Freshly Baked with Intentionally Blank Ep. 144

This week on Intentionally Blank, Brandon Sanderson and Dan Wells are treated to some wonderfully fresh baked bread (and some less than fresh) as they are joined by Brandon's Father! Along with chatting bread, they discuss their own parents and what they are like, along with their own pasts.
(0:00) - Introducing "The Baker"
(2:20) - The First Bread
(4:25) - Parent Talk
(8:35) - The Second Bread
(11:10) - The Third Bread
(14:00 - The Fourth Bread
(17:30) - The Bakers Past
(21:52) - Gifts To Us
(24:15) - Where We Grew Up
(31:40) - Reminiscing About the Past
(32:50) - School Talk
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[@KyleOfTheNorth]

I love papa Sanderson telling Dan to say Yes his baguette looks like the ones from France 🤣🤣

[@ValGalorian]

Papa Sanderson: Say yes. Dan, immediately: Yes, it does.

[@adamh5432]

Because Dan is wise

[@AnomalousCanid]

Hey, here from Daniel Green. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for using your not-insignificant influence in order to right the wrongs against authors re: Audible. You're a good human being, and far better than most we see these days in positions of power. Again, thank you.

[@ZeRomanEmpire]

Love how this is under a video of the guy just eating bread for half an hour 🤣 But absolutely agree, he's a living legend and an inspiration (and he knows his stuff when it comes to bread)

[@thekevmeister77]

"We need a bread podcast!" Do we, dough?

[@samuelleask1132]

👏 👏 👏

[@michaelalder3709]

Kneed* ;)

[@McCainenl]

The best kind of youtube is watching two middle-aged men eat bread

[@SarcasmFiend23]

I had no idea that I could love someone is Brandon’s family more than him. Brando, your dad is the best. A genuine delight. A WYNNer.

[@Grunik1618]

This is way too wholesome.

[@thekevmeister77]

wholewheatsome

[@kaimcdragonfist4803]

“We’re going out together, and there won’t be enough left to bury.” Couples goals right there

[@lauren7713]

I need a bread baking class with Papa Sanderson!

[@thegreyinitiate3680]

I don’t know if Dan ever reads or is read these comments, but I grabbed Serial Killer from the bookstore earlier this week and am just finishing it now. It’s excellent. I’m gonna go get Mr Monster on my day off on Friday. So I just wanted to say “thank you” for putting such awesome stuff out into the world. I will be buying the rest of them in very short order haha

[@heartlesswench2267]

We want Win's jalapeño cheese bread recipe 😮

[@AearionXIII]

I could listen to Brandon's dad talk about bread for hours. Absolutely wholesome man. Love you all, Life Before Death

[@Morfeusm]

This is in no shape or form downgrade to your usual format! It’s wholesome and adorable!

[@BirdMorphingOne]

'Bout time they hired a good writer around here.' Sounds like a Wit line

[@BrandonsWritingRoom]

Honestly, I love this kind of stuff. It's so cool listening to someone talk about their passions just for the sake of sharing what they love with others.

[@NotMeButAnother]

The bread interlude was very cute. Can't help but love fellow people who're passionate about preparing food.

[@sadee4175]

Upcoming food hiest... I'm stealing some of that bread because it sounds amazing

[@seanjones1810]

Dark One: Forgotten does not get enough love. I really enjoyed that and the mock podcast format worked really well.

[@CFAFanatic]

This is a wonderful episode. Thank you Brandon for sharing your family with us!

[@younktsome2]

I think we need a dragon steel release of "The Bread Wynner" cookbook.

[@younktsome2]

I'll accept a minor credit on the back page for the title 😂

[@emmafritz4657]

The wholesomeness of Papa Sanderson! 😭 I wanna hang out and talk bread with him for hours! ❤️

[@cptbrownbeard]

One of the best episodes yet, getting to listen to Papa Sanderson is a real treat!

[@thispaulrules]

We met your dad at Dragonsteel in the elevator and (before he introduced himself) he asked what we were doing here and we said we were here to see Brandon, and he said, "That guy? You don't really think he that good, do you?"

[@godminnette2]

My father is French and also a lover of bread baking. He regularly sends pictures of the various loaves and baguettes he has made - hard for me when I'm trying to reduce my carbs! Part of me longs to have tartines with butter and jam...

[@Morfeusm]

Good news is you don’t need to reduce carbs unless you are going for some specific strength training. The carbohydrate just makes you store more water, that’s why you see such a rapid weigh loss on low carb diet. You can lose weight while enjoying your father master pieces! What makes a huge difference is cutting on liquid calories (sugary drinks, alcohol etc) and added sugar. Also if you have one tartine with tablespoon of butter and tablespoon of jam for sanity sake you will benefit immensely and will more likely stick with the diet. Weigh loss isn’t about willpower but about sustainable, systemic and consistent eating habits. Creating a small calorie deficit is all you really need, no need to be too restrictive. If your diet centers around mostly whole foods and lots of healthy vegetables and you have decent portion control without starving yourself, you can absolutely have tartines with butter and jam…

[@godminnette2]

@@Morfeusm Ah, but that's the thing - I am specifically strength training! And I know I could have the occasional tartine, but when I need to buy or bake an entire baguette that will go stale in three days if I don't eat it - well, that's a lot more than one tartine !

[@Morfeusm]

Hm yeah that’s much tougher. Good luck with your fitness journey then, it’s a lot of sacrifices but also fun! I miss my weight training days, but I rather stick with my distance running! Have a nice day!

[@godminnette2]

@@Morfeusm you, too !

[@tomfeyl2946]

Me as a German shaking my head while Brandon and Dan eat cake and pastries. I love how passionate Papa Sanderson is. Yet alone that Dan has to take his Lactaid to eat bread. Bread is made of water, flour and yeast or something similar. 😆

[@DivinePearl]

Love this slice of life episode. Making different breads is a great skill. I totally get wanting your own room. When I finally had my own room as a teen, I never went back until I got married.

[@ColtonsHobbies]

Brandon’s Dad is awesome! He must be an edge dancer

[@bassboy14110]

Not to pressure those who don’t want to be on screen, but it would be fun to have a couple room cams for the occasional shot of Adam, Skar, the staff, etc.

[@kunai92]

Papa Sanderson explains his magic bread system

[@beaupeterson8690]

You’ve got a great Dad, Brandon! Loved ‘meeting’ him!

[@kaysterae]

I want to eat a million fresh baked breads now. ❤

[@nikkiguerlain]

Oh my gah, your dad is ADORABLE!

[@ErnaB790]

Not having my own room my whole life sounds like a nightmare to me 😅

[@myrojyn]

The Fourth Bread segment has such you're over at your friends house and their dad is engaging you in conversation energy.

[@kenacnud]

I loved this episode! Super fun to listen to your discussion about family and growing up. But I shouldn't have watched this while hungry!

[@myrojyn]

Dado Sando is hilarious .

[@jaime6400]

I love that Brandon's dad came on! This was such a fun episode.

[@NebulousWave]

This is the only intentionally blank I have clicked on... I knew it wasn't going to happen but I was really hoping Brandon was going to get stoned😂😂😂😂

[@shnnnstffr913]

My grandpa was a chef and was an instructor out there at UVU and years ago head chef at The Elks Lodge.

[@TK4K411]

Yay for @adamragusea and teaching me about autolyse. I felt like i knew what Papa Sanderson was talking about. haha

[@mrbadger7395]

Brandons family is so cool!

[@RyanJohnson1374]

How about a podcast or just a video where Brandon shows us how he makes his famous popcorn?

[@dallinadams9422]

Yeah, what I liked about serving Spanish speaking in the States, while it isn't quite the same immersion experience as going foreign, we did get to experience a bit of everything when it came to how each country speaks Spanish. Was definitely very hard to get used to though coming out of the MTC.

[@kaytlinmangelson6673]

I missed out on the GPA boost from testing out of language classes at BYU - i learned Marshallese - only spoken by less than 100k people worldwide so no college credit for me

[@francislally6066]

Glad to see where the seed of Hoid and Alcatraz's humor came from!

[@nhmcazenav6874]

As an Argentinian living in Mexico.... I get Dan, just in reverse

[@thelvey1]

If he can make a very good gluten-free bread, he'll become my hero.

[@manaofthe2]

The T55! It's like a car model.

[@SnowshoeProductions]

Aww. your voice sounds just like your dad's. :)

[@paulbrooks4395]

My jealousy is unmitigated. I've said more than once I could survive on good breads and coffee. Japan has Tamago Pan and Mexican conchas are wonderful. Then there are the cakes, pound cake, lemon "bread", coffee cake. Humm...I feel bereft.

[@dylanhalifaux]

I always forget that I live within half an hour of Brandon's parents. Will we ever get another book signing in Idaho Falls? 🙏

[@sherizaahd]

Brandon moving into an unfinished loft sounds like the perfect opportunity for a kid. I'd have taken that as well, probably would have had to fight my brother over it though...

[@johnny2003]

If my son ever gets famous. This will be me having him try bread on his lil podcast. Haha

[@ricardolundi]

I want the bread!!!!

[@TheYallternativeNerd]

Gotta get Dad on here more often!

[@BoMwarriorVlog]

6:15 😯 My grandpa worked for Hercules!

[@mikehenderson1544]

Hear me out. Brandon's next original Cosmere world needs to have bread-based magic. Next, publish a Cosmere cookbook and get Brandon's dad to come up with the bread recipes. Guaranteed bestseller.

[@SirKn1ght47]

Any way for us to learn from Breadmaster Wynn? This sounds really cool to learn!

[@dianemoore3387]

I love him

[@kirkwagner461]

Next time please do close-ups of the crumb. I need to learn.

[@IndiaTides]

Brandon's time management is crazy.

[@Morfeusm]

While you wrote this sentence he wrote one. So in time you read this he probably has like a half of page or more…

[@Michael20089]

What fun

[@DisneyBatchman]

I still remember 10th grade "dumbbell" English, and at the end of the year, my teacher telling me "I have to fail you. You did nothing all year. I'm telling them to put you in Honors English next year." My grades shot from Fs to Bs. I'd been bored out of my mind, and my attitude was "I don't need to know how to diagram sentences ... I can write better than all my teachers." It's funny how reading about a dozen books a week for years and years gives you an incredible grasp of sentence structure, without doing those silly diagrams.

[@rmsgrey]

There is some merit in having theory to back up your practical understanding - knowing why something is right rather than just intuiting it from experience - and it helps to know the theory if you have any aspiration to ever teach anyone (not necessarily in a classroom). The problem with just recognising good structure without understanding why it is, is that when you want to go beyond what you already know, you've got little or no basis for that extension, while a solid grounding in theory will let you fill in the gaps. On the other hand, I'm firmly in the descriptivist camp when it comes to English grammar - the theory is a bunch of rules made up to try to fit how people speak, and write, rather than something the language was formed around (though that's complicated by the ongoing development of the language now that the rules exist), so it's best described as an approximation to good English (unless you fall foul of a prescriptivist).

[@danielsantibanez3118]

You should talk about Dune part two! :D Greetings from Colombia :)

[@816DawG]

I fear the wrath and judgement of Sir Sanderson's level of taste and quality of break. I am a huge soughdough fan and just proud I don't eat bleach standard white bread no more (as I had as a child), but now this man has me questioning myself even further, but then again my family and I are go through 5 loaves a week (kids eat them pbjs!). Perhaps I should remain in my lane. haha

[@jacksonmartin2973]

Please tell me you’re reviewing dune part 2 soon.

[@megamcee]

Brandon's dad gotta collab with Proof Bread! I'm they can get him to love sourdough

[@mikevasquez1103]

Ah yes, but how is his Chouta, goncho?

[@ErratumCDIV]

So Brandon's dad sharing his bread recipes in a baking video as a stretch goal?

[@kah-thurak]

Americans who seem to make decent Bread? Inconceivable 😂

[@Sebastian-dn1uu]

I really liked it, but please give them some water next time.

[@lillianbates8652]

So if I wanted to send Dan cookies....is the address from his website good for that?

[@sd5919]

They're from the same loaf.

[@thekevmeister77]

take your jokes and leaven

[@wolfipibe7938]

1:41 tom hanks voice jumpscare

[@Isoquant]

They need to invent Taste-o-Vision for videos like these. I'd settle for Smell-o-Vision.

[@nisfornightowl_]

As someone who never microwaves on high I feel saddened that few others know of the power button. Tbf like each brand makes them function differently whoch can be annoying as uni student who moves around

[@jamcdonald120]

6:16 Hercules? Solid Fuel Rocket Motors? YOUR DAD WORKED AT TEKO DIDNT HE!!!

[@SnakeAndTurtleQigong]

🙏🐌🐸

[@MrSilvUr]

To be fair, I doubt the company ever hired its founder...?

[@user-oz6zq8ys8b]

What species of fish are in the fish tank??

[@redshirts4757]

What did you think of Dune Part Two?

[@brokenredflag]

Ive always said that dalinar is based on papa sanderson🤔

[@aildon]

Does your Dad make focaccia bread?!

[@brokenredflag]

His a bread masta👍

[@strydyrhellzrydyr1345]

He said his dads name is Wyn.. or however its spelled. But is that his middle name.. or what is his middle name. Why did he skip that part??? Dan told us his dads full name.

[@tlshepard11]

I have to admit when i seen the episode title i was hoping for a different type of "freshly baked". Also how does Brandon's dad not like sourdough isnt that the king of artisan breads?

[@quickben6999]

Ngl dis ep; had me twisted;

[@mikep4957]

Poor Dan - bread test on the spot in front of your friends father who baked them. Rough!

[@porterwayman8643]

Week 16 of persistently asking for an Intentionally Blank Episode on Marching Band!

[@Lightspren]

Support!

[@DivinePearl]

Anyone else getting strange comments of wanting to talk to you privately with a picture of Brandon Sanderson?

[@daem0nfaust]

Intentionally Baked? Intestinally Blank?

[@zenthepoet.]

Adoooonalsium

[@MrSilvUr]

Shame on you both. Wynn asked how the dill was and neither of you said, "It was dillicious."

[@kaimcdragonfist4803]

Poor guy probably drove all the way back to Idaho stewing on that lol

[@ihopesew1885]

Bad movie suggestion: Desperado (1995) takes itself super seriously as a action/romance but watches like a comedy with hilariously unrealistic gunfights. Fair warning from a fellow prude though, there is a sex scene which I think only shows breasts, but I don't know for sure because I just skipped it

[@tamber9893]

Thats not real Brot :D, Greetings from Germany

[@timeless_1337]

Being voluntarily Gluten-free (for reasons other than celiac), watching this episode was a bit torturing. Lol.

[@noname3609]

First

[@I_am_a_real_Eric]

Why not make a tier list of all the MTG food tokens?

[@jonathankey6444]

Plz talk writing more? A lot of us watching are authors

[@h.i.m.3200]

Writing Excuses might be more helpful for you. They've covered so much there. This is just their fun/random podcast.

[@thecrimsonreigner1517]

I don't want any more food videos

[@Thelnquisitor]

It is their show. I miss the conversations too

[@WhiteBread221]

I hate listening to the sound of people chewing. I love the concept of this episode but please…. No more