Short Rest: Trinyvale X Strahd - Ep. 6
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It still makes me giddy seeing everyone rush to crab rangoons defense 🥹😂
It’s funny hearing you guys talk about tooth paint because I’m a cosplayer and use tooth paint for my Moonshine cosplay. I frequently cosplay her (most recently at the Radio City Live Show) and use the Mehron tooth paint for Moonshine’s tooth gap! It’s honestly really good, doesn’t feel weird, and it mint flavored.
Phones are too damn big for the average woman’s hands THANK YOU VERY MUCH MURPH
I’m SO confused about the crab Rangoon discussion. Y’all never had Chinese takeout???
I’m glad the Rangoon defenders showed up! Also I don’t get what’s so boring about eldritch blast, it’s not like hitting someone with a sword every turn is anymore interesting
Whoa....bury me in a crab Rangoon top tier app
Murph plays hockey?? Day made
Between not liking to do only one thing at once and "I take a lot of hard falls" SO much of what Emily says reminds me of my girlfriend before she got diagnosed with adhd, lol. and then after she got medication but before she started to take it every day. She used to only take it on weekdays and she was NOTICEABLY clumsier on weekends, there was a month where she tripped on the stairs every. single. weekend. because she'd just stop paying attention to what she was doing partway down. Just extremely YA novel protagonist coded.
Similar to Caldwell just moving hard at objects that happen to be in his way: I had a student once who just completely lacked any sense of his own spacial awareness. This wasn't always a big issue except when he had anything in his hands, like a lunchbox or even a chair (when they'd move around to work together... Or when he felt like moving to sit by a friend in the middle of a lesson...). Those objects would SLAM into whatever was in the way (namely desks and other students), and the kid didn't react! We'd all try to dodge the incoming tornado and he just kept on keeping on, oblivious to anything knocked over or people whacked. When pointed out to him, he'd just turn to look at his path of destruction and say, "What? Oh, sorry," and go back to his business. It's much funnier to recall from the distance of seven years. 😆
Personally I think y’all need to play Donkey Kong so you can tell us all about it.
Anyone who’s played hockey has forgotten to take off their skate protectors at least once
Goon gang-Get gel x if you want a manicure to last a month and unchipped. I say it as someone who once chipped my manicure within 5 minutes of leaving the salon.
My nails easily chipped after I went on wegovy, so I started going to the salon and I love getting my nails done. I think women used to paint their teeth black with gall dye in the Heian Period of Japan
Petition for Emily to upload footage of Murph playing hockey. I’d love to see it
Surprised at how surprised they all were when Emily said she drops her phone multiple times a day. Then I looked at my “aesthetically cracked” phone and realized maybe I should be more careful.
Dude the switch 2 is worth it even without getting donkey kong, everything just runs so much better
a fellow, big tripper present🙋♀️ i also have multiple phone drops a day. emily, i get it.
Emily doesn't have to take eldritch blast to utilize eldritch invocation. The pre-requisite says a Warlock Cantrip in 2024, I believe that was one of the bigger changes from 2014 to 2024! Chill Touch or Mind Sliver are options, also toll the dead!
Murph, get the Switch 2. DK is extremely fun and Emily can play prettier BOTW/TOTK 🙂↕️
As a Dutch person can confirm burger is the Dutch word for citizen
Justice for Caldwell & crab rangoon 😤😤😤
I left my podcast app and came here just to rally the troops for crab Rangoon
Onix is just a cunty randy marsh. He was a geologist to lol
I don't know how much of this they've already recorded but for Emily, the Eldritch blasts that pull people in/push people away could be really funny as a phone (blasting a.i. generated prank videos to repulse, blasting a.i. generated Elsa x spiderman YouTube videos to entice)
If Murph gets a switch 2 we can get another DK one shot. Maybe even a mini campaign
Caldwell is right about Crab Rangoons
Devastated to hear the most memorable part of Seattle for y’-all was Unicorn 😔
Yes!! Come to Kansas City!!!
If they come to Missouri I’ll drive 4 hours & use the last of my PTO day to see them live.
If they are using 2024 rules the warlock can be used for other spells now
How is Emily a New Yorker who lives in LA and never had a crab rangoon!?!?!?
Crab Rangoon is TOP tier Midwest fav appetizer
Does LA not have crab rangoons or something what are yall talking about “niche appetizer” smh
Rather than use eldrich blast, Onyx should have some spells that do psychic damage. Y’know, since she’s a phone now.
had to google crab rangoon? guys cmon
I feel like I need to freeze and ship some GF ones for Em
Ever heard of cornplating? I think thats what i might call extreme extrapolating
Guys new story archetype just dropped, Man Vs Spudfuckers
My mom lives in North Dakota and near the airport if you want to leave the switch there
These folks are crab ran-GOONS. Uppercase, bubble letter, with emphasis L*, folks! *said with love! Go get a big boy W and nosh on some crab Rangoon stat!
I for one demand the wasted money and time to go to Kansas City and play the switch 2
as a 15x daily phone dropper and a fellow big faller this is very validating
KANSAS CITY switch! You can play and store it at my house!
I'm coming over!
shoutout caldwell for repping asian appetizers, im personally partial to a tofu salad roll w/ peanut sauce
this was an unexpected way to find out that you all only go out to eat at chili's
BÜRGERMEISTER MEISTERBURGER
…also everybody knows that Palpatine’s first name is Frank!
Steamed pork or vegetable dumplings are SO MUCH better than crab Rangoon… yall are out of your minds.
Absolutely blown away by the fact that Emily doesn't know what a crab rangoon is. It's a staple of any american chinese restaurant and in my opinion the best thing on the menu- and I don't even like seafood. (Not that the crab is real crab I'm aware it's that imitation shit but man is it good)
God.. I relate to Murph’s shithead tendencies too much lol
“Penuts and Flesh” is definitely the name of mavid’s autobiography
“you can technically eat whatever you want” - Murph 2025
i would kill to hear murph chirp
Crab rangoons are going to become the new Anchorman lol
Caldwell, im here to personally verify that Crab Rangoon are so mainstream. Gaslighters! X'D Yummy. Standard. On menus everywhere.
The Switch 2 isn’t worth it, Murph. Nintendo are the bad guys now. You won’t even actually own the console or the games!
I have been thinking about Santa Claus is Coming To Town since the first mention of the Burgomaster - so glad to know that Caldwell is right there with me 😆
It's adorable you pretend that buying a game console remotely damages the budget
Caldwell is right: Crab Rangoon is an S tier appetizer. I don't know what y'all are smoking hating on it like you did.
Rangoons are the perfect barometer for the quality of the place on the whole. If they put love and craft into the 'goon, the rest of the menu will follow.
These coastal elites not knowing about crab rangoons is exactly what's wrong with our country 😔
I wonder it’s an LA thing. A little further north Crab Rangoons reign supreme.
People definitely goon for the Rangoon. It’s definitely mainstream
Please I beg of yall to play Bananza on a live stream it is so fucking amazing in both gameplay and unhinged lore
Get a switch 2, play donkey Kong live for us to watch murph get mad at Caldwell, make back money
Crab rangoon is getting the Anchorman treatment from Murph
Can confirm Caldwell's burgermaster Christmas special. "Burgermeister Meisterburger"
I tend to be on a similar wavelength to Murph, but the crab rangoon take is an adequately-sized L.
i have a switch 2. if y'all wanna do a stl live show i'll bring it and y'all can do a live play through on stage
Frankie Vantasmo would certainly try and fail to shut that Burger Master stuff down.
penny would absolutely go into it and mavid wouldn't care because he's only interested in peanuts and flesh
Look. I have never commented on an episode yet. The crab Rangoon DISRESPECT is insane.
i was aghast.
mind-blowing that you guys don't know what a crab Rangoon is. That the most popular Chinese food item of all time
I swear Caldwell always pulls out some insane knowledge no one would know about. Christmas stockings lore??
bananza is sooo worth getting a switch 2. and the one-shot potential from the new setting and lore is insane
The appetizer I go for is fried pickles. Not the spears that’s too much pickle.
Emily should have the trident morph into a collapsible cell phone antenna!!!!! She is cell phone
I will not STAND for this crab rangoon slander !!!!!!!
Absolutely wild to hear y’all talk about the bar I went to all the time in college
Banansas City
Seattlite here (saw you at the dimension 20 show!) there is nothing to do in Seattle. Every time someone visits it's so painful. But if you need something in your pocket: -Museum of Pop Culture by the Space Needle. WotC is based here so there's original D&D stuff in their collection. -Mox Boarding House is a bar-cafe + tabletop gaming store where you can grab games and play them while you eat. Murph deserves a Switch. The guy is GLOWING when he talks about Donkey Kong, let him have this one thing.
Thank you! I lived in Kirkland for 3 years and never felt inclined to go into Seattle unless there was a show/event. I did miss Mox Boarding House though; I’ll check it out next time I go.
"Burg" originally referred to a fortified town or castle, and became part of a lot of city names because they grew out of fortified castles, and -er is a suffix indicating that someone's from a place. Burger was a citizen, abd meister means master as in leader or boss, so burgermeister lead the citizens. Hamburgers were sandwiches made from Hamburg steak and got called that, then as they got iterated on, -burger became an English suffix indicating variations on the hamburger, then eventually its own word
Also “burgher” became Francized (not franchised a la Spud Fuckers) as “bourgeois” following the advent of capitalism
I love how Jake was the first response with 'treat yo self's about the switch and then 10 minutes later someone claims he's the hold out
the Hard Falls really got me 💀😭 being clumsy vs moving with force...... incredibly accurate description from murph per usual
same 😂 I always thought I was clumsy but moving with force is much more accurate!
The Radium Girls painted their teeth. Check that story out, fair warning it’s sad.
My favorite non fiction book is called The Poisoner's Handbook which talks a bit about this very tragic case. Mostly the book is about forensic scientists inventing forensic science in the US in the 1920s to solve crime cases, but a lot of the work they end up doing is against large companies
I'm SHOCKED you guys are not familiar with the Chinese takeout classic of krab (with a K) rangoons
This crab rangoon discourse is ignorant at best lol Im a rangoon defender, and I dont even like em that much
The donkey Kong bonanza rant and discussion is so relatable
emily mentioned ireland and now i’m BEGGING for a live show in ireland. it doesn’t have to be TOO soon but good god what I wouldn’t give to meet these four
Omg. Is “narrativising” a word?
Loveeee a crab rangoon. Try them if you dare
I will volunteer to keep the Switch 2 at my St Louis home
Bananza is worth a Switch 2. It's an incredible platformer that gives and gives. Naddpod made get into Donkey Kong way more than I ever did before, and honestly deepened my Bananza experience. You have to get it.
My husband can down 3-4 orders of rangoons. They are hands down the best appetizer
NADDPOD A24 films so farm include: Mousehole, Horse’s Ass, and If a Tree Shoots in the Woods.
poor proprioception (running into shit, clumsiness) is a common ADHD trait. Caldwell and Emily are both people I wouldn't not be surprised if they had some form of ADHD So this all makes sense
I came here to say this exact thing!
Donkey Kong Bananza is worth a switch 2
A majority of the table not knowing what crab Rangoon is INSANE! I know people who have gone to restaurants for the crab Rangoon.
I demand a mixed bag of yall playing donkey kong. Get a company switch 2 now.
Are crab Rangoons a Midwest-Chinese food thing? They're everywhere in Missouri and Wisconsin
They're on every New England menu.
We need a mixed bag appetizer testing and ranking
The only comment here that matters, honestly
Not a lot of serious eaters in the comments tbh
so crazy that they dont know crab rangoons!! yall dont get chinese takeout?
Baby baby crab rangoon!
I don’t think it was the first time they said it on Hey Riddle Riddle, but I always hear that phrase in Adal’s JFK accent. The callback somehow managed to exceed the original iteration for me.
As someone playing curse of strahd concurrently with this campaign I cannot wait for them to get to the abbey it’s going to be so fucking funny
I'd like to bring Pub Pretzels to the appetizer table discussion
Legions of the patreon I humbly request Murph checks out the 2024 dance bard subclass before switching back to sword bard. I think it was literally made for Jens. The mere image of Jens capoiera fighting his enemies thinking he looks cool only for Onyx and Nyack to remark on how its actually funny is in of itself hilarious 😂
Y'all should pitch Trees with Guns to M Knight for The Happening 2. It wouldn't be significantly dumber than the original.
Crab rangoons are an upper middle class appetizer which makes sense Caldwell would think such
Omg Caldwell yes I also know burgermeister from Santa claus is coming to town -- Burgermeister Meisterburger
Had to come to the comments to also defend the sanctity of the rangoon. I stand with Caldwell
People in here are really overhyping how amazing crab rangoons are…
How in God’s name is a giant pretzel a god damn appetizer? Nobody is eating giant, salty pretzels before their actual meal. Giant pretzels are snacks - specifically, they are “event” snacks (if that makes sense). You pretty much only eat them when you’re out at a sporting event, or a fair of some kind, or wandering around a mall/shopping center. You don’t eat big pretzels as a warm up for your actual meal. Pretty sure the crew needs to take a look at what an appetizer is actually defined as lol. I mean, I guess if you just consider any “snack” to be an appetizer, then yes, it would be one… but, that’s not what an appetizer is.
I can confirm that myself and multiple ppl in my friend group get giant pretzels as appetizers, and often split them. 😬 Lots of breweries have them as appetizers as well as German inspired bars in the states. Even Alamo drafthouse has them as appetizers. How or where you *decide* to eat an appetizer doesn’t affect whether or not it is one. Also the worst giant pretzels are the ones at events/games/malls. They’re just frozen and reheated and/or oversalted, so that might have an impact here.
Kinsley, ks is known as midway USA
The secret to good chat is to just let your neurodivergence shine, baby! Normal people love getting asked what their favorite tree is or what animal they most identify with versus what they most aspire to or which biome they would most like to be stranded in for a year. It let's them work a part of their brain that has long since withered: The whimsy of a child... or an autistic adult
I’m with Caldwell, crab rangoons are the best
My Patreon is going towards the Company Switch!
CRAB RANGOON SLANDER
Crab ranGOONs! Caldwell was correct.
An inspiring quote that made me think of this Strahd campaign 🥀: “… but even so, in the overnight-ed oats of my being, i do myself still centrally goon in mute calm; and while many man-o-spheres of self-phones take social media breaks round me, deep down and deep inland there I still fuck me in the eternal spuds of fixin’s.” Herman Melville Rogan, The Moby Dick Experience
Gonna skip this episode because I don't want to be shaking in my seat furious about the crab rangoon discussion
Fried calamari appetizer is the BEST when done well. Butt 🍑 if it’s not done well I’d rather have a basket of nice warm bread + butter.
no love for fried pickles I see
Crab rangoon erasure is racism tbh. NADDPOD CANCELLED! (this is a joke, so we're clear)
i’m almost certain it’s American Chinese, so it’s probably fine lol
In Santa clause is coming to town his name is Burgermeister Meisterburger and I have to think about it every time burgermeister is said
I’ve been a Patreon member at the 10$ tier for at least 3 years! I DEMAND MY DOLLARS GO TOWARD MURPH’s SWITCH 2
I mean, they all definitely make enough to each afford a Switch 2…
Get that tax write off for the Switch 2. Give us the DK content we deserve!
I cannot believe this Rangoon slander. Only Caldwell is a true Gooner!!
it makes me so happy anytime y'all say Ilana. It's sort of embarrassing lol
has emily read Small Game by Blair Braverman? from the discussion of loving nature not caring but being so terrifying i think she’d like it!
Justice for the real best appetizer Cheese curds, fried or not, both #1
Crab rangoons fucking rock
the crab rangooners must rise up
@Caldwell, I think the term you were looking for was pommel. I’m assuming you mean it is place at the bottom of the hilt as a design aspect?
I WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS CRAB RANGOON SLANDER!
Murph deserves a Nintendo Switch 2 as a little treat.
It's so sweet that Caldwell lets his kid paint his nails 😭😭😭😭 I DREAMED of doing that as a child
Did you know that historically we’ve always been obsessed with rocks as humans? In ancient times people would come together for a community party to move big rocks around and set them up. It was a big deal!
Justice for Caldwell and crab rangoons, absolutely S-tier
How on earth is Eldritch blast boring?
I stand with Caldwell on crab rangoons
Stay strong on the rangoon stance caldwell. Absolutely top tier and the others should delve into how good it is
I got a switch 2 on impulse. Mario Kart is fun. And I've heard good things about DK Bananza. But I think you can wait for a console price drop cuz you know the games won't go down in price
Bon Frères mentioned while i’m doing my yearly Hot Boy Summer relisten <3
Literally same! Just finished Into the Kelp Forest, and I don’t want it to end!!
*logan roy voice* you are not...serious eaters
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Crab Rangoon slander
as a bad talker and big tripper i felt deeply represented this short rest
HOW HAVE YALL NOT HAD A GD CRAB RANGOON GO GET SOME CHINESE FOOD ASAP
Because cream cheese wontons/rangoons are simply better.
Jake and Emily dont want the heat that crab rangoon supporters will bring
I also will say Emily strategy of being the distraction is a very powerful build the way she is using it, but if you wanted to, you could go back to hex blade and not lose fit bit!! in the 2024 rules it is no longer a sub class. It’s just an invocation, which is awesome so you can be any type of warlock and have pact of the chain. I know at this level you would have to give up pact of the blade which works so well with Hex blade but I love that you can have multiple Boons now. Just fun fact for anyone looking to be a warlock now.
Can I make my patron subscription go exclusively to the Switch 2 fund? I’d love a view crew series of murph trying to explain what all he and Caldwell got up to in the game.
They are in the top 10 of all patreons lol, they can easily afford a switch 2 for all 4 of them.
I realized Murph was using the Xanathars Glamor Bard not the 2024 version which might have been better. It doesn't have the 1 min dance anymore
Yep! 'Burgh', afaik, was the word used for the settlements that started forming (by the time feudalism fell in medieval europe) around the crossings of different trade routes, where travelling merchants would trade the products they'd been carrying from different places, thus establishing a hub for commerce, which would attract (iirc) former 'serfs' or 'peasants', migrating from the failing fiefdoms, who were willing to set up shop & exchange their manual labor/services for goods and necessities (and eventually, for their region's local currency). (sorry if this was weirdly worded! I'm not a native english speaker and it was surprisingly hard trying to explain in english a subject I was taught in portuguese, on top of trying to remember it from middle school)
As for the actual morphology (? etymology? origin) of the word, I don't recall lol. But y'all got it for sure. Anyway can't wait for KT to show up in Trinyvale x Strahd (/j)
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH TRINYVALLLEEE
Hearing them talk about the Gulthias Tree stuff just instantly sent me back to MONSTER MADNESS in the 8 Bit bookclub days, Emily had a needle blight, which referenced the Gulthias Tree in it's stat block! It comes full circle
A rangoon is absolutely in the conversation.
Rangoons legit
“Phones should be rocks” as if Nokia isn’t just standing right there 😭
Donkey Kong Bananza has been my most joyful video game experience in ages. I would love to know Murph's take!
Someone get these folks some crab rangoon!!
I stand with Cauldwell on Rangoon
Cauldwell saying “Investiture” is all the proof I need to know he’s getting deeper into the Cosmere
Crab Rangoon is the chicken tender of Asian cuisine I am ASTONISHED that Caldwell is the only one who knows what they are. Only thing more popular is like, egg rolls. Don't let them trip you up Druncle!!!
Rough ep for Jake and Emily, I'd be devastated if Murphy called me not a serious eater
In their defense, Murph said a giant pretzel was an appetizer, which is just not true lmfao. Nobody is eating giant salted pretzels as a starter before their actual dinner lol. Giant pretzels are snacks - specifically, they’re overpriced snacks eaten at sporting events, malls, or fairs.
I don’t think I have seen a Chinese food menu without crab rangoon. Go out and try them and change your life!
Is Crab Rangoon popularity a regional thing? I dont think ive ever met ppl who dont know what crab rangoon is, and its always a MUST to order when ordering chinese/ mixed asian cuisine.
CALDWELL- may i introduce you to tooth gems, i have a kit i got off amazon, i got you
caldwell is absolutely correct with his crab rangoon takes
Honestly I've only heard them called crab puffs
Emily- I totally feel you with taking hard falls… I get some pretty bad bruises. It’s probably our womanly tits throwing off our balance
My husband fully bought a switch 2 for DK. Do it. Lol
Emily giving Murph permission to buy something if it makes him happy, is a pretty good summary of their respective vibes.
I agree with caldwell, crab rangoons are top tier
Things of that nature...
I’ve never been more mad listening to my favorite podcasters attack crab rangoons. The audacity is appalling. Thank you Caldwell for your work.
Same!!!
I have been patiently waiting for the Burgermeister Meisterburger reference and we finally got it!
Please get Murph a switch 2. I need more Kongo-Bongo island specials!
Missed opportunity for Flurry of Boughs
Flurry of Beaks
I am clumsy, and also spill a lot, but both of those things are overshadowed by the fact that I am exceptionally good at loosing shit. Like lost my birth certificate despite having been super careful abt it type shit. And this was after I accidentally left it behind in an uber days prior (and got it back thankfully) during a visit to the dmv back in my home state. And then once I got home, and unpacked my birth certificate, within days it was just GONE. I’ve also lost my insulin pump, forgotten to pack insulin on a 5 day trip, and left my Apple Watch on the back of my gf’s car right before we drove off (and I never found it despite being able to track it)
upping my membership tier so naddpod can afford a company switch
women in old timey japan did used to paint their teeth black?
as well as Vietnam and a bunch of other E and SE Asian countries. For VN at least, it’s a coating you apply from around 11 y/o that permanently coats and stains the teeth black. It’s actually pretty good for your teeth; my great-gma died with a perfect set of teeth (meanwhile mine hurt if i think about them too hard lol).
Any other Hey Riddle Riddle fans need a crab rangooners crossover?
SO shook that we got a Seattle mention, immediately followed by Murph saying all he remembers is Unicorn 😭
the trees with guns talk: consider the dumbest possible version of macbeth
EMILY!!! The new 2024 rules for Warlock allow you to use the Eldritch Invocations for Eldritch Blast and apply them to ANY Cantrip!!! So if you want to play with something other than EB that’s totally on the table! They made that rule specifically for what you’re talking about—they didn’t want Warlocks shoehorned into being Eldritch Blast turrets.
Deeply hopes she sees this its one of my favorite changes in 2024
JUSTICE FOR CRAB RANGOON!!!!! Best app 10000000% if it's on a menu I've gotta be ordering it and I'm not usually an appetizer girlie
We definately need a murph DK stream
When we all hang out, Caldwell and I will be enjoying our crab rangoon while you fill up on bucket salsa and 3 week old potato skins.
I would love to get a switch2, but with Nintendo doing all the things it is I dont wanna give them more money
#wheremygooners@
Caldwell getting gaslit about crabrangoons is crazy.
Murph's analysis of Caldwell's movements hits so close to home lmao. My dad calls me his lil alpha tester because if an object can be broken, it will become shattered with my mere presence. Druncle, you make me feel seen as a fellow human who moves through physical space with a vibe that inanimate objects hate to see coming.
Okay, think of towns like Pittsburgh. The "burgh" means "town." It's Pittstown. A burgomeister is just "townmaster." They are the master of the town. Hamburgers are named after Hamburg. Hamburg is Hamtown.
Oh, hell. Murph figured it out in the episode. I shouldn't have paused and answered before listening to the whole episode.
My physical clumsy trait is somehow dropping food on it's way from its plate to my mouth. It's a problem, and it's worse when I'm actively not trying to drop tomato based food... it's a curse.
crab ragoons or cream cheese wontons are a stable asian restaurant appetizer ... it is the go to every time ... PLEADING for a two crew best appetizer tournament !!
Cream cheese wontons outshine crab rangoons in every aspect, unfortunately.
Get this man a Switch 2. The show begs of it.
There is an indie game called "Enter the Gungeon" which is a game about entering a gun and firearm themed dungeon. There's a beholder in it that uses gun called "The Beholster."
Everyone but Caldwell is SO wrong about crab rangoons
Guys, check out dbrand I'm sure they'll help you out.
hell yeah
A Phone Is A Rock That You Can Be Obsessed With.
Justice for fried pickles
Oh man that was a quick short rest dang.
Thank u mr murph & Mr druncula