Short Rest: C3 Ep. 38: Burrowing Grounds

As an eastern Canadian, the only beetles I remember seeing are from the Mummy or BeetleJuice

I'd love A Crickmas Carol one shot. Ghosts of NPCs visit Hardwon and help him get his Crickmas spirit back.

Jake L.

OK WAIT can we have more backstory confessionals??

Matt Doughty

came to make sure someone posted the emo deer meme and... it's not here?! for all the emdoes: https://youtube.com/shorts/CTSkpIID3e0?feature=share

Matt Doughty

I can confirm no deaths have occurred out of the orcas sinking ships and only three have fully sunk. There is a bunch of fun merch about it on Etsy if you are interested

Ian Holden

The spiders you saw in Australia were probably Golden Orb Weavers. We have tonnes of them in Brisbane.

Alec Rundle

Real talk though I think we all want kid stories on the short rest. Maybe just me but I have a feeling I have support

k.allen

love the yaunt and yuncle energy during spider chat

A.E. Ross

My vote is for the deer name is The Jersey Fallen Angel

Stephen Lander

The nice hair deer has to be called the Pompadeer.

Matt Boggs

I know I’m a bit late to to comments, but on the off chance Caldwell reads this. I highly recommend looking up the Beetroopers archetype for yugioh. They’re just a bunch of lil ol beetle soldiers

Yes! Beetle time!

CaptLizianthus

Beach wave Bambi lmao..

Well I tried to get midjourney to render me an emo deer. The closest I got was creepy emo deer girl hybrid... So I present bean rat as imagined by MidJourney: https://imgur.com/a/0PaDrXX

When in doubt, just change the writing! Imodir 🦌

Caldwell your dad story made me so happy 🥹 please share them as much as you want to!! 💕

Olivia M

A deer with a sick, jet black Jagr mullet.

Nye-Low

I grew up calling fig eater beetles Japanese beetles. As an adult, I'm now not certain if it's racist somehow

Daughter of the Sun

Omg Caldwell I have the same boundaries with Spiders in my house. You get the 3 inches closest to the ceiling and if you come down further then...we have a problem.

Libbi Longworth

All the talks about emo doe reminds of this dog: https://fb.watch/lBMgFCVOgZ/?mibextid=qC1gEa

https://imgur.com/a/zTb334a

Ranger Zenith

The mummy ride in Orlando has a really dope room that lights on fire at one point

Stephen Fike

In the 80s there was a trend where orcas would wear salmon as a hat

Nathaniel Levy

i am the tarantula expert and i was in fact only excited to hear y’all talk about my sweet weird dogs

norah harley

Fun Fact! In Australia we have paralysis ticks in summer! Be tick safe people, checkyourself and your dogs after a bushwalk.

Joel Boyd

love your pfp <3

Aiyana

i will date any goblin, including emily

Tiril

Pine Barrens naddpod enjoyers represent 🌲🌲💚

Meletios Lendis

A Crickmas Carol featuring Hardwon as Scrooge would be a great live show or mixed bag

Someone spin this short rest off into a discovery channel documentary

tacticalgrandma

Theme park resident here, can confirm neon mummies on the mummy ride. No CGI mummy at the end but you do get to see a young Brendan Fraser, that being said excited for the Orlando live show!

Anthony

Murph loves scarabs

Chaston Harper

my mom lives in jersey and feeds the deer in her yard, i'll see what i can do about getting some toupées distributed

Summer Rose (Grantaire)

I love it when Caldwell shares dad stories. As a parent of a 1 year old I feel like it’s a sneak peek of what I can look forward to!

Cheese of the Lake

Deer Maria

On animals with human hair, you guys NEED to look up crested ducks. Ducks with afros!!

The deer haircut stuff is fully unhinged and i was cackling listening to this

J. Marshall Smith

Suggestion for what a Bud would be in the Emdoe universe. Male Fawns are called Button Bucks because of their little head knobs where antlers will grow one day

Bransy330

Panic at the deer-sco

Colonel Condor

Y'all have literally made fun of DMs on D&D court for suggesting the players have to relentlessly perform search checks in order to not be ambushed by stuff like beanrat

J E

I feel obligated to educate but I don't *want* to say this ... A "buck" is kind of the opposite of a cuck and if you want to know more you gotta do your own research. Tldr bangbucks is for sure a porn

Ilana Galpert

I am an emo (emdo) and I love Steely Dan

Ross Minick

Their tarantula talk made me think of how cool it would be to redo The Bee Movie but with lil spider cuties

Haley Amplo

Some of the funky colouration on various beetle and insect carapace as well as butterfly wings is a result of tiny prism like crystal photonic cells that refract light to produce colour rather than the pigmentation that gives many other animals their various colours (including us!). That’s why the colours on many beetle shells are iridescent/metallic looking, don’t fade as much over time, and even change colour when they are in different liquids thanks to how light interacts with the crystal cells differently. As for why they evolved, we aren’t super sure. Some propose that the “structural” colour of photonic cells is more efficient, and they are direction-independent so great for camouflage. But in general it seems they just allow bugs to be more colourful than otherwise possible with pigment, they evolved to be as funky as physically possible!

‘Do doe. Just cause it’s fun - Fawnspawn!

Jeffrey Steck, Lord of the Fjord

Am I crazy or have they had the convo about the mummy holding up and the mummy ride? Probably the time Murph used scarabs Enjoy it either way

Nicole Jordan

My chemical doemance

Andy Cheng

Y’all definitely got out of the tick zone getting out of the north east!! Love from a real life tick scientist who listens to NADDPOD while working with the little blood suckers on a weekly basis. 🥰

Shelby

three deers for sweet revenge

Oliver Gullikson

As the person with tarantulas, I feel very seen and also want to state that a maltese tarantula would be a terrifying, mazing mop- but a poodle spider is almost already a thing- it's a curly hair tarantula. I do want to inform you, spider barber products are really supposed to be a secret. Please don't share this info as the infrastructure to import such items are ALSO tiny so it's difficult to get these products.

Kacie Bingham

Sounds like Emily needs a nap, keeping a colossal serpent calm is exhausting work!

Ryan Bontrager

Bangbuck is DEFINITELY gay porn, probably furry

Alvina Ophiuchus

They lowkey made a tulpa with this one

K.C. Thompson

Bambimo

A mech that torments the user, Murph is getting deep in that Warhammer lore

Simon Hughes

Caldwell said something about animals with human hair being disconcerting, but I have to think he must have never heard of crested ducks. Seriously look them up they are like completely normal ducks except they have a these head feathers that look like poufy pompadours and they are absolutely charming. I swear this is a real duck: https://i.imgur.com/gl5HpRe.jpg

Matthew the Ninja

Callie should take Emily the goblin to a little place called Mangia's.

Kelley Anne

The Pine Barrens might be in South Jersey, but that doesn’t mean we have a southern accent!! (I produce/cohost a Jersey-themed podcast. I’m ready to spread this legend.)

Andrea Quinn

All Time Doe

Hugh Cunningham

I raise the name Deermo

They're getting rid of the Mummy ride :( Brendan Fraser does an interview at the end and yells about getting a cup of coffee and then spooky mummy jump scare

Brandon Davis

Firmly pro orca. It’s not atypical for populations of orca to develop what we perceive as hobbies and games. A population near Vancouver island Canada would kill salmon and try to balance those salmon on their heads for as long as possible, expressing joy to the orca that did it the longest. A population near Norway enjoyed smushing jellyfish onto their nose and holding it as long as possible. A population near alaska got super into playing with kelp. From the videos I’ve seen of the orca encounters with boar rudders near Gibraltar, they seem to be expressing joy and play rather than calculated strikes from below. I think this is just another population of orcas discovering a new game they like, and luckily for us it’s at the expense of rich people. Wes Larson spoke about this on tooth and claw.

Jake Martim de Medeiros

Please share more Sid stories on short rest Caldwell.

EggBilly

Rats? Rats make me crazy...

FusRohNahSon

That Eva reference at 20:31 was solid 🐸

Sunder

The mummy ride in Orlando absolutely has neon green drawings all up in that place

Kailey Langer

As an arachniphobe, I have the policy of "Know thy enemy"- tarantulas can throw their hair as a defense which have a fluid similar to stinging nettles. They can cause allergic reactions. Super neat but icky

Katie P.

Thanks for providing a visual reference for the worm. I've been imagining that the serpent looks like an alaskan bull worm with a spray tan so dune is an upgrade

Certainly a thick sode

Liam Cornell

Second 😾

Isaiah

First😸

Nadja Nordstrom