Dan's flight experience sounded absolutely miserable. On one hand, It makes me sad Brandon doesn't tour, because a chance to meet in person is something special. . .on the other. . .the level of communication makes up for it. The livestreams are amazing and even this podcast lets us fans 'in' in a way a tour never could. I'll take this over a tour I can't attend any day.
I love that Brandon tours less. Obviously it’s good for his health and all, but selfishly as a reader I would way rather he be writing more books than doing more tours. Don’t get me wrong I would love to meet him, but getting more books is even better!
I met Tony once! I told him I was reading Mistborn, and thanks to him, I was able to buy a signed Way of Kings book! He is amazing, and I was so sad when the SLC airport stopped the bookstore. It was my go-to spot anytime I had to wait for a flight. Thanks, Tony, for helping me out that day!!
I went to a church camp once where I didn’t know anyone. I tried to read in the corner for a few days, but it got old. I ventured out and there were already cliques in the hotel. I got a little down and was wishing I could go home. THEN, I stumbled across the room full of nerds watching Galaxy Quest. That movie will forever be among my favorites for that reason.
The funniest travel story I know didn't happen to me, but I heard it from the man it happened to (so it's only second hand to you). This was back in the sixties, when airport gates worked differently - instead of the fancy walkways that you almost always get nowadays, you would have to leave the terminal and go outside and walk over to a movable stairway which would provide access to the airplane door. It also happened in Europe, and I admit that I'm not sure that I correctly remember the actual cities involved but that's not important. He was in Zurich and needed to go to Amsterdam. For whatever reason he was very late getting to the airport and was afraid that he would miss his flight. In the end he got there just barely in time - I think they actually held the plane for a few minutes for him to be able to make it. So of course he is running through the airport and out of the gate and onto the plane, and as he got on there was a seat right there near the entrance so he just plopped into it and spent much of the (fairly short) flight recuperating from the rush and anxiety of trying to catch the flight. After they land, because he had sat in the seat right by the door he was the first one out and as he exited the plane he looked up toward the terminal and saw written across the top of it "MILANO". He wasn't in Amsterdam, he was in Milan! He said something like, "Oh S**t" and the stewardess asked him what was wrong. He explained that he had been trying to get to Amsterdam and in his rush must have gotten on the wrong plane. The stewardess gets a funny look on her face and rushes back into the plane to talk to the pilot, and pretty soon the passengers are all being escorted back onto the plane. It turns out that the flight in question went to Amsterdam and Milan on alternate days, and the pilot had gotten confused and flown to the wrong airport!
Yeah Brandon, sleep is a major issue for me too. After even two days with little sleep, I've effectively lost the plot and start getting depressed, anxious, sick feeling. More than that and I'm calling off work. Being without sleep is just torture. It was just as true in High School as it is now as an adult. Living a quality life means making the schedule that fits for you and that's a good thing!
I’ve just watched your Tress release video with the Captain America parody, so any anger that existed (there was none) has most certainly been efficiently dissipated.
You should come to Argentina Brandon, the capital Buenos Aires it is known for the city of bookstores. There is one called El Ateneo Grand Splendid, which is an old Theather converted into a Bookstore and one of the biggest you will find in South America. Dan Should know which one I'm talking about.
Brandon Sanderson on reddit 20 hours ago wrote this: "Plan was to post and go live today...and then one of our partners got some pricing wrong. So we're scrambling to get things right. Video will probably be tomorrow at this point."
I think Arrival is that kind of movie that you HAVE to watch in a cinema. I do hope Dan's had a good audio on the plane, because the score of Johansson is carrying so much of the movie on its own. Still have goosebumps thinking about it.
I've met Garrett Wang a few times at conventions and I've always had the best interactions! At Phoenix Comicon the year Pokemon Go was so popular, he was sitting at his signing table with 2 phones catching Pokemon between fans! He showed us his game, and his account name was ForeverEnsign 😂 And yes, he does pronounce it "Wong"
28 days of travelling and not sleeping well Sounds like nightmare. I have been on sleeping meds for over 10 years and when I have had issues with other meds or problems with prescription for a week or two have been torture. I can't imagine going like that for a month and also work so intensly... Geez. I have been at the point of insomnia with nausea and shaking and it is horrible. I was desperate enough to the try acupuncture just to get some relief. I feel for you Brandon, it's not worth your health and sanity to tour like that
This was a lot of fun to listen to. As a Houston resident, I don't think that they do have any sort of storage for luggage. And the airport is like...an hour from most of Houston, which makes it terrible to have to go back and forth.
@8:10 - it's Wang, Garett Wang is a Second Generation Taiwanese Immigrant (that is, US born to parents born in Taiwan) - amusing coincidence, considering the previous travel topic.
I'm in the airline industry, so I particularly liked this episode. Those were some great stories. Dan's horror story about flying half way across the globe with five young children almost gave me flash backs! I'm currently DFW based, so it made me sad that he hates it so much, but I totally understand. It can get pretty rough here. In my opinion, Charlotte is WAY worse though. Keep up the great work guys, I hope to see you out there one day!
Here I was thinking I was alone and crazy for always going to my gate first before anything else after getting through security 😂 thanks for confirming I’m not the only nut job Dan!
Brandon and Dan, come April, Makoto Shinkai’s next film, Suzume no Tojimari, will be coming to the states. I would personally fly to Utah to watch it with you guys if you’re interested.
As someone who's grown up in Atlanta, I remember thinking the airport's train was the coolest thing when I was younger. But now that I'm post-university, Atlanta is an absolute nightmare compared to other airports lol, mainly from wait-times and overall ineffectiveness in routing people.
My best flight was probably from LA to Osaka Japan, it was good because it was way under booked and me and my friends wound up with a whole row to ourselves for that whole flight, it was really good, almost comfortable even. On average though, most flights are kind of horrible.
The Popeyes in ATL is a terrific location. Their food surpasses other regular Popeyes locations I've been to. Maybe because it's such a high volume store, the chicken is always fresh af. And I completely agree, Mpls and ATL are the best airports! Slightly biased as they are my hometown airports.
I'd love to see them talk abou Weathering with you. I've barely seen any people truly appreciate what it does, and it's something that I've seen in almost no other movie. It does like Dark Souls, and only offers you a glance at the infinitely reocurring cosmic cycle that rules that world. Hina and Hodaka are only pawns in a god's game. No one could have stopped that disaster for long.
The Polish dumplings, pierogi, is plural. The singular is pierog, but non polish speakers call them pierogies and uses pierogi as singular. This bugs me a little.
Brandon's mentioned a few times on the podcast that he'll sneak into bookstores when he's travelling and just sign randomly. I think he usually tweets it out when he does it so fans in the area know to look for it.
I'm glad Dan and Brandon have both seen Arrival and Your Name. As someone who has seen so many different anime movies, and despite the fact that comix wave is a phenomenal studio, Your Name doesn't even come into my top 30 anime movies. Not to understate its appeal, I simply value impact and plot/character more and find many others to appeal more than Your Name. Hope you check out some other anime movies!
Dan, Your story about moving gave me major anxiety! 😅 I can't imagine how you could move that many bags in only one trip! I once flew with 3 bags or a backpack, there just aren't enough hands! Also what do you think about the new D&D changes?
Second try 😄 Hi Brand Sanderson ! I'm a huge fan of your work (mistborn is my favorite) and a 3D animator. Have you ever thought about creating a short CGI animation based on your books? I am a small animator from Poland and i can send you my last Animation Demo (to show you what I can do alone, without the team of animators).
The weird part of that was that everyone else I've heard relay Garret Wang stories state that he's kind of a jerk. I wonder if Dan misread that interaction...
I think Dan learned an important lesson during that flight home... Or at least I hope. I don't know what it would've cost to ship some of those bags home separately, but it would've been worth it to avoid that headache. Dear lord.
Im guessing Wang pronounced his name that way just because that’s how most Americans would read it. I had a professor at BYU-I whose last name was Wang that she pronounced with the long A, unless she was in her actual Chinese class in which case it would be the romanized A English is a dumb language lol
IDK why America makes everyone change their names. My family emigrated from Germany in the early 1900s and they had to change their name spelling from "Efinger" to "Efinger." IDK why an extra F was so important!
Brandon's pen drop joke comes off as so insecure, trying to call out Dan for name dropping after Brandon spent 5 minutes big timing about his schedule in Tokyo. Yikes.
Dan's flight experience sounded absolutely miserable.
On one hand, It makes me sad Brandon doesn't tour, because a chance to meet in person is something special. . .on the other. . .the level of communication makes up for it. The livestreams are amazing and even this podcast lets us fans 'in' in a way a tour never could. I'll take this over a tour I can't attend any day.
I love the fact that Brandon seems to have no idea that Dan on time just invited a bunch of other people over to Brandon’s theater to watch movies
I love that Brandon tours less. Obviously it’s good for his health and all, but selfishly as a reader I would way rather he be writing more books than doing more tours. Don’t get me wrong I would love to meet him, but getting more books is even better!
Don’t mind me just a Doug here
Unite the Dougs!
Big social media push to have "Doug" replace "NPC"?
I understood that reference
@@civil_leuthie totally that would be awesome
I understand and am a Doug as well.
I met Tony once! I told him I was reading Mistborn, and thanks to him, I was able to buy a signed Way of Kings book! He is amazing, and I was so sad when the SLC airport stopped the bookstore. It was my go-to spot anytime I had to wait for a flight. Thanks, Tony, for helping me out that day!!
When Brandon talked about how you don't want to be when signing, I imagined Alan Rickman in Galaxy Quest.
I went to a church camp once where I didn’t know anyone. I tried to read in the corner for a few days, but it got old. I ventured out and there were already cliques in the hotel. I got a little down and was wishing I could go home. THEN, I stumbled across the room full of nerds watching Galaxy Quest. That movie will forever be among my favorites for that reason.
If Dan watches Weathering With You and they just spend a full episode talking about Arrival, Your Name, and Weathering I will die a happy man.
Weathering with you is a fantastic movie
I don't think I've ever wanted a podcast episode as much as this one.
That would be the greatest episode ever.
The funniest travel story I know didn't happen to me, but I heard it from the man it happened to (so it's only second hand to you). This was back in the sixties, when airport gates worked differently - instead of the fancy walkways that you almost always get nowadays, you would have to leave the terminal and go outside and walk over to a movable stairway which would provide access to the airplane door. It also happened in Europe, and I admit that I'm not sure that I correctly remember the actual cities involved but that's not important. He was in Zurich and needed to go to Amsterdam. For whatever reason he was very late getting to the airport and was afraid that he would miss his flight. In the end he got there just barely in time - I think they actually held the plane for a few minutes for him to be able to make it. So of course he is running through the airport and out of the gate and onto the plane, and as he got on there was a seat right there near the entrance so he just plopped into it and spent much of the (fairly short) flight recuperating from the rush and anxiety of trying to catch the flight. After they land, because he had sat in the seat right by the door he was the first one out and as he exited the plane he looked up toward the terminal and saw written across the top of it "MILANO". He wasn't in Amsterdam, he was in Milan! He said something like, "Oh S**t" and the stewardess asked him what was wrong. He explained that he had been trying to get to Amsterdam and in his rush must have gotten on the wrong plane. The stewardess gets a funny look on her face and rushes back into the plane to talk to the pilot, and pretty soon the passengers are all being escorted back onto the plane. It turns out that the flight in question went to Amsterdam and Milan on alternate days, and the pilot had gotten confused and flown to the wrong airport!
Your Name is the movie I suggest every time I am having a movie night with new people. Phenomenal.
If that wasn’t Dan’s worst flight experience I can’t imagine what it would be…
I can't wait for the Stormlight Archive Muppet Special
"A plane, a train, an automobile..." 😂 Nice one Dan
Yeah Brandon, sleep is a major issue for me too. After even two days with little sleep, I've effectively lost the plot and start getting depressed, anxious, sick feeling. More than that and I'm calling off work. Being without sleep is just torture. It was just as true in High School as it is now as an adult. Living a quality life means making the schedule that fits for you and that's a good thing!
I love how Dan is not sure this was his worst experience. Wonder about the other experiences, but this sounded like a very bad one!
Weathering with You and Your Name = beats everything
There was a food heist in Cyprus at Lemessos City ! €50,000 worth of frozen meat were stolen, not all at.
I’ve just watched your Tress release video with the Captain America parody, so any anger that existed (there was none) has most certainly been efficiently dissipated.
Your Name is my favorite movie! First movie I saw in theaters in almost 15 years and it was so worth it.
You should come to Argentina Brandon, the capital Buenos Aires it is known for the city of bookstores. There is one called El Ateneo Grand Splendid, which is an old Theather converted into a Bookstore and one of the biggest you will find in South America. Dan Should know which one I'm talking about.
38:45 Arrival is my favorite movie of all time. Your Name is also incredible! That is a wonderful double feature.
The Atlanta airport was my first introduction to Popeyes before we got one in Utah. :)
Arrival is fantastic
Weathering With You is phenomenal
Need to watch Your Name
Oh my goodness, "Hyun-die" drives me crazy, too! 😂
what happened to the secret project video that was supposed go to up yesterday? (Tuesday)
Brandon Sanderson on reddit 20 hours ago wrote this:
"Plan was to post and go live today...and then one of our partners got some pricing wrong. So we're scrambling to get things right.
Video will probably be tomorrow at this point."
Minneapolis still has a bookstore, it's called Open Book in Terminal 1.
Suzume, the next movie will be out in around April in the west, just in case someone also loves all of the movies they mentioned.
There's nothing more relatable than being cheered up and consoled by good Mexican food.
I think Arrival is that kind of movie that you HAVE to watch in a cinema. I do hope Dan's had a good audio on the plane, because the score of Johansson is carrying so much of the movie on its own. Still have goosebumps thinking about it.
I've met Garrett Wang a few times at conventions and I've always had the best interactions! At Phoenix Comicon the year Pokemon Go was so popular, he was sitting at his signing table with 2 phones catching Pokemon between fans! He showed us his game, and his account name was ForeverEnsign 😂 And yes, he does pronounce it "Wong"
For an 8 hour layover (honestly anything up to ~14) I would just stay at the airport
28 days of travelling and not sleeping well Sounds like nightmare. I have been on sleeping meds for over 10 years and when I have had issues with other meds or problems with prescription for a week or two have been torture. I can't imagine going like that for a month and also work so intensly... Geez. I have been at the point of insomnia with nausea and shaking and it is horrible. I was desperate enough to the try acupuncture just to get some relief. I feel for you Brandon, it's not worth your health and sanity to tour like that
I listen to your podcast at normal speed cause I don’t want it to end.
This was a lot of fun to listen to. As a Houston resident, I don't think that they do have any sort of storage for luggage. And the airport is like...an hour from most of Houston, which makes it terrible to have to go back and forth.
My wife is Korean and the way Hyundai is pronounce in the U.S. drives her nuts too. I just had to laugh when I heard that bothers Brandon.
I get way too excited when a new episode comes up
@8:10 - it's Wang, Garett Wang is a Second Generation Taiwanese Immigrant (that is, US born to parents born in Taiwan) - amusing coincidence, considering the previous travel topic.
The one author I do find in every airport bookstore (or bookshelf in the rack) is Brandon.
What was reason for Dan spending two years in Germany , just interesting to find out like was it for a job or something
I'm in the airline industry, so I particularly liked this episode. Those were some great stories. Dan's horror story about flying half way across the globe with five young children almost gave me flash backs! I'm currently DFW based, so it made me sad that he hates it so much, but I totally understand. It can get pretty rough here. In my opinion, Charlotte is WAY worse though. Keep up the great work guys, I hope to see you out there one day!
Hey, hey! The Prestige is amazing. An excellent adaptation of the story.
I didn’t know it was based on a story! Very cool
Here I was thinking I was alone and crazy for always going to my gate first before anything else after getting through security 😂 thanks for confirming I’m not the only nut job Dan!
Brandon and Dan, come April, Makoto Shinkai’s next film, Suzume no Tojimari, will be coming to the states. I would personally fly to Utah to watch it with you guys if you’re interested.
As someone who's grown up in Atlanta, I remember thinking the airport's train was the coolest thing when I was younger. But now that I'm post-university, Atlanta is an absolute nightmare compared to other airports lol, mainly from wait-times and overall ineffectiveness in routing people.
19:16
"I would rather not to have to write too much" - Brandon Sanderson, 2022, while releasing 4 Extra secret books.
I love this out of context.
Your Name really is an incredible movie
Triple Makoto Shinkai marathon! Your Name, Weathering With You and Suzume
Watch Shinkai's other movies!
5 Centimeters Per Second, The Garden Of Words, and Voices Of A Distant Star are super good as well
My best flight was probably from LA to Osaka Japan, it was good because it was way under booked and me and my friends wound up with a whole row to ourselves for that whole flight, it was really good, almost comfortable even. On average though, most flights are kind of horrible.
The Popeyes in ATL is a terrific location. Their food surpasses other regular Popeyes locations I've been to. Maybe because it's such a high volume store, the chicken is always fresh af.
And I completely agree, Mpls and ATL are the best airports! Slightly biased as they are my hometown airports.
Never heard about Your Name, just finished watching it and its very good, tyvm for the suggestion!
4 minutes in and really curious whether “Lighting” in the title is a typo or becomes relevant later.
Haha the thumbnail says "lightning" but I thought the same thing.
Brandon looks so mad when Dan is talking about just casually inviting a bunch of his friends to Brandon's theater.
Please discuss Your Name. It’s so good
I'd love to see them talk abou Weathering with you.
I've barely seen any people truly appreciate what it does, and it's something that I've seen in almost no other movie.
It does like Dark Souls, and only offers you a glance at the infinitely reocurring cosmic cycle that rules that world. Hina and Hodaka are only pawns in a god's game. No one could have stopped that disaster for long.
What if the only Stormlight adaptation we get is a Muppet one? 😆
I liked the SLC airport bookstore. I'm sad that it is gone now.
The Polish dumplings, pierogi, is plural. The singular is pierog, but non polish speakers call them pierogies and uses pierogi as singular. This bugs me a little.
Your name is what broke the Oscars for me.
I'm calling for manditory pandemics for Brandon Sanderson. More time for his health and well being, more books for us!
Yes! Tamale bugs the heck out of me too >_
Weathering With You was a really fun one but kinda a trip. Weird but fun concept. Lol guess half of Japan is just going to get flooded, cool.
Can confirm, MSP's bookstore is alive and well
39:20 Brando's Arrival at Your Name
Question for Dan or Brandon (either, or both).
Do you still write when you're really sick or exhausted? Or, do you take those as down days?
Imagine not flying to somewhere when they’ll give you $100,000 on arrival
Dan’s love of Popeye’s made me like him more than Brandon
WOOOOO, Dan is Sing Street connoisseur! I love that movie.
Also personally for me Weathering with you > Your name
MSP airport does have bookstores still. I was there a week ago. I think terminal E had one maybe two
I just gotta say, I love the theme song. 😁❤️
I'm not surprised that Turkish Airlines didn't lose any of your luggage, but an American carrier did.
I really wonder what Brandon's reaction is gonna be when he FINALLY finishes signing all those pages ? 🤔🤔😂😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂😂
"Where's the next stack?" since I don't think they're ever going to run out of leatherbounds that need signed.
There is always another stack of pages to sign. Brandon will never run out.
As soon as he's done signing for that it's onto the next book. So many books he has to start doing any big projects way in advance.
Wait. Did he say he just signs his books that are on the shelves at the book stores?
Yup
Yeah. Sometimes they ask him what he thinks he's doing and he shows them his picture.
Brandon's mentioned a few times on the podcast that he'll sneak into bookstores when he's travelling and just sign randomly. I think he usually tweets it out when he does it so fans in the area know to look for it.
Neil Gaiman and Stephen King do it too. Many authors big enough to actually have their books appear in airports do it.
I'm glad Dan and Brandon have both seen Arrival and Your Name. As someone who has seen so many different anime movies, and despite the fact that comix wave is a phenomenal studio, Your Name doesn't even come into my top 30 anime movies. Not to understate its appeal, I simply value impact and plot/character more and find many others to appeal more than Your Name. Hope you check out some other anime movies!
Dan,
Your story about moving gave me major anxiety! 😅 I can't imagine how you could move that many bags in only one trip! I once flew with 3 bags or a backpack, there just aren't enough hands!
Also what do you think about the new D&D changes?
Im curious where in Bolivia Dan went? Im from Bolivia and different cities have sometimes an annual International book fair
Sing Street is such a good movie!!!
I'm so glad Dan also loves sing street
Second try 😄
Hi Brand Sanderson ! I'm a huge fan of your work (mistborn is my favorite) and a 3D animator. Have you ever thought about creating a short CGI animation based on your books? I am a small animator from Poland and i can send you my last Animation Demo (to show you what I can do alone, without the team of animators).
Could you guys do an episode on StarCraft or other games you enjoyed playing in college?
Please talk about Your Name! I loved it
sing street! amazing please talk about movies!
So Tony the Shotglas Collector must be the inspiration for Tress mustn he?
SLC Int. is terrible. All of the gates are a 10 min walk from the main terminal in a underground tunnel that looks like it belongs in a hospital.
Question, Was there Tress video I missed yesterday?
Garrett Wang is of taiwanese descent according to Wikipedia, but was born in CA. I wonder how his parents would pronounce his name.
The weird part of that was that everyone else I've heard relay Garret Wang stories state that he's kind of a jerk. I wonder if Dan misread that interaction...
IAH has bookstores!
Rabble Rabble I'm so angry about the title of the last episode Rabble Rabble
just kidding, keep up the fun Octavia!
Yo, please talk about Arrival, I loved watching it and I don't think I totally understood it lol
I think Dan learned an important lesson during that flight home... Or at least I hope. I don't know what it would've cost to ship some of those bags home separately, but it would've been worth it to avoid that headache. Dear lord.
Im guessing Wang pronounced his name that way just because that’s how most Americans would read it. I had a professor at BYU-I whose last name was Wang that she pronounced with the long A, unless she was in her actual Chinese class in which case it would be the romanized A
English is a dumb language lol
TAMAL BOTHERS ME TOO
They could also call the podcast "...And things like that..."
The more I listen to Brandon the more broken I think the publishing industry is…
And he's the most successful in his genre. Imagine what a midlister or new author is going through.
I always like calling them tamals, so I am wrong on every level. is that better Dan?
IDK why America makes everyone change their names. My family emigrated from Germany in the early 1900s and they had to change their name spelling from "Efinger" to "Efinger." IDK why an extra F was so important!
Immigration officers mishearimg it and spelling it that way is one, or sometimes they change it themselves to fit in more. That could be a few reasons
Hey Dan there’s a movie coming out soon called Beau is Afraid. And you look just like Joaquin Phoenix on the poster
Brandon's pen drop joke comes off as so insecure, trying to call out Dan for name dropping after Brandon spent 5 minutes big timing about his schedule in Tokyo. Yikes.
Ugh, I hate flying through Atlanta. It's mayhem.
Is the Taylor you're talking about in the beginning Taylor Hatch?
Adoooonalsium