Short Rest: Skaldova Ep. 4 - The Dawn Hold
Added 2025-03-07 05:44:30 +0000 UTCCheck out NADDPOD's exclusive after show! This week, we discuss the events of Skaldova Ep. 4 - The Dawn Hold. Thanks so much for listening!
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Penguin behavior
Cinnamon_Tea
2025-09-18 05:29:11 +0000 UTCSmall, cool looking rocks (or seashells, location permitting) are one of the best souvenirs for young nieces and nephews.
J. Gro
2025-08-12 06:36:20 +0000 UTCSo I was bitten a lot by piranhas when I was working in the Amazon. The water is so murky they don’t really know what you are, but they are ravenously carnivorous, so they bite everything they swim into. But their bites feel like a tight muscle twanging - nothing crazy - because they’re just nibbling to see if you’re worth eating. And humans are way too big for most species of piranha to mess with (though the bigger species will go for you) so after one bite they’ll leave you be. Fishing for piranhas is crazy though. You dangle a bit of meat on a hook, drop it into the water, and they will instantly bite it. I watched indigenous Amazonians catching countless piranhas with such ease because of this, and the water was frothing like crazy because they piranhas were just going nuts for the meat on the hooks. Basically they will go crazy for big meat if the big meat is already dead. Otherwise they’ll eat anything their size or smaller. They won’t kill and eat an entire cow in 10 minutes like the old tale goes - but they would devour a dead cow in very short order.
Nikolaus Cox
2025-04-19 22:24:26 +0000 UTCOh my god, has Emily read the 1177BC?? I love that book haha
hellohallo
2025-04-15 23:03:38 +0000 UTCall the podcasts i listen to are people who live in LA, and gotta say, people in LA are very out of touch with how the rest of north america is. Most malls I've ever been to are bumpin
Claud Josh
2025-04-07 19:17:56 +0000 UTCpicking up rocks at the beach of one of life's purest ecstasies
Claud Josh
2025-04-07 18:57:00 +0000 UTCOkay but is the episode thumbnail a picture of one of their rock collections? Inquiring minds DO need to know
hannah says
2025-03-27 01:50:13 +0000 UTCRocks and sticks are cool but have you tried collecting waterlillies for your wife?
Lilli of the bog
2025-03-23 09:47:32 +0000 UTCI am also a stuck bitch :3 very happy to be amongst my own people
Batsy Boi
2025-03-23 06:11:56 +0000 UTCMy mom always collects a rock from every vacation we take, and this year for Christmas we bought her a lamp where the base was a container to display them in
Wren Koziel
2025-03-21 13:58:08 +0000 UTCIf me and my fiancé find I nice rock on a hike we take it home with us lol.
DankWilliamsJr
2025-03-20 23:30:18 +0000 UTCi like how jake said "the malls arent as dead as they say" as if he doesnt live in one of the most populated cities in the world
Jorgus
2025-03-20 18:10:47 +0000 UTCLiterally sameeee!!
Monique Koina
2025-03-19 13:06:04 +0000 UTCflute boy is totally played by willem dafoe
joe cool
2025-03-18 01:29:35 +0000 UTCLong Tom being hung was a beautiful joke
BoneyJabroni
2025-03-16 19:39:39 +0000 UTCThey have some already!
kalejefe
2025-03-15 08:39:53 +0000 UTCI have a whole bucket full of rocks...
v_squared (Vanessa)
2025-03-14 23:32:38 +0000 UTCas a fellow rock & stick enjoyer I fully support this magpie behaviour - I also have jars upon jars of sea glass, shells, ceramic shards and rocks, most of which come from my local beaches ☺️
Lauren Hatt
2025-03-14 17:42:44 +0000 UTChell yeah! adding to my tbr thank you
Hannah S
2025-03-14 12:01:47 +0000 UTCIf you like sticks, check out #sticknation on insta. A whole page just for cool sticks! 😀
Liam Hansson
2025-03-13 19:25:13 +0000 UTCOmg... It took me until 14 minutes into this short rest before I realized that the "barred door" from episode 4 was not a "bard door" 😄 ADHD is a real problem sometimes
June Walker
2025-03-13 18:25:46 +0000 UTCjake and emily collecting cool rocks and sticks and giving them to loved ones is so crow-coded!!!! murph of the murder you gotta step up your game sir
kimbo ★彡
2025-03-13 10:27:58 +0000 UTCMurph, don’t ever talk to me or my abundance of rock children like that again
Peregrine
2025-03-13 01:33:40 +0000 UTCI feel duty bound to report that I actually do regularly go to my local mall only for Auntie Anne’s and then immediately leave.
Keigan Z
2025-03-13 00:19:53 +0000 UTCThis crew is cumpanions and I can’t be persuaded otherwise
Jack Farley
2025-03-12 14:31:02 +0000 UTCMurph was so mad about the sticks and rocks, he forgot to say terrible radio 🤣
Pali Endi
2025-03-12 11:49:41 +0000 UTCI have a shelf with pretty rocks I found
Nitzan Harel
2025-03-12 06:42:46 +0000 UTCthe way that emily talks about loving the ancient historical lore keeps reminding me of the way of kings!
Laura !
2025-03-11 21:30:15 +0000 UTCi have a bunch of cool rocks and sticks and a bear tooth next to me right now
Grass
2025-03-11 21:28:17 +0000 UTCI thought they messed up the thumbnail but I love this
Sampy
2025-03-11 13:07:26 +0000 UTCWhen I was a kid, I used to be obsessed with "beauty rocks" (which were just rocks I thought were beautiful). Once, when I was about 4 years old, I was wearing overalls and my mom took me to the beach. When we went to leave, she tried to pick me up to get me in the car and she hurt her back because I'd filled every pocket to overflowing, which had doubled my body weight. I'm beyond proud to say that my daughter continues this tradition. I'm constantly finding beauty rocks in her pockets and bookbag. She also collects sticks. Those are harder to store but I find a way.
Rachel the Freckled ADHDer
2025-03-11 12:30:57 +0000 UTCI still collect rocks and the ones not good enough for indoors live in our little stone and gravel path in our backyard! It's still a special place but in the outdoors :)
CJ the wise
2025-03-11 01:40:13 +0000 UTChttps://www.facebook.com/share/r/1GoBYRADLS/?mibextid=wwXIfr
John Adams, we can be done with presidential puns
2025-03-10 23:12:34 +0000 UTCFuck yes to rocks
Kal misses the D5s with all her heart
2025-03-10 23:09:46 +0000 UTCFrom a fellow Angeleno: There’s a show on KXLU Tuesday mornings 7-9 called the Zoo Croo, DJ’d by a guy who calls himself The Rattler and it is wacky and great. Highly recommended. Also KXLU is the best radio station in LA so there’s that.
spike mccue
2025-03-10 21:55:08 +0000 UTCI take home sticks and carve, sand, stain, and paint them into wands, scepters, staves, and (sometimes) totems! I have a spellcasting focus in each room of my house for protection ;D
Magestain
2025-03-10 21:54:48 +0000 UTCI also take home sticks, feathers, and rocks. But please never ever take home lava rock or anything from Hawai’i or you will be cursed. The Hawaiian postal service gets lava rock mailed back all the time due to the curse.
Hopi
2025-03-10 20:44:37 +0000 UTCIDK who needs this but there's an interesting book "1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed" by Eric Cline and an NPR Throughline podcast episode (What Happened After Civilization Collapsed) about the collapse of the Bronze Age that I super enjoyed and was so nerdy-excited when Emily was talking about it. Cline is their main guest in the episode.
Samantha Fletcher
2025-03-10 19:20:50 +0000 UTCNADDPOD jibbitz would make me so freaking happy…
Lindsay Blake
2025-03-10 12:40:04 +0000 UTCWhen my dad was a science teacher he had a tank with a few piranhas in his classroom and he used to feed them vienna sausages, they ripped them apart so fast
Blue Bee
2025-03-10 10:29:07 +0000 UTCI take an “Adventure Jar” when we go on big hikes, for storing all rocks and natures gifts. Emily, sometimes I take the retiring rocks with me to give back as a thank you for the new rocks?
Ruthie Pinion
2025-03-10 08:51:23 +0000 UTCI love as the campaign progresses how more and more clearly a picture is being painted that Boggy's Buds was really just simply a group of burning man hippies who just wanted a forever party in the woods.
GGCoopie
2025-03-10 03:49:18 +0000 UTCHas Murph played monster hunter? There’s a weapon there which is kind of a double galive that lets you poll vault on monsters and you get an insect familiar with the weapon, it would probably be easy to build Zudrik in that game!
Rotem Cohen
2025-03-10 03:47:03 +0000 UTCI collect rocks from places that me and my wife go to. (Mojave, smokey, rocky mtns ect.)
Colin Maclellan
2025-03-10 00:15:32 +0000 UTCI was wondering why the picture was just rocks and sticks. And now I am truly learned
Savor_The_Robot
2025-03-09 23:12:32 +0000 UTCI need Murph to lay off Emily and Jake collecting sticks and rocks cause that's the ultimate past time
KingHalt
2025-03-09 19:59:21 +0000 UTCUmm you might be a toxicologist, but I’ll stick to getting my facts from the Wednesday Addams subreddit thank you very much 🙄
Hammy
2025-03-09 15:20:23 +0000 UTCThe Zud Buds!!
Lindsey Meldrum
2025-03-09 14:46:36 +0000 UTCI used to work at a tropical fish place and we sold piranhas. If there isn't any food about, they are just like any other fish. I used to like freaking out the customers by putting my hand in the tank
j
2025-03-09 12:13:54 +0000 UTCVideo game recommendation. Split Fiction is amazing and Murph and Emily should try it
DazWaz
2025-03-09 08:04:07 +0000 UTCOoh, I'm a rock and pebble bitch. I started bringing rocks home from places I go and somehow it turned into, my family, my friends, their significant others, and their parents bringing me little rocks and shells from where they go around the world. It's become a lucky charm, like they went there and back again safely.
Katie P.
2025-03-09 05:14:21 +0000 UTCmy solely virtually playing dnd group meets up for dnd weekend every year, and this year i brought rocks for everyone that were meant to represent their characters, plucked from a rocky beach on the Atlantic Ocean. im a total sucker for rough and craggily rocks, too!
Sami Kerwin
2025-03-09 03:49:44 +0000 UTCAll the rock talk for this campaign makes my little geologist heart SO happy!
Elizabeth Urban
2025-03-09 03:07:39 +0000 UTCI know they didn't mean this when they said it but it made me think it, shout out and RIP to Croc Rock in Allentown, PA (if any eastern PA people are around 👀😂)
Courtney F.
2025-03-09 02:34:25 +0000 UTCRed breast reference, love me some quality irish!
Jor Elare
2025-03-09 00:56:42 +0000 UTCSo, my dog is a rescue with a rough upbringing, and as a result, she was aggressive and tended to bite/attempt to bite people (don't worry, she's a sweetheart and a total love bug now). BUT when she did try to bite folks, she always went straight for the junk... just saying
Mthunzi Ramphele
2025-03-08 23:39:46 +0000 UTCHUGE ROSE for Caldwell and dead panning what happened to his other Boggie Bud “oh he was hung” 😂😂😂
Phillip
2025-03-08 20:01:46 +0000 UTCAs a geologist, I love the pebble bitch mentality.
The Wizard Spring
2025-03-08 19:22:07 +0000 UTCSuch crow activity with the rocks, but at least we know what the next mixed bag is going to be
Vicarbatman
2025-03-08 17:43:12 +0000 UTCLove nature collections. I started collecting driftwood stick a couple of years ago, sanding them down and gluing them together to make wall art
Dale Jefferson
2025-03-08 17:10:37 +0000 UTCI just awkwardly texted my pal who’s big into death and forensics. If there’s a dead body: The snapping turtle will go for the junk if it’s uncovered. They like extremities and the junk has no bones.
EGG
2025-03-08 16:32:19 +0000 UTCLeave no trace policy from being a Boy Scout is drilled into my brain, but I want a cool rock collection…
InternetEthan
2025-03-08 14:30:29 +0000 UTCI kept thinking this same thing throughout, they were so close
Tyler Goevert
2025-03-08 14:01:07 +0000 UTCIt's because it's soft tissue guys
tautcarabiner
2025-03-08 13:53:09 +0000 UTCBut also, don’t mail leaves. I learned the hard way that your mail may be delayed by a month if a leaf looks a little *too much* like marijuana. (I’m from Florida and I tried to mail my parents a leaf from my first “real” fall and the post office absolutely opened my letter. But they also still went on to send my parents the leaf, so that was pretty cool of them lol)
Hthr
2025-03-08 10:07:54 +0000 UTCI really loved finding out that I share collecting cool little nature souvenirs with 75% of the 2crew. In addition to collecting cool rocks, I all keep pretty leaves and flowers pressed in between the pages of my books. And it’s made rereading old favorite books really fun because it’s like past me is giving future me an unexpected surprise.
Hthr
2025-03-08 10:03:37 +0000 UTCEmily talking about the LBA collapse is everything as an arch student that has written so much about the flaws of the sea peoples theory
Deena Shirkool
2025-03-08 05:29:23 +0000 UTCI just joined today, and out of curiosity went back and listened to the very first bonus episode from 2018, after the first 3 episodes of campaign one, and it’s hilarious to see how far things have come since then
Samuel S
2025-03-08 05:23:38 +0000 UTCI don’t know which would be funnier when Zudric finally takes off his helmet: him being a total dweeb, nasally voice change, bowl cut, etc; or him being absolutely gorgeous😂
Carter Milius
2025-03-08 03:18:57 +0000 UTCMy inner former camp counselor had been summoned. DO NOT SUCK OUT SNAKE VENOM. Why is your mouth reddish pink? Veins. Where should venom not go? Near veins. You’re better off using a tourniquet and keeping the body part away from the vital organs
Thomas Sullivan
2025-03-08 01:59:03 +0000 UTCI can't wait for the rock ranking mixed bag
Jamie Matthews
2025-03-08 01:14:49 +0000 UTCCaldwell shouting out the Crocs/Lego stores at the Galleria took me back, I used to go to that Lego store as a youngun :')
Evan Schmidt
2025-03-08 01:06:42 +0000 UTCWoah no way. That’s so cool! Thanks I just looked at them
Denali Smith
2025-03-08 00:54:46 +0000 UTCAs a rock hounder and hiker it makes sense to me to bring home a bunch of really neat rocks
Amaryllis
2025-03-08 00:38:40 +0000 UTCThe scholar joke makes me laugh pretty hard. I ran a one shot set in a town that has a resort for scholars, and the players were guards. Their captain was always telling them to watch out for scholars because when they're on vacation they're a terror to the town lol
nathanKmcWilliams
2025-03-07 23:48:03 +0000 UTCas a geologist with rocks everywhere who's had the same stick in their backpack for 6 years, i feel seen by emily and jake
jaxolotl
2025-03-07 23:05:16 +0000 UTCMy girlfriend found a stick in PEI and brought it on the plane back out west with us... to be fair we taped it to the large keyblade I brought back. 😅
Mila Janus
2025-03-07 22:48:57 +0000 UTCEmily & Jake would love Stick Tok
Oni Winblad
2025-03-07 22:40:21 +0000 UTCas proud member of pebble bitch nation, i am delighted for this representation. Also, fish, turtles, scavengers, etc go for the junk on corpses because it's low effort. They go for all the soft outer bits first like nose, ears, eyes, and genitals, as well as fingers and toes because they're easily accessible.
biblioprincess
2025-03-07 22:14:28 +0000 UTCUsing Spencer's full government name is such boomer behavior
iamnotjackblack
2025-03-07 21:58:21 +0000 UTCI’m looking right at my collection of rocks and sticks that I’ve collected over the years. I will not stand for Murph’s rock disparagement.
Joshua Qualls
2025-03-07 21:24:48 +0000 UTCBoggy might be my favorite Caldwell character ever. So fun and funny
Thermovore
2025-03-07 21:15:15 +0000 UTCThe Philistines in the Bible, Goliath being the most well known, were one of the groups of Sea Peoples that Emily mentioned.
Matthew Turner
2025-03-07 21:12:50 +0000 UTCOk I wrote this before I got to that part of the discussion.. I rescind my unwarranted hostility. 😅
Wouter Van Goey
2025-03-07 21:12:10 +0000 UTCI’m so glad they went back over the sucking the venom out thing.
Joshua Blair
2025-03-07 21:09:58 +0000 UTCThey totally did!
Katie Kerns
2025-03-07 21:05:49 +0000 UTCPlease make jibbits merch I would love that
Denali Smith
2025-03-07 20:55:31 +0000 UTCAlso Wouter, we’re both paid subscribers to this show, maybe you can assume good faith instead of accusing me of not listening 😭😂
Krista P.
2025-03-07 20:47:01 +0000 UTCDaddy chill 💀 They were talking about this and actively searching for real life answers, I’m a toxicologist, I answered, you’re the only one in this equation taking it personally Blue ring octopus are both venomous and poisonous, but the venom from being stung (injected) is far more dangerous than the poison you’d feel eating one (ingested), so that argument doesn’t work, because it’s still agreeing with me that poison and venom are different
Krista P.
2025-03-07 20:45:28 +0000 UTCPlenty of venoms are also poisonous, like the blue ringed octopus.. also, these piranhas were clearly starved and voracious going by Jake's description. Oh and also, THIS IS DND. If you've ever listened to an episode of dungeon court you know how much the two crew hates comparisons with real life mechanics as an argument.
Wouter Van Goey
2025-03-07 20:42:00 +0000 UTCYes. They netted the waters and increased piranha concentration in a small segment of river, starved them, and then showed Roosevelt as they tore a live cow apart,
Krista P.
2025-03-07 20:26:21 +0000 UTCHyenas eat their prey alive. And the females have a psudeo penis. It's a matriarchal system.
we're besties with testees don't test these besties
2025-03-07 20:25:50 +0000 UTCVenom is injected, poison is ingested. A “poison dart” is actually venomous, and sucking does nothing. This is a common myth. Venom is injected directly into the bloodstream, and nobody is quick enough to suck it out. Piranha are not dangerous to adult humans, and the only way to really trigger an attack would be to get in the water with them during a feeding frenzy while bleeding and splashing. Normal swimming is common and safe.
Krista P.
2025-03-07 20:25:10 +0000 UTCthe dungeon crawl was so reminiscent of when the boobs did the tomb of horrors
Amanda M
2025-03-07 19:55:59 +0000 UTCI was thinking it was a Jake curation vibe but who can say! 10/10 would love for all rock & twig collectors to be able to share pics in this post ✨
Katie Kerns
2025-03-07 19:43:26 +0000 UTCi am sad they didn’t mention the fact that zudric dropped a giant rock on to a herd of deer
Transfemmes4murph
2025-03-07 19:18:31 +0000 UTCMurph lore
Gabriel Solano
2025-03-07 19:17:36 +0000 UTCJake’s? They mentioned the stick he has as well😂
Jordan J N.
2025-03-07 19:10:24 +0000 UTCMurph, no idea if you monitor this, but you need to have a google for the Steel rook from warhammer. 90% of the way to Zudric, just needs a lance!
Brian McAree Murphy
2025-03-07 19:03:17 +0000 UTCI immediately clocked how Murph deftly avoided alienating the croc-wearing nursing contingent, good work dodging that uppercase L
Lindsey
2025-03-07 18:54:14 +0000 UTCI am also a detritus dude, my partner and I have a vast collection of rocks and shells from all over
Kyle Veach
2025-03-07 18:34:56 +0000 UTCEvery restaurant at the mall in Thousand Oaks CA has about a 2 hour wait for a table on the weekend. It’s always packed
Charlie Morris
2025-03-07 18:14:08 +0000 UTCOne of the main reasons piranha have the reputation in media is that after his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt went to the Amazon and some of the guilds baited the fish to behave like man eaters, so when he came back he told everyone about these monster fish.
Danielle Symonds
2025-03-07 18:11:08 +0000 UTCyou know the short rest is going to be a banger when the picture is totally fucking random
Olive
2025-03-07 17:59:45 +0000 UTCPebble Bitch was a short lived character on the Flintstones
Hammy
2025-03-07 17:47:50 +0000 UTCCOOL ROCKS ARE COOL! ZEST UP YOUR LIFE MURPH 😆
Amy G.
2025-03-07 17:31:13 +0000 UTCWelcome Wednesday Adams to the NADDPOD extended universe
wick
2025-03-07 17:20:50 +0000 UTCWe talkin bout collecting rocks !?! I got five in my car right now!!! Pebble bitches stand up!!!
Agiddysea
2025-03-07 17:18:26 +0000 UTCthat's no stick, that's a snake petrified by a basilisk
Shel B Kennas 1st fav sprite girl! No jokes today, just excited Emily's gonna be on Gastronauts!!
2025-03-07 16:33:58 +0000 UTCWait whose rock collection is in the photos? 🪨🐚🧡
Katie Kerns
2025-03-07 16:30:14 +0000 UTCDude, I found the coolest stick on my last hike. It’s curly. I made it my profile pic. Look at my cool stick.
Kay
2025-03-07 15:37:36 +0000 UTCMy wife and I are sea glass bitches, definitely have a couple jars full of those bad boys.
Hugo Wull
2025-03-07 15:34:47 +0000 UTCi literally incorporated my rock & stick picking up hobby into my masters thesis :)
Syf Sloane
2025-03-07 15:20:11 +0000 UTCYesss I love to pick up little things on hikes 🙌🙌 I have the tiniest pinecone from Vermont
ananarama
2025-03-07 14:40:25 +0000 UTCSTICK BITCHES UNITE!!! I'm 44, and the best thing about my most recent holiday visit to my mom was finding that my favorite stick (staff-type) from childhood was in the back of my closet.
I Want My Name To Be Spaghetti
2025-03-07 14:02:17 +0000 UTCThey do look gnarly as hell though, but so do pugs
Tavitafish
2025-03-07 13:35:56 +0000 UTCCaldwell, with the new rules both weapons need to have the light property to be able to attack twice and a rapier doesn't have it. Unless you've got an ability or something that's making the rapier light for you. It is fun though picturing it
Keith robinson
2025-03-07 13:05:14 +0000 UTCas someone who is an adult and works with kids, the power of a good ass stick or rock is not age-dependent.
Myckeli
2025-03-07 12:29:11 +0000 UTCEmily, Caldwell and Jake can get some honest stick reviews at sticknation https://linktr.ee/officialstickreviews?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=374e77c2-26b0-4e53-9f71-3acce99c6cdb Leave the rocks and stones in piles in the garden - it is great for biodiversitet to create small habitats for all the nannerflies of the real world :) @Emily I think you would greatly enjoy The cloudspotters guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney - It's a book that teaches you about types of clouds, and there are stories, mythology and poetry about clouds throughout. It is both very entertaining and it will make you enjoy clouds greatly.
Emma Line Tagø
2025-03-07 10:34:59 +0000 UTCDon’t suck the poison out. It doesn’t do anything other then transfer bodily fluids and poison into the ones who did the sucking.
Natural Dragon
2025-03-07 09:50:09 +0000 UTCTo be fair to Jake and emily those are some stellar rock and stick choices, no standard grey pebbles
Shel B Kennas 1st fav sprite girl! No jokes today, just excited Emily's gonna be on Gastronauts!!
2025-03-07 06:48:56 +0000 UTCIt’s up there with “peeing on jelly fish stings” of things I wish people realized actually cause infections and do no actual good 😭
Shel B Kennas 1st fav sprite girl! No jokes today, just excited Emily's gonna be on Gastronauts!!
2025-03-07 06:48:11 +0000 UTCliterally was thinking "but sucking out the poison is a myth right?" when Emily read the google results
Zanna
2025-03-07 06:29:50 +0000 UTCA friend of mine said his uncle was killed by piranhas so I’m still unclear on how dangerous they actually are
Yara
2025-03-07 06:23:33 +0000 UTCMurph is one extremely sword shaped stick away from finding his zest for life
eliza sleepker
2025-03-07 06:14:55 +0000 UTCFire department here: yeah sucking poison out often just poisons two people!
Shel B Kennas 1st fav sprite girl! No jokes today, just excited Emily's gonna be on Gastronauts!!
2025-03-07 06:11:21 +0000 UTCRoosevelt was touring South America, and someone got the idea to blow his mind, so they starved a school of pirhana and then tossed a cow in. To the lily white witnesses seeing this for the first time, they reported back that "fish down here are fucking crazy, ya'll", and that's literally all it took. But really, you could recreate that with Jack Russell terriers. Pihrana aren't special.
Allen S
2025-03-07 06:09:09 +0000 UTCWooooo!
Tiffany
2025-03-07 06:08:33 +0000 UTCMY SHOW PART 2 IS ON!!
Reptar
2025-03-07 05:48:20 +0000 UTC
