Rot Topic - The Bizarre History of McDonaldland

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Fiction, Games, Leisure, Comedy, Role Playing, Dungeons And Dragons, Caldwell Tanner, Comedy Fiction, Dungeons, Emily Axford, D&d, Brian Murphy, Improv, Jake Hurwitz, Dragons

4.9 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Rot Topic, the show where we delve deep into the dumpsters of our mind and share our fascinating findings with the world! This week, Head Rotsearcher Emily Axford takes us on a tour of the french-fried fantasy realm known as "McDonaldland." WARNING: Spoilers for "The Founder" (2016) ABOUND.

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:07.1	Welcome to ROT topic.
0:09.8	Whoa.
0:10.3	Ew.
0:11.1	We're trying out something new.
0:15.1	Be on the lookout for Gangs of Neogel later on, our new campaign coming out on March 26th.
0:21.4	Next week we'll be doing dungeon court.
0:23.7	But we thought in the meantime, we try something fun.
0:26.2	We've got a lot of dumb stuff that we talk about, particularly over at the mixed bag
0:30.4	and short rest over on the Patreon.
0:33.0	There's a lot of like nostalgia fever dreams.
0:35.3	Yeah.
0:37.2	If you know anything about us, we like to work way too hard on something very dumb.
0:41.2	Yeah.
0:41.7	So we've decided to do a little bit of a deep dive into McDonald's land since we've talked about that.
0:46.9	The hamburger has leaked into the main.
0:49.4	Yes, that's right.
0:50.1	This is really related to me.
0:52.1	Yeah.
0:52.6	Because we've talked about VHS's at McDonald's.
0:55.0	Yes, we've talked about the Nugget Friends.
0:58.0	Yes, the Nugget Friends.
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