Gin, Magic and In-Laws - Ep. 82 of Intentionally Blank
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- Опубліковано 27 гру 2022
- In this episode, Brandon and Dan talk about the best food heist they've ever received, Magic the Gathering cards, and how their holiday traditions changed once they got married.
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Dan’s fantastic throwaway line that nobody reacted to. 15:55 😂
“What’s a single noun that means lonely person?“
“Writer“
This podcast has helped me so much. For a year I was in a slump after a divorce and losing a job and raising two younglings on my own. I stopped writing up until 2022 and it's all due to this podcast and these two authors inspiring me and giving me reprieve during the past year. Thank you guys so much!
It made my day to hear we helped. Man, I hope things turn up for you this next year!
Also if you ever feel down just tell yourself - “at least I’m not part of a bridge crew”
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@@DeadlySerpent have you checked the KS FAQ or contact form? Dragonsteel website?
@@One-mx2rk I got it figured out. Thanks for the reply though one.
Dan referring to Magic cards as "an elegant weapon for a more civilized age" had me in stitches
This podcast: "No editing this time"
Us, regardless: "Give it to me and give it to me raw."
And wrrriigling!
@@magus3553you’re hopeless
True!
Christmas traditions are always interesting to me. In our home, we play ‘hide the chicken.’ Of all our traditions, it’s the most enjoyed and the most unfounded as there is no Christmas symbolism or holiday tradition tied to the game. It’s not a Christmas chicken… it’s just a stuffed chicken… and we hide it everywhere… all december. It’s been in the flour, it’s been in the Christmas tree, stuffed into a nativity, it’s been found in the sleeve of my husband’s coat, in my son’s backpack… who ever finds it, must then hide it. That’s the game.
It all started, as a result of 2 separate events. My husband once tossed a pair of socks across our bedroom, and instead of making a basket in the bin, the socks landed in my open bag of Doritos. I reached in, found socks… and proceeded to hide the socks in places my husband would find them and be reminded. It was a short lived game- but we laughed about it now and then. Secondly, my 3 year old son and I were out Christmas shopping and came across a random stuffed chicken. It was really quite cute. We didn’t need it & it was an expense I didn’t budget for (small family, limited funds), so my son and I reasoned out how to justify bringing this silly, cute chicken home, instead of a Christmas item. We decided that we would replace the ‘socks in random places game,’ with the ‘chicken in Christmas places game.’ It became an instantly engaging, humorous, and intensely competitive game. We have played it for 12 years now & will play it again next December.
I've got a Food Heist for you... Well OK, I am _confessing_ to a Food Heist for you from back when I was in primary school.
During break on the playground there would be a teacher in charge and she would generally lean back on the railings drinking her coffee, when she was finished she would give her empty mug to a child to run it up to the staff room for her. Now I got into the habit of hanging around on my lonesome near this teacher at the railings so that I would be given this task. It became clear pretty quickly that this is why I spent my break time lurking around near her so I received this task quite often. It may have seemed a lot like I was sucking up to my teacher and being a real brown noser but I had a nefarious hidden purpose. You see the staff room I mentioned was not a place for the staff to hang around in, it was more of a store room that had a sink and brewing up area but it was also where the tuck shop supplies were stored. The tuck shop was just some boxes of assorted chocolate bars and crisps (chips) that would be sold early in the day to the kids for their pocket money. So most lunch breaks I would try to get 'volunteered' to go put the teacher's empty mug in the sink and while I was there I would steal 1 or 2 Chomp bars from the box as a bonus.
So there's my confession, my sin, my pre-adult Food Heist for which I was never caught nor suspected. Can adults be sent to Food Heist Prison for heists committed as a child? I manipulated my way around security on multiple occasions by taking advantage of an older woman's trust to steal food and was never even caught. What would be my theoretical status in Food Heist Prison?
I could occasionally be really devious as a kid, when I was even younger I got my little sister in trouble as an experiment. You see she is dyslexic and had a habit of writing backwards when she was learning to write. I had a thought and carried it through just to see if it would work... it did. I got a thick red felt tip pen and wrote her name backwards on the wallpaper. Well, it was not a work of art and I got bored before finishing the whole thing. It was pretty sloppy, just as you'd expect of a child of either of our ages. But it worked, our parents saw it and immediately knew that she was responsible for it. I was so proud of how I'd tricked them that I immediately confessed to them that it was actually me but they didn't believe me. The subject came up several times and I still said it had been me but they never believed it. Eventually it was mostly forgotten (though that graffitied wallpaper was up there for a good few years) and we were all adults when they finally accepted that it was in fact me, my Dad even told this story during his speech at my sister's wedding.
I was one of the main card designers who worked on Unfinity and I never could have guessed it would show up on this show. Thanks for the laughs!
Had to pause the video at 47:20 because FedEx showed up with the Alloy of Law/Shadows of Self leatherbounds.
How is nobody talking about the fact that Dan forces Brandon to sign autographs so that Dan can sell them on eBay?
I know! Isn't it awful that he definitely does that?!
Brandon: Creates incredible multi-planet universe full of some of the longest, most in-depth stories ever written.
Also Brandon: Struggles to come up with Christmas tradition ideas for his wife.
Emily, exasperated, making an alt Reddit and sliding into a Cosmere Q & A: What do they do in Herdaz for the Weeping every year?
oh man, listening to Dan and Brando talk about Magic, I get how I sound to my family trying to explain Cosmere
5:50 find you a man who looks at you like Brandon looks at Dan as the latter explains esoteric gin practices.
As someone from the Lake of Konstanz/Bodensee and who has listened to all the podcasts and food heists, this was amazing, you can't imagine how hard I was laughing in my room trying to unpack
In scandinavia we have a spirit called aquavit, one of them "Linjeakevitt" has to travel past the equator twice, the waves and temperature differences supposedly infuses it with it's particular aroma. :)
"Everybody is home from work, needing a break from family..."
I am literally listening to this at work.
Same 😭
That food heist is legendary
I love how about 97% of the time Brandon is signing more books
He signs when he records, because he needs to sign things and he wants to talk when signing
I think he said the whole point of this podcast is to distract him while he signs those things, because he has 54000 of them to sign.
That’s what the podcast is for. He needs to sign these books, and he might as well make some content while doing so.
My god, he really is a UA-camr.
Christmas Food Heist for you. I work in Palliative care. I watch people die. Over the holidays we are short staffed so I call out for agencies to send us more staff, like a temp. This one temp must have been planning this for months. The long con was unreal.
We usually keep lots of soft healthy snacks around for the patients. Things like soft cheeses, muffins, jello or fruit. One night over the holidays I get this new temp. I notice they don't seem to have any clue how to do the job. Not much interest in learning either. It should have seen this for the red flag it was. This night I had a giant bowl of bananas on my desk for the patients. There is at least 6 bananas in there, likely more. So half way through my shift I go on a break for 30 minutes. I have to go to a different floor to get a coffee so I tell the temp to watch out for call bells and showed them how to page me if someone moves on.
When I come back I found something unbelievable. The entre bowl of bananas was gone! I ask them what happened to the bananas and they said they didn't know. I checked the garbage can beside the desk where they were sitting and you wouldn't believe it. At least a half dozen banana peels. I asked if they ate the bananas and they said that they hadn't. Genuis knew exactly where to sit to avoid the security cameras so I'll never be able to pin it on them.
I will fight anyone who says that Muppet Christmas Carol isn’t a masterpiece! But you have to watch the VHS special edition that has “The Love is Gone” left in.
I remember that! I always thought I was crazy because I was convinced there was a love song in it, but I've never seen it since the first viewing. I'd convinced myself it was from a different movie.
@@danwells9305 it was removed from the theatrical version because they thought the target audience wouldn’t want it. But the special edition brought it back. Unfortunately the version you can get on streaming services is the theatrical version. Which is a shame because the whole ghost of Christmas past segment falls apart without it. When I watch, I pause where the song should be, pull it up on UA-cam, then resume the movie.
@@stephenkelly8312 I remember really liking the song. Maybe I'd like the movie more if it was still in there?
@@danwells9305 The Disney+ version has just updated to include the original song. The reason they took it out of the dvd editions was because it had been cut out of the film strips during editing for theatrical release and then the film negatives were lost so they couldn’t remaster it. They just found those film strips I think last year, and have finally put it back where it belongs. And I do think you should give the complete edition a try. I don’t think the movie makes a whole lot of sense without it.
We started watching A Christmas Story at my elementary school one year. It did not take long before the teachers realized what you realized, that there was a lot of potty language, and they turned it off and put something else on.
For like a solid decade I only saw the first ten minutes of that movie, it took a long time before I even knew what it was and saw it in full during one of the endless TBS repeats.
Every show has to have a Christmas episode, that years later will be remembered as legendary and full of memes.
New Gin flavour just dropped: Bodenseewater-infused with a strong note of STOLEN.
Brandon signs pages during recording like I grade papers during faculty meetings
Loving this holiday delightful uncut SanderWells
The manic sister story had me in stitches! LOL
The oddest of oddballs...I hope he invites her on the show one day.
10-card Magic sounds a bit like this little card game called Mindbug (Richard Garfield also did some work on that). The cards are all pretty OP, but it's balanced by no deck construction (the two decks are randomly dealt from a shared deck) and the really fun Mindbug mechanic.
So each player has two Mindbugs to use, and whenever the opponent plays a card, you can use a Mindbug to just take that card and use whatever effect it has
With all the different universes recently being included in magic, I'm now rooting for a Cosmere set 👀 I'd open all the packs to get a complete set of those.
11:39 "Everyone is at home, they don't have work."
Me watching this at work 😅
How does it make you feel when people wish you "Happy Holidays"? >_>
Same
Same here at my wastewater treatment plant 😂
One of my favorite food heists ever, the maple syrup heist in 2011 a heist of over 3000 tones of maple syrup, worth over $18million totally worth looking up if you’re bored
I love that Brandon shares my interests, D&D, MTG, Writing, Silly Heist Stories etc etc
I love all the quirks that you add to these videos. Con panels, hot ones parody, unedited videos. Kudos to you all for your hard work, morals, fight on monopolies, and help to the writing community.
I don't think I would have noticed anything weird with the episode without the disclaimer that it wasn't going to be edited.
Which means they don't really need someone to edit their videos. JK Audio Dan :P
Maybe they do more edits to the audio-only editions on podcast sites
The Christmas Story was placed in our area...there's even an exhibit about it in our visitor center and many people decorate their houses with leg lamps... But I could do without it too 😊
Shout out to the editor team! I think they did an amazing job this episode ;)
Merry christmas and happy new year ^-^
Edit: Dan, your German is top - please say more words in German :D
Just a note Brandon, MTG cards are no longer based off their name, but rather their set information. the reason for this is that there were functional reprints for cards in Secret Lairs with different names, but for deckbuilding they are considered the same card, so you can't have 2 in your commander deck or more than 4 in your legacy or whatnot deck
My family just moves our gift exchange to a day when all of my family members can be there. It works every time!
A couple of rules notes for the Magic segment:
The symbol that looks kinda like a ticket is a ticket, not a sticker - tickets are currency used to purchase the good stickers (P/T or abilities). I've not dug out the full rules for them, so I don't know how long tickets stick around for if you don't spend them.
Triple Strike is First Strike, regular damage and Last Strike. Which works like you'd expect, except that the rules team decided it was too much work to implement Last Strike properly, so it's up to players to make it work - either there's some subtle problem with having a third damage step, or it was considered to be an unnecessary complication to add for just a handful of cards.
Disclaimer: while I used to be a qualified "Rules Advisor", that lapsed a while back (around Return to Ravnica?) and I've not followed the game since around Tarkir, so, while I've done limited spot research on the specific things mentioned - and I was around and active when Triple Strike was introduced - I may be missing necessary context that may change some of the nuances and make details of my answers incorrect.
I got choked up by that shrimp salad anecdote. And I think it got Brandon too. Happy Holidays!!!
My bf's parents are divorced (friends, but no holiday crossover). We're not even married yet or have kids and we're trying to figure out how to NOT do 3-4 Christmas gatherings every year. This year we did 3, and missed out on a 4th because of the weather. We have a big house so we're hoping we can just make most everyone come to our place once we have the leverage of a child.
My family has a rule that whoever has the youngest child gets to pull rank and make everyone come to their place for Christmas. Kind of a hidden incentive there. 😂
Sounds like my husband and I! Lol we actually decided before we got married to only have Christmas be just the two of us, and then we can visit family on like New Year's, and on all the other holidays. Best decision ever!
What if the heist wasn't about the Gin but about the container...
Magic should make a Cosmere Universes Beyond and let Dan and Brandon make a few cards for it.
One of the cards has to be "intentionally blank". I don't really know magic so not sure how It would categorize or work but definitely a need.
At this point, do you think Brandon signs in his sleep? 😂
If he was doing it until he was tired and then went straight to bed, he might. Do any activity for a few hours and then fall right asleep and your brain will keep doing it, including hand motions.
It'll be nonsense scribbles but it'll keep going.
This also applies to video games, if you want to have dreams about Tetris or something.
@@robbybevard8034 Your comment made me immediately think of back when I used to play a lot of Tetris. Then I pressed "Read more" and found that you used that as an example!
If I got a sleep scribble from Brandon I’d be pretty stoked. Please sleep-sign my copy of your book haha.
Magic was, briefly, acutally a Christmas tradition for us because someone back in December of 93 picked up a starter deck and Arabian Nights pack as a stocking stuffer for everyone in the family and, while I was home from college for Christmas, we all played. We didn't really deck build, it was kind of a "you get what you got, make it work" sort of thing, but we allowed limited trading and strictly enforced "ante cards" (a random card from your deck was removed before play as the potential prize for winning). Eventually I graduated and stopped coming home, and our cards got sold off to the local game store, so I haven't played in MUCH longer than Dan, but this all fits together perfectly. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!
Raymond Reddington stole that Gin. I’d bet my left kidney. Look forward to seeing the episode
I'm no boomer Brandon, but I love A Christmas Story and I totally resonate with the bb gun mania of the main character. Perhaps it was a rural thing, because I spent a lot of my childhood living in the country on a farm, running around with my bb gun.
No editing of any kind, I love it! Yes, the audio hurts in some parts... But it was a special episode
"Published 33 seconds ago"
Don't think I've ever been this early.
Loved this episode!
Not too nerdy at all!
Love the show. No edits was fine, o worries.
You guys didn't talk about home alone either last week. Also, the animated movie Klaus is great.
Mtg card segment was fun.
I always found it interesting when you get married and realize your family traditions or ways of doing holidays, especially Christmas, are different than your spouses. Then I feel similar to Dan, where the first few years you're caught between your families. Their houses, and traditions. Once you have kids then it's onto making your own traditions or some sort of merger of yours and your spouses.
With that said, like Brandon, my family didn't really have traditions beyond going to grandparents for dinner/gifts and then gifts at home on Christmas.
Dan, I love the story of your family looking at you like you're a monster. I feel like this must happen to you a lot with people, haha.
My childhood Christmas afternoons were always us watching the movies we got in our stocking or playing the video games we got. I remember playing Super Smash Brothers for the Wii for hours with my older brothers and beating the story right before my parents told us to go to bed. Good stuff
This was a delight to hear even without the editing. And what a twist at the end !
Big fan of the magic content, specifically that super random set. Good stuff!
Just lovely, thanks for this!
Dan, you made a Doubling Season combo deck? Those are like $90 a pop! Even for a 10-card deck, that's not cheap.
Tokens foreverrrrrrrrrr
It's not on spotify so I have to watch the UA-cam version 😭
I've been out of touch with MtG for a while, but I remember when Unhinged came out and remains one of the highlights of my time with the game. So finding out there's a new Un-set fills me with joy. I might save up and buy a box some time next year.
I would enjoy watching Brandon slowly tease Dan back to MtG with stuff like this!
genious episode, one for the ages!
Make a deal.
Brandon records a DnD session
Dan live streams a MtG game.
Is Dans hair unedited aswell?
Ok, after seeing "A Christmas Story," many times, this year I got the point! It is if a young boy really wants something, "Ask Dad!" He asks his his Mom, his Teacher, and then he asks Santa, but not Dad, who is the one that gets him the gift. This is a true thing in my life, both as a son and later as a Dad.
The lack of an Oxford comma in the title of this episode is kind of hilarious.
As a teenager, I used to steal snickers bars because we had nothing to eat. I once even made a whole plan that essentially amounted to "just act casual and walk slow when you exit the store" so I could walk out with an entire gallon of milk and box of instant oatmeal. Is that a food heist? 😄 (if I can laugh about it now, so can you)
Unedited..so the intro music is played live each time?🤨
INTENTIONALLY BLANK: DIRECTORLESS CUT
Take THAT Zack Snyder!!
more magic content. much good
I am 100% hiding in the back, avoiding my in-laws. This podcast worked for me, haha.
Well done Dan for intuiting Last Strike from Triple Strike!
Our family has a bit of a running joke about have a new Christmas tradition every year.
They should come up with and release a compilation of things that were cut out
Jefferson Bourbon also does a similar practice. They take their normal barrels of bourbon and put them on a boat for an extra year of aging as the boat goes around the globe.
The claim is the rocking of the boat creates a different flavor profile. All it really does is create an overpriced bourbon that is pretty much garbage.
There are fresh water sharks, so you don't even need a robot for the episode
It's awesome that Dan is a boardgamer! Not sure if Brandon is or just knows about the industry through the games set in his books.
We always did Christmas Eve as the main celebration for the nuclear family, and grandparents and everyone else for lunch/dinner Christmas Day. I’m 25 now and I still enjoyed staying up late on Christmas Eve building the Lego set I got. (This year it was a bonsai tree)
I'm changing the title to "Gin Magic, and In-Laws"
Yay Magic's in the title! Oh, Magic the Gathering... Oh well 😅😆
...a christmas story is awesome.
"Everyone's at home, they don't have work"
I keep seeing this sentiment a lot of places on the internet. In my experience VERY FEW places closed for the end of the year. Most of us still have work.
Brandon what did you think of Avatar the Way of Water? Would you talk about it on the podcast?
The MTG guess the effect game was golden
My brain literally turned off for this whole thing until you said “This might’ve been too random but tell us what you think” haha
MTG is great! I started playing because I learned Brandon was into it back in 2017
More magic please!
Dan remembers everything he needs to about MTG, because once you understand the game, it stays with you forever.
It was Nessie. Nessie stole the gin. Or one of Nessie's cousins, probably some local sea monster who was tired of Fish Group using his property. No doubt he had family or friends over for the holidays and decided to crack it open--payment for the use of his real estate.
Nessie drinks Scotch, no interest in Swiss Gin.
The Fintastic Heist
On an unrelated topic, does anyone know a good starting bid for an exceedingly rare stainless steel sphere of gin on ebay? Asking for a friend.
I love how dan calls 10 card magic unplayable when marvel snap which is 12 card magic is the number 1 app out there.
Hey hey upload team! The pod isnt on Spotify where I listen mainly.
We would do the line up and march in one by one thing too!
Dan is going all Equinshu Ocha with his hair.
firstly, I am working. secondly, I love and play magic
to be honest still these guys could talk about cheese sticks and I'd be overjoyed , also Christmas Muppets goes hard its fun . .
The movie should obviously be called Steal Barrel
Is this podcast no longer on Spotify? this episode wasn't there
Why has this episode not shown up on streaming services?
"Meh" for Christmas Story? Wow. I love that movie. I guess I'm old now?
Nostalgia is a thing
This episode isn’t showing up in the podcast app. Are they not releasing it to podcast any more?
I’d totally play an in-universe Cosmere board game kind of like Gwent.
There was a creature called "Extremely Slow Zombie" from the Unstable set which had Last Strike. It dealt its damage after creatures without last strike.
When this came out people were talking about what would happen if it was given Double Strike, and someone from WotC confirmed it would deal 3 lots of damage. This was nicknamed Triple Strike.
So yes, Triple Strike is (as you correctly guessed) Double Strike with another damage step afterwards.