Short Rest: Gangs of Neo Galaderon - Ep. 1

Campaign gives me True Survivor music video vibes from David Hasselhoff

Murph, please, stop giving the companies ideas, it's bad enough as it is.

I got genetic testing done recently and they had a progress bar like the domino’s pizza tracker, so I refreshed this little green bar every day for a few weeks and then they were like “actually you’re fine :)” (I am not fine)

Fun fact. There are wild deer in Washington DC in and around Rock Creek Park. The rangers do routine cullings to keep the population in check. That is all

Jake’s character reminds me of Ghost Wolves. They are coyote wolf hybrids, the only living species having red wolf DNA, in Galveston Texas. They are extremely rare and a location of a large pack is being destroyed to put in a Margaritaville. It’s stings more cause there’s another one just a few miles away.

once you see someone get gored by a deer hoof you kinda stop thinking they're disney creatures lol

**Rob Codin’ Ork

When Jake started describing Aux in episode I immediately thought of Robin Hood.

Only in a Disney princess moment are you not at risk of getting the shit stomped out of you by a deer... I used to work at a medical center for North American wildlife and the only animals they wouldn't accept were rabies vectors and fucking deer

Deer are unfortunately a pretty big burden on the native ecosystems where I’m from. Native vegetation starts to decline when 8+ deer are present in a square mile and in some places there can hundreds. Deer eat up everything they can possibly digest and leave behind a few invasive plant species completely destroying any understory habitat for other species and stunting forest growth. Without food in the forests they move into agricultural and urban areas which leads to deer-vehicle collisions. Deer ruining flowerbeds is generally not the biggest concern of overpopulation but would decline if population numbers were more stable.

Now I get the reference when Murph says “Skitch your tickets now!” in the instagram reel about the Australia live show!

Watter battle

Jet Set Radio is an old Xbox game where you skated around a mildly cyber town and graffiti painted things. I remember it being very rad, and I think it would be a great View Crew moment.

"We're playing [Cyberpunk 2077] as Emily." Don't you mean....Emil-V?

Bud for Bob Odenkirk.... More like Bud Odenkirk 😁

My Subway in Texas had purple polos a few years ago lol

Oh you guys would like Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei Brenyah

Every time y'all rant about technology and tracking and QR codes and ai, I feel a little less insane 🫶

" I'm coming" becomes Murphs "I'm gonna go, or something"

Okay, I know what you mean about the pee when someone dies! My dog passed away in February and the week before he passed he pooped in our yard during a snowstorm but I had run out of bags. I went out later to pick it up but it froze to the ground and I couldn’t get it off the ice (he was a small wonderful boy). The ice and snow is finally thawing this week so I finally went to go pick it up and it was an oddly emotional moment. It’s the only time I’ve ever picked up dog poop reverently.

Ticks are the number one growing vector borne disease in the US. Major concern for lime disease.

John mulaney “is that dean cain? That’s fucking dean cain!”

Ah! Thank you for validating the fact I kept thinking "Man this has Snow Crash vibes" during the entire episode! Fantastic book, although disturbing. Bonus fun fact, modern day Google Earth is based/inspired by tech described in the book. It also coined the terms "metaverse" and "avatar" (coined isn't the right word... I don't think Stephenson invented the terms, but they were brought into popularity by how he uses them)

Guys, “intro nixed 2026”!

Emily, you are so right about the Subway smell. I worked there in like 1999 and it used to seep into my dreams. I still can’t go in a Subway

Speaking of themed towns, y'all should check out Enterprise, Alabama's Ronald McWeevil

i have really bad news and that’s that the pizza tracker is pretty fake :( my brother used to be a delivery guy

Subway did gave purple shirts, i worked there for a short time and also had a purple shirt around 2003.

2crew takes on invasive species we love to see it lmao

Deer will fuck you up, be so careful

Y'all should definitely watch the og rollerball if only to highlight what an insult the remake is. Or, maybe not, cuz it really highlights the real life dystopia instead of the "can you imagine" TV one.

Dang they almost talked about the episode in this one 😆

I tried reading snow crash… it is deeply problematic. Way too much casual racism to just be commentary same goes for the sexism.

The purple Subway shirts are real. Apparently they were used in the '90s, maybe that franchise held on a little bit longer.https://ebay.us/m/pBr09g

Foxes are an urban problem in the UK right after talking about Foxes in Dublin... tread soooo carefully guys

I need the pod-tracker!!!!!!!

I love that Murph dropped that we should be able to figure out who Elmer is and there is zero discussion about that piece of lore but we are LOCKED in on solving Purple Shirt gate, I love this fan base 💜

Murph being slightly out of touch with when smartphones came out is sending me xD xD

Purple was the go to colour for the 5 Dollar Foot Long - we wore purple shirts for them coming back in 2011

1. Would unironically love a Murph editing tracker, Im constantly refreshing on Fridays so I can listen to the short rest at work 2. If you're looking for a silly movie thats enjoyable, attack of the killer tomatoes is great (if you haven't heard of it already) 3. The memory glove discussion reminded me of that one batman movie where Robin wears fake lips so he can make out with Poison Ivy

There were definitely purple shirts at Subway

Most wifi-connected devices with a speaker can technically use it to act as a microphone, so if you were wondering why so many new appliances now have cute little chimes when they seem unnecessary, there you have your answer.

We wear "Hawaiian" shirts as formal wear to weddings, funerals and court and it looks gooooood

I worked at subway in the late 2000s and we had a baby blue color and an orange shirt too!

I also recommend a book called chain gang all stars. It is about prisoners fighting in a televised show to try to commune or pardon their sentences. Lots of commentary on real life but it’s a really interesting story

I pay to listen to this Patreon, therefore NADDPOD are professionals, ergo discussing jerking off an ATM at work IS PROFESSIONAL DIALOGUE, HR REPS TRYING TO WRITE ME UP

Caldwell saying the game is based on the anime of cyberpunk hurt me

Deer were introduced here in hawai’i on a few islands about 100 years ago and they decimate the forests because we don’t have any predators here. They trample the brush and eat the native plants. They’re so pretty though!

EMILY!!!! I literally just bought roller skates and I used to play roller derby when I was young. I’ve been thinking about going back to it and this was the final nail in the coffin. I fucking love this new PC.

Had a couple buddies who tried skitching when they got their first skateboards at 15. One of them got their arm stuck and ended up being drsgged behind the car. They had some gnarly road rash and broke their arm. While sitting in the lobby at the er the mummy was playing an incredibly enibriated man was very confused by the seen happening in the movie and shouted "use your pistol" one of the character who clearly didnt have a pistol fighting the mummy who would clearly not be effected by a pistol we have been using that phrase ever since.

Googled a purple subway uniform and there definitely were purple polos! They say Sandwich Artist! 😋

Naddpod Pod Tracker- a million dollar idea.

i have the same problem with voice actors that some have such unique voices it's hard to hear them play a character without knowing what else they're in

half way through the episode, what level are the characters starting at?

Where the Henderson sisters based on the Henderson brothers in slap shot?

This short rest was to funny for 9 am in the office 😂😂

I've seen purple subway uniforms. I think it might just be that there are several options for uniforms and the owner gets to choose which they want

Can confirm on Brisbane, Australia I got given purple shirts right before I was fired (2010)

Colin Farrell is so much better than Johnny Depp! What are you even talking about?!

I understand how good that Hawaiian shirt is. One of my prized possessions is a painting (done by a rickshaw artist) of a tiger and a wolf, in a speedboat, fighting sea monsters with machine guns. It kicks so much ass.

At my Subway, employees wore green and managers wore like reddish-orange polos. They gave us T-shirts for promotions and events, I had a purple one of those

If the ATM stunt was a Jackass prank, you'd put your card in, then a door on the side of the ATM would swing open and wee man would pop out with your card + a bag of money and run away.

I’m gooning 40 bucks

“They should have ATMs that give chocolate”. I think that is just a vending machine 😂

i like to think that rova's name is actually just rova

"As long as someone older than me is pranking me and not someone younger than me" this hit me like a universal truth buried deep in a classic novel.

Snow crash reference? Let’s go

The campaign world is also very Alita Battle angel so far tbh

I think I have the same dishwasher as Caldwell… it definitely sucks. 😂

If the subway was near UAlbany their school color is purple?

I worked at a subway in the mid aughts and they had green shirt and purple shirts for employees to wear. It was more like a purple maroon

Very validating to have my one of my favorite authors name dropped, I second the shout out to Neal Stephenson

I remember Subway around me uniforms having purple

For our cartoon enthusiasts might I reference Tex Avery Home of the Future Refrgerator…https://youtube.com/shorts/g0C8_cIoDyU?si=uE4w9iD_VhjCn9QO

Forget machine learning, now Im terrified of machine love!

I’m always pleasantly surprised to learn that Jake named her Gemma. Truly a great story!!!

There are some towns that actually do have restrictions on the colors of things, Sedona Arizona is one. In fact the McDonald's in Sedona is the only McDonald's that has turquoise arches instead of yellow ones because they weren't allowed to have yellow in their sign

It’s a little weird how often being excited about seeing what’s happening inside a dishwasher has come up in the actual plays I listen to in the last month.

Skitch on your homework kids.

Did Caldwell say "I watched the anime cyberpunk 2077 is based on? It's based on an RPG that's been around since the 80s!"

I had a purple shirt! Although I was working at Hollywood Video (not subway) sooooo

As a Hawaiian Shirt wearer (which admittedly started ironically as someone living in tourist territory), I need Caldwell to take back what he said about them never looking as good in real life as they do in media. You just gotta know how to pull it off

To be fair to Caldwell, while Albany certainly doesn’t have an official city color, I think UAlbany’s colors are purple and gold?

Asked my sister, who worked at Subway around the same time as Emily, and she confirmed they did have solid purple or solid green shirts. This was in the West Virginia panhandle.

So foxes are kind of a problem in London but they are SO CUTE! I used to have a baby one that used to walk with me to Bethnal Green tube station at night. One fun idea for Jake is that they are known for having the most horrific sounding sex so please do consider that while roleplaying.

On a note about deer being a problem, deer overpopulation can specifically destroy forests and diversity. This has been an ongoing battle in the Midwest Michigan and Indiana forest are constantly overgrazed and lack diversity because of it. Collisions are definitely a major problem too, but the ecological damage is hard to recover from even with hunting incentives and replant initiatives

I think the greatest thing I've ever heard on a podcast is "the problem with dishwashers was never EVER that they weren't connected to the internet." 😂😂

Snow Crash ROCKS

UAlbany colors are purple!

As an Albany resident, it is very grey until the flowers bloom in Washington Park!

Caldwell the pokemon tcg pocket shout out hit me in my soul how u feel about this mega shine expansion

Adam sounds like he would look like the son of The Crushanator from Futurama.

There's something about Bahumia that brings out the ultimate chaos in a short rest

Podcast producer here. The idea of a podcast tracker sent a chill down my spine.

Ahem. You should absolutely NOT be allowed to bet on yourself, right?

I buy my son DND dice Advent calendars.

Could my next cosplay be an ATM with a dildo!??

Feel like I remember the purple shirt at some point. Also, I fully trust Em’s memory.

Hearing the dishwasher cleaning discussion the week after Brennan introduced a dishwasher voyeur on WBN is such a wild trip 😂

The purple shirts denoted the Imperial Subway, which was the last hold out following the Subway Schism of '98 and controlled most of the Subways in the north eastern US and southern Ontario/Quebec. They were mostly taken back under the purview of Subway (or True Subway) following the Eastern Push and the 2003 Reunification Wars.

While listening to this I realized Skitch = Skateboard + Hitch

I swear they have just gotten funnier as the years go by

As someone who lives in Albany, I love the representation 😅

Not clear but Emily might think she can outrun a deer.

I worked at Subway in the early 90s. The shirt I wore was red, as was that of my coworkers. I *think* my manager had a purple one, because when Emily said hers was purple I immediately thought she was a manager. That was like a decade earlier though, when the “U-cut” was the law, so who knows what else changed?

Relating hard to the healthy advent calendar, as someone who’s parents used the plastic pringles holder in lunchboxes for a single scoop of peanut butter

Hey. It's 2023. Give the Cyberpunk 2077 Emily a purple shirt.

snow crash rules

Holy shit now I need them to watch Battle Angel Alita

As someone who is a Dominos delivery driver who was actively doing a delivery while listening to this, it was such a trip appearing my job mentioned. and just to let everyone know we don’t read the messages that you sent. If Dominos really wanted me to do that they’d pay me more than minimum wage.

Loved the first episode. I will say that I would love to hear you guys play Cyberpunk Red.

Read Chain Gang All Stars for a distopian hit on capitalism monetizing ultra violent games. 10/10 recommend

Has anyone seen wild London w/ Attenborough? Feel like the gang would appreciate it!

The bout seemed such a throwback to FFIX and FFX2 opening sequences 🥳

I’m so glad they left in the segment of Caldwell just struggling to find when the Dominoes pizza tracker came out

I grew up in Albany UK, snap

I audibly gasped when Bob showed up in Little Women

If there isn’t a mini-sode of “When Did Things Come Out” I ain’t listening. Also shoutout to my fellow sandwich artist Em! Represent! (I remember wearing a green shirt btw)

“in which case,parallel thinking, im sorry” 😭

Intro nixed!

i love how you can tell what video games murph has been playing by the setting of his current campaign

I love how the campaigns have progressively ascended from anti authoritarianism to anti authoritarianism AND anti capitalism🥰

WAIT re: The Subway Purple Shirt - could it have been an age thing? Seeing as Em was young when she worked at Subway. At Wegmans, we used to have different colored name tags to designate our age (relative to 18, because only 18yo staff or older could use knives)

The Murph NADDtracker is a billion dollar idea

We had a camper on a lake when I was a kid, and would basically move there in the summer. When rollerblade happenned in the early 90s, we made a tow rope and had a friend ride a bike and tow us around. Then we convinced dad to do it with the shitty S-10 truck we used to haul firewood. Speed limit was 10mph in the campground, but damn it felt fast.

I actually can't believe both naddpod and worlds beyond number both have sci fi seasons starting with robot PCs that both fuck other robots in the first ep lmao SERENDIPITOUS

Getting a free minisode of When Did It Come Out in this Short Rest, real value for the Patreons 😁

I got punched in the face by a deer once

I'd be really really surprised if Emily's Subway franchise did this intentionally, BUT UAlbany's colors are purple and gold. I think one of the bigger Albany area high schools too. I can't remember which one

Now doing a deep dive into 2002s rollerball. The scandal/controversy attached to the director during filming is ridiculous.

You know what I'd like to see in my dishwasher? Sandy Dildo Vodka Bath 🤖🎵

McCloud is Scottish I'm so sorry to be that guy. You were so close. However the character Wolf O'Donnell is absolutely Irish heritage

Omg I also burst out at Colin Farrell turned into Johnny Depp! 😂 So confusing.

I know not everything has to be work but to see the chooms Murph and Emily play Cyberpunk 2077 with a chromed out emily would be absolutely preem!

Skitch was big in Tony Hawk Underground 2.

Everytime Caldwell says 'ATM Machine' I flinch

Y'all great first episode. Reminded me of Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuux which was also great. I still need to read Snow Crash as well. Don't remember why I bought it but glad to hear it's a good read.

WE ARE SO BACK. WE ARE SOUP ON A PLATE.

The dishwasher talk between this and the new Worlds Beyond Number campaign... what are people in the Dropout TV universe talking about?!?! 😆 Whatever it is, keep it up, it's gold.

Emily served two fucking tours in a purple shirt for baskin robins/subway. I salute her more than a marine 🫡🪱

I'm relistening to C3 and the short rests right now and the introduction being the "Welcome to intro free 202--" really threw me for a loop, like oh did I choose the wrong episode? And then the later callback to the dumb fantastic beasts reveal which was brought up in a c3 short rest as well. I was really feeling like time is a flat circle.

A US pint is 16oz a UK pint is 20oz the reason they're different is a half assed attempt in the UK to decimalize the gallon to weigh 10 pounds. They could have gone with a pint weighing 1 pound which the original pint nearly does, but instead they decided to just increase their quart and pint by approximately 20% to make the gallon weigh 10 lbs.

To think star fox just got announced for super mario movie. Wow Jake predicted the future

Pokemon Mobile Trading Card game mention

Oh my god, my favorite game: When did things come out! A resurgence! (Also it’s wild because I’m FINALLY caught up to real time naddpod and it feels so weird.)

it’s ‘CREAM/get the money for’ for a reason I guess

You guys are right about the deer- it’s too bad but yes, some species are spreading out of their normal ranges and it causes problems like you said. The expansion and overpopulation of deer (such as white-tailed deer) can cause over-grazing on fragile ecosystems. There’s also a problem with chronic wasting disease spreading through cervids in the US and Canada (which is a threat to Canada’s more at risk caribou etc.). Unfortunately the spread of deer is symptomatic of local extinctions of top predators like bears and wolves. Basically we’ve fucked everything

32:00 I can't believe the Noid has never entered the Nightmareverse

There was a game on Sega Genesis called "Skitchin' " I thought was quite simply the coolest, and most rebellious thing that could possibly exist when I was a kid. You should totally play for a mixed bag or game episode.

Vintage 90s purple subway shirt https://www.ebay.com/itm/397437544773

Can someone PLEASE make the Hawaiian shirt Caldwell described!

This may be too obscure a StarFox but in Star Fox Command(the Ds game) there was a ending with a timeline Fox and Falco become Fzero drivers/mechanics

Idk if Emily will ever read this but that ranger was right: be careful with wild deer! They aren't very expressive, and it is easy to think that it's being playfully timid, when in reality it is trying to get you to move away from an area. A well-placed kick from a deer can break bones, and absolutely slash you to ribbons

Extremely stoked on this campaign, just off the concept I wish it was a full 50 episodes. Speaking of, has the crew mentioned anywhere (Mixed Bag, etc) about the potential return of a longform campaign?

"Murph, your ability to..." "Talk about dumb shit?"

My chode bottle is 33 Oz :3

I've weirdly noticed Caldwell has really gotten so crass. Am I making things up ? Any way he is the best

Snow Crash! Great book. (very minor spoilers ahead) Not only does it have skitching and linguistics (neuro-linguistic hacking), there are also cyborg dogs that can break the sound barrier, VR swordfights as imagined in 1992, and all kinds of other fun stuff. It's also a great read as a commentary on capitalism, consumerism, digital frontiers, and all that good cyberpunk stuff if you have an interest in that. One other fun concept is 'gargoyles' which are people so decked out in over-the-top cybernetics and tech add-ons that they look utterly ridiculous to the average person. There are some less than comfortable scenes and portrayals of people from other cultures, but I think overall its a solid cyberpunk book with a lot more depth than the cold-open might make you think.

Murph’s editing the pod, Bruce is in the garage

I work at a hospital with a lot of motorized wheelchairs, and my clients are skitching all the time... It is rad. Ps Thank you all for romanticizing piss gazing.. lol

Y'all need to read the book enshittification it will make you even more enraged about shitty internet connected products

The tangent about companies sending you texts is making me think of a "sending list" in D&D where anyone who comes into a store is subscribed to their list of people that receive messages from the sending spell inside their head about deals and promotions.

Noice

I would point out that skaters are still skitching. Its how I get to the gym.

Me listening to this while playing Cyberpunk

Excited to see some more Valda's stuff considering just how massive and sprawling that content book is, like every new class has 10 subclasses and there's a boatload of new feats and spells and such

As Drew would say, Hell yea

First

Hell yea