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The 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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9on

oh my god

Kellyd

Shut the fuck up this is on par with getting the Hardwon letter

el

omg

hobblelobble

I’ve actually never clicked a notification faster

KingHalt

This is gonna slap

RavensBinch

Sweet Blue Hole would make for a good nom du guerre

Brant

Truly 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.

Rhiannon

i’m vibrating at a frequency previously unknown to man upon seeing this description

Tiffany

It's happening!!

Sharkie Murphy

This is so vulnerable i am thrilled and also scared?

Claytron

I need to save this for my drive to work tomorrow. But my level of excitement is incalculable.

Elliot

never has a title made me more excited for an ep

froggy

YEAAAA MIXED BAG!!!!

rudy reyes

Will be listening twice

jackalope503

I can smell hair gel just by listening to these rad 90s stories. Hell yeah guys

han!!!!

let us see the drawings i beg of you!!

Katie P.

Oh, 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

Jeffrey Steck, Lord of the Fjord

Think 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.

ren

words cannot express how scared i am to listen to this

rikky

I saw the title and immediately thought we were finally going to get Murph’s self insert animorphs fanfiction

Mnixon

Love

Patrick B

This is extremely brave of you

Gold

I've never been more excited by the title of a mixed bag

Gold

"My name is Brian, but that's not my real name, otherwise the yeerks will get me. Sometimes I turn into a finch"

kaylee w

WE’RE FEASTING

Stiles

this is exactly what i needed after getting into a car wreck this morning 🙏

Evan

"You guys just animorphed into bullies!"

Old Man Ballz 03

God I remember where my stories went, I just remember having a pirate chicken story I made for French class

Kyle Veach

PLEASE release the drawings! This is incredible

Stiles

all good just a little battered and sprained, totaled my first car tho :/

Kid Chaos, the pride and torment of the podcast

God 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!

Kellyd

I need to listen to Murph's scream at 30:33 for the rest of my life

DM Joe

Bummer, so crummy. Happy to hear another Naddpole is safe though

Zanna

I am SO excited for this!

Erica H

How dare the thumbnail not be a picture of little, baby Caldwell

Stefan UrKILL (Figgy)

love 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.

Jay

This is the best thing I've ever heard

Bec

BRAVE! These stories are so charming though, thanks for sharing them

Evil Grimace

I'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.

Adam C

This is an absolute all time mixed bag 😂

Maggie Schaller

This 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!

Zarina Munoz

Can we please see the illustrations for The Daybreak Zone?

sam s.

straight prison????? this story really is about football after all. thanks so much everybody

Harry B

That was adorable.

Sean Boyle

Cutter Shinobi, Ryan Urphy, and Brian the Mech Wearing Troll explorer would be a pretty baller Part Comp.

Hudson Standish

Need the Cutter Shinobi extended universe

Zoop

Elder 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

kaylee w

Cutter Shinobi v Rian Urphy lipsync for your life

Lamp

This needs to be renamed "Smiling until your cheeks hurt for 1:00:47" 10/10 kid me would look up to KidMurph / Kidwell

KMLM

PLEASE post pictures of Kidwell's drawings

Elijah Beans

i neeeeed to see all the drawings!!!

allscratch

what troops, there isn’t a war right now and there isn’t one getting ready to begin

TechnoMach

Force field with a smile?? Isn't that Beverly's Shield of Faith?

Gamma Ghoul

That 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 😬

Jeremy Chartrand

Watch the tram car please in Wildwood is a pull I thought only me and my family referenced.

ThacoIsWacko

Magic TTG came out WAY before Star Wars. Ask me about my Foil Vader. (I still have a foil Darth Vader)

Jake TG

RELEASE THE DRAWINGS!!!!!

ThacoIsWacko

As your supervisor, I demand the illustrations be posted.

Stiles

thank you! i was listening to arms wide open by creed so i was blessed🙏

ThacoIsWacko

Star Wars CCG, I should have said. ;)

Scrumblina Brumblina

A very welcome Halloween treat. Looking forward to a potential Emily/Jake sequel

KJ

Same!

Slappy Dave

I 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

Zoe

Please, PLEASE make Ginger Mixerene a character in a campaign

xatlern

Ryan Urphy vs Cutter Shinobi Battle Royale when?

Shane C

Wildwood Tram Car Reference 🙏🏻

The Grinch (feral)

Haven’t even listened to this yet and I am ecstatic

CSN

R L. Stine meets Buddhist philosopher Douglas Harding of "On Having No Head"? Really advanced stuff there Murph!

Shannequin

This is the best thing I've listened to all year! ❤️

Brian Edwards

This is incredible. Kudos to both of you for sharing.

Brian Edwards

We need to see the drawings/pic of little Caldwell.

Dani Sharkey

I love listening to this and pretending like *I'm* hiking through the afterworld with Murph <3

Amber Hawkins

Release the transcript! I need to see Caldwell's illustrations.

Dre Martinez

Need caldwell to draw an updated Cutter and Tobey on this months live stream

joel

"sometimes I stay up late and watch SNL - other times, I become a finch!"

joel

"you guys are owning me right now"

Hannah S

so 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

Frank

Sooo… the origin of the Woman in the Wall at long-last revealed?

Hannah S

also the Bermuda Triangle

Caitlin Sievert

“A time of peace and devils hockey” iconic quote might make it into a sticker

Bryce Peterson

Take that AI, you’ll never know the joy of creating something beautifully unique like Ginger McSerene. #ThereIsntAWarRightNow Amazing mixed bag episode, thanks for sharing.

Mojo1396

Next DND character will be cutter shinobi

Katie P.

Tenar and Ardeth Bay lol, Eve and Rick were there but just kind of supportive. I thought Ged didn't deserve Tenar

Alex^2

I 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

Sam

To infinity and beyond ❤️

Clever Innuendo

"A real big one!" I said and grabbed the fluid.

Deena Shirkool

“There isn’t a war right now” took me out, I started cackling in a pizza pizza

Doctor Ransom

This is transporting 39-year-old me right back to middle school. Giving us millennials the nostalgia core we all deserve.

Zeon Liberation

Oh 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.

Patrick

Yeah, 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.)

Ilana Galpert

Masterpieces. I'm glad these artifacts of history have been preserved.

Manuel

How much do I have to pay to hear Murph tell his animorph story because I will!

Evan

Please 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 🙏

Brandon Stacks

Yall should do a one shot in Caldwells novel

Becca_rebaker

I just visited back home and read through mine! so cringy so angsty it all made so little sense 😂😂

Fikon

Please more of this. This was maybe the best thing I’ve ever listened to haha

JustVeryMundane

Can’t wait until C4 when they visit the Afterworld

Kellyd

Sorry, 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?

Ken

Star Wars CCG solidarity! Hell yeah! Loved that as a kid. Though now I play MtG Commander...

jaydon

i cant believe we got no pics🥲

Kellyd

Did you see the next post in the Patreon feed lol

jaydon

lmao no i didint thank you!

Erin Bridges

That one picture does in fact look like 2 robots doing it. This was utterly delightful from top to bottom. Pun sort of intended.

Kellyd

NOOOO there's not even any wars going on right now 😭

Unbaked

Nothing funnier than abruptly introducing a gun into a story. Makes me laugh every time

SLuz

I love that caldwell chose to make cutter a spill boi, and it’s what saved him

alyssa

Hahaha YEEESSSS!!! The wildwood tram!! Iykyk 😭

Sean Zenitram

CALL JG WENTWORTH H733-carrot*carrot

Robert

We need a one shot with Caldwell playing Cutter Shinobi.

Robert

100%! This year’s Hogliday special could be AMAZING

abfg616

millions of strange devices

Denatonia (Haven)

"There isn't a war right now" and "It was Trolls." killed me. Incredible content I'm in tears from laughing

Emily Martin

Just 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.

Ervin Jeffries

I’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 😂

Tavitafish

Caldwells story reads like a coke themed "the last starfighter"

kaylee w

Wooooo so many good mixed bags to enjoy

Katie P.

I'm here lowkey hoping our Benevolent Councilmember Cutter W. changes their name to Cutter Shinobi

nandrusin

"Watch the tram car please" just activated me like a sleeper agent

HeyYeah

This is not in the mixed bag collection

SoundForest

It is criminal not to include the art

Michael Graham Abernathy

This reminds me of a book I started to write in... i want to say first grade? I wrote chapter 1 by hand, and several days later, my mom typed it up for me. But somehow, when i saw it typed and not in my own handwriting, I was like, "Oh no... this is terrible!" Lol. So i tore it up, threw it away, and tried to forget about it because I was so embarrassed. Lol All I remember is that the main character (a Westley/Zoro knockoff) had "a sword that his dad gave him" (which i misspelled as "bad"), and that "He coul lift 2,000 pounds. That's a lot!"