Which Riddle Riddle?

#402: Imagining a Dune Buggy w/ Janet Varney

00:00:01

Janet

This is a HeadGum Podcast. That's like the best warmup in improv.

JPC

That's the best warmup in improv.

Janet

Yeah, let's do it. But instead of doing numbers, let's just do random words association based on what the person right before you said and see if we could come up and make a theme.

JPC

OK, so Adal, you're still counting us in with numbers. OK. But then as soon as you're done counting us in, it's all words. OK. OK.

???

6, 7, 8, 1.

JPC

Thanks for everything.

Adal

2-1-foo.

Janet

2-1-4.

Adal

3 for everything.

00:01:06

Janet

That went great.

JPC

Oh well, I feel pretty adequately warmed up. Should we use that as the cold open for the episode?

Erin

God no. Guys, I have a sneeze stuck in my face. It's so stuck. Now that I said it, now maybe it's gone. Do you have pliers? Do I have pliers? Yeah, let me grab some pliers and a vacuum and I'll be back in 40 minutes.

Adal

Just start tinkering.

JPC

Aaron, oh, and welcome to Hey Riddle Riddle, the podcast. I'm JPC.

Erin

I'm Erin. That's Janet, our fourth host, and that's Adal, our first host. Hi. Waving.

00:02:11

Janet

Not saying anything, but waving.

JPC

I think we've got to cut the numbering thing out of it completely. That's Janet, a host. That's Adal, a host.

Erin

Well, I feel more comfortable. Did you guys ever watch Dance Moms? Heard of, never watched.

Adal

Is that where Honey Boo Boo is from?

Erin

No, but Adal, your associations are right on the money. She's from Toddlers and Tiaras. It's basically the same thing.

JPC

Is there a rapper from Dance Moms?

Erin

Is there a rapper? No. Oh, JoJo Siwa is from Dance Moms. I feel like I'm talking to, like, my parents. You guys just have some associations from this world.

Adal

Now, Erin, I will say, I have no context for who JoJo Siwa is, but anytime a video of her dancing in front of paparazzi comes up in my feed, I will make time to watch it.

Erin

Yeah, of course.

Adal

Because it is unbelievable.

Erin

Anytime that crosses your desk, you're like, well, this is about to be insane. Welcome to the show. Welcome back. Um, solo dance, group dance, duo dances. Sometimes the girls won't get a solo because the dance teacher's mad at their mom. So they'll cut the solo because the mom got mouthy.

00:04:00

Janet

But is it all self-contained? Like, are they competing outside with the real world?

Erin

They're competing outside with the real world. And they have to use songs that the show can afford. And they're doing way more competitions than they ordinarily would, so these girls are getting like six hours to learn these dances, being thrown in the most offensive costumes you've ever seen, doing these dance competitions.

JPC

These are like pageants, right?

Erin

They're skill-based, though. These little girls are incredible dancers, and I think some of them are still professional dancers. Like, they are very, very talented. Oh, the girl from the Sia music videos, do you remember? Chandelier? She's one of the moms from... or she's one of the moms. She's one of the girls from Dance Moms. She's not one of the moms.

Janet

You just gave that mom the wish of her dreams.

JPC

Did I see a video, Adal, to blow your mind? 40 years ago. So she's a grandma now.

Erin

So a big part of the show Dance Moms that I think stayed in the zeitgeist is they would do a pyramid every week where Abby Lee Miller would rank how she felt about the girls. It's Chloe. Chloe, your mom was acting like a real bitch this week. And you slipped during your cartwheel. I know you can do better, and that's why you're at the bottom. Next up, Nia. Nia, you got cut from the group dance, and so all these, like, these seven-year-old girls have to metabolize being ranked with cameras in front of their moms. And obviously, they can't regulate their emotions in this, and it's a fucking nightmare mess.

00:05:56

Adal

Do the moms ever fire back of, like,

Erin

Thanks for watching.

Adal

It's like in The Knick?

Erin

Yes. And then she's like, you can't talk to Paige like that! You can't talk to my daughter like that! Well, we'll leave! And she's like, great, leave. But what am I talking about?

JPC

I get really passionate about this. Is this show on the air anymore?

Erin

No, it would never fly today. It's in The Hague. Yes. And then also there's this woman who's even crazier than Abby Lee. She's from Candy Apple Dance Studios, and her daughter hates

Janet

I would not watch the show but watch you describe each episode to me in person. I would love. I will start a YouTube channel that is me.

00:07:05

Erin

You can see me openly smoking weed and drinking a milkshake going like, here's the deal. One of my favorite reality TV clips of all time is from Dance Moms that I will send to you guys right now. And it is Abby Lee, the crazy dance teacher, is on her cell phone during one of the girls' solos. And a mom comes up and whispers in her ear, like, you're such a hypocrite being on your phone. You always tell us not to. And it startles Abby so much that she like gasps, and she's in a wheelchair at the time, and she reverses out of the wheelchair, out of the building, and then starts like speeding away. She starts speeding away from the cameras on her wheelchair. They're chasing her down the street.

Adal

Erin, not an accusation, not an accusation. Are you sure you didn't get high and start watching Benny Hill?

Erin

I think I might be watching Benny Hill. I think I got high and watched Benny Hill. And they're chasing her and she goes to the police station. And she says- What? This escalated so quickly.

00:08:11

JPC

This is a clip?

Erin

Yeah, it's a clip of her going like- And Casey, you can put that here.

JPC

No, I don't think we can. Legally, I don't think we can. But legally, Erin, I don't think we can.

Erin

Well, Casey, you'll watch the clip, Casey, and then you can describe it. So here is Casey describing the clip. You just did that! You just did. This is Ted's pour.

???

Hey folks, it's your editor Casey here. I watched the clip and it's pretty much exactly as Erin described it. So there you go.

Erin

It is so funny that she immediately, like anytime I get slightly startled, I want to zoom to the police station.

Janet

Okay, she's in a wheelchair at the time. Now, now, painting a picture. Great qualifier.

Adal

Erin, you seem to be absolutely smitten with reality dance shows. Did you, were you a dance youth?

Erin

I was a dance youth. I danced at a studio called Hazel Boone in Massachusetts. Hazel Boone? Was the person's name Hazel Boone? The original, the woman who made the studio's name was Hazel Boone, and then it was passed from daughter to daughter. And she was like a rock cat. So it was like a really tap dance forward dance studio.

00:09:32

Adal

I love Hazel Boone.

Janet

Unfortunately they couldn't use that song in the show so they had to use Row Row Row Your Boat instead.

JPC

I will again be tap dancing to Happy Birthday.

Erin

But I love to say you think you can dance growing up. I still will go on YouTube and watch some of my favorite dances from that from time to time.

Adal

That janitor dance. Top notch.

Erin

Maybe I'll make a little list of them for the newsletter. Anyway, Janet, thank you so much for being here today. I'm sorry I've spent all of our time with you describing dance moms.

Janet

Oh, you startled me so much by putting the attention on me that I'm backing away in my wheelchair. No, Ted, please. The cameras can't keep up with you. Why am I out of breath? I'm in a wheelchair.

JPC

I wanted to bring up a topic. Janet, I got good news. We're not going to start doing riddles right now. We might do it a little bit later. Adal, let's do an Adal's Topic segment.

00:10:46

???

Let's see, do I have a... And now here's Adal with the thing he wants to do.

Adal

Ah, there we go. Thanks, Paul F. Tompkins. That's awesome. Wild that he popped in just to give that one line. Now he's just hanging out on the Zoom here. Paul, you can... Okay, yeah, just hang out. I want to bring up, is wheelchair What is the laziest named item in the world?

JPC

It feels like, do you know how in foreign languages, the only reason I know this is I remember in Spanish class in high school, we were like, computer, what's computer in Spanish? And they're like, computer. Like, everybody got computer at the same time, so we all just agreed on the word computer, you know? It feels like one of those translations where it's just like, yeah, wheelchair. It's that. It's just that.

Janet

Yeah. I was just trying to think, because I'm doing my Duolingo in French, and I remember that wheelchair came up fairly recently, and I think it's like fauteuil roulant, which is really just like a rolling chair.

00:11:58

Erin

I keep thinking of examples where I think they just did a really bad job naming the thing. Like, Butterfly is not lazily named. It's just wrong on all accounts. Yeah.

Adal

Yeah, what's going on with that?

Janet

Why is it called a butterfly?

JPC

It's always Charles Butter. You look it up and you're like, okay, Charles Butter. Is it because it spreads its wings? Saw the first one.

Janet

Interesting. Raincoat's pretty lazy. Sunglasses are pretty lazy.

JPC

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Janet

Well, what would you like sunglasses to be called if not sunglasses?

JPC

Log flume. Log flume. Oh, yes.

Janet

Or a wheelchair. Butterfly. I was gonna say, that's what I would have named Butterfly.

JPC

Okay, oh, please. No, is your segment done? My segment's done. Okay.

Erin

And that was Adal with something that he said.

JPC

Thanks, Paula Thompkins. The other one that I always forget that I have is I always, I have the...

Janet

Wish I was in this.

JPC

I can't really use it when Janet's here but I forget that I could use that in other contexts so maybe one day it'll make an appearance. Okay, Janet, back to your very important choice. Would you like for us to do on the show today some listener-submitted riddles that are just, I mean, themeless, they're just listener-submitted riddles, or would you rather do the continuation of some animal pun raid riddles that are based on crafting animal puns?

00:13:27

Erin

Or, bonus third choice, we spend the rest of this episode with me describing various episodes of Dance Moms.

JPC

Yeah, I mean, that's always our third choice. That's always available.

Erin

It's always available. It's just sitting out there. It's like the sweater, but it's just me trying to remember all the names of the moms on Dance Moms.

JPC

We do an impromptu review crew where Erin is the only one who has watched Dance Moms and it was probably 12 years ago.

Janet

Sounds like me at every sleepover. Clearly very into it. Very into it. I'm starting to suspect you might be Old Man Puzzles. Hard to put my finger on what's giving me that impression.

JPC

The deduction wheels are already turning for Janet so she's got a head start at the Riddle answering department here.

Erin

What do you think she's going to pick? Should we make a bet?

Janet

Does it have to be one or the other? We can't like do the first half is and then the second half is the other one? Erin, if I know Janet... I'm burning through two episodes.

00:14:32

Adal

She loves a good pun.

Janet

I don't know, bitch. I did not say that. I for sure know you didn't say that. Okay, let's see.

JPC

Erin! Keif! No, you know what? We can absolutely piggyback and forth. I think that that's a great call. Why don't we start with some animal pun, Riddles? Piggyback and forth sounds like a pun.

Janet

Also, how piggyback do we see? Is that a pig sex thing? I'm just realizing right now, since we're talking about why things are named what they are, when you say you're giving someone a piggyback ride, when have we ever seen a pig riding on another pig unless it's sensual?

JPC

I think a piggyback is a shot of Jameson and a shot of bacon, I believe.

Janet

That's where the original term came from.

Adal

That's where Pickleback came from, and then we dropped the... What's another, what's a Nickelback song that I could do a pickle joke with?

JPC

And it doesn't matter, and it doesn't matter.

Erin

Look at this photograph.

JPC

That's Nickelback, right? Yeah, I always get them and Creed confused. You guys might remember these animal pun raid riddles. They were submitted by Ted with two D's and the way that they go and this is an example that we have used before but it's I would say like this mammal thinks that getting its fur trimmed will stop people from thinking it's a rabbit and that is a haircut haircut so it's gonna get you to like a It's going to get you to a word and that word is going to have the animal's name in it and the action that the sentence is describing in it.

00:16:09

Erin

Okay? JPC, I'm so sorry to interrupt you right before you're about to launch off into Riddle space.

JPC

Say launch off.

Erin

I don't know, I heard the countdown and that you're about to launch into a riddle. Piggyback originated in the 16th century from the phrase pickpack or pick-a-pack, which meant carrying something on your back and shoulders. By the 19th century, it's one of those things that people shortened so much that it became colloquially known as a piggyback.

Adal

It's like an ocean sesame situation.

Janet

Yes. Interesting. Yeah, so it really is just a totally different, just completely different words. It's because of all the mumblers, all the mumblers before me.

Erin

I'm from a great line of mumblers and we have ruined the English language.

JPC

Is there a fairy tale where someone, or like a myth or something like that, where someone like carries a pig on their back to market or something like that? Isn't that something? I have a very clear mental image of that from like a children's fairytale book.

Erin

Are you thinking about this little piggy went to market? Are you thinking about your toes? Are you thinking about your toes?

00:17:13

JPC

I think I looked at the Kama Sutra and I saw someone with their toes behind their back and I thought, oh yes, we can use piggies to work it.

Adal

Now, we are going to get to these riddles. Is there something in dancing with the dogs? Erin, it's like people paired with dogs and they have to learn to dance with the dog.

Erin

I will watch it every week. I will watch it every week. Any dance reality TV show I'm in.

Janet

I dance with my dog a lot. I already dance with my own dog. We could be competing. Here's the thing.

JPC

I know the ethics of some of this stuff is kind of out the window, but is it ethical to dance with your dog for a TV show?

Erin

Because you have to do a lot of- Isn't that what those, like, dog show, like- I guess so, right?

JPC

Where they do that- Yeah. And those are fine? We've all agreed that those are fine, right?

Erin

The Enchanted Pig is a Romanian fairy tale. And a prince takes the form of a pig. Okay. I doubt that's what you're thinking of, but maybe.

00:18:14

Adal

Prince takes the form of a pig? Why does he do that? That's the most backhanded compliment I've ever heard someone recall. What an enchanted pig. Thank you.

Erin

He takes the form of a pig.

JPC

I'm on it. While Erin is looking that up, we'll start with these animal pun raids from Ted. These mammals took full advantage of their position as the only primates on Madagascar. Ooh. Took full advantage of their position. Leverage-mer.

Janet

Lemur court advantage.

JPC

No, Adal, you have it.

Adal

Leverage-lemur. Lemurage.

Janet

Lemurage!

Erin

It's lemurage!

Adal

That can't be right.

Erin

That can't be right. Does it form a real word?

JPC

So the word is leverage, which was what Adal got, and lemur, and it forms the word lemurage. So it doesn't form a real word. It's a What, like a pun on, I don't know, it's not, yeah.

00:19:24

Erin

I would like to see a scene. Sure. Janet and Adal, you are two lemurs that have been brought to a zoo here in America, and you really were, you were in Madagascar, and you were sort of the king of the castle, and it's your first day of school, and you're kind of meeting the other animals, and you realize that you might not have the lemurage that you had before. In JPC, you can play whatever animal you want.

Adal

Got it. Oh, I don't know. This looks pretty weird. This doesn't seem like a fun little parade.

Janet

I gotta tell you something. This is... Everybody's eyes here are a lot less wide and scared looking than ours.

Adal

Yeah, I agree.

Janet

And I'm afraid we're gonna be made fun of. I really hope that's not the case.

Adal

Yeah, let's blend in. Let's blend in. Oh, here comes someone. Blend in, blend in. Hey, cheeseburger.

Janet

Hey, my regular friend, I see.

JPC

Corvettes. Chocolate. Radishes. Pepsi Cola, buddy.

00:20:26

???

You're in my tree.

JPC

I was going to eat the leaves out of this tree. You're in my tree.

Janet

Oh, this tree?

JPC

This tree here?

Janet

I didn't realize this was a tree. I thought this was a bank. Huh? Are you two new?

Adal

Oh, okay. Hey, okay.

JPC

Well, I was actually, I was born in captivity. So I'm, I can kind of give you the lay of the land if you want. So you guys are I'm Typically what I suggest for new people is... Oof, these giraffes look sick.

Erin

What is wrong with those giraffes?

Janet

Yeah, need Pepsi Cola. America.

00:21:26

JPC

Hey, hey, hey, hey man. Don't get them throwing Pepsi Cola in here, okay? I just got down to my ideal giraffe weight. If you fuck this up... Seed.

Erin

Oh my god.

JPC

I saw a video the other day of a giraffe being born. Previously on Zoo. Why are humans so helpless when we're born?

00:22:37

Erin

I guess because we can be.

JPC

It's because of our big brains. Our big brains take like most of the development time and most animals don't need brains as big as humans. They can develop like muscles and stuff like that where we spend all of our time developing brains.

Erin

Huh. Not me though. I don't know what I was doing.

JPC

If human hips were wider, we could gestate longer. Like elephants gestate for like two years and giraffes for a long time as well.

Erin

But why aren't our hips wider?

JPC

Hey Erin, you're preaching to the goddamn choir here. You know what I'm saying?

Erin

I'll take my answer offline.

JPC

You know what I'm saying? No, I have no idea. Blame God.

Erin

I always do.

JPC

Here's the next one. This reptile can hide its body by changing colors but not its love for sleepy herbal tea.

Janet

Wait, a reptile?

Adal

Chamomilian.

Janet

I am unfortunately getting way too deep into the science of this because I had to stop short and go, isn't it an amphibian? Or maybe a chameleon? I guess chameleon's a reptile. I'm an idiot.

00:23:44

JPC

You know what?

Erin

You needed to cook your brain longer. I needed to cook my brain longer!

JPC

If you give me most animals and say 50-50 between reptile and amphibian, I'm getting 50% of that test right every time, baby. I'm in the same boat.

Adal

Salamander for sure, amphibious. I think the best way to remember is, can it be in water?

Erin

Welcome back to Ambivian.

Janet

Wait, Ted, Ted, Ted, Ted. I'm going to add a quick spontaneous one. This, and this can be really hard for you guys to guess, this member of politics is taking advantage of its ability to keep something from being discussed or passed while in a session.

Adal

Salad gerrymander?

Janet

Yeah, I mean, my understanding is you could just say salamandering and that's just a squashing of two things together. Salamandering. Did I do it, Ted?

00:24:51

Erin

Well, I would like to see a scene. GPC, we will have you be salamandering.

JPC

We? We the people? Yeah, we the people.

Erin

We're going to see you do that. And you're very passionate. And Adal, you are sort of the speaker and you're trying to get him to knock it off so we can continue with other animal business.

JPC

When you cut us, do we not bleed? When it gets cold, do we not fall out of trees? I'd like to reclaim my time. When our tail gets cut off, do we grow another tail?

Adal

Can I get another minute back on the clock? I would like to reclaim my time.

Erin

It sounds like he's asking what he is.

JPC

Are our tongues not pretty quick? Do we not eat a bug?

Adal

If we see a bug, can someone stop that trumpeting?

Erin

It's a trumpeter's wand. They're allowed to do this.

Adal

I would like to reclaim my time.

Erin

No, you're never getting that time back.

00:25:53

Adal

Erin, I would like to see a scene. Oh, wow. Five to ten seconds of you being Mr. Chameleon Bean. So it's Mr. Bean as a comedian.

Erin

It's going to be completely silent. Yeah.

???

Ready? It's just for the three of you. Or Casey as well. It was just seen.

Adal

I feel like he throws in a lot of like... That's Yoda.

Janet

That's true. That's Yoda. That's Yoda. He does make Yoda sounds though. It's true.

Erin

Okay, Adal, I want that on my desk by Monday morning. I hope you didn't have plans this weekend.

Adal

You can have it on your desk now.

JPC

Despite having a long, awkward horn, this small whale can still perform some sick surfing tricks. Gnarly whale.

00:27:00

Janet

Gnarly wall. Gnarly wall. It's gnarly wall.

JPC

Who got there first? Was that you, Erin?

Janet

Janet? I said it, but I said gnarly whale, so I'm disqualified.

Adal

I would like to see a scene. That is a disqualification. Yes, I understand. Erin, you are gnarly WALL-E, so you're like WALL-E the robot, but you're like a surfer. You've only watched, like, Point Break. You know how WALL-E just watched, like, classic movies?

Erin

You know.

Adal

Well, this gnarly WALL-E watched Point Break.

Erin

I'm fucking dying. Adal, my brain's moving so slow today that I literally, from my computer, saw the scene concept coming at me and it was like, bloop, bloop, bloop.

Adal

And Janet, you're interacting with this robot you just found in the dump, which is Erin's robot.

Janet

Wow, this thing is in pretty good condition. What happens if I... Mr. Bean? Well, are you?

00:28:09

???

Surf's up. What?

Janet

Surf's up. Surf's up? Why do you sound so frail? Maybe if I just dust you off a little bit and cough out some of those banana peels, some of those dump banana peels.

???

Bring me to the water. I want to shred one more time.

Janet

Oh, we are in Iowa, my friend. I don't know how you got all the way to this dump. Not Iowa. Patrick Swayze. Patrick Swayze. Oh, we can watch Dirty Dancing. I can take you back to my place and we can watch Dirty Dancing. No!

Erin

No!

Janet

Okay, you seem real needy. I'm gonna go ahead and just accidentally kick you over and put some more trash on you.

Erin

One of them's a cop? What's pretty great about their surfing cops?

Janet

Yeah, yeah. I think Keanu Reeves is an undercover cop.

Erin

What do you mean shrug? JBC, show me. Act it out.

00:29:09

Janet

Oh wait, I forgot I'm here with JBC.

Erin

JBC, you're like a Jeff Garland type, like in WALL-E. Nixon mask, and then someone, they shoot up a bank.

Janet

Starting to feel like, oh yes, you're either clairvoyant or this is charades.

Erin

And then they skydive. And then what happens? They shoot someone from the... Oh, they shoot at the plane.

Adal

We cut to three weeks later. Ladies and gentlemen, please... Welcome to Ames, Iowa Community Theater. Please... Place is a dump. Get out. Get out, sir. Please give a round of applause for... No, we're doing it in a dump, right? Yes, it is in the dump. Please give a round of applause for these robots who are putting on a production of Point Break.

Erin

Stick em up! This is a bank robbery at the beginning of the movie Point Break. I am not a crook. What is this movie about?

???

Johnny Utah, I don't know how to quit you. Johnny Five is a live on stage scene.

00:30:15

Erin

Let's see. Erin, have you seen Point Break? Yeah, like a million years ago. Let's see. Former Ohio State quarterback and rookie FBI agent Johnny Utah.

???

Yep. The best name.

Erin

I saw this for the first time recently. I had never seen it. By the ex-president. Oh, I see. I see.

JPC

Janet, what caused you to want to, or I shouldn't say want, what caused you to watch Point Break?

Janet

What compelled me? I feel like it was for something.

JPC

Sure.

Janet

Which is so true of so much in the comedy podcast space. I think I like needed to watch it to have seen it to discuss it on something.

Erin

JPC, I did remember this, right? It's like undercover cops infiltrating the surfer community.

JPC

And then he gets too deep in, right?

Erin

Yeah, but that's what I guessed.

Adal

And they're also skydiving, I want to say?

JPC

Well, yes, they are skydiving because they're thrill junkies.

Adal

Either Gary Busey or Nick Nolte, one of those guys.

Erin

Wait, who?

Adal

Either Gary Busey or Nick Nolte.

Erin

Can we watch it for review, crew? And Janet, you come back with pleasure. Thank you, Janet.

00:31:19

JPC

Let's watch, because they remade it as well and it's not as good, but let's watch Point Break and we won't tell each other which one we're watching and we'll just try to compare notes. Great. Love. Is it, is it, there was someone in Point Break, is Joey Pants in Point Break?

Janet

That sounds right.

JPC

Who's Joey Pants?

Janet

Joey Pantoliano. Come on, Joe.

JPC

I'm sorry, Joey Pantoliano. Joey Pantoliano. I also know his name is Joey Pantoliano. Does he call himself Joey Pants? Because I've only ever heard of him as Joey Pants.

Janet

I think he might. I think he leaned into that. He might have started it.

JPC

I could be misremembering this, but I thought that Joey Pants gave himself a bigger role in that movie than he should have had.

Adal

You're right. He was supposed to, there was some movie he was in where he famously, this is a story I've heard many, many times and I can't remember all of it, but he was in a movie where he was supposed to die and in the scene he gets shot and he starts screaming and screaming and screaming instead of dying and they yell cut and he's still screaming and then the director's like, what are you doing? And he goes, just in case you want to bring me back.

00:32:27

JPC

Today we're talking In case you just fade this one ever, because this is how we go to break. This is how we go to break, so just fade it whenever you want.

Erin

It also has two girls, Brooke and Paige. And then I think it's Kathy, who's from Candy Apples, who's nuts.

Adal

Hey Erin, hey JPC, can you guys help me figure something out? 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

Oh, yes. That should be good. No, no, Adal, go to your Rocket Money app and have them cancel that for you. 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 the GPC test.

00:33:41

JPC

Lost another one to Rocket Money! Oh man, yeah. Rocket Money is a personal finance app that helps find and cancel your unwanted subscriptions, monitors your spending, and helps lower your bills so you can grow your savings. Unless you're me with the GPC tax and then your savings are dwindling. 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.

00:34:42

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

We'll 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.

???

Lost another one to Rocket Money!

Erin

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

Erin, my friend, you look it. But have I told you about Tempo? Tempo delivers fresh, chef-crafted, dietitian-proof meals right to your door. Plus, each meal is perfectly portioned for lunch or dinner and ready in just two minutes. That means real food, real fast, without the sad desk lunch or drive-thru regret. Adal, I know you love Tempo.

00:35:49

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. Nom nom nom nom nom.

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.

JPC

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

Erin

I look it.

JPC

They do exist! Hey Adal, Erin, I am freaking out. Okay, so I just got an email from, uh, do you guys know Casey, the editor of the show or whatever?

00:36:56

Adal

Oh yeah. Sleepo?

JPC

Yeah, Sleepo. Oh my god, thanks so you know. I got an email from him that says he hasn't been paid in seven years and yeah, I'm kind of... Found eliminates the clutter by giving you one platform that handles it all, paying Sleepo,

Adal

dealing with Found Dracula, who's sort of a Dracula that uses Found, banking, bookkeeping, etc. No more paying for multiple subscriptions and dealing with clunky, outdated apps.

Erin

Found identified the tasks that create the most hassle for small businesses, things like categorizing expenses, preparing for taxes, managing invoices, budgeting, waking up Sleepo, and they built an app that does it all directly from your business checking account.

JPC

Found is reimagining what business banking should be by putting your bookkeeping, invoicing, and tax tools directly into your business checking account. Plus, they have this vampire named Found Dracula, and that guy, he knows what he's doing. No guys, we don't have to keep talking about him. Found makes it easy to regain control of your business finances so you can get back to doing what you love. I personally, now that I'm using Found, my life is so much easier. I don't have to juggle multiple apps. I don't have to go chasing receipts. I don't dread tax season anymore. I have a Dracula that will suck the blood, I want to say, out of an editor who is asking to be paid.

00:38:33

Erin

You wanna say?

Adal

I wanna say... So take back control of your business today. Open a Found account for free at found.com. That's F-O-U-N-D dot com. Found is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services are provided by lead bank member FDIC. Join the hundreds of thousands who've already streamlined their finances with Found. You're getting sleepo.

JPC

Okay, guys, I'm getting an email from the brand. They say they never authorized Found Dracula.

Adal

Oh, sorry. Yeah, I'm not official. I'm just a Dracula who uses Found.

JPC

I could swear that they wanted us to use you.

Erin

Could have sworn that they were desperate for us to do this.

Adal

I've crossed through fields and I've climbed through mountains and here I am, at the Great Temple, to ask the Master

00:39:39

JPC

Excuse me? Excuse me? Yes? Oh! Uh, how do I? What do I? How do I? When 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, GPC, 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.

00:40:56

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.

Janet

Candy Apples is just the most perfect name for a dance studio of a nuts person.

JPC

Yeah, if I walked into a place called Candy Apples Dance Studio and it wasn't just like a man sitting on a folding chair being like, this is a front, leave, this is, we're money laundering, I'd be like, oh, no, you're right, yep, got it. Good on you.

Erin

That's so fucking funny. Fronts should do that. It's just a guy reading a newspaper going, oh, ah, nope, sorry, this is money laundering.

00:42:02

JPC

Alright, here we are. We're going to do more of these animal pun raids. We created a research facility to figure out why this is the most popular dog breed in America. Golden Receiver.

Janet

Lab, lab, labradoodle, lab, lab, labradoodle.

JPC

You've got the dog, Janet.

Janet

Lab, dog, dog lab. Yeah.

JPC

We created a research facility

Adal

Laboratory, labradoridor. Labrador. Labrador. I was working on a dog.

JPC

No one's gotten the combo word yet, but everyone's circling it. No one will. It's labrador in laboratory. What do we, how do we think? Labradory. This says... Ellen DeGeneres is... Labradoratory. Labradoratory. A labradoratory retriever.

00:43:04

Janet

Labradoratory. I'm going to go ahead and say boo. I would live in a labradormatory.

Adal

I'm going to go ahead and say boo. Boo.

Janet

Can I have some of your shampoo?

Adal

Here's your next one. It sounds like Steven Wright is a ghost.

JPC

This small rodent exhibited great honor and nobility when it pulled a thorn from a lion's paw.

Janet

A mouse-er-size.

JPC

It's a mouse-er-size. It's a mouse, but it... Great honor and nobility when it pulled a thorn from a lion's paw. It did something out of the goodness of its own heart. You could say that it was... Mousetastic.

Erin

Mouse.

JPC

It's not mousetastic. Mouse is actually the end of this word. So if you get the first part of the word, it's going to throw mouse at the end.

Janet

Courage mouse. Honestly, Adam, right now, don't laugh at that one. That one felt really good, Adam.

00:44:04

Adal

After lemurage, which I think was the lemur hemorrhage or something, I think anything is... To use the example of haircut, and then to have these be... I will say this one's actually pretty close.

JPC

The end of the word that you're looking for does... Hey Riddle It's kind of like, uh, what's lava called when it's under the ground? Magma.

Janet

Magnifamous.

JPC

It's Magnanimous.

Erin

Oh god, wow. Magnanimous.

JPC

That one hurts. But again, that one, it kind of sounds like magnanimous. Like magnanimous is just magnanimous without the e. Magnanimous. That's maybe the best one so far. Okay, well hey, we still have like five more.

00:45:06

Janet

You know what, Ted didn't know what he was doing. This large wild cattle will happily give you the scoop on what's going on around town. I got into scoop. I'm so sorry. That's awesome, Adal. That's awesome. That's awksome. That's awksome.

JPC

That's awksome. Free press.

Janet

Gossip.

JPC

It's not gossip.

Janet

I don't think we've had the animal yet. Noo. The noo. Cows. Noos. Just G-N-U.

JPC

It's not new. News actually fucks. That works so well. You actually get a gold star for achievement and you can take the rest of the riddle off.

Janet

Oh my god.

00:46:06

JPC

Can you repeat the riddle? Yeah, it's this large wild cattle. I'll stop there and help you guys.

Janet

Bison.

JPC

It's not bison.

Janet

I gotta tell you from the sidelines, I am floating on a pool noodle drinking of Bartles and James right now. I love taking the rest of the riddle off. Buffalo Down?

JPC

It's Buffalo Down, Adal! It's Buffalo Down.

Erin

Adal, thank God you're here.

JPC

Thank God you're here, Adal, to get Buffalo down for us. I do want to see a scene. Adal, you are going to be... We're like animals at a watering hole, but you're the animal that has all the hot gossip, and every other animal is trying to get you to spill what the tea is.

Adal

Ooh, what do we have here? Water, water, water. I'm thirsty, okay. Dip my tongue in, lap it into my throat. I heard... Hey, Terry, Terry. What's up? I heard that the impalas... No, I shouldn't. Water, water, water. Lap some into my mouth. Gulp, gulp, gulp. Alright, bye everyone. Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff.

00:47:22

Erin

What? The impalas? What?

Adal

Oh, you heard something? What'd you hear? Oh my God.

Erin

Jeff.

Adal

Jeff are you trying to sort of I heard that the Impalas have been farting into each other's mouths You didn't hear this from me Jeff. Bye everyone.

Erin

No Jeff. Hold on Are you trying to get us to talk about anything but last night or wars of war, huh? I just feel like you're kind of wanting the gossip to be sort of off of you like you walked over here kind of I was at home last night the whole time

Adal

Jeff, we weren't all talking about you when you came up.

Janet

Like last night was last night.

Adal

Everyone gets drunk on their birthday and makes mistakes.

Erin

Gossip about me? Okay, this is news.

Janet

Oh, yeah, some of the news, we're talking about it as well. They said guilty as charged. They've been gossiping about you, Jeff. Oh, Jeff.

00:48:24

Adal

What did I do? I kind of browned out. Oh, well, then we don't have to remind you.

Erin

I think then that's fine.

JPC

Right? No, we should, we should remind, we should, I mean, we should let him know. It's, we should let him know because he could, he needs to probably, um,

Janet

Emotionally process the embarrassment.

Erin

You called your ex your mom's name and you called your mom your ex's name. And then you called both.

Adal

Oh no.

Erin

Oh no. And that was just the tip of the iceberg.

Adal

What's an iceberg?

Erin

I don't know.

JPC

We just say that phrase. Does anyone know why we say that phrase?

Erin

From the 16th century.

JPC

Alright, here's your next one. When he and his brethren fell from heaven, they did so in flying V formation.

Adal

Um, Satan Goose.

00:49:26

JPC

You're not there with Satan Goose. Beelze Goose. You're so close.

Janet

I just watched the squirrel. A squirrel in my tree just fell out of the sky right after you. You said that and it dropped like 15 feet straight onto another tree. I think it's fine but I just, I'm so sorry.

Erin

We summoned Beelze-goose and then the animals have been dying. Oh that is so dramatic.

Janet

I'm sorry. No, I mean, I can see that the tree down below, because it's a hillside, is like wiggling and moving. Like, it's fine. But I've never seen a squirrel just fall through the air like a dead weight. Oh, he's probably so embarrassed. Yeah. So sorry.

Adal

Janet, you dug that story. One, it's going to give me the best dream I've ever had tonight. It also made me realize the answer is probably Guccifer.

JPC

It's Guccifer. It's Guccifer.

Janet

It's Guccifer. I want to see the whole Bible depicted in animal form. I would like to see a scene.

00:50:32

JPC

Janet, you don't because that is something that exists probably.

Janet

It's Guccifer, but it's also Geesis. Geesis Christ.

Adal

I would bet dollars to the donuts that Untitled Goose Project was originally called Guccifer. Guccifer.

Erin

Probably. I'd like to see a scene. Are you sure? I do. I am sure. Adal, you are goose- or no, I'll have you have JBC. You'll be Goose-opher. Adal, you are going to hell as a human and you're surprised that the devil is you.

Adal

What the fuck, Erin? Just give me a character.

Erin

No, no, no. You're not you. Not you, Adal, but a version of you.

Adal

Ugh.

???

Oh.

Adal

What the- what? The last thing I remember, I was climbing a tree and I fell and I- my- What? I hurt my- Hello?

???

Hello?

Adal

Oh. Oh, you're- you're also dead?

???

What? No. I'm very much alive. Oh, is this- Well, as much as- as much as one could be alive. Okay. Welcome to my domain.

00:51:40

Adal

Heaven?

???

And guess again. I'll give you two shots. Little hell joke.

Adal

Purgatory?

???

No, it's hell. It's hell.

Adal

Oh, I guess when you said hell joke I should have assumed.

???

Yeah, yeah. No worries. Hold on. You are a human?

Adal

I'm an adult.

???

Okay, yeah.

Adal

I can see that. Which is human-esque.

???

When you died, you said you fell out of a... You were saying you fell out of a tree? Yeah, I was gonna say I fell down, but I... Did you... Did you see if there was anything below you when you fell? Nah, I wasn't... Here's what happened. Here's what happened. Okay. You probably fell on a goose. And the soles got intertwined and switched a little bit. Because this is Goose Hell.

Adal

I'm Goosever. Well, those are swans. Those are trumpet swans.

???

Yeah.

Adal

They know what they did.

Erin

Please help me. They know what they did.

00:52:42

Adal

They know what they did.

JPC

Everything should have its own hell, right?

Janet

So it's all siloed.

Adal

Hell is all siloed. Is heaven still just a free-for-all? Or do all dogs go to dog heaven?

JPC

It's just dogs and Mormons, I believe.

Janet

There's three tiers in Mormonism. One is for dogs.

JPC

Is Mormonism the one where you get your own planet when you die?

Janet

I mean one of, I'm sure many, I'm sure many religions give you your own planet.

JPC

When they saw Mormonism was doing it, like all the other religions were like, this weekend only! Sign up to be a Lutheran and you get your own planet! First 100 ladies through the door in their own planet. Take it back. I remember in college, you could get the Mormons called on you if you went to the Latter Day Saints website or whatever and then put in one of your friends' address and said, I'm interested in... This is like the most tame version of swatting. Yeah, you're like, Mormon swatting people.

00:54:33

Janet

I call the Mormon swat team on my friend.

JPC

You know what it was? It wasn't even that. What it was, was you could get them to send you a copy of the... Book of Mormon? I'm gonna say Mormon Bible? Close enough.

Janet

Do they have a better name for it? Book of Mormon. Book of Mormon! Like the play, musical.

JPC

They would send you the Book of Mormon for free. Anyone could get it. Like, you could just request it. So if you're interested in seeing, like, what the heck's in this thing, but then they would have your address and then they would also send some missionaries out just to, like, triple check. You didn't want to, like, swing on in, get your own planet.

???

Yeah.

JPC

It's fun. It's fun to swat people with the board. It's marvelous fun. Here's your next one.

Adal

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00:55:45

Janet

Oh my God. Would you like to sit on my lap?

Erin

No, thank you. Sorry, I was trying to get a last-minute appointment. I had a really bad panic attack the other day at work, and I just thought that this would help.

JPC

Would anyone like some cookies?

Erin

Oh, thank you, honey. Sorry, this is going to be a private session.

JPC

Oh, a private session.

Janet

Oh, sounds a little sexy.

Erin

Okay, the clause is famous swingers. Guys, I really am here for therapy.

Janet

Yeah, honey, get out of here. That's super inappropriate and, like, probably against the law. Oh, okay. I'm sorry for interrupting.

Erin

I'll see you guys at the bar later, maybe for something else, but for now... Great.

Janet

Let's keep those things separate.

Erin

We'll go start building a condom. Okay. Thank you. I'm sorry.

Janet

I forgot that an elf was right underneath me. You gotta get out of here too, Scrapples. Okay.

Erin

Scrapples, I'll see you at the candy bar later. So I just feel like sometimes in a snowstorm, like I disappear. You know what I mean? Like I can't see myself anymore. Like I don't even recognize myself.

00:56:52

Janet

And if you had to categorize that behavior as either naughty or nice, what do you think you would be?

Erin

Well, that's the thing is I want it. In those moments, I want to be nice, but I feel like I'm kind of no one in those moments. Like I kind of disappear. You know what I think might solve it? I think just go to the bar later and have it a bunch of sex.

Janet

What's that? You said it, not me.

Erin

Swinging with people. You're right. That's probably the best solution to my emotional problem.

JPC

Hey, what'll it be? Let me guess. Coca-Cola?

Erin

Hey man, fuck you. I want a Bud Light, please. Can I get a Coke?

???

Make that two.

JPC

Hey, we don't serve your kind Coca-Cola's here. Only bears drink Coca-Cola here.

Adal

That is one of the most memorable Christmas commercials.

JPC

Oh yeah, when Santa fucks the polar bear?

Adal

I feel like that is, as far as my life goes, that is the first time I was, I guess, aware of ASMR. Before ASMR was labeled was the polar bear commercials because they drink, much like Mr. Bean, they drink the Coke and they're like... Right? Those are commercials you're thinking of?

00:58:08

JPC

I don't I don't remember them making ASMR-y sounds. I don't I don't remember that I I remember like the crisp like I feel like they did a lot in the lab to get the crisp like coke bottle coming off and that's like Yeah, that's yeah.

Janet

I thought you were gonna say it was your first awareness of like CG.

Adal

Oh, maybe.

Janet

Hopefully you would have known about CG before that.

Adal

In the

JPC

The Budweiser. Those are three frogs.

Janet

Oh, okay, we moved to a different commercial. I gotcha.

JPC

Yes, I'm sorry. I was trying to think of my first instance of seeing CG in commercial. All those Clydesdales, those are all CG, right? They don't make horses that big, right? Please, God, tell me they don't make horses that big. Oh, are cladsdales exclusive to Budweiser? Can no one else... If, like, Dodge Durango wanted to have horses at a commercial, could they have cladsdales, or is that horse-only?

00:59:23

Erin

It would probably be stupid, but I don't think that they can own an animal.

Adal

I mean, I think if you can trademark animals, you could trademark humans, and, you know, Apple could be like, no other humans can be in commercials, and then we'd all be... Yeah, I guess so. Yeah.

JPC

I just don't think I've ever seen anyone else do, like Mr. Clean can do a commercial that's just Clydesdales if they wanted to, right?

Erin

But Mr. Clean can't be in like a Subway commercial.

Adal

No, the commercial's gonna have both men in it.

Janet

It would be cool if he were.

JPC

You can't license Mr. Clean to also just eat a Subway sandwich and at the end it's just Subway and you're like, are they going to talk about Mr. Clean at all?

Janet

Like the product? You guys, I thought we booked Mr. Bean. We got Mr. Clean.

JPC

The Charmin Bears are just like in the force. They're like, do you know that you could bet on presidential elections with Cal-She? And they're like, huh, interesting. And you're like, what the fuck did I just see?

Janet

What the fuck was that? And the Keebler Elves are like, up here, up here.

Adal

Scrabbles. Now the Brawny guy and Mr. Clean are fucking, right?

01:00:31

JPC

They're definitely out there fucking. Just kind of running through it. Here's your next one. I do want to see a scene real quick.

Adal

We're going to see a commercial for, um, this is a commercial for orange juice. And, uh, the three of you, Janet, Erin, and JPC, you're each going to enter at some point as a very famous mascot or a spokesperson for a different brand. Got it. Oh, let me go into the fridge here. See what we have to drink. Milk, no water. Oh, orange juice. Yum! I'm drinking some now. All done with the orange.

Erin

That's great! Ah! A tiger! I'm not here to kill ya. Why did I even say that? I'm not putting anyone at ease when I say that. I love orange juice because I love breakfast. I won't say what else I eat. But it's all grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

01:01:38

JPC

Just make sure you put that orange juice back in the refrigerator when you're done. Remember, only you can prevent orange juice from getting too warm. Ho ho ho! Did someone say Christmas?

Erin

I fucking knew it. This is gonna launch into a Santa thing again. And I'm gonna get horny all over again.

JPC

I in my mind I was going through my like the mascots I know and I was like first I hit Mr. Peanut was like Mr. Peanut.

Erin

Me too and I was like what does he sound like?

JPC

No fucking idea what he sounds like. Fancy.

Erin

I was also thinking Mr. Monopoly and then I was like that's not a spokesperson. It is.

JPC

Does the Trix rabbit talk? Again, I just don't know. He sweats.

Adal

He sweats.

Janet

Right? In all the commercials, he's like... If I hadn't committed myself to be Santa immediately without even knowing what Adal was going to have us do, I would have brought in maybe the Pillsbury Doughboy.

01:02:46

JPC

Pillsbury Doughboy, yes. The other one my brain went to, I went to, I don't know why, the Gordon's Fisherman, but then I hit that and I go, no, what does he sound like? Do you know the Gordon's Fisherman? He's on like the fish stick box, he's just like a guy in a yellow raincoat.

Janet

I confuse him with like, isn't there like a Fisherman's Friend cough drop, like a lozenge, that does basically the same guy?

Adal

Which is actually pretty addictive.

JPC

And then the other one I went to was Jolly Green Giant, and I'm like, None of these people have distinct, like, these, these, again, these are just like cartoon mascots on packaging, so they wouldn't have like a known voice, but.

Janet

Yeah.

Adal

To be fair, the Jolly Green Giant, kind of aping Santa Claus.

Janet

Oh, he does go ho ho ho, doesn't he? Wait a minute.

JPC

Yes, he does. Ho ho ho, I'm ho ho horny.

Janet

For beans.

???

Santa?

Janet

Horny for beans.

JPC

Um. Alright, hold on. We gotta do more. One more. We have three more. We gotta get through these. Despite being extinct, this creature is still very worried about its status as king of the dinosaurs.

01:03:54

Erin

Projects led by these red-rumped primates often turn into wasteful and impractical messes.

Adal

Baboons. Yes, baboon.

JPC

Red-rumped primate is baboon.

Adal

What's the clue?

JPC

What's the other? Wasteful and impractical messes.

Janet

This is like a... Yes! Janet, really?

???

Yes, it's baboon doggle!

Janet

In my mind I was like, what's a... is a boondoggle a thing? And then I think I was imagining a dune buggy. Okay, here's your last one. You guys have done a great job, and everyone's done an equally great job is what I'll say.

01:05:12

Erin

No, I got one. They got a hundred. Let's not joke. I didn't cook long enough. Erin, we said a lot of things.

Janet

That doesn't mean we got them right.

JPC

That's right.

Janet

I don't know. You didn't get a lot.

JPC

I think you're going to get this one, Erin. This ocean predator makes cynical and ironic remakes about being older than trees. Shark. Megalodon. It's shark. We got shark.

Erin

Shark.

Adal

What's the other hint?

JPC

Ironic remarks about being older than trees.

Erin

Welcome back!

01:06:16

JPC

We'll see you next time. Okay, Erin, since you got that one right, and you're so good at being sarcastic, I want to see a scene. You're going to be like a... This is like an underwater stand-up comedy club, and you are going to be playing a shark who's doing stand-up, but they only do crowd work, okay? So you're going to be coming to us for crowd work.

Erin

Anyone here on a date? Anyone here on a date tonight?

JPC

We're on a date, yeah. The two of us are on a date.

Erin

How long have you two been in a relationship?

Adal

Um, it's our first date.

Erin

Your first date. Uh, wow. How'd you meet each other?

Adal

Coming to the show.

Erin

You met each other here at the show and now you're on a date?

JPC

Well, this is our first date. We met up at the show. Yeah.

01:07:17

Erin

Where did you meet?

JPC

We go to the same school.

Erin

You guys are way too young to be in here. What do you mean you go to the same school?

JPC

Of fish.

Erin

I don't really like people in my audience who do like groupthink and just sort of follow what other people do. So can you guys get the hell out of here? Everyone should applaud me, right? I'm getting all these fish that like they just need. Oh, this is my impression of being in a school of fish. Oh, you guys are going right? I'll also go right.

Adal

You have a big fish on your stomach.

Erin

Yeah, he cleans me off, bitch. I need it medically. You're going to come after me at something I need medically? That fish cleans my stomach, bitch.

Janet

I'm also a Yes fan who does a lot of wooing and cheering, so it seems like the crowd's more into it than they are.

Erin

Thank you so much. Thank you so much to that trumpeter swan in the back. No, get this guy out of here. No, absolutely not. No more Santas. No more Santas on my watch, I don't think so.

01:08:18

Adal

It was Santa Eel, Erin. You don't want to see Santa Eel?

Erin

I don't.

Janet

I don't want any more branding of Santas on this podcast. It should be Santa, Santa Ray, like Manta Ray.

Adal

When an eel bites your heel, that's for real, that's a moray. That's a Santa.

Erin

I do like Moray Eel. Yeah, that's great.

JPC

I like a crowd work comedian that goes to the crowd, asks them a question, and then kicks them out. A crowd work guy who's just gradually working his way through kicking every little rib out of his shell.

Erin

I love it. Yeah.

JPC

Janet, you did a great job. Ted, you did a great job. And everyone here did a great job. And now it is time for the saddest part of the show. The part of the show where we basically stop doing the show and we tell you about stuff that we'd like you to check out. Janet, do you have anything that you would like people to check out?

Janet

I'm going to resist making an April Fool's Day joke and instead tell you to listen to E Pluribus Motto, the podcast I do with the great John Hodgman, where we explore mottos. I'm blanking on anything else that a state chooses for itself. Mottos, flags, state snacks, state flowers, state trees, state bees. It's really just an excuse for us to talk about cute stuff and try to come up with new and better non-Latin mottos for states. It's a lot of fun. on the show.

01:10:08

Erin

I'd like to plug Quality Time. It's my monthly show here in Los Angeles. It's a different theme every month. So come check that out if you haven't yet. Adal, anything to plug?

Adal

Please check out Gum, Shoes, and Dragons, the delightful D&D slash Columbo podcast that we do with our friend Anthony Burch. You can check that out, Gumshoes and Dragons. And also there was something else I wanted to plug, which was, oh, please go back and watch the Coca-Cola commercials with the polar bears and let me know if they do make little Mr. Bean-esque sounds, because I swear, I swear that's when I was first aware of like a pleasing sound, which was like the polar bears drinking and they're like, yeah, like it's so satisfying. So please watch that. JPC, anything to plug or a review to read?

JPC

Hey, this is also, this Friday is the first of our month of April of the Penguins. Penguin Baseball is back on Patreon, so check it out, patreon.com. Hey Riddle Riddle. We'll have Casey, Tony, and Janet Varney will be there for the draft. We have five new exciting teams. It's going to be a fun April, April of the Penguins. That is Patreon for Hey Riddle Riddle all month long. Hey, I also have a review to read. This review comes to us from Sintwine. Sintwine says, fun stuff. It's funny. I like it. Short, sweet, to the point. Great job, Seth Wein.

01:11:31

Erin

Thank you.

Adal

Erin, I have another animal pun raid thing here. I guess Ted just sent this one to me. So this is a type of bird that can't fly and plays baseball, but is also from outer space.

Erin

Hot dogs. Come on. I didn't even get to participate in it. I don't even get to do it anymore.

JPC

You gotta be fast. You gotta be fast, Erin.

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Larry Parrish in the music. Logo created by Emily Cardemus and Emmeline Morris.

JPC

Hey there, balls and eggs. If you liked that, you are going to love this. It's April of the Penguins on Hey Riddle Riddle, which means more penguin baseball. 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 a seven day free trial or the review crew for $8 a month. Plus you get those ad free episodes. See you there.

01:12:41

Erin

That was a headgum podcast.