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A
This is a headgum podcast.
B
Aaron. You're gonna really like the ads that Adol and I recorded.
A
Adol? Is he being sarcastic?
C
No, I think you are. Sorry. I think you car are really gonna like it. Aaron, you kissed a car and turned it into a car.
B
Yeah, yeah.
C
Kind of a were car that everyone.
A
Giggling at an inside joke sent me right back in time to childhood.
B
Not only an inside joke, but a car. Punk. He stood on a block of ice. Both of them were goldfish. It was the cabin of an airplane. He stabbed him with an ice. And the horses ain't Friday. All right, all right, all right, Aaron, let me get this straight one more time. We'll go back to the story one more time, because I swear to God, I was listening. But it just doesn't make sense. You were mouthing off to a witch, and she did what to your throat?
A
She. Okay, I'll start from the very, very beginning.
B
Thank God.
A
Okay. The big bang. I think I went a little too far. Hold on. I was born on a full moon in Boston, Massachusetts. Hold on, I'm nervous now.
C
Big bang.
B
Yeah. Unless we're talking about Aaron's conception, because then it's only nine months away, not ten. Really? You know it takes ten months anyway.
A
Do you know it takes elephants two.
C
Years to fall in love?
A
Yes. But also to incubate an elephant baby.
C
Aaron.
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Incubated.
C
I did know that, and I learned it from you.
A
Oh, perfect. Okay.
B
Just now.
A
So I was mouthing off to a witch, and I went. I bet you'd be pretty pissed if I changed the consonant, the first consonant of witch to a different consonant.
B
No, the C word.
A
Mm. And then she punched me in the throat.
C
Arid.
D
Arid.
C
Yeah. Witch to punches.
A
I know.
B
Yeah.
C
Highly unused.
A
I know. It wasn't even like a curse or a spell or.
B
They're quick to anger.
C
I feel like a lot of witches.
B
Sea witches.
C
How do I want to phrase this? Do you know, like, Paul Greengrass? You know, like the Bourne trilogy?
A
Yeah.
C
A lot of witches have been really into Bourne Identity, Bourne Ultimatum, et cetera, et cetera. So there's a lot more emphasis. Witches are putting a premium on hand to hand combat. So.
A
Right. No more spells, no more cauldrons. We're jumping off of buildings. It's parkour. We're doing somersaults.
B
Because they understood that they needed to be more cinematic in what they do and how they do it.
C
A witch who knows judo is a witch you don't want to cross.
A
That is a great idea for a movie franchise. Is witches that are not using any of their typical powers. They're just trading state secrets. They're on airplanes.
B
Is a witch you don't put across recently. I don't know where I saw it, but I saw a series of gifs of the most improbable ways to move out. Like, move away from things that have been, like, filmed or animated. And if you haven't watched these, they're very. It was based off the new Superman movie, which I know that everyone has seen. There's that. The woman in Superman who can. Well, I don't know everyone has seen it. I know you two have seen it. But there's a bad guy in Superman who can, like, morph her body because her body is like microorganisms, you remember? Or micro nanotechnology.
C
The woman who does a backflip into a handstand only to put her head where her legs just were.
B
Yes, she does a backflip into a handstand.
A
I have no idea what you were talking about because I was being beat up by my chair while I was watching Superman. Need I remind you, my chair was throwing punches at me?
B
It's a move that this woman does in Superman where she does a backflip into a handstand and then her legs and arms switch. And she likes. It could be easily accomplished by turning around and pivoting 90 degrees. Like, that's. But the whole thing is, if you could do that, if you could do a backflip and do a handstand and then turn around and, like, be walking, you would do that. You would never turn around in your entire life. There's no reason to.
C
If I saw cameras, I would do that. But if I'm gonna kill someone, I'm not wasting my time doing that.
A
You're not doing it with a little flare. It's their last few moments of life. Give them a show.
B
I guess in context of that, especially if you're killing a robot because it's like, what does the robot care? But if it's a robot, probably camera, right? You gotta assume that those guys are recording, so someone's gonna see it.
A
Yeah, that could go viral.
C
They all have a black box inside of them.
A
Yeah.
B
That's awesome. Well, this robot's dead. Time to crack it open and figure out how it went.
A
Let's not actually watch the footage just in case anyone took this robot on a date. Hypothetically, let's maybe destroy the black box.
C
Lobster bisque with a robot?
B
You took one of those little food delivery robots that, like, scoot around la On a date. Correct.
A
Yes, I did. And I paid for a violinist to play his favorite song.
C
I once kissed a robot at the French Laundry.
A
You know who hates those robots?
B
Lou.
A
Lou's like one of these motherfuckers again. She, like, is 100% sure that there's a soul in there and she screams every time she sees one.
B
Oh, man. Yeah. I think everybody hates those little robots. I think that if I ordered something for delivery and it came on a little robot, I'd be like, God damn it.
A
No. They make me feel sad. They've delivered a couple of my orders before and I just am like, I'm worried about them. I'm like, this is sad. This is not good. This is not good.
C
It's like if we made a thousand R2D2s, and then we're like, you'll just kind of like, deliver like Penny Saver newspapers.
B
Yeah.
A
Yeah.
B
You're going to be my taco R2D2.
C
Yeah.
B
No, no, no. You don't get to fly a spaceship. You bring me a taco when I'm hungry.
A
You're my taco. R2D2.
B
R2D2.
A
Forget flying spaceships. You're going to bring me Taco Bell at 2am When I'm drunk and high.
C
It's like training an alien monkey to, like, pop your blackheads. Where it's like, what? What are such a menial task for such a intelligent creature?
B
Honestly, though, humanity.
A
Silly. Silly.
B
If we found alien monkeys, that's exactly what we would do with them. We would be like, we don't know about their culture, but their hands are really tiny for popping blackheads.
C
Suddenly you turn on TV and it's just Dr. Alien Monkey Pimple Popper. Number one rated show.
A
CBS this fall.
C
JPC, what were you saying about the new Superman?
B
Oh, it was that. It was just that, that I was watching a series of GIFs of people doing improbable or like, excessive moves that could be easily done by just like, moving out of the way or pivoting very briefly. And those were a lot of fun to watch. So that's all. I didn't have anything about Superman. Fuck Superman.
C
I feel like Neo could have jumped over those bullets, right?
B
Oh, yeah.
C
Instead of that bendy thing, he could have jumped or sidestepped.
B
What about this? What about just hit the ground completely? You. Is it that much easier to get up from, like, your back being broken in half than it would be to just like, kip up from the ground?
C
Yeah. Do a forward roll.
A
I started the way of Kings last night.
B
Aaron.
A
I know I'm super early to that party.
C
Aaron, the good news is you have, I want to say, 300 Sanderson books to catch up on.
B
Yeah. And it is just really hit if you crack it into the weight of kids.
A
Zorp is reading them aloud to me because I love to be read to.
B
They have a professional.
A
Wait, what?
B
Yeah, and he's actually. I've heard he's really good. I've never listened to that. No, that's not true. I listened to a part of one in Tim Lyons car when we were driving to LA or back from LA or whatever I did, wherever I was driving.
A
Was it a good narrator?
B
I think the narrator is good. I'm fascinated by the people who are like good narrators for audiobooks. I have heard that recording audiobooks from people who don't do it professionally but have recorded their own audiobook is brutal because sometimes we record three episodes in a row and it's a lot of talking into a microphone. But I think that they're there for 50 hours, especially those big fantasy books that are 50 hour books.
C
And you know that they do like 10 takes on pronouncing a word where they're like, Kaladin. Culloden. Kaladin. Like, they have to get notes on all that.
A
When I did the Joko Cruise with Mark Gagliardi, he does a lot of audiobooks, and when he records them, he has like a little clicker thing every time he makes a mistake so he can go back through and edit out all of his mistakes.
B
That's cool.
A
Should we be doing that?
B
No, there are no mistakes.
C
Click. Cut this part out. Cut. Cut. Aaron's hypothetical.
B
All right, Aaron, I am actually a little concerned that you haven't clicky pin that near your desk. That needs to go. That needs to go the way of kings, if you know what I'm saying.
C
Okay, let's do a new segment where we each take turns reading from a book as a celebrity narrator.
B
Okay. The Color Purple.
A
Now who's that and what book are you doing?
B
Wowza. What a color.
C
Walking. Oh, he's so excited about just the title page.
B
Yeah, he gets. He sees the title page and then he just does like five minutes on how excited he is for the title page. You're listening to the audiobook like, this can't possibly be what the book is.
C
You're constantly jumping out of your seat.
A
I can't think of a single celebrity impression to do. Adel, you go.
C
Okay. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
A
That's good.
B
Jason Momoa.
A
Jason Momoa. Classic stuff. I can't think of an impression to do.
C
Aaron, right now because of your sort of head cold or whatever's going on, you sort of sound like Kathleen Turner.
A
Oh, yes.
C
So maybe like a Jessica Rabbit, like.
A
Jacob Marley was dead to begin with.
C
Nailed it.
A
I think I told my Kathleen Turner story on here. But when I was in college, my school was attached to the repertory theater of St. Louis. And when you're in a theater conservatory, you get assigned stage crews for things. And sometimes they would be the school's productions, and sometimes they'd be the repertory theater of St. Louis productions. And I was cursed my freshman year with what had to have been the worst cruise ever. Like, it was way more of a commitment than anyone else's. It was way more physical labor. And first semester freshman year, I, me and this boy named Jimmy Betts were the performance majors assigned to building the three penny opera sets. And this was a huge set made entirely of wood with like a ton of ladders. And it was crazy. And Kathleen Turner was doing a show at the repertory theater of St. Louis. And she would walk by us building sets and be like, and what production is this for the Three Penny Opera? Okay, this is taking you a long time to build. She was just chat with us about it and I'd be like, what are we doing at the Turner?
C
That's amazing.
A
And then my other stage crew that year and I'm just so. I'm still so mad about it. I did that for like six weeks. First semester of freshman year, a nightmare. One Saturday they had us come in at 8am on a Saturday and stayed till 4pm and they gave us like the measurements for a ladder and we couldn't figure it out. And at 4pm the guy who was in charge of us came in and went, oh, sorry, these measurements don't make any sense. And Jimmy Betts threw a hammer at the wall. And then second semester I was put on Macbeth stage crew, which that show's so fucking long. And then I had to miss a bunch of classes because I was costumes for that. And part of my job was washing blood off of kids clothes at the end of every show. It was the dead of winter in St. Louis and I had to watch blood off of children's clothes.
C
All my chicks and for free. I think after McDuff's kids are killed, I think he says all my chicks in one fell swoop. Which is just.
A
And then I'm the one. And then it was also like the Whole production is like 30 sweaty men and I'm spraying vodka in their coats because they smell horrible. Men smell horrible after they're in a production. Did everyone know this? I'm pissed.
B
Elephants have a two year gestation period and men smell horrible after a performance of Macbeth. The two Aaron. Facts I've learned today.
A
Yes. Sorry guys, I just had to go off. I'm still a little butthurt about that.
C
Aaron, I have to assume that Jimmy Betts now works for some Kansas City mafia organization.
A
Probably. No, he's great. I saw him at my college reunion.
B
They call him the Wall Hammer.
A
We were all like. We were telling our war stories and everyone's drunk stories. And I went, remember when Jimmy threw up on those baby rabbits? And he was like, what? And I was like, no, remember Jimmy? Like we were at a party. We were at a house party and right by the garage we found a of baby rabbits. And then later we were all in the kitchen and we looked outside and you were throwing up on them. And he was like, no. Oh, we kept that from you. Oh my God. I'm so sorry. We kept it 15 years secret because we knew you'd feel bad.
B
Wait, but he didn't know he was just throwing up in some bushes or whatever.
A
Yeah, he thought he was just throwing up on the side of a building. He had no idea who was throwing up on baby rabbits. And we, I think at the time decided to not tell him. Yeah, but then I spilled the beans while we were grown ups.
B
Sounds like so did Jimmy Betts.
C
Yeah, that's the problem with nature is you never know whose property you're sort of doing something on. Like what animal sort of domain?
B
Yeah, I'm walking on an ant condo right now.
C
It's gotta be a deer's kitchen that I'm shitting in.
A
You don't know I'm shitting outside a lot.
C
Aaron, where do you shit?
A
I don't know exactly. I'm trying to find out. I'm really nervous.
B
The deer's like, use the deer bathroom. It's two feet from the dear kitchen. What are you doing?
A
It's like a full bathroom with running water.
B
Okay, here's a riddle. This is another riddle from Elvis. I think we did like a set of riddles from Elvis and this is the last one. So we'll just, we'll ease you into the episode by doing this riddle from Elvis. I have a hundred legs but cannot stand. A long neck but no head. I eat the maid's life. What am I?
C
A broom?
B
It's a broom.
C
I tried to think of, like, what would make a maid sad. Like, she has to keep doing it. It makes her sad. And I'm like, sweeping, I guess.
B
What would make a maid sad? Well, you know what, though? What if the maid loves it? It's like, what if they got into mating because they love sweeping so much that they're like, if you.
A
I don't know if that's anyone's favorite chore. Do you have a least favorite and favorite choreography?
C
I love vacuuming. Vacuuming is very satisfying. I'd say my least favorite is litter. Like the cat litter. Dealing with all that just because it smells so bad.
B
I do have a least favorite chore, and my least favorite chore is cleaning the stove. Like, cleaning all the burned on food, or if water spills over from a pot, cleaning the stove. Because I will clean my entire kitchen. I'll clean all the dishes, I'll clean all the counters. And then I'll be like, hey, Mariah, would you clean the stove? And she always does. She's always like, yes, I will clean the stove, which. Which is how, you know, that's so nice. True love. She will do my least favorite chore, and I will do all the rest of the chores. So that works out. Yeah, it's an even trade.
C
Aaron, what about you?
A
I like any chore that involves, like, heat. So I like, like, folding laundry and washing dishes. I don't like taking out the trash.
C
Are you someone who, when you take, like, towels out of a dryer, you, like, hold them up to your face and squeeze?
A
Oh, yeah. I will cocoon. Lou and I will sometimes do a towel, a cocoon, and I'll put them all on the bed, and her and I will sort of cuddle, puddle in them.
B
Okay. Don't use a towel. That Aaron sounds like a dog swimming over it. Interesting. Aaron, that presupposes. Is there a way that we could get you into doing the trash if we made the trash hotel?
A
Yeah, you set the trash on fire.
C
Hot garbage.
A
And it felt like that. Honestly, that sounds awesome.
B
What about a device? You know how people have, like, their trash cans, like, in. In their cabinets? Like, my trash can is, like, sitting down. It has a lid. But you can have, like, a trash can, like, inside of a cabinet. What if we had that, but we built, like, a trash warmer that doesn't make it, like, hot, but it would, you know, heat it up to, like, I don't know, 90, 95 degrees or something like that, just so it's.
A
I love it.
D
Honestly.
B
Oven Hot.
A
If you can make my broom handle hot, I'm in. If you can make my vacuum handle hot, I'm in.
B
I want. I love making a. That's my best sleepover prank is the hot broom handle.
C
That's my best witch's pickup line. You can make my room handle hot. I do want to see a scene.
B
Okay.
C
Aaron, you're sort of a Mary Poppins type. Love jpc. You and I are the kids that Aaron is nannying for. But Aaron, this Mary Poppins type just can't be bothered. Like, you don't really like doing any of your delegated tasks.
A
For every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. I would like an Old Fashioned, please. If you want to Google how to make that.
B
What's wrong with your voice?
C
Are you okay?
B
Are you sick?
A
What do you mean what's wrong with my voice? I sang all day yesterday. Oh, we sang all day.
B
If you're sick, you shouldn't be taking care of children.
A
Okay. Thank you for the feedback, but you're sick all the time and I have to be here.
B
So we're not at work. You're at work.
E
Yeah.
C
You're at work. We're kids.
A
Yeah. I would like to take a load off, please. Can you make me a drink?
C
Mrs. Puppers?
A
Yes?
C
Should I use the same glass that I've been using for your Old Fashioned or get a new one?
A
You've been using the same glass?
C
Yeah.
A
Clean it.
C
Yes. Yes, Mrs. Puppers.
B
But you haven't taught us.
A
You haven't taught us how to clean. About fluffing my pillows. What? What?
B
What? What? About why are we fluffing your pillows? Shouldn't. Shouldn't we be doing chores like making our beds or like cleaning up our room like.
A
Yeah, you can do that when we're done with my stuff.
C
No.
A
All right.
B
I'm still.
A
The first activity today is filling out my tax return.
C
Okay. Here's your Old Fashioned.
A
Thank you.
C
Are you.
B
Do you have any dependents?
C
Do you have any dependents?
A
No.
B
Okay. Okay.
C
Do you have. How many? 10. 99 miscellaneouses do you have?
B
You have W2.
A
When you don't know what to do, pick up my dry cleaning. Do it right now. I forgot I had to get it. Why aren't you singing?
B
It's so far away. Can we use the car?
A
No. What? You're a child.
B
Okay. I just.
C
Mrs. Puppers.
A
What?
C
We haven't seen our parents in quite some time.
A
I know that.
C
Are they okay? Are they coming back?
A
I don't know. No. Fix me up something that is sweet. And then I'm gonna want something that is salty. Why are you both just standing and staring at me?
C
Dessert, then. Savory.
B
It's just a confusing way to eat. And plus, you said make a casserole like, 10 minutes ago, and I've barely gotten started on that. And casseroles take hours to make.
A
Okay. Takes out umbrella, starts walking towards the door, takes my bag. You know what? I'm gonna go help other kids.
C
Oh, thank God she's leaving off.
A
Your parents are definitely dead. They're gonna probably come and try to take the house within the next couple days. Good luck to you. Good luck to you. Opens umbrella, starts to lift up. Absolutely. Falls, crumbles, goes into the sewer grate.
C
Oh, no.
B
Just kick her down. Just kick her down with your feet. Kick her down there. Kick her down. Hey, hey, hey, hey.
C
All right, let's get those taxes done.
B
Seed.
A
And that is the origin for the clown. It. You didn't even care, did you?
C
Same magical properties.
A
You didn't even care, did you? You guys, you're not gonna believe this.
B
No, I won't.
A
But having Covid makes your brain move slow.
B
What?
A
I can't think of shit about shit right now. I can't think of anything. If you were to ask me about anything, I wouldn't know what Aaron.
C
Name it Clown.
B
You made that brilliant connection between Mrs. Puppers and it the clown.
A
I don't remember doing that.
B
And for those of you who email the show and say the clown's name, isn't it the clown? The clown has a name. We know the clown's name. Is it the Clown? You're wrong.
C
Yeah, look it up.
B
Yeah, look it up, dumbass.
C
And the boy's name is Zelda.
B
That's a little boy.
C
That's Zelda. His name is Zelda.
B
All right, we have another riddle. This one's from Colin Wilson. Colin said you can read my full name only if you do it sarcastically. I think I probably nailed it, right? Oh, yeah. Here's the first riddle from Colin Wilson. I don't always have wings, but as I get bigger, I typically sport more and more. My feet are buried in the ground. My head is protected from weather. I don't fear people, but insects are a frequent concern. Who am I?
A
A house. A building.
B
Aaron, you got it. Nail on the head. One out of one. It is a house.
A
A house. Okay. Fantastic. I'd like to see a scene.
B
Okay.
A
Jpc, you are a house. Adel, you are the house's first tenant after Moving in and jpc. You don't know how you feel about someone living inside you.
B
Great.
C
Oh, a little musty and dusty in here. Okay, let's see. Put the boxes down here and. Okay, let's start hanging up some pictures. Just get a little nail in the wall.
D
Oh. Oh.
B
Whoa.
C
Hello.
E
Hey. Wow. Okay. Went right for the. Right for the hammer out at the walls.
B
Huh?
C
Are you the. Are you a ghost?
E
I'm the house. Oh, yeah. No, I'm not a ghost. I am the house.
C
Sorry. Is that nail like your butthole or something? Like where I put that nail is at your butthole. Is that nail just the way you screamed. Sounded like you got your. Like you got goosed.
E
Oh, so if I drove a nail like into your arm or whatever, you'd have no reaction? It's butthole only. That's the only place that.
C
Hey, this is all new to me, man. Okay. I'm just trying to figure out.
E
I've never seen a house before. You've always been a renter.
C
Yeah.
B
Yeah.
E
Well, this is home ownership. When we. Someone, you know, purchases us, it's kind of like a genie thing. Like we talk to the person who.
C
I feel like people should be talking.
E
About this more shoes on. Huh? You're like a shoes on in the house type of guy.
C
Yeah, it's my. I mean, I'm gonna replace the carpet. Unless that's like kids or something. Huh?
E
Oh, okay. I get the confusion. My whole thing is not like a one to one with like a human body thing. I've never been a human. I'm not a human. I am a house. So like the carpet is the carpet.
C
Okay, so fireplace isn't your penis.
E
Stop guessing.
A
Stop guessing.
E
Why would the fireplace be. Why the fireplace be the penis?
C
I'm still in shock.
E
Okay, the chimney would be the penis.
C
This is all new to me. Jesus. Okay, where is your penis? Just so I know not to touch it.
E
Chimney.
C
Okay.
A
Ding dong. Ding dong.
C
Is that you doing that? Is that like your clit?
B
Is that.
C
Oh, it's a door. It's a door. Hello.
A
Hi, neighbor. Just bringing over a welcome to the neighborhood pie. Sorry to ring your doorbell so many times.
C
Yeah, it's rude to. I mean, I'd say wait 10 seconds for someone to move around the house.
A
Sorry, I was just getting so anxious.
C
Just cause people don't stand by the fucking door. But I'm Mark.
A
Hi, Mark.
C
Does your house talk to you?
A
Oh, yeah, big time. That's how I know that my house likes the doorbell rang. Ding dong.
C
Oh, this is like, good for them. Wait, do you hear that? Can you hear my house? Or is it only if you own the house? You hear it?
A
All right, Mark, So nice meeting you. Let me know if you need anything.
C
Gummy worm pie.
E
Hey, Mark, she rang the doorbell a couple times too many. Could you grab a mop and head up to the chimney?
C
Oh, come on, man.
E
Hey, exactly scene.
C
Never ringing a doorbell again.
B
Yeah, A house likes it. I'll ring a doorbell all the time now. Can I tell you a little trick with my house?
A
Yeah.
B
This is a little life hack.
E
Okay.
A
Can't wait.
B
I have a doorbell.
A
Sure.
B
It does not do anything when you ring it. Because I tell people don't ring the doorbell, but people always do. And if I have a doorbell that is not connected to anything, it doesn't matter if people ring a doorbell.
C
Oh. Because it drives spaghetti nuts.
B
Spaghetti doesn't like it.
A
Oh, so you'll never. It's like that on purpose.
B
I have specifically designed it so that it doesn't do anything.
A
Got it, Got it.
B
On purpose.
A
Got it, Got it.
B
It's my little hack for living a relaxing life.
A
I love it.
B
Yeah. I also like the way my house and my porch are designed. If there's a solicitor or someone who's coming by, we have a lot of. In my neighborhood, for whatever reason, we have a lot of people that come by to spray for bugs or whatever. Bug spray people spraying the outside of your house for bugs. There's so many of them. And, yeah, I guess it's just like a thing. Like, there's probably not a lot of businesses that are like door to door businesses anymore, but for whatever reason that one is. And like, garage door repair, it's those two things. Yeah, Walk your alley. And like, tape up garage door repair things on your garage, which is crazy.
C
I will throw one away, and within three days, there's another one taped up. And it's just like, this is exhausting.
B
I once saw a guy who was. I was like, coming into my garage and he was putting this thing on my garage. And as I was coming in, I went, hey, man, I don't want that. And he was like. He just looked at me and shrugged and put it on the garage. Now, it's possible we did not speak the same language. That is 100% a possibility. It's also possible that he's like, hey, man, I get paid to stick these on garages. Like, I don't give a shit.
A
Yeah.
B
I don't care who you are or what you want to do. I don't care. A lot of times when I get solicitors, I'll just kind of look out my window and kind of wave them off. And by kind of wave them off, I mean my dog will be going absolutely fucking berserk. And I'll say, go away. And there was a guy who came, it was earlier this summer, so it was probably like a month or two ago. And I was like, go away. Like, I'm not, not interested. And he was like pointing to my door, like, open the door. And I was like, no, you leave. And he was like, the door. And I was like, I understand what my door is. You got to understand it's not opening it up. And also I'm holding a 55 pound German shepherd who's just like going fucking berserk right now. Like, you should know that this is not going to end well for anyone involved.
A
Yeah, what the hell can I ask?
C
I'm very confused. By spraying for bugs outside?
B
Yes.
C
What? That seems like that's their house.
B
That's where deer shit.
A
Yeah, that's their kitchen.
C
But it feels like, I mean, I just, I'm confused. I can see if you have like a hornet's nest in your garage or something like on the outside. But otherwise bugs, it's just sort of a non stop until the earth stops revolving.
B
Right?
C
Bugs are just going to be around.
B
I will say I've only done it one time where I've had to spray for bugs because in my basement I was getting a ton of millipedes and millipedes are like harmless, but I was like sick of like stepping on them as they just like crawl around in my basement. And so I sprayed the outside for millipedes to like keep them out. But that's the only time I've ever like sprayed for bugs. And otherwise most bugs I'm like fine with in my house. I see like spiders and shit all over the place. I'm like, yeah, go for it. You know, I'll kill a mosquito if I see it inside. But other than that, I'm like, hey man, we're all living here together. Like you're a bug, I'm a guy. We have different parts of the house that we hang out in.
A
You know, I'd like to see a scene. Adel, you are a spider that is living in JPC's house. And JPC, you've decided that it's time for him to start paying some rent.
B
Okay.
D
Hey, can you turn up the tv? I can't hear it.
B
Oh no, my, my kid's asleep. In the other room. So we. We just watch it Quiet. Whoa, whoa.
D
Who the fuck is asking me that down here, buddy? Hey.
B
Oh, my God. Get the fuck out of. Are you a spider? Get the fuck out of here.
D
Am I a spider? What do I fucking look like my name is?
B
I mean, you're so small.
D
I'm. Thank you. My name's Ulysses. I'm a brown recluse. I spit in your mouth. Did you know that you swallow three to five of my cousins every year?
B
I don't think people swallow five brown recluses every year. And by the way, I don't know who told you you're a brown reckless, but, brother, you are not a brown reckless.
A
What?
B
Come on. You're brown. Yeah, like in color. A brown recluse.
D
I'm a recluse.
B
Rand Reckless is like the king of spiders. My bad. You are. You're minuscule. You're. You're tiny.
D
What the fuck? Really focusing on the tiny part. Listen, you know what? Just put the. Hey, bring the TV into the basement and I'll. I'll just watch it in there and we'll be good.
B
You know what? No. I'm usually pretty cool with spiders being in the house, but you are kind of crossing a line that most spiders don't cross. Huh?
D
Pretty cool. Spiders in the house. Says the guy who swallowed three to five of my cousins.
B
Everybody does that. Here's what I'll say. Here's what I. It doesn't matter. The thing isn't that you do it while you're asleep. The thing is that you do it three to five times a year. Ulysses. Here's what I'm gonna say.
D
Yeah.
B
I don't. I'm not gonna kick you out. I'm not gonna smush you. But if you wanna stay here, you're gonna have to start contributing to the house.
D
I got it. Let me. Okay. Let's see. All right. I'm gonna spin a web. Dreamcatcher.
B
Okay.
D
Did you know that spiders don't get instantly.
B
Got my bow. Why would you do it in front of my face?
D
Spider silk is, like, 10 times stronger than steel. How'd you just destroy that? Are you super strong? Are you a super strong.
B
There's no way that spider silk is 10 times stronger than steel.
D
Relatively.
B
Well, yeah, I guess. Everything. Ulysses, that's not the kind of. I don't. That's not useful to me. You spinning webs is actually, like, not useful to me. Oh. At all.
D
What if I.
B
How many other bugs have you caught and eaten? Like, in the last week, how many other bugs have you caught in the house?
D
Silverfish. Silver fish. Silver fish. Fly, fly, fly, fly. Mosquito, fly. Silverfish fly. Mosquito. 28.
B
You've been killing silverfish?
D
Yeah.
B
No, silverfish kill other bugs.
D
That's why I kill them.
A
Can you hear yourself?
D
Oh, you killed a guy trying to break into your house. Those things kill people. The house that they break into. Can you hear yourself?
B
No, you're. First of all, you're like an arachnid. You're not even like a bug. I want you to kill like gnats and stuff like that. Not like the, like silverfish will kill the other bugs.
D
Like, hey, I know it'll smooth things over. Okay, let me lay a big egg sack.
B
No, hold on, brother.
D
Can I finish?
B
It ain't it.
D
Can I finish?
B
What's the finish gonna be? That's gonna turn me around?
D
Let me.
B
Okay.
D
Lay a big egg sack.
B
Okay.
D
Then one day you'll forget it's there. You'll step on it.
B
Sure. Yeah.
D
A million tiny clear spiders will zoom around the house.
B
Yeah. Tiny clear spiders. Uh huh.
D
And I'll have a community to talk to.
B
You have to walk spaghetti once a month and it has to be a 45 minute walk.
D
Spaghetti eats I'd say 30 to 50 of my cousins per year.
B
Did he better keep her happy and engaged and worn out and tired, you know?
D
Hey, let me tell you something. Come down, lean down here. Lean down here.
B
Okay.
D
Hey, what's the deal with Aaron Keefe? Is she single?
B
Is she single?
D
Yeah, I one time and I was like.
B
I think what? Probably one time. Yeah, I think she's been over. I think she's been over exactly one time she was here with her boyfriend. By the way, that guy that was here with her was. That was her boyfriend.
D
The zorp. That's her boyfriend?
B
Yeah.
D
Oh, he looked like a human, though.
B
Oh, you're confused as like, why would a human date like a haunted porcelain doll?
A
How am I catching strays in this scene that's about a spider picks up, Shu kills that spider. What the fuck? I'm not even in that scene. Awesome.
B
Aaron. As a little update, Aaron brought my kid a panda bear.
A
Yeah, yeah, Panda bear named Beverly Shubadoo.
B
Named Beverly Shubadoo. And so far my kid will call things by like the animal that they are, like elephant or bear or whatever. But they won't, they won't give their like animals names. But Shubadoo I introduced from the beginning as Shubadoo and I've been reinforcing Shubadoo. And now my kid will call that bear. Well, they can't quite get Shubadu out because that's a crazy word to say. But it's close. It's close.
C
Shubadu is more in line with, like, a baby's vocab than most birds. So I feel like making names that are like keepapop or subadop. Like, that's more beneficial for a baby.
A
Huge for me. I brought Beverly Shubadoo so I could have a spy on the ground floor. That bear is there to slowly convince Mariah to leave you for me. And the fact that your kid is, like, building a relationship with it is huge news. Huge news.
B
The other thing that they'll do is they'll just touch the top of Shubudu's head and go so soft.
A
Oh, my goodness. Precious.
C
We went for ice cream recently with JPC and his kid, and every time you would give them ice cream, they. They would turn and look at me and make a face of like, I don't know if I like this. Which was fascinating.
B
It was their first time ever having ice cream, and they were like, ugh. And I was like, yeah, it's cold. I understand. It's like. But it is good as fucking hell, but it's cold. And that's not always, like, temperature. My override flavor in a lot of ways. All right. Hey, speaking of temperatures and flavors, why don't we take a little break?
A
Okay. Just this one. So, yeah.
D
Hey.
C
Hey, you two humans, can you help me out? My name's Rocket.
B
Rocket Rabbit. Okay. We're wading into dangerous territory, Rocket Rabbit. But yeah, we. Yeah, we can. We can. We can help you out. Yeah, I just, you know, I have.
C
All these subscriptions and charges coming to me monthly, and I just need help trying to figure suss them all out.
B
Okay, good. I thought you were gonna ask for help with that tree thing that you're with and saving some sort of.
C
It's a bush.
B
That's a bush. Good. Well, we can help with that because you can use Rocket Money. 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.
A
Oh, yeah. They show all your expenses in one place, including subscriptions you forgot about, which happens to me all the time. If you see a subscription you no longer want, Rocket Money will help you cancel it. And their dashboard is so intuitive and lays out your total financial picture, including bill, due dates and past days, in an easy to digest way. You can Automatically create custom budgets based on your past spending. And it's color coded and it's fun, and it's been helping me for years. Way before they became a sponsor of. Hey, Riddle. Riddle.
B
Why would you want to dash a board if you wanted to smash a board? Just pick up the board and smash it.
C
That's Constellation King.
A
All right, we're wading into bad territory, guys. You guys.
B
Yeah, guys, let's not do any of this, but let's talk about Rocket Money. Rocket Money's 5 million members have saved a total of 500 million in canceled subscriptions, with members saving up to 740 a year when they use all of the app's premium features.
C
Wow. So it sounds like everyone can cancel your unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster with Rocket Money. Go to RocketMoney.com Riddle today. That's RocketMoney.com Riddle RocketMoney.com Riddle what do you say, Grut?
B
I am Bush.
A
Oh, brother.
B
Okay, we can't. We gotta.
A
I'm not sureing.
B
Everyone outta the room.
A
Gpc.
B
Oh, yeah.
A
I know how this is gonna sound, and it's gonna sound like I'm reusing an old idea and that I was too lazy to come up with a new one. But that's not what is happening. This is actually a problem. Adol's stuck in the cat costume again.
B
Okay. Is it the same. Is it the same cat costume as last time or.
A
Yeah, it's the exact same cat costume.
B
So it's the exact same thing. It's not even. Is there a new layer on it in terms of. Or is it literally just the same situation from last time?
A
It's the same situation. Like, we're sort of kind of panicking. It's every day. It's like a sort of big medical issue. I just haven't had a lot of time to cook.
B
Yeah, no, no, I understand, Aaron. You know, life is busy, and sometimes we don't have necessarily, maybe even the energy or the time to think up a new idea.
A
Right.
B
Or even prepare a meal.
A
Right.
B
Yeah.
A
Like last night, I was just fighting him. Cause you know, when he gets scared in the costume, that it's even harder to get it off of him.
B
Sure.
A
And so when I got home, I was like, I feel like I can't cook right now, but thank God for Tempo, because I could have the white cheddar barbecue chicken ready to go. I don't have to even think about it. I'm not going to the grocery store. And it is delicious. And so I was like this is so comforting after fighting Adolk trying to get him out of the cat costume.
B
Yeah, because Tempo delivers fresh chef crafted dietitian approved meals right to your door. I mean you can eat these things. So I've heard. Even if you're stuck in a cat costume, as long as it has a mouth hole for you to eat out of which this one does or does not. I can't remember because it's the same one as last time.
A
Does not.
B
Each meal is perfectly proportioned for lunch or dinner and ready in just two minutes. That means real food, real fast, without the sad desk lunch or drive through regret. Plus with 20 new recipes every week. Made from nutrient rich ingredients, Tempo keeps things exciting and helps you stay consistent with healthy habits. Unhealthy habit. Getting back in that cat costume, huh?
A
That's what I said. And that's what I said. But no matter what your goals, there's a Tempo meal for you. Protein packed meals with up to 30 grams of protein, calorie conscious, carb conscious and even fiber rich and jpc. Do you think people are gonna be like, why don't you just come up with a new concept? But this is like not a concept I'm coming up with. The same thing happened again.
B
I think people hear us read ads, like ads for Tempo, which is convenient but also flexible enough to fit the way that you want to eat. And they assume that we're making this stuff up and not that our friend Adol has a real problem with crawling into these cat costumes and getting totally stuck. Tempo is even the official partner of the 2025 CrossFit Games, proving their meals are built to support optimal nutrition and performance. So for a limited time, Tempo is offering my listeners 60% off your first box. Just go to tempomeals.com riddle that's tempomeals.com riddle for 60% off your first box, tempomeals.com riddle rules and restrictions may apply.
A
Thank you Tempo for helping me get all the protein I've not been getting. And also gbc. I just really feel like, yeah, I don't like if he gets in this cat costume a third time. Like what do we do?
B
I mean a third time, a fourth time, a fifth time, whenever. He can't be here, he's in that costume. This show is sponsored by Better Help.
C
Oh, excuse, excuse me, you two, could you help me? I'm trying to churn some butter.
B
We're all good here, man. From the past or whatever. Or Elmo or whatever.
C
No, I'm from your year.
B
From our Year. Okay, what is this?
C
I want to tell you about butter help.
A
Oh, I see what this is. We're trying to talk about BetterHelp.
C
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. ButterHelp.
B
No, no, no, no, no, no. Okay. We're talking about BetterHelp. My friend and I were talking about BetterHelp. It's online therapy that you can use if you don't want to do in person therapy, but you still want to have a relationship with a therapist. Oh.
A
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C
I. Oh, this sounds pretty great. So what are you telling me? There's like over 30,000 therapists? BetterHelp is like the world's largest online therapy platform. Is that what you're saying? Having served over five, let's say, million people globally.
B
Yeah, that's exactly. I mean, we weren't saying that, but that is.
C
Oh, dang correct. That's awesome.
A
Eating butter off fingers. It's convenient too. You can join a session with a therapist at the click of a button, helping you fit therapy into your busy life. So if you're like, having a problem, you can literally send a message to your therapist whenever. This butter is so good.
E
Right?
C
And I have to come clean. I am a puppet from the past. You were right.
B
As the largest online therapy provider in the world, BetterHelp can provide access to mental health professionals with a diverse variety of expertise. So whether you're a normal guy or some weirdo pervert puppet that walked up the street from the past, you can find the one. With BetterHelp, our listeners get 10% off their first month at betterhelp.com Riddle that's BetterHelp. H-E-L P.com Riddle Wait a minute.
C
One of those was about me. But which one?
A
You gotta try this butter. Jpc. You gotta try.
B
You will. Love, love, love, love, love, love. I will not try this pervert's butter.
C
I'm off to my time. Goodbye.
B
Bye.
C
Jealous much? New coat, New Shirt, New pants.
B
Adol, you didn't get those from the emperor, did you?
C
No, I think that guy was actually not wearing any clothes.
A
Oh, I knew it. And everyone says he was and I knew he wasn't. I felt like I knew he wasn't.
B
Interesting that my experience with the emperor. His clothes are awesome.
A
Adol, your clothes look fantastic. They look like very expensive. That must have costed you an arm and a leg.
C
No, actually we don't pay with limbs, we pay with money. But this was actually very cheap in terms of money. This is from Quince, my good lady.
A
I love Quince.
C
Quince has the kind of fall staples you'll wear non stop. Like super soft, 100% Mongolian cashmere sweaters. Touch, please touch. Starting at just $60. That's bonkers.
B
$60?
C
Yeah, $60.
A
Their denim is durable and fits right. And their real leather jackets bring the clean, classic edge without the elevated price tag. I have sheets from Quinn's. I got a skirt from Quinn's. I love quints.
C
On the walk over here wearing quints, a bunch of photographers were like, who is that guy? That's clearly like somebody's little brother. Like Nathan. Nathan, Levi's cousin or something taller younger brother.
B
And what makes Quince different? Well, they partner directly with ethical factories and skip the middlemen. So you get top tier fabrics and craftsmanship at half the price of similar brands and middlemen are flipping out about it. I saw a middleman on the phone in a parking lot tearing the hair out of his head. He was so mad at Quince.
C
Is he okay?
B
No, he looks really distressed. Personally, I love my lightweight hoodie. I think it's like perfect for the cooler weather. It's kind of the in between hoodie that you can get between like, you know, a fall jacket and, you know, your summer clothes. It's awesome. It's like a must have staple of my wardrobe.
A
And I got my eye on some boots at Quint's for the fall. Just a tall boot. I haven't had one of those like riding boots in a minute and I'm excited. I might get them in black or maybe like a chocolate color. Come back to me. Come back to me.
C
Sounds good friends. Puts on sunglasses. So keep it classic and cool this fall with long lasting staples from quince. Go to quince.com riddle for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns. That's Q-U I N C E.com riddle free shipping and 365 day returns. Quince.com riddle adol I have got Aaron.
B
On a joke website. I'm about to sell her chocolate boots. I think she's gonna walk around.
A
Yum, yum, yum, yum.
C
I will stay and watch this eats.
A
Them like Cookie Monster.
C
Gpc. You know how not too long ago Aaron was a car. We don't really need to dwell on it. Sometimes you're asking yourself weird things like, why didn't they teach us this in school? I feel that way almost anytime I'm dealing with money.
B
Amen.
C
Famously, I'm very bad with money. Famously, you're very good with money. That's why I'm giving my kids, AKA my cats, a head start on their money skills with Acorns Early.
B
Now, if I know your cats, they're going to take those acorns, put them outside your door, and then feed them to squirrels so they can watch squirrels going outside of your door. But children, human children, they're very different. They have different learning patterns than cats. We're getting wildly off topic. Erin used to be a car. That's why she's not here. But that's been resolved at this point so we don't have to worry about that.
C
Mostly been resolved. Acorns early is the smart debit card and money app that grows kids money skills as they grow up. This is something that I am going to be gifting to friends that I myself hopefully one day will be gifting to a child and again to my cats. Start with the in app Chores tracker. Teach your kids or cats the value of a dollar. Then let your kids set up their own savings goals and start building healthy money habits early. And you could maybe be like, hey, let's set a goal that you save up to buy, I don't know, like a car one day.
B
Yes. Because it is legal to buy a car.
C
Yes.
B
Even if it is or was a human at some point. Because if it's now a car, it's fine and there's no laws against that. Plus, kids can spend what they've earned with their very own customizable debit card, giving them that extra sense of independence. Plus, with Acorn Early's spending limits and real time spend notifications, parents always stay in control. I have played around with the Acorns early app, so it's still a little early for my child. But I really love the features. I really love how like simplified it is. I actually think that it like can make learning about money fun and engaging and I think that those are very important things. It's also really important to like demystify you know, the money. You know, money isn't something that's like, you know, dirty or dangerous or something, just like a tool, like anything else that we use to exist in society. And I think the Acorns early is a great way to introduce children to that.
C
Absolutely. Hey, jpz, do you notice even though Aaron's not a car anymore, that sometimes when she sneezes, it sounds like vroom.
B
Yeah. And sometimes when she, not to be indelicate, farts, it sounds like honk, honk, honk, honk. Passes gas. It sounds like honk, honk, honk, honk, honk, honk, honk.
C
Yes. And then I immediately want to get anyway. Ready to teach your kids the smart way to earn, save and spend. Get your first month on us when you head to acornserly.com heyriddle or download the Acorns early app. That's one month free when you sign up at acorns early.com heyriddle Acorns early is issued by Community Federal Savings bank member FDIC pursuant to licensed by MasterCard International. Free trial for new subscribers only. Subscription fee starting for $5 per month unless canceled term supply@acorns.com earlyterms Aaron's not a car.
B
Take control of your money. And we're back. Okay, guys, favorite temperature, slash favorite flavor. Go.
A
Hot, hot, hot and clear.
B
Oh, yeah.
C
Is that your Scientology audition?
A
Yes. How'd I do?
C
You passed.
A
Good, Good, good, good, good, good.
C
Favorite temperature? I'm gonna say 65 degrees.
B
Nice.
C
And my favorite flavor. Oh, boy. I like pumpkin, but I don't like this sort of yearly scramble to make everything pumpkin to where it's disgusting. Maple's pretty good, although, like, savory.
A
Kyle, you only have 15 more minutes to decide.
C
Oh, no. Shit. Watermelon JBC. Same question.
B
Same answer. 65 watermelon. There's a person, I've seen them driving around my neighborhood a couple times, and they have a license plate. And the license plate just says 69 space FMS.
C
Fuck my shit. 69.
B
We think it stands for 69 fuck me sideways. Because that would be how you 69 fuck me silly. Yeah, but 69 FMS, that's gotta be a custom plate. Cause it's only five. That's gotta be a sexual thing, right?
C
There's no way that that's Full Monty Slaps.
B
It's a very good movie.
A
I want everybody to comment below what you think the FMS is.
B
Yeah, comment below. Wherever you're listening to this. It could just be you opening a notes app on Your phone. Just commenting into that, but we want to know what you think the FMS is on 69.
A
Yeah, I'm not. I'll only look at Urban Dictionary.
C
And Aaron, didn't you sing a song called the FMS Pinafore?
A
Yeah, hold on, hold on.
B
We're making Aaron sing a lot on this episode for. Okay, instead of making Aaron sing more, why don't we do another riddle? This one is again from Colin Wilson.
A
It Spock me sideways.
B
It is Fuck me sideways.
A
Yeah, it's fuck me sideways.
B
Okay, that person, he's a freak. It's also.
A
Or it's flying monkey syndrome.
B
No, it's also a minivan. And I think it's so funny to have funny sideways on a minivan.
A
A twist. A twist.
B
I really also just doxed this person like crazy. Their full license plate. But here's the thing. If you get, like, a license plate that says 69, fuck me sideways, you've given up any right to privacy. You've just put your business out there, like, in the world. Like, anyone who sees that.
C
Anyone who puts the time, energy and money into a vanity plate. You want the attention?
B
Yeah. You want the attention? Okay, here's your second riddle from Colin. It says, I know everyone's secrets and everyone's announcements. Some people like to tell jokes with me. Some people like to talk politics with me. Some people like to ask me advice. A lot of people want to leave me alone, but few can actually avoid me. Oh, wait a minute.
A
Is this the Internet?
C
The girl I went to high school with, Amber Tanzillo.
A
Oh, it's Amber.
C
Everyone kind of told her gossip and secret. She was, like, cheerleader, very popular, dated Scott Mallory, of course. The quarterback.
A
Yeah. Amber Tanzillo.
B
I have a question about Amber Tanzilla. Did everyone tell her gossip, or was she actively seeking it out? Or was this, like, some sort of, like, curse where it's like she just absorbs this gossip that she doesn't even want.
C
Jpc. The best in high school. The way the best do it is they make you think that they want you to tell them, but they don't really do anything. They just pause long enough to where you start talking. They start to say, like, ooh, did you see Karen's broken leg? And then they don't say anything. And so the other person's like, I heard she xyz, Right? So you leave enough pause to where the person wants to give further information.
B
Damn. Every time I've tried to employ this method, I've just, like, paused. And the other Person has just like nodded their head and walked away.
C
Good day.
A
You know what's come to my attention recently? I don't know shit about shit, gossip wise. Like I went out to a dinner recently and someone let me know about a thing and it like solved a two year long mystery for me where I was like, oh, that's why it's weird to hang out with that group of people. Like I. It completely misses my desk. All gossip, all social context for why things are happening.
B
Aaron, I feel like from hanging out with you, you have clued us into a lot of gossip.
A
What do you like? You think?
B
Yeah, but it's also like, you know, like LA centric stuff where you'll hear a thing about like a person who is in LA and me being in Chicago who doesn't like regularly interact with like those LA people. I feel like I get a lot of like LA specific gossip from, you know.
A
Yeah, I mean I, I guess I get a couple like celebrity gossip things I wouldn't ordinarily get, but I think in terms of like social interaction stuff, I'm not getting, I'm not getting anything.
B
Are you seeking it out?
A
No.
C
You're the one who told us Dimitri Martin has a small penis, right?
A
Yeah. But he called me to tell me that it doesn't feel like gossip.
B
He just had to.
A
It was like a court ordered thing.
B
He told everyone. He like drew it on a big pad of paper, like flipped it over. It was like small penis me.
A
And then he turned it sideways, which made it even worse. And then the whole audience laughed.
C
Moriah, she's 69 FMS.
B
Always getting gossip. She's always getting gossip. And a lot of times it's like gossip about people that I don't necessarily know very well. So it's not super relevant to me. But when I hang out with a friend, Mariah will be like, how are they doing? And I'm like, oh, you know what, I didn't ask. She'll be like, you were with them for two hours. And I'm like, yeah, I guess it never came up.
C
We were drafting types of bread.
A
I bet Maria knows more than me.
B
Oh yeah, she knows more than me. For sure. Oh, about gossip? Yeah, that too. Yeah, for sure.
A
Oh yeah, generally. And then also gossip.
C
I do want to see a scene, please, the two of you, just real quick.
B
You have not gotten the answer to this riddle. I just want that to be clear before we go into this scene.
C
Thank you.
A
Can we just leave it behind completely? Can we decide to just never know?
B
Yes. You can decide that at any time. Eren, you can choose to decide that.
A
Great.
C
The two of you are doing sort of like old timey war correspondence by letters. And Aaron, your character is sort of just constantly obsessed with giving gossip and trying to receive gossip.
A
My dearest Jeffrey. So what's going on? Have people turned to kissing yet? I bet they have. Please include a list of everybody who has started to kiss out of loneliness, boredom or desperation. I suppose some people are kissing because they realize that life is finite. Finite out there in the war. Sorry, I had to scratch a little part out. Anyways, did you know the neighbors are dead? Okay, love you lots. Hope to hear from you soon. Elizabeth.
B
Hey, Elizabeth. Sorry this is gonna be short. Just a ton of Nazi activity today and yesterday and pretty much for like a, you know, a big portion of it. Confused by your last letter. Don't exactly know what you're referring to. Really hard fighting these guys. They. They really seem pretty pot committed to the whole thing that they're doing here. Yep. Heard about the neighbor deployed with him. Kind of heard it before you did, so. Not really sure how that came around to. Anyway, gotta go again. Just a lot of Nazi activity. Yours with love, Derek.
A
Dear Derek, sorry I addressed your last letter as Jeffrey. I was a little trigger happy on the letter and. Okay, you're gonna play coy. I see how it is. Did you hear that the Nazis have gained power and are trying to gain control over Eastern Europe? Isn't that cuckoo crazy? Someone should do something, something about that. Anyways, please let me know of all the cool stuff going on. Love you always, Elizabeth.
B
Hey, Elizabeth. Got your last letter. You addressed it to occupied France, so you know where I am and where I'm fighting. You know, work, we're kind of taking. Don't get much easier Eastern Europe than this, you know, baby, like, hey, Charles.
C
Hey, Charles. Yeah, hey, I'm about to storm a bunker. Kiss.
B
Yeah. Oh, hey, just FYI, since you caught me doing this, don't tell Jeffrey or Derek's family that I'm writing the letters now to the ladies. Yeah.
C
You get so much mail.
B
Well, it's not me. I mean, just when people die, I feel like it's like it's on me to, like, keep it going in a way. So, like. And I won't tell anybody, obviously, that we've been kissing.
C
Sure.
A
Dear Jeffrey, please bring back French butter, cheese and a baguette at your earliest convenience. Jealous, jealous, Jealous that you get to be in France. Love always, Elizabeth.
B
Yes, Elizabeth, it is me, your love. I will Be bringing French butter to you in the way of kind of taking control of global shipping lanes and kind of, you know, eventually you'll get French butter, but it will be the German butter because. Oh, how to say this? Oh, Hans, how to say this? Your love is dead. Charles or Jeffrey or Derek or whoever it was. But, you know, I'm a nice guy. Hi, I'm 5 foot 2. I am a Nazi. JK. JK. We beat them, and then somehow they still won.
A
Yeah. No, I love that men for the last 70 years have been masturbating to World War II, watching all the movies, making Quentin Tarantino movies where we kill the Nazis, being obsessed with how we beat the Nazis. I love how we did all that and then decided, actually, they're not so bad. I like that we did that.
B
I think it's very funny because the Nazis are such a good bad guy because, like, you know, universally hated. But then you just get a little ways away from it, and you're like, yeah, but we really hated the uniforms. You know, now that they're not wearing the uniforms anymore, do we care about, like, their political project? I don't know.
A
I didn't like it that they were in Europe. I wanted them here.
C
Yeah.
B
And they're still in Europe. Do you guys like World War II movies? I feel like I. Every World War II movie that I've pretty much ever seen has been one time. I've seen it one time and been like, ah, a good film.
C
Same.
B
Never. Shall I return to it?
C
Yeah, yeah.
A
Like, Life Is Beautiful is really good. And I liked Band of Brothers when it came out. I thought that was.
B
I liked it. Yeah. But I never rewatched it or anything. I watched it one time. Mariah's never seen Schindler's List, which is a heavy movie, but I remember I saw it a long time ago, and I was like, oh, this is a good movie. And she was like, I've never seen that movie. And I'm like, and I'll never feel like watching it. So we're probably at an impasse where, like, I don't ever want to. I don't necessarily need to see that.
C
Any war movie or Requiem for a Dream, I never need to see again. Yeah, there may be one. And this isn't World War II. It's World War I. But 1917, I feel like I saw that in theaters, and I was like, this movie's incredible. So that's one I might go back and watch. But I do enjoy watching them in terms of, like, especially if there's like. With Band of Brothers, there's operations and stuff that I had never heard about, where it's like, this is entertaining and I'm learning something. Like, I'm learning about all these things I had no sort of head for. So I enjoy it in that manner. But, yeah, it doesn't require repeat viewing.
B
Do you guys do the thing when you read? Would you watch a historical thing? And then you get on Wikipedia and you're like, did they do any of this accurately? And Wikipedia's like, no, unfortunately. Movies have to be entertaining. Sorry.
A
I remember being really impacted by Saving Private Ryan when I watched it, but that's another one that I don't know if I ever need to revisit.
B
I will never watch that again. And the scene. Is it the Adam Goldberg? Is that the guy's name?
C
Oh, the knife scene.
B
The knife scene. Boy, oh, boy, what an impactful piece of cinema. But that scene, after watching that, I'd be like, I could never watch that again. I could easily never watch that again.
A
A lot of people were really impacted by Zone of Interest that came out a couple years ago, but not enough.
B
People, and maybe not in the right way. If we get to my interest, maybe if we.
C
We need to bring back Putting Fortunate Son over every single war movie.
B
I think that would happen. Because that's a World War II song, right?
A
That'll fix it.
C
Hey, we haven't gotten any more Vietnam wars, so it works for Vietnam, dude.
B
You know what? Actually, Adel, I'm taking it back. I want only World War II movies and all of the soundtrack has to be Vietnam era soundtrack. Landing on the beaches of Normandy. It ain't me. I ain't no cinema.
A
Revolutionary War Fight to. That song is awesome, though. I mean, someone's done that before, I'm sure.
B
Recutting the Patriot. Yeah, like.
C
Put that over 300. This is Sparta.
B
Some folks are born. That's a great bit.
A
It ain't me.
B
Oh.
C
Wearing no Senator song.
B
All right, you guys want to take another stab at this? I know everyone.
A
I want to take another. And we're gonna take another break.
B
No, I did believe we talked about.
C
That in the Goldberg scene and then said, take another stab at this.
B
I know. I felt it as soon as I said it. What a terrible choice of words. I know everyone's secrets and everyone's announcements. Some people like to tell jokes with me. Some people like to talk politics with me. Some people like to ask me advice.
A
The Internet. Newspaper.
B
Aaron, you said the Internet.
A
That's close.
B
Adel, you Said Twitter. That's close.
A
Facebook. Reddit.
B
It's Facebook. Whoa. I do think that this is funny because they say a lot of people want to leave me alone, but few can actually avoid me. I feel like maybe this was written in, like, 2018, because I think a lot of people have successfully avoided Facebook at this point. I know I have.
C
Something I find to be maybe the worst experience in the world is selling or buying something on Facebook Marketplace.
A
Yeah, it's scary.
B
Have you done a lot of it?
C
I just got something two nights ago, and just the whole, like. It's just a really awkward experience of, like, trying to hear back from someone and then them just. It's just. I feel like it's just so weird. I got, like, a library cart, like a book cart that I thought was pretty neat, but just feel like it's always a nightmare.
A
Most of my apartment is Facebook Marketplace, and every time I go, is this coffee table worth a murder? And sometimes yes and sometimes no. Yeah.
B
It's interesting because, like, if you're selling something from your place too, you have to, like, tell people, like, your relative address. Maybe you'll meet them on the street corner or something, or whatever, but you have to, like, kind of entrust people with that. But I feel like in, like, a high, transient city, like Chicago, Louisiana. Like, some of the biggest cities in the country where people are constantly moving, the ability to get, like, great deals on things is just, like, it kind of is too good to pass up because people who are moving will, like, get rid of stuff that they don't want to take with them to it. You know, it's like, it is very much like a big city privilege when you get some, like, great finds on Facebook Marketplace. I know people that swear by. I've only used it, like, a few times myself. And it's always like, I do this as well. There's also, like, I have a fake account to use Facebook for Marketplace, and there's also a Facebook free group in my neighborhood, and if I want to get rid of something and give it away, basically I will post it in the free group and say, like, does anyone want this? But also, another big city privilege. I got rid of a coffee table this week. I just left it in the alley, and it was gone an hour later. Like, people will just come by and take it.
A
You know, I'm doing a lot more of that now.
B
Yeah.
A
Most of what you can see behind me is Facebook Marketplace, so.
B
Okay, you got blue on Facebook Marketplace.
A
Yep.
B
This is your next riddle. This is the third riddle From Colin Wilson. I'm loud but welcome. Never the same twice, but instantly recognizable. Impossible to write down, but found in every language. I make you cry, lose your breath and embarrass yourself. But you'd never wish to live without me. What am I?
A
Laughter. Laughter. It's the best medicine.
C
Time to make the giggles.
B
That's what Erin always says. She always says it's time to make the giggles.
A
That's what I say when we log on every time. I'm sick today, and I logged on today, and JBC said no makeup.
B
Okay. Hey.
A
Which is funny.
B
That was a joke that you can do when it's your friend. Okay, but you can't. There's a lot of. You know what I probably shouldn't have done in there? You shouldn't have told Eek. I'm throwing all my business all over. I do want to see.
A
It's funny.
B
It's funny. I do want to see a scene. Adol, you are going to be working in a giggle factory. It's Aaron's first day, and you're kind of, like, showing her the ropes of, like, how the giggle factory works.
C
Te hee to who? Over here is the conveyor belt. That's where we assemble the giggles. Teehee.
A
Hey, is it. Is it. Is it true that there was, like, a huge accident and, like, 20 employees died? That's why there is this, like, big hiring spree that they went on.
C
Yeah. Have you seen I Love Lucy?
A
The TV show?
C
Yeah.
A
Yeah.
C
Isn't it so funny? Yeah, yeah. They were on the assembly line and they were doing that sort of, like, eating the chocolates thing, but they were, like, eating the giggles. Like, if you put a giggle in your mouth, it's, like, very fun. On their leg got caught in the gears, and they were. Their skin came off like a glove.
A
20 people.
C
20 people. Well, because they were all holding hands. They're all trying to, like, pull each other. They form like a daisy chain. One by one, they got.
A
I'm not. It's not funny.
C
There was a. A lot of laughing. I don't know if it was, like, mass psychosis, but we had to fire everyone who saw it because they wouldn't stop laughing about it.
A
Great. So you didn't see it?
C
I saw it, but I was looking in the mirror so I was safe. Medusa rules.
A
Right? Cool.
B
Yeah.
D
Medusa rules.
C
Hey, Mark. That's Mark. Greek mythology.
A
Hey, Mark.
B
Whoa. Who's the new guy?
E
Oh, go ahead.
A
Go ahead.
C
Yeah. No, please.
A
Oh, no, it's clean. My name's Mike. Excited to work here. I was just about to ask. You probably have, like, a bunch of safety protocols in place now that that happened, huh?
B
Oh, yeah. Don't eat the giggles.
A
What are you eating right now?
B
Giggles. Yeah, I'm eating the giggles. Classic, Mark. Classic.
A
Huh?
C
So this will be your desk.
B
That's like telling Narcissus not to look in the water, man.
A
He likes Greek mythology. You know, I'm a little nervous. This seemed, on the outside, like, a perfect job. I mean, I love to laugh. Love to giggle. Right? There was clearly a bloodbath here recently, and I don't know if this is going to be a great fit for me.
B
Me.
A
Oh, in the long term.
B
Wow.
C
I wish you hadn't accepted the job, because now that you've seen our secrets, we can't just let you walk out the factory doors.
A
I can go out the back.
C
Huh?
A
I can go out the back.
C
Well, everyone goes out the back.
A
So nice meeting you. Thank you for the opportunity.
B
Everyone goes out the back was the perfect opportunity to just nod and walk away. Everyone goes out the back.
C
Everyone goes out the back.
B
That's excellent. Thank you so much for sending those riddles in, guys. I'm sorry to say that that's all the time that we have for the podcast today. Hey, before we get into plugs, I do want to give a plea to people. If you have a voicemail that you would like to submit, you can always leave us a voicemail. The number is 1-80-5-Riddle1. I believe it's also in the episode description. We have a few left that I haven't played yet, but we need more voicemails and we could always use more voicemail theme submissions. So those you can send over as a wav file to hrrpodcastmail.com and we'd love to play that on the show. I think that we. We're not going to do one today because we have to be so precious with the few that we have left. But please, please do send those in. And now we can get into the formal plugs. Now that that little request plug is out of the way, who wants to do it? I see you both looking at phones.
D
Adol.
B
Adol. Who do you want to plug?
A
I'm looking at the screen.
B
Well, okay, it's a screen.
C
Who I would like to plug or what I'd like to plug is I was recently a guest on Dan Lippert's new show, King Cockroach. It's a very good, very funny twitch stream he does as a character. King Cockroach and guests come on and play video games with him or watch him play video games. It's very, very fun. So check out King Cockroach streaming on Wednesday nights on Twitch. Aaron, anything to plug or promote?
A
I would like to plug heyriddleraddle.com live if you want to come see us for some of our fall dates. Some of them are sold out, but some of them are not. So go check it out if you want to come hang out and see us and buy a tour poster and laugh. Need some giggles, jpc, a review to read or anything to plug.
B
Yeah. So I believe Aaron in two weeks is when all of our next leg of our tour is so you can still get tickets to our late show in Nashville. I think that we might be sold out in Atlanta, so sorry if we're sold out in Atlanta and you can still get tickets in Denver. I believe we still have a few left in Denver, so definitely come to some of those. I think those are going to be like the second week of October. Also coming up on the Patreon for Hey Riddle Riddle. We have a pretty fun October planned. I can't really say much more than that, but that's going to be kicking off in a week. So definitely check out or check out our Patreon previews for that. Maybe we won't be giving so much away at our Patreon previews, but definitely check out that our October on the Patreon because I think that's going to be very fun. Also, if you haven't listened to Gumshoes and Dragons, we have four episodes coming out now. The fifth episode's going to drop on Monday. It's been very fun. We have gotten a lot of really cool, positive feedback from that show, but you can find that anywhere you find podcasts. Just look up Gumshoes and Dragons. There's also the Gumshoes and Dragons Patreon if you want those bonus episodes, which is very cool. And I think that the last thing that I have to plug doesn't our.
C
Nasty little guy Casey Sleepo Tony have a podcast called Gutter?
B
Oh yeah. If you are a fan of Casey Tony's editing, you really have to listen to Gutter. If you were a fan of his NeoSgum podcast, this is the same crew from Neo Scum. You can listen to Gutter G U T T E R wherever you get podcasts as well. It's like a actual play horror comedy. Casey. I'm probably getting most of that right, huh?
C
Yeah.
B
Yep.
C
And we recently had Brendan Lee Mullig an ep, so check that one out if you're looking for an easy starter point.
B
Yeah, I mean, who cares? He'll go on any show. He went on Gumshoes and Dragons. I mean, that show's fucking bullshit. So. All right, Aaron, I have one final riddle for you.
A
Of course.
B
What wakes up horse, goes to bed horse and has big horse teeth.
C
Whoa.
A
A woman who's been punched in the throat by a witch. Jupiter. Goodbye.
B
Created by Adol Refy. Starring Aaron Keating and John Patrick Cohen. Casey. Tony did the editing. The music logo created by Emily Cardamus and Emily Naporus. Hey there, Chats and boxes. If you like that, you're gonna love this week's Patreon. It's another ch, ch, ch, ch, ch. Chatterbox. You can listen to that plus our entire back catalog@patreon.com heyriddlerettle by joining the clue crew for $5 a month or start your 7 day free trial or the review crew for $8 a month. Plus you get those ad free episodes. See you there.
A
That was a Headgum podcast.
Hey Riddle Riddle #375: "You're My Taco R2D2"
Released: September 24, 2025
In this characteristically chaotic episode, hosts Adal Rifai, Erin Keif, and John Patrick Coan (JPC) leap from one uproarious bit to another, loosely tethered by riddles, improvisational scenes, and pop culture tangents. From debates about the jobs we give smart robots to the morality of killing silverfish, the trio blends absurdity, personal anecdotes, and razor-sharp banter—all with their signature irreverence and improv flair. Riddles and puzzles serve as springboards for ludicrous hypotheticals (and a few rants about Facebook Marketplace).
(05:00–07:01)
(07:44–09:29)
(10:35–14:05)
(15:12–20:41)
(15:40–66:38, interspersed)
Riddle: "I have a hundred legs but cannot stand... What am I?" (15:02)
Answer: "A broom." This devolves into a debate on favorite chores.
Riddle: "I don’t always have wings... Who am I?" (22:12)
Answer: "A house." Improv scene: JPC as a sentient house with Adal as the first tenant.
Riddle: "I know everyone’s secrets and everyone’s announcements... Who am I?" (52:12, answer at 63:43)
Answer: "Facebook." Leads to a digression about Facebook Marketplace and the dubious joy of using it to either buy or offload furniture.
Riddle: "I’m loud but welcome... What am I?" (66:05)
Answer: "Laughter." Improv: Orientation at the deadly 'Giggle Factory.'
(28:52–34:13)
(64:01–65:59)
(55:03–62:52)
On Robots as Delivery Drones:
On Witches & Bourne Identity:
On Audiobook Narration:
On Chores:
Absurd Scene Premises:
On World War II Movie Fatigue:
| Timestamp | Segment Description | |------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 05:00-06:29| Robots, R2D2, “You’re my taco R2D2” bit | | 09:29-10:35| Celebrity audiobook narrator improvisations | | 13:08-14:05| Jimmy Betts’ “baby rabbits” story | | 15:02-16:50| Riddle: “I have a hundred legs but cannot stand” / chores debate | | 17:46-20:41| Disaffected Mary Poppins improv scene | | 28:52-34:13| Spider pays rent improv; household bug debate | | 52:12-63:43| Riddle: “I know everyone’s secrets” (Facebook) & digression on buying/selling | | 55:03-59:45| War letter/gossip scene; critical WWII film discussion | | 66:05-69:44| Riddle: “I’m loud but welcome” (laughter); giggle factory improv |
As always, Hey Riddle Riddle leans into rapid-fire bits, meta-humor, and offbeat group chemistry. Improv seamlessly blends into life stories and listener-submitted puzzles; the conversations swing from tongue-in-cheek lampooning of modern life to surreal improvisational detours. If you’re here for pure riddle-solving, you’ll find it in glancing doses—mainline the show for the ride, the banter, and the comic absurdity.
This episode is emblematic of why Hey Riddle Riddle has a devoted following: it’s not about the riddles, but about where the riddles take them. Tangents about “taco R2D2s,” giggle factories, forgotten Facebook Marketplace finds, and the cosmic futility of bug exterminators ensure there’s always a laugh (or at least a giggle) a minute—plus, a bit of existential dread for good measure.
Plugs & Callouts
(71:03 and on)
For listeners who crave improv tomfoolery, sly cultural commentary, and running inside jokes (with riddles as garnish), this episode is an on-brand treat.