Oh my gosh me too! And theres a picture too!

I actually forgot so this was a pleasant surprise.

What story?

@@vincentpelletier57 Dan mentioned the meat suitcase story last week and asked us not to look it up.

I did my due diligence!!

GOAT comment

Same here! Love hearing from Dan as much as Brandon

They’re are great and work well off each , also because of their deep friendship.

Came for Brandon Sanderson; didn’t have the stamina for Dan Wells

OMG I WAS SUPPOSED TO SAY THIS😭

Yesss this is so true.

Yep, completely agree

Agree on that. I didn't like Rogue One, and I thought Andor was the best Star Wars has been since Empire Strikes Back.

*Agreed was pretty mixed on Rogue One and thought Andor was superb*

Oh no, you like the thing! Did you not know that Thing Bad? You must be uncultured swine for liking Thing Bad. I bet you've never seen Thing Good, it is so much better than Thing Bad. I am better than you.

i feel like im taking crazy pills here - . if you like the show, and he doesn't, there are clearly things you *dont* agree on. highlighting that there are probably many things you have in common with the show is not an "explanation of why he doesn't like andor" - in fact, it's almost the opposite! very frustrating and strange, like just dig in and tell us man. i can only assume this is a religious/moral issue with how guarded he acts about it.

@@ifuckinglovenurdrage I don’t think so. I think he is not wanting to talk specifics until Brandon has seen it. I am his same religion and I can’t see anything that he would be unhappy with. Like he said, he loved most of it until the very end. I’m guessing that he doesn’t like how morally grey Luthen is, or perhaps he didn’t like the battle at the end of the last episode. He mentioned that he likes Star Wars to be campy and Andor changes that a lot, making the Empire more understandable and the Rebels not as heroic. Andor also gives a lot more meaning to death, whereas in normal Star Wars people either never die or millions of Storm Troopers die and nobody cares. I’m guessing that those are his issues but he won’t talk about it until Brandon has seen it. In regards to us agreeing about most things, I think he would agree with me that the show is well written, that the acting is great, that the shots are beautiful, etc, it just isn’t the type of show that he enjoys to watch. He said that he knows that it is good as a work of art, but that is different than enjoying it.

@@Panamaniac3D Yeah I agree I think he likes thinking of the rebels as the good guys and the empire as the bad guys which Andor does show some of. I think the whole "the ends justify the means" attitude is part of Dans issue with the rebels though and paints them more like the empire than he likes, even if its compelling it ruins his image of the rebels. I think it's similar to how I feel about Luke in episode 8, even if it is a compelling story or interesting take it ruins my image of Uncorruptable Jedi Knight Luke from episode 6.

@@Panamaniac3D original Star Wars isn’t campy and the modern trend making things morally grey and realistic is both nihilistic and lacking in imagination.

@@ifuckinglovenurdrage I have no moral complaints about the show, I just didn't enjoy it, and I don't see any value in sharing my thoughts on why because it feels like pooping on a thing that a lot of people love. I prefer to recommend things I love rather than bash things I dislike. But, if you insist: I liked maybe five of the episodes, but found most of it to be poorly-paced and dull. Some of the side characters are fantastic (I literally started watching Killing Eve just because of how much I liked Fiona Shaw in Andor, and I would watch that cranky Imperial Intelligence guy in literally anything), but others--particularly Andor himself--were wooden and bland. The production design was great, but I'd prefer to watch something interesting while admiring sets and costumes. Overall it was a pretty boring slog that had very little to say and ended up going nowhere; that's why the last episode turned me off so hard, because they cut a lot of narrative corners for not much payoff. I hear "it's the most mature Star Wars series" a lot, and sure, I guess, but that's an extremely low bar, and compared to any number of other political or espionage dramas (Slow Horses, Tehran, etc.) I found it facile and superficial. A Child's Treasury of Espionage Cliches, that seems to treat "joyless" and "important" as synonyms. But I also recognize that a lot of people found things in it that I didn't, and that's okay. We're both right. I'm not trying to convince anyone not to like it, because people like different things. Like what you want to like. In the spirit of recommending rather than bashing, here's a list of shows I've watched in 2022 and adored: Slow Horses, Tehran, Russian Doll, Reservation Dogs, The Crown, and of course what might be my favorite show of all time: Derry Girls.

Plot twist: Dan has decorated his side. He simply happens to have the same stuff as Brandon, and really just wanted the mental comfort of knowing that it was HIS stuff around him.

They are also just fenced in by a strong magnet

I was totally about to bring up Jenny once Avatar fans were mentioned lol

UK here - same for the big stores!

@@aristeo7495 thanks! I’ll check it out

This! I think people forget that Star Wars or Star Trek had a constant influx of material in several mediums after their debut. Meanwhile, for Avatar there was just one film, for 13 years. It seems weird to compare those two different scenarios, so much.

They have them at most stores on the west coast of America. The worst part is the often lock up halfway through parking lot sometimes, especially of you park in the back.

@@metumortis6323 gross! I am not very familiar with large American shopping centers, but there are so many better ways to handle shopping carts.

@@galmannmedbart well cart theft is pretty common in places with a lot of homeless and unfortunately the west coast of America has a lot of that. But yeah there has got to be a better way. Certainly a less annoying one

@@galmannmedbart how would you handle the repeated and steady theft of your shopping carts if you owned a shopping center? At least the locking up thing is non-violent and non-confrontational.

@@metumortis6323 I am 100% sure that replacing cats is cheaper than developing and implementing geo-locked carts. I figure one of the big problems is that they have set up a system where there are paid employees going around to fetch the carts is the incentive here.

Lol, altough why would getting them on trash taste lead to them sharing anime opinions is that something they talk about on that podcast. Never heard that

@@melvinlinderoth7108 Garnt, Connor and Joey are mostly known for their content relating to anime, and it usually comes up when they have guests on. Considering the occasion, I'd imagine it'd have to get brought up if Sanderson appeared on the podcast

Don’t think Brandon watches anime

@@reflexjat3822 He's a known Cowboy Bebop fan, and I know he's at least knowledgeable about Berserk, and likely knows some others. He may not be a fan of modern anime, but from what I know he's experienced it in his own way

Man that will awesome!!!

same, also even as a teenager was always comparing Avatar with ATLA and how ATLA was superior.

@@Kurodarkness Oh ATLA is very superior!

I believe this happened because, for a long time, there was just one Avatar film. That's it. Meanwhile, other stories like Star Wars, Star Trek, and many others had a constant influx of content for decades after their debut.

@@glass12 I think you hit on the key point. If there was an avatar movie every 3-4 years for a decade, people would remember and be impacted by it much more.

I mean, people also often get annoyed if a story has its themes with the subtly of hitting you on the head with a hammer. That was certainly Avatar. I even overall agree with a lot of its "themes", but they felt like: MILITARY BAD! ECOLOGY GOOD! COLONIALISM BAD! Theoretically interesting points to make, but when made with such a lack of subtly -- it's hard to not roll your eyes and say WTF.

You can kinda control it. On the positive side, taste can be acquired and refined; on the negative side, you can convince yourself to like something you actually don't, or convince yourself to dislike something you do. If you deliberately immerse yourself in certain cultural contexts and pick up different value systems, then different narratives and artistic choices are going to appeal to you. It's not cut-and-dried cause-and-effect or anything, but it's also not a purely intrinsic thing the way you're trying to say.

Plot twist: “Unobtanium” has been a term used by engineers since the 1950s for materials with absurd cost or that don’t even exist.

I truly believe Avatar is more than a cash grab. The ideas and developments that occur in this second movie really add to the universe and paint a truly fantastical and crazy sci-fi story for future installments. I'm excited.

I can appreciate that the Godfather is a perfect movie. Acting, cinematography, dialogue, music, all that. But I just don't like the films, I just can't get behind the mobster stuff.

What I love the most about Avatar are the characters. The world is impressive, but having these characters guiding me in the process of exploring it is what really makes me interested in the evolving story and what the future holds for the franchise.

Lol West Coast (California) too, everywhere but Utah I guess Lol