Short Rest: Trinyvale X Strahd - Ep. 17

Release the Caldwell blue hat photo.

As someone who lives not that far from a Krispy Kreme, they never get old.

I live an hour away from pigeon forge (we do have liberals here we are just scared shitless lol) and just lost our physical Krispy Kreme store and it was a sad sad day.

"I dealt with it quietly" elicited such a deep chuckle out of me

hag reality tv show one shot

There’s some precedent for the last name thing. He’s been Caldwell Drawfee for a while

2026 is the year of hagmaxxing!!!!

“What waxy waterproof hat that gives you acne makes you look cool?”

my baby cousin is an August/Auggie!

I am an Uncle Huw (welsh spelling of Hugh) and I drive a powerboat for a living.

Legitimate offer: I work in film/theatre in costume - I will happily give you some zoom tutorials in how to do things and follow patterns so you you can make stuff for yourselves/kids and general tips in altering things for your wants/needs 👍🏼

My brother’s name is Augie! He is definitely a scamp lol! It suits him so well

Jake chiming in about how he had used homebrew hag stats for Skaldova got me feeling almost parasocially proud of how far he’s come. I know it’s been years now that he’s been doing this, but something about how we’ve seen his growth as a player (and now DM) on screen is oddly nostalgic. From drinking in a fiddle and not knowing what “action surge” is, to running his own campaigns and homebrewing up monsters, it’s been a satisfying journey to witness.

Do an “oops all hags” one-shot please

Imagine how egotistical you'd have to be to name your kid Augustus or Baron or something

My French nephew is named Augustin but it’s pronounced the French way so like “ou-goo-stan” and we call him Tan Tan

Honestly, yeah, I can feel 2026 becoming my hag year.

When my friends were going to college in Vermont we stopped at a "thrift" store and I found this mesh back trucker cap that said "grain hog" with a anthropomorphic pig in overalls on it. It was my favorite hat. Unfortunately, it was such bad quality that the foam on the inside dissolved with my sweat over the course of months and eventually deflated and ruined it :(. I did get a really nice leather bomber jacket for like $50 which I still have

Murph “Huge head guy (loves getting blown)” Murphy

The wax cap probably can be rewaxed if you take it back to their store. Barbour in London will rewax their hats for you if you take it into their store.

My nephews--Grayson and Jackson. I do know a baby named Feral. 🙃

Emily: “I want to play a hag someday” What about Ms. Mabel?!?

i'd like it on record that i was on the base of the wave, so to speak, of the name august when i picked it for myself in 2017

There are a lot of "y" names at my son's school. Odyn, Eyan. Aydan, etc.

Murph confirmed Stanley Cup winner with the Panthers, go cats 🐀

Woah! My nephews name is Augustus, and goes by Gus! You take back all your criticism please

I would love to see the Caldwell map of Barovia at some point!

I love seeing a random image as the cover and finding out why

Murph needs a hat stretcher. They even work on snapbacks! Size 8 fitted hat here, it's enabled me to wear hats for normal human heads.

Idk how popular this is in other countries, but as a German the first thing I think about when hearing the name August is "dummer August" (stupid August), a stereotypical circus clown lol

I fear that emily is more historically literate than both the average parent and the average American, and I dont think its super likely that a kid named Augustus would grow up to internalize the connotations of their name unless they were very interested in history even if they learned about the emperor in school

I did Not think that was emily (in the thumbnail)

My parents almost named me Augustus (To call me Gus mostly) because my older sister liked the mouse from cinderella

I really hope you guys have seen the Macca's Grinch boy summer ad, I'm not sure if its only in Australia but I just am seeing the Grinch everywhere in Brisbane right now and the meal is green and it looks so awful and all I can think about is the NADDPOD cryptid version of the Grinch every time i see it

I think we’re looking at a Santa Clause situation here with Uncle Huey – so when he falls off his pontoon (RIP) his nephew does in fact become Uncle Huey, Tecates and all

New August Company album just dropped https://www.instagram.com/p/DSTVrohjMtf/?igsh=MTlyMHRrdHNkc29uOA==

HOLD UP BREAKING NEWS! Roll and Play Press just released a playable Grinch Species https://rollandplaypress.com/products/playable-race-groucher

Congrats to Emily on breaking the glass ceiling and thinking about the Roman Empire way more often than the men that surround her.

My cat's name is Augie (short for Augustine) and he is indeed an unrepentant scamp

Sick pissing and shitting for missing Emily and murph at the Dickens Christmas fair

Modern Bread and Bagel here in LA has pretty good GF donuts, according to my GF wife. In case Emily does need a donut.

“As a huge-head guy my head is huge.” - Murph Naddpod

Mmyffdd

My nephew who is 6 months old is actually named August and called Augie. It’s pretty cute.

Raise your hand if you were also the cat in the hat for Halloween as a child 🙋🏽‍♀️

Murph needs to discover Mammoth Headwear and Oddjob hats. Not a sponsor, but they make nice big hats for big heads and I love them.

"Unmoisturizing look: they look at you and you become dry." Oh, like Ben Shapiro!

@Murph, another massive head guy. So much so that in my high school production of Oklahoma! I needed a custom cowboy hat 🫩

I think we can all agree that we are all fans of head.

Gloomstalker at least in 2014 rules Umbral Sight ability, which means you are invisible to creatures that use dark vision to see you. So it’s really cool but pretty niche because you need total darkness but if you’re ever in darkness and the other person has dark vision, you don’t show up which is pretty cool. So think like big bad monsters in a cave you can stalker right in

Emily I’ll eat extra donuts on your behalf

Mario does NOT jump higher than Luigi in Mario 2

i love when they devolve into this collective "we" despite referring to one individual. theyre luigi. all of them

I adore the little insights into Murph and Emily’s marriage. Finds Cereal behind fridge, “you didn’t tell me” handles it. Classic hubby move.

Describing three-year-olds as "the world's worst lawyers that are somehow always right" is perfect. They are consumate litigators. You will never out argue them.

Go to Remainders in Pasadena! They have great sewing classes for beginners

i absolutely started referencing the grinch way more bc of yall. retelling grinch jokes to everyone i know so its so possible yall had a hand in the re-grinch-surgance

“murph naddpod” is equal and opposite to how i address every member of drawfee “nathan and karina drawfee”

You’re killing me with August. “Emily will be with au ‘gust company in Aug’ust.” And I just realized I’m being a bit of a negative Nancy these last two comments. Sorry. Love ya!!!!!

Sorry luv, but they’d be dressing to the one too many.

Wahoo!! It's-a-me, Murphio!!

Jake - You do have a sneaky ability as a Gloom Stalker! One of the features of Umbral Sight at level 3 is this: You are also adept at evading creatures that rely on Darkvision. While entirely in Darkness, you have the Invisible condition to any creature that relies on Darkvision to see you in that Darkness. It's no rogue stat, but definitely helpful!

I wish I could share the picture here, but my friend found this really decrepit Cat in the Hat statue on Facebook Marketplace once, and that's all I could think of when seeing the thumbnail

Omg! The thumbnail! 🤣 I 100% relate to the 90s Halloween picture, and was howling at the "every photo taken before 1990 should be a clue in a murder mystery" line 🤣

From an adult Danny, thanks Murph. Really appreciate game recognizing game

I’ve never related so much to a statement than when Murph said “I feel so left out but I really don’t want to do that” to sewing 😂😂

I’m dying for another Emily run, Hot Boi Summer adjacent arc full of H.A.G.S. (Have a great summer for anyone that didn’t graduate high school in the mid-00’s)

On the pretending to be a god; Emily gets so in-character whenever she's playing d&d that she feels the need to pretend to be someone else entirely (and that's goals).

Jake with win…bone-grindin’ with ol’bonegrinder

AHAB (assigned hag at birth)

The donut conversation is crazy, I literally just picked up donuts from a local place but I live near the first Krispy Kreme. It is indeed still as good as it was.

This is great because my new born nephew’s name is August and I will only be calling him Gus

As someone who was talked in to coaching a YMCA 6 to 8 year old soccer league with absolutely no formal experience playing soccer in my entire life it was interesting to say the least lol.

As a former native of TN, and a former Teen who went on church retreats to Gatlinburg, I didn't know I needed to hear how true it is that Pigeon Forge is Christian Las Vegas lol #haglife2026

i think you spent a total of 15 minutes of this episode actually talking about the episode, but i’m here for it

I knew in my bones the instant I saw the thumbnail it was Emily.

If a tour takes Emily or any gluten free friends through Philly, I wanted to shout out Okie Dokie Donuts: https://www.okiedokiedonuts.com/ We just had them for our baby shower and they were destroyed by gluten free folks so quickly!

This British person is GAGGING TO KNOW what the British curses being shouted were!!!!

My dad’s name is August and he’s gone by Augie all his life. When he retired and my parents relocated, he tried to make Gus a thing. It didn’t take. Still Augie, at age 79.

LA people/Two Crew- Milo and Olive in Santa Monica has amazing Neapolitan wood-fire pizza and their mushroom pizza/garlic knots slap. If you get the garlic knot, order it as soon as you see your server because they take 20 minutes. I used to be the sous chef there back in the day. Good people.

Uncle Huey has a breathalyzer in his car because he had one too many DUIs

This was an insane listen. My name is Augustus, I've been called Gus since before I was born, and I used to get called "Auggie" by bullies. Murph: "... and then you ascend to 'Gus'" made my day lmao Note: I was named after the protagonist from Lonesome Dove, not the emperor. Still big shoes to fill.

Emily.. I know no one wants to come to the OC, but there's a place on Beach called Donuttery that's open literally 24/7 and they have incredible gluten free, celiac safe donuts. I am not celiac but my MiL is, so I'm always seeking out decent GF treats! There might be a location closer to the LA area, it's worth a search!

I'm literally about to go to Dicken's Fair tomorrow while listening to this (assuming they are talking about the one in San Francisco). I go almost every year. I'm sad I didn't see Murph and Emily...

Dragon pussy callback well played

Its insane that Emily as the Cat in the Hat is not the most terrifying thing in that picture

Cracking up at the name discussion because my three year old is August, we were planning to call him Gus but he’s called Froggy (what we called him when I was pregnant) or Auggie because we live in Australia. And Axel is the name of the worst kid in my six year old’s year!

awww i love the idea of caldwell and emily learning how to sew together!! some libraries will offer beginner classes on a reserved base for small groups that might be worth looking into. i bought a sewing machine a few months ago and learning how to use it more often for mending and pattern construct is my goal for 2026 as well!

I definitely understand gold looking good enough to eat. Sometimes its so smooth it looks like chocolate. Or biting into a Ruby like one would a apple.

Food quality of the entire US has been in steep decline, mostly due to food distribution monopolies and the erasure of small business. Look up Sysco and food quality. It’s genuinely wild.

Emily thank you for sharing this photo with America.

My uncle had a plan to call me Katie when I was a kid and when I became a woman in his eyes he wanted to transition my name to Kathy. Surprisingly he hasn’t followed through.

jokic is the emily axford of basketball

I love how Caldwell explains Tennessee. As a Nashville native and Smoky Mtn regular, Pigeon Forge is 100% Christian Las Vegas lol

The people need to know. Have they seen the new star wars podracer game trailer. Do they know Sebulba is back?

I work the front desk at a small local museum and for an event last weekend we had a group of Dickensian carolers perform. They started late because they tried to wait for a couple that hadn’t shown up but eventually just went without them. About an hour and a half later, the couple came in, very obviously dressed in Dickensian garb, and said “we’re here with our group.” When I told them they’d already performed they didn’t believe me. “That wasn’t OUR group.” Like there was some OTHER Dickensian caroling group we also had perform the same night. It took several minutes to convince them they got the time wrong and missed it.

RIP uncle Huey. He was a huge head guy

Bringing me back to 17-year old me working my first job at Krispy Kreme housing 6 donuts a shift.

Or God forbid a Klingon at a reb fair

Weirdly enough, every single grown man I've met that went by "Danny" screwed me over in very big ways. Like, we're talking "when I was 13, our landlord, Danny, sold my childhood home while we were still living there and told us to leave within 30 days. Also my Mom was a single mom with two kids."

This isn’t a cartoon, but in Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, Cookie Monster eats both a typewriter and a telephone, and 4 year old me wanted to eat those more than a four-piece McNugget Happy Meal.

Is next episode the finale?

I have to tell you that Luigi was the one who jumped highest in Super Mario Bros. 2, not Mario. Mario jumped higher than princess and toad but not Luigi

So glad they discuss Emily's facial expression in the photo because I was a very happy kid but all my photos from that time are just me full Kubrick-staring down the barrel

Be careful, pre-nog can still get you pregnant.

you know it's gonna be a good short rest when there's a picture

every time there's a picture in the thumbnail I turn into the Sickos meme

EMILY IS SO CUTE OMG Loving all the mini Naddpod strolls down memory lane

Always hyped for the thumbnail to be explained. 😼🎩

Short rest with a photo = i stop what im doing and click play