Hey Riddle Riddle

#393: Mr. Mouse Bones

70 min
Jan 28, 20264 months ago
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Summary

Hey Riddle Riddle episode #393 features hosts J.P.C., Adel, and Aaron discussing movies, idioms from various languages, and playing word games. The episode includes extensive movie commentary, riddle games involving film synopsis mashups, and a segment on international idioms translated literally into English.

Insights
  • Straight men's movie preferences cluster around specific titles (Snatch, Interstellar, Boondock Saints) that become cultural touchstones across generations
  • Niche movie appreciation (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Empire Records, Magnolia) often goes unrecognized until finding communities with shared aesthetic values
  • International idioms reveal cultural values and concerns—Lithuanian focuses on door-closing etiquette, Farsi on managing expectations, Norwegian on wanderlust
  • Child actors' performances depend heavily on directorial skill rather than acting toolkit, suggesting director-actor chemistry is critical for quality outcomes
  • Literal translations of idioms expose the absurdist logic underlying everyday language across cultures
Trends
Nostalgia-driven movie discourse among millennials and Gen X audiences continues to shape entertainment recommendationsStreaming platforms enabling quiet releases of underperforming films (Fountain of Youth example) rather than theatrical failuresOver-the-top acting performances in bad movies gaining appreciation as intentional artistic choices rather than failuresInternational language learning through idiom study as cultural bridge-building and entertainmentCommunity-based discovery of cult films and niche media through improv and creative communities
Topics
Film criticism and movie appreciationGuy Ritchie filmography analysisInternational idioms and language translationChild actor performance and directorial influenceStreaming platform release strategiesMovie word games and synopsis mashupsCult films and niche cinemaOver-the-top acting performancesCultural differences in language expressionNostalgia in entertainment preferences
Companies
Head Gum
Production company behind Hey Riddle Riddle podcast, identified in opening credits
Disney
Mentioned as producer/distributor of Pirates of the Caribbean and Aladdin films
Quince
Clothing and home goods retailer sponsoring the episode with premium materials and ethical production
Helix Sleep
Mattress company sponsor offering personalized sleep solutions and 27% discount for listeners
People
Guy Ritchie
Extensively discussed for filmography including Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Layer Cake, Aladdin
Tom Cruise
Discussed for Academy Award nomination performance in Magnolia and association with Scientology
Michael Keaton
Referenced as original Beetlejuice actor in film synopsis mashup game
John Krasinski
Mentioned for Fountain of Youth film and reported $80 million deal for The Good News Show
Natalie Portman
Referenced as Queen Amidala in Fountain of Youth film discussion
Oprah Winfrey
Discussed for film roles in The Color Purple, Beloved, and financing of Precious
Steven Spielberg
Referenced for E.T. audition with child actor Elliott showing emotional performance
Daniel Craig
Praised for distinctive accent choice in Knives Out as bold directorial collaboration
Johnny Depp
Discussed for Pirates of the Caribbean character performance as major acting choice
Gary Oldman
Highlighted for over-the-top performances in The Professional, True Romance, and Fifth Element
Quotes
"I will stand behind all of Guy Ritchie's catalog."
AdelEarly in episode
"I rubbed soap on my stomach."
JPCDuring idiom segment
"Go comb the monkeys."
SandyPortuguese idiom translation
"God gives nuts to those who don't have teeth."
SandyPortuguese idiom final example
"I think Mr. Mousebones is going to be like Slender Man, but a more benevolent entity."
AaronLate in episode
Full Transcript
This is a Head Gum Podcast. We got a lot to get into today, but before we get into any of it, right before we started recording, I'm J.P.C. That's how there's Aaron over there, whatever. There's the show. Look at episode 400 or whatever. You know the show. Maybe they don't. Aaron said that she had never seen Guy Ritchie's snatch. Now that I'm saying that, it does sound like... It does sound like I'm saying something else. Oh, I've seen the movie. Aaron said she'd never seen the Guy Ritchie film snatch. And then she said that she thought it was a miss for him, and out of that I were kind of mystified by that. Incredible movie. Yeah, I genuinely thought they were messing with me for a second because it has never crossed my desk in a way where someone has told me it's their favorite movie. And this is why I'm surprised. When you are a person who dates mostly straight men, they usually will not stop talking about movies that they love. And straight men love snatch in case you don't clip that. No, you know what? Clip it. I want that one. Take that one for me. You said a tire clip though of him asking you not to clip it. I find that most straight men typically want to rave about interstellar. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That seems to be, in the last 10 years, I feel like that is the movie I've been cornered at a party the most about. Yeah, cornered, yeah, truly. People will talk at you about that movie. I was lucky that that movie came out when I was in a long-term relationship. Obviously, still got talked out about it, but I didn't have to get talked at about it on a first date. Which is, I think, huge. It's huge. I remember, I think probably around the time that I was in high school, you could not find a straight man who hadn't seen and loved Boondock Saints. That's what I'm going to say. Yeah. If I had to hear all about Boondock Saints, why am I not hearing about, and I'm not going to say the name of the movie because Casey is going to clip it. Snatch is a great film. I also really like lock stock and two smoking barrels. I think that's a great film. I've seen that. I will stand behind all of Guy Ritchie's catalog. Layer cake. Yeah. Is layer cake Guy Ritchie? Yeah, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. You're telling me you don't stand behind Aladdin? Rock and Roll. I forgot Aladdin. I forgot. Didn't he do a King Arthur movie with Charlie Hunnam? Wasn't that Guy Ritchie as well? I think so, yeah. He's done some best stuff. Did anyone see Fountain of Youth? No, what's that? No. It came out this year. It came out this year? It's John Krasinski in that department. Oh, wait. No, that is Guy Ritchie. Yes, I did see that. It was so bad. Guy Ritchie and John Krasinski. And Queen Amidala with the black swan, Natalie Gorman. Yeah, I said it. Queen Amidala. Oh, yikes. Yeah, it is. That movie's a mess. It was one that just kind of like slinked on to streaming as quietly as it could. Hey, real quick. Didn't John Krasinski get paid like $80 million for the Good News show or something? And then did that just float it away into space or something? There's a red dot on the forehead. Take the shot. Well, OK, so talking about Snatch and talking about how you could at one point in your life, like you couldn't find someone that wasn't obsessed with that movie, do you have a movie that you really love that you have never found anyone else? Not never, I would say. It's very rare that you find someone else that's like, oh, yeah, that movie. I love that movie or I've even seen that movie. I mean, one of my top two favorite movies of all time is Who Framed Roger Rabbit. And a lot of people have seen it, but I feel like nobody. It just never gets brought up. And I feel like it changed. I feel like it changed cinema. And it definitely changed animation in terms of like they still use the phrase bump the lamp is still a phrase they use. And it's OK in the movie. There's a moment where like, I think Roger Rabbit hits a lamp in a bar or something and it swings back and forth. And it was such a complex shot to get a cartoon to hit a real lamp. Did now they call it bumping the lamp and that's a term they still use in like CGI and animation today. So I've that movie is incredible, but I feel like people have seen it, but they just write it off as like, yeah, it's just a dumb little 80s movie. I mean, hell, you would not have Cool World if it wasn't for Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I think also Jessica Rabbit being a touchstone for like sex appeal in a cartoon. I know about touchstone, but at this point, you're just clip farming. At this point, you're just saying stuff to get clipped. Be here with us, J.P.C. You're addicted to your sound boards. If we ever decide to make clips for social media, I also want to give us something that we could use on that too. We never are going to do that though. No, we're never going to do that. I think this is not one that is so unusual, but I think it's the one that I get most excited when people love it too is Empire Records. Yeah. That just felt like, I think I had to go through most of high school and college, not meeting anyone who loved it. And when I got to Chicago and there were so many people who loved it in the improv community, I was like, yay! We had a day in the World News Tonight Green Room before show where for half an hour we just talked about and quoted Empire Records. And then I went home and bought the Blu-ray and said, because I love that movie, and I said, Empire Records, watch party at my place and it never happened. I think pretty soon after COVID hit. Oh yeah, I remember that. It was pretty soon after COVID hit. I think it was on Rex Mannington. Do you think that we all made COVID happen so we didn't have to go to that party? Is that your social anxiety, thinking that we did that so we avoided Empire Records? Yeah, I think I pulled a bit of a Lucas, if you will. I just bought a 4K copy of The Thing because I've never seen it and it's on my watch list and it's one of Adel's favorites. We can't watch Empire Records, but we can do a thing, watch party, where we watch that movie. I'm trying to think of mine. I think when I was younger, my favorite movie was Magnolia. And I loved Magnolia and I couldn't find anyone else that was interested in it. But it was mostly because I didn't have any film buff friends. And I'm not really a film buff, but you have to like movies in more than just like a, I'm going to view a movie, you have to be into the, you're not going to sit through a three and a half hour movie just because you're like, I'll watch something today. So I feel like once that bridge got crossed with meeting people who had similar aesthetics for a film, I was like, oh, okay, now everybody loves this movie. So you switch over to Conair. Conair I would never put on that list because I can't find a single person who doesn't like Conair. It's a crowd pleaser. I do feel like if you ever wanted to, you could very much pull off for Halloween. Tom Cruise's character from Magnolia. Oh, TJ Mackie, I think something like that. I want to say team the team the team the snatch. Guy Ritchie snatch. I think Tom Cruise, he got his only Academy Award nomination for that movie, or did he win? I can't remember. It doesn't matter. I don't think he's won an Academy Award. Maybe just a nomination. He's fantastic in that. Just a deranged lunatic kind of before the days where he came out as like an out and about deranged lunatic. Like it's very, it's very telling for him. GBC, have you thought more about when you want to come out as a deranged lunatic? I know that you're sort of waiting for the right moment in culture. I think I want kind of the right moment in culture because here's the thing. It's not Scientology for me. Scientology was great for Tom Cruise. I will not begrudge him for doing that. It made sense for him at the time. It's kind of a dusty religion at this point in its old hat. I'm waiting for the next big new like shining cult religion. I'll get on the ground full floor of that one and then I'll start jumping on Oprah's couch. Not on a TV show, mind you, but like break into her like, I'm assuming Chicago High Rise and jump on her couch. I think she lives on Lakeshore. Okay, great. I know where that is. I can get there in 30 minutes. Isn't it crazy that I am 30 minutes away from just like touching Oprah? I can do that. Get every day. I feel like you'd have to run around some bodyguards for about 45 minutes. That was even Benny Hill. That sounded like the Star Wars thing. I can't get sued. We can't. It's a main feed episode. We can't use the real Benny Hill jingle. And I definitely do remember. But everyone give their best shot at like sort of like a off beat Benny Hill jingle. Close. Close about us getting docks. Yeah, docks. All right, JPC. That's the punishment. Adela and I are going to hold down the fort. You go see Oprah. By the end of the episode, come back. You're back in time for plugs. I don't think I have anything to say to Oprah. What would you say? Yeah, what would you say to Oprah? Thank you. Thank you for years of whatever it is he did. Everything she's done recently has been, you're not going to believe this. I'm going to say that she's got a lot of touch. For a woman who bought one fourth of Hawaii, you think she's out of touch? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I would say like thank you for, what's, what's, what was her, oh precious. I'd be like Oprah, thank you so much for precious. Did she have something to do with it? I think she financed it and she was in it, right? No. I don't remember that. Am I wrong? Maybe she just financed it. This is based on the book Push by Sapphire. Push by Sapphire. Okay. Oprah's done, Oprah has acted, right? She's done some- She's done the color purple. She was in the color purple, which- She was in something else too. She played the character Harpo, which Harpo was Oprah's Harpo backwards. Wow. I don't know if she was- She was a voice and princess in the frog. Was she really? She was in love. She was in beloved, that's right. Okay. I'm remembering that now. I've only ever seen two Oprah movies and I think it's beloved in the color purple. You've seen the princess in the frog though. Yeah, but I don't count animation because with animation I'll watch a whole movie and then look up who was in it and go, who the fuck were they? I can't like, I have like voice blindness. I don't, I don't, I don't recognize people just by their voice. I was watching a National Geographics thing the other day and Mariah just like came in the room and she was like, is Josh Gad doing a voice? Like, was he putting on like a character voice? And I was like, this is not Josh Gad. And then I looked it up and I was like, yes it is. Is he taking over for Richard Attenborough? It was like Josh Gad, like trying not to sound like Josh Gad. And I was like, if you hired Josh Gad, I assume, I don't think, I don't think they're like, hey, can you do something different from what you do? It's just a voice I know, but tricked me, fooled me, but I'm not hard to fool. Hey guys, how about some riddles? We gonna do some riddles today? No. No. Get fucked. Get fucked. Fucked. Well, hey, here's what I'll say. I won't get fucked, but I will give you some riddles and maybe at the end, I get fucked. Who knows? We'll see how it ends up, how it shakes out. So these riddles are from Lindsay and Lindsay submitted these riddles, I gotta say almost six years ago, which is fun. But I don't, these seem like the type of riddle that we definitely have done on the show before. I just could not find any record that we've done these riddles on the show before. But it seems right up our alley and it's amazing that we let it sit for six years. Not amazing, that's just kind of hell. This is like opening a time capsule. Exactly. It's amazing. It's amazing. Lindsay writes, this is a movie word game based on mashing of two film synopses and the titles. So the last word of the first movie makes the first word of the second movie. So two, I'm giving you synopses. You take the titles and mash them together. Gotcha. So an example would be a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole while a young overweight abused illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to a role in an alternative school in hopes to change her life around. Wow. Polar Express. I don't know that first one. Precious. I know. Polar Express. Polar Express. My brain couldn't combine them though. Polar Express based on the novel. My brain was going Polar Express. Based on the novel Mush by Santa. Okay, so you get how it works. So you're mashing them up with the first and last syllable. Here's your next one. This yellow transformer goes solo to haunt and torment the recently deceased. Bumble beetle juice. Bumble beetle juice. Yes. Bum bum bum bum. All right, are you doing another? Bum bum bum bum. No, it gotta be free to use. I would actually like to do a scene really quick. Yes. I'm going to be in a focus group talking to you guys about your experience just watching the transformers and beetle juice mashup movie, Bumble Beetle Juice. And you're going to be giving me the feedback that maybe it wasn't a great call to make this movie. Okay, thank you. Just hand up your questionnaires. And now at this point, I just want to hear from you guys. I want to hear what you loved, what you liked, what you think we could maybe tweak in an edit, turn up the color saturation. What do we think? Yeah. I didn't like the part or I needed to be tweaked when Beetle Juice turns into a car. I thought that was dumb and bad. Oh, which time? The third time. Okay, great. The third time. When he turns into a Maserati. Oh, you didn't like when he turned into a Maserati? No. I thought it was dumb and looked terrible. So, am I to understand? Terrible. Am I to understand that we're not watching the finished movie that you're going to use our suggestions and add feedback to? Obviously, we're not going to do any reshoots, but if there was a scene that maybe you found offensive or a scene you thought went on too long, we could maybe fix it a little bit in the edit. There was a scene, I don't know. I mean, I guess it was not the emotional climax, but where Bumble Bee is kind of telling Beetle Juice how he like really feels about being a car. And then at one point, it seems like whoever was operating the camera, they saw like an interesting bird and a tree, and the focus really shifted to that bird and the tree for maybe, I don't know, two minutes, and then the bird flew away and then they shifted back into the scene. Was that supposed to happen or is that part of... So you noticed that? Yeah, it's like a Terence Malick move or is that just an accident? It was an accident and you're not going to believe this. This movie was quite expensive to shoot. It turns out it's a lot of body to turn Beetle Juice into a Maserati. So we had to just use what we had. Okay, because there was a moment where Shia Labouf enters a house and says, can I be in this movie? And then off camera, you hear no. Well, you hear a pause and then no. That's I heard the pause. Oh, great. I heard the pause. Great. You heard the pause. I love it. I love it. I love it. I have a question. So I've seen two Beetle Juice films. Right. Great. Thank you. In the previous Beetle Juice films that I've seen, Michael Keaton has been playing Beetle Juice. Yeah. Good eye. Good eye to you. Didn't know you were Australian. Is there a reason why Michael Keaton wasn't in this movie? Well, if you can believe it, he didn't want to do this movie, which we, but we did find New Jersey's absolute, well, not absolute best because he wasn't available. Third best Michael Keaton impersonator to play Michael Keaton as Beetle Juice in this movie. Oh, I impersonator had never seen Beetle Juice. It shows. I think I see what happened here. I think you maybe hired a Michael Crichton impersonator. Oh, yeah. Beetle Juice keeps saying, it's showtime. I wrote Jurassic Park. Also, Jennifer Tilley is Bumble Bee. It was just her painted yellow. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Okay. Another good eye. Good eye to you. What is this that you're are you re storyboarding the film? Guys, guys, we can't reshoot this. It is what it is. We're just trying to make it better. Like what can we add? Wait a minute. There's a camera crew here right now. Are we in the film? I'm not in the film. I've a hold on. I've always wanted to do this. Is he right behind me? Let's tell your mother that we ate the pie. So can I take that again? We're not going to be able to use these. These are from other movies. Yeah, that just happened. See. Okay, here's your next one. Bunny Boy is on the run from a murder charge, but clowning around won't save him when his darkest fears come to life and start trying to kill him and his friends. Darny Dark. Darny Dark It. This is so serendipitous because we... Darny Dark It. You got the it part, but we just talked about this movie in a different context. Earlier on this episode, we talked about this. Florida Project It. Who Framed Roger Rabb It. It's Who Framed Roger Rabb It. It's embarrassing that Edel didn't get that, but in his defense, we did cut maybe like a 10 minute chunk on the Florida Project out of the episode. So we did talk about that. I think I just thought Bunny Boy was like a character name. Oh. Bunny Boy. Okay. What do you guys think of the Florida Project? I don't like that movie. Fantastic. Really? It's really... I mean, it's kind of a hard watch, but it's so good. He's like a hotel owner or hostel owner or whatever. But for a movie that is largely composed of children actors, children actors usually take me right out of most media properties. It's really good. They do a great job. Recently, the kid that played Hamnet and Hamnet, I was like, if he got nominated for an Oscar, I would not complain. Dang. I heard somewhere that if you see like a great child actor, most likely you are working with a great director who like, no... Because a child is like, they're not going to be... They're not going to have like a toolkit as an actor, right? They're going to be themselves. You're going to get what you get from most kids. So it's like it takes a director being like, not forcing them down a path that makes... It's something that they can't do. I'm calling like a 20, 30 year shot. The kid from Hamnet is going to win an Oscar. If you're listening to this in 20, 40, code in my grave and tell me that I'm right. Have you guys seen the video of... I forget his actor's name, but it's the kid who played Elliot in E.T. It's his audition. Oh yeah. It's Ford Steve Spilberg. And he starts crying. Like the little kid is so good. He starts crying during the scene. And then right after he's done, Spilberg's like, you got the part. Yeah. Which is wild. Like in the room to just be like, you got it. Hey, that's how Hollywood used to work. Now it's all Zoom auditions. Here's your next one. A chess loving banker is wrongfully sentenced to life in prison for murder. But this other loser-y guy slays zombies left and right, trying to get his favorite pub and gets no jail time. The Shawshank Redemption of the Dead. Yes, the Shawshank Redemption of the Dead. My brain was like Shawshank Red Dead Redemption. I was like, that's not right. That's not quite right. That's a video game. That's a different game. You're doing a great job playing it. Thank you. I can't. I give you A plus on you playing that other game. Thanks. An old man goes to court to prove he is in fact Santa Claus and immediately gets his ass kicked by Raoul Julia. Miracle on 40, the Miracle on 30, 34th Street Fighter. It's Miracle on 34th Street Fighter. Honestly, I don't think I would be able to pick what street the Miracle happened on. Yeah, I've never seen that movie, but I know of it. I know it's a popular. I would want to see a scene. Oh, please. Aaron, you are a high powered lawyer. Thank you. Can't say everything. JPC, you are Santa. You're on trial. And Aaron, you are cross examining Santa. Mr. Claus. Please, you can call me Santa. No, Mr. Claus. I'm not going to do that. Did you grow up eating sweets? You have a sweet tooth, Mr. Claus. Santa Claus looks at his lawyers at his lawyers, but like furiously just scribbling at the desk. As any child does, I liked the taste of a cookie from time to time. Cookie. Funny that you're on our leading the witness. Oh, no, I'm not. I'll allow it. Oh, shit. Anyone could have played the judge, but it was the person. I got the first. I got the first. I didn't mention cookies, but you did. You did. Cookies being your favorite sweet. Did I say cookies or? Fertively darts to the former to the jury who's just shaking his head. No. This is the remnants of what was left of the plate of cookies. A sweet family left out to eat on Christmas morning. Next slide. Oh, it's a gruesome murder. Why would you order the slides like that? Because we think you did this gruesome murder, sir. December 24th. No, it was the 25th right at midnight. You went down the chimney like the sex pest you are. You ate a cookie. You got seen and instead of saying you caught me, you murdered that entire family. Didn't you, Mr. Claus? Your honor, my client is willing to plead guilty to the murder if the opposition drops the 1.8 billion B and E charges. Your honor, can I be extradited to the North Pole? No, and no, you pled not guilty. I'll allow it. Come on. I'm playing the judge one. That's the Supreme Court. They're sitting in on this one. They knew it was going to get kicked up anyway. They knew it was coming. I'm dying. Santa heads, Clare and Stamos, a big Christmas present. It just says bribe on the package. Clare and Stamos takes it with his full chest because he knows nothing's going to happen. What I've always wanted, a bribe. I do think we've probably, and I'm guilty, this is my fault, I think. Send him away. We got him. We got him. Extradited to the North Pole. Your honor. I do think we've done more scenes about Santa than anything else in the world. But I think I just, I just. Let's look at our hey-whaddle-whaddle pie chart. Okay. Okay. It's JPC. Tastes like pie. We'll just tell your JPC that we ate them. The only thing left on the pie chart is scenes where JPC either has brain damage is JP riddles or is otherwise deranged. 40%. He's like deranged as Santa. He doesn't think about Santa though. Santa's got to be one of the most famous characters in the world, right? Sure. Yeah. Not more famous than me. Not more famous than me. Let's check their IMDb star meter. I'm guaranteed Santa's got a higher star meter than you, Aaron. Let's look. Aaron, if we dropped you into any country around the globe. Okay. Do you think. From how high? She'd die. 20 feet. Maybe you break 20 ankles. 20 feet, no way. Scary, scary, scary. We dropped you to any country around the globe. Do you think wherever you land the people would be like, oh, Aaron Keefe. I would like to think they would help me after I've been dropped 20 feet. I like they're like, are you okay? And you're like, no autographs please. Are you okay, Aaron? If I was dropped into any random country from the height of 20 feet and they said, are you okay, JPC? I would know that I had died. Why are you in so much pain still though? Oh, Aaron, that's because of where I went after I died. I'd like to see a scene actually. JPC, you are still Santa from the first scene. You've been Santa way and you're, Adel, you're going to be playing his bunk mate in prison. And it's his first day living with you. Yeah, so, you know, I just, I was at the bar and two guys came at me and I just took a stool and got down. Catao? Yeah, that's the sound the stool made when it cracked open both their skulls. Whoa, damn. They live, but they turned out to be twins, Senator Sons, twins of us, twins of kids of us, Senator. Tough break. Tough break. 12 years. What are you, what are you in for? Well, I mean, just like everybody else in here, I didn't do it. No, I, they got me from murdering a family. Not really how it went down. Are you familiar with the movie, The Santa Claus, the Tim Ellen movie, The Santa Claus? No. Oh, Jesus, you must have been in here for a minute. Well, basically the way it works is if you accidentally kill Santa, you become Santa. Oh, I've still jungled the jungle. Oh, perfect. Same basic principle. You, oh, usually if it's one person killing Santa, it's a clean break. But if a whole family accidentally kills Santa, well, basically all of them fuse into one Santa Claus and it leaves behind what looks like the remnants of a pretty messy murdered family. Oh, guards. Guards. Hold on now. Hold on now. I haven't done the best part. This is for something else, guards. You kill me and then you take the fall. I'm that family. I got turned into Santa. Did someone say, guards, what's up? Hey. Sorry, I was just on the phone with my girlfriend. I mean ex-girlfriend. Oh my God, are you okay? Oh my God, oh my God. I got dumped. Oh, Steve, are you okay? No, boys, I got dumped. Oh my God. I'll open the door so I can hug you, please. Honestly, I'm not, hey, I, I tried. I tried, I had to try. I had to try. I had to try. I had to try. What's up? We're just going to go to the common area. I mean, it's not like we can get out of, out of the actual prison. Oh, you're new, aren't you? Well, I'm, You think I'm stupid? In a way, I'm new. In a way, I'm millions of years old. No, I heard about you. Oh yeah. You get into weird little small spots. You can sneak out of anything. No, no, no, no. HVAC systems and chimneys are completely different just because I can fit in one doesn't mean I can, as soon as I get near event, I can mouse bone my body underneath the grates. Why? I got to prison. Why are your eyes darting to the vent, Mr. Mousebones? I'm, no, no, I don't have Alex Mack power. I'm upset. We're going to call you Mr. Mousebones. Mousebones. Mousebones. Mousebones. Oh yeah, I like this. Maybe Mousebones can run this. Oh, never mind. I'm going to go straight to Winvac Linda. We have something. I do think Mr. Mousebones is something. Yeah. It's a movie called Mr. Mousebones. What about this? What about, let me put you- You turned it into a cutting cross song? Let me put you a movie. Mr. Mousebones and me. Go ahead, D.C., sorry. You're a person, like you're a criminal, you get locked up or whatever, you go to jail or you go to prison. The first day in prison, you know, you're like scouting out, seeing all of the characters that are in prison, and you see working out in the yard, the biggest motherfucker that you've ever seen in your life, and it's Santa. And Santa, like, rubs the prison. And it's the real Santa, and you don't talk about that ever in the movie, but he just is the real Santa. And then, like, you see, like- Jonah, what's his name? From Red One. I'm just- JK7's. I'm picking- JK7 is his Santa, of course, for pricing the role. And, like, one day out of the year, they let Santa out to deliver all the presents, and he comes right back into prison. No conjugal visits? But Santa. I guess that would not be being let out, that would just be going to jail. And it's never known why he's in there. No, no, no, no. But he's like- We just accept it. He's definitely a bad guy. Like, everybody knows not to get- And they call it Mr. Mousebones because we have to. Okay. On his knuckles is ho-ho, and then ho-ho. I would wait for that to come out on streaming, but I would watch it. Have you seen Red One on streaming? No. Well, then you're a liar, Aaron, because that's basically the movie, and you still haven't seen it on streaming, and we just passed another Christmas season. Okay, you're right. I wish that- I wish that when they make a bad movie like Red One, which I also didn't see, I wish that they made it like, like good bad, like a bad movie that's so bad that it's enjoyable watching. Yes. But everyone I've heard that saw that movie was just like, no, it's just regular bad. It's just like a bad movie. Missed opportunity. Yeah. Have more- If you're in the middle of filming something, because so many actors talk about, while I was filming this, I knew like it was a stinker. If you recognize that, which they all have to, just fucking go nuts. Like just put some real mustard on the ball, like have some fun, do your lines in a weird way. Like if you've ever seen Bad Lieutenant Port of Call with Nicholas Cage, he basically changes his character like three times. He just changes his acting choices throughout the movie, and it's incredible. That's one of the best movies I've ever seen, and it's dog shit, but he's having so much fun just being like, what if I did it this way, and then 20 minutes later, completely changing the character. I think when people see a bad movie, or they see a performance in a movie where they're like, Stanley Tucci was in like a different movie. I think I want to see a movie where everybody's in a different movie. No one's making coherent choices, because everyone's just like, I'm going as big and bombastic as I possibly can. What do we think is the most over-the-top performance in cinematic history? I was just thinking about this because we just talked about... Marillous treat yourself with a piece of joy. I'm joking, I'm joking, I'm joking, I'm joking, I'm joking, I'm joking. We talked about the new Knives Out movie on Review Crew this month, and I was thinking about how funny of a choice it was for Daniel Craig to show up to that first, to Knives Out with that accent choice that no one asked him to do. It's that. I think that is such a big swing of a thing, but it's tough because you think that a lot of times someone shows up with a big swing of a choice, and the director goes, stop it, what are you doing? Stop it. So they have to be a big enough star that the director can't tell them not to do it. I think that was a big thing with Pirates of the Caribbean, or Caribbean, however you want to say it, where it's like the first day of filming, the producers, or I guess Disney's, whoever that was, was like, no, shut it down, this is not what we wanted. And then eventually, it obviously worked out. I think that for that movie, they thought it was going to be a bomb up until it released. They were like, this is not what we wanted. This is crazy, no one will want to see this. I think Chris Tucker in Fifth Element is pretty great. I think Gary Oldman in The Professional? Gary Oldman in True Romance is another one. Gary Oldman is just like... We just mentioned three Gary Oldman movies. Yeah. He's in Fifth Element as well. Yeah, Gary Oldman's. He's a worm to go there. That guy will go there for sure. Chew the scenery. All right, here's your next one. After a rough landing, crew members leave the spaceship to go off exploring uncharted territory, but return with something terrifying, a teenager from the past. There is another line here that will give it away, but I will see if you guys can get it without that. I don't think I could get either of the movies. After a rough landing, crew members leave the spaceship to go off exploring uncharted territory, but return with something terrifying. This is the first in a series of movies. Back to the future. No, this is a horror film. Not all of them in the series are horror films. In fact, the second one is an action. Alien, Aaron. Alien. Okay. Alien Guns Alls. Alien. But they return with something terrifying. A teenager from the past. Alien Scenoman. Alien Scenoman. Wow. Of course. I didn't want to say it, but the next line that they wrote there was a teenager from the past. Buddy? Buddy. I do want to see a scene. Yeah. JPC, you and I are high schoolers. And we just discovered in our backyard a big chunk of ice that we thought out. And Aaron, you have emerged from that chunk of ice as a cave woman. Oh my God. Hi. Are you... Are you hungry? Jeff, I don't know what to... Are you hungry? Food? Am I hungry? I'm hungry. I'm cold. Oh, we can get you some of my mom's clothes. I'm your age. Oh, yeah. No, you're like a million. Oh, I was more saying that like, I guess you could wear some of my clothes. I was more saying I could get you like, like gendered clothes. Yeah, I don't... You don't really care. Yeah, you can wear my clothes. I don't care. Yeah. Is that skateboard? Yeah, so it's a board... Wait, you said skateboard. How do you... I've been in ice, but I've been paying attention. Oh. Oh, yeah. I guess people were skateboarding on that glacier. Yeah, in snowboarding. Whoa, she just did a 180 Ollie. Watch this. Holy shit, she picked up an electric guitar, played it while rimming the pool. Boys, what do you say I go to high school with you, pretend I'm an exchange student, and make you guys popular? Um, that's crazy enough to work. Cut to two weeks later. That didn't fucking work. I heard there was a gas leak. I heard she's not real and there's a gas leak. See. See. A cute kitten is the star of this movie, but after a heartless thief steals the cat, a rebellious news boy who dreams of a life as an artist away from the big city has to find a way to save it. Hmm. Hmm. Do you remember this movie? This was a movie that was a take on John Wick. Is this like Argyle or something? No, it was where someone steals a cat. So it was all about the cat and the cat's name. Oh, it's, um, it's, um, uh, Kean Peele. Yes. What was the name of this though? Well, the cat's name is also kind of a play on John Wick, but like not on John Wick, but the actor that played John Wick. Keanu. Keanu, the movie. I think maybe if we had done this in 2019, we would have gotten Keanu a little faster. Yeah. And what was the second movie? Well, Aaron, do you know the second movie? Read it again. I was focused so much in the first half. A cute kitten is the star of this movie, but after a heartless thief steals the cat, a rebellious news boy who dreams of a life as an artist and weighs the thing. Keanu's series. Keanu's series, of course. Of course. Keanu's. Keanu's. Keanu's. Um, all right, I want to do, we have a few more, so I want to finish these out. A group of oddball characters enlist to join the force. Um, insert pranks and helicopter sounds. Oh, I would get, maybe I was supposed to do. No, I can't do it. Uh, but school can be rough, especially when the popular click turn on you. Tropic Thunder. That's a group of oddball characters enlist to join the force, but they're talking about a different force here, Adel. Uh, Star Wars Empire strikes back to the future. The Star Wars. Um, school can be rough, especially when the popular click turns on you. What do we think that is? Could be any high school movie. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, that's true. Mean Girls. Aaron, it's Mean Girls. Stand by Mean Girls. Awesome. When the night. Um, a group of oddball characters enlist to join the force. Insert pranks and helicopter sounds. Sound effects come to play in a big way in this. Uh, this was a series of movies, I believe from the 80s, they made a lot of them. Okay. There's, oh, a police academy Mean Girls. Police Academy Mean Girls. I own all seven police academies. Is that true? And a police academy box set DVD set. Uh, do they, do they hold up? I have not seen them since I was a kid. I mean, they hold up in that they were always what they are. I mean, I think, I very much enjoy them. They're not good movies, but I love the actors. I love Tackleberry and his. Adiosy. Michael Winslow. Should have been a much bigger star. Carved out some nice moments in spaceballs. Got the bleeps and blops and the blurbs or whatever. The bleeps and blops and the blurbs. Blurps. Thank you. Uh, okay. Here's your next one. Uh, paintings, Robin Williams and suicide. A trip to limbo may save his marriage. A foreign prince also travels, but to hide from his bride to be. What dreams make a dream come true? What dreams may come? Yep. I don't know what the second one is. Can you read the second part of it? A foreign prince also travels, but to hide from his bride to be. It's a comedy movie. Coming to America. What dreams may coming to America? Yes. Nice. This is a really fun game. Yeah, this is a fun game. I was like, again, I was like, this seems so reminiscent of a game that we've played, but I don't think that we've played this exact one. I, you know how nothing but excuses. Uh, yeah. I just want to say that we record for me usually starting at 8am. Today it was 830. 845. 845 gets my internet one out. I like you at 7pm. Thank you. I like you too. Would be able to do these a little faster. Our brains are, we have morning brain right now. I don't think people realize we have morning brain. On this. People realize that I just don't think they care. You don't think they care? I don't think they care. I don't think I don't think they don't need us to be fastest lightning on these rentals. I think the fact that in this episode, if nothing else, we've gifted to the world, we've set free into this realm, Mr. Mousebones. And I think Mr. Mousebones is going, I think we're going to see that scrawled on chalkboards. I think we're going to see that spray painted in underpasses. I think Mr. Mousebones is going to be like Slender Man, but a more benevolent entity. Yeah, for sure. I feel like I kind of couldn't agree more. In the children of men world that will be our world in five years, like there's going to be like Mr. Mousebones. Mr. Mousebones question mark graffiti everywhere too. Like people are going to be waiting for Mr. Mousebones to come and save them. Yeah, you have to leave little Mousebones by the fireplace for him to eat. Who Mousebones the Mousebones is what they'll be spray painted. We have two more. Two more. We have to do these ones. I'll have what she's having a plate of Connery with a side of evil fighting literary characters like Captain Nemo and the Invisible Man. When Harry met Sally, League of Gentlemen. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. All right. And your last one before we take a break. The first vampire and his sassiest drag queen friends crossed the country to compete in Miss Drag Queen America pageant. Interview with a long food. Thanks for everything, Julie Neumar. It's not interview with the vampire, but it's the first vampire. So think. Is this the Aaliyah movie? Queen of the Damned? No. No. Oh, Nosferatu Wong Fu. Thanks for everything, Julie Neumar. Yes, it is that. I was joking about I didn't realize that. Actually, the Aaliyah movie Queen of the Damned, I think is also one of the it's like a prequel to interview with a vampire. Really? It's I think it's an Andres thing. I think I think it was. I think so. I just remember I never saw it, but I feel like from the trailer, it was like the original vampire. And I was like, oh, that's cool. Yes, Nosferatu would classically be classically. Well, anyway, thank you, Lindsay, for sending those in. And and now thank you listeners for allowing us this brief commercial break. Okay, well, let me just do my final measurements here. Seems everything seems even check the doors. At all, Aaron. I have using my skills as a woodworker have crafted a well built wardrobe. A magical one where you can go into a magical world. No, I try to it's just would but it's well built. GPC when we said every adult should have sort of a well built wardrobe. We didn't mean like the actual frame like an actual wooden wardrobe. We went like in a quince way, like, you know, like having a lot of adult, well made, the quality clothing that last pieces that work together, they hold up over time. You know, that's what quince does best. We told you that organic sweaters, polos for every occasion, lighter jackets that keep you warm in the changing season. I have a raincoat from them that I love. GPC, I held you down sort of clockwork orange style and held open your eyes while I showed you that quince is premium materials thoughtful design and everyday staples feel easy to wear and they're easy to rely on even as the weather shifts in Chicago. 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I got a Z's leather jacket. Hey public public public public public We are feeling refreshed. We're feeling we'd love or hate Riddles again, depending on whatever we decided. Yeah, after all this time, are you what's your state of appreciation or tolerance for Riddles? Is it more than you started? Less still crazy after all these years. I feel like it's got to be more. I feel like I'm so desensitized to it now, like nothing. No, Riddles can hurt me in a way that like maybe at one point in my life it could. It feels like that. It feels like when I come when I used to come on here, you guys were just bleeding from your eyes and ears when from all the Riddles that you've had to endure. And now I think you've you've come out the other side stronger. Yeah, I also I think I have a greater appreciation for good Riddles now than I did before. OK. So you'd recommend this for everyone. Yes. Spend five years on a Riddles podcast. Yeah. And then, yeah, yeah. If you want to feel anything anymore. And say that's why we bring you in is to up the quality of our Riddles. Yes. Huge mistake, but happy to be here. Well, let's get into them and we'll see if it's a mistake. But I feel like you usually put some pretty good offerings on the table. Yeah. Well, today's is a little different. Today's is less puzzling and more. Well, we'll see what it is. I have a list of idioms from other languages that have been translated. Literally into English. I'm going to tell you the language. I'm going to tell you the idiom and you tell me what you think it means. That's it. OK. That's the whole that's the whole thing. I'm not going to. I might occasionally try to speak them in the original language, but for the most part, no one wants to hear that, I think. Sure, for sure. So just to get started. Here is something from Dutch translated is. This is like an angel pissing on my tongue. And we have to tell you what it means. It's an idiom. It's not literally about an angel pissing on the tongue. What does it mean? Why would you say that? What context would you say that in? If you're angel, good, bad, like water, wine, like wine is like this drink is amazing. That's it. It's very delicious. Oh, whoa. OK. All soft. Why pissing? Why? Because that's what angels do, JPC. Why would you angel piss? You know how somebody came up with a brilliant idea to just put water in a can and call it liquid death? Yeah. We do that, but call it angel. Angel piss. But it's really angel piss. I don't know where your head's at. But it really is angel. And it's a cure all. Oh, you can sell anything to the Dutch as long as it's in blackface. They will. They will buy it. There. I thought this to Ezra, my son, and he spent the whole weekend telling everyone this without context, so he'd be like, oh, this mom, this dinner's like an angel pissing on my tongue. I think it's funny if Ezra says that to your wife and she immediately just looks at you and is like, you did this. I know. I know this is not for him. I can't prove it. She knows who she married. Let me know. It is from you. Well, not only is she knows who she married and yes, it's usually for me. He is half he is half my genetics. So whatever compels me to act also is in there. Yeah. Inside him as well. Nature versus nurture, man. We all understand. Yeah. Yeah. Here's another one. Gorgeous. Someone write that down quickly. The FDA says we can't legally say it'll make you already. Thanks. Here's another one. This is from Lithuanian translated. It's born in a trolley bus. Born in this person. If you hurl this insult at someone, oh, they were born in a trolley bus. First of all, like, you're Lithuanian. Okay. No, it's not. It seems like that is actually close closely related, but it is very specific. That that at all. It sounds right. Like born. Like you're always on the move. Like you can't stay still. No, it's about someone who's got bad behavior or is rude or discourteous, but about a very specific thing. Are they always pulling hair or something like pulling people? Oh, like a cable on a trolley bus? Ooh. That's fun. No, no, no. Taking up too much space. Nope. Is it bad behavior that would be exhibited on a Lithuanian trolley bus? Yeah, it's a bad behavior that is pushing. I guess. Jocelyn? Is it Jocelyn? No, no, it is. It's someone who does not close doors behind them. Okay. A very specific idiom. Close the door on a Lithuanian trolley bus? Jbz, the more you say it, the more it sounds like a cut outtake from like a Monty Python movie of like, you pull hair on an Lithuanian trolley bus, like an insult hurled from the French or something. There you go. Let's start hoping this segment goes, is the derivation of a bunch of new idioms we can all throw into our daily conversations. They don't close doors behind them. I don't know if they do or don't, but they sort of like to criticize people who don't. Oh, people in glass, throw stones in glass houses kind of thing? Something like that. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw Lithuanian trolls. What does it mean in, here's another Lithuanian one. What does it mean if you're hanging noodles on your ears? Oh, you didn't shut the door. You weren't listening. You aren't. You have wet ears. You're wet behind the ears. Wet behind the ears is yet. We're just filling this in with idioms that we know. Hanging wet noodles on your ears. So you're so hardheaded that you could boil noodles. You're so hotheaded that you could boil noodles. You're so Italian, your earrings are pasta? Is that it? Is that it? The Lithuanians hate the Italians. Favocally. Can we do a little hint, Sandy? Yeah, are we close? Are we anywhere near Sandy? It is no. It is more about something you do. I don't even know how to hint this because there's nothing to do with noodles at all. But I guess it has to do with the things you say. But the Lithuanian word translated into noodles, so it's like. Yeah, what? And their language. Hmm. What would you think? I'll give it to you, please. I don't think I'm going to. Is to bewitch someone because they will never lie to you. So if they hang noodles, that means they are lying to you. What the fuck? Lithuania, baby. Lithuania, you know, either that is so far outside of my cultural understanding that I just have no idea what it is or Sandy incorrectly translated right to three of those words. Oh, that's 100 percent possible. I should say that up front that it's totally possible that this is all made up or bullshit, but whatever. As long as you don't speak these languages, who are you to know? Yeah, exactly. Enjoy. All right. In Farsi, what does it mean if they say I rub soap on my stomach? Well, based on the precedent, Sandy, it could be literally anything. So I'm not sure how to approach the game now. I rub soap on my stomach. Farsi. I guess what I'm asking is if you were to make up an idiom, if you were to make up this idiom, which someone did at one point, what would you, why would you say I rub soap on my stomach? Like trying to solve hunger in a way that isn't. Oh, that's so good, Erin. Trying to satiate yourself in a way that is not going to work. Oh, yeah. I don't even have much to do. Like if you're in a situation where I just rub soap on my stomach. Yes. It's an idiom that means I'm fasting today is what you're saying. Yes. Nope. It is like it's meant to be a way to describe. I guess in a situation where you are not sure if things are going to go your way. Hmm. Okay. Is it like better safe than sorry? Like I rub soap on my stomach. Like the people that cover their hands in goo and like set it on fire, like the professional stuntman, you know what I'm saying? Like. It's like if you went to someone's house and you really hope that they made your favorite dish. Yeah. But it wasn't. You later you'd say, well, I rubbed soap on my stomach. I cleaned out my tummy. I. Oh, that's nice. Yeah, I saved room. I'm a little hotter. I'm. No, it means I got my hopes up and then was ultimately let down. I rubbed soap on my stomach, but it was chicken not beef. I'm about to completely change the way I talk from now on. I'm going to be talking in this nonsense, guys. I hope you're ready. That's another good one. Okay. I rubbed soap on my stomach. That's just crazy. I'm just, yeah. Okay. I mean, it's got to mean something in a different language. That's probably my. Sometimes from other languages are the same as in English, but I'm not asking you about those because. Got it. Got it. Got it. Fair enough. I'm asking you the ones that are weird. Throw booger. Maybe I should just make you guess what language it is, but I don't know how you would even start. Throw boogers in beans. This is Romanian. Throw boogers in beans. Throw baby out with a bath water. Ruin something. Ruin something is right. Screwed up. Yeah. All right. Okay. Nice one, Aaron. I'm just speaking this language. Yeah, you are a Romanian. Although I got to say, you throw a couple boogers in some beans, no one's going to be able to tell, you know. JPC. Not eating dinner at your house. Pointing at the door. You weren't invited. You weren't invited to have my booger beans. Oh, too bad I rubbed soap on my stomach. Honestly, for dinners that happen at my house, you know, I have a two-year-old cooking, so you're going to get some booger beans. Two-year-old cooking your meals for you? Wow. They help. They help. And by that help, I mean, there's going to be some boogers in beans. That's right. They help the boogers in the beans. They do the amount of help that they can. They're on bean duty. Yeah. What does it mean in Tagalog if you say itchy palms? You have itchy palms. Itch palms. Someone's talking about you. Someone, you are through. Compulsive mastermater. Idol hands are the devil's tools. Anxious. Itchy palms. Itchy palms. Gildy conscious? Like you're lying about something or you've done something wrong? Time to scratch the coconuts. No. Time to scratch the coconuts. Feeling like ready to go, antsy. Yeah, antsy. It does feel like that. It is sort of the, yes. Time to scratch the coconuts. Yeah. Is this all it? Can people hear me say? Time to scratch the coconuts. It means time to scratch the coconuts, which is an idiom from... Time to make the donuts. Yeah. John Lovitz. From French. It's time to scratch the coconuts. That's a terrible word. It is not even a negative idiom. It means you hope financial blessings will come. If you have itchy palms, you are hoping for... Tracked money. Yeah, it gets interesting. Money land your way. Yeah, that palms always itching. What does it mean if something popped your liver in Arabic? Pop your liver. Is this like a Bob's or Uncle's situation? Pop your liver? Is it that you died? No, it's not that you died. I feel like if your liver pops, you're dead, right? Yeah, I think that's what... Like, caught you in a lie? Ooh. It means no, it doesn't mean that. It's... Sepsis. It's when you are annoyed with someone. It's they really popped my liver. Was it Prometheus who got their liver constantly eaten out by a vulture and then grown back? I would stop saying eating out. We can't say eating out. We can't say something gross on our show. Starting now. Starting now, I guess. Sandy should have. Sandy should have. One time we said something about poppy. He was tied up in an eagle ate his liver every day, I think. And then he healed back or something? Or he grew a new liver? He healed back, yes, this is. He healed back at the age. Eagle put it back? Yeah. All for what? All for what? Getting us fire? I'm sorry. What does it mean if you say go comb the monkeys in Portuguese? Go comb them. Go fuck yourself. Go comb the monkeys. Well, these all actually mean go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. But second tier, is this like pay attention to detail kind of thing? It actually does mean go fuck yourself. It means go get lost. Oh, okay. Oh. How do you feel about adding that once you're vernacular? Go comb the monkeys. I'll do it. I'll say it to JPC. I think in English though, it's going to make people a little bit confused because we still have cultural memory of the monkeys that banned and they had that long 60s hair and so people are going to just kind of assume it's a reference to. Comi, old Davy. Jones. Jones. Almost a cracker. Jones still seems wrong, but. Davy Jones for the monkeys, you mean? Yeah. But can you guys name any other monkeys? Peter Torque, Mike Nesmith and the other guy. Sorry, we were looking for spider. Curious George. Spider monkey. Is Curious George a monkey or an ape? So here's a fun thing. He's a monkey, but he doesn't have a tail. What? Which monkeys do? So he can't be a monkey. Huh? Well, he could be an injured monkey, right? Like he could be like a mistreated monkey. Oh, sure. Yes, but who would mistreat Curious George? Did you guys know that monkeys from South America have prehensile tails and monkeys from Africa do not? Oh. Because of the continental drift. Are you lying? Weird. No, they were all one. You mean they have tails, but they're not prehensile. They're not prehensile. They can't grasp on the things. You've never taught me anything real ever in my life, so I'm going to just go ahead and. I got to go three for three for zoo facts. Yeah, you said because of the continental drift, but I'm not sure the continental drift is made all their tails not work. Okay, hold on. Something happened. It was new years, Sandy. Something happened. Why have we not done fast and the furious continental drift? They go back in time. Hear me out. They go back. Pinge is about family. All the continents together. Family. They try and keep the pinji together by driving in opposite directions. The studio has just pushed you out of the door while you're trying to push him and saying this. Hear me out. Hear me out. All right. He locks the door and goes, we're stealing that. I got some more. I got a few more. Okay. What does it mean in German if, now this is obvious. I don't even have to tell you this is German. What does it mean in German to say, I want to use the salami tactic? Pass. Pass. It's like the end of a date when you pass. Is this an option on this show? Is this idiom from anywhere like 35 to 42 because pass. I'll pass. Pass on this one. I want to use the salami tactic. The salami tactic? To use the salami tactic. It is going hard, but then get soft about halfway through. The thing to know about German salami is that you're telling on yourself. You pass that far into it. Is that it serves very, very thin. Very fancy salamis serve very, very thin. So if you use the salami tactic, you are approaching, going through, you're going through the information very slowly because it's taking a long time to get through the whole salami. And that is because you are wary to admit the truth. Sugar cut the truth or reveal the truth in small bits. Okay. And that's German. That's German. I have it here in German. How are we on time? We can lose anything that I said, right? No. We can just cut. We actually eat all of it. Oh boy. What does it mean to say, also in German, I only understand train station. I only understand train station. This one's not. I know enough language to get through basic communication in that place. I'm on that. That's so small. It's all great to me is what we would say in English. But yes, I know how to say train station and that's it. I don't understand the language at all. What does it mean in Norwegian to say, to think suitcase? To be a want, like to have wanderlust. To want to travel. Okay. To think suitcase, it could also be like the slogan for like Norwegian cruise lines or something. Think suitcase. What does it mean to think suitcase? Oh, it means to live very economical. Everything you could have could be packed into a suitcase. It does not mean that. Fuck. Okay. To always have a go back. Yeah, to be like wanderlust. To be thinking. You're close. Get rid of the wander part. Lust. Like wanderlust like two minutes ago. But it's not wander. It's lust. Just the lust part. To be lustful. Yes. To be, to have your mind in the gutter. Oh. It's like to say you're always thinking about sex. You're always thinking about suitcase. Huh. What the fuck does that have to do with? I asked the Norwegians. I don't know. I got real defensive. I can't understand it. The Norwegians are worse than the Lithuanians. Crazy way. Are you trying to say, are you trying to say JPC that you can only understand train station? Because if that's what you're trying to say it. It's all only understood in train station to me. It's like you've never fucked a suitcase. You're not living brother. You're not living brother. What does it mean to swallow the toad in Italian? To get something done early. To just ignore your feelings. I like that. Get it over with. Like get something just be done with it. No, not really. No. To bury the hatchet. Does that read swallow the frog? What is swallow the frog? Swallow the frog. It's almost like it's like who moved my cheese or any of these like self help books. But it's basically like to get things done to stop procrastinating on the bigger less appealing items of your like to-do list. Right. Is it like swallow the frog? Is this like something like anti French because the Italians in the French they don't. That's what's really love each other. What was that? Huh? That's what I'm talking about. Can we cut? To swallow the toads. It means to eat your words. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Yes. To be embarrassed by what you said. You swallowed the toad. You ate crow. Yeah, exactly. Interesting. All right, Sandy. One more. I think we have time for one more. So can we get your like stand out absolute best of these, you know, translations? Yes. That's what I'll do. God give nuts. God gives nuts to those who don't have teeth. That's Portuguese. This is, I've seen this bumper sticker before. Yeah. That's a good question. Which of these would you put on a bumper sticker? Oh, you can only choose one of these. Fucking a suitcase. What was it? Fucking a suitcase. Is this something about like God gives nuts to those who don't have teeth? Is this something akin to like God gives the hardest road ahead to those who are unprepared kind of like or to those who don't have a little. No, there is sort of a phrase in English, but it's more literal. It's like the you can't always get what you want type of thing where it's like. You try sometimes. Yeah, you get Portuguese. You get Portuguese. Yeah. Is it that concept of like, I don't know. It's like you can ask for something, but you'll or like God gives you what you need and what you want. Something like that. I don't know. Sort of. It's close. It's more like you ever heard the phrase youth has wasted on the young. Yes. Fuck. So it's like given you're wasting an opportunity. Yeah. You've been given you nuts and you don't even have teeth to crack open those nuts. We all do crack open nuts with our teeth. Yeah. Okay. I think that's a line from an Alainis Morissette song. It's like cracking nuts when you don't have teeth. It's like fucking a suitcase on a Norwegian. It's pulling hair on a Lithuanian train. And who would have thought these are idiots. They're like the beans. They're booger. All right. We got there. Sandy, we got there. Sandy, where can people get to you? That sounds. Whoa. You can't. You can't get to me. Don't even try. Please don't try. Please stop trying. Going down on an eagle. If you've got the teeth for some of nuts, you can go to my daily word game called rattle, which is at rattle.quest. It's a daily word game where you're transforming words into other words using the clues I give you. It's really fun. And then my company is called the mystery league, which you can find at mystery league.com. It's a for corporate team building or any kind of puzzle content. I make a lot of puzzles and try to get paid for it. That's my life. The coolest. Thank you very much. Thank you, Sandy. Good to see you all. Good to see you too, Sandy. And we send you off the same way every time by having you go down on an eagle. Casey, cut it. Cut everything. Addle, is there anything that you would like to plug? Yes, I would like to plug gum shoes and dragons. Delightful podcast that three of us do. We're going to be playing. We're going to be playing. We're going to be playing. We're going to be playing. We're going to be playing. We're going to be playing. 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