Talks Machina 91: A Hole In a Plan

is the ninety-first episode of Talks Machina. Laura Bailey and Marisha Ray discuss with host Brian Wayne Foster.

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Talks Machina After Dark

 * Discussion of C1 characters, playlists, and getting attached to them

Quotations

 * Marisha: "I think Gil's die is cursed."
 * Marisha: " I think she sees it as like a super abusive socialist society? Yeah. Which does not sit well with Beau...Man, I don't want to get political...but yeah, definitely like an abusive...Yeah. No. Bad...just fuck you. It's just a silk trap is what Beau feels like."
 * Laura: "Jester hasn't had a lot of experience with romance outside of what she's seen of her mom, and that's a very different view of romance."
 * Marisha: "Thank god weed's legal."
 * Marisha: "Pursuing power to endless depths and fucking hot pirates—that's totally fine for Beau. She just doesn't want to kill children."
 * Laura: "She can tell he's tortured. And one of the things that she wants more than anything is to not have people be sad around her, right?" Brian: "Because it makes her sad or because she wants them to be happy?" Laura: "She just wants them to be happy. So I think more than anything she wants that for him."
 * Laura: "This is the first time that he's suggested something that she wasn't immediately like 'yes, let's do that'."
 * Laura: "I don't want him to like me just because I made him like me, I want him to like me because he wants to like me, but how do I make him want to like me."
 * Marisha: "A lot of Beau is a wall."
 * Dani: "That doesn't mean you have gills!"
 * Brian: "I fucking love Quebec so much."
 * Marisha: "Instead I just shat in an alleyway with Nott."
 * Laura: "The beautiful thing about playing somebody like Grog or like Jester is the first thing that pops into your head you can do it. You don't have to have a filter. Usually the first thing that pops into your head is the dumbest fucking shit you could possibly do so you just go for it." Marisha: "All the-The tattoo stuff with Orly, I think one of my favorite moments in D&D history is going to be you talking about seeing a bug carry a piece of bread four times its size. I don't know, that's inspired right there..." Jester: "I love it cause I don't know what Sam's gonna do and then it's so much fun to just play off of it...It ends up ok (usually) it ends up ok but it just keeps getting worse. Like, every decision makes something worse. Until, yeah." Marisha: "Until it's magically all ok? It feels like it gets super bad and then it's like, erased."
 * Marisha "I felt like I was there in spirit because my advice was heeded."
 * Marisha: "It was like walking towards Beau, just a wall of regret for her bad decisions."
 * Laura : "It was honestly because she was like 'Molly is the coolest', but yeah it was a split second decision that probably could have been thought out...If anyone was gonna appreciate the fucking shit we were doing that night it would have been Molly."
 * Marisha: "This is the used car salesman power vagina."
 * Laura: "What I love is knowing that Liam doesn't want Jester to know what Caleb has done, you know?" Marisha: "Yeah, it's deeply interesting." Laura: "Because of what he thinks her reaction would be. But I don't think it would be what he thinks."
 * Dani: "Oh, the Mighty Nein, y'all are so stupid!"
 * Brian: "Dani stop reading your fanfiction." Dani: "It's beautiful ok?"
 * Brian: "Quebec is for lovers."