that send things is junk mail.

Erin

Nailing my mail slot shut.

JPC

Federal crime.

Erin

No.

JPC

No, it's a federal crime. Do you live here?

Erin

Yes, this is my house.

JPC

Oh, never mind. Turn around. Technically... Turn around. I hate to be this guy, but that is property of the federal government. That's actually not your property, even though it's on your house. It kind of belongs.

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Erin

It's my door. You're addicted to giving me nonsense mail. You have a problem, man.

JPC

You can call the companies and request that they stop sending you the mail. But I, if it comes, I have to deliver it.

Erin

It's my legal requirement. I tried that, and now they send me text blasts every day. I wake up in the morning and I think I've gotten a text from a loved one. I get zero texts from loved ones. And it's like, hey, have you tried this coupon code for some bullshit?

JPC

There's a service that you can get that will remove all of those texts from your phone. And instead, what they'll do is they'll put it all in a letter and then they'll mail you that letter every day. So it's like, instead of getting the text, you can just get it all via the mail. If you want that service.

Erin

I don't want that service.

JPC

Okay, that's my company. I'm trying to start... I have a side gig. Everybody has to have a side hustle. My side hustle is taking people's text messages and turning them into mail. Kind of helps my main hustle too, I'm not gonna lie. You know, one hand feeding the other hand. Hey brother, I'm trying... Both hands feeding my mouth. Chips. Are you familiar? Have you ever eaten chips with both hands?

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Erin

Please don't sell me on something. I'm trying to have a human moment with you. Please stop giving me mail.

JPC

Now I'm thinking about a product that's a bag big enough that when you open it you can get both hands inside and eat chips with both hands. Hey. Wide chip bags. You know chip bags are longer than, they're like taller than they all are wide? What if instead it was a chip bag on its side with like a Ziploc thing?

Erin

Brother, I got good news for you. Keeps it fresh.

JPC

What's that?

Erin

My name is Mr. Wonderful. I'm from Shark Tank. Would you like to come on the show so we can hunt you for sport?

JPC

Oh my God, I would love to sell you a shark tank. I have an idea for a tank.

Erin

Although wait, GBC, sell me a shark tank.

JPC

Sell me a shark tank. I truly don't want to sell you a shark tank, but I will say- Because you don't have access to one? I know a zoo in Brookfield, Illinois that has an excellent shark tank now. Lincoln Park Zoo? Well, it's the Brookfield Zoo in Lincoln Park. Yes. What's funny is the Lincoln Park Zoo is the free zoo in Chicago. And the Lincoln Park Zoo, it's a pretty good zoo. It's a pretty good free zoo. Brookfield is better. Brookfield is better, but I've been to Brookfield way more than I've been to the free one in Lincoln Park. I did the thing where I got myself a yearly membership to the zoo. And then every time I'm not going to the zoo, I'm losing money, basically.

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Adal

I would say San Diego, Columbus, and St. Louis have the three best zoos I've ever been to.

JPC

I've been to San Diego. I've been to Columbus. What was the third one? St. Louis. No, never been to St.

Erin

Louis. I've never been to Columbus. What's going on over there in Columbus?

Adal

I think Jack Hanna just set up a really nice foundation there.

JPC

That makes sense. That makes sense.

Adal

He came out of the Columbus Zoo, I believe. And so I think he just really, it drew a lot of people, which boosted revenues, which allowed them to sort of expand and have just really nice programs and everything. So yeah, that's very nice news. Erin, have you ever been to a zoo?

Erin

I feel like I'm in one right now.

Adal

J.B.C., what were you gonna say?

JPC

I would say that, I don't know, I don't think it's like a zoo, but there's that park in Disney that, Animal Kingdom is what it's called, the Disney park, where I think they also have animals, but I also think- Like a safari thing, yeah. Yeah, but they also have like Avatar World, but I think that all zoos should also have to include like some portion that's devoted to the zombie. Like if you're like a little zoo- Or any fantasy IP. I would like it if it was exclusively the Na'vi, like it was like, hey, we also believe in the conservation of the Na'vi people. We don't have a live Na'vi here because it would be unethical.

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Erin

Sounds like we're going to convince an entire generation that the Na'vi are real.

JPC

I think it would be okay to do.

Adal

It would be. I remember going on, maybe five, six years ago, we went on the safari at Animal Planet, Animal Kingdom.

JPC

And it was like… Animal Planet is Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone's failed restaurant, right? It's a bunch of animals from movies. Gorilla serving you martinis.

Adal

But I remember being on the safari, I was like, oh, this feels dangerous. It feels like too open air or something. Disneyland feels way safe, and it felt like this was a bit of a risk. But it would be funny to see like Hippos and rhinos, whatever, and then they're like, and here's a white boy with dreads, and no one looking in the eyes.

Erin

I love Spider.

Adal

Erin loves Spider. Spider by far the worst character of the last, I want to say, since the beginning of cinema.

Erin

I would say the last 600 years. I'm thinking back to some Shakespeare play.

Adal

Thinking back to Moliere, Tartuffe.

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Erin

Tartuffe.

Adal

I'm thinking we're back, Tartuffe. Yeah, I think we're back to Tartuffe. John Wick. John Wick talking theater. Tartuffe pulling his collar, looking up Spider. Yeesh. What character have we here? Pirandello's like, six characters in search of an author, but not this guy, right?

Erin

Spider was the lead of the newest Avatar. The lead.

JPC

Dante making a new circle outside all his other circles being like, I got a new one for you.

Adal

Brecht, Bertolt Brecht, also making a circle right out of chalk.

JPC

The funniest part about Spider-Man being the lead of that Avatar movie is that he was like a big part of the first one, and everyone was like, okay. James Cameron was like, no, I'm going to make you love Spider.

Erin

I'm doubling the fuck down.

JPC

I don't know.

Erin

I went to the bathroom to get a hot dog when I was watching the new Avatar, and I came back to- You went to the bathroom to get a hot dog? I went to the bathroom and to get a hot dog and I was gone so long and I came back to my seat and Riley leaned over to tell me what I had missed and I went, I don't care.

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JPC

Did Erin say that she went to the bathroom to get a hot dog?

Erin

Kiki, don't answer that question.

JPC

Let's check the tape.

Erin

You don't have to answer a question without your lawyer present.

JPC

If it's on the tape, I want a clip of it, because I'll need it for later, obviously.

Adal

I do like that our podcast is slowly becoming the NFL. We've got to review it.

Erin

Yep.

Adal

We've got to review. It's fucking boring to watch and it's people just hurting themselves.

Erin

Yep.

Adal

I do feel like that kid who plays Spider.

JPC

The commercials suck.

Adal

I feel like the kid who played Spider probably went to like an acting coach and they're like, oh, dear boy, what brings you into acting school? And he's like, well, I just wrapped three Avatar movies. And he's like, oh, dear boy, you should have come before the movies.

Erin

James Cameron told me not to.

00:22:06

JPC

It's not really his fault because they're like, what are you acting against? You're acting against like a person covered in like tennis balls in a green screen.

Erin

I don't think they're covered in tennis balls.

JPC

Hey, Bob Hoskins did it. If Bob Hoskins can do it.

Adal

But Bob Hoskins was an adult. He wasn't a child, right? I think James Cameron, I think he saw Into the Spider-Verse and he was like, that gives me an idea. Yes, yes. And I think he wanted to call Avatar 3, Avatar 3 Into the Spider-Verse.

JPC

Beyond the Spider-Verse, Avatar 3 Beyond the Spider-Verse.

Adal

What if Miles Morales and Spider from Avatar did a buddy cop movie?

Erin

Hold on, I can talk slower. I'm writing this down.

JPC

Beyond the Spider-Verse is coming out in 2027, which means it hasn't finished, like, principal animation, I imagine, which means that they still have a chance to put Spider in as a cameo from an alternate universe where he is the Spider-Man of that universe.

Adal

It's like in Across the Spider-Verse, where Miles Morales is on whatever planet or dimension, and there's just, it's all animated Spider-Men, and then there's just actual Donald Glover in the flesh, in a cage. Donald Glover's been in so many goddamn Spider-Man movies. It's crazy. But it's funny it's not even, he's just him with real flesh. Like, it's very funny. All right, let's do another riddle here. Yes. What has a stem but no roots?

00:23:31

JPC

A brain. Wow.

Adal

Yes, a brain.

JPC

Is it, would it be like a dame? Don't you call it dames, getaway sticks, stims? Look at those getaway sticks.

Erin

Yeah, if you want a slap in the mouth.

Adal

From Judi Dench.

JPC

Well, obviously, yes, I want a slap in the mouth. That's why I wore this big hat, this trench coat.

Adal

Step on my neck, Maggie.

Erin

You guys, I went to a bachelorette party. Congratulations! Thanks! For my sweet friend and very talented comedian, George Alrod. And there was a moment where I was sitting at a bar with Elizabeth Andrews and Shelby Plummer, my friend, and they started giggling and I was like, what are you guys giggling about? And they're like, there is a man with the craziest hat in our eyesight. Like, Erin, you have to look. And I have my back to this man and I look behind me to my left and I immediately see the craziest, biggest hat I've ever seen on a man. And then I came back to center and I looked over my right and they were dying and they were like, did you think you were going to see a crazier hat on the other side? Like I had hope in my heart that maybe it wasn't him.

00:24:50

JPC

That wasn't that guy. That just happens to be a different crazy hat.

Erin

Was he with anyone, Erin? He was talking to a woman, at a woman.

Adal

So I need you to describe this hat. Is this like a Pharrell Elmer Fudd situation?

Erin

You know what? You just know that guy was in Austin or something shopping for hats. And he was like, do you think I can pull off a hat? And the person at the haberdashery was like, you look awesome in this. He was like going for a whole new vibe. It felt like early 2000s indie singer.

Adal

Yeah, like Jason Mraz.

Erin

Where was this, Erin? This was in San Francisco. I was there again. Huge hat, so disproportionate to be wearing it inside. This tiny like white man with this huge

JPC

Are you familiar with, and I can't remember if the name of the book is like The Game, but it's about the pickup artist Mystery. Are you familiar with the pickup artist Mystery, Erin? No.

Erin

This is not even ringing a bell.

00:25:50

JPC

This is where Negging comes from, right? Negging and Peacocking. What's peacocking? Well, peacocking is this. $6.99 a month? No, peacocking, that's more expensive than that, is when you wear a big, bold hat, like a crazy choice hat, so that people will have a reaction to the hat, and then you can, like, start a conversation because you're wearing a big crazy hat.

Erin

Yep, he read that book.

JPC

I have never in my life encountered a person doing that, because I feel like this was, like, in the early 2000s, that this was, like, a thing. That's crazy. And dare I say, I don't know where the man mystery is still operating, but you may have run into mystery in the wild.

Erin

Now that you're saying this, I had this exact thing happen. That was 100% what it was. The fact that I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt, I was expecting a crazy chef's hat behind my right shoulder or something. I don't know.

00:26:51

JPC

Casey posted a picture of Mystery in the chat. It's not even just the hat, it's his whole wardrobe, the jacket, the eyeliner, the fingernails, the rings, the peacocking.

Adal

To describe this picture of Mystery that Casey sent, it's as if Jamiroquai was dipped in Limp Bizkit. Does that make sense?

Erin

That's poetry.

JPC

It's hard to dip something in Lit Biscuit, but it works. It works. Yeah, there's a podcast I really enjoy called If Books Could Kill, but they review like airport best help or bestsellers, like airport bestsellers.

???

A lot of them are self-help.

JPC

But they reviewed that, there's an episode that they did where they reviewed, whatever that book is called, I think it's The Pickup Artist or something like that. It's by, the one that Mystery's in, and it's about a guy who like embedded himself in this like pickup culture and like, it's fascinating, absolutely fascinating. It's a terrible, terrible thing, but absolutely fascinating nonetheless.

00:27:58

Adal

What a weird time the early 2000s were.

JPC

And it seems like some people out there are still doing it. The fact that he was talking at a woman, like, seals the deal for me. Like, that says everything that I need to know about that.

Adal

Do you think 90s musician Seal ever used that pickup line? Let's seal the deal. Are they kind of winks?

Erin

I would if I were him. If I'm being honest.

JPC

I don't even know that he would need the wink, honestly.

Adal

I think if he says that seals the deal.

Erin

He's famous.

Adal

Handsome man. Great voice. What has a stem

Erin

Oh my God, we were in the middle of a riddle.

JPC

Is it like a rose? Roses have stems. That's the seal talking right now. Okay. Not a rose. STEM. What has a STEM but no rose? Doesn't STEM stand for like science, technology, engineering, and math or something like that? It does. Okay, so is it that? Fuck.

Adal

So is it that? You guys are on the right track with like brain and rose. A STEM. A vase?

00:29:05

JPC

A vase has a stem? Or a wine glass?

Adal

Oh, it's a wine glass.

Erin

Oh my goodness. I would like to see a scene. Okay. JPC, you and I will be a couple at a fancy, like, Napa Valley wine tasting, and we have umbrage with the glasses, so we're gonna complain to Adal about the type of glasses our wine has been served in.

JPC

Oh, excuse me, before you pour, because I can see you are reaching for the bottle for the next pour. I believe that my partner and I maybe received the, this is awkward to say, the incorrect wine glasses for the tasting event.

Adal

Oh no, we've hand-selected these, um, these glasses to accentuate and bring out the fruits and flavors of our wines.

Erin

This is a good cup, bad cup situation. You don't want me to start complaining. These look like olive garden glasses.

00:30:09

Adal

Did you say good cup, bad cup?

Erin

Did I?

JPC

These are, and my wife is correct, these are more in the bad cup varietal. And when she says Olive Garden glasses, these are plastic Olive Garden kids cups with, it looks like, kind of projections of maps of Italy on them and like breadsticks and they're plastic. But we see other people have, you know, elegant stemmed wine glasses.

Adal

I see what you're accusing me of, which is going to a Salvation Army last night to scramble for the opening of this vineyard, but I assure you, these were handcrafted by a master, I want to say blowman.

Erin

You want to say.

Adal

Who tasted our wines for months and months and decided that this vessel is the perfect, well, vessel for our wine. Now, sip it from the sippy cups. Look at the map of Italy and know that these grapes came nowhere from here, but actually from right here in Sonoma. Well, we're not in Sonoma. This is more, I'd say, East Oakland, but Sonoma is a whisper away.

00:31:25

Erin

You really fumbled the ball at the last minute here. You should have thought ahead. This is the most important part of the presentation. Honey, am I wrong?

JPC

How did you break all of the wine glasses last night? Were you having like a... Who said I broke all the wine glasses?

Adal

Who said I got drunk and fell backwards into a large shelf that I stupidly put all the glasses on?

Erin

Who said that?

JPC

Look, we want to help you out, but we paid $85 for this tasting and just give us our money back. We'll go on our way. We'll leave a three-star review. That's fair. Three stars is fair. Deal. Deal. Deal. We'll take the cups, because they're awesome. Deal.

Adal

But you have to yelp. It was nice. You have to yelp that.

Erin

Can we put nice in quotation marks?

Adal

Deal. This guy's terrible at deals.

JPC

One of the worst at deals.

Adal

One of the worst at deals. Well, here's the deal is we need to take a break. So let's all swirl our glasses and let these brittles, let these brittles breathe.

00:32:37

JPC

I broke mine. I swirled it and it broke.

Erin

Mine broke.

Adal

All right. Give me the glasses. We'll be right back. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.

Erin

Guys, anything you want to talk to me about? Maybe how it's International Women's Day this month?

Adal

Oh yeah, it's International Women's Day this month.

JPC

Yeah, I was going to mention to you, Erin, since it's International Women's Day this month, step your game up.

Adal

So to all the Angelos and Ridos, Monacos and

Erin

You know guys, between caring for others and managing unseen responsibilities, women's well-being can be a little bit overlooked. There's a lot to juggle. We're doing some invisible labor over here. Monica, Mesquita, all of us. And I just, I think that therapy is a great way for us to talk about that.

00:33:47

JPC

Not to agree with a woman, but Erin, I agree. And BetterHelp therapists work according to a strict code of conduct, and they are fully licensed in the United States. Plus, they have a therapist match commitment, which means that BetterHelp does the initial matching work for you so you can focus on your therapy goals. You take a short questionnaire to help identify your needs and preferences, and then their 12 years of experience and industry-leading match fulfillment rate means they typically get it right the first time. If you aren't happy with your match, though, just switch to a different therapist at any time from one of their tailored recs.

Adal

And Erin, I've been fighting and vying for an invisible Labor Day, which should be coming soon, but until then, BetterHelp has over 30,000 therapists. BetterHelp is the world's largest online therapy platform, having served over 6 million people globally, and it works with an average rating of 4.9 out of 5 for a live session based on over 1.7 million client reviews.

Erin

I've used BetterHelp. That kind of therapy works great for me because I like being able to message someone in real time when I'm actually experiencing something. And it's just therapy is always a good idea. You'll be so grateful that you do it. And you should just start today. Start today.

00:34:57

JPC

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Erin

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, help, help, 13, 14, help me! Mambo, number 5. Hey Erin, hey GPC, can you guys help me figure something out?

Adal

Oh, sure.

Erin

Always.

Adal

I have this charge. I'll pull up my bank account here. I have this charge that says JPC tax $5,000. It's like a monthly deduction.

Erin

That should be good. Yes. No, no. Go to your Rocket Money app and have them cancel that for you.

Adal

Oh, thank God.

Erin

We signed up for the free trial like three months ago, and then we forgot about it. And I noticed it. I got like a ping from Rocket Money in my email, and they let me know that I had been paying for

00:36:00

JPC

Lost another one to Rocket Money! With Rocket Money, you can do automatic transaction categorization across your accounts, plus customizable categories and tags to reveal spending patterns and add context. Also, if you have a big event coming up, like a wedding or some monumental expense, it helps you plan and save for something like that.

Erin

The app consolidates checking, savings, loans, and investments into a single dashboard to give users a clear view of their financial picture. I've been using Rocket Money for years and years, way before they were ever a sponsor, and I love how easy it is to read and how intuitive it is.

Adal

Yeah, I love Rocket Money, but Erin, I do hate that voice. Was that JPC? It sounded like a Rumpelstiltskin type voice. Did you hear that? Yeah.

00:37:01

JPC

No, so that's just like, that's a voice alert I have on my phone every time someone unsubscribes to the JPC tax. I don't know where it's from or how to turn it off.

Erin

That's kind of scary. We'll deal with that later.

Adal

Yeah. Well, let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster. Join at RocketMoney.com slash Riddle. That's RocketMoney.com slash Riddle. RocketMoney.com slash Riddle.

Erin

Lost another one to Rocket Money! Yeah, that's not even coming from your phone.

Adal

Yeah, is that coming from inside of our heads maybe? Yeah, like heaven maybe?

Erin

Yikes blikes. Oh, JPC, it's that time of the year where all of my goals have kind of gone out the window because I am busy, busy, busy, busy, busy. And it is hard to figure out, like, when to cook and when to go grocery shopping and meal planning. I'm exhausted.

JPC

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00:38:08

Adal

Oh yes. I don't often, I love the word scrumptious. I don't get to use it often. These options are scrumptious and healthy. I've been enjoying the Five Spice Glazed Chicken Thighs, the Chili Shrimp Rice Bowl, and one of my favorites, the Picante Carnitas Pork Rice Bowl.

Erin

And no matter what your goals, there's a tempo meal for you. Protein-packed meals with up to 30 grams of protein, calorie-conscious and even GLP-1 balanced meals. It's convenient but also flexible enough to fit the way you want to eat. I look it. I look tired.

JPC

Look, Erin, for a limited time, and that might be all you have, Tempo is offering my listeners 60% off your first box. Just go to Tempomeals.com slash Riddle. That's Tempomeals.com slash Riddle, R-I-D-D-L-E, for 60% off your first box. Tempomeals.com slash Riddle. Rules and restrictions may apply.

Erin

I look it. I look it.

Adal

Erin, you're standing in front of a mirror.

Erin

I look it.

Adal

They do exist.

00:39:10

JPC

Finally, I've crossed through fields and I've climbed through mountains and here I am at the great temple to ask the master. Excuse me? Excuse me? Yes? How do I? What do I? How do I? What am I going to buy a car? How do I buy a car?

Adal

Ah, you've come to the right place for we are the car gurus.

JPC

Yeah, and I kind of came all this way, but then I heard that actually it's a website and I could just go to the website?

Erin

Yeah, GBC, with CarGurus Discover, you can skip the filters and describe what you're looking for in your own words. Simply type what you want and CarGurus Discover instantly surfaces real listings that match your exact needs. It's so easy, you don't have to go on this long journey while you're buying a new car.

JPC

It's no wonder CarGurus is the number one most visited car shopping site according to SimilarWeb's estimated traffic data. Have you brought a offering? Yeah, I mean, I have an offering and I'm also looking that dealership mode on CarGurus app puts you in control. You can compare side-by-side, check pricing, and estimate your final cost so you can navigate the dealership with confidence. And with more than 4 million listings, CarGurus has the biggest selection of cars, so it's easier than ever to find the right car and the right deal. Honestly, I feel like walking all this way was kind of a waste of my time.

00:40:36

Adal

No, Mama, not a waste, Mama. Buy or sell your next car today with CarGurus at CarGurus.com. Go to CarGurus.com to make sure your big deal is the best deal. That's C-A-R-G-U-R-U-S.com. CarGurus.com, Mama.

JPC

And Casey, I know I never do this, but I'm going to need a clip of Adal saying, no, Mama, CarGurus, Mama.

Erin

Yeah, I would like one, too, for personal use.

Adal

Mama's for all. Erin, JBC, pretty big news. I just got cast as the director of a new Spider-Man. Yes, they're casting directors now. Oh, an all-nude Spider-Man? Yes, it's an all-nude Spider-Man. I'm just going to take some risks. That's all we can ask. Of course, I have to bring back some of the old faves. We're talking Electro, we're talking Doc Ops.

00:41:36

JPC

Doc Ops, Green Lantern. Doc, hold on. Green Lantern, of course. If we're nude, let's see, Doc Octopus, that's easy. Doc Octopus. Electroctro, easy. Yep, yep.

Erin

I meant Green Goblin, I think.

JPC

You know what this game invites? Rhino Penis. Doing a nude version of Spider-Man villains. It reminds me of doing one of Sandy's sandbox games.

Erin

You could've let Adal cook. He was gonna get there.

Adal

Get where? What do you mean? What do you mean? Oh, Sandman? Sandman will never be in my Spider-Man. Oh, of course not. Oh, no. But Sandy can be on Hey Riddle Riddle. Hey. Thomas Hayden Cocke. If there was a new Batman, you could have the scarecrow. It would just be a pile of straw. I love that.

Erin

Someone get DC on the phone, quick, quick, quick. Call him, call him, call him.

Adal

You call, use the bat phone.

Erin

A bat signal on the side.

Adal

I don't think I want to see Superman nude though. Yeah.

JPC

Why not? You wouldn't do the Joker, you would do Joe Cocker. Wait, that's another guy.

Erin

Hold on. Pussy woman. We're working on it. We're working on it. We're not working hard on it, but we're working on it.

00:42:42

Adal

Well, you have Doc Ock and Catwoman together, you got Octopussy. The penisquin.

Erin

Again, we have all of our best guys on it. I'm so sorry.

Adal

I'm thinking of Penis Gwen Stacy. Sandy, thank you so much for coming on. It's always a delight to be a treat. Were you going to go down a road to the Sandman villain? Is that where you're going with that? No. I was just bringing up Spider-Man. Does Spider-Man have a Sand villain? Oh, I don't know. I've heard rumors. I've only been called Sandman a few times in my life.

JPC

Today we're

Adal

He's in a meme culture, isn't there? Every year.

Erin

The lifeblood of the zeitgeist, for sure.

00:43:44

Adal

Thomas Hayden Church is in the new Knives Out movie. He plays a character in Wake Up Dead Man. And his name in the movie has a lot to say about religion and the church. It takes place in a church. And his name is It is wild that the two leads of Sideways are canonically Spider-Man villains.

JPC

And He's like, he's like, handsome and stupid. He's not really schlubby. He's like, right? Handsome and stupid. Yeah, dopey.

00:44:51

Adal

Yeah, he's more dopey. Okay, that's a new one. The other five dwarfs. Yeah, there we go. Doc, Doc, schlubby. This is this turned into a Thomas Hayden Church Stan podcast. Which we do. Don't mind if I do. Don't mind if I do. Just a couple extra syllables, Adal.

Erin

Just a couple extra syllables. Not saying he's noticed.

Adal

Oh, you think Weird Al gets it in one?

JPC

Sandy, besides this fun Spider-Man game that you've brought for us, what else have you brought for us in your sandbox segment today?

Adal

Oh yeah, I have some stuff for you. This is a reprise of something I did a few months ago, which I called Hey Rattle Rattle, based on the hit online daily word game called Rattle that I make. I have a series of, I'm going to give you a word and a clue. And in this game, you're going to change one word into a new word. And the way that works is I'm going to give you a starting word, and then I'm going to give you a clue for a word that you have to replace one letter in the original word with this new word to get an entirely longer new word. So for example, I didn't explain that very well, so I'm just going to give you an example.

00:46:04

JPC

This is an example from the last…

Adal

Yeah, insert a small word into another word to get a bigger word, all of which will be clued. So last time I said, here's an example from last time. I said, take the word row, replace one letter with a state to get a part of a salad. And in that case, you eventually figured out you had to get rid of the W in row, replace it with the state main, and you get romaine, which is a part of a salad.

Erin

Got it.

Adal

Got it. Make sense? Got it. We should also say Raddle. R-A-D-D-L-E dot com. Don't go there. Dot Quest. So sorry. Dot Quest. Yeah. I didn't have enough money to afford the dot com. You can go to Raddle Raddle dot com. I did register that and that forwards to the right place.

Erin

OK.

Adal

Sounds fun. Raddle Raddle. Sounds like you're that the Hamburglar. Did you guys have that commercial that was Raddle Raddle, Thunderclatter, Boom Boom Boom?

Erin

What is that for?

Adal

That sounds so familiar. Don't worry cause the Car Express Yes! Car Ex-man. Might be a local commercial.

00:47:09

JPC

And you can also, if you go to my website, amazon.quest, I am trying my best to get you guys the stuff that you're ordering, but I just don't know where a lot of it is. And it is tougher than it looks.

Erin

Yeah, you didn't have any of it.

JPC

And I don't have a lot of it.

Erin

I got some of it.

JPC

Bezos makes it look easy, but I tell you it is not.

Adal

Are you open to a little Riddle feedback?

JPC

There should be a place on the website somewhere where if you do the rattle and you get 10 out of 10 and you've got it correct and you didn't use any hints, you should be able to message the creator and within a couple of days he should be able to say, I'm very proud of you JPZ, you did a very good job on this rattle. Because I have your email, but I don't want to use the email because I'm like that and I actually have your phone number as well. I don't want to use these like casual methods. I want like a more official channel for you to say,

00:48:13

Erin

What about a formal letter every time you complete it?

Adal

Here's the trick. Here's the secret. Here's the secret. Every person who writes me, I write them back. Even about complaints. If they give me a little spleen about it, something they didn't like because it's too American. I get feedback that it is too American, which it is true, but there's only so much I can do about it. The Charles Schultz of our time.

JPC

Yeah. This is why Noam Chomsky was all over the Epstein emails.

Adal

Shit. If you write me in your name's Epstein, you're not getting a response.

JPC

If you have a letter, letter, vacation email address, you're not getting a response from Sandy. Fool me once.

Erin

Sandy, what if we took up correspondence where I argued with you about your letterbox reviews?

Adal

Oh, and then we published that on a blog.

Erin

Yeah, so just years of angry letters of me being like, what do you mean you didn't like the day after tomorrow?

Adal

My takes on Letterboxd are so mild. If he doesn't have a pun, he doesn't even do it. That's right. I spent half the movie thinking about what pun I can insert into my Letterboxd review, and then I have to turn to my wife and be like, sorry, what happened? I was busy in my head thinking of bad jokes.

00:49:23

JPC

Paul Giannardi, Paul Giannardi, Paul Giannardi. Fuck it. Forget it. Fuck it. Zero stars. Fuck it. Holdover sucks.

Adal

Ong Bok? More like too long block. Guys, watch Tony Jaa's Ong Bak. RRR, more like ZZZ, a long movie. Fuck, that's so good, I gotta go back. Gotta watch that whole movie again just so I can write that review. Sandy, next time, you gotta bring in a game that's, it's Letterboxd Reviews, and we have to guess what movie you're, what movie you're reviewing.

Erin

Oh, fun.

JPC

And also, Sandy, I'll also say, for next time, get to the game faster, okay?

Erin

I would kill us if I were Sandy. I would just kill us and feel nothing.

Adal

Have you even explained how Riddle works? Jesus Christ, man.

Erin

That is so brutal. Sorry.

JPC

I'm sorry, Sandy. Please, please.

Adal

What if the game was, I bring you a premise, but I don't actually write any clues. Let's see if I can get through the whole episode without getting to the puzzle.

JPC

Sandy, you would, I'm not kidding, you would win that game without even trying. You have to actively try to lose that game. That's the only way you lose.

00:50:29

Erin

Sandy, I'm loving your taste. I'm on Letterboxd, that's the last thing I'll say, and I'm loving your taste. I'm agreeing with a lot of what you're doing.

Adal

Thank you. I had some hot ratings this year. We went a little against the grain on some beloved hit films, but we won't get into that. We'll save it for the game. Yeah, save it for the game. All right. So do you remember how this boss will work? Kind of. All right. Let's just start and see how it goes. You're going to start with the remaining example. Yeah. Yeah. The remaining example. Just keep remaining in your head. Alright, we're going to start with the word armor. You're going to replace a letter with a drink to get a place to sit. Armoire. I would not sit on an armoire. Well, then you're not an elf on a shelf.

JPC

Don't bring your personal hang-ups into this. Give Adal the point for armoire and move the fuck on.

Erin

Can you read it again?

Adal

You start with the word armor, replace a letter with a drink, which is four letters.

JPC

Chai! Armchair!

Adal

It is armchair, good job JPC.

00:51:31

JPC

Chai, I wasn't thinking about chai as a drink.

Adal

What were you thinking of it as? A life force?

JPC

You know, I just watched Into the Spider-Verse, no, Beyond, Return to the Spider-Verse, the second one. I watched that second one and there's a section in it where he's like, I hate people who say chai tea because chai means tea. So chai is tea, but I always, I still do think of chai as like a thing that you add to tea, which is wrong. It's tea.

Adal

Uh, correct. Yeah. Well, it's a thing you add to milk. Thank you. Yes. Yeah. All right. Uh, start with the word jury, replace the letter with a unit of currency, and you get a span of time. Ascent. Century.

???

Century. Wow.

Erin

Good job.

Adal

Wow. Start with the word pity, change a letter to a transportation company, and you get a stage of life. Okay, now Erin, this is all on you. Puberty. Puberty.

Erin

Uber. Uber. Why, because I'm going through puberty currently? It hurts!

00:52:33

Adal

I'm going through Uberty. Just yelling it hurts.

JPC

Puberty hurts so fucking much. It hurts so bad. I still do remember, speaking of puberty, the pain when your bones are growing, when you're getting taller. That sucks. I'm so glad as an adult that I'm the height that I'm going to be and I don't have to deal with the pain of my bones growing.

Adal

They made a whole TV show about that.

JPC

Growing pains.

Adal

Growing pains. And bones. Bones! And family ties.

Erin

Sandy, I was reading through some of your reviews, and I will, I'm going to tell you that your review of Hamnet made tears rush to my eyes. You guys, I'm telling you, we're going to follow him on Letterboxd. You can laugh, you can cry at these reviews.

JPC

Erin, Erin, have you stumbled across any other pun ones like Thomas Hayton Church?

Erin

I'm looking, I'm looking.

JPC

If you find another one like that, I would love to be featured on the show in some way.

00:53:38

Adal

Why do I mention this? These are for me and my three followers. We can cut it out, we can cut it out.

JPC

There's no such thing as bad press, okay? People are going to love your letterbox.

Adal

That's right. Okay, next one. The word vice, not my last name, the word vice. Change one letter to a god and you'll get a painkiller. Thanks for watching. Especially because you're focused on another activity right now.

Erin

Yeah, I'm reading your review of Barbie. Which is funny! I'm having a great time!

Adal

It would be funny if Erin's reading the review of, like, Thor, Love and Thunder. She's just reading out random words. Odin! Odin! Yeah, I don't remember writing about Viking, but maybe I did. Who knows? All right, change, this is a bigger one, change the word Judean, a letter in Judean, to a Midwestern city to get a 20th century actor.

00:54:50

JPC

Oh, Judeo-Cincinnati. Jude-a-law. Jude-a-law. I love that. Excuse me, sir, are you Jude-a-law?

Erin

Judean.

JPC

Oh, Erin, that seems like it could be correct.

Adal

It's not Judi Dench. I may have heard someone say the right answer. Judi Greer. No. No, it's Judean. Change one letter to a Midwestern city to get a 20th century actor. It's not a super big Midwestern city, but it shows up in crosswords a lot because it's got some common letters. There's a university there.

Erin

Is the person's first name Jude?

Adal

It's four letters. Jude Valparaiso. The city is four letters. What's the vibe of the city?

JPC

on the show.

00:56:02

Erin

Here's a fun fact I've heard about Ames.

Adal

I have not confirmed this. The high school in Ames has a sign that says Ames High, Ames High.

Erin

Oh I love it.

Adal

I love it too. That rules.

Erin

I like when people are having fun where and when they can. Like on Letterboxd.

JPC

Can a high school get bullied? Sure. Can like a whole high school be bullied?

Adal

Yeah, I think Iowa City High School comes into town and bullies them. Yeah. How about change a letter in the word peace, as in P-E-A-C-E, to a grain to get a piece of outerwear? The word typist changed one letter to a goddess Today we're Was it Michelle Pfeiffer? Now I'm talking.

00:57:41

Erin

Now I'm talking.

JPC

I gotta go to a dinner party. Frigga.

Adal

No.

JPC

Frigga.

Adal

No, it's Michelle.

Erin

Her name was Michelle. Now I'm talking is so fucking funny.

Adal

She went to Sarah Lawrence. Very nice lady. Yes, yes. Here's a fun fact about Odin's wife. Her name was Frigga. That is where we get the name Friday. Odin is Wednesday. Thor's Thursday. Frigga is Friday. Is that why we say it's the friggin weekend? Also, she founded TGIF. It was defunct for a thousand years.

Erin

I went to TGIF on a Monday around Christmas, and I gotta tell you, it was the highlight of my holidays. I stayed till 2 a.m. I was in Washington, D.C. at a TGIF Friday, and I was having the time of my life.

Adal

I can't recommend enough. By the way, Erin's just reading out one of my Letterboxd reviews right now.

Erin

Yeah, from Marty Supreme. That's me talking.

Adal

Yeah, that was my review of Marty Supreme. How about the word band? Change one letter to a symbol to get an insulting term.

00:58:47

JPC

To a symbol to get an insulting term.

Adal

Band. Insulting symbol.

JPC

When you say symbol, let's see. S-Y-M-B-O-L. Okay, S-Y, so it's not.

Adal

You could say a shape. So an insulting symbol would be like the middle finger. No, no, the symbol is not insulting on its own.

Erin

Like a pound sign.

Adal

The replaced, the fuller word is an insulting term. An insulting term. It has change one letter to a four letter symbol and your result is an insulting term.

Erin

Is it a symbol that's on a keyboard?

Adal

Icon. Yeah, I'd say you might call this... Star?

Erin

No, that's five.

Adal

Yes, yes, yes.

JPC

Star is symbol? Star.

Adal

Star is the symbol. Replace one letter with star.

Erin

I forget the original word. I forget the original word!

Adal

Band. Band. B-A-N-D. B-A-N-D. B-A-N-D. B-A-N-D. B-A-N-D. B-A-N-D. B-A-N-D. B-A-N-D. B-A-N-D. B-A-N-D. B-A-N-D. B-A-N-D. B-A-N-D.

00:59:47

Erin

B-A-N-D. B-A-N-D. B-A-N-D. B-A-N-D.

Adal

B-A-N-D. B-A-N-D.

Erin

B-A-N-D. B-A-N-D. B-A-N-D. B-A-N-D.

Adal

B-A-N-D. B-A-N-D.

Erin

B-A-N-D. B-A-N-D.

Adal

B-A-N-D.

JPC

Never would have taken that in.

Erin

That in belongs there. Sandy, I have to be honest with you. It is very intimidating to see you before 3 p.m. My brain is not on, and I'm like, uh-oh, he's gonna ask me real riddles. Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh.

Adal

It's very early for you. It's earlier than it is for me. It's like Ken Jennings making you breakfast, and you're like, oh no, oh no, he's gonna ask something.

Erin

I hate when I come downstairs and Ken Jennings is making breakfast. I hate that feeling.

Adal

He's like, whose popular juice was it?

JPC

It's like, oh no, oh no. You're like, Ken Jennings, you stayed over? You have a wife. You have a family.

Erin

We're not going to be a thing, Ken Jennings.

Adal

He's lonely. I think his family lives in Seattle. If he comes down to L.A. every few weeks to film, man, it's a lonely time. Well, they should all go back to your wife. He could probably do a two weeks worth of Jeopardy in one day, I think. I probably, yeah, probably. I'm

01:01:35

JPC

Okay, one more jeopardy. Like, I guess I gotta, you know, hold the mic or make sure the camera angle hits. It's like, just a technical job where it's so anxiety inducing for the people that are on it.

Adal

Super anxiety inducing. That's why I'll never apply to go on. I think it would do great. It might also be fun. I think I would fall apart and then I would be very embarrassed.

JPC

I could go on Jeopardy! with no anxiety and have the time of my life getting every answer wrong and calling Ken Jennings the wrong name, I'd call him Kevin, I'd call him Kyle.

Erin

Call him Alex.

Adal

When Ken was doing his run as a contestant, he had to tell a story every time. 75 times he had to tell a story. And so he just started making stories up. Like, I don't have an example, but I remember him talking about this later. Like he said, I just had to come up with stories like how I love an egg salad sandwich for lunch every day. I do think that's very funny to say he had to tell 75 stories. He started to just make them up. I don't have an exam. No, it's truly perfect. It's such a perfect joke.

01:02:43

Erin

Sandy, what you need to do is either become a celebrity and go on Celebrity Jeopardy! so it's a little bit easier.

Adal

That would be great.

Erin

Or go to college and go to College Jeopardy! because that's also a little bit easier.

Adal

I don't know if that plan would work.

JPC

Hello, fellow students.

Adal

Yeah, you can figure it out. There's a Midwestern crossword tournament that I've been a part of for the last couple years. It's in October. And I put on a game. I've helped run it in a way that I put on a game on stage for everyone to play between rounds. But this year, my friend asked me to compete with him in the pairs tourney, which is you do a crossword together. You both have a pencil. You both fill it out together. And I have never been that fast of a crossword solver, so that's why I've never entered. But on a LARC, I was like, sure. And that's sort of the equivalent of doing the Celebrity Jeopardy, because it's like, you get the competition is way, way, way less. You have like a fraction of the number of people solving. So it's much easier to kind of like get two really fast solvers together and get into the leaderboard. So we ended up getting third place. Nice. Which is why, which means we had to get up on stage and compete in front of everyone. I would fill the crossword out on stage, which is nerve wracking, especially when you make a massive mistake like I did.

01:04:06

JPC

Okay, that was dark. No, no, I get it. Do they have a toilet on stage? Because how else are you supposed to do the crossword?

Adal

That's pretty good. I get the joke. I don't actually ever do the crossword on the toilet. I always do it at home.

JPC

It's not about what you do, it's about getting the joke. So thank you for the first part, and no thank you for all the rest of it.

Adal

I was about to go into all the things I do do on the toilet, but okay, we'll skip it.

JPC

That's fine. Do-do! Do-do on the toilet! Do-do on the toilet! Do-do on the toilet! He said it. All right. That's all the time we have for today. Sandy said doo-doo on the toilet. We got him. We got him. Do you have anything that you would like for our listeners to know about?

Adal

Oh, I didn't even get to my capper. Let me do one more.

JPC

Do one more. All right.

Adal

All right. Take the word sofa, replace it with an African country, and you'll get another African country.

JPC

SofAfrica. It's got to be South Africa.

Adal

There is a country in Africa that is within another country in Africa, and that's what's going on here. But you can figure it out because one of the countries is the letters in SOFA minus a letter. My name is Chad Sofa.

01:05:17

JPC

Chad Sofa sounds like a Hey Riddle Riddle character for sure. Senegal. Sofa. Take the F out. Today we're

Adal

Speaking of Molly, I'm going to go take some.

Erin

Perfect.

JPC

On the toilet. So smart. Sandy, I almost called you Santhony, which is Sandy is short for Santhony, right? It is now, yeah.

Adal

Santhony-wise, where can people find you? What do you got going on? They can find me on Letterboxd, and everything stems from there. Yep. You know what I am? You can find me on Letterboxd. I'm not going to tell you my username, but it's easy to find. But no, you can play my rattle game at rattle.quest or rattlerattle.com, whichever is easier for you to remember. I'm also, I also run a company called, my day job is running this company I own called the Mystery League out of Chicago where I put on team building games. I've actually had several requests lately of people who've heard me on this dang podcast and has led to business, which is cool. It's including a really, really cool project that I

01:06:35

Erin

Okay, that's great news Sandy. Now let's bite you with this radioactive spider and just kind of see what happens.

Adal

Bye-bye.

JPC

And I'm, like, covered in pineapple juice. I don't know what that is. Pineapple juice, probably.

Adal

You have ants all over you. Erin, covered in hot dogs?

01:07:37

Erin

Yeah, but that's just sort of my natural state, covered in hot dogs. You can play it, JBC.

JPC

Hot dogs! Thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Feels better with permission, I'll tell you that much. Feels much better with permission. Speaking of things that we can play on the show, why don't we play a voicemail theme? Okay.

???

Hey Riddle Riddle, how's it going?

Adal

That, I would listen to an album of that. Whatever that is, that sort of like New Order-esque music, I would listen to an album of that.

JPC

That, well, you could pick up a Chapel Road album because that was a cover of Good Luck Babe by Davey Paul.

01:08:41

???

Unbelievable.

JPC

Or, Davey Paul, I guess you could just do a whole cover album, you know? Yes, please. 30-second covers of Chapel Road songs in the style of whatever that was to the tune of Hey Riddle Riddle.

Adal

That absolutely ruled. Well, let's play a voicemail, Casey.

???

Hey Clue Crew. My name's Katie, long-time listener, first-time caller. I'm a law student, so I'm studying for finals right now, and in the margins of one of my notebooks I've written, free enforcement judicial review can still get you pregnant, which none of my friends found as funny as I did.

???

That's funny.

???

To prepare for my future legal career, I was curious if there's any law you guys would like me to get rid of in the future. Love the show. Thanks. Bye.

Adal

Whoa, Katie, thank you so much for the voicemail.

Erin

How much time do you have?

Adal

And either best of luck or great job, depending on when you sent that in. That's very exciting. And also very funny that you wrote that in the margins. A law we want to get rid of? Is that what they said?

JPC

Right? Isn't that... That was... Yeah, three.

01:09:43

Erin

Three laws.

Adal

I'm done with Murphy's Law. I'm done with the law of gravity. Yeah.

Erin

It's weighing me down. I don't feel great. If Adal gets to get rid of Murphy's Law, I feel like I'm not stepping totally out of line here.

Adal

Oh, I'm sorry. I want to get rid of the TV show Murphy's Law with Candace Bergen.

JPC

What?

???

Why? It's not...

JPC

Okay, if you guys deem that this is not one that I can do, I will pick a different one. But I think I would get rid of the 22nd Amendment. I just don't think we need to be limiting how many terms a president can serve at this age in our, you know, history. I think if, and it doesn't matter who, but if a president wanted to do a third term or kind of a fourth term, that to me, I think would be fine. But it's not really a law.

01:10:52

Adal

If you're listening to this in 2028, please know that JPC was joking. JPC was only joking in the side effects. We all support Donald Trump.

JPC

Anyone have anything to plug? Anything that we're plugging now, Daze?

Adal

I got nothing. I got a big thing to plug. Oh. PBL lover. PBL.

JPC

Isn't that a song?

Adal

BBL lover or something?

JPC

Oh, yes, it is. Okay, got it.

Adal

Oh, but it's unfortunately a Drake song.

JPC

It's a Drake song. Yeah. It's a Drake song. I don't know the song, but I know that it is a song.

Adal

Yeah, same, same, same, same. And I forgot who sang it. PBL, Penguin Baseball League, is coming up as part of our April of the Penguins.

???

And this year,

Adal

Things are going to be a little bit crazy because we have something fun going on. I'm not going to spill the whole beans.

JPC

Look, you'll have to check it out on the Patreon, patreon.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.

01:12:03

Adal

I would say this is gonna be our most fun season yet. So check out PBL. Japes, do you have a review to read?

JPC

I do have a review to read. This review comes to us from... It's an angry pig, so angry with no A, and it's five stars. It's titled Torture. We trapped these podcast hosts in a financial dependent prison where they have to answer riddles or get an office job. They're really making the most of it and taking advantage of the space. If you get the Patreon, the level of torture ups with forced feedings and more control over their days and removal of their freedom. Are they okay? Are we okay? This is fine. Five stars. Yeah, that is fine. Five stars.

Adal

I never think about it, but we are like geese who get fattened up for foie gras. Like we are force-fed riddles until we explode.

JPC

Except instead of goose meat, we are hot dogs. No reaction from Erin whatsoever. Erin, you're muted. You're muted, Erin.

01:13:05

Adal

Well, Jupiter.

???

Hey there! And

JPC

If you like that, you're going to love this week's Patreon. It's another edition of Who Wants to Be a JPCillionaire. You can listen to that plus our entire back catalog at patreon.com. Hey Riddle Riddle by joining the clue crew for $5 a month or start your seven day free trial or the review crew for $8 a month. Plus you get those ad free episodes. See you there.

01:14:06

???

That was a hate gum podcast.