#410: Babu Friks & Geeks

Summary

Hey Riddle Riddle Episode #410: "Babu Friks & Geeks" (May 27, 2026)

Hosts: Adal Rifai, Erin Keif, John Patrick Coan (JPC)
Podcast Network: Headgum

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Episode Overview

This episode of Hey Riddle Riddle features the classic interplay of riddles, offbeat improvisational scenes, and comedic banter between hosts Adal, Erin, and JPC. While nominally a show about riddles and puzzles, the trio frequently veers off into discussions about pop culture, the evolution of media, and absurdist scenarios (with today's title nodding to Star Wars' Babu Frik). The conversation weaves through topics from podcasting trends and Star Wars alien impressions to time-traveling stand-up comedians and social media for sheep, all bookended by riotous improv and comedic asides.

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Key Discussion Points & Segments

1. Podcast Satisfaction Survey & Podcast Medium Evolution

• Survey Bit: The show opens with a mock survey about satisfaction with the podcast, featuring playful confusion about what ratings like "4" or "7" mean (00:37–02:30).
  • Aaron: "A seven is like, I bet, like, it looks like these guys have had their coffee today... Ah, fuck, I forgot we have to do riddles." [01:17]
  • JPC: “How about just one syllable sounds? Does that work for both of you?” [01:35]
• On Audio/Video Mediums: The hosts riff on how podcasts are starting as audio, becoming visual (YouTube/Netflix adaptations), and the absurdity of “watching” audio podcasts (03:03–04:35).
  • Adal: “Podcasts started off as an audio medium. They are now very popular for them to be a visual medium.” [03:50]
  • Aaron: “Podcasts are just TV again...the evolution from radio to TV over and over again.” [04:14]

2. Time-Traveling Stand-Up Comedians

• The trio invents the idea of stand-up comedians traveling to different eras and grappling with outdated or out-of-place material (07:21–11:08).
  • Adal: “You walk on stage and you're like, can you believe Walmart? And people are like, Walmart just went under.” [08:08]
  • Roleplay scenes: Erin performs in the Summer of Love (1968); JPC in the Wild West; Adal in the “distant past” (09:00–11:01).

3. Riddle and Puzzle Anxiety in Social Life

• The cast discusses the social anxiety caused by being the "riddle friend" at parties, and how lateral thinking puzzles can drive people mad (12:00–13:43).
  • Aaron: “...it was very validating how immediately they [party guests] flipped into a rage.” [13:34]
  • Adal: "That's what a riddle is!...The thing that you don't like is the thing a riddle is." [14:15]

4. Star Wars Chat & Alien Accents

• Extended riff about Star Wars, specifically Babu Frik, his possible nationalities, and which Star Wars alien each host would voice (14:48–21:20).
  • Adal: “The trailer made it seem like there is a whole community of Babu Friks. I thought Babu Frik was one of a kind.” [15:11]
  • Aaron: (after looking up Babu Frik) “If I were to cast you [JPC] as a Star Wars type alien, I think I would have it be one that looks like this.” [16:42]
  • Notable improv: Debating the real nationality of Babu Frik (“Chianti of Fricks”), theorizing about Star Wars cameos, and making alien impressions.

5. Disney & Star Wars Ownership Metaphor

• A running metaphor about Disney taking over Star Wars, likened to taking a car from grandpa and immediately wrecking it, then asking him to drive again (21:39–22:40).
  • JPC: “It’s so, so fucking funny to me.” [21:47]
  • Adal: “I’ve been watching you drive this car since I was a kid, I think I know how it handles...Slam.” [22:05]

6. Riddle Lightning Round & Improv Scenes

• Mailbox Riddle: “What three letter word can you put every other letter into?” — (Answer: “Box”) Leads to an improv scene about a mailbox being a fake rubber ass. [24:00–30:02]
  • JPC: “You can put anything up your ass if you practice.” [24:03]
  • Adal: “How do you get to ass Carnegie Hall? Practice!” [24:10]
  • Erin: “I'd like to see a scene Adol, you are a mailman...JPC's house, trying to do it quickly because he has something to complain about every day...” [27:19]
• Day Riddle: “What is the best day to move forward?” [30:06–32:02]
  • Eventually yields the pun: “March Fourth” (as in marching forward and also March 4th).
  • Adal: “March Fourth. March Fourth.” [31:59]
  • Improv about a marching band where only one member shows up.

7. Sheep, Plant, and Other Animal Social Media

• Sheep-pasture improv: JPC tries to herd Erin and Adal (as sheep who don't want to move), leading to a flurry of sheep-themed social media puns (“Sheepbook”, “Tweep”, “Instagram” = “Instagrow”, etc.) (43:59–47:46).
  • Aaron: "You're gonna be on Sheepbook. You're gonna be on Tweep. You're gonna be on—" [46:56]
  • JPC: “It’s a reverse parade and we don’t have the permits as a city to do that.” [34:19]

8. Plant/Pun Riddle

• “I’m a type of plant, but I don’t need water. I can hurt people, but I’m not poisonous. I’m almost always found on the ground when you least expect it.” (Answer: “Face plant”) (49:40–52:53)
  • Puns about “plant social media” (Plitter, Instagrow).
  • Adal: "It's a type of plant that doesn't need water. It can hurt people, but not poisonous and almost always found..." [52:51]

9. Philosophy About Life Advice Adages

• Brief riff on the adage: “The best day to plant a tree was 30 years ago. The second best day is today.” [30:44–31:13]
  • JPC: “Wouldn't today be, like, the next to worst day?...Tomorrow is obviously the worst. So today has to be, like, it can't be the best if 30 years ago is the best.” [30:59]
  • Adal: “I was always very confused by that adage.” [31:11]

10. Butt-Based Running Gags & Soundboard Gags

• Multiple references to “my butt” as both a riddle answer and fodder for end-of-year soundboard clips (59:13, 69:13).
  • Erin: “My butt, my butt, my butt, my butt... It's my butt. It's a butt. My butt, my butt, my butt...” [69:13]
  • JPC: “Aaron, you were just saying that you haven't given me any sound bites this year, right?” [56:47]

11. Star Wars/Seinfeld/Theater Finale Bits

• Scenes involving Jerry Seinfeld in a movie theater, with various impressions (64:05–66:38).
  • JPC as Seinfeld: “Why are the floors always so sticky? Oh, that’s right. I’m jerking off in here.” [66:17]
  • Erin as Seinfeld: “You talk and you talk and you talk…” [64:26]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• Meta Comedy on the Show’s Format

  • JPC: "If you don't like riddles, don't worry! This podcast is barely about them!" [00:00]

• On Riddle Frustrations

  • Erin: “If you listen to the show, you'd know that being bad at it is the brand.” [12:46]

• On Star Wars Aliens

  • Adal: “I want to say Babu Frick. It's the Babu freaking weekend.” [17:40]
  • JPC: “Babu Frick walked so Stitch could run. And neither one of them can really do that so good.” [25:46]

• On Disney Owning Star Wars

  • Adal: “...they immediately ram [the car] into the back of the semi. Bang, bang, bang.” [21:39]

• Ass-Based Mailbox Scene

  • JPC: "You can put anything up your ass if you practice." [24:03]
  • Adal: "Nature's box. The ass." [27:10]

• On Therapy and Soundbites

  • Erin: “I've been pretty careful. Oh, not that much." [20:35]
  • JPC: “Aaron, you were just saying that you haven't given me any sound bites this year, right?” [56:47]
  • Erin: “My butt, my butt, my butt, my butt, my butt…It’s my butt. It’s a butt.” [69:13]

• On Riddle/Plant Puns

  • Adal: “Sheepbook. Tweep. Hologram. Glass sheep.” [46:56–47:27]
  • Aaron: “It's going on Plitter. Instagrow.” [51:51–51:56]

• Closing Theater Scene

  • JPC as Seinfeld: “Why are the floors always so sticky? Oh, that's right. I'm jerking off in here.” [66:17]
  • Adal: “There was a little bit of Bane in there, which I don't hate.” [66:24]

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Important Timestamps for Segments

• Podcast Satisfaction Survey – [00:37–02:30]
• Podcast Medium Evolution – [03:03–04:35]
• Time-Traveling Stand-Up – [07:21–11:08]
• Social Riddle Anxiety – [12:00–13:43]
• Star Wars/Babu Frik Riff – [14:48–21:20]
• Disney/Star Wars Car Metaphor – [21:39–22:40]
• Mailbox/Ass/Box Riddle & Scene – [24:00–30:02]
• March Fourth Riddle – [30:06–32:02]
• Sheep Social Media Puns/Improv – [43:59–47:46]
• Face Plant Riddle/Social Media Plant Puns – [49:40–52:53]
• Therapy/Soundboard Discussion – [56:47–57:51]
• Movie/Seinfeld Theater Finale – [64:05–66:38]
• Podcast Plugs & Outro – [66:48–68:39]

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Plugs & Recommendations

• Erin: "Quality Time" live show in L.A., new season of "Rotating Heroes," and "Hello from the Magic Tavern."
• Adal: "Gumshoes and Dragons" (podcast), "Widow's Bay" (audio drama—dark, funny, and scary).
• JPC: "World News Tonight" (IO Theater Chicago), plus a fake ad for "Widow's Bay Biscuits" at Red Lobster.

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Episode Tone & Style

• Language/Tone: Irreverent, meta, self-deprecating, and improvisational. The hosts riff freely, often subverting riddle expectations, and are unafraid to be absurd.
• Vibe: Tangential, playful, "anti-riddle" at times; the fun comes as much from digression and character scenes as from the puzzles themselves.

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For New Listeners

This episode encapsulates the spirit of Hey Riddle Riddle: it's nominally about riddles, but truly about the unpredictable comedic chemistry between Adal, Erin, and JPC. Riddles trigger skits, digressions, and recurring bits—expect more improv and laughter than straight-laced puzzle solving.

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Notable Quote for the Episode:

"If you don't like riddles, don't worry! This podcast is barely about them!" — Show Description

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[End of Summary]

Transcript

[Aaron Sheenan]

This is a headgun podcast.

[JPC]

The doctor was the mother. He stood on a block of ice. Both of them were goldfish. He was the cabin of an airplane. He stabbed him with an icicle and the horse's name. Right.

[Aaron Sheenan]

So I'm just filling out this survey. It'll only take a second of your time. On a scale of one to ten, how satisfied are you with. Hey, riddle. Riddle. One being, ugh, this place stinks. Ten being, oh, my gosh, I'm having the best time.

[JPC]

I'm sorry, I guess I'm not truly understanding the scale. Could you give me an example of what, like, a four would be?

[Aaron Sheenan]

A four would be like. I mean, we're recording today and, like, it should be pretty good. It should be. But no, no, I'm really not in the mood to do riddles.

[JPC]

Okay. Yeah, that's not my experience. What about a 7? Because maybe I'm like, splitting the difference on the wrong side of the scale.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Right, right. Of course. A seven is like, I bet, like, it looks like these guys have had their coffee today. I feel like we're gonna have an okay time. Ah, fuck, I forgot we have to do riddles.

[JPC]

Okay, yeah, I'm truly not getting it. Just give me 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, and 9, and then I'll be good.

[Aaron Sheenan]

How about just one syllable sounds? Does that work for both of you?

[Adel Refai]

Dad, is mom at the door? Is that Mom?

[JPC]

Maybe new Mom. I'm playing my cards exactly right. Uno, reverse.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Ow. He just threw a Uno card right between my eyes. That hurt.

[JPC]

Mo Cheri

[Aaron Sheenan]

Chew is.

[JPC]

Ugh.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Three is. Four is. Oh, no, I already did four. Five is huh. Six is. Eight is.

[JPC]

Oh, is nine is better than huh?

[Aaron Sheenan]

Yeah, of course. Are you insane? First day on Earth.

[JPC]

I'm not insane. I'm. Uno gambit.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Nine is. Okay, what number Can I put down your phone number?

[JPC]

I guess I. Holy shit, son. She's hitting on me. It did work, mon am, mon ami.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Forget it, forget it, forget it, guys. Let's just. We're just gonna record an episode. I'm tired of knocking on doors.

[JPC]

Yeah, I'm tired of knocking on doors, too. And the person who said that is named jpc. Big trick out of Aaron.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Nope. The person who played the son in the scene. You're not going to believe this. It was a grown up. That's out of five.

[JPC]

Whoa.

[Adel Refai]

And then, of course, Una Gambit, adapted for the screen by Jay Bisley.

[JPC]

Adapted for the screen. And that's kind of what we're doing. We're adapting this for your Screen. I'm assuming that everybody's watching or listening to podcasts the way that I watch it on YouTube, even though it's not a video feed. So you're just watching like a blank YouTube screen while the podcast is playing?

[Aaron Sheenan]

Yes.

[Adel Refai]

Yeah.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Yeah.

[JPC]

That's how our fans engage.

[Aaron Sheenan]

I wouldn't even know how to do that. I wouldn't even know.

[JPC]

I do think that they're. There's probably a way. Right, because YouTube has, like, YouTube music, right? Or something?

[Adel Refai]

Whoa, Are they. Did they dip their toes in the music game?

[JPC]

Look, I know that when I upload podcast feeds, sometimes I get things from YouTube that says, your podcast is successfully been uploaded to YouTube, even though I have never done a video podcast in my entire life. So somehow I think you can listen to this show on YouTube.

[Adel Refai]

So obviously podcasts started off as a audio medium. They are now very popular for them to be a visual medium.

[JPC]

I see. Now it's more like an audio small.

[Adel Refai]

Uh oh, Another episode of Audio Small Audio. What do we. Where do we think this is headed? Back to audio.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Yeah. I mean, there's podcasts on Netflix now, so we've sort of. Podcasts are just TV again. Like, we keep doing, like, the evolution from radio to TV over and over again.

[Adel Refai]

Yeah. Yes. I feel like we should. Every medium shouldn't advance to tv because. Hey, some of those. What are those? The Fable games with the Wolf Detective. Oh, yeah, those popular games.

[JPC]

Yeah, Fable game. Yeah, I know it's the name of

[Adel Refai]

them, but there's a bunch. But it's like video games have now turned into tv, where it's like, all cut screens. The wolf among us. The wolf among us. Thank you, Casey.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Oh, yes.

[Adel Refai]

Very fun game. But at the same time, you have very little autonomy. It's just become a TV episode. Everything's becoming tv. How do we.

[JPC]

I would love it if our show signed a deal with Netflix. Whatever. We go exclusive on Netflix and people are scrolling through Netflix and they find our show. They're like, what the fuck? Like, I agree.

[Adel Refai]

That's not Davidson.

[JPC]

We should be devaluing everything. We should be making everyone's experiences worse.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Specifically should be devaluing the medium. Okay.

[JPC]

The people who are scrolling through Netflix podcast to be like, I want to watch a podcast on Netflix. They. That cannot be the same person that would find our show and be like, oh, good.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Hubba hubba. Yeah, I like. I like getting to not look good. Like, it's a classic saying of like, you got a face for radio, Ed.

[JPC]

I'll say something. I think this is the part where we say something, right? We have to say something like nice or something.

[Aaron Sheenan]

The window is closing on them to

[Adel Refai]

say, when I get you a cat.

[Aaron Sheenan]

That's exactly what I was testing you

[Adel Refai]

for doing, and you passed the test.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Well, that is not a cat. That is a very six something. But not a cat.

[Adel Refai]

Well, possums are obviously.

[JPC]

I make myself pretty for you. Aaron, you're not.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Yeah, you look. I mean, you look gorgeous this morning.

[JPC]

That sounds pretty for me.

[Aaron Sheenan]

But like, video killed the radio star. In order to be a big podcaster, now you have to be hot again. Excuse me.

[Adel Refai]

I like this. I like the music days back where like, someone's like, hello, baby. And you're like, that guy could look like anything.

[JPC]

Sounds like one guy.

[Adel Refai]

Well, the Big Bopper, of course, sounds

[JPC]

like the Big Bopper.

[Adel Refai]

I forget his real name.

[JPC]

Chet Popper.

[Adel Refai]

Chet Bopper. Tom Hanks's son. Chet Bopper. But I like the days where you put on a song and you're like, I don't know what this person looks like. They could be anything. And now it's like I have to look at. I have to look at a guy eating hot wings for two hours.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Yeah, you have to.

[JPC]

And you were telling me you think we should all put on suits when we go on airplanes again too. Right?

[Adel Refai]

I feel like we've become real relaxed as a kind of put on your Sunday best. Can I fly? Act like you're going to church. Yeah, please.

[JPC]

We used to put on suits to fly on an airplane, and now we're all putting on suits to watch on an airplane. Now. This is a joke. This will only work seven years ago.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Okay, so.

[JPC]

But it's never seven years ago again.

[Adel Refai]

Time traveling stand up.

[JPC]

Okay. Okay, New character. All right, let's do it. Let's play time traveling stand up.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Okay, great.

[Adel Refai]

I like the idea of going further in time and trying to relate and failing. Okay, so we're doing time traveling stand up.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Okay.

[JPC]

Well, yeah, here's my thing with time traveling stand up.

[Adel Refai]

Yes.

[JPC]

Do you think Adol, you would be better as a forward time traveling stand up or a backward time traveling stand up?

[Adel Refai]

I think backward forward's a challenge, though. Forward's. Forward's a challenge. More of a challenge. But you could.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Or it's just how standups have to write their stand up right now. Like if they have a set tomorrow night, it's forward, isn't it?

[Adel Refai]

Aaron, all stand up is in the future.

[Aaron Sheenan]

That's what I'm saying.

[Adel Refai]

Holy shit. So, yeah, you walk on stage and you're like, can you believe Walmart? And people are like, walmart just went under. And we're like, oh, oh, shit, I'm ruined. Shuffles through my cards.

[JPC]

Oh, God. My whole standup bit was about how successful Walmart is. Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit.

[Adel Refai]

I'm a good stand up.

[JPC]

Okay, so time traveling stand up. Yeah. Let's see. Do you want send me two a year or Aaron?

[Adel Refai]

Aaron. We're going to send you two a year.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Great. I'm ready.

[JPC]

Okay. Aaron, time traveling standup. Let's send you to Summer of Love. What is that, 68?

[Adel Refai]

69, baby.

[JPC]

69 or 68? I can't remember which one it is, but either way, Aaron.

[Adel Refai]

68.

[JPC]

68. Summer of love.

[Adel Refai]

Okay, so let me just crack this possum in half and just drink from the bottom half. Arin. And this will send you back in time.

[JPC]

Oh, that's what you thought the bottom half of opossum was, huh? I would have said the other half.

[Adel Refai]

Interesting. Oh, Aaron's gone.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Hey, everybody, thanks so much for coming over here.

[Adel Refai]

Yeah, man, thanks for being here.

[Aaron Sheenan]

I got a couple questions for the group. These are just two things that are of equal importance in my mind right now. Number one, how many more Kennedys do you think we're gonna lose to assassination?

[Adel Refai]

What?

[Aaron Sheenan]

Number two, when do we think deodorant's gonna sort of have its big boom, huh? That's my time.

[JPC]

That's all our time.

[Adel Refai]

This is all our time.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Appreciate Diane Keaton while you've got her.

[Adel Refai]

That's my d. We probably got another 45 years.

[Aaron Sheenan]

That's what I'm saying. But appreciate it.

[JPC]

That's why not to go to the

[Aaron Sheenan]

Vietnam War, if you can. That sounds awful.

[JPC]

Are there any celebrities that are going to die earlier than Diane Keaton in 45 years?

[Adel Refai]

Don't tell me Woody Allen dies.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Man, you wish. I don't even think he's famous yet. Oh, oh, oh, oh.

[Adel Refai]

The Beatles writer for Sid Caesar's. Your show of shows.

[Aaron Sheenan]

I didn't drink enough of the possum. I'm out of here. I was gonna tell you to maybe save the Beatles, but, oh, that's the worst part. Have you guys been to the moon yet?

[JPC]

Anyways, don't drink enough of the possum.

[Aaron Sheenan]

You guys. I'm back and I crushed. And there's no way for you to check.

[Adel Refai]

Whoa, Aaron. That's funny, because JVC had already. And I already went back in time and did ours.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Oh, how'd it go?

[JPC]

Great.

[Adel Refai]

JPC was in the Wild west, he did get shot in the stomach. Cool.

[JPC]

Just the stomach, though. Missed everything important.

[Adel Refai]

And I went back to 2023.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Oh, that doesn't feel like far enough.

[JPC]

If you ever go into. If you ever go into the wild, wild west, like, era and you're doing stand up, they really do not.

[Adel Refai]

Wicker, wicker.

[Aaron Sheenan]

And you know what?

[JPC]

Maybe it makes sense, but they really did not like, my white people drive like this. Black people drive like this because they were like horse rain. Well, I didn't. It would have been.

[Aaron Sheenan]

You just pretended to ride horses two different ways.

[JPC]

I had to explain cars to them. Which.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Did they get scared?

[JPC]

No. If I had Taylor made it to their thing that. Oh, God. Well, I'm not going back. It's just not worth it. Nope. Would you.

[Aaron Sheenan]

No. I'm going back. 2012, I got a Mitt Romney binders filled with women joke that I think is going to crash.

[Adel Refai]

For that to be a soundbite from not too long ago and then for all the soundbites we have now. Boy, oh, boy.

[Aaron Sheenan]

I know.

[Adel Refai]

What a world. But this is a world of riddles, which I love.

[JPC]

What a segue. A world of riddles.

[Adel Refai]

Can you imagine the Disney ride?

[JPC]

Can I ask you guys a question? Now, I don't even remember what it was that I saw, but sometimes I guess you'll just be watching TV or a movie or something and. And someone will bring up riddles. In the show or in the universe of the thing, do you ever get, like, a little. I don't know what it would be. Maybe like a spike of anxiety where it's like.

[Aaron Sheenan]

It's like seeing an X. Yeah.

[JPC]

It's like something. Exactly. Aaron. It's exactly like seeing an ex.

[Adel Refai]

That's how I feel like when I see a Sudoku because I'm like, I've. I haven't been touching crosswords or Sudoku.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Like, I've been clean.

[Adel Refai]

Yes. I've only been on lateral thinking puzzles

[JPC]

clean from Sudoku. It always, always tripped me up when that happens, where I'm like, oh, riddle. My work, my work life and my home life, they're blending.

[Aaron Sheenan]

You also, like, I feel an un. Like an intense pressure to get it right if I'm ever crossing a riddle or doing, like, a puzzle in real life. Because people are like, isn't that your whole brand? I'm like, no, no, no. If you listen to the show, you'd know that being bad at it is the brand. This past Saturday, I went to a birthday party and the birthday boy wanted, like, A riddle or a fun fact as a gift.

[JPC]

Okay.

[Aaron Sheenan]

And so I brought a riddle book.

[Adel Refai]

Who is this kid?

[Aaron Sheenan]

His name's John Marr. He's really nice. He's a good guy. Don't knock it till you try it. But I hung out with some people who were going to the party before, and so I was just reading them some of the riddles. And it was very validating how immediately they flipped into a rage.

[JPC]

Oh, okay.

[Aaron Sheenan]

And they were like, it's not. That's a joke. That's not a riddle. And I'm like, yeah, guys, this is what. Why do you think I'm so mad all the time?

[JPC]

That's my secret cap.

[Adel Refai]

I've done that before where people are like, well, give me a. Cause they hear what I do and they're like, give me a riddle. I'm like, I guess my favorite's like, it's the cabin in the woods thing.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Yeah.

[Adel Refai]

Where it's like there's a. You know, and people are like, well, you didn't say there's a movie. You made it sound like an airplane.

[JPC]

But he didn't direct or sorry.

[Adel Refai]

It's a cabin of an airplane. And people are like, you made it sound like a cabin in the woods. And I'm like, oh, that's the thing.

[Aaron Sheenan]

That's what a riddle is.

[Adel Refai]

But they're like, you made us believe it was like a house and it's an airplane. And I'm like, well, that's.

[Aaron Sheenan]

I would start to choke that person.

[Adel Refai]

There's the rub.

[JPC]

The thing that you don't like is the thing that a riddle is. And I agree. I don't like it either, but that's what it. It's what it is.

[Aaron Sheenan]

You haven't seen what I see. You don't know pain. Like, I know pain.

[JPC]

It's like eating at a Boston market. You sit, you go, huh? So it's like a. It's like a Thanksgiving dinner as like a normal restaurant meal.

[Adel Refai]

And you're like, that's what Thanksgiving baked beans and Aaron is this like, was that like Liza Minnelli is like a Sith Lord? You don't know pain like I know pain. Uh huh.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Okay, hold on.

[Adel Refai]

I guess that's Seth O. Merman.

[JPC]

Which Mandalorian and Grogu. Huh? How do we feel, guys? Are we watching it? Is it out yet? It's probably out. By the time this comes out, it's probably out. Here's something I can.

[Adel Refai]

The one thing that I would see the movie for. I'll probably see it eventually, when it comes to streaming, the one thing I would see it in theaters for is the trailer made it seem like there is a whole community of Bubu Fricks. I thought Bubu Frick was one of a kind.

[JPC]

Is that what it's called? Like a murder of crows? A community of Bubba Frick.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Hold on.

[JPC]

I love that.

[Adel Refai]

It's a Chianti of Fricks. Cause Babu Frick's Italian, right? That's an Italian alien.

[JPC]

Yeah.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Well, okay, guys, I don't know.

[JPC]

No, let's do it. Let's do what the nationalities of all of the aliens from Star wars are. Let's start. Watto. Who wants to go? Who wants to do Watto?

[Aaron Sheenan]

Do you think Cassian and Andor is going to be in this new Star Wars TV show? If not, I'm not interested.

[JPC]

Is there a new Star Wars TV show? This is. I've only heard about Mandalorian and Grogrumps. That's the news I'm on. Is still like the current news. What's the future news with Star Wars?

[Aaron Sheenan]

Saying that the thing that you're talking

[JPC]

about, it's a movie.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Oh, that movie. Do you think that Cassian Andor is in it?

[Adel Refai]

Yeah, but it'll be like he goes into a bar and somebody bumps him and he's like, oh, excuse me. And it'll be him. Like, it'll be that kind of like little Easter egg where people go eee versus a scene or anything.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Right.

[JPC]

But it's his character from Itu Mama 10 Bien.

[Aaron Sheenan]

It's even. It's his character from Dirty Dancing Havana Nights. I jpc. Can I say something? And you have to promise to not get mad.

[JPC]

Aaron, you have my solemn vow.

[Aaron Sheenan]

I'm looking at pictures of Babu Frick.

[JPC]

Okay? Hey, so far, not even close to mad. I ain't mad at that. I ain't mad at you looking at pictures of Babu Frick.

[Aaron Sheenan]

And I'm thinking that if Rule fool, if I were to cast you to voice a Star wars type alien, I think I would have it be one that looks like this.

[JPC]

But. Okay, that's eren. That's one of the more kind things that you've ever said to me, and I don't deserve that. The Babu Frik's voice, though, I just don't think is in my. You think that I don't know what

[Aaron Sheenan]

Babu Frik sounds like. So I'm coming in completely blind.

[JPC]

Aaron, is this possible? Did you never see Star Wars 9? Was it episode 9 where they introduced Babu Freak?

[Adel Refai]

Aaron, darling, One of the great joys in life. Chocolate. Chocolate cider. What other parts?

[Aaron Sheenan]

I think I saw that movie and I have no memory of what that voice is.

[JPC]

Should I look it up already? Chocolate's good.

[Adel Refai]

Chocolate cider too. Cider as well. Aaron, there's a little. I want to say a little mechanic who lives in. I want to say the walls and who sounds like.

[JPC]

I want to say Babu freak.

[Adel Refai]

I want to say Babu freak. It's the Babu freaking weekend. Aaron, you gotta listen to a little.

[Aaron Sheenan]

I'm looking it up.

[JPC]

Here we go. I can't believe, Eren, that you have no. Cause I don't remember anything from episode nine. Right. Was it episode nine that he was in?

[Adel Refai]

I believe so.

[JPC]

But the thing that I do remember is Babu Phrik. Like, that's the one thing I remember.

[Aaron Sheenan]

I remember seeing this character, but I don't remember the voice. I'm listening to it now.

[JPC]

Okay, okay. Aaron live listening to Babu Freak.

[Adel Refai]

He was in the one with the Casino planet, Right.

[Aaron Sheenan]

And the me and the Babu. And then the Babufik. Sounds like this with the booty boo. It does sound pretty Italian.

[JPC]

Let's see. Let me go on to Babu Frick's IMDb and see. Oh my God. Babu Frick does not have an IMDb. That means the only movie he was ever in was the Star wars movie. That's sad for him.

[Adel Refai]

Well, I mean, there's not a lot else you can't see him in like beef or something. Beef?

[JPC]

Why not?

[Adel Refai]

Frick Oscar Isaac. Why not opposite? Well, I guess Oscar Isaac was in Star Wars.

[JPC]

Babu Frick is on season five of the Bear. They're gonna do another like Thanksgiving episode or whatever.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Behind.

[Adel Refai]

Who voices Babu Freak? It's gotta be someone big.

[JPC]

It's played by Shirley Henderson in Star Rise of Skywalker, which I believe is the Last 1. Episode 9.

[Adel Refai]

Is that the lady who does the Minions?

[JPC]

Shirley Henderson is a Scottish actress.

[Aaron Sheenan]

She's Moaning Myrtle. She's in Bridget Sprinkler. That's a Bridget Jones diary. Yep.

[Adel Refai]

The lady who sounds 12.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Yep. That's awesome.

[Adel Refai]

That's her real voice, right? It's like a Yeardley Smith situation.

[JPC]

Yeah, I guess so.

[Adel Refai]

Situation makes it sound adol.

[Aaron Sheenan]

What Star wars alien would you want to voice?

[Adel Refai]

I think one of the jawas.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Oh, that would be good.

[Adel Refai]

Yeah, because they're like. They always have very explosive one word responses where they're like wootini.

[JPC]

Oh, God, I would love a wootini right now.

[Aaron Sheenan]

I know it's been you two both being jawas. You Guys being jawas who are fighting and shoving each other would be very funny.

[Adel Refai]

Ooh, Timmy.

[Aaron Sheenan]

And I'm your little porg friend.

[Adel Refai]

Yeah. Eren, what alien would you be voicing?

[Aaron Sheenan]

I mean, I know that porgs don't talk, but the level of anxiety in their eyes is like. It speaks to me.

[JPC]

They might not talk, Eren, but one can imagine that they groan and grunt when they make love.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God, I hate you so much.

[Adel Refai]

Casey, can you hit play on that? Oh,

[JPC]

yeah, we don't listen to that audio.

[Adel Refai]

Claire de Lune while some Borgs. Some Borgs get down.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Adult or not adult. Jpc I think I'm jinxing this. I feel like I haven't been giving you much fodder for the end of year soundboard this year, and I'm really proud of that. I've been pretty careful. Oh, not that much.

[JPC]

You feel that's something that you think

[Aaron Sheenan]

that's something I believe.

[Adel Refai]

Aaron, do you mind voicing a Gungan just so we can hear what that would sound like? What?

[Aaron Sheenan]

Which one's a Gungan?

[JPC]

Oh, Aaron.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Oh, yes.

[JPC]

Hold on, hold on.

[Aaron Sheenan]

I forgot that he was a Gungan.

[JPC]

Yeah, fucking right. Which one's a Gungan? Yeah, goddamn right.

[Aaron Sheenan]

How about a pasta?

[Adel Refai]

Ooh, pretty. Italian.

[Aaron Sheenan]

I can't believe they did that. Do you think that they. We've talked. We talked this to death. We don't need to talk about the voice.

[JPC]

What George Lucas did to those movies. Yeah, Okay. I know there's a lot of Star wars discourse, especially with Mandalorian popping off, but it is so funny to think that all Those prequel movies, 1, 2, and 3 came out and people were so disillusioned with, like, George Lucas's choices. And George Lucas was so disillusioned that he sold everything off to Disney. Disney made three worst movies. It was like. It's. It's such a crazy chain of events that were like, oh, yeah, these.

[Adel Refai]

It's like, give us the keys to the Cadillac, Grandpa. You can't drive anymore. And then they immediately ram me to the back of the semi Bang, bang, bang ban.

[Aaron Sheenan]

They pull out of the driveway and hit a tree.

[JPC]

It's so, so fucking funny to me.

[Adel Refai]

And then they're walking out dazed, and they're like, grandpa, please, please get back into the driver's car.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Grandpa, come back. The absolute arrogance that they. They revved the engine, they put on sunglasses. They put the top down on. See you. Fuck.

[Adel Refai]

I've been watching you drive this car since I was a kid. I think I Know how it handles.

[JPC]

Slam. I got it. You taking your grandpa's Cadillac and then three people tried to drive it in different directions at the same time.

[Aaron Sheenan]

J.J. abrams is like, I've been thinking about this for 20 years. I think I'm gonna nail it. Slam. Oh, my God, it hurts.

[Adel Refai]

Meanwhile, andor hums by in a electric version of a Cadillac.

[JPC]

Yeah.

[Adel Refai]

Being like, hey, suckers, they're driving one

[JPC]

of those Chinese electrics. And you're like, oh, man. I guess the future right go by.

[Adel Refai]

Losers.

[JPC]

$20,000, huh? Okay, cool. Well, fuck me. Let's do some riddles.

[Aaron Sheenan]

You know what? Gbc. I never thought of that. And that is so funny. Oh, man, that really tickled me. I'm ready for riddles. See, now I'm at. I'm going to answer my own survey. I am at a 9.

[Adel Refai]

Okay.

[JPC]

Only took 25 minutes to get you there, but hey, who.

[Aaron Sheenan]

It always takes me 25 minutes to get me there.

[JPC]

If we can go ahead and insert the porg fil.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Oh, no.

[Adel Refai]

If we could just start every episode with a little bit of time travel and a little babu frick. And a little chocolate or cider with your hope.

[JPC]

And some babu frick.

[Adel Refai]

I want to talk about me. Want to talk about mine? Talk about babu frick. Oh, yo, my. Can you imagine Toby, Keith and Babu Frick just fishing?

[Aaron Sheenan]

Tobu, Keith and Keith Boufrick.

[JPC]

Can you imagine Tobu, Keith and Keith? Oh, God. Okay.

[Adel Refai]

A countryfied, deep fried baboo frick. Now I'm hungry.

[JPC]

People almost don't deserve how good this show is.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Now I'm hungry. This is a riddles and puzzles podcast.

[JPC]

Riddles and puzzles podcast.

[Adel Refai]

Babu Frick podcast. Here we go. What three letter word can you put every other letter into? What three letter word can you put every other letter into?

[Aaron Sheenan]

Envelope.

[JPC]

Oh, ass.

[Adel Refai]

Okay.

[JPC]

You can put anything up your ass if you practice.

[Aaron Sheenan]

If you live close enough to a hospital.

[Adel Refai]

How do you get to ask? Carnegie hall practice.

[Aaron Sheenan]

10,000 hours.

[Adel Refai]

10,000 hours. Malcolm Glydwell. What three letter word can you put every other letter into? Now, Aaron, you are on the right track with envelope in that. It's. Maybe we weren't talking about letters. We're not talking about the Alphabet. Maybe we're talking about physical mail.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Okay. Yeah.

[Adel Refai]

What three letter word can you put every other letter into?

[JPC]

I can't believe it's not ass.

[Aaron Sheenan]

I can't believe it's not butter.

[Adel Refai]

I want to see a commercial for JPC's version.

[JPC]

They had to cut most. Okay, so it's a Three letter word that you could put every other letter into. Oh, fuck me. ABC. Oh, right, the ABCs.

[Adel Refai]

No, I do like that, though.

[JPC]

That's pretty good though, right?

[Adel Refai]

That is pretty good. TFC can have a seat. You've.

[Aaron Sheenan]

What the.

[JPC]

Can I. Can I share a brief anecdote from my life? My kid recognizes letters and they recognize words as the ABCs, but they don't know which letters are which yet. They're two and a half. But the other day we were doing a puzzle. It was a stitch puzzle. And there was writing on the stitch puzzle. And my kids saw the writing on the puzzle and they were like, my name. And I was like, oh, no, no. Stitch does not know your name. Stitch.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Oh, that's so cute.

[JPC]

This is not a custom puzzle. Your name is.

[Aaron Sheenan]

You could have let that one go. You could have let that one go.

[Adel Refai]

No, wait a minute. Is Babu Frick just Stitch

[Aaron Sheenan]

on the same planet?

[JPC]

Stitch walked so Babu Frik could run. And neither one of them can really do that so good. So Stitch could probably run.

[Adel Refai]

Stitch has six legs.

[JPC]

I think the thing about Stitch is he was never. He. They doesn't matter. They were never a puppet. But Babu Freak is a puppet, like, exclusively. And running as a puppet is, like, a much harder thing to do. Right? Like that's.

[Adel Refai]

Oh, yeah, Kermit. A bicycle.

[JPC]

Yeah. That's why, like, Jim Henson is a magician, because, like, Jim Henson could make the puppets run. I don't know anything, Aaron, is that correct? Is Jim Henson the man who can

[Adel Refai]

make the puppets run?

[Aaron Sheenan]

I'm checking my notes. And Jim Henson is the man that can make the puppets run.

[Adel Refai]

That makes it sound like he was keeping them in a warehouse and they had the pissing bottles and stuff.

[JPC]

Jim Hinson loading a crossbow. Fair shake here, tapping his watch.

[Adel Refai]

Guys, the comedy has to be done by midnight.

[Aaron Sheenan]

It's time to pay the piper.

[Adel Refai]

Back to work. Back to work, everyone. No breaks.

[JPC]

What three letter words can you, Piper,

[Adel Refai]

put into every other.

[Aaron Sheenan]

And this is about physical mail.

[Adel Refai]

Yes. This is along the lines of envelope or where physical mail would go. What three letter word can you put every other letter into? So even with the word mail, think of a three letter word that would pair. Be a nice pairing with mail.

[JPC]

Uh, okay. Fuck me. Letter. No, that's too many.

[Adel Refai]

It's not Ass.

[JPC]

Box. Box. Box.

[Adel Refai]

B, O M. Like a mailbox.

[JPC]

Mailbox. So wait, I said ass. And I was so close. Honestly, I was just a couple inches off nature's box.

[Adel Refai]

The ass.

[Aaron Sheenan]

I'd like to see a scene Adol you are a mailman, and you are about to deliver mail to JPC's house, and you're trying to do it quickly because he. He has something to complain to you about every day about his mail.

[Adel Refai]

Okay, Here you go, Todd. Just throw it on the porch. Let me just.

[JPC]

Excuse me, excuse me. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't throw it on the porch. I checked with my city councilor. That is a regulation mailbox, okay? And there is no rules that says that you can't design your own real synthetic ass. You still have to open the door. It's all regulation. And you have to put the mail into the synthetic ass.

[Adel Refai]

Thank you for your comment. I am mail tron5000.

[JPC]

No way you got that? That technology is months away. Months away.

[Adel Refai]

6,000.

[JPC]

You should have said 6,000. Hey, I'm sorry. Do you have a problem with putting my mail that I, by the way, get legally? Okay, I'm not mailing letters to myself. Those are. You can check all the names on. Those are real names and real return addresses. With putting my mail in my fake rubber ass mailbox. It's anatomically correct.

[Adel Refai]

It's. It's. Listen, it's disgusting, okay? And also, all your mail. Let me go through your mail here.

[JPC]

I think your shorts and hats are disgusting.

[Adel Refai]

Excuse me? These are.

[JPC]

I think your shorts and hats are disgusting.

[Adel Refai]

Wow. Wow, that is unbelievable. These are our pride. These are our livelihood. These are customized with our safety in mind. Look, let me see. If I try and climb this fence, do my shorts get caught on this chain link? No, actually, hold on. Actually, hold on.

[JPC]

Help. Oh, okay. You want my help now? Well, he's. Psst.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Honey, do you think you're convincing him that this ass is a fake ass and not my ass? Is he buying it? Is he buying it?

[JPC]

Well, now he's not, Rebecca. Well, now he's not.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Do you think he.

[JPC]

Can you just have a blanket on the front of you? Of course he can hear through the blanket. Okay? It's not a sound blanket.

[Adel Refai]

A bee's going in your mailbox.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Let it.

[JPC]

Okay, One ticket to Panama, please. I'm out of here. See what's going in your mailbox.

[Adel Refai]

Wait. Your mailbox was your wife's ass, right?

[Aaron Sheenan]

Whoa.

[Adel Refai]

Am I crazy?

[Aaron Sheenan]

Oh, my God. You can't just say a mailbox is a wife's ass. Yeah, you know, you're not crazy. At what?

[JPC]

Yeah. Yeah, you're not crazy. The mailbox was my wife's ass.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Big time. Big time, big time.

[JPC]

The mailbox was my wife's Ass.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Yeah, that's.

[Adel Refai]

This is more of a pun than a riddle. What is the best day to move forward?

[JPC]

Best day to move forward. Okay, let's think about it. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. None of these are puns. Thursday, Friday, moving forward. No. Saturday, Sunday. No.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Are there any more days of the week besides that? Are we forgetting any?

[JPC]

Now that is the Roman days of the week. But we could do the. And just one other culture, jpc, in just one.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Any country.

[JPC]

The best day. Today. Today. Isn't that.

[Adel Refai]

I mean, that's almost like good therapy, right?

[JPC]

Yeah.

[Adel Refai]

Here's. What is it they say the best day to plant a tree was 30 years ago. The second best day is today. And I'm like, isn't the second best day 29 years, 363 days ago?

[JPC]

Wouldn't today be, like, the next to worst day? Right. Cause, like, tomorrow is obviously the worst. So today has to be, like, it can't be the best if 30 years ago is the best.

[Adel Refai]

I was always very confused by that adage.

[JPC]

Yeah. Whenever someone cracks that adage out, I get fucking furious. And people love that because basically what they're just saying is, like, plant a tree. It's good for the environment.

[Adel Refai]

Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. My wife's a vegetarian, and you can't

[JPC]

teach a wife anything. So I've been told.

[Adel Refai]

What is the best day to move forward? And take a page out of the Star wars book, the aforementioned Star wars

[JPC]

tome, may the 4th be with you. Okay.

[Adel Refai]

But it's not may the 4th that's taken.

[JPC]

Okay.

[Adel Refai]

So you want to move forward.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Spring.

[Adel Refai]

May 4th is taken.

[JPC]

May 4th. Okay. Okay.

[Adel Refai]

But there's other.

[JPC]

January 4th.

[Adel Refai]

It can't be done on the board.

[Aaron Sheenan]

March.

[Adel Refai]

March 4th. March 4th.

[JPC]

That one's pretty good.

[Adel Refai]

I do want to see one quick scene before we go to break.

[JPC]

Okay.

[Adel Refai]

Aaron, you are, I want to say, conductor who leads a band in, like, a marching band. Conductor.

[JPC]

Conductor, sure.

[Adel Refai]

But they have a baton instead of a little baton.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Yeah, you could have.

[JPC]

Aaron, you could have a little baton as a treat.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Thank you.

[Adel Refai]

Aaron, you're about to lead a parade for a city's bicentennial celebration.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Great.

[Adel Refai]

But as you sort of get excited and get ready to time the march, you turn around and realize it's just JPC in the print.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Whistle sound. Whistle sound. Whistle whistle. 1, 2, 3. And I'm hearing a sad tuba. What is that? Sad tuba. I'm turning around. I'm turning around and I'm sorry.

[JPC]

Would I miss. Did I miss my Did I miss my. I should have. Should I have. I'm so sorry. Should I have started or did I miss.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Where the hell is everybody?

[JPC]

I'm sorry.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Where is everybody?

[JPC]

It's just me.

[Aaron Sheenan]

What? Where? There's 80 people in this band. One tuba.

[JPC]

No. They reformed. Well, so I guess what happened was, like, the city. I don't understand how it works. Like, the city broke up. Up the band, and then they had to reform. But then they had, like, they could only. 79 people.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Where are they? Did they quit?

[JPC]

No, I swear to God. This is what they told me. They could only have 79 people in the new band, but then they had to start, like, a satellite band, and so they got a new band director. So it's just me now in this band.

[Aaron Sheenan]

And, like, you're a nice guy, and you're lying to me. I can tell you're trying not to hurt my feelings. They didn't want. They didn't think I was good enough to start the parade, and they quit.

[JPC]

They. They reformed another band, and I was the only one that said I wouldn't leave this band without you. And they said, that's fine. We don't like you enough, Mike, to put up with Rachel for another day. So they started another band. But I'm still here, and I. And I still think we could do, like, you know, great things together. I think we could. Yeah.

[Aaron Sheenan]

This is my dream. To open the parade. Absolutely. No problem. Here we go. I'm just gonna start over.

[Adel Refai]

Hey, sorry. We're. We're all just gonna start walking. You, you. You guys stay still.

[Aaron Sheenan]

We're ready. We're ready.

[Adel Refai]

We're just gonna inverse it. We're gonna invert it. You stay still, and we're gonna walk by.

[Aaron Sheenan]

You see, that doesn't make much sense. The whole. That actually is not how a parade works. That's a reverse parade, and we don't have the permits as a city to do that. Here we go. Whistle sound. Let's let him do whistle sound.

[JPC]

Let's just let him do the reverse parade thing.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Whistle sound.

[Adel Refai]

Please, please.

[Aaron Sheenan]

March with your big tuba. Come on, Mike. Do not abandon me. This is my dream. And, yes, I went on that crazy rant last night at rehearsal that everyone was a fucking loser and wasn't giving their best and that people are also letting themselves go physically. Everyone looks kind of ugly. I said, carrie, would it kill you to get Botox? Would it kill you to get Botox? And she went, actually, my mom got a botched Botox. That's how my mom died. And I go, well, yeah, if the shoe fits. So I get why people are annoyed, but come on, let's go.

[JPC]

And people. People didn't truly even really understand what it and the shoe fits means in that context.

[Aaron Sheenan]

That was an awesome comeback. It made a lot of sense in the context I march.

[JPC]

Oh, okay, look, I'll. I'll march. But just, well, just so you know, just so you know, this isn't a tuba. It's a cardboard tuba. They took the instruments as well. Tubas are like, super expensive.

[Aaron Sheenan]

That noise when we first were marching, I. I'm sorry.

[JPC]

I stepped on a bird.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Oh, that bird is not even dead yet. Kill that bird.

[JPC]

It's an eo. It's an eo. So it's. It's fine.

[Adel Refai]

Any bird of nature sounds like it too, but it's an emu. Folks, we're going to march to break. And we'll be right back with candy next with.

[JPC]

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[Aaron Sheenan]

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[JPC]

Hey, everybody. JPC here and I want to talk to you about Rocket Money, but I couldn't do it without my two friends, Adel. What's up, adolescent? And Aaron. What's going on, Aaron?

[Aaron Sheenan]

Ew.

[JPC]

Classic. Classic, you guys. Anyway, Rocket Money, let's talk about it. Rocket Money is a personal finance app that is going to help you get your life together. Rocket Money can track subscriptions and has the ability to cancel unwanted ones within the app with just a few taps, saving users over 880 million in canceled subscriptions. Aaron, how does that sound? You guys don't Speak Aaron's language, but to me, I know that means very good. Plus, they have automatic transaction categorization across accounts, plus customizable categories and tags to reveal spending patterns. If you are saving for something big, like a wedding, which I have saved for before, it can help set budgets and goals. Plus, you get personalized insights and regular reports and receive real time alerts for large transactions, upcoming bills, refunds, and low balances. Plus, users who create a financial goal with Rocket money save over $70 on average within the first 30 days. Wow. Adel. $70. That sounds like a lot of money, huh? Wow. Well, you can also use their automated savings features that grow towards goals with adjustable amounts and frequencies. It's a set it and forget it approach, but don't take my word for it. You gotta try it out yourself. Rocket Money. Rocket Money is a personal finance app that helps find and cancel unwanted subscriptions, monitors your spending, and helps lower your bills so you can grow your savings. Let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster. Join RocketMoney.com Riddle that's RocketMoney.com Riddle RocketMoney.com Riddle Yes.

[Adel Refai]

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And we're back. And let's get right into another riddle here. I can charge, but I don't need a power cord. I have horns, but they don't honk. You can drive me, but I don't have wheels. Cattle.

[JPC]

Yeah, like a bull, right?

[Adel Refai]

Yeah, it says here a bull. Cattle.

[Aaron Sheenan]

I'd like to see a scene. Gpc, you're an Australian shepherd and you are trying to herd me and adolescent and we're not totally a huge fan of what you're trying to do.

[JPC]

Lies applied. Lies are blind. Lies applied.

[Aaron Sheenan]

So I was like saying that like, yeah, it is so frustrating to communicate as well as communicating and then to have someone like, no, you're the right energy. Thank you so much for saying that.

[Adel Refai]

Honestly, she is lucky to have you in her life and if she doesn't, she doesn't realize that then I think you need to set boundaries and just kind of walk away.

[Aaron Sheenan]

I really appreciate you saying that because I feel like your relationship's so healthy and we all like, like, I obviously don't want to put your relationship on a pedestal, but you've been married like 10 years.

[Adel Refai]

Yeah, thank you. I appreciate it.

[Aaron Sheenan]

And so it just means a lot hearing that company so crazy.

[JPC]

That's not crazy. That's not a crazy.

[Adel Refai]

What the.

[JPC]

Sorry, I was. Sorry, I was waiting for one of you to say knife or something like it. So I Could say it.

[Adel Refai]

Knife.

[JPC]

This is a crazy. Sorry. I work for the festival and I. But you're not allowed to be where you are, so.

[Adel Refai]

Okay.

[JPC]

Yeah, you have to.

[Aaron Sheenan]

We made a reservation to eat this grass, and we're actually not even done eating the grass, so.

[Adel Refai]

Yeah, we have this field until 5:45.

[JPC]

Oh, my mistake. Keep. You know, keep on doing what. What you do. I'm sorry, my boss is. He's really pointing at the two of you and says, God? Yes, the shepherd. Todd. I work for him. Todd.

[Adel Refai]

Yeah. Where are you from?

[Aaron Sheenan]

So, anyways, it's non.

[JPC]

Clear.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Like, obviously you give a lot of advice to other people and I don't.

[JPC]

That's not advice. No, that's not advice.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Sorry, I'm really trying to talk to this advice.

[Adel Refai]

It's not advice. You know what?

[JPC]

That one actually worked a little bit. Right?

[Adel Refai]

You. Hey, you take this acre. We're gonna. We'll move over to the next plot. Okay. We'll go this way.

[JPC]

That one's long, fellow. So I can't let you. Unfortunately. No, Stop.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Stop blocking us.

[JPC]

Stop.

[Adel Refai]

Can you.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Hello?

[JPC]

I'm gonna raise him. No, please. Hey. Don't. Please don't run me.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Oh, he's biting my ankle. Ow. Don't. Don't bite in my ankles.

[JPC]

Hey. Hey, Stone. Know what else?

[Adel Refai]

Leave her alone.

[JPC]

I'd love to leave her alone, but I won't do that.

[Adel Refai]

Okay, I'm taking out my sheep phone. Do it and I'm recording you.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Do it.

[Adel Refai]

All right, bitch.

[Aaron Sheenan]

You're being recorded, bitch. What now, bitch?

[Adel Refai]

You're being recorded, bitch. What now?

[Aaron Sheenan]

What now, bitch? Wow. Say what you were saying right before we started recording you.

[Adel Refai]

This is going every corner of sheep Internet.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Yeah. Just Sheepbook is gonna love this.

[JPC]

That's okay.

[Aaron Sheenan]

You're gonna be on the news. I hope you like it.

[Adel Refai]

You're gonna be on Sheepbook. You're gonna be on Tweep. You're gonna be on.

[JPC]

That's okay. Yeah.

[Adel Refai]

Hologram.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Yeah. Instagram.

[JPC]

I heard you.

[Adel Refai]

One

[Aaron Sheenan]

tick tock. But it's ticks. Because sometimes sheep get

[JPC]

sheer.

[Adel Refai]

Wait, sheer?

[JPC]

But you're. You're sheep, so why would it matter? It doesn't matter.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Sheepden.

[JPC]

Sheep in.

[Adel Refai]

That's where we all connect. Glass sheep. That's where we see how much everybody eats sheep.

[JPC]

But it's Yelp. What are we doing? Seed, I guess. Wait, what would that be called? That'd be called, like, bleat. No, bleating is more like goats.

[Adel Refai]

We all bleat. Every man bleats. Every man Bleets.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Has anyone ever made a video of a sheep singing bleeding love? And I just keep going, I keep bleeding. I keep, keep bleeding in love. Aaron, has anyone ever made that video?

[JPC]

Looking through my phone. Don't believe that video's been made.

[Adel Refai]

What's funny is, as you started to sing that, I was like, oh, no. Aaron's singing I Keep Falling in and out of Love,

[JPC]

which I think starts

[Adel Refai]

with the exact same help.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Jpc. You weren't actually looking at your phone. You sent me therapist recommendations. Okay, heard, heard, heard, heard.

[JPC]

Ah, Those are just recommendations, Aaron. You could go to any therapist you like, within reason.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Okay, all of these are you in different wigs and mustaches. Never mind. Everyone back to riddles. I'm ready.

[JPC]

It's expensive.

[Adel Refai]

That's professional wigs.

[JPC]

Expensive to buy all those professional wigs.

[Aaron Sheenan]

I'd actually like to see a scene.

[Adel Refai]

Uh oh.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Jpc, I'm me and you are my therapist, and I want you to just try to fix me. Let's see if this works. Let's see if you can do this.

[JPC]

Oh, I'm sorry. Therapy is not like a massage. You do not need a disrobe and get under a blanket, fuck you scene.

[Adel Refai]

Well, hold on. Let's see.

[JPC]

Well, I mean, Aaron, in my defense, why did you do that?

[Aaron Sheenan]

I didn't do that. You just used the power of improv to say that I did that. You can't be using improv powers for bad, Aaron. It's not nice.

[Adel Refai]

Hot stone therapy. Swedish therapy is so good.

[JPC]

So in right now, they walk on your back.

[Adel Refai]

I'm a type of plant, but I don't need water. I can hurt people, but I'm not poisonous. I'm almost always found on the ground when you least expect it.

[Aaron Sheenan]

What am I, a spy?

[JPC]

Acorn,

[Adel Refai]

Spine. Acorn. No.

[JPC]

I'm almost always found on the ground.

[Adel Refai]

Although I do like the idea of that spy being a type of plant. I think that's along the right lines of thinking.

[JPC]

Okay, so you liked my screenplay, so just say that. I don't understand.

[Aaron Sheenan]

He read it. He read it.

[JPC]

Why it has to be.

[Adel Refai]

I do want to see a scene. Jpc, you are a spy. You're an undercover agent, Aaron. You and I are house plants and GPC's trying to infiltrate us. So I was talking to Dave and he was saying that you.

[Aaron Sheenan]

What?

[Adel Refai]

That you told him just to. To break up with Margaret. Which I think is. I feel like you have really healthy relationships and I feel like you give really good advice.

[Aaron Sheenan]

That is like, I like, wasn't Saying to break up, but I was, like, saying.

[JPC]

Pardon. Does anyone know what the good light is?

[Adel Refai]

Whoa.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Oh, you look sick.

[JPC]

No, just another plant here. No, I'm not a. No, just another plant trying to find the good light.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Hey, man, I really can't get sick. I was sick last week. I got kind of brought back to life after a vacation. I don't know if I can stand.

[Adel Refai]

Yeah, you've got bags under your buds. Listen, you're. Something's wrong. Your stems.

[JPC]

You know, I think maybe I'm just a different type of plant.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Oh, you look bad.

[Adel Refai]

You look bad. Your soil is rotten.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Any plant standards, you're, like, wilty, but also kind of stiff.

[JPC]

The soil can be changed, Right? And soil's not an inherent part of the plant.

[Adel Refai]

Will taste stiff.

[JPC]

Just give me some of your soil, water or.

[Aaron Sheenan]

No, Whatever you have cannot be fixed.

[Adel Refai]

Yeah, no, thanks. Hard pass. Anyway, so. Yes, and, well, what we consider dogs. Wait, what's the.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Of the. Hey, man, you're standing in my sunlight. Can you give us some space, please?

[JPC]

Well, it's just. It's. It's the sun, it's the sunlight. It's not really yours.

[Adel Refai]

It goes everywhere, so you don't need to be right here, buddy. Okay, move along.

[JPC]

Well, by the window. It doesn't go through walls.

[Adel Refai]

Okay, I'm taking out my plant foam, recording this all.

[JPC]

No, please.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Wow. Get em.

[JPC]

Get em.

[Aaron Sheenan]

This is going on plant Facebook and everyone's gonna see. And now I'm gonna think of more puns for other.

[Adel Refai]

It's going on Plitter. It's going on.

[JPC]

Do as videos you can.

[Adel Refai]

Instagrow.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Instagrow. It's going on Instagram.

[JPC]

Three more. I'm leaving length trim. I'll leave on that one, Steve. I can't think of any plants and social media.

[Adel Refai]

Actually, that might be the answer. I'm a type of plant, but I don't need water. I can hurt people, but I'm not poisonous. I'm almost always found on the ground when you least expect it. So think about plants and social media, but drop the the.

[JPC]

Okay. It's a type of plant that is part of the media.

[Adel Refai]

Well, part of the. Just trying to get you to the word. Okay, so more of a breadcrumb trail than, like a literal thing.

[JPC]

A book. Face.

[Adel Refai]

Book.

[JPC]

No face. A face.

[Adel Refai]

Yeah. And then add the one word that you mentioned earlier.

[JPC]

A book. No, no. Face plant.

[Adel Refai]

Yes, it's a face plant.

[JPC]

A face plant.

[Adel Refai]

It's a type of plant that doesn't need water. It can hurt People, but not poisonous and almost always found can hurt people.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Since when has anyone faceplanted and it didn't hurt? That sounds like something a kid would say after they faceplanted in front of their whole soccer team.

[Adel Refai]

I do wanna see a scene.

[JPC]

I'm okay.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Okay.

[Adel Refai]

Aaron, you're at a new high school. This is the first day of for you at the school of class. And JPC and I are talking in the hall and you come in and have a little bit of a slipsie.

[JPC]

Yeah. So I don't know. I mean, like, it's just like they're always on my case.

[Adel Refai]

Yeah.

[JPC]

I don't think my homework is any worse than anyone else's homework.

[Adel Refai]

No, no, no, no. I feel like. You study. You study.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Hiya, fellas. I just moved here from Florida. My dad got a job. He also. I'm burying the lead. My parents got a divorce. They. He encouraged me to come up to the two coolest guys I could find on the hallway and.

[JPC]

Whoa.

[Adel Refai]

Holy shit.

[JPC]

Shit.

[Adel Refai]

Oh, she's dead.

[JPC]

That chick started talking to us from down the hallway and was walking over and took a locker directly to the face. I mean, that was. That locker was open the whole time.

[Adel Refai]

She was walking locker to the face. She did a backwards, I want to say a 980 and landed on her feet. But then another locker opened.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Dad, pick up, pick up, pick up, pick up, pick up, pick up.

[Adel Refai]

Oh, she's calling someone.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Pick up, pick up, pick up, pick up, pick up, pick up, pick up, pick up.

[Adel Refai]

Hey, go for Dan. Just kidding. I'm at work right now. Leave a message after the beep.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Dad, please quit your job. We have to move again.

[JPC]

Beep.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Oh, God. Dad, please quit your job. We gotta move again. I'm gonna call your boss. If we get you fired, we're gonna move. Oh, God. I blew it. I happened again. Third school in a row. It happened again.

[Adel Refai]

We get to the principal's office. Madeline, I feel like you're not making friends fast in school. It seems like already I've had to take you out of three classes for bullying.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Why is the locker here in the meeting with me?

[Adel Refai]

Well, the locker says that you ran into it.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Oh, the locker said I ran into it. Great.

[Adel Refai]

You've been saying that we sent the locker home because you said the locker slammed into you. Yeah, and the locker's status here, actually. And we tried to call your dad, but we got a very funny answering machine. So the locker's dad is just gonna dress you down for a minute.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Um, sir, I did not run into you.

[Adel Refai]

Combination. Combination,

[JPC]

please. And wash your hands before you start typing in with your little dirty kid fingers all over my digits.

[Aaron Sheenan]

I don't have dirty kid fingers. Your kid's dirty.

[JPC]

I was at the fucking plant, minding my own business, doing my job, when I got a call to come pick up my son, who was heartbroken because this is the first school he's ever been in that he fit in to the space where they put the lockers. And I had to come all the way down here because you lied?

[Aaron Sheenan]

Yeah, I was. Being a single parent is hard. My dad goes through some of the same struggles.

[JPC]

Oh, yeah.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Maybe you guys should get a drink or something.

[JPC]

I'd love to. I'd love to.

[Adel Refai]

Okay. We also found drugs in your son, so we do have to.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Me or him? Only in my ass. I live close to a hospital and I practice. I got my 10,000 hours only in my ass.

[Adel Refai]

The flag was up.

[JPC]

And Aaron, you were just saying that you haven't given me any sound bites this year. Right? That's something you said. Whoa, Aaron, you can put only in my ass. Right next to you saying that you've been so good all year long. In the face.

[Aaron Sheenan]

I knew I was jinxing it. I knew.

[JPC]

We gotta move to video. We gotta move to videos that people can see. The face that Aaron makes when she

[Adel Refai]

realizes she said 28, 36, 24. Only if it's in my ass.

[JPC]

Wow, Aaron. We're talking about acid. Aaron's talking about worn out spaces.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Oh, God.

[JPC]

Get a clue, get a clue.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Here's some sound bites for you. My ass is a worn out space. Are you happy? Merry Christmas, everyone. Christmas is coming up because it's the end of the year. Soundboard episode. Fuck this. Don't sing the chicks. Wide open spaces. You can't use this clip now. It's too long. You'll never use it because then we'll have to hear it a bunch. And then Adam will pick this clip. Adam will pick this clip that we have to listen to this 16 times at the end of the episode. And it won't be funny. So that is how I'm buffering it, as I'm making this clip too long. So you won't use it.

[JPC]

That's just simple, my darling. It's simply not how clips work.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Yes, it is, bitch.

[Adel Refai]

Aaron, speaking of, how did your audition go to join the chicks?

[Aaron Sheenan]

They said I was too interested in George Bush and I was too pro George Bush to join Aaron.

[Adel Refai]

You just think he's funny though, right?

[Aaron Sheenan]

Yeah. Adel and I have been sending each other whimsical George Bush clips back and forth. And Adel, I've been finding it quite soothing.

[JPC]

Is it clips of him being whimsical or you being whimsical about George Bush clips?

[Aaron Sheenan]

Clips of him being whimsical because he's such a joke.

[JPC]

Yeah.

[Aaron Sheenan]

And I don't know, I just. Some of these clips of him, it makes me think of Adol because I just feel like he'll think they're funny.

[Adel Refai]

Very funny. Also, I've been thoroughly enjoying Widow's Bay.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Oh, my God.

[JPC]

Good.

[Adel Refai]

That's something also that you guys talked about.

[Aaron Sheenan]

It's so scary.

[Adel Refai]

It's incredible.

[Aaron Sheenan]

They mentioned Hingham in the most recent episode.

[Adel Refai]

I heard.

[Aaron Sheenan]

I was so excited. And then that episode, I went in alone for that one. I watched it alone and I got so scared in that episode and couldn't find my remote and was just screaming no. While I was digging through my couch. I was like, no, no, no, no, no.

[Adel Refai]

The reveal is bonkers.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Oh, so scary.

[Adel Refai]

Let's do dee dee Dee Dee. Let's do another riddle here.

[JPC]

I love another riddle.

[Aaron Sheenan]

I'm scared. I'm scared for another riddle.

[Adel Refai]

I open and close, but I don't have a lid. You can see me and hear me, but you can never taste me.

[Aaron Sheenan]

My butt, my butt, my butt, my butt, my butt, my butt, my butt, my butt, my butt, my butt, my butt, my butt and my butt. It's my butt. It's a butt.

[Adel Refai]

Okay, Casey, clip that gift.

[JPC]

The gift. The gift that keeps on giving.

[Aaron Sheenan]

You're not going to use this.

[JPC]

A national treasure. You're not going to for whatever nation you happen to live in.

[Adel Refai]

Aaron, I love your gift of the Magi, which is I sold my watch to buy you a comb and you're like, my butt, my butt, my butt,

[JPC]

my butt, my butt.

[Adel Refai]

The gift of the Magi.

[JPC]

So was there more to the riddle?

[Adel Refai]

Yes. I open and close, but I don't have a lid. You can see me and hear me, but you can never taste me. I'm something you can feel, but I can't be touched. I'm long, but cannot be measured in inches. I'm really light. What am I?

[JPC]

Okay, so this is like a stand up comedian set. It's gotta be like a really long set, but also light. So it's like a Jerry Seinfeld. Although he never opens. Who would Seinfeld open for?

[Adel Refai]

Here's the thing.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Larry David.

[JPC]

Larry David.

[Adel Refai]

I don't have this on full authority, but I Think Seinfeld actually opens quite a bit, which frustrates a lot of standups, because he'll pop into, like, the Comedy Cellar. They'll be like, jerry's doing a pop in. And they're like, that's amazing. So I'll get seen. And they're like, well, hold on. He's opening. Because then he can leave.

[JPC]

So does that cherry.

[Adel Refai]

Oh, oh.

[JPC]

Get seen by Seinfeld? I'm so stupid. I couldn't. I was like, you'll still get to go. But no, that's not what that means either. So never mind.

[Adel Refai]

Yeah, I open and close, but I don't have a lid. You can see me and hear me, but you can never taste me. I'm something you can feel, but I can't be touched. I'm long but cannot be measured in inches. I'm really light. And I'm really light. Has a double entendre.

[Aaron Sheenan]

It's like stars or like. It's like. It's something that emits light.

[Adel Refai]

Aaron. It involves stars and jpc. Stand upset was actually adjacent.

[Aaron Sheenan]

It's adjacent.

[Adel Refai]

Or Seinfeld, that you're in the right. You're walking in the right pasture.

[JPC]

Movie stars, Movie theater or. Okay, what the fuck noise was that? Aaron, have you ever heard my butt?

[Aaron Sheenan]

My butt. My butt. My butt. My butt. My butt, My butt, my butt. And back to you.

[Adel Refai]

I mean, you basically got it.

[JPC]

Okay. Camera or a camera or light flash from a camera?

[Aaron Sheenan]

No, projector.

[Adel Refai]

Yes. But a projector plays.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Movies.

[Adel Refai]

Yeah, film, movies. I open and close, but I don't have a lid. You can see me and hear me, but you can never taste me. I'm something you can feel, but I can't be touched.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Well, if it works.

[Adel Refai]

And yes, measured in inches. And I'm really light, I think is, you know, both. A real film is gonna be lighter on a flash drive, and the projector, it's just light.

[JPC]

A movie can be, like, light. Like, light fare, you know, like.

[Adel Refai]

Yeah. Some Like It Hot.

[JPC]

Some Like It Hot.

[Aaron Sheenan]

End of list.

[Adel Refai]

Apartment. Just casual comedies about infidelity.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Adol. That actually is a pretty good riddle.

[Adel Refai]

Yeah, I like that one.

[JPC]

I like it. It doesn't work for 40x, which is the only way that I see movies. Because with 40x, you can taste the movies we come to the theater to taste.

[Adel Refai]

I do want to see a suit.

[JPC]

Some people do hot dogs.

[Adel Refai]

Hot dogs.

[JPC]

The episode's not over. No, the episode's not over.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Come on.

[JPC]

No, no, no.

[Adel Refai]

I do want to see a scene very quickly also. Can I Aaron, can I just say yes?

[Aaron Sheenan]

Hi, Adam.

[Adel Refai]

One of the worst. Hello.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Hi. How are you?

[Adel Refai]

I'm good. I wish this episode was more about Babu Frick.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Me too.

[Adel Refai]

But Aaron, I was going to say something. I miss not having you at 40x is a stupid thing that I do. Among the many stupid things I do is a lot of times when I go to see 40x, I get the hot pretzel with scalding cheese. And then the minute I sit down, and then I meet Casey and JPC in the 40x theater. And the minute I sit down I go, oh, no, because the seats. The seats are a bucking bronco. And now I have to eat. I have to lean forward and try and scarf down a piping hot pretzel that's 350 degrees as fast as possible before this seat kills me and before

[Aaron Sheenan]

you get like third degree burns from the hot cheese. That is cartoonish. You're setting yourself up for a cartoon accident.

[Adel Refai]

It's pretty rough.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Also, you shouldn't be allowed to eat in 40x. People are choking to death. I'm sure at 40x all the time. Pretzels going down their air pipe.

[JPC]

Speaking of guys, I just had a cartoon accident. I inked my pants.

[Adel Refai]

Oh, no, no.

[JPC]

That is so sweet. If you guys responded that way. That's. That's a friend who genuinely.

[Aaron Sheenan]

You've ruined me.

[Adel Refai]

I do want to see a quick scene. This will be our final scene, Aaron.

[JPC]

Or let's of the day.

[Adel Refai]

Of the day, jbc. You are in a theater about to watch a film.

[JPC]

Okay.

[Adel Refai]

You think you're the only other person in the theater, so you're pretty happy about that. But then, Aaron, you are actually a few rows behind jpc. And you are Jerry Seinfeld.

[JPC]

Oh, this is pretty nice. God.

[Adel Refai]

We now present our feature presentation.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Oh, my God.

[JPC]

There's no one else in here.

[Aaron Sheenan]

They just did. They just said you don't make noise. They did a whole little movie at the beginning of the movie about not making noise. Now what are you doing? You're making noise.

[JPC]

Meet me. Oh, my. I thought that was the movie for a second. Is it cartoon squirrel talking to me? Hello? Who's. Who's there?

[Aaron Sheenan]

I'm back here. You think you're alone in the movies and you talk and you talk and you talk.

[JPC]

Oh, I'm so sorry, sir. I didn't. I did not realize there was a human man in here. I thought. I thought, I'm a human man. I thought maybe a cartoon bee was in the theater. I did not I did not realize.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Oh, is that a job? I can't even believe it. Really?

[JPC]

What would the joke be?

[Aaron Sheenan]

You're making fun of my B movie. Larry David won't return my phone calls.

[JPC]

Oh, Larry David. Oh, my God. Are you.

[Aaron Sheenan]

No, no, no.

[JPC]

Are you Larry David? No, I've only ever heard of the show.

[Adel Refai]

I can't believe we fell in love

[Aaron Sheenan]

trying to hear the movie.

[Adel Refai]

Mia Mama Tambienne and you and ET ET Mama Tambien.

[Aaron Sheenan]

It's ours. It's ours.

[JPC]

They can't make it work. I hope Babu Frick has said this,

[Aaron Sheenan]

but see, that is not a Jerry Seinfeld impression. That was not sitting right in my body.

[Adel Refai]

Well, it was Jerry Seinfeld in a K hole.

[Aaron Sheenan]

You do it. You do it. You do it. You do it. You do him in a movie theater. Show me that.

[Adel Refai]

Hey, who's. Someone left goobers on the floor. Those are supposed to go in your mouth. These are floor goobers.

[JPC]

There's a little bit of bane in there, which I don't hate.

[Adel Refai]

Yeah, I was born in the darkness.

[JPC]

Got him.

[Adel Refai]

Hey, you heard this. Now I'm turning you into jail right now.

[Aaron Sheenan]

All the same to me, Aaron.

[Adel Refai]

My apologies. Tougher than I thought. Jpc. Jpc. You do one.

[JPC]

You do Seinfeld in a movie theater?

[Aaron Sheenan]

Yes, please.

[JPC]

Why are the floors always so sticky? Oh, that's right. I'm jerking off in here.

[Adel Refai]

Okay, a little bit of the look like the count.

[JPC]

Yeah.

[Adel Refai]

What? Yeah. One, two, three.

[JPC]

One, two.

[Adel Refai]

And that almost sounded like James Brown.

[JPC]

Like.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Yeah, fuck Jerry Seinfeld. Anyways, Hot dogs.

[Adel Refai]

Hold on, hold on.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Can't I. Aaron, we're. What?

[Adel Refai]

We're about to bite into a hot dog. But before we do that, Aaron, do you have anything to plug or promote?

[JPC]

What if you had something to plug or promote, Aaron, and you had just hot dogged out of here and you had forgotten to plug or promote something?

[Aaron Sheenan]

Great point.

[Adel Refai]

Someone please think of the plugs.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Quality time. My LA show that I'm very proud of. I love it. It's a variety show. I'm also on the most recent season of Rotating Heroes with some of my favorite guys. Other than you guys, of course. And we're having a lot of fun. Okay. You are demons. And I think I would also like to plug hello. For the Magic Tavern. Not just because I've been recording stuff over there lately, but. But it's also a great show. Hot dogs.

[JPC]

No, no, hold on, hold on now. Aaron, just do your plush.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Yeah, just my plush.

[JPC]

Okay.

[Adel Refai]

I want to plug and promote Gumshoes and Dragons, a podcast the three of us do with our friend Anthony Birch. It's a rollicking good time. Had some very fun episodes recently on there. And also Widow's Bay. Check out Widow's Bay. It's so dark and weird and funny and well done and well written and acted. It's incredible. Jpc, anything to plug or promote or.

[JPC]

I'll just add that if you're ever at Red Lobs, check out their crossover promotion, the Widow's Bay biscuits. They are to die for. I love those biscuits. And it's endless shrimp going on at Red Lobster and I don't know, English shrimp. I don't know. It could very well be. Well, one thing that I will actually plug this weekend. This Saturday night is the last World News tonight show at IO. That is at 7:30 on Saturday. And if there's no tickets left, you should get a ticket and go see that show. It's very fun. It's at IO Saturday at 7:30. I also want to read a review. This is a five star review submitted by Dust Mote. Dust Mote writes. Five stars really helps. I was recovering from a Mumford and Sons overdose and this really helped, huh? Wow. So hey, it doesn't matter. We help somebody and that is special. Thank you, Dustmoat.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Oh, that does make sense. I remember that joke. It took me a second, but now I remember.

[JPC]

Okay, so one of us and hot dogs. Created by Adol Refai. Starring Aaron Sheenan and John Patrick Cullen. Casey. Tony did the editing and Marty parented the music. Created by Emily Cardamus and Emily Naboris.

[Aaron Sheenan]

I feel like I haven't been giving you much fodder for the end of year soundboard this year and I'm really proud of that. My butt, my butt, my butt, my butt, my butt, my butt, my butt, my butt, my butt, my butt, my butt, my butt and my butt. It's my butt. It's a butt. My butt, my butt, my butt, my butt, my butt, my butt, my butt, my butt. And back to you.

[JPC]

Hey there tsnas. If you like that, you're gonna love this week's Patreon. It's scenes from an airport. You can listen to that plus our entire back [e-mail] heyvertovertle 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.

[Aaron Sheenan]

That was a Headgum podcast. Hi, I am Mandy Moore.

[Adel Refai]

Sterling K. Brown and I'M Chris Sullivan, and we host the podcast that was Us now on Headgum.

[Aaron Sheenan]

Each episode, we're gonna go into a deep dive from our show. This is us.

[Adel Refai]

That's right.

[Aaron Sheenan]

We're gonna go episode by episode. We're also gonna pepper in episodes with different guest stars and writers and casting directors.

[Adel Refai]

Gonna cry. Yes. A little bit. Are we gonna laugh a lot?

[JPC]

A whole lot.

[Adel Refai]

That's what I'm hoping, man. Listen to. That was us on your favorite podcast app. Or watch full video episodes on YouTube or Spotify. New episodes every Tuesday.