The Screenname that Broke Talks Machina *minor spoilers*

from Talks Machina Campaign 2 Episode 17 (figured the title was long enough)
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[@nakenmil]

Man, Critical Role has gotten more mileage out of the Morrowind soundtrack than Morrowind itself by this point.

[@rekkwaffle7668]

Bruuuh you're kinda right though lol

[@AndreyKrichevsky]

Maybe you just haven't played enough Morrowind? :)

[@Compyniro]

Morrowind, the only thing longer than Critical Role :D

[@lidla2008]

The Morrowind soundtrack is fucking amazing. I still have that on when I work/study.

[@709mash]

They mixed alot more pilars of eternity 2 music later on too.

[@2chaskell]

I hate so much that there wasn’t a camera on the crew or backstage to catch them breakdown after the “in my eyes” but. U can clearly make out liams laugh

[@nerdsnnuance2405]

Oh my god you're right lol I never caught that! XD God I love this chaotic mess of a team. Gonna miss Brian doing Talks, but I'm sure how they do the aftershow will still be fun. I just have trouble with change sometimes lol glad I can still watch Brian on his twitch at least haha

[@FlapNasty3]

Hell, I swear I can make out Travis’ guffaw. This was a great moment.

[@properfunny]

I think I can hear Sam as well, that or Matt.

[@danielstephens1185]

I think the high pitched laugh is Dani "exploding into glitter" again.

[@shirulocke2201]

I am angry right there with you. Because Liam is just dying and Travis is right there with him

[@ButSheDid]

Ashley’s “don’t know how much longer Pullout King has” and the IMMEDIATE regret written all over her face. Absolute gold.

[@High-LordHarza]

If she were with Pulloutking it might nit be the only thing all over her face

[@ShadowyFox_86]

😂 She has a habit of doing/saying things and then realizing that she is on the internet after

[@CSNCSNCSN]

​@@High-LordHarza Right where it counts, in the eyes.

[@davidparkes7741]

Ashley's "a skill some are not good at" still breaks me whenever I watch this clip lol.

[@EricRatcliffeNewcomicday]

I love how quickly the camera cut from Brian because I can only imagine his reaction to that on camera. lol

[@davidparkes7741]

@@EricRatcliffeNewcomicday Lmao definitely.

[@PLF__]

i doubt it but it would be hilarious if ashley was throwing shade

[@EricRatcliffeNewcomicday]

@@PLF__ that's why I wanted to see Brian's reaction because I don't think it would be throwing shade so much as giving him shit with his own type of humor and completely catching him off guard. Which I think she was absolutely doing. Kind of makes me like them as a couple even more lol

[@bamcki991]

It feels targeting towards Brian

[@areopanda1664]

The guy preparing the question: "Ehh, its a bit on the line, but its a good question. I'm sure they wont get hanged up on the name." Talks Machina: "So anyway we started laughing"

[@carlsmagicbicep9736]

yeah i think Dani does the questions she for sure thought that ahahah

[@stevesmith5883]

Pulloutking and Arsequeef are part of CR canon now due to their screen names.

[@Ramsey276one]

O M G I was nicknaming certain anime lady orca as Orqueefs and I SEE THIS XD

[@grahamkristensen9301]

Don't forget Cuddlefish.

[@bezerkoid]

@@grahamkristensen9301 *cute voice* Cuddlefish!

[@natalief2508]

they've met irl and it makes me so happy

[@deathbykonami5487]

"Pullout King got me right where it counts..." "In my eyes!" How long was Brian sitting on that one?

[@reina4969]

She asked the question. lol Perfect setup.

[@Jedda678]

I dunno, but he pulled it out in the end.

[@hfar_in_the_sky]

Immediately followed by everyone offscreen dying of laughter and Marisha just going, "I'm dead. This man has slayed me. I'm done."

[@Reblwitoutacause]

Not as long as pulloutking would have sat on it

[@deathbykonami5487]

@@Reblwitoutacause Which isn't that long to be honest

[@moonlight2870]

The best part of this was Matt in the next game saying "pull out king, father of five" Edit: I literally said the next game, guys. This was talks for ep 17, Matt made that joke on ep 18.

[@timsellers4946]

When was this?

[@mollyk8069]

LOL WHAT

[@keroessa3079]

WHAT WHEN

[@annafantasia]

People are looking for a time stamp or at least a more specific idea, since the eps are so long ;)

[@thebigdawgj]

Timestamp. I don't remember that.

[@isaiahwelch8066]

I just gotta say, Pulloutking, whoever you are, wherever you are... You, sir, have been immortalized as an internet myth and legend. You are a king amongst men...well-played, sir. Well-played.

[@TheJerbol]

They submitted a lot of great questions too

[@ciaranmcguinness8900]

@@TheJerbol a king is a man

[@High-LordHarza]

@@ciaranmcguinness8900 I feel like your comment is kinda pointless, "they" is a nice way to talk about someone you don't know as well as a pronoun for enbys, not just the latter

[@k0pstl939]

@@ciaranmcguinness8900 And maybe pulloutking_ is actually saying "pull out, king'

[@Arkay24]

He doth not need such recognition, hence he was already a King to begin with. But now, he hath become a fucking Legend

[@CAPappy]

There’s so many usernames that have broken the cast over the years, but PullOutKing is definitely in a league of his own.

[@unlimited971]

Yeah he put himself out really hard

[@Jazzyruf]

Good thing Laura wasn’t there she’d have all the best one liners about the screen name lol 😂😂😂😂😆😆

[@gonzobliter8or992]

She'd be too busy wheezing to come up with one. PullOutKing got too much power....

[@tibot4228]

I think what gets me especially is that "pulloutking" isn't a creative or funny innuendo, but the cast still lost their mind over it.

[@CassieCarryd]

It's cause it's just the most no shame, "I have sex," dudebro gamertag name. It's so awful to even consider making it, keeping it, using it to submit questions with and yet, at no point did they stop the wagon from traveling down that road.

[@felixpichardo73]

@@CassieCarryd Nah, it's a Portlandia reference, which they sadly didn't get. Funny enough, the skit has both meanings of pullout king they joked about.

[@xcalixus]

@@felixpichardo73 portlandia?

[@XtrmPlays]

These are the reasons I'm going to miss Brian. He brought so much chaotic energy to Talks. I hope the spiritual successor to Talks will have some similar energy.

[@lenac.4192]

Did I miss something? Is Brian not doing talks for campaign 3?

[@OtherworldlyOdyssey]

@@lenac.4192 I think there was an announcement on Twitter a while back about Brian stepping back from the critical role stuff to focus on other things

[@creatrotera]

Noooo! What??? I'll miss him so much

[@shashankiyer5751]

@@lenac.4192 yea he’s streaming his own thing in twitch

[@lidla2008]

@@shashankiyer5751 good for him. I know the Twitter gremlins got him off of social media, I'm sure the fandom's toxicity is still getting to him today.

[@IrisGlowingBlue]

I love how Marisha gets so (overcome??? full of??? /Everything sounds bad/) hit by despair at one point that she has to just climb over the couch and then faceplant to express her feelings 😆😂

[@premiumheadpats4150]

At that same moment, the shit got me to roll off my bed and onto the floor, where I flopped like a fucking fish. So, I think I understand how she felt. lol

[@bleachbleachBLEACHER]

There are 'dirty jokes' and then there are 'Dirty Jokes'. I hope Pulloutking_ is proud of themselves for this one.

[@josephcroeniangamer3727]

damn this clip was so good and now i cant really enjoy it...

[@Valerie.T.M]

I'll miss this so much lol. Brian's chemistry with the others was unmatched

[@Spider-Man_234]

Doesn’t matter with what we know now does it?

[@Valerie.T.M]

@@Spider-Man_234 i mean yeah no kidding. Wild what changes in over 2 years

[@danielstephens1185]

2:47 did someone fall out of a chair off camera? That sounded like a chair scooting or falling over.

[@AmazingChi]

I feel like Ashley pointing at whatever made that noise only confirms that theory.

[@danielstephens1185]

@@AmazingChi Possibly Travis then, he tends to scoot back like that when laughing. Though right before that, Dani's laugh is quite audible.

[@emilyoliver5358]

Hearing Travis laugh in the back is the best part tbh

[@nicolerobertson2654]

Travis, AND Liam! 🤣 Unmistakably you can hear them both

[@henrikhendrickson2375]

"Pull out king got me where it counts" I thought "on the couch?", so there's an alt answer to that one for us.

[@daisukeds85]

And 2 years later Talks Machina is not only broken but deleted from Critical Role's channel along with everything Brian Foster ever did. Abusive Bastard!

[@transientanus]

Allegedly. None of that has ever been proven. I'm not saying DONT believe it, just that we'll never really know what happened. I certainly don't believe the accusations are FALSE by any measure of the term. Just that there are two sides to every story.

[@eric_moore-6126]

I love that Ashley has a Jester plushie.

[@JacobGrim]

One of my favorites of Talks Machina

[@markwalton3706]

Thank you Brian for this gem. You will be sadly missed in Talks but especially from Undeadwood if it gets another adventure and also Between the Sheets - great to see long form 'chats'/ interviews - i am unsure if any of the CR team have those skill sets. Good luck on your new adventures.

[@brendan-kfp7.62mmminigun4]

Man, Pulloutking took them behind the shed and shot them.

[@swagchu6737]

They pulled them out of the shed?

[@Anx13tyPrime]

in the eyes

[@brendan-kfp7.62mmminigun4]

@@Anx13tyPrime right in the face, yeah

[@EmilM-pb2hn]

I love how you can hear the cast laughing in the background.

[@INDAREVISH]

I love that you can tell Liam was laughing there too.

[@morphingninja]

That screen name sounds like something easy to turn around with "so you learned from your dad's mistake?"

[@danielmcandrew979]

With Brian gone from Talks they gotta get Mica to do it and keep on Dany. Just for the shitpostingness of it all, this show has its own lore and it’d make for a hilarious moment should Brian ever guest star ⭐️ In the campaign. He’d walk out for talks saying “my nemesis, we meet again” and she’d be all “I told you they were gonna take your show and give it to me cabbage man!”

[@themardbard9096]

Mica would be great as the next Talks host

[@Ramsey276one]

2:39 his brain: don’t…! ABORT!!!! “In my eyes!” [MISSION FAILED] XD

[@BaldursPicketFence]

I wish Brian was back to do Talks for Campaign 3, can you imagine him back with Sam Riegel as the guest after the names of his associates business...

[@shashankiyer5751]

I’m truly gonna miss this man

[@SkoloT]

This one of the best Talks ever. Easily top 3 🤣🤣🤣 I go back to it every now and then for a good laugh

[@bcn1gh7h4wk]

Ashley: _drifts out of the lane_ Brian: "I'm still marrying you."

[@premiumheadpats4150]

"Pulloutking got me in the eyes" literally had me on the fvcking floor. 🤣🤣🤣 I rolled off my damn bed.

[@lukesams3349]

Rumor has it the King is still breaking unsuspecting Twitch streamers to this day

[@arthurchallat8530]

2:34 "Pullout King got me right where it counts..." "In my eyes!" 👑 Well done man, well done 😂

[@emperorincxt]

Love Four sided Dive, but I'll miss weekly Talks show with BWF for the rest of my days

[@OutPost_Nerd]

I ran into PullOutKing on the discord and said oh "shit" and they were like "you know who i am?" and I send them this clip lol

[@Kaziklu]

What they didn't know is it was rare Welsh dialect. Pu Llout King

[@AcePlaysTCGs]

It's times like these I really miss BWF and Talks Machina for Campaign 3

[@wickedpissa25]

This ranks right up there with "an eighth of walnuts".

[@postulater]

I REALLY hope that Pull Out King is proud of himself & puts this in his resumes'. XD

[@boiboh2954]

This makes me so sad.

[@ShawnLevasseur]

This is quantum comedy. Where one is totally shameless and completely full of shame in the same moment

[@hakulives2613]

Whoever pulloutking is, I hope they're very, very proud of themselves.

[@katybechnikova2821]

I just watched this episode. I love that screen name. It's up there with BoatsBoats911 and Arsequeef.

[@xarvous]

I see the title, I know it's gotta be.... the King_

[@darthwikkie]

As funny as this is, the fact that none of them got the Portlandia reference is perhaps even funnier.

[@GirishManjunathMusic]

What's a... Portlandia?

[@darthwikkie]

@@GirishManjunathMusic kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXWph3WVpa-ijqM

[@GirishManjunathMusic]

@@darthwikkie this was. An. Experience.

[@XxCrankyMoosexX]

Thank you for reminding me where I heard the name from. I was struggling to remember what this was referencing.

[@evilbeardedman]

I miss Talks Machina and Between the Sheets. Foster is such s good interviewer.

[@j-dawg4774]

Everyone else was broken, Brian was having an existential crisis lol

[@elwynn9931]

I’m going to miss Brian’s humor so much

[@dragonzord6615]

I knew it was either pulloutking or arsequeef ahahaha

[@hoppy0311]

They look so young! OMG 2019/20 aged the hell outa us.

[@itsyourmumma]

I was thinking exactly that.

[@ShadowyFox_86]

A global pandemic and the course of 3-4 years will do that to a person.

[@Lawcoom]

Spoke to pullout king on the discord and he was surprised people knew him lol

[@cooldude117007]

you can't find comedy like this anymore. this is gold. These were the glory days of critical role haha. love them

[@Jynnifer]

I could be wrong but I swear that I can hear both Matt and Travis laughing somewhere off screen

[@michaelwestendorf9105]

Oh that was them lmao

[@Astrein0017]

yup, now Im sad that brian isn't going to host the talks machina anymore 🥺😭 #BringTheCabbageBack

[@Griffolion0]

Still sad about Foster leaving. We're never going to get stuff like this again.

[@regalsamriegel9623]

:(

[@EdmanXERO]

Guess you can say he... pulled out. I hope Brian appreciates that joke.

[@jamescanjuggle]

oh what when did that happen

[@Griffolion0]

@@jamescanjuggle Few months back. He just really abruptly posted on Twitter that he was leaving CR, followed by an official company announcement. The whole thing seemed really off to me at the time, I get the impression maybe there was some drama behind the scenes we don't know about.

[@PrincessMeggala0913]

I’m gonna miss him too but I mean-he’s still married to Ashley so he’s not completely gone. He’s still lurking in the shadows behind Ash’s blonde hair.

[@cosplayannie]

I think I've rewatched this like 50 times

[@omecronrodneydheel349]

1 extra blunt at the smoking circle and it’s just chaos!!!

[@SladeByReality]

Watching this makes me sad that talks machina isn't coming back

[@Warcodered01]

They probably giggled for like a couple seconds when the originally came up with the name.

[@Vandarius]

God I'm gonna miss Brian & Talks

[@busy_raccooon]

Now i'm sad 🥺 i'll miss talks with brian 💚

[@Samurai_Stoner]

Pullout King... Long may he reign

[@mirtos39]

i miss talks....

[@avenovum148]

Such a fundamental part of the show :/

[@jessray3271]

Marisha just fucking died.

[@LednacekZ]

Seeing both Marisha and Ashley on the couch makes me think of Gilmore's girl. "No" idea why.

[@Sammonoske]

Sad that Talks was cancelled. Wont have moments like these anymore.

[@catscat1112]

I miss this show :< But I'm very happy woth 4sd now

[@nathanaelroux4575]

He's not a Sofa King, he's a Pull out king

[@jonathonclark7340]

Priceless.

[@RoseWolf_Of_The_BDH]

Lmao, Poor Dani is dying in the background!

[@thetophatnerd2664]

All right which one of y’all is pulloutking?

[@Cheesusful]

Aww I thought it was going to be *cuddlefish*

[@TheDizzyDungeoneer]

I miss Brian so much

[@cactapus1562]

Is this all thats left of talks machina? I never got to watch the ones from campaign 2

[@sebastiananderson2047]

They removed it bcs Brian was abusing Ashley and she filed a restraining order against him 1 month ago

[@cactapus1562]

@@sebastiananderson2047 that is most unfortunate, i will miss it but brians a fuck

[@Ondemas]

There are saved archives. Google "talks machina archive".

[@Zaiqahal]

@@Ondemas No longer works.

[@ayzekpie9432]

I just discovered this sad situation myself, but as a consolation, we still have transcriptions and descriptions of the series on the wiki

[@philiphughes9556]

I would not be surprised if this makes it into "canon" of some sort... Either that or the name and all reference to it "shall be banned from discussion"... Lol

[@omecronrodneydheel349]

I thought it was supposed to be in the eyes…

[@marcgarrett4401]

So this homeless teen goes to friends houses, a few nights at a time, sleeping on pullout beds. And gets this response to his screen name... Hey, it could happen.

[@kayihuraaa]

God i miss Brian

[@xxnwoxx0]

Man I miss foster

[@_____2219]

I gotta be honest, I love 4-sided dye but talks machina was amazing and was “filled” with memorable moments.

[@LordAaronus]

say what you will about bwf but this kinda predicted Zathuda with the misty step

[@michaelwestendorf9105]

2:40 😂😂😂

[@peewee8964]

were all just big children :)

[@danieljp9694]

This is a joke from Portlandia

[@Linkolnverse]

Yeah, I think I know which one this is. *watches video* Oh... no I don't.

[@stefanjentoft8107]

When is Talks coming back?

[@fire_playz5110]

Its not

[@Tropicocitwo]

This or Critical Role? Which is worth actually taking the time to watch???

[@Reblwitoutacause]

Both? Both. Both is good.

[@johnhammond2492]

Gotta watch Critical Role before Talks Machina...you'll enjoy both for VASTLY different reasons 😊

[@ashleyjohnson9651]

this won't make much sense without watching critical role, as this expands on information from the show that they don't have time or the right circumstance to bring up in-character on CR

[@garland70]

The best CR spinoff show bar none, for real 4 sided is fun, but it's nothing on Talks

[@mrleonspain]

I dont get it

[@placebo5466]

this is the content we all want.

[@transientanus]

Yeah there was no need to change the format, just the host.

[@8440k]

It really sucks that Brian had to leave suddenly and is probably under a contract not to mention CR by name or name any of the cast. The cast genuinely enjoyed their time with Brian! I wish we had more of this.

[@ShadowyFox_86]

Based on what we now know, his sudden departure makes a lot of sense.

[@AC3handle]

I gotta wonder how this is going to affect her story going forward.

[@j-dawg4774]

Love how Brian made it worse by saying: "That takes 5 minutes to pull 5 you have to have 3 people on either side" 😏

[@KJShinra]

Grown children lmao

[@guguigugu]

whos the girl on the right

[@ShadowyFox_86]

You mean Marisha?

[@tonyelliott5045]

BWF hosting TM will always be better than any 4SD episodes, with the exception of the 6SD done.

[@andieallison6792]

Uh....