Short Rest: Trinyvale X Strahd - Ep. 3
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Emily needs to go to Kelly’s to see the pound burger she was imagining
It’s called psychobilly my friends 🙏
Joe rogan joke had me dying
Having a spouse is such a phenomenal way to get out of things. I’m getting married in 5 months and I cannot WAIT to have the husband excuse 😭
I know I'm here late but thank god Emily said she didn't know what a fudruckers is I also had 0 fucking clue
Don’t know where it came from but bildrath in my campaign was abusive to his nephew the party killed him quietly and hid his body in an abandoned house
Bizarrely, I’ve played both the games they mentioned despite not playing many board games Castleravenloft is great. It can be difficult, but it’s a phenomenal dungeon crawler and a great fix that’s essentially lazy d&d. More fun with more players, but it’s versatile enough you can play it with even 1 or 2 people The Mind is neat, but I fundamentally don’t enjoy a social activity like a board game that requires zero talking. I like to visit with my friends when I get to see them, y’know? Still fun enough to try
That was one of the best uses of, "Hmmm?" I've ever heard 🤣
The pokemon gold cards from McDonald's were by far the coolest! They came with a PokeBall and everything!
I’m just picturing an ad coming across Murph’s and Jake’s feed: ‘YOU LIKE PROTEIN? SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER ON GETTING WOMEN TO MAKE YOU YOUR PROTEIN SHAKE — and to receive a free sample of the Ultimate Manliest Milkiest PROTEIN UDDERS in flavor sea salt — for men!’ And in smaller print it’s ’you must subscribe for an annual subscription of $89.99 and be subject to a 1% charge for using on your VISA/MASTERCARD. You cannot get the sample without the subscription. The protein powder has not been approved by any governing body and may have unidentifiable ingredients. Please proceed with caution.’ Meanwhile Caldwell’s ad is: ‘Are you on crunchyroll? Click here to get a reduced annual subscription lock in price for only 119.99! If you use your Amazon prime it’s 99.99!’ And in smaller print: ‘terms and conditions apply, this does apply to one piece ongoing story.’
3:15 Also have ADHD and this perfectly describes most of my conversations with people.
Love that they slightly called out the freaks who had been commenting things like "LMAO HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO GET THE NPC'S NAMES WRONG", how have you listened to even one episode of naddpod and think they'd keep everything the exact same from the book
Can someone why they referred to Jake’s goodbye strat as Greek myth?
I say "say more" in conversation and it's not weird! It's a way to say "I care about the thing you're talking about and want you to continue" when you can't immediately think of a thoughtful good question to ask. It's especially useful if someone says something vulnerable and you notice them immediately backing off or looking embarrassed, and you know a "mm yeah, totally" will make them feel even weirder.
They also had the 5 lbs burger challenge that my father beat twice
This ep is missing the trinyvale /trinyvale x strahd tag
Can we also remember how Fuddruckers has/had hot cheese? RIP to the last Fuddruckers in my area. My cousin actually broke their bell one time at their door (the one you'd ring if you had a good time or something lolol)
For a fun but challenging "the board is working against you" cooperative game, you should give Shadows Over Camelot a try! Also, if you like Betrayal, they have a campaign/legacy version that is tons of fun!
I've never played The Mind, but it reminds me of a theater game where you try to count up from one, but if two or more people start to speak at the same time, you have to start over. It feels similar in the sense of reading the room and knowing that sometimes, you're helping by not trying to grab the spotlight, as it were.
I'm late to listening to this, but to Emily's question about whether telepathy is real; there is significant evidence that it is. This podcast fully changed my worldview around this topic. Enjoy! The Telepathy Tapes | Explore Beyond Words https://share.google/Lda5W4Dzy5m7h5VX1
And here is the vice article explaining why they’re just a new face on an old grift. https://www.vice.com/en/article/telepathy-tapes-podcast-autism/
I just played "the mind" with my coworkers for team building!! I have the best job 😀
To get out of long winded convos at parties, what works for me all the time is I make eye contact and smile at someone not in the convo who will then interrupt with short pleasantries. To preface, I was raised Irish Catholic and these are my own thoughts, I do not intend to diminish anyone's beliefs. I think there's multiple levels of sympathetic communication people rely on to interact and it's these levels of subliminal communication which have been used to affirm spiritualism and occultism. My family for generations has strongly believed they've had "the sight" or "the third eye" when I believe they've just been more perceptive or able to register more subliminal interpersonal clues than the rest of family. The brain's magical and not to be underestimated
Not a happy meal, but Burger King did a run of Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius toys and if you got them all you could combine them into a giant replica of goddard the robot dog
My happy meal toy was the Clone Wars bobble heads in the starfighters
Always remember the line from doc brown in the second bttf when marty suggests ramming biffs car in the delorean “itd rip through us like tinfoil!”
Kinda shocked they talked on happy meal toys and no one mentioned the inspector gadget McDonald's toy set
Honestly, idm if things are a little sad. I feel like a good ending of this would be the triplets… growing, changing, getting a little less selfish.
Emily! If you’re into telepathy you should TOTALLY check out the podcast “the telepathy tapes” it is absolutely incredible and world-breaking. They do a bunch of test with non-speaking autistic children whose parents swear they can read their minds. Pretty much all the tests have a 99% success rate. You’d love it!
The gang needs to find Psychobilly (horror rockabilly) Horror Pops Nekromantix Zombie Ghost Train
Loved the board game chat! You guys should consider playing the Castleravenloft board game on stream. It’s not too complicated to learn
Just got to take a second to rep the Addams Family tv show. They created a dynamic that was not in the comics (also wonderful) where Gomez and Morticia are passionately in love and support their children and everyone in their life. A comedic contrast to every other show on television at the time where the undercurrent joke was, we sort of despise each other or at least deeply do not respect each other. Addams Family is all about Consent, Compassion and Conjugal Visits, babyyyy.
Ah yes, the three C's
Ooooh!! As kids we also family shared, the very rare, happy meal - and it from it came the toy that caused the most controversy in the household for YEARS!! From Treasure Planet, a lil pink beanbag toy, Morph! We would hide that little guy all over the house just for bragging rights
Emily’s shrieked-out WHAT when Jake said the thing about telling people he’d by right back was so fucking funny
You all mentioned gothic rockabilly, there is a sub genre called Horrorbilly! I super recommend a band called “Messer Chups” and their song “Magneto” is really good. Chupacabra is a great one too. Mostly instrumental with very selective vocals.
I was scrolling and read quickly as Meagan Markle and Was like damn NADPOD...
I do recommend the documentary mckmillions which does detail the story of how the game was rigged. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9148598/
Im happy to know caldwell has most likely also seen asgore running over a certain deer with his truck
This episode made me make my mecca back to the closest fuddruckers I could find
Our group also very much tooo to “burger master”. We call Ismark the Junior Whopper.
When i played CoS, the party was like a group of mean girls. Also me and my sister were playing as twins and my pc would keep trying to get her married to any elligible bachelor in Barovia. When Ismark revealed that his dad was rotting in his house, we huddled in the other room to discuss whether he was actually good enough to marry my sister, someone made small dick joke in reference to the title "Ismark the Lesser." He failed a saving throw while listening from the other side of the door and exclaimed "No, My meat is HUGE!" From then on we referred to him only as Huge Meat and we tormented the shit out of him
Emily needs to listen to the Telepathy Tapes podcast!
“I don’t know what Fudruckers is” FINALLY someone said it- I was wondering what in the “born in the late 1980s” is a Fudruckers. 😭
born in '93, Fuddruckers was 100% a thing. The franchise also co-owned Pizzeria Uno. We used to do all our school fundraisers there cause they had good deals for those.
The Canadian New Addams Family c. 1998 was so good
I had the exact same thing happen with guarantee a few months back at work I could not believe that that was how you spelled it lol
"The spice of life is fixings" is a beautiful quote and deserves to be on merch
Dear NADDPOD, I’d like to lodge a formal complaint about this episode. You kept saying Munsters was a rip off of Addams Family. You got sooo close to discussing how the TV shows premiered within a week of each other, but instead discussed when the Addams Family comics came out! It’s all good though I’ve never watched either of them.
The Mind is kinda cool
Isn’t there like remote viewing wouldn’t that be a form of telepathy?
If I had a nickel for every time new D&D content featured Murph and Emily debating ska vs rockabilly…
Especially on social media today, more of that realistic depiction of health and fitness is desperately needed
Important everyone knows that The Adam’s Family TV show and The Munsters premiered within six days of each other.
WHEN DID IT COME OUT: “Guarantee” I’ll look it up & post the answer later if anyone wants to submit a guess below 🫡
late 17th century (in the sense ‘guarantor’): perhaps from Spanish garante, corresponding to French garant (see warrant), later influenced by French garantie ‘guaranty’.
finally caught up! now I don’t have anything to listen to all the time
Highly recommend relistening to the Hexbloods arc and the Twilight Sanctorum episodes until you know them word for word
The full circle of Murph getting triggered more than I’ve ever heard him get in the episode when Emily made Bluetooth an alpha manosphere parasocial teen, to Emily getting more triggered than I can ever remember her getting in a short rest at Murph enmeshing paranormal conspiracy fandom with Joe Rogan, may actually be the most perfect art piece this show has ever yielded. Chef’s kiss. No notes.
Robert Zombie directed a Munsters movie recently. It looks pretty bad
I saw Lucy was about to leave Netflix, and just had to watch it after all this talk... holy shit that movie is insane, Limitless is surpassed in scope in 20 minutes. You need to do a mixed bag on it.
It hurts so much to hear you guys talk about anything engineering related. I still love everything else, but boy do I often wish I could be there while you record to play my own version of Um Actually.
Pretty incredible Owen Wilson impersonation. Also crazy that Murph is such a big fan of Wedding Crashers but hates Anchorman.
The 10% of your brain claim comes from early neuroscience learning about white matter versus grey matter. It was thought that all thought took place in the grey matter, while the white matter was thought to be unimportant. We've since learned this is not the case, and that white matter is in fact not just the creamy noughat center to the grey matter's thinking chocolate shell. As it turns out though, humans can use 100% of their brain, you just wouldn't want to. Paraphrasing a doctor who made a video on the internet once, "all your neurons firing at the same time? That's called a seizure."
Emily’s sheer gobsmacked-edness at Jake’s “promise to be right back” line floored me 🤣🤣🤣
Lol now all I want is for duncle to say Irina and activate emily like a sleeper agent mid episode, I miss the choo choo crew so much sometimes
Hey Caldwell, if you’re looking for some inspiration for encounters for RP or combat, or if you find some parts of the module lacking, you should give “Strahd Reloaded” by DragnaCarta a google! They went ahead and pretty much remastered the entirety of the book, adding in a bunch of really awesome ideas that went great with my groups. I can’t recommend it enough!
Ive spent so much time thinking on "Unlocking % of the brain" Ive found a great way to understand it. Imagine using 100% of your house at once: cooking while on the toilet which is also your bed while both the AC and heater run full blast.
Like the brain system that paralyzes you during sleep so you dont hurt yourself. You dont want that on 100% but you still NEED that feature. Issues like sleep paralysis (& the deamon) or sleep walking happen when to much of the brain is being used at once!
the mind sounds like the game
YALL. There is a car with a “boy mom” custom license plate right in front of us. 😅
“I do prefer ripped men” and “hey you like to work out, do you want to keep your wife in line?” are absolutely my two favorite moments of this ep. The Manosphere references have been epic!!!
I'm really grateful Caldwell aged up the Vampire under the church. I tried to play Strahd once, not knowing what I was getting into. I found having to put a vampire child out of his misery really upsetting and left the campaign early.
Tbf I think in the module he's like a young adult, so if your DM had him as a literal child then that was their choice
can confirm as a nearly 28 year old Gen Z y'all are unfortunately accurate with your assessment of our generation
As a 22 year old gen z, I can confirm your confirmation that our generation, is in fact, cooked
Try some psychobilly
My algorithm gives me a manosphere guy in really tight jeans who tells you HOW TO HOLD A FOLDER SO THE FOLDER DOESNT HOLD YOU or like how to sit down in an alpha way and it is honestly the most socially anxious obsessed with every movement shit that I cannot help but watch every video and howl every time it pops up and now my algorithm is a mess, so I sympathise murph!
The best one is where he tells you not to bow down to your glass of water like you’re submitting to it, you have to manfully lift the glass to your mouth
🔥🔥🔥 HYPERFIXATION MENTIONED!!! 🔥🔥🔥
“I need —“ works almost all of the time as well, so I need to find (partner/a water bowl for my dog/ a drink/a snack/ to touch grass or (if it’s a golf convo, screen time, I need to check in on someone- pull our phone, , a quiet place to scream about how much I hate golf
Per the Irish exit- if you have an animal or child you can always do the turn, focus on them, if you crouch with your back turned you’re as good as gone! (I have a service dog and oh how many times I’ve escaped a golf conversation.)
"I don't know. I don't know Em I'm just talking" was real loll
I've played The Mind with my D&D friends and it was an INSANELY good time actually
As a child one of my worst fears was telepathy 😭 I'd always "test" people to see if they were reading my mind, like I'd scream in my head and see if they startled. Idk man
I felt the civic responsibility to tell y’all about my favorite goth-a-billy band Sex With Lurch, the songs Monster Surf Party and Zombie Drag Queen are some classics
My neighbors down the street have a 12 ft skeleton that they leave up year round and dress for every different holiday.
Do we live in the same neighborhood?
I know this has come up before in a short rest or something but the horror rockabilly genre is know as psychobilly. Nekromantix would probably a good entry point but there are a ton of great bands out there in the psychobilly genre. Closest thing to ska/rockabilly I can think of is my personal all time favorite group: Kings of Nothing. Please give them a listen especially their first or second album.
:o I had heard of Horrorbilly but not psychobilly. I’ll check out Nekromantix :D I love Messer Chups! They defined Horrorbilly for me.
Rockabilly + Ska is basically The Growlers. Listen to the song Sea Lion Goth Blues and you’ll love it.
Best happy meal toy for me was when they had Lego bionicle characters. Those ruled.
Wait, is Jill cheating on Tucker with this Greg guy?!?!
According to the OED guarantee came out as a noun in 1679 and a verb in 1797
Jake told me he'd be right back at a party in 2005. I'm starting to think he's not coming back.
jilted by jonk
Fudrucker’s Patreon stretch goal?
Next episode: Nintendo Court The Pokémon Company issues a cease and desist for copyright infringement of the character “Squawkabilly”
“Frightened” Murphy
Emily you gotta listen to Telepathy Tapes, I can’t believe you haven’t yet
Seconded!
Used to work at an MMA gym. We had a Jack Skellington inflatable that we put merch on for the holidays. Santa hats on the punching bags would've been better!
I’m curious what has motivated Caldwell change some names and and motivations in the book
This question was answered right after I asked this
Finding out the Fuddrucker’s plan was essentially 100% Murph’s baby, because Emily and Jake have never even been to one, was so fun.
If I ever need to leave a conversation I always say something along the lines of "well I wouldn't want to keep you from...." make it sound like im doing them a favor by letting them get back to work
I love the triplets BUT GOD this burger joke is running thin hahaha
I feel bad for Tucker if Jill has even left him for Pilates Greg
I love how the lore keeps expanding
Another great episode team! The soundscaping of the episode is so great, and Emily’s music is perfect for it. I know Caldwell shouted out the people who help with that either here or in short rest but my memory’s like a sieve 🤦♀️ Onyx is absolutely killing me with her social-media-cleanse influencer stuff too, so brilliantly, accurately toxic! Jens’ speech is absolutely hilarious. Murph’s determination to fit this all into the resort narrative is so funny. And Nyack keeping up the gaslighting of Keychain to believe he’s a dog, in the middle of all the other chaos, just cracks me up.
Emily!! You would LOVE the podcast “The Telepathy Tapes.” It describes the experience families of nonspeaking folks have of feeling like their family member is reading their mind. And then goes into greater implications and connects it to a larger thesis about consciousness. It is FASCINATING I highly recommend it!
Yes yes this!
Band around the cowboy hat... the hat band
Can't believe people still believe the "we only use 10% of our brain" lmao why tf would we evolve to have this giant organ in our skull that majorly effects the birthing process and survivability when we only use a tiny bit of it 😂
There is a real life, super popular, burger chain called Burgermeister here in Berlin, and even better the original location is a former public toilet under an elevated railway. Feels very triplets 😄
Yup, cars now do that, except for the cybertruck 😆
Please Druncle-san, get them all to watch Haikyu for a mixed bag 🏐
Yes pls this would be so fun:)
My most prominent memory from the beginning of our strahd game is telling myself “DO NOT say burgermaster” and then going to the discord chat to find the real word. But i was always thinking of that guy as the burgermaster for sure
I’m realizing I also do a Jake convo exit and if someone does it to me I assume they’re not coming back but I never thought about being wrong about that so I’ll have to soul search lol
Rare Murph W on this one. Fuddrucker's was such a big deal in my hometown that I legit knew somebody who died in one
Hearing j*e r*gan mentioned at 29:34 threw me off SO HARD cause I looked at recommended podcasts based off naddpod on pocket casts and the first result was j*e r*gan 😭😭😭😭
Oh no. Sometimes algorithms do not understand nuisance and then your feed becomes very strange.
One of my neighbors is utilizing Emily’s year-round Christmas tree idea with one of those giant Home Depot skeletons. Since Halloween the skeleton has been decorated with a Santa hat for Christmas, Leprechaun hat for St. Patrick’s Day, Easter Bunny ears and basket, and recently an American Flag and patriotic top hat for the 4th of July. He’s definitely getting his money’s worth!
There’s someone in my dad’s neighborhood that did the same thing, fun to note though too, there was recently road work being done and so the skeleton got a safety vest and a hard hat
Emily's reaction to Jake's conv exit strategy is the loudest I have ever heard her scream lol
We use to have a Fuddruckers where I live and my mom's favorite go to college memory was getting drunk and going to Ruddf**kers lol.
Morticia and Gomez are the best couple. I'm *gay* and I still think their heterosexual love cannot be beat
There's a glorious bit (probably from tumblr) about how Gomez and Morticia have T4T energy
The Addams family does market itself as "edgy" and it gets edgier as time goes on, but as a fan of the original show, one of the things that makes it so charming is the relationship between morticia and gomez. They love each other, and even when there is conflict, they're always there for each other. The family is also always trying to be neighborly and contribute to the community. It is one of the most wholesome shows, and it can be found on listicles like "the healthiest or most romantic relationship on tv." I love the Christina Ricci movies too I swear I was born after 1990
If you just turn and walk away at a moment that no one is making eye contact with you, then go off on your own adventure and you do it enough- wandering away eventually becomes “that’s so Jessica”
The McDonalds monopoly doc is actually really good because they have footage of all the fake winners from the news acting surprised but the whole time they were being forced to take the money for the mob and they never saw any of it
I'm going to try the "oh i hear my husband crying" technique next time I'm at a party.
When me and my friends played Stradh (my first time playing dnd) we devolved into a similar misinterpretation as the triplets except we swapped everything to MacDonalds lore thus the curse of the Hamburglar. Listening to this im tbh surprised the two crew didnt go there but im very happy with the cultural exchange of learning about fud ruckers
Psychobilly is what you get when you combine horror with rockabilly. https://youtu.be/CvTMZkDd4E8?feature=shared
When they were talking Lesser Than Iskar my mind immediately went to like Horror themed Better Than Ezra
I came here to say this.
To exit a conversation all you do is interrupt yourself. "That's so interesting!. Thank you for sharing, you'll need to excuse me I need to check in with my partner."
I have also never been to Fuddruckers because there are none in my state.
Maybe i need to watch Rob Zombie's Munster Movie
I was too young to really remember Fudd Ruckerz but i have been there
I contestantly misspell guarantee. I pride myself on my spelling and my brain always says the 'a' is first.
i had my first caffeinated soda at a fuddruckers when i was 12 (trapeze birthday party jordan’s furniture 🙌🏽)
i also did not do happy meals bc my childhood was like emily’s (hence no soda till 12)
The Mind kinda Reminds me of The Stoner Parking Lot game i got from Pax unplugged but its 2 or 3 teams i hope that made it to the PO Box
I desperately need skackabilly and line spanking to be real.
@29:00 thank you emily! Thrilled to hear someone else deconstruct the baffling contraction of "don't you dare". No one in my life will get on the same page as me with that lol
Ska mentioned on short rest AND adventuring party?? In the same week?? This feels planned.
100% putting santa hats on the bags at the gym this year
I understand that this has become naddpod bit but the plastic nugget toys from the happy meals were legit good! Especially the Halloween ones that you could put in moster costumes.
There is a new pokemon named squakabilly which is just a bird with a hairdo. +1 for the mind, great game btw
Swindled is such a quality pod!!!
According to Etmyonline, the word guarantee came out in the 1670s
My love for old claymation Christmas movies saved me from the burger master fate in our game because of Burgermeister Meisterburger from Santa Claus is Coming to Town.
McMillion$ is the doc it was a wild operation where they stole a bunch of winning game pieces and cashed them in across a network of people.
YEAHHHHHH TRINYVALEEEEEE
"I'm gonna wander about." That's my go-to leave-lube.
The onyx method
Ska-ckabilly is such a terrible and also kick-ass idea I love it. Great ep you guys, hey I’ll be right back
If I had a nickel for every time Murphy and Emily discussed ska on a dnd after show in July 2025 I’d have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s wierd that it happened twice
Ska AND Rockabilly!!
I'm re-listening to C2 right now and just finished the short rest after Johnny and Krissy are introduced. The gang also heavily discuss rockabilly in that episode and it's throwing me for a loop lol
1:30 This is just something I do on a daily basis, it's not so much a power move as much as just the power of autism. I'll just unconsciously decide I'm done with the conversation and move onto my next task; one moment I'm there, the next I'm gone🏃💨
My husband is somewhere on the spectrum and he'll leave a conversation by just walking away backwards, still facing us but fucking vanishing backwards into the night.
The sound design this season is top notch… there’s SO many little extra jokes you’re making happen with it (the podcast audio filter and Murph as jens talking over Murph doing the NADDPOD intro… 👩🍳 💋) this season is kinda giving me the 30 rock effect of “how many jokes per second can I clock” it’s so good! Thank you Druncula and Co!
Finally caught up to Naddpod's release after literal years of listening :,)
Lesser than Ismark gives Better than Ezra
Yes! That’s what I thought!
I think lessor is a title referring to them leasing out property? Like they’re dad was the mayor and they are a lessor but idk
in the module he is "lesser"
Wooooo yay Short Rest thank you always nice to see what you guys think of when being the Triplets🤣😆😂
sacre bleutooth
I just need you to know I think about this comment maybe once a day and it makes me giggle every time I
This episode was hilarious I love how unhinged you guys are and how Caldwell just knows how to roll with it 😂
First here!!