Hey Riddle Riddle - #247: Hollywood Hot Takes w/ Michael Hitchcock

Episode Date: April 12, 2023

Say goodbye to Gloof the Mouse and say hello to our special guest Michael Hitchcock! It's the return of Hollywood Nights. That's right, this ep was recorded at the Headgum Studio in LA with help of producer Richelle. It was so nice to be recording back in person again, except, well, you'll just have to listen. Starring: Adal Rifai John Patrick Coan Erin Keif Special Guest: Michael Hitchcock Editing by:  Casey Toney Theme by:  Arne Parrott Logo by:  Emily Kardamis & Emmaline Morris Want more? Get Weekly Bonus Eps on Patreon! Want merch? Visit our TeePublic Store! or pins, buttons & prints Want to mail us something? Hey Riddle Riddle  6351 W Montrose Ave #267 Chicago, IL, 60634 Want to leave us a voicemail? Call (805) RIDDLE-1 or (805-743-3531) Want to advertise on the show? Check out Hey Riddle Riddle via Gumball.fmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is a headgun podcast. Hey Aaron J.P.C. can you see me? Hello, I'm on Zoom here. Hello? Oh, do we have to? Aaron, what's the protocol here? Do we have to ignore the protocol? Do you have to hear you? Do you have to hear us? I'm on zoom here. Hello. Oh, do we have to Aaron? What's the protocol here? Do we know? Do you have I can hear you? Do you have you hear us? I'm gonna touch on it like it's a fish tank Aaron, it's not it. Okay, stop. Please stop fish. Fish famously like what Aaron's doing. Yeah, can't be right Hello, I cannot be right. I've seen her kicked out of so many aquariums. Listen guys. I'm back in Chicago on zoom

You know how we're recording in LA today with some special guest? Yeah. With some special guests. I guess I guess I don't wanna say his name because here's what happened. No, because it Christopher guest. Yeah, because I was there to studio with you guys.

I tested from COVID, tested positive, immediately left and flew home to Chicago. But it was what Michael Hitchcock said to me. He said, you have COVID and I was so, it felt so unprofessional thatitchcock said to me. He said, you have COVID, and I was so, it felt so unprofessional that he said that to me. It felt so rude, and I didn't want to let, I just kind of smiled and went, and walked away, because I had to.

He was speaking truth to power though. Yeah, because what you had said to him was, I have COVID. Well, yeah, but it's the way he said it back. It's the way he said it back. Like, he was trying to understand or be, yeah, but it's the way he said it back. It's the way he said it back. Like he was trying to understand or be empathetic. And I said, it isn't that funny how sometimes it's the way that it's said back to us.

Mm hmm. Yes. Yes, yes, I guess, I guess, I guess so. So, um, I go to a restaurant and say, hey, I need to take, I actually need a table for four. I get that I'm being an asshole. And then they say, you're being an asshole. I go, I'm being what? Yeah, exactly.

I hear it back and I say, huh? Huh? Yeah. We've all been there. Yeah. That's like the end of flights. I don't know. When Gemma's working on, you know, on her airplane, she has her airplane.

And she's walking down the aisle at the end of a flight and she goes trash, trash. And then they say back to her trash She takes a personal. Yeah, yeah, they're calling her trash. Yeah, they're calling her trash. And she's not Adil so what I'm getting from you is that this is our first episode ever That we are having to record Okay, without the creator the glue the God the God of Herodovidal, that is Adolfi. This whole episode's gonna be no Adolf. Unless there's some way to put this audio

in front of the episode. We could try, we could try Adolf, but we don't know if it could be done. I'm freaking out. Casey just even, I don't even know how time works anymore. Are you serious? Oh my God. Casey's saying that we can't do that

because we would have had to record this before we recorded the episode, but we wouldn't have known about this at that time. And I guess what Casey says in an editing term, there's no gozies backsees. So I guess we can't. Okay, what does Adel do on the podcast? He does puns.

My COVID's getting really loud over. My COVID's, I can't, his covids going to a tunnel Oh, no, no, no, no, this covid. Oh, well JPC mask on in the tunnel mask on in the tunnel. That's indoors technically Hey, do you PC? I don't think we've ever talked just us Before yeah, I hate it. I actually don't really wanna talk just us. Okay, just gotta cut to the guest. Guest, guest, we need a third. Yeah, Michael host.

No, we don't need you, Glouf. Come on, give me a chance. Gluf, get out of here. Oh, bud. You can't just introduce Glouf in an episode where we have to say bye to him right away. Come on. Hey, everybody, it's Glouf in the house. Hey everybody everybody's favorite mouse

It's glue for the mouse. Oh Michael I'm so sorry about glue I'm so sorry glue is leaving Michael so you know you're staying glue is leaving Is it something I said? Honestly, it could have been yeah, uh, ohez. I'm a little nervous because Adel is the glue, but we'll see how this goes. Well, you can be the nails and the scotch tape. That's a very good point. That's how you build a podcast with nails and scotch tape. Okay, so we'll sorry about whatever that blow up with Adel was. We'll record it later so we'll figure it out. But our guest today coming back our second second time guest.

This is exciting. When was I hear the last time? It was two thousand two. Yeah, it was two thousand two. It was two thousand two. Uh, Michael Hitchcock. Michael, welcome back to the podcast. Thank you for having me back. And the reason I back is because I begged to come back. That's true. That's, well, no, it is true. It is true. It let that be a lesson. It doesn't get to the show. If you ask us on Instagram, if you can come back and you can come back. Ask Adel. If you can come back and then Edel leaves.

Yeah. That's how it works. I also think I was, I think since we're recording in studio at the lovely, on location at the lovely head gum studios in sunny Los Angeles California. Well, the first great day we've had in about seven months. Is this right there? Yeah, this is like a, this is a typical LA day except for this year. It's sunny. Los Angeles go for it. The first great day we've had in about seven months. I mean, it's, yeah, this is like a, this is a typical LA day, except for this year. Yeah.

Where it's done nothing but rain and be awful. And I'm a weather witch and I love the rain. So I'm a little bit sad today. But I'm on the reverse schedule. I think Michael, you are probably the guest that we've had in the studio the most. Yeah. Because the last time we were in LA, we were in the studio with you. So now it's your...

It's a pre-COVID. I don't remember. No. No. It was last year. It was last year, right? Last spring, I think. Was it? It seems longer than that, but... You were a very popular guest, people freaked out.

Well, I'm sure I was. All right. All right, dear listeners. When we call our listeners, future listeners, we call them future listeners at one point. You let us know. Tag us with with the last episode. Kevin's in season, he's riddled with blood. I mean, I could have looked it up

before I came, but I just, I forgot. We could have, but we have a no cell phones policy in this studio, except you. Except JPC. Yeah, because I gotta, I'm gonna be texting people. Yeah, he's playing Candy Crush. I can see it very clearly, I'll stop. Oh, no.

That's not really good at it. That's not right. I'm on Tinder. Swipe right, swipe right, swipe right, swipe right. Wow. Love nothing more than to invite you to the studio. You're just on Tinder. And somebody please love me. Just one. Just one. I have very low standards these days. It doesn't even matter if they drive anymore. I'll pick you up. I love that you were also just wiping right so much. You didn't even look at the pictures.

You were just like, yep, yep, yep, yep. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. If they're alive and within 75 miles or sold. I'm happily married now. So my tender days are over. But there was a time when, in between when I met my wife and when I was still on the apps that I was already dating a person,

I just took my Tinder profile and I switched it to just be plugs for my comedy shows. And I looked legit, I built a profile that was like, hey, I do improv comedy in Chicago. It is a great. There's nothing sexier than that. I was like, I'm I do improv comedy in Chicago. It is a great... There's nothing sexier than that. I was like, I'm in a relationship. I don't wanna date you.

I'm not even looking for a third. What I am here to tell you is I can get you cups to a really great first date spot. That's a great idea. It's low pressure for a first date. You can, you know, you don't have to talk because you're watching a show. There's a cool bar that you can hang in there.

Right. And if you hate your date and you like me, you know, you don't have to talk because you're like watching a show. There's a cool bar that you can hang in there. Right. And if you hate your date and you like me, you know, do not come and talk to me. I don't ever want to meet you. But message me if you want cops. That's a great idea. And then I would just swipe right on everyone. Did you ever, did anyone ever take you up?

I did. I gave away, to two different people, I gave away two cops to them. They were like, I'll take some cops. And I think what it was was they were not people who didn't know what improv was. I think that they were like people who were familiar with improv anyway.

They were like, that actually is a pretty good first dates but I don't know. I don't know if I would ever get a date after doing improv or sketch because you're either dressed like Colonel Sanders or you know, and that's for improv. That's for improv because I have all my wigs and things. Yeah, no, and then oh yeah, you're like a talking frog or something like, oh, no.

Yeah, that's too vulnerable. It's you have to be dating me eight months before you even know I've ever done improv. That's so that's so interesting too because I don't know. I guess I just have no shame about it or in general. Yeah, I seldom invite my friends to improv because I just think if I it blow know, I guess I just have no shame about it or no shame in general. Yeah, I seldom invite my friends to improv because I just think if I blow it, I don't want all my friends seeing that. I told my current therapist,

I was like, if you ever want to get it, you know, come to a show, you know, just let me know. It's like you can, you could have. And she was like, please stop calling me this late at night. I have a friend who was, that's our time. I have a friend who did... That's our time? I have a friend who did therapy and he really liked the therapist and then he went somewhere in Orange County

which isn't that far if you don't live in L.A. It's, you know, I don't know, 45 minutes away. To a little community theater and their, his therapist was in a chorus line. No. No. And... I would have died.

He said he went back and like, oh, I saw you this weekend in a chorus line. Wow. Uh-huh. Yes. Why didn't know you were pursuing acting? Yes, I am. Okay.

I'm gonna have to get rid of them. You couldn't have written the funnier show just a year. That's crazy. There's a thing with most therapists that are like, if they see you in public, they won't come up to you. They will pretend like they don't know you, but if you come up to them, then they'll like say hello. But they won't necessarily say that,

but if I ever saw my therapist in public, I'd be like, guys, this is my therapist. You've gotta meet my therapist. She's so good. Oh, that's so good. You're the only one I know who would do that. But that's great. Yeah, I also do think that people would be like,

look at me and then look at my therapist and be like, how good could she be? Like, she's probably not accurate. I'd be like, well, the proof is in the pudding. If he's introducing me to the therapist, she's not very accurate. She's obviously going to a lot of work to do. Well, in LA too, which is weird. And Aaron, I don't know if you know, if you notice this, and I don't know if you're in therapy or not, but I am.

And if you could try to find a therapist, a lot of them, I would say 50% of them at least used to be actors. Oh, so this is their second or third career. That makes sense. Which could be good because they understand the business or it could be bad because they're jealous and seething that they're still not in the business. So it's weird. It's so fun. But it's not nothing bad about it. It's just a fact of life. So if you're an actor, you can always be a therapist. I think too, I have a new standard for a therapist is, I'm going to go like, were you ever in a course line? Yeah.

Can I go see you in a course line? No, I don't want to. I don't want to. I don't want to. If you're not in the course line, no. I'm just too. Yeah, so this is, this is the part of the show where we just recommend get to know your therapist.

You probably go on there and you talk all about yourself. That's actually the most important thing. You do want to do a little improv scene for me about a patient in a therapist. I would love to. Yes. the therapist. I would love to. Yes. A client. I would love the patient. Do you want to be the therapist or the patient?

You pick. Wow. I, of course, I want to be the patient. Oh great. Okay. All right. Come on in. Sorry for the delay.

My last patient. It's no worries. You have a beautiful waiting room. Yeah, no worries. Come on in. This is my first time doing in-person therapy. Oh, wow. Did you start during the pandemic?

I started during the pandemic and I was all, I was all on Zoom. So don't worry, I'll keep my pants on for the whole session. I don't know why I said that. Yeah. But I will, but I'm so sorry. Don't, no, no, no, it's a good answer. Oh, we started. We started. Oh, session. Yes, part.

We started. So we have started. Okay, cool, cool, cool, cool. Um. So tell me just a little bit about yourself. Okay. Uh, cool cool cool cool. Um, so tell me just a little bit about yourself. Okay. Uh Well Hmm number one with a bullet. I do not want to like fuck my mom or my dad or any of that stuff. Huh, so That's not why I'm here. I know a lot of people come to therapy because of that But it's not I would say not a lot of people got a good-looking mom and dad. Okay, you don't have to defend

Because they had me young so So they're still, they're still looking nice. Great, so you want to fuck your mom. No, no, neither one of them, neither one of them. Sorry, a doctor's pavy, I just wanted to drop off your rum-tum tigger outfit. Oh, thank you so much. Sorry, dinner up. I've got to get back to the fucking my mom.

Bye. Okay, only that's from cats, right? Sorry, I can't really talk about My stuff. I mean, I'm here to talk about you. I just in your you're wearing full cats makeup. Yes. I just so my call time is at 7. Okay, that's like 12 hours from now. Yeah, but It takes me like seven hours to get into character. Sure. Sure. Rump temp tuggers a very sexual cat And so I just sort of, oh yeah, my mom and dad did a production of cats

where they switched off every night, Rum temp tugger, so I, what's talk about your parents? Did you talk about, did you bring them up or whatever? If you, I think you are a few. No, the cat cost you a lot. If we really stuck the thing,

he said, no, you're right. Yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right. You're right, you're right. Guess what's gonna happen? I'm gonna take my pants off. No, you're right. That scene, good for you. Thank you so much for calling a For just yeah, well, I've been in therapy for like eight years of I was using everything I knew

Just mom and dad mom and dad mom and dad mom and dad mom and dad I had a game night recently with friend of the show Anthony Birch Okay, and we just my invite got lost in the fucking mail. You don't live in the same city as me. That makes sense. And for a big chunk of the game night, I insisted we listen to the soundtrack for Cats. I thought it would make our...

Which one, the movie version or the Broadway? I think the Broadway version. Oh. I haven't seen the movie version yet, and I have it ready to go. It's all cute up. It's still a take pause to the video. But it's sort of... I know that it's gonna be a thing, and I have to... Yeah, it's a pause, it ready to go. It's all cute up. It's still a bit paused at the beginning.

I know that it's gonna be a thing and I have to, you know, it's a pause, she's ready. Ding. I cannot recommend it enough. Everyone says that. I would love to just go over to someone's house and just be like casually talking

and then look at their TV and cats. The beginning of cats is just paused. But the play itself is so weird and I just did not care for it at all. So thinking of having to watch it again, even knowing that it's supposed to be so deliciously terrible. Yeah.

But I don't know. It makes no sense. It is really haunting. It is haunting that. Oh, the movie. I had a cousin growing up who is really into cats and my grandpa took her to sea cats when they came town from Indiana.

And so there was the touring whatever came to town. And she dressed up in full cat makeup and costume. Fine, but also they had aisle seats. And she said that the other actors, the other actors, they were like coming out that I'll do a dances with like, do like double takes to be like, is one of us hurt?

Like why is one of us sitting down? And my grandpa said he was like very embarrassed, but my cousin had a fantastic time. I bet. It's like audience participation. They didn't know it. They're just dancing panic cats. And you're just a ball.

Oh. Hi. My favorite thing ever is watching someone having to try to describe the plot of cats as someone who was no interested musical theater. So there's a bunch of cats. And they're actually, they're getting ready for the jellicle ball. Um, then you have to go, what's that? Then there's the old one that no one likes,

and she was like an old hooker. Yeah. And crazy. And then she sings memory. And then there's an old actor cat. Yeah. And then doesn't the old cooker go up in the doesn't that's the one that gets to go up in the spaceship But that's the that's the frosted to get that's what I'm talking about the old hooker Yeah, she the hooker can't get the memories, but that's good song But you have to wait a long time for them to sing that you have to sip through a lot of a lot of stuff No, it really is something else or you can just go to a Trump rally and you're guaranteed to hear it because apparently That's what I mean, really memories He's ruined every other song. He ruined Glory Out, which I love that song.

Yeah. And I ruined it. Okay, you know what, legally, we have to do riddles. I just remember that I'm holding my phone and looking at riddles. I'm going to do riddles. It's the Cats podcast. This is the best part.

This is Cats Rewatch podcast. I actually would do that for a year. I got so excited. Okay, well, we would do the show for five years. Maybe you're sick. We just do a cast rewatch podcast instead. There probably is one somewhere. I mean, I've told this story in the show before, but when I saw it in theaters, we went with our friend Becca bearish. She went around to every single person who was already in the theater, and was like, you're here as a joke, right? We're all here as a joke.

And there was one guy who was there alone, and we watched him go, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And I was like, that man was not here. Yeah, here's a big joke. I went alone to a production of something, but I'll tell you after the riddle. Oh great, great.

Because it might fit into the riddle. We don't know. Here's your riddle. This one is coming from, let's see, do I have, okay, I don't have permission. I'm going to say, Matt, this one's coming from Matt. Matt says, love the show. Here's a riddle I like. Oh, okay, not love.

Not love, so this very low stakes for Matt. We're a rock group with four members. We're all dead now. Three of us died of old age, and the other one was shot and died from that. Who are we? Oh, rock group, four members, a rock group, three died of old age, one was shot. Hmm. Not the Beatles, because two of them are still alive. Aaron, can you name the two remaining?

Oh, was it, was it April Lincoln in the top hats? April Lincoln in the top hats. Honestly, he, honestly, that is very close to the answer. Oh, really? You're totally on the right track. Oh, it's, you got us the answer. It's a Mount Rushmore. It is.

Oh, a rock group. It is Mount Rushmore. Oh. Oh. That's so, why we like riddles. To say Abe Lincoln at the top hats because that was legit. You got it. The answer. Oh my God. That's exciting. You're way smarter than Adel. We don't need him anymore. We don't need him anymore. Now Michael, I have to ask. Yeah. Does that tie into the story you're

going to tell him at the production of something that you saw a lot. Um, could it, yes, it could, it's slightly. Okay. Uh, because obviously route Mount Rushmore is very patriotic. Right. And there was a patriotic part in the show. What's so interesting? I went, no one would go with me, but I was in Vegas. I went and saw Donnie Marie Osmond.

Oh my God. And, um, no one would go with me, but I wanted to go so bad. So I did. And, you know, you pay for the tickets and they're not cheap because it's Vegas. And I didn't get in, I didn't get a comp to anything. You know, I didn't, I'm not a high roller. Come on, what the fuck?

You're not gonna come Michael Hitchcock with me. No, no, no, it's, it's, it's, You got a bunch of normies. Can you see this show? I'm like the best game of bad lips ever. Michael, it's the cock that he goes to see. So, DiMari, the first of all, they set me at a table with a family celebrating their grandfather's 90th birthday.

Hell yeah. So it was me and a family that I didn't know, and they didn't know me, and they're like, why are you with us? And I'm like, I don't know why I'm with you. I just have to. That's where the stand is. That's where the stand is.

What is to do? It was so crazy. And then Donnie Marie, they put on a good show, but it's sort of like their old variety put on a good show, but it's, it's sort of like their old variety show from the 70s, but it's updated. So it's like, Hey, Marie, one of us won Dancing with the Stars. The other came in second. Oh, Donnie. So they've updated it a bit. And then at one point, they go, Oh, Marie, did you know we won the best show in Vegas? Did we? We sure did. And I was just thinking, I mean,

you put on a fine show, but who voted you the best show? It's like Cirque du Soleil and all these crazy big shows and, you know, and who's voting? Like, I don't know. I don't know how to town people. How are they going? But they put on a good show. I had spent $700. It was fun. That sounds like heaven to me. And then the patriotic part is at some point, they make everyone who's ever served our country stand up. And then we applaud them. I don't think they sing them a song. But it isn't very long.

They get to our birthday cell. It isn't very long. But if they kind of do all of that, it's to make the show as long as they need to make it. Oh, they do birthdays. They did who's served in the, you know, who's served. I'm ready to just doubt birthday. Great. Who served?

We're gonna try to stretch out this show. They can do this. They can do this. You know, all their hits. I'm so jealous. Did he sing anything from Joseph and the amazing? He did. I would have died. He did sing something from Joseph. I loved the movie version of that. I mean, it's one of my favorite shows.

It sounds like Aaron would have loved this show. I would have loved this. You didn't need to go away. I'm going to. I'm going to. Oh, believe me. I got my money's worth. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed every bit of it. My boyfriend's mom is obsessed with that show too.

And when he was touring it, uh, his dad bought his mom ticket. And then they showed up and he was sick. And she was like, inconsolable and devastated. And so they went back. Yeah. Did a whole to do showed up again. And he was sick again she was like inconsolable and devastated. And so they went back, did a whole to do, showed up again and he was sick again. And she's so sensitive about it, we can't even, like, I can't put so sweet.

Do you even want to talk about it? Oh, it's sweet. Well, he had to get, I read his biography, believe it or not. And because I read all, I read every celebrity biography. Yeah, that's why I'm on. Yeah. He said, during shows. It isn't a pile of my. Yeah, that's why I'm on. Yeah. He said during Joe's time.

I was going to read anyway. I've got to put down those for Donnie. He got where he would get the weird thing where he thought he was just going to lose like he's what do you call it when you not stage fright but when you just go blank. Like he was so worried of that happening that he had to have intense therapy. Because he was so afraid that he was just gonna blank out on stage. Donnie.

And that happens apparently a lot with people that are in long running shows. Oh, yeah, absolutely. That he had a muscle memory just takes over. It has anyone, has anyone experienced a thing where like someone asked you your phone number or your address and you're like, I don't know.

I couldn't possibly tell you what it was Well, the way back in the day, I was a universal studio's tour guide and I did it so much that you would you'd say something like work coming in at six point Texas or whatever and we were nowhere near it because I wasn't I wasn't comprehending where we really were you're just you just do it so much by rote. Yeah, and then you'd have to you know say the other, the other week my, I was like printing something off, but my wife was in a meeting in the printers in her office. And I went off to do something else.

And then she was like, hey, I'm done with my meeting. What did you need? I go, oh, can you just print something off on my computer? She walked over to my computer and she goes, what's your passcode? And I go, I don't know. Oh, I don't know.

I have to come to my computer to know my passcode. Yeah, I came back to my computer and I couldn't get it. And I said, I don't know. Oh, I don't know. I have to come to my computer to know my passcode. Yeah, I came back to my computer and I couldn't get it. And I said, Oh, no, I go, this isn't something I have written down somewhere. So because it was like digits, like, well, just multiple digits, muscle memory. It's why I had to like go through the process of resetting it to my email, resetting the password. I was like, here's a question you can never ask me again. What's your pass go? You should be here. Because not only will I not be able to answer you, it will be deleted from my brain.

It's like a security measure. It's like, what's your bank pass go? It's like, it's gone now, buddy. Sorry. It changes every 45 seconds. Yeah, no, we all need to write it down and put it somewhere or somewhere, but I don't do that either. I mean, I wouldn't.

I would like to see a scene before we move on. Oh, yeah. You two are in a scene before we move on. Oh, yeah. You two are in Vegas. Oh, we can do that. Yeah. Or in Vegas. A Vegas style show. And I just want to see your banter, the two before you.

Oh, we're in the show. We're in the show. You're doing, this is like your opening banter in your Vegas show. Welcome, high rollers, and those of you who just walked in. You, sir, you're definitely a walk-in. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

Enjoy the crap. We're pepper and spice. We do a little bit of magic, and we also have monkeys. And the monkeys do not do magic magic and do not touch the monkeys. You sir, I know I'm going to the same guy a lot. There's only a few people here. You sir, don't touch the monkeys. This guy looks like he already did.

Again, same guy, sorry sir. Sorry sir. We enjoy our crowds. We're so glad you're with us. You could be doing so many things in Vegas, but you're spending time with us. And there are slot machines at the table. So the noise does not bother us. Pepper and I are accomplished,

accomplished magicians and accomplished crowdsmen. And so all the jingling and jingling, so you're really, you're playing a lot of slots, huh? A lot of slots. Are they loose tonight? They have loose slots. Sir, the slots loose. What? Okay, now looking deeper into the crowd,

it looks like you have a broom and you do work here. So you're here to sweep. Yeah. Anybody come from far away? OK. No. Guy in the back, you might be misunderstanding the question. We just want to know, how about birthdays?

Anyone celebrating the birthday? Someone must have anyone from the month of January to June. First six months of the year. No birthday is the first six months of the year. Anybody serve in our military? Is this the Celine Dion show? It will be. We're the opening act. Did anyone serve in any military? Any ISIS fighters? Is this the crowd?

Oh, there's one. There's one. Oh, okay. Why birthday in July? Okay, the ISIS fighter. Oh, let's talk to the birthday person. No, yeah, let's why don't we skip you? Oh, yeah, that's scary. Rough crowd. Well, now we're at the part of the show, which we enjoy the most where we talk about parts of the play cats. Yes, so, if you're not familiar with pepper and spices, cats recap podcast is because we haven't recorded it yet, but we're so close. We're going to. Where are the monkeys?

Well, the monkeys. Yeah, they're still backstage. They are. They are. Yeah, they're right, but you know what? I'm looking back behind the curtain. They are not there. So everybody go ahead and tuck your pants into your socks.

Let's see. Because the... Hey, I have a riddle. I brought one in. No! You like to hear it? For us? This is a riddle for you. Oh my God.

This is where I'm out of here. Wow, you did bring it. I did. Okay, here we go. Are you ready? Yes. I'm scared. It's a poem.

Oh my God. When we're here, the people rise. We've been gaslit and sold pies. We've never been to Mars, but we've sung in castles and bars. And this isn't much. It's not a lot, but we've shut the husks and gone to pot. We've been in endless clips and seen people killed. We've seen our daughter strip and we've also been thrilled. Who are we? People I Wanted to say all of Garden because I stopped listening after the very first The audience to stop listening. No, no, no. My first my gut first response legitimately is like movie theater popcorn Ooh, I love

You're on the right track. Okay, okay. I love it. A camera? Well, let's say that we is not an inanimate object. Okay, okay. Okay, so it's a group of people. Is it, is it a group, is it just like a...

Perverts? Well, you know what? Ah! As everyone is probably in their own mind at home, they've got, let me just tell you the answer. This will be here all day. Okay. Yeah, that's right. We are the characters of Angela Lansbury.

Oh my god. So she's been gaslit because she was in gaslight. Uh-huh. The movie. She sold pies in Swini Todd. She's been in castles way back in the day for Beauty and the Beast. And she's sung in bars in the Harvey girls She probably did a guest bottle in castle, too. They were they were throwing them. Yeah, she saw a lot of people get killed when she on murder

She wrote right. She saw her daughter strip when she played in gypsy Yeah, oh my gosh. You're welcome America. I've been so starved for Angela landsbury content You're welcome America. I've been so starved for Angela Lansbury content That I could my brain couldn't even hope or wished for that these two dumb dumbs I haven't brought up Angela Lansbury not once once Well, you're gonna get it when I come here was that a was that an original is that's what I made it up today I love it. That's yeah, thank you Wikipedia and thank you for doing more work on the show than we know That's

I got to be a audience member for the day, for the ABC Beauty and the Beast. My friend Michael worked on it and he was like, did you want to go out? I was like, I will quit everything. Oh, that's fun. It was so fun. Hey, speaking of quitting everything and having fun, we have to take a break. Oh, wait, let me finish my story. About Angela Lansbury, because it won't make sense after the break.

I kind of want to make a go after the break. Okay, fine. You can finish your story. So the day I went, Shaniai Tuan, who was playing Mrs. Potts, thing with Alan Mankin, which is amazing, the Beauty and the Beast song, and at the end of it,

because Angela Lansbury recently passed away, a photo of her came up behind him and i watched i'm i'm know i did it to fuck with them no uh in alam minkin play and this was even for the cameras so alam minkin's playing piano and he looks up and he sees the photo and then i saw him start to cry and then he held his heart he hated her he was crying because he survived yeah Yeah, he was, yes, I'm having a tip would be very funny. But it was like the sweetest thing I've ever seen. You could go on your break. I'm trying to do my segways here in. Okay, but now we're having a tiff. Go great. I hope you die before me. We'll be right back. This brief tiff.

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Andy's riddles are some of the best. Although I don't like this one. Oh, Andy, I hope he's not listening. Here's the thing, yeah. This was from 2018, so Andy is probably the president of some other country at this point. The Andy says, maybe I just don't understand it. I had trouble with this one. Well, then why are we doing it?

Well, there's like a horrible waste to time. Hundreds of riddles and emails. Why this one? Look, Andy probably doesn't have a lot going on. Andy really wants the riddle to be read. But Andy was president of another country by now. Yeah, but it's not a good country. Like France or something, you know?

Andy McCroe. But this is one that I've never heard before. So it's like, oh, you know, we've done so many riddles that I have even if even if I don't like it, you know, hey, and you know what? I'm at the arbiter of good taste. I'm one of the stupidest fucking guys I know. Thank you for yourself, awareness. So maybe everyone loves this riddle and I'm wrong. We'll, we'll be the judge. There are four in total. There will never be war in just one. There will never be peace in just three. What are they?

There will never be war in just one. Yeah, there are four in total. Never be war in just one. Never be peace in just three. Mm. Is this where we're in headcom studio, and I can see producer or shell hello. Everyone's yuck wrecking their brains.

Like wrapping the brain. Yeah, I read all of you know what we're just going to go out you don't don't even don't even wait you just pop right. Yeah, if ever you know one of these red all you don't have to you don't have to. Yeah, yeah, it's hell, it's hell. I don't have to. I am. I am. Yeah. Yeah. It's hell. It's hell. It's hell.

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It's hell. It's hell. It's hell. It's hell. It a letter. It's not like a letter of work. Sometimes you think that the characters of Angela Lansper Is our popcorn I did Murder she wrote person no, I was not I know I've watched it here and there we I did a I did a sketch about murder She wrote forever and ever and ever but yeah I never watched it and I don't think and did we do it for review career? We did the pilot. I'm a Colombo person I love angel. I do know that we have to get back to your riddle now.

Well, first of all, it's an English riddle. Don't put this. I'm just the when I was a tour guide. I was telling about universal. They they when we would go by Jaws Lake, everybody sort of knows where Jaws Lake is. If you've ever been on the universal tour, they used some of the the background buildings

as a very short portion of the opening credits when she's riding her bicycle. It sort of was part of Cabot Cove for two seconds. But anyway, while we were stuck there and you'd have to point that out and of course, jaws and all that, someone one time took a poop in the very last car. Oh no. Of the train. Oh no.

Yeah, they didn't care for that part of the tour. You as a tour guide was like, that's part of it. Yeah, it's very weird. It's from the part where ET poops. No, we remember that. It's part of it. Yeah, some strange things would happen on the tour for time to time.

You know, it was one of them. I do think I wanna see a scene Aaron. So what might- That inspired you? Yeah, it inspired me the poop thing. Uh, no, Michael and I are going to be, um, you're going to be a, uh, a, uh, universal tour guide. And you're going to be giving the universal tour. I like that. It's your first, it's like your first week on the job. It wear old heads. We take this tour all the time. So we might just, uh, we might call out things that we're doing. We're gonna correct her. Mm-hmm. Which did happen.

Yeah, I'm off of suing. As we go down this hill, you'll see movie posters from our very long that we're gonna correct her. Mm-hmm. Which did happen. The other episode. As we go down this hill, you'll see movie posters from our very long history of making movies. We've been a movie studio for... Name three, Robin. So you've seen my name tag, my name is Robin. Lucky guests, we actually can't see that far.

You just look like a Robin. You definitely have Robin energy. Well, it's perfect. My favorite. You just look like a Robin you definitely have Robin energy well Robin with a why perfect my favorite That wasn't a universal film. Oh, okay Psycho okay, you got that one right and jaws Well, okay two out of three ain't bad not bad not bad But we are actually just looking at the movie posters. Show fans who your loves Willing Grace? I don't really care for it.

Okay well two more. Last is the studio. Karen? From Willing Grace? Oh Megan Malali. Yeah Megan Malali. I should have said Megan Malali. She obviously doesn't watch Willing Grace.

We were big Karen fans. Oh well great. Her parking spot is right here. Well that's weird because it was shot at CBS Radford, which is nowhere near Universal. She really had a walk a long way You know what it does makes sense because she does look good So it seems like maybe she does walk a lot Oh, oh no we're coming upon the Bates Motel Okay, scary

Who was the star of the Bates Motel? Who was the guy? Who was Norman Bates? In the show or the psycho? In the movie, Robin. The movie? What is that guy's name? Anthony Perkins.

Anthony Perkins. Robin. Robin. Sorry, this is my first week. Yeah. Well, it shows. Boy, you paid a lot of money to come here. And we will be asking for some of it back.

We certainly will. Are you peppered, Spice? We certainly are. You can be in the back. Here's our monkey. It's a tap. We were just played peppered. I have done that tour again amount of times.

I didn't know way too much. That part where the flood, they can make it flood, flood is very that's my favorite part of the tour. Do you know? Sure, I'm sure I know. I've never taken the flash flood. Should we go? Should we go after? Yeah, Jurassic Park. They have a lot of good. We have the rest of the afternoon free since I don't bail them. I would love to take you to universities. What is funnier? What is funnier than the Harry Potterland is amazing. It's really the butter beer there. I don't know why we're doing this for universal.

They should be paying for our party. Hey, maybe they will. Maybe they'll hear this and say, one of the fat cats over there will be like, do we do retroactive ads? They get people some money. They get a really good job. Yeah, Super Mario World is open over there now. Right.

I think more brands should listen to our show. It pay us retroactively for ads that we do or get. Nike, McDonald, Apple, what else guys? All of it. Beauty and the Beast. Beauty and the Beast. Yeah, yeah.

Angela Ladsbury, you have some hints here. You have some hints for this riddle that we're still doing. Oh, yeah, this is Andy's riddle. A one. So here's some questioning to answer, hit. So question, this is Andy's riddle. I'm a one. So here's some question and answer hits. So question, there will never be war in just one or anyone, peace in three or any three. I know that these can be tricky. So it's anyone, they're not numbered. So there's no like number one, two, three and four. It's like there will be never be war in just

one, but it's not like number one. Does that make sense? Okay, and then your other question answer is, are there meaningful differences between the four, and yes, but it's not really relevant to the riddle, like the four or the four? Well, I'm with you, I don't think this is Andy's best riddle. No. The thing is, it could be Andy's best riddle. We don't know, this is the only one that I have from Andy,

so. You give us a good hint. Okay, let's see. Well, but I already said that I don't get it, but What are you doing here? Here's what I'll say is I'm getting you a hit. Let me give you the answer and then you can try to help me Explain if this makes sense. Okay. Okay. We're working backwards. All right. We'll talk to the trophy here. So the answer is hemispheres. Hemispheres.

But my question is, that's suck. Could it be a war and just one hemisphere? Or is Andy saying that there are so much war in the world that there will never just be war and one hemisphere? I think that's exactly what Andy is saying. Thank you, Andy. Thank you. Yeah.

For reminding us. For reminding us of all the foreign wars, A.A.D. It's sort of cheese. We need peace. So this pissed me off. This this riddle pissed me off. I haven't been this man.

It's a thinker. Yeah. It does make you think and I think Andy was gluey or queuing into the fact that we're not big thinkers on this show. And they were just really trying to provide us with something to think about. Right. Yeah. I like to see a scene. Okay.

Sure. JBC, you are the leader of a country that is going to war and you're calling your other country friends to try to join you in the war. You want them to hop on. Okay. Okay. First, first up. Number one of the bullets got a call. The United States of America. They got the big guns. Let's go.

Hello, United States of America. Hey, buddy. Hey, I don't know if you read the papers, but we have a little bit of a war going on. Oh, I wish we could help, but we're not in the right hemisphere. Okay, no, no, no, yeah, I know, I know, I know. I'm sorry about that. And I actually don't, and what, you you know what what about just like a billion dollars? I know what slice off like a billion dollars slice off a billion dollars. Yeah, come on. I mean you can

I'm gonna be honest you can afford it. I I'm not quite sure what we're slicing. You know, you give me a little more little more sugar. Okay Obviously my country has a lot of natural resources. What's the name of your country? You just started talking. Well, so yeah, I apologize. I don't have a war. It's currently a civil war, so we don't really have the name. Well, exactly 100% today.

All what you will be. But I, what we will be, and fingers crossed, fingers crossed, it's gonna be a Brett Zolvenia. Obviously, I'm calling that president. Right, so it's like, yeah, the cabinet is still kicking around names, but Brett's Vanya is kind of the number one in charge. If we can pull this off. Well, we're having kind of a same problem over here.

We might have what we call a national divorce. Oh, and our states, I think are going to be called a grand be called Marjorie Taylor Greenland. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. You know what? That's totally cool. I got you at a bad time. I called them a granaby called Marjorie Taylor Greenland. Okay, yeah. Yeah, you know what? That's totally cool. I got you at a bad time.

I'll let you go. Oh yeah, it's been a bad time for several years. I got a lot of calls to make. I got a lot of calls to make. Okay, okay. That's okay. Bye. Yep.

Jesus. Nobody says bye anymore, but you. I heard that. Okay, sorry, bye. I'll be fine. I'm gonna hang this up. I wish I had more people in the office. Alright, France. France is up. Okay, sorry, bye. Bye all the time. You hang this up, I wish I had more people in the office. Alright, France.

France is up next. France is up next. Yeah, Bonjour. Oh, no, no parlour, François. Yeah, who is this? Oh, yes. You're speaking. Yeah, this is Brett, potentially for in Breslilvania. Got a little bit of a war going on here

And I want to see why won't see if maybe we could make a trade. I know that I know that France you guys do have Army correct or Oh no no, okay, we have baguette sure yeah in very small heads I think you're lying to me and balloon. Yeah, okay. No, you're right Nothing that you could then do for us. No, no, no, okay. It's too busy eating very long lunch Yeah, that's good. Bye. All right crossing spade off the list. That's gonna be a no-go if long lunches. Okay, okay All right

Okay, no, that can't be that can't be hello. We goodbye. It's okay. All right. I'm Celia. Okay. Bonjour. No, that can't be. That can't be. Hello, good bye. It's okay. All right. Well, you know what, Italy is a safe bet for me. The Italians always want to draw them up some military stuff.

We'll call it. Italy, Italy. Go. Pizza, pizza. Okay. You know what? The little scissors. You know, we got 4.1 billion for little scissors to find our Pizza pizza. Okay. We'll see. We'll see. So. I don't.

We got 4.1 billion for little seizures to fight our war. So many good accents. I think so many amazing references. Thank you for setting me up to make you do accents. Yeah, once a month I have to see if I can do a friend chat sent and no luck yet. You did a really great job.

It was really good. I said barz door like six times. Okay, here we go. We have a rental from Jesse. This rental's coming from Jesse. Jesse's. Jesse, a bomber plane is flying over the desert to drop its bombs for a test.

The bomb doors open, they press the eject button for the bomb, but the bomb doesn't eject. Nothing on the plane is malfunctioning. What happened? Bomber plane flying over the desert. Mm-hmm. Testing the bombs. They pressed the button to,

the bombs should come out. Nothing is malfunctioning, but they don't come out. What's going on here? What's going up this freaking wacky old bomber plane? Well, maybe there's no bombs in the plane. Yeah. That is a great, that is a great guess. What, I have it on good authority from the theory.

The answer to this hurdle, that there are bombs in the plane. Huh. Test bombs. Just a little test bombs. Hmm. The plane is flying upside down. Michael, you are absolutely correct. The plane is flying up.

And we know that's possible because we all saw Top Gun Maverick. And we did. I have seen it now. And so now I do know that it's possible. You didn't see it in theaters? I didn't see it in theaters. And then I went to the propaganda to join the army before I know I waited for so long. And then I and then I did see.

Can I can I congratulate you Michael? That was that was very good. Thank you. I did just see in theaters the Dungeons and Dragons. I loved it. You saw it in theaters? Yeah, I did. Well, we won't spoil it for you.

I have to say that. They did a thing. When you get into the movie, did they do this for you? Where before the movie starts, the cast is like sitting in chairs and they're like, thank you so much for coming to see the movie. Did that play in your- No.

But I got there kind of late at the time. It was the most like cringe awkward thing. Like none of them wanted to be there. It was obvious that they didn't want to be there. There were six of them, but only like three of them spoke. And they were like, you're the real heroes for seeing the movie in the theater.

I think we want to salute you from the Dungeons & Dragons. And I'm like, who is this for? Is there really like a person in the theater being like, Chris Pine, I'm your best friend? We make the movies together, me and you, Chris Pine. Right. Well, that's probably because after COVID,

no one's going the movies. So in the theater, bad for coming to the movie. It didn't, they were excited. And then you'd probably look at around going, like, maybe I shouldn't be here. Because didn't Tom Cruise do a thing before Topga and Maverick that I think he did. I think he did, yeah.

But I'm assuming Tom Cruise, because he's a, woo-hoo, was a little more high energy of like genuine Like they were it felt like they had just done like 15 hours of Nicole Kidman is there but she's always alone. Yeah, that's she just walks around the theater. Love you Yeah, cool with your big sparkly pants. You she made me feel so good Yeah, she's been getting applause every time I go to the theater. People love to now. I mean, people have just, they've embraced. I wonder if that's an LA only thing because I would love. I won't get a good damn seat theaters.

That's the only one they do it for. But I see it in Chicago and they don't have Nicole doesn't come out. She does, but nobody claps. Oh, well, you've got to start it. You've got to start the trend. I, we, we saw Dungeons and Dragons with a group and we tried to do some claps and we was and. No, no, no, no, no, no. And it's an opening weekend and nobody was in doing it. I tell you a little secret. I'd love to hear a secret about the Dungeons & Dragons with a group and we tried to do some claps and we was in no video.

No one. And it's an opening weekend and nobody was in doing it. I tell you a little secret. I'd love to hear a secret. About the Dungeons & Dragons movie? Then no thank you. No, it's not a secret about the movie, but I saw it on a Saturday afternoon. I loved it so much I went back again that Monday.

Oh, I love that. I've hadn't done that since I was like a kid, like over the summer of like big block busters, being a movie twice a month week. But I had the best time, and I'm an AMC Stubbs member, not to brag about how rich I am. Oh, well, you're bragging. I saw the movie with my wife's D&D group, so I was just glomming on to see it.

Well, there's the headline, your wife has a D&D group. But we saw it on Sunday, the weekend it came out, and they were playing D&D on that Sunday, so they were gonna see it we saw it like on like a Sunday of the weekend It came out and they were playing a D&D on that Sunday So they were gonna see it like before they play D. I think yeah, it was fun and they message like the group to see if anyone wanted to see it And one person from the group was seeing it on Saturday and they were like I doubt that I'm gonna want to see it twice At a row so I won't go and we got to we got to like playing D&D and she was like how was it she was like Yeah, I probably would have seen it again.

I would have caught you again. I don't know if it's anyone that you know from the group, but it is a group of people that you do know. I have a hot take about the movies right now. This is, it might be controversial, but it seems like they've, that Hollywood pushed cocaine bear down. Everyone's throats and I don't know anyone who really is talking about it.

Like I think people are like, that was fine. But it's not like everyone's going, whoa, you gotta go see that movie. I don't know how I saw so many commercials for it because I don't see anything that would give me commercials, but I saw it was like on the Academy Awards and they keep like it's part of the butt of all these jokes, but I thought, yeah, but is anyone actually going to see it?

Really? I wonder, because I think that it was sort of trying to manufacture like a hate watch or so bad, it's good and people go for fun. Yeah, but it didn't work. To make fun of it. But I think they actually had like a good,

it was like Elizabeth Banks directly, it was a good people involved in it, and it felt like a manufactured like, well, this be a funny hate watch. Like it's so silly. And I think that they should have just been like more. It's fun movie. Just let it go.

I don't know. I don't, I don't know any, well, I don't know. I just haven't heard that much like. I don't know anyone who saw it. Look, that's why we come to Hollywood to record these podcasts for the insightful, us as the hot takes. Hollywood hot takes. Yeah. Our Hollywood hot takes segment. Where were you? Why did this thing happen in the industry, for the hot takes, a Hollywood hot take. Yeah, our Hollywood hot takes, where were you going,

why did this thing happen in the industry? We're all like, we don't know, we don't know. We don't know, we don't understand it. It's complicated. Oh, I love that movie. I love that movie. It's complicated. I think you should have an every podcast,

at least two minutes of Hollywood hot takes. Yeah, that's. Try to think of what my Hollywood hot takes are. Aaron, do you don't have Hollywood hot takes. Yeah, that's. I'm trying to think of what my Hollywood hot takes are. Aaron, do you don't have Hollywood hot takes less superhero movies? That's a good one. That's everyone's hot take. Now I like. Yeah, here's my Hollywood hot take fix L.A. X. Fix the rental experience, fix the airport experience. That's my Hollywood hot take.

Hi, man. Absolutely terrible experience here. Here, we have actually a couple of riddles here and these are riddles from from Jenna. Oh, Jenna. Jenna's man. Jenna's been a fan of the show for a long time and is still a fan of the show. Oh, that's so nice. So Jenna, here we go. So this is riddles from back in the summer camp days. Okay. Oh good. I like a good summer camp, Rital. This is the first one we'll probably make Aaron very mad. Oh.

Isn't that fun for you, Aaron? Way ahead of you. Already here. Aaron, here we go. Here's Jenner's first riddle from summer camp. What's big red and eats rocks? Big red and eats rocks. Aaron, I think this one will make you pretty mad.

Yeah, I'm already mad. But will it make Michael Hitchcock mad? Let's see. That's the real question. It's not Clifford's red. Big red and eats rocks. Could Jenna have known in 2018 that she was going to make a person she couldn't even dream of being on the podcast this mad with this red all we don't know.

We'll see. Big red and eats rocks. I will tell you It's right there You have all the information that you need right there and you will not like this. It's what something that's big and red Can I tell you there's big red chewing gum. Yeah, that's right. There's big league chew a large communist. Yeah Big League Joe, a large communist. Yeah. And I famously love to eat rocks. Lucille Ball's hair, like the later years.

With the industrialization that the Soviet Union did, I do think that that would be like big red and eating rocks. So I guess I would accept that as an answer. But that is not the answer. It's a summer camp. Summer camp thing. It is a summer camp thing where it's sort of juvenileish.

Here's what I, Aaron, we so rarely do this in person, but I do wanna be making eye contact with you. Would I tell you the answer to this? Okay, well, you're in punching distance. I'm saying sure. Casey could have done all this laughing. All this laughing will go. Big red and eats rocks.

I can't wait to tell you. Oh, tell us. What is it? A big red rock eater. No. No. No. No, it loves it. Yeah. Tell us what is it a big red rock eater? No, loves it. Yeah, yeah, we got a big one. I have to go. No, you have this day. Yeah, that's not yeah, that's not even a dad show. You come here No, it's not even I don't even think it would make the bazooka Joe rappers Love it No, it's not even, I don't even think it would make the bazooka Joe rapper. You're talking. I love it. Oh, okay.

The podcast is really challenging. That was it. That's fun. That was the straw that broke the Campbell's back. I think, I think, Jenna has another one. Oh, we can hear it. I do not trust Jenna anymore. Well, she did warn.

She did warn. Remember the warning attached. She was right. She made you mad. That made me really mad. Okay. You can only go on the camping trip if you get the right things in your case. Let's see.

So, in my case, how do I want to do this? I could take jam and a Coca-Cola. What would you take, Aaron? Michael, what would you take? You can only go if you take the right thing in your case. I would take juice and a car. Aaron, you can not go on the camping trip. No.

I would take no look. How do I sleep? Okay, let no look. How do I phrase this? I think it would be a sweater and a pontoon boat. A sweater and a pontoon boat. Michael, you can not go on the camping trip. This might help you. I could take pickles, but I could not take onions on the camping trip. I could take pickles, but I could not take onions

on the camping trip. Can you give me your first answers again? I could take jam, like jelly. I could also take jelly in a Coca-Cola. I could take my car, but I could not take a boat. I said car. I could take a car, for sure. You can. You can not take a car. I could take a car, but I couldn not take a boat. I said car. I could take a car for sure. You can't. I can't. You can not take a car. I could take a car but I couldn't take a boat.

You could take an e-bike. Ow, ow, ow, ow. You could take an e-bike. You can't take a boat. What is this? I know there's a similar one to this, but I don't remember what the you could take a Mitsubishi, but you couldn't take a Kia. Aaron, you could take a Kia, but you can't unfortunately have a Mitsubishi. And I don't make, I do make the rules. Actually, you know, Jenna makes the rules, but it's have to do with like the letters that are in your name or the vowels in your name or I would say the letters in your name are a big part of it.

Yeah. And that is the answer. or the vowels in your name or... I would say the letters in your name are a big part of it, yeah. And that is the answer. You want to take a guess as to what you could take on a camping trip? Do they have to be in my name? Why don't you just take a stab at what... Okay.

Remember, I could take jelly. I could take a Coca-Cola, and I could take pickles. I could take jelly, pickles, Coca-Cola. Okay, you have to be in something that your name starts with. And would you guess what you could take it? I mean, and- What begins with E, and that's a noun.

I can't think anymore. You could take everything. I'll take an end, and I'll take everything. And that covers it, because it's everything. And I'll take my car keys. Okay, you can take it to edible and some ketamine. I can take it to edible and I have. And that's why I'm in the mood.

Yeah, Aaron, those things you can definitely take on your camping trip. Michael, do you know what you can take on your camping trip? I can take marshmallows. Okay, yes. And I can take lettuce. Marshmallows and lettuce. What's your middle name? Uh, Gordon.

I don't think you could take lettuce, that right? Am I insane? Oh, can I take greens? I'm, you can take greens, but you can take lettuce. Yes, correct. Yeah, it's, that's, that, I think we may have done something like this on the show before, but that is, you can only take things that start with a letter.

It's not a game you play in, like, start with a letter of your name. Of your name. So I did, I'm John Patrick Cohen, so I did JP and C. Aaron, you did. Okay, oh interesting. All right. I think that's fun.

I think that's a fun. I think that's a fun, Jenna. Jenna, I'm sorry. But I think Jesse did give a riddle. And Jesse gave the last riddle. So good for you, Jesse. Yeah. And Jenna. And Jenna.

Oh, they're great. But J.Z. are absolutely killing it today. They really are. And I can't wait till Jenna turns nine. Yeah. Okay. So I want to do I want to see a scene. I'm going to be a camp counselor. Great. And you two are my, you're going to be staying in the bunk that I am like counseling for and you're gonna be like unpacking your suitcases You brought some unconventional things to camp. Okay Okay, everybody just find a bunk, you know, you claim your bunk and if you know if you want to do top or bottom You can do that. Okay, come out now Kyle This is my baby brother Kyle. Hi, I'm finally made at the camp. Yay. Oh no, no, no. I brought my

pontoon and my cat and me. Okay, hey, why don't I keep the cat and me? Oh my god, this lot of cat and me. You're mean. No, no, no, I'm not, I'm not, I'm, I'm Gordon. I'm nice. I'm, I'm the camp counselor. This is counselor Gordon, Kyle. He's, okay. He's pretty easy to push around. No. First of all, I'm not. Were you talking to my ex? Yeah. First of all, I'm not easy to push around. Gordon, this is me talking to you.

She works at Universal Studios sometimes. Oh, I've been on your tour. Oh, I've been on your tour. Yeah. And I'm easy to push around. This is my baby brother. Yeah. Look, you can't, you can't bring other people in your suitcase to camp.

You had enough air in everything, are you okay? How are you okay? Not really, I'm just, I've, one of my lungs collapsed. But I'm here at camp now. You're blue, you're all blue on the left side of your body. I'm really hoping that the sunshine will clear that out. Oh, I don't think, I don't think it will, I think we have to re-insure that. Here's the deal, Gordon.

Okay. Kyle wasn't old enough to come to this camp. Yeah. And two camp salary, like fees for camp. What am I trying to say? Cost a camp. You're trying to say, I pay, you pay my salary. We get a two for my-

Can we pay your salary? Yeah, I do this to police officers. And camps to expensive to send two kids to. So he's here now. That's right. He's gonna be here. And we wanna do all the activities. Look I sympathized with you when I was a kid my parents did not have enough money to send me and

my brother to camp and so we were twins and we would have to pretend to be one camper for the entire time we were at camp and it was really hard. That's pretty fun. Yeah, I'm actually looking back on it. It was actually really fun. I mean, you're just gonna tell stories all the time where you're actually gonna do something. I wouldn't mind talking to you. I want to shoot in your story. You're a red rock eater. Boo.

Okay, okay. Okay. I know that you might not like me. But what about my twin brother, Jerry? Huh? Where is he? It's me, I'm Jerry. Oh, you're Bob. Oh, no, the Gordon Huh? Huh? Where is he? It's me, I'm Jerry. Oh, your boat.

Oh, no, the Gordon's back. Where's Gordon? Where's Gordon? He's not here, it's my... You killed him? No, have you seen the prestige? Yeah, you just kind of weirdly just turned into him? Yeah, well, yeah, I mean, that's cool.

Well, we live like separate lives or whatever. He's married or not. Which one does the prestige and which one is the illusionist? And are you in love with your brother's wife? Okay, so no, but I am in love with Jessica Biel, which is The illusion but that does not have to do with my Came out at the same time Oh, he's like that guy in blackbird who like ait is twin brother when they were in the womb

I know and if we if we do anything about Hollywood Why that happened oh were in the womb. I know. And if we, if we anything about Hollywood, that's a Hollywood hot take. It's a piece of cake. Why that happened. Oh, I know the difference. I love the illusionist. I saw people know. I saw both of them in high school with my magician friend and he told me which one was better.

Which one are you now? Sure. Ha ha ha. You know what? We did a great job. And those were some really good riddles. They really were. Not the rock one. Okay, not the rock one for sure. You know, I think we have something special here.

I don't think I know we do. We need someone's missing and you know what? It doesn't feel weird. Don't think it feels that weird. It feels great. I burst into tears. Oh, I miss them. Might, yeah, we all miss it. Might miss them too. We miss me. Such a them too. We miss them. We're such a great guy. I don't know that's different from what we said at the top of the show, but if you've

made it this far, and what we've ever said. Michael, do you have anything coming up that you would like our listeners to promote? To be aware of, sure. Well, I'm filming something right now, the called Grand Death Auto, starring John Cena and Aquafina and it'll be, I don't know when it's coming out, but it's coming out. Okay, that's cool.

And that'll be fun. And then later this year, a movie called Reunion is coming out. Okay, so yeah, that's it. Look for those. Look for those. What about you Aaron, anything you want to plug coming out? Check out sitcom D&Ds, another head gum podcast. Love it.

Would love to have you on that show one day if you had the thing. I've actually already been on. Oh, you, not you. Oh, oh. Oh, slap, slap, slap. No, no. Do you see anything to plug?

You know what? I did not, is this word live? I did not look up a review to read. So I will say, check out our Patreon. Patreon.com is on a channel where we do a bonus episode every week every week and they're not funny like this but they're funny in like a different way. Yeah they're funny like ha ha ha interesting. Yeah it's like ironic funny. Yeah if you sign up it's like $5 a month and it's like ironically it's a big fucking joke is basically what it is. Aaron speaking of big fucking

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