Hearthside Chat Q&A: Summer Fruit Smackdown

I know I’m two years too late to this party but I’m from where banana splits were invented and if you get one it BETTER BE MADE RIGHT because people try and make them with all vanilla and it’s just so so wrong.

I need to know if Murph has ever had an affogato with lemon sorbet. Highly recommend. Also goes good with some campari Also Caldwell is right about fossil fuels. It's a verrrrrry small amount lf bone in comparison to everything else. In that bone doesn't meaningfully contribute at all

Rangers are the class that get Strength and Dexterity saves.

I love that Murph was sitting in silence for a moment thinking about banana splits before bringing them up 😂 Also, my personal ice cream ranking: 1) Maple ice cream from Trader Joe’s 2) Rosé sorbet from Jeni’s 3) S’mores from Ben n Jerry’s 4) rainbow sherbet :)

took a naddpod break and during that break got really into wrestling and now that im catching up on the backlog im realizing just how much they talk about it. like its unreal. anyways cheers on choices there, i would 100% listen to murph assign classes to wrestlers for its own mixed bag

Right off the bat, Murph’s “okay” after Emily saying that “Murph’s up!” Will be stuck in her head. 😂 Love it.

I pictured Hank hogfish looking like the guy with the mustache from Atlantis

Not to be that person but Caldwell did spill onstage during the Madison, WI live show last September and it was a HUGE moment for the audience lol

Bah gawd, that's durian's music!

Murph laughing as he tried to explain to Jake "they generally try to get them out" about dead bodies in lakes, really great stuff

I don't know that I'm won over on watching professional wrestling as intriguing as Murph and others make it sound Buttttt I would watch an anime based on it (which I suppose I have already as I used to watch the World Federation Wrestling as a kid despite not really understanding what it was. Alongside Fighting Foodons and Medabots.)

I use Liquid IV pouches during summer sports events because they are quite effective for the price but I do think the name is stupid All IVs are liquid If anything the commercial product should be called Powdered IV (because it becomes an IV-able liquid when you mix it with water) I get what they are going for I just think it's dumb

Couple things about lakes: Lake Superior and the Great lakes are so large they have horizon lines. Additionally, during certain seasons when waves are highest, people do surf on Lake Superior. A few people have mentioned this already, but the Great lakes are so cold that bodies are identifiable by sight decades after they sink. One man who died on lake Superior was identified 80 years after his death.

Fossil fuels are mainly from the carboniferous period! 🌴🌿🪲🐛Basically plant evolution was going off, the ocean was full of plankton, and trees were a cool new plant trend. They all produced so much oxygen that there were giant insects (think 8ft long millipedes, 2.5ft dragonflies, etc) and everything was on fire a lot. The plankton lived happy lives and sank to the sea floor to become oil and the oxygen fires burned a bunch of swamps and forests over and over which became coal!

Wow spoilers for The Matterhorn much

I am deeply disturbed by Jake’s pronunciation of coconut

Of course Murph is the Marcille of the group lmao

Also, I noticed no one brought up the fruit that literally murders people on a yearly basis: Durian https://www.yearofthedurian.com/2013/01/durian-obituaries-of-2012.html

Turns out pineapples would win in a wrestling contest, or in a fight against a literal dragon: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-RTuLZvFf_/?igsh=MXU4bTJ5amE4ZGc2Mg==

How to make banana splits good, imo, former DQ employee. Make sure banana is ripe but not too. Ignore typical toppings put caramel, heath bar and/or Reece’s peanut butter cups. Or whatever toppings actually work with banana flavor. The bad strawberry syrup 🤢 and pineapple (what is this a pizza??) with the chocolate don’t work.

Minnesota native, they absolutely do not get most dead bodies out of any of the great lakes. They're inland freshwater seas

never apologize for your sincerity, Emily! LOVED your answer to the accent question (also - new year's grinch live show???)

Jake’s names for the categories are getting more unhinged by the day

Coconut would be the champion in the wrestling. Especially with the husk on

I love the 3 seconds of silence before "erotic charge"

The talk about storms really put me in mind of the sone Sometimes by James: There's a storm outside And the gap between crack and thunder Crack and thunder Is closing in Is closing in The rain floods gutters And makes a great sound on concrete On the flat roof There's a boy leaning against the wall of rain Aerial held high Calling, "Come on thunder, come on thunder"

I kinda wish you guys had a Dr. Drew character on your non-D&D episodes to provide "um actually" input on things like body decomposition. Maybe you could get the actual Dr. Drew as a guest!

Murph being a lemon guy makes sense, its so dad-core

“Humidity is my favorite thing about summer” is a phrase punishable by death in the South

Im so glad u clowns arent in charge of government policy lol. You all are so sheltered but i LOVE UR DND POSCAST! lol

I wish I’d taken a picture of my neighbors grinch car before they removed the grinch face. I feel like yall would’ve loved it.

I’ve never related more to Emily’s description of storms which are 100% erotically charged

Murph frozen as a coat hanger is huge Hoid energy

Murph being a lemon fan is so Bert-coded (like Bert and Ernie). Honestly, Murph and Emily to Bert and Ernie is 1-to-1. This is a compliment.

I love Jell-O, I'm digging into a gelatinous cube without a second thought

AVOCADO!! Coconut is literally a tree nut. WHILE AVOCADO IS A PIT FRUIT.

Saying ‘humidity is underrated’ is so insane to someone who currently lives in the American south lol 😂

By some weird circumstances I was required to take a boxing class in college and my final exam was three two minute bouts against different people. In the first one I went up against a collegiate handball player who destroyed my nose after about thirty seconds and I had to fight my next two bouts while bleeding like a fountain. Handball isn’t even a big guy sport, the rock absolutely kills me with one punch.

Jake know any thing from any anime ever level impossible

Oh! Another deep water fun-fact! There are worms in the ocean that specifically feed on the bones of large animals who have died, and fallen to the seafloor.

For the “which DnD monster would you eat”, I feel like I might go with that space hamster/gerbil that was on all of the Spelljammer merch

Pineapples and coconut are not summer fruit! They’re tropical fruit

With them mentioning what they want to do after campaign 3, have they said anything about not returning to eldermourn? Is there a readon they're sticking to bahumia?

i never feel more seen than when murph talks about professional wrestling

As someone who lives in the south and it's constantly humid, it's the worst part about storms

I'm sure someone else has shared this but I'm delighted to announce that in LA you can go to Korean spas/saunas where you can lounge in green tea pools (also some do beer), and hang out in various beds of warm sand before going into the sauna or the chill pool. Most places are pretty reasonable in their time blocks.

Idk I think I could take 3 solid hooks from the rock

Guys…pineapples is fire proof I guess?! https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-RTuLZvFf_/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

There was an incident at a lake I live near sometime in the 1900's where a school bus went off the road into a deep part and some of the bodies were never recovered.

NADDPOD and Distractible both talked about “is a hotdog a sandwich” in the same week. We live in a simulation.

I proceeded to Google every wrestler you named and had a great time with that question, don't diminish your passions Murph lol! (Also I know nothing of pro wrestling, but from a google I feel like all of those were valid, though I think Paul Bearer would have been a necromancy Wizard)

A few years ago I did a Grinch One Shot set in Eberron for Christmas where my PCs had to infiltrate a mansion to rescue Christmas from the Grinch. It was super fun and the game ended when the Grinch's Heart exploded because it grew three sizes.

The questioners have clearly been corrupted by surprise round, I love it.

It was only a matter of time before they learned what mewing was.

Mewing…where you try to make your face look cool…

When Caldwell said "and there's murder in it" like it was another star in the cast, I was like: Omg Emily is going to be in something with John Hamm AND Murder? Oh my god I looove Murder's work! I don't wanna sound like a hipster but I love Murder's classics, like Cain and Abel. Truly revolutionary for the time, and for a first work??

I love the way Emily is just so damn supportive of Murph's interest in that moment when he says no one is having fun listening to him talk about wrestling

I'm just imagining the best banana split in LA that Emily finds for Murph is gonna be some kind of bespoke banana plit-tisserie where the ice cream is made from goats milk and the banana has been molecularly reconstructed into a foam

In the frigid waters of lake Superior, bodies don't really decay. There are shipwrecks with bodies that can't be recovered, and the bodies look nearly the same as the day they sank.

I’m so happy you guys said it “sherbert” 💜

I know this is a weird thing to chime in on, but if I can't contribute to the discourse of a 60 year old book/50 year old movie/20 year old movie, what is the internet for? Hennyway, the book absolutely described the other kids exiting the factory, alive but transformed. Death would've been an end to their suffering.

As a proud Michigander, I feel a duty to inform the crit justices that there are a ridiculous amount of perfectly preserved bodies in the Great Lakes. I, and what a wild thing to teach children, learned this in school at a young age. The Great Lakes: shark free, unsalted, full of corpses!

………………..erotic charge

Legitimately just laughed for a solid minute. " Well I assumed pro wrestling. We don't ever talk about anything else" Love y'all!

idk if emily gets stuck in accents but I get stuck in her accents. when I re-listen to a naddpod campaign (except for c3) I talk to my cat in the accent. especially fia

Like 60% of the creatures they want to eat are either sentient or demons, and that's... disturbing.

Banana split is the superior ice creamed snack

I work at an Ice Cream shop in Thousand Oaks and I will make Murph the best banana split if you guys come in! We have lemon sorbet but it’s Lemon Basil

Pineapple is fireproof. Win.

Jake the Snake is obviously the Druid.

Murph, I must object. Not only does Calcifer speak, but he is voiced by Billy Crystal better known as Mike Wazowski in Monsters Inc. I demand you retract your statement that Calcifer doesn't speak

Are we saying watermelon can klump?

Jake I don’t care what you say, Hank was a ugly old dad

Hey Murph! Bodies can actually be preserved for up to decades in lakes where the bottom-temperature is cold enough to halt the process of decomposition!

I want to try some Flumph-amari.

We NEED a Hearthside Chat for just Campaign 3 Questions, it’s the final arc!!!

I’m with Caldwell, cook them monsters up Delicious in Dungeon-style!

Coal is made of ancient trees, because for about 40 million yrs nothing could decompose them (which is absolutely wild imo). Oil is plankton that has settled to the ocean floor over millions of years.

Cookie dough is a one or a two. NOT a four

I have just started watching WWE with my friends and I've been saying that my next barbarian is just gonna be Drew McIntyre. Glad to see Murph agrees

Finally in the single best community to come into since Who-Villes founding and the first table read discussing the world building to Sonic Heroes on PS2🙏 Life is officially better with these gems of hooman beings existing.

Wait does Murph have his CPO

::. . . .pause. . .:: . . . "Erotic charge" 🤣🤣🤣

While not a full Grinch campaign, I was in a pf2e campaign where as level 20 characters we had to track down and fight Krampus, who had stolen all of the nearby city's winter solstice gifts. After beating him we had to try to grow his heart by three sizes by teaching him the true meaning of Christmas so he would return all of the presents he stole. The pf2 stat block for Krampus is awesome, highly recommend

We’ve noticed caldwell

Mewing coming up on NADDPOD was NOT on my bingo card

Calcifer speaks quite often in the movie?

caldwell's outrage at the prospect of an orange beating his funny nectarine is so real and true

Murph is becoming a vegan

Anyone else think their feed had cut out during the 'erotic charge' pause?

Roman Reigns is a broken-oath paladin

I would definitely eat a pixie

I'm a big sherbet fan and I'm in NJ so I'm feeling seen. I think Phish Food is my 4th, it's good but gooey

Um actually, the movie ends with the glass elevator and the other kids never reappear. However, if we're talking originals, they do appear at the end and yes they are all slightly modified due to their original sins. (E.g. mike teevee has been stretched out, violet is still blue, etc.)

the silence was so long I fully thought someone was calling me

I want to throw a honorable mention to Grapes. The bundle of grapes smothers the coconut, like a wig on a bald head, writhing and grasping at the stony fruit. Then *CRACK* splits it in half, akin to the Kraken to a ship at sea.

Emily made me feel so seen about the banana in the banana split. My wife abides by the banana but he only detracts from my enjoyment

Here to let Emily know that there are hot springs in Japan where you can soak in Matcha pools. They also do giant wine & coffee pools in the same place. It looks wild & wonderful

Durian beats any other fruit in combat, hands down.

gene HACKMAN?

The wrestler to class choices were very interesting. Chris Jericho as bard to consider. The Ultimate Warrior as Barbarian as well

John Cena is not a Fighter. John Cena is clearly a rogue. His whole shtick is “you can’t see me” and rogues are masters of stealth and hiding.

The banana split slander is not welcome!!

could Jake maybe DM a stat block character encounter?

PLEASE DO A STAT BLOCK CHARACTER MIXED BAG

did not expect to hear about mewing from the crew

I like how Caldwell brings up Dungeon Meshi, the show about eating monsters, during the petrified question, and doesn't mention it all all during the eating monsters question (dungeon meshi mixed bag when???)

In Lake Superior there are a ton of dead bodies that haven't decomposed or really been eaten because the lake is so cold, they're just preserved

Paladin would be Ricky the Dragon Steamboat

We need a live show with Emily as DM. It would be so good.

Caldwell, we *need* Trinyvale x Grinch… pls

did not expect a mewing mention on the hearthside chat lol

I urge Emily to try freezing cubed watermelon. it’s a great popsicle alternative.

Murph taking a tiny L because he said specifically 'Charlie & the Chocolate Factory' which is the name of the book *and* the Johnny Depp movie, the Gene Wilder movie is called 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' So he was in fact referring specifically to the mid 2000's Johnny Depp movie

“It’s Grinch Night” is my favorite Grinch cartoon and implies that his powers are incredibly expanded on Halloween.

to me, i won't get in a hot tub or backyard size pool with a dead body in it. if it's like a waterpark or local pool I can get in other areas from the dead body. if it's an olympic sized pool and a dead body is on one end i'll get in the other end, if it's in the middle i won't.

Amazing timing! About to get on a flight!

I like banana split but that's cuz I like bananas (caveat that I haven't eaten one since I was 10 but thats cuz I don’t get ice cream often)

Calcifer mentioned!