Hey Riddle Riddle - #1: Stuck in the Riddle with You

Episode Date: July 25, 2018

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This is a Riddle Riddle, the podcast where we dive into riddles, into puzzles. We do a mental escape the room for you to play along with at home to try and solve in your own mind-scape and your own brain space. I'm out of reply. I'm joined by two of the fucking funniest people I know that I could think to get on this podcast. Mr. John Patrick Cohen. Hello, hello. And Ms. Aaron Keefe. Hello. Just one hello. Hello, hello, hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. For hello. I'd love to do mine again. Mr. John Patrick going hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. We have a winner. I like to do mine again. Good morning.

That's a totally different intro. I'm fine with that. That doesn't infringe on my IP. So good morning school. I personally am obsessed with since I have a little baby boy, I've been obsessed with riddles, with puzzles, love crosswords, any sort of brain exercises. I used to get those, I think there was a thing called brain games that was for kids, where it's like different ages 10 through 15, and there's like little puzzles and whatnot. Oh, I remember those, yeah, I haven't thought about those in a long time. But I think there's like a peg in the middle is like long strips of paper with a peg

and then you fold them out, like you fan them outwards. But I really enjoy those. I'm obsessed with escape rooms. I think I've done escape rooms with both of you. I've done multiple escape rooms with you. I will say I wanted to do this podcast just because I was like, what's a podcast I want to hear? And I want to walk around and try and solve riddles.

I hate trivia, because trivia you either know or you don't, versus a riddle. If you have enough time and enough brain power, you can suss out the answer, kind of, for the most part. And I hate logic problems. Logic problems being words like there's a there's a lot of problems are like I hate words and I hate emotions but that's why I think it sounds but like logic problems are words like there's 10 people in a family Susie is third oldest Adam is two behind Suzy. Oh, you hate math homework.

That's what it is. See, I think I maybe don't like riddles because I love problems like that. Really? I love math the word problems. Oh, I despise those. I like story word problems where it has like a fate like Suzy is this and you know, and that's the example I just gave. Yeah, now what's like if all that is true. can you choose a different name besides Susie because that's

the exact one I just one of the women's names out there Aaron do you know together no I can't think many of the dumb man Susie it is Susie it is there's Susie and there's Kevin anyone who comes to be with anything differently is wrong boys are Kevin the girls are Susie's I will die on this hill but the the the word problems that I like are like, you know, if all this is true, how will this mark? And it's like, that wasn't part of the information. But I do.

I'm a riddle fan as well. I feel like a- Would you call yourself a riddle head? No. And anyone who called me that would get killed. I didn't want to tell you this before because I like to be included. I'm usually not a riddle person. They sometimes make me really mad because I don't like when people celebrate how clever they are.

So in the months leading up to this recording, when I said, Aaron, I think you're great. Would you enjoy solving riddles? And then I said, now's the time to lie. And then I lied. And then I went, I'm just going for the company. But I bet you changed my mind. I appreciate you being honest when there's

no chance of repercussion. So it's really interesting that we're doing this now, though, because Aaron hates riddles. You love riddles. And I thought riddles were a different thing until earlier today. So we're all learning at our own pace here. So I think that we have a very interesting

bevy of opinions about riddles coming in. I feel like learning at our own pace would have been a good name. We decided on Hey, Riddle Riddle. Here are some other ones that I tossed out that JPC, John Patrick Cohen, who hereby be known as JPC, and Aaron, shot down. Hello, hello, hello, hello. Good morning.

Riddle Miss Muffet, we said known to. Yeah. Chronicles of Riddle. Should we say real quick, why we hate all of these? Or enough to know that we did it like them. Just let them wash over you. Great. Chronicles of Riddle.

I did like that one. Yeah, that's fine. I think that was yours. Riddle Miss, Riddle Miss, riddle miss, can't be wrong. I don't want to type that out or write that out. Fuzzy, fuzzy, fuzzy was a puzzle. Stuck in the riddle with you. Malcolm in the riddle.

I think I like stuck in the riddle with you. I don't know why that got shut down. What about the riddle by Jimmy E Jimmy World? Great album. Great album. So I thought what we might do is we might start off with kind of a Lightning round, if that makes sense. Does that make sense? A lightning round? Yeah, just to kind of Worm up our brains, get the gears going. These are one these are gonna be ones that I already know the answer to so it's mostly to warm you to up because I came in Oh, you've been hot for days. I've been hot for days. Put a week on it so I don't need warming up. But these are these will be the only ones that I know the answer to. The rest of the riddles posed during this podcast I will not know the answer to. And do you think people will

stop listening when we don't get any of these? I think they'll keep checking in just to see if we use any other names to be besides Kevin and Susie. I think we're all presupposing that people have begun to listen to this, which is an unfair thing to do. Good point. If you're listening, pause right now. Wait, don't... Oh, do you need... Well, there it goes. Shit, shit, shit, shit. We have to wait for him to press play again. Oh, you're back. Oh, thank God. In just a moment, you're gonna pause. Pat yourself on the back for listening. Go ahead and do that now. And they're back. And we're back. So let's warm up with some of these. I'll maybe give you, I'm not going to have a literal timer, but I'm going to give you maybe 15 to 20

seconds to to solve these. Very first one. This is just a warm-ups. Aaron's eyes are closed right now. I noticed I didn't want to comment on it. She's so ready to hear this. I can only focus on one sense at a time. And right now it's Mal. It's Mal. It's Mal. It's Mal.

Mal, is that something? Here we go. First one, there are seven birds in a tree. A hunter shoots one bird down. How many birds are left in the tree? It's not six. Why not? It's Mal. It's not six. Why not? Yeah, adult doesn't like math so he wouldn't give us a set. A lot of the riddles I enjoy are lateral thinking, like lateral problems. So this might

fall under that umbrella. Okay, ladders have rungs. Wait, can you read it one more time up so sorry? There are seven birds in a tree a hunter shoots one bird down How many birds are left in the tree? Oh? seven Why? Because you didn't say he shot one of the birds in the tree down Okay, JPC do you have a oh the sound? I'm not too late the sound would be loud and they fly I mean that's that's the impression that I got but this isn't a mighty mighty boss Don'ts recording.

Oh wow, what a reference. Yeah, so I would say six birds left in the tree because a real hunter uses a bow and arrow because it got as a coward's instrument. So it would not make a sound. It would take the bird down and he would be free to hunt the rest of it. Once again, this is a political podcast. Hey, Rital Rital. Come to you about gun control.

I'm from Indiana. And I have an uncle that's a hunter and he's like, real hunters don't use guns, real hunters who's bowing the arrow. So. Yes, he. I have no more information about this man. What's the answer? The answer is none because the rest of them got scared and flew away.

So I would give that to Aaron, not that we're keeping track of. I'm keeping a mental power. I'm keeping a mental power. I'm keeping a mental power. I'm keeping a mental power. I'm keeping a mental power. I'm keeping a mental power. I'm keeping a mental power.

I'm keeping a mental power. I'm keeping a mental power. I'm keeping a mental power. I'm keeping a mental power. I'm keeping a mental power. I'm keeping a mental power. I'm keeping a mental power. I'm keeping a mental power. I'm keeping a like math. All right, lightning rags. This is one you might. That's three minutes on the first first question in the lightning round.

This might be one you've heard before. A plane crash is directly in the border of US and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors? I know this one. So I'm going to abstain from answering and let Aaron make an absolute fool of herself. Why didn't anyone say died? A plane crash is directly on the border of the US and Canada.

Where do they bury the survivors? I don't know. I think you're on to it. The, the, they didn't bury. There, there's nowhere. Can I, can I blow your mind? Yeah. You don't bury survivors.

Damn. Oh my head hurt that's what a cow I'm gonna get a no bleeding seven minutes I'm in a seven minute face you start gushing blood we start doing the answers to these red cells here we go one more got you why did the ice cream truck break down why did the ice cream truck break down? So this is a pun, correct? I believe the answer to this is a pun.

I'm not gonna say yes or no. Because the driver wasn't in very good humor. Kevin? Yeah. Well, wait a second. You think ice cream truck drivers have to be men? Check your privilege at the door speaking of let's we'll toss out since this is the first episode Let's toss out the holy trinity of riddles. Okay, to me the Beatles of riddles would be the Sphinx riddle

Do you do you both know that this fink's riddle is what walks on four four legs in the morning two in the afternoon and three at night? That's the Beatles of riddles. Yeah, well that that is the John of riddles. I feel like it's the whole band. Okay. I thought they were more coming Did you say there were three? But he's got to be like the beach boys of riddles. I was gonna go with the next There are three of them and we just don't do a wringo. Okay, I'd be on board with that. But no, this whole riddle will be the beetles. Do you know the answer? No. The answer is man. In the morning, it's a baby. It walks on four legs, barring any abnormalities. In the evening, it's on two legs, which is when you're an upright adult. And in the night, it's three legs because you walk with a cane. That's a, that's a lot of assumptions that they're making with that

riddle. And also morning evening night doesn't necessarily map on two years in age. It didn't much like the Beatles that doesn't hold up to age group. And also, but those things was kind of a scam. So I think we could all agree that a waste is just took what the Beatles did and approved upon it sevenfold. The role that riddle everyone knows what that is. The rolling stones of the Holy Trinity of riddles would be a father and son are in a car accident. The father dies. The son is brought into the hospital. The doctor looks down at the son and says, I can't operate on this boy. He's my son. How is that possible? That's a classic Kevin and Kevin. That's a Kevin Suzy situation.

That's a classic Kevin and Suzy. That's Rolling Stones because it's a little bit darker, a little more modeling. Oh yeah. A little more macabre. The third one would be maybe like the Elvis of Riddles. That would be a man rides into a town on Tuesday, stays for two days, rides out on Friday. How is that possible? A man rides into a town on a Tuesday, stays for two days, rides out on Friday. Oh, I know this one.

Tuesday and Friday are both popular names for horses. So he rode it on a horse-dib Tuesday, had the horse shot eight horse. With a bow and arrow, eight the horse for two days feast, and then bought a new horse-dib Friday, rode out. The man was a time traveler. Is what the answer is, that's how that works. So those are the Holy Trinity. What riddle were we on? That's all you, bro. It was the third of your riddle,

register riddle. Why did the ice cream truck break down another classic riddle? I don't know that and I don't know either and I assume it's a mechanical failure. I know that I drove a refrigerated box truck when I was in college. I delivered ice and they are prone to a lot of mechanical failures. The answer and this is the the dumbest riddle I could find anywhere. The answer is because it had a bad day. I was gonna say that as a joke and I went I won't I won't insult it. So are some riddles jokes? Because I don't like jokes. I will get ahead of that now. I don't like jokes. Unless they're math. We all agree we don't like jokes. I will get ahead of that now. I don't like jokes. Who lets their math? We all agree.

We don't like jokes. I got it. Eric, why did you? I was six or three to the seven. Because seven, eight, nine, and if you add all those numbers out. That's a riddle. That's a riddle. OK, so we're on the right page.

So we're warmed up. We feeling good? Yes. Great. So let's get to the, that was the appetizer. That was a sweet, sweet app. Maybe Moz sticks. Oh, so I'm wearing this to a meal.

Oh, yeah. Good, yeah. And this will be the last supper. Check, please. So let's get to the meat portion of the show. We'll get into our first riddle. This is one, again, I'll mention, I don't know the answer to. None of us know the answer to.

Errin is asleep again. Hi. Her eyes closed when the focus happens. Here we go. First riddle. And this is going to be a bit of a story. It starts off. Hey, pop, can I have some money?

Ask Dana. The electric ear splitters are giving a concert here in town next week, and I really want to hear it. His father put down in television listings, turned off the TV TV and firmly declined, but that's my favorite group Protested Dana. I want to buy tickets real fast so I can hear them perform as soon as possible If that's what's most important to you replied the father then you won't need any tickets explain Okay, so we have a lot of pieces of information This is a story riddle and this is one of my favorite types of riddles.

I've just learned that this is a type of riddle, and it's already an immediate front runner. Climate of charts, climate of Billboard Hot 100. So one thing I want to mention, we have to assume the electric ear splitters are in this universe that the story takes place in, or like the Beatles. So there are second rate bands, and there's an oasis of bands out there. Just waiting to. Oh, it's a period.

OK, so this world is presupposing. Why don't they just use normal names, like Kevin and Susan? Why don't they just use normal band names, like the Rolling Stones? Unless the electric ear splitters is that like maybe that's a way, that that's like a, there's like a phrase in that name of that band that will be important to the riddle.

Here's some other things to point out. His father put down the television listings. So this is taking place at a time where people probably had TV guides. Okay. Because nobody holds a television with listening unless you're holding a fucking TV, right? Yeah.

I grew up in a time when TV guides are still a thing. Yeah. I remember getting them in the mail and then circling what I was gonna watch. I'm far younger than the two of you, but I am far younger. Let's go around and list our age. I'm 27.

You know you. I just turned 22, but a little bit of deep. When I guess I'm in the middle, I'm 27. He knows you. I just turned 22 a little bit. Then I guess I'm in the middle. 26. And Dana says, Dana, the Sun says, I want to buy tickets real fast so I can hear them perform as soon as possible. So one, Dana's dumbest shit because the sooner you buy tickets doesn't mean the sooner you get to hear the band, right? You could buy tickets for a band

the night of and you still hear them at the same time that you would hear them if you bought tickets at year and advance. Now, the only advantage to buying tickets, early is so that the tickets don't sell out. So you can actually go see the show that you want to see. So this kid, we don't even know it's a kid, could be a full grown adult man living with his father, which with how stupid he is, we have to assume that that's the case. He also could just be terrified of scalpers. He doesn't want to pay the up fee, the charge.

And he shouldn't have to. scalpers are a plague. They're the cowards of modern ticket buyers. They're the beetles of modern ticket buyers. I think that I sense, and this is just my gut, I sense that there's at least two intents. For people listening, I should let everyone know that Aaron set up, lifted that pressure, and says, this is just my gut.

And this is my elbow, and this is my knee. But I think that there's two intentional distractions, at least in this. And it feels like the band name is an intentional distraction. The electric ear splitters. What does the dad say at the end? He says, he says,

if that's what's most important to you, then you won't need any tickets. Sounds like, sounds like that's gonna kill the sun. It sounds like he's gonna, or like he, it honestly, the dad's tone sounds like he's about to teach him a religious lesson.

I'm so sorry. Like, you had, like, look at the teach him a religious lesson. I'm so sorry. You had to look at the footprints, the tickets were with you the whole time. By the way, footprints is one of my favorite riddles. I think I'm doing this right. But he says, you won't need the tickets. And that's what you won't need the tickets. Maybe he was looking on the television listings and saw that the electric ear splitters were going to be on Carson that night. Oh, yes. So the dad's

like, you don't need these tickets because you're about to see them live quote unquote on Carson. Yeah, if that's the case, then I'm really mad. And by Carson, I mean Carson daily. Yes, because this is like 96. If that's the case, I'm mad at the riddle because that's not the same thing as seeing a band's live in concert, and that dad, albeit a Christian, should know that. Here's a question I want to post to the two of you. What do we think the electric ear splters biggest hits are?

Oh, really good question. So they are transwrap, right? Yeah. Trap, please. I refuse to call it by that term. We're also overly familiar with transrap. We can comfortably call it trap. We can call it trap.

It's trap music. It sounds violent. Just ow, ow, we're hurting your head in real time. Electric ear splitters sounds like another reason why I'm painting the dad this way. It sounds like the name that like a Christian dad would make up for a rock band. Yeah, that electric ear splitters are like Satan's uh, uh, Coven or something that's like, yeah, they're afraid of, you know, exactly. My son listened to that music. There's not one brass instrument playing at all.

Hey, my son's into that noise pollution lunatics band. Give me Irving Berlin. lunatics bad give me Irving Berlin Let's see here. Do we want so we have some clues available to us? We have clues we have clues if we want them okay? We can I'm clueless right now sprint straight to the answer. I think that you're your closest to To the you know, they're gonna be on TV because you're looking at TV listings that that part makes sense Yeah, but the Sun says I want to go to the you know, they're gonna be on TV because you're looking at TV listings that that part makes sense. Yeah But the Sun says I want to go to the concert Which doesn't track here's what I love about the clues before we get into them

They're presented in Q&A form So versus the first clue is was the father telling the truth? Yes Versus just saying the dad was not lying. Yeah, I like like that they give us a little bit of Q&A to make us feel that. I'm gonna get that from every riddle from now on. They're lying. Oh, yeah. It's not a true trial.

It's not a true trial. It's not a true trial. Some of the basic information is wrong. That was the name of the band at all. It's not his real name. Everyone in riddles are just habitual liars. Was it a dream? Yes.

Well, what do you want from us? So was the Was it a dream? Yes. Well. What do you want from us? So was the Father telling the truth? Yes. Did he intend to keep Dana from hearing the concert? No. So now we know it's not religiously motivated. OK. So he's a good papi.

He's a good dad. Yeah. Is it significant that Father was reading, I like that we just started calling him Father. Oh, did it's religious again? Oh, wait, what book is it's a Bible? Potter? I can't put this book down. Is it significant that father was reading the TV listings at the time? Yes. Oh, you nailed it then. Then I think you got it. I think you nailed it. Can we look up the answer to this riddle?

We can right now. Should I? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think the, I think your guess is right on the money. Yeah. Great. So here's, here's the answer. It takes a half a page, which I'm not thrilled about, but here we go. The father had noticed the planned live concert and noticed that it was also to be on television. Microphones would be a few feet from the performers and would capture this sound for television transmission. So not only is that the answer, but they're also letting us know how TV works. Yeah.

And how sound works. Which is really generous of this book. When was this book published? 1912. Each answer is like, let me start over. And I thought, too, would use it. The audience potentially, including Dana, would be farther from the performers than the microphones would be. Sound travels at about 800 feet per

second. Television waves and the electric currents that create, in response to them, travel over a million times faster than sound. The father correctly figured that the television audience would hear the performer sooner than the live audience. For there would be less delay while sound waves travel a short distance on microphones and from TV speakers would be less delay while sound waves travel a short distance on microphones and from TV speakers to viewers, then while sound waves travel the full distance from performers to the live audience. Did differences only a fraction of a second, but the father was a sociopath.

Yeah, okay. Here's, I want to introduce a new segment on the show called, Here's what pisses me off about that riddle. It wasn't just like, it's gonna be on TV. That's the answer to the riddle. They had to give us all that bullshit about like sound waves and getting to the concert. Boy, oh my.

We got tricked in the learning. I, I feel like I got tricked in the learning and I caught it early because when the learning started happening, I tuned out. I immediately went red with rage for having listened to learning. We should have picked up on the fact that Dana yelled to his dad, I want to buy tickets real fast so I can hear them perform as soon as possible. That should have been a red flag because nobody talks like that.

No teenage kid says I want to hear what band is soon as possible. I want to buy tickets real fast. Well, especially with that voice. Yeah, Dana is a robot. That's obvious. Because that's an anagram. Data analysis. Neuron, all the time.

Dana. I want to be able to be the first person at the concert to hear the sound. Not in an enjoyable way, in a mathematical way. I am a teenage boy. Papa, can you save me a fraction of a second? Father, could you fix me a glass of oil before bed? Oh, boy. Alright, so my rating on that riddle is D. See, this is going to be my problem with every riddle is I imagine the person who wrote it and then they put their pen down and they go nailed it. Just the biggest shitting. God, I'm great at my job. Absolutely nailed it. Should we move on to number two? I think we should probably move on to number two. Here we go. A man called the woman he loved and she cursed at him and hung up angrily. Why was he happy? A man called the woman he loved and she cursed at him

and hung up angrily. Why was he happy? Because he was got to talk to the woman he loved. I mean, and something better than nothing. So you in this scenario, they work together, they split up. He still loves her. It's unrequited. Yeah. And he shouldn't, he should have lost that number. There's maybe a restraining order in progress. And just the fact that he got to talk to her made his day, made him.

Yeah, he's like, I love her so much that anything's better than nothing at all. I'm going to say that he called her that they were husband and wife. He called her, he does love her. But because he loves her, he sets her free. So he basically calls to say I went on divorce, but he's happy because he got to fulfill that idiom of if you love someone, set them free. Cool. I have two different answers, and I don't know which one to go with. It says that she cursed at him and he hung up happy.

So not to be crass, but he crass. Girdy Talk? Exactly. And she's like, I want to fuck you so bad. And he's like, I'll be over in a minute. But I didn't just have to say dirty talk. Let me give you an example of dirty talk. Is it perfectly acceptable for a phone thing to say? My other answer is this is actually going to the first answer is going to actually lead us to a very popular segment that we're doing for the first time called let's role play that all right adult you ready

well first of all can we start over I'd like to be included in this can I be the sound of the phone only if you don't state the word bringing over you can be a phone in stage directions okay it's it's evening a phone it rings This is Susie Susie it's Kevin you're husband to 11 years. I just got off the big client call I'm gonna come home and eat that as the completion That's not so fucking hot click and he and the man was happy. Oh wait, she said click. Oh She didn't hang out. Oh never mind. Hold on. It's still the segment's still going

Click is what I want to watch when you get home tonight the classic Adam Sandler movie. Oh We're gonna watch click My jaw's gonna click. Click. Oh, good. Well, I do it, it's real, because I'm stage direction. It does say she cursed at him and hung up angrily. So to be fair, in that role playing, I did not hang up angrily.

She didn't finish. Yeah, so, oh, yeah, he came. He came and over the phone. Is this a dirty book? Because it looks like a nerd book. What is this? Oh, it's the Bible still. This is the same one is that Christian rock band one. So I don't think that they'd mix both of those in. But what my I had another thought which was that he's happy because she she's cursing at him and she's angry which means that she like hates him and if you know She didn't want anything to do with him. She'd be like indifferent to him completely But since there's passion there. He's got a fighting chance because you know passionate can be converted over it into love

Sounds like my life. I remember to both of them Let's read some of the sweet, sweet clues here. The Q&A clues. Was the man a masochist who generally liked being unpleasantly treated? No. Well, all men to a certain degree. Did the woman love him? I thought that maybe it was unrequited love, so this will be a big answer for me. Did the woman love him? Yes. Oh, I think your initial dirty talk. My first one is right. Did he believe that her angry words were really directed at him? No. So he thinks she's a liar. He thinks that her angry words. Did he believe that her angry words were really directed at him? No.

Maybe she was recalling a story. Like something happened in her day. Oh yeah. She's like, I just remembered. I'm adopted. You just remembered it? Susie and Kevin at work are really getting them on their... That's fair. People who are adopted never forget. Every day they wake up. They wake up to tear a page off their adopted calendar. Oh no. Do you think the terror page after adopted calendar. They remember their adoption. Do you think that's a far-side calendar? Yeah. Oh.

Okay, I got another. I mean, that's, I still feel like my dirty talk one is the answer that I believe. Okay. We're ready for the answer? Yes. She was married to another man. Oh, damn. And he suggested that she pretend that he was an obnoxious telephone solicitor

if he called while her husband might over here. His ruse apparently worked, and he was pleased. Affairs hurt people. So yeah, I think that this is predicated on the destruction of the sacrament of marriage. So let me get this right. So we'll say Kevin is the man who called Susie's woman who picked up her husband will call Kevin. I see him as also for a lack of a better name.

But there is. So Kevin called Susie and Susie let him know if you do call, I'm going to pretend you're a solicitor. If my husband's here. If my husband's here so that it so that our sin beneath God's healing seems warm too. I'm not rooting for them. I don't want to be here. No, but you know, Kevin, the guy who's calling, he's got his own problems because like cheaters are going to stay cheaters, right? So what's his end game here? She leaves him, marries him. Now you just married someone who you know is prone to having an affair.

Like, these people, they have no, they don't like, Forced site with the way that this is going to turn out. They're they took a real ethical turn. Yeah, yeah, you're more accomplices. That's not sustainable living. It's really not. You know someone's gonna do something. I'm honestly rooting for Kevin, her husband, because he's going to realize that this is going down and he's going to come out as a better person. You know, find another Susie. Yeah, a better Susie. What do we think? This brings us to a favorite segment first time on the podcast. Six months later. What do we think is going down? Six months later, are they still are they still playing this game of cat and mouse on the phone while the husband is none the wiser?

No, so he's, Kevin, the husband has... You can just say Kevin. You're right. He's drank himself to death. Completely unrelated. It was going to happen anyway. He's an alcoholic. Also, man, the idea that Susie is gonna be like,

that mean to a person on the phone, that's a human being that you're talking to. Now I know they're calling you during dinner time, but. That's a good enough cover up that she's doing that enough. She's calling it people, I don't know, just hang up. Why is it a yell? Why isn't it just like, oh, no thank you,

we don't want AT&T Can they just text well the first no this book was made in 1912 So it was it was landlines and a switchboard operator There's all the time we've got a lot of us Let's do a next riddle. Yeah, sure here we go riddle number three a man locked his son out of the house the son I'm curious So, Rital number three, a man locked his son out of the house. The son. I'm curious. A man locked his son out of the house.

The son thanked him, explained. I think I know the answer. He was being sarcastic. A man locked his son out of the house. The son thanked him, explained. Thank you. Oh, thanks a lot, dad. You locked me out of the house, which is just what I wanted.

There was a fire inside me. I love, oh, and then the dad was... Saving him. My thought was that there is a killer inside the house, and the dad is saving his son by being like, you go. For both of these, for fire or killer, and fire is a silent killer. Well, depending on the noise of the fire.

Oh, I've heard some terrible things from fire in terms of it killing. Why couldn't the dad slip out with the sun and then either use keys or just or just shut the door and run? So I think the dad is going back in to fight the killer. Which wouldn't work for fire unless the dad's a firefighter. And firefighters are the ultimate fire killers. Why don't we call firefighters fire killers? Well, I guess for the most firefighters, don't... Fire murderers? They don't always kill the fire.

Sometimes they let the fire kill the building. I put out this fire. You're under arrest. We should call... Well, we can't call firefighters fire killers for that reason. But we should call, well we can't call firefighters fire killers for that reason, but we should call fires building killers. So we should call firefighters building killer killers.

And then what do we call the prodigy song? A man locked his son out of the house, the son thanked him, explained. Do we need some clues? No, hold on. So I have one more. I have one more. So they're talking about the US House of Representatives. And he's locking his son out of the house by ruining his reputation. No, hold on. So I have one more. I have one more. So they're talking about the US House of Representatives.

And he's locking his son out of the house by ruining his reputation. So his son never has to follow in his father's footsteps and become a United States representative. It's the end of nepotism. They're killing nepotism. Honestly, that's... I don't like that idea, but let's call Netflix.

I think he was serious. I don't like that idea, but let's call Netflix. I don't like it for this context, but as a TV show, I'd watch the hell out of that. I hate it for what we're doing now, but I like it for something different. Red, white, and blue, and white, and my side. I think it's garbage, but I feel like most of America

would watch it. Here's some clues. Did the sun live in a father's house? Yes. Was there a physical danger in the house from which the father wanted to protect his son? Holy crap. Whoa. Yes? No. But the fact fact that they yeah, so that must be yeah

Jumping to conclusions the defodder own the house and unquestionably have the legal right to have his son live with him Example the son was not a fugitive from justice. Yes Damn, so those question and answers to really nuked my... So the son's locking the father's locking the son of the house and the son's thanking him. Because it's a nice day. Maybe the son is like a drug addict and his stashes in the house and he's like if I ever you know if I ever shoot up, lock me out so I can't get to my sweet, sweet drugies. Does he say that he thinks I'm immediately

or that he'll think him eventually? I think he thinks I'm immediately. Because there's a problem and they've sprayed poison in the house. Well, what do they say? There's not a physical danger. And I think drug addiction is a physical danger. The dad is a Gremlin.

He spilled water on him. He's locking him out so he doesn't have to witness this horrible. Yeah, so he's a mogwai. He's not a Gremlin. What did I say? You said Gremlin, but if he's a Gremlin that spilled water on him, that's fucking nothing. What's the title of the movie? It's not Magwai. It's Gremlin. Magwai is a Gremlin. Magwai is the name of the Gremlin. No. The name of the Gremlin is not Magw one. I'm not sure if you're gonna get this one. I'm not sure if you're gonna get this one.

I'm not sure if you're gonna get this one. I'm not sure if you're gonna get this one. I'm not sure if you're gonna get this one. I'm not sure if you're gonna get this one. I'm not sure if you're gonna get this one. I'm not sure if you're gonna get this one. I'm not sure if you're gonna get this one. I'm not sure if you're gonna get this one.

I'm not sure if you're gonna get this one. I'm not sure if you're gonna get this one. I'm not sure if you're gonna get this one. I'm not sure if you We can get this one, but yeah, maybe throw us the answer. What's our score right now? I think we haven't gotten this one. Oh, for two? I think I've gotten all of that. Oh, the TV one we got. Oh, okay. Yeah, so we got one for two. We didn't know why with the way that sound waves work, but we're one for two.

I knew one of your warm-up ones. We're not keeping score. I'm keeping score. Those are warm-ups. Those are warm-ups. Okay. And, uh, interesting turn in this NBA game, we are gonna count some of the baskets of

a board bubs. So it looks like the bulls do win. Ah. All those layups. We're also counting the baskets, those little kids played during that. And two points for any time a player touched his toes. We just were going to award the stretching properly. Warmob's count now, and nothing's important. Let's hear the answer. The son in his

late teens was spoiled in idle. Where is this going? The father correctly inferred that evicting him and forcing him to earn his own way would benefit him. However unpleasant it would be at first. When the son found a job and had worked at it for a while, he understood how his father's actions had made his life more respectable and constructive, therefore he thanked his father. So you were right in terms of like, it's time after. It matters when he thinks. That was actually my gut. It was inspired by your like drug addiction thing.

It's like, it's, you know, years later, he thanked him for it. I wanted that to be more clever. You know that and I just wanted it. Maybe the riddle wanted you to be more clever. Wow damn. We can't even. I'm in a real pop kettle. We can't even do our famous six months later on that because that scenario had a built-in like years down the line thing in there which is like oh I give that red a la D for Dana for data I give it also a D because these that person was also smoke it after they wrote that what did they say when they put down the pen how I hope this really helps a couple teen boys team their their life around I feel like it was written by a father who was like how can I covertly send a message to my dipshit son?

Yeah. And then he like one day like taped it into a newspaper. And it was like, son, anything good in the newspaper? Hey Kevin, did you see your old pops or real in the newspaper? Maybe, maybe thank your old pop for locking you out of the house and you go enough to college. Let's let's do our second segment of this episode of a little thing we like to call roleplay. So Aaron I'm gonna cast you as the son

Kevin. I'm JPC. You'll be the dead Kevin. And I want this to be versus years down the road. I want this to be the actual moment where you lock Kevin out of the house. Okay. Excuse me. Hold on, hold on. Oh, stage structure. Bring, bring. Excuse me, I'm trying to get into this. Hello, who is this? Deb trying to get into the house.

Kevin, I've locked you out of the house. I'm outside with my skateboard, let me in. Kevin, I know you're 13 now, and today is your birthday. Today you are a man, and you'll never step foot in this house until you own a successful frying-chised business. It doesn't have to be Papa Johns, but you know that would be proud. Let me in. Papa Kevin's, let me take that again.

I'm too late at scan him. I'll never thank you for this. Mark my words. I'll never thank you for this. Mark my words, I'll never thank you for this. Mark. Kevin, my word. I'm not kidding. Damn it. As Kevin walks away, the dad is still looking through

the screen door. We see a mysterious shop that wasn't there before, pop up in front of the door. Excuse me, are you looking for a pet to buy? Oh, that's a pretty racist accent you're using. Really? It sounds just like the voice? Ha ha ha ha ha Sounds just like the voice you're using.

I'm just saying it won't age well. Regardless. Ha ha ha ha Not age well, just like your son. Ha ha ha ha ha ha There it is. Dad I'm back. And see.

And I own a dominoes. Ha ha ha ha Yes, he is seen. Ha ha ha You are seeing your son for the first time. I'm selling gremlins You're selling Gremlins. Mm-hmm click Unfortunately, we did as funny as that was we introduced the names John and Mark and to the official Canon which now they're there now they're there boy the official candidate, which now they're there. Now they're there. Oh boy. So the last riddle we'll do here. This will be listener subented.

Since this is our first episode, I post it on Twitter to see if anybody would send me some riddles. We got quite a few, but I'm going to use one from a person we all know and love. Alice Stanley out in LA. And here is the riddle sent to us from Alice. Alice says, there's a cabin in the middle of the woods. Okay. I'm into it. Everyone in it is dead. Well, I'm still into it. They were not murdered, but they did not die of natural causes or an act of God. Again, it takes the religious turn.

How did they die? There's a cabin in the middle of the woods. Everyone in it is dead. They were not murdered, but they did not die of natural causes or an act of God. How did they die? Oh, I have so many questions. Askeway, I've seen the answer for this one. I will admit, just because I had to have that ready. My first thought, my first thought is that it's some sort of like cult drinking poison, all going up to heaven

and a spaceship. It was not suicide. It was not suicide. What cult goes up to a spaceship? There was the hailbop. What were they? Oh the comet? The comet. They like all were purple Nike's or something, right? They thought they were sending. I think they thought they were hitching a ride in that comet. Yeah a lot of people died Aaron. And you're right, it was very cool. Oh, yeah, yeah, no. Yeah, branding for Nike. I'm gonna close my eyes. The crime scene was probably the hippest crime. It's not suicide. It's not suicide. But it's not natural causes. It's not murder. It's not natural causes or an act of God. There was a leak. There was a gas leak. They put on the stove and then they fell asleep. Oh,

yeah, propane. What kind of gas, natural gas? Because it wasn't natural causes. Oh, that's true. Carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide. That's not it. OK.

A loose bird got in there. And they all took out their, uh, bone-air? No rifles, because their idiots cowards. They didn't all have the same disease. Did they all die the same way? They all died the same disease. Did they all die the same way? They all died the same way. I can only assume.

Did they all die at the same time? Probably. Okay. A car. Can't game. Does it matter how many of them there are? An ice cream truck driven by Suzy. Thank you.

You're very welcome to the house. For fun, we'll say that there's 20 people. And that's, I remember, that's for fun. So 20 people die. We still forget. I could make it three people. And what shoes were they wearing? But I wanted as many people as I was possible.

20 people. So they're in this cabin. Oh, boy. And then they all die, not natural causes. Have you seen the movie Cabin in the Woods? I have. And is it? And that will help you. Will it really? No. Oh, why say that then? There's a Cabin in the woods? I have. Yeah, and that will help you. Will it really? No?

Oh, I say that then. There's a Cabin in the middle of the woods. Everyone in it is dead. They were not murdered, but they did not die of natural causes or an act of God. How did they die? Were they dead? Did they die in the Cabin or were they... Taxidermied. Cash is, they're all in act. Everyone else shut up. Aaron, Aaron, what? You think these people are in Dexadoran. I do, and I pictured it, and now you are too. What poses do you think they're in?

Oh, cabin poses, they're playing cards. Cabin poses. A couple are in the hot tub. You know, cabin poses. Hey, cabin, get the kids. Let's do some cabin poses. A couple are in the hot tub. You know, cabin poses. Hey, cabin, get the kids. Let's do some cabin poses. Well, so my other guess was that this is not correct. When they do nuclear testing and they put the dummies, like they stage them, so this could be bodies that

were staged for science. The experiment is to see how bodies decompose in the cabin. Where they did when they got there, I guess, is our question. When they got to the woods, they were dead, probably. Open out the cabin. Depending on how long it took them today, I assume immediate death. You assume immediate death.

That's natural. So we're trying to figure out how they died, right? Yeah. OK. But he's saying that they didn't necessarily die didn't necessarily, they didn't die in the cabin. They died before they got to the cabin. They definitely died in the cabin. But they started to die before they, they, they, they, they, the Adel saying is like, you know, and philosophically, we're all dying.

Oh my god. We're all already dead. Mm-hmm. Um, but I'm not sure, I assume they all died immediately at the same time, but I can't be since I was not there and I don't know how physics work You really are making a big deal of how you weren't there. They died from too much gravity But I know that there are 20 people dead. Do you want the answer? Hold on hold on or I can answer some more questions Answer some more questions. Yeah answer some more questions. We're not gonna ask any more questions

But we'd love the answers to some questions. We're not asking. Give us a clue, all the clues that you read off from your Christian book. This isn't from the Christian book, but here's a clue I just made up. They were most likely eating peanuts in this cabin. Dude. What? I got it. Thank you. Okay. I now know the answer. Aaron, it. Thank you. Okay.

I now know the answer. Here it is on you. Hold on. Oh my. No. Right. Wait. Can you read the prompt one more time?

Oh, I feel so smart right now. This is a great feeling. When you experience this, you're going to love it. There's a cabin in the middle of the woods. Everyone in it is dead. They were not murdered, but they did not die of natural causes or an act of God. How did they die? Also, there's the clue that they were probably eating peanuts. I don't know. I'll give you one more clue. The cabin was in a plane.

The cabin was in a what? A plane. It was a plane crash. They're all in a cabin. They crashed they crash to the middle of the woods what cut it off for me was when Adel said the word fuselage And I was like Is our in plates and so that really here's my gosh Alice Thank you so much for saying this here's my here's my big qualm with this is Isn't a plane crash if you I don't Subscribe to the religion, but isn't a plane crash an act of God? What where are the acts of God like hurricane? But isn't that nature a plane crash up the mechanical a tornado is nature lightning is nature for sure

What is an active hold on? I want you to list three more things that are nature because I don't quite know that you have it earthquake. Yes Flood. Yes hurricane lightning you're good on nature too much wings Do it is nature bees Bees are nature So what is what is an act of God? That's an active God. So we're conflating natural causes. Well, sometimes an active God is just everyone's dead at once.

We're for no reason. Oh, you're thinking of a rapture. Yeah, that's what I mean. So a rapture is an active God, but it's also a fake thing. So the answer to this could have been, this was a plot in the show leftovers. Yeah, but that's an but, but, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's,

that's, that's, that's, Alice, your, your, your riddle stands, Adela's wrong. He doesn't believe in any God. If he believed in the powers that I believe in, he wouldn't understand. Yeah, this is, that was my favorite one. I don't give that one a D.

No, that one gets an A for Alice. Yeah. And Alice is an anacram for anatomical lady in you can You can email us. Susie You can email us submit your own riddles or lateral thinking problems or puzzles whatever you want And these can be ones you know or ones you made up yourself that you want to post to us You can email us at hrrpodcast at gmail.com That's hrrpodcast at gmail.com. You can also find us on Twitter at HeyRiddleRiddle,

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