Patreon Newsletter #16: January 2021! (Patreon)

It’s 2021! It doesn’t seem like anything has changed but nevertheless we’ve all agreed to some sort of constructed mental shift! New beginnings! New habits! The possibilities are everywhere! We hope you all had a safe and wonderful holiday and may this year be YOUR BEST!

From Adal:

Hey Riddiots!

So in December I celebrated my first hanukkah! I bought Jemma and I an all cat menorah (dubbed the ‘meownorah’) and we named each cat on the day we lit their candle. We also made latkes from scratch which are just delightful. For Christmas we ended up ordering Sushi and watched Coming To America, so no complaints there. The thing that maybe brought the most joy to the Rifai household in December is the game KLASK. It’s a mix between air hockey and foosball! If you live with someone you can play with, I highly recommend picking it up! If you do, DM me and I’ll show you the way Jemma and I start each game. (It’s a VERY special ritual)

Other than that it’s just a lot of small things around the house we’re trying to fix up! Tiki Bar is officially called ‘Rifai Tai’ and will hopefully be open by June 1st! Just in time to serve up a Kiki Tiki and a JuicePunchColada in honor of my birthday! Speaking of, my sister Sadieh’s 40th birthday is this Sunday, the 10th, so if you want to send her a lil HappyBirthday on social media I think that would be pretty cool!

Here’s what I consumed in December!

TV:

• Infinity Train Season 3 - whoa boy this season is dark but as with the rest of the series, so so good.
• The Flight Attendant - ‘fun’ to watch with Jemma because she will point out EVERY inaccuracy
• Lucifer Season 1 and 2 - at first I wasn’t into it and then having nothing else I was dying to watch I gave it a few more episodes and now I dig it! Very much has a Supernatural vibe and it’s one of those shows where you keep finding a new favorite character.
• I Hate Suzie - UNBELIEVABLY stressful show but so well done
• Cobra Kai Season 3 - watched the new season in one day :/
• Selena: The Series
• Big Mouth Season 4

Movies:

• Death to 2020 - maybe the top thing I recommend you check out! New Mockumentary on Netflix, created by Charlie Booker (Black Mirror). My crush Cristin Millioti has some show stealing moments as the worst Karen you’ve ever met
• The Jinkx and Dela Holiday Special - the 2nd thing I’d highly recommend! Holiday special in the stylings of a 1950’s Paul Lynd bash but way funnier and with some legit catchy songs! On HULU!
• Coming To America
• Nate
• Drag Becomes Him
• Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow
• Happiest Season
• The Prom
• National Lampoons: Christmas Vacation
• The Jinkx and Dela Holiday Special
• Wonder Woman 1984
• Soul

I’m hoping to get back into reading more as I’ve felt for the past month or so that I just can’t sit and focus for terribly long. I probably just need to put my phone in another room and that’ll do the trick. I also have some projects i’m working on that hopefully will get done in the first half of the year. Wish me luck! And good luck to you on anything you’re setting out to accomplish this year! We got this baybee!!

All the love,

Adal

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From Erin:

Happy NEW YEAR!

I cut my finger cutting potato’s and that’s the only thing to happen in 2021 so far.

I feel excited for this year. It seems like there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I’m really excited for our livestream show this month. I’m also moving to LA this year! If you anyone in LA who would want to hire me for ANYTHING-LET ME KNOW! Also if you have any LA suggestions or Chicago take out I should try before I move please shoot me a message or leave a comment on this post!

I absolutely died laughing watching this with Sean. I’m sure a lot of you have already seen this. If you like musicals for sure check this out.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G6iqAip-ZNo

This is my playlist for the month. Sean and I were talking about our music taste in middle school. I described mine as “women banging a piano as hard as they can” he requested a playlist from that time. So here we are! If anyone has any requests of playlists from me. It can be vibe or genre or whatever!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7hb4174PlfKUj9zdKexaq0?si=WT6Cg-CPS1a3nqHjTJZr1Q

Sending you all so much joy! You’re doing great!

Love,

Erin

From JPC:

Reading: I set a goal for myself in December to read 3 books and I did! Kinda? One of them was an essay. I read Night Thoughts by Wallace Shawn (I also read a passage from it on a main feed episode) and I really liked it. It's not very long and it's basically his musings on life, the future and the revolution. He's an interesting dude. I also read All You Need Is Kill, which was a birthday present from Adal! Overall, I liked the movie more, but it was still an interesting read. And there would be no movie without it! I also read Can't Pay Won't Pay which is a book by The Debt Collective advocating for Debters Unions. Realy enjoyed that one. I also started 2 more books but didn't finish them so that's just padding my January numbers.

Video Games: Still haven't finished Doom Eternal. I feel like I always sit down to play it when I only have like 20 minutes and each level takes me over an hour. I also can't play it too close to bed time because the heavy metal gets me too worked up. I played through Bastion (from the makers of Hades) and that was a blast. The narrator is great. I bought all the Supergiant games so I'll be working my way through them all eventually. Near the end of the month I downloaded MTG Arena cause I wanted to draft (huge mistake) because MTG is a poison and you have to grind a lot before you can buy into a draft. But I got 6 wins on my first draft so that felt good (got 2 on my second). But I promised myself after spending WAY too much on Hearthstone that I would never spend money on an internet card game ever again and so far I haven't spent anything. I also just started playing They Are Billions which is a zombie survival base building RTS game and it's very stressful but also a ton of fun. I'm only like 20% through the campaign so I'll be playing that on stream for the next week or so. Oh, and I did a few more Among Us streams with some improviser friends. I'll do more of those in Jan (most likely Friday or Saturday evenings). As always, that link is Twitch.tv/sharkbarkman

TV & Movies: The only TV show we've been watching is Steven Universe and we are hooked! We are now in season 4 and if you haven't seen this show you absolutely should. Episodes are like 11 minutes and it's a really well made show. It's funny, silly and at times, heartbreaking. I don't know what I'm going to do when it's over. For movies, we watched Wonder Woman 1984 and it's really bad! Just a bad movie. Bad film! We also watched Soul and that was fine. I think I liked Inside Out and Coco more and it kinda reminded me of both of those. If I watched anything else, I don't remember it!

-JPC

Other News!:

• We are incredibly excited to be doing another livestream show for you all Jan. 22nd at 8pm CST! The last show was a GD blast and brought the 3 of us more joy than you can possibly imagine! YOU CAN WATCH FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD!!! (Except Patagonia. If you’re in Patagonia get the fuck outside and enjoy the natural beauty around you). Please come hang out with us! You can watch the recording up to 24 hours after the stream is finished! There's also a live chat so we can get riddle submissions and scene prompts from you too.Tickets can be found here: https://audiotree.tv/staged-show/hey-riddle-riddle-returns
• We’re recording a Review Crew episode of the poll winner ‘The Road to El Dorado’ (whatever that is) that will be out on Monday Jan. 11th!
• We have a neat sorta crossoverish thing we’ll be recording and announcing soon! Hopefully it’s out around Feb/March!

As always let us know what YOU recommend in the comments below and if there’s anything you’d like to hear us do on a Patreon episode!

Love you all and thank you for the support!

Adal, Erin & JPC