One Nerd in Omaha! (Live from Dragonsteel MiniCon) - Ep. 32 of Intentionally Blank

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  • čas přidán 11. 07. 2024
  • Brandon and Dan start the episode off by trying to make a good idea from Brandon's bad one before turning the topic of their conversation to their convention experiences and their journey to getting published through the convention scene.
    You can join the discussion and vote for your favorite podcast title at r/sanderson: / sanderson
    Can be listened to almost everywhere podcasts can be found.
    Produced by Adam Horne
    Sound engineering and editing by Daniel Thompson
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Komentáře • 116

  • @dumpster_fiyah
    @dumpster_fiyah Před 2 lety +104

    So, I saw this and said to myself: Oh wow! He's not signing a giant stack of autographs in this one. They're usually pretty good when he's only halfway paying attention. This one's going to be even better.

  • @michaelgunn8752
    @michaelgunn8752 Před 2 lety +70

    I love the absence of toxic energy in this comment section, it's one of the few I still read because not only is the creator interactive but the fans also have so much to add thats genuinely enjoyable to read.

  • @fiachnaodonnell7895
    @fiachnaodonnell7895 Před 2 lety +106

    That crowd back and forth was so funny

    • @ekt242
      @ekt242 Před 2 lety +6

      It was even better to be on the other side of the wall. We really were cheering in response. And we knew that it was being recorded. So I have been waiting to hear how Brandon reacted. And he does not disappoint.

    • @Duiker36
      @Duiker36 Před 2 lety +6

      I swear, two big groups of people cheering back and forth across a wall is always going to be funny.

  • @hunterkat
    @hunterkat Před 2 lety +44

    This entire opening was hilarious

  • @Grunik1618
    @Grunik1618 Před 2 lety +60

    What I would give to be a fly on the wall of one of Brandon's writing groups.
    Maybe they could record one and release it years later once all of the material has either been released or discarded.

    • @ChristmasLore
      @ChristmasLore Před 2 lety +4

      Isn't that very close to what Writing Excuses podcast is about?🤔

  • @bIuecrimson
    @bIuecrimson Před 2 lety +67

    I want to see bran-dan play wacky dnd now.

    • @althechicken9597
      @althechicken9597 Před 2 lety +3

      Me too! It would be the most entertaining absurd adventure ever!

    • @RealAkerbos
      @RealAkerbos Před 2 lety +1

      Have Matt Mercer DM; he'll never complain about Sam Riegel again.

    • @davidarmstrong3302
      @davidarmstrong3302 Před 2 lety

      I would love to run that game.

  • @leopardscanfly
    @leopardscanfly Před 2 lety +27

    2:04 perfectly synced wheeze

  • @chrisashford3379
    @chrisashford3379 Před 2 lety +10

    On Freefall Burrito City: Good Lord, the plumbing...

  • @coreypodwinski4428
    @coreypodwinski4428 Před 2 lety +31

    As a nerd from Omaha I have to listen to this!

  • @odiums_taint
    @odiums_taint Před 2 lety +14

    freefall world, water gathering: solve with high humidity? water condensing/collecting on objects as they travel through. also can solve the plant growing issue. the characters not requiring the same oxygen levels as earth-bound humans can free you up to get pretty thick with moisture levels.

  • @daisuke133
    @daisuke133 Před 2 lety +8

    Since it wasn't said, I will now speak the words.
    How's that Ben ?

  • @FallenAdam
    @FallenAdam Před 2 lety +6

    My brain just immediately jumped to the first book in Death Gate Cycle at the mention of a city in perpetual free fall. I know it's not that, but I can't get it out of my head now.

  • @tatatatira
    @tatatatira Před 2 lety +7

    dude dan wells is an interesting person, love his personality

  • @rickmmakes
    @rickmmakes Před 2 lety +12

    Free fall world sounds like you are stuck in orbit around a planet with a large atmosphere.

  • @madiantin
    @madiantin Před 2 lety +7

    2:00 Hahahaha! That boo! Hilarious. =D
    This has seriously become my favourite thing to watch. I look forward to it every week. And every week when it starts I'm all, "How can two guys shooting the breeze possibly be interesting? This is going to be boring." And then every week at the end of the episode I'm all, "Oh my gosh that was SO fun!"
    Ben's cameo was fabulous. His point was hilarious.
    I did miss the "How was that, Ben?" as you both look into the camera though.

  • @TheDiabeticGameMaster
    @TheDiabeticGameMaster Před 2 lety +16

    Man, I wish I had friends who were also writers. It sounds so great to have somebody who has your back and also understands what you are going through. My wife is the best but she isn't a writer so no matter how I explain it to her, eventually, at some point, her eyes glaze over. Super jealous.

  • @lonsunokrogan
    @lonsunokrogan Před 2 lety +15

    This panel was so much fun to be a part of. Can't wait till next minicon thanks Not Dan and Not Brandon!

  • @Trethan3266
    @Trethan3266 Před 2 lety +9

    I was here live! It was amazing!! I hope you have this mini con again.

  • @Richardiii2
    @Richardiii2 Před 2 lety +4

    If there is ever a Sanderson Biopic, it must include the Chinese spaghetti story.

  • @c.a.mcdivitt9722
    @c.a.mcdivitt9722 Před 2 lety +6

    Well, nine minutes in and I've nearly pulled my stiches laughing again...

  • @ivanfiodorov6429
    @ivanfiodorov6429 Před 2 lety +9

    would love to see Brandon and Dan play dnd on this channel!

  • @superiorgo2368
    @superiorgo2368 Před 2 lety +4

    I read Brandon's name card as "Not Well" 3 times before I clued in.

  • @andrewberenson5717
    @andrewberenson5717 Před 2 lety +8

    Happy New Year to Brandon and Dan (as well as the rest of the Dragonsteel team)

  • @SunRayz3r
    @SunRayz3r Před 19 dny

    The amount of passive aggressiveness when cheering in response to the Wheel of Time panel, is amazing!

  • @farmgirlsauer3861
    @farmgirlsauer3861 Před 2 lety +2

    This is one of MY FAVORITE ones!!!
    So ENJOYABLE!!

  • @storieswithc
    @storieswithc Před 2 lety +4

    I want to watch a completely absurdist DnD campaign with Brandon and Dan now 😂

  • @alex626ification
    @alex626ification Před 2 lety +7

    I have never been to a Con before, but i really want to go.

  • @bossgbini
    @bossgbini Před 2 lety

    Two of my Top 10 authors. I'm so happy watching these two. I'm gonna shake their hands someday. And hopefully be on a panel with them. Have my WIP going on. They inspire me!

  • @beowulfshaeffer8444
    @beowulfshaeffer8444 Před 2 lety +6

    I think that free-fall city could fall through a cloud layer repeatedly to avoid the problem of holding your breath. Then the people there could just take it for granted that clouds come from below, but it would be a good clue to the readers that the city is falling through an infinite loop.

    • @durazno4948
      @durazno4948 Před 2 lety +4

      They could also have great big mesh nets to scoop water out of the clouds and collect them in basins.

  • @Florfilm
    @Florfilm Před 2 lety

    Awesome panel. Such good chemistry, especially if they are live.

  • @crt5866
    @crt5866 Před 2 lety +5

    I love the name tags

  • @Mariannl5
    @Mariannl5 Před 2 lety +2

    Barbara Hambly was at the "BYU Science Fiction Writers Symposium".

  • @daegraith6524
    @daegraith6524 Před 2 lety +2

    XD "Triangle Success" reminds me of when Dan said "Triangle Money" at TABC to describe James Dashner. It's a goal of mine to meet him one day and send the reference back to him.

  • @Hevensxj
    @Hevensxj Před 2 lety +1

    These are never long enough 😩

  • @billyalarie929
    @billyalarie929 Před 2 lety +1

    that "Sword of Truth" joke is especially funny, for a lot of reasons.
    not least of which is we still all DEFINITELY agree that joking about Terry Goodkind even after his death is absolutely not a foul on the play.

  • @bonniemcknight5289
    @bonniemcknight5289 Před 2 lety

    I got to be at this one in person, and one thing the video can't do justice to is the way Ben just sat at the other table, feet up, just completely judging them. It was really just perfect

  • @reaganorton1710
    @reaganorton1710 Před 2 lety +1

    I’ve missed being able to randomly mention burrito world. This was just as great as it was live

  • @eldestmissbear4235
    @eldestmissbear4235 Před 2 lety +1

    Dang it! I'm laughing too hard! I can't listen to this while trying to write a college admissions essay about my faith! I'll have to listen later. :(

  • @JackDespero
    @JackDespero Před 2 lety +2

    Dear Brandon, your idea of a city in perpetual falling state already exists: It is the International Space Station. The "weightless" feeling inside the ISS is caused by this state of perpetual fall.

    • @calebmauer1751
      @calebmauer1751 Před měsícem

      I think the key thing was that it's an open air city with breathable oxygen, not necessarily just a contained space station. Karl Schroeder's Virga books have a giant balloon the size of a planet that has breathable oxygen but insufficient mass for there to be a noticeable gravitational pull, so they all live on like floating towns and can fly around on like fan-powered ships. Close enough I'd say. Can't remember how they got water though, I guess condensation?

  • @Tosiemary1
    @Tosiemary1 Před 2 lety +1

    Perpetually Falling Burrito world!! Please please please write this!!
    Also I was there at Dragonsteel so this is cool.

  • @lexyprice4753
    @lexyprice4753 Před 2 lety

    You're killing me! Do you know how hard it is to laugh with bronchitis? I'm also a Nebraska nerd.

  • @ZombieKnight13
    @ZombieKnight13 Před 2 lety +2

    So I was there for this and saw Brandon and thought he was a cosplayer at first lmao. Goodtimes lol

  • @darmokandjalad7786
    @darmokandjalad7786 Před 2 lety +3

    Would be nice to see Dave on the podcast or a livestream!

  • @reillyliner
    @reillyliner Před 2 lety +4

    LOL sword of truth

  • @Josh-bs3ru
    @Josh-bs3ru Před 2 lety +3

    I can confirm, I am a huge nerd for fantasy and sci-fi as well as football. Me being a nerd is part of the reason WHY I am such a fan of football and I don't watch other sports. Football is like chess, in violent motion.

  • @zachtaylor8222
    @zachtaylor8222 Před 2 lety +3

    dan is so cool

  • @homefrykl
    @homefrykl Před 2 lety +3

    Entertaining that they're explaining cons at a con. Very enjoyable though

  • @Sybato
    @Sybato Před 2 lety +3

    Maybe only part of the perpetual free fall city gets water and that could be part of the conflict, also Tuesday needs to be called Taco Tuesday.

  • @NahlaAnwer
    @NahlaAnwer Před 2 lety

    I have major FOMO right now. I hope I could go to one of these in the future.

  • @Cooldito1111
    @Cooldito1111 Před 2 lety +2

    Guacamole Day is my fav

  • @jacknixon2812
    @jacknixon2812 Před rokem

    stormlight's massive storm is just threadfall from the Pern series

  • @jholewczynski
    @jholewczynski Před 2 lety +4

    Isn't this basically Dragon Wing from the Death Gate Cycle?

  • @jacknixon2812
    @jacknixon2812 Před rokem

    and bioshock infinite's columbia is, technically a city in freefall, but the paritcle just never hit the ground

  • @andrewbacon3583
    @andrewbacon3583 Před 2 lety

    There's bound to be a way condensation could form that they could collect.

  • @rationalagent6927
    @rationalagent6927 Před rokem

    A free fall city is just a space station

  • @danielhuras617
    @danielhuras617 Před 2 lety

    The freefall world sounds like a nightmare. Turbulence would tear everything apart. Where do you get resources? You can't mine, you can't farm.

  • @anotherone5235
    @anotherone5235 Před 2 lety

    "We didn't know what we were doing" ... Do you know, what you're doing _now_, Dan?

  • @MarioMjoed
    @MarioMjoed Před 2 lety +12

    uhh.. the ISS is basically the perpetually falling city you speak of :D

    • @cmdrenfuego
      @cmdrenfuego Před 2 lety +1

      Yes, minus the Chick-fil-A and the waterfall :)

  • @KS-ui4hi
    @KS-ui4hi Před 2 lety +2

    I want the freefall burrito city book please

  • @d.j.mulcahy1657
    @d.j.mulcahy1657 Před 2 lety

    As an aspiring writer myself, one issue I've tended to have is figuring out which stories I should focus on. I have two current story ideas that I both like, but I don't know which one should be written first. What advice would you give for someone with this dilemma? Should I focus more on writing my most fleshed-out stories or the most recent one I came up with?

  • @SaltySolomon
    @SaltySolomon Před 2 lety +1

    Welph, the pure lake is never the same to me niw...

  • @l.mcmanus3983
    @l.mcmanus3983 Před 2 lety

    I just had an add for an Elantra. Which makes me think of Elantris. Coincidence?

  • @Hubert99999
    @Hubert99999 Před 2 lety

    4:23 so basically if space had gravity and earth didn't lol

  • @KHicks697
    @KHicks697 Před 2 lety

    I am so so sad I had to work 😭

  • @jamcdonald120
    @jamcdonald120 Před 2 lety

    14:45 "Brandon and Dan cant both be players"

  • @auntied4950
    @auntied4950 Před 2 lety

    💚

  • @KHicks697
    @KHicks697 Před 2 lety

    Has anyone seen those water sphere's? Could that work in the walling world? And animals and plants, don't they just adapt to their environment over time?

  • @zenthepoet.
    @zenthepoet. Před 2 lety +6

    Adoooonalsiiiiium

  • @lonsunokrogan
    @lonsunokrogan Před 2 lety

    Burrito world!!!!!

  • @aenea22980
    @aenea22980 Před 2 lety

    Isn't Brandon's bad idea already a book by Ben Bova? I can't think of the name, or even if it's Ben Bova but I read this scifi novel before...

  • @sheilaklein3822
    @sheilaklein3822 Před 2 lety +1

    Okay, so I seem to be the only person that doesn't know this since I went through a bunch of comments and didn't see this question: who is Ben? Maybe it just gets answered later or everyone knows who is at the con, but I haven't seen it yet.

    • @bonniemcknight5289
      @bonniemcknight5289 Před 2 lety +3

      Ben is their friend they refer to all the time, the one who gave them a hard time for not having an outro :)

  • @AlanGrover1010
    @AlanGrover1010 Před 2 lety

    The best book about Cons is Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones

  • @Sakiya876
    @Sakiya876 Před 2 lety +1

    It’s great that before graduation Brandon found the friends he wished he’d had all through school. God works in amazing ways.

  • @SALdosry
    @SALdosry Před 2 lety +2

    Intentionally names swapped

  • @cozi8097
    @cozi8097 Před 2 lety

    lolol

  • @LiorTamir
    @LiorTamir Před 2 lety

    Your not name tags are everything.

  • @krishbohra5536
    @krishbohra5536 Před 2 lety +1

    The fact that their names are exchanged . . .

    • @trielt1
      @trielt1 Před 2 lety +2

      I was trying to puzzle out why it says "NOT Brandon Sanderson" and "NOT Dan Wells" and it just clicked.

    • @krishbohra5536
      @krishbohra5536 Před 2 lety +2

      @@trielt1 I feel foolish . . .

    • @kyrroti9921
      @kyrroti9921 Před 2 lety +2

      I was there in person. They only had one of their two names available up front. Brandon(?) gave his name to Dan and wrote NOT up top. When Dan’s name arrived, he wrote NOT on his and gave it to Brandon. I could’ve gotten them mixed up, if so replace Dan with Brandon, and Brandon with Dan.

  • @beowulfshaeffer8444
    @beowulfshaeffer8444 Před 2 lety +2

    Wait a second, Brandon's a producer on the WOT show? Was he involved in the screenwriting at all?

    • @bz6046
      @bz6046 Před 2 lety +4

      no just puts his input in sometimes they listen sometimes they don't.

    • @beowulfshaeffer8444
      @beowulfshaeffer8444 Před 2 lety

      @@bz6046 Okay, that makes sense now :)

    • @solprovider5385
      @solprovider5385 Před 2 lety

      Brandon Sanderson wrote WoT books 12‐14 after Robert Jordan died, si Brandon is the only available official resource. He is producer, sometimes consultant, not a television "writer" which is full-time career.

    • @Duiker36
      @Duiker36 Před 2 lety +1

      @@solprovider5385 Robert Jordan's wife is still alive and has the same credit that Brandon does on the show. She gives even less input, but she was the one who picked Brandon to finish the books.

  • @akanlian
    @akanlian Před 2 lety

    Ranked Dungeons and Dragons

  • @rodee1671
    @rodee1671 Před 2 lety +1

    Omaha?

    • @Grunik1618
      @Grunik1618 Před 2 lety +1

      City in Nebraska, the state in which Brandon was born.

    • @gordo6908
      @gordo6908 Před 2 lety +1

      somewhere in middle america

  • @TheDragon160
    @TheDragon160 Před 2 lety +1

    Did you report me for calling you a schill?
    Take it. You and harriet allowed rafe to ruin robert jordans masterpiece!