Tales from the Waystone

Welcome to Tales from the Waystone, Episode 26; Infinite Improbability Drive ACTIVATED!, where we will be discussing chapters fifty-six and fifty-seven of Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind through a lens of Narrative Causality (which is mostly our way of saying 'advancing the plot'). 

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Interesting fact links:

1. The Bees' Knees: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6493/881

Welcome to Tales from the Waystone, Episode 25; This One Goes Up To Eleven, where we will be discussing chapters fifty-three through fifty-five of Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind through a lens of Performances. 

Yay! We finally meet one of our favorite characters: Auri, and we get to talk about one of our favorite locations: The Eolian.

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Interesting fact links:

1. No, no. Not 'Wind Fish', 'Wind Harp': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolian_harp
   

Welcome to Tales from the Waystone, Episode 24; All Work and No Play Makes Kvothe a Dull Boy, where we will be discussing chapters fifty-one and fifty-two of Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind through a lens of Outlets.

In this episode, we'll learn more about the magic system in this world: Sympathy.

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Interesting fact links:

1. PEE-YEEEWWW!: https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2010/08/on-the-scent.html

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Welcome to Tales from the Waystone, Episode 23; Gear Acquisition Syndrome Is Real, where we will be discussing chapter forty-nine and fifty of Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind through a lens of The Cycle of Debt.

Interesting fact links:

1. That Background Looks Unreal!: https://youtu.be/VbBBUHXPuvg?t=291

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Will: Hi friends, this is Will from Tales from the Waystone. This won’t be a normal episode because these are especially abnormal times. We are taking part in the podcast blackout this week, a movement started by the podcast Cult 45. As you are probably aware, we as a society are experiencing upheaval as a result of the ongoing brutality perpetrated by our police forces here in the U.S. Our regularly scheduled episodes should resume next week. As middle-class white people living in a blue state, we were taught that the police were here to protect citizens. It is becoming more and more obvious that the citizens our police force ‘protects’ are people that look like us - at least at first glance. The following is an incomplete list of black people who have been killed by police officers and hate crime in the past eight years alone:

Trayvon Martin, Age 17, died 2012.

Tamir Rice, Age 12, died 2014.

Michael Brown, Age 18, died 2014.

Eric Garner, died 2014.

Sandra Bland, Age 28, died 2015.

Freddie Gray, Age 25, died 2015.

Alton Sterling, Age 37, died 2016.

Philando Castile, Age 32, died 2016.

Botham Jean, Age 26, died 2018.

Atatiana Jefferson, Age 28, died 2019.

Ahmoud Arbery, Age 25, died 2020.

Doug Lewis, Age 39, died 2020.

Breonna Taylor, Age 26, died 2020.

George Floyd, Age 46, died 2020.

Phoenix: Will and I are painfully aware that we are among the most privileged in our society, due to nothing other than our skin color. Cards on the table, we’re not without our share of prejudices. We were conflicted on whether or not to participate in the podcast blackout. I admit that if the people lost to this brutality were identified specifically as members of the LGBTQIA+ community, we would have been much more willing to publicly stand up. However, silence in the face of acts of murder is tantamount to endorsement of it.

Will: Our neighbors deserve better. To all of those out protesting and mourning, we send our love and solidarity. Black lives matter. Black hopes matter. Black dreams matter. Black futures matter.

Welcome to Tales from the Waystone, Episode 22; The Currency of Fools, where we will be discussing chapters forty-six through forty-eight of Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind through a lens of Recklessness. 

In which we discuss Master Elodin at length.

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Interesting fact links:

1. Birds Are Judging You By Your Outfit: https://gizmodo.com/birds-are-judging-you-by-your-outfit-1842699939

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Welcome to Tales from the Waystone, Episode 21; The Real Arcanum Was the Friends We Made Along the Way, where we will be discussing chapters forty-four and forty-five of Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind through a lens of Currying Favor. 

In this episode, we learn more about Kilvin and his attempts to make an ever-burning lamp.

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Interesting fact links:

1. The Ever-Burning City: https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-abandoned-centralia-pa-2012-5#like-ghost-towns-19
   

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Welcome to Tales from the Waystone, Episode 20; Mind Your Mind, where we will be discussing Phoenix' least favorite chapter of the whole series: chapter forty-three of Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind through a lens of Epistemic Responsibility.

Interesting fact links:

1. Shave the Whales: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2020/04/03/how-the-northern-lights-make-whales-go-blind-and-get-lost/#27bcd4b578b8

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Welcome to Tales from the Waystone, Episode 19; Rebel Without a Clue, where we will be discussing chapter forty-one and forty-two of Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind through a lens of Defiance.

Interesting fact links:

1. It's All Animalese To Me: https://www.polygon.com/videos/2020/3/22/21188355/animal-crossing-new-horizons-language-video

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Welcome to Tales from the Waystone, Episode 18; Don't Mess With The Bull Young Man, You'll Get The Horns, where we will be discussing chapters thirty-nine and forty of Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind through a lens of Questioning Authority. 

Interesting fact links:

1. Evariste Galois, Radical Mathematician: https://www.damninteresting.com/radical-solutions/

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