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Surprise Round! - The Birthday Curse (Patreon)

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2025-05-16 22:56:24
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2025-05-17 00:07:03
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Welcome to Surprise Round! A show inspired by our love of unhinged hypotheticals. On today's episode, Discussion Master Murphy leads his Inquisitive Magicians through a series of saucy scenarios that may or MAY NOT feature the Grinch.

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Sound Mixing and Editing by Trevor Lyon

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Ione

Yay :)

George TJ

AHHHHHH SUPRISE EPISODE DROP

Henry Kates

Perfect timing I just finished the main feed ep

Ace Faeth

Birthday curse surprise round on my actual birthday??? The dice gods are kind to me ^-^

The Grinch (feral)

FIRST COMMENT FOR MY FAVORITE BONUS PODCAST #GRINCH4LYFE

han!!!!

woah hey mine too!!! i was coming to make a comment exactly like this lol

sam s.

needed this so bad today i am literally double subscribing for the month bc it wasn’t up on the apple podcast feed yet lmfao

Kyle Veach

Holy shit, more content today? Thank you!

Hugo Wull

Surprise Round is the best!!

Pop

Suprise round drop we are so back

Omar Mtz

Caldwell was correct with the first one, make him uncomfortable with sex

Evil Anagram

Jake has not considered how many people have swastika tattoos

Brant

i just started walking somewhere and was like damn i wish i had new naddpod and BAM

austinoxner

So pumped for some surprise Surprise Round action.

Jacob B.

Bird call have got to be pretty even if you could understand it. I bet they say a poem or something but each birds call is just repeating the same poem over and over again

Hugo Wull

My first thought! Too many Nazi tattoos out there for this one.

Jay3001

Anyone else not having this pop up on ur podcast app? I tried linking my Spotify too and it didn’t show there either. Ik I can just listen here but it’s odd

Reid

Mine isn’t showing in my Spotify feed. It seems like Spotify is acting up for me…album covers are black and white and the playlist keeps playing backwards so I just assumed it’s not naddpod’s end of things

Zoop

My ONLY hold up on the tattoo thing would be the possibility of racist tattoos. Cringy would be totally fine with me but I really really would not fuck with hateful tats anywhere on my body ESPECIALLY in visible areas

TallishCard643

Imagine a nazi tattoo appears on ur face cause of that siuation😭😭

Hammy

Donkey Kong or no, the thought of playing just Mario Kart for 4 hours sounds unbearable.

jackalope503

My time travel bad luck would be getting like 200 bucks off fanduel and waking up the next day to a hate crime prison tat across my buttcheeks

Mosesf

I think I would just fully sacrifice the sanctity of my outer skin to unlock ultimate control over the time stream. It would fully ruin your skin, but you could legitimately become a real-life superhero with unlimited time rewinds.

Bunnarchist

The time travel thing is cool but uh. What if you end up with a swastika

GaiusOrpheus

Thank you Emily. Glad to see I wasn't the only person whose first instinct was to romance the friends widow.

Mosesf

The idea of a time traveler becoming a benevolent leader of humanity who wears their thousands of tattoos marking them as the conduit of human expression is fascinating to me.

Aidan Boyle

Also my very first thought, definitely a not-insignificant percentage of all tattoos in the world are super racist

Sofa loaf

I was thinking about gang tattoos… right now the wrong tattoo could get you deported 😬

The Grinch (feral)

For the animals one: I already have to wear noise cancelling headphones to the grocery store, bc I am so easily overstimulated, so animals constantly screaming at me sounds like hell, and I’d literally rather eat glass

BT Bishop

I read/listen to a lot of non-fiction, is that all getting grinchified? In the history audiobook I'm listening to is the Mughal Empire ruled by the Grinch and being invaded by an army led by a different Grinch? I'm definitely taking the Grinch curse either way

Brock Anderson

If i could rewind time 5 minutes, paint me black in ink. This is assuming tattoos can stack in the same spots. An unvisited metric

Clotilde

My first thought too. Seriously underestimating the likelihood of a white supremacy symbol

Ed k

Oh Pelor, there is an Emily quote.. "You can be sad, and still hungry." I don't remember if it is from a short rest or earlier episodes from C1.

aiyana graham art

not enough consideration that the tattoo could be a racism tattoo. there are so many racist people in this world

Nick White

Really undervaluing roulette for earning money

AutoReroll

Can you timetravel back right away and re-roll the tattoo?

The Fun Yaunt

I had the exact same thought! As soon as I realized I would inevitably wind up with some white supremacist tat I was OUT.

The Fun Yaunt

Exact same thought! I’d also feel really uncomfortable with a tattoo that’s incredibly meaningful in a culture to which I do not belong (traditional Māori tattoos, for example).

Cody Zimmer

That was my immediate thought...

e.

YESSSS MORE SURPRISE ROUND!!

Lilli of the bog

Im already pretty loose about my skin doodles so I'd for sure take the second one

Courtney F.

Take the time rewind, immediately rewind 10,000 times. Covered in so many tattoos that any new ones are irrelevant. Live life of sports wealth and muddy tattoo skin. Worth it.

Lilli of the bog

You can use your wealth to cover them up, and some shops will offer free cover ups for hate/gang tattoos

Rafi

The grinch curse would be kind of amazing reading manga…just imagining a shonen jump cover of grinches in different artist styles???

Courtney F.

Also, you can absolutely get somewhere in the stock market with 5 minutes!!

Ursa

if you already have tattoos, does it only take "available" space? also my first thought was Immediate No bcos i don't want to end up with some cop's iron cross & punisher skull combo

Ollie

Put this on to try to forget about the Celtics vs Knicks game only for y’all to mention them in the episode 💔💔💔

Ace Faeth

Well, then, happy birthday to us!! :D

O'Boimler

I haven't seen an actual call for submissions for Surprise Round in so long. I have one I want to submit but I just see new episodes with no asks beforehand.

Todd

Surprise round is by far my favorite non-dnd show they do. I like it even more than dungeon court

Connor savage

Wild pitch as I was listening to this yall gotta get random fans on here to pitch in for some of the surprise rounds. Just get actual different pitches from people would slay me 🤣

Alexander Powers

This was the first thought I had, too. Eventually you'll inevitably end up with a swastika or black sun or something, and it just becomes totally untenable after that

Ryan Higgins

Murphy, don't let her open the door, ever lolol

sarb!

Not to be too real here but I don't think I could risk the odds of getting hate symbols for the tattoo one 😬

Ruthie Pinion

I’m 2 minutes in and Murph really cooked with this ep

Reuben Simmonds

For the tattoo one you could get a blacked out bodysuit which is kind of a cool look and then when the tattoos appear you wouldn't even see them

Cameron Sunken

There are so many things you can bet on with even just five minutes head start. Gambling and horse racing for sure

Lauren

Kicking out DK, not taking the 5 minutes power for the bad tattoos, taking the Grinch Curse, not taking the talking to animals power (too many horny screaming birds at too high of a volume) hell no to the fast food for pizza hut, I don't eat burgers but I guess I'd have to eat eventually so I'd eat something else on my way home

Josh Kumar

Did… did Caldwell unleash a crow on Jayson Tatum

Jasmine Young

I would be so afraid the tattoo I would get would be a hate tattoo.

Nate Ness

If I eat an entire pizza with the Pizza Hut curse, would it still just feel like I had 4 slices?

TheloniousPunkyBrewster

Love the swerve in the last one "do you stop for a burger" is not where I thought that was headed And the most important question about the tattoo one is, does a sleeve consist of many small tattoos that go together either artistically or thematically, or it's it one big tattoo?

Boomer

So Caldwell was the one responsible for Tatum

rosebramblewolf

It's way too likely to be a swastika on the neck or something.

Bulbarat

No one should take the tattoo thing because Nazis exist

Rob H.

It's a good thing we weren't roommates in college.

Audrey Lane

Literally my first thought too 😬

Abel Favela

Accidentally hit this trying to scroll up and now I need to go back and listen to every surprise round.

FiendishNoodles

It's nice that the pod has a healthy fear and reverence for those who can glimpse beyond the earthly realm (Jesse Eisenberg and Criss "Mindfreak" Angel Mindfreak).

Sam

Am I being sensitive or do they talk over Emily a lot more than over each other? Love you boobs so much but I’ve noticed Emily getting interrupted…. often…. 😔

Zeon Liberation

I don’t think anyone realizes how loud 10x a sound is. A normal conversation is about 40dB. 400dB is actually louder than the loudest sound ever. Each chirp or meow or bark would send shockwaves around the world. You would have no reprieve. No where would be safe for you. And then comes the issues of insects

Eos

Okay, my thought on the tattoo one... So based on the internet, the most common tats are pretty small and chill, so the chances are higher of them being okay. However! Would it like cancel out my other tats? I currently have eleven of my own. Would one show up in the same spot as one of the others? If so, would mine disappear?

The Plum Satyr

Right?! Like eating a whole pizza hut pizza feels great to me

Ian Mcilwean

Time power gives you a chance to end up with a swatiska on your body so I'm super out.

Ian Mcilwean

I was thinking the same thing. That's got be a super common tattoo like right up there with barb wire.

Ian Mcilwean

The animal one isn't that just for the rest of your life a jet engine is going off in your ear 24/7

jaydon

yall should review the shining next if murph still hasent seen it (im relistening to c1 short rest ep98)

Taylor Jackson

lmao why does murph think there are so many face tats??

Swaff

GONYGONYGO

Brandon Rowand

Grinchborn referenced I’m always winning

Mubeen Khan

The idea that anyone would make it inside my house without being authorized is insane. I don’t even open the door unless someone has called ahead.

Jack

Jake's a Knicks fan?? Let's go!!

Pat S

Wow did Caldwell manifest the Tatum Achilles tear?

Augi5000

Important question re the Grinch media curse: does this also affect live performances? Like if I go see an improv show am I watching 5 Grinches goofing around based on audience suggestions?

Andrew E

Grinch Indy 500

Harry B

Yeah I was shocked that they didn’t even mention it.

YugiMoto

If jake is already wearing a char mask, he could just make a zaku with all of his sports wealth. Honestly worth it

Robert

Master magician Jesse Eisenberg as some sort of good-aligned dark wizard is one of my favorite additions to the NADDPod cast of characters.

Clotilde

Emily, as someone who recently found out I can now eat gluten (after not eating it for decades) - gluten free pizza is WAY less filling. I've gone from eating 5 slices easy to tapping out at 2.

billy nuttall

I love the gang and I’m not trying to call them out or shame them. I understand that this is a comedy podcast and they want to keep this light. For the tattoo question, it’s really funny that none of them brought up the fact that there are just flat out offensive tattoos out there. They keep using the Minions or Deadpool as an example of getting unlucky, meanwhile in this scenario. They could fully have a slur printed on their cheek. I’m absolutely not brave enough for that. People would beat me up. I’d deserve it. The Lion’s bet wouldn’t be worth it.

Nick Webster

If that Now You See Me scenario isn't the most relatable thing

Nick Webster

Surprise round is one of my favorites. Look for grinch related ones

JustVeryMundane

Anyone else think they should start titling this things like “dungeon court” or “tortle tank” or even a main episode and then when the audience starts it BAM! - SURPRISE ROUND

Rover Bernhard

“Maybe I can make science wealth” Emily, there is no wealth in animal biology. Take it from the ecologist.

Suzanna DePeri

They didnt consider randomly drawing one of those tattoos on the white of your eyes. Risk of that would make me not do that one

Theo

Sorry to be crass on main but I simply don’t think I could manage looking at Grorn (grinch porn) for a whole year any time I wanted to yank that doodle dandee, you know

Spencer

I wouldn’t be able to live a life where all porn is grinch porn…

Tykora

The risk of swastika and full body tattoos are real

Voiceofkane

"Not your best friend, but a friend you have dinner with once a month." You see them at least once a month and they're *not* your best friend?!?

Moose

guys I think I should get into sports betting

MeekoCHAOS The Raccoon Boi

That or getting a Confederate flag tattoo or the numbers of a Holocaust victim would make me spam until get a blackout tattoos all over my body

Joshua Qualls

The Pizza Hut hypothetical is bringing the Professor Duttle out of Murph so hard hahaha

Matty H

The infinite money glitch is not worth the tramp stamp that says "Boner Garage" with an arrow pointing down

Alex Niethe

Truly my favorite part besides the DND. Everything else is 10/10, but this is 11/10

Bryce Schwenn

Love that The Red Comet was referenced

Dave Rife

The Donkey Kong scenario is really just a Tim Robinson away from being an "I Think You Should Leave" sketch

Brigid

that sports WEALTH

Blue Bee

Emily saying that she feeds the stray cats every day is reinforcing my belief that she and Murph do not just have 4 cats, they have 2 dozen cats but do not let 80% of them into the house

Nikki Michelle

That was immediately my thought too!

Greg Jovi

"In & Out, let us know if you'd like to purchase the script for this ad which is, just to recap, Jesse Eisenburg explodes a guy into starfire and then Emily grabs In & Out and fucks his wife as the In & Out logo slowly appears on the screen"

ElderBird

The Donkey Kong gets a hand on the chest as he tries to enter my house, never makes it in the door.

TheloniousPunkyBrewster

I dunno The way to phrase it is "if somebody offered you 1,000,000 to get a random tattoo that you can alter or remove afterwards would you?"

Matty H

See, the thing is, it would take more than 1 time using it to get to $1mil. And you'd have to keep using it anyway until you die

Matty H

That is an amazing idea

Nye-Low

💯 I’m fully not letting a rando in a suit into my home.

Evan

But you have to use it once a month, so it's actually at least a dozen random tattoos every year for the rest of your life. You'd be covered head to toe in a decade

Evan

Murph did specify that the tattoos which qualify for this are ones done in a single session so they wouldn't be anything too enormous, but the Nazi risk is real

Tykora

Also after long enough ypu just gonna be fully inked up so much so you yonna be completly coved in dark ink

ChloPiercer

That one about replacing food with other food's nutrition was fascinating to me, because I have an eating disorder called Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder that more or less makes it so my mind doesn't react to most food as if it's, you know, food. If you hand me a salad my brain reacts to it like you handed me a bowl of used bandaid. I absolutely CAN NOT eat it. My list of safe foods is extremely short and also extremely unhealthy, so your curse here is fully a boon to me! XD

hobblelobble

I’ve seen Mamma Mia enough times that I can close my eyes and picture it if I want to… if I had the grinch curse would my memory be overshadowed by the curse? Even if I’m not watching it just playing it in my mind?

spike mccue

Okay but what if I take the “rewind time” thing to the extreme: do I end up as a baby that is covered in tattoos?

Grass

I love surprise round

Ilana Galpert

I have rabbits which are 1. super quiet and 2. very good at hiding when they are in pain, so I think I'd take the ability to talk to animals in order to take better care of them. I think 95% of what they would say would be food related. Bright side, you could always spend more time around fish. You would have to soundproof your bedroom and get noise cancelling headphones though.

Rainemaker

My main problem with the rewind time is like. Knowing my luck, I will travel back one time and get like a fucking iron cross or something. Like Jesus Christ what do I do now.

TheloniousPunkyBrewster

You have to use it to keep it though right, Like you can just use it 5 times and then enjoy your SportsWealth and tattoo removal

Matty H

I interpreted it as once you accept it you have it forever

Rafael C

Insane question but ur so right for asking this

Rafael C

that's theoretically hilarious, even if in practice it would kill as an april fool's bit only, and suck in any other occasion

Jay

Before my cat got castrated, when she was in heat, she would scream so loud I wrote an apology letter to my neighbours This at 10x the volume, especially when this was absolutely only "I want to fuck" would have been torturous

Jor Elare

Rewinding time by 5 minutes could win you hundreds of thousands of dollars in roulette, OR, by playing a bunch of blackjack and then selectively playing sidebets as they play out at 100-1 odds a handful of times. You could do those things like 3 times and amass generational wealth. I'd risk it

Rafael C

same thought lol, though they did indirectly work out this issue as well via planning to hire a personal tattoo artist to rework any unsightly tattoos

billy nuttall

True, but that doesn’t help the immediate backlash when the tattoo first appears in a very visual place.

Jay

That's a good question, I imagined it would just appear above the other ones, so you'd eventually have a full body black out tattoo But if it replaced other tattoos, you'd have more chances of getting a good one, because you could just use the time power over and over until a bad one is replaced

Rafael C

[ Skaldova Episode 10 Spoilers ] . . . . . . . . . . . . I love that the tattoo one is a speedrun to turning into Zudrick of the Murder (minus the time-travel lol)

Little Cheese Confettis

I would 10000% stop for a burger after Now You See Me. 1) that’s what my friend would have wanted and 2) grief is an inevitable part of life and surreal, flippant, tonally-off moments are part of grief.

Andrew Lachterman

Can’t believe you talk about controlling birds to go for the Achilles of the Celtics Knicks game and then Tatum broke his Achilles. Coincidence? 🧐

Aster Ellis

Finally, a world with enough Grinch porn to satisfy my dark urges

Jonathan Sheehan

Can we please get a t-shirt that says 'this is getting looney tunes a little bit'

Black.Crystal.Ball

I'd absolutely take the food one, I'm 20, can't cook and have to go home from university to get vegetables. Most of my meals are noodles of some kind, some combination of bread and eggs, air fryer mac and cheese, air fryer potato wedges or oatmeal. I think my mom would cry from joy if she heard I consumed the nutrients of a vegetable of my own volition.

The Wizard Spring

Is anyone else's pocketcasts' downloads failing only for naddpod?

Takowowo

Just like how Emily gets In-n-out as a special treat I like to get In-n-out when I'm feeling down and need a minute to process so I'm getting that burger first thing so I can have my double double, both types of onions, with a fry well and contemplate the sudden loss but new mystery of the universe And then I think I hunt down Jesse Eisenburg

Ursa

i've been wishing for human kibble/food pills to be an option for the same reason, it can be such a struggle to get enough food intake just like, volume-wise & i'd sooooo take that deal if i could eat One tiny soft taco & have it be the equivalent of a complete meal!!

ChloPiercer

I just want to eat a single even mildly healthy meal like a regular human being but every time I try my brain is like, "LOL why are you trying to eat broken glass full of spiders?"

Chaini

The tattoo thing wouldn't be too bad until you end up with a replica of some racist dudes tattoo then you got ti deal with that for life. Nope no thank you. Too many idiots out there with racist ink to risk it.

JustVeryMundane

Oh I’d hate it - thinking we’re getting C4 or something cool and then BAM. But I think I’d Respect them for it. Real Ryan Urphy move

Whitney Hempsey

They probably (and rightfully) assumed that everyone would get there without bringing up n@zis? According to the comments it appears that’s the case. 🙃

Hoid

“I’m going to show this mf the afterlife” our community is so poetic

aiyana graham art

even if they do, there's still an amount of time you have to walk around with it on your body. plus you won't be able to answer questions about it (how old is it) which means they'd probably make you wait to get it covered up so it'd heal properly

Jay S

THIS IS HOW I FIND OUT WE'RE FUCKED THIS YEAR GODDAMNIT

Robert Stegmann

The Grinch movie curse one is a bit wild for me because I've been thinking of a dilemma with a similar curse for several months. You gain the ability to pause time when watching TV, movies or any other non-live streaming. During this paused time, you can watch as much as you would like without getting tired, hungry, thirsty, aging or having to use the washroom. This power only works when you are focused on watching, so no having the TV on to pause time while you do something else. You can share this ability with others, provided they are also focused on watching the same thing as you. Use of this power is optional, so you can still use TV or movies to pass the time. However, any time you watch a TV or movie, whether you use your power or not, one of the people in the movie or show is replaced with someone in a hyper-realistic Grinch costume, or hell, maybe even the Grinch themselves. The Grinch still delivers the same great performance with the same voice as the original actor, although in between lines they may ad lib in some Grinchy lines. Who the Grinch replaces is chosen randomly each time you watch the film or TV show, with the likelihood being proportional to their screen time (if it is an extra, multiple extras will be played by Grinches). No one else can see the Grinches, and no one will believe you if you tell them. The Grinch may be wearing the original costume or be full Grinch nude. I mainly though of this as I couldn't get the idea of Val Kilmer in Tombstone played by the Grinch out of my head.

EmperorGreed

Murph is overestimating the likelihood of face tattoos. That's only 3.5% of surface area, 5.5% if you include the neck. That's not likely to come up quickly, even if location is chosen fully randomly independent of where the tattoo was on the first person. And if it is based on that, there's not a lot of people with face and neck tattoos. Plus, there options for tattoo removal beyond laser, and face tattoos are usually small enough to be good candidates for surgical removal

Mister Mucci

Idk about sports betting, but like three tattoos to win 6 games of kino/quick draw would go hard.

Not the Princess Jaz

Having a birthday 4 days after Christmas, the Dave & Buster's scenario is already my life 🙃

Casey Kerins

The grinch curse is something where I probably try to not get cursed but chicken out and then use the year to be media-free as like a media detox 😅

🐧lost penguin familiar

I would have Donkey Kong play in battle mode so then we can make him win a lot easier without npc's beating him in a race.

CommodoreBlue

They should throw in an in-universe Bahumia question, where everyone responds as their C1 character. Just one question. At the very end

OvrCaffWarlock

Simply couldn’t do the time travel thing. There are too many tattoos I will not be associated with

Michael Graham Abernathy

The last question was funny. But also, genuinely, that's a legitimate question that comes up after you lose someone. After my sister showed up to let me know that my brother had died, we still had to eat, and neither of us were about to cook. So yeah, it felt a little weird to stop in the drive through at Cook Out on the way back to see my parents, but... I mean, we had to eat, and as long as we were at Cook Out, we might as well get shakes, right? It's part of the necessary process of deciding when every normal thing gets to be normal again.

Evie

Whole time I was thinking about m&m's and how awesome that would be and now I know Brian and I have garbage palates.

Jeremy Tyler

Talking to animals to win sports bets is literally half the plot of All Dogs go to Heaven

TJ

Worst case scenario I had to eat 4 slices of Pizza Hut?easiest choice of my life yes

Cortney Cline

The fast food question just makes me think "wow, none of these people enjoy cooking at all..."

Josh Flowers

That is EXACTLY what I was thinking! No one brought up the risk of getting a copy of an inmate's swastika tattoo.

Summer Tribe

folks it's been since may, give us another

Primalkrisis

Pleased more i beg of you 🥺

Sean Boyle

Registering to this episode and yet again im floored by the fact that none of them realizes that in the Tattoo question they would almost certainly end up with a bunch of Racist tattoos. Making taking the deal a terrible idea.

Myckeli

I desperately need a grinch themed surprise round with Karina Farek 💀

Gearbox

Every time I listen to this episode I think of how much you should absolutely take the tattoo curse. If all possible tattoos are equally likely, the chances of getting a face tattoo compared to arms or legs (or even chest or back) is negligible. There are so many more body tattoos than face tattoos in the world. You'd probably end up with so many overlapping sleeves.

Jared Elwart

Proposition in the birthday curse: instead of just all media, you see the grinch everywhere. Every person you talk to, every humanoid mascot, everyone. You know all of them are still the actual people and they talk about the stuff you would expect, but they look and sound like the grinch. Do you still take on the curse?

Austin Wiggin

I figured out the tattoo hack. You go for full blackout everytime is a lame piece. Dont go for removal, go for cover up

The Magic Strugglebus

The 2 crew seem blissfully unaware of the sheer number of white power tattoos that are walking around out there.

Hipster

I love animals so much but it would ruin my life if I knew exactly what the poor coyotes who live in my neighborhood are actually saying when they squeak and howl to one another :(

Scruggzi

This was exactly my thought. My first reaction was 'no amount of money is worth even a minor chance of a swastika to the forehead'.

Count von Cunt

I still can't believe that any of you are letting donkey kong INSIDE the house

Swashbuckler Sky

The “stop for a burger” thing threw me off. What is the connection?!