Mixed Bag of Holding: Murph & Caldwell's Childhood Writings
Added 2025-10-29 23:17:56 +0000 UTCThe 2 Crew reads through "books" that they wrote as children. Featuring Murph's glorified Goosebumps fan fiction and the Caldwell penned masterpiece "The Daybreak Zone." Reader beware: you're in for thrills and chills!!!
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Back here after listening to the short rest where Murph talks about his fanfiction being stolen
Shel B, Kennas 1st fav sprite girl! Surprise round battle of the brands Spudfckers vs Parmacharm who comes out on top
2026-01-21 21:57:30 +0000 UTCMcSerean has Dede Skittles energy
Benjamin Korynta
2026-01-02 00:49:47 +0000 UTCi mean no major war just Desert Storm lmao
riskutforthebriskut
2025-12-31 15:30:58 +0000 UTCThis is not in the mixed bag collection
Harold
2025-11-26 22:49:51 +0000 UTC"Watch the tram car please" just activated me like a sleeper agent
nandrusin
2025-11-14 16:35:53 +0000 UTCI'm here lowkey hoping our Benevolent Councilmember Cutter W. changes their name to Cutter Shinobi
Katie P.
2025-11-12 16:49:17 +0000 UTCWooooo so many good mixed bags to enjoy
kaylee w
2025-11-09 15:57:46 +0000 UTCjust upgraded my patreon subscription specifically for mixed bag!
zoeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
2025-11-08 04:49:20 +0000 UTCCaldwells story reads like a coke themed "the last starfighter"
Tavitafish
2025-11-08 02:41:01 +0000 UTC“There isn’t a war right now” fuckin fried me
Miranda B, Crick DVM
2025-11-08 02:22:45 +0000 UTCI’m not sure if Murph and Caldwell were just good writers as kids or if RL Stine was just writing like a 9/11 year old, but these stories kinda read like a goosebumps first draft 😂
Ervin Jeffries
2025-11-07 08:13:44 +0000 UTCJust after listening to this, my daughter gave me her Halloween short story that she won 3rd place with. She is in the 4th grade so it gave me the same vibes as listening to these. Love it! I will keep it so she can look back on it later on.
Emily from Enter the Fungeon Podcast
2025-11-06 16:55:11 +0000 UTC"There isn't a war right now" and "It was Trolls." killed me. Incredible content I'm in tears from laughing
Haven
2025-11-05 20:52:05 +0000 UTCmillions of strange devices
abfg616
2025-11-04 13:12:51 +0000 UTCMichael Scott???
Shel B, Kennas 1st fav sprite girl! Rolled a natural 33 on her bday dice Please bless me with a plus 1 to any Stat of you choice
2025-11-03 19:37:49 +0000 UTCOne shot with Binky fiasco, cutter shenobi, rian urphy and Tucker run by Zac Oyama
Shel B, Kennas 1st fav sprite girl! Rolled a natural 33 on her bday dice Please bless me with a plus 1 to any Stat of you choice
2025-11-03 19:37:22 +0000 UTCERIN! 😂😂
Stefan UrKILL (Figgy)
2025-11-03 00:56:25 +0000 UTCA- for both of you!
Jeffrey Steck, Lord of the Fjord
2025-11-02 23:20:47 +0000 UTCThis is so cute!
Zaq Putnam
2025-11-02 17:45:19 +0000 UTCWe need a one shot with Caldwell playing Cutter Shinobi.
Robert
2025-11-02 15:33:33 +0000 UTCCALL JG WENTWORTH H733-carrot*carrot
Sean Zenitram
2025-11-02 09:14:58 +0000 UTCHahaha YEEESSSS!!! The wildwood tram!! Iykyk 😭
alyssa
2025-11-01 21:28:34 +0000 UTCI love that caldwell chose to make cutter a spill boi, and it’s what saved him
Marc
2025-11-01 05:47:12 +0000 UTCNothing funnier than abruptly introducing a gun into a story. Makes me laugh every time
Unbaked
2025-11-01 02:28:43 +0000 UTCYou know too much. Goodbye.
Toblerone. jpg
2025-10-31 22:29:22 +0000 UTCThat one picture does in fact look like 2 robots doing it. This was utterly delightful from top to bottom. Pun sort of intended.
Erin Bridges
2025-10-31 21:44:19 +0000 UTCcw: NOT about football
Mickey Mars
2025-10-31 20:13:35 +0000 UTCDid you see the next post in the Patreon feed lol
Kellyd
2025-10-31 14:37:56 +0000 UTCi cant believe we got no pics🥲
Jaydon
2025-10-31 14:27:35 +0000 UTCStar Wars CCG solidarity! Hell yeah! Loved that as a kid. Though now I play MtG Commander...
Ken
2025-10-31 14:09:05 +0000 UTCSorry, are we not going to discuss how the coke machine to Toby being possessed pipeline was the seeding for Trinyvale? Did Caldwell write Trinyvale at 11 years old?
Kellyd
2025-10-31 13:58:27 +0000 UTCCan’t wait until C4 when they visit the Afterworld
Jacob LeBouff
2025-10-31 13:22:34 +0000 UTCPlease more of this. This was maybe the best thing I’ve ever listened to haha
Fig
2025-10-31 11:57:55 +0000 UTCCaldwells story reads so much like Gex but less problematic 🦎
Brett the Breton of High Rock
2025-10-31 07:25:44 +0000 UTCI just visited back home and read through mine! so cringy so angsty it all made so little sense 😂😂
Becca_rebaker
2025-10-31 01:56:21 +0000 UTCYall should do a one shot in Caldwells novel
Brandon Stacks
2025-10-31 00:15:02 +0000 UTCRELEASE THE SCANS MURPH
David Allison
2025-10-30 23:46:31 +0000 UTCPlease please please do a live show in LA where you read more of Murph's Friday the 13th novellas, I'll make sacrifices in your name to make this happen 🙏
Evan
2025-10-30 22:09:57 +0000 UTCHow much do I have to pay to hear Murph tell his animorph story because I will!
Manuel
2025-10-30 22:03:18 +0000 UTCMasterpieces. I'm glad these artifacts of history have been preserved.
Ilana Galpert
2025-10-30 21:52:48 +0000 UTCYeah, this was truly great. Kind of a perfect lens on an era of Fiction For Cool Kids that the Naddpod crew can both satirize AND recognize. (Also, I've never been Council Of Elders, but... this must be an Event for Cutter W.)
Patrick
2025-10-30 21:06:01 +0000 UTCOh man. Listening to this made me recall my superhero comic book character, Slugman. His arch nemesis was…you guessed it…Saltman. Who I think had a salt shaker head and fingers.
Zeon Liberation
2025-10-30 20:49:39 +0000 UTCThe Jersey fans are eating
Melissa Shilale
2025-10-30 20:49:14 +0000 UTCI’d kill for scans of these
Patrick Gallagher
2025-10-30 20:43:46 +0000 UTCThis is transporting 39-year-old me right back to middle school. Giving us millennials the nostalgia core we all deserve.
Doctor Ransom
2025-10-30 20:43:45 +0000 UTC“There isn’t a war right now” took me out, I started cackling in a pizza pizza
Deena Shirkool
2025-10-30 19:35:54 +0000 UTCIT WAS TROLLS.
SeminoleDVM
2025-10-30 19:25:57 +0000 UTC"A real big one!" I said and grabbed the fluid.
Allen S
2025-10-30 19:24:51 +0000 UTCTo infinity and beyond ❤️
Sam
2025-10-30 19:02:36 +0000 UTCI somehow managed to keep like some of my poetry from when I was a teen (14-16) and I doe of laughter at the angst
Alex^2
2025-10-30 18:34:57 +0000 UTCNext DND character will be cutter shinobi
Mojo1396
2025-10-30 17:51:27 +0000 UTCTake that AI, you’ll never know the joy of creating something beautifully unique like Ginger McSerene. #ThereIsntAWarRightNow Amazing mixed bag episode, thanks for sharing.
Bryce Peterson
2025-10-30 17:30:21 +0000 UTC“A time of peace and devils hockey” iconic quote might make it into a sticker
Caitlin Sievert
2025-10-30 17:06:07 +0000 UTCalso the Bermuda Triangle
Hannah S
2025-10-30 17:02:50 +0000 UTCSooo… the origin of the Woman in the Wall at long-last revealed?
Frank
2025-10-30 17:01:52 +0000 UTCso fucking funny. also makes me wish I still had access to all my writings on whatever old family computer that's surely in the landfill now
Hannah S
2025-10-30 17:01:18 +0000 UTCNeed caldwell to draw an updated Cutter and Tobey on this months live stream
Dre Martinez
2025-10-30 16:24:34 +0000 UTCIncredible.
Canadian Schubert the Mushroom 🍄
2025-10-30 16:17:20 +0000 UTCRelease the transcript! I need to see Caldwell's illustrations.
Amber Hawkins
2025-10-30 16:08:13 +0000 UTCI love listening to this and pretending like *I'm* hiking through the afterworld with Murph <3
Dani Sharkey
2025-10-30 15:48:34 +0000 UTCWe need to see the drawings/pic of little Caldwell.
coconutphone
2025-10-30 15:42:18 +0000 UTCThis is incredible. Kudos to both of you for sharing.
coconutphone
2025-10-30 15:41:38 +0000 UTCThis is the best thing I've listened to all year! ❤️
Shannon Lee
2025-10-30 14:43:48 +0000 UTCR L. Stine meets Buddhist philosopher Douglas Harding of "On Having No Head"? Really advanced stuff there Murph!
CSN
2025-10-30 14:31:32 +0000 UTCHaven’t even listened to this yet and I am ecstatic
The Grinch (feral)
2025-10-30 14:04:38 +0000 UTCWildwood Tram Car Reference 🙏🏻
Shane C
2025-10-30 13:48:07 +0000 UTCRyan Urphy vs Cutter Shinobi Battle Royale when?
xatlern
2025-10-30 13:35:58 +0000 UTCPlease, PLEASE make Ginger Mixerene a character in a campaign
Zoe
2025-10-30 13:29:36 +0000 UTCI wrote a knock off of Assblasters from Tremors 3 as a kid for creative writing class, it was bad lol Slightly more proud of 8th grade me that wrote about a rabies virus that caused hemophilia which in turn made people zombies or vampires? Kinda both? Still just 100% ripped off from other existing properties but a little more creative in the combination Thanks for retroactively making me feel better about my silly childhood ambitions haha
Slappy Dave
2025-10-30 12:47:29 +0000 UTCSame!
Karan Jalundhwala
2025-10-30 12:07:40 +0000 UTCA very welcome Halloween treat. Looking forward to a potential Emily/Jake sequel
Scrumblina Brumblina
2025-10-30 11:35:19 +0000 UTCAs your supervisor, I demand the illustrations be posted.
ThacoIsWacko
2025-10-30 11:01:19 +0000 UTCMagic came out in 93, much later than star wars
roomwithoutawindow
2025-10-30 10:51:32 +0000 UTCRELEASE THE DRAWINGS!!!!!
Jake TG
2025-10-30 10:51:16 +0000 UTCMagic TTG came out WAY before Star Wars. Ask me about my Foil Vader. (I still have a foil Darth Vader)
ThacoIsWacko
2025-10-30 10:30:11 +0000 UTCWatch the tram car please in Wildwood is a pull I thought only me and my family referenced.
Jeremy Chartrand
2025-10-30 10:24:27 +0000 UTCThat war excerpt has to be the absolute hardest I've ever heard Murph laugh lol. Reminds me of stories I used to write about cutting ninjas heads off...I misspelled ninjas to...something else 😬
Gamma Ghoul
2025-10-30 09:16:19 +0000 UTCForce field with a smile?? Isn't that Beverly's Shield of Faith?
TechnoMach
2025-10-30 09:13:28 +0000 UTCwhat troops, there isn’t a war right now and there isn’t one getting ready to begin
Elizabeth
2025-10-30 07:30:52 +0000 UTC"Aaaaah! It was Trolls." killed me
Aiyana
2025-10-30 07:23:30 +0000 UTCi neeeeed to see all the drawings!!!
Elijah Beans
2025-10-30 07:19:58 +0000 UTC“He laughed, then pulled out a gun” absolutely lanced me
wizard wearing a poodle skirt
2025-10-30 05:57:18 +0000 UTCPLEASE post pictures of Kidwell's drawings
KMLM
2025-10-30 05:41:50 +0000 UTCThis needs to be renamed "Smiling until your cheeks hurt for 1:00:47" 10/10 kid me would look up to KidMurph / Kidwell
Lamp
2025-10-30 04:52:43 +0000 UTCCutter Shinobi v Rian Urphy lipsync for your life
kaylee w
2025-10-30 04:49:59 +0000 UTCElder Gen Z here (born in 98)- can’t say child me was ever particularly worried about losing my head tho I def do recall being unnerved by the girl w/ the green ribbon story. I was absolutely led to believe that quicksand was more of an everyday problem than it is tho. I personally was also very worried about getting pompeied and was terrified of volcanos-not sure how specific that was to me tho lol
Zoop
2025-10-30 04:37:15 +0000 UTCYou are the wizard here
Elizabeth Gunn, sickly but cruel
2025-10-30 04:24:58 +0000 UTCMalcom in the Middle
Elizabeth Gunn, sickly but cruel
2025-10-30 04:22:32 +0000 UTC🍹😜
Stefan UrKILL (Figgy)
2025-10-30 03:59:21 +0000 UTCNeed the Cutter Shinobi extended universe
Hudson Standish
2025-10-30 03:49:11 +0000 UTCThis is true bravery!
Kathryn Martin
2025-10-30 03:15:56 +0000 UTCCutter Shinobi shirts please?
Kingzley Sparkman
2025-10-30 03:11:42 +0000 UTCCutter Shinobi, Ryan Urphy, and Brian the Mech Wearing Troll explorer would be a pretty baller Part Comp.
Sean Boyle
2025-10-30 02:56:27 +0000 UTCPLEASE post Caldwell’s illustrations!
Sharktopus Reckoning
2025-10-30 02:49:27 +0000 UTCCutter Shinobi is who Ryan Urphy would play in a TTRPG
Benjamin P Parson Gomberg
2025-10-30 02:26:15 +0000 UTCThat was adorable.
Harry B
2025-10-30 02:25:00 +0000 UTCstraight prison????? this story really is about football after all. thanks so much everybody
sam s.
2025-10-30 01:41:02 +0000 UTCCan we please see the illustrations for The Daybreak Zone?
Zarina Munoz
2025-10-30 01:32:28 +0000 UTCThis was an all timer. Thanks for Caldwell and Murph for sharing their childhood work! Based off of this episode, a potential mixed-bag show pitch: reading similar childhood-written stories from listeners. Just a thought, 'cause this was a blast!
Maggie Schaller
2025-10-30 01:31:47 +0000 UTCThis is an absolute all time mixed bag 😂
Adam C
2025-10-30 01:20:05 +0000 UTCwho up drinking they mutation fluid?
super cockler
2025-10-30 01:16:46 +0000 UTCI've only listened to 4 minutes so far but I need to see the book cover art for these or I'm gonna throw up.
Dinosaur Office (2011-2012)
2025-10-30 01:15:59 +0000 UTCBRAVE! These stories are so charming though, thanks for sharing them
Becca W
2025-10-30 01:13:06 +0000 UTCThis is the best thing I've ever heard
Jay
2025-10-30 01:07:35 +0000 UTClove this episode!!! I doubt my family’s former Windows 95 dinosaur brick still exists, but I do like to imagine that my very queer-coded high fantasy novel Realm of Shadows is still out there somewhere.
Stefan UrKILL (Figgy)
2025-10-30 00:57:24 +0000 UTCHow dare the thumbnail not be a picture of little, baby Caldwell
Erica H
2025-10-30 00:35:32 +0000 UTCHe sounds genuinely pained 😂😭
Amelias Bedelias
2025-10-30 00:25:46 +0000 UTCI am SO excited for this!
Zanna
2025-10-30 00:16:56 +0000 UTCI need to listen to Murph's scream at 30:33 for the rest of my life
Kellyd
2025-10-29 23:52:05 +0000 UTCGod i’m not even 5 minutes in, I’m gonna be honest, I might cry listening to this, possibly of laughter, but also just because there’s something so pure and sincere to these and that is so thoroughly delightful and endearing and weirdly moving to me! Like the unbridled creativity of childhood can be so beautiful!
Kid Chaos, the pride and torment of the podcast
2025-10-29 23:51:03 +0000 UTCall good just a little battered and sprained, totaled my first car tho :/
Stiles
2025-10-29 23:46:59 +0000 UTCPLEASE release the drawings! This is incredible
Kyle Veach
2025-10-29 23:45:21 +0000 UTCThis is psychotic 😭❤️
Jake D.
2025-10-29 23:43:21 +0000 UTCGod I remember where my stories went, I just remember having a pirate chicken story I made for French class
Old Man Ballz 03
2025-10-29 23:42:23 +0000 UTCOh man, I haven’t listened yet, but just based on the title and description this is so precious!
Kid Chaos, the pride and torment of the podcast
2025-10-29 23:41:22 +0000 UTCthis is exactly what i needed after getting into a car wreck this morning 🙏
Stiles
2025-10-29 23:36:09 +0000 UTCWE’RE FEASTING
kaylee w
2025-10-29 23:34:15 +0000 UTC"My name is Brian, but that's not my real name, otherwise the yeerks will get me. Sometimes I turn into a finch"
Gold
2025-10-29 23:33:45 +0000 UTCBrave
Boggy's Buds Best Botanicals in Bahumia & Beyond
2025-10-29 23:33:12 +0000 UTCI've never been more excited by the title of a mixed bag
Gold
2025-10-29 23:33:06 +0000 UTCThis is extremely brave of you
Patrick B
2025-10-29 23:31:55 +0000 UTCLove
Michael Nixon
2025-10-29 23:29:10 +0000 UTCIncredible
Carter Carter
2025-10-29 23:26:59 +0000 UTCI saw the title and immediately thought we were finally going to get Murph’s self insert animorphs fanfiction
rikky
2025-10-29 23:26:13 +0000 UTCwords cannot express how scared i am to listen to this
ren
2025-10-29 23:26:05 +0000 UTCThink I have a very short story I wrote in grade school for English class somewhere that I got an A on. I will be grading these, guys.
Jeffrey Steck, Lord of the Fjord
2025-10-29 23:25:48 +0000 UTCOh, this is really charming! At 9 I wrote an 8 page romance fanfiction of The Tombs of Atuan and The Mummy (1999). If I recall correctly, the heroes uncovered a buried library of demons imprisoned in books and they killed a bad archeologist
Katie P.
2025-10-29 23:24:15 +0000 UTCAre we finally going to get the coveted Brian Murphy Animorphs fanfiction?
Ryanne Wallace
2025-10-29 23:24:13 +0000 UTClet us see the drawings i beg of you!!
han!!!
2025-10-29 23:24:08 +0000 UTCI can smell hair gel just by listening to these rad 90s stories. Hell yeah guys
jackalope503
2025-10-29 23:23:09 +0000 UTCWill be listening twice
rudy reyes
2025-10-29 23:22:41 +0000 UTCYEAAAA MIXED BAG!!!!
froggy
2025-10-29 23:22:39 +0000 UTCnever has a title made me more excited for an ep
Elliot
2025-10-29 23:22:00 +0000 UTCI need to save this for my drive to work tomorrow. But my level of excitement is incalculable.
Claytron
2025-10-29 23:21:05 +0000 UTCThis is so vulnerable i am thrilled and also scared?
Sharkie Murphy
2025-10-29 23:21:01 +0000 UTCI really needed this
Amelias Bedelias
2025-10-29 23:20:48 +0000 UTCIt's happening!!
Tiffany
2025-10-29 23:20:39 +0000 UTCWe are blessed on this day!
Bryan Cantwell
2025-10-29 23:20:25 +0000 UTCi’m vibrating at a frequency previously unknown to man upon seeing this description
Rhiannon
2025-10-29 23:20:18 +0000 UTCTruly braver than the troops. You could not at gun point get me to read my childhood writings aloud to an audience. I would choose death.
Brant
2025-10-29 23:20:07 +0000 UTCSweet Blue Hole would make for a good nom du guerre
RavensBinch
2025-10-29 23:20:04 +0000 UTCThis is gonna slap
KingHalt
2025-10-29 23:20:01 +0000 UTCI’ve actually never clicked a notification faster
hannah says
2025-10-29 23:19:50 +0000 UTCShut the fuck up this is on par with getting the Hardwon letter
Kellyd
2025-10-29 23:19:48 +0000 UTComg
lily h
2025-10-29 23:19:48 +0000 UTCOhhh man this is gonna be so good
Austin Gumbiner
2025-10-29 23:19:38 +0000 UTCoh my god
9on
2025-10-29 23:19:36 +0000 UTCoh my lord i need to get off work and listen to this immediately 💀
Galen Graham, Local Talent
2025-10-29 23:19:35 +0000 UTC
