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Episode Date: October 3, 2025

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Hey, Adel, Aaron, I'm honestly feeling a little bit spicy today. Do you guys, I mean, if I'm the only one, say, and I, and I'll kind of drop the whole thing, but I'm, I'm feeling a little bit spicy today. Is it because you're eating hot peppers? Oh, my God. That's what this is. Oh, my yogurt guy fucked me. You a yogurt guy? I guess I would have a guy who would be really mad if he heard me call him that.

But yeah, I do have a yogurt guy. Huh. Huh. Can I get his number or email? Aaron. What? A yogurt guy doesn't have a phone. Okay.

See, I'm out of the loop. You don't find him. He finds you. Yogurt. But no, I'm feeling kind of spicy today. In fact, you know, I think I might want to do some hot takes. Oh, yeah, I remember these. Can I just say something about this episode?

is I got a lot of, let me lie here, great feedback about the last time we did this because I did my hot take, which was Oreos are minty and have a little bit of a bitter take just because of the chocolate. And people in the internet really took to it and really liked it.

Yeah. Aaron, there were some people that had some pretty plausible explanations for why you might have that taste. Like some of it were people that saying, like you might have like a, mint angitis No, that's a butt thing, Adel.

Come on, man. Open a book. Open a butt. I think maybe somewhat what it comes down to is that taste is a little bit subjective, which is an important lesson for all of us when we dig into these hot takes.

I got some hot takes today. Let's see. The first one are, these are five hot takes submitted from Grahamberger. Okay, Granberger writes, after the age of 75, you should have to take a driver's test every two years.

Whoa. Shots fired at Helen Miron. Yes, shots were fired at Helen Miron, and that's why she drove her car through a farmer's market. It wasn't that she's too old to drive. It was merely she was trying to escape danger, and that's why she did that. Thank you. You know what?

I don't hate this one. I don't hate this one. I went to Costco the other day, and it was like, it was the time when all of the olds are going to Costco. and I have to say some of the most oblivious people I've ever it was Costco so it was absolutely packed

there were old people like running their carts into people all over the place and then when I got in the parking lot I was behind a very old man in a very big car who was going like one mile per hour erratically I thought maybe he was having like an episode that was happening

and I kind of pulled up around inside him and it was just a bewildered man driving a car and I thought like this isn't safe. This isn't safe for anyone on the road. I have a theory that the minute you walk into a Costco, there's some sort of pheromone in the air that has a chemical reaction

where everyone moves like rumbas. Everyone moves like rumbas with shopping carts. It is the most frustrating thing in the world, especially the produce area. Yeah. Good luck. Yeah, but the floor is clean, so. But the floor's clean.

Costco is the one part of the matrix that they were like, no one's going to notice. We don't have to render this at all. It's just women in red dresses and people just bumping it to show. That's the truest thing I've ever. You guys, we don't have to color this in. We don't have to really finish this.

That is exactly what it feels like to be in that building and parking lot. Holy shit. Any more feedback for Granberger on whether we think the age 75 driver's test thing has any merit to it? I'm actually into it. I agree with it. I would add a caveat that people should have to retake a driver's test around 45, between 40 and 45, which is when you're going to be your angriest in life. Just so, just to take a test to sort of calm me down, because a lot of road rage

needs to kind of peterite gets squeezed out of you. Knowing what I know about Adel and his age and he's talking about how 45 is the angriest, that might be. So he's careening towards it. Maybe something we check in with our friend about a little later. I think there should be a breathalyzer for anger. Ooh. Or phone addiction. So you have to breathe into it and be under a certain amount in order to be able to drive. Because everyone in L.A. is on their phones and is pissed while they're driving.

I think if we're talking like hot take, hot takes, there truly should be, it should be way harder to be able to drive a car. There should be more steps to prevent more people from being able to drive cars because there are a lot of people who are doing it, but really should not be doing it. Addle JPC Do you notice Come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in. Do you notice anything different? 10 inches taller. Thank you.

No. Oh, for her. Oh, no, we were just, oh, Adel and I were staring into each other's eyes and kind of feeling each other's arms. No, Aaron, let's focus on you or whatever. What's your thing or whatever? I texted you, said, come over, I need attention.

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Oh, sorry, let me step off you. Definitely be insane for a rug. And I bet it was so expensive, right? Not wrong. It was just $60. There's classic denim I can get from Quint, real leather, wool outwear, and my new rug. Ooh. Look, I'm making a snow angel on my new rug.

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I told you we do not have time to drop new lore in these. Sorry. Look at me. Oh, okay. All right, here's the next one. Also from Granberger, people who are not kids and do not have kids are weird for watching Bluey. I could not disagree more with that. I feel like to police someone else's enjoyment is one of the most insane things you can do on Earth.

I also think that the people who made that show have been very open about how it is meant for adults to feel like reconnected. with their imagination and stuff. Is that true the people that made Bluey say that it's for adults? No, they go that they're aiming at both groups like equally. Something for the parents, something for the kids. Yeah, like the people who sell cigarettes

who are like, this is for everybody. You're selling a product. You don't want it to be for like, oh yeah, this is for just like a really tiny slice of the population. Yeah, I think that's not, I don't think that's that hot of a take. Wait, you don't think it's a hot take to say people who are not kids and do not have kids

are weird for watching Bluey? No, I think it's a hot take but I don't think it's a hot take. I don't think it's a sexy take.

Okay. This could be our new Orias thing that we might want to move right past it. I think Bluey is minty. Bluey is minty has big Zendaya is

meaty vibes. Yes. All right. Number three from Grahamberger, we should have the selective service, but for working in direct customer service for a role, in a direct customer service role for a year. Yes. Which I think means that everyone, when they turn 18, should have to work in customer service for a year. Yeah. Or I think you should be either assigned working in a restaurant, working in retail, or working in customer service. because or no and also working in some sort of like cleaning or hygiene job because you know what

I think that it will make you a much better person and you can tell the people who never had to work a job in one of those fields because they're not super respectful so I think that yeah I'm into that from 18 to 19 you have to work one of those jobs to make you a good person yeah I don't know a better way to I don't know on a on a a large scale, get everyone to have a shred of empathy. But I feel like that is a good stepping stone to, like, ensure that we have a higher chance of operating in a society where people have a little bit of empathy. I think I very much like this idea.

It also feels like it could, the pendulum could swing too hard the other way and we get a bunch of, like, Leopold and Lobes, where it's like a lot of rich kids who are like, I don't want to do this. And now I'm a serial killer. Like, I would normally not interact with this many. pores, and now I have to kill one. Oh, yeah, yeah. I've never seen Kate and Leopold, so it feels, but I, hey, I trust you.

I'm not saying that that's not what happens in that movie. I trust my friend. Yeah, Hugh Jackman kills a kid with his friend, and they ride their bikes away, I think, in the 1920s in Chicago. Yeah, I think that there's so many things that we could do to restructure society that would have the unintended consequence of triggering a bunch of psychopaths. But that's also kind of the society we live in. just to begin with.

So it's like we're going to doing that anyway, right? I feel like maybe in my mind's eye, maybe a better path would be like everyone has to garden for six months with like one other person or something. Like a soft collab with someone in like a calming space. I don't know, man. I don't necessarily know that like gardening is the calming space. But also like, I mean, yeah, if we're trying to develop empathy,

I guess like, yep, I really think you need, you as a person in America are going to interact with people in a customer service basis. I really think that you need something to make people do that. And I don't necessarily agree with the reason why we should have exemptions is because rich people will kill people. Because rich people are going to be killing people. That doesn't sound like rich people. Here's another one. Ooh, Adel. I think you're going to have a problem with this.

Number four, from Granberger, American road trips are overrated. Boo. I look at them said American road trips. Boo. Which are the only thing I'm familiar with. Road trips are one of the best things in life. And one of the best parts about road trips is all the stops along the way to catch all the little bite-sized Americana statues, balls of yarn, palaces of corn. there's so much fun Americana scattered throughout the U.S.

And part of a good road trip is to see the most weird, wild stuff. I think that from my perspective, you don't really, it's hard to get a idea of the scale of the country, especially if you live in America that you live in, without traveling it by road or train. Like, if you're just flying around to different cities or you're like exploring that way, you don't really get an idea of the scale. of the country. And I think it's important to kind of get an idea of the scale of the country because, you know, this is, it's such a big landmass. It's made of all these like arbitrary lines that are carved up into these like states that have different rules. It like, so much of it starts to unravel in your mind if you see more of the country. And like, I don't know, I like the, I'm not like advocating like, hey, there's a merit to like driving from point A to point

B, but there is merit to like kind of getting a sense of the scale. I, I do. I do. Yeah, I agree with that. I mean, you know I'm the biggest road trip fan. I love it. I also think it's like a healthy way to see the country that you live in because you see like how things connect and you see how like I was in Maine this past weekend and to go from Maine to L.A. I'm like so glad that I've driven through every state in between and so grateful that I've

gotten to have those experiences because it just makes you realize, I don't know, It just makes we appreciate places and why people are super different from different places based on, like, the terrain they grew up in. And you call them drive-through states, right, Erin? And you say that they're full of hamburger people? I call them piss over states. And I piss on all of their houses when I drive by. That's right. Sort of like a macro Dave Matthews situation.

Yeah, I've made my thoughts on Missouri and Nebraska quite clear, I think. But there's some parts of those states that I think are beautiful. Like I loved Lincoln, Nebraska. There were some parts of it that were great. There were some parts of St. Louis in Missouri that I think are quite beautiful. But some states, yeah, just, yeah. Oh, okay. I want to get to this, the Granberger's last hot take.

This is really interesting to me. Okay, so this is hot take number five. Getting hit really hard in the head isn't a big deal, and most people could actually benefit from it. Oh, no, that's interesting. One, two, three, four, hey, riddle riddles, glue crew. Listen to the rest of the episode now by starting your free seven-day trial at patreon.com slash hey riddle riddle.