Surprise Round! - The Birthday Curse

The “stop for a burger” thing threw me off. What is the connection?!

I still can't believe that any of you are letting donkey kong INSIDE the house

I love animals so much but it would ruin my life if I knew exactly what the poor coyotes who live in my neighborhood are actually saying when they squeak and howl to one another :(

The 2 crew seem blissfully unaware of the sheer number of white power tattoos that are walking around out there.

I figured out the tattoo hack. You go for full blackout everytime is a lame piece. Dont go for removal, go for cover up

Proposition in the birthday curse: instead of just all media, you see the grinch everywhere. Every person you talk to, every humanoid mascot, everyone. You know all of them are still the actual people and they talk about the stuff you would expect, but they look and sound like the grinch. Do you still take on the curse?

Every time I listen to this episode I think of how much you should absolutely take the tattoo curse. If all possible tattoos are equally likely, the chances of getting a face tattoo compared to arms or legs (or even chest or back) is negligible. There are so many more body tattoos than face tattoos in the world. You'd probably end up with so many overlapping sleeves.

I desperately need a grinch themed surprise round with Karina Farek 💀

Registering to this episode and yet again im floored by the fact that none of them realizes that in the Tattoo question they would almost certainly end up with a bunch of Racist tattoos. Making taking the deal a terrible idea.

I miss this

I need more

Pleased more i beg of you 🥺

folks it's been since may, give us another

The fast food question just makes me think "wow, none of these people enjoy cooking at all..."

Worst case scenario I had to eat 4 slices of Pizza Hut?easiest choice of my life yes

Talking to animals to win sports bets is literally half the plot of All Dogs go to Heaven

Whole time I was thinking about m&m's and how awesome that would be and now I know Brian and I have garbage palates.

The last question was funny. But also, genuinely, that's a legitimate question that comes up after you lose someone. After my sister showed up to let me know that my brother had died, we still had to eat, and neither of us were about to cook. So yeah, it felt a little weird to stop in the drive through at Cook Out on the way back to see my parents, but... I mean, we had to eat, and as long as we were at Cook Out, we might as well get shakes, right? It's part of the necessary process of deciding when every normal thing gets to be normal again.

These are my favorite! 🧡

Simply couldn’t do the time travel thing. There are too many tattoos I will not be associated with

They should throw in an in-universe Bahumia question, where everyone responds as their C1 character. Just one question. At the very end

I would have Donkey Kong play in battle mode so then we can make him win a lot easier without npc's beating him in a race.

The grinch curse is something where I probably try to not get cursed but chicken out and then use the year to be media-free as like a media detox 😅

Having a birthday 4 days after Christmas, the Dave & Buster's scenario is already my life 🙃

Idk about sports betting, but like three tattoos to win 6 games of kino/quick draw would go hard.

Murph is overestimating the likelihood of face tattoos. That's only 3.5% of surface area, 5.5% if you include the neck. That's not likely to come up quickly, even if location is chosen fully randomly independent of where the tattoo was on the first person. And if it is based on that, there's not a lot of people with face and neck tattoos. Plus, there options for tattoo removal beyond laser, and face tattoos are usually small enough to be good candidates for surgical removal

The Grinch movie curse one is a bit wild for me because I've been thinking of a dilemma with a similar curse for several months. You gain the ability to pause time when watching TV, movies or any other non-live streaming. During this paused time, you can watch as much as you would like without getting tired, hungry, thirsty, aging or having to use the washroom. This power only works when you are focused on watching, so no having the TV on to pause time while you do something else. You can share this ability with others, provided they are also focused on watching the same thing as you. Use of this power is optional, so you can still use TV or movies to pass the time. However, any time you watch a TV or movie, whether you use your power or not, one of the people in the movie or show is replaced with someone in a hyper-realistic Grinch costume, or hell, maybe even the Grinch themselves. The Grinch still delivers the same great performance with the same voice as the original actor, although in between lines they may ad lib in some Grinchy lines. Who the Grinch replaces is chosen randomly each time you watch the film or TV show, with the likelihood being proportional to their screen time (if it is an extra, multiple extras will be played by Grinches). No one else can see the Grinches, and no one will believe you if you tell them. The Grinch may be wearing the original costume or be full Grinch nude. I mainly though of this as I couldn't get the idea of Val Kilmer in Tombstone played by the Grinch out of my head.

“I’m going to show this mf the afterlife” our community is so poetic

The tattoo thing wouldn't be too bad until you end up with a replica of some racist dudes tattoo then you got ti deal with that for life. Nope no thank you. Too many idiots out there with racist ink to risk it.

Just like how Emily gets In-n-out as a special treat I like to get In-n-out when I'm feeling down and need a minute to process so I'm getting that burger first thing so I can have my double double, both types of onions, with a fry well and contemplate the sudden loss but new mystery of the universe And then I think I hunt down Jesse Eisenburg

Is anyone else's pocketcasts' downloads failing only for naddpod?

I'd absolutely take the food one, I'm 20, can't cook and have to go home from university to get vegetables. Most of my meals are noodles of some kind, some combination of bread and eggs, air fryer mac and cheese, air fryer potato wedges or oatmeal. I think my mom would cry from joy if she heard I consumed the nutrients of a vegetable of my own volition.

Last question was a work of art

Can we please get a t-shirt that says 'this is getting looney tunes a little bit'

Can’t believe you talk about controlling birds to go for the Achilles of the Celtics Knicks game and then Tatum broke his Achilles. Coincidence? 🧐

I would 10000% stop for a burger after Now You See Me. 1) that’s what my friend would have wanted and 2) grief is an inevitable part of life and surreal, flippant, tonally-off moments are part of grief.

10 times volume? It's cicada season. *shudder*

[ Skaldova Episode 10 Spoilers ] . . . . . . . . . . . . I love that the tattoo one is a speedrun to turning into Zudrick of the Murder (minus the time-travel lol)

Rewinding time by 5 minutes could win you hundreds of thousands of dollars in roulette, OR, by playing a bunch of blackjack and then selectively playing sidebets as they play out at 100-1 odds a handful of times. You could do those things like 3 times and amass generational wealth. I'd risk it

Before my cat got castrated, when she was in heat, she would scream so loud I wrote an apology letter to my neighbours This at 10x the volume, especially when this was absolutely only "I want to fuck" would have been torturous

I have rabbits which are 1. super quiet and 2. very good at hiding when they are in pain, so I think I'd take the ability to talk to animals in order to take better care of them. I think 95% of what they would say would be food related. Bright side, you could always spend more time around fish. You would have to soundproof your bedroom and get noise cancelling headphones though.

I love surprise round

Okay but what if I take the “rewind time” thing to the extreme: do I end up as a baby that is covered in tattoos?

I’ve seen Mamma Mia enough times that I can close my eyes and picture it if I want to… if I had the grinch curse would my memory be overshadowed by the curse? Even if I’m not watching it just playing it in my mind?

That one about replacing food with other food's nutrition was fascinating to me, because I have an eating disorder called Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder that more or less makes it so my mind doesn't react to most food as if it's, you know, food. If you hand me a salad my brain reacts to it like you handed me a bowl of used bandaid. I absolutely CAN NOT eat it. My list of safe foods is extremely short and also extremely unhealthy, so your curse here is fully a boon to me! XD

The Donkey Kong gets a hand on the chest as he tries to enter my house, never makes it in the door.

"In & Out, let us know if you'd like to purchase the script for this ad which is, just to recap, Jesse Eisenburg explodes a guy into starfire and then Emily grabs In & Out and fucks his wife as the In & Out logo slowly appears on the screen"

Emily saying that she feeds the stray cats every day is reinforcing my belief that she and Murph do not just have 4 cats, they have 2 dozen cats but do not let 80% of them into the house

The Donkey Kong scenario is really just a Tim Robinson away from being an "I Think You Should Leave" sketch

Love that The Red Comet was referenced

Truly my favorite part besides the DND. Everything else is 10/10, but this is 11/10

The infinite money glitch is not worth the tramp stamp that says "Boner Garage" with an arrow pointing down

The Pizza Hut hypothetical is bringing the Professor Duttle out of Murph so hard hahaha

guys I think I should get into sports betting

"Not your best friend, but a friend you have dinner with once a month." You see them at least once a month and they're *not* your best friend?!?

The risk of swastika and full body tattoos are real

I wouldn’t be able to live a life where all porn is grinch porn…

Sorry to be crass on main but I simply don’t think I could manage looking at Grorn (grinch porn) for a whole year any time I wanted to yank that doodle dandee, you know

They didnt consider randomly drawing one of those tattoos on the white of your eyes. Risk of that would make me not do that one

“Maybe I can make science wealth” Emily, there is no wealth in animal biology. Take it from the ecologist.

Anyone else think they should start titling this things like “dungeon court” or “tortle tank” or even a main episode and then when the audience starts it BAM! - SURPRISE ROUND

If that Now You See Me scenario isn't the most relatable thing

I love the gang and I’m not trying to call them out or shame them. I understand that this is a comedy podcast and they want to keep this light. For the tattoo question, it’s really funny that none of them brought up the fact that there are just flat out offensive tattoos out there. They keep using the Minions or Deadpool as an example of getting unlucky, meanwhile in this scenario. They could fully have a slur printed on their cheek. I’m absolutely not brave enough for that. People would beat me up. I’d deserve it. The Lion’s bet wouldn’t be worth it.

Emily, as someone who recently found out I can now eat gluten (after not eating it for decades) - gluten free pizza is WAY less filling. I've gone from eating 5 slices easy to tapping out at 2.

Master magician Jesse Eisenberg as some sort of good-aligned dark wizard is one of my favorite additions to the NADDPod cast of characters.

If jake is already wearing a char mask, he could just make a zaku with all of his sports wealth. Honestly worth it

Grinch Indy 500

Important question re the Grinch media curse: does this also affect live performances? Like if I go see an improv show am I watching 5 Grinches goofing around based on audience suggestions?

Wow did Caldwell manifest the Tatum Achilles tear?

Jake's a Knicks fan?? Let's go!!

The idea that anyone would make it inside my house without being authorized is insane. I don’t even open the door unless someone has called ahead.

Grinchborn referenced I’m always winning

GONYGONYGO

lmao why does murph think there are so many face tats??

yall should review the shining next if murph still hasent seen it (im relistening to c1 short rest ep98)

The animal one isn't that just for the rest of your life a jet engine is going off in your ear 24/7

Time power gives you a chance to end up with a swatiska on your body so I'm super out.

Okay, my thought on the tattoo one... So based on the internet, the most common tats are pretty small and chill, so the chances are higher of them being okay. However! Would it like cancel out my other tats? I currently have eleven of my own. Would one show up in the same spot as one of the others? If so, would mine disappear?

I don’t think anyone realizes how loud 10x a sound is. A normal conversation is about 40dB. 400dB is actually louder than the loudest sound ever. Each chirp or meow or bark would send shockwaves around the world. You would have no reprieve. No where would be safe for you. And then comes the issues of insects

Am I being sensitive or do they talk over Emily a lot more than over each other? Love you boobs so much but I’ve noticed Emily getting interrupted…. often…. 😔

It's nice that the pod has a healthy fear and reverence for those who can glimpse beyond the earthly realm (Jesse Eisenberg and Criss "Mindfreak" Angel Mindfreak).

Accidentally hit this trying to scroll up and now I need to go back and listen to every surprise round.

No one should take the tattoo thing because Nazis exist

Sports Wealth

... Did i just get called out for eating whole pizzas?

So Caldwell was the one responsible for Tatum

Love the swerve in the last one "do you stop for a burger" is not where I thought that was headed And the most important question about the tattoo one is, does a sleeve consist of many small tattoos that go together either artistically or thematically, or it's it one big tattoo?

If I eat an entire pizza with the Pizza Hut curse, would it still just feel like I had 4 slices?

I would be so afraid the tattoo I would get would be a hate tattoo.

Did… did Caldwell unleash a crow on Jayson Tatum

Kicking out DK, not taking the 5 minutes power for the bad tattoos, taking the Grinch Curse, not taking the talking to animals power (too many horny screaming birds at too high of a volume) hell no to the fast food for pizza hut, I don't eat burgers but I guess I'd have to eat eventually so I'd eat something else on my way home

There are so many things you can bet on with even just five minutes head start. Gambling and horse racing for sure

For the tattoo one you could get a blacked out bodysuit which is kind of a cool look and then when the tattoos appear you wouldn't even see them

I’m 2 minutes in and Murph really cooked with this ep

Not to be too real here but I don't think I could risk the odds of getting hate symbols for the tattoo one 😬

Murphy, don't let her open the door, ever lolol

Wild pitch as I was listening to this yall gotta get random fans on here to pitch in for some of the surprise rounds. Just get actual different pitches from people would slay me 🤣

Surprise round is by far my favorite non-dnd show they do. I like it even more than dungeon court

I haven't seen an actual call for submissions for Surprise Round in so long. I have one I want to submit but I just see new episodes with no asks beforehand.

Put this on to try to forget about the Celtics vs Knicks game only for y’all to mention them in the episode 💔💔💔

if you already have tattoos, does it only take "available" space? also my first thought was Immediate No bcos i don't want to end up with some cop's iron cross & punisher skull combo

The grinch curse would be kind of amazing reading manga…just imagining a shonen jump cover of grinches in different artist styles???

Take the time rewind, immediately rewind 10,000 times. Covered in so many tattoos that any new ones are irrelevant. Live life of sports wealth and muddy tattoo skin. Worth it.

Im already pretty loose about my skin doodles so I'd for sure take the second one

First watch after my Grinch Year would be Scream. What would be yours?

YESSSS MORE SURPRISE ROUND!!

Can you timetravel back right away and re-roll the tattoo?

Really undervaluing roulette for earning money

not enough consideration that the tattoo could be a racism tattoo. there are so many racist people in this world

Oh Pelor, there is an Emily quote.. "You can be sad, and still hungry." I don't remember if it is from a short rest or earlier episodes from C1.

If i could rewind time 5 minutes, paint me black in ink. This is assuming tattoos can stack in the same spots. An unvisited metric

I read/listen to a lot of non-fiction, is that all getting grinchified? In the history audiobook I'm listening to is the Mughal Empire ruled by the Grinch and being invaded by an army led by a different Grinch? I'm definitely taking the Grinch curse either way

For the animals one: I already have to wear noise cancelling headphones to the grocery store, bc I am so easily overstimulated, so animals constantly screaming at me sounds like hell, and I’d literally rather eat glass

The idea of a time traveler becoming a benevolent leader of humanity who wears their thousands of tattoos marking them as the conduit of human expression is fascinating to me.

Thank you Emily. Glad to see I wasn't the only person whose first instinct was to romance the friends widow.

The time travel thing is cool but uh. What if you end up with a swastika

I think I would just fully sacrifice the sanctity of my outer skin to unlock ultimate control over the time stream. It would fully ruin your skin, but you could legitimately become a real-life superhero with unlimited time rewinds.

My time travel bad luck would be getting like 200 bucks off fanduel and waking up the next day to a hate crime prison tat across my buttcheeks

Donkey Kong or no, the thought of playing just Mario Kart for 4 hours sounds unbearable.

Imagine a nazi tattoo appears on ur face cause of that siuation😭😭

My ONLY hold up on the tattoo thing would be the possibility of racist tattoos. Cringy would be totally fine with me but I really really would not fuck with hateful tats anywhere on my body ESPECIALLY in visible areas

Emily saying sportswealth like star spawn really scratched my brain in the best way

Anyone else not having this pop up on ur podcast app? I tried linking my Spotify too and it didn’t show there either. Ik I can just listen here but it’s odd

Bird call have got to be pretty even if you could understand it. I bet they say a poem or something but each birds call is just repeating the same poem over and over again

So pumped for some surprise Surprise Round action.

i just started walking somewhere and was like damn i wish i had new naddpod and BAM

Jake has not considered how many people have swastika tattoos

Caldwell was correct with the first one, make him uncomfortable with sex

Suprise round drop we are so back

Surprise Round is the best!!

Holy shit, more content today? Thank you!

needed this so bad today i am literally double subscribing for the month bc it wasn’t up on the apple podcast feed yet lmfao

Holy shit

FIRST COMMENT FOR MY FAVORITE BONUS PODCAST #GRINCH4LYFE

Birthday curse surprise round on my actual birthday??? The dice gods are kind to me ^-^

Perfect timing I just finished the main feed ep

AHHHHHH SUPRISE EPISODE DROP

Yay :)