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Episode Date: July 25, 2025

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Does anyone remember why we're doing this episode? What did we say that made people submit their hot takes to us? We asked them to. We asked them to, but what was the context? Do you remember the context? Yeah, what was the impetus? Oh, Casey, does Casey remember?

Casey, do you wanna see the rest? Casey, you must. I don't remember why you asked. I even remember the things you said after. You said you gave the example of Pringles being your favorite chip. I even remember the things you said after. You said you gave the example of Pringles being your favorite chip. I remember everything but why somebody said that. Hey, it doesn't matter because people submitted

a lot of hot takes to us. I'm so excited. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna review some of people's hot takes, see if we agree with them and if they maybe spur some hot takes of our own. It's gonna be an all hot takes episode. I think maybe I'm just trying to really focus on branding. I think we should eat hot wings.

They get progressively spicier while the hot takes get progressively spicier. Adel, that is such a good idea. Does that exist? And no one's ever done it before. That is such a good idea. Thank you. We should put it on YouTube as well. We should get celebrities and we don't do it and then we hire Sean Evans.

Just two first names. Oh, Hot Ones, the show. God, I love that show. Anyways, what was your idea? Oh, Hot Wands, and it's, we just show pictures of different people named Juan who are smoke shows. So for whatever reason, people submitted some hot takes to us. And I guess if you want to see, if you have future hot takes,

if these inspire some of your hot takes, you can email us, HRRpodcast.gmail.com. Put hot takes in the subject line, and we might use them for a future episode of hot takes, if indeed we care to do so. But here are some hot takes. This one- Before we start, do either of you have any hot takes

that get you in trouble? Like what, off the top of your head? For mine, I know that me loving the movie, The Village, makes people feel insane. I love that movie. It's so good. It's so good. It's so good. Yeah, I feel like that's early enough

in the Shyamalan-iverse that if you're like, to say like you love like, When I say that, people Devil or Grab like Old? Pitchforks, so. Yeah.

People will literally go crazy when I put them in. Well, I think that M. Night Shyamalan in general sucks, and I think he's like. No, Signs is amazing. No. Yes. Oh no. Signs is very good. It's Yes. Oh no. Yeah, signs is very good What is one of the most reactive scenes when the alien walks by at the birthday party in Mexico?

I it's since shivers are we talking about the same movie signs the movie about swing away that comes away and their only weakness is water Planet is made 75% of yeah. Well Mel Gibson is made 75% of? Yeah. Well, Mel Gibson is a star. Can do no wrong. He's a star. I do think that people correctly identified that like, M. Night Shyamalan to a certain degree

is kind of a one trick pony. And the more movies he made, and then I felt like maybe Signs in the Village were like early on fine movies, but really he like knocked it out of the park with his first movie. And then he made stuff like, what was the Paul G. Marri one? Sideways. Thank you, he made Sideways then he made stuff like, where's the Paul G. Marty one?

Sideways. Thank you, he made Sideways. And they're like, Lady in the Water. Lady in the Water. Lady in the Water. And they were like, this is not... About a motel that has all fairy tales. Yeah, yeah.

It's basically fables, but terrible? And the one thing I will say with Imaq Shahnulam is I think he like self-produces all of his movies. Like he doesn't take studio money. So like they're technically all like, you know, it's he is doing Little art projects. Let's pick on his daughter who's saying 45 minutes in the Josh Hartnett movie Doesn't have another daughter who's also trying to do in night Shyamalan movies and they're not very good. Um, really? Yeah Yeah, he's got he's got dueling daughters

I will say the hot take that gets me in the most trouble is when I tell Gemma that Kristen Milioti is the hottest woman alive. I think you just shouldn't be saying that to your wife. She got big eyes. She got huge eyes. I think she had a baby with Bonnie Bear. Shit, wow. The dream.

Justin Vernon? Yeah. Fuck. I'm trying to think if I have like hot takes that get me into trouble I would say that I have like in general pretty bad opinions on most everything I feel like I'm like kind of yeah like nothing I like is good and like the way that I feel about things is bad so like Hey, I'm also like kind of not ashamed of it like that like I like shitty things and I I

Don't like a lot of things that most people like yeah and I don't like a lot of things that most people like. Yeah, you could use a little more shame. Yeah, I don't think that that's really necessarily a hot take. All right, I'm ready. One of the things, I don't know if this is a hot take, but what I really, truly, truly wanna be done with

is seeing consuming media that is based on existing IP. That to me, every time I do it, I'm like, why did I do this again? Like, am I gonna go see the newest Jurassic whatever movie? Like, why do I keep doing it to myself? It's always, I'm always like, this was a waste of my time. That's not really a hot take though. I think a lot of people feel that way.

Okay, these are from Waffle. Waffle says, my cat's name is Magic. Neither of those are hot takes. These are just true facts about the person that submitted. The first hot take, one, cookies and cream and Oreo are not the same goddamn flavor, and Oreo mashed into something is not cookie and cream flavor.

What do we think about this hot take? Well, then what's, so is it like cream like milk? I guess so, I don't know. Cookies, like when you think of, is this person saying that cookies and cream flavoring should be like chocolate chip cookies? I think that they're saying cookies and cream, if you order cookies and cream,

it is not the same as ordering Oreo ice cream. But it's often Oreos. I don't know. When it's cookies and cream, it's often like a minty cookie. This is minty? Yeah. Is Oreo minty? Oreo's not minty. Yes, famously. You think it's cookies like a minty cookie. Yeah, this minty. Yeah, it's really minty. Oh, it's not minty Yes, maybe chip Oreo is minty inside isn't them inside a little minty of an Oreo. I don't find it Are you thinking of mint Oreos?

No, isn't it a little no It's just sweet in there. Yes, but like don't be Oreos have like a little No. Aftertaste that is Erin, you should see a doctor. That's what I'm fucking talking about. Erin, Erin, Erin, I just truly don't think it does have any mint in it. I'm not Dude, they sell mint Oreos

They sell mint Oreos? Yeah, because regular ones don't have mint. Erin, see a doctor please. What is that mint Oreo toast tasting? Are you thinking of mint chocolate chip as an ice cream flavor? Erin. I'm thinking about how Oreos have this like,

kick to it that feels like minty. Erin, you're scaring us. Dude, I, I never, I never expected this to be the direction this hot take took us. Here's what I'll say. I'm kind of scared, JBC, because I guarantee you, we're gonna get 400 emails where people are like, no, Oreos are minty. I guess, should we look at that?

Are we? I feel like we might, I feel like, I know what I taste and I never taste mint. I don't have a distinct mint flavor. But I feel like we're, I feel like, I know what I taste and I never taste mint. I don't have a distinct mint flavor. But I feel like we're gonna get a lot of emails being like, that's incorrect, Aaron was right. But you know, taste is subjective, right?

Like people's taste buds taste things differently and like, you know, the cilantro thing and all that shit. So like, I don't know, maybe, I just don't think that they have like an overpowering mint flavor. I don't think it's overpowering. I think it's like a little. I don't think it's powering at all.

Huh. Uh, well, let's, hey. Ah! Let's focus less on that and more on, does anyone have an opinion on this? I don't think I, first of all, cookies and cream not my go-to. You know what I think, you know what I think it happens

is my dark chocolate flavor. Sometimes that like bitterness is what I'm associating with it. OK. I would even go as far as to say that Oreos don't have a single shred of dark chocolate flavor. Yes, they do. Are there dark chocolate Oreos? Are you talking about dark chocolate Oreos?

No, they... You think the cookie is dark chocolate? Erin, are you describing Andes mints? You guys, I'm literally reading off of the website. Erin, you're describing Andes mints. No, I'm not. Do you eat an Oreo under your pillow at a hotel? A combination of chocolate vanilla and a bit of cocoa-like taste from the dark chocolate wafers.

I think they are dark in color. But you know what I'm fucking talking about. I truly don't. Are you trying to upset me? It's not explicitly a milk chocolate flavored cookie. It's not a milk chocolate cookie, crazy. I'm gonna fucking flip the table. But is it?

I'm about to absolutely lose my fucking mind. Are you fucking saying, are you fucking saying that cocoa bitter taste. You think that Oreo has a bitter chocolate taste, like dark chocolate. Just the cookie itself. Just the cookie, the cookie of Oreo tastes bitter like dark chocolate. It has, oh my god, when you have a piece of milk chocolate it's just the sweetness and it has none of that like cocoa. I'm sure, for sure. If you ever do like that like cocoa. Milk chocolate and dark chocolate are different. Have you ever do like a scoop of cocoa

and it has that like slight bitter-y taste? I'd like to leave, please. No, no! No! Are you fucking kidding? Are you messing with me? No, I just- I feel like Erin's messing with,

I feel like Erin's about to be like, and you know how they're spicy, and we're gonna be like, huh? And she's like, Oreos are spicy, you know. Erin, I am a person that despises- Well, that's up for debate. Despises processed chocolate. I think American processed chocolate

tastes like garbage to me. Addle recently brought me some milk chocolate from Scotland and it tasted so much better, but it was from a chocolatier. It tasted so much better than milk chocolate that you would buy in a, what's a milk chocolate bar? Hershey's? Yeah. Yeah, whatever.

Domestic. Yeah. That stuff tastes like poison to me. I love dark chocolate and I love bitter dark chocolate and I just am not getting any of those hints when I'm eating an Oreo, but I am also, Aaron who's not listening to me, thinking of super bitter dark chocolate, which is what I enjoy. So I just don't get any of that from an Oreo.

You think that there is, it has to live in one of those extremes I'm saying that those the wafer part of Oreos have a slightly Like waffle look what you've done to us cocoa powder taste With yeah I'm ordering Oreos to Casey's apartment Erin get the Selena Gomez one. No! Why not? I wanna try them. Get the Pop Rock ones.

There's Pop Rock ones. Erin, they're like horchata flavored or something. I wanna try Selena Gomez. Someone give me your phone! Erin, if you get your hands on the Selena Gomez ones, we should sell them on eBay. Erin's phone is the Apple's screen. I wanna try the Selena Gomez ones.

If they have them. Because I'm not interested in anything else. All right, let's move on. Because I think that one was too hot. I don't think we can. Too condi- I'm not kidding. I think Erin's done.

I wanna get to more of these hot takes Erin. I'm gonna be half listening while I'm ordering Oreos. 1, 2, 3, 4, Hey Riddle Riddle's Clue Crew! Listen to the rest of the episode now by starting your free 7-day trial at patreon.com slash heyriddleriddle.