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Surprise Round! - Houston, We Have Zero Bars (Patreon)

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2024-09-06 06:22:17
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2024-10-07 16:39:55
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AD-FREE EPISODE FOR $5+ PATRONS!

Welcome to Surprise Round! A show inspired by our love of unhinged hypotheticals. Join Discussion Master Murphy as he leads his crew of Rowdy Rounders through a series of wild scenarios that may or MAY NOT feature the Grinch.

CREDITS:

Sound Mixing and Editing by Trevor Lyon

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Alex Niethe

I was just about to go to bed. Noooooooo. So pumped (hoping for some grinch)

Alex Niethe

I’m 2nd so I’m two crew. Hate to break it to you

Alex Niethe

And this comment actually makes me three cree too, which stinks for you.

Mellzs

I work nightshift this is a godsend thank you for this joy you beautiful bastards

chris Mcgrew

Whatever helps you sleep haha

Alex Niethe

I NEED THIS. jk love you dude, have a good night.

Alex Niethe

That must have been the best notification you could have hoped for, love that for you. Hope your shift is quick!

Jeremy G

That escalated quickly

Rennifer

Refresh. Refresh. Refresh. New ep. Now I can listen to this and fall asleep

tatsuo takao

Honestly it's insane the grinch is THIS present in the podcast still. I'll never forget listening to c1 in the tendra and the boob's CONSTANTLY referenced the grinch. Now it's come to this.

tatsuo takao

I just got out of work, it's great for the ride home for sure

Zander Wiesehuegel

This is my first episode listening to this podcast! Cant wait to see what all the hype is about :D

Charlie Morris

Not even 10 minutes in and I’m fully crying laughing

Evil Grimace

I love the Grinch Question mark.

Dippity_Dip

WE HAVE OFFICIAL ART OMGGG

Dippity_Dip

Starting off on a surprise round is CRAZY😭😭 I commend you brave soldier, have you any need we are all here to help you best make fun of Jake🫡

Zanna

sonic tattoo easy fix is just shift to someone with a beard 👌

Fighting Favorites

I think the Mystique one is easy! I would just always have a perfect beard to cover the tattoo on the chin and if I ever wanted to I would be able to cover the neck with something else. Maybe I could even deal with a bit of a larger beard just to cover it up. I also think you can cover up the neck with just makeup like they do in movies

Meapyboy1234567

Woah they have an intro sound and thumbnail for it.

Zander Wiesehuegel

Is there normally this much yelling, grinch, and sonic the hedgehog?

Shan

The last one is really "could you stand having razor burn ALL THE TIME"

Shane C

An astronaut Grinch would be great for the Grinch campaign!

Mauricio Caceres

0% confidence in a NASA space shuttle; didn't the Challenger disaster shut down the program?

Nick Garito

Gesus christ, can we clarify why Emily grabbed all of our butts?

Kellyd

"Hey you can't talk to Houston man" is the hardest I've laughed in a while omg

Mauricio Caceres

The Vampire has absolutely no incentive to keep to this deal after you've agreed to go with them tho

Mountain Dew Or Crab Juice

If I'm boarding the space shuttle and I see the Grinch, I'm immediately looking for the Jake Busey character from Contact, nothing good can come from sending the Grinch to space and someone is gonna try to put a stop to it.

Hannah Wilks

I love how much Jake loves his mum. And how quickly Emily jumps to solving a problem via climbing (or in this case, a chimney shimmy).

Faerunner

It's Arrakis but instead of a water shortage everyone craves hair

Hunter Gay

"you would be a footnote in the grinch's obituary" is actually such a hard line

Totally Offside

Like Emily, I'd have passed on this trip long before I've gotten to the shuttle but, assuming I've agreed for some reason, the Grinch isn't phasing me if the other astronauts are all acting normally. I trust the Scientific process!

ACK

You guys should watch the cutscenes for the 'Shadow the Hedgehog' PS2 game at some point. SPOILERS there was a basic morality system where you chose your path via which objective you completed for each mission. Full evil path had you kill the president of off brand USA, and then announce to a defeated Sonic that you were going to take over the world. Also you could use guns. Wild experience.

Zerolott

Murp sheep don't get paid. The hairpire is offering you a job with free housing and unlimited pay in exchange for shaving.

Lia

Your friend pulled the "It's your curse now, good luck sucker."

CommodoreBlue

Surprise Round is the final form of NADDPOD. It is the ultimate culmination of all the insane unhinged energy in the short rests and mixed bags

Bread Cat

Normally there is only slightly less

Katie P.

1) I have a deep-seated fear of being untethered from my shuttle while in space (this will never happen to me), so I'd be out immediately. 2) Can you use foundation on the neck tattoo or does it need to be visible?

Robert

Geezus made me crack up in public

Extra Crispy

Shout out the big G Geezus 🗣️ 🔥🔥

Anna Sun

To me, the shaving vamp is less being a sheep and more of a spa trip. Can it be waxed and not shaved? And can I keep most of my eyebrows? If so, SOLD! I won’t think too deeply about where the hair is going.

rosebramblewolf

Literally same. You're telling me I don't have to do my own hair removal anymore, that's what I heard.

Hammy

Can’t wait for the gang to finally watch the Jim Carrey Grinch movie for a mixed bag next July

Joseph Webster

An Astronaut in a Grinch costume isn't as insane as it might initially seem. Former Astronaut and current US Senator Mark Kelly smuggled a full gorilla costume onto the ISS and used it to prank his crew mates.

Joseph Webster

Also, Astronauts wear diapers on missions and will shit and piss themselves if needed

Xymel

Yo. Never have to clothes shop again with Mystique powers. Huge money saver.

Evan

"The colors on Shadow the Hedgehog are kinda cool" -Jake Hurwitz

Ilana Galpert

I think you get the tattoo and make it your mission to get hugely into Sonic, then get tats of the other characters

Ilana Galpert

You do have to read all the comics, learn all the lore, and obviously solve all the choose your own adventure books

Katherine Kelley

If it’s a planet of keratin vampires, you’d also have to worry about them trying to get your nails, which is pretty horrifying

Wolfkat

Book recommendation for Emily: Challenger by Adam Higginbotham. It's not funny but it is the real story of Challenger, the disaster with the teacher in space... A little too close to the bit in this episode

JustSomeKnob

Half a bottle of wine in and zero bars

Jeffrey Steck, Lord of the Fjord

Speaking of space the Starliner module undocking and reentry is happening today/tonight! You can watch at NASA.com (Happening via NASA not NASO)

aloox

omfg the grinch face in the cover art logo

Curby Dickens

Armageddon rules: it’s cheaper and easier to teach D&D players to be astronauts than astronauts to play D&Dzzzz

NowWhatComix

SOMEONE TELL JAKE ABOUT HOW COOL THEY MADE GOLIATHS IN THE NEW PHB!! THEY CHANGED THEM AND THEYRE SO COOL!!! Edit: SO IS ELDRITCH KNIGHT!!!!

AlbireoRising

Hate to break this to you but if one of you was brought to space you would almost definitely not be the first D&D player up there. Surely one of those nerdy astronauts plays!

AlbireoRising

Also, NASA released a TTRPG module. It's called The Lost Universe. Very cool. (Mixed Bag anyone?)

Cory Wyse

Did Emily also grab Gesus’ butt

No Plan Anne

I am so proud of Jake for remembering Miles Prower.

Rafi

Murph drawing a hard line at Tails having a heightened sense of smell. like yeah he can fly but SMELL GOOD??? Absolutely not

Eli

the astronaut grinch in the first scenario strikes me as a veteran astronaut who is highly respected by his team regardless of the fact that he has clearly gone senile and should have retired 15 years ago

NowWhatComix

SOMEONE TELL EMILY SHE CAN PREP SPELLS AS A BARD NOW!!!! (Don’t change your Paladin part though-they nerfed smites :( )

Cross

Hell yea I can use the new naddpod scarf to hide my shadow the hedgehog neck tattoo

NowWhatComix

AND CALDWELL ABOUT DEFLECTING ATTACKS AS A MONK!!

Santa Grinch Hugging HumBaba and two Fairies

Murph! Someone else has already asked this question but is the Grinch like going into the vacuum of space with like a fishbowl helmet or just raw dog the helmet is the costume and it's just the Grinch

Ilana Galpert

How do you know the vampire planet has human food?

Emil

Thank you for reading my prompt!! Made my day to see it kind of made the episode title It didn't come through bc I didn't want to make the prompt too long, but Caldwell was right that the intent was the friend was framing you for Sonic's death, which is why they get you to the house and drunk as quickly as possible and then vanish. By the time Tails and Knuckles confront you, your friend is doing 90 in a 60 halfway to the Mexican border and will probably run over Gex or something

Emil

Also this slid under the radar because everyone was zeroing in on Caldwell for proposing the poop solution, but Jake saying he immediately assumed that Sonic the Hedgehog has some kind of deer dung mechanic was very funny

Thorin Heal

I thought tails was an ermine? Am I wrong?

Adam!!!!!

MILK 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Jade

"that was easy" nearly killed me

Mr. Serpentarius

I'm surprised Emily would choose to have mystique powers considering how important it is for her to be authentic. I'm fairly certain that in one of the comics she developed wicked multiple personality disorder and had to be in an institution. You can't tell me that once you made 1 improvement to your self you would ever revert back to who you were before.

Fanwithglasses

Naddpod/Studio Trigger crossover with that vampire aliens question

Pendergreens’ Sick Ibanez

The vampire took your hair without asking when it gave you bangs. Seems untrustworthy with the sort of power imbalance thered be on their planet

Hex Sharpe

I mean with the amount of time I have to spend dealing with body hair anyway, this just sounds like someone else does that for me AND I get to live luxuriously. All upside, I love it.

Natural Dragon

Guys I hate to say this but I think grab your butt Emily could be problematic…

Stations & Starships

Look, maybe Murph you're not the most popular dnd player... but as someone in the space industry, you are my top choice for rolling a d20 in space ;)

Jema Horjus

The Shadow tattoo is going on the "I really would do anything to be a shapeshifter" list

Mr. Micholaus

The face is so realistic it may actually be the Grinch

Renee Wild

Murph took a tiny L in the debate about Tails’ smell capabilities

Grimmie

With that kind of fact recall, maybe they'll have him guest on 8BBC one day! But probably not

Aaron Thompson

GEEZUS GREIST 🤣 honk honk 🪿✝️

Ross Begg

I think for the Shadow the Hedgehog/Shapeshifter question, you HAVE to sign with a temporary tattoo company and start mass producing Shadow The Hedgehog temp tattoos and make a bunch of commercials as various members of the Sonic movie cast. Alternatively, write a one man show and perform it at your local theater.

Featherweight (edited)

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2026-09-05 07:00 mystique can not only look like anyone but also sound like anyone and I think that is a super underrated perk
2024-09-07 08:23

Taylor

as soon as Jake mentioned how close you would be to the moon rolling the D20, my bf and I at the same time said “Emily’s back in”

theodor c

my phone has zero bars but i must scream

Pyt

The crew being pro Vampire Weinstein wasn’t on my 2024 bingo card

Caroline donnelly

The dot on the question mark is the grinch I love it

Sean Boyle

I've started using suprise round questions to ambush my friends with. I make them think I'm asking a serious question and then BAM the grinch.

nandrusin

I also just assumed I'd go to space at some point

Bobert G

The fact none of the guys thought of growing a beard to cover the neck tattoo is astonishing

Andrew Vera

Mystique can also alter her entire genomic sequence allowing her to alter her physique to become any human OR animal.

Lee

This is what would get me in. Turning into a bird and flying totally worth the neck tattoo

Pip

Being able to turn into animals is definitely the biggest attraction for me, but isn’t she also ageless? So you wouldn’t have to deal with bad joints, cancer probably and all that stuff.

Xue Grimm

Absolutely love these but man I miss 8-bit book club

Kayleanna Giesinger

Genuinely thought astronauts went to the bathroom in their suits!

Cheese of the Lake

Ok as a woman I have never understood rompers and jumpsuits. I don’t want to have to disrobe completely to have to pee or poo, especially in a public bathroom. I don’t understand why they’re so popular

Renevar

They actually do, since they aren't able to just take off the suits whenever they want they typically wear adult diapers

James Ching

100% I'd take the powers with the neck tattoo and just go full viking or wuxia master or something. Besides, there's enough movie magic makeup skills out there that you can learn to just fully hide a tattoo.

Grass

Space camp was awesome and there was a tornado warning and I remember thinking it would be kind of a funny way to die if it had to end like that

Kelley

"A footnote in the Grinch's obituary" is the millennial American Dream

Lemon Moon

Tails is super duper a fox

OldStump

So get one with the butt flap or snaps at the crotch.

OldStump

Aging is slower, not halted.

OldStump

You build space? I love your work.

OldStump

Ok, but no more dingle berries.

OldStump

Wasnt that a side effect to someone’s psionic scream ?

OldStump

Anything with a pulse can be human food assuming the amino acids line up.

OldStump

Space race rules. Propaganda production trumps everything

OldStump

I think it would be more interesting if it’s “always on exposed skin”

OldStump

And all the boss villains are characters straight out of revelations

OldStump

Think about how smooth your taint and asshole will be though

fig ficus

im getting the shadow the hedgehog tattoo even without the mystique powers

Crangar’s Little Helper

Loved the episode. Crossing my fingers for Adventure Book Theater to come back. 🤞

Anna Freitas

The first time I had to pee on the side of the road was when I was wearing a romper in Texas... They're ok if you know you'll have a stall, but definitely not a good choice if you'll be driving for a while in a rural area 😅

inigomontoya

Nothing like my 5yr daughter shouting from behind me in the car. "SHE'S GONNA GRAB OUR BUTTS?!"

victheterror

wild that the first spacewalk that is essentially “just for fun” is actively happening and they didn’t invite the grinch 🙄

Adam Blacharski

They kept saying sheep instead of life stock lol

Miriam_Why

Fuck negotiations I’m becoming that guys sheep

Shellby Davis

I love the Grinch question mark on the icon💚💚

jawnster

Perfect amount of time for a "that was easy" joke. XD

Mynne Maxine

My girlfriend doesn't listen to and naddpod things except surprise round (she's not into d&d) and she absolutely loves surprise round. What do I gotta do to get a surprise round shirt

arandomfox

Im so mad that i just came across a dude on tiktok that has a shadow/knuckles/sonic/tails neck tattoo for real.

Cass DeMarco

How did I not notice that until I read this comment 😭

Krysha Syrin

I know they often joke about being "minor celebrities" or that no one would cast them on a prank show, but at this point, I wouldn't put it past Sam Reich to use the Surprise Round as fodder for GameChanger . . .

Toblerone. jpg

i’ve been wanting an all naddpod episode of dirty laundry so bad for so long

Lord Arrogance

God Murph humorously exasperated with the rest of the crew will always be my favorite murph

Penny Garbo

I'd be a sheep for no rent and unlimited funds. I'm hairy as hell, I would be the prized sheep.

NowWhatComix

I’d tie myself to a chair and start crying and act like my friend had kidnapped me

Olivia Rodriguez

Anyone listening to this after Katy Perry went into space?

The Grinch (feral)

Literally ran to the comments to say the exact same thing

NowWhatComix

I will be honest it’s been so long since I vaguely said this I forget I think the sonic as a mantelpiece one

Toblerone. jpg

yeah i’d love to see this one posed to ally beardsley with the change of it being a blue origin flight

Jason Sherman

Shadow the edge-chog, am I right guys?

James (plz make more trinyvale eps)

Well, he’s the only one that actually approaches the questions in good faith lol. Emily and Caldwell consistently just make stuff up about why they’d do such and such thing. Em and Caldwell also just riff off one another during every scenario. It’s definitely entertaining, but I also don’t believe that their answers are 100% legit. Murph keeps it real, and Jake is somewhere in the middle of them all.

A Really Cool Rock

This has almost nothing to do with this just thought yalld enjoy someone dressing up as Sonic doing a pole/arial act

Jared Elwart

Re: hair vampire, I can’t believe no one considered the physical toll that being shaved every single day would take on your skin!

The No. 2 Show

Is it just me, or does the Grinch NASA question up top hit different in a post Katy Perry space flight world?

Rain

What would I not give for those Mystique powers