Jia Tolentino
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981 appearances
13 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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Yeah, it could actually. It's very poisonous. We have everyone in paradise and then there's the snake figure. There is the presence of entropy and sin and like the freedom to unleash, you know, the way that it figures in the biblical story. It's like the presence of him causes Eve to eat the apple and causes just the entire world to turn off of its axis from there.
Yeah. There's something interesting, too, as a fellow person that grew up heavy within evangelical Christian indoctrination, where in the myth of the Garden of Eden, the snake tells Eve to eat from the fruit of the tree of knowledge, and it's knowledge of the world that… destroys paradise, right?
And, you know, there are like very clear echoes here about Timothy would prefer oblivion, like the knowledge is poisonous to him. There's a way in which plenty of people here are trying to enter the zone of the lotus eaters and to lose the knowledge of the world and to exist in that as its own sort of constructed paradise. But, you know, the knowledge.
And now we're so excited to talk to Walton Goggins, also known as Rick.
Thank you so much for having us on your show.
Okay, so we are loving your arc, and I wanted to ask you... Episode one, you seem like, Rick seems like one of the most closed off characters on the boat, coming in, chip on the shoulder, you know, chain smoking, opening the beer angrily.
But it's revealed like you're actually coming to Thailand in this profoundly vulnerable place, more so than almost anyone else in the cast. I agree. And can you talk about that?
Can I ask you a burning question that Josh and I have had? Where in your mind did Rick and Chelsea meet?
Oh, we're rooting for Rick and Chelsea quite hard.
Goggins was locked in.
We have to kind of paint a picture for the listener about just simply how much gold jewelry he was wearing and how jacked.
Pleated pants. Yeah, he looked great.
Yeah, he looked really good. We could talk about this for 10 minutes, but now we're going to talk to Amy Liu.
Amy Liu, thank you for coming on the HBO Companion Podcast. Josh and I are big Chelsea and Rick stans.
Okay, so first, so I wanted to ask you, we heard that you yourself are quite into astrology. And I wanted to ask, you know, how much of Chelsea is in you? How much of you is in Chelsea?
How do you know she's a Scorpio moon? Was that written in?
You just knew. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You triangulated the birth time.
She profoundly thinks they are soulmates and is bringing all of that.
Right. I mean, it's really beautiful. But I was wondering about your experience. You are the repository for that optimism in this show in many ways, right? Chelsea is the character that is carrying this sincerity and optimism that's such a necessary sort of tonal counterpart to the value systems and things that other characters are bringing. Yeah, I mean, was that fun to just get to be this...
The ray of sunshine.
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