Short Rest: C3 Ep. 15: Princess Shiverblight

"when it gets really cold, lizard freeze and fall from trees" sounds like a line from a Sandra Boynton book.

I’m not even joking when I say I went to tik tok after this episode and a video of a turtle being rescued from a collapsed tunnel that he dug himself 👁️👄👁️

I don’t own any reptiles or amphibians but I am a wildlife ecologist, all my friends are ecologists, my partner is an entomologist, and my parents are veterinarians and it’s always so funny to hear non ecologists talk about how weird some animal stuff is bc it’s like this is the only kind of stuff I talk about lol

My tortoise hibernates in a little house in my living room. Around November she decides to snooze for a month then gets up in time to wear a party hat on her shell for Christmas.

I was 100% yelling about reptile/amphibian care in my car as though yall could hear me 😅

Relistening to campaign 3 and completely forgot about the burying turtles conversation and how much it made me laugh

FYI - only box turtles that have been bred\born in captivity/under human care should be buried for hibernation. They also need to be pretty healthy overall, and not be too old or too young. **Also, don’t ever freeze a turtle! It’ll 100% not live through it.**

lol we put our tortoise in the fridge

Fun animal hibernation fact!: there's a cute little bat in Japan that hibernates in snow banks! It's the only other mammal, besides the polar bear, known to hibernate directly in snow.

I’m several years late, but: SWIMMING IS SELF-PROPELLED MURPH! SURFING IS POWERED BY POSEIDON!

Ah, the first “bury your turtles” conversation.

Representing the non-boomer body surfers: Brian Murphy come meet me at the Jersey Shore in two weeks and defend your slander. Caldwell is welcome for a free lesson

I think the swimming gloves/webbed fingers that Emil found are for swim racing training, they add extra resistance while doing freestyle, I used to use them when I was on swim team. Also I used to listen to the show when I swam!

I'm seeing the pattern, that whenever theres a different title card from the usual short rest card, I need to mentally prep for some insane story

Its fun hearing them talk about what the thumbnail will be while already knowing what they chose

We have a fully grown sulcata (the tortoise in your picture) at home. My wife bought him as a hatchling in 1998 and at the time he fit inside one of her 8yo hands. Now he weighs 154lbs and is 31" long. We live in the Midwest and in order to take care of him in the winters we built a 12'x12' four-season sunroom off of my wife's office and installed a stand-by generator for power-loss conditions. We love him, but I absolutely do not recommend anyone buying them in the north unless they are *fully* prepared to build a huge, heated, UV producing enclosure capable of housing an intelligent, mobile boulder.

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Just FYI, Florida recently passed a law that iguanas could no longer be kept as pets, it is illegal to take them from the wild and keep them. If you owned an iguana before 2021, your iguana is grandfathered into the law, but you have to have a permit. It is true that they will fall from trees when hibernating.

Emily - what brand was the baby-filled dinosaur? I have a 4yo nephew who would go wild for something like this. Sounds like a fantastic find!

I listened to this at Cape May and I keep losing it every time I see a body surfer

There is a game from the 90s called Jazz Jackrabbit where you play as a rabbit that fights turtles and sometimes you fight turtles without their shells

As a fun fact about the hand fins, one possible precursor was the McDonald's across from Waikiki beach where youths used to (and hopefully still do) steal the plastic trays, drill a hole and string through them, and use them to catch waves

Florida Frog Fun Facts: In Florida, we are encouraged to humanely euthanize Cuban Treefrogs by freezing them for 24 hours. They are an invasive species that threaten (and sometimes eat) our endemic tree frogs. Freezing frogs for 24 hours can kill them or put them in a permanent state of hibernation from which they won’t recover. Please do your research before freezing amphibians & reptiles because they might not wake back up again!

Dragon Elf: Inquisition

Knight of the living Wood

Don't Be A Menance In Bahumia While Drinking Your Juice (In The Living Wood)

if murph doesn’t bring in shadowfang somehow, we riot

Lol, y’all were thinking of tiny lizards but I was thinking of like a full size green iguana. Also a little disappointed no one owns a tort now.

Believe it!

Humble request to name the new arc "Dances with Dragon-elves?"

I feel like we need to talk more about the nat 20 wreckoning from Murphy. How many mar 20’s did he have - like 5 during the episode fight? It was a brutal.

Can I just say how happy it makes me whenever there's a character that uses neutral pronouns in the show? I feel like DnD podcasts in general and shows in the D20/Naddpod sphere specifically are really good about representation along those lines, and I love it

New title: Knight of the Living Woods

Can we please have a recording giving dating profiles or bios of all the cats?

Dragon Eel comes from Kobold Press Tomb of Beasts

I’d probably listen to 45 min of y’all trading blows with bullywugs

Could’ve been Dragon Elf Tales

One of the best things I've learned from naddpod is making powerful "support" npcs that still let the players shine. I ran a session where the party helped a druid rescue a less experienced ally from cultists who had things like healing (which the party def needed) and did things like enhance ability and flame arrow (which the ranger absolutely loved). It was a fantastic combat.

My lizard-oven/dice-Christ confession: My little brother had a lizard that needed a heat lamp. We were leaving on a family trip and as the know it all oldest sibling, I determined that he had put the lamp to far away…so I moved it closer right as we left. We came back to a burnt lizard 😵‍💫 I still haven’t told him it was my fault. Forgive me Lizard Christ.

"I would love to just like, quick-fingers catch a lizard and save him from his death - and then be like 'Will you be mine now?' And he nods. And then- [...] I WANT TO LIVE IN AN AQUARIUM IN LOS ANGELES, ONE WITH CUTE MINIATURE DOLLHOUSE FURNITURE---" - Emily Axford, 2022

My favorite game is trying to guess the context of the thumbnail and being so wrong every time

My dad has taught me so much about turtles. They can hibernate and survive submerged, there have even been snapping turtles with trackers that don’t surface for like years. Also Murph’s ninja turtle poster is unfortunately anatomically correct 😭

Me, just as excited to see the thumbnail as I am to listen to the episode. 🌝

It's great not understanding the cover photo untill you listen lol

Why does every dad love body surfing

Not to take a bit seriously but if y'all want fun reptile pets check out clint's reptiles on youtube for recs

Trying decide if my next patreon name will be “Jake’s Uncle John Who is Great at Body Surfing”

Those “hand fins” for body surfing are called hand planes and they’re awesome!

Glad I'm not the only one using my nieces as excuses to buy all the cool toys I wanted but never got as a kid ;)

can't wait to learn what this tortoise is up to

There’s actually this really wholesome old dude that reviews vapes. Robert Ellis on YouTube

Emily is asking what is missing from the party … perhaps a certain halfling from the Faye wild ??

Anyone else not having the new episodes show up on their apple podcast apps?

We need a mixed bag of the crew bodysurfing with Uncle John

Hehehe turdis

This is perfect, I just finished the episode

can't wait to hear who this lil guy is

Anyone else see an image attached to one of these and go Welp let's see what fuckery we have this week?

Oh I can't wait for the context of this image