in which murph has a very normal time at the hands of his players
Transcript:
Murph: Wel-come back to Bahumia everybody!
[Jake, Emily, and Caldwell echo him with "Bahumia!". Caldwell sounds incredibly enthusiastic.]
Murph: He's so excited! Caldwell Tanner, thanks for being here.
Caldwell: Ye-ah!
Murph: It's not your turn yet, dude!
Caldwell: I'm so sorry sir!
Murph: Okay? I'm your Dungeon Master Brian Murphy, joined by Jake Hurwitz--
Caldwell: Bahumia!
Jake: [laughs] Hey! Dude!
Murph: Caldwell!
Caldwell: Sorry!
Emily: [laughs] Bahumia! Bahumia!
Jake: I'm trying to rhyme, man!
Murph: Quit stepping on him with your enthusiasm!
Caldwell: I'm just so ready to go!
Emily: Bahumia!
Jake: I worked really hard on this. I di-- [sighs] well forget it. Fuckin' forget it.
Murph: No you gotta!
Emily: Bahumia!
[Overlapping crosstalk as Caldwell and Murph encourage Jake.]
Caldwell: You've got this.
Murph: You got this. Jake, go ahead, don't let these two enthusiasms get in your way, alright?
Jake: Yeah. Alright, no, yeah. I got this. I got this. Yeah.
Caldwell: Whoo! He's got this!
Jake: Fighting alongside--
Caldwell: You've got this man! Do it!
Murph: Stop! You have to stop!
Jake: I know I got it! I'm doin' it! (Calder voice) Fighting alongside a frog and a bard with my brand new sword, Shard.
[Emily and Caldwell laugh.]
Murph: Yeah! Pretty good. I do feel like we built it up though, at a certain point. And there was just-- there was no way you could fully deliver.
Jake: Yeah. It would've been perfect if I got it out clean right up top as soon as you introed.
Murph: Yeah, if we did a super low energy intro. [Jake: M-hm. Yeah.]
Caldwell: I think it was great man, I think it was amazing, I can't wait to hear it again!
Murph: Who is this person. And then of course we've got Emily Axford--
Emily: Bahumia!
[Everyone laughs. The others continue laughing harder as Murph talks.]
Murph: Ohh. Okay?? That's the name of the world. Her character's name is Calliope Petrichor. If for some reason episode 57 of campaign 3 is the first thing you've listened to. That's Emily Axford. (laughing) She plays Calliope Petrichor. She did say before we started, I think almost as a counter-bit to Emily's bit, before we started (laughing) Emily said "I'm not gonna do a rhyme I don't feel like it." And I said "wild energy to bring into the episode!" so Caldwell went the opposite and went overenthusiastic. They're just fucking with me! Everything we do is just an inside joke to make me upset.
Caldwell: And now you're caught up!
Murph: Yeah, and now we're caught up.
Caldwell: Bahumia!
Murph: And-- [laughs] and Bahumia. And-- Uh, and then of course we've got Caldwell Tanner--
Jake: (yelling) Bahumia!
Emily: Yeah!!! Jake's in on it!!
Caldwell: See, it feels good! It feels good.
Murph: Okay. Caldwell Tanner, of course, plays Sol--
Caldwell: Ohhh, Sol Bufo [Murph: Okay.] I'm feeling fine, just found out I'm two of a kind, [Emily: ooh!] and now I'm gonna go and find out if Swag's still alive. I'm really trying to thrive here. Bahumia.
[The others laugh. As they talk, Caldwell laughs too.]
Murph: You lost me. But you had me for a moment. And that's more that can be said for the other guys.
Jake: Wow.
Emily: Bahumia.
Murph: [laughs] Bahumia.
Jake: Bahumia, guys.
Murph: Sure. Hey guys, Bahumia. We did it. We did it everyone. Alright? Everyone settle. Settle? Okay?
[The others sigh as if relaxing, and chorus "yeah."]
Murph: Ready? Alright. Let's do-- let's do--
Caldwell: Eldermourne.
Murph: Not the right campaign. Not the correct campaign.
Caldwell: Shit, sorry.
Murph: Let's go ahead and do a little-- [laughs as Emily interrupts him] recap--
Emily: That's Calliope's middle name.
[Everyone laughing.]
Murph: (through laughter) Shut. The fuck up. Everyone. Alright.
[Pause as everyone continues to laugh.]
Jake: S-- sorry.
Murph: So last time, you left Calder's home to pursue Gowan to the Ice Knife, but received a call from Albin along the way-- [laughs] Shut up, dude.
Jake: Bahumia. Bahumia. [Everyone laughs.]
Murph: This is precious information!
Jake: Bahumia!
Emily: Bahumia! Bahumia.
Caldwell: (exaggerated) Bahumia!
Murph: Yeah, okay. You guys are like pokemon now? [The others laugh.] Okay. Alright. Worst bit ever. Okay. [Jake: Bahumia] You recieved a message from Albin--
Murph: -- You were greeted by a ghostly message in the ice that said Friends…
Murph and Emily: Betray!
Emily: I remember!
Murph: You remember. Good job, Em.
Jake: Holy shit. She's back.
Murph: You get a sticker.
Emily: I wrote it in my notebook.
Murph: Very good! [Emily: Yeah, yeah, yeah.] That almost makes up to your behavior for the first three minutes of the show [The others laugh.]
Murph: And that's where we are now.
Caldwell: Alright! All my real betrayal heads get ready!
Emily: Yeah!
Caldwell: This is where it starts!
Murph: [laughs] Shut up. All of you.
[Everyone laughs.]
Caldwell: (through laughter) I can't. I have to talk for another hour at least. I'm so sorry.
Murph: It's all good. Alright. So--
Murph: Sweet, well we'll talk more about this over on our Patreon. That's patreon.com/naddpod that's N-A-D-D-P-O-D-don't sing yet-- [Emily and Jake start to sing "We"]
Caldwell: Bahumia!
Murph: Yeah, remember that. [laughs] D-- Do you guys remember that? Uh--
Emily: Bahumia!
Caldwell: What are you talking about, man?
Murph: Bahumia! Does anyone else have anything they'd like to plug?
Emily: Bahumia!
Murph: Bahumia, yeah.
Jake: Oh, yeah, I would love to plug Bahumia.
Murph: Yeah. Check it out. Campaign 1, campaign 3.
Caldwell: The world.
Emily: Oh! [Murph: uh-huh] Uh, actually can I plug Bahumia?
Murph: Great. Really good job, guys. Awesome.
Caldwell: It's an incredible world. Incredible place. [Murph: yep!] Check out all of the incredible environs there.
Murph: Yeah. Check it out. Uh- You can follow us on, uh--
Emily: Bahumia.
Murph: You can follow us on social media that we may or may not use. @ chmurph's me, @ caldy's Caldwell, @ eaxford's Emily-- [Emily: @ bahumia] -- @ jakehurwitz is Jake--
Jake: I'm actually-- I'm actually @ bahumia.
Murph: Follow our campaigns on Bahumia--
Emily: I'm also @ bahumia.
Murph: I don't think you are. And you can tweet about the show using #naddpod that's N-A-D-D-P-O-D.
[They sing "We are, We are" as the audio fades out, but Caldwell and Jake replace the words with "Bahumia"]
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I can't stop thinking about how refreshing Rachel's character is. Like it is so common for her stereotype (popular, beautiful, cheerleader) to be portrayed as ditzy (mostly older media) or b*tchy (newer media). And don't get me wrong, I can enjoy a popular, unapologetic mean girl, but the arrogant/sassy cheerleader trope has absolutely been done to death in tv in the past 15 years. I just adore that Rachel is genuinely a great human being. She comes off as that kinda ditzy/shallow stereotype when you first meet her in episode 1, but she shows so much depth, strength, and compassion through the rest of the season & I love that she's part of the main group by the end.
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there genuinely aren’t words for how much I love zirk. he’s an ex conman and he let himself get robbed blind in a back alley. he’s got adhd and a gun. his mom routinely commits medical malpractice and war crimes and spent his entire childhood convincing him that this was both necessary and ok, and he still wrestles with whether he made the right decision in leaving. lying gives him panic attacks and all he really wants in life is to help people. cadwell canNOT keep getting away with this I swear to god
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Transcript:
[8bbc theme fades out]
Caldwell: Uh-- I'm ready to start the show whenever you are, daddy!
[Murph laughs]
Emily: (accented) Daddy! I want to start the show!
Murph: Ohhh, welcome to 8-bit book club, the only book club that makes you dumber! I'm Brian Murphy joined as always by my life slash comedy partner Emily Axford.
Emily: Kamehameha!
[Caldwell laughs]
Murph: That has nothing to do with what we're doing today! [Emily laughs.] We're doing a Mario book and you're just shouting things from Dragon Ball Z? And now you're just laughing and you're just out of commission? And, um, why not, the Krillin to my Goku, Caldwell Tanner.
[Emily and Caldwell laugh. Emily continues wordlessly laughing in the background as Murph and Caldwell talk.]
Caldwell: I had a whole thing about Koopas ready and you fuckin' threw it off!
Murph, laughing: Yeah, the whole thing's thrown off. We…
Caldwell: We're already off the path.
Murph: We're already off the path! Emily's been so weird the past few days, I was just telling Caldwell about how she's been prankin' me. By-- (laughs) She went to Starbucks the other day, I asked her to get me a large iced coffee, she insisted she was only gonna get me a small iced coffee. And then, Emily, do you wanna tell everyone the prank that you did when you came back?
Emily: Okay. Then I--
Caldwell: Yeah, tell them the excellent goof that you pulled.
Murph: Yeah, the good switcheroo!
Emily: Okay, here's the good switcheroo! [Caldwell laughs.] I came back and I said-- "I know you wanted a large, I wanted to get you a small, so I split the difference and I got you a venti… straw." And I gave him a small iced coffee but with the biggest straw there.
[Caldwell laughs]
Murph: Yeah, so… it was…
Emily: Did it look pretty silly as I was walking home from? Yeah! I think everyone probably saw me and was like "that girl's going to goof!"
Murph: It was-- it was pretty silly, it was definitely a harmless goof, and yet it was-- um-- she ultimately did me a favor that I didn't wanna say thank you for. You know what I mean?
Caldwell: Right. Right, cause you didn't-- it didn't keep you up? It was the right sized coffee that you needed?
Murph: Well, no, it was nice thing for her to pick me up a coffee when she was out, but then she owned me when she came home. [Emily laughs] For no reason!
Caldwell: Did the barista ask-- were they like-- "Well, I don't understand, you don't have a venti drink." Did you have to explain that you were taking your husband to goof town?
Emily: Um, no. I would have said those words exactly if they had asked, but actually it's sort of a self service station for straws there at Starbucks.
Caldwell: Oh, right.
Emily: So I was using the Starbucks self-service straw station.
Caldwell: They probably get a lot of people picking up those venti straws for like, crafts and stuff. They're very sturdy.
Emily: Oh, yeah. You could also make a gorge necklace out of them!
Murph: Yeah, you could make a good straw cabin out of that!
Caldwell: Mhm. A straw-bridge.
Murph: What the fuck are we talking about? [Emily and Caldwell laugh] Um, we-- wuh. Man, I can't even talk.
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