Mixed Bag of Holding: America's Next Top Minion
🕑 Added 2025-02-28 20:34:41 +0000 UTCWelcome to the show critics are calling "a product that is currently available!" Using Caldwell's Instant Minion system, Murph, Emily and Jake create low-level monsters who must compete in a series of challenges for the honor of becoming The Dark Lord's Number One Grunt.
To try out Caldwell's system, use below image! (PDF attached below).

CREDITS
Editing and Sound Design by Caldwell Tanner
"Ol Guppy" by Emily Axford
Comments
deranged pigeon
all time favorite mixed bag
AJ C
My brain is so poisoned I put off listening to this episode because I thought it was about generating OC minions from despicable me
sam s.
not a single unremarkable line delivery in this thing
J. Gro
I rolled two, to start... J'Miah, a tattoo-covered bullywug. HP - 25, AC - 13. +1 int, - 1 str, with a fire bolt cantrip. +1 to hit/damage. Shelly the Skelly, so hot (literally) she glows. Also got firebolt, so I imagine her bones as orange like burning logs... but bones. HP - 25, AC - 15. +3 int, - 2 cha. +3 to hit, +2 damage. I think being a skeleton is punishment for her life as a mean girl, represented by her bad cha and sick burns (firebolt).
J. Gro
Sleep-deprived Caldwell Tanner = unemployed Ben Wyatt from Parks and Rec!! Side note: there is no traffic cone emoji to represent the Cones of Dunshire. Tragic.
JuicyKiwi
My best friend and I are playing Baldurs Gate 3 and they made a Circle of Spores Druid with red skin and vitiligo and a poofy hairstyle. He’s just a cute lil guy who has twenty pairs of glasses okay, raising other lil mushroom zombie guys to also be cute lil guys in glasses…
Nic Q
This is one of the most unhinged things I’ve listened to omg. Glorious.
Sarah Sullivan
Classic shenanigans that immediately make Murph mad are always my favorite 🤣
Casey Fisher
So unhinged and so so funny. Love you guys
Tyler Gob
The wild, and humorous, uses of my last name had me blushing 😂 (It's Gob lmao)
Mr. Serpentarius
This was unhinged and amazing.
Vincent W
Playing this system tonight and I'm so pumped
James Andrade
Smallbee is my spirit monster and I will insert him into all of my games forever lol
Grass
Teresa Lisbon from the mentalist is pissed off
Slappy Dave
Queue Powerwolf's Resurrection by Erection for the bullywug legend Clark from Lisben hahaha
Ryan
And here I sit refreshing Patreon looking at the previous post wishing it were new, like opening a fridge hoping something had spawned in from the previous time you looked…
Julia Comer
Des Moines mention, but at what cost ✊️😩
Natalie Hales
Was cryyy laughing for the last 20 minutes. Is anyone going to Des Moines killed me
Natalie Hales
CLARK IS GOB
Robert Zorzi
Omg halfway through I was absolutely dying, Jesus Christ I can finally breathe
Victoria Shotts
Caldwell is an absolute adorable dingus and I wish he was my older brother. I love your sense of humor dude
KingHalt
So excited to use this sheet in my personal campaign!
October Jones
D&Deople, best name for a Pawn Shop in Waterdeep: Best I Can Do or Pawn Hub?
Scrumbleton Brumbleton
This patreon is far and away the single greatest source of streaming content. I cannot express this enough. Love everything you all post. Gob is good.
Nick Neverman
A royal rumble filled solely with minions made with this system would be beautiful
Z Slice
If there is no t-shirt saying "GOB IS GOOD" in the merch store, I'm calling my paralegal pawsum !
Tony Cappellino
I’ve been lobbying for a Murph-run History of WWE ep and it sounds like now is the time to
James Cherenzia
Hearing the venom and bile of an angry Murph in his lil guy voice was incredible, no notes lmao
Miranda the Dungeon Court Stenographer
Another classic Murph crashout.
Pali Endi
Did we just learn how Jake proposed? 🤣 38 mins in
Ryan Maitland-Ward
What an absolute shitshow. I loved it.
BomVenusaur
This is so funny😂. Incredible idea Caldwell, incredible execution everyone
Cooper Mccrory
Murph being pissed as a tiny guy is so funny. I’m gonna need all Murph salt to come in this form from now on
Ellie P
Murph’s lil guy voice makes me so gleeful.
Huascar Holguin
An excellent point! I’m not convinced all of them are at fault lol
Franny McCabe-Bennett
👏👏👏
Franny McCabe-Bennett
What's with the Emily hate??
Franny McCabe-Bennett
This was so fun!!! It has to get a reboot on a different network! I could listen to a million episodes
John Hartigan
I'd love to hear more of these
Alexander Lawhorne
"Is anyone going back to Des Moines" is the greatest line I've heard in a while
Theo Englund
i NEED to know how murph feels about the John Cena Heel turn
Shel B Kennas 1st fav sprite girl! No jokes today, just excited Emily's gonna be on Gastronauts!!
They say it’s about a week recovery for me, give or take so I’m gonna be making naddpod friendship bracelets and watching a lottt of trash shows
Declan Konesky
Amen friend! Worth all the slight discomfort. Truly only one day of 'meh' and milking it
Shel B Kennas 1st fav sprite girl! No jokes today, just excited Emily's gonna be on Gastronauts!!
Less intense than kids, worth it!!
Declan Konesky
That sounds much more intense than my procedure! But congrats!
Kevin Stefanowicz
Really it needs a full episode history lesson to make them all understand the significance
Shel B Kennas 1st fav sprite girl! No jokes today, just excited Emily's gonna be on Gastronauts!!
Until they gave themselves names I thought the same
Shel B Kennas 1st fav sprite girl! No jokes today, just excited Emily's gonna be on Gastronauts!!
Grats on the no kid future! Getting my tubes removed at the end of the month!
Brittany Flamond
Great job Caldwell, such a fun table to roll on!
Adam Sutton
(playfully) I counter that Murph tried to steal Clark’s tied up halfling. That pretty much ignited the PvP. D&D court episode ran by Lou, Zach, Iffy, and Ally judging this case would be amazing.
Adam Sutton
Damn, Murph was an EXTRA hater today 😅 poor Clark Lisbon
Jamie Matthews
Access to Mixed Bag is easily the best $10 i spend every month. Listening to Murph rage in his "lil guy" voice brings me joy that is truly priceless.
Nadia Brady
I’m living for Smallby lmao
Gustavius
"Res-erection" best line of the ep.
Bryan Salazar
To be fair, he started it by taking Clark Lisbon’s halfling.
jonathan Mann
Gob is so good
Leil Houndes
Lullabies from the Wild Side has become my background music for kcd 2 and it’s been so lovely
Cler Henley
what the fuck was that... 😂
MAH DICK FELL OFF
Seems like they all had fun and it was funny
Jeremy G
Murph what are your opinions on John Cena turning heel and backing The Rock
Justin Cockrell
Holy shit right???
Justin Cockrell
I really need to hear Murph’s response to what just happened at Elimination Chamber
Brandon Wiens
WE NEED AN EMERGENCY MURPH TALK ON THE INSANE ENDING TO THE WWE ELIMINATION CHAMBER.
Patrick Sullivan
How dare you, Murph. We flip DVDs, not coins.
Balnor’s Best Friend - Steve
This was so stupid. I loved it.
spiffygrooves
This is one of the most ridiculous pieces of media they’ve made I laughed so hard 11/10
Huascar Holguin
Whoa I didn’t say all that. Jake and Caldwell had equal if not more influence on how insane it got and if anything it would be Murph vs The Whole Table. No Emily slander here
Michael Hollenbeck
Agreed. The game was set up to be a competition and Emily kind of ruined it by 1) deciding to give herself disadvantage, 2) making her character stupid, and 3) initiating PVP. This could be a dungeon court case submitted by either the DM or the other players, and the judges would rule against Emily.
Huascar Holguin
I’m on Murph’s side on this one. It became a kangaroo court of nonsense towards the end. I wanted to see Caldwell’s events not just some weird PvP fight at the end
Jack
smalbe my wrathful king (murph rage in that voice was absolutely fantastic to hear)
pluckythechicken
Need this to escape the mixed bag, we need more
Logan Carpenter
This has been the hardest I’ve laughed in a while. Justice for Clark Lisbon.
SlainSigny
#clarkgotdonedirty and he would’ve liked it that way
Hthr
Did anyone else think that this was going to involve minions from Despicable Me? 😬
Amanda M
This is art
Hostage4hire
Emily’s minion just has me picturing a goblin Sam Sulek lmao
Gotteswaise
This was incredible, thank you Caldwell’s mania
Hammy
So many faction points were lost this day
Thomas Jager
I immediately had to go and make a spreadsheet with formulas where you enter you rolls and flaw (and ability modifier to increase for Human), and it lists out the HP, AC, ability mods, damage roll, etc. to have easy minion generation! I might also write a script to generate "full" stat blocks based on the rolls.
Zippidi Skibidi
Me too!
Yuncle Vanya
Submitting this episode in full to D&D court
Aaron Sterne
#Justice4Smallby
Transfemmes4murph
I’m a Talking Ape, on the brink of Financial ruin, AC14, 15HP, Extra attack with +2 to STR, -2 to CHA. Meet Kevin Damply 🫠
Ally
I’m an Imp who is clearly on the verge of financial ruin, 12HP, 15 AC, +4 STR, -1 WIS, +1 Damage mod. I can turn invisible once per day, presumably to escape my creditors.
Mich Blackie
Jesus Murph you need new friends 😂
Matt Hartt
Glad to see the return of some good old fashioned murph rage
wick
This is why we subscribe to the mixed bag tier.
wick
Smallby resigning to getting trolled by Emily was so hilarious
The Grinch (feral)
I’m a Smalby Stan 4 life fr
Martian
"Gob is good" 🤣 I swear if there ever comes a time someone isn't stanning Emily Axford, it's because I (and Brian Murphy) have been slaim!
Matt Atkinson
Gob is good to me today
Jenna
SHUT UPPPPP I love mixed bag tier thank u angels
Zanna
I am a robot dressed in leather daddy attire, with 29 hit points, 16 AC, +3 STR, and -1 CON, +1 Damage Modifier. I also crit on 19 and 20.
Milton Villegas
Gob is good truly
Neil Dutton
I await the dark commands of our lord Small-B
Lori Anderson
This was absolutely stupid and perfect and I loved it. Truly wild energy from everyone!
Claudia
crying laughing
A Gunn, Banjo Boy of the Flatlands with two working kidneys
oh, well, this is absolutely thrilling. I know what I'll be working on my Mardi Gras costume to.
Erin Gardiner
It took me 4 minutes and 21 seconds to realize this wasn’t about Illumination Entertainment’s hit movie Minions
SeminoleDVM
Would die for Smallby
ksm11
You'd think after all these years I would have learned not to listen to these episodes whenever I'm trying to eat something, I almost choked on my Coffee when Smallby tried to steal the Halfling from Clark. I simultaneously loved and hated everyone of these characters, absolutely perfect
Adam Sutton
JOHN ELWAY!
Acteron
,
Matthew Bibb
By far the hardest I’ve laughed in a long time
Evan Schmidt
Need more of these little freaks... maybe they can become canon Trinyvale characters for another mixed bag oneshot?
anna
I know my brain is broken because it wasn't until I was like 3 minutes in that I realized that they didn't mean the yellow minions
Shel B Kennas 1st fav sprite girl! Writing a nonsexual sonnet abt nature for the order of the oaken oar. it's not going well
Res-erections gonna be of the carnal crew
Lauren Hartz
Murph's lil guy voice going "I fucking hate you guys. You all suck" is hilarious. Also Jake's multiple nat 20 res-erections were bonkers!
Alien butt puppet
I need 100 more of these
Timothy Daughtridge
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Justin Cockrell
Murph is cursed to always try to play a cute little guy that always deteriorates into an insane bloodthirsty tyrant 😂
Matt Crowther
I fully missed that Jake rolled pathetically horny, so the whole time I was very confused on why he was so horny 🤣🤣🤣
Jaydon
i no joke thought we were adding minions from dispicible me to naddpod lore
Sam
I have SO many dishes to do thank you guys so much
kyler sergio
I'm here for the snorts
Ryan
This is an awesome, reusable concept. I’m here for it.
Shane C
Nothing is better than Murph’s “little guy” voice
Krystine W.
I want random encounter random minions in Skaldova.
Cameron Baker
“No deeces for us meeces” is an immediate banger quote
Brian Edwards
ha ha mine is a Pathetically Horny Goblin. Feels right.
Cole Gensler
No kobold smh
AJ
So glad I’m not the only one that thought we were getting a Kevin Bob and Stuart 1 shot based off the title
Jayden guerra
I thought it would be Kevin
Margaret Zenke
This system is brilliant I’m about to unleash some truly bizarre little guys on my players
mail daddy
Honestly thought by the title this was gonna be about THE Minions.
Declan Konesky
FUCKING HELL THIS IS BRILLIANT CHAOS ON PAPER I'm so glad I had a vasectomy and took an edible this morning just to get to listen to this
jackalope503
I always love these glimpses into the sweet blue hole that is the mind of our Duncle
Zack McCarville
Just started ep 3, and now looks like the rest of my night is booked out
Shel B Kennas 1st fav sprite girl! Writing a nonsexual sonnet abt nature for the order of the oaken oar. it's not going well
Jake told 0 lies when he teased this Mixed bag as "Caldwell...just caldwell. you're gonna like it"
surprise slug
where the FUCK is the flying sword
G_raveyard
Fucking absolutely perfect timing for me who's been spending all week moving out of my childhood home with my mom cause my parents are getting divorced.
YggieDM
Same, I'm on a 12 hour tonight and this is exactly what I need
Jay Barber
My work day has been non stop NADDPOD, this is so clutch
Zo Perry
oh. minions like grunts, not minions like lil yellow dudes. still goated 🫶🏻
crawdaddy
Oh my god
Zo Perry
i have never clicked a naddpod notification this fast oh my god what fresh hell are we in for
kasey newell
An episode and a mixed bag? Best day of work ever
YggieDM
A new episode, short rest and mixed bag? You ensorcel us