I blame Brandon Mull for my obsession with fantasy; growing up, I loved the Fablehaven books, and Beyonders is still one of my favorites. Now I'm equally obsessed with Brandon Sanderson's fantasy books, and I'm pretty sure if I'd never read Mull, I'd never have read Sanderson either!

@lewstherinteletubby50

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@jazzbassboy

2 жыл бұрын

@@lewstherinteletubby50 love your name 😂

@Sohodollie

2 жыл бұрын

The beyonders series was so amazing. I read the first three but never got around to reading the prequel. Loved every minute of it

@charles3840

2 жыл бұрын

Brandon Mull, Rick Riordan, and Erin Hunter are why I'm into fantasy. Erin Hunter is why I'm into reading.

@kenm4390

2 жыл бұрын

Brandon Sanderson books really do feel like adult Brandon mull

“Jack the Ripper gets me.” -Brandon Sanderson out of context

@chrisowenssff4876

2 жыл бұрын

I really like how the series Babylon 5 integrated Jack the Ripper.

No way this is the most legendary collab ever. Brandon Mull was my favorite author before I found Sanderson!!

@blakejohnson9823

2 жыл бұрын

Yo, same!

@farstrider15

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@_Squiggle_

2 жыл бұрын

Yo epic crossover

@slimonawesome

2 жыл бұрын

Brandon mull was what introduced me to fantasy, Brandon Sanderson was what made me love fantasy

@braydengraves4655

2 жыл бұрын

Same here!

If I go to a con and see you guys, I'm sending my kid through your line with the wrong book. Mwahahahahahaaaaaaaaa

@kubaszwarc8093

2 жыл бұрын

Genius.

@angelalewis3645

2 жыл бұрын

Haha!

@debrachambers1304

Жыл бұрын

The only person being punished is the kid

@PiratePrinceEdward

Жыл бұрын

@@debrachambers1304 scratching my head at your reply. Either of them would find this hilarious. I posted this a year ago and I still think it would be funny.

@debrachambers1304

Жыл бұрын

@@PiratePrinceEdward You added an evil laugh, and it feels like the implication of the joke is that the evil is directed toward them, but it's really just to the kid. I know your comment was for humor

Speaking of the Iliad and the Odyssey, those epics were just two parts of what is now called the Epic Cycle, a long collection of such stories. We know the names of many of these other epics and even a few quotes from them, but that's all.

One of the biggest tragedies is the adaptation rights for _Fablehaven_ wallowing in production hell. It's a series that can be adapted so well.

@docstockandbarrel

2 жыл бұрын

Or it could end up like WoT… Careful what we wish for.

@comradecameron3726

2 жыл бұрын

@@docstockandbarrel or Eragon.

@docstockandbarrel

2 жыл бұрын

@@comradecameron3726 WoT has been as bad as I’ve seen just about anything. Even if I hadn’t read the books.

@jchinckley

2 жыл бұрын

@@comradecameron3726 The WoT adaptation was *_way_* worse than how they adapted Eragon. I admit I haven't yet read it (or any of the Eragon books) but the movie didn't seem too bad compared to the drivel we've been getting over the last 4-5 years that should have been great but wasn't. (I'm pointing at you WoT, Star Wars).

@comradecameron3726

2 жыл бұрын

@@jchinckley I don’t even recall what WoT is supposed to mean.

Two of my favorite authors. Dawnshard , The Rithmatist, and Fablehaven 1, Beyonders 2 are in my top 10 book list.

A List of D&D sizes: Tiny, Small, Medium, Large, Huge, Fe-Fi-Fo-Fum, Gargantuan

@starmorpheus

2 жыл бұрын

A list of D Sizes: Small, Medium Large

@dragonrune6800

2 жыл бұрын

You are missing two: Fluffy and DAMN! 🤣🤣🤣

I think there's strong reason to believe that the Iliad and the Odyssey were "special." Of course there were many other works, but things like terra cotta paintings are solid archeological evidence of the cultural importance placed on those stories in particular. Also, later Roman work like the Aeneid was deeply built around the Iliad and the Odyssey, on such a scale as to suggest its especial importance. It's also not entirely coincidence that they survived; they survived because there were many copies of them, I think. Also, there are a plethora of ancient works that we know we don't have, because they were referenced in works we do have, which further allows us to gauge the relative cultural importance of these stories.

@danielthornton2046

2 жыл бұрын

Thomas Porter: "..., I think." Me: Is this Sazed?

Brandon, if you like giant statues, you have to go to Mongolia. Just outside the capital of Ulaanbaatar, there is a 131-foot tall statue of Genghis Khan on a horse. I’ve been there, it’s incredible. You can go up on top of it as well.

Brandon talking about the library of Alexandria actually lit up something in my brain or something and gave me a key idea for the novel I'm trying to write. I'm so happy

@longshot9757

7 ай бұрын

Care to share?

@KrXYT

7 ай бұрын

Care to share?

Brandon mull got me into reading and fantasy.... Sanderson has taken me to higher places.

Lol, Sanderson putting Mull down extremely gently in the giant segment.

Yes! I've been wanting to see more of the Brandons together, they're so great

The Colossus reminds me of how the Argonath are one of those super awesome things in Middle Earth. These silent witnesses of a time that is long gone. They make you wonder what immensely powerful people once lived there and what they were capable of.

Brandon Mull was so huge for me getting into reading. I used to stay up nights reading with a flashlight in bed in secret cause I had to know what happened in Fablehaven. I never knew about Dragon Watch though! Gotta reread Fablehaven know and then finish the series

@DivinePearl

2 жыл бұрын

Dragonwatch doesn't hold up at all. At least to me..

A tale of two Brandons!

Brandon Mull married my sister and he’s one of the best guys I know. Once I was talking with him at a table in public. We kept on getting interrupted by fans. It didn’t bother me but I asked him if it bothered him. He said he views his fans as his own family so being interrupted never bothers him.

Brandon & Brandon 👌 been waiting for this since the first taste from the college lectures.

Correction - most of what we know about Gaul is from Asterix!

yea my two favorite authors in one video they inspired me to try and become an author myself I'm 90% done on my first draft of my first book!

@chandlerholloway3900

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! How’s your writing coming now?

@MrSloth-sy3rh

Жыл бұрын

@@chandlerholloway3900 fine I'm done with my second draft and I need a break so I have another project I'm working on.

@chandlerholloway3900

Жыл бұрын

@@MrSloth-sy3rh Way to go! We all need breaks after a draft. What’s your next project?

@MrSloth-sy3rh

Жыл бұрын

@@chandlerholloway3900 I call it project Silver Gauntlet its similar. To Race The Wind but its better in my opinion. but for my first ever draft ever I happy about it its on royal road don't know why but its there

@chandlerholloway3900

Жыл бұрын

@@MrSloth-sy3rh love the idea of that. I imagine it will be very inspirational. What’s one thing that helps you the most when writing your characters?

This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!

Brandon and Brandon show = awesome

My two favourite authors! This is great!

Oh its only my two favorite authors in one video.

I love Brandon mull writes such good books and he seems like really swell guy

My two favorite Brandons: the one who got me into fantasy and the one who is taking up all my time right now

Civilization was one of my favorite games as a kid, could play that thing forever.

This is an amazing crossover

I love both these authors and this is such a fun collab series.

OH WOW I LOVE BRANDON MULL'S FABLEHAVEN BOOKS!!!!!!!

The things that survive are the things people copy, so they are probably some of the best literature there was back in the day. Though i always wanted to read agrippina memoir that was lost. Also not all groups were that into writing, for example the greeks were really into writing history, there are other rich cultures like the persians and some part of ancient India where the the sources are mostly greek a lot of the times.

the Voynich Manuscript is actually fascinating

My 2 favorite Brandons! ❤ some interesting mysteries to think about and also to see how some of them may have influenced your stories

Sanderson (yes I went to say Brandon but realized there were two) getting excited is my favorite thing. I want to see him get to look at the stuff written in the library of Alexandria

Omg, that was unexpectedly such an amazing episode! Really enjoyed it a lot, thank you!

Love this Five Favorites concept, excited to see more!! So fun to watch ☺️

23:49 - Those seem creepy, but often what they're actually detecting is normal fluctuations in earth's magnetic field, brought on by anything from large metal objects nearby, to mineral deposits. They can also be set off by scuffing your shoes or just waving the thing around faster than normal. Also, "To be absent from the body is to be present with the lord", and "it is appointed unto man once to die, and after that, the judgement."- the actual reasons I don't believe in ghosts.

Amazing conversation!

Just got done reading Dragonwatch. Very good! They need to make a movie of Fablehaven

This is so wholesome

“Hot Tub UFO.” I’ll be waiting for the movie.

The clue/word was "Croatoan", carve into a tree, if memory serves. Aside from the mysterious Roanoke Colony, my number one favorite unsolved mystery is that of "Tunguska", that weird explosion taking place in a remote location of Siberia in the year of 1908 and that has always been very mysterious and never properly explained (i.e they never found a crater). Speaking of the X-Files, they even did a thing with "Tunguska" and included it into their mythology as well!

@ChristmasLore

2 жыл бұрын

Tunguska is no longer a mystery. Check Simon Whistler video on it (or another). The meteorite apparently exploded before reaching the ground (hence no crater). But it was fun Xfiles episodes, back in the days.

One thing I've always kind of thought about was that at one point there were 5 different species of humans on the planet that we lived alongside - and that a lot of them had physical characteristics that we see appear over and over again in our mythology. Neanderthals, for example, were "stout" - they had shorter legs than modern humans, but much larger rib cages (these are adaptations to the cold - larger lungs lets you warm up cold air as you inhale, and shorter limbs means you lose less body heat as blood goes through your legs), thicker skulls and stronger muscles for close quarters combat (they utilized ambush hunting instead of bow and arrow or throwing spear tactics, so had to be strong and hardy enough to tangle with larger prey animals up close), and larger noses (plus potentially red and blonde hair). Does that not sound an awful lot like a dwarf? Then there's homo erectus, the most successful species of homonid. They lasted two million years, and were the first homonids to colonize Eurasia. That's lots of time to adapt to local environments, and there are examples of erectus that grew much larger than the "average" height - some might have been close to 6.5 to 7 feet in height (and some fossils that are still not officially placed might be the jawbone of an erectus specimen that was nearly 8 feet tall - or it might be a new species of giant ape. We aren't sure.), which at the time was enormous. A few ended up quite small - homo floriensis, an erectus subspecies, was like hobbit sized - but others were probably the largest homonids to ever live. And they were strong, too - their bones have far more attachment sites for muscle fiber than other homonids, almost as many as chipanzees and gorillas have, and they could have easily ripped a modern human's arms out of their sockets if they felt like it. So here we have a gigantic bipedal ape-man with superstrength, but also one that was intelligent enough to have a language, make stone tools, and cook with fire (and might have made art, and had religion, and built simple rafts - there's some examples of possible erectus artifacts that indicate they had a tentative mastery of art, and they would have needed a boat to reach some of the areas that they ended up in). And this thing, modern humans lived alongside it, probably had wars with them and worried about giant homo erectus tribes attacking them on a daily basis, and we barely won that struggle. I think that they are, in fact, the basis for all of our stories about violent, "dumb", gigantic humanoids - from ogres to orcs to oni to cyclopses. We still remember the ancient time when the world had creatures that looked like us, but more brutish, and were far stronger and larger than we were, and it scares us to this day.

Yo, epic collaboration

The Name of the Rose is amazing. Sanderson has great taste in books ;)

I want to be part of this Brandon group. I’m currently still writing my book. Hopefully I can be someday.

@therachelmontgomery

Жыл бұрын

You’ve got this! How’s the book coming? :)

@GngrViking

Жыл бұрын

@@therachelmontgomery Thank you! I finished it, but no luck so far. I’m on book two. Took the feedback I got from agents, and I’m trying again.

@therachelmontgomery

Жыл бұрын

@@GngrViking that’s so great that you heard back from agents! Good luck on your continuing journey :)

nowadays it's mostly accepted that the lost colony was actually just "wow, it's hard to live here, but those people over there know what they're doing, we're gonna go live with them now" and the lost colony is just lost b/c they just got absorbed into a tribe.

@tanyam928

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe, but the way things were left that they would have packed up and taken with them is odd. And no message left for the husband that left and came back?

@Lyrebirdie

2 жыл бұрын

What if the wife hooked up with one of the locals they integrated with and they didn’t want to be found

Are they sitting in a church hallway??

two of the best writers EVER period.

On the Colossus imagine if it were real. I'd be more impressed with the ancient cranes used.

@robmack519

2 жыл бұрын

*Destin from Smarter Every Day bursts through the wall* "SNATCH BLOCK!"

The Brandon's together?!? Between you 2 I have spent so much money lol

If I remember correctly, Socrates didn't actually write anything down, and thought that philosophy was always best done in discussion. The better example might be Aristotle (as later noted in the video), who was famed for being an eloquent writer at the time. But you wouldn't know it, because what we have of him is pretty hard to read and closer to his lecture notes, rather than his completed manuscripts/dialogues.

Let's go Brandon!

@JC-sr9zf

2 жыл бұрын

Came here looking for this, hahahaha

@pavelowjohn9167

2 жыл бұрын

@@JC-sr9zf same here, I thought "there is no way that meme isn't getting mentioned on a video with two great writers named Brandon", lol

wait....something amiss ....i call fake video!! Brandon isn´t signing anything for 34min!!

Croatoan, the name of a tribe and an island. So, you're right, both times.

That so much "Brandoness" together! Let's go, Brandon!

Totally with Sanderson on the Colossus of Rhodes.

I also try to build all the wonders in Civilization games

Wtf my two favorite authors in a vid!

Also, other statues called Colossus always had their feet together.

My favorite lost treasure mystery is The Amber Room. Taken from Russia by the Nazis, it was transported back to Germany and subsequently lost (though likely was destroyed by bombings) by the time the Allies made their way in to the country. No evidence of it was ever found, and whether or not it was destroyed during the invasion remains a mystery to this day.

it's the brandons!

Let's go Brandons

My two favorite authors in the same room? Pinch me.

😂"...early adopter..." 🤣 Brandon Mull's humor is like a runaway train.

I thought this was about mystery STORIES and I was getting ready to write down some.of my favorite mysteries and wondering what you were gonna talk about. And then you started talking about UFOs and Bigfoot :P

I didn’t know BranSan is from Idaho falls! I am too!

Probably the most interesting part of the Voynich manuscript to me is the fold out that depicts nine spheres. You can make a good argument that they line up roughly to the Nine Worlds from Norse mythology, and depict how they are connected by the branches of Ygdrassil and the Bifrost. So maybe the Voynich manuscript doesn't match an Earth language because it came from Aelfhiem? Here's the "map" in question: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript#/media/File:Voynich_Manuscript_(158).jpg

There is a cool theory that the Voynich manuscript was made by a young Leonardo Davinci. I made a terrible video on it a few years back.

The 2 best Brandons , cool interview

Coincidentally, yesterday Vlogging Through History just put out his last video in a three part series on Jack the Ripper. I definitely recommend it for anyone interested.

Now I'm going to tell all my friends that Brandon Mull believes in aliens

Even as i listen to this im thinking about my book. It never ends.

Let's go, Brandon!

I have never heard the theory that Jack the Ripper waa an alien

Voynich manuscript is solved, it's a book of home remedies, basic midwifery advice etc.

@calebmauer1751

2 ай бұрын

Is it? They don't know what it actually says. You don't say a puzzle is solved just because you know what it'll look like when it's assembled.

give me more Brandon content, thanks in advance.

I was going to comment about the interview, but then I heard 11 KIDS! Sheesh I didn't think people had 11 kids anymore :S

@ChristmasLore

2 жыл бұрын

In France, traditional religious extremist catholics do...it's weird. A century ago, it was still a sign of poor families, now it's a sign of "bourgeoisie" or even "noblesse"...🤔

@jennayoung9811

2 жыл бұрын

Blended family. He has 4 and his wife has 7

@geekygrl10

2 жыл бұрын

There are quite a few in my community. The most is 18? I think? My family only has 7.

@calebmauer1751

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, some people haven't gotten the message yet that most kids survive childhood these days. They'll catch on eventually.

A friend who was a member of the church ran into a roadblock in doing her genealogy. She was about 70 when I met her and was a paragon of the community. She could not figure out who a direct-line female ancestor was married to. When she finished her prayers for the night and climbed into bed, a woman walked out of her closet. My friend screamed. The woman said, "I am here to tell you who my husband was." My friend screamed for her to leave. And she did.

@kaileychan478

2 жыл бұрын

Dude that’s wild

Mull!

You should listen to Policing London by extra credit history Brandon Sanderson it’s right around the era you describe!

The idea that New Mexico is filled with weird alien shit and the residents don't even care because they're so used to it cracks me up

@calebmauer1751

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, and in an astounding coincidence, they also have a lot of military bases there, and Los Alamos, and clear skies to see things flying around at night. Funny how the aliens decided to fly around there, maybe they want to steal our military technology.

Let’s go Brandon takes a new twist 😂

Paranormies Present is a good podcast to check out, if you're into stuff like cryptids, bigfoot, UFOs etc.

Watching this again today (apparently, someone finally decoded, or claimed to, the manuscript), the story of the Voynich manuscript and how long we've known about it made me wonder whether H. P. Lovecraft learned about it and whether it was the inspiration for him coming up with the Necronomicon.

For anyone else feeling the urge to spam "let's go Brandon" in these comments, I'd like to direct you to a quick lesson on the subject by Brandon himself! kzread.info/dash/bejne/hZ6ZyLOlYLOfXbQ.html

Waiting for Dragonwatch 5!

you all should check out "Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World--podcast. He covers all kinds of mysteries with science and Christian faith.

@billstrom351

28 күн бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/iqplqNdvYavTXbQ.html

The manuscript also has diagrams of plants that don't exist. So... it's a D&D source manuel.

Suggestion: It might elevate this type of content a bit for viewers like me to have some music playing verrry faintly in the background. I get why you don't though

11 kids? wow.

@evanmay8145

2 жыл бұрын

i know right lmfao

The downvotes are from Big Foot and the aliens. They don't want to be found, thank you very much!

There is a new podcast about Jack the ripper, well it's not about him exactly but about the women he killed, it's really interesting from an historical perspective The name of the podcast is bad women : the ripper retold

@AikenFrost

2 жыл бұрын

What's the name of the podcast?

@victoriap1561

2 жыл бұрын

@@AikenFrost bad women the ripper retold

My personal (and probably unpopular) opinion is that you forgetting that Skyward, The Cosmere, and Alcatraz exist for a year or so to focus entirely on The Rithmatist is not just a deal I would make, but one that would take me at absolute most a heartbeat to accept. .

@erictheriault8386

2 жыл бұрын

To be clear, I love every one of your books that I have read. I am just begging you for a sequel to The Rithmatist.

@geekygrl10

2 жыл бұрын

I agree! I had a friend that I was BEGGING to read Brandon Sanderson, so she went to the library and got out Rithmatist. I was so sad when I cautioned her away from it.

Let’s go Brandon

@pavelowjohn9167

2 жыл бұрын

x2, no less!

There are too many Brandon's in this video! JK but I literally had this kind of confusion, though I found Sanderson first.

Can u put what the favorites are in the thumbnail or description plz

In the fate series Jack the Ripper was actually a collection of orphaned children who worked together to kill people and that’s why Jack the Ripper was never found. No one suspects the kids. That was always my favorite Jack the Ripper theory even though it’s likely not true

@lithose1764

2 жыл бұрын

Record of Ragnarok Jack is infinitely better. Fate can't do anything right. Fate fucking sucks.

I think some of he voynich manuscript recently got decoded. I don't rember where I heard that though