Hemi refers to hemispherical, or half a sphere, which is the rough shape of the piston inside the engines. The marketing department didn't just make up the word, it had been in use for decades referring to specific engines for a long time before those commercials came around. So a marketing agent demanding a "hemi" shows they don't understand why the word meant so much in the first place, you can't just give a single word decades of culture in a single marketing campaign.
To add to this, a hemispherical piston is more power-efficient and leads to more giddy-up in a car- typically big trucks and muscle cars use hemis to go fast. It’s not efficient for day to day driving, but hemisphere engines go vroom vroom… or something, I’m not actually a car guy
To clarify, the HEMI name was coined for the second generation of these ingenious engines. They were made particularly famous by "The King" Richard Petty and the Plymouth Roadrunner that got the Hemi outlawed from NASCAR after just one season. (And yes that is the car in the movie Cars, The King was Richard Petty) The new Hemi isn't technically the same, since EFI has changed the game in engines, but it is still a powerful design that allows things like 2 sparks per Cylinder. All that to agree with the above comment that a marketing ploy cant create decades of association with a term and its history.
With regard to name patterns, I think the Dresden Files is in interesting case study in intentional pattern breaking. All the books had 2 word, noir-ish, lightly wordplay names. "Grave Peril", "White Night", "Dead Beat". And then when it was time for the series to turn from detective noir and dive into more of the apocalyptic fantasy tropes, the hinge book was "Changes".
Legit one of things I appreciate whenever I go back and read them. There is something intrinsically appealing when a series uses word play as its titles to draw you in as a reader.
Changes does so much more than that though. It really rocks the series off its hinges in every way. I don't think I've read or watched anything else that was more deserving of a title like that without literally changing everything about the series, because that book manages to keep most of the things that worked in spite of the changes.
I've honestly never read a book where the title feels so perfectly aligned to the content at all points in the story. Every major event makes you sit back and look at that cover, and think, "yeah this book earns it's title."
Another fun fact: The male lead of "What's Up, Doc?"... is a doctor. While the plot revolves around the female lead rather nosily poking into his business and even directly asking him the title question at one point. Hence the reason it's called that. Because that's what the movie's about and that's how titles work.
I have to disagree with Brandon's comment around 19:00. Titles of mid-series works can absolutely bring in new readers. I in fact decided to read Mistborn in the first place because of the title "The Alloy of Law," which I saw while perusing the library shelves. I was hooked by the idea of a metal-based magic system but I didn't want to start midway through the series (that was how it was advertised at the time, rather than as the start of a separate series) so I ended up looking for the actual Mistborn 1. I can think of a number of times this has happened to me, usually with titles which pique one of my hobby interests. Books which reference chess would be another good example.
I agree with that. A introducee to a series may not see the first book on the shelf, but they may see the third or fourth and be interested enough from the title to at least look at it, read the synopsis (hopefully) notice it is a series and hunt down the first book.
Interesting. Alloy of Law was the first 100% Brandon book I read. I read his Wheel of Time books and saw Alloy of Law, Tried it, and devoured everything else available at the time from him. I didn't realize it was a middle book at the time and still think of it as its own series in the same world.
Food Heist! In ww2 sugar was rationed. My dad worked for his uncle during ww2. He was just a boy. One day he walked into his uncle's office and there in his office were 2 men in suits. "That's a lot of sugar stamps", one said pointing to a pile of sugar stamps on the desk. My dad replied, "That is nothing you should look in the file cabinet." The 2 F.B.I. agents DID look in the file cabinet... And they also looked in the back room where my great uncle had a printing press that he used to print the sugar stamps. If dad was still alive he would still be like, "My uncle kept several restaurants open. No one would of gone to a restaurant if they didn't have sugar for the food. That food would taste bad. He was a good man." My reply was' always "Umm dad sugar was a rationed because of the war he went to prison because he was a criminal." Dad would then reply, "Baa there wasn't a shortage, why we unloaded train car full of sugar." Me -facepalm-
In Polish edition of Mistborn, Mistborn is the title of the first book and the Final Empire is the name of the series. I have never realised it's so different from the English version!
@@edwinleskin3112 Probably because it sounds better? I actually like it more this way. Though it doesn't really work with the second era, so that's a problem...
OMG, I was coming into the comments to mention that. Gems as a source of magic, one really long sleeve. . .waiting for the horses to explode though. . .
It's interesting how your mental context can effect how you interpret words like Adonis. I remember back in college, after Chemistry class, seeing another student reading a book on "Un-Ionized Workers", which seemed both strange and also very intriguing. Sadly, it was about Unions.
I could see a good fiction about the far future, workers in high radiation environment struggling for their rights. Sort of like red rising meets germinal or the grapes of wrath.
The best thing about A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum was that it wasn't JUST being classically vaudevillian, the entire structure of the play was based off of Roman farces. It includes basically all of the tropes that were common, including a wily slave MC who helps conspire to get his lovestruck master together with the girl, and chaos ensues.
Hate to ruin the uncanniness, but based on the reviewer's name, I'd guess that's Kaylynn ZoBell, who is part of Brandon and Dan's writing group (or at least was back then).
I think the best cartoon catchphrase is "sufferin' succotash" I specifically want it as the title of a Robin Hobb Fitz book adaptation. As far as a few real good book names I love Christopher Ruocchio's first two Suneater book tiles, Empire of Silence and Howling Dark. To fit with Dan's Makeover book name being changed, cause of possible confusion, I believe a brilliant book titled "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" would probably get changed now.They would probably think people would be dumb enough to confuse it as a real guide book.
"What's Up, Doc?" was my favorite movie as a kid and it was like 20 years old at that point. So NONE of my friends have seen it. It makes me ridiculously happy to see you guys discussing it, even if just the terrible title!
So, from what I know, a Hemi is an engine that "can do twice as much with half the work". Basically it was supposed to be able to do twice as much power in the car while costing half as much gas, heat, wear or other expenditures. Idk if that's true tho.
Dan, I’ve waited too long and I won’t do it anymore. I’ve spent my audible Credit and I’m going to listen to I am not a serial killer. I’ve been listening and laughing to your ideas for as long as you’ve been visiting this TH-cam channel and frankly it’s well overdue I give you a go. I’m excited to see what kind of writer you are!
Now I have to write a draft of [Imagine Woody-Woodpecker Laughing]. I'll do the novel if someone else will handle the screenplay. Let's get this thing done!
Funny you mention hemi meaning half, because that’s actually where the name Hemi comes from. The hemi engine has a hemispherical cylinder head and piston, which provides improved heat retention and thus more power and torque for a given displacement compared to the engines of the day.
With Stormlight titles the naming convention was broken and then immediately brought back lol. Way of Kings, Words of Radiance, (break), Rhythm of War.
The initials of the book titles so far make a Ketek (a form of poetry in the series) or are symmetrical like glyphs. WoK, WoR, O , RoW ….. Best guess is book five will be KoW. What is everyone’s best guess for book five? Kingdom of Wrath is one off the top of my head.
Starsight followed by Cytonic could be the start of another sequential title schema. Sight does get pronounced like "Cyt" of Cytonic. Meaning that the next book could start with "Tonic" or "Onic". I'm calling it now, Skyward 4 is gonna be called "Tonic Water tastes like victory". And yes, you may steal that idea, Brandon.
The Dresden Files books have an interesting, but limiting naming tradition. Every book consist of two words with the same number of letters. Storm Front have two words of 5 letters, while Fool Moon have two words of four letters. The exception is the 12th book which is called Changes (and probably is the mid-point of the series).
I know that you guys often read the comments and while off topic, I was wondering if you could discuss structuring books. Why do some novels have books/parts/sections within a book? Is it kind of like telling the audience that you are entering a new act in a play like or an intermission? I know have seen the device in many varied books such as Lord of the Rings, Bourne Identity, Jurassic Park, Treasure Island, Stormlight Archive, etc. but then not used in others such as Count of Monte Cristo. When and why is it used rather than just sticking with chapters? Thanks!
The review at 13:56 has some pretty accurate information lol…gems providing magic, man returning from the dead to warn of impending disaster, and the sleeves thing…. It’s too close to the final product to be a coincidence imo
A Funny Thing Happened on The Way To The Forum is also the name of the English translation of the Philogelos, the oldest surviving joke book. From like 400 AD or something. Not the the oldest joke book ever, but the oldest surviving one. Just to be perfectly clear.
I Hate to say it, but they were kind of right. People would look for a normal edition if there was a apocalypse addition. Decades of working with the public has taught me this🙄
Right now I'm reading Kevin J. Anderson's "Spine of the Dragon," book one of his Wake the Dragon series. To me the title evokes The Wheel of Time. It's a good book, so far.
Ah! the fake reviews are kinda amazing, not gonna lie. I too recall the anti-lettuce agenda in Way of Kings. At least it was a way of knowing you had people interested! Also the reviewer at 13:55 had to have a Tardis and was leaving cryptic hints.
I think the title “Mistborn: The Final Empire” as the first book, is genius. Having the end (final empire) as the ending, it leaves people wondering what books two and three will entail.
13:55 Ok is anyone going to mention how weirdly accurate this fake review is? The Rhyshadium are beautiful horses who can express their feelings, stormlight is stored in gems, Talenel'Elin comes back from Braize to warn about the coming Desolation, and many noble women have one really long sleeve to cover their safehand.
I got into reading the Poppy War series because of the title of the second book: The Dragon Republic. I was like... I'm interested, but I'm clearly going to have to start with book 1. (It wasn't what I'd been hoping for, alas, but reading book 1 also dispelled those expectations so that I could enjoy book 2 for what it was.)
So I worked at a middle school that used the Skyward system for class registration and grades, and when the counselors would combine the kid’s desired classes and the master schedule for the next year they would they the system needed to “spin” the schedule together. No idea why it was called that but it was delightful.
I've tried working on titles for so damn long and there's so many that I've gone through that It hink are great but just couldn't stick. Probably my favorite of those was Decolonized, and then I found out it was a real word dealing with real issues and it stopped being a fun name for a scifi far future earth story with giant monsters trained by combination national park/spec ops rangers.
Mirador sounds to me like a Fantasy title. The name of some kind of realm or something. Probably mostly due to Tolkien’s Gondor, Eriador, Mordor etc. But I could swear there’s a million like that. Myranor which is part of the German Fantasy RPG world of The Dark Eye is also very similar. Never would guess it to be a Cyberpunk series.
Oh, no, no, you're not getting off the hook that easily Brandon. Everyone is expecting Stormlight 5's title to be epic. It doesn't matter if it's far into the series.
I remember in one of the Fantastic Four movies Reed Richards built a flying car and Johnny Storm(?) asked him if it had a hemi.... that's the only reason I remember hemi
It's funny how marketing people thought that the first Mistborn book being named The Final Empire was confusing, bc when I first tried to find Mistborn after being recommended it, I was confused as to what was the first book, bc I kept searching for Mistborn the Final Empire, but it wasn't appearing on the covers.
Anime and Manga, and the korean/chinese versions have little filter and much diversity/freedom both in titles and in concepts in great meassure because they don't share our auto-censorship society.
@@francesccampos1343 the language barrie doesn't help either a lot of the time. Trying to find a specific anime when you don't know the title can be an interesting rabbit hole experience.
The problem with light novel titles is that they're chasing an algorithm. It's like if youtube titles used a string of words about the actual topic of the video, but also used words to suggest as many other popular topics as possible.
A Hemi engine is called that because the combustion chambers are hemispherical, which due to various science things I don't understand makes the engine more efficient and powerful.
There was a movie that came out about 5 or so years ago that had a similar title to Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone (alphabet mysteries) series of books. But the movie was not related.
Light Novel titles aren't that bad. Somehow, no one used "I Brought Our World's Magic to this Other World!" in a book before, so my book series isn't being mistaken for anyone else's!
Peter yesterday commented on Reddit, I quote: "So far they narrowed it down to 13." (designs) So I suppose we are going to have to wait a little bit longer.
"Gone with the Wind" could actually be a good title for a Stormlight book...
Gone with the Windrunner
Frankly my dear, I don't give a desolation...
Hemi refers to hemispherical, or half a sphere, which is the rough shape of the piston inside the engines. The marketing department didn't just make up the word, it had been in use for decades referring to specific engines for a long time before those commercials came around. So a marketing agent demanding a "hemi" shows they don't understand why the word meant so much in the first place, you can't just give a single word decades of culture in a single marketing campaign.
I like how you worded this.
To add to this, a hemispherical piston is more power-efficient and leads to more giddy-up in a car- typically big trucks and muscle cars use hemis to go fast.
It’s not efficient for day to day driving, but hemisphere engines go vroom vroom… or something, I’m not actually a car guy
To clarify, the HEMI name was coined for the second generation of these ingenious engines. They were made particularly famous by "The King" Richard Petty and the Plymouth Roadrunner that got the Hemi outlawed from NASCAR after just one season. (And yes that is the car in the movie Cars, The King was Richard Petty)
The new Hemi isn't technically the same, since EFI has changed the game in engines, but it is still a powerful design that allows things like 2 sparks per Cylinder. All that to agree with the above comment that a marketing ploy cant create decades of association with a term and its history.
With regard to name patterns, I think the Dresden Files is in interesting case study in intentional pattern breaking. All the books had 2 word, noir-ish, lightly wordplay names. "Grave Peril", "White Night", "Dead Beat". And then when it was time for the series to turn from detective noir and dive into more of the apocalyptic fantasy tropes, the hinge book was "Changes".
I didn't even think about that, but you are totally right.
Legit one of things I appreciate whenever I go back and read them. There is something intrinsically appealing when a series uses word play as its titles to draw you in as a reader.
Changes does so much more than that though. It really rocks the series off its hinges in every way. I don't think I've read or watched anything else that was more deserving of a title like that without literally changing everything about the series, because that book manages to keep most of the things that worked in spite of the changes.
I've honestly never read a book where the title feels so perfectly aligned to the content at all points in the story. Every major event makes you sit back and look at that cover, and think, "yeah this book earns it's title."
I sent in a comment on this before I saw your post.
FUN FACT: Bugs Bunny was imitating Clark Gable when he eats the carrot and says “What’s up, Doc?” In “It happened one night in 1934.”
Same movie that made mens undershirts wholly uncool, IIRC.
Nice. I'm learning a lot of random stuff in these comments. Thank y'all.
Ahhh, I love a good classic movie
Another fun fact: The male lead of "What's Up, Doc?"... is a doctor. While the plot revolves around the female lead rather nosily poking into his business and even directly asking him the title question at one point. Hence the reason it's called that. Because that's what the movie's about and that's how titles work.
“You could name the later books whatever and people would buy it”
*looks at the kickstarter*
Sir you named your books nothing and people bought it
I have to disagree with Brandon's comment around 19:00. Titles of mid-series works can absolutely bring in new readers. I in fact decided to read Mistborn in the first place because of the title "The Alloy of Law," which I saw while perusing the library shelves. I was hooked by the idea of a metal-based magic system but I didn't want to start midway through the series (that was how it was advertised at the time, rather than as the start of a separate series) so I ended up looking for the actual Mistborn 1.
I can think of a number of times this has happened to me, usually with titles which pique one of my hobby interests. Books which reference chess would be another good example.
I agree with that. A introducee to a series may not see the first book on the shelf, but they may see the third or fourth and be interested enough from the title to at least look at it, read the synopsis (hopefully) notice it is a series and hunt down the first book.
Same thing happened to me as a teenager with the Guild of Specialists books.
Interesting. Alloy of Law was the first 100% Brandon book I read. I read his Wheel of Time books and saw Alloy of Law, Tried it, and devoured everything else available at the time from him. I didn't realize it was a middle book at the time and still think of it as its own series in the same world.
I’m glad that I’m not the only person who does that…
Food Heist!
In ww2 sugar was rationed.
My dad worked for his uncle during ww2. He was just a boy. One day he walked into his uncle's office and there in his office were 2 men in suits.
"That's a lot of sugar stamps", one said pointing to a pile of sugar stamps on the desk.
My dad replied, "That is nothing you should look in the file cabinet."
The 2 F.B.I. agents DID look in the file cabinet... And they also looked in the back room where my great uncle had a printing press that he used to print the sugar stamps.
If dad was still alive he would still be like, "My uncle kept several restaurants open. No one would of gone to a restaurant if they didn't have sugar for the food. That food would taste bad. He was a good man."
My reply was' always "Umm dad sugar was a rationed because of the war he went to prison because he was a criminal."
Dad would then reply, "Baa there wasn't a shortage, why we unloaded train car full of sugar."
Me -facepalm-
uncle sounds like a good man
In Polish edition of Mistborn, Mistborn is the title of the first book and the Final Empire is the name of the series.
I have never realised it's so different from the English version!
Wow, wonder why
@@edwinleskin3112 Probably because it sounds better?
I actually like it more this way.
Though it doesn't really work with the second era, so that's a problem...
@@zofiazawistowska8213 the "final empire" topples before the end of the series. The ironic first title is part of the appeal in my opinion.
I love when we open with historical food heists.
@Bully Maguire 🅥 I missed the part where that's my problem.
A great title that I thought was immediately brilliant is "A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking"
13:55 - This specific review is uncanny. 😃 Each of those points regarding 'some side story' are accurate!
OMG, I was coming into the comments to mention that. Gems as a source of magic, one really long sleeve. . .waiting for the horses to explode though. . .
I was going to say the same thing! How did they know about the sleeves??
It's interesting how your mental context can effect how you interpret words like Adonis.
I remember back in college, after Chemistry class, seeing another student reading a book on "Un-Ionized Workers", which seemed both strange and also very intriguing.
Sadly, it was about Unions.
I could see a good fiction about the far future, workers in high radiation environment struggling for their rights. Sort of like red rising meets germinal or the grapes of wrath.
I can't believe you both missed the best movie with a punctuation in the title: Airplane!
I wish these videos were longer. I love just listening to the banter of my two fave writers while I paint and work.
I'm always on standby waiting for the "How's that Ben?" to drop.
Which would also make a good punctuated title for this podcast.
The best thing about A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum was that it wasn't JUST being classically vaudevillian, the entire structure of the play was based off of Roman farces. It includes basically all of the tropes that were common, including a wily slave MC who helps conspire to get his lovestruck master together with the girl, and chaos ensues.
"Uses gems as a source of magic"
"Princesses have gowns with with one really long sleeve"
13:55 Hmm... You sure this guy wasn't a time traveler?
I noticed that too! 😃That's uncanny.
Also, a man returning from the dead to warn of impending disaster?
I know he was late and it didn't happen in the first book, but still...
Hate to ruin the uncanniness, but based on the reviewer's name, I'd guess that's Kaylynn ZoBell, who is part of Brandon and Dan's writing group (or at least was back then).
@@mz3player That would explain it.
@@mz3player That's a shame, I was ready to confirm that Ryshadiums explode 😂
The fact that they put an exclamation point in the episode title!
I think the best cartoon catchphrase is "sufferin' succotash" I specifically want it as the title of a Robin Hobb Fitz book adaptation. As far as a few real good book names I love Christopher Ruocchio's first two Suneater book tiles, Empire of Silence and Howling Dark. To fit with Dan's Makeover book name being changed, cause of possible confusion, I believe a brilliant book titled "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" would probably get changed now.They would probably think people would be dumb enough to confuse it as a real guide book.
"What's Up, Doc?" was my favorite movie as a kid and it was like 20 years old at that point. So NONE of my friends have seen it. It makes me ridiculously happy to see you guys discussing it, even if just the terrible title!
So, from what I know, a Hemi is an engine that "can do twice as much with half the work". Basically it was supposed to be able to do twice as much power in the car while costing half as much gas, heat, wear or other expenditures. Idk if that's true tho.
It also refers to the Piston shape, which is roughly hemispherical
@@wilhelm_iron2359 I didn't know that. That makes sense. Thank you.
Dan, I’ve waited too long and I won’t do it anymore. I’ve spent my audible Credit and I’m going to listen to I am not a serial killer.
I’ve been listening and laughing to your ideas for as long as you’ve been visiting this TH-cam channel and frankly it’s well overdue I give you a go. I’m excited to see what kind of writer you are!
Good golly Dan. That was nuts. Good job. I’m buying the sequel, although I can’t imagine what a sequel could be. It seems like a self contained story.
I love this podcast so much! It's refreshing just seeing two buds talk shop and about anything else that catches their fancy.
the wails of the tale of wet whiskey
"Who framed Roger Rabbit?" have punctuation in the title and it's great.
Now I have to write a draft of [Imagine Woody-Woodpecker Laughing]. I'll do the novel if someone else will handle the screenplay. Let's get this thing done!
I started on it yesterday, just in case anyone cares. It's pretty bizarre already.
Hollow City strikes me as an alternate title for Elantris XD
The best part is they had this exact conversation with slight differences
“Meep! Meep!” And “That’s all folks!” would also be great titles.
Funny you mention hemi meaning half, because that’s actually where the name Hemi comes from. The hemi engine has a hemispherical cylinder head and piston, which provides improved heat retention and thus more power and torque for a given displacement compared to the engines of the day.
Aw the last of the historical food heists? We’re my favorite for a while
With Stormlight titles the naming convention was broken and then immediately brought back lol. Way of Kings, Words of Radiance, (break), Rhythm of War.
The initials of the book titles so far make a Ketek (a form of poetry in the series) or are symmetrical like glyphs.
WoK, WoR, O , RoW …..
Best guess is book five will be KoW. What is everyone’s best guess for book five?
Kingdom of Wrath is one off the top of my head.
How sad to learn that Dan doesn’t approve of my webcomic title. I think “Kick Ass, Magic Robot!” Is a great title, punctuation included :)
I'd read that
@@wylanvallotton4462 I just started publishing chapter 6! It’s available on a website of the same name
@@aerynmusick4548 can you comment a link here? 😲
Apparently not, it got taken down! Google the name and it will come up though!
Best punctuation in a book title.... Guards! Guards!
I'm always ecstatic about a new episode!
Starsight followed by Cytonic could be the start of another sequential title schema.
Sight does get pronounced like "Cyt" of Cytonic. Meaning that the next book could start with "Tonic" or "Onic".
I'm calling it now, Skyward 4 is gonna be called "Tonic Water tastes like victory". And yes, you may steal that idea, Brandon.
The Dresden Files books have an interesting, but limiting naming tradition. Every book consist of two words with the same number of letters. Storm Front have two words of 5 letters, while Fool Moon have two words of four letters. The exception is the 12th book which is called Changes (and probably is the mid-point of the series).
Podcast Title: The Stubad Show/Exponential Rantings/Two Bestsellers Who Can't Name a Podcast.
Love the show!!
I got my 9 year old son the Zero G Chronicles a couple weeks ago and he loved them. He can’t wait for the last one to have a print version.
From the reviews: “if he was British he’d be Sir Brandon right now, okay!” 😂😂
Hi Brandon, Dan,
We've been using your episode titles as writing prompts.
This one may finally stump us.
Regards,
The Writers' Teahouse Discord
This is brilliant and I ... yeah, I am also stumped.
This guys have so many publishing storys. I love it. Never heard of the amazon incident one.
I know that you guys often read the comments and while off topic, I was wondering if you could discuss structuring books. Why do some novels have books/parts/sections within a book? Is it kind of like telling the audience that you are entering a new act in a play like or an intermission? I know have seen the device in many varied books such as Lord of the Rings, Bourne Identity, Jurassic Park, Treasure Island, Stormlight Archive, etc. but then not used in others such as Count of Monte Cristo. When and why is it used rather than just sticking with chapters? Thanks!
The review at 13:56 has some pretty accurate information lol…gems providing magic, man returning from the dead to warn of impending disaster, and the sleeves thing…. It’s too close to the final product to be a coincidence imo
A Funny Thing Happened on The Way To The Forum is also the name of the English translation of the Philogelos, the oldest surviving joke book. From like 400 AD or something. Not the the oldest joke book ever, but the oldest surviving one. Just to be perfectly clear.
That mystery amazon listing would be great for a super tech support episode of Reply All.
Title for the Whiskey heist would have to be “Whiskey on the Rocks”
I Hate to say it, but they were kind of right. People would look for a normal edition if there was a apocalypse addition. Decades of working with the public has taught me this🙄
My favorite title: the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime
Right now I'm reading Kevin J. Anderson's "Spine of the Dragon," book one of his Wake the Dragon series. To me the title evokes The Wheel of Time. It's a good book, so far.
Breeze definitely planned that whiskey heist!
Brandon, the main character of "What's Up, Doc" is literally a doctor...
Ah! the fake reviews are kinda amazing, not gonna lie. I too recall the anti-lettuce agenda in Way of Kings. At least it was a way of knowing you had people interested! Also the reviewer at 13:55 had to have a Tardis and was leaving cryptic hints.
Audio upgrade? Nice. Following Brandon long enough to assume that's a new jacket? Swanky
I think the title “Mistborn: The Final Empire” as the first book, is genius. Having the end (final empire) as the ending, it leaves people wondering what books two and three will entail.
Ah yes, naming things, a programmers worst nightmare...
Right alongside cache invalidation
This one was bang on guys, good job!
13:55 Ok is anyone going to mention how weirdly accurate this fake review is? The Rhyshadium are beautiful horses who can express their feelings, stormlight is stored in gems, Talenel'Elin comes back from Braize to warn about the coming Desolation, and many noble women have one really long sleeve to cover their safehand.
I got into reading the Poppy War series because of the title of the second book: The Dragon Republic. I was like... I'm interested, but I'm clearly going to have to start with book 1. (It wasn't what I'd been hoping for, alas, but reading book 1 also dispelled those expectations so that I could enjoy book 2 for what it was.)
So I worked at a middle school that used the Skyward system for class registration and grades, and when the counselors would combine the kid’s desired classes and the master schedule for the next year they would they the system needed to “spin” the schedule together. No idea why it was called that but it was delightful.
I've tried working on titles for so damn long and there's so many that I've gone through that It hink are great but just couldn't stick. Probably my favorite of those was Decolonized, and then I found out it was a real word dealing with real issues and it stopped being a fun name for a scifi far future earth story with giant monsters trained by combination national park/spec ops rangers.
Mirador sounds to me like a Fantasy title. The name of some kind of realm or something. Probably mostly due to Tolkien’s Gondor, Eriador, Mordor etc. But I could swear there’s a million like that. Myranor which is part of the German Fantasy RPG world of The Dark Eye is also very similar. Never would guess it to be a Cyberpunk series.
Whiskey Galore! was based on a book called Tight Little Island. The movie has such thick Scottish accents that I can barely understand the characters.
Great film with punctuation in title: Airplane!
Oh, no, no, you're not getting off the hook that easily Brandon. Everyone is expecting Stormlight 5's title to be epic. It doesn't matter if it's far into the series.
Brandon underestimates the importance of the name of Stormlight 5. If it's not KOWT, fans will revolt.
I remember in one of the Fantastic Four movies Reed Richards built a flying car and Johnny Storm(?) asked him if it had a hemi.... that's the only reason I remember hemi
Also I vaguely recall Brandon referring to the Knights Radiant as Tarnished at some point in Way of Kings
My school district used Skyward and we definitely made a lot of jokes about the title because of that! Still a great title haha
Means of travel and position of authority 😂
R.L. Stine Writes titles for his stories first, and then writes the stories around the titles. The ideas for his stories come in the form of titles.
Has Dan ever watched The Angels' Share ? As the food heist afficionado as he is, he should like it.
No good movie titles have punctuation?
Colons: am I a joke to you?
Airplane! Great title
I came on to say this
Those fake Way of Kings reviews were amazing
I listen to this on Spotify but I came for Elvis. Thanks for the hours of entertainment
It's funny how marketing people thought that the first Mistborn book being named The Final Empire was confusing, bc when I first tried to find Mistborn after being recommended it, I was confused as to what was the first book, bc I kept searching for Mistborn the Final Empire, but it wasn't appearing on the covers.
Tomorrow will be the first aniversary of intentionally blank, and we still don't have a name
I've used Skyward and Canvas, and they aren't really the same sort of thing.
Skyward is a Student information system and ERP software specifically for schools. Still has a really cool title!
I love and hate the way anime/manga/LN get named. It's so nice that it can exist and be accepted, but so many of them are so frustratingly bad
Anime and Manga, and the korean/chinese versions have little filter and much diversity/freedom both in titles and in concepts in great meassure because they don't share our auto-censorship society.
@@francesccampos1343 the language barrie doesn't help either a lot of the time. Trying to find a specific anime when you don't know the title can be an interesting rabbit hole experience.
The second round of thievery makes sense, when someone realized that the inventory of the already-plundered whiskey had been compromised.
The problem with light novel titles is that they're chasing an algorithm. It's like if youtube titles used a string of words about the actual topic of the video, but also used words to suggest as many other popular topics as possible.
"A second, or third or fifth time".
Looks like someone had a little too much whiskey in his belly too. (And yes, I know he doesn't drink alc)
Cinnamon had some food heists, I believe. Almost like coffee.
26:44 Gone with the Wind and Truth
Podcast name: "I maintain this distinction, and things like that."
A Hemi engine is called that because the combustion chambers are hemispherical, which due to various science things I don't understand makes the engine more efficient and powerful.
wake up babe new intentionally blank just dropped
Dan, I love your book the hollow city ! (Exclamation mark)
There was a movie that came out about 5 or so years ago that had a similar title to Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone (alphabet mysteries) series of books. But the movie was not related.
Book titles with punctuation: how about "Eats, Shoots & Leaves"?
Island of the Whiskey Thieves!
Pride & Prejudice
Airplane!
When Harry Met Sally...
Emma.
I just ordered a book that just came out titled “The Way of Kings” by Nathan Clarkson
What about the movie "What about Bob?". That's a great movie with a punctuation.
Light Novel titles aren't that bad. Somehow, no one used "I Brought Our World's Magic to this Other World!" in a book before, so my book series isn't being mistaken for anyone else's!
For good titles with punctuation:
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Absalom, Absalom! By Faulkner
Any update on the Alcatraz contest?
Peter yesterday commented on Reddit, I quote:
"So far they narrowed it down to 13." (designs)
So I suppose we are going to have to wait a little bit longer.
THANK YOU!!! I've been checking constantly to see if it's out yet, it's nice to hear a bit of information.
@@LucysLocket Your welcome!
I was also a little bit worried and disoriented and was checking everything everywhere since Monday 😅
You have mentioned light novels a couple times, I feel like you need an episode where you rename each others books as light novels.