Hearthside Chats Part II: The Bert / Ernie Dichotomy

Murph comparing his wife to Macho Man is the sweetest thing I’ve ever heard.

Hammy

Murph is the best there is, there best there was, and the best there ever will be 🫲🩷🖤🫱

PJ

GYG fries 🙌

dungeon and daddies has done a really cool old hollywood call of cthulhu mini campaign that was like body horror mystery vibes

lily h

Culvers crinkle fries

Sean

I found that if I’m procrastinating on where I have to go I’ll put on one sock and one shoe at time but if I’m excited then it’s both socks then shoes

Jessica Valles

I love the chill episodes. Absolutely immaculate vibes. Also for Berting, I believe Caldwell Bert'd during the Trinyvale camp when Jake tried a motorcycle move where Nyack almost ate it and Caldwell was strict with the ruling.

itsellie

Unfortunately I put on one sock, then shoe at a time. Ashamed of it but I just do it and I have no clue why

Noah Coleman

One of the best movies with the premise of a commoner finding "something interesting" is Andhadhun on Netflix. Check it out.

Astik Kulkarni

Knock On Wood by Mighty Mighty Bosstones

kerokaze

They go to his Instagram for Explain That Gram and it's a bunch of drawings of hot frogs and bearded ladies😆

I think the noir/old Hollywood would fit better with call of cthulu

Vampire the Assquerade

Caldwell should go on Hot Ones! The show with hot questions, and even hotter wings

Devin Tyler

STAND UP WIPER TRUTHERS FINALLY

Theo Englund

Speaking of the worst place to eat, last year my friend got last place our Fantasy Football league and had to eat a full lunch on a hot summer day in a port-a-potty. The lunch consisted of a tuna sandwich, Funyuns, and a glass of milk.

Mike Bishop

Definitely making a “tasty dangle” shirt after all this wiener talk

Stephen Fike

Hands down Chick-fil-A Fries 🍟 are the best

TitoDarko

I think Blades in the Dark would be good

I think I have a Caldwell "Bert"...AI art

Barlosaur

If you want to play a Noir story, DnD/Pathfinder are among the worst choices in TTRPGs. You don't want hit points, classes and levels in a grounded realistic story. There are hundreds of better systems for it. Remember kids, TTRPGs are more than just DnD.

Garga Lenoir

I own chickens and they’re so brutal

Jmp098

the answer is del taco fries

NathanS

Murph would run a great Cthulhu game

Katie P.

If you guys decide to do a hot sauce episode/event, i recommend blair's. I'm not a huge hot sauce fanatic but i looooooove spicy food and they're a hometown brand here in jersey (which murph can appreciate!). i add a single drop of the ultra death sauce to my coffee every morning, that's all it takes, and it's incredible

Summer Rose (Grantaire)

Since you mentioned playing as a commoner again, I'm going to go ahead and recommend this commoner class homebrew: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnearthedArcana/comments/53b1nn/class_the_commoner/ . I used it to run a campaign where the players all started as commoners and it worked great.

Paul Louis

Anyone else find weird how Murph hate anchor man and pancakes? What’s up with that?

South Texas white girl here and i've heard it! Mostly from like... greasy spoon diners. But yeah..... those are Papas.

AmberDextrous!

The potato you lose is scalloped potatoes. There is nothing worth saving in a scalloped potato.

We dip fries into mashed potatoes. 😁

Serge

Old Hollywood and Bridgerton...did they just listen to Dungeons and Daddies Patreon episodes?

Danny B.

Had never listened to The Aquabats until today, thanks for the idea 2 Crew! I can see why this would be Caldwell’s vibe, some zany and creative tunes.

Caldwell French toast cooking tutorials…?

Talking about spicy food, Jake's right about tangs that make you go "woo" — a "woo" tang ain't nothing to fuck with.

mike

Home fries are an east coast label from my experience

Connor

I'm just saying Sock Shoe Sock Shoe is really helpful if you're in a public place and you don't wanna stand directly on the floor.

On average, my dad sneezes anywhere between 8-15 sneezes in a single burst. He'll go into sneezing fits for easily 10 seconds long at a time

Ghost

There's a diner by my place that has deep fried french toast. Been a french toast man since

Takowowo

Resident south Texas brown boy here, I’ve NEVER heard “home fries” before. I had to google image it and those my friends, are just called Papas around here lol

Manuel Espinoza

Bioshock Infinite is my favorite game of all time! I would pay dvd blu ray price for a Murph dm’d campaign set in the bio shock universe.

Jolly Bee Happy

Is Jake going to Montreal Screwjob Murph?

Clayton Richards

It's funny hearing Murph's belief about the pact with cats, because my strongest belief is that humans have an unpayable debt to dogs. We spent thousands of years training and breeding them to our arrogant whims and effectively forcing their evolution to depend on us so that we could have protection and companionship. We absolutely owe them, bare minimum, our stewardship and care.

mike

I think Emily is really humble about the fact that she has a +5 to strength and can lift a car. Other people would make it their whole personality but Emily rarely ever talks about it. So down to earth!

Saru

Those campaign ideas all sound incredible, noir absolutely and I love jakes suggestion a Downton Abbey small scale little mini-run. I really hope you do all of these ideas!!

Whitney Peterson

I just realized that this is Seinfeld. Pretty sure there is an episode about a “drenched French”

Joe K

You guys dispense nostalgic conversations like a 3 star Michelin restaurant…Aquabats and Tony hawk pro skater soundtracks. Chefs kiss!

Taylor Bullman

Hell yeah Santino Marrella’s the GOAT

Aaron Sterne

This party noticing they’re “oops all bards” was very funny

Petri, no not that Petri, the other one.

Murphy is greatly underestimating chickens. If we’re over 15 chickens, it’s over. They’re pecking you to death

Ryan

Hey guys, thank you for answering my question! If you’d be so kind let me editorialize it for you: would you rather every time you sneeze you teleport to a random location in the world (on land) or every time you sneeze you freeze (for 3 seconds but you don’t notice it yourself). Love the show! Greetz from the Netherlands 💪 P.s. My girlfriend and I got to this question on our 1300 mile road-trip to her parents in Spain by doing a bunch of would you rathers to pass the time. The original question said “teleport to a random location in the country you live in” . We ended up arguing that the world would be more fun but as murph said you would scarcely be home anymore. So we agreed on freezing every time we sneeze.

Dennis de Groot

How tf do you wipe your ass sitting down... like how do you reach it...? I dnt want to have to google this...

Hailee Henson

HBK wrestled Bret Hart, and everyone knows that rivalry was super professional and everything went perfectly fine with that feud

Cameron Davis

How has no one mentioned Murph standing to wipe his but until he was 17? This baffled my wife for hours and I've tried not to think about it because it upsets me to no end

Lorelei The Succubus and Kyra her busty Queen

there’s a breakfast place called Snooze near me that makes french toast from banana bread and it’s the most delicious thing ever

Ryder Soleno

Big ups to the hashbrown shout out

BeanCurdHero

Just have to add to the potato/fries discussion: You absolutely have to try a twice baked potato. They take FOREVER but it’s totally worth it. And for fast food fries: Jack in the Box curly fries are the best

Matthew the Ninja

After hearing the crew talk about their own personal stats, it makes me really want to hear them play "End of the World" by FFG. Listening to them playing a TTRPG verson of themselfs attempting to survive the apocalypse would be top tier.

Baron Trousers

Hear me out: if you’re clumsy, Dex is not your dump stat, you just have disadvantage on your dex saving throw

Jonathan H.

Murph having a menty b over the would you rather question is peak Brian behavior

Adam Sutton

Desperately and impatiently waiting for Murph’s bioshock old Hollywood Murder mastery.

Jenn Lewis

I remember my Dad drinking his coffee on the toilet lol he always had a coffee

munch lax

Caldwell, I highly recommend you listen to any of the Friends at the Table mecha seasons (Counter/Weight, Twilight Mirage, Partizan, and Palisade) if you wanna get ideas for mecha ttrpg concepts. I think you’d love it

Dakota Paulson

Just because you guys were joking about bird math the first non human animal to ever be observed doing math was Alex the Parrot an African Grey there’s a great book about him and the incredible woman who was the scientist who trained him

(Vampire?) Noir, Hollywood Murder Mystery, BIOSHOCK type setting, maybe even a Solarpunk setting? 👀

Myka Donati

I think you guys could make a vary good call of cthulu campaign

Jaydon

Noir DND?!?! Please do that!!!

David Tatarczuk

The overall lack of serious consideration / respect for hash browns and pancakes was wild 😘

Craig Weatherhead

Night guys finish task.

Bodhi Milledge

My palate continues to be very different from the naddpod crew's. I'm closest to Caldwell, before he changes his opinions as soon as Murph challenges them.

David Kuckuck

A short old-Hollywood-murder-mystery campaign would be SO fun to see (or hear lol)

Sharon G

Exactly what i was thinking, call of cthulu lends itself way better to a noir setting than the d and d ruleset. Dungeans and daddies had a call of cthulu mini campaign that was great and was an old hollywood/ noir setting

spectacularvoid

I was so glad to hear the immediate drop of pancakes from a majority. My friends all razz me for choosing waffles but they are superior.

Lexi Hurley

In my opinion about trying a bunch of different fries is that you guys would need to record while on the road so you can get the freshest, crispiest, right out of the oil fries as possible. because warm, hot and cold fries do all hit different

Lorelei The Succubus and Kyra her busty Queen

How was the first question not pancake, waffles or crepes ? French toast is another level same as crepes

Lorelei The Succubus and Kyra her busty Queen

listening to the potato segment as a non-american felt like deciphering code

Egg

Burger King fries are really bad and this is not up for debate

A murder mystery campaign with the Call of Cthulhu system would be cool

Sara Alonso

All the food questions are giving some big zoom adventuring party "this is a food podcast" vibes. It's so great to see because Murph and Emily couldn't make those adventuring parties (for the most part).

Pandaman1165

Dang now I'll never know what their favorite Anchorman quotes are.

Glenn Dowdle

All our two crew outside of Jake are acting like they have never seen a breakfast buffet!! I am with ya Jake, been to those awesome breakfast buffets with your sweet treat options as well as a delicious omelette bar attached. Breakfast buffets are the best buffets

Mr. Satan, the World Martial Arts Champion and the Earth's protector

YOU WILL REGRET THIS SNUB JACOB jk loved this uwu

Albert Snipz, Family Counselor @Mangia's Ristorante

After Murph described Emily as “Macho Man” Randy Savage I cracked up and had to comment because my cat’s name is “Macho Man” Kitty Savage (Macho for short).

I want the noir story so baddd

Ian Phippen

old hollywood murder mystery sounds SO FUN!!!

Shocking to me that mashed potatoes didn’t make the cut

Thanks for taking the question, honestly wasn’t expecting it. Truth be told, I’m not sure it’d take more than maybe a dozen or two chickens to make it life threatening for me. Especially if they’re motivated.

Charles

Caldwell on ai was I think the most burt he's ever been, which I respect just bring it up cause it was the most burt I've heard him

Vie.

"A commoner that knowx something." This is often call of Cthulhu type games

Argonautica

Listening to the potato discussion as a day 1 GOAT Show listener had me checking if Jake's opinions had changed...

Austin Gumbiner

Have you guys never had a twice baked potatoes? Basically the loaded mixed together in a baked shell with cheese ontop! So good!

Tanner Torrio

Best fast food fries are for sure smashfries from smashburger. Even the tater tot version is good.

Mason Shucart

You guys should do some call of cthulu you can get your old timey holleywood noir, that would be awesome.

Tanner Torrio

Potato? How did no one pick vodka?

Fyco

Caldwell Berted HARD about AI art and everyone was in such new territory that they just let him speak his piece and move on

Daniel

I love hearing Murph and Caldwell argue

Dale Colburn

Hey just for reference when elephants try and k*ll people they don’t stomp, they try and squish you with their foreheads. They have a pretty good understanding of how heavy they are, and their forehead is flat enough that it’s a good crushing surface!

Jake Martim de Medeiros

Jake ordering at the buffet is crabster all over again

Will M.

Glad y’all answered my question on breakfast foods. Personally I’m a FT>Pancakes>Waffles

ASHNRider

I love the wrestler breakdown. As a 90s and early 2000s watcher those guys were right in my wheelhouse. Shawn Michaels was my favorite! When he retired it just wasn't the same for me. I was also over them trying to redo the 90s storylines with 2000s censorship.

Michelle Spurgeon