Hey Riddle Riddle - BONUS - AMA Special
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The doctor was the mother. He stood on a block of ice.
Oh, the pin work of fish. It was the cabin of an airplane.
It's happened with the oxygen. And the water's a little red. Welcome to a very special AMA episode of Hey Riddle Rittle. This is due to the fact
that we have 1,000 5 star reviews. Wow, happy birthday to us. Yes has been, we promised, we promised, we would do this AMA that is an
ass mouth ass for all of our fans. Just like your favorite stream from
Rukwin for a dream, this is ass mouth ass. Now if you're listening to this and
you did not leave us a iTunes review, go ahead and hit that pod.
Come back to later. Come back to later, when you leave a review. But yeah, if you
haven't left a review, please do so. would really appreciate that but we fit a thousand so fuck you
Also, we need to let you know up top immediately
We have a show a live show in LA coming up
We're gonna be the Hollywood improv on May 12th, which is Mother's Day bring bring your wise bring your kids bring your mommy's
Bring your pens bring your wise bring your kids bring your mommy's bring your pens bring your pens Air and old drink them and your riddles. We have we have definitely bring riddles. Yeah, definitely
We definitely need really we're coming with none so you better otherwise
It's just gonna be polite conversation and small talk so that's gonna be mother's day
Please check that out you can go to head gum.com slash live to find tickets
We really hope to see you there and we'll be in town for a few days so
I'm sure we'll say hi to as many people as we can and hopefully go to Disneyland.
Aaron, you going to Disneyland?
That's the plan.
I'm planning on going.
So we're going to get into our AMA.
These are AMA questions that we received on Twitter, Instagram, through email and on our
Patreon Discord.
You two ready for this?
I am.
I'm absolutely ready to answer questions.
I'm happy to do so.
And you're not going to catch me in any of your legal tricks,
at all. I'm not going to get up here on the stand and get Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix Flummix and Flummix Flummix Flumm Flummix Flummix Flummix and Flummix and Flummix and Flummix Flummix Flummix and Flum Flaquette jump and full mustard. Literally no one asked any of my question. Did I kill the squirrels? Right?
Very first question.
Most of them are that.
Did Ted Kennedy kill those squirrels?
Kill that squirrel.
Ted Kennedy killed those, that squirrel.
John, you always turn this.
All right, I'm ready.
I think it's way funny if it did Ted Kennedy kill that squirrel.
Mr. Cut of all of the times Aaron on any one of our podcasts has said, I'm ready.
It's whatever. She's like, okay, we're done with this.
I'm ready.
It's her wink wink, not tonight, just to move things along.
I'm an Australian Shepherd.
I just heard you two tours of the content that we promised.
All right.
My goal here is to get at least 15 minutes in with how to answer
your single question.
Well, you succeeded for three of them.
Damn. So here's the number one most little question. Well, you succeeded for three of them. Damn.
So here's the number one most important question.
And these are chosen at random.
What?
What most important chose at random?
What is the best kind of pizza?
Now, we all three reside in Chicago,
which is pizza town.
Pizza town, USA, Midwest.
I actually hate deep dish pizza.
I despise it, I think it's terrible. I have to ask you, Edel, because I don't have these questions in front of me.
Is the answer what's the best kind of pizza or what's the best kind of pizza?
Like bagel bites are the best kind of pizza.
Kind of pizza.
Yeah.
I like English muffin pizzas.
Kind of pizza.
Red baron breakfast pizza.
Red baron breakfast pizza.
I'm telling you so much.
I like a thin crust caprese pizza. Okay. I'm going to say, I like like a thin crust Caprese pizza.
Okay, I'm going to say, I like thin crust or New York style.
And I'm going to say toppings, got to go green olives, got to go artichoke hearts.
I will say, if you get half green olives and half pineapple, I'm coming to that party.
Wow.
My standard being a vegetarian is a black olive and green pepper.
It's my favorite pizza topping.
And if my pizza tastes like swing over time,
but right now what I'm really into is the pan-style Detroit pizza,
like that rectangular pizza, because what I'm talking about,
like Jets Pizza, I love that.
I love that. Like a little buttery crust.
And that's the pizza that Paul McCartney makes you?
Pretty good.
And then I have a side of wings.
Wow.
Shoobie, shoobie, pretty good.
No, no, you have to stop me.
That's no, that's a perfect joke.
You're our king now.
We did it.
You did it, the perfect joke.
On a day of May.
He's the first.
He's the first.
He's the first.
On a bonus app.
All right.
This should be probably when we address pretty soon.
How long do you estimate until you run out of usable riddles?
Oh, busted.
Probably really soon.
It's a funny thing because people complain about us not doing enough riddles,
but if we did a lot of riddles, we'd run out faster.
So we're not sure what to do.
Here's what I'll say.
In the known universe, there are 12 good riddles.
We've done hundreds, but there's only 12 good ones.
I think we can go, I think we can go 200 episodes based on the
riddle books we have and what's out there, stories with holes, God bless us.
God bless them.
So I think we can do that and if we mix things up every once
while, but I'd say 200 episodes max.
And then we have to do a hard
Pivot or quit or just quit shake hands and walk in two separate directions
So two of us are going together
Stones in our pockets you're watching the ocean. Yeah, realistically. I think
The other thing is that like Ad Adel said, there are like a
limited finite number of good riddles out there.
The other thing is that there are an infinite number of riddles that people make themselves.
So people send us like riddles all the time and it'll be like, also people will say, this
is my favorite thing to get in an email.
Hey, I don't think you've done this riddle.
Like we just have, we absolutely have.
And they'll like keep sending us repy.
And you've got all those fans' names behind their back.
What do you call them again?
Perfect.
But I do think that when people send us riddles
that they themselves write,
I mean, there's an infinite number of those out in the world.
So I think that that will give us lunch evidence here.
We need you fans, or not even fans,
most of you are probably just listeners.
Yeah, fans of the Netflix show you.
Yes.
We need you fans.
We need your creativity.
So make us some bespoke riddles.
You can always email us riddles at hrrpodcast.gmail.com.
So please do that.
And we're kind of threatening you
because if you don't, we'll fucking stop.
Yeah.
There will be no buttons.
And then what?
And then you have to subcribe for a page there.
And you'll have to hang it with JP C.
I don't rest.
I don't want to do that.
Wait, where am I at?
I don't know.
You guarantee you're there too.
If you had a restaurant with me, I will make a scene.
Your JP C's chair?
I don't know what you do.
I don't know your life.
That's how committed I am to object work.
Oh, obvious chair.
Okay, here we go.
Who is each of your dream guests for the show and what podcast would each of you like
the guest on most?
Oh, okay.
So your dream guest for this show and then what podcast you'd like to guest on the most?
I will say, I'll go first.
I think by dream guest for this show would be Paul of Tompkins.
I love Paul of Tompkins.
I mean, obviously he's like Dr. podcast out there.
You know, if you just use his initials, it's pfft.
Well, yeah, I did know that.
Just kind of re-missive.
But I think he's awesome.
Podcast that I would love to go on, I would say.
You're being Hollywood-Hambok.
I love Hollywood-Hambok, but if I could choose
to go on a podcast, it would be Teacher Slounge,
which is like a Stitcher Premium show.
I think actually some of the episodes are free,
but I was telling Adel, Teacher Slounge reminds me
of how I used to improvise with my-
Which is well?
Yeah, well, no, it's not well.
With my improv team, LaDog, before,
we kind of split up a couple of years ago,
but it would like that hyper, yes, and I just,
I love that so much.
Absolutely. Aaron?
When you when we first started this podcast and you asked me about Dream Guest, I said Paul
of Tomkins, right at the gate because I've loved him a lot.
Shit.
Well, okay.
I would also, there's like so many great comedians I'd love to have on, but I think I would
love to have more people who are like who write riddles
professionally or do like escape rooms professionally.
Nathan Levi.
Yeah, like that's my dream.
Because I think that would add a little bit more like something cool to the show.
Add a little bit more.
Add a little bit more.
And then if I want to go on a podcast, it's probably why I want podcast.
Podcast. And then if I want to go on a podcast, it's probably why I want to put case, put keys, as we say, in my native flu, bust and probably why won't you date me?
Aaron, what podcast do you want to be on?
Oh boy, oh brother.
Oh my god, I walked right into that.
Oh brother, or wait, wait, don't tell me because I told this to Adel recently, I called
in every weekend in high school to try to get and I wait, wait, don't tell me for like four years
and I never let put my call through.
And I want to get on the show and then complain to them
that they never let me.
I did it with Peter Segal a few months ago
and he said he does not like you.
Yeah, all right, well, can you tell him that?
I'm very honest, high school girl didn't have too many friends
and really wanted to get through.
I said I have a friend who tried to call into the show and he described you
Specifically and said yeah, she's the worst
That nerd every time I meet a celebrity I carry a list of all the people that I know on me
And I asked him to really quick go down the list and just mark X's next to the people that they're not at
It's new yeah
And kisses do any of you play? What's oh no, I did not
I mean just for like I
Think it'd be really fun and I'd get out hard linman mill momamba. Oh
Linman rom Maramba
Maramba, I'm sure he'll come on now after we did that. Yeah
But I feel like he would be great. I mean I have a bunch. I feel like Lauren Lapkas would be wonderful
Paul Tomkins Janet Farney. I mean yeah I have a bunch. I feel like Lauren Lapkas would be wonderful Paul Tompkins Janet Farney. I mean, yeah, Andy Daly's
one of my favorite, Darcy Cardin, so yeah, a lot of those
podcast adjacent folks, podcast adjacent this wrong term. They're in podcast. Yeah, but they're also adjacent to them.
That's the beauty of terms. Yeah, exactly. And then what podcast I would like to be on, I think, I gotta go with Moobin Bam.
My brother, my brother and me, is that
and pop culture happy hour of the two shows
that I binge listened to.
And reply all I think is really good.
But there's no reason for me to ever be on reply all.
Do any of you play any instruments?
I used to play alto saxophone and I would play,
was that chim chimery or whatever?
Chimichurri. Chimichurri, I used to play chimichurri I would play, was that chimchimari or whatever? That's all. Chimchimichuri.
Chimichuri, I used to play chimichuri which is like a green sauce.
It's like a sauce.
A little bit garlic in there.
But that was for just for two years then I stopped.
Cool and the question was, did you used to play an instrument for two years and then stop right?
It says, do any of you play an instrument?
Huh. First I was just saying no, I thought you just had some fucking fun with it.
Well I'll say no.
Did you ever play instruments? Yeah, I did
Man, I wish somebody asked that question. I played
Clarenatch when I was in the
Me too fourth grade and then I played a bass guitar when I was in seventh and eighth grade and I guess I've junior or a freshman in high school
You played clear Danes and a netbending I played clear Danes and and a netbending. You got a one minute show, a one minute show, a one minute format show. Hey, that's me,
Claire. I don't know you. See, Aaron, I played a good amount of piano growing up. I have a ukulele,
but that doesn't count. Yeah, I wish, that's something I really wish I could do. My boyfriend is
like an incredible drummer, like really, really excellent. And sometimes I get that's something I really wish I could do my boyfriend is like a incredible drummer like really really excellent
And sometimes I get really sad that I not like awesome at some things we could play music together. Does he just play like wipe out with his shirt off?
The day
Look at me look at me
Who are your favorite muppets? Mm.
Beaker.
Never watched them up its.
Rizzo.
Rizzo and Gonzo is a combo.
Like, they're chemistry.
Who's your favorite character from Greece?
Gniki, baby.
No, I like.
Can someone hear me in Greece with Rizzo?
Grease but for muppets?
Yeah, I would watch.
Grease from Muppets.
Grease from Muppets. The other Muppets, yeah, I would watch from Muppets. Grease Muppets, Grease Muppets.
I could do.
Who gruppets?
We gotta see that.
You said you never watched them Muppets?
No.
Would you watch in lieu of?
I don't know what that means.
That Louie Einerson show, Life of Louis, you watch it.
Life of Louis.
I don't know what I watched in lieu of the Muppets.
I just, I don't ever, I never like,
was it in the Muppets or Sesame Street or-
But Muppets, the Muppets umbrella encapsulates
Star Wars Street.
Labyrinth.
Star Wars, Labyrinth, Fraggle Rock.
You don't watch any of these?
I think I must have watched Fraggle Rock.
NYPD Blue.
Yes, I'm sorry.
I watched Westworld.
Westworld, oh yeah.
I've said this in the show a bunch of times. Muppets was maybe my biggest comedic influence growing up. And your favorite movie is Muppet Stick Man Hatton?
Great Muppet Caper. Great Muppet Caper. I've never seen that.
It's so good. Can we watch it together? And a Caper's like an all?
Yep. I love a nice little Caper. I think that might be a fun thing for us to do
the Patreon and watch that movie out together.
Is that so are we making a verbal contract
that will watch great Muppet Capers?
I'm writing it in blood right now.
I wish you had said verbal contract faster.
Yeah, but that's my blood.
You're so cute.
Don't go play.
Can you imagine?
Yes, mistress.
Yes, mistress.
Can you imagine?
Aaron, what if I just started to say yes, mistress, too?
I got throw up in the 30% more than I would, but I'd love it.
Not in front of you, just in general.
Because you'd be pregnant.
Yes, mistress.
When did all three of you meet for the first time?
This is going to be a hard one to...
When did the three of us train?
How do we train?
How do we train?
Have we met?
Have we met?
So I...
I think we've talked about this in the show before, but let's recap.
Okay.
I met JPC and then I met Aaron and then we all three met.
That's true.
But how did you meet JPC?
I met JPC.
I feel like just around I.O. I think we just started hanging out and then we would play
board games together.
And then I brought them into world news.
And then we got into that D&D game together that we've been playing for like
We got into D&D years. Yeah
So but I think will you were you sitting in with World News by the time we played D&D or not?
Must have been yeah, so it's like three years ago. Yeah, and then I don't know the first time we met was in passing
Yeah, the so the first time I met add I think I'm at JPZ first, but the first time I met Adel
I had seen him perform a bunch and then just needed him around.
You rubbed me in vicious note.
Yeah, I'd just be like, boo!
Last cast.
Um, learned how to park.
He's so, I was like, oh, I'm a car!
That's a handwritten note that Aaron's given me before.
Learn how to park and I'm like, what?
She put up a face and I'm like, that's not a windshield.
Written in your blood.
Yes, mistress. You can tell. Written in your blood. Yes, mistress.
You can tell everybody, this is your blood.
You are taking classes at the den, which is great,
by the way.
And the dentist what Adel calls his living room.
Yeah, no, man.
Hey, I've got to watch TV, can you leave?
I've seen you in class at the Rumpus room.
And do you know Jamie Bliss? You know Jamie Bliss.
I know Jamie Bliss. Um, Jamie Bliss and I were in the same class and you, uh, subbed, you
or subteacher in the class. And I did a scene and you laughed really, really hard and I thought
I was the coolest person. I was like, oh my god, I made an ad-o laugh.
Oh, I read something really funny on my phone.
Okay, well this, it was a text I said to myself.
Oh my confidence is, oh my god.
But then, do you remember the scene?
Yeah, it was, it was an exercise focusing
on the first like three lines.
Okay, do you remember the three lines?
And Jamie, this is a huge moment in your life, right?
I remember it all.
I don't remember it all.
Jamie came in and I forget what rapper she was.'t remember it all. I did. I did.
I did.
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You just dragged my memory, I now remember that class.
Really?
Yeah, and that line still holds up as being very funny.
I do remember a scene that I did when
Adel was coaching my playground team,
and Adel had brought in an exercise,
which was taking...
This is his little routine that practiced on a playground?
Yes.
The same lot.
Adel had brought an improv exercise,
which was taking two famous or known historical figures
that had interactions together,
and then you improvising as those characters,
but not within a specific situation.
Can I swoop in?
Yes.
Could I try to remember?
Did I make you Judas?
Yes.
I'm trying to think it was John Nackowicz,
but I don't remember who the other person was,
but it was Judas in Jesus,
and the whole scene was like us meeting
and then like walking away from each other
and turning back and being like,
I'm gonna miss you, man.
And just like, the context was that we were like,
always about to talk about like the betrayal,
but then we just kept moving past it.
And I remember that Adel was doing that thing
where he is like the sucks, I fucking hate it.
Like giggling into his hand,
because he was laughing very hard,
and I was like, oh, I remember that scene
being like, yeah, we crushed that scene.
Two other quick things about meeting both of you.
I auditioned for a playground team
and you didn't even give me a call back. I don't remember that.
Let it be a noon.
You probably had a shitty audition.
I definitely did.
That's the point of what I'm saying.
And then GPC, I said this before in the show, but the first, we met at CIC and I saw you perform
a bunch, but the first conversation we ever had was on a porch on Easter, I think, one
year and we talked about Veepe.
Oh yeah, it was about like 20 minutes.
Big bunny suit.
You were wearing a big bunny suit, you were real purr.
The first conversation we had was on a porch on Easter.
Sounds like a Tracy Letts play.
But this is another very nice thing.
Adel also is the reason why I got a lot of opportunities
I have in Chicago, like after seeing me around,
he thought of me for some like, what was it?
What's the thing that?
Hey, Riddle, Rimm.
No, no, no, no.
Come on, no, the form, that's mostly fabulous.
Oh, Dragon's Breath.
So I brought you both into Dragon's Breath.
I brought you both into World News.
I brought you both on a hello from Magic Tavern.
I have to do this podcast.
So return my fucking text.
First of all, you're not in my phone.
You're just not in my phone, okay?
You're not in my phone, dude.
I changed your name to unknown number.
I see the text, but it says unknown number.
Mine says dominoes.
So I could have real disdain for you
when you're not making this.
I'll answer your text, but I don't know what help means.
I need a little more context. I thought we were talking about favorite Beatles level but I don't know what help means. I need a little context.
I thought we were talking about favorite Beatles level.
I don't know what I miss you means.
I'm ready for another question.
You can save one book in your book collection, What Book
and Why?
My book collection, the one that I have.
I'll say this.
My favorite book, A book that I've read,
maybe three or four times, is Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.
I think that book is absolutely hilarious.
I'm a big fan of that book.
You're a serian?
You're a serian, the a serian, yeah.
Big fan of that book, Milo Minderbinder.
Very fun.
I would say, so maybe my three favorite books
are The World According to Garp by John Irving, I would say, so maybe my three favorite books are,
the World of Cording to Garp by John Irving, The Humans by Matt Hague,
and then 10th of December,
which is a collection of stories by George Saunders.
I'd say The Humans,
because The Humans is like one of those books
that's so, so funny and so, so beautiful,
and so makes you so emotional.
And then the book ends with a list of sexual positions.
Wait, what did I say?
The comic suture.
The comic suture is such a funny book.
It does the way the book is.
It is for the funny.
You can put your dick in that way.
Like that doesn't make sense, but it's fun.
But the book, The Humans by Matt Hague,
ends with a list of like 100 reasons
to like celebrate life
or like the great joys and mysteries of life.
And if you read that list, I've read it like a hundred times
since I've read the book the first time.
Right.
I can read it.
We're flustered.
But it's such a fantastic book.
And just for that list alone,
I would just wanna have that list to keep glancing
back on the restsomyla.
That's great.
Aaron, and you said your favorite book is Johnny Depp.
Johnny Depp.
Yeah, I can read. And you said your favorite book, your favorite book is the Notebook.
The movie.
Samabird.
Samabird.
I would say that my, I'm trying to think of a book I would save is probably a
signed book that I have like a signed copy of something.
And in your head, the book's like drowning or there's a fire.
Yeah.
And then you save it.
Yeah, it's like, I'm on the, like, we just a Titanic saying the books in the water and
I'm Kate Winslet.
But I have a book that's signed by Steven Sondheim that my aunt sent like him being like
so.
I don't mean to mansplain.
The shine you said it wrong.
Stephen King. Oh, no, no.
JPC and I made the same joke.
That he was like, the higher and like,
thanks so much for your enthusiasm,
Steven's on time.
So I'd maybe say that.
That's fantastic.
Or my mom is a librarian and cares so much
about reading a book, it's kind of, it's great.
But when we were growing up, we had to wait
in a lot of lines to get like authors to sign books.
And now, do you say that she was a librarian or a line-brarrion?
A line-brarrion.
She's a line-backer?
Uh, she's a line-backer.
For the Rams?
Yes, Mistress.
Yes, Mistress.
And I have a copy of the giver
signed by Lois Lowry.
Oh.
And I think that I would save like there's a couple other ones like that.
I'd give her that book which the fucking trash.
Um, I was a one called enthusiasm by Polly Shulman.
That is a young shulman.
Polly Shulman.
Oh my god.
We saw the antidote author.
It's like, but I wore that book out when I was like 14.
I guess my favorite book is Biodome.
I'm ready for the next question.
I wore that book out.
Can I ask is your mom still a librarian?
She is.
Where can people find her?
Leave her alone.
But if you want book recommendations,
it's so funny, because my mom is a librarian,
but her favorite genre of book is nonfiction stories
about people surviving on the ocean.
Wow.
What a specific genre.
Which sounds specific, but there are hundreds of books.
Yeah, I've seen Open Water.
Yeah, it's basically just like Aaron, they were on the ship.
And Aaron, I'll tell you, they were,
they didn't think they were gonna make it.
They had the poop off board.
It was nuts.
I'm gonna use that answer you just gave to launch
and to pick it back onto this question,
which I just saw.
Is that legal?
Which is, what's the, what's up?
Is that legal?
Didn't you say that you're not gonna get bogged down
in any my legalies?
Yes, but I'll bogg, ever what else.
You killed those, squirrel.
Take any kill, that's squirrel.
So this question is, what's the one thing
we'd be most surprised to learn about you?
And I'm gonna immediately latch onto
what you just talked about, which is a big thing about me
that people probably don't know or would guess
is that I'm terrified of water.
Like, not cool or something,
but I've been to the ocean many times
and people are like, let's go into the ocean
I'm like I can't or will be on like a boat and they're like let's go snorkeling and scuba diving and I'm like I really can't so
I've been snorkeling once and why but it was in like I mean I never left my feet
So I just like dip down my head. I never left my feet, but I am terrified of the ocean. Whoa. I had say I wouldn't have known that
JPC This is one thing that you do don't know about me or one thing that people would
know. It's one thing we'd be surprised to know about you. So I think you too, audience.
Oh, the audience would be surprised to know. I am a pretty hardcore into budgeting. So I
I have apps and spreadsheets and like retirement accounts. And I like I scrimp and I save and I pinch pennies and I shrimp a shrimp and I clam.
I scrimped scrampy.
I shouldn't be.
I shouldn't be.
I have a shrimp cast.
I have a scratch.
And I can I can I guess I can be pretty,
if there is the difference between going and getting something delivered
and me walking like six blocks in the snow,
I'll just like, I'm like, well, walk six bucks.
I'm not gonna spend $4 on the delivery fee,
plus you got a tip.
So I'm pretty, I'm pretty miserly.
I'm good to join you guys.
Sometimes I've thought about asking you to help me.
Like paying you a couple hundred dollars
and being like, fix my life financially.
I'd also have to have everybody for free
because I love doing it.
And I have helped many people that have been like,
hey, can you just help me with this?
And I'm like, yes, we'll sit down
and we'll give you some homework.
But it's something I love doing
because I love talking about it and going through that process.
Well, your shirt says I love lamp. And that's about it and going through that process.
Well your shirt says I love lamp.
That's a reference to you.
The thing about budgeting is once you do it once, you kind of set it and that's your
budget now and it's set, so I really do like helping other people do it because then you
get to go back and do it again and get your hands dirty, which I can't just blow up my
financial life and start that over again. Cool.
I guess I could.
I'm trying to think of what mine is.
I'm trying to, in the context of the show,
and I think it's something I've talked about before,
is that people thinking that I laugh easily at things.
Like I feel like because I am on Heyvrital Rital
and you hear me laugh so hard at Adela and JPC,
I feel like I'm not an easy laugh.
Do people, do you find that people who appreciate our show
come up and try and get you to laugh for something?
Not necessarily, I think.
People tickle the shit out of me.
Yeah.
But like, what if I was just saying,
he was like, he recently was like,
you're an easy laugh, like between me and you.
Walt running, shirtless.
Yeah, like, why not?
He did, did, did, did, did, did, did, did, did, did, did, did, did,
um, uh, he, but I was like, no, no, I'm in love with you.
And then also, I'm in love with you.
And then also, I'm in love with JPC.
Yeah, of course, I'm in love with all their jokes.
But I think like, there are like 10 people in the world who make me like, ballie laugh hard
and like two of those people are in this room.
So I think it's a little misleading.
I think I'm a little bit more, it's not that I don't think people are funny.
I feel like pretty intensely anxious around a lot of people.
So it's hard for me to to relax enough to laugh really hard.
I'll also say that Adel and I probably have this same problem
because it's a podcast and you can't see our faces,
but a lot of the times have this resting fuck you face,
which I know I don't really see a lot of improv shows anymore,
but I know when I was seeing a lot of improv shows,
people would not want me in the audience
because of how much my face was just like,
I fucking hate this, because I probably did,
but not all the time, and it just like,
that's the natural resting place that I've been making.
Yeah, my eyebrows are like narrow,
so people are always like, I had the same thing
where people after shows would be like,
did you not like the show?
And I'm like, no, I loved it,
and they're like, we could see you in the front row
or in the second row, and it looked like you were pissed,
and I'm like, no, I'm just watching the show.
Oh.
Uh, I need to shave off my eyebrows.
Yes, yes, wait, let me do it.
Looks like that villain from Barry.
If we get a 2000 reviews.
2000 reviews, I will shave my eyebrows.
Why?
My wife.
So this is a good one to go to.
Could you give us a little insight
into what your recording process is like?
So we talked about in studio,
we have resting asshole face.
So for each episode, I think we assign,
we record three episodes every Sunday, right?
And let me just say, we record three hour long episodes
in about four hours.
We get in pretty quick.
Pretty efficient.
And we don't cut much, there's not much fat with trim as you can hear
But we usually do we record every Sunday three episodes
We record in the cards against humanity studio. We have KJ Snyder due to edit a day
Boom pop pop pop and we usually discuss who's gonna be doing what?
So we'll say Aaron's gonna do a patreon episode at Lundjbc will do
Regular feed and then we'll swap that's gonna do a Patreon episode, Adel and JPC will do a regular feed,
and then we'll swap that out,
depending on what we need.
Due to the nature of what we do as well,
we kind of leave each other in the dark a little bit,
because, you know, so much is like surprise,
and it's reddles, and it's like,
we don't, unless it's something like really weird,
we don't really run it by each other first.
I didn't run the Sherlock episode by you guys.
No.
And that was really weird.
Yeah.
That was great.
We guys upset. No, I, that was my favorite episode ever.
It's more fun that way.
I think people are also surprised to know that we recorded the first seven episodes, months
and months and months before we recorded the eighth episode.
That's true.
So, all of those sort of live in a bubble.
And I also think in those seven episodes, maybe you can hear it, but I honestly thought I
was like, there's a chance that there's never,
no one ever hears this.
And I'm just doing this for fun.
And also, it was this weird,
out-of-body experience when those episodes came out
because I had no memories of what was in it.
And people were like,
JBZ killed a raccoon and I was like,
what?
What are you talking about?
I should have realized that.
In a scene, no, in real life.
So yeah, I think like maybe people can tell a shift
between episodes seven and eight,
but it's just interesting.
I feel like with magic tavern or with this,
there's because everything's done in such advance
that people will come up to me and be like,
uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, uh oh,
two slaps on the wrist for being a dumb dumb,
and I'm like, what's up?
And they're like, two slaps on the wrist for being a dumb dumb.
I'm like, I don't know how to talk about it.
I'm like, episode 47, and I'm like, I don't know.
And they're like, it came out like two weeks ago,
and I'm like, that was recorded last year.
But people want to reference, you know,
I think it's the same, you lose track
of what you've said and what you've done.
You've recorded the first episode in April of last year.
That's all I've heard about that.
And we didn't release until July.
July, yeah.
So it's like Stain said, it's been a long time.
With that, you, my friend.
That's Stain.
Yeah.
So we'll go immediately into this.
What are the unique challenges of doing improv for audio?
I think keeping energy up because you're seated.
So it's like you're trying to be physically expressive
and when you're doing characters,
sometimes it can be low energy.
So I think keeping energy up is hard.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I've noticed that because sometimes we record our...
Sometimes we talk over each other is a big one.
Yeah.
That's perfect timing and that is a perfect joke.
You two are getting it tonight.
We record the regular feed episodes first, usually, in a night.
So sometimes I feel like those sometimes you have to like summon energy and they come
slow.
And then we usually record Patreon last.
And that's why I think those feel like dizzy and like fever because we've been here so long. Yeah I think it's definitely I mean I
actually like doing the audio like improv because I think I really like doing
like clear initiations and yeah yeah knowing things right out of the gate
which is also what world this is. World News is all pointed initiations,
where it's not a lot of organic play,
which is what a lot of our training is,
which is like, sit and see what happens,
what's in front of you,
how's the other person looking at you?
What emotion are you feeling?
What's the character, right?
With World News, it's the exact opposite,
where it's like an intelligent poll
that you can pointedly clue somebody into you
so they can play within that world.
I will also say that KJ's sound editing and sound design helps immensely for the final
finished product because for us it's like we're doing riddles and then we're dropping
right into the scene.
It's crying.
I just watched it.
I just watched it.
KJ is watching Dear John and his computer.
They're just eight four hot I just watched it. I just watched it. I just watched it. I just watched it.
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because we're like trying to be silly with each other.
Because we beasty boys.
Yeah.
Well, also, they don't have to last.
Like, anything that we get to just needs to like get
to something ridiculous so we can go away,
come back to real life, which is riddles.
Riddles is life.
Have we said that?
Get that tattoo.
Get that tattoo and I will pay for your brother
to go on a date.
No joking, JPC.
The one I have pulled up is, do you all have any tattoos?
What's the worst tattoo idea you've ever had?
Do you see me?
I don't think any of us have tattoos, right?
No tattoos.
I have no tattoos.
My improv team wet bus has almost gotten a tattoo a few times
and you might appreciate this.
Sure.
If we got a wet bus tattoo, I'd want to get the outline of Harrison Lot's hair.
And that's it.
Hey, what year, you know?
2016.
2016, okay, that makes sense.
I have no tattoos, no plans to get a tattoo.
Can I pause it this?
Yes, please.
If we get 3,500 reviews, the three of us will go get hay riddle tattoos.
No, I'll make a try my bottle. No.
GPC gets hay. I'll get riddle. Aaron gets real. I want to. Hey. Aaron gets hay. Hey, it's for horses. I get riddle. JPC gets
I have nipples. Focke. Can you milk me? I did on his face. I my so
My girlfriend and I were talking about tattoos and she she was like, she said that her theory was,
she doesn't have any tattoos,
but she was like, if I was gonna get a tattoo,
she'd wanna get something very basic
just to get her first one done with.
So she didn't have to think about it.
She'd want like an outline of a heart.
And I was like, that is very basic.
And I was like, if you get an outline of your heart
as a tattoo, I will get Bruce Springsteen lyrics.
I don't care what song.
A pumpkin spice.
Don't go in and look at what lyrics
and you go deal with it.
I'll say you get it album,
it just whatever moves you by man.
Never let's go.
And I want Bruce Springsteen lyrics
somewhere on my phone.
I don't know what you're daddy holds.
Not that one.
Anyone but that one.
You said you were short.
Your girlfriend's about to get an email from me.
I'm very convincing you now. You know. Do you guys know Michael O'Brien?
Yes.
He used to go by Pat O'Brien, he's now Michael O'Brien, he created this show,
AP Bio, which is phenomenal, he used to be on SNL for a long time.
He famously in the improv community wanted to get a tattoo just to get it over
with because he's like no matter what I get for my first tattoo,
I'm gonna regret it.
So let me immediately regret it.
So he went into a tattoo studio and got a big
and sink logo on his shoulder.
So this is his first tattoo.
And when Justin Timberlake was hosting SNL
or was that guest or something, he showed it to him
to be like, look at this tattoo,
and different like, what's good?
Like, thought he was just like a weirdo fan. That's so funny
I don't have any tattoos, but we did Arnie and I talked about getting a magic tavern tattooed. Mm-hmm. Tattooed. Tattooed.
Tattooed, that's where we're at. Tattooed.
You'll just from, right? Tattooed. Tattooed.
Saltwater Tattooed. But we talked about getting a magic tavern tattooed, but then I believe Matt was not into it.
So I think it was something the three of,
like we should bond over this,
but then Matt didn't want to do it,
so we respected that.
But at some point I might actually get like a badger
or something, because that's been such a big part
of my life that I'm like, I should be able to do something.
I also talked about getting,
there's a tattoo artist in LA that I like
that it does like campfire scenes.
I feel like I would want to do some sort of like outdoorsy
campfire scene perhaps. I see people with like sleeves or quarter sleeves and I'm like, I think that would be cool.
No, I'm talking about shirts dude. Anyway. Yeah, I like sleeves. I don't think I'll ever get a tattoo because then I couldn't get into a Jewish
cemetery and that's why I'm spending like 95% of my time.
Gemini. I'm ready. My brother-in-law is covered in head to toe and tattoos.
He has a giant Salvador Dolly picture on his back.
Cool.
Let's see what we...
Not a tattoo, a picture.
What's the one superpower you would not want?
Oh, that's so easy.
Reading minds.
Getting fucked by bees.
Not being able to climb a ladder.
That's a superpower?
A superpower that you don't want reading minds.
Yeah, of course reading minds.
What, that's awful.
I would not, I feel like super strength would be bad
because you'd like open and door and rip it off the hinges
or you'd high five someone and kill them.
Like super strength.
I'm travel too much responsibility too.
I think I'm in the middle of talking.
Yeah, she got your ass dumbass.
Climbing up dollars.
I got your ass.
It was your vent from earlier, remember?
Yes, Mr.
It's.
Ramplug you a bit back.
Got your ass.
What's the Mr. Fantastic?
You get all bindi.
I don't want that.
I don't want stretchy.
Fuck that.
Why not?
That's super useful.
That's, um, this is incredible.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm useful. I don't want it. Uh. Oh, sorry, I'm thinking of the fantastic.
Did you say fantastic?
Very incredible.
A fantastic.
So Mr. Fantastic.
Mr. Fantastic.
And like, he's like rubber, basically.
Stretcher, I'm strong.
And that's the same as Mrs. Incredible.
Yeah.
But Adel and JBC, would you want one that because of the power, you have like a ton
more responsibility to use it to help people.
Well, with great power comes through, responsibility on cold bends, right?
Is that home?
Huh?
The back of Uncle Ben's Rice?
Uh, yeah, I think so.
I mean, yes, if I had a superpower.
I mean, if I could pick any superpower that I want, I've always said this, I've said this
for years.
My superpower would be infinite blood.
That's my favorite Avengers movie.
Infinite blood would be great because you can't die
from blood loss.
So I would go into a restaurant and I would eat a nice meal,
maybe it's time to pay the bill.
I was like, I'm not gonna pay the bill.
They're like, well, so you're gonna have to pay the bill.
I just cut my throat, it's spray blood all over the restaurant.
And I'd call and be like, well, I guess our business here is done.
Walk out of the restaurant covering it in blood.
And then doctors are like, John, you slit your throat open, you are going to die
just because you're losing infinite blood.
It's infinite blood.
No, it's infinite blood.
It's always, it's always.
That doesn't mean you can't die.
Do you know how to get sick?
Well, I can't die for blood loss.
You can't die for blood loss, but.
That's what's going on here, in fact.
Hey, don't, don't.
I love you, I hate to find your intestines.
You're like, look at me.
No, no, no, no. I never love you. I hate to find your intestines. You're like, look at me.
No, no, no, no.
I never said that.
Infinite blood, that's mine.
Next question.
You are a member of the Spice Girls.
What is your spice name?
Plads spice.
Plads spice.
I JBC would be horny spice.
Scottish.
Aaron.
Scottish spice.
I would be backward hat spice.
I would be baby spice.
No.
Can I be budget spice? I do sleepy spice. Of course I do. Of course I do sleepy spice. I would be baby spice. Can I be budget spice?
I do sleepy spice, of course.
I do.
Of course I do sleepy spice.
You do sleepy spice.
Sleepy spooky spice.
I'm giving you love.
Hey, can you all keep it down?
I'm crunching the numbers.
Budget spice.
Give it you four percent.
And you're matching me up to your ex.
Give you up to six. That's fantastic.
Here's a very specific one.
Can we get Rob White as a guest?
Who asked that?
I don't know.
Somebody on Instagram.
I don't think Rob White is a comment.
Rob, but never...
He's too classy for the show.
Rob doesn't listen to podcasts.
He doesn't understand them and he would never guess on the show.
Rob White is my best friend. But I've tried to bring him on Magic Tavern and he would never guess on the show. Rob Y is my best friend,
but I've tried to bring him on Magic Tavern and he hates fantasy. He also famously will not watch cartoons.
So even like Bob's burgers and stuff like that.
Remember when he went on that rant about Disney World?
Backstage, he owned this.
Oh, he hates theme parks, yeah.
But I love him.
He's a good guy, opinion, yeah.
He's also so funny.
I wish he would come on the show, but I doubt it.
He's incredibly funny.
So if you come see World News tonight and Rob is in the show
He's the guy who looks like Calvin's dad and Calvin the hombs
Please go up to him and just say what do we want people to say to him?
You look at your coward. Yeah, you're coward go on a podcast you coward. Yeah, so you go out of podcast
You coward to a stranger who are your favorite stand-up comedians?
I really like Todd Barry I say go out of podcast you coward to a stranger. Who are your favorite stand up comedians?
I really like Todd Berry.
I was somebody I've always liked.
I just like his cadence and like his,
he just says a very word delivery.
Obviously Mitch Hedberg is incredible.
Let's see, Bill Cosby, Louisie K.
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I also loved Tim mentioned so much.
Tim Meadows.
Yeah, Tim Meadows.
Tim mentioned is the Australian.
He's a weird writer.
And he wrote Matilda.
Oh yeah, I don't think I've seen any of.
He does a special where he has an entire London orchestra
behind him, because he's a musical comedian.
And it is so good.
And when I lived in Australia,
that was like on everyone's TV all the time,
people love it there.
Fantastic.
What about you?
John Mulaney.
Probably.
Oh yeah, good one.
I was like, I saw any Murphy Raw and Delirious
when I was like 12.
Oh boy.
And that really rocks my world.
I feel like that's where I learned a lot of my notty words.
I don't know that I don't know that I watch a lot of stand-up anymore.
If it comes on Netflix, I never turn on to it.
I will say that I watched the Adam Sandler one on Netflix and it was very good.
Wow, really?
It's surprisingly good.
Yeah, whereas like, this will be weird, but he's still got it.
He's still got it in a big way, yeah.
What is the worst prompt for an improv scene you've ever been given?
I don't know, JPC, give me a prompt.
What do you mean?
Is it this show?
No, I think in general, in life.
So I remember being, I think this was Second City General audit.
No, the Second City Retainment Auditions, I think.
It's like you go into the training center.
Yeah, yeah.
And after level two, you have to audition
to keep your spot in the training center, I believe. But there is an audition where I go out. See, it's like
you're there's a back line. You go out to a time or one at a time and then
somebody joins you. And I went out and started doing something like just
started doing object work. And somebody ran into the scene and like pounded on
like a fake door. And I opened the door and started to talk and this person
screamed over me. And they go, I'm a NASCAR driver.
I'm a NASCAR driver and I'm also a werewolf and it's a full moon.
And obviously they were panicking, like they were just drowning on stage.
And so I took a moment and was like, beat, beat, beat and I just went, well, I'm better
come inside.
And then somebody edited it but I was like, that is the worst.
I also joked when I was in classes, me and my friends joked that the best improvisation
would be to come into a scene, wait for somebody to join you, and then say, fuck you, where
are we?
Which I think is.
Oh my God.
Which would just be a really funny initiation, to be like, fuck you, where are we?
Start with conflict and the unknown.
They love that.
I can't remember any bad ones that I've ever gotten
in a scene.
I do remember I was playing on a team with someone
and I will not name this person's name.
And in...
You're pointing to Aaron.
I'm pointing to Aaron directly.
And in the scene, we were doing a two person scene.
They named me, they gave my character
the name Jeremy Renner.
And so I started making a bunch of Jeremy Renner references.
I think I did like Hawkeye, I did the born movies.
I was just like dropping Jeremy Renter things
and I was getting nothing from them.
And then after the show, I went up to them
and I was like, hey, why in that scene
did you name Jeremy Renter?
I was like doing all these Jeremy Renter things.
Like what did you want there?
And they were like, is Jeremy Renter a person?
I was like, yeah, it's like a famous actor.
They were like, I think I did a heart lockers thing.
They were like, I had no idea.
And I was like, you just said the name Jeremy Renner.
And they were like, I can't wait to find out who this was.
I'll tell you off, Mike.
But that was truly insane.
Off, Mike.
He's usually so good.
He was off that night.
He was off.
I'm sorry, he's a kid.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Oh, he's great.
But I will say that Becca Barrish, who's
done our high-riddle rental episode on Patreon,
she's also been on our D&D Riddle episode.
Becca Barrish performed on an improv team with Jeff Dow.
And Jeff Dow, if you've ever seen him perform
with you from Chicago, he's an absolute genius.
But he's also one of the worst improvisors I've ever seen in my life.
And I would hate to play on a team with him,
but I have enjoyed doing shows with him.
But Becca came on and she said something to Jeff
an initiation line that was like,
Mr. Mayor, something, something, something.
I can't remember what the line was.
And Jeff looked at her and said,
I'm not the mayor, we work at a pizza place.
And we're out of dough.
And the audience went bananas for that line.
And I was like, that motherfucker,
like, and he didn't do it because he was panicking.
He didn't do it because he's a bad improviser.
He did it because he could,
because he could get away with it.
And because he knew there was no repercussions.
And I saw Becca just like give him this fucking look,
like this, like, I hate you so much look,
but like two minutes, two seconds later, she was laughing.
I feel like someone like Brett Lines,
who we all play with, get to do it, stuff like that.
Where there's certain personalities that they can do the,
say and do the worst thing and just get the huge reaction.
We're like, I've done scenes with Brett where I'm like,
hey, dad, can I borrow the car or something?
And it'll be like, I'm not your fucking dad.
And I'm like, sorry, Greg, I know you're my stepdad
and he goes, what are you talking about?
I'm not even your stepdad.
I'm younger than you.
And I'm like, what?
And he's like, I'm a kid that you came up to at school
and just started talking to.
And I'm like, yeah, like, but the audience is like,
this guy rules.
No one loves me as much as audience.
I love Brett Lyon.
No one loves me like that.
Yeah, get you a man who looks at you like. No, it's like, it's a shame. Yeah, get you a man who looks for you like,
that audience looks in real life.
Honestly, no, and that's fine.
Aaron, do you have an example?
Oh, yeah, do you have an example, Aaron?
No, I was just thinking of not necessarily
like someone's initiation line, but in the world news show,
when the second half of the show we asked for questions
from the audience in one time, a guy went,
what kind of pasta am I?
Very good, Tony's, spaghetti, and he time a guy went, what kind of pasta am I? Burger Tony, spaghetti,
he listed a bunch of pasta,
and we had no idea what to do.
I remember that that was truly insane.
I will tell you that I did a really,
really ham-fisted initiation once in a scene with Aaron
and we were both laughing so hard we couldn't get out of it,
which was we were all on stage and I was like,
hey, are y'all waiting in line for the bathroom?
Because I did a new way where three people
could use the save toilet at the same time.
I thought I was gonna throw up.
I could have thrown up.
It was the funniest shit.
It was a really bad initiation.
Don't recommend saying that as a live at a show.
What are the most important animals in your lives?
Spaghetti.
And then my dog as well, who does the name is spaghetti?
I had a cat growing up named Gus that I loved a lot.
Couscous.
Yep.
Um, the badger is a big animal in my life for Magic Tavern.
But then also there's a cat named Fries.
Who's a cat I love?
I used to think I hated cats and then I met this cat named fries
And now you two go on road trips together. No, we got in real trips and but fries
I'm spending girlfriends cat
My friends cats him is butt fries
Hi, five me from the other side of it
Let fries what should I do when visiting Chicago this summer?
from the other side of this man. Let's rise.
What should I do when visiting Chicago this summer?
You're gonna go to Navy Pier.
You're gonna go to the Nene.
The Bean.
The Bean.
Get some Gino Donuts.
Come to World News tonight.
Come to World News tonight.
Every Saturday.
Our favorite brunch place.
We're tweets great.
At I.O.
If you can afford it, go to Alinea,
which is the best meal you'll ever have.
She's just Christ.
You can't afford it.
You go. JPC and I've been booked in there. But it's have. Just Christ. You can't afford it. You go.
JPC and I've been built in there.
Yeah, but it's a $500 meal.
But it's worth it.
I will never be able to afford to go there.
Also.
JPC, fix my butt.
I don't recommend it.
Fix my budget.
And nothing's worth $500.
Nothing.
There's the Museum of Cerdricole Sciences, which is really cool.
I feel like the Museum of Science in History is worth it.
It's pretty great. It's also a beautiful building. I'd also like to say something on brand for me, which is really cool. I feel like the Museum of Science and History is worth it. It's pretty great.
It's also a beautiful building.
I'd also like to say something on brand for me,
which is fucking in Google it.
Fucking in Google it.
Fucking Google it.
I'd say try to get out of downtown is my biggest advice.
Like don't stay in the downtown area.
Try to get like north of Fullerton
and you'll find like, it'll feel more like Chicago.
Explore neighborhoods. Explore neighborhoods. No, no, feel more like Chicago. Extra-Coloured neighborhoods.
Extra-Coloured neighborhoods.
No-foo.
Explore neighborhoods, too, because Chicago is one of the most segregated cities in the entire
country, but we have little like pockets of very cool neighborhoods.
We have great-
We're going to pop pockets.
We have hot pockets.
We have great Ethiopian food.
We have great Vietnamese food.
We have a really cool Chinatown.
You shouldn't say where you live.
It's too late. I gave it a question. You shouldn't say where you live. I gave it a question.
I should say, an apartment, I blew it.
I blew it.
I live in a place right next to a baseball field.
Fuck, fuck, fuck, shit.
But yeah, go and check out some of our cool little
neighborhoods.
Yeah.
And if you are coming, email us at HR or podcast at
Gmail.com and we'll give you up to date.
Recommendation.
We'll send you a big list of things to do in
New Orleans if you're coming to Chicago. Recommendation. We'll send you a big list of things to do in New Orleans
if you're coming to Chicago.
No, no, no.
A favorite video games.
I think my favorite of all time is BioShock.
I also like Mega Man, like Bubble Bubble.
I mentioned Silent Hill.
Oh, good.
Oh, no, no.
I mentioned this in the show before,
but I watched and played so much banjo too.
We growing up, that's gotta be my favorite.
Best video game I've ever played hands down, no contest, the Witcher 3.
So good.
What was the last one you said?
Silent Hill?
Silent Hill.
Silent Hill.
Silent Hill.
It was a box.
It's a PlayStation game that came out when I was in high school and it's just like, I used
to play it with the lights off.
Ooh.
And it's like, you start off in this town where it's like kind of snowing, but you can't
tell if it's like snow or if it's like ash you start off in this town where it's kind of snowing, but you can't tell if it's snow or if it's like ash.
Ash.
And then there's this weird radio frequency.
So the closer a monster gets to you,
like these weird ghouls,
the closer they get, the higher pitch the frequency gets.
So the whole time you're playing,
you're on edge and your heckles are up
and you're just like, you have goosebumps.
And then there's all these jump scares,
which is like a really good horror movie
where there's this banging sound in this locker room
and you open it and like a cat jumps out
and like all these, it's a beautifully made game.
But I feel like Bioshocks is the best game I've ever made.
Games like Dead Space, the first Dead Space,
were very much like that,
which was just fucking spooky as hell,
which I really loved.
The last of us, also very spooky,
but with a really cool story.
I like spooky games like that.
Spooky.
Spooky.
If the three of you were stranded together
on a desert island,
oh, yep.
If the three of you were stranded together
on a deserted island and could only take one movie each,
who would you kill and eat first?
Is that literally the question?
Yeah, that ticket turn.
Uh, okay. Okay.
God.
I think I, okay.
And this is meant to be a compliment.
We gotta eat out of our-
That's because you're the fattest.
No, because I think that your diet
is the most delicious.
Like you eat good foods.
Oh, that's right, you're good.
I have gouts.
I know, but you can have gluten and you can have meat.
And we don't have meat or gluten.
So I feel like we both won't taste very good and you would love the compliment.
Please eat me.
That's all that's you.
You'd be like, please eat me.
I'm going to be delicious.
That's my new catchphrase.
Yeah.
Please eat me.
It's like a polite part Simpson.
Daviesie, who would you eat? I'm a vegetarian. I'm over-lacto vegetarian though, J.P.C. who would you eat?
I'm a vegetarian, I'm over-lacto vegetarian though, so I can eat eggs and cheese.
I can't kill either one of you.
You can eat my hair.
I did you both live, but I'd eat the things that grow off of you, like toenails, pubes,
hair, teeth.
Pukes.
Well, you're lucky.
Ha ha ha ha.
T-licious. Ha ha ha ha.
Delicious.
Bone up a teeth.
I feel like I ate JPC first just because then I wouldn't have to hear all the budget talk.
We got to set aside.
You should save the legs.
You should save the legs.
Ladies of the biggest muscle.
We have 22 crabs.
Okay.
If we each have a shot up, if there's a musical made about you, who would start in it and what's it about?
Well, I feel like it's about your life. It's a musical man about it. Yeah, but like what part of your life?
Send to greatness.
No, it's not sleeping. So it'd be Jupiter sending. Yep. And it's end to greatness. I'm gonna pick a musical theater actress. I
think that's that's the goal right?
Who is it? Though what's not the talented? No, although I love Sutton Vosher, I would pick Stephanie
J. Bloss to play me, but in my little like a little bit later. That's what I pick.
We trends in Mujee Blossha. Yeah. Yeah, I get that a lot from women.
I would have Brian Darcy James play me.
Cool.
He's great.
And it would just be musical about wearing plaid being a dad.
I heard that and I'm missing.
I'd have a litamin and moll Miranda play me and it would all be all about my kind of rise to power
coming from an immigrant in the 1700s.
Really?
Become kind of the foremost backer of our financial system.
And you're a bastard in a Scotsman.
Yeah, well the son of one.
If you had access to resources to make any game you wanted, board game, video game, etc.
What would you make?
Four square.
I would create like a personal questiony game that people can play at bars with their friends.
Absolutely.
Because I get a lot of flack from my friends where especially Harrison Lot who goes, stop
having structured
Conversations, let's just have a conversation because I'm like let's talk superlatives if we were all a list
If I had infinite it's infinite resources and money, right? Yeah, okay. Go ahead
Do you have it? Yeah, I have mine. Go ahead. I would make a really fucking awesome like really good good, really fun to play, great graphics, very,
very good video game that was based on a terrible movie.
Like I do like Master of the Skies and have like the Dana Cardi movie.
I have Master of the Skies, the video game, and people would be like, why would anyone
play this?
But then like IGN would be like 10 out of 10, like Paul God, like everybody's giving it ray reviews and people like like, I guess I'm gonna fucking pay
$60 and buy the master of disguise video game.
So I'm basically just troll.
So funny.
I love that.
Uh, I have two board games I actually, or card games I actually want to make.
One is like acronyms or cross sticks.
So it's like cards with letters on them and you deal them out, or you can put them in the middle.
And as you collect them, I see them in the middle,
you can make acronyms or cross-sticks.
I also wanna do one.
I feel like that's a bunch of sophomores at Yale.
We'd be like, this is my favorite thing.
This is my favorite thing.
Pithy, pressy digitation.
And then the other game I wanna do,
which is one of my favorite ever road trip games.
And Aaron, you were on a road trip with me when we played this.
It's one of my favorite games ever.
I'm sure I did not make this up for sure, but I want to gamify it, which is a card game
where one pile of cards says like Beatles songs or...
I created this game.
Fairecy Movie.
Calm down.
I did. And I taught it to you too in the card. You flipped it. It was really thing. Well, calm down. I did.
And I taught it to you too in the car and you flipped it.
It was really fun.
Like I said, I made it.
Oh, no, I made it up this game.
Beatles songs or country songs or whatever it is.
And you replaced one word with a specific word.
So one pile would be.
Oh, never mind.
One pile would be what it is.
So it's like a fancy movie or a book or whatever, known books.
So it's like known entities.
And then the other pile would be like,
it would say like beef on it.
And you had to replace one word in that title song
whatever with the word beef.
So if it's like Beatles songs and the word beef,
everyone has to go around and say Beatles song
and replace one word with beef.
So it'd be like, I wanna hold your beef, beef, me do.
Please, please beef, whatever that is, right. So that's a game I want to make
will we play that on the road to come to we did and that's not the game I thought you're
about what game did you think that was thinking of is the one we played back from the escape
room that Sean and I play all the time which is either you give a song and then you talk
about what's in the movie that song would come or you give a type of scene in the movie
like this is a part of the movie where a car is spinning in slow motion in the movie, that song would come. Or you give a type of scene in the movie. This is a part of the movie where a car is spinning
in slow motion and the hero of the movie walks out
of the car really cool with a gun and it's like,
looking really cool and then you pick the song for that.
That was a very fun video.
It's a really fun video.
I remember a car laughing at that.
You two were freaky, good at it and it was blowing my mind.
I think when C9 described it was like,
a dad driving a car and he puts down the top.
It's like convertible and he puts down the top and it's snowing.
But then he turns up the radio and it was long September by Calming Cros or was it?
Long November.
It's been a long, long life.
We're just going to do a couple more here.
This might be our penultimate question.
Would you do another escape room episode
given the reception of the first one?
Yeah.
Yeah, I think it's hard because I don't think people want us
to come to do their escape rooms because it spoils it.
It spoils it.
It spoils it.
If you are about to retire an escape room,
we will come and do a recording there,
because then we're not gonna spoil anything.
Yeah, so we were lucky enough our friends and in Chris do adventures in Time and Space
in Champaign and Urbana, and they were retiring it.
They were making new rooms, so we were lucky enough
to have them in a Vitastone.
I've said this to Adel before, but I have a dream
that a big old-timey movie producer, Hollywood guy,
here's our show and goes, what kind of TV show do you want to make?
And they make a different escape room
for the three of us in a guest every week.
Wait, I've had that same dream,
but he has no face and it's like an infinite void
and then you can't move.
And you scream in.
I have that same dream, but you were naked, JPC,
and covered in infinite blood.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Saying, I'm not gonna pay my bill.
But yeah, I think we would definitely do
another escape room as super fun.
Netflix, if you're listening,
the three of us do an escape room every week with a new guest, I think we would definitely do another scaper room as super fun. Netflix, if you're listening, the three of us do an escape room every week with a new guest,
I think, honestly, Netflix doesn't have any escape room
they show right now, so that's big.
Seriously.
I wanna do that.
I think it's off the air, but Jimmy Parto did a show, right?
There was escape rooms, but it was just whoever,
and then he would like comment on how dumb they were.
I think someone should produce that,
and then do a campaign, tweet at any network, and say, let's make a dumb they were. I think someone should produce that, and then do a campaign,
tweet at any network and say,
let's make a chat network.
I won't do this for fucking MTV.
I'm not gonna do it for CW.
Shit, we'll use Word.
I will only do it for CW.
Some fucking handsome teen plays JPC,
no thanks.
Some handsome teen.
Do you say handsome?
Everything else is the same.
Yeah.
All right, I'm ready.
Let's see here.
There's a few redundancies.
Oh!
Let's get into.
Yeah.
So here's a, this will be Rapid Fire.
And this is a pointed one for each of us.
JPC, why did you name her spaghetti?
I used to post a picture of spaghetti every day on Facebook
around the same time for two years.
And it would always say, treating myself to a good,
fuck, what did it say?
It's a treating myself to a good,
something happy Monday, happy Tuesday, happy Wednesday.
I posted that nonstop for two years
and then deleted my Facebook.
And then I named my dog spaghetti.
Says, Adel, who would win in a fight?
Chant or Adam Peculaire?
Chant would win because badgers are ferocious animals.
I think the most ferocious animals second only
to Wolverines.
I think he would also verbally just tear it out.
Verbally chunt would just
as straight on Pecky-Lair because he's too paranoid.
And then Aaron, how often does Mitch
ask you to stop talking about him on the podcast?
Sweet Mitch is so patient.
Do you call him sweet Mitch?
Yeah, he's so sweet.
Is that like a kneel down in the sleep?
But he doesn't, he's such a good
sport and so nice that he often doesn't say anything. But every other person
I'm related to is so defensive of him. And so all of cousins being like, I love
the show, but like, leave Mitch alone. Like just cousins.
A million. A million. I love that guy. Um, we're going to do two do two more and then we're done.
If KidsBop covered your favorite song, what would the new kid-appropriate title or lyrics
be?
I would want KidsBop to cover my neck, my back, my kitty and my cat.
My neck, my back, my kitty and my cat.
That's pretty nice.
That's smart. God, I wish I my kitty, and my cat. That's pretty nice. And it'd be like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm know a lot of what's your favorite song I don't have a free fall on company it's free fall in my time petty I might be obvious child by Paul Simon which that could say the same
how does that one go I will say that right now I've been listening to Lizzo's new album a lot and
juice which is the song that's been up forever. Off that album is so great.
And I guess I would just love to hear
Kid's Bob version of Juice.
It's a good thing to say.
I get things to say.
Yeah, Juice Box.
Just call Juice Box.
And I mean, there's probably some curse words in there
that you can't say, but everything else,
maybe I just wanted to hear the kids curse, actually.
What if Frankie goes to Hollywood,
relax when you want to fun?
That's pretty good.
Yeah. You do an entire Patreon, that's the thing.
Sure, just kids, Bob.
And then we record it.
We should do a Patreon album
where we go into a professional recording studio.
Get a bunch of kids.
And then find a bunch of kids.
Get a bunch of kids.
And kill up.
Yeah.
You had me find a bunch of kids.
Here we go, last question, which I think this is a good,
I stumbled upon this, but it's a good one to end on.
Also, because we didn't get to everyone's question, and there's so many,
should we promise that 1500, we do another?
Let's say if we get to 101,
no,
donations,
let's say,
hey, why don't you just keep writing the fucking reviews?
Do it, yeah, keep doing the reviews.
1500, I'd be okay with that.
Sure, and we'll do another AMA.
1500, five star reviews on iTunes, we'll do another AMA,
so we'll see how popular this one is. star reviews on iTunes will do another AMA.
So we'll see how popular this one is.
It could be that people.
No one cares, it's my night of the thing.
And if we get six reviews on Google Play,
we'll do another one of these.
Ooh, turn on your zoons and give us a review.
Here's the last question.
What's been your favorite thing about doing the podcast so far?
Oh, that's a good one to end on.
The hands.
No.
I feel like with this podcast
and with Magic Tavern, my absolute favorite thing is fan art. I feel like anytime a character,
a moment, anything that we discuss on an episode is made by fans. It like absolutely warms
my heart. I immediately like send it to everyone I know. And yeah, it makes me feel like I've actually done something.
Yeah, and if you send us fan art
and on a platform that we can reshare and repost,
we have like, so I think which is Twitter pretty much, right?
Instagram.
And Instagram.
And Facebook.
Yeah.
Anyway, I forgot to show you Erin, so many made it.
Oh my god, will you send me that?
A lot of people, I showed her,
a lot of people make her character,
MoMo the mouse.
Do you fan art for it?
So, so, I'll show her that.
I think Sinda's fan art,
and we will obviously absolutely repost it and retweet it
because the fan art stuff is very cool.
So that's my favorite thing about doing the podcast
is the fan art, Erin, GPC, think for yourselves.
I have four things.
Oh, please.
But I'll go through them really, really quickly.
That reminds, when we did the episode
where I talked about my childhood pretend friend
and a bunch of people drew that.
Whizzy.
Whizzy.
All the fan art that people sent made me cry.
And it was just like this beautiful thing
that people connected to and then took the time to do.
My phone background is still a picture of me and Whizzy.
Seriously.
That's cool.
And so I love that.
I love how often I get to laugh.
Like I just know that three hours a week
is meant for joy and that's amazing.
What, we said earlier, we record for four hours.
I know what I said.
I know what I said.
I like meeting fans after world news.
Oh yeah.
And one of the bigger things is like when college age females will message me on like Instagram
and like talk about like maybe they're going through a hard time or they're in college
and they're feeling a little lost and they like really love the show and they appreciate
like me on the show.
It is the best.
That's the best.
Because that was a really hard time for me.
Yeah.
So like in the podcast I listened to then were huge for me. So I the podcast I listened to that and were huge for me.
I know what I'm about to say is a joke,
but I get a lot of those messages from college females.
Shut up.
I said it was a joke.
One of my favorite things about this and about the podcast
meeting in general is that I spend a long time doing improv shows.
Improv shows are very of the moment, but the really, really cool thing about podcasts
is actually happened today.
This gives you a hint of when we're recording this,
but someone sent us an email that said that they were,
they just started the back catalog
and they were like burning their way through it,
and they were like sending us questions
that were only like episode 16, and they had like,
they wanted to engage with us about shit
that we had talked about back in episode 16.
And I love how people can just find this, something that you did five years ago or two months ago.
The permanence of it.
That's why I don't mean to question, but I just want to add to it.
That's such a huge part of why I love doing podcasts and that's all I want to do now is podcasts.
I've quit improv teams to do more podcasts because the permanence of it,
where people will continue to stumble upon this for the rest of your life versus like improv is such a,
oh yeah, get ready.
Oh, no.
Buy new locks, but it's employers.
But it's a thing of like an improv,
if you weren't in the room, it's so hard to capture that
or retell it, but with this, you can tell people about it
and they'll always find it.
Yeah, and that's so cool.
I think that it's cool that like, you know,
a person in Japan or a person in Kenosha, Wisconsin can be like having a very similar experience.
You know Kenosha is in Japan, right? Oh, motherfucker. I got a bunch of mail that's fucking fucked.
You think you have Kyoto Wisconsin? And then, you know, people just can, you know, find it from
different, you know, places and cultures and languages, even I just think that's very, very cool.
Absolutely.
I agree.
Well, thank you all so much for listening to this.
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That's at the Hollywood Improvagan on Mother's Day,
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Also, right now, as you're listening to this,
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and leave us a five star review right now.
Or if not five star, two.
No, no, three, three, three, three.
And recommend us to a friend, a co-worker,
if you think could use it right now.
Absolutely.
And we would love to do another one of these
if we get to 1500.
To 1500.
And we also have a, if you want more,
hey, Riddle in your life,
we have what we call the CluCru,
which is our Patreon for $5 a month, you can join our Patreon.
We give new episodes, brand new episodes, with non-riddle content every Friday.
And we also have some special things in the works with that.
Live shows, things like that.
Live shale end up there.
Yeah.
And you know, if you've really enjoyed this, just hang around for another 48 hours, and
then our actual show on Wednesdays will download on your phone, and then just hang around for another 48 hours and then our actual show on Wednesdays will download
on your phone and then just hang around for another 48 hours in our Friday show.
So don't do anything else in an empty room and just wait for our shows to come out.
That's good.
Let's try to look at a gray wall.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I think to take us out, Aaron, would you mind singing just another 30 seconds to minute
and we'll kind of, KG might slowly fade it out.
Can you just sing like another minute of obvious child?
Obvious child.
What did I say? Obviously child.
I don't want to change it to child.
Is it a child?
I want to sing one of your favorite songs and now I forget.
My neck, my back.
Oh yeah, I don't want to sing that.
No, I'm going to panic.
Okay, that's a thing.
You should sing it.
So much everybody.
No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm trying to think of no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no And we'll end on since Aaron forgot the lyrics. We're gonna end on KJ saying their favorite thing about doing the podcast so far.
KJ, I'm gonna stall by repeating that question.
KJ, what's your favorite thing about doing the podcast so far?
I also love the listeners. I've gotten some very kind messages. There are some I've gotten followed by like a bunch of
Queer listeners and some of even sent me messages that are like, oh my gosh, I love the
host like, use your pronouns and are nice, that's really cool.
And KJ Adel wrote Jupiter on a card in front of you.
That's what you were supposed to say.
Oh my gosh. I'm not a fan of you. I'm not a fan of you. I'm not a fan of you.
I'm not a fan of you.
I'm not a fan of you.
I'm not a fan of you.
I'm not a fan of you.
I'm not a fan of you.
I'm not a fan of you.
I'm not a fan of you.
I'm not a fan of you.
I'm not a fan of you.
I'm not a fan of you. I'm not a fan of you. Now are the parents of the people ready for the sake of the people
We'll go created by M.O.B. Cargamers and M.O.N. the Morris
We'll go rid of our stupid, pure, hate-risk-a-break-allness
you