Transcript:Talks Machina 9: What Lies Beneath the Surface

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After Dark
BRIAN: Welcome to the same show.

SAM: Except not the same channel.

BRIAN: Except on one of the two channels.

SAM: Before that, I'm sorry, this is my first time on after dark. What happens?

SAM: Do we spill the dirt? Naked from waist down? Crazy fuck fest? What happens?

BRIAN: We've done two weeks in a row. Travis passed out tabs of acid. Kicked in around the time the alpha stream did. We can do whatever, man. Wanna do shots? Jaeger? Questions from Alpha chat.

BRIAN: All have been playing together for a while, but how do you avoid stepping on toes when no combat order?

SAM: We've been doing this for a while so we have an ebb and flow. Most of us have improv training. Theater and stuff. We respect each other enough to let each other steal the spotlight for a second. I think we're pretty good at feeling like the scene has dragged on enough.

Anyone who's had acting training knows about give and take and focus. But even before, we've known each other for years, so we just feel it. Improv it's hard to know, you're editing your own scenes, so hard to know in the moment that you should end the scene, wrap it up.

LAURA: Hence the "and I walk away."

BRIAN: Not to mention improv is hard enough when you have the setup, not to mention when you have mechanics and everything.

LIAM: The walk away thing, when you do improv for real, you can just leave, but we have to announce it.

LAURA: I'm hungry. [My] stomach keeps growling.

BRIAN: Is there food yet?

LAURA: Do you have snack in your pocket, Sam?

SAM: Nope. Some crumbs.

BRIAN: I did bring a box of chocolates for Denise tonight.

LAURA: There's chocolates? Can I have a chocolate?

BRIAN: Denise cannot be on camera.

BRIAN: Does anyone know who the actress is in the intro video?

LAURA: That's Misty. She did our makeup on the shoot.

LAURA: What is this, peanut butter?

BRIAN: Sam, who is Scanlan's favorite guest char?

SAM: Chris Hardwick.

LAURA: Just for Sam?

BRIAN: He won't come back because of broomgate.

SAM: My favorite guest character player will always be Mary Elizabeth. But Chris Hardwick.

LIAM: Mary's an honorary cast member though, so she's different.

BRIAN: Liam, you're always wearing a silver bracelet on your forearm. Any significance?

LIAM: Nope. Random store in Melrose. Store vanished next time I went back.

LAURA: Maybe it was that store Taliesin was talking about last week.

LIAM: It was Simon, that's why I wore it.

SAM: Guys, this question is weighing on me and I'm going to say Felicia.

BRIAN: Smart move.

SAM: Mama Day.

BRIAN: We already kind of asked about the deck…

BRIAN: What's the best prank call that a fan has requested for?

LIAM: What's that mean?

LAURA: Like in line at a con?

BRIAN: Ohhh.

BRIAN: You guys get a lot?

LAURA: I did one as Shin Chan, that was fun.

SAM: Ever since starting CR, whenever we sign autographs and stuff.

BRIAN: Hey, I got those [the chocolates] for Denise!

BRIAN: She's going to think I planned this.

BRIAN: Get a box of chocolates, give it to the cast.

SAM: At cons, the #1 thing I get, sometimes you get people to sign autographs, and when I stand up for a picture "You're so tall." They think I'm a small tiny man.

LAURA: But you're tall!

SAM: I'm second to Travis!

BRIAN: If you watch the show, you'd understand we always talk about getting you phonebooks to sit on.

BRIAN: That one you won't answer…I wanna know what the wives/children think of CR.

LIAM: My wife doesn't know much about the story.

SAM: Your man-wife does.

LIAM: You're right there.

LAURA: Thanks for that.

LIAM: She knows Vax has a love interest. My kids know way more. I don't let them watch it, but they ask for a recap.

LAURA: What'd you tell them about the bathtub?

LIAM: Nothing.

SAM: Vex always knows when it's bath time and she's always good about taking the bath.

LIAM: Now you go take your baths, kids.

SAM: My wife knows about the show a little bit. My son knows all the characters. I show him pictures of us on the phone. "Ooh, that's Grog!"

SAM: My wife doesn't know much. On a need to know basis by her request. She knows anything that really affects what time I'm getting home, she's interested in and that's about it.

LIAM: If I tell Amy a story, she'll be "yeah yeah" and then by the third one, her eyes glaze over.

LAURA: No one wants to hear about it.

BRIAN: When you were doing the home game, Ash would come home at like 4 in the morning, you'd do once a month or so for like eight hours and I would be doing what I do.

SAM: Painting things with different colors to see what goes with your hair.

BRIAN: And I'd be tired and she'd be amped up and I'd be like "You have to tell me tomorrow because I have no idea what you're talking about" It's jarring if you're not in it.

SAM: My wife watched once. She texted during the game.

LAURA: It was a shopping episode, the worst one.

SAM: "Is this what the show is? Why are you talking in British accents?" And then she clicked off.

LIAM: I told Amy about the tub last night, we laughed our asses off.

BRIAN: How do you come up with your songs?

SAM: I listen to a lot of Top 40 in the car and my kids love hearing different kinds of music. Every once in awhile, I'll hear a song on the radio that I file away or I'll send myself an e-mail. Hey remember something about this song or whatever. So yeah, I'm alway collecting music for the show. To be used at a later date.

LIAM: My man-wife's a capella roots go deep.

SAM: I was in a college a capella group, I'm dorky that way.

LAURA: You're dorky in a lot of ways.

BRIAN: For Laura, with Trinket's decreased role, now that stakes are so high, is it time for Trinket to retire?

LAURA: It's hard right now because there's dragons right now! And I've got people talking about the necklace. The minute we come back to Whitestone or any castle and it's safe, I always bring Trinket out. I just don't say it anymore.

SAM: Here's my pitch. Y'know in old fashioned days of Alpine movies, they had a St. Bernard dog with a barrel…

LAURA: And it's a health potion?

LIAM: What if it's a beer hat and it funnels into his mouth 'cause he's going to get 1-hit klilled?

SAM: Someone has to die, Laura, so make it Trinket, please!

BRIAN: You're giving him bad ideas. Remember he's a drug addict now.

LIAM: When I'm 90 and about to die, will you carry me in a necklace?

BRIAN: Did Vex wear the necklace in the bath?

LAURA: No, Trinket was resting in the bedroom.

LIAM: What was up with the toy boats?

LAURA: He's got a thing for ships, I don't know….

BRIAN: How do you feel about the decision to rest for 8 hours?

LAURA: I think she's going to be gone. Cause we rested. Just as me. I think we should've gone, we would have had Allura, we would have been busting in on someone almost dead with people fully rested.

LIAM: I also feel like Matt twice dropped hints. Once as Kima(?) and once as a Allura.

BRIAN: I think he said "I would not give her time to do what she wants to do."

LAURA: Yeah. She doesn't know that we Scryed, but I think it's going to be harder.

BRIAN: Have you done Scrye Me a River yet?

SAM: Filed that away.

BRIAN: What's your answer?

SAM: As Sam, I like to do the risky thing 'cause it's more fun. As not Sam, it was smarter for us to take a nap, man. Half of us did die. We needed a break.

BRIAN: That was a really tough situation to be in. If you don't rest, some are going to die, but if you do…

LIAM: Matt the genius DM, he doesn't want to clobber us on purpose and wants us to have a chance of winning. There could just be two versions of the same thing. One, Vax has wings on, Pike has things up, the other is just a punching match.

BRIAN: Vex and Vex, how do you think your father will react to your relationships?

LAURA: We're both dating royalty so fuck him.

LAURA: But Vex wants to forgive him, so.

LIAM: I think he would see the Ashari as savages, not royalty.

LAURA: That's true.

LAURA: Everyone is less than him.

LIAM: Vax doesn't give a shit.

LAURA: He's dating a savage, I'm dating a human, dear lord.

BRIAN: Laura, is there a campaign you want to run?

LAURA: Me?

SAM: I bet it would involve Vampires and Angels and the fantasy shit you love.

LAURA: How do you know these things? It would definitely be in a fantasy setting.

LAURA: Romance everywhere. Everyone's a Vampire, let's fuck (jenga).

BRIAN: What would the cast suggest for someone with zero acting/improv training?

SAM: Matt has a GM tips for this on the network.

BRIAN: What network is that?

BRIAN: Zero acting, zero improv training.

LAURA: Not being afraid to look stupid. Play with people you trust and know you're all going to look like idiots together.

SAM: Surround yourself with people that you know are better at it, so you don't feel stupid just doing something silly or putting on a voice. If you surround yourself with your significant other and your friends and you've all had drinks and are goofballs, then you'll be much more likely to just go for it.

LAURA: That first game we played that I busted out with the voice and you and Travis looked at me like I was insane.

LIAM: He did, I got super excited.

LAURA: He was like 'what are you doing?'

LIAM: I was like "Are we going to do it?" Let's go!

SAM: But we're actors! We're super insecure.

BRIAN: Don't I know it, I have to run a show with a bunch of them every week.

ALL: Sorry.

BRIAN: [Wrap up]