Patreon Preview #349: Chatterbox 30

Summary

Hey Riddle Riddle – Patreon Preview #349: Chatterbox 30

Release Date: November 14, 2025
Hosts: Adal Rifai, Erin Keif, John Patrick Coan (JPC)

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Episode Overview

This Patreon-preview episode, "Chatterbox 30," exemplifies the loose, improvisational humor "Hey Riddle Riddle" is known for, blending playful riffing with audience engagement and a sprinkling of riddles (sort of). The trio—Adal, Erin, and JPC—bounce through discussions on character naming in improv, birthday traditions, and strategies for creating memorable fake personas, all threaded with their signature blend of chaos and charm. If you're looking for puzzle-solving, you'll get more banter than brain-teasers, but listeners will savor the off-the-cuff wit and group chemistry.

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Key Discussion Points & Highlights

Recovering from a Wild Recording Session

[00:00–01:50]

• The group opens by decompressing after a zany previous recording, with Adal joking about his mind being "blown" ("my brain's like, we. Whoa. We. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa." – Adal, 00:01).
• JPC reminisces lightheartedly about injuring his back playing an improv character, "Kung Fu Shrimp," with Adal and Erin riffing on wellness products.

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"What Rhymes With Tenth?" – A Rhyme Time Rabbit Hole

[02:17–04:29]

• The gang embarks on their brand of riddling: what rhymes with the word "tenth?"
• Erin and JPC struggle to come up with rhymes, with C (Adal) offering "fence" (03:53), sparking laughter over its dubious accuracy as a rhyme.
• JPC: "Did you know a single word that rhymes with 10th?" (02:46)
• The bit spirals into joke-rap territory, culminating in them soliciting handwritten postcards from listeners with rhyme suggestions.
• Quote: "Well, right into the show, we want only handwritten letters about this matter." – Erin (03:55)

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Birthday Vibes and Deadpool-Themed Parties

[04:30–07:14]

• The trio moves into a birthday tangent, with JPC teasing Erin for her ambiguous feelings about celebrating ("Didn't you say one second before we started recording that you didn't care about your birthday...?" – JPC, 05:00).
• JPC explains how having a child shifted his perspective:

  "Now that I have a kid, I'm like, well, they won't care about their birthday unless I, like, tell them that it's something to care about." (05:24)

• The "Deadpool birthday" running joke emerges, with JPC planning repeated Deadpool-themed parties for his child—"It's Deadpool, baby" (06:38)—and comically offering the same for Erin.

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Approaches to Character Naming in Improv

[12:10–15:14]

• A listener question from "Dr. Bonjour Suplex" (12:10) prompts an in-depth chat on favorite character names and improv naming conventions.
• Erin praises Adal and JPC as master name-makers, and JPC shares his favorite formula:

  "Yeah, that's just my first name plus location naming convention that I use constantly." – JPC (13:14)

• Examples: “Tiffany Key Largo,” “Rick Mexico.”
• Adal favors rhythmic or rhyming pairings:

  "I enjoy first names, last names who sort of pair well together or slightly rhyme. I think is always fun." – Adal (14:11)

• JPC offers an improv teaching tip:

  "Just use real names that you've encountered in your life of people that will never hear about you doing this in an improv show." (14:40)
  Examples: "Taylor Masterson," "Jeremy Vande Bosch," "Chandler Semjan."

• The conversation is peppered with in-jokes about their Discord members’ playful usernames mirroring "third graders on a playground" (12:19–12:32).

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Notable Quotes and Moments

• On Rhyme Struggles:
  "Do you know a single word that rhymes with tenth?"
  — JPC (02:46)

• On Birthdays as Adults:
  "I think when you get to a certain age, you don't have to be stressed about people singing to you anymore. So I'm in the good zone."
  — Erin (05:14)

• On Reusing Deadpool for Kid’s Parties:
  "Until they are old enough to complain about the theme for all of their birthday parties being Deadpool. It's Deadpool, baby."
  — JPC (06:38)

• On Improv Character Naming:
  "I'm giving away the secret sauce to how all of my improv gets made."
  — JPC (13:27)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:00–01:50: Goofy wind-down post-recording; Kung Fu Shrimp character callback.
• 02:17–04:29: "What rhymes with tenth?"—rhyme-theory shenanigans.
• 04:30–07:14: Adult birthdays and the comedy of forced Deadpool parties.
• 12:10–15:14: Listener question: best improv character names and approaches to naming.

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Episode Takeaways

• The episode exemplifies the group’s tendency to turn minor prompts into elaborate comedic riffs, blending improv theory (naming conventions) with tales from their own lives.
• There are few "actual" riddles, but the spirit of lateral thinking and joke spinning is ever-present.
• Fans looking for inside jokes, improv advice, and the hosts' infectious camaraderie will enjoy the freewheeling, tangential nature of this episode—Chatterbox indeed lives up to its name.

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Transcript

[A]

Whoa, guys, that recording was crazy. We played all sorts of characters and my brain's like, we. Whoa. We. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I need to find a way to unwind. What to do, what to do, what to do.

[B]

Aaron, you are not wrong. That last recording that we did for the podcast. Hey, Riddle. Riddle. Was a doozy.

[C]

Oh, yeah, I sort of. I sort of like tweaked my back playing Kung Fu Shrimp. Remember that character Kung Fu Shrimp? I sort of threw my back out. So I'm looking for, like, a natural way to, like, relieve aches and discomfort. You know, I'm not as young as I once was, but yeah, maybe. Oh, maybe like cornbread hemp CBD gummies, right? I feel like that's been a huge piece of my wellness plan recently.

[A]

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[C]

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[B]

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[A]

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[B]

D, D, L, E. Don't just take it from us. Take it from. What is it? Kung Fu shrimp.

[C]

Hello, I'm Kung Fu Shrimp. Everyone, let's chop these boards.

[A]

Adel, you're gonna really hurt yourself.

[C]

The surfboards.

[B]

Dedede. There we go. Oh, his back. Oh, his back.

[C]

Give me another gummy. Another gummy, please.

[B]

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[C]

Okay.

[B]

You're Mr. Rhyme Time.

[A]

You know, Coming to you, hat in hand. Sorry. Bat in hand.

[B]

Huh?

[A]

Sorry.

[B]

Holding bat over crotch because someone stole all of our clothes.

[C]

Really stretching those wings out.

[B]

Three card. We got three card full monty.

[A]

A lot happened before you logged on.

[B]

Do you know a single right card?

[C]

And then you have to go work at a factory. But then.

[A]

Yeah, y.

[B]

You got it.

[A]

You gotta.

[B]

And fill in the rest. Okay. Yadda yadda, yadda. Do you know a single word that rhymes with 10th?

[C]

Fence.

[B]

Damn. Why didn't we think of fence? Huh?

[C]

Fence.

[B]

Huh?

[A]

I knew he'd know it. I knew it mentioned.

[C]

These are all slant rhymes. Yeah, I.

[B]

What did we come up with, Aaron? You had something, didn't you?

[A]

I said bedenth, but you just want to hear me say something stupid again.

[B]

I honestly couldn't remember if you had something good.

[A]

No.

[B]

But now that I'm hearing bedenth, I do regret asking about it.

[A]

Well, I think that there's maybe. Is there any short word that. Like enth. Nth.

[B]

I went to rhyme zone and I said, what is a word that rhymes with 10th? And one of the answers that it told me was 1/10. And I said, rhyme zone.

[A]

Rhyme zone.

[B]

Hold out your wrists. You get a little whack on the wrist with a ruler for being a scamp.

[A]

Well, I'm bad at rhyming, so that's my excuse.

[B]

Well, I think. Aaron, there is no excuse. Slash, you don't need an excuse, because I don't think there's a single word that rhymes with tenth.

[A]

Well, right into the show, we want only handwritten letters about this matter. So if you can think of a rhyme, just get a postcard, put it on there, we'll read it.

[C]

I feel like if it was. It was in a rap, it would be like someone would say menth, and then it would carry over to the next lyric and say thal. Like menthol.

[B]

Yeah. 10th, 10th. All. You could be like menthol, you know? Yeah.

[A]

10Th, fall.

[B]

November 10th. Fall. Smoking menthol. Yeah.

[C]

There you go.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

November 10th. Aaron, it was your. Just your happy. It was just your happy birthday.

[A]

First time on earth.

[B]

It was just your happy birthday. While Erin. I just wanted to say it's a little late, but happy birthday.

[A]

They've been ignoring me all month. Yes. I love a birthday. The older I get, actually, the more I'm liking my birthday. I didn't love it when I was younger, but I like it.

[B]

Didn't you say one second before we started recording that you didn't care about your birthday and you would.

[A]

Well, I don't really care. Well, that's what I think. That's what makes me like it again.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

I just. There's no pressure on it. I don't really make plans for it.

[B]

Sure.

[A]

Like, I. I think when you get to a certain Age, you don't have to be stressed about people singing to you anymore. So I'm in the good zone. Yeah, I'm chilling.

[B]

I realized that about me myself, I don't care about a birthday. But then now that I have a kid, I'm like, well, they won't care about their birthday unless I like tell them that it's something to care about. Right? Like, I'm like, they're not gonna be like, no party. I'm like, year two, what do you think a party is? Dumbass. So I have to like, I have to. I have to like throw birthdays again. Which I haven't done in like years. Decades. Which is, which is wild.

[A]

So now I'm like, is there any more fun?

[B]

It's great because my kid doesn't have like any friends. So it's like their birthday party. It's like all my friends come over until they're a little older and they can get own damn friends. It's like I'm throwing them my birthday party.

[A]

Do you think your friends are gonna start being offended once your kids parties morph from your friends to their friends? Like, do you think that like Aaron Udyk's gonna be at the door being like, what are you guys doing? Are you eating pizza? Is there something fun happening in there?

[B]

Everybody's just happy to have nothing to do on look, a Saturday. I think everybody's gonna be just happy to have a nap. And I'm happy to get more use out of the Deadpool costume I bought last year. Because the theme for the second birthday is also going to be Deadpool.

[C]

What?

[B]

Until they are old enough to complain about the theme for all of their birthday parties being Deadpool. It's Deadpool, baby.

[A]

They're not gonna know why they're talking to their therapist so much about Deadpool until they go like, oh my gosh. I was going through old photos and guess what I found?

[C]

Can their third party be Deadpool and Wolverine?

[B]

I guess so, because that's thematically appropriate.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

But also, no. It'll just be Deadpool. Yeah. Aaron, also, if you want me to throw you a birthday party and you, it'll be late, obviously. And you want the theme to be Deadpool, I'm happy to do it. I'm really good at throwing Deadpool themed birthday parties.

[A]

I think I'm good for this year.

[B]

You're good for this year. Okay, cool.

[A]

Maybe next year.

[B]

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[A]

Oh, thank goodness. You were talking about that and I was like, that sounds so stressful. And it doesn't seem like there's a solution, but I guess there is. Yeah.

[C]

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[B]

Boring.

[C]

Bleh barf. Outdated apps.

[A]

They've automated things like tracking expenses, finding write offs, and budgeting for tax time. You can even send invoices for free and pay your contractors everything from one app.

[B]

Yeah. Prior to finding Found, I was actually using an app called Lost. And I gotta say, this is a terrible app for banking. You would constantly log in and they'd be like, oops, sorry. There'd be like a little shrugging emoticon of a person who lost all of your finances. They never kept records. They had a little button that was record shredding, but it was right next to the login button. So sometimes you would just shred your entire account when you were trying to log in.

[A]

That's so scary, Mr. JPC sir.

[C]

Yeah, Mr. JPC. Don't use lost.

[A]

Use Found.

[B]

One thing that I love about Found is that it automatically tracks expenses, which means that I no longer have to carve out time every week. And believe me, I was doing this every week where I could have spent that time on something much more important to go through my purchases and make sure everything is accounted for. Ugh. Found fixes it. Honestly, I use Found and you should too. If I could go back to when we were starting. Hey, Riddle, Riddle. Found would have saved me so much time, so much effort, and so much needless data entry that I wish that I could not have done. I love Found.

[C]

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[A]

Thank you, Mr. JPC sir.

[C]

Thank you, Mr. Jpc sir.

[B]

People thanking me.

[C]

And I had just settled down for a long winter's nap. End of story.

[A]

But what mattress were you sleeping in?

[B]

Yeah, Mr. Attle. What mattress? What mattress?

[C]

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[B]

Yay.

[C]

Do you kids like Helix?

[B]

I took the Helix sleep quiz and it was the only quiz I didn't flunk all year long.

[C]

Oh, yikes. Jeremiah, we gotta. We gotta get you studying.

[B]

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[A]

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[C]

Oh, yeah. I mean, I used to toss and turn in my sleep until I got a Helix, and now I sleep like a log. I would say sleep like a baby, but from what I know, babies don't sleep terribly well. So I like to say sleep like a log.

[A]

Pulling on your sleeve. Pulling on your sleeve.

[C]

Ow.

[A]

Mr. Adelster, I have a midnight luxe and they delivered my mattress right to my door with free shipping inside the.

[C]

U.S. yeah, I have a midnight luxe. It's not a contest.

[A]

Pulling on your sleeve. Pulling on your sleeve.

[C]

Ow. Stop pulling on my tattoos.

[B]

Maybe you could say like sleep like a toddler, because my toddler sleeps for like 12 hours at a time. But then I know that not all toddlers do that, so I don't want to make it seem like I'm bragging.

[C]

Mr. Adam, do you have a toddler?

[B]

I'm a grown man.

[C]

Wait, are you both adults?

[A]

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[B]

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[C]

Dox myself, but now that my secret's out, my name is Adol. Adol. Sort of a Mario situation.

[A]

I love it.

[B]

I love it. Mr. Adol.

[C]

Thank you.

[A]

Um, okay, guess what, guys. We have some fantastic chatterbox topics from our discord today. Yeah, so I just kind of want to get into them. This is from Dr. Bonjour Suplex. Already a great start for what this.

[C]

Question is the French wrestler.

[A]

What are some of the best character names you've ever heard come up in improv?

[B]

Can I just say, the adults in our discord do the same naming convention for themselves as third graders on a playground. Yes, my name is Dr. Bonjour Suplex.

[A]

And I'm your lawyer. And what else do you have to say about it?

[B]

Yeah, I'm a day trader.

[A]

I want to just say right out of the gate. I would say that I'm sitting here with two of the best coming up with namers in the improv scene.

[B]

Can you think of the name for coming up with Neighbors?

[A]

Is what coming up with namers? I can't ever think of a name. I'm terrible at coming up with them. Even if I have time, I'm bad at it. But I will sometimes come to Adeline JPC for fake names for characters for other things that I use. For example, jpc, Four or five years ago, you came up with Tiffany Key Largo for me and I still play that on John Mackey's podcast.

[B]

Yeah, that's just my first name plus location naming convention that I use constantly.

[A]

So, jpc, your naming convention is first name location?

[B]

Yeah, that's Rick Mexico, Maria cv. This is. This is. I'm giving away the secret sauce to how all of my improv gets made.

[A]

There was a name. Do you guys remember? I don't know actually jpc, if you were there. It was a world news show and someone came up. I'm not gonna remember any of the details. So this is nothing. This is turning to dust in my hands. But it was a group scene and someone named Brett and gave him a first and last name when no one else in the scene had had a first and last name and we all lost our minds. But I can't remember what it is. Maybe I'll text Brett.

[B]

There is something funny about giving a fake person a first and last name.

[A]

Adol, what's your naming convention when you're coming up with a fake name?

[C]

I guess I enjoy first names, last names who sort of pair well together or slightly rhyme. I think is always fun. Has some amount of rhyme to it.

[B]

Is the theory there so that it is easier for you to remember because there's a rhyme to it.

[C]

I think it's more just like it has a flow to it. Like it's fun to come off the tongue.

[A]

I'm trying to think of a name under your naming convention.

[B]

One of the things that I always taught people when I was tech teaching improv is just use real names that you've encountered in your life of people that will never hear about you doing this in an improv show. And for me, I was always like, you have a deep bench of first and last names of people you went to high school with that will not see this improv show. So you can, you know, you can call people Taylor Masterson as much as you want because, like, it's never getting back to them. You know, you can say like, get in here, Jeremy Vande Bosch. And it's like, how's that ever gonna.

[A]

Come in my office? Chandler Semjan.

[B]

Yeah. 1, 2, 3, 4. Hate riddle. Riddles. Clue Crew. Listen to the rest of the episode now by starting your free 7 day trial at patreon.com heyriddle Riddle.

[D]

What's going on?

[B]

It's Lamorne Morris and Hannah Simone and.

[D]

We host the Mess Around a New Girl Rewatch podcast now on Headgum. Now here's the thing. Every single week, we chat about an episode of New Girl and we really get into it. Like, we get up in there. We get up in there. You know, we reminisce about our times on set. We share behind the scenes tea. We react to rewatching episodes that we haven't seen in years. We talk about how Jake Johnson is dog.

[A]

That's not true. We talk about so many memories we have of working with the biggest stars on the planet. I'm talking Prince, Taylor Swift, Olivia, Rodrigo.

[D]

Which is two BFFs having a good old time.

[B]

Okay?

[D]

Sometimes we even talk to other co stars like Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, and Damon Waynes jr. And your dad. We talk to your dad on this show as well.

[A]

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