WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.408 - Pike and Grog's friendship in this season, 2 00:00:04.408 --> 00:00:08.291 in particular, is incredibly touching. 3 00:00:08.291 --> 00:00:10.470 - Oh, I'm so glad. 4 00:00:10.470 --> 00:00:12.300 - Yes, so I'm wondering if you guys 5 00:00:12.300 --> 00:00:15.360 can talk a little bit more about why you think that works. 6 00:00:15.360 --> 00:00:17.700 - Travis and I are already best buddies. 7 00:00:17.700 --> 00:00:21.300 I think both of us have very similar, 8 00:00:21.300 --> 00:00:23.220 we're both button pushers. (Travis chuckles) 9 00:00:23.220 --> 00:00:26.790 So I think it's a really interesting sort of relationship 10 00:00:26.790 --> 00:00:28.057 'cause we'll both be like, 11 00:00:28.057 --> 00:00:30.690 "Well, how far are you gonna take this?" 12 00:00:30.690 --> 00:00:31.658 - How far are you taking it? 13 00:00:31.658 --> 00:00:34.029 - "Well, what if I go like one more toe it?" 14 00:00:34.029 --> 00:00:38.940 But you know, it's the very first game that I played. 15 00:00:38.940 --> 00:00:41.640 I think it was the second game that the whole group, 16 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:42.510 everybody had already played, 17 00:00:42.510 --> 00:00:44.340 and then I jumped in at the second game. 18 00:00:44.340 --> 00:00:47.760 And so when I sort of was kind of figuring out the character 19 00:00:47.760 --> 00:00:52.760 and Matt gave Travis and I a page of like, 20 00:00:52.897 --> 00:00:55.980 "Okay, you guys know each other from the past." 21 00:00:55.980 --> 00:01:00.570 And it's just so wild to me from there 22 00:01:00.570 --> 00:01:04.470 how Pike and Grog's friendship grew 23 00:01:04.470 --> 00:01:07.470 and how our relationship at the table 24 00:01:07.470 --> 00:01:09.840 and how that started to form. 25 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:12.300 And now, being able to see that 26 00:01:12.300 --> 00:01:15.990 in an animated series is the best. 27 00:01:15.990 --> 00:01:18.180 I mean, they just, they're best buddies. 28 00:01:18.180 --> 00:01:20.880 And I was saying this before, it's like they're, 29 00:01:20.880 --> 00:01:24.390 I think they're such a funny pairing because it's like, 30 00:01:24.390 --> 00:01:29.280 when you see two different animals that become friends, 31 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:33.277 like the fox and the hound situation, where you're like, 32 00:01:33.277 --> 00:01:35.559 "Look at how cute they are!" 33 00:01:35.559 --> 00:01:38.947 "Look at this little gopher snuggling an elephant right now, 34 00:01:38.947 --> 00:01:40.320 "I can't take it." 35 00:01:40.320 --> 00:01:45.300 So I feel like it's like a similar thing like that. 36 00:01:45.300 --> 00:01:46.559 And I love it. 37 00:01:46.559 --> 00:01:47.460 - A gopher and an elephant? 38 00:01:47.460 --> 00:01:48.293 - I don't know. 39 00:01:48.293 --> 00:01:49.230 I'm throwing out really weird 40 00:01:49.230 --> 00:01:50.130 animals right now. - I'm doodling that right now. 41 00:01:50.130 --> 00:01:51.161 Hold on. 42 00:01:51.161 --> 00:01:51.994 - I'm here for it, I'm here for it. 43 00:01:51.994 --> 00:01:53.220 - There's gotta, it's gotta be out there somewhere. 44 00:01:53.220 --> 00:01:55.320 But, you know, I love those kind of videos. 45 00:01:55.320 --> 00:01:56.490 So when I see those. 46 00:01:56.490 --> 00:01:57.840 And I feel like Grog and Pike have 47 00:01:57.840 --> 00:01:59.520 a very similar type of a thing. 48 00:01:59.520 --> 00:02:01.111 - And I think just for me, 49 00:02:01.111 --> 00:02:04.500 it was very easy to make a hack and slash character 50 00:02:04.500 --> 00:02:06.870 as a first time TTRPG player. 51 00:02:06.870 --> 00:02:09.480 I didn't want spells, I didn't want anything complicated. 52 00:02:09.480 --> 00:02:10.710 I just wanted. 53 00:02:10.710 --> 00:02:12.690 In fact, when I rolled my intelligence modifier, 54 00:02:12.690 --> 00:02:14.970 I took it as a blessing 'cause I was like, cool. 55 00:02:14.970 --> 00:02:17.763 It's the character that's picking mistakes, not me. 56 00:02:18.604 --> 00:02:20.970 And so, being a barbarian was great, 57 00:02:20.970 --> 00:02:24.570 but I loved the idea of a character that had a softer side 58 00:02:24.570 --> 00:02:26.370 and Pike was the natural thing 59 00:02:26.370 --> 00:02:28.920 that just fosters that softer side. 60 00:02:28.920 --> 00:02:30.060 And I love a story 61 00:02:30.060 --> 00:02:31.890 where someone comes out of an environment 62 00:02:31.890 --> 00:02:36.120 with maybe like an expected behavior pattern or interests 63 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:36.990 that they're supposed to have. 64 00:02:36.990 --> 00:02:39.450 And if it's not that at all, they can find themselves 65 00:02:39.450 --> 00:02:40.560 with a found family, 66 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:41.580 with, you know, the people 67 00:02:41.580 --> 00:02:43.020 that really bring out the best out of them. 68 00:02:43.020 --> 00:02:45.270 And I think that's, that's the part of that relationship 69 00:02:45.270 --> 00:02:46.103 I love so much, 70 00:02:46.103 --> 00:02:49.560 is they can find each other in themselves. 71 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:51.390 - We need to get inside that dragon. 72 00:02:51.390 --> 00:02:52.530 - Through a mouthful of acid? 73 00:02:52.530 --> 00:02:53.363 No way. 74 00:02:55.710 --> 00:02:56.553 - The other way. 75 00:02:57.424 --> 00:02:59.463 - Oh God. 76 00:03:01.590 --> 00:03:03.360 - [Announcer] The Legend of Vox Machina 77 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:06.153 premieres January 20th only on Prime Video.