I served a mission in South Korea in 2013 and I am happy to report that the 유방 prank is alive and well to this day

@BucketListAdventures

9 ай бұрын

I was there in 2013 too!

@elihainsworth5956

9 ай бұрын

Yo which mission?

@alexber8838

9 ай бұрын

"Served a mission" I love the words you use for "help in exchange of theological brainwashing" You really BELIEVE you are doing something good ❤

@KenjiShiratsuki

9 ай бұрын

@@alexber8838 You can't make someone believe something. If they like it, they'll believe. If not, they won't. As someone who believes nobody has it right and it doesn't matter except in what make you more able to be a good person, I think missions are just offering another option.

@alexber8838

9 ай бұрын

@@KenjiShiratsuki Dogmas are the opposites of options. Beliefs are a corruption of critical thinking. Religion gives not freedom, but the constrain of judment; acceptances and negations.

I don't know what's more insane: cheating and getting engaged to the new guy in such a short period, telling your now ex that you love him and still wish to be sealed with him for eternity for an entire page, or waiting until the start of the second page to break the news out of nowhere.

@Machtyn

9 ай бұрын

Like Brandon and Dan, I don't know what the girl's intention, but the execution was brutal.

@ArifRWinandar

9 ай бұрын

Maybe the girl was already engaged with the new guy before the old guy left, the girl just didn't want to deal with the reaction of the old guy so she waited for him to go on a mission and sent him a letter.

I absolutely love having Dan being so connected to the pro league scene. The minute he brought up Gumayushi I knew EXACTLY what he was bringing up.

@seanwilderom3215

9 ай бұрын

I am not really a league guy, but I just like that he understands esports

I can't wait until Dan's follow up contribution to Rhythm of War. Rhythm of Vulgarity

@josephcorrigan7239

9 ай бұрын

Navani, not knowing any better, hums 'Shave and a Haircut', and Raboniel is super offended!

I'm not such a fan of organized religion, but hearing about Brandon's "Jesus was a great Buddha!" exchange just warmed my heart.

@alexber8838

9 ай бұрын

It makes me sick, but everyone has its own experience, right?

In the Brazil MTC there was a bilingual Brazilian elder who convinced a bunch of American missionaries that water out of a drinking fountain was called "cachaça" because it's like a little waterfall (cachoeira). My district didn't learn that cachaça actually means "liquor" until someone asked the teacher if they could go get some liquor.

@maedle99

9 ай бұрын

This hilarious because just a few shots of cachaça is enough to make someone pass out on the floor crying blood, but i also feel so bad because every mormon i've met here in brazil are literally the nicest people i have ever met in my life 😂

@christiannicholas

9 ай бұрын

I served in Brazil too and, though I never encountered this prank, I thoroughly enjoyed reading about it.

As someone who spent my two years in Japan without decent breakfast cereal, you are an absolute monster 😂 this absolutely counts as an "R.R." moment

Hearing Dan bring about all these terms in his mission stories is like a trip to memory lane

It may not actually make you money, but I hope it never ends, because I love these podcasts!!!

The Lucky Charms story reminds me of an Elder who was so excited to find Flamin Hot Cheetos in the Philippines. He unfortunately forgot to take his stash with him when he moved, so my companion and I ate them, took pictures, and mailed them to him.

I served my mission in Korea and our food storage in our 72 hour emergency kits was literally the cheapest instant noodles we could buy. There were cans of tuna as well, but I think Brandon’s mission president would have lost his mind if he saw what we had

I served a mission in northern Mexico. At one point I was visiting someone's house and they had a box of Froot Loops sitting on the table. The gentleman casually asked me why boxed cereals, like Froot Loops, don't go bad. I earnestly told him that it was it was because boxed cereals are full of "preservativos". He and his wife then laughed at me uproariously. He had set me up. In Spanish "preservativos" doesn't mean "preservatives", it means "condoms".

The assertion that Jesus was an incarnation of Buddha just seems so adorable and wholesome in this context.

Fun fact: we do have a vulgar rhythm in English. Bow-chick-a-bown-bown

I would love a lot more stories about your time in South Korea, mainly because you served with my dad.😅

Speaking of pre-mission relationships, my first area and my last area were the same (in the SLC, UT mission - about the same time Brandon was on his mission). There was a fellow who had just returned from his mission and his girl waited for him. She went on a mission and he was waiting for her. This was when I met him. When I returned to that area, I ran into him again and asked how things went. Turns out, she got back and they decided they weren't right for each other. They put in a good 3.5 years of waiting! Only to find out it wouldn't work out. But, to be honest, I'm glad they figured that out before getting married.

Brandon Sir!!!! I served in Korea and graduated in writing from BYU. I'm working near Korea now, if you two get a ticket I'll sponsor your entire trip out here! Let's get you back. I'll email you, as soon as youre free just spend a couple days. Reconnecting to Korea would be great content too!

이번 팟캐스트 에피소드에 감사드립니다! Ustedes son increíbles.

LOL as soon as Brandon said 유방 I burst out laughing so hard my baby started crying. That’s so mean but also so terribly clever.

Went to Nicaragua on my mission. Nobody could pronounce a leading "S" on my last name, so they did what Spanish speakers do, they added a leading "e". The problem with that is that it made my name sound like "Es tratόn" which means, "he's the guy who gives you the treatment" e.g. he's a jerk. This was excellent preparation for later becoming a lawyer.

As someone who wasn't raised religiously and doesn't personally know anyone who was (and is British, I assume things may be different here), it's quite surreal hearing talk of these Mission stories like they're just normal. Which I guess they are. Still, I have nothing against it if it isn't harming anyone (sounds like it was quite constructive and positive work tbh). Just took me off guard.

@althechicken9597

9 ай бұрын

They are kinda weird not gonna lie. There's some very wholesome things that come from them but I was raised Mormon and the mission in particular is a huge pressure put on kids from a very young age. They are one of the Cult-iest things that come with the religion and I feel bad for a lot of the guys (amd girls) who go on one. They are designed to make you instinctively rely on the religion before anything else because you're thrown into an unfamiliar environment with nothing but the church and its memebers for support. You can't talk to your family hardly at all, you can't do many activities besides focus on the church often you hardly speak the language. Like I said this can lead to some deep bonds and good experiences, but overall I think it can be really harmful to people. I won't go into it, but I knew someone who killed themselves with their mission being a major reason.

@alexber8838

9 ай бұрын

For me, these are morally disturbing stories sanitized, made look cute.

@alexber8838

9 ай бұрын

​@@althechicken9597Sadly, these are the tools cults need to persist. The human suffering is yet another sacrifice they are willing to pay time after time.

@NoorAhmed-nk2jq

9 ай бұрын

@althechicken9597 This sounds a lot like my experience studying abroad actually, at a young age I got a scholarship to the UK, I knew English at least but I was in a strange environment with limited contact with my family and feeling lost having to navigate my way around a new culture, and there wasn't even the support network of a church like equivalent! I don't know how these missions go but I do think they can be similar to kids studying abroad, and when you think of them like that they don't sound so strange or unusual, and I bet the experience varies from one church to church, person to person. Just to be clear, I'm not here to defend this practice, I respect all religions though I myself is a Muslim, I have seen from experience that people like to generalize when it comes to religion, like X religion or sect do Y thing, when in reality no religious group is a monolith and there is always nuance to the experiences of the group members.

@DeadeyeJoe37

8 ай бұрын

Young Mormon missionaries are just regular teens that are serving. They do devote a lot of time to religion, but enjoy memes just as much as you do.

Had a mission companion in the Marshall Islands who mixed up the words for play and destroy. Once mixed she had SUCH a hard time getting them un-mixed. Kids in the villages loved to joke with her about all the things they were destroying!

Wooooow I finally caught up!!! Hello Dandon, hello Braniel! It only took me 2 months of binging while working haha

I avoided the 유방 prank, but I often fell prey to the unfortunate difference between 선교사 and 성여사. Missionary vs prostitute.

The different recipes of Top Romen that Brandon and Dan spoke about was exactly how I naturally dressed my Top Roman and even more bizarre, I would mix it with mac&cheese or mashed potatoes and I think I did potato salad once, growing up as a kid.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE look up "Newsboys Breakfast" song. In it they talk about their friend who LOVE breakfast. He died and had them "Sprinkle ashes from our late friends cereal bowl." "But, before his brain stopped waving, he composed this toon." It is EPIC!!

Hey dan we served in the same mission area-ish. I was 2014-16 in Chihuahua Mexico Mission. Served in Delicias and Camargo for a hot sec.

This is reaching me on the first day of the Chuseok Holiday so fun! But that cereal prank was the wooooorrssst!!!! I would have cried 😢

"Buddha Jesus" rattled around in my head for a few seconds after Brandon said it, and then I made a really silly connection... Pete BuddhaJesus would make a great transportation secretary.

I get so happy and excited when I get these yt notification! 😊

There was a guy serving in Korea who got a care package from home. It was full of ramen. Korea is such a fun place to visit as a tourist. (Especially when it's not super hot or super cold.) You should totally go. Take the whole family. 😆My kids loved it.

Mission stories are great

@alexber8838

9 ай бұрын

the best part is the ending ❤

Ah...Mission pranks! I served in New Zealand (where I am from) and we played a similar prank to Brandon's on a green (new) Sister Missionary that had just arrived from Australia. We got her trainer to bring her over to tract (door knock) our house on her first dayand I sent my companion who was Tongan to answer the door (in street clothes instead of the normal white shirt and tie) and pretend he couldn't speak english. He then brought me out to "translate". He would say something in Tongan and I would make up a translation for the greenie. I would then listen to what she said and speak to my comp in the small amount of Tongan I had (mostly insults and phrases about food). I ran out of Tongan so switched in some Samoan (also insults and food related) and some Māori song lyrics and place names kept it going for about an hour before the beforethe big reveal....good times!😂😂😂

Brandon's Lucky Charms food heist

I watch that Tribal People React channel on occasion. Recently I saw them try food from Texas, which I'm culturally obligated to watch as a Texan. They had chili (proper Texas chili with the big chunks of beef) and the villagers referred to it as a curry, and I was like "Yeah... I guess chili kinda IS a curry!" It was eye-opening

I served in Brazil, and the words for Coconut and Poop are very similar, only the inflection is different on the second syllable. One time at lunch, I was intending to ask the hosts if there was coconut in the dessert... but, uh, that's not what I actually asked. They had a good laugh about it 🤣

@christiannicholas

9 ай бұрын

Ah yes, the acute vs the circumflex. Good times

One of my young men leaders used to tell his story about his mission (South America) where they were all mistaken for CIA agents and would hear whispers of, "See ya, see ya!" Lol

A few from my mission with French. Blesser does not mean to bless, it means to beat or hurt. préservatif does not mean perservative it mean birth control/condom Another was a missionary form Quebec was asked if he had des gosse or if he had kids. Apparently, in Quebec that is slang for testicles. So some confusion ensued when the follow up question was about their age and gender.

@porterwayman8643

9 ай бұрын

if by some miracle that this french student gets sent to a french speaking mission (My french teacher went to Brasil and its something of a joke) I thank you in advance!

@godminnette2

9 ай бұрын

Those false cognates will really get you! A notable one is déception - it means disappointment, not deception!

im surprised wotc and LoL arent sponsors yet lol maybe the food heist and bad book idea shirts can be the revenue stream for these trips :D

Torta is cake in Spain, at least in Mexico tortilla is a flat circle made of corn/flour dough

As someone from Georgia, it's great to hear you pronounce Fayetteville lol

Thanks for continuing to do these episodes even though they don’t make money!

35:03 that sounds like an incredibly interesting story

I have the joy of arriving early for once 👏

Someone should have started a story with "Then this one time... at mission camp..."

Someone once told me that MRE stands for Meals Refused by Ethiopians.

I feel like I should have heard about this food heist given that I live in the town it took place haha. Crazy.

I'm surprised Dan didn't get tricked into saying "muy exitado" for very excited (it means very horny).

What's the story behind Brandon's amazing decision to keep the amazing beard? 😮

Aaaah I just started listening but this missionary talk with these two cool writers makes my mind melt, it’s so cool. Missionaries are just superstars to me so it’s like a supernova of cool right now.

@Amrylin1337

9 ай бұрын

Missionaries are one of the more disgusting parts of organized religions. Trying to brainwash other people into your ideology, usually nonwhite people, because you believe that you know better than them in a supernatural force that is unprovable, when they likely have beliefs or a lackthereof, of their own.

at 15:10 I was anticipating a spiritual missionary story. That was a bigger tease than saying the podcast was over in the last update

Taco Bell is the most aggressively American restaurant. No other fast food joint exemplifies the great American tradition of taking another culture’s food and making it as cheap and unhealthy as possible.

I guess I gotta change my name to Milk Bread now

CSI: Food Heist Bureau?

11:23 even though Spanish and English have cognates due to their Indo-European roots, what Dan is talking about with the Latin-based words are loanwords, not cognates. Cognates are words that are etymologically derived from the same word, not the same as loanwords.

Spam, tuna, Velveeta cheese... it sounds like all of the worst foods, I'm not going to lie. Velveeta cheese in particular is one of my least favorite foods.

Anyone knows what's Dan's email to send the food heists information?

❤

I just can't believe you guys haven't talked about Baldur's Gate III yet...

@bronwynecg

9 ай бұрын

I believe Brandon said he is waiting til he has finished working on latest Stormlight book before he dives in

So Dan has never been to the south because that isn't even close to how you pronounce Fayetteville

Hello Brando

I need to know who Dans favorite league team is.

How much do mission trips cost and who pays? Also, we’re you guys lucky to go abroad? Who gets sent to NA doors?

@gowzahr

9 ай бұрын

Typically, it's the person that serves the mission or their family, though in the case of less financially well-off families, anonymous donors have been known to contribute.

@KoreaWithKids

9 ай бұрын

They used to just have everyone pay their own way (which meant that people who went to Europe ended up paying a lot more than people who went to South America) but now they have a system where everyone pays $450 a month (I think that's the current amount) and it gets distributed as needed. People from some countries where this would be a hardship have a different system. The assignments come from an office in Salt Lake and you don't get to pick where you go.

@jbjstyx

9 ай бұрын

@@KoreaWithKids I thought it was $4OO, my brother just got home

@KoreaWithKids

9 ай бұрын

@@jbjstyx You are probably right! :)

@alexm-e4910

9 ай бұрын

@@KoreaWithKids thanks for explaining :)

Welcome to the comment section y'all!

Only 36 mins 😢

So insensitive If we're going by what each country identifies themselves as, it's 'Korea' and 'True Korea'

22:47 That has to be the WORST dear john story I have ever heard. I feel so bad for the guy, but I can't help but laugh (partially at my own past silliness).

Who is Ben?

@christiannicholas

9 ай бұрын

The producer who hides behind the camera/microphone. He made a bit of a cameo in a recent episode.

It’s so weird to me that Brandon is Mormon no shade maybe I would have cared in my younger years but growing up in a small farm town in Colorado I knew quite a few Mormons and they were all the same while Brandon seems to be a lot more aware of his surroundings and profoundly intelligent

Adoooonalsium

Second too

No sponsorships? I've seen several sponsor reels on this podcast.

One of the strengths I think Mormon culture has is the whole "missionary" thing. I still think the core of the religion is very problematic, but the part of getting out there and connecting with people and learning to interact and be part of community is a very good thing.

@Machtyn

9 ай бұрын

It truly is a service. The difficulties, challenges and the greatness. And while I understand your disagreement, seeing people come closer to Christ is always a wonderful thing.

@wynnefox

9 ай бұрын

@@Machtyn Its not closer to christ that I see as a good thing. Rather or not he lived is non issue as the version presented has been rewritten and represented and changed that the one known today is a fiction, no matter how real or fake the reality is. What I see is important though is becoming closer to each other as a community. Learning to help each other and look past those beliefs, fiction or reality, to realize that we are here for each other and the real miricales happen when people help and work with each other. Not when sitting alone waiting for an unknowable supernatural being to intervene if it meets their plan or not. It can be good to have the ideal to believe in though. The christ presented to me as a child is an ideal I still believe in today worth living up to, even though I often fail. Someone that reaches out and helps in need and does what they can for others while talking out against greed and selfishness of others. ALL THAT said... my criticism of the Mormon and it's core is core of racism and isolationism that is at it. I know there are good people like Brandon, some my personal friends, that work against it. But it is still there at the core and I have seen it impact Mormon friends of mine deeply and emotionally too.

@kalebclint9210

9 ай бұрын

I agree, missionary service can be a great thing. One thing to note is that I've always found it interesting how the church is rarely judged by its doctrine, but more by the people that follow it. People are not perfect, but that doesn't mean the gospel isn't. The point is that we are trying our best to follow it. Just becouse we sometimes fail at that, doesn't mean the doctrine isn't right. The church does have history with racism and stuff. Back when just about everyone did, becouse it was run by poeple. yet a lot of people today still judge it becouse of that. To us becoming like christ is one of the more important things. But yes, missionary work, connecting and getting to know others is pretty cool.

@wynnefox

9 ай бұрын

@@kalebclint9210 Its honestly the people and their actions that matter the most to me. As much as I have criticism to the church and the gospel. And it is flawed. You can't have a text that has been translated, retranslated, reinterpeted, studied, and men who were put to death for not doing the right interpretation with out flaws. Its always people though, not dieties, that end up doing this. As for the past of the various sects of religions, just because everyone was doing a racism doesn't make it okay. And there are more than plenty that use those arguments and the artifacts of systems put into place from then still today. Many of them very powerful and influential people. Until the power is taken from these people, the systems dismanteled, and the damage they have done repaired, it's going to be a weight on the shoulders of everyone.

Im "Nightmare Paintr" in NA ;) Add me Dan, I main jg and currently ranked Plat.

Anyone ever notice that Brandon’s friends and employees, like authors, podcast hosts, etc. are all Mormon.

@hybridaquatics7593

9 ай бұрын

They live in Utah. That's normal there.

@ForlornCreature

9 ай бұрын

@@hybridaquatics7593 just looked it up, holy shit it's 70% mormon. I had no idea that that it was like a full state-wide religion.

@r.j.r.

9 ай бұрын

There are actually more members outside the US than in the US (specifically South America). Utah is just where church headquarters are, and where early church pioneers settled and had descendants, so it feels concentrated to Utah but it's a lot more nuanced than you'd think. The more ya know 🙂

@lurkhive3352

8 ай бұрын

This is demonstrably not accurate. Especially the part about the podcast being all LDS.

Here in Canada I've met and talked with a lot of mormon missionaries. Usually they approach in parks, or just on the street. I've never seen them knock on a door. Mormonism is kind of a controversial subject for me, I fully believe Joseph Smith was a con man and that he made up finding the golden plates.

@kalebclint9210

9 ай бұрын

Joseph Smith, and others died for their religion. Died for something they beleived in. Way too many people call out Joseph Smith for being a liar. But he and others went through crazy trials, trials no one would go through if not becouse they believed. And really, there is no way someone as young as him, in the time he had wrote the book of Mormon without God help him

@dalebrimhall1071

9 ай бұрын

Any time someone brings stding personal beliefs into something it's going to become controversial. Joseph Smith lied about quite a lot and church historians admit much of it, but if someone believes in something based on personal feelings and decisions its not really about what he made up or how many of his followers wives he stole, its about the believers feelings. It's a difficult discussion to have from opposite sides of the fence

Missionary has hugely negative connotations for Jews, ever since the crusades and before when it meant “let’s torture you until you admit to be Christians or be killed”. I know that is not what you mean by that, but for us the missionary is almost like the boogeyman.

From geek culture to now talking about Mormon missions... ok..

@darlhiatt8136

9 ай бұрын

They are Mormons. Gonna come up occasionally.

I understand its a different culture from my own, but the "missions" concept is dark as fk

6:20 Goo my ussy? Oh my word, Dan