Patreon Preview #293: The Mumbles Ultimatum (Spooky House of Horrors pt. 3)

Summary

Hey Riddle Riddle Podcast Summary
Episode: Patreon Preview #293: The Mumbles Ultimatum (Spooky House of Horrors pt. 3)
Release Date: October 18, 2024
Hosts: Adal Rifai (Adol), Erin Keif (Eren), and John Patrick Coan (JPC)
Platform: Headgum

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Introduction

In episode #293 of Hey Riddle Riddle, titled The Mumbles Ultimatum (Spooky House of Horrors pt. 3), the hosts—Adol, Eren, and JPC—continue their adventurous quest to unravel the mysteries surrounding Uncle Mumble's haunted mansion. This Patreon Preview dives deeper into their eerie experiences, blending humor with suspense as they navigate the challenges of their spooky endeavor.

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Waking Up in the Basement (00:02 - 01:48)

The episode kicks off with Adol urgently trying to wake up his companions:

Adol [00:02]: "Aaron, wake up. Wake up. Wake up."

Confusion ensues as the trio realizes they've unknowingly fallen asleep on the porch of the haunted house and have been moved to a chilling basement, reminiscent of a "kill room." The atmosphere is tense, with the cold creeping in:

Adol [00:33]: "You look super cold. I mean, we're all cold. We fell asleep outside on a porch."

As they grapple with their disoriented state, JPC offers a semblance of normalcy by suggesting they get coffee:

Adol [00:21]: "Should we get coffee?"

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The Quest for Coffee (01:48 - 09:56)

Determined to find warmth and clarity, the hosts decide to seek out coffee. Adol takes the initiative to ascend halfway up the basement stairs alone, but soon realizes his friends aren't joining him. This leads to a humorous back-and-forth about the logistics of their coffee run:

Adol [01:48]: "I'm halfway up the steps, and I realize that my friends are not coming with me. So I'm like, am I going to get the coffee?"

They discover a nearby coffee place named Uncle Mumble's Basement Coffee Bean, boasting a four-star rating with 300 reviews. The trio reviews the feedback to gauge the quality:

Adol [02:27]: "Four stars out of five. Yeah. But there's like 300 reviews."

The hosts attempt to place an order but encounter several obstacles, including a confusing shift change and limited menu options. Eric, the barista, communicates in an almost robotic manner, adding to the eerie ambiance of the encounter:

Aaron [05:35]: "Hi. I think we'll take three of those coffees."

Eric [06:10]: "Shift change. Drawer counting. Okay. 20, 40, 60, 80, 200. Have a good shift."

As they struggle to understand the availability of coffee and navigate the limited late-night menu, the hosts inject humor into the situation, debating the effectiveness of a knock-knock joke involving a character named Dwayne:

Eren [04:43]: "Have you guys ever heard that joke that's like knock, knock."

Eren [04:50]: "Dwayne the bathtub. The baby's drowning."

Adol [04:04]: "Also, that's not the quickest way to save the baby."

Their attempts to secure coffee are met with confusion and frustration, highlighting the chaotic nature of their predicament:

Aaron [07:17]: "We will take three mini pizzas."

Eric [09:13]: "No."

The episode concludes with the hosts still grappling with their failed coffee mission, teasing future developments in their spooky adventure:

Adol [09:51]: "Listen to the rest of the episode now by starting your free seven day [e-mail]."

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Key Takeaways and Insights

1. Humor Amidst Horror: The hosts skillfully balance the eerie setting with lighthearted banter, making the suspenseful moments more engaging and relatable.

2. Dynamic Interactions: The interplay between Adol, Eren, and JPC showcases their chemistry and improvisational prowess, keeping listeners entertained through unexpected twists.

3. Engagement with Audience: By involving elements like reviews and interactive ordering attempts, the episode invites listeners to immerse themselves in the narrative.

4. Teasing Future Content: The preview format sets the stage for upcoming episodes, building anticipation for the continuation of The Mumbles Ultimatum storyline.

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Notable Quotes

• Adol [00:33]: "You look super cold. I mean, we're all cold. We fell asleep outside on a porch."

• Eren [04:50]: "Dwayne the bathtub. The baby's drowning."

• Aaron [07:17]: "We will take three mini pizzas."

• Adol [09:51]: "Listen to the rest of the episode now by starting your free seven day [e-mail]."

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Conclusion

Patreon Preview #293: The Mumbles Ultimatum (Spooky House of Horrors pt. 3) offers a captivating glimpse into the hosts' continued adventures within Uncle Mumble's haunted mansion. Through a blend of suspense, humor, and dynamic interactions, Adol, Eren, and JPC deliver an engaging narrative that leaves listeners eager for more. Whether you're a fan of riddles or simply enjoy a good spooky tale with laughs, this episode is a delightful addition to the Hey Riddle Riddle series.

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Transcript

[Adol]

Adol. Aaron, wake up. Wake up. Wake up.

[Aaron]

What's up? What's up?

[Adol]

Oh, my God. I think we fell asleep on the porch of the haunted house. And it looks like someone moved us into a basement. And it's kind of like a. Like a kill room. Like a. Guys, wake up.

[Aaron]

Oh, God. How about Eren? How'd you sleep? How about Aaron? Would you dream? How about Aaron? Are you cold?

[Adol]

You look. You look super cold. I mean, we're all cold. We fell asleep outside on a porch.

[Aaron]

Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. You're going too fast. All right, last thing I remember was.

[Adol]

Should we get coffee?

[Aaron]

Yes. Okay, let's get coffee.

[Adol]

Coffee.

[Aaron]

But first, coffee. Last thing I remember. Okay, we had.

[Eren]

Aaron had you sleep.

[Aaron]

Thank you, Adol. Thank you, Adol.

[Adol]

You guys, hold on, Wait a second. Am I running out to get the coffee or are you guys coming with me? When I said let's get coffee, I wasn't like, I don't want to go alone. I hate going alone to get coffee.

[Aaron]

Well, why offer to get coffee if you're not going to get us coffee?

[Adol]

I wasn't offering to get coffee. I was offering for us to go get coffee. I was like to do the whole.

[Aaron]

Okay, all right, hold on. Let me just. I'm getting my bearings. Last couple weeks, we were supposed to go into Uncle Mumble's mansion, Haunted mansion, to stay overnight, to get a million dollars. We didn't quite make it in those two times. We made it over the fence and onto the porch. We started laughing. We started smoking some weed. We started hanging out and we fell asleep. We are in a basement. We're in a cold, scary basement. Now we are waking up. JBC is offering to get us coffee. He has offered to go buy us coffee.

[Adol]

I'm halfway. Halfway up the basement. I'm halfway up the steps, and I realize that my friends are not coming with me. So I'm like, am I going to get the coffee? And then like, what the fuck? Like, am I ordering it? Like, no one even gave me an order. I know exactly how you like it, but that's neither here nor there.

[Eren]

Wait, let me look up. There's okay, coffee. Coffee in the area. Oh, it looks like there's a coffee place that is 38ft from here. It's called Uncle Mumble's Basement Coffee Bean.

[Adol]

Oh, I don't want to go there. It's got four stars.

[Eren]

I think I can see.

[Aaron]

That's really good.

[Eren]

I think I see it from here.

[Adol]

Four stars out of five. Yeah. But there's like 300 reviews.

[Aaron]

Okay, read some of them.

[Adol]

Let's read a five star review and let's read some one star reviews. Okay. Because we. Because sometimes when people write a one star review, it like says so much more about that person.

[Aaron]

Sure.

[Eren]

Okay, here's a five star review. Coffee, exclamation point. Okay.

[Adol]

I don't know how we feel about that.

[Aaron]

Honestly, that makes me feel kind of neutral. I don't really have an opinion about that.

[Adol]

This is a five star review and this says they're a local guide. So I think you can only get local guide status if like you like write good reviews.

[Aaron]

Oh, okay. Okay.

[Adol]

Okay. So this is five star. The title is Coffee with an exclamation point. Okay. And there was no review in the body. So it's just. Honestly someone just wonder if this is.

[Eren]

Someone did it a few times.

[Aaron]

Okay, here's a three star review. Kind of middle of the road.

[Adol]

Yes, middle of the road.

[Aaron]

Let's see, let's see. This one just says coffee the period, you know?

[Adol]

Yeah, coffee, period. Not exclamation point.

[Aaron]

No.

[Adol]

Maybe that's what gave it the three stars. Should we read a one star review? Sometimes these are just like. Yeah, yeah. Okay, here's one. Here's. It's a one star review. This is from Dwayne. Worst coffee.

[Eren]

But what's the. What, what sort of period? Exclamation point, question mark?

[Adol]

Yeah, it's just all caps.

[Eren]

Oh, speaking of Dwayne, have you guys ever heard that joke that's like knock, knock.

[Aaron]

Who's there?

[Eren]

Dwayne.

[Aaron]

Dwayne who?

[Eren]

Dwayne the bathtub. The baby's drowning.

[Aaron]

Oh my God, that's awful. Oh my God, that's awful.

[Adol]

Also, that's not the quickest way to save the baby.

[Eric]

Right?

[Adol]

Just pick the baby up at what? Why do we need to Dwayne the tub? Like Dwaning the tub is going to take forever.

[Eren]

Yeah, just be. You know what? That joke has a lot of holes in it. Yeah, it doesn't hold up.

[Adol]

Yeah, yeah. Wish the bathtub had a lot of holes in it. Would Dwayne quicker.

[Aaron]

It doesn't.

[Adol]

Okay. Yeah, let's just go here. Hey, I'm sorry. Are you guys open?

[JPC]

Yes, we are open.

[Adol]

Okay, great.

[JPC]

From 4 to 4:15.

[Adol]

I have no idea what time it is. We just woke up here. I have no idea what time it is.

[JPC]

It is 4:08.

[Aaron]

Oh. Oh my God. What do I want? Do you guys have any croissants?

[Dwayne]

No.

[Adol]

What about a croissant? Do you have a croissant?

[Dwayne]

No.

[Adol]

Okay. Sorry, Eric.

[Eren]

Do you guys do, like, matcha?

[Aaron]

No. Do you do pastries of any kind?

[Dwayne]

No.

[Aaron]

Iced coffee?

[JPC]

Coffee.

[Adol]

Yeah, coffee. Like I said, iced coffee. Do you have. No. So just drip coffee? Just hot coffee?

[JPC]

Yes.

[Adol]

What kind of roasts do we have? Is it like a light, a medium, a dark? Just coffee.

[Eren]

Okay, Is like whole bean or coffee. Okay, we got that. Hey.

[Adol]

Okay.

[Eren]

Hey. Aaron and jpc.

[Aaron]

Yeah, what's up?

[Eren]

Would you guys. Would you guys say this is like. Do we say this is like a skeleton or like, what do we think this is like a skeleton?

[Adol]

I wanted to say skeleton, but I didn't want to be rude about his appearance because his appearance is clearly.

[Aaron]

Look. No, no, guys.

[Eren]

Aaron, ask him.

[Aaron]

Ask him.

[Adol]

No, no, because he shoves Aaron to the front.

[Aaron]

Hi. I think we'll take three of those coffees. And Are you single? No, sorry. Are you sort of. Oh, I see that you have. I see that you have a shift change, a price tag on your shift change.

[Eric]

Shift change. Drawer counting. Okay. 20, 40, 60, 80, 200. Have a good shift. Have a good shift.

[Eren]

Wait, you shift change from 4 to 4.

[Aaron]

O9.

[Eren]

And then somebody works. 409 to 415.

[Eric]

Yeah, I work now. He's on break.

[Aaron]

Okay, well, we just ordered three coffees. We already paid. Wink.

[Eric]

I just counted down my drawer.

[Eren]

Oh, shit.

[Eric]

So nobody paid.

[Eren]

Aaron, just pay again.

[Aaron]

Okay, we would take. We will take three coffees, please, sir.

[Eric]

Sorry, no more coffee.

[Eren]

It's sold out.

[Eric]

No, we just switched to our lunch menu.

[Aaron]

What?

[Adol]

What?

[Eric]

So for lunch, 409, we switched to lunch menu.

[Eren]

Do you have pastries?

[Eric]

No.

[Eren]

Sandwiches?

[Eric]

No sandwiches.

[Adol]

What? I mean, what do you. What do you. What do you have?

[Aaron]

Coffee.

[Eric]

Coffee.

[Aaron]

Oh, what the fuck?

[Eric]

Lunch coffees.

[Aaron]

Okay, that's fine.

[Adol]

Yeah.

[Aaron]

What's the difference? Are they decaf or something? What do you mean?

[Eric]

I don't know.

[Aaron]

You don't know? How long have you worked here?

[Eren]

Aaron, he just works here. Ask him if he's a skeleton. No, Aaron, ask him if he pushes Aaron to the front.

[Aaron]

Hi.

[Eric]

Three coffees.

[Aaron]

Yeah, Three coffees to go, please. And I.

[Eric]

Have to drink here? No, I only have three cups.

[Aaron]

Yeah, exactly.

[Eric]

If you take my cups, no one else could have coffee today.

[Aaron]

Why don't you have to go cups?

[Eric]

I don't know. I just work here.

[Aaron]

You should know these things. If you guys. Someone else needs to take over, I'm freaking out.

[Adol]

I'll take over. Yeah, we'll just do. We'll do three coffees.

[Aaron]

Lunch Coffees.

[Adol]

Three lunch coffees. And we'll do it for here.

[Eric]

Shift change.

[Aaron]

Oh my God.

[Eric]

20, 40, 60, 80, 100. 20, 40, 60,80, 200. Have a good shit. How are you? Okay.

[Aaron]

Sort of feels like Eren didn't get to be a monster. That's fine. That's fine. That's actually fine.

[Eric]

Huh?

[Aaron]

We will take three dinner coffees please. To go.

[Eric]

Not dinner.

[Aaron]

What is it?

[Adol]

What kind of coffees do we have.

[Eric]

Available to us to order from 4:10 to 4:15. Late night menu.

[Aaron]

Oh, okay. What's on your late night menu? Do you have a croissant?

[Adol]

Mini pizza?

[Aaron]

Mini pizza?

[Dwayne]

No.

[Adol]

Chicken finger?

[Dwayne]

No.

[Aaron]

Chicken nuggets.

[Adol]

Late night menu.

[Dwayne]

No.

[Adol]

Coffee?

[Dwayne]

No.

[Adol]

No French either. No, we're really only. What do you have?

[Dwayne]

No mini pizza?

[Aaron]

We just.

[Adol]

I think I said mini pizza.

[Dwayne]

No.

[Adol]

Oh, we don't.

[Dwayne]

You said many pizzas.

[Adol]

Oh, you have one mini pizza.

[Dwayne]

One mini pizza.

[Aaron]

We will take three mini pizzas.

[Adol]

No air dead.

[Aaron]

You will take one mini pizza.

[Adol]

Yes.

[Aaron]

To go.

[Dwayne]

No. Here. I only have three cups.

[Aaron]

No, you're not serving us a pizza and cups.

[Adol]

Yes. It's a new pizza. Erin.

[Aaron]

Are you a skeleton?

[Adol]

Whoa.

[Aaron]

What?

[Eric]

Aaron.

[Aaron]

You press for me to ask.

[Adol]

Not this guy. Sir.

[JPC]

Take sign open to closed.

[Aaron]

No.

[Adol]

You're closing four minutes off.

[Aaron]

Aaron.

[Eren]

What the fuck?

[Adol]

What the fuck? Eren? That was obviously a gremlin. 1, 2, 3, 4.

[Aaron]

Hate Riddle Riddle's clue Crew.

[Adol]

Listen to the rest of the episode now by starting your free seven day [e-mail].

[Eric]

Hey, Riddle.

[Adol]

Riddle.