Short Rest - Skaldova Ep. 5: The Parley

I have the same issue listening to naddpod while working out lol

I always thought it was butt rock because you have to clench your cheeks to get the voice right lmao I'm gonna stick with that. Also, I crush the macarena

HOW TO TRIP A BIRD

Emily with a sick 'Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark' reference. I was so terrified of those stories as a child but I couldn't stop reading them.

i’ve been bouncing back and forth between skaldova and trinyvale x strahd while i catch up and both this short rest and the one for TxS ep 7 have extensive pierce brosnan mrs doubtfire bits. divine providence that i caught both in one day

im 28, i grew up listening to rock music never knowing the bands names or that there were different subcategories. shaken to my core that 90% of the rock music was but(t)rock so s/o to the naddpod crew (mostly murph tho) for helping unearth my childhood music. its been haunting me not knowing what the hell i was listening to 😂

Hearing Emily talk about the lack of good sonnets musically reminded me of Thrice’s masterpiece of a concept album, The Alchemy Index, which is 4 eps each thematically and musically focused on one of the four elements, and each ep closes with a sonnet and they are bangers. Recommend!

But(t)rock convo reminded me that the first time I listened to the naddpod bananksgiving episode I was running on a treadmill at the gym and absolutely ate shit because I laughed so hard I couldnt move my feet fast enough and fell. The dangers of funny shit at the gym are real and we should be talking about it more.

22 year old hatchling here: yes, we did the electric slide at most middle school dances, and they definitely played it at the very white ultra rich private high schools in the area, but my white ass ended up at a primarily black magnet school for hs, so I didn’t hear it there bc they had taste lol. But every camp dance and like adult chaperoned event I went to though, and even a year or two ago at a college formal, they generally did play the electric slide. So I think it’s just never gonna die at this point. Idk maybe gen alpha will kill it, but I’m dubious.

“When Jesus gave birth to dinosaurs they were meant to be his army against Pontus Pilate!” is such a great line. It perfectly encapsulates the manosphere podcast confidence trickster conspiracy theory bullshit we get these days.

I've re-listened to this episode at least three times solely for the blessing that was the chair debacle

Is Buttrock similar to Divorced Dad Rock?

So glad no one already mentioned this in the butt rock comments. In the nickelback song “Rockstar” in the background of one of the verses they say “I’ll have the quesadilla,” which is truly wild lyric to have. Butt rock indeed.

Smallest wild cat: rusty spotted cat! SOOO CUUUUTE!!! And soooo tiny!!

I love Jesus and also believe dinosaurs significantly predate humans. I'll spare the explanation, but I'm just throwing it out there that one can both believe in God and recognize/accept the validity of scientific truths. :D

More buttrock talk please

this is so late, but ExtraHistory on youtube is doing a series on the history of the modern domestic cat! cats remain almost anatomically identical to the cats of 4500 years ago!

I used to play The Hustle at the local dive bar all the time and everyone ended up learning it. I’m sober now and more responsible 😂

Do we need to crowdfund a power rack/cage for Murph? The world is crazy enough. Don’t tell me that one of our national treasures is lifting alone with no safety spotters/spotter arms. And one of our other national treasures is missing so many extra opportunities to comment on Murph’s rack? Please reassure me that Murph will not go out to butt rock laughter during a heavy bench when he obviously deserves to have a much more elevated exit! #razzthebar #moreracksforaxford #livetoliftanotherday

YES EMILY SKALDOVA (THIS EP SPECIFICALLY) WAS SO BLOODBORNE

As a non-american, I'm sitting here going OMG The Electric Slide from "You Are My Da-aad, YOU'RE MY DAD! BOOGIE WOOGIE WOOGIE!" cause thats my reference to that song/rhythm (as per Caldwell singing it, of course)

Admittedly a little bruised by Emily's sonnet hate — they're so under appreciated 🥲. Sonnets are based on a rhyme scheme and 14-line structure, and they don't have to be in iambic pentameter at all (Shakespeare is just famous for writing in iambic pentameter). And there's two major types of sonnets, English (Shakespearean) and Italian (Petrarchan) which have different rhyme schemes, the latter being more difficult in English than in Italian. Nowadays poets don't always adhere strictly to the form in rhyme scheme, so there are many contemporary sonnets that are non-rhyming 14 line poems with a volta (the "turn" in tone or perspective in the last couplet of an English sonnet). Emma Lazarus's "The New Colossus" is one of the most famous Petrarchan sonnets.

The hook horror is also definitely a reference to Gigan from Godzilla. Also How to Save a Life is christian rock

17 here did indeed dance the electric slide with friends while on our senior trip peace and love

I think it would be perfect if at the end of the campaign Zudric took off his helmet and the other two immediately betrayed him and attacked

I always referred to bands like Lifehouse as wuss-rock when I was younger.

I worked as a wedding videographer some years ago and can confirm that the electric slide, the hustle, the chicken dance, the cha cha slide, and more of your favorite ridiculous songs that refuse to die are alive and well at weddings all across the country. They are staples as much as "here comes the bride" or Pachabel's Cannon in D are.

Anything by Crush 40 (they did the music to Sonic Adventure) is primo Buttrock

The song that I classify as butt rock is “No Matter What” from Yu-Gi-Oh!

I am a professional nanny and my kiddos always LOVE the macarena. I use it in lieu of head shoulders knees and toes because I have free will. That said a three year old I formerly worked with would shout “HEY MARACA RAINBOW” because to her wtf is macarena? nah dawg, that’s the maraca rainbow.

Emily saying she picks monsters because they’re “cute as hell” is the most on brand statement I’ve ever heard in my life

Last summer I saw Creed, 3 doors down, and finger eleven and seeing 40 thousand people get amped for butt rock together gave me a high im still riding

Y’all my wife and I (28 and 26) strictly BLAST butt rock whenever we clean the house. Also was at the Denver live show which featured all of the Lifehouse and we still reference it to this day, You and Me was even in our wedding because of it lmao

Counterpoint: Click Click Boom is fucking hilarious.

Just encountered a Hook Horror in Baldur’s Gate 3 and was able to immediately identify it, thanks to this episode’s thumbnail.

Y'all gonna flip when you learn about The Nutbush! - the classic Australian dance. We all learn it in elementary school, before the age of 10, and its been that way for generations! Its absolutely ridiculous & great

Okay, but there's an important question... Do you clap when you do the macarena? On the jump?

Line dancer here, the electric slide is still alive and well, but we usually do it to other songs!

Butt rock all day every day

Coincidentally I am at a planet fitness on a Tuesday when that guy said he goes to planet fitness on Tuesdays 😂

Butt rock > the macarena > sonnets, you hears it here first, folks. For real though I will always jam to butt rock

What a coincidence I actually co-wrote the electric slide

I cannot help but picture Zudrick as one of my friends from college. Dude is a super accomplished birder, incredibly skilled, but is also pretty lanky and blonde, and picturing him trying to be edgy makes me laugh so hard 😂

Is Welly going to reinvent sonnets? Poetry for a new age!

When i was in elementary school, my 3rd grade gym teacher was cool and had us play dodgeball and other violent games. In 4th grade, she retired and was replaced by a guy named Mr. Toole, and he had us dance every gym class. Electric slide, chicken dance, maccarana, everything. It was very controversial. Also my dad, to this day, sings Creed, Godsmack, & Puddle of Mud very loudly while taking baths, so this short rest hit pretty close to home

I love rocking out to butt rock and I love laughing at butt rock

Butt Rock Bangers on spotify, now you too can die while exercising. I also have macarena’d, electric slid, cupid shuffled and cotton eye joe’d with the best of them.

I literally mouthed the phrase "butt rock" to myself seconds before Emily brought it up, lol

I thought medieval drawings of livestock was purposefully distorted to show their wealth? They would paint their pigs super big to that they were wealthy farmers

Currently working out to this, almost died doing deadlifts cause I’m laughing to Murph almost dying listening to butt rock. Anyways, can’t believe no one else is familiar with One by Creed :(

I swear the only thing that brings me joy the same way Nathan from drawer losing it to a bit, is Emily fucking cackling like when "butt rock" is explained.

I was picturing Zudrick’s elevator shenanigans like Bruce Willis in Die Hard, except much clunkier and with more metal scraping

I got on Facebook immediately after Em said "skits on albums didn't age well into the streaming era." The first meme said "I miss when albums had, intros, interludes, and outros." 🤣

My friends have called me at times, a "musical encyclopedia" and I have NEVER heard the term But Rock to describe that genre 🤣 it's PERFECT

as someone who stole most of the plot from baldur's gate 3 before ever playing it i much recommend Jake play bloodborne

The way Murph feels about But Rock(?) at the gym is me with Naddpod. The numbers of time I'm midway between reps and I've have to hold it in because someone said something hilarious like Murph with Sir Brinesplooge or when Jake went porque at a funeral in JNCOs happens way too often. I mean, jokes on me for catching up at the gym.

elder gen z here, we did Macarena and chicken dance a lot, I definitely did the electric slide but I know some people who didn’t, but the big ones were Cupid shuffle and cha cha slide, the dougie was popular for a minute but didn’t have the same longevity

The cupid shuffle is the new one, but all the songs are still done

Now, I KNOW we all know that the song Murph was ACTUALLY thinking of was “Control” by Puddle of Mudd. Smack my ass about it.

I dunno where you grew up in the 90’s but we ABSOLUTELY DID “The Hustle”.

I am 24 and I have no clue what the electric slide is so I can say with confidence "the kids" definitely are not doing it Edit: upon googling the song I can say with confidence that my only exposure to it is, I shit you not, the "You're my dad! boogie woogie woogie" vine

No Electric Slide. But Macarena, Cotton-Eyed Joe, Cha-Cha Slide are still big.

Still wish we could hear the villain speech Jake had prepared before wellie just axed at him

As a spry and youthful yankle (ankle is my preferred uncle/aunt honorific) I don't think the kids these days really do the electric slide. 😔 I try to keep the tradition alive and always request it at weddings (though I've not been to many since I'm simply too youthful)

I mostly listen to PUP when I work out and have control of my playlist. My gym is mostly like 70s & 80s dad rock. Also very funny to get shredded to like Boston's More than a Feeling

Stayed at a hotel once where the elevator had a sign that said “please don’t jump” and at every floor, the doors would open too early and it would sort of stop two feet too high before slowly going the rest of the way to the floor. We didn’t stay. 🫣

Jake should DM the Tomb of Horrors(Terrors) maybe I love the Accidental Blood Borne Boar 🐗 which in turn remids me of the Boat From the fairy tale the Sing Bone ( later version replace the Giant Boat with a dragon)

My fundamentalist Christian mom was taking care of the baby while my husband and I did some chores, when "Jesus gave birth to raptors" came up, my mom (in baby voice) said "Lukas (the baby), are they blaspheming against Jesus?!"

I can’t remember which game you are all playing right now but “Split Fiction” is great. It’s two player and my gamer husband and I (not a gamer at all - so bad at jumping) are loving it!

I LOVE THE WAYYOUSMYACKMYEEYASSS

I feel like I've seen/heard of Hook Horrors before, but they also really remind me of Gigan tbh

Please do a full version of “how to trip a bird” by Murph 🙏

Tiny L for Murph conflating “Over My Head (Cablecar)” with “How to Save a Life”

There's two types of traditional sonnets: English sonnet and Italian sonnet (aka: Shakespearean sonnet and Petrarchan sonnet). Both are traditionally written in iambic pentameter, which is five two syllable beats with the stress on the second beat (to BE or NOT to BE). Both types of sonnets also have 14 lines, with the variation between the two being the stanza structure. English has 3 four line stanzas (quatrains) and one two line stanza (couplet), Italian has two stanzas, the first being 8 lines (octet) and the second being 6 lines (sestet). They follow different rhyme schemes but modern sonnets frequently ignore the meter (iambic pentameter stuff) and rhyme structure. Look up contemporary sonnets if you're curious, most only follow the 14 lines rule, and some not even that.

I thought butt rock was sonic the hedgehog music. Like overly sincere. What a 13 yr old would think is high art

Alright, William Shits and (Grandpa) Crunch’ems confirmed 👍🏻

“when jesus gave birth to the dinosaurs, he meant them to be his army to fight against pontius pilate.” - the word of the lord, amen caldwell, i love you and your deep evangelical references 😂

I'm a substitute teacher, the kids do still do the macarena, but I don't think they know the electric slide (tbh I forgot about it) and they Definitely don't know the hustle. the only reason I know it is because my parents are black and in their 60s even though I'm 23 lol

Turn 30 this year, never seen the hustle nor the electric slide. Every wedding, party, event has had the Cupid Shuffle and the Cha Cha Slide though

RALLY ROUND THE FAMILY WITH AN ARMOR FULL OF BIRDS

I absolutely get shredded to Salvia. All of Back Into Your System absolutely goes hard but especially Always, Click Click Boom, and Weight of the World

as a gen z i can say: we are still doing the macarena but we have a new YMCA and it's chappell roan's hot to go. also i haven't done the electric slide since gym class in 8th grade

the buttrock talk was funny as shit. soooo off the rails

caldwell’s pitch about putting skits into the podcast, y’all already do that on the normal feed, it’s called your ad reads!!

From the gang refusing to sit down, to the bird refusing to sit down. Pure hilarity

Murph made me listen to creed for the first time in 20 years

Murph would hate playing commander with Pantlaza, Sun-Favored… too many feathers

Okay, but I totally started whistling the hustle too, so I get where you are coming from Caldwell.

Is Welly the other character you proposed in C3 ep 0?

Caldwell continues to be great at names

I set a deadlift PR of 605# listening to “One Last Breath” by Creed like a month ago. “Higher” is another great PR song

The electric slide is still going strong in the Black community. I just did it at a baby shower last weekend lol.

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Blasphemous ep

When I was in middle school we had a dance course in gym class. The hustle was one of the 4 dances we had to do, along with boot slappin’ leather and the electric slide. This was probably 2015?

"We saw you from across the monster manual and we really digged your vibe"

I have preteens and teens, and I can confirm that the kids today are definitely still doing the Macarena at every school activity. (They also listen to a fair amount of butt rock, at least my teenage son does 😂)

ButtRock to me is big, generic riffs, lyrics that could be written by a grown man or a 14 year old, always adhering to verse-Chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus-outro.

I lift while listening to nad pod not butt rock and it is dangerous sometimes when you laugh worth it though only time I have to listen

I truly want Zudrick to take his helm off at some point and he’s just the most beautiful man ever for no reason lol

Creed is Divorced Dad Rock

Did Caldwell say we need a Sofartic Tree of Butt Rock?

Creed gets me through long hot days in the kitchen at work!!! #sixfeetfromtheedge

brightsword spoiler so sad i started reading it

I finally became the person yelling into the void during the show. Lifehouse is pop rock, nowhere near butt rock. A good rule of thumb for butt rock is if you can close youre eyes and picture the band in affliction tees and leather bracers, that’s butt rock.

I teach middle school (age 11-13 ish) and their school dances are mostly standing in the dark gym, and jumping in a circle with the occasional, brief TikTok dance.

I know the crew has referenced The Bright Sword a ton through Skaldova (which made me grab it from the library), but it also feels so much like the world of the First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie and got me wondering if Jake had read those as well.

"What's up alpha predators today were talking about dinosaurs and how they are the opposite of woke 😎"

Have they discussed if skaldova will continue past this one quest? I hope they do some more

The electric slide has indeed died, i apologise

The settlers of Nadd Pod on Dungeons and Daddies

“Jesus was a lil raptor” and then “that’s why they call it ‘the rapture’” fucking took me out

Click click boom is a pretty funny lyric if you think about it

My teen sister listens to mostly but rock its alive and well

The sonnet hate 😭

Blown away by how great the voice acting has been by Jake

The sheer volume of times I just heard the phrase “butt rock adjacent“

I watched a ton of scrubs as a kid and that song is an eternal ear worm for me

Jesus and Mary made children and they were the dinosaurs

Hooked Horrors are in BG3

Life house is butt rock and I’ll die on this hill

“It’s just birds, dude” might legitimately be the most descriptive tagline for NADDPOD

a) The Electric Slide was allegedly written about a vibrator, but apparently there's conflicting reports about whether that's true or not b) my local alt-rock station is DC 101, and they were VERY into that Creed song back in the day

Today I learned that my 4th/5th favorite genre of music is called butt rock

Since I’m old, haven’t done either in a long minute. Think I may still remember how to do the Macarena tho. Did some country line dances in my 90’s country phase. I want to know if “Ride the Train” is still done.

I knew butt rock would come up on naddpod eventually

One time I sang "She Hates Me" by Puddle of Mudd at a talent show hosted in my college dorm by housing admin. No one knew why they created it and no one wanted to sign up, so I decided to at least make it interesting. Eventually it just turned into a troll-ish karaoke night, with classics such as "EARFQUAKE" (where Playboi Carti just says "imonbadewo" like ten times) and "The Distance" by CAKE. 10/10 would recommend wasting collegiate resources again

I was at the Lifehouse live show!! There were shove wizards and 3D-printed AI Bullywogs

Speaking of sonnet structure… A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems by Raymond Queneau is a neat take on the format.

Come on!! Moving sidewalks in airports!!! There’s your electric slide…”caution, sidewalk ending.”

Just got out of work, thank Ender’s Trapezius!!!

Science doesn't care about your feelings Murph

the macarena lingers but the cha cha slide is the real banger

I think life is much cooler when you learn about how all animals are related!! Dinosaurs have existed for so long and were very diverse!! Murph, your crow and pigeon friends are dinosaurs (in fact, dinosaurs can be separated into avian and non-avian)!! (I know you were being silly, I’m just a fuckin nerd so I had to say something)

All in all great sode

Butt rock? I’ve always called music like that Divorced Dad Rock. It’s one of my favorite genres.

Electric slide was replaced by the wobble

Murph, "One" is absolutely a BANGER. It's in my workout Playlist.

I studied poetry and I struggled so much with understanding sonnets and stress-based structures

Murph combining Blurry and Control 🤣🤣🤣 I'm dying on my walk listening to this short rest 🤣🤣🤣

Sonnets began as a way for people to get their horn out and still feel fancy. It was closely tied to Courtly Love, which was supposed to be about flirting with married women whom you did not actually sleep with because the purity of your love forbade adultery. In practice, a lot of ladies who were married to old barons as children ended up fucking some knights because they were teenagers and 20-somethings with no say in their marriage surrounded by handsome athlete-soldiers. So sonnets began as a way to treat your horniness as something beautiful and pure. Until the English Renaissance, when they had become more of a way to out-poet your rivals by showing how clever you were. I like them because good ones are all about a setup in the first eight lines and a twist that gets delivered with a punchy couplet at the end.

Bring out the "Rosencrantz & Guildernstern are Dead"-style one shot of the two monks having everything go catastrophically wrong, and then needing to pull their shit together just for the team to burst through the door and absolutely womp them

I did maypole in primary school? (2012) some traditions are just evergreen

I am shredding to butt rock, and was screaming iambic pentameter at my phone for minutes until Caldwell said it. Also I do still macarena if asked

Buttrock for life

Speaking of Butt Rock, I recently learned that Bush actually sings a bunch of songs that I’ve always hated but always assumed were by other terrible bands. Bush’s first two albums are a real Hall of Shame of Butt Rock.

said "nooo it's not indie" with the same intonation as murph at the same time when they were discussing Lifehouse - really dating myself here...

I spent graduate school writing endless sonnets in my notebooks because I like structure

I fucking love everything yall do. You're doing amazing as a DM Jake and everybodys character is great. Im replaying Dark Souls 2 with a Zudrick build

the macarena has lasted a lot longer than the electric slide

Sonnets are just a type of poem with 14 lines and a specific rhyme scheme

I think the Cupid Shuffle replaced the Electric Slide.

Weird that the first Mission Impossible was referenced. I just watched that movie for the first time last week

caldwell saying he forgets to use his fighter abilities feels like a TINY retroactive W for c1 jake

Hook Horror had me looking for a buried dog collar in the Underdark!

I knew it wasn't gonna be a successful parley when they didn't enter through the side flap

We once played against a Hook Horror but in our DM's east coast accent it sounded like Hook Whore and I can never unhear it

I prayed for this😭