Hey Riddle Riddle - #321: No Cheese Please w/ Nnamdi Ngwe
Episode Date: September 11, 2024We might be in L.A. but we're catching up with an old Chicago friend, Nnamdi Ngwe! Starring:Adal RifaiJohn Patrick CoanErin KeifGuest Starring:Nnamdi NgweEditing by: Casey ToneyTheme by:... Arne ParrottLogo by: Emily Kardamis & Emmaline MorrisWant more? Get Weekly Bonus Eps on Patreon!JPC's Guided Meditations Volume 1, available now at our Patreon digital store!Want merch? Visit our TeePublic Store! or pins, buttons & printsWant to mail us something? Hey Riddle Riddle 6351 W Montrose Ave #267Chicago, IL, 60634Want 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.fmThis episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/RIDDLE and get on your way to being your best self.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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This is a HeadGum Podcast. Welcome everybody to Riddle Night at the Comedy Store. We have incredible standups for you.
Coming up to the stage first, we have JPC doing some jokes about riddles. Oh thank you I'm gonna do
impressions. Okay I'm gonna do impressions of riddles. Great. Okay so this is
okay show your hands in the audience. Does everyone know the riddle where
it's like you ride into town on a Wednesday and you.
The horse.
The horse is, you know the riddle sir.
Okay, here's my impression of that riddle.
Rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, rr, r That's just an example. Hey! Hey is for horses. I'm a horse.
Oh.
The crowd's mostly horses, look.
Oh, shit.
Oh, OK.
Nay, nay.
Going through my note cards, it's all horse.
Horse murder, horse murder, horse murder.
Oh, they're pelting me with apples.
Shouldn't you guys be eating these?
Whoa, shouldn't we be eating them?
That was wrong.
I knew it as soon as I said it, that was wrong. Matt Rife.
Matt Rife.
Bring out Rife.
Bring out Rife.
All right, we actually decided to burn this whole building
down and do our Riddle podcast.
No, I want to do my Matt Rife impression.
No, no.
You know the problem with women?
That I love.
That I love.
I'm Erin Keefe.
That's GPC.
That's Addle.
Hey, guys.
Hey. We're still in LA. Can you believe it? After all these months. Wow. That I love, that I love. I'm Erin Keefe, that's JPC, that's Addle. Hey guys.
Hey.
Hi Erin.
We're still in LA, can you believe it?
After all these months.
Wow, after all these months, we're still in LA.
We're still crazy.
After all these years, different song, but same sentiment.
Still crazy after all, LA.
Hey.
Anyways, I'm gonna take a nap.
There's someone else here, so you guys can sort it out.
No Erin, you can't take a nap. You have to do the show.
Nap, nap, nap, nap.
Nap, right, nap, right.
Kind of your glamour.
Nap, nap, nap.
Well, don't take a nap, Aaron, or do take a nap
because you should be well rested.
For our guest today,
who's one of my favorite humans on Earth,
he's a former Chicago superstar.
Living or dead? He's a, huh? Humans on Earth, He's a former Chicago superstar. Living or dead?
He's a, huh?
Humans on Earth, living or dead?
Are you counting dead humans?
Okay, let me go through this.
Einstein dead?
Yep.
Yeah, Einstein Bagel's very much alive in select cities.
It's Einstein bros, right?
Well, no, so that's the problem is
now it's just Einstein Bagels.
They're not friends anymore.
Yeah, they're not friends anymore. Yeah, they're not friends anymore
They were another brothers. They were brought. He adjusts my list here of he's currently
Arriving out here in the sunny skies of LA, please. Welcome to the show namdi and way
Chicago royalty Chicago comedy royalty. Oh, that's high praise, I doubt it.
No, no, you're right.
Yeah.
Wait, wait, wait, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The kingdom's looking bleak nowadays,
so it's being qualified.
It is, it is, I still wear that crown.
Imagine if I told people here,
like, I'm the big deal in Chicago,
they would not absolutely accept it.
No, because in Chicago, you gotta be because in Chicago, you gotta be more humble.
Out here, you can actually brag.
Oh, interesting.
That makes total sense.
Yeah, I've heard a lot of people, friends of mine even,
like doing the, you know, the more like,
not like a humble brag, but like,
I'm not embarrassed to talk about my successes
type of thing where it's like, wow.
In Chicago, you book one commercial,
you shut the fuck up about it.
We don't care about that Lowe's commercial you did.
You shut up about that Lowe's commercial.
If someone else brings it up, you can be like,
yeah, no, I'm a piece of shit.
I shouldn't have done that.
I didn't deserve it.
But out here you'd be like,
the guy in flannel and the Lowe's commercial is me.
That's what you do out here, dude.
Immediately.
Now, Namdi, I do have to immediately ask you this.
I'm so sorry I have to do this.
Famously, you are a twin.
And I just wanna make sure
that I don't have fucking Amici sit next to me.
No, this is not.
Are we being parent trapped?
You legally have to tell us
if we're being parent trapped. You legally have to tell us if we're being parent trapped.
You legally have to tell us.
What is something only Namdi would know?
Something only Namdi would know is that I...
And he's texting someone named Namdi.
No, hang on, no, I'm not texting.
This is an email.
I know that...
What was JPC's first Herald team?
How could I know this?
I can't confirm.
Go ahead.
I do randomly try to think of Herald team names
and I'm sorry to everybody listening.
I'm so sorry.
Give us some, give us some.
I know, I would love to play this game.
A lot of them do, like I lose them from memory,
but the other week I was hanging out with someone
and they were like, who was on Duke of the Zoo?
And I was like, Duke of the Zoo?
Oh my God, I haven't thought about Duke of the Zoo
in a minute.
Duke of the Who?
Crazy because some of the Herald teams,
like that you can still find playing in Chicago,
like the late 90s still does shows.
And that was a Herald team.
Big spoon.
That was a round when my Herald team was being made.
But then some of them last for three months.
And every one of them has a name,
but some don't stick around.
Yeah, some of them have bad names.
We won't drag publicly.
We all had a big reaction.
Let me turn my mic off so that we can hear.
Did you guys hear that was one team called Blood?
You remember those?
Blood.
Blood.
Blood or something like that.
Anyway, it had blood.
All right, I'll turn my mic back on.
Okay, thank you.
There was Big Judy.
Big Judy.
Big Judy.
That comes to mind.
Which is also a warm-up.
Dogs, Winter Formal.
Winter Formal.
Yeah, yeah.
Rescuing Rebellion, Sears Tower,
Alpine Rescue. Small Town Doctor.
Mike Helicopter.
Mike Helicopter. That's an old word.
Mike Helicopter's a real one?
You're fucking with me. I think that was
Lone Lapkus' Herald Team, yeah.
They're an old school one.
Casual Encounters.
Casual Encounters.
Uh, oof.
Now here's the, from my perspective,
here's the funny thing, is I was in charge
for several years of naming Herald Teams.
And you were part of the commission we were on. I was part of it too. But I was in charge for several years of naming Herald teams and you were part of the commission
Part of it, too
But I was in charge of naming them and what I would do the mindset was let me give them the worst name possible
Because you want them to change it immediately and put their own stamp on it
Like you want them you don't want to give them a name and then they're like, I guess this is our name
They're supposed to come up with it. So we would give them names of like, 10 things I hate about edits.
And then they would be a new Herald team
and they'd be like,
ah, 10 things I hate about edits?
Our team name sucks.
And we're like, in the email,
I'm like, please change it as soon as possible.
And they're like, I guess we're 10 things
I hate about edit.
And then we're like, do you have a new name yet?
And they're like, no, we're 10 things I hate about edit.
And I'm like, no, please change the name.
That's the whole point is we make it so embarrassing. You have to change it. And they're like, well, we're 10 Things I Hate About Edit. And I'm like, no, please change the name. That's the whole point is we make it so embarrassing,
you have to change it.
And they're like, well, we're 10 Things I Hate About Edit.
And then they change it and we're like, we're 10 edits.
And you're like, what do you, please don't.
You gave us Thin Crust and then for Comet.
And everyone was like, it's kind of good.
And I was like, I will not be on a pizza heralding.
There's been too many.
We will be forgotten.
Pizza in the evening, pizza in the morning,
pizza at suppertime. But when pizza is a heralding? Absolutely not. There's been too many. We will be forgotten. Pizza in the morning, pizza at suppertime.
But when pizza is a herald team?
Absolutely not.
I will not watch pizza.
Fucking Illuminati's, no.
Shut up about your pizza herald team.
Name everybody, I'm tired of it.
Now this is a lot of Chicago improv inside baseball.
So Namdi, we're gonna pivot to what this podcast is about.
Which is?
Outside baseball.
Which is way safer.
Outdoor sandlot baseball.
Nnamdi, we're going to be doing some riddles and puzzles,
some lateral thinking problems.
What is your relationship,
what are your thoughts on puzzles, riddles,
even something like escape rooms or wordles,
anything like that, do you do any of those?
Oh, see, yeah, all that other stuff,
I was like, yuck, gross, yuck.
But then when you said wordles, I said,
give me, come on, babe, yep.
I do wordles, I do connections.
Hold for applause, nobody, it's fine.
It's not live, but.
I feel like connections is way more fun than wordle.
Connections is way more fun, way more challenging,
but I always try to do those at the end of the day
and I get tired.
So like, so wordle, I can figure out Wordle pretty fast,
but like the connections one, if it's like bedtime
and I'm trying to do connections,
some days I just like give up because I'm like tired.
Yeah, because you have to like really think.
What if we did connections right now as a group?
Oh, that'd be fun.
Connections.
My wife used to do spelling bee, which is another New York Times one.
She used to do the spelling bee one and the only time I would ever tap in to do
spelling bee is when she would be like, I give up and she would hand me her phone
and then I would come in and be like, okay we're genius now and I only would
ever have to get like two. And I go great about that. But I've never like sat down
too intentionally. Now I'll be the audience surrogate here.
What the fuck is Connections?
Well, Connections.
You're carrying our baby?
The audience's baby.
Everyone knows my affection
for the British game show Only Connect,
and this is actually based on a game
that's been on that show for like a decade.
Oh.
It's the grid game, so.
Hope somebody got paid.
I don't think they did, which really pisses me off.
So it's 16 words and you're trying to find four groups.
Okay, gotcha.
And sometimes things can fit into more than one group
and it's meant to like stump you.
Okay.
Sometimes it will be like.
Well, now I do wanna, like everyone's got their phones out,
everyone has the, I assume connections loaded
Namby did just say that he gets really sleepy when he does connection
So are we this is kind of the early afternoon? Are we willing to risk? I'm trying to mr.
I'm going to bring him to the Queen
You look so sweet, what are you gonna do to us?
and he's taking a nap. You look so sweet.
What are you gonna do to us,
Tommy down here? He's sleeping like Big Bird.
He's sleeping like Big Bird.
I think he's eating in his dreams.
There's a little feather.
I think it's just cause Namby and Big Bird are both tall.
I don't think that's.
A little feather that blows up and then comes down.
That's just how tall people sleep, Aaron.
Oh, he's waking up.
Oh, no, no, he just pinched a candle to turn it off.
Oh, he's pinching a candle.
Oh, he burned his fingers real bad.
He's going back to bed. Ow, ow, ow, oof, oof, oof, oof, oof. Well, he burned his fingers real bad. He's going back to bed.
Oh, he's acting.
Namby, Namby.
Hey, connections.
Time for connections.
Oh, great.
Okay, great.
Let me just play it real quick.
I did this thing.
I ruined shit because I like to read,
but after having a child,
I would be so sleep deprived
that when I would open a book, it would be like generally
at night when baby's already asleep,
and I would read like half a page and be like,
and I think I fucked reading for myself too,
because for like weeks after that,
if I try to pick up a book in the middle of the day,
I would get so sleepy immediately.
So I am genuinely worried that we're gonna make Namdi
go to sleep, and I don't know that I'm funny enough
to keep him awake.
Here's basically what I heard.
I heard JPC's fuck reading, which is a new method.
It's almost like, you know how you read every 10th word
and you're supposed to be able to like
read a book in 20 minutes?
What is fuck reading?
JPC's fuck reading is how to read a book
in three minutes or less and feel fucking drained.
And is that normal?
Is three minutes normal for most guys?
Oh yeah.
Don't look at me.
Come on.
Don't look at me. It on. Don't look at me.
It's data.
You know what though, it's a compliment.
You don't have information for me, Aaron.
It's a compliment.
Baby, it's a compliment.
I'm gonna read these words.
Okay.
Odd, library, chocolate, soap, pigeon, mother, red, lab,
black, gray, gym, peace, golden, even, silly, auditorium.
Okay, so golden, auditorium, mother, and odd
are all retrievers. Are all retrievers? Yeah, I auditorium. Okay, so Golden Auditorium, Mother and Odd are all retrievers.
Are all retrievers?
Yeah, I think so.
Okay.
And I'm out, I'm locked out.
Wait, Edel, get back in here.
Sorry, I walked out of the room to celebrate,
I got locked out.
Aaron, what you just said,
reading 16 words and being like, find the pattern,
because you're all looking at it,
and I'm not looking at it.
Look at it then.
I don't know how.
Get your phone.
What do I do?
Go to newyorktimes.com
Type in connections on Google.
No way.
Right off from the jump, I'm thinking auditorium, gym,
lab and library are like parts of a school.
Before we get too far, I just have to comment
because I know some people listening are gonna be like,
you said it, the way you said the words was very rhythmic,
you know, rhythmic and had a nice flow to it.
Like you should be a rapper.
It really had rhythm.
Oh, did they?
I wish Casey were here to drop the beat for you, Aaron.
Now Namdi, famously, over the course,
we've probably done 320 episodes.
We have had Aaron freestyle rap, no joke,
probably 30 to 40 times.
It's anything? I think it's one of 30 to 40 times. It's Erin to 40?
I think it's one of our most popular segments.
Here's what I'll say, our fans love it.
Erin usually ends up in tears,
and she usually rhymes Toronto with pronto.
Mandy, I have a disease where I can't rhyme, okay?
So they have me rap, and I fall apart
and start to gag and cry.
You can get the first couplet. You can get the first couplet.
No, I usually can't.
Yes, you can.
Sometimes I can't.
No, you most of the time now can.
Remember when I started panicking
and I started rapping about putting my dog to sleep?
You do.
She once said, my name is Erin and I don't know why.
Well, my name is Erin and I don't know why.
And I want to put my dog to sleep.
And then she went,
and then usually her sort of refrain is help, help.
Help, help.
Help, help.
Help me.
I can't believe you said I should rap, that is.
I was like, who sent you?
I didn't say that, I'm from Jive Records.
Okay, I'm gonna try Auditorium Gym.
And oh, since we have different screens,
we have more opportunity to fuck up.
Library and lab.
Okay, hang on.
Yes, school facilities. Erin, amazing. Okay, hang on. Yes, school facilities.
Erin, amazing.
I got one.
These are all school facilities.
I've done my work.
No, everyone else has to get another.
Wait, what was your one?
What did you say?
Auditorium, gym, lab and library, school facilities.
And let me read the words again to the left.
Odd, black, silly, even mother piece red.
So pigeon gray, golden chocolate.
And that's how I know.
Addle, you don't have it.
Whatever Aaron has, you don't have.
JPC's from a bigger record label.
Oh no.
He actually just subsumed the record label
that featured Aaron and now we're canceling both countries.
What about like a little Dickie way?
Like a fun, it's like fun.
Yeah, he's a funny rapper.
Yeah. That's his thing.
He's funny.
Man, they really want me to spend, to buy
whatever New York Times is selling here.
And time is running out and it's 50% off for a limited time.
So I might actually think about making a purchase on this.
Don't.
Okay, well, and I won't.
Okay, so what happens- Now I'm gonna say, oh, go ahead. What happens if you get something wrong on this?
You get three or four mistakes in terms of like,
you got it wrong, but it might tell you like,
I think if you have three out of four,
it'll say you're one away, but otherwise there's no hints.
I will say, I think silly mother,
gray and golden are all gooses.
Yeah.
Or geys.
Or geys.
Or geys.
I would have said geyses, but it doesn't make sense
because you don't say mother geys.
Yeah.
Yeah, because it's really a mother goose.
That was correct, they're all blank goose.
Yeah.
So you said silly, mother, gray and?
Mother. Yeah.
Golden, gray, mother, silly.
Okay, now it's, do you wanna try to get a rap?
Oh yeah, sure.
Black red chocolate, peace pigeon, even so bad.
Sucks that that was actually pretty good.
It's just the order, mine wasn't a better order.
You can't pick it up.
Yeah, let me do the exact same words you did in that order.
Let's see, I'm back in the lab,
so I'll put did in that order. Let's see. I'm back in the lab. So, a little pen and a pad.
Okay, so yeah, so black, red, chocolate,
peace, pigeon, even, soap, and odd
are the ones that we have left.
Yeah.
Now, here's the thing.
Connections, this tricky mistress.
It'll always put like odd and even where you're like,
oh, those are somehow, you know, they're connected.
Or if you start, if you have a brand new board,
it'll be like good night.
And then the next word will be like moon.
And you're like, oh, these are all.
Chocolate, piece, pigeon and soap
are all associated with dove.
So that's the other one.
Sorry, I wasn't listening at all.
Chocolate, piece, pigeon and soap,
and then black, even, red and odd.
Okay, so that was fucking easy.
What's the next one?
What?
Did you get it? He got it.
Well, I guess the last one is easy
because if you get the first three,
the last one is just there, right?
But like, it's still like a fun,
when you have the last one,
it's still fun to before you click it,
just kind of try and guess what the theme is, what the connection
is there.
What are the colors?
Because I'm looking at my phone, it's yellow, purple, blue, green.
I think there's an order, like yellow might be the easiest and then I think purple might
be the hard.
I mean, what are the colors?
So Addle got the hard one, Addle got the purple one.
Wait, let me make sure.
I guess Addle got most of them.
Yellow is easy, green is normal, blue is hard, purple is very hard.
Nice, nice.
Do we know what this last little match is?
Pigeon, piece, soap, and chocolate?
Like what makes them connect?
Dove, yeah.
Oh, dove, chocolate, dove soap.
Because pigeons are dove, dove is soap, dove chocolate,
which can get very confusing because
I don't know how many times I've taken a shower
and washed myself with a bar of chocolate.
With a pigeon.
I've also seen you bite into a pigeon after a nice meal.
Yeah.
For a little something sweet.
I bite into a pigeon and go, mm, Unilever.
I'd actually like to see a scene.
Please.
Okay, so you three are three guys in Vegas,
and you're arguing whether or not you should put
all your money on red or black.
Woo!
Vegas, baby!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, man.
I have a little thing that I always do
when I walk into a casino.
The first thing I do when I walk into a casino,
we all pool all of our money, all the money
we brought to Vegas, all the gambling money or just any
Personal income that we have. Yeah, we put on it either black or red
We either win huge and we have a fantastic weekend
Yeah, or we lose and then we just go back to the airport. Okay
Do we get to like do the spin part though the spinny thing? I want to spin the wheel
No, I want to touch the ball. No, yeah, if I'm giving you my money,
I'm going to spend some on the ball.
We can ask the man who's going to who runs the table,
but he usually is a big no on that.
Um, Tony, is it because I've seen in movies where people
blow on dice. Can you blow on the ball on the roulette ball?
Do you can you check on that?
You'll let you, but he won't let you lean over the table to do it.
You just have to blow it. Hi, Tony.
Welcome back to the table. Good to see you back in Vegas. No, let you, but he won't let you lean over the table to do it. You just have to blow his heart. Hi, Tony. Welcome back to the table.
Good to see you back in Vegas.
Don't touch anything.
Don't.
I wasn't going to.
I was just explaining to my friend
how we don't do that anymore.
Because it's new Vegas, basically.
No.
It's always been like this.
Senatra used to let you touch.
No, no, no.
He did.
Tony.
He could do it.
Tony.
No one said anything to this or that.
Here at the Bellagio, we take cheating very, very seriously.
And I won't kick you and your friends out but
you cannot touch anything okay sir this is Ed he's one of the best he's one of
the best sir dealers here so mr. Ed hey hey can we can I spin the wheel it's my
it's my bachelor party this is why you talk like a baby and I know you're trying
to like you know do a thing to kind of like, win you over like puss in boots.
Yeah, Chris, as you can see, sir,
as you can see Chris, Ed, was it?
Chris has his hat in hand.
He has, he's wearing nothing except for cowboy boots
and his eyes are real big and watery.
Yeah, this is probably, he didn't,
he's modest, he doesn't wanna say anything,
but this is probably Chris's last bachelor party as well.
Cause he's getting married? Yeah. He's getting married. He he won't ever really and it's in this one's gonna take and he thinks this one's really gonna take him and Veronica
I have something special about it. You can't yeah, so it's like Victoria. I'm sorry Victoria. What happened to Veronica?
I wasn't working. Oh
We've never even heard of this woman. Are you sure? Well, I don't know. I mean like I'm at her at camp
I've never even heard of this woman! Are you sure?
Well, I don't know, I mean like-
I met her at camp!
Oh, this is her, the one that got away!
Gentlemen, are you, are we playing?
Gentlemen?
You gotta-
I'm not wearing it.
I'm wearing, I'm literally wearing boots and a cowboy hat.
I'm wearing one of those Borat swimsuits.
I feel like you guys are absolutely just begging to get kicked out of the-
On Black!
Bellagio.
Okay, on Black, what do we put him on Black?
Oh shit. And Tony, I don't want to get a call from your wife again so no more putting your
life savings trust me she said it won't happen again because after this she
said she wouldn't be my wife and it had we it's our Vegas tradition it has to be
my life savings so I think we're pulling we're pulling everything right we're
gonna pull it okay so it looks like we have all of our things oh and I've seen in the movies where also if you place a big
bet you get like a state they're like yeah this way sir and they give you like
a steak and like a room for two weeks and absolutely not can we see carrot top
we have 14 security guards looking at Tony right now carrot you're not allowed
you're not allowed within 500 feet of carrot top the entire rest of the
casino is leaning over the table stealing chips. Yeah. You should spread out your...
No. We will not.
I didn't bring up Carrot Top. He brought up Carrot Top.
You are not allowed within 500 feet of Carrot Top, any of the Cirque du Soleil performers,
and the guy with the puppets.
What about Ka? Surely Ka? Can he talk to Ka?
Mr. Ed?
Oh my god.
Please, can we... can we see Mr. Carrot?
It's his last bachelor party.
When you said the guy with the puppets, you didn't mean, you meant the bad guy with the puppets.
I can still see Jeff Dunham, right? I can still see Dunham.
Does he still do the hot pepper and the terrorist?
No, you broke Dunham's heart. He said you're not allowed up to his room anymore.
He's a cock tease.
Put your money on red or black.
How much money do you have?
It's black and it's $600.
Chris, I don't care if this is your last Petro party,
you're not going anywhere near Carrot Top.
All right, $600 on black.
Don't touch the balls.
Everyone, the three of you reached forward.
I was gonna hit my pockets, okay?
And I was just trying to spin the spinny thing.
I wasn't trying to touch the ball.
Don't touch anything.
Oh, sorry gents, what are we doing here?
Placing bets, roulette, more like rule it,
takes out a crown, puts it on my head.
Old blue eyes.
Huge arms, huge arms.
It's Frank Sinatra, baby.
Oh wow.
Oh wow.
And it's on red.
Brent, can we have $600?
See.
Oh my God. If I was Carrot Top, I would have bet on? See that. Oh my God.
If I was Carrot Top, I would have bet on red.
I've always bet on red.
Wesley Snipes said always bet on black.
Carrot Top always says bet on red.
That's this whole thing.
Huge arms, huge arms.
I bet that Carrot Top goes sale.
It does, AT&T arms.
It does.
Is Carrot Tap still, Carrot Tap, is he still jacked?
I think so.
The last time we slept together,
he looked pretty jacked.
He's pretty small.
Aaron Dish, how many props did he pull out during sex?
What didn't he pull out during sex?
Most of the props, I think.
He's like, I'm gonna cue men,
and he pulls out somebody.
Yeah, I guess the last time we slept together, yeah.
He looked pretty jacked.
Remember, I feel like TV used to be
90% AT&T commercials with Carrot Top.
Yeah, yeah.
Right?
Mr. T and Carrot Top.
Promoting collect calls or something?
And we were all happier.
We were, it was just better.
Ain't that just the way?
Ain't that just the way?
Last time when we didn't have our phones out all the time.
Like 10, 10, 220.
The thought of making a collect call now,
I don't even know what that could be.
I couldn't tell you what a collect call is.
Remember when you have to say your name?
Collect call from Bob, we had a baby eats a boy.
Best commercial of all time.
I would only use it to like call my mom
when I was like in some sort of dire situation.
And I remember being like,
my mom doing an impression of it being like,
you have a collect call from Aaron.
Panic really pushed on the panic.
I remember my phone, the phone at my dad's house
had a little sticker on it with the like 10, 10, 220
like thing to like remind you
that's how you made a collect call.
That's so funny.
Yeah.
Now Namby you were, if memory serves,
you were a professional soccer player in Spain?
Spain?
No.
Where?
Where is?
Portugal. Yeah, yeah. I wish I was in Spain. Spain? No. Where is she? Portugal.
Yeah, yeah.
I wish I was in Spain.
Madrid.
Madrid, wait.
That's Spain.
That's Spain.
No, it's not.
Real Madrid?
Real Madrid, it's not Spain.
I was in, I played in the UK and I played here in the States
and I was in college as well.
So when you were overseas.
Yeah.
Thank you for your service.
Did you, thank you for your service.
Ha ha ha.
My friend's serving overseas.
Oh my gosh, where's he stationed?
Madrid.
Really?
Why, is that like an embassy or,
no, he plays soccer.
Football.
Football.
He plays soccer and eats tapas,
he's having a really great time.
For our country.
Would you call back home a lot?
Would you?
I mean, I have family all over the world brag.
So yes, I would call a lot.
And international calls, there was a time
where you could buy minutes or whatever,
like on a card.
Buy minutes.
Buy minutes, thank you, buy. And you buy minutes. That was a theater bit
You buy cards and it would be like 500 minutes you can call oh, yeah, oh the prepay yeah
yeah, but like based on the
Of the country it'll kind of yeah, it's kind of f-ed up because they rank the if the country is small
Then they then the minutes. Yeah, it's, it's like currency conversion, but for minutes.
Yeah.
So if you call from Vatican City, you're fucked.
Yeah, tiny little country.
Which is weird, cause that's where you go to get saved.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
What can I save at the Vatican?
This is turning into a Matt Rife stand up.
Let's get into, we're gonna get into some of our
Main riddles we did soft connections. We're gonna get into our main room. Do you think you can get Matt right from the show?
Honey Potem Aaron, what does that mean? Doesn't matter
I don't want to talk to him ever seen winning the food ever again. Did you say ever again? I mean, I guess the last time we slept
Wow Name one comic you haven't slept with.
Hmm.
Um.
He's flipping through her roll.
But his puppets?
Most of his puppets, obviously.
Obviously not the puppets that we're thinking of.
Those, we wouldn't do those puppets.
No, no, no, no, no.
Didn't you date Microsoft Clippy?
Yes, I was actually engaged to Microsoft Clippy.
And he broke it off.
It looks like you're trying to break off an engagement.
Can I copy with that?
You're like, what do you mean?
Okay, let's get into a riddle here.
These are actually 30 second mysteries.
Oh, okay.
I feel like we've done some of these on the show once.
Okay, nevermind, maybe we haven't. I actually feel like we haven't done any of these. Good, good, good, okay. I feel like we've done some of these on the show once. Uh-oh. Okay, nevermind.
Maybe we haven't.
I actually feel like we haven't done any of these.
Good, good, good, good.
Here's the case.
A young boy arrives by train to his new school.
The school is the best of its kind,
but it doesn't appear on any map,
nor does it appear on any list of best schools.
The school is British, but not actually in Britain,
just like Madrid and Spain. The school's British, but not actually in Britain, just like Madrid in Spain.
The school's fame has spread to the United States
through a series of literary efforts
that describe the activities of the school's
unique curriculum and student body.
What is the name of the school
and perhaps its most famous student?
This is trying to get us to say Harry Potter,
but it's obviously not that.
It's trying to obviously get us to say Harry Potter, correct?
It's Harry Potter.
Is it really?
Well, that's not the name of the school.
Hogwarts.
Yeah, it's Hogwarts and it's Harry Potter.
Uh-oh, did we already do this one?
No, I don't think we did this one.
I just thought, I thought that maybe that was,
like Aaron was saying that was gonna be
like the red herring misdirect, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I do wanna see a scene.
Right.
Namby, you are Harry Potter.
JPC and Erin, you are long time Hogwarts students.
Harry is, Harry and this, we're rewriting history.
You are Harry Potter, you have done what you've done
in terms of defeated Voldemort,
but you're brand new to the school,
you just transferred to Harry Potter, to Hogwarts,
and it's not going how you thought it was gonna go.
Okay, wait, so this is an alternate reality
where he's like an 11-year-old who's-
He's older, he's already defeated Voldemort,
and he's coming to the school and he's just-
Okay, he's like a 40-year-old man.
This is after the movie.
This is after the movie.
Got it, got it.
Oh, hi, can I just sit right here?
Wouldn't you like to sit at the teacher's desk?
Yeah.
At the front of class?
Oh, I get this all the time.
I'm actually one of you lot.
No.
No, I'm actually one of you.
We're two 11 year old boys.
Yeah.
Yeah, well I'm a little bit older.
I missed a lot of school because I was out busy beating Mortimer.
Oh, that's fine to say his name now because he did, so it's cool.
Yeah, but I beat him.
Oh, wait a second.
Yeah.
You're that bloke. What's his name?
What was his name?
What's his name?
From history. We just talked about you in history class.
So you're like a super senior?
Well, technically not because I wasn't I wasn't going to
class so I missed one of them a child stars who did you have to do like come
school on set yeah like yeah like a tutor well you were I'm killing
Voldemort this was real this was like real stuff like I was okay yeah it happened
before we were born. So he is.
You must be our new divination teacher.
This is this is our computer. Yeah.
Yeah, I'm actually I'm a student.
I mean, it's a lot.
It's one of those never been kissed situations.
No, it's a pop culture.
Oh, you're an undercover journalist trying to get a scoop then.
Yeah, I'm just I'm just I'm actually
is it the school standing because of me, you know, I mean like I I
beat
Baltimore, I mean what do you have your license? Could you buy us beer? Oh, could you buy us butter beer?
Could you buy us butter be please?
Just keep in mind butter beer is available for anyone of any age. Alright then real beer then. Real beer's fine.
Mikalob
Mikalob Ultra
The same great taste only 64 calories in it. You know I could do it
I could do like cool stuff. You know I mean like I finished my magic classes. Kill Kevin
You want me to kill Kevin You're gonna kill Kevin?
Kill our friend Kevin
Kill our friend Kevin we hate him
We hate him
Oh he just knifed him
That's not Kevin
Who's that? Who's that one?
We never met that man
I don't know who that boy is
There's a teacher here
Oh no I'm sorry I'm sorry sir
I thought you would do magic to kill him but just stab him with your little knife
Disguised-imental.
That's better than Harry Potter.
That was better than Harry Potter.
I didn't watch any of the Harry Potters.
I know it's hard to tell, but I didn't watch any of them.
You nailed it though,
because it's all about the accent and the confidence.
I love coming into the school and be like,
this school's standing because of me.
I saved this school.
I would say that if I was Harry Potter Knight.
And I also love the, he would do a victory lap, right?
Yeah.
If he beat Voldemort, he'd be like,
I'm not graduating, I'm gonna do a victory lap.
No, I'm staying here.
I'm king shit.
I'm king shit.
And onwards.
History class, I'm learning about him.
I am of the age that,
when the first Harry Potter books came out,
I was like excited to read like these like young adult books.
And then I think the, maybe the last one came out
when I was in high school, I believe.
But I remember with my friend Laura,
like waiting at night for like a midnight book release
at like a Borders books or something.
We were like waiting in line
with a bunch of people in costume.
And there were people who were ahead of us in line
who would come out of the store and be like,
oh, I'd go to the last page and be like, guess who dies?
Doing bits like that and everyone would boo them ass.
That's wild.
That's trash.
Yeah, the world used to be so fucked up.
I know, it's so much better now.
Yeah, it's so much better now.
It's so much better now
that all the bookstores are closed. Well, it's so much better now. It's so much better now that all the borders bookstores are closed.
Well, let's take a break to really soak in this modern time and how good we have it.
And we'll be right back with more...
Riddles?
Yeah, like modern time riddles.
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Oh, fun!
Can't we just watch Troy?
Can't we just watch a DVD of Troy?
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This is better.
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We are dumb, I think.
Yeah, it's pretty dumb.
I'm so sorry.
It's hitting me now.
Not smart.
Not smart, guys.
Um, AddleJPC, very cool.
Come look at how I have been managing my money.
I have this piggy bank and I sort of put my money in here.
Erin, this thing has a huge crack on the bottom.
You've been putting money in here?
It does.
Yeah, it's because I...
Doesn't matter.
Erin, if you're anything like me
and it sounds like you're not,
you didn't start your business
to spend the bulk of your time managing your finances.
But between budgeting, tracking expenses
and staying organized for tax time,
there goes a good chunk of your day. Get back to doing what you love, Erin, and staying organized for tax time, there goes a good chunkier day.
Get back to doing what you love, Erin, and let found do the rest.
Oh, thank God, because this is not safe to have my money sort of in a loose piggy bank
that I keep outside.
Yeah, also Erin, it's this property of Lucy Goosey on the bottom.
Is this, did you steal a fairy tale girl's piggy bank?
I mean, yeah, and now I'm putting, I'm'm using it for the Hayrida Riddle business account.
Oh, Erin, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You want to use Found.
Now, Found is business banking designed for small business owners just like you, Erin.
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Yeah, Erin, Found is an all-in- all in one easy to use app, not a pig.
Found lets you manage your financial tasks effortlessly, manage your money,
track your spending, invoice your clients, me and JPC,
and even handle your taxes.
So you can focus on running your business or whatever, Aaron,
whatever you do in your spare time. I don't really know.
Yeah. What does your new business ideas?
What's your new business idea?
Um, piggy banks.
Keep them loose outside.
Keep them loose.
I mean, I have I've reviewed this piggy bank and I gave it one negative review.
Do you think found has any positive reviews?
Aaron, found has some 30,000 positive customer reviews,
and you can see why over 500,000 small business owners
like you chose Found.
Kind of blew up in your face, huh, Erin?
Yeah.
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You called me a dumb-dumb?
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Well, I went to a fugue state.
What did I say?
Addle called me a dumb-dumb?
No, I'm so sorry.
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Hi.
Oh, I'll catch the next one.
I'll wait for the next one.
No, no need.
My name is Corporal Smash.
Oh, Corporal Smash.
Wink, wink.
Oh, yeah.
Wink, wink.
Yeah, we met at Aaron's post-wedding wedding party.
Yes, that's right.
On JPC, yeah, from Hey Roodle Roodle.
You're a groomside, correct?
Yes, that's right.
Yeah.
For sure.
I just wanted to tell you, I'm not
sure if you heard about this, BetterHelp.
Yeah, actually, I have heard of BetterHelp.
Yeah, it's online therapy.
Yes.
Yeah. Which, and I of BetterHelp, yeah. It's online therapy. Yes, yeah. Yeah.
Which, and I use, I love BetterHelp.
I use it all the time because I'm not the captain
of a boat, I'm the, whatever, you know.
You're an officer.
I'm an officer on a boat.
For sure.
I hear noises constantly and they drive me insane.
It's almost like mesophonia.
And so I use BetterHelp to help me deal with my emotions,
deal with any of my sort of struggles
being on this high seas all the time.
No, yeah, sure.
I mean, it would be great for that.
Sometimes it's just great to talk to a person.
I mean, I love online therapy
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That's right. That's right. So yeah, it sounds, I mean, yeah, it sounds like you're a big fan already.
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because it looks like, and this is not an indictment of your boat, it looks like it was drawn by hand.
Thank you, it was, yes.
Great, yeah, so that's not really something me, like a corporal human man, would be able
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I don't think so.
Okay, yep.
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Wizarding World and we got Erin a pack of the brand new
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Now some of these are Michelob,
some of these are Michelob Ultra,
some of these are Natty Ice, there's a Coors,
what else do we have?
There's about 50 IPA Beans
and they all taste fucking identical.
You have to be a real psycho if you get them.
But you know what's really fun?
A guy with a beard over explained the flavors
of each of them to me one by one.
And then said, and what do you do after a while?
Touch his face, touch his beard.
Uh-oh.
Let's do some more of these 30 second mysteries here.
Please. Okay.
Megan is locked in a windowless room
with several dozen other people.
She faces a battery of tests for nearly three hours.
Megan is under intense pressure
and every answer will be closely scrutinized.
Her future depends on her ability to answer correctly.
What is Megan doing and where is she?
Megan is taking the Men in Black test
from the first Men in black movie.
Okay.
Yeah, and she's like scooting the table across the floor.
Sure.
And he's saying to the guy next to him,
you wanna get in on this?
Yeah.
And the guy's like, oh no.
She shoots a school child carrying a backpack and says,
this guy's just working out.
Yeah, this guy's just sniffling.
That's a tissue.
This is a little girl with quantum physics books.
He's not scary, he's sniffling.
And then, yeah.
Yeah. I just wanna comment on the wording of that, That's a tissue. Quantum physics books. He's not scary, he's sniveling. And then, yeah. Mm-hmm.
I just wanna comment on the wording of that.
That entire thing was very sketch.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
The men in the room, battery.
Yes.
Battery?
Yeah, she faces a battery of tests for three hours.
You could word it differently.
Yeah, this sounds like Stranger Things season four.
Is Erin right, is it LSATS? LS sounds like Stranger Things season four. Is Erin right?
Is it LSATS?
LSATS is a great guess.
Is it medical tests?
Megan is taking a college entrance exam at her high school.
Have we done these before?
Are they just easy?
I'd like to do, I'd like to see a scene.
The three of you are three high school juniors
taking the SATs and you're sitting next to each other
and you're trying to find some ways to cheat
or ask each other questions
Hey, dude
Reach into my pocket. Yeah
Not you mark, Richard. Oh, sorry. Oh, okay. Nothing in my left pocket. Okay, Richard. I'm in I'm in okay
Do you? Can you find my phone? Oh, yeah, there's a first thing in the pocket. Oh, yeah, I handed their weight too long
Yeah, great. Okay,'t handed that way too long.
Yeah, I got your phone.
Great, cool, okay, take it out.
Got it.
Okay, now, do you know my password?
Yeah.
Okay.
Well hold on, I think I do.
Okay.
Four, two, six, nine, yeah, got it.
Okay, great, cool.
Can you call my mom, tell her to come get me?
Yes.
What?
This is hard.
I know it's fucking hard.
I thought we were gonna cheat. Didn't we all talk about cheating? Yeah, yeah, I know it's fucking hard. I thought we were gonna cheat didn't we all talk about cheating. Yeah. Yeah
The plenty of things we can cheat at
Does it have to be this pass us specifically we're talking about cheating at this
I didn't know like do you want me to take my hand out of your pocket?
Hurry get it before they turn around
Okay, okay hands out of everybody's pockets. I'm not gonna call your mom. Okay get we're gonna do this we have to get an idea otherwise we're gonna divergence
everybody cool people okay okay goodness the cast poppiest what what sorry sorry
I have a cough okay please keep your eyes on your paper and go back to your
test okay that was a good that was that was good that's good what you just coughed Okay, please keep your eyes on your paper and go back to your test.
Okay, that was good.
But you just coughed the same thing we're all looking at.
We don't know the answer.
Oh, yeah. I thought maybe somebody would chat it out like a con or taunt.
And actually, hold on, that one's the example one. That dog.
They finished that. That's the example.
Oh, it's circled up here.
Make sure you're not chatting amongst yourselves.
You have seven more minutes left on the SATs.
Excuse me, Proctor?
Yes, is this an emergency?
Well, it has to do with what you just said.
Okay, there's seven minutes left on the test.
Now more like six.
But could you phrase that in the form of an essay
about what freedom means to you?
Like a short essay. Could you phrase that? Could you phrase what you just said again?
But in a short essay about what freedom means to you in slow
Michael
Michael how do you spell that? That's your name. That's my name. Okay. You know what just do your best on the essay
I'm sure it'll be great. Okay. Okay. Oh
SATs now I get it.
Oh.
That's why they're called that.
S-A-T's.
Hi Proctor?
Yep.
Oh, it's okay I'm calling you by your first name, right?
Uh, I mean, yeah, it's fine.
Okay.
For today, it's a Saturday, I guess.
Okay, well, hey.
You guessed it's a Saturday?
Oh, I wrote that wrong.
No, it is. I wrote that right.
Gentlemen, it's Saturday. It's Saturday.
Oh thank god. How did you get extra points for knowing what day it is? It changes my
name to Michael on the test. Okay. Hey Proctor, my pen doesn't work. Do you mind, can I borrow
your pen? Can you just, can you write the answers? Can you write the answer with your
pen? Okay first of all, famously you're supposed to be using pencil.
These are Scantrons.
They can only read pencil, and so if you make a mistake, you can erase.
Boys, I'll bring back pencils to you, but I'm not going to fill out your tests.
There's about three minutes left on the SATs.
It looks like none of you have started.
Okay, that's fine.
Not my problem.
Mrs. Proctor, everyone was...
We're all so fascinated with you.
We all have like a ton of crushes on you.
When you took the SATs, like what did you get?
Like, let's hear more about your background.
What did you get for the SATs?
Well, it was a different scoring system back then,
and I got like a 1600, which is a perfect score, so.
Whoa.
Now it's out of 24.
Shit.
Yeah, but then I thought again.
1600, that's where the president was.
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?
Yeah, but then I discovered weed in college,
and then I sort of blew up my life
And now I'm here and I do this.
Wait, Miss Madame Proctor.
What?
You blew up your life in college. So did you not also get to not be a virgin anymore?
No, I'm still a virgin. That's why these tests are important boys.
No, you got a perfect score on the test and you're still a virgin.
So if we get bad scores on the test, maybe that's how we lose our-
And time.
I did it! I think I lost mine!
How's it feel?
Wet.
Yeah?
It seems.
Oh my god.
This guy pissed his pants.
He thinks he lost his virginity.
It's scary.
A steady stream of people enter Butch's place of business
and remove its treasured belongings.
The people do not pay for what they take.
Butch allows them to take as much as they can carry
so long as they keep it quiet.
Can you read that again?
This is like a national park.
They say don't take anything,
but people just grab leaves and shit all the time.
A steady stream of people enter Butch's place of business
and remove his treasured belongings.
The people do not pay for what they take.
Butch allows them to take as much as they can carry
as long as they keep it quiet.
Oh, is this like sand from a beach?
Like, cause you, what'd you just say to me?
Yeah, I think the last line really,
Erin is correct, Butch works for a library.
People are taking books.
Yeah.
Butch's place of whatever they call it.
I'd like to see a scene.
Namdi, you're a librarian.
JPC, you're a kid asking for book recommendations
and you're giving him really bad book recommendations.
Yeah, so I kind of I you know, I've read everything really that interests me at the school library
and so, you know
I'm just kind of like it doesn't necessarily have to be like young adult stuff because I do feel like I can read like more
mature stuff, you know for my age, but yeah, I just like any any rec
I'm like I have a variety of interests, you know fiction for my age. But yeah, I just like any, any rec, I'm like, I have a variety of interests,
you know, fiction, nonfiction.
Oh, great kiddo.
Well, have you ever read The Big Red Dog,
Clifford, The Big Red Dog, have you ever read that?
Oh.
Looks like that'll be a,
like someone like you. No, no.
Yeah, I have, but that feels like more like a book
for like young, young, young children. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm it that feels like more like a book for like young young young children
Yeah, yeah
I'm 13 so like I I was more like a young adult is like the minimum that I would go to like I don't
Want to read like them like dr. Seuss's or anything. Yeah like that cuz like older kid books. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Have you ever read?
This book right over here right behind you is called I
like shapes I've never read this book right over here, right behind you. It's called I Like Shapes.
Have you read that one? I think I did a good read for someone like you.
Yeah, this is a baby touch and feel book.
So it's not even a book.
There's no narrative to it.
It's just, well yeah, it's just shapes.
I guess I'm really looking for something a lot older
for like a big, cause this one on it
says for ages, when it says months, if it says months on it, I'm like well past months.
So like this is from ages like six months to 12 months.
Like I want something that's more for like 13 to like maybe 13 to 19 year olds, somewhere
in there.
Yeah.
Okay, cool.
Well, while we think about that, do you need a bottle or anything?
I have my water bottle.
It's an algin.
Yeah, it's pretty full.
But I'll take a drink because it's good to stay hydrated.
It's not going to drink a lot of water really fast.
You should space out your water intake during the day.
Yeah, big boy.
Yeah, big boy.
Excuse me, young man.
Can I cut you in line?
I'm very old.
Oh, I guess so.
Ow!
Ow!
Gosh! Little knife. Hello, Mr. Lewis. Ow! Ow! Gosh!
Hello, Mr. Lewis.
Little knife.
I just wanted to tell you that the book that you recommended to me, there's one fish, two
fish, red fish, blue fish.
I loved it.
I want ten more that feel the same as this.
Great, great.
I said great.
That's really great.
What?
I said it's really great.
I'm so, it's great that you enjoyed it. Why are you yelling at me? Mr
Gray telling okay great. Wait, excuse me. You you you what you read one fish blue bluefish mate
I'm sorry. May I ask sir? How old are you? Well, I'm
91-2-3 I'm 104 and
I I
Like to come to the library. What's your problem?
Well, I guess my problem is...
You wanna fight?
I guess my problem is I've never met an old bitch ass man that ran his mouth in the library that I didn't wanna fucking knock the fuck out.
I guess that's my problem.
Oh, library fight. Whoa. Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack,
quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack.
Shh.
Old man hits me.
And knocks me.
Oh, library, or library combat.
You should've went with library combat.
Safe.
Aaron, you almost said you were 90-14.
And then you counted up.
Mm.
90-14.
Great year.
Great year.
Way in the future.
Whoa.
That was very close to the rap music that we have.
Erin.
A little rap track for Erin.
My name is Erin and I don't know why.
My name is Erin and I don't know why.
Stan walks into a large room wearing his robe.
When people see him, they stop talking and look up.
After a while, Sam walks away and doesn't appear again
for around a week.
What's going on?
Sam is a priest.
A priest.
Yeah.
Yeah, Sam's a priest.
Wasn't there a rock band or person called Judas Priest?
Yeah, Judas Priest.
Yeah, the end.
I think it's a band.
Yeah, it's a band.
But it makes a better name. It's a good name. Sam, Judas Priest. Yeah, the end. Which I think is a band. Yeah, it's a band. But it makes a better name.
It's a good name.
Sam, did you nod your head?
Yeah.
Is Judas Priest a band?
Yeah.
Okay, do you know the lead singer?
What's his name?
Is it someone we would know?
Yeah, is it like a person?
Oh yeah, I hang out with him all the time.
Okay.
Sam is the lead singer of Judas Priest.
I'd like to see a scene.
In Big Friends.
Nandie, you are a priest,
but you slept through your alarm,
and so you're wearing your bathrobe into the church
and you're trying to spin your wheels
because you're underprepared and you literally just woke up
and you two are people in the concrete.
Okay.
All right, give it up for the organ.
Give it up for the organ over there.
Whoa, close your robe.
What?
Close your robe.
Oh, gosh.
I'll give it up for that Oregon. Hey
Alright, buddy Morgan. Let me stand behind this little little ding dong stop it
You ring my bell happy Sunday folks. Happy Sunday
Where are the Bible? Oh?
boy
What a morning anybody having a morning out there. I switching to stand up. Do we clap at church? I can't remember
Can't see you are we asking for the house lights to be turned on
Others it there's a timer in the back that says four minutes 53 seconds. Is it counting down? He's getting the light. Oh
That's good though for a priest to get the light that means he's gonna go to heaven all right gosh good
No, so good house. That's already weekend so far
crowd work, please
You you yeah, yeah you with the hat yes
I haven't been able to bend at the knees for 20 years should I walk forward and we'll do like a miracle or oh?
Guys been at the knees for 20 years I get I guess he's not married
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, what about me? Yeah?
You know I noticed that that t-shirt you're wearing and notice that t-shirt you're wearing yes
It's Cowboys butt-straping nuts
laundry day
Laundry day well, I guess it's not I guess it's not hair day. Oh
Shit, I have alopecia. Oh wow that's why I like this do her do her
I have alopecia. Oh wow. That's why I like this. Do her do her
Let me move on quickly. Are you you ma'am the one in the full body cast? What are you gonna do?
Yeah, yeah you um you know and who you here with?
myself
Wow, I'm just gonna move on from that. No it it's worse if you don't roast me That means I'm pathetic
Come back father please
No
Where am I?
Let me check my notes
Oh my little bible, I didn't bring my bible with me
Whoa he's holding up cheese whiz for communion
Um yeah you guys wanna just do the communion part of the body of Christ
Yeah
Okay great great
Uh I'm gonna uh so open up
I've got this little
little t-shirt cannon that I've converted into a
Into a body cannon that
Are we body of Christ the t-shirt on the body of father? You're sweating so much
Are you hungover a little bit a little bit last night?
After service we cut till last night.
Okay, guys, who wants to get fucked up on Blood of Christ?
I do!
Oh, that's 20 tabs of MDMA.
Oh, same thing, same thing.
Same scene, same scene.
20 tabs.
I was, I'm glad we stopped, but if we didn't stop,
I was gonna take us to a Kings of Leon concert. Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because to me, I'm like, a priest that parties,
it's still gonna be something like Kings of Leon.
Yeah. Yeah.
Is that Judas Priest?
Was that how the album goes?
That's how the album goes.
That's how the album goes.
I almost said Bruce Dickerson,
but he's the lead singer of Iron Maiden.
Rob Halford.
Rob Halford. Rob Halford.
Not a name. From the office.
I can understand why you changed it to...
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Judith Preece is way more like that.
Are you ready to rock with Rob Halford?
I do like that when a celebrity doesn't have
a celebrity name or a rock star doesn't really
have a rock star name.
But they still make it.
Yeah, but they're still out there doing it.
It's like, Genuine, the R&B singer,
his real name is Elgin Bunkin or something like that.
Elgin Lumpkin or something.
It's very much like, hey, my name's Elgin Bunkin,
wanna ride my pony?
Mace, mace, mace.
Yeah, exactly.
Albert Brooks's real name is Albert Einstein.
Yeah.
Pretty fun.
Which I think is pretty funny.
Yeah.
Oh.
And my real name is Tonya Harding.
Tonya Harding.
Tonya.
Tonya.
Tonya.
Tonya Harding.
Tonya.
Tonya.
It's spelled the same.
It's spelled the same.
But it's pronounced Tonya.
Tonya.
Tonya.
We were talking about this,
and at this point, this will have been months ago,
but I was not familiar with this.
The Haq Tua, like-
We're still bringing her up?
We're still bringing her up.
Yeah, until she's on this show.
Because I didn't know about this,
but apparently, like the Haq Tua person,
I was reading an article,
because I was like, who is this?
What is this about?
I had never seen the video, I watched the video.
Right.
But then I saw that, like, that person,
she had gotten, like, representation. But then I I saw that like that person she had gotten like...
representation but then I read this whole article about her...
is like a variety article at the bottom of the variety...
article they were like we have to issue a correction to the...
article because her name is Haley we originally spelled...
it hi hi le why but it's actually HAL IE why and I was...
like that's the wildest that was the wildest part of the...
article is like that this person's name is H that was the wildest part of the article.
I was like, that this person's name is Haley,
but they have like got the I swiped.
Weird.
Especially retracting that for someone
who's having an article written
because she was on camera for two seconds on a TikTok.
Yeah, yeah.
Just like the newsroom being like,
oh, you guys really fucked up this time.
We're gonna have to issue a correction.
You know that, right?
You know that we are journalists here. This is a stain on your reputation.
I do wanna see a scene.
You wait for a variety, not a variety of the truth.
There's one truth.
I wanna see a scene.
Nnamdi, you are a TikToker.
You hit the street and ask people questions.
Erin, you are someone who's just out, possibly drunk,
just having fun with her friends.
You are trying to replicate Haktua Girls' success.
So you're really trying to go viral
and you're not gonna leave NAMD
until maybe something really clicks.
Yeah, great.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, NAMD, can I ask you a couple questions?
Oh my God, I follow you on TikTok.
This is so exciting.
Oh, yeah, appreciate the follow.
That's crazy, this is amazing. Yeah, yeah, well, in that case on TikTok. This is so exciting. Oh, yeah, appreciate the follow.
That's crazy. This is amazing.
Yeah, yeah, well, in that case, you already know what I do.
Yeah.
Okay, so your favorite color is green or blue?
Okay, I'm a political science major at Fordham University.
I hope to be president of the United States one day.
Great, great, great. Okay.
Green or blue? More like I blew your dad last night. I'll blow any dad
Okay, the camera yeah
Wait, you say you follow me so you do know that I'm a kid's a kid's content creator
I create content for preschool bleep bleep
Bleep it. Okay. Okay. Great. We cut to a meeting with a Hollywood agent. Well, we love it.
The blow your dad girl. The blow your dad girl is. I'm sorry. This meeting's at eight a.m. Are you?
Yeah. Okay. You can't get blame married drunk before a meeting. She. The good news is that
you're popular. Okay. The bad news is you're universally reviled. People don't want someone
to blow their dad. Then I guess it can be president one day.
Aim into that.
Topical.
But you know.
And commentary.
It doesn't matter for me, I'm just here to get you work
and we have several job offers.
Okay, I wanna host Jeopardy.
We do cut to Aaron as the same character,
Namdi as a new character, and I'm the moderator,
and these are the presidential debates.
And I think that's what we should get our troops back home.
Very good.
Blow your dad girl.
Blow your dad girl, yeah.
Guess first things first, I blow your dad.
Secondly, I actually would love probably
right before I had to jump out of the gate,
I would love to just forgive some student loans
and sort of figure out some common sense of gun laws. And these debates are at 8 a.m. are you
okay? Yes is it a crime to drink vodka out of an IV you put into your arm at 8 a.m.?
We got to blow you down girl in the Oval Office and she's on the phone call with
the president of the Russian Federation. No you hang up. No you hang up. No, you hang up. No, you hang up. God, I wish I had a dad. Wait, I mean, I wish I wasn't dead. Hold
on. We cut to blow your dad girls funeral. And it is
televised. And there's literally millions of dads in Washington,
DC weeping. Hey, whoa, hey, oh, gosh, sorry, late. I'm the
priest. I'm supposed to... Close your road.
Oh, wait, what?
Are you sure?
Is it... Sing it.
Wait, wait, father!
I'm... Shut up, I'm up.
She's awake.
Someone open the casket.
Blow Your Dad Girl 2028 vote for me.
I'm better than everyone else we got up there right now.
Blow Your Dad Girl change, change, change.
Positive change.
Positive change.
I pledge allegiance to the blow your dad girl
and for what she stands.
Ugh, it's hard to conceive of that.
Blow your dad girl, better than Byron?
Honestly, yeah.
Erin, a new classic.
Same saddle.
Blow your dad girl.
Something to be proud of.
I would, you know what?
Can't wait till your mom listens to this one.
I know, god.
I'm like, do I want my face on a t-shirt
that says, blow your dad, girl, 2028?
Well, it wouldn't be your face.
It would be a character that looks like you.
So just know that.
There is some distance that you could do.
I would buy it.
I would wear it.
I'd wear it.
I'd wear it.
I'd have a jacket ready, but I'd wear it.
If you're not wearing your women be hummus t-shirts out of the house, you're not wearing it. I do, I wear I'd wear it. I'd have a jacket ready, but I'd wear it. Yeah. If you're not wearing your women be hummus
t-shirts out of the house, you're not wearing
your boy jacket.
I do, I wear that t-shirt out of the house sometimes
and I was like, what am I doing?
Why am I doing this?
Two weeks after a heavy rain,
Nancy walks into the forest with her trusty pooch.
Together they investigate numerous pine and fir trees.
In a small pit dug by a rodent,
Nancy finally finds the hidden treasure she's after.
What's going on?
She's with her pooch?
Her trusty pooch.
Is she searching for truffles?
Nancy's looking for truffles.
I don't think it was a pig for truffles.
It's not truffle, it's a pig.
It can't be pigs.
Oh, pig, right?
Is that what it was called?
I think it was just called pig.
I think you're thinking of sing.
My brain's no good.
My attic meat is broken.
I don't know anything about truffles.
That was an absolute guess.
You do it two weeks after a rain?
Is that right?
I know mushrooms after rain, earthworms and mushrooms.
We're talking about truffles, not mushrooms. Truffle can be a little overpowering in a dish for me,
but I did have a truffle risotto once
that I thought was spectacular.
Really, because a truffle risotto to me is gonna be like,
that's gonna be way too much.
Well, it's gonna be way too much truffle, I feel like.
Well, it was like a side dish, so I had like a protein
and then that was like a scoop of, and so it was nice.
I will say when you have actual truffle,
like shaved truffle on a dish,
it's usually pretty outstanding.
When you have truffle oil,
that's when you're like, ooh,
this is very earthy and very overpowering.
Pick and choose, everyone pick and choose.
Namby, thoughts on truffles?
No, I don't, no, I won't eat it.
You won't eat it?
Are you a picky eater?
I'm picky, yes. I am picky babes, I don't know, I won't eat it. You won't eat it? Are you a picky eater? I'm picky, yes.
I am picky babes, I will never.
What do you eat, or what don't you eat?
I'm very simple, simple eater, and proud of it.
I won't eat, I don't eat cheese,
but that's not from picky,
I just don't like the appearance of it.
So anything that's cheese or could be cheese.
Anything that could show up at a cheese family reunion.
I think Netflix has a new show.
Okay, so cottage cheese.
Cheese family reunion.
No.
Anything that could be cheese.
Yeah, cottage cheese could be cheese.
Anything that could be cheese.
Mayonnaise.
Mayonnaise could be cheese.
Isn't that a hot take?
I'm actually with him on this.
I'm with him on mayonnaise could be cheese.
What is happening?
I will say that. It's from that, it's from it.
My wife went to at IO.
IO would do a thing where they would serve you French fries
with Sriracha mayo.
And I think they still probably have Sriracha mayo,
but my wife was seeing like I think a world news show
one time and she was sitting behind some people
who had ordered the fries and they were pretty drunk.
And the guy was, the waiter came by,
I was like, can I get you anything else?
And they're like, oh yeah, more fries.
And the guy's like, oh yeah, and more of that cheese sauce.
And the waiter goes, we don't have cheese sauce.
And he's like, yeah, you do, we ate every ounce of it.
We want that cheese sauce.
And my wife is sitting there and she's like,
they mean Sriracha mayo, but they think it's cheese sauce.
So I'm with Nimi on the days there.
I did think that was cheese for the first time months. I also crave those french fries every day.
Those french fries were delicious.
They had no right to be that good.
I think that that was what my body ran on for my 20s.
That was the fuel.
That was the gasoline in my body.
Dunkin' donuts and french fries.
Dunkin' donuts and I.O. french fries.
No wonder why I was such a bad person.
They were epic.
We're going to do one final scene here.
Okay.
And I think I want this to be a real slice of life
with our friends here.
Okay.
NAMD, you're gonna be playing NAMD.
Wow, okay.
This should be very comfortable.
Typecast?
Except you're gonna be ordering food
and Aaron, JPC and I will be popping in as different waiters
presenting you with either specials or menu items.
And just true to life, you give us your honest reaction
with no fear of offending a waiter.
Okay, okay, cool, all right.
So yeah, this is your table, sir.
And this is our festival of food.
So basically the way that it works
is you pay for the ticket, you have the entire evening,
and we're going to try to entice you
with dishes from across the world
And and it's all like I said, it's all included in the ticket price. So great and you can get rid of the other table
Other chair, it's just me
Okay, um
Okay, uh would so
The champagne with the ring in it. We're not doing that either. Can I tell you honestly? I I don't even drink
So like great. I'll keep that I just want to make sure because you know
We you called ahead and we had that whole thing planned, but we're not gonna do that won't be no
Yeah, it's just it's just me, but I pay for the food. So perfect. So yeah, you feel free to eat double
Okay, okay, sir, and I'll be your
Food waiter. Uh-huh. That was your seating waiter today for some some specials you tell me, Yerne, we do have some bacon wrapped dates.
Can I just have the bacon?
Interesting.
Because dates are like, dates are like grapes, right?
Dates are like grapes.
It's like, yeah, they're like thick grapes.
They're, yes, they're viscous grapes.
I don't want thick grapes.
Do you want the wine from a, do you want some date wine I told the seating guy. I don't drink. Oh, okay
I have bread for the table. That's a pita
Right right no wait
No
Just regular bread. We also have some cracker regular bread
It inherently has cheese in it.
I don't want to take it back.
Okay.
Excuse me, sir.
The woman from across the restaurant
has sent over some dishes for you to enjoy.
She has some, brought some oysters.
Can you ask her why?
Can you ask her why?
I think she's trying to hit on you, sir.
It's sort of a classic move.
She wants to impress you with these
Oysters no she can have the back okay muscles are the same thing clams
Scallops I don't like the name scallops
Not really okay
Okay, they're like shrimp though. Not really. Okay, they're like
Lobster no, no, no. Okay. All right. Well lobster you like cook it but it still appears raw. Mm-hmm Like what's the point? Mm-hmm. Okay. I'll tell her you said that. Yeah, please
Okay, okay, sir. And it seems like we have some steak tartare ready for you. You had me a steak lost me at tartare
Can we just should I reverse those. Can we just do one?
Should I reverse those?
Can we just do one? Can it just be steak?
So, um, okay, you want bacon wrapped dates, hold the dates.
Steak tartare, cook the tartare.
No, what's tartare? What is tartare?
Tartare for now.
Okay, we have a little appetizer sampler platter.
We have some mini corn dogs.
No.
Mini corn dogs?
Are you crazy?
Are you crazy?
The chefs are sobbing back there.
We have some broccolini.
Oh no, that's fine.
That's fine.
I got some vegetables.
I would have preferred just like broccoli or whatever.
What's the other one?
Broccoli needs basically just like long broccoli, but it's like yeah, okay
We could do broccoli rab if that's broccoli Rob
Rob or a rab rab rob. What's the rab part? Just long the lady from across the restaurant is shooting her shot again
We have a cooked brie with an apricot jam on top for you to dip your, what, what, what sir?
It's so busy.
That's so much going on.
Okay.
There's walnuts on it too.
We went to the restaurants across the streets
to expand your options, sir.
Just cause it's been a while
and people are waiting for this table.
We do have a chicken tiki masala.
Yes, you're Googling.
Can I just have, okay, chicken's fine.
Is that rice?
Do you have like regular rice?
So chicken on rice.
We have a jasmine rice.
Jasmine is busy.
It's a rice that hates her dad,
will not listen to her dad.
We have a risotto, it's a truffle risotto.
Oh, risotto, we should have started with risotto.
Truffle risotto, that's two things.
Risotto is cheese.
And truffle is like gross. Sir, you tell us what you want. What do you want?
Do you have like you have spaghetti? I?
Just like spaghetti and meat sauce, but like no cheese in there. I just a burger is fine
Just give me burger and fries with cheese, but no cheese no cheese
As they turn the restaurant sign from open to close for good.
Permanently closed.
That is so funny.
Ask her what she wants.
Yeah, especially when he's got a wedding ring
and a bottle of champagne.
Ask her why.
I'd like to say to some oysters,
you walk back over to the table,
hey, why'd you do this?
Did you check with me to see if I liked oysters?
I have an allergy.
Namedi, thank you so much for being here.
Thanks for having me, this is amazing, you look great.
Please come back a million more times.
Yeah, I'll come back to LA.
Namedi, do you have anything you'd like to plug or promote
or make people aware of?
Gosh, I should always be ready for this.
See, in Chicago, I'd be like, no, please don't.
I'm so humble.
Please, I'm so humble, but I have to say stuff at this point.
But you'll put it in the writing,
like here's my Instagram and stuff like that.
But for those who can't read, like learn.
It's in my Insta.
It's in the description.
Powerful.
I wasn't gonna learn, but now I am.
I want you to learn.
Yeah, my Instagram, I post things on there.
I do shows, I do live shows. I write, I perform, I'm right. Oh, wait, my Instagram, I post things on there. I do shows, I do live shows.
I write, I perform, I travel, yeah.
You have a great internet presence,
really funny content on the internet.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
I do have an internet presence.
And it's great, but in Chicago, it's like, it's fine,
whatever. Yeah, out here it's great.
In Chicago, it's, it's dumb, it's whatever.
You don't have to, you watch it or not.
And you have a new restaurant opening called Keep It Simple.
And it's just buttered noodles and nothing else.
Please no ladies buying food for other people there.
Big side, ladies cannot buy food for others.
You cannot.
Please don't do it.
You can check out our Patreon at patreon.com
slash heyriddleriddle.
Also heyriddleriddle.com slash live.
Slash live.
If you wanna check out our East Coast tour this fall.
Anything else to plug Adler JPC or?
That's good for me.
Sam, do you have anything to plug?
The movie Pig is starring Nicholas Cage.
I thought about that.
The movie Pig starring Nicholas Cage.
There's truffles in it.
Which is almost like a.
It's upsetting actually.
It's not quite a John Wick, but it's got some similar...
John Wick and Jason.
If you like animals, don't watch it.
Yes, there's a whole chef underground fight club.
It's weird.
Wait, if you just like all animals,
like what if you only like horses?
Can you watch pigs?
Jupiter.
Bye.
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