Short Rest: C3 Ep. 31: Peaks and Valleys

When she get the leach? I missed that part.

i just know that caldwell would do so well on um actually

“I don’t trust fire with you” is the sweetest thing I’ve ever heard

I’m a huge fan, but did I miss why they pronounce automaton the way they do?

Me just saying Casey and Marco over and over again around the 27 minute mark...

Zurich origins

Hey, if it's cooked in a Dutch oven (the kind that requires charcoal/campfire), it's camping. Thems the rules.

olaf WHAT?

The Merlin Bird App is amazing. It will tell you birds from song or photo

My brother gave my dad a birdhouse that has a camera in it, an now my dad sends us weekly emails with videos of birds 😊 Everyone needs a birdwatcher in their life! Also big rose for the awkward inner voices and small talk 🌹

Surprised Brennan’s not your bird person 😂

Roc has been in a lot of JRPGs as a bird enemy and it has always confused me.

I study Islamic archaeology, and by extension folklore, and the Roc is a big deal in Islamic legend. It features in the adventures of Sinbad, and was known to be an eagle which preyed on elephants. There is a suspicion that early Islamic explorers, finding the remains of elephant birds (a genus of giant extinct ratite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_bird) on Madagascar, believed the remains to come not from an animal resembling a massive emu, but a bird resembling a massive eagle.

Caldwell is so real for the pineapple upside down cake, we made one every time i went camping as a kid

I fell behind on listening so i just got to this episode, but Emily might enjoy the book "The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump", by Harry Turtledove, based on her mentioning the Garuda Bird.

Me tearing up when you guys sang piano man because it made me think of my best friend who just moved a few states away (I won't explain our inside jokes hahaha) 🥺

So crazy with the time frame of D20 and NADDPOD because for those of us watching neverafter is that the Rok with Scheherazade was pretty recent for the audience so I knew right away that’s what it was! But for them itwas so long ago that they don’t even remember!

Excited to see Caldwell and Jake role play together without Emily. I feel like they don’t get a lot of one on one time

The Stone Giant was perhaps the freakiest thing Murph has come up with. The sound editing on the humming? Big spooks.

Love being a fly on your wall

Theres also Rawk Hawk the wrestler from paper mario. Which still kills me.

Wait Rachel dies??????

Cawcaw comes back in ep 35 frostwind

I'm currently finishing up a master's thesis about ravens (another corvid) in Utah -and Adam Conover's uncle, Dr. Michael Conover is on my thesis committee! This means I'm only like 1 degree of separation away from birding with Emily and Adam...which means I'm only like 2 degrees of separation away from birding with Brennan..

Two more bird recs in addition to the Merlin app: 1) the digital version of Wingspan. It plays multiple versions of the bird sounds when you play a bird. 2) the Corvid episode of Ologies with Allie Ward! Super interesting corvid facts

Spoiler warning - frozen 2, animorphs, the flinstones, and maybe the jetsons

I love corvids and they like me, but I have a one sided feud with the local witch girl because she's been feeding the crows exclusively and fucking up the local bird ecology. She wants them to be territorial of her house and yard and the crows have bullied the cardinals and the blackbirds away. Now all we have in our sad little town in NJ are mourning doves and crows

I always tell my wife that a major sign of getting old is when you start to get excited about seeing birds. I’m fully there, btw. We have a falcon that lives in our backyard that I cherish.

I believe Cawa cawa wasn’t mentioned till the mountains of iron deep

I am getting into bird watching and would LOVE the bird mythology book recs

I wonder at what point female children stop seeing gazoo? 🤔

The Roc is an Egyptian mythological creature! ❤️

I’ve been camping up at Lake George on the islands for 20 years. Jake is right, the best part is when you return to civilization. I had to do a double take when he mentioned my favorite place.

"calli thinks the way she loves repels people" *cackles maniacally*

Emily if you ever in Scotland come during puffin season, they’re exquisitely weird.

On sleeping outside: look up how to sleep in a hammock. Hands down best sleep of my life. With a sleeping pad, an under quilt, and sleeping bag it’s perfection.

Link can jump in windwaker you freaking IDIIIOT! (Lol jk about the idiot part lol)

I want a caw caw shirt that says "I respect birds"

hardwon's highschool years sidequest: Rocky Mountain High

I'm also getting into birds?? I put out my feeders for the first time in 2 years and am really enjoying seeing all the lil guys that come for snacks. I'm hoping to make a lil bird garden with a bath and some bird houses :)

Not me sitting here cheesing about The Last of Us tidbits

I have been relistening and ironically I just got to the ep where Cawcaw SHOWS UP AGAIN in Gladeholm as a accidentally being taken in as a messenger raven for the king. It’s ep 74/75.

Quit hoggin the leech!!

Get yeerked y'all i mean get yurked on. just get yeerked on gang. He got ya . Murphy slurpy hit u with a slippery slipper

Caldwell saying his favorite camping food is pineapple upside down cake is PEAK Beverly energy

A rose for Murph's Falster voice

I took an ornithology class and can answer any birdwatching questions y'all might have lol. Nat geos field guide to the birds of north America is the book I still use. Corvids (crows, ravens, blue Jays, etc) are some of the best mimics! There's a Instagram raven called vantatheraven that speaks Spanish and it's so fuckin cute.

I love the "going to a diner" camping story. Very relatable.

Legend of Zelda Minish Cap you can also jump, with the Roc Cloak.

After the living wood, next Caw Caw is in Frostwind when he is sent after Meemaw. After that it's 30 or so episodes till he's mentioned again in Gladeholm, then another 30 or so till he shows up in episode 99.

Big rose for Gnolls mating lol

EMILY! You need the Merlin bird app! You can record birds you hear and it'll tell you what it is. You can also give a physical description of a bird you've seen and it'll identify it. And it's totally free!

Animorphs sequel series with Erica, Ethan, Casper, Travis, Taylor, and Xanthia (also hearing Cassie described as a druid made me, a huge Cassie stan & nature kid as a child, very happy).

I think I know what could get Emily and Murph (or at least Emily) to give a proper camping trip a shot: I've always wanted to hike out into a national forest (where you can wild camp freely) with some buddies and play D&D in the woods. Not LARPing, but rather find a small clearing where you can sit comfortably, maybe with a tree stump as a table, and just play some D&D. Then you go back to camp, make some dinner, and return to the clearing for more D&D lit by a full moon. I don't think Emily could resist D&D in a clearing deep in the woods under a full moon. God knows I couldn't.

A rose for meeting Jaina Bronzebeard, who is for sure a tight Grandma now.

Emily should check out the Merlin app by Cornell Lab. It records the sounds and identifies the birds it hears or that you photograph.

I need to know Emily's recommended mythology reading list

I think the second time Cawcaw is mentioned is in frostwind when the boobs are sending a letter to Meemaw and the the time after that Cawcaw is dead in gladeholm being sold by a taxidermist

I’d buy a dead caw caw tee so fast