Patreon Preview #345: King Mumbles pt. 3 w/ Olivia Nielsen

Summary

Hey Riddle Riddle – Patreon Preview #345: King Mumbles pt. 3 w/ Olivia Nielsen

Date: October 17, 2025
Hosts: Adal Rifai, Erin Keif, John Patrick Coan
Guest: Olivia Nielsen

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Episode Overview

This episode showcases another whimsical adventure with the Hey Riddle Riddle crew, joined by Olivia Nielsen for the ongoing "King Mumbles" saga. The gang embarks on an improvisational quest filled with absurd riddles, castle intrigue, and character-driven improv. They encounter Clem the town crier, learn about royal drama, and riff on castle life, all while blurring the lines between fantasy roleplay and hilariously self-aware banter. True to form, the riddles often take a back seat to inspired tangents, puzzles, and a deep dive into the social ecosystem of King Mumbles’ court.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Post-Wrestling Recovery & Magical Heals (01:04–02:11)

• The crew jokes about pretending to be injured after their last adventure ("wrestled for 10 minutes") but quickly retcons their injuries with a magical cure for convenience.
  • Memorable moment:

    "I just kind of wanted to be carried." – Adal (01:39)
    "And also I kind of don't want to live in that reality anymore. So I think I'm healed." – JPC (01:40)

• They tease Erin about being left out of the healing magic, establishing the group's relentless playful dynamic.

2. Arriving at King Mumbles’ Castle & the Door Riff (02:12–03:58)

• Upon reaching the castle, the group faces a massive door and spins out on the conventions of knocking and announcing oneself.
• Extended bit about whether "occupied" always means someone is pooping.
  • Quote:

    "If you say one sec, that means peeing. If you say occupied, that means pooping." – Adal (03:17)

3. Meeting Clem, the Town Crier (04:00–10:54)

• The gang finally meets Clem, played by Olivia Nielsen, who delivers castle gossip as the town's information source.
  • Clem laments that peaceful times make for a boring job, and drama is her bread and butter.
  • The dynamic shifts into an in-depth comedic interview/exploration with Clem.
  • Quote:

    "The worst day at the castle is the best day for me to do my job." – Clem (Olivia) (11:09)

• Clem discusses the evolution of the town crier role from a one-way message deliverer (“hear ye, hear ye”) to a more modern, multi-channel operator.

Castle Gossip and Social Satire (10:56–16:20)

• Hosts press Clem for the inside scoop on castle drama:
  • Marital fights between King Mumbles and the Queen perpetuate chaos.
  • The Bishops in the court conflate marital strife with war, leading to dramatic overreactions (shirtless pushups, chin-ups, prepping for dragon battles).
    • Quote:

      "The Bishops really can't differentiate between a marital conflict and a global conflict. So they start preparing for war." – Clem (15:00)

  • Satirical observations about passion, repression, and what happens when dancing is outlawed:
    • Clem confesses that without dancing, everyone just watches "Brandy Cinderella" together on movie nights, wistful for “Passionate D” (presumed to mean “devil”).
    • Quote:

      "Ever since dancing was outlawed here, we've been watching Brandy Cinderella every Friday night as a town movie night." – Clem (15:47)

• Banter about Skittles as a harbinger of dietary doom and how life at court teeters between the boring and the absurd.

4. Rapid-Fire Bits & Callback Humor (13:14–13:44)

• The hosts try a “lightning round” with Clem, asking about castle customs and backflips. Clem’s answers are knowingly underwhelming, lampooning their own bit.

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Notable Quotes

• On magical healing and group logic:

  "Found a little puddle of magic." – JPC (01:48)

• On castle etiquette:

  "Do we want to just say our legs are healed or do we want to do..." – JPC (01:29)
  "We jumped off the bridge, broke our ankles... but I was kind of playing it up." – Adal (01:33)

• On Clem’s philosophy of drama:

  "Times of great peace and harmony, there is literally nothing for me to do. I go to bed unsatisfied. But right now, there is so much juicy stuff happening in there." – Clem (11:18)

• On castle Bishops’ melodrama:

  "Everyone in their shirts off, doing push-ups, doing chin-ups, battling dragons, etc." – Clem (15:09)

• On repression at the castle:

  "Maybe there’s a little bit of repression going on. ... Shirtless men in there doing push ups when they could be...not to be vulgar, but fucking each other." – JPC (15:25)

• On castle culture changes:

  "Ever since dancing was outlawed here, we've been watching Brandy Cinderella every Friday night as the town movie night." – Clem (15:47)

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Important Timestamps

| Segment | Time (MM:SS) | Description | |---------|--------------|-------------| | Magical leg "healing" | 01:29–01:47 | Justifying character continuity with a nonsense magic cure | | Arrival at the castle | 02:12–03:58 | Door banter, “occupied”/“pooping” riff | | Clem introduction | 04:00–04:56 | Town crier makes her entrance | | Castle gossip & Bishops | 10:56–16:05 | Clem spills on King/Queen fight, Bishops' hijinks | | Satire on castle rules | 15:00–16:05 | Dancing outlawed, castle watches Cinderella, repression explored |

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Overall Tone & Takeaways

Hey Riddle Riddle continues to blend improvisational storytelling, comedic bits, and meta-commentary. With Olivia as Clem, the group leans into character-driven banter that pokes fun at fantasy tropes, bureaucracy, and personal foibles. The dynamic is playful, irreverent, and a little absurd—perfect for fans of offbeat, character-skewed improv. Riddles and plot take a back seat to inventive world-building and riffing, making this episode another testament to the group’s chemistry and irrepressible comedic spirit.

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Transcript

[A]

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[B]

Man, it is getting hot out here.

[C]

Yeah, sorry. Adel and I just wrestled for 10 minutes.

[D]

Yeah, I mean, you guys, you had a lot of big feelings after meeting with Kevin and Bridget. You guys, you think you're having a hard time? I fell in love and got my heart broken today. My God.

[B]

Oh yeah. Aaron, did you. Do you have a keepsake to remember Kevin by?

[D]

I took his tail. I took his whole tail with me. I'm gonna wear it as a ring.

[C]

Hey, Adol, can I talk to you over here for a second?

[B]

Yeah, of course.

[C]

Do we want to just say our legs are healed or do we want to do.

[B]

We did. When we jumped off the bridge, we did quote, unquote, break our ankles, but I was kind of playing it up.

[C]

Yeah, me too.

[B]

I just kind of wanted to be carried.

[C]

And also I kind of don't want to live in that reality anymore. So I think I'm healed.

[B]

Hey, Aaron.

[D]

Hey, Aaron.

[C]

What's up?

[B]

We found magic and our legs are fine now.

[D]

Oh, great. Oh good.

[B]

Found a little puddle of magic.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Well, let's go find.

[C]

Yeah, it was just enough for us.

[D]

You guys were. Okay, wait, well, leaving me any.

[C]

I'm remembering now that you have some disease issues that we may have cured with the magic. And so. And now I want to say that there was. There was not enough and we accidentally used all the magic on our legs.

[E]

You guys.

[D]

Whatever. Okay, well also, you're welcome. You're welcome for getting us to the castle. Here's the moat. Now we can talk to King Mumbles. Now we can go home.

[B]

You're welcome, big ass door. All right, let's start heading towards the door. Shouldn't be any obstacles in our way.

[C]

Why would you say that? I feel like you're just demanding an obstacle be placed in front of our way by saying, shouldn't be any obstacles.

[D]

You gotta knock on wood if you're gonna say shit like that.

[C]

Well, the doors would knock on the door.

[B]

We've got a knock on the door here. Let's give it a wrap.

[C]

Hello?

[E]

No one's in here.

[B]

Oh.

[C]

Oh.

[D]

Looks like no one's in here, guys. Wait a minute.

[C]

Wait a second, wait a second, wait a second. Adel said, give it a wrap, and then Aaron didn't start rapping.

[B]

Well, okay, let's try that again. Give it a wrap.

[D]

No. Okay, let's try this again.

[C]

Okay.

[D]

Knock, knock, knock. Occupied. Oh, someone going to the back.

[B]

So there is someone in there, but they're pooping.

[C]

Does occupied always mean pooping?

[B]

Yes.

[D]

Hold on, let me.

[B]

If you say. One sec, that means peeing. If you say occupied, that means pooping.

[C]

Yeah. Okay, that makes sense.

[D]

It's not an exact science. I'm gonna back up from the door. I'm gonna look around the castle wall.

[C]

I was right behind you.

[D]

Why are you all up in my business? Because my hair smells good. Fuck you.

[C]

You had something in your hair. It was a delicious smell. Is it Herbal Essences? I have to know. Aaron. Just give me the recipe.

[D]

I'm gonna back up and look up at the castle walls.

[B]

Hello?

[E]

Yoo hoo.

[B]

Oh, there's someone up there. There's like a little door within the door that's kind of open. Hello.

[E]

Hi.

[C]

Hi. Oh.

[B]

Hello.

[E]

Oh. Greetings, visitors.

[B]

Thank you.

[A]

Hi.

[D]

Thanks.

[C]

I can't tell if they're pooping. Are they pooping? I can't tell.

[E]

Not anymore.

[C]

Oh, good.

[E]

Please announce yourselves.

[D]

Hi, we are Adol, Aaron and jpc. And we would like to get into King Mumble's castle to have a word with the king.

[C]

Mm.

[E]

Okay. Well, as the town crier, I actually do have to let you know that now is not a very good time. There is a lot of drama happening in the castle today.

[B]

Oh my gosh. The town crier. Maybe she's divorced or like.

[D]

No, that's not what you think it means at all. It's sort of like she, I guess, I. Of the town gossip.

[C]

Oh, well, Aaron, that's. You're kind of assuming a lot there. How do you know, it's not the thing that Adol thinks it is.

[B]

Dish girl.

[E]

Well, if you want to know the scoop on the castle. Well, let me just shimmy down my little. Shimmy down the ivy on the castle. Just give me one second. I'll be right down.

[C]

That's strong Ivy.

[B]

Look at that.

[C]

Okay.

[D]

She'S exerting a lot of energy.

[C]

I would take a look at that ivy and think, no way could it hold a person. But damn.

[E]

Phew. Okay, down to the ground.

[B]

Quite the dismount.

[C]

Oh, hey, Adol. I just heard from Aaron.

[B]

Oh, good, good, good.

[C]

It's actually really great news. So if you've been following along, she ordered 1,111 chef salads. She's been trying her best to make a dent in them. She's actually done, with her help of her Persona, dug deep, a pretty good amount of the salads. But I just heard that due to, you know, kind of the failure of the app she with when she ordered the salads, she will not be charged for the salads, which is great news because her money and her finances are a mess. But now she can get help with Rocket Money, because Rocket Money is a personal finance app that helps find and cancel your unwanted subscriptions, monitors your spending, and helps lower your bills so you can grow your savings.

[B]

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[C]

And I think Erin might be juicing those numbers as well, because she apparently was signed up to do a monthly chef salad delivery of 1,111 chef salads. And so I think Rocket Money has helped her kind of nip that in the bud before it becomes a problem for her next month, which we actually don't know if it will be because we don't know when. You know, maybe. Gosh, I hope she's not gone for that long. Rocket Money also shows you all your expenses in one place, including subscriptions you forgot about. Like some people may have forgotten about a recording. If you see a subscription you no longer want, Rocket Money will help you cancel it. Their dashboard lays out your total financial picture, including bill due dates and pay dates, in a way that's easy to digest. Casey laughing at the chat. You can even automatically create custom budgets based on your past spending but don't.

[B]

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[C]

And may I just say, that suit is ruined.

[B]

Yeah. Can't really move.

[C]

Yeah. You're dinosaur.

[B]

Yeah. I'm going to eat you.

[C]

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[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's up?

[C]

So no really easy way to say this, but no errant today or maybe even for the foreseeable future.

[B]

Oh, geez. Everything okay?

[C]

It was a situation where she was ordering a chef salad on her chef salad app and her finger slipped and she ordered 11. 11 chef salads. So she's gonna be eating chef salads for a while.

[B]

For the foreseeable future.

[C]

That's.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I'm sorry to hear that.

[C]

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[B]

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[A]

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[B]

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[C]

I. She's. All that she said was that she was determined and I don't really know what to take from that.

[B]

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[C]

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[B]

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[B]

Yeah. If she's eating, you're eating. Bring your local Aaron inside.

[D]

Oh, well, pleasure to make your acquaintance.

[E]

I'm Erin.

[D]

Hello. That's Adel and that's jpc.

[E]

Jpc, you are right behind me.

[A]

Back up.

[C]

Just give me a spot to be where I can smell your hair. Just tell me where I can be to smell your hair and then I'll move.

[D]

Hello.

[C]

You said that you're the town crier.

[E]

Yes. So my name is Clem and I am the. Yeah, yeah. Nice to meet you.

[B]

Nice to meet you.

[C]

Nice to meet you, Clem.

[E]

And I'm pretty much the one who's going to let you know about all the business happening at the castle. So today is actually really not a good day, if you know what I mean. There's a lot of bad drama going on inside.

[C]

We don't. We don't know what you mean. We don't have any context for this.

[B]

Meeting a king, I guess.

[D]

Clem, you sort of seem like you sound stressed out, but the look on your face, it sort of seems like you're luxuriating in the fact that there's like a lot of drama today.

[E]

Oh, my God. Well, it's. The thing about being a town crier is the worst day at the castle is the best day for me to do my job. Times of great peace and harmony, there is literally nothing for me to do. I'm clocking in and clocking out. There's. But nothing happens in my day. I go to bed unsatisfied. But right now, there is so much juicy stuff happening in there.

[C]

You folks, I'M sorry to hear that thing about going to bed unsatisfied. Clem, I'm sure you'll meet someone. I see my friend hit it on the head with divorce. It gets better.

[E]

Thank you so much. I mean, it's hard to stay married when you're. I just need to process so much unit. Hazards of the job.

[C]

Yes.

[D]

Right.

[C]

I don't know how people do it. Stay married and have a job. I truly can only do one and I'm not even doing a great job.

[E]

At the one, literally. Plus you have to be eating well and moving around. I'm trying to eat well. I'll try to have just meat all day, but it's very hard to come by these days.

[C]

You're lucky you guys don't have Skittles yet, because once you have Skittles, it's game over for eating.

[E]

Well, I don't think they've invaded the castle yet.

[D]

Oh, they're not.

[C]

Well, climbsitter yourself lucky.

[E]

Thank God that's the last thing we need right now.

[D]

Can I ask you a question?

[E]

Of course.

[D]

My only familiarity with a town crier is Jason Alexander in the Brandy Cinderella.

[E]

He has a beautiful job.

[D]

Yeah, right. And he sort of goes to the center of town and goes like, hear ye, hear ye. And then gives a message from the king to the people. Is that what you do? It sounds like you're sort of more involved than that.

[E]

Yes. So that's just sort of a one way channel and the king was like, abolish that. So what we have now is actually a multi channel situation where I deliver messages all from all over the castle to all over the kingdom and vice versa. And it's usually press prefaced by either hear ye, hear ye or gather ye round. But you didn't hear it from me, depending on how classified the information is.

[B]

Clem, if I may. So you don't have Skittles, but you do have Brandy's? Cinderella, do you mind if we do kind of a lightning round of like tossing something out and you tell us if you have it or not?

[E]

Oh, absolutely. Backflips only the jester.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

All right.

[E]

Was that all the lightning backflips?

[C]

Yeah, that was the entire lightning flips.

[D]

We just had one. We were really interested in the whole backflip.

[C]

Did I say lightning round? We fucked up. Yeah, it's, you know, that's overselling it.

[E]

Well, usually I've only seen one lightning strike at a time and there's always a witch who's born right after that. So it's Disaster for the kingdom.

[C]

That's what you have.

[E]

And that's how witches are born.

[B]

Whoa. That's kind of fun. I never knew that.

[C]

So, I mean, oof. Here's the thing. What do we do? We can't really go back because we have nowhere to go back. We're actually trying to go back. That's why we're trying to see King Mumbles. Is there anything that we could do to maybe like, I don't know, help with the drama? Does that make any sense? To like, maybe bring the drama temperature down in there?

[E]

Honestly, it's just that you don't want to go. It's. You don't want to go anywhere near there. When King Mumbles and the Queen start going at it.

[D]

Oh, my God, they fight.

[E]

Oh, they bicker, bicker, bicker. And then nothing gets done, which is a disaster for all of the Bishops.

[D]

Okay, what's going on with the Bishops? Okay, something's happening with the Bishops.

[B]

I love it. I love the Bishops. Clem.

[E]

Well, you know, I don't really want to talk. I just don't really want to talk about it.

[B]

But they're grinning ear to ear. It seems like you are over the moon.

[E]

No, it's just that the Bishops. No, I really can't.

[C]

I mean, you said bishops and now it's time to dish up, Clem. I mean, we gotta know what's going.

[B]

On with these up on the bishop.

[C]

Dish up on the Bishop.

[E]

Well, the Bishops really can't differentiate between a marital conflict and sort of a global conflict. So they start preparing for war. So they're all everyone in their shirts off, doing push ups, doing chin ups, battling dragons, etc.

[C]

Okay, I gotta get in there. I'm gonna get in there and see.

[E]

That it's funny as hell.

[D]

Oh, my God.

[C]

I mean, Clem, you say. You say horny as hell. You're also saying that they're having like a marital fight. I mean, is it that potentially that they're like, passions are being channeled in the wrong place? Cause it sounds like, you know, maybe there's a little bit of repression going on. It seems like we got a lot of shirtless men in there doing push ups when they could be, not to be vulgar, but fucking each other.

[E]

Believe me, ever since dancing was outlawed here, we've been watching Brandi Cinderella every Friday night. As for a town movie night, we used to have Passionate D where we. In where we invoked the devil. But ever. Oh, my God. But ever since the new year started, we haven't been able to do that.

[B]

And did the devil bring movie technology here?

[E]

It depends on who you ask, I guess. I'm asking you, I think.

[C]

Yes.

[E]

The Movie's too good.

[C]

1, 2, 3, 4.

[E]

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[C]

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