Hey Riddle Riddle - #407: Amish Venom

Episode Date: May 6, 2026

Sometimes you record an episode and you land on an all time favorite character classic. Sometimes you record the Amish Venom ep. Starring:Adal RifaiJohn Patrick CoanErin KeifEditing 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 Dashery Store!Want 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.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a headgum podcast. Aaron JPC, I have some important business to discuss. Okay, amazing. Let me get the paperwork out. Okay. If it's important business. Imposter business. Ah, important business.

All right, here we go. I should probably change into my business clothes. I'm sorry, I wasn't dressed for important business. This could be, sorry, let's have it be casual business. Oh, okay. Okay, totally different paperwork, kind of different. Hawaiian shirts and cackage. I will.

wear my casual suit, aka my birthday suit. Casualty business. Casual business. All right. Ready. Okay. What was our imposter news again? And Aaron, how are our casualty numbers?

Our imposter news was, um, there was someone taking over my body for several years, but we worked that out. And then our casualty news, you don't want to know. Oh, okay. Great. When you say you worked it out, you and you and they, they worked it out. You worked it together, the two of you. I don't remember.

Sort of a venom situation. Yes. Aaron. Clear your throat, man. New character for the show. New character for the show, Aaron Vittam? Aaron, we should get pizza. All right, let me try.

Aaron, we should get pizza. Aaron, talk about piss on the podcast. Aaron, talk about piss on the podcast. What was your news? His is actually handsome. Make your move. Casual news. All right.

Clicks pen. What was the news? I think, and unless, hey, I could be, I'm a forgetful dude. I'm the episode of whatever an elephant is. Sure. I don't think we've ever officially said what our fans are called. Are they riddates? Are they officially riddots?

I think. Future lizards. Future lizards. I think I have. Tossed out there at some point. I think I have a. a document somewhere that I have I always forget

Let's see if I have it still I don't know I don't know Adel The short answer is we quite often run our mouth on this show That's literally the whole show We drop them We make big declarations

I think at one point we were going to try to buy The Knicks And then we dropped that pretty instantaneously Sure, yeah Doesn't sound right We've changed our minds a thousand times. It was Kevin's and Susie's.

That's right. It was future lizards. Ridiots. Okay. Clue crew. And then I think that they turned 18 and defacted from us and

named themselves. So now I don't know. Gotcha. What's that, yeah, what's that called when people leave to become their own parents or whatever? Rumspringer. Aaron, it's Rumspringer. Amish Venom?

No, we don't have the time. Hold on. Hold on. Let's get a barn. We don't have the time. Aaron, Aaron, please. Aaron, I was wrong about buying the Knicks.

Can we please write and produce Amish Venom? Aaron, please. Casey, I'm so sorry. I just saw, I saw what Amish Venom does to my audio and I am so sorry. I should back off the mic when I do Amish Venom. All right, Adel, but then we're dropped. Then we can't buy the Knicks. If we do an Amish Venom, Adel, then we can't buy the Knicks.

Aaron, did you know that stilts used to be considered a parlor game? Turn that butter. Aaron, if we could turn butter, we can churn Dr. Pepper, Aaron. Um, Miss. Wait, what were we talking about? I haven't been conscious for a full hour. You guys, I'm having a, I haven't had my coffee yet. Ugh.

Uh, I got free coffee. I've had my Amish fun up. I walked, I walked to a breakfast burrito place that I'd never been to before, and they gave me a free coffee when I bought my breakfast burrito. That's very sweet. What a blessed start to your day. Yeah. It was a blessed start to your day. A blessed little day.

And they said, is your car in the shop too? And I said, no. And they're like, oh, most people in here's cars at the shop. And I said, oh. Interesting. Oh. Okay. Adel, why do you ask?

Are you trying to address the Riddle Nation here? Are you doing a big speech? Um, not a big speech. Um, I think I just, I think I was thinking of like, oh yeah, did we ever settle on something? Because I feel like, yeah, we've bounced between a few things. I was maybe thinking, who knows if we call them from now on hot dogs. Oh, wow. If that might be fun.

You know what we should do? We should do. I'm sorry, what was that one? Never mind. What were you saying? We should do, uh, uh, an open submission. We should call for an open submission. You know, you can let, and you can submit this name anyway.

You can do it in the Discord. You can do it on our Instagram. But give us what name you would like to be called. We'll take like the 10 best options and put up an official poll. Yeah. Okay. We'll put up a poll and you know what? We'll make the poll like a Patreon poll.

But we'll make it free. We'll make it free for anyone. So you don't have to be a patron member. You can be a free member to do it. But you have to vote on Patreon. And then whatever name of the of the 10 that you choose, That's the name we will abide. That's the name we'll eliminate first.

And then we'll do a re-vote. And this will go for one year. 100 years. 100 years. We will vote for 100 years. Okay. So I type just to make sure we're not stepping on anyone's toes. I did type in Amish Venom to Google.

Okay. And it turns out both rattlesnakes and the Amish can't regulate how much poison they pump into you when they bite you. Oh. Oh, they can't regulate that So they can't even just poison you a little bit Aaron, my existence means that there is an Amish anti-venom I have not seen Find him, Aaron, and kill him

You're not going to believe this, but I didn't see venom So I don't feel as confident doing the place But I think I'll throw my hat into the ring Aaron JPC, I am this kind of guy Can you even handle me being in a room I'm venom You simply must see venom

Tell me how to be better with the voice. No, that was great. You pretty much did what Tom Hardy did, which is whatever you want. And so good. I'm a superhero or something Aaron. Yeah. You say that you didn't see Venom made me think of how confusing this will be to people who have also never seen Venned. They'll be like, what is?

Venom was in my periphery. Yeah. It never crossed my desk, but I think I kind of get the vibe. You're more of a morbious girl. It's morbid time. Is that something? I think that was more of the meme. I don't know if you ever said it in the movie.

It was bad, though. And it wasn't the actual company. It's that thing they do with, like, Madam Web. A Sony. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was a Sony Spider-Man, yeah. Aaron, are there any comic book characters, either real or from your imagination that you would like to see a movie of?

You know, I, during the pandemic read, um, Mrs. is it Mrs. Fury? What is the? Marvelous Mrs. Maisel? Yeah. Nick Fury's wife. About something else. I just watched the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

That's my contribution to this. Stand-ups of power. Let me make sure I'm going to, yeah. Stand-ups of Power. Yeah, Miss Fury. I read the complete works, the Miss Fury one, which is like film noirie. It was so good. And I was like, oh, this would be such a good TV show.

I have to check this out. You turn me on to Black Sad, is that the cat's name? Black Sand, Black Sand? Who did that? Aaron did that? Aaron did. It's maybe like a detective cat or something. Yeah.

Was that, I, I didn't watch the whole thing of that. Hold on, wait, hold on. Miss Fury is on my Dynamite Entertainment. I thought it was. Hmm. Well, hey, Dynamite Entertainment, that sounds like a great company. I don't know. I don't know it from Adam, but Dynamite Entertainment.

But I read Miss Fury. because it was the first, when it came out, it was the first female cartoonist to draw a Marvel character. Very cool. So it feels very feminine. It's also a little bit gay if you're into that kind of thing.

Or blind. Or, you know, just if you're into it. But he's gay, blind. I'm sorry, he's blind. Aaron is Zorp in the comic books at all? A little bit. He's more of a, into fantasy. books. And he's read like all the fairy smut. So anytime we're with a group of gals, he's like,

gals, what are we reading? And then he's able to launch into whatever fairy smut book is happening. I'm unaware of fairy smut. Is this like heated rivalry but for fairies? Well, heated rivalry is romance, but then there's a subgenre of book called Romanticy. And it's romance but set in fantasy universe. So it's very, it's very similar. to heated rivalry. Sometimes it starts as fan fiction. There's a very popular one that started as fan fiction between Kylo Rin and Ray, but then just got spun off into its own thing where the characters are like stand-ins for

Kylo Ren and Ray, but they're not like named that or whatever. As a Tumblr girl, it has been really blowing my mind what has become of fan fiction. Like now it is a pipeline and I think a way that some authors are trying to get discovered is they'll write a really popular fan fiction. Yes. It's crazy. It's an absolute avenue for people. And there is a lot of it.

What's the, it's Sarah J. Moss? I see that one all the time. I don't remember what it's called. Fourth Wing. Fourth Wing is out there. I think it's like Costco even. I mean, it's anywhere they sell books, they're going to sell fourth wing because it's like it flies off the shelf. Is there an audience or is there a market for Venom slash Eddie Brock romance?

where it's like they're fucking? I'm sure. Let me add it to the list. I'm sure if we got on, Aaron, what are the fan fix sites? I can't remember what they're called. I'm not versed in this world.

Well, let's see. Why are you winking, JPC? Well, so my wife is, she'd kill me if she heard this. I hope she never did it. She's a Tumblr girl as well. She's a Tumblr girl and she's a fanfic girl. And if I were like, what are the fanfic sites?

She'd be like, I've told you a thousand times. And she would know them. But I don't remember what they are. but you can go on the fanfic sites and search for ships between those and I'm sure that there's some Eddie Brock Venom ships that have fully devoted. Let me write. I'm going to write this down so that maybe we can do a table or you know. I mean, what pad and AO3?

AO3. Yeah. The only fanfic that I've ever read and I read a lot of it was the, and I think when we were on the Joko ship, they were doing, and maybe they do it every year. a stage reading of it. Yeah, it's called My Immortal, and it's like a Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy ship fanfic,

but it's like written by like a 10-year-old. And it's, I was reading it and laughing at him where I was like, this is an actual fanfic, you have a bad impression of it now, and I'm like, yes, I do, I absolutely have a bad impression of it. But I will say,

I would announce here that as of this recording, which we're recording a little bit in advance to cover Adel's absence. But as of this recording, I'm 18 Jack Reacher's books on the year. I think there's only 30-something of them. So I think I'm going to get all the Jack Reacher books done this year. And when I finish all of the Jack Reacher books, I am going to write a Jack Richard fanfic. Yes. I've decided to do it.

I've already got notes full of ideas. Sometimes I have to cross them off because I'll read a book and I'm like, wow, he did my idea. He is writing out of ideas because he did he did something that I was like, this could be something Jack Reacher could do. Now, this morning you sent the most insane passage from a Jack Reacher book, which is that in the book, it claimed that he was the opposite of a hemophiliac. Yep. That his blood, that any wounds or cuts heal so quickly as to be abnormally advanced.

As these books go on, Jack Reacher is ostensibly getting older. So he's going to be, like, in his 40s soon. And it's like, they just have to keep giving him superpowers to explain why this, like, 50-year-old man is still, like, busting skulls out there, which I think is awesome. Yeah, that book also had a gym where they were like, Jack Reacher is, has never had, um, uh, Tylenol. He's never, he's never taken acetaminophan. I'm like, huh. Yeah, that may he die laughing. Okay.

He's, I'm never taking an aspirin. I guess maybe that's I'm a bit off of. I might like that. Doesn't she? I'm Elizabeth Venetarian. I've got a lot of sisters. Pride and venom. Venom and prejudice?

Pride and venomous? JPC, that is genuinely so exciting. I love, I mean, I'm a huge fan of your, the, what do you call? I'm so sorry, my brain's moving so. Guided meditation? The guided meditation. And I, any time you,

you solo write something. It is so unhinged and so funny. And I am deeply looking forward to reading this whenever it comes out. That is a good point, Aaron, because I did not even think about it, but I think what I should do, and by the way, I'm not going to write a novel. I'm going to write a Jack Richard, like, short story. But I do think that what I should do eventually after I write it is I should record an audiobook of it. It would be very funny if I could get the guy who recorded the Jack Reacher audiobooks to do it, but that man passed away until 2022. which I learned. But so I will not be,

I will let be getting that man. But I'll have. I'll send an email that will be answered at a very curt manner. But I will probably do an audio book recording of it as well when I'm, when I'm finally done with this period of my life. All right. Good news, everybody. Something to stay alive for.

Hang in there, Kitty. Hang in there, Kitty. The worst thing you've ever read is only eight months away. Good news for me and other people. and the trying to find a reason to have any hope in our heart community. Good news. I was reading a little bit this morning and I was trying to find a passage that I had read because it was, I was going to read it to you guys because it was one of the worst pieces of writing

that I think I've ever read in my entire life, but I can't seem to find it. So unfortunately, we will just have to do riddles for a while. No. Oh, no, Tom. Oh, so. Yeah, I know. I know. All right, let's do some riddles.

Well, let's head out. but in the voice of venom. My head and my tail are both equal, and my middle is as slender as can be. Whether I stand on my head or my heel is quite the same to you or me. What am I? Could you read it again? I'm so sorry. My head and my tail are both equal, and my middle is as slender as can be.

Whether I stand on my head or heel is quite the same to you or me. The number eight. Aaron, it is the number or figure. eight. Whoa. I'd like to see a scene. Okay. You guys are two numbers,

and I'm going to be a number eight that walks into a bar, and you're like, whoa, that is a, look at the shape of that number. Yeah. Seven, it's six. Right? Like the... Hell yeah, man. Yeah.

Hell yeah. What are you drinking, man? Hell yeah. Let's see, what is? This is an IPA. What? It's an IPA. Dude, don't, hey, hey, come on, man.

What? Don't be talking about fucking letters. It's a numbers bar. Oh, right. I'm drinking a 12 ounce. Uh, he'll have a 3-1-2. Oh, shit, yeah. Oh, one around?

Thanks. Good looking out. Yeah, good looking out, man. Whoa, whoa, whoa, hey, hey, hey, six. Don't look, no. But, yo, you see this? You see what I'm seeing? It's an upright pair of boobs.

Hi, I'm eating someone here. Yeah, thank you. Okay, yeah, you are, honey. You're going to be meeting the fucking number of your dreams. That's what you're. I mean, sorry? Hey, mama. Huh?

Huh? Hi, hi. Sorry, hello, Mama. Hello, Mom. Oh, I think you have me confused with someone else. Yeah, no. I'm seven. I'm six.

Yeah, this is six. Oh, um, we went to, um, number school together. Yes, yeah, you were a year, you two years ahead of me in a year ahead of seven. Yeah. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Wow. You, uh, you grew up.

What was that? Uh, Mama. Nothing, Mama. Sorry, Mama. Um, well, I'm actually here on a first date with nine. Um, I'm gonna see him. Okay, no, that's fine. Five, six, six, six. Yeah, yeah.

You have a shot, you have a shot, man. Really? Oh, if I do it. Hold on. I'm gonna go to the bathroom, does a quick head stiff. Thank you. Oh, um, go for it. Hey, baby. Oh, what?

Uh, sorry, I didn't see you come in. Um, when did you get here? Here. Nine seconds ago. Well, I think that we have a table. Did you want to grab a drink at the bar first? Whatever. Yeah, give me...

Oh, seven. Nine just walked in. Distract him. Distract him. No worries. No worries. I will take a French 75. This guy's a six.

This guy's a six. Prettaining to be someone. He's not. The guy who just walked in is a six? Yeah. Wow. That's really messed up. Wait, six was just here a second ago with seven.

He left. came back and pretended to be a nine. Wow. Snap! Oh my God, that guy just snapped his own neck. He was caught in an embarrassing situation and he snapped his own neck? Wait, which one, the one that just walked in or the one I'm having a drink with at a bar? Snap! Oh, boy.

The bartender who culled out that the first guy snapped his own neck, snapped his neck too. Everybody, stop, stop. Stop snapping your own neck. That's going to be like a numbers, knives out situation. I have to be honest. I'm not who I say I am. I'm actually falls over. Infinity.

But no one wants to, oh my God, stop feeling you're tough. Snap, snap, snap, snap, snap. No one wants to go on a date with a woman. That's infinity. I'm too intimidating. Hey, baby. Why don't you ditch all the sixes and sevens and nice? Get out of here, Zero.

Okay. The line works usually. See. Wow. The number cinematic universe. Should we do letters now, boys? What if Zero had a venom? I found that, look, guys, can I, can I beg your indulgence for just a second while I read you? Maybe one of the worst passages, worst pieces of writing that I've ever, like, please.

This whole passage is just, I need to hit a word count. I'm hitting a word count. Um, MacMany's man climbed out of the Cadillac and stood for a second in the nighttime cold. He looked all around, east, west, north, south, and he saw nothing stirring. He closed his door to kill the interior light. He took a step toward the trunk.

He had been right. There was a light in the trunk. It was throwing a pale sphere of yellow glow into the mist. Not serious from the front, but a problem from behind. The human eye was very sensitive. He took another step. Past the rear passenger door and he raised his left hand, palm flat, somehow already feeling the familiar sensation

associated with the action he had performed a thousand times before. His palm on the metal, maybe a foot from the edge of the lid, so that the force of his push would act on both hinges equally, so that the panel would not buckle, so that both calibrated springs would stretch together with soft creeks, whereupon the lid would go down smooth and easy until the upmarket mechanism grabbed at it and sucked it all the way shut.

He got as far as putting his palm on the panel. Subconsciously, he leaned into the motion, not really intending to slam the lid, not at all a bad tempered, just seeking a little physical leverage, and his change of position hunched his shoulders a little, which brought his head forward a little, which changed his eye line a little,

which meant he had to look somewhere. And given the choice of the lit interior of a previously closed space or a featureless length of dark blacktop, well, any human eye would opt for the former over the ladder. That is describing closing a trunk. What the actual fuck? I think most authors would say he got up to close the trunk and then he saw something in the truck, right?

I mean, there's just no fucking reason to make me read all of that to say he closed the trunk. West. One, two, three, four. That's some Charles Dickens type word count, getting paid a penny for every word or the fuck. He looked north, east, southwest. Realized that wasn't a thorough enough job. He went southwest, then northeast, then southeast, then northwest. He moved his fingers, which moved his hands, and his arms and his arms moved his shoulder. Wait, Aaron, you're telling me the guy who started a novel with, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, was getting paid by the letter? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. That's why Oliver Twist is like,

he asked for food, he asked for food again. He wanted more food. It was as hot as it gets and as cold as it ever was. Dickens, you got to choose a path, buddy. Oh, boy, I love it. I love it. I don't think to see a scene. Well, all tough.

Okay. Adel, you are Charles Dickens, and you are in a fight with your partner, JPC, and you're in a fight with your partner, JPC, and you're used to using a lot of words to get out of a situation, so you're kind of like word-saliding your way out of a relationship conflict. It's just I've asked you a million times. If you're going to cook for yourself, you have to clean your own dishes.

If you're cooking for everyone, I'm happy to clean, you know, my share, but it's just these are all your dishes, Charles. Zounds, woman, beseech and bequeath and bequeef, for you knowest not what you can. Doodle. You doof? You, you,

your comquat? You tabernacle? Oh my God. Are you drunk? Are you drunk again? Zounds, woman. You're saying I am to be three sheets

unto in the wind, a zuffer, that a zephyr doth hither and hither flight with the, the papyrus of a million incense. I'm packing the bag. I'm going to my mother's. I'm going to my mothers.

I can't, I can't with you. You do load up your satchel with the ornamental filigree and potential items of depth and width and length into your hitherto, for I should your mother so hot? There, there, you always do this. You start talking, you forget what you're talking about,

and then you say something that you really mean. That's your M. O. Charles. I am leaving, okay? Don't try to come to my mother's house because I don't know why you would be doing it. Your intentions seem a little confused Charles are you here to see my daughter? I heard you guys got into a fight

Zounds woman for You know not what you do perchance purloin your pantaloin Your pantaloons Please Get in here you old so and so See it! Yes my mom

It was the best of times it was the fuck of times I've been feeling kind of dickens The Marleys were dead to begin with I can't think of I can't hear Marley and not think of the Muppet It's Marley Yeah

Truly the best I thought Jacob Marley was two people Because of that movie And then you go to high school And you read Christmas Carol And it's just one guy Unbelievable Unbelievable.

Unfucking believable. And I don't know what we're talking about, but I'm pissed off about it too. Just like you guys. Thank you. This is the kind of support that I need. What is plowed but never planted? Amish venom. Aaron, I've never pledged Aaron.

Knee high by the 4th of July, Aaron. Yeah, is it Amish venom? No, but I do want to see a scene. I think just to just to put wood on the fire of this idea that I'm very much tickled by. Okay. Aaron, you are back from Rum Springer. You are Amish Venom.

JPC is your inner Amish venom voice. And I can play whatever Amish folks we need. So Aaron is an Amish person back from Rumfinger. So I have a normal voice. Yes, yes, yes. You're the Aaron Brock. Got it. Yeah.

Yeah. And so I assume I have a normal voice with context. Yeah. And he has the crazy voice. Fantastic. Yeah. Thank you. Just like the movie Vita Bairn that you've never seen.

You are just normal Tom Hardy. I got it. I got it. Just like the movie I've never seen. And I, one, two, three, I got it. Hello. I know you're probably surprised to see me back, but I've returned. Oh, how did you find it?

To be honest, it was exciting. I had a really nice time. But I was really drawn back home. I was quite homesick while I was gone. I see you have a bag. from Spencer's gifts? Yeah, I decided to bring back a couple things. Yeah, a lot of it's just like gag gifts.

I now kind of feel stupid now that I'm walking in here and kind of remember the vibe of this place. I feel like I'm... Pina pasta, I'm sure your mother will be thrilled. Ask him if she can cook it immediately. I'm quite hungry for penis pasta. Could she cook it immediately? Oh, I don't know about immediately.

it'll take a while for the water to boil over fire, but we can start it soon. Oh, fire, yes. Touch the fire, Aaron. Here I go. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, please, no. I just was wondering if it was still hot. Yes, of course, fire's still hot.

Can we eat this man's beard, Aaron? Give me one second. Give me one second. Venom. What the fuck are you doing? Read the room. I, what? Read the room.

Read the room. There are letters in the room. That's a turn of phrase, Venom. This learned helplessness thing you're doing. Don't pretend you don't know. I am learning, Aaron. No, no, you're not.

Venom? Let's raise a barn. No. Venom. Hey. This is a boundary. I'm setting a boundary. Is the penis pasta ready, Aaron?

Looks like the water's still boiling. It's like eating a bunch of penises. Venom? you leave my mom alone, okay, when she comes in here. Oh, are you hungry? Yes, I would love some of this pasta. Oh, mama. Oh, no.

789, Aaron, if you know what I mean. I'm Shedem. Please don't make my mom fall in love with you. Please. Looks like my barn's raising, Aaron. What is this movie about? Goes to the library, sit down. Google's

Venom. What is Venom about? You should see Venom. It's about an alien symbiote that takes off a reporter and his, it kind of wrecks his life. And Aaron, don't get us started on Carnage. Let there be Carnage. Aaron, do you know who plays Carnage?

No. His dad was a professional assassin. That's true. The actor's Dad was a professional assassin. He was also in Cheers. Got to start in Cheers. An actor from Cheers. Aaron. Ted Danson.

Woody. Woody. Woody. Woody Harrelson. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know that. Mm-hmm.

Huh. Huh. Let's go to break. Or we're doing a riddle. Amish fan? Will you take us to break? I'd love to take you to break. Let's break out the butter churn.

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The Amish make is the best cheese that I've ever had in my entire life. What kind of cheese we talk about? I mean, I think it's just like cheese. Like, it's just, they're just like making cheese. But they used to sell when I lived in Indianapolis. There were Amish people that lived like north of Noblesville, I guess, but they would bring their horses and buggies and whatnot and sell their cheese to, like, markets.

And then you could like pick up some Amish cheese at the markets. Oh my God. That stuff was so good. I'm not the type of person that. I love cheese. I'm not the type of person that will just eat cheese. I like cheese on things. I like cheese in things.

But like I remember being a kid and just like taking a little butter knife and just like slicing off Amish cheese. Just like eating just eating a block of Amish cheese. That sounds so good. Amish cheese is a high quality small batch dairy product known for its creamy texture and rich flavor. Okay. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if it's like a certain type, but it's definitely like a white cheese. I'm sure it is a certain type.

but the ones that I used to get was always like a white cheese, very buttery, oh, so good. Dang, cheese and furniture. Hmm. And not in that order. Well, now I want cheese. So what are we going to do about that as a collective? Can you eat cheese? I think, yeah, I think Aaron can eat cheese.

I'll allow Aaron to eat cheese. I can eat cheese if I take a pill that lets me my body process the cheese. Well, we still have a riddle to be something. off. What is plowed but never planted? Oh, we were in the middle of a riddle. I had an answer for this that I thought of while we were doing it. Is it like a trench?

You know, like in World War I when we dug a trench against the Kaiser and his dastardly forces? No. But that makes sense, though, right? Well, we plowed some trenches, but then we planted soldiers. Yeah. And their blood was the water. And the things they carried. And what it sprouted was democracy across the globe

In America fixed Every problem When your poetry teacher teaches history Okay so it's plowed but never planted Is this like a woman on birth control? Hey Huh?

Hey Huh? Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding Is it? You won the podcast You won the podcast That can't be the answer Plowed but never planted

Plowed but never planted Hmm Okay I've done both of my real answer And my joke answer So I'm not really sure what else I should be doing Is it like something that is earthy and of the earth Like

It To some degree it ends up on the earth Is it like a snow plow Because they don't plant that shit Is it? What is Plot but never planted? Snow Oh, nice. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It seems like snow is a distant memory, but it was just a few short weeks ago.

Have you guys done a deep dive on the Karen Reed trial yet? Isn't it over? Yeah, it's over, but I'm just saying have you looked into it or watched anything about it. I need. I'm going to explode at some point. What's going on? No, I just want to talk about it all the time, and I know the trial is over, but I just, I just, just think, you know what, there'll be a great documentary that comes out about it later. We'll watch it and we'll all talk about it. But I just, I was going to ask you guys a question if you had gotten into it, but you haven't, which is fine. It's my issue. It's my burden to bear. I'm talking too much. I'm going to head out. I said, that's the question. I want to know the question. Yeah. What is the question? Was it about Snow Plus? Because I know that snow featured a big part

in that trial. Yeah. It was a, yeah. I, I think originally the people that were responsible for it, we're going to blame the snow plow driver for killing the guy. And when he, the snow plow driver went by twice, he did not see the body on the side of the road. And then all of the sudden it was there at 6 in the morning. I have an actual problem. I'm addicted and I'm actually, I should be banned from talking about it. You're like someone in like mid-January who's like, how about them Yankees? And someone's like, hey man, like, you got to wait.

You just got to wait until this season starts. I'm like, but how about them Yankees? But how about them? How about them, Yankees? I guess they're just resting at home right now. Are they resting at home right now? But they're coming back, right? With the bat, the ball.

The boys are just resting, but they're coming back. Erin, her name is Karen Reed. Yes. Okay. I would like to see a scene. JPC and I are a casting agency. And Aaron, you have come in to audition for the role of Karen Reid in the Karen Reed movie being made about her trial.

Great. I come on in. Hi. Kay, do you have a headshot in a resume? No and no. Okay. I just saw a sign outside that said you were casting, and I jumped through a glass door to get in here.

Yes. Well, that is acceptable. This is open casting for Boston trashing. That's kind of what we're doing here. So, yeah. And just so I'm clear, you are free to use your real accent. You don't have to be professional in this casting room.

Okay, great. Okay, here we go. Fall River accent. Fall River accent. Fall River accent. I'm ready. Okay. Just so you know, we basically have already cast mini driver,

but we legally have to do this. And go. Slowly walks out of room, goes to my car. Starts the car, drives silently over to many drivers' house. Two casting agents following in their car, assuming this is part of the audition. I love this. This is fun. This is so unique.

We should get Chick-fil-A. Shows up. Knocks on the door. She's not home. Starts to set little fires around her house. I was like, oh, man, I hope I don't have to be mini-divide. driver. I'm like, she's British. Yeah, I was like, oh, boy, what can I?

I, guys, I saw, I saw, I don't know what this is and I saw a video for it because you said Mini Driver. Did you guys know that Mini Driver is in a, I think it's like a, I don't know if it's a movie or like a TV miniseries on Fox called the Faithful Colon Women of the Bible? Hmm. What? This is on Fox, he said? Uh, I guess. It's a, I mean, yes, it came out, I think, in like, late March.

But it's a three-part event series retelling stories from the book of Genesis through the perspective of female figures. I saw that Mini Driver was in, I was like, oh, no, is Minnie Driver? Did she do it okay? What is that? Who does she play, does it say? Well, it's Genesis. So let's go over all the people that I have no idea. It says that she is playing recounts the tale of Sarah, Sarah with an eye.

Wait, where's the I go? Sarah, it's like Sarai, S-A-R-A-I. I went to Catholic school with a girl his name was Sarah, and she spelled it with an eye at the end of it. Sarah with an eye. Hey, man, I don't know. It's not my bag, man. It's not my bag.

But someone check on mini-driver, because that does not seem too good. What is the show? I'm looking at it. I'm like, what the? I don't know. Can I be honest with you guys? The only reason that I know about it is because I clicked on a TMZ link to see a Jack Reacher, the guy who plays Jack Reacher's body cam, and I was given an ad for that before I watched it.

And I was like, I almost was not worth watching whatever the DMG was just because I was like, what am I doing here? I'm getting the wrong shit advertised to me. There is something to, I mean, if you think about someone like Mini Driver, and I'm sure this is the case with thousands of actors, where you're like, oh, she must be doing so well. She was in Goodwill Hunting. And then you're like, Goodwill Hunting was 23 years ago or something, however long it was, maybe more. And then you're like, oh, I mean, I guess it's not a lot of money that stretches. I think I've said this before in the show, but one of my favorite games is watching a movie and seeing a character actor and being like, whoa, where do I know that person from? And then going on to their IMDB and then scrolling down for their like 180 credits.

And it's always like one episode of Bones, one episode of CSI, Miami. And you're just going down the list. And then all of a sudden you hit the jackpot when you see 244 episodes of a USA show that you've never heard of before. You're like, yay, they're fine. Oh, God, they're fine. Oh, my God. I didn't know how they could build a career, but they're fine. They did 244 episodes.

Oh, they have a wife in a house. Oh, bless. Oh, happy day. Oh, they were on royal pains. Thank God they did Royal Pains. Who is the... Royal Pains is the funniest. There's a woman who was in some Brett Easton Ellis adaptation.

I forget which one. Maybe with Paul Rudd. But she was in that. And then she was one of the leads in a knight's tale. She was like maybe the princess or whatever. Oh, yes, yes. And then I don't think I ever saw her again in my natural life. Well, yeah, I think she was in a Josh Hartnett movie as well.

I'm struggling to recall what that person's name is or what? Beautiful. And it's also, you know, sometimes it's possible. Then someone, like, acted for a while then was like, I don't want to act anymore. And I'm like, that's great too. Yeah, totally fair. Probably not what happens most of the time, but. Lila Sabowski, Lilo, Lilo, Sitchbowski.

Lilo Stichboski, I believe is who you're talking about. It's the big Lovsky with Lilo and Stitch. Shut the fuck up, Stitch. Big line. Yeah, shut the fuck up, Stitch. I love Lilo's Stitchbowski. I'm trying to think of another line from it. Where your friend Amy Mann was standing right next to them.

Yes, yes, yes. Toe cut off and everything. Toe cut off and everything. While Aaron tries to track down whatever happened to Lilo Stichbowski, Adel, do we have another riddle that we can read? I can make oil boil. So what am I? B

Try to be impressive I thought that was a pretty good one I can make oil boil What am I That's the letter B What a B in front I do want to see a scene What am I?

Guy with a ruined stove I like to see a scene The two of you are like Mendeval Torturists Like you are people who Torture people Okay

Great We'll say that JBC You are sort of the Lead Torturer And Aaron You are new to the job This is your first day And you're a little

grossed out by some of the stuff that you're being asked to do. Excited to get started. Yeah, me too. Hey, I just got to say I read your paper, your dissertation. How? About toenails. And I, you know, I loved it. It's a little theoretical, but I mean, some of the stuff in there was, you know, pretty wild stuff.

To be quite honest, I've never gotten my hands dirty with Georgia, but I studied it. I did eight years schooling. and I think I'm ready to go. Well, you know, there's nothing like on-the-job experience, so this is the first guy. Oh, how do you do? Hello. Picks up a clipboard on the edge of his bed.

Okay, so it says here this guy did nothing, which is fine. It's most of us. Is that pretty par for the course? Yeah, pretty par for the course. King probably just upset about something or the other. But we don't need the information out of this guy, so it's perfect. We're just going to torture him. It's just straight torture, no objective, just like,

it's free play. We're in a sandbox right now. Like anything goes. Wonderful, wonderful. So I'll begin. All right. One, two. Yeah.

Oh, that's so gross. Oh, interesting method. So you started by throwing up on him. Now that's okay. So it's more like a psychological. Because that can't hurt, obviously. But, uh... Right now. I just thought about causing pain

and then I also thought about gross it is to rip someone's stone nails off. Yeah. Okay. Oh, interesting. So that was more of a physical reaction. I thought you were actually going for something with that. He is horrible.

Okay, I'll kill this guy. No, no, no, I got it. I'm trying. I'm trying. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no. No, no, no.

He's dead. You don't have to worry about it. You don't have to worry about it. Don't, yeah. Did you have a big breakfast before this? That's... You definitely... It looks like you had like a bunch of sausage.

Is there, like, torture research? well, I could maybe work in a lab or something and not have it to be... This is the lab. That's the best part about our job. It's like the practical and the theoretical kind of blending and, you know, in one thing. My parents are going to kill me.

I don't want to use my degree. They just spend so much money. Thank you for coming to me, the local therapist. If you just lay down on this bailor hay here, I'm going to say some words and I want you to tell me the first word that comes to your...

think. Do you think your, you know, your think thing, let's it cold. Um, the, the, the, the, the, the worm's in your head. Yep. Okay, first word, blood. He. Okay, let's spell that H-U-A-H-H. All right. Knife. Leigh. Same as before, but maybe a few more o'-hs. How about stab? Blah. I got a bee in there somewhere.

All right. Love. Penis. See. He's a torturer, but he's gay. Blind. I'm sorry. He's blind.

Sorry. Sorry. Hey, bye. All right, here's another riddle. Okay. Mr. Smith eats two eggs every day. He never buys any eggs. Nobody gives them to him.

He doesn't steal them from anyone, and he doesn't have chickens. Where does he get his eggs from? His uterus. Wow. Take that gender. Mr. Smith eats two eggs every day. He never buys any eggs. Nobody gives them to him.

He doesn't steal them from anyone, and he doesn't have chickens. Where does he get his eggs from? He works at the chocolate egg factory. He works at the chocolate. Dead stop. Aaron, you're dumb. And that wasn't Aaron. That was me.

I said that. I am Spartacus. Wait, you're Spartacus or you're Aaron? Tell him your errands, stupid. Um, uh, hold on. Let me think. Okay. It says he eats two eggs.

Thank you. Okay. Not terrible. Does he eat, does he eat like something else that have eggs in it? Yeah. Like, does he eat like, not necessarily like an animal, but like he, does he have a cake or something like that that's like made with eggs or bread or something? like that? Um, no, it's, it's two eggs. It's just two eggs. We'll say, let's just say for simplicity

simplicity sake, it's an omelet. Okay. He has a two egg omelet every day. Oh, is, is he, uh, me who is stuck in this, like, infinite diner loop where he keeps going to diners every day and having ordering an omelette? I love a diner. We went to that cozy corner. Oh, yeah. Um, those cheesy grits. Oh, I love those cheesy grits. Just so tasty. Oh, I love a diner. God, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm actually going to take off. Go to that new place that Gemma and I told you about. It's like North 40 Kmar is called. I keep

going back to the diner that I like. I've tried new dinners every once in a while, but every time I do, I'm like, I like another place better. I feel like always is top of our list. What are we talking about? I'm founded by this. Can we get a hint? Is it just, does he just go to a restaurant and order an omelet every day? But no one gives it to him.

Yeah. He's two eggs every day. No, he never buys eggs. Nobody gives him eggs. He doesn't steal them from anyone and he doesn't have to guess. Is he like an animal that eats it out of the trash? Or like a cook. Like he eats the leftover eggs because they don't pay him enough and. Why don't they pay him?

And shambles. Because he's an animal. Aaron, what kind of animal would you name Mr. Smith? That's a good name for something. A really small fish, like a scared looking fish. A man. A man. is an animal.

A man is an animal. Man is an animal. They often act like that. A giraffe is funny. Mr. Smith. Yeah, give him a little tiny hat. Mr. Smith? Mr. Smith.

Me? Um, your hint is that... Do you think giraffes like to be hugged? No. Oh, Aaron. I think so. Better question. Do you think they like to be licked?

Because they like to lick. Probably not. Okay. Probably not by humans. I guess. What if a human had a big giraffe tone? Like a prosthetic. Then I think they would try anything once.

Drafts, famously. Elephants never forget and giraffes will try anything once. Yeah. Your hint is that keep thinking along the lines of animals. Not Mr. Smith being an animal, although he is a man. It's not chicken eggs. Ding, ding. So it's not chicken, it's...

Fish eggs. Caviar. Caviar. He takes a bump of caviar every day. Snort caviar. Oh, Alan, that's good caviar. Wall Street Venom. We'll take fish eggs.

That makes the most sense of anything we've created so far. Yeah. So wait, it is fish eggs? Well, the answer here is he has ducks. But I think fish is just as good. Oh, so just a different type of egg. I see. It's just different type of egg.

I also would have taken duckbill platypus. Wait, the answer is that he makes a duck egg omel? And that's the answer? Yeah. So he never buys eggs. Nobody gives them to him. He doesn't steal them. And then they say he doesn't have chickens.

So we're meant to believe like, you know, but it's just simply. Do people have ducks so they can collect duck eggs? Because duck eggs are small, right? That's. Duck eggs, I think are larger, right? Duck eggs are big, right? Yeah, I didn't know ducks could be had. I have a neighbor that has ducks, Aaron.

Oh. That's cool. Do they name them and everything? They're like, they have like pet ducks, but one of them, one of them got gotten by the raccoons. The raccoons ate a duck. The raccoons ate a duck. What are you talking about? I don't.

You cannot put that at an animal parade to soften the blow. I don't know. I don't know. Hey, look, all I know is that the raccoon got the duck. What does that mean? I don't know if it was eaten, but the duck is no more because the raccoon. They're dating. What?

I googled it. They're opportunistic omnivores. Yeah. That makes sense though because they're always, yeah. They're always plotting. Yeah, they got the duck. They'll kill adult ducks and eat their eggs. Yeah.

There's a, we have an abandoned house in my neighborhood, which is, it's just like owned by some people in Florida. And there's like broken in windows and the raccoons just, basically there's basically like a raccoon hideout in my neighborhood that is just an empty house that is only for raccoons. It's a yeah, it's an absolute disaster. But what can you do? What can you do? I think that over the next couple years, the raccoons, like you're going to see them pull up in a car. You're going to see them walk one of their kids to the bus.

Like, they're going to slowly integrate into the neighborhood. I don't want to be a dick, but my kid is going to school with a raccoon. And I guess we should all. We all pay property taxes. We should all be able to act. access the schools, but it just seems. They do a polite nod. I like to see a scene. The two of you are raccoons in a stash house.

Do you think that we should, like, I don't know, like hand up on Halloween. Come on. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. I wasn't going to ask you to. I just had a long day, you know.

Are you not attracted to me anymore? Um, no, no, you're like, as far as raccoons go, you're, you're, you know. go. Is there someone else? Look, I mean, you wanted to live here, okay? It's not a raccoon neighborhood, okay? There's someone else? There's someone else that's not a raccoon. It's not a raccoon. It's not another raccoon.

Is that what you want to hear? Tiffany, it's not another raccoon. Okay, wow. I was going to say, should we hand out candy a Halloween this year? It's just you work all day, and I'm here, you know, taking care of things. Yeah, collect eggs, duck. I killed ducks for us. It doesn't even matter. And Miss Milton, she's across the street. you know and it's like what am I going to do not say hi in the morning when I see her sure okay wow and she's got and she has a leaky pipe and she can't get under there but I can so it's like what am I going to do I'm a neighbor I'm not going to help her out right and so um she has a husband

that she's presumably cheating that's fine this is fine that's good okay okay you know you you said when we met that you wanted to keep an open mind no I said, okay, I'm translating because obviously we integrated and we learned English. Because of, but you wanted this. I wanted to live in a fucking tree. I wanted to be a career woman. And here I am supporting a loser. I'm going.

I'm going. I'm going back to downtown Chicago. Yeah, right. I'm going to go live in the loop. You're telling me, when you were on that business trip to Milwaukee, With your boss, Dan, nothing happened? Dan's nice. Dan's funny.

He makes me laugh. Dan's got raccoon hands. I've seen him. He's got tiny little raccoon hands and I know exactly... Because he's a raccoon. Oh, you wish. See? You wish.

You wish. Casey, can we please hear a voicemail? Now we don't find out. Your time is up and though Where those are done You know what that means Yes, it means I'm free I'm dying

Follow to the letter your itinery You answer questions from your listeners About the show or about anything Like what would you eat with a loaf of bread Yes, 805-74433531 My name is Jean Patrick Cohen And I'm Adol Oh, my God.

Incredible. Getting the phone number. I want a full musical. That was Tom Lum. Tom, you have, I think Tom has submitted before, but that is their take on Russell Crow and Lay Mizz. So, thank you so much for sending that in. You know, if you want to send one in, HRR podcast at gmail.com, keep it 30 seconds or less. Hi, CluCrew.

I've been listening to your show since my undergrad years. I've now worked for a few years. I'm halfway through my master's degree in counseling. I'm also eight months pregnant. And since I work from home and do school from home, I realize that my baby probably knows all three of your voices because I listen to your podcast out loud. So that's a mistake on my part.

But I was wondering, do you guys have any first-time parenting advice? Thanks, guys. Baby, if you can hear us, baby. Should we all sing, what are they singing three men and a little baby? Yeah. Well, they sing the baby. Yeah. Good night, sweetheart.

It's time to go. Good night, sweetheart. Yeah, it's time to go. Wait, baby drivers outside. I always get three men, three men and a baby. Yeah, three men and a baby confused with look who's talking. Oh, yes, that's, yes. Yeah.

Three men and a baby is better. Yes, three men in a baby, I do believe it's better. Yes. But look who's talking to has a talking toilet. Never mind. Okay, so this is parenting advice for a first-time parenting advice. Ah, man, I don't know. There's just, it's a wild ride.

You've got to have to hold on. I would say that they're, don't do what you remember. your parents do it. It's pretty good odds that your parents were just winging it as well. I would do just some research. What I did that I was very grateful for is I read a bunch of parenting books in that like, you know, year while we were, when I was pregnant, we were welcoming or getting ready. But it's something you can absolutely do as a parent as well. But I would say like, yeah, engage yourself with a bunch of a different perspective, see what like, you know, the new research in the fields is saying. Like I remember as a kid,

I did time out. Now they're saying like time out, not necessarily a good strategy for kids. So it's like you familiarize yourself with what like current research says. And if you feel yourself just like replicating a pattern from your past behavior, maybe examine that a little bit and be like, huh, I wonder if is this thing that I'm doing something that I remember my parents doing or is something that is like recommended by, you know, people who have done research in this field type of thing. That's great. That makes sense. I would say stockpile a month worth of your work leading up to it. Yes. Yes. As I am wanting to do.

As we are all benefiting from right now, currently. Thank you so much for the voicemail and best of luck to you. Yes. And congratulations. And congratulations. And let us know how that baby turns out sort of like personality-wise and how much damage we did. as a three to their nervous system.

Set a reminder on your phone, reach back out in about 18 years, and just kind of let us know how it all worked out. We would love to know. We would love to know how it all worked out. Yes, please. I wonder if the baby's going to have a venom. Oh, maybe.

Well, at this point. Probably. We might all have venoms. Aaron, any thing to plug or promote? Check out gum shoes and dragons. We're having a lot of fun over there. and that's where you'll find me if you need anything. Addle anything to plug.

Check out, Hello from the Magic Tavern, which is wrapping up or has just wrapped up the current season, and check out the Word Association podcast. JPC, anything to plug or promote? No, I think that's it for me. I mean, definitely check out Gumshoes and Dragons. If you have been on the fence about starting it, there's like 20 episodes now, so you can like binge a ton of those episodes. And they're all very fun. They're all very different. And there is like a little bit of a narrative in there. So just enough that if you care about narrative, you can listen to that. And so little that if you don't care about narrative, you don't have to worry about that. But yeah, you can find that anywhere that you find podcasts. It's a it's a very fun show. Hey, Aaron, speaking of fun shows, you're going to go to a little bit of a show later today, right? I believe it's like a, I don't know. You

described it as some sort of eating show? Uh, hot dogs. Hot dogs. Oh, no. Starring Aaron Keith. A-C-tone to be editing. Now are you parents in the music? 1, 2, 3, 4.8.

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