She just seems like the sweetest person.

Thank you, Merphy for acknowledging what those of us who have been into anime/manga since childhood went through 🙏

I turned this on with intentions of watching just a few minutes in between things and now I'm thirty minutes in, there is no talk about books, and I can't turn it off. You two are the best communicators on booktube and get so deep, so quick, talking about life and self-reflection. No shallow discourse on this channel. Thank you for being you Jimmy.

I need a Jimmy, Alan, and Merphy episode. Make it happen.

The replay of this stream dragged me through a 2,5 hour car drive on my way to the vacation home and I can't thank you guys enough for the top-tier entertainment!! You both have such vibrant (and slight chaotic, in Merphy's case) personalities, I love it. Amazing episode as always 🤩

Excellent as always! Always fun to see where these discussions go, barbie crocs, climbing, goosebumps and of course a bit of Brandon Sanderson 😄

Ive been listening to these almost non-stop for the past few days lol. I love the self reflection and feel the same way you guys do. I love that everytime I click on these chatting with nutts video I never know what I’m gonna get lol. Also I found your channel from your Mistborn review and appreciated that you were the only one who talked about his repetition which also bothered me too. One day I’ll read Mistborn and do a review on it 😂. But I got a whole tbr to get thru. And maybe one day I’ll be on chatting with nutts too, keep up the good work. I know this is 8mo ago but whatever haha.

I haven't read Tress but that story you told about the baked potatoes guy is absolutely wild 😱

As always, thank you Jimmy for these great chats. Murphy is such a pleasant and joyful soul to listen to. Until next time 🤓

The Millenium Series by Steig Larsson is one of my all time favourites. I hope you continue with it. Great chat as always. Top tier banter.

1:04:02 I relate to that so much with how much people take for granted. I am extremely privileged- and I am well aware- my father is a physician and I went to private school after having been in public school for most of my life. I could not believe the gall some of these people had. I remember when I dated my ex she told me how she loved pratchett and I would tell her about the different books that she might like and she told me unironically “Oh but I’m poor y’know?”… that school cost TWENTY GRAND A YEAR AT LEAST! People drive me insane sometimes.

I am looking forward to watching this!

This is my first time watching your Chatting with Nutts, and I'm entertained. Both of you are entertaining.

This was delightful.

I loved this chat. Thank you both for this. *bends knee*

This chat was wonderful!

its slappy the dummy that gets me, best goosebumps book. I don't like dolls. Childhood memories lol

raymond chandler is a pretty famous hard boil crime guy from back in the day

You guys have such a great dynamic. Y’all need to do this again! This was such a great watch/listen.

Love the Mount Rushmore question.

Just to offer up something different The Dry by Jane Harper is an Australian mystery thriller that is quite popular here. There’s also a surprisingly good film adaptation to enjoy afterward

loved

My fantasy Mt Rushmore would also change on the daily. It would have to be made of Play-Doh.

Great discussion! I hated the baked potato story in Tress too. 😂

Personal Opinion regarding Dragon ball and DBZ, Dragon ball focuses a lot on story and character compared to DBZ the Snake Way was great world building but compared to Dragon ball it provided more Character and story, where as DBZ it started what i hate a lot Power Scaling discussions.

I would recommend Dennis Lehane when it comes to mystery/crime books, especially mystic river.

Great chat guys! As per usual I barely catch these live due to time zones. I would love if you got Joe Abercrombie on the channel also 🔥

Yeah, Girl with the Dragoon Tattoo and it's 2 sequels are top tier, absolute page turners. Also consider Gillian Flynn's 3 books, Sharp Objects, Dark Places, and Gone Girl. They are damn good, (Dark Places is my personal fav of the 3).

Sorry I missed you guys hope you had fun. Haha 58 used to be my house number too 😉

I've read 19 books by Brandon Sanderson so I consider myself a fan despite the fact that I have had quite a number of people on the various fantasy forums tell me otherwise. So I'm not saying this out of spit, I like many aspects of his writing but his depictions of socal-class dynamics is questionable in a lot of his works. Sociology is not one of his strong suits when it comes to his world-building. I found that scene in Tress completely eye rolling when I read it.

I just started reading Frankenstein. The first sci-fi novel? Have seen film adaptations, but realized I had not read it. My follow-up to reading Lud-in-the-Mist early fantasy.

😂 Good god…Triceps and Trilogies. I need that in my life haha

Jimmy, Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag is a fantastic pirate game. Blackbeard, Black Bart, Mary Read, Anne Bonnie, and Calico Jack (the one responsible for the skull and crossbones and inspiration for Jack Sparrow) are in it. Mary and Anne were fantastic in that game.

I need a shirt with a picture of Brandon Sanderson saying" Let them eat potatoes".

1:25:35 😮 Merphy I should have known.

Really enjoyed this chat! I think you should go roll with that UFC guy ;) just tap early.

Love this combo, Just wish i had more than nuggets for this video.. but i watched it all.

What is it with Sanderson and poop... Like

Catching up on this and got to the part about you wanting to read thrillers/crime. I was always a fantasy horror sci-fi guy but about a year or so got into crime thrillers (predominately American, mostly because I have a fascination with the southern US) and there’s some great stuff out there. Suggestions: Razorblade Tears and Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper Bull Mountain by Brian Panovich Ohio by Stephen Markley These are all relatively modern, some older ones would Devil All The Time by Donald Ray Pollock or any of Joe Lansdale’s stuff Excuse my excitement - it’s not often I find fantasy readers who are interested in this stuff as well

For a thriller mystery series that I feel explores a lot of disturbing things in an interesting way I would suggest the Charlie Parker series by John Connolly

yay

Only halfway in, but I want that hairstyling video, Jimmy. 😂 It's clearly a booktube ritual 😂

Delightful

I loved hearing you talk, it was great, thnks I would really want u guys to read great comics too, I feel its been forgotten I really recommend Mr Miracle by Tom King and Supergirl by Tom King too, also Daytriper by Gabriel ba and Fabio Moon, Saga is great and the Nice House on the Lake is awesome, Monstress too. I hope u get a chance to read them Sandman is great too

Communing with the Nuttgod. 🙏

HELL YEAH MERPHY!!! I saw Merphy so I click...

JAKE BISHOP DOES HAVE A VIDEO ON WHERE TO START GGK. This has been wildly entertaining.

Jimmy, you asked for mystery/crime/thriller recommendations during this chat, my recs would be Speaks the Nightbird and Gone South, both by Robert McCammon. Gone South is a Southern Gothic thriller about a Vietnam War veteran on the run after committing murder, being chased by bounty hunters through the Louisiana swamps and bayous. It's absolutely phenomenal. One of the author's shortest novels at only 400 pages, it's riveting from beginning to end with great characters, great action and suspense, and builds to a perfect ending both explosive and emotionally powerful. Speaks the Nightbird is an epic length, meticulously crafted, 800 page slow burn historical mystery "whodunit" about a woman accused of witchcraft in 1699 colonial America, and the two magistrates who travel to the colony to conduct the trail. It's a masterpiece, with some of the best dialogue and character work I've ever seen. Boy's Life is arguably McCammon's most beloved book and has a murder mystery at its core, but it isn't the main focus of the story. I remember you saying in another video that this would be your next McCammon, but if you're wanting to get into mystery/thrillers Gone South and Speak the Nightbird are two of the best you'll ever read.

As someone that's read manga for like 20 years, since i was in high school, its so weird to see it so widely accepted now. Now I just eagerly await the day when Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin gets its due as one of the greatest manga ever. But The Witch and The Beast is a great new manga for fans of dark gruesome fantasy

Based on what you said about wanting to read a book where the writer plays with the perspective of whodunnit, I have to recommend Iain Banks' Complicity. I haven't read it yet myself, it's likely going to be my next Banks, but my understanding is that it's this cat and mouse play between a Glaswegian reporter and a serial killer, where the reporter is trying to do an exposé on the serial killer, and you know where this is going. But the trick is that it keeps shifting between 1st and 2nd person, I think. Might be 3rd and 2nd person. Would make more sense to me if it's 1st and 2nd. Anyway the reporter chapters are written in 1st or 3rd, and then the drug dealer chapters are written in 2nd, by the reporter, so even the perspectives are doing a cat and mouse play.

Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is awesome! Also you said you enjoyed Hannibal the TV show, so I can't recommend the trilogy of books enough! Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal the novel. They're all great. But it's a more grounded take of psychological crime thriller, whereas the show is super operatic and surreal and all that good stuff.

It's a good thing Mount Rushmore has 4 people, because picking 4 is easy for me. If it was only 3 I would be screwed.

The Alienist by Caleb Carr is an excellent psychological crime mystery historical fiction semi-thriller. It’s like Criminal Minds in the late 1800s.

The🐀 queen is here

Damn yes Hunter X Hunter! The anime versions are both really good. I started with the oldschool one cause I like the oldschool style and then switched to the modern one. Togashi has serious back problems and from a certain point onwards was not able to really draw anymore. His wife (she did Sailor Moon) helped him out a lot, but the art style suffers and it is in parts barely readable, so I focused on the anime although I usually read the manga whereever possible. But with Hellsing (edit: Hellsing Ultimate) and Neon Genesis Evangelion I also watched the anime which are just so good 😌

Only halfway through but already felt like i heard so much life wisdom from you two, all praises to the Nuttgod

When you said Yes Man by Jim Carrey,you confirmed to me that you are cool af Jimmy 😁❤️💯

I read manga for the first time because of Merphy.

Hey Jimmy, I just saw news that Kevin Smith is in the process of making “Tusk 2”.

This is easily one of the best episodes of chatting with nutts we've had. You two have such great chemistry and share an energy that seeps through the screen. Would absolutely love if we could get more Merphy on dudes talking manga for One Piece discussions! 🙏

Merphy has 400k subs since when? She really has been moving up there her content is amazing

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is good, but books 2 and 3 that follow are next level. The difference is that book 1 is lower stakes and a bit more tempered with a family-related mystery, whereas the rest of the trilogy ups the stakes and cranks up the thriller elements with far-reaching crime and conspiracy.

As if Jimbo Treblor Warleader couldn't fight off a shark cmon man who are you kidding!! Witness

Danille and jimmy Berserk time make it happen!!

I'm not the biggest fan of Hunter X Hunter but I'm echoing the statement that Chimera Ant is amazing and I'm sure you'd love it. One of the best arcs in manga

Jimmy, i would recommend you to binge WoT in audio on ~2x speed. i do feel that the series would only benefit if it had no more than 7 books and a decent editor. presonally, i only consider 13th book in the series as a great one and 14th as absolutely amazing and wholly worth the journey, but the rest is average at best. even the early installments that are beloved by the community felt very sloggish at times and contain a lot of unnecessary stuff. some plot threads are just revolving around in circles, as well as the characters themselves were trapped in deadlocks of their personalities and kept repeating the same mistakes over and over, again and again.

Merphy Napier is a wise woman

I read past the post-digestion story as just dumb. Having worked as a zookeeper for a few years... Dealt with more of that than most. Pretty sure he intended it as a butterfly effect.

Jimmy, I'm in a bit of a rut. I want to start reading fantasy series again but then I get so overwhelmed i don't read anything and I don't know what I should do about?

No way is your name Jimmy 😭 because I just thought you looked like Jimmy neutron from the cartoon LMAO!!!

I don't think you're as stupid as you think. You take really good messages from books in my opinion. When you bring something up I always go "Woah! How did I miss this?!"

I am new to Jimmy and i am now very curious about his In-ring career like what titles he won, what was his finish etc

The Moral of the story isn’t that the poop guy ruined it for everyone, it’s that you can’t give everyone the same as the poop guy or you’ll run out of potatoes, negotiate other shit instead

Sounds like that poop got got a lil greedy. How can you ask for twice the reward without doing twice the work? Idk man if injustice makes you angry strap in for One Piece, which of course is the greatest story ever told by man or god.

If you wanna start Crime / Thrillers then avoid James Patterson

Jimmy if you’re going to read mysteries or crime, PLEASE READ ARSENE LUPIN GENTLEMEN BURGLAR

Great chat Jimmy! Do you have a recommendation for a YT channel for beginner coding? I just got laid off so my free time has suddenly increased lol

Where'd you go to college for accounting, if you don't mind me asking? Colorado State?

I think the poop story in Tress is meant to be a poor moral. Having such a poor moral presented to Tress encouraged her to reject it. It then acts as a motivator for her to be proactive instead of passive within her story. The intention is to force you to confront the story.

1:21:51 One Piece

Hot take, db is better than dbz.