Patreon Preview #382: Name That Tune: Kids Edition

Summary

Hey Riddle Riddle: Patreon Preview #382

"Name That Tune: Kids Edition"

Release Date: July 3, 2026
Hosts: Adal Rifai, Erin Keif, John Patrick Coan (JPC)
Producer: Headgum

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Episode Overview

This special Patreon preview episode centers around a playful "Name That Tune" challenge, but with a twist: the song selections are drawn from a playlist curated by one host's child. The hosts discuss the nature of children's music, reminisce about formative pop culture musical moments, and debate what actually qualifies as "kids music." The tone is comedic, irreverent, and packed with improvisational banter (as always).

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Introduction & Premise (00:32–01:54)

• Game Setup: JPC introduces the game, hinting there will be a twist involving music loved by his kid rather than traditional children's songs.
• Erin expresses both excitement and anxiety, referencing past "Name That Tune" challenges and feeling unmoored when the songs are from unfamiliar decades:

  "This is the episode that always makes me have to lay down after it." – Erin (00:56)

• Adal jokes about preparation and the identities of the artists, with the group riffing on celebrity names using dog voices.
• JPC clarifies: this isn’t about classic children’s music or 2000s pop hits—instead, the songs are from a unique, highly eclectic playlist formed by whatever catches his kid’s ear.

2. Childhood, Memory, and Musical Genre (01:54–05:42)

• Erin admits her limited childhood memory of 2000s music, only recalling Feist's "1234".

  "I remember Feist singing 1234. And that's sort of the only memory I have of music in the last 40 years." – Erin (02:18)

• Adal and JPC joke about “Young Folks” by Peter, Bjorn and John, and the challenge of remembering song titles or lyrics.
• JPC explains the “kids playlist” concept—songs added purely based on his child’s personal favorites, regardless of genre.

  "It's eclectic, it's expansive. It's not, you know, there's not really like a genre to it. It's just...music that my kid enjoys." – JPC (04:12)

3. The Nature of "Kids' Music" and Parental Pet Peeves (04:29–06:01, 09:42–12:27)

• The hosts riff on kids' music tropes:
  • JPC's distaste for "puppet-voiced" songs, especially Elmo ("...I just don't want to hear a puppet sing a song. I want to hear...an artist sing a song." – JPC, 05:39).
  • Erin praises real artists guesting on children's shows (e.g., Prince, Celine Dion, James Taylor on Sesame Street).
  • Adal boosts Yo Gabba Gabba for its surprising musical guests, insisting it's genuinely good TV.
  • The group debates what it would be like if Kidz Bop (or even Minions) were tasked with singing inappropriate songs for kids, all with original lyrics.

    "How much would it cost to hire a kid's singing group to do our own version of Now That's What I Call...or Kidz Bop?" – Adal (10:25) "Now that's what I call Minions." – JPC (14:19)

4. Raffi Talk & Canadian Humor (11:00–12:27)

• Erin drops trivia: Raffi, beloved children's singer, is a communist and likely Canadian.

  "You don't want to listen to famous communist Raffi." – Erin (11:27)

• The crew playfully debate Raffi's identity and poke fun at his name and Canada.
• Adal admits to never having heard a Raffi song, until Erin sings "Baby Beluga."
• The group sings snippets of Raffi songs together, with Erin reciting her favorite peanut butter sandwich tune.

5. "Name That Tune: Kids Edition" Game Begins (12:27–14:35)

• JPC sets the rules: instead of playing audio, he reads out lyrics; others guess the song.
  • First lyric: "I was five and he was six. We rode on horses." – Immediate correct guess by Adal: "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)," associated with Nancy Sinatra and Kill Bill, but JPC reveals the playlist features a Chinese version by GEM for the Despicable Me soundtrack.

    "It's this artist named GEM...but it's a fantastic version of that song." – JPC (13:46)

• They joke about the various cover versions of this song, the appeal of international covers, and their thematic appropriateness on a child’s playlist.
• The group continues riffing about imagined cover albums by Minions and Kidz Bop.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "Lou, cancel my afternoon appointments. Lou, just do it. Are you... You're a baby. You pay me to sit here and look pretty." – Erin & JPC improv crowd (01:09–01:21)
• "That's one of my other pet peeves. I hate when...it's the radio edit version, and you're like, come on man, get this shit out of here." – JPC (11:00)
• "I like peanut butter sandwich made with jam. One for me and one for David Amram. That one. Come on, guys. Let's go to a Raffi concert." – Erin (12:12)
• [On playlist curation:] "I've been building this for the past two or three years now where I have a playlist that I put all of the songs that my kid likes...and it's gotten so big." – JPC (03:36–04:12)
• [On Yo Gabba Gabba:] "I've seen maybe like 10, 12 episodes, but I've been really tickled by all of them." – Adal (10:03)
• "I'll be the big spoon, as per usual." – Erin (06:19)
• "Now that's what I call Minions." – JPC (14:19)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:32: Hint about the "Name That Tune" episode theme
• 03:36: JPC explains the eclectic kids playlist concept
• 04:29–06:01: Debate over real artists vs. puppet singers and what qualifies as children's music
• 09:42–10:42: Adal advocates for Yo Gabba Gabba and riffing on Kidz Bop/Minions songbooks
• 11:00–12:27: Raffi discussion and on-air singing of classic kids' songs
• 12:27: First lyric challenge, "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" in a Chinese cover version
• 13:46: JPC reveals the specific song version found on his playlist

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Episode Tone & Takeaways

• Irreverent, playful, and improvisational—the hosts thrive in tangents and riffing on pop culture.
• The episode blends nostalgia, absurd humor, and semi-educational detours about children's entertainment, music history, and personal quirks.
• The "Kids Edition" twist on the classic "Name That Tune" game is a clever excuse for playful confusion and delightful musical revelations.

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For full access to the lyrical guessing game and all bonus content, listeners are invited to join the Clue Crew on Patreon.

Transcript

[A]

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[B]

Okay, I have a hint for you guys as to what we are doing today. Do you guys wanna hear the hint?

[C]

I'm ready. Yes.

[B]

Okay, here's your hint. Do you guys know what we're doing today? What we're doing today?

[C]

I guessed it.

[B]

What we're doing today?

[C]

Like I said before we even recorded, I said I was gonna name that tune today.

[D]

Aaron, give me a second, okay?

[B]

Yes, Aaron. But who is the artist?

[C]

This is the episode that always makes me have to lay down after it. Cause it sends me into such a tizzy. I get so wor up for these. Okay.

[D]

Such a dizzy Thin Lizzy boys are back in town.

[C]

Lou, cancel my afternoon appointments. Lou, just do it. Are you.

[B]

You're a baby. You pay me to sit here and look pretty.

[C]

Oh, whatever.

[D]

Lou, are you coming?

[B]

Rah Ro

[C]

Baha Men.

[B]

Christian Raider. Louis Dated.

[E]

Christian Slayer.

[D]

Christian Raider. Oh, Christian Slater.

[B]

Christian Ritter. Christian. Christian Ritter.

[C]

Is this how we play the game now? You just do it in a dog voice. I have to get it.

[B]

I'm gonna do a dog voice. You guys have to say which celebrity you think I'm saying. River Me.

[D]

River Roaner of a Rolling Heart.

[C]

I'm very excited to be playing this again. It's been a minute since we've done it.

[B]

It's been a minute now. The last time we played this game, I was going with 2000s music. It became quickly apparent in the 2000s music that Aaron was maybe not even alive at all in that decade. Now, Aaron, I thought that was a decade that you lived through, but I think you just. You kind of coasted through it in a way.

[C]

I was a child.

[D]

But surely you saw an ipod shuffle commercial.

[C]

I saw. I remember Feist singing 1234. And that's sort of the only memory I have of music in the last 40 years.

[D]

Peter, Bjorn and John with whatever song they had. Remember? Remember.

[C]

No, that's someone else. What am I thinking of?

[B]

Creepy. That's the ship.

[C]

What's the whistling one that I'm thinking of?

[B]

What you were singing was the shiz.

[D]

What about the young folks?

[C]

Oh, no. What about the. Oh, no, it's.

[B]

Now, this is a separate game. Whatever you're doing, Aaron, is not the game that we're playing here.

[C]

What is the song that's in Darjeeling Limited?

[B]

You're losing it all to yourself.

[C]

What is the song in Darjeeling Limited?

[B]

This is two people touching a chessboard, moving the pieces erratically and hitting the time clock at the judge, being like, what am I supposed to do with this, Aaron?

[D]

I. This is a chess fact. It was curated by Mark Mothersball.

[C]

Oh, it's. Where do you go to my lovely is the song I was trying to think of, but that's not them either. What's.

[A]

What.

[B]

What is that The. Is that the song from Night at the Roxbury? Where do they go, my lovely? Where do they go?

[C]

Oh, You see, now we're already running into the problem that I run into. I don't know the lyrics.

[B]

It's. And I have great news for you, Aaron. That song's not even going to be a problem today because we're probably not doing it unless we are. I do not think that we are, because today we have a special lay on. Now, I've been doing a thing. I've been building this for the past two or three years now where I have a playlist that I put all of the songs that my kid likes. So when my kid expresses, like, an interest in a song, I add it to the playlist and then, you know, we're in the car, I'll shuffle that thing around. And it's gotten so big now that there's. It's eclectic, it's expansive. It's not, you know, there's not really like a genre to it. It's just. It's just music that my kid enjoys. So today we're gonna kind of dip into, like, what the kids are listening to, and we're gonna go with. We're gonna go with that playlist. That's the only, I guess, hint.

[D]

Grandma shark doo doo doo doo doo Grandma shark doo doo doo doo doo.

[B]

I will say now, the one thing the national. The one thing that you probably will not find on this playlist is like, I don't know what you would traditionally consider, like, kids music. I don't like that stuff. I can't stand that stuff. There's one song that my kid likes that I don't know where they heard it, but it's like, it's a song, an Elmo song, and it's the Elmo song. Sing. And it's like, sing, sing.

[D]

A song?

[B]

Yeah, and I have no problem with that song because it's a fine whatever song. It's just that it's sung by Elmo and I hate Elmo's voice.

[D]

Have you heard his version of no Diggity by Blackstreet?

[B]

I like the way you're working.

[D]

Play on, play on, play on, play on.

[C]

Jpc. You know what you should add to this playlist is songs from Sesame street sung by artists that have come in.

[B]

Yeah, I think that, that if, like, there was a version of that Elmo sing song that was not sung by Elmo, I think I'd have no problem with it. But I just don't, like. I don't want to hear a puppet sing a song. I want to hear. I want to hear an artist sing a song.

[C]

But like, some of my favorite songs ever are songs that real artists came in and sang. Like the Prince song is amazing on there. Celine Dion song is amazing.

[B]

Can I get. Can I get.

[C]

James Taylor has an amazing song.

[B]

Can I get Dua Lipa singing to sing a song song?

[C]

I'll call her, but I think she's on her honeymoon right now, so I don't know if she'll pick up.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

Hey, guys. Can't talk long. A very crazy week. I've got about 60 seconds to hang out with you guys. I'm really on the go this time of the year.

[B]

Okay, we don't have to talk. I just want to kind of spend our minute hanging out, cuddling if everyone's cool with that.

[C]

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[D]

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[B]

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[D]

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[C]

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[B]

Let me get my tiny fork and that.

[D]

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[C]

Wow.

[D]

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[B]

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[D]

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[B]

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[D]

Sharapova, you're snuggling us too. Don't say a word.

[C]

Don't say a word. It's really nice to see you.

[D]

Don't say anything.

[B]

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[D]

Two quick things.

[B]

Sure.

[D]

One, if you haven't seen Yoga Abba Gabba, I feel like Yoga Abba Gabba has some fantastic musical moments and guests. Like musical guests.

[C]

I know. I'm a naysayer, but that cannot be true. Is that true?

[D]

Yeah. Have you ever seen Yoga Abba Gabba?

[B]

I don't know what Yoga Abba Gabba is.

[C]

The weird, horrible puppet part.

[D]

It's a kids show, but they just have really kickass guests. And I feel like it's just done. I've seen maybe like 10, 12 episodes, but I've been really tickled by all of them. And really, I think it's really delightful. And then two, do we know how much it would cost to hire a kids. Not a kids choir, but a kid's singing group to do our own version of now that's what I call. Or Kidz Bop. That's what it's called.

[B]

Kidz Bop.

[D]

To do our own version of Kidz Bop. But we pick the songs, so maybe it's like disturbs get down with a sickness or like we pick the songs that kids have to sing.

[B]

Click, click, boom, boom.

[D]

And we don't change. We don't change the lyrics.

[C]

Speaking of, the national would give a billion dollars to your kids. Do the where have a way in. That would be haunting. That's haunting.

[B]

That's one of my other pet peeves. It's like, I hate when I'm like, listening to music or something and then you hear that it's like the radio edit version, and you're like, come on, man, get this shit out of here. So, yeah, traditional kids music doesn't really do it for me. Now, I will always probably have a soft spot for Raffi, but again, I don't want to listen to. I just don't want to listen to a bunch of Raffy. I'll give me one Raffy song.

[C]

You don't want to listen to famous communist Raffy. Raffy. He's a communist.

[B]

Raffi's a communist?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay. Famously good for Raffi.

[D]

Where's he from? Raffi. That last name sounds a little scary. A little.

[B]

A little iffy, if you raph my drift.

[C]

Isn't he Canadian?

[B]

Well, I think he might be Canadian.

[D]

As a proud American with a normal name, I think Raffi is a disgusting, terrible last name. Is he Canadian?

[C]

I think so. I'm not 100% sure.

[D]

I don't think I've heard a single Raffy song.

[C]

Oh, you have.

[D]

I need to read it.

[C]

Baby. Beluga in the deep blue sea.

[D]

Oh, I know that song.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

To the water Panty penguin, Panty penguin, panty penguin.

[C]

I like peanut butter sandwich made with jam. One for me and one for David Amram. That one. Come on, guys. Let's go to a rappy concert.

[D]

I don't know if I've heard that song.

[C]

Yum yum, yum, yum, yum. Every time I make a peanut butter sandwich, I think.

[B]

But again, again, that's. That's not. That's not really the genre of music that we're going to be listening to today, or we're not actually going to be listening to anything today. I'm just going to be reading lyrics. You guys will be trying to guess it. Okay, Are you guys ready for your first one?

[C]

I'm scared and I'm ready and I'm upset and I'm worried and I'm. And here we are.

[D]

You're enjoying the army. I'm ready, I'm upset and I'm tired.

[C]

But I'm here, but I'm ready and I'm scared and. Are you gonna cut my hair?

[B]

More than you'd like, but less than you need. Here we go. I was five and he was six. We rode on horses.

[D]

Buzz Adol. This is Nancy Sinatra's. I was five and he was six. Yeah, he shot me down Bang bang.

[B]

This is bang bang. My baby shut me down. Now, technically, the song is by Cher. Oh, I feel like Nancy Sinatra is the. Is the version in Kill Bill. So you. I'm assuming that most. A lot of people, I think, know this song from Kill Bill. But this is not. I'm not doing either version because that's not the version that's on my playlist. But the version that I'm. Is on my playlist is all in. I believe it's in Mandarin, maybe Chinese. Chinese of some sort by an artist named Jim, because it is off of the despicable Me soundtrack, I believe.

[D]

Is it the minion singing it?

[B]

It's not minion singing it. It's this artist named Jim J or G E, M. All caps, Maybe even with periods in between. But it's a fantastic version of that song. But again, I don't speak the language, so I didn't want to read out the lyrics and the language I don't speak to a tune you haven't heard.

[D]

To amend my previous idea, how much would it cost to get a choir of minions to do sort of a. Now that's what I call minions.

[B]

Now that's what I call Minions.

[C]

I think they're unionized, so I think it would probably mean pretty many. I thought we were all going to do a round.

[B]

1, 2, 3, 4, 8. Riddle.

[E]

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[B]

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[C]

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[D]

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[B]

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[C]

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[D]

That's right.

[C]

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[D]

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[B]

Yes, a little bit.

[D]

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[B]

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[D]

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.

[B]

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[E]

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[D]

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[E]

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[D]

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[E]

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[D]

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[E]

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[B]

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[D]

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[E]

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[B]

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[E]

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[B]

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[E]

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[D]

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[B]

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[D]

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[E]

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[D]

just cruising up, I'm like, yeah, I got that on tv. God bless us.

[E]

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[D]

When you come in and you're being really nice, I'm like, damn it. Something bad's going to happen to me.

[E]

We, man. Jeff grabbed me from the back of the head and threw a punch.

[D]

The whole bar just stopped and wanted to kill me, like.

[E]

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[B]

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[D]

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