#379: Jennifer Monster Popcorn

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The doctor was the mother.

He stood on a block of ice.

Both of them were goldfish.

It was the cabin of an airplane.

He stabbed him with an ice agree.

And the horse is named Ryan.

Aaron JPC, I've done it.

I've done it. I've created the perfect character.
Oh,

it looks like you haven't slept in a few days. Yeah, no, I haven't.

And I am shocked blocked. Oh, bless you.
Sorry, excuse me. Can't you? So I'm covered in dust, and that's the thing.
I had to roll around in the dirt under the moon.

To come up with the perfect character, Aaron, I give her unto thee

Jennifer Monster Popcorn. Now, hear me out.
Jennifer Monster Popcorn may sound like a little bit of a double. Adult, not only will I hear you out, I will show you out.
This is the door. Okay.

You are not welcome here with with suggestions like that. But is Jennifer Monster Popcorn welcome? Hi, young Jennifer Monster Popcorn.
No, it's nothing. That's not she.
She came to life. Oh.

And she didn't. And she's dead.
Wow. Hi, young Jennifer Monster Popcorn.
And I make the news.

Yeah, this is nothing at all. I'm really trying.

Does she produce the news or she just gets on the news? How did you make the character without

getting to I should have? I should have thought through everything. Critical point.
I'm Jennifer Monster Popcorn and I make the news.

I produce it and then I also do a lot of stuff around town that gets me in front of the camera.

This just in on Channel 5,

Jennister Monster Popcorn. You're fired.

Back at your desk. You're out of here.
Back at my desk. I don't know.
I'm trying to.

JPC, you do your...

You try your Jennifer Monster Popcorn.

Oh, wow. I don't know what that was.

I think maybe you just have to get

to get this morning. You got to get some of the.

Too much popcorn. Oh, interesting.
Interesting.

Half dozen to one, 10 to one or the other. I'm Jennifer Monster Popcorn from the movie theater popcorns.
Yeah. My family is very rich, and I go to boarding school in Sweden.

No?

So she's basically Rooney Mara?

Let me try again.

Yeah, if you got Rooney Rooney Mara from it, it still needs a lot of work. Yeah.
The name is Popcorn. Jennifer Monster Popcorn.

All right, Adol, I came around on it. This is a good idea.

Thank you. Thank you.
Aaron, thank you for breathing life into Jennifer Monster Popcorn. JBC, thank you for reluctantly coming around to my idea.
I feel like this is going to be a good episode.

Yeah. Oh, oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. And Adol, would you mind saying where you got Jennifer Monster Popcorn from?

One,

two,

three.

Monster Popcorn.

Jennifer Monster Popcorn is my maiden name. I was eating Jennifer Monster Popcorn in the lab, and this sucks.
Pleased to meet you, Jennifer Monster Popcorn.

Would you mind saying where you got Jennifer Monster Popcorn from? Or is that...

I dug up some graves.

The ground is really hard this time of year, so

I guess I should say I tried to dig up some graves, but I couldn't. So I went to a dumpster behind a pet store.

Adult shuffling his feet and looking down. And I kissed each brain, and then I sewed them together.
And then I found some popcorn from the local AMC that got dumped in there. We got him.

With what we don't know.

Jennifer's 20 newt brains and 10 grams of caramel cord. He's definitely been got in some form or fashion.

We've definitely, and something's happened. And something has definitely happened.
We've got someone for something. We got someone for something because they did something bad.

We're not sure. And we're not sure.
We got our best Jennifer Monster popcorn on it, though.

Hey, guys. Hi, Aaron.
How, why does it feel so easy to bullshit and spin our wheels when I'm not old man puzzles? Why does it come so naturally

to me to waste time?

Who's going to tell her this is her episode?

fine i guess i'll get into riddles four minutes in i get hey aaron you're out of the show girl you can do whatever you want to do now aaron we are in the spooky month do you want to kill time talking about what are some good ideas for halloween costumes this year sure

sounds like adult might want to kill time talking about the halloween costume thing sounds like he might have something for that uh all right i'm reading the news trying to find something funny you want to share with the entire class or

I wasn't prepared.

Erin, are you doing anything? Do you think you're going to be doing anything for Halloween this year? Doing any costume parties and shit like that? I'm going to be out of town for Halloween.

So no costume parties for me. I might dress Lou up as Paddington Bear.

Ooh, yes, yes, yes.

Or Samwise Gamgee for Halloween this year, sometime within that week, but I am going to be out of town. So damn.

And you said you're going to a town that outlaws Halloween a la footlos, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're not allowed to celebrate.
Yeah, they have to celebrate. Or dance.

It's really stressful. Wow.
So they're really going hard into the Footloose thing, huh? And JPC, your kid, are they at the age where they understand what Halloween is? And

are they able to pick out a costume? Are

we still doing that for them? I mean, they can pick out clothes pretty reliably, but I don't,

we have not gone like costume shopping.

But I will say that having a kid is a lot like having a little doll when they're young, because like you can just pick out a bunch of clothes that you think

they would look good in and then be like, which one of these clothes do you want to wear?

So, you know, we've already, the Halloween season's already upon us. We've already dug into the Halloween outfits.

Do they know what they're being for Halloween? Do you know?

Well, I would say probably nothing because they're not going to do anything for Halloween.

Ah, okay. Have you ever dressed Spaghetti up for Halloween? No, Spaghetti does not like wearing costumes.

I think we put her in something once that was not even costume related and she just tried to get it off the entire time.

I am in the camp of if you have a dog that enjoys being in a costume,

go for it. But the people that like force their dogs into costumes for a picture while the whole time the dog is just like trying to like scrape the thing off with their claw.

I'm like, yeah i don't know i mean my dog has too much anxiety for me to like do something to her yeah yeah that's awful

and aaron you said you're gonna push your costume on lou did i mention did i say something about putting a pennington costume on my dog or samwise samwise

i don't know if it's for something but like i think a lot of people do it for like social media and i don't use social media so like what am i gonna do take a picture of my dog in a costume and then like in conversation like show it to someone on my phone be like hey look at this costume that i put on my dog that is exactly what i do i have several costumes of hers that don't make it to social media.

About a year ago, before me and my Zorp started dating, we were buddies. And he came over and I went, we got a surprise for you.
And he was like, what?

And I had put Lou in a chicken costume because, of course. Big surprise.
And

then he closed his eyes and she ran over and she hit him in the nuts as like hard as she could. And he opened his eyes and Lou was dressed like a chicken and he was in a ton of pain.

And he's like, I can't believe I just lived a 90s beer commercial in real life. So, and honestly, we died laughing.
We laughed for like 90 minutes.

So

that costume kind of brought me and Zorp together, ultimately.

Absolutely rules. And now I, throughout the year, will buy little costumes for my cats.
And two of them, as soon as you put a costume on, will start to like clawed off. But Teeny,

Teeny is so malleable. And we put a cowboy hat on him recently and did a little photo shoot.
And I got to say, Teeny in a little cowboy hat melts my heart. Okay.

I feel like you're sitting on some wealth. Trickle those photos down to me, buddy.
Hello. We'll see.
Yeah. Aaron will see how good you are this hucked over.
Ah, yeah.

You don't want to have you to be good.

You got to share the wealth around. And I think that if

it's,

if, if it doesn't hurt the animal and you enjoy it, by all means, go ahead and put your dog in a costume. But I won't be putting my anxious dog in a costume.

Lou, I think the hat stuff can sometimes bother her but lou like loves being contained in a thing like i thunder shirt like a thunder shirt but like even her winter coat in chicago and her sweatshirt that she would wear like when she once she is in it i think she really likes the pressure of that part of it.

I think it's just the anything, if I don't cover her ears with the head thing and I put it in front or behind, she's okay. But it's, I think it's mostly an ear thing for her.

I love like a dog showing up to like a Halloween party and they're just wearing a thunder shirt and they're like, Yeah, I'm a thunder shirt.

And someone's like, Yeah, thunder shirt's not really like a costume, though. Seems like

there's a thunderstorm outside currently. And are you maybe a little anxious, Todd? My owner said I'm a thunder shirt, so that's why I am for Halloween.
Uh, don't know what

you're talking about. I'm a thunder shirt, I'm a thunder shirt.
So, y'all want to smell butts, or what are we doing?

Because butts are our beer, right? So, we won't

drink beer because butts are our beer.

I'm a dog.

My dog's Temple Grandin. Oh, really?

I sent the picture of Teeny in the cowboy hat if you want to take a peek and then do to the people listening to this. I didn't even have to be good.

Oh, my God, Adol.

He's a little sheriff. Also, the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen.
Holy smokes. Teeny's got beautiful little eyes.
And

I do love how it seems like he's like, I'm okay with this hat on me. It doesn't bother me at all.

While at the same time, saying, please, father, take it off. I'll see pictures of people's dogs sometimes and like the dog will have that like side eye thing, which is just like,

you know, shorthand for like dog stress. And I'm like, oh yeah, you shouldn't have done this.
This picture that you took, it's not cute. It's not cute.
Your dog's, your dog's in trouble right now.

I'm trying to rack my brain to be like, what are the fun things from the news this year to

sort of transform into fun Halloween costumes? And all I can think of is just fire and brimstone and hell. That's a a dry well, my man.
That is a dry well.

This year has been maybe the worst to date in the history of life. Of mankind, one of the fun things from the news.
Yeah,

kind of testing.

Pan for that. Yeah, no, there's bound to be some fun things.
We got some original riddles here

from Andrew

Brisis.

He knew I wouldn't be able to pronounce his full name.

B-R-I-S-C-E-S-E.

It's like a Greek name?

Brissees? I don't know. What about this? You wear like a nice suit and then you like covered yourself in like watered up paper and you go as trash patel.

I don't know. I don't know if we're even in the mood to laugh about anything.
Do you know what I mean? Like, I just feel like it's done.

The guy shows up as Trash Patel and someone's like, hey, man, it's just like,

no one's really in the mood for Trash Patel. And we can, we understand what you did, but no one really wants to be here with Trash Patel at this party.

So, I get it. I get it.
Yeah, yeah.

I did something really wrong. I get it.
Yep.

So,

Andrew actually wrote us two emails. One in June of last

year?

Yes. Well, Aaron, here's a good way to tell.
What does the year say? Hold on. If it's going to say, if it says 2024, Aaron, that's last year with a bullet.

Well, he actually, I think, has sent three emails, one in 2023.

Okay, well, then he needs to stop. And then one in 2024.
And then one

recently in 2025. So these are kind of riddles that have been solely dripping in from Andrew.

Don't say dripping in from Andrew.

Okay, sorry. I'm sorry.

You get a hold of yourself.

Well, before we get started, I want to read what Andrew said. Okay.
I loved your show and have listened to every episode of Havertel Ruddle and Clue Crew twice, and I'm working on a third time.

This is the one from 2023.

Oh, man. I hope that the 2024 when it's like, hey, guys, did it the third time? Big mistake.

Truly shouldn't have done that. And then Andrew gave us an update in 2024.
I just wanted to update you on how many times I've listened to the show.

I've now listened to every episode of both Havertel Reddit and Clue Crew five times. Andrew, no.
And in case you were wondering, I listen at a normal 1x speed and don't listen while sleeping.

I just listen all day because I have issues.

Anyways, in one episode, Erin said anyone who listened to every episode five times would be thrown a parade. So I'll be expecting that any day now.

So before we do Andrew's riddles, I want you guys to do, you know, when they have the Macy Thanksgiving Day parade and they have like two people from NBC sort of narrating what's happening.

I want you guys to be the two hosts of the Andrew five-time listening to Hayward a Riddle parade parade and sort of commentate on what you see in the parade.

And thanks, everyone, for joining us here. We're back at the five-time listener parade.
This is, of course, for listener Andrew Shizki.

Not sure how to say that. Dan, you want to take a stab? No.

Yeah.

Didn't think so. Of course, Dan, our color commentary,

he's going to let us know what floats are passing by outside the window as we speak. Huh, that's what I'm gonna do.

Yeah, and then my job is to sort of the interstitial

gab.

All right. Wait, hold on.
Hey, guys, leave the fight at the bar last night. Let's just focus on the parade, okay? The color commentary guy, his job is not

the interstitial. Could you hear me? Could you hear me? Yeah, Jennifer, Jennifer, Mike,

my character takes their headset off. He throws it.

Oh, I think Dan just quit, right? No, no, no. I'm still on Mike.
I'm just not taking producer notes today.

Of course, here comes one of

the biggest floats that we have in the five-time listener parade. Did anyone tell us what float that is? That's Snoopy, of course.

It wouldn't be a five-time listener parade with that big fucking Snoopy in the air.

Of course, floats are hard to make and even harder to sustain with helium and manpower.

That's the interstitial gap. Floats are hard to make?

You're the fun one, I'm the dry one. I give kind of the behind-the-scenes workload factoids.
Put your headset on Dan. He threw his headset.
Put your headset on Dan. I want to talk to him.

Okay, let me just...

What the fuck is this? Hey, motherfucker, do your job.

I thought I was. I thought I was supposed to be light and fun, not introduce.
The color commentary guy never introduces. At whatever float you see and call it out.
It's not that hard.

Looks like Snoopy to me.

Okay. Yeah.
Al Roker does does this in his fucking sleep. You can do it.
Go.

And of course, 10 to 12 floats have breezed by.

We were off the air.

What do we miss? What do we miss? Okay, Snoopy.

Snoopy.

What's the guy? The Charlie Brown guy. He's covered in flies.

Blindness? Pigpen? No, no, the dog. Pigpen.
Oh, Snoopy. Snoopy.

What else do we have here?

Woodstock? Nope, that's Snoopy. Great pumpkin, great Halloween pumpkin.
Oh, this was just a dog house. Nope, Snoopy on top.
None of these are Snoopy. Look at what you see and say it with your eyes.

Santa has passed by. Uncle Santa has passed by.
Uncle Snoopy just passed by. The GP Riddles float has come and gone.
I'm just getting this in from the producer. It is a black day here on the five

anniversary listen parade. Santa has passed by.

We've just got it from the North Pole.

He is survived by his wife. Pull it back, pull it back.
Uncle Santa passed by on his float

and he moons the crowd.

Get the details correct. He will be on the moon.
No, please do not crowd.

Oh my god, take off the heads out. You're not even fucking listening.

I'm sorry, I am not listening. Guys, these headsets are calibrated to the individual who it's supposed to be made for.
I'm wearing another man's headset.

Of course, we owe the Vince Gueraldi state $250,000 for that snippet of Christmas time as sung by the Charlie Brown choir.

Say here comes Iowa Central High School's marching band with a great rendition of the show's theme. Just say that.
Here comes rendition's marching theme with a high school of Snoopies.

I'm on ayahuasca.

Me too.

Guys, that's exactly how I pictured that going. Thank you.
You're welcome, Erin. Thank you, Erin.
Well, Andrew, there's your parade.

And I know I'm going to give the update about what you said this year of how many times you listened. But first, let's do your original riddles riddles that you sent.

And I think these riddles are great.

Here we go. Okay.
I'll be the judge of that, and I'll probably say that they're great. Great.
My steeds made of plastic or wood or steel, but I'm often soft and pleasant to feel.

I protect what ought to be clean and pristine, but in doing so, I ensure it's not to be seen. What am I?

So, Aaron, my steeds are soft and pristine. Is it you said steeds are soft and pristine?

No, my steeds made of plastic or wood or steel, but I'm often soft and pleasant to feel. Is this a tongue and the teeth are horses or something? Teeth are horses.

Steed. Is steed in this a literal horse?

No, but it's would it be something that's like

it's in steeds, plural, right? Like it was like a, like I was thinking like dog sled or something, but the steeds are plastic, wood, or steel? Like, my steed is made of plastic or wood or steel.

So,

Santa Lawn ornament, like his

chessboard. Ooh, chessboard's great.
Yeah, like I like it's something that covers up something else.

Oh, um, and the thing that it covers can be made of plastic or wood or steel.

Trump administration, FC files. It covers it.
It's a thing that is famously covering things to keep something clean.

Cash patel?

What is something? Covering something that keeps something clean. Is this

like those things that old people put on their couches? Oh, could you go as the Epstein birthday book? Oh, my God.

No. Because it doesn't exist, JPZ.

We can't play fictional things during Halloween. That's right.
Yeah, it was faked. It was all faked.

This keeps something clean. So, Aaron, is it

like a sheet or?

Yeah, that's really close.

A sheet is close. A sheet is really close.

A blanket? I bet you could use a sheet as a replacement for this, and I'm sure a lot of people do. Prophylactic.
No.

Yeah, a condom.

No.

I'm actually sort of really confused how to use a sheet as a condom. That can't be.
I'm actually sort of really confused. I'm actually sort of really confused over here.

Like a sheet and this basically look exactly the same. I think that they are typically made of.

that's close to, but this is

this is maybe used on like a special occasion. Sometimes it can be for like a holiday.

Tablecloth. Yes, a tablecloth.

I would like to see that. You could absolutely use a sheet as a tablecloth in a pinch.

JPC, you are a parent in a family and your kids are home for the holidays. And you've set out this like gorgeous meal on a table that is like so formally set.

And you just want everyone to get along and have a good time and rise to the occasion of how formal this meal is.

Well, guys,

I cooked all day. Wow.
Good job, Pops. Yeah, dad's never really done an all-day cook like this before.

It was pretty challenging. Everything kind of came together in the right way.
Did you email mom for any of the recipes, or did you wing it?

This is me not using mom's recipes, kind of using some of my own creations.

Well, I mean, it wasn't all me. It was, I

had an Emerald Lagasse cookbook from 2002. And so I used.

Oh, that's what you got in the divorce, right?

No, this is something that dad got for himself, bam.

Just to kind of, yeah, it's just like a post post-divorce thing. It was not something that I got in the divorce, or you know, because the divorce champ would have been our stuff.

So it wouldn't be, I wouldn't get new stuff

from the divorce. Yeah, Troy

Troy's for

for easter and it was kind of incredible troy is like is he he's james beard um yeah james beard award winning right yeah and he's like i think total across all of his restaurants like 15 michelin stars which is crazy for someone so young so and so tall he's six eight um 245 tall for a chef but anyways dad i'm sure this is so great like i'm sure this is going to be so so good yeah

well i you know i we just don't get to do holidays, you know, every holiday. And I know you two are both on other sides of the country.
So I thought, well, this is a special occasion.

Oh, we moved back

last year. Yeah, we moved back.
Just been busy, I guess. Oh, okay.
No.

Well,

great. I mean, you could have stayed.

It doesn't matter. Hey, Troy's picking us up at 8.
Tonight he's picking up at 8. So we better get moving.
Yeah, we better. Yeah.
It's 7.15. I'm going to leave some room for whatever Troy made.

Troy's crumble. Oh, Troy's crumbled.
Dad, are you wearing your suit from your wedding? Like, this looks like a suit from the 80s.

I am wearing a suit because I thought it would be nice to just dress up. Pretty crazy that I could still fit into this thing, huh? That's pretty cool.

Your old dad. I can still fit into this.

Yeah, the buttons are all unbuttoned. Well, I fit in it.

You know? You're sort of wearing the jacket as a scarf. I'm sort of wearing it, though.
I'm wearing it. Right.

Look, guys, kind of level with you. Yeah, this is all Costco shrimp cocktail.

I was gonna say, they just give you so much, and I can't eat it alone, and I should give up the membership, but it keeps charging me, and then I'm like, I'll cancel it.

But I'm like, well, I have it for a year, so I won't cancel it. And then I forget about the year, it slips up, and they keep charging me.

Dad, why are you shopping in a place where you have to buy in bulk? I don't know, Kate. I just don't know.
I don't, I don't think I should be. I know that I shouldn't be.
I just keep doing it.

So, when you were fake cooking all day what was it i was really cooking oh no shrimp cocktail is raw i cooked it all oh no

this is cooked shrimp cocktail oh pops i think i did scampy bam smells so bad don't say bam no smells like burnt plastic did you put it in the oven in the costco tray

Well, they don't have trays. That was too long of a pause.
That was too long of a pause. No, it's just the right amount of pause.
No, no, no, no. That felt endless.
No, that should.

I should have been just the right amount. I thought I lost just the right amount of pause in there.
I'm just pulling your brain from these fumes, Dad. You can't put plastic in the oven.

Dad, I'm looking at the counter. Is cereal for dessert? Is it cookie crisp that's on the counter, the dessert? No, cereal is for every other of my meals.

You're having cookie crisp for breakfast, lunch, and dinner?

Dad. I still fit into my old suit.
So that's not bad, huh? Dad. Still fitting to the old suit.
It's sort of a cookie crisp lasagna. It's a baking pan.
It's a base of cookie crisp, frosting. frosting.

Yep. Layer of cookie crisp, frosting.
Layer of cookie crisp, frosting. Dad, you can't eat this.
No, it's not just that. At one point, I do say, bam.

Dad, you look malnourished. Like your eyes are sunken in.
No, no, no. Your eyes are sunken in.
You look unwell. Hey, okay.
I see what this is. I see what's happening.
I see what's going on.

Just go to Troy's. I know you all want to go to Troy's.
Just do it. Okay.

I'm going to eat my shrimp and plastic. I'm going to eat my cookie crisp lasagna.

You know,

I don't need your pity. Okay.
I'm here. I wanted to have a nice dinner.
Nobody else wants to do that. I said, dress up nice.
Kevin, you're wearing jeans. That's insane.
Jeans are nice. Jeans are nice.

He's well-tailored jeans. How do you know your brother's jean brand? Well, I got it for him for his birthday.
His big birthday party last month, I got him really fancy jeans.

Gee, I mean, he never had a birthday. Wasn't a big birthday.

Sort of a modest to-do. I know he had a birthday.
birthday. I'm his father.
Well, and also, everyone has one. But I'm sorry I told you that I was in the Canary Islands.
I was in town and I threw.

Troy let me rent out his

west wing of his house. I don't know why you're trying to make this a competition between Troy and I.
Troy and I are cool. Oh, it's not a competition.
Oh,

I agree.

He's if it was, he'd win. Troy's way better than me.
I understand. Look, your mom got an upgrade, okay? But that doesn't mean that you lost a dad.
I'm still here for you guys.

I can be here for you emotionally. Does anyone want to tell me about anything? Does anyone maybe have an eating disorder? Maybe they're eating cookie crisp-latonya for every meal.

Someone wants to share that with dad. I accidentally called Troy dad the other day for the first time, and it went pretty well.
Me too.

Why is that pause so long? I got no beef with Troy. See?

That's his new cookbook. Bam.
It's all vegetarian cooking. Bam.

From 2002 really got me.

Ember Lagasse said bam, right? Or did he say bam? He said bam.

Oh, that's a great question. No,

bam. It was bam.
Yeah. I said it.
I said it like I knew it. And then as soon as it left my mouth, I thought, I don't know for sure that that's the thing.
I know it was a thing.

I just don't know what he said. Yeah.
He was bam all the way. Here we go.
We ready? We're ready. My first is a sibling, just one of four.
If you're allergic, I may make your nose sore.

My second's a tool that can be stretched or condensed. But watch out, I can pop if you make me two tenths.
My third provides what all need to live. Come and find me in nature.
I have plenty to give.

Is balloon the second part? No.

This is all the same word. So the first, second, and third is all the same word, just a different meaning of that word, I guess.
Or like a different way of looking at it. Oh, air.

No.

Fuck. I've got

to be air.

Um,

what?

Yeah, what makes your allergies worse? Pollen. Yeah, when does that sort of start summer?

Spring. Yes.
It's a spring.

A second's a tool that can be stretched or condensed, but watch out. I can pop if you make me two cents.
All right. I would like to see a scene.
Okay.

The three of us are going to be different seasons, and we're talking about the fourth season that isn't there behind its back.

That's such a good impression of winter summer. That's crazy.
He sounds exactly like that. You're such an idiot.
You fucking nailed me. You nailed me.

Oh winter.

Hi winter. I've been here the whole time.

Oh you kind of blew into the white walls I guess. Winter! Winter? We were winter! We were just

thinking about you, Winter. Wait, wait, wait, wait, what's going on? We were all just talking shit on fall.
I've been here the whole time. Oh.

Oh.

Um.

We thought this was sort of a date that we were on. Spring and summer love to hang.
We sort of are beloved.

Twinsies. Twinsies, isn't that right, Summer? We are so similar.
Similar. We're insane.
I mean. I'm basically the same as Summer.
A cool girl. Her and I are really close.
Anyways, winter.

What?

Um.

Winter? We just spent... You're just We just spent 20 minutes talking about how fall is such an asshole.

You did. You were talking about how fall's an asshole, I guess.
I kind of heard it in the background. I kind of don't really think about fall that much.
I mean,

she's nice, but she's. Man, I really misread this.

Okay, well, are you guys ready to order?

Yes, I'll do the Branzino. I can't pass up whole fish, you know that.
What else? Truffles,

berries?

I'll do a rose.

It's our first warm day, you know how it is.

A rosé and a summer brand Zito?

Well, you make me sound like I am insane. Do you want a winter? Yeah, what are you going to have, like a stew and some mead winter?

I'm at work. If I get a shipped meal, I'm probably going to do a stew.
It's 95 degrees. You want to eat a branzino? You want to have a hot piece of fish in the summer? Hey,

good lord, I'll do it. i'll put the order in i'm just wanted to make sure you didn't panic order that and you might want to take a another try at a summer

no a brandzito great one brandzito and then you wanted just rose if you must know spring and i have been talking about branding um because i'm sure you've heard of like hot girl summer and like cool boy spring so it feels like

we've really tapped into the zeitgeist where it just feels like every year we're trying to like really obviously we're the two popular months so we're trying to like really capitalize on, we want to be entrepreneurs.

Yeah. So we're trying to really capitalize on branding.
So we're trying to do Branzino summer or, you know, summer Branzino, the summer of Branzino.

So that's kind of like why we're pushing that. And like, I thought, I was like, well, Branzino is like, it's fish and it's fresh, but like maybe like spring.

And then summer was like, that's fucking stupid. And I was like, I agree.
That's so cool and funny. Summer, you're so good.

All right. I'm beginning to see maybe an opportunity here to exploit some sort of

uh deceason between the two of you deceason is my word for

deceased we would love our drinks great yeah our game so what have you ordered a brandzito and a rose

winter what did you get here winter hi you saw a goose were you ready

okay all right i'm gonna put snow in these drinks there's no way i'm not putting snow in these drinks is that winter's pea is snow? Don't tell me. I want to be surprised.

Spring's pea is rain.

Winter's pea is snow. Summer's pea.
Summer's pea.

Falls. Summer's pea is leaves.
Yeah, what is summer's pea? Summer's pea. Ice cream.
Dew. Dew?

Maybe.

Wine.

Summer's pea is wine. Thunder and lightning.
It's not from your nose from allergies. Thunder and lightning.
Yeah.

I'm hung on a cross and stretched paper thin. Jesus.
But I'm played with by children and have committed no sin.

Bring me along. I'll always be your friend.
But don't let me go. You may not see me again.
Whoa.

Is this like a treasure map? Like an Xbox the Spot? I do want to see a scene. Sure.

What was the last part you said is don't lose me or I'll never you'll never let me go or you may never see me again I do want to see a scene, Aaron. You're going to be Jesus.
Great.

Um, JPC, you're going to be Judas, and um, this is like 20 years after everything happened, and you see Jesus again after everything happened, and Jesus, you're like one strike, and we're done kind of situation.

Yeah, so you're pretending to kind of not know what's going on. All right, just buckling myself into this plain seat, putting my headphones on.

What do I want to watch? What do I want to watch?

Ooh, I could do chopped.

Oh, hey, I'm sorry, excuse me, I'm 23C. I think you're...
Sorry, no, I'm 23C.

Okay.

Hey, I mean,

my ticket says 23C. Can I...

Oh.

Yeah, I'm 23C. I upgraded to the seat.
I want a little bit more

leg. You upgraded to 23C?

Yeah, man. I'm not.
Okay. Okay, all of a sudden we're judging how much money I have.
I give all my money away.

I've never heard of an upgrade to jitteral boarding before.

I'm glad this is funny.

God, I forgot how funny you were. I really fucking forgot how funny you are.
That's so crazy. Sorry, are you willing and able to assist in case of an emergency? No.

I need a verbal yes. No.

I think I've done enough. No.
No, this guy's not getting an emergency. Oh, really?

Oh, man. Do you need someone to be preachy? Do you need someone to be preachy and judgy? Actually, I'm glad you're here.
This person's in my seat. My ticket says 20.
You're mad at me.

Aren't you rich now? Didn't you take all that money? Why don't you go sit at

1A? Go sit in 1A. This is how rich people stay rich, motherfucker.
Okay. We actually need everyone in their seats assigned to them at least till we take off.
Okay, do you know who I am?

Can we check this guy's ticket? You look familiar, but I can't keep on top of all TV. I'm not on TV.
Well, sometimes. Okay, here's what's going to happen.
You're going to leave me alone.

You're going to go away. And I'm going to sit here and I'm going to watch between four to six hours of chopped.
I'm going to dissociate and watch chopped, okay? What are you doing here?

Aren't you supposed to be in heaven? I have to go to the house. Why are you back? Oh, do you see what's going on?

There's a lot of Judases sort of scattered about, sort of like the world is being run by. It feels anti-Semitic.
Did you hear that? A lot of Judases sort of scattered around. I'm Jewish, so.

Yeah,

isn't it our people that hurt us the most? Okay. You can't say your religion out loud, and

we can't say scattered around. Could I have a Jin and Tonic, please?

Absolutely. We also

have to be heaven. Excuse me, float attendant? Yeah.
Yeah, sorry, I'm in the row above.

Is that Jesus Christ back there?

Oh, maybe.

Did they just say that they're still Jewish?

I gotta make a phone call. I was raised Jewish.
No, put your plan for your phone call. I would like to.
Christine, throw the Bible away, but you chose wrong.

Christine, no, I'm on a flight right now with the guy.

I would like a gin and top of the body. She says the one that we're doing is wrong.
Judith.

He's my best friend. We used to have a sleepover like every weekend.
Can you keep it? We would make up a dance and we would laugh and laugh and laugh. Christine and I just accidentally yelled at him.

And then all of a sudden, Judas makes these new friends and he gets money from them. And you know what? Who's that other fucking of my fucking friends who betrayed me and denied knowing me?

I would take that any day. Oh my God.

I actually can't serve water in this flight. One of the passengers in 23C has been flagged as turning our water into alcohol.
I did it by accident, and I'm sorry. I told you it was an accident.

I think I got to wash this guy's feet. I think it's the only thing I can do in the makeup.
Sir, leave my feet alone. Sir? You know what? My feet could use a wash.

Nobody talks about how dirty Judas's feet were. Ew.

You know what? Judas has a foot thing. Do not do it.
He told me in confidence he has a foot thing. He told me.

He told me he has a foot thing.

He was masturbating. Jesus was masturbating in the Garden of Gethsemane.
No, I wasn't. He was masturbating when they took him.
He was. I wasn't.

I was scratching myself.

It was not a scratch.

I'm a U.S. Air Marshal.

I need you both to get off the plate. No.

Are you kidding?

Are you kidding me? Are you even kidding with me? You two need to get off the plate.

Get off the plate. Hey, everyone takes out their phones.
Everyone takes out their phones. You'll be sorry.
And that guy isn't real.

Who is she pointing at? Oh my God.

See,

you guys, that wasn't sacrilegious. It was

that was fine, everybody.

That was this year though.

That person isn't real. I don't know.
One though. Yeah.
That was like, I think that was a good question. Let's take a break.

I think that if you posted a video, an AI video of Jesus getting kicked off a plane, there would be like a bunch of people on Facebook being like, so sad. So sad this is what's happening now.
Yeah.

What does the world come to? Let's take a break and sort of atone for our sins. Oh, sort of atone.
And then we'll go, then we'll come back. And then we'll be ready for more of Andrew's riddles.

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Sorry about that. Exactly.
No, all good. All good.
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All right. And we are back.

And during the break, we went from 2024 or 2023 when Andrew first sent those riddles, and now we're finally at 2025 where Andrew has sent us even more riddles and now has listened to the main feed nine times.

Oh, Andrew, nine listeners. So wait, wait, wait, wait.
What was it? What was it in 2024? 2023. Was it five? No, so 2023, it was

twice.

2024 was five times. And in 2025, nine times.

But he clarifies, this doesn't mean I've listened to every episode nine times, but rather I've started from episode one and listened through to current day nine times.

So more recent episodes, I've only listened to a few times. Oh, oh,

I get it. I get it.
So, okay, that makes sense. Um, but still,

that's a lot. That's that's a big jump from 24 to 25.
But we threw him a courage.

We have to assume, we have to assume Andrew's our biggest fan.

Yeah.

Look, I don't want to get into this because

anecdotally, I know that there are people that have listened more than that. And look,

I don't want this to be a contest. Well, anecdotally, I've been told that.
And I don't want this to be a contest.

I don't want someone else to feel like that is a challenge to them. Yes.
I think that there are a lot of podcasts. I think listen to ours one time through.
That's great.

You know, Gumshoes and Dragons, that's another podcast to listen to. Maybe give that a try.
Also, most listened. Good plug.
That was really elegant. Not too warmed in at all.

I think most listened to doesn't necessarily mean biggest fan. It's probably diminishing returns.

Andrew probably just thinks we're okay at this point. But if you've maybe listened to the show through once or twice, maybe

someone is our biggest fan who's only listened to 15 episodes. Do you know what I mean? Yeah.

Anyways,

does the language in the emails start to get overly familiar? Where like at first he's like, gee Williakers to my favorite three hosts. And then by 2025, he's like, hey, fuckface.
Like, what's like,

does it become more disrespectful? Yeah, I can. A la offstand.
Yeah, that is a good guess. And yes,

all right, here we go.

I heard about this fan on Reddit the other day, and he

drove his bike into a tree. Oh, shit.

It was me?

I hit my head really hard on the tree. It was really, really hard.
It was really embarrassing for me. Aaron, can you imagine being Eminem and the cops arrive at your door? And

Eminem's like, you're like, is everything okay? And the cops are like, we dug this cassette tape out of the trunk of a car and it was addressed to you. So legally we have to drop it off.

And then you listen to it and you're like, what?

It's like folded up in a flag like they do military.

Hands you the cassette tape.

Like, isn't this evident? Don't get confused. It's not on the sea.
It's a part of us all, even you and me.

Sometimes out, but more often in, a permanent reminder of your closest kin. What is it? Also, I just realized that I didn't read the answer to his final riddle.
You guys never got that other one.

Oh, don't say his final riddle. It was a kite.
The answer to that one before was a kite. Sorry.
I hang on a cross, but I'm spread paper thin. Okay.
Don't get confused. It's not on the sea.

It's part of us all, even you and me. Sometimes out, but often in, a permanent reminder of your closest kin.
What am I? The tides.

A permanent reminder of your closest kin, which would be like

mom and dad, your parents, like a gene, genes or

DNA.

What's on the water? DNA. Do not ascetate.
Do not ascetate.

Erin, is this something nautical? Yes.

Okay.

So we have waves. We have

waves.

Buoys.

Buoys and guils.

What's kin? Kin?

Oh, Eric, can we have a hand? Yeah, hold on. I'm trying to figure out.
I already said buoys and curls. I'm kind of running out of

good ideas.

So is this something on the water or this is something contained like organically in the ocean?

Or is this like man-made on the water? No, so this is confusing.

You're telling me. So

I know there's a double meaning to this word, but

the part of it being on the sea will probably help you get it. So don't get confused.
It's not on the sea. It's a word that you've heard associated with the ocean.

It's a part of all of us, even you and me. So it's a body part, sometimes out, but more often in, a permanent reminder of your closest kin.
Bay. Tongue, tongue, teeth.

A body part that's sometimes out.

Yes.

Belly button. Yes.
But what's the word? At the center of your belly button is called a navel. A navel.

Navel gazing uh see that one's hard to give a hint to without wow yeah yeah yeah you any hint i would have for that would like just truly give it away yeah

so

let's do another one do you guys see either one of you have an outie belly button no no i got an inny no i'm actually like kyle x y i got no bella button We talk about Kyle XY too much on this podcast.

We talk about a lot of things too much on this podcast. Oh, we don't.
Cattle.

You ask that every time. Really? You do that every time.
And at Addle, I'm actually.

I'm actually so happy for you that we have to explain Kyle XY to you once every 18 months because, and I'm so glad you forget. Don't forget.
Just forget.

I will say Andrew probably does, but

it had to be less than six months ago the last time we talked about Kyle X. Y.
Kyle XY. He's looking for.
He's looking. Adel, just don't.
Hold on. Just leave it.

A teenage boy is found wandering, naked and dazed in traffic. We literally just went over.
This kid is Kyle. Yep.
This has to sound familiar to you. Instinctively.

We just did a bunch of Kyle xy scenes i think too yeah it feels like like less than two months ago so he doesn't have a belly button and he's autistic oh my god that's the movie that's the show that's the show all right we're gonna add kyle xy pilot to the review crew

despite my name it's not even a draw but i'm the best killer of them all you know sometimes pregnant people their belly button will be an any but when they get pregnant it'll pop out into an outie when they're pregnant and then it'll pop back into an innie.

Isn't that fun? You accidentally just gave yourself a very timely, funny hint for this. Is there a noise?

Yeah, it goes.

I'm not even a mother, but I'm offended. It's a really funny noise.
Aaron,

bodies are magical. It's a really funny noise.
Sometimes it happens. It doesn't always happen, but it always makes that noise.

Can I read this riddle, please? Yes, please. Yes, please.
You boys, every time I learn around, every time I turn around, you guys are up to no good.

And I know I'm just a substitute, old man puzzles, okay? I'm not the real old man puzzles, but you need to respect me. Yes, ma'am.
They do exist. Don't.

Do not say what Santa says in the M ⁇ M commercials.

Do not quote the M ⁇ M commercials.

Don't it does exist? Don't,

okay.

Shut up.

That is the number one rule in this classroom. You do not quote old commercials.
Points to a frame poster that says, Do not quote MM commercials. Do not quote old commercials.

And it's like a little cat hanging on for a DRL. Do not quote old commercials.
We won't. We won't, ma'am.
We won't. I'll call now.
I'll call now.

Despite my name,

you'll call now.

I'll call right now.

What was that? Was that a reference to an old commercial? No, no, not that I know of.

Ho, ho, ho, I'm

hungry. See, if it's not,

that's even worse. Bud, these need to be be folded in naturally.
Why? Don't.

You guys,

you're just doing it for the sake of doing it. Okay.
Fold it into conversation naturally. Can we get some out of our system then, Aaron, if we're just going to start this rule now? You get one.
Okay.

Was that.

Despite my name, it's not even a draw, but I'm the best killer of them all. But since what I counter anyone would mind, and I'm not over the top, I'm easy to find.
Whoa.

Despite my name, it's not even a a draw. I'm the best killer of them all.
But since what I counter anyone would mind, and I'm not over the top, I'm easy to find.

And counter is underlined, and over the is underlined. And that's your answer.
Prescription medicine. Yeah, but

prescription medicine is

under the counter. Yeah, you gotta.
Oh, is this Tylenol? Yeah. How it gives you autism now?

Yeah.

With autism.

It's crazy that they just started putting autism and Tylenol. Yeah, that's so crazy.
It's also so crazy that they like

invested a bunch in Tylenol's competitor right before they announced that.

No, I'm just kidding. I think it's good that Tylenol has autism.
Yeah, you know what? I was thinking, I was like, we've been a little too lax on pregnant ladies.

And the one painkiller they're allowed to take, you know what? That's over now. They've had it too good for too long, I think.
What can I do about it? It's a Halloween costume.

It's like Tylenol and Autism. How do I put that? It's a couples costume, and you just go as Tylenol and you're comfortable.

And your significant other gets to go as themselves. Yeah, it's a couples costume if you want to break up as a couple at a Halloween party.
Here we go. So despite my name, I'm not a big draw.

Is that like headliner? Is that like something to do with pencils and pens?

You already got this is Tylenol. Did we get it? It was Tylenol.
Yeah, it was. I'm not even joking.
I thought you were joking. No, no.

Wow. I know.
Anytime it's a topical thing, we're going to do one more of these and then we're going to do a voicemail. That happens so often on the show.

It makes so much sense because we bullshit constantly and lie to each other constantly. That, of course, that happens all the time.
Yeah. I thought you were like, yes, it's Tylenol.
Yeah. Uh-huh.

But you're like, you're doing something.

How many syllables? It depends where you are. But you can always find me in a kitchen or bar.

Things can be in me or I can be be on top. I'm really quite flexible.
Just ask my pop. Aluminium? Yes.
Wow. I like that.
Aluminum or aluminium. Isn't that a great riddle? That's a great one.

That's from Andrew still. Yes.
Thank you so much, Andrew. I'm sorry it took us a couple years to read your riddles and I'm sorry.
I don't know how to pronounce your last name.

But Andrew, if you could update us about once a year around this time about how many listens through you're at, let's say your next parade is at 15 listens through.

No, that's way too soon.

20?

He's getting, no, he's hitting exponential at this point. So no, but it takes longer to listen to all of it all the way through.
So 15 is years away.

Then why does he keep adding more?

Your two, it was four.

You're three, it was nine. All right.
Sounds like you just don't want to throw him another parade. I mean, we got to do it within reason.
I see 20, 20, 20. Okay.
20 is a good. Here's what I also want.

Every time he does listen through, I want him to draw a clock. You know, like how in True Detective season one,

he would draw that clock and it slowly, the numbers sort of like slanted down the face of the clock. So funny.
I'd like to see a drawing of a clock every time he does a listen through.

That's the only way to prove it. Yes, I think that's a great idea.

All right, let's listen to a voicemail theme, Casey, if you got one.

Leave the voicemail for Edel Aaron JPCO5

Leave the voicemail for Edel Aaron JPC

Wow, my only note is I would have included the Howard Dean scream in that theme.

That is from Matthew. Matthew, thank you so much.
That was perfect. I loved it.

And let's hear a voicemail. Hi, Erin, Adelaide, JPC.
I'm calling because I'm thinking about either becoming a radiology tech or a dental hygienist.

I want to know what you guys think I should do based on not knowing me, who I am, where I live, or anything about me. Thank you so much.
Bye.

Okay. Okay.
I love this. Did they say dental hygienist? I don't know.
I think they said hygienist. They said, okay.
Because I was going to say, if they said dental hygienist,

you shouldn't be that one. That's teeth and gender studies combined.
Yeah, okay.

Casey said he heard it too. Yeah, but I think I say radiology tech.
I say radiology tech simply because I heard dental hygienist. I don't know if I want to make fun of somebody misspeaking on.

Oh, then you definitely shouldn't. Okay.
If you don't feel comfortable with that.

I am going to go with just my my instincts that's all i have is

radiology tech because anytime i've gotten like an x-ray and the person administering it has been really kind and nice to me i'm always very very grateful that they're in that job so you sound like a chill cool person although a dental hygienist i'm glad when they're nice too

who who has to

the thing about being a radiology tech If you have a conversation with the person, they can usually converse back with you.

Denzo Hygienist, it's tough because it's a one-sided conversation because you got your hands in someone's mouth.

100%.

You're doing, I think, more conversation work.

I don't know. I don't know.
I feel like depending on how much you like to talk, that's how much you should, that's why you should choose one of these two professions. That is a really good point.

Adol, what do you think? I think radiology. I think

radiology to me is still kind of fun and mysterious. It's like modern-day magic.
So I would say if you're in radiology,

you can kind of bend the rules and say you're a magician.

Am I right in that? I love my radiology tech wheeling me into the room, and it's like, I kind of do things a little differently. Pick a card, any card.
And I'm like, oh, I picked the wrong hospital.

I picked the worst hospital. Dog, this is my lawyer.
I'm going to jail.

Yeah, I think

that is my firm vote. And I think we're unanimous in that.
I think we all have the same answer. Radiology tech.
Oh, wait. Which one makes more money? Do that one.

Yeah, maybe do actually look up which one makes

more money and do that one. But I don't know.
I don't know, man. I don't know.
I mean, look, I didn't do this research. I definitely think you should.
Look up who makes more money.

I do think when they release the annual list of like,

I can't remember how it's phrased, but it's something along the lines of like

occupations with the highest amount of like depression or, or whatever that is i feel like dentists and and veterinarians are both usually in the top three so i would say radiology might be oh no dental hygienists generally make more money oh wow okay yeah

probably because you have to talk more they're like we know radiology techs don't have to talk as much and so they shouldn't be getting paid as much follow your heart but both professions will be very lucky to have you so That's true.

Whatever you choose. Incredible.

And thank you for trusting us with this decision. Yeah, maybe,

I don't know.

Maybe don't. Yeah, going forward, guys, maybe sort of talk to a trusted friend, loved one about this type of stuff.
I mean, I'm happy to be making choices. We're more of a Pepsi Coke panel versus.

Yeah, it's not really a big life decision panel. We do get a lot of, I'm naming a child or what job should I do? And maybe that's not, maybe that's not our area.
I like naming children.

We haven't heard any good feedback from any of the choices we've made so far um at all two questions uh coke or pepsi and anything to plug i gotta go with coke i think it just has a cleaner taste to it um and then in terms of things to plug i'm going to go ahead and promote the aforementioned podcast gumshoes and dragons starring us three plucky hosts and the brilliant anthony birch There's several episodes out now.

Please go ahead and listen to them. Such guests as Janet Varney, Brennan Lee Mulligan,

et cetera, etc.,

Rika Shanker. So, et cetera, et cetera.
Etc., etc. I wish I had the list in front of me now, but go ahead and check out Gum, Shoes, and Dragons wherever you find podcasts.

Aaron, anything to plug or promote?

I would say go to heyriddle riddle.com/slash live

to go to our November shows. I think there's still some available tickets to all of those.

And come see us and bring a riddle and let's have fun. And then, also, I

it took like a day to do this. I finally released

all of my links of various stuff that I have on from my notes app and onto like a place where you can find all of them and find links to them because I will get a lot of very sweet messages of people asking like, where I got a coat or whatever.

And then my friends

being like, where did you get this table and or curtains or whatever in your place? And I'll have to dig through my notes app or my email to try to figure out where I got it.

This, I just,

quick disclaimer about this. I put it in the newsletter and it should be in the link of my Instagram.
You do not need to buy from these links. In fact, I would encourage you not to.

Just use those, like the prompt words of something you might like and put it into like Deepop or Facebook Marketplace,

eBay, or look at your local vintage stores for it.

But yeah, I just. This is like the opposite of affiliate marketing.
Like you don't want to make commissions from it.

And if I do make any commission from this, I will donate it 100% of whatever I make from it.

But I would encourage you to not wait wait how would you make how would you make commission from this because i put it on a platform where it links to things that you can make

okay but don't but i would say don't do it this was just so i don't have to be digging through my email but i found an equivalent to everything that i have in my house basically online so if

you

just use the keywords and then put it into ebay or your facebook marketplace and that's an easier way to find it and now i don't have to i deleted all the notes off my phone and I feel like a free woman.

So I don't have to be like, this is where I got this chair. So if you want to check that out, that's in the link of my Instagram.
It's also on our newsletter. Very nice.

And what is your Instagram, Erin? They can always just click your name in the show description. Yes.
It's my first and last name, Erin, E-R-I-N-K-E-I-F-S and Frank 10 at Instagram. So check that out.

At Instagram. At Instagram.
You, speaking of some podcasts to listen to, Casey, our sound editor, has a podcast called Gutter. It is an actual play podcast with a new up dropping soon.

So please do check that out.

I, I think, am going to be on, if not already on, then on shortly, an episode of Hello from the Magic Tavern, which is Adel's other podcast,

playing

a character that I very much enjoyed. It was a very fun time to go back on that podcast.
Might be my favorite character you've played on Magic Tavern. I know.
You've played some great characters.

I know. I like to play new characters on Magic Tavern.
I always want to play a new character because I invariably ruin whatever's going on with one of my characters in the hour that we record that.

That I don't want to go back to it. This one is no exception.

So, yeah, check that out. And

I think that is, yeah, that's it for me. That's it for old JPC.

Oh, Aaron, you were saying that you found like a link to like, oh, yeah. You said that was like a planetary body that people didn't know existed before or something.

I discovered it, and it's called Jupiter. You guys are so scary, it's gigantic.

Starring Aaron Keenan

and John Patrick Collin.

Casey Tony did the editing. They're alrighty parrots in the music.

Logo created by Emily Cardamis and Emily Neboras.

I checked

Witch Riddle Riddle, and it was exactly 10 episodes ago that you had the Kyle XY conversation, and it went almost exactly the same where you guys were like, Adult, we've talked about Kyle XY before.

Don't remember. No, but Adol,

this is an indication that your brain is protecting you.

I think it's such an innocuous, like, Kyle XY. It's like Sarah 1-2.

I don't fucking know. Your brain does not, it's protecting you.
It's like, it's got like a default switch that's like turning the Kyle XY knowledge off. I love it.

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I was deeply unhelpful to you during that whole thing. You were.
I'm really so. I forgot all the support.
I was so okay. I was trying to be supportive.
Yeah.

But I was like, I don't know, reading seems pretty hard right now. It's a lot.
I think you did good. Thank you so much.
You're welcome.