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Show Notes:
- Intro (0:00-0:19)
- Fleshman Family Birthday Celebrations (0:19-22:36)
- Food Fight
- Dunk Tank
- Obstacle Course
- Jedi Training
- Home Demolition?!? (can we upload one of these and link to it?)
- Weird Al’s UHF: Stanley Spadowski’s Clubhouse
- Levels of Nerd-ness (22:36-28:17)
- The nerd secret handshake: W00t
- Level 1: Console gamers
- Level 2: *serious* Board gamers
- Level 3: Role-Playing Games (RPGs)
- Level 4: LARP?
- The nerd secret handshake: W00t
- Russia’s morning commute (28:71-42:03)
- British word of the day (42:03-44:10)
- “push the boat out” (American: splurge)
- Informal – British
- Be lavish in one’s spending or celebrations.
- “push the boat out” (American: splurge)
- Ben & Josh’s Book Club – Mistborn: The Final Empire, book 1 of the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson (44:10-1:51:50)
- Subversion of expectations
- Kelsior is good at this from the start and Vin learns quickly (not the usual way for this sort of thing)
- Character focus – self-discovery & transformation theme throughout the series
- The characters feel like real people
- Vin’s central conflict is learning to trust people
- Hard vs. Soft Magic Systems
- “There’s always another secret”
- Sanderson’s 3 laws of magic
- Sanderson’s First Law – An author’s ability to solve conflict with magic in a satisfying way is DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL to how well the reader understands said magic.[1]
- Sanderson’s Second Law – Weaknesses (also Limits and Costs) are more interesting than powers[2]
- Sanderson’s Third Law – Expand on what you have already, before you add something new. If you change one thing, you change the world.[3]
- “New ideas are like new tastes…the older you are, the harder they are to stomach.” -Menace
- “Do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don’t think so. That’s what makes the betrayal hurt so much.” -Kelsior
- “What is belief if you can’t continue it after failure?” -Sayzid
- Kelsier’s 11:
- George Clooney as Kelsier
- Matt Damon as Vin
- Julia Roberts as Elend Venture
- Brad Pitt as Sazed
- Andy Garcia as The Lord Ruler
- Subversion of expectations
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- Ripped from the headlines story that actually happened to Ben
- Book club discussion for next time:
- Scarcity: Why having too little means so much by economist Sendhil Mullainathan and psychologist Eldar Shafir For next time… (1:51:50-1:52:53)
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