Short Rest: C3 Ep. 41: The Giant King's Tournament

Emily attempting to say the names of the enemies Murph was saying absolutely sent me to the moon.

Wouldn't Bev not be that much older since hardwon isn't? I guess that age it changes even in a few years

This episode is going on the “Funniest Short Rests” list!

as a 20 year old, i had pretty unrestricted internet access but never looked up if santa was real or not.

i saw mommy shaving saaaanta claa-aaus

I stopped believing in god when I found out Santa wasn’t real lmao

-He's taking a shit -He's taking a bath -You better wake up early to clean up the aftermath -Santa clause just ruined your house~

The dark doesn't get me, but when I was a kid, I watched an episode of an anthology show called Amazing Stories where every time this guy looks in a mirror, he sees guys all in black creeping up on him, but when he turns around, they're not actually there. I think about it every time I go the bathroom in the middle of the night.

"OH look kids! Santa manscapped in the guest bathroom" 🤣🤣🤣

Holy shit listening back and didsantausemybathroom.com redirects to the NADDPOD site!!! Genius!!!

Don't know if someone has said this yet, but drawing humanoids with big heads, long legs, and tiny bodies is very common in kids of around 4 to 5 years old! It's basically the in-between stage between drawing just body+legs, and then later drawing more aware of what is supposed to be there at around 5 to 7 years old (though so called visual realism, where a kid can draw what it sees literally without being influenced by a previous frame of reference is still lacking even then)

How is Syd’s drawing not the thumbnail y’all!? I wanna see this creepypasta!

murph being inspir3d by video games and wwe is exactly why i love naddpod so much XD it's a fantastic vibe and a great energy

here's the thing though: murph having a wwe background as opposed to high fantasy means all his fights are super engaging for the audience, which is something i think a lot of even pro dms struggle with!!!!!! pro wrestling is the best foundation

My friend's youngest son (10 yrs.) left a note for Santa this year asking why Santa enters everyone's home without permission and does he consider himself a criminal trespasser.

My parents never gave me the "Santa isn't real" conversation, the way I found out was my parents going "look you might not believe in these things but your brother still does so pretend you do" and I just went "wait they're not real???"

the santa bit made me laugh so hard i needed to pause to breathe 😭😭

Takes me back to all those spooky times spent playing Resident Evil with my brother in a dark basement taking turns trying not to get too scared. Murph gets it.

blue hole spooky time: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8Bac53g/

Knowing Murph was a WWE guy is literally the reason I started listening to you in the first place... and now I'm addicted to so many live plays (and playing myself) 💕

As an 18 year old what are they talking about? Santa is totally real they must be non-believers.

You forgot the tubes in Eldermourne! So many tubes in Zirk’s mom’s lab! Fia, Hank and Zirk sneak into the lab and come out of tubes at some point too, I believe.

XDXD😂🤣 i can't believe that didsantausemybathroom.com actually redirects to naddpod.com

The fact that didsantausemybathroom.com redirects to the Naddpod website is so funny

I’ve never laughed harder during NADDPOD than when they described Santa just destroying your bathroom! 😂 I almost had to pull over to the side of the road.

I’m finally listening to this and I cannot breathe

A sad thorn for me, Honeysuckle is one of the worst invasive plants around where I live and every time I hear them say it I cringe 😭 far too many hours spent pulling those things out of the ground. But hey willow is a plant we use to stabilize river banks against erosion if you think that’s a cute name 👀

Sad day, pour one out for Terry Funk(Chainsaw Charlie)

I mean Tim Robinson already has a Santa Clause sketch so that would fit in very well lol

Spoilers: Santa isn't real. 🤯

So talking about if Santa was real I have a short story to share. My sister once asked my mom if Santa was real because all the kids in her class made fun of her for believing in Santa (she was 7). I had found out about 2~3 years prior so without giving my mom the chance to answer I turned to my sister and said "mom and dad can't even afford to buy themselves nice things, what makes you think they can afford all the presents Santa gives us?" She believed in Santa till she was 13 solely because I told her we couldn't afford all the gives ourselves

You think Santa didn't wipe after leaving that giant dump in the toilet until you find a soiled wash cloth in the trash can.

I'm crying laughing at all of this

I love everything about the pro wrestling stuff. This is exactly my jam. Great job Murph

The santa bit made laugh so hard because my mom used to leave raisinets around near our easter baskets and say the easter bunny pooped everywhere. Also one year my cat puked on me while i was sleeping the night before easter and I was convinced it was the easter bunny, so I was genuinely relieved to find out he wasn't real and wasn't actually shitting and vomiting all over our house

did they just spend 30 minutes of an august ep inventing a nastier grinch

I'm with Murph. Santa got me socks and underwear growing up. The stuff I asked for was from my parents.

I’m crying about Santa leaving a broken bottle of Jack Daniel’s on the kitchen floor

I think this is the longest conversation I’ve ever heard about Santa and it’s the middle of the summer

Accidentally let Jake tell my five year old that the Easter Bunny isn't real. Luckily, I hit the volume before he learned about Santa 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ This is what we get for putting short rest on in the car haha

"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" deserved a larger shout-out in that discussion; it's honestly a video game moment of "Santa was in our hearts all along."

I'm in tears at work trying to not burst out laughing at the entire Santa conversation. Holy moly that was funny

Emily's neigh omnipotent intelligence and insanely good gameplay moves juxtaposed with her genuinely forgetting entire bits is phenomenal A++

Murph yearns for the tubes

Tube-spirecy

So I'm 24 and I absolutely never believed in Santa (I thought he and God were an inside joke everyone pretends to believe in as a bit) but also would never have thought to google it or anything else. Adults didn't encourage using the internet as a tool, they just tried to get us to stay off it entirely. My mom had a smartphone starting when I was 9 and sometimes I got to borrow it to play doodle jump, and that was it. I used the desktop computer for MS Word, MS paint, and children's computer games. I think young kids today (and a little after me) are exposed to smart devices at a much younger age and therefore are tech savy much earlier, so some probably do think to google it.

Emily also put tubes in Hot Boy Summer under the cottage. They did also lead to a lab.

I'm lovin' the tube talk

TIL I’m not alone in my 30s, jogging up the stairs in the dark singing “not afraid” to myself

Rude Santa ranks right up there with the Mouse Hole in terms of Short Rest content that has made me laugh so hard I couldn't breathe

Does this mean that we’re gonna get a one shot or mini-series of the Band of boobs on the astral plane?

Santa wrote back to my letter one year asking if I wouldn't mind leaving him beers and a sandwich instead of cookies and that basically unlocked the truth for me. I also pointed out that his and the toothfairy's handwriting were very similar to my mom's.

It might have been mentioned before, but learning Emily is NOT an only child is astounding to me. She has incredible only child energy.

Dirty Santa bath water had me laughing silently at work

One of the best short rests yet 😂

Omg, I was thinking the Santa bit sounded like an I Think You Should Leave sketch the whole time and then Murph said it 😭

The necrophone in Eldermourne was described as having a “protective metal casing”, which I think was somewhat tube-adjacent…?

Santa’s manscaped pubes are what fill snow globes

I found out santa wasnt real when i was like 7 and noticed santa has the exact same unique handwriting as my dad and told everyone christmas morning before we opened gifts like it was an announcement my sister (whos a year younger than me) was devastated

true story, I got into WWE because of Murph referencing it so often throughout the seasons, to the point where I actually have tickets for Payback in a few weeks here. ultimate full circle validation that I was thinking while listening to the episode that it sounded like Elimination Chamber and having that confirmed on Short Rest.

Please do a Halloween one-shot based on Resident Evil

Caldwell Royale

Rude Santa is my new fav

Given Murph's love for both wrestling and tubes, I'm so curious about whether he ever played the game Hybrid Heaven on N64. It has so many tubes and so much wrestling.

I kept imagining Mick Foley as Santa

My wife and I have decided that if we have kids, we would not lie and say that believing in Santa, Easter bunny, tooth fairy, etc would be akin to playing a game and it wouldn’t be fun to spoil the game for others. It’s honestly a pro for having kids, the thought of a child trying to beat around the bush while sussing out if another kid knows sounds amusing

"did Santa use my bathroom?" summer-themed merch take my money

Petition to have a WWE/WWF/WCW centric Mixed Bag in the future

Please spoiler tag this for Santa. This was not how I wanted to find out at 39

I don't know whats the appropriate way to visually indicate this in the bathroom forensics for the kiddos but it has to be clear that Santa showered and then shit, spitting in the face of the gods. Maybe the toilet paper roll is raggedy and just so damp.

I had a Blue Hole where I grew up. It was an artesian well. The water was freezing cold. If you went swimming in you could die because there was a down current that circulated the water and it would pull you down. Anyway. It wasn’t a swimming hole, more a thing to look at in wonder and terror.

Holy shit Murph bringing up that the Santa bathroom bit could be an ITYSL sketch, I could immediately picture exactly what he was thinking. His signature "wwwhat the hellllll?" with his hands up as he walks into the bathroom 😂😂😂

1) Caldwell, if you are looking for drawing ideas, you should draw Murph as Zordon from the power rangers (because Tube) & the crew as the power rangers 2) I like to think Hardwon’s ashes would be sent in a can of beans (empty or full)

I’ll be very surprised if the Triplets don’t fight Rude Santa this year for the holidays 😂

This episode immediately jumped into the pantheon of all time short rest episodes of all time. So many roses for Santa.

Ok but genuinely I think Murphs background is what makes his battle strategies unique. He thinks about fights differently to Brennan or Mercer and that’s what’s makes his encounters fun!

This is how I found out about Santa not being real as a 31 year old

where is my christmas spoiler warning

Anyone else miss the shell puns from the tortle born?

I think that The Santa Digression is my new #1 short rest moment.

there was also a good amount of tube content in the eldermourne wizard tower. i believe the bukvar clones were in tubes?

Murph saying "morning zoo crew" gave me psychic damage.

Let's not forget the shoot (tube) in season one of hot boy summer...

Hands up anyone else who was half way through the Santa bit when they realised their 5 year old was in the back seat 🤦‍♀️

Unrelated, please do lets plays of baldurs gate 3 for a stream. It's just a very good on brand game. Y'all can even play as some bahumia characters (or don't idk I'm not your dad)

I was crying laughing during the Santa segment. Please launch a Kickstarter for didsantausemybathroom.com, I will invest

i always knew that santa wasn't real because my mom said lying to your children was stupid. weirdly enough i DID believe in the tooth fairy for 2 whole years.

Shout out to the tube crew

Gunk Bug!! 🧪🥰

quintoupling the rose because emily's performance was so so incredible

i'm 22 and I didn't google if santa was real. the only thing i used the internet for at an age i would've believe in santa was to watch music videos with my friends

I still run to bed when I turn the lights off xD

Sooo off the rails! Polar Express style!

Bev got undying sentinel as a teenage halfling, so I would assume his voice would age up to the typical “prime” halfling age and then it would really slow down. I don’t *think* he would become an old man, I think it would probably be 200 years of like a late-twenties adult Bev.

As someone 10 years younger than y’all, I never googled if Santa was real. I think by the time google was A Thing I knew Santa wasn’t real

My mom would have separate wrapping paper exclusively for Santa's gifts AND she would take all the gift tags to one of her coworkers to fill out so the handwriting would be different.

jake taking a continuous L for being afraid of horror movies is healing my 12 year old self who still left sleepovers early

Do you guys know what a grundle is? It's the space between your balls and your bum hole, also known as a taint.

Hope everything is alright!

all these roses for tubes when actual tuberoses are right there lol

I am also a stair-sprinter. My childhood home is creepy and when all the lights are off I just know there is a monster that's going to grab me if I take the stairs at a normal pace. So I must ru.

Shout out to the tube crew

I figured out Santa, the tooth fairy, & the Easter bunny all in one big go after my mom told me the glow in the dark star stickers on my ceiling were real and I climbed a shelf to peel one off. One brick came loose and the whole system collapsed.

Santa in the bath not flushing the toilet 💀 my goddd

It's tubes the whole way down

My fellow Tube Dude! There are dozens of us!

What the fuck is sweet blue hole?

i’m so excited to hear everyone’s reactions to this thick sode

Let’s gooooo

Nice