[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.