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Intentionally Blank

Our Alien Folklore — Intentionally Blank Ep. 214

Intentionally Blank

Brandon Sanderson & Dan Wells

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Film Reviews, Fiction

4.9567 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Brandon Sanderson and Dan Wells encounter a strange fascination this week with those of the third kind. What are the rules of abduction? Are aliens really coming to visit us? All those questions and more on this episode of Intentionally Blank! Want to send me something to open? Dragonsteel Entertainment ATTN: Adam P.O Box 698 American Fork, UT 84003 Get your Wheel of Time updates here with the Bound and Woven newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/brandonsanderson/eye-of-the-world-campaign Stay up...

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0:00.0

So, aliens.

0:06.1

Aliens.

0:06.7

For them or against them?

0:08.8

I actually love aliens.

0:10.5

Do you?

0:10.9

I encourage them.

0:12.0

Oh.

0:13.0

You just got those facehuggers waiting at home for you.

0:17.1

I do have a plush facehugger in my office.

0:20.4

Yeah.

0:20.9

Yeah. Yeah.

0:21.2

Very nice. It does match the decor. It does. I should put it on one of the skulls. You definitely should put it on one of the skulls. Facehugging the skeleton on the wall. Yep. This poor facehugger, very confused facehugger, is like, why isn't it working? Yeah. Let's give some backstory here to our listeners,

0:39.9

because I don't think we've talked about this. When I started here at the company, we were still in

0:44.9

the old place, the Cosmere House instead of the new office, and they said, you can decorate this

0:50.8

any way you want. And I said, can I have a skeleton manacled to the wall? And

0:56.0

Emily said, sure. Because there was a really cool stone wall in that office. And so they got me one,

1:02.0

and it's a hemalergic skeleton. Yes, it's got spikes in it. And it looks super cool and it's really

1:07.4

gross. And it hung on that wall for like a week and a half, and then we moved to

1:13.3

the new offices. And I have it here in my office, but it's on a very bright, pretty yellow wall

1:17.9

instead of a creepy stone wall.

1:20.4

Yeah, fit quite as well. Yeah. But that's kind of nice. It's more shocking. You see a stone wall,

1:26.9

you're like, oh, dungeon skeleton, yeah. You see a nice yellow wall. You're like, oh, well, oh. And there's a gross skeleton that's bloody hanging from it. Yeah, and it's bloody enough that it's kind of orange. So it goes with the yellow wall. It's really nice. So you pitched this episode. You want to talk about aliens.

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