Talks Machina 92: In Hot Water

is the ninety-second episode of Talks Machina. Marisha Ray and Travis Willingham discuss with host Brian Wayne Foster.

GIF of the Week

 * Becca aka @beccadahlia's gif of "executivegoth.exe has stopped working."

Fan Art of the Week

 * Haley Pavelko aka @fwishb0ne's "I......wait."


 * No Critmas this year, but every week on Talks they will feature a gift from a critter. This week's gift: Fjord's falchion by @BrazenSelkie (featured in the episode's thumbnail).

Quotations

 * Brian: "Who would've thought that Tumblr and Mollymauk would have so much in common?"
 * Travis: "It's only my wife, it's no big deal. Oh and Taliesin, my other wife."
 * Brian: "For as much as you like swallowing, potions, not so much." Travis: "They're not swords, Brian. I have a very strict diet."
 * Brian: "You sound like McCree's drunk uncle."
 * Travis: "Let's not simplify it as a plan. We obsessed." Marisha: "We had two weeks, y'all."
 * Marisha: "We'll consider the morality later, just get the fucking orbs."
 * Marisha: "I could just see ghost images of your faces in front of me as I'm weighing the consequences."
 * Marisha: "If I fuck this up, we're all dead. There's no way."
 * Marisha: "You have every right to plead the Liam."
 * Brian: "Only Matt Mercer could make Plank King cool again."
 * Marisha: "Pulling wife privileges, Matt did mention...she would have called for a trial and then she would have tried to pull some tricks...We would have gotten caught up in something."
 * Travis: "Don't we only need to worry about drowning one furry animal at a time??"
 * Marisha: "We are totally dodging a war right now."
 * Marisha: "We can't be like 'So, Traveler Con...what's with that?'"
 * Brian: "So your gag reflex is straight out of the Player’s Handbook?" Travis: "And based off personal experience." Brian: "Ok, a little bit of both."
 * Dani: "How did you go through life, doing all these anime and stuff like that and all these conventions, and never hear the phrase 'shipping'?" Travis: "I like football, I don't know."
 * Marisha: "I thought she was gonna get arrested. And then if she died when we were further away, then I mean, out of sight out of mind. Fuck it, it feels less like your fault in that case. But when it's someone literally getting their neck snapped immediately in front of you, that was pretty gnarly." Travis: "And Beau's no fan of Avantika, right?" Marisha: "No, but that was...That was brutal." Travis: "It was pretty savage. Yeah, I thought there was going to be some prolongment and then it kept escalating and she kept saying nothing and then nothing and you could just start to see it unfold in Matt’s head and you're like 'oh god, we're gonna be front row center for this. We might get some blood spatter!'"
 * Travis: "The only thing I wish I had said was, while he was holding her up there right before the snap, was go like 'No. Don't. Stop.'"
 * Brian: "You're fooling no one with that lawful good bullshit, Travis."
 * Travis: "Crickety-crack, here's your boat, get the fuck out."
 * Marisha: "More of the first, definitely intimidated. But she's still like 'ugh,' especially towards someone like that."
 * Dani: "Talk more about how firm the Plank King is, Marisha."
 * Travis: "He is now finding out who he is for the first time, right? This new version of himself. And as he moves through the world, there are people that impact him. And if those people left a positive mark on his life, then I think we all try to model aspects of those people. Or take some of that with you and make it part of yourself. And that's what he’s doing. He looked up to Vandren. He respected Vandren. Vandren treated him well and I think maybe had a bearing that he admired, so he's taken that on. And for Molly it was the same thing. He felt a great amount of regret and grief, and if he can make that a permanent fixture as he moves forward and however long this goes for, I think he wanted to do that."
 * Travis: "Fjord is living his best life right now."
 * Brian: "I don't think about what a sentence is going to be until it's over."