Today’s warmup focuses on our complacency in menu innovation (skip to 7:30 if you’ll hear no criticisms of fast food). Big apologies to Fetch and Oats are due, turns out they did get pretty creative with fundraising. No one is asking but we’ve got some constructive criticism for the Pits of Homage and have developed a pretty good ranking system for our lot landers.

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Things are ROUGH for these half-orcs y’all so it’s a good thing they are all optimistic and encouraging! Dan thinks we need some new priorities in Winsome, while Luke proves to be a much more discerning reader than Dan. Who is this skinny turd boy and why is he the key to everything? Lastly, for a brief moment in your day, picture milking a horse. Ha I tricked you; now you can’t stop thinking about milking a horse.

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Looks like Dan’s plan for sneaking spheres is out, but never give up folks. Research funding must be way down in Alethi society right now because we don’t know anything about these Parshendi and it’s wild! Also Dan finally convinces Luke not to wear frillies on the plains. Brandon never disappoints with finales so stick around for the highlight reel.

Next week we are starting The True Bastards by Jonathan French! This is book two of the series so go read the Grey Bastards if you haven’t already.

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Luke hits us with a blast from the past (6:20 to skip). Dan suggests a silver lining to chasm duty and Luke is *emotional*. We also find out why Luke isn’t a regular blood donor or a member of the Heralds. Also, Dan actually provides some real life knowledge in this episode. Finally, the best laid plans of mice and men…really need some work apparently. You know what, maybe they weren’t the best laid plans.

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To get us warmed up Dan wants to reframe our generational nerd terminology (skip to 7:30 for book discussion). Bring Luke some frilly laces to throw on under his jacket, it honestly looks great and Dalinar needs to refine his arguments a little. Dan is sick and tired of us exploiting our limited natural resources. Sustainable living y’all. Also what’s your SPM?

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Of course Luke and Dan are gonna talk about the limitations of having a safehand and the power of these eyebrows. Luke points out which spren would be the most embarrassing to see and Dan postulates about what to transform this rock into. Finally, this family doesn’t need money they need therapy ASAP.

Happy Holidays!

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Today we’re starting off with a rant that everyone is going to relate to (skip to 6:30 for Rage of Dragons). I’m not the bravest person in the world but surrendering in this case seems great, right? Also find out why Tau is all brawn and no brains and who is winning in the demon world leaderboard. Next week we are starting the Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, read the first quarter of the book!

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Dan may have his dumbest warm-up rant yet and Luke decides to add his own magic to the mix (9:45 to skip). Dan is pissed about the Chosen’s abstinence only education BS. Luke isn’t very on board with these "Gifted" and the boys take a strong position against ableism. Also if anyone can send us a picture of an avocado tree that would be super useful for part of a future discussion I am sure.

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If you were worried about Dan after last episode let us put your fears to rest before getting to the book. Finally we’re back to dragons, and we’re already going deep into the pros and cons of dragon scale swords. Big winner for this section; wood! Have we been underrating good quality wood? And yes Dan mispronounces Lekan this whole episode.

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Luke is concerned that he may be sharing too much, and Dan definitely shares too much (please skip to 6:00). Dan needs to get deeper into a comment from the subreddit. Luke and Dan have some suggestions for this empire, mostly fortifications based. Lastly, but most importantly, smash the patriarchy. First third of The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter next week!

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