Hey Riddle Riddle - #418: Catcel Culture w/ Josh Gondelman

Episode Date: July 22, 2026

Our buddy nice nice Joshy is back and we are making him do more riddles. If you haven't seen his standup live, you simply must see him on tour. Starring:Adal RifaiJohn Patrick CoanErin KeifSpecial Guest:Josh GondelmanEditing 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. Great. You guys are all good. Have fun. Thank you, Casey. Thank you, Casey. We love you, Casey. We love you, Casey.

You have fun, Casey, too. You have fun. He didn't say it back. It was a heart. That's not the same thing. He never does. I really like you guys so much. Oh, terrible.

Sounds like we're more into Casey than Casey's into us. Exactly what it sounds like. Slams the door in our face. Okay, we walked him home for nothing. Not even a nightcap. Unbelievable. Adel, your lawn is looking fantastic. Oh, thank you.

Thank you. Yeah, I decided to kind of care this year about my curb, curb appeal. It looks great. JPC's my neighbor on the other side, and he's doing all sorts of stuff that I feel like the HOA is not going to be too happy about. Yeah, yeah. I have, you know, obviously I have my 100-foot skeleton up year-round. Which I love the summer sun hat on his. him he looks dashing.

Yeah, Etsy has so many fun ways to dress up your 100 foot. You guys talk about lawns? Oh, hey, neighbor. Hi, GPC. You like my gasoline lawn? Yeah, the smell is interesting. It's, yeah, you got a good nose on you. That's straight gasoline, my friend.

Yeah, I wonder if, like, the fire pit in the middle of it is wise. Interesting. I wouldn't know if a fire pit could be wise, you know? Dangerous, yes, but wise? Not really the quality I would imbue with a fire pit. Can I ask about the sort of American Ninja course for raccoons do you have going on? Well, a lot of them are drowning. I'm glad you brought that up.

I'd say most, if not all, of them are drowning. This is not for American raccoons. They're too clever for me. I have to import these raccoons. Do you know that the raccoon warrior? Is the only North American marsupial? That's not true. Aren't possums?

Huh? Aren't possums, JPC? Aren't possums? Aren't possums JPC? Well, you and my wife have a very similar excuse. Well, have a good one. Oh, my God. Well, we'll see you.

Addle, please tell me you have a better neighbor on the other side of you. It's actually CPJ, sort of an inverse JPC. I got Josh Gondelman on my side, though. Oh, lucky. God damn it. Hey, Josh. Josh Gondelman. Hey, guys, how's it going? Yay!

Oh, my gosh. Would you... Damn it, Aaron, we got to get him to move on the side of one of our houses. Josh, are you willing to move? Yeah, I love to move. I like to move it. I love to move it. I'm willing to move it.

JPC's going to make him run his raccoon course before he gets to the side of the street, though. I was just thinking, JPC, that's so many dead raccoons. I can't keep up with that. I can't compete. Yeah, neither could they. That's kind of the whole problem, lazy bastards. Oh, man. Welcome to Hey, Ritter-Riddle, everybody.

This is the podcast where we do Riddles. As always, our guest is Josh Gondelman. Josh, this is your second, third? Third, I think my third here to riddle. Yeah. Wow. First riddle crushed. Josh, it's always such a pleasure to have you here.

And it's also such a pleasure to know you and to run out into you in the world. I'm trying not to be hyperbolic here, but you might be the nicest person I've met doing comedy. Besides Adela and TVC. That's really kind. I feel the same way. We had such a good time on that boat. We did. We did a Joko cruise together.

And then Josh, I did want to talk to you about something that we talked about at San Francisco Sketch Fest this year. Is this a performance review? This a little bit. Josh, let me, was talking about his day. I think we saw each other in a sense. Saturday night. Okay. And in the, kind of in the middle of your day, I guess it was early evening. You, in between your tasks, went to karaoke. Oh. Yeah. Whoa. Yeah. I've never heard anything like it. It kind of broke my brain. I didn't realize that you could sort of just drop into

karaoke as an in-between thing. We did. So I was in San Francisco at SketchFest, which I love running, co-hosting our regular, semi-regular show, sub-brough with my friend Allison Laby, who her book just came out. She's a genius, great friend, great writer and comedian. And we had dinner and dinner ended so fast. We went to this place that's like totally fine. But the previous year they'd given us a humus plate where all the veggies were shaped like a human face on the humus.

And we were like, let's see if they do that again. And they did not. Oh, yeah. That's weird. That guy has been fired. When they put it down, the waiter went, we don't usually do this. Like, he was confused by why it happened. Sending a message?

Yeah, he's like, you should have more. You should look like this. And so we, they give us normal hummus. And then we ate really fast. And then we're like, we have like one hour where we can't really do anything. So we were like, we hadn't had anything to drink. And there was a karaoke place right across the street from the hotel. So we're like, let's just go for an hour and rip it.

And the two of us went to do that. That was the mission. And outside the karaoke spot, we ran into Paul Saborin of Pollen Storm and of Joko Cruz. And he had never met Allison before. I was delighted to introduce them. And then we're like, well, we're going to do karaoke for one hour. Would you like to join us? And he was like, sure.

And he's a professional musical comedian. So Allison and I were just like, bellowing and Paul was like doing his, like, to kind of keep us on pitch. We did one hour of extremely aggressive, extremely sober karaoke and then went out and did our show. I was aghast. It's like someone telling me they ran a marathon in the middle of their day to kill time. I could not believe it. I've never, I'd never done a thing like that before.

I think I know a few people that have that kind of as an entertainment, habit of theirs where they'll go like, oh, it's, we have a dinner reservation at seven, it's 5.30, we can just crush an hour of karaoke and kind of feel our feelings before dinner. This was my first time and it was awesome. I got to start thinking of when I can cram karaoke into my day. That's fun. Tuesday morning, 10 a.m. My mom was just over and she to stay with us for a couple days and she had never done karaoke

and she'd made a big to do of like, I've never done karaoke. love to do it sometime. And so we have a karaoke machine in our basement brought it upstairs. She sang the Jardian song, which is her go-to. And now it's crossed off her list. What is the Jardian song? Yeah, I don't know what that sounds is. I have type two diabetes, but I handle it. Well, it's a, it's a commercial. It's a commercial for a medicine. There was not a backing track for that, right? She did an Acapella. Please tell me there is not a bagging track available for that online. That's a preset on the machine. No, it's not. But that's what my mom will sing to us for our birthdays now.

Like three years ago. Exactly. But three years ago, she became obsessed with the song. And so we're like, instead of leaving a voicemail singing happy birthday at midnight every birthday, can you just sing that? And so that's her new thing. And we, as a family, love it. That's awesome. I guess being a mom can be fun.

Yeah. Aaron, what were your hangups again? Mostly everything else. Adel, who's the biggest celebrity you think you could conceivably get to sing that song? that song for your month. I mean, I'm assuming Amy Mann would take a turn at the Jardinera song. What is it?

When you said the Jardian song, I assumed the Cleveland Guardians the baseball team had a theme song and you didn't know how they were pronounced. And I was like, that can't be right. Neither of those two things could possibly be true. Well, Josh, I have a Jardians of Gahul tattoo, so I think I know how to pronounce Jardians.

I thought it was Juhul. And Josh, I know we talked about this before, but what are some of your go-to karaoke songs? Oh, gosh. The list that you gave me, I was like, that also sounds like. It's a little chaotic. I've been doing, I've really settled into a groove lately with songs that nobody wants to hear. I've been doing Zoot Suit Riot by the Cherry Pop and Daddy is a band name I apologize for saying. I do, where you can find it, I'll do Dr. Worm by they might be giant.

The best. Yeah, sure. Which I love. Great song. It is like a song that if you're not in the right room, people are like, that's not a song. It's such a fun. They sang that on Joko two years ago last year? I'm obsessed with that.

It's such a good song. I'm trying to think of what else. I used to do a lot more Springsteen. I love a Springsteen. Lively and I will do beer by Real Big Fish. I love that song. Where we can find it. Yeah, it's fun as hell.

So I kind of, it's like, a little more. Ga-centric than my normal music listening. But there's also like there's a genre I think of songs that are great karaoke songs and fine songs. Like Cryin by Aerosmith, I saw someone do it years ago and was like, oh, this is a great karaoke song. And like, I never want to hear it not sung at karaoke. Someone should make a playlist of that on Spotify. Bad songs great at karaoke. And then another playlist of just people doing them karaoke is like proof of Godson. Yes. Switching from the Might Be Giants to Aerosmith gave me goosebumps.

But I don't know if it's good or bad yet. It's definitely telling a story. Yeah. The last time I did karaoke, I was kind of surprised that the place just had like YouTube pulled up. Yeah. And you just use YouTube to find karaoke songs. I was like, oh, gone are the days of like the little machine that Adel has that like has the karaoke on it. It's just all on the internet now, huh?

The YouTube stuff is kind of nice. because you can get some real deep cuts, really alienate the crowd. I've done like Ockerville River songs. Yeah, I'm trying to think of other, because it is really fun. Maris really tore up some Ted Leo and the pharmacists at a recent YouTube karaoke session. Yeah, really cool. And JPC, you're still doing Gregorian Chance every time you're a karaoke. My go-to at karaoke is to like pick a song where everyone's like, oh, hell yeah, that would be hilarious.

But then like 10 seconds into it, people are like, wait. We don't want to do this. Like, we don't want to sing this whole song. The full six album. Yeah. Too many songs. You know what the greatest karaoke? I'm so sorry to interrupt.

No, please. We, my friend Jaya, Saxana, innovated this. And it's closing the night with a full room performance of, it's all coming back to me now by Celine Dionne. Yeah. Brilliant. It's such a long song and it's so dynamic and you, I think if you are of a certain age, you like remember more of the words than you even think you do.

For sure. And because she's such a good singer, you can, Celine Dion, you end up, like, I can kind of bring it down into my range in a way that works where I'm not like, oh no, I have to do the Celine Dion thing. I'm just like, the flesh and the fan. Yeah. Everyone wants to grab their chest and go, baby, baby, baby. It feels so good.

Oh, that's, and that's brilliant. That truly is the wisest thing I've heard in a long time. And that's how Celine Dion gets to feel all the time. Oh, it must be so much. She could just do that at any time. But she couldn't for years. Oh, yeah. That's right.

Condition. Yeah, it must feel so good to be like, I'm back and I'm Celine Dion. I like to do a duet at karaoke. Because I like to make eye contact with a friend while we panic about who's doing what harmony and if we even remember the harmony. What is your, do you have a go-to duet? I got you, babe, is so fun. People are always, like, that's another one. People are like, oh, yeah, this is a good song.

Aaron, you and I did Summer Loven, but you sing both parts. Yeah. I kept going, what the fuck? I kept putting my hand over your mouth and going, shh, shh, just do the well-o-wello. That song is like kind of four parts, right? Yeah. It's like the leads and then the two sets of background vocals. I do Summer 11 at karaoke, but it's with a friend in a different city doing their part in karaoke.

I'm just doing my part. They're on speakerphone and it's delayed. That would be so funny. I just explain to people the concept of the song is that someone is going to be doing the other part, not here. That's how Summer 11. I wish it worked differently. You only hear ever half of Summer 11. canonically.

Are you there? Fun. Oh, yeah. I'm dropping every other word. I'm not doing it like they do in the movie. I'm doing it like I'm going to a summer level of tunnel. We, there's like a, I don't think it's a problem to tell this story. We did like a Deezas and Mara.

When I worked for Jesus and Mara, we did like a staff karaoke, which was so fun. Everyone was just going wild. But Zeeway did the entire Greece mega mix. Like you would play at like a Bart Mitzvah or like a middle school. dance and she did the whole thing herself. And Maris, like, grabbed my arm and was like, she's a star. To this day, we'll be like, that's how I knew she was a star when she did the whole Greece mega mix with like one million percent commitment. That rules. When I was in Greece, I played Jan. And so in Summer 11, I had one line. And it's kind of the shortest, I'd say worst line,

other than did she put up a fight, which no one like saying. But I had, how much dough did he spend? and I remember being in it and if I didn't nail it I'd be like oh well I'll try again tomorrow night you don't get a lot of chances in Greece if you're Jan You do the brush and brush and brush them right?

Yeah they don't let you do the brush and brush them in the play It's a movie thing so they didn't let me do that I'd step on and I want to call out the very good pun Josh would you please say it again Oh not a lot of jances Oh

Take a chance on me Not a lot of jans Oh yeah, I didn't get a lot of chances. That's true. Well, we're going to end the episode by saying that's a mean beyond song. In the meantime, baby, baby, baby. Have I told you guys, my sister, Sadiah is good friends with Jim Jacobs who wrote Greece. And he put up, they met through, he remounted an original production of Greece because it started in Chicago, went on to fame and acclaim.

and then he brought it back to Chicago and the original script is unbelievably dark. Really? Yeah. They have like zip guns, whatever those are,

which I think are just like little homemade guns or something. There's like a, how do I say this with any amount of class? There's like a, oaky cookie situation, I think. There's just a lot of like really dark moments. Wait a second.

It feels like, Oaky cookie is dark? I can't do it. I mean, hey, man, you don't love the game. We don't have to play. But dark? You said that like Danny Zugo. Uh-huh.

A-huh. Uh-huh. Hey. I don't know if any, I bet at least one of the three of you has had this experience as a young person. Knowing about the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High, thinking that it's like a fun teen comedy and then going, oh, no, watching it. Because there's a lot of darkness in that movie as well. A tale as old as time. I think that we should do riddles.

So here we go. See yourself. Okay, so this person has a last name and they told me to have fun with their last name. And I don't know if that means they know I'm not going to be able to pronounce it or if I'm allowed to put my own little pizzazz on it. Oh, is it pizzazz? Have fun with it sounds like, Aaron, try and read it correctly. And then let's do another take and just have fun with it. Okay, great.

Yeah, maybe throw one away, Aaron. We won't use it. We'll use it. It's the only one we'll use. Always. Wait, what was that? We should say Jedda Patow is now directing our episodes. That's awesome.

These are from Alex Demetris. That didn't sound like fun. Yeah. And Aaron, I got to say, you barely made it through Alex. You said Alex like it was, like you were. 100% confident. Was Alex spelled the normal way or is there? Yeah, it's spelled the normal way.

It's backwards. It's X-E-L-A. And I'm like, uh, Alex, I guess. Aaron, let's just, shake it off. Shake it off, shake it up. And you're at karaoke.

Aaron, you're at karaoke. Aaron, do some vocal warm-ups. Yeah. Baby, baby, baby. Okay. Yeah, beep-bo-b-b-b-b-b-bibu. I put a pot pie in poo bear's stomach. By-bib-b-b-bo-boo.

Okay. these are from Alex Demetris I didn't have fun in that one either Bees I got it This is easy actually This type of stuff is really easy for me classically I think so

These are from Alex Demetris These are from Alex Demetris These riddles are from Alex Demetris No that's probably offensive It's out of fun air Don't hey don't hide your light Under a bushel basket

That sounded fun as hell He wouldn't even stay under one of those things. Ridiculous expression. Aaron, you were smiling. A lot of sweat got into your smile, but you were smiling. Oh, thank you. Aaron, can I try one? Yeah, of course.

These riddles are from Alex Demitititist. You're having more fun than I am. And then your confidence on Alex helped. You're right. Can I be honest with you? What? I was not confident on Alex. I was like, I think I'm doing this.

You seem so confident. No, it's fake. It's all false confidence. I'm going to copy. and paste this last name. And I don't, if you guys want to take a run at it. Yeah, I'm going to take a stab.

Any opportunity for fun. Yeah. Oh, dermatologist. No. These riddles are from Alex Demetralis. Demetrails. But doesn't it? Chemtrails.

Doesn't it? Demtrails. This emails from Alex de meme trails. Poor Alex is at their desk at work being like, this is the fucking weirdest day. Oh, no. these riddles are from Alex Demetralis

I think we got a winner That's the one we'll use I had a lot of fun It's gonna be so funny that I'm talking And then all of a sudden it's Josh's voice They ADR'd in me Well how about I'll do These riddles are from

And then Josh you say the name ready Okay These riddles are from Alex Demetralis Musical guys Yeah give it a little dumb part of Don Pardo

I said Dom Pardo Which is the champagne they drink after every Episode of Saturday Night Live Well it's not official unless it's been inside Dom You're in a habit of having fun with names Otherwise it's just sparkling Darrow Hempardot Part of the interruption has anybody made that podcast The old Don Pardo podcast

You guys are way more awake than me right now This is quite intimidating Okay You play flag football at recess and you say like I'm all time Don Pardo That's who I'm playing I love that I call these riddles couples.

Each answer is a fairly common pairing of things, unless I'm unclever and really need to stretch the term common. Okay. With these three clues to figure out what the pair is, with three clues to figure out what the pair is, sorry. What the pair is, gotcha. Okay. And these are going to be, these are pretty obvious.

I will list them below and begin with one you may or may not use as an example. Okay, great. Thank you so much, Alex. Alex, who? Demitri. Dimitri. I'm stuck. Pull me out.

Pull me out. We are citrusy covered in skin and cannot be compared. Apples and oranges? No. Yes. You got it.

Oh, okay. That's a great. This is a good example. Actually, I'd like to see a scene. We're going to see two roommates living together. It's kind of an odd couple situation. You're trying to make it work. Josh, we'll have you be an Apple

and JBC will have you be an orange. Got it. Hey. Hey, can you only with this box real quick? Yeah, sure. What are we doing with it? Just, we're going to put it down, take some stuff out of it, put it around the room. Oh.

Um, I can't. I would love, I'd love to help you out, but just some of the stuff that you described is just going to be so hard without, um, hands and legs and eyes and the mouth and ears and and I love that for you but it's just like I might just lay her on the floor if it's all the same. That's fine. When you said ears, I don't even think ears were especially relevant to the task.

It sounds like you're just trying to get out of doing it. No, I know, but it's like you also have them, you know, and I don't. So it's like kind of always relevant. You know, kind of always relevant. So you're saying if you were a potato, you would be better equipped to help me out with this task. All I'm saying is if the same witch that did whatever she did to you were to do it to me, maybe I would be more able to help with tasks around the house. It is a little uncomfortable that the witch made me completely anthropomorphic

and just gave you the ability to communicate psychically with me. Psychically with you. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. And I don't think that, did I do something to her? Like, it didn't feel like I did something to her, right? No.

No, no, no. You were so nice to that witch. We cut back to JPC and Josh in the Witch's Hut, Aaron, you are the witch. Do you mind taking your shoes off before you come in? I'm sorry. Are you talking to me or you're looking at this bowl of fruit? Oh, sorry. Ooh, that's offensive.

That's on me. Sorry. Do you guys mind taking your shoes off before you come in? Are you going to do some to the fruit? I mean, I feel like we went back in time to before the fruit got the ability. I thought that you were, I'm sorry. I'm a neutral passerby. This is a complete misunderstanding, sir.

Oh. You're thinking that you were born in orange and you got anthropomorphized. I'm thinking that you were a human who wronged me in some way. Okay. Sir, I thought you were a human that wronged me and I was going to turn you into some fruit. I thought you were going to not take off your shoes in my eyes. apartment. You, you, sir, you're going to be an apple with legs and arms. You're okay. Okay, still, that's weird considering.

I'm going to start screaming when there's misunderstandings and scenes from now on. I'm turning over a new leaf, and this is my new attitude on the show. I do like the idea of like two cursed, like, people, but they never bring up the fact that they were people. They're just like, they're so used to being cursed pieces of fruit at this point that they're like, why I even talk about? it. Why even talk? We can't change anything. Stop bringing up the past.

I've always lived in the psychic orange. We fly. I also like that that's the specific misunderstanding with the witch. That made you the win of streets. She invited us here, right? Like, I'm like, it's like, we don't want to be here. For dinner. You didn't take off your shoes, turn you into a fucking orange.

Fuck you. Big Twilight. Light Zone type cookbook that says how to cook for oranges. Oh, yeah. A classic. We fly, feed our kids vomit, and teach you how to fuck. Birds and bees? Yes, Adel, you're killing it.

I'd actually like to see another scene. Adel, you are sort of a fun performer that has been brought into a middle school to teach kids about the birds and bees. And Josh and JBC, you'll be the students sort of asking him questions. and poking holes in what he's doing. And Aaron, maybe I'm drunk. Did you say middle school? Yeah, but high school, I guess. One down, when did they bring in a sex ed person?

We'll do high school. Middle school is middle school? It's like six, seventh and eighth grade, right? I feel like that's right for sex ed. We call that grade school. Okay, middle school. Really? Wait, you call middle school?

Hold on now. Elementary. Okay, well, so when I hear elementary, I think like one through five, right? Okay, okay. Maybe kindergarten tacked on. Yeah. Can we be in kindergarten? No, no, you're right.

Let's do seventh grade. You guys are like an eighth grade. It's funny that they had called that grade school, because I've heard grade school as well. But all the school, they all have grades. Yeah, that's fair. This is the kind of stand-up. I want to see you begin, Josh. This is the kind of observational comedy.

We're in a grade and we get grades. What's the, okay. Okay, and action. Hey, everybody. How's everyone doing? Give me a big old yay. Yay. Yay!

Okay, I heard some yeas and some wooze. We'll work on that. My name is Aspen, and I'm here to teach you, okay, usually I get some giggles. No giggles from Aspen. Okay. I guess. Question? Yeah.

Why do you kids sometimes giggle when you say Aspen? Well, usually, before I get to the pen part, they'll giggle at ass. or sometimes people will whisper ass penis to one another and sort of a chuckle. We're really dropping the ball, guys. It sounds like other schools are funnier than us. No, no, no, this is a good thing because you don't really know what asses and penises do. No, no, no, we can do it. We can do ass penis.

Say your name again. Don't say that. Don't go home and say that. We just time to go home for like six hours. Our teacher just told us to be respectful, but if that's not the vibe that you appreciate we can do differently we can do differently we'll be like those other kids at the other schools yeah say your name again say your name again my name and i'm and i want to make this clear i'm definitely not mr thompson in a hat and funny shoes i'm aspen the sex clown more

more like uh um you got it stupid i just can't it's just not who i am i just don't like being this guy you're dumb and unlovable what the fuck me No, no. The ass stick. He told you that as, he told you that as a secret. You can't tell people his deepest, darkest fear that he's dumb and unlovable. You didn't tell me that as a secret. I overheard him saying it backstage.

It's different. If I was, and we need to get rid of our school backstage. If I was unlovable, then why does my wife have? I'll get the chalk out. Sex with me. Underlined sex several times. What is, and what is sex? Hey, it makes me uncomfortable.

that the board just says sex with me on it. Yeah. Yeah, let me get rid of that. Let me get rid of that. Okay, let's just write. It sounds like it's the assignment. You know what I'm talking about. Yeah, let me write.

Yeah, let me write sex. And then I'm going to write a bubble. And it says learning about with an arrow circling back, just so there's no. This seems a little complicated. So no janitors call anyone. Okay. Wow, what do we know about, what do we know about sex?

Parents have it. That sex is why you're here. Not my parents. has it. Your teacher, Mr. Thompson has a ton of sex. Why did you ask the question and then start giving all the answers? Well, I just, I have my own little agenda I want to work in. Mr. Thompson absolutely, you know, cracks backs. Mr. Thompson is getting laid constantly. But I'm asking. You want us to tell people this. You do what kids do. If information gets disseminated, the semen, let's talk about what do we know. I think he wants us to make fun of the word deceptive.

Because it's a semen in the middle Anyone want to do that or? I don't want to take the bait. It feels too obvious. We'd be making fun of just the word? Like, I don't even know. What are some, what are, what are we know?

What are some, um, what are some genitals we know? Let's just scream out genitals. Genitals. Genitals. Yeah, I walked into that one. I walked into that one. Other teachers walking by the classroom. What the fuck is it?

Let's just scream that shit. Let's do one more and then we'll come back to these after the break. We're fuzzy, fall from the sky, and assist those in physical or emotional need. Acorn therapists. No, but write that down. That's something. You mean squirrels, JPC? No.

I don't go to a squirrel for therapy? No. This guy's nuts. JPC, it would nothing, and I'm saying this in a neutral way with no job. judgment. But I would be zero percent surprised if I found out your therapist of the last decade was a squirrel. Everything would sort of lock into place for me that you've been talking to a squirrel that sort of sits outside your window instead of a real therapist. I would also not be by the because they have been acting so squirreling with me recently

to the port where I'm like something, maybe it's not squirrel, but something is going on here. Was there a scene? Can someone call for a scene? No, we're fuzzy, fall from the sky, and assist those in a physical and emotional need. Raining cats and dogs? Yes. Adel, you're on a roll here. Unbelievable.

I would like to see us. Do we have time for it a scene before break, Aaron, or no? Yes. Let me ask the council. The council says yes. Let's say Josh and Aaron, you two are dogs. And you're trying to walk home in the rain. and JPC, you come in as a cat.

Okay. I think that you did really great today. Like, every time he threw the ball, you went, you grabbed it, you got it. I think that your confidence is just a little low. I don't know. I mean, I got it, but then I brought it back and he threw it again, which probably means I didn't bring it back right.

No, no. I think he, if he didn't bring it back right, I don't think he would trust you enough to throw it again. You know what I mean? This is really helpful to hear, because I was thinking that if you liked the way I brought it back, then he would have just kept it. Yeah, see. Pussies.

What? Sorry. Hello? Excuse me? Hey. Hello? Oh, it's a cat. Did you say something to me?

I'm sorry, do you say something to me? Stand behind me. Hey, can we help you with something? Oh. Smells your butt. Okay. Oh, okay. A little personal, don't you think?

I mean, it's how I say hello. Okay. It's not how... Just making sure you're safe. It's not how I say hello, so... So kind of feels like... You do your way. You were just saying,

I... What's this guy? What's this guy's that problem? He doesn't have... Why is his face all flat like that? He's a pug. I'm a pug. This is how my face is.

You say that like it means something to me? He's a pug? He's a pug? What could that possibly mean? Also, I ran really fast into a wall. But that didn't make my face flat. My face was already flat, fortunately. Hey, man, you're the one who talked to us.

Yeah. I'm sorry? Wait, why would you say that? Because you said, I think you called us Pussies. Excuse me? That's our word. Which is a sort of takes one to no one situation.

I don't believe, I don't believe what I'm hearing right now. I don't believe what I'm hearing right now. No, I've met a cat before. You guys are dastardly and manipulative. You're all the same. Oh, oh. You know what? You know what you are?

A bigot. No, I'm a bastard hound. Get it right Well, you know what? You look more like a bigot hound to me And I said it And I said it and I won't take it back Oh my God, I can't believe I'm getting into a fight

And I'm with my only pug friend See, this is what I'm always saying About cancel culture running among I'm sorry, catsle culture You're that kind of pug You're that kind of pug I see What do you mean that kind of pug? Catsle culture

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Thank you, Rocket Money. I appreciate it. Hey, everybody, we're back from a break. That's Josh over there. That's Adel. That's JPC. And we're really excited to be here with riddles from Alex Dement. Dement.

Dr. Demetrelis. Dr. Demetrelis. Here are more of those couple riddles, which I'm loving. These are fun. I feel like they're not... Oh, yeah. It's early in the morning. I guess it's not early in the morning for me.

It's 9.45 a.m. But this is the first thing I've done today, and so I'm glad that we're doing something that's kind of easy, breezy on the brain. Here we go. We're Russian, litigious, and are unjust when separated. Crime and punishment. Adel. Oh, you're so good at these.

And these are all words that are married to each other. I guess I just love my married friends. Yeah. Crime and punishment are married, but they're in sort of like an open thing. Yes, with War and Peace. Yes, exactly. They swing. They swing.

War and Peace is a billionaire. We're clumsy, thirsty, and crowned. Wait, what's that? We're clumsy, thirsty, and crowned. Snap, crackle, and pop, the three dwarves. No. Are you okay? What question is that, Aaron?

Isn't there a show? I've never seen it, but I've heard of it. It's a show on Apple TV where it's like Lee Pace is both king. He's like himself, current age king, but then his younger self is there and his older self is there? The foundation show. The foundation. Okay, Osamoff, I feel like now I'm just picturing snap crackle pop in that sort of situation, where they're all king at once, but past future versions. Those are the three kings from we three kings that Christmas caroling.

Brangentzance, gold, and rice crispy. We are clumsy, thirsty, and crowned. Climsy, thirsty, and crown? Okay, this is, now I'm thinking teeth like crown. Is that anywhere close? No, but you are thinking a little. Is it crown like what a king wears? Um.

Or is that? That's not going to help. No. Well, I guess, yeah, I think they're talking more about head. I actually don't know if they mean a literal crown. I don't think they mean a literal crown. Oh, like Jack and Jill type. Yes.

Jack and Jill. Oh, what is Jack and Jill? Okay. Oh, Jack and Jill fell down the hill. Went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. But then they fell down. I'm sorry. I was skipping to the end of the war.

No, spoiler. I'm so, I'm so sorry. Hey man, she was in a coma for 11 years, but no, you tell your story. Mr. Jack, we're going to pull the plug, is that okay? Jack fell down, too, it broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after.

Do you think they mean like falling or do you think she did like a gymnastics tumble down the hill to come? That would be so disrespectful after Jack broke his crown. I think it was like a princess bride like My sweet, Wesley. Yes. Jack's bleeding out now there. She's just doing like,

a double backflit down the hill. Watch me to a roundoff. Medics holdup scores. How are Jack and Jill related? Dating, I thought. No, they're a pair of siblings. How about that? What? I do want to see a scene. Aaron and Josh, you are Jack and Jill. And Aaron, you are visiting Jack in the hospital after the whole situation. Hey, buddy. How are you holding up?

Jill, is that you? Yeah, I brought flowers and balloons and I'm just here to apologize. Uh, no, for what? The whole thing was so hazy to me. Right. I just don't. I just remember we're going up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Sure.

Which they kept at the top of the hill. Uh-huh. And then yada, yada, yada, bottom of the hill. Broken crown. And that's exactly what happened. And that's exactly what happened. You were very thirsty and you insisted we climb up there. And I said, that seems pretty unsafe.

And then when we got up to the top, we weren't in a fight and I wasn't irritated. And I didn't push you down the hill. So you remember it exactly right. Okay. Quick follow-up question. Jill, my best friend and closest sibling. Right. And only confidant.

Of course. Why did you bring apology flowers if that didn't happen? That's a great question, Jack. I gave them. The doctors are saying I'm asking great questions. Oh, good. It was the first thing that came back. Good.

I brought them for you to give to yourself. Because I thought you would want to exercise some self-forgiveness after this entire incident. Now, again, my memory. is very hazy. Is that something anyone's ever done before? Yes, it's a very common normal thing that people do. Okay, then this sounds good. I just want to get back to normal.

And the doctor said I might never do that again, get back to normal. Well, the detectives are going to be in here soon. And just make sure you tell them how hazy it is, how you did this to yourself. If they throw around words like attempted or murder or anything like that, I just need you to just take a deep breath. And I forgive myself for attempting to murder me, understood. Knock, knock, knock. Hello, I'm Detective Farts McNamara.

I don't know. Usually gets a giggle. And this is my partner. I'm sorry. I just have this grievous head injury. What part of Farts McNamara, or detective, could be detective. What part of Detective Farts McNamara do people usually giggle at? Oh, great question.

Thank you. The doctors are saying I'm asking great questions. It's the first thing that came back. Mac. Usually McNamara, because people think of Mac the Knife, and then they go into... Is that Sinatra? I think it's from Three Penny Alpha. Bobby Darren?

That's right. Bobby Darren, thank you so much. I think I blocked it out because of who played him in the movie. Speaking of, this is my partner, Detective Spacey Kevin. He's a bit loopy. Nice for me, too. Oh, and I know what you're going to say. I got a fucked up face.

Well, you're a pug. Oh, I thought it was because I looked like Kevin's face. Scene. Let's keep going. Cared for by farmers, we spend the day in fields. Squeeze some fuzzy flesh and you get juice. Now, don't be weird. Cared for by farmers, we spend the day in fields.

Squeeze some fuzzy flesh and you get juice. I mean, my first thing. is peaches and cream. You got it too. Okay, okay. But I was like, I can't picture of, when I picture farmers, I think of like tractors and corn, but peaches would be on a tree. But I don't think a farmer said at a tree.

I also don't picture cream in a field. You've never driven by a field of cream? I loved that movie. If you stumbled upon. They will come. They will come. They will come. They will come actually just works.

It does work. You'll remember me. Well, shit. We actually made the best porn title of all that. Feel the first. He tries to conjure the ghost of baseball players to jack them off. Honey, you were spending so much time outside. What's going on?

Baseball. Baseball. I love baseball. He's the only guy that thinks about baseball and comes faster. Well, and also. you know, all the women that Derek Jeter dates. I, Josh, you'll appreciate this. Please.

I, you grew up a Red Sox fan, I assume. I loved the Red Sox growing up and fell off a little bit in my 20s just because I was trying to get on the Cubs train a little to be in Chicago. I was trying to be festive. Aaron, that's called the Red Line. Oh, yes, the Red Line. I got off at Addison. Thank you, J.C. for keeping me honest. Just fun local Chicago.

Yeah, if you say Cubs train, they're like, what are you, a torrent? Aaron's like, wow, the Cubs trade is so crowded today. But we had a night off on the comedy Bang Bang Tour, and we were in Boston. And Will Hines, great improviser, was reading what the Boston Globe had been saying about the Red Sox this year. And it was, they were just ripping them apart because the Red Sox were in last place. And I was like, oh man, that's really bad. And he was like, I'm going to go to the game tonight. Anyone who wants to go with me can go.

And I was like, you know what? it could be funny. Like, it might be funny to watch the Red Sox be bad. Like, I love Fenway Park. I'll go and have a hot dog. And I went and it was by far the most exciting Red Sox game I've ever seen in person. It was like electric. And they were playing the Yankees and they did six innings of the Yankees not even getting

a hit. And I went, shame on me to doubt Boston. I feel like I learned a valuable lesson. I cannot believe I doubted the Red Sox. And now they're on like. like kind of a winning streak. Yeah, they've been playing really well. It kind of started with them sweeping the Yankees. And while they were still in last place, and the Yankees, it took the Yankees from first place to second place. And as someone who's lived in New York for a long time,

it still brought me great joy to see. Yes. And I was at that first game, with their first Yankees game. And I went, wow, this is, like, I good old Boston taught me a lesson. Oh, so Aaron, you did this. I would credit Aaron as well. I think Will Hines did this. I think Will Hines did this. Well, I mean, yes, Will Hines did it in the way that he invited you to the game, but the actual, I mean, have you seen another? Have you watched another of their game since then? No, but I did buy tickets from when they're playing in L.A. Oh, Aaron, no. Oh, it's going to break their streak. They're still winning. Yeah.

They could win harder. I guess, yeah, I guess we'll have to follow through on that, Aaron, when they come to L.A. and see if it happens that you going to, to another game alters it in some way. Because all that we know right now, the empirical data has said that you have changed their trajectory for the better. I'm going to send you guys a text of a funny thing I saw at the game. I'm excited. Whenever I think of Fenway Park, I feel like the accent explodes out from there.

Yeah. You're just bound to see the most Boston-y things ever. And there was a Yankees fan there. And these guys in front of him every time. Yankee son! Yeah, you suck! Wow. That's, you love to see people being that agro to a stranger.

I love it. Just the middle fingers in the face of a guy who appears to just be sitting there. Now, Aaron, was he antagonizing them in any way or was he in fact just sitting there? He was antagonizing them. Oh, okay, okay. He came in hot being like, this is about to be just a humiliation ritual for the Red Sox. And then he left like an inning early and we all went, bo-oh. Now, to be fair, it is an Alan Houston former Knicks player, Nix Jersey.

Oh, it's a Nix jersey. And the Knicks won the championship most recently. We all forget about that. That's ancient history. I do feel like he's in the right. New York are losers. Go Boston. It is funny, though.

Like, that kind of hubris isn't transferable when the Yankees lose. You can't then double back and be like, but the next still won. You kind of calls your shot and you whiffed. I do like the idea of wearing a basketball, like a winning basketball team to a different sports game. Because you're like, I want to get in a fight today,

but I don't have the requisite jersey to get in a fight in the right way. But I still want to get in the fight. The fight needs to happen. Like that's non-negotiable. I let my kid take my Alex Rodriguez jersey back to his mom's house. And wearing a player's name, one of the only players whose last name is the city.

A different city entirely. Yeah, third city entirely. I, real quick, if this is okay, I was walking on the street the day of game five of the NBA finals. And like all of New York City to this point had just been in a great mood for like a week. And since they turned it around after Trump made them lose that one game. But I was feeling great. I was like walking to be my friend for lunch and I saw an old lady with two little dogs. and I was crossing the street towards her and the dogs.

And I just went, good morning. And she goes, Who the fuck are you? And you're like, New York's so back. All right. Good morning. Good morning. That's your fucking step.

It made me laugh so much. And when I told my wife about it when I got up, she's like, how are you like, how are you laughing with this? That would have ruined my day. If an old lady just screamed that in my face. That's so funny. It was awesome. It's like you were living in a musical for a week.

Like everybody's so sunshiny and then she brought you right back to Earth. Oh, it was great. It was like such a perfect experience. Lesson learned. I was going to ask what it was like to be in New York when they won. But I feel like you just told us. That was my dominant feeling too because I was like everywhere around me, people were so happy. Like I felt like that lady for the whole week.

Sure. Everywhere people were happy. And friends would be like, are you going out after the game, like out in the streets? I'm like, no, this isn't like, I'm, I guess I'm happy for you, but like, I just live here. You know what I mean? I was like, this isn't. I would feel like a betrayal. Like my sister was telling me, she was like, my friends are asking if Josh is like cheering

for the Knicks because he's lived there for so long. And she's like, I know, right? That's like a betrayal. And I'm like, yeah, of course it's a betrayal. Yeah. I would have a disease. It's a disease to think that way, but I do have that disease. Josh, I looked it up and I'm sorry to say you ran into San Antonio Spurs owner.

Samantha, Texas. And so the one person who's going to be miserable. Josh, is there any way that this old woman just couldn't maybe like modulate her voice? And what she said was like, who the fuck are you? Because she's like, I know I've seen this guy on YouTube. I know I've been to one of his shows before. But it's like, I want to say Don Jondelman. And then she's like, no, don't say, who the fuck are you?

And then she goes, wait, wait, don't tell me. Don Johnaldman is one of the rudest comics working. Wait, so I walked past her, and I turned around to be like, is that what? And then she turned, like, we were past each other. We both turned around to look at each other again. And she went, who the fuck are you? Oh, that's almost the meet Joe black stuff, you know? I did get hit by a bus after.

And now do your Jamaican patois. The thing that people don't talk about enough is that he's killing it. He's doing the Jamaican patois. He's doing it exactly right. Bread pin. No. I think that's where my knowledge of Meet Joe Black ends. I don't want to commit.

It goes around every once in a while on the internet, but there is a scene in Meet Joe Black where, because he's like an angel in someone else's body where he does like. He's like death, right? Yeah, he's, is death an angel? Who knows? But yes, he's death. but he does, is it like Jamaican? I can't remember. But it's some accent that is culturally in the modern parlance.

You probably wouldn't want to put yourself on screen doing it. Sure. That's so. And, and, but that wasn't Brad Pitt? It was Brad Pitt. Oh, it was Brad Pitt doing a Jamaican petua. Yes. Yeah.

It's also like a con, that it's the context too where you're like, I could see a context in which someone could do that in a movie and you'd be like, oh, that's like. Like, all right, whatever. But like in this case of like, no, no, no, this is drama. It's actually. This is. This is actually important. Hey, guys, can we have quiet on set?

Brad Pitt's about to do his big scene. He's like, and this is Graham's Bamba clot? You know, we'll do some rewrites. Let's just make another movie, I think. My favorite transformer, Bamba Clot. Awesome. All right. Here's another one.

This one I had a hard time with when I was playing along with myself to it earlier. So let's see if you can do it. Okay, Casey, go ahead and clip that for me. No, come on. And I knew, and I was trying to go under the radar. I can't say anything on the show without getting clipped. No, I know. Yeah.

It's not fair. Builders of rainbows, oath of the post, when contrasted, we are inevitable. What was the first line? Builders of rainbows. Leprecon. Is this like the lucky terms of marshal? smells like hearts and moons and sunshine and rain?

Yes, rain and shine. Amazing. The motion of boats found in garages together we are rebels. Rock and roll. Rock and roll. Rock and roll.

God. Evanflow is my favorite pearl jam song. Ebbing flow the times and the moon. Comparable to gold. both grains of sand, we tend to push it. I really like this one.

Salt and pepper. Yeah. That's really good. The first one that I got, and not only the first one I got, but the first one that I understood it. I'll say it like Patrick Stewart. Excelsior. Ladies and gentlemen, salt and dapper.

Thank you. It's so good. A classic. A classic. Aged. French and pungent. Wine and cheese? Yes.

It could also be Gerard de Perdue. Gerard de Depardue. If we're feeling particularly mean, it could be Gerard de Parth. French and insult to children, we both have been around the world. French and insult to children. You both have been around. Jules Burr. Jules.

Hot air. Blin? We've both been around the world. Amelia Charles Lynn. Burger cheese. That's kind of a... Around the world is a reference to a song. Oh, deaf punk.

Yes, daft and punk. Yeah. Very good. Favorite in the morning, though often secretly craved for the evening, for a price, we will let you stay the night. Bed and breakfast? Yes. Oh, okay.

Bed and breakfast. I'll fuck with that. Fried British bits. Fish and chips. Pork beans. Fish and chips, of course. And we plays past it, but just know that I was going to set up a daff punk bed and breakfast. But, of course, we don't have this on board for it.

We don't have anything for that. What do you have for breakfast? Fordola cereal milk and juice. Can you repeat that? Addle pressing punch. I'm envisioning you talking to a French robot person. And he's just like, apples, quidola, milk and juice. Wait, can you do that a little bit faster?

That's so funny. The wolf's weapon, we are butt wind, splattered impotently against brick. Whoa. Wind didn't bite. The wolf's weapon is claw bite. He blows down the house. Tooth. But what is he actually?

What are the words? The real words for Puff and Puff. He huffs and puffs. Puffs and puffs. I'd like to see a scene. Adel, we're going to have you be a wolf that is sort of getting up there in age and is not as good at huffing and puffing anymore. And Josh, we're going to have you play a little pig whose house Adel is trying to blow down.

Oh, hey man, what's up? Sorry, yeah, a second. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Can I get you a glass of water? I can't have you dying on this prior. It's going to raise a lot of questions. I'm so sorry. Do you have a chair?

Do you have a chair? Do you have a chair? Yes, I have a chair. Do you want to sit in it? Huff it up, hop. And I'll blow your house down. Can you sit in the chair for a minute? Okay, oh boy.

I can't have Detective Farts, MacArthur, coming around here again. Ask if I killed another wolf. You got kind of a flat face for a wolf You kind of live on a big mountain top Yeah For privacy Dickhead Oh, if I was a teen wolf

I'd, you call me You'd play basketball with me Yeah, go for a lamp And then you'd see me dunking on your ass What, let's continue to the chase What are you doing here, old man? I came here, bud I came here, I bought the land

That your home is on, we're going to demolish it, You have 30 days to vacate the premise. Back of the day, of course, I would huff and puff and blow your shit away, but now I'm older and I have saved and I have a 401 case, and I just buy the property and then sort of undercut.

The owner and knock down the place and build condos. So you have 30 days to vacate the premise. You have been served. How about I knock you down this whole hell and break your crown? How about that? I live here. This is someone's life that you're talking about.

This is a pig's life. Yeah, do you have that water? Do I have water for the guy that bought my house and is going to knock it down with a construction crew? Hey, I'm not a bad guy, okay? I'm not a bad guy. I'm a businessman. I'm smart, okay? Oh, the big business wolf?

Oh, idiot. I don't buy it. Yeah. BBW, when you get older, what's your name? Piggleton. Pigleton, when you get to be 45, 50, you're going to realize that business is actually good. That, that... Don't condescension.

to me. This is actually good. You're going to get more conservative as you get older. Wolf. You live in your little pig bubble and everyone says, oink, oink, can you say all the way home and you all just, it's just an echo chamber. You're going to realize one day you have nothing.

Okay? And then you're going to realize you should have invested. You should have been a little more conservative. Hey, guys, sorry to bother you. Yeah, what's up? Did you just see a really annoying brother fall down the hill just now or? I don't know if you're still. supposed to say that.

Oh. Well. Ladies from Boston. Have a good one. Singing it. Oh, man. Well. Do we know if canonically, if this is like a brother's grim crossover,

do we know canonically if the wolf from the three little pigs is the same wolf from Little Red Running Hood? I picture it is the same wolf. Yeah. Yeah. Is it written by the? same no jack and jill would be like a mother goose right but i don't think was that a real person i'm just thinking like i didn't know if there was like carryover if it's like the wolf pops up

again i didn't know if their brother's grim had like you know yeah it's like c s i or something sure who wrote brothers grim hill dick wolf who wrote the three little pigs english fairy tale English. Interesting. In 1846, it first appeared. They were still doing that in 1846. They were still making up like, and the pigs lived in a house. Entertainment sucks back then. Oh, it's the worst.

Oh, and then Little Red Riding Hood is way earlier. Okay, that means. Charles Peralt. It is French. Whoa. Ewie, we, we. I got, can we, Aaron, can we see one? Some work very quick scene.

Okay, yes, but only because you've been good today. JPC is a French big bad wolf. Aaron, your French little, La Petit. Rouge. Ruge. Thank you. La Petit Rouge hood. Yes, I love it.

Pardon me, ma'am, but are you lost in the woods? Do you have a light for a smoke? Oh, holy shit, you're a child. Even better. Inno. Seed, see, see, see, see, see. Finn. And that's a joke about how the French are all pedophiles.

Why does your Blackboard just say sex with me? Well, this has been fun. What a note to end it on. Josh, do you have anything to plug or promote or anything you want to talk about? Oh, my gosh. I have a comedy special that's out now on YouTube. It's called Positive Reinforcement. I put it out with Blonde Medicine Records.

I have a newsletter called That's Marvelous. It's free or you can pay me money for it every Monday. that's marvelous newsletter.com. And then I'm on the road a ton this fall. I'm going, it's like ramping up now, but I'm doing Cambridge, Massachusetts, and, gosh, I'm blanking right away. Oh, Dallas and Houston and San Diego and Phoenix and Cleveland and Pittsburgh already in some more to come at Raleigh or on New Year's.

Yeah, I'm really excited. Sorry, that's too many plugs. No, that's fantastic. Thank you for having me. There's always so much fun. You're one of our favorites. Anything to plug or promote? Anything you want to talk about?

Check out Hello from the Magic Tavern. We're going to start our new season soon. We recently had Josh Gondman on at the end of our last season, I believe. No, you were on offices and bosses. I was on offices and bosses and bosses. And I think I might have done the last season of Magic Tavern too. So check out Magic Tavern and also our Patreon where you can find offices and bosses with Josh Connollman. Aaron, do you have anything to plug or promote?

Check out quality time if you're in Los Angeles or going to be in Los Angeles. It's a monthly variety show that I do. We're about to do July and the theme is rats and we have an environmentalist doing a presentation on that and I'm really excited. But we have a lot of really fun themes in the fall. So come check us out if you have any yet. JBC, a review to read or anything to plug. I'll just say if you liked Josh Gondman on this show, Josh Gondland is also going to be guesting on an upcoming episode of our other show, Gumshoes and Dragons.

So you can check him out there next month, or maybe like in a couple of weeks, I think. We haven't recorded it yet. So if something goes terribly wrong, then you'll never. You'll never see Josh Gondoneman on that show. You're like the big bad wolf of the podcast universe. Popping up everywhere.

Just popping up everywhere. Hot dogs. Oh, no. Baby, baby, baby. When you touch me like this, and then it hold me like that, and I'm an lemon. it all coming back to me.

Granola, milk, and juice and salad. Salad. Practice that one. Okay, Terry Tony did be editing. Now are he parents in the music? And I think we should take a break, and I want everyone to really think about that, okay? I'm going to reset my recording. I apologize.

No, worse. Yep, I'm back up. Perfect. Thank you very much. I love you guys. I love you guys. Oh, he said it back. I'm going to tell the rest of the gals, and they are going to be so excited for me.

When you go to lunch with them in the middle of the day, what are their names, Miranda? Samantha. Charlotte. Sorry, I do listen when you talk about your friends, Josh. I just want you know, I am listening. That's okay. You're also one of my friends. Do you think you're not one of my friends?

Josh, I do listen to you. You have sex in the city or you have sex and the city. I think it's on the city. Oh, my God, I'm so sorry. I actually do Saxon the city. Right on Fifth Avenue? Hey there, counts and quotes. If you like that, you're going to love this week's Patreon.

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