Chatting With Nutts - Episode #84 ft Dr. Philip Chase 

Jimmy, The King of Booktube Livestreams. I've been subscribed since you first uploaded your review of the Mistborn trilogy and had like 98 subscribers. You got the best channel in fantasy booktube. Really nice in seeing how your channel has grown and evolved since then.

Only 2 minutes in but this is so wholesome. Always love hearing you talk to Philip

Really enjoyed this conversation guys. Can’t wait to get my hands on TBB Edan trilogy! Also, your days are certainly not numbered with this booktube watcher, Jimmy. You keep reading and I’ll keep tuning in

I'm happy you're excited about the future for your channel

Jimmy is eventually going to advance his tech so much he will have his guests be holograms "live" in his house.

3 hours? We've reached the Coffers!!!

I'm going to be a nag and say Jimmy you should absolutely fit in a re-read of Brothers of the Wind between either Empire of Grass and Narrowdark or Narrowdark and Navigator's Children. It will pay off so much more now.

catching up cause still without power after Helena. Jimmy I have a great Ireland customs story for you remind me someday. Merv! Johnny! Dave!

Great conversation! I am super excited to get to the Last King of Osten Ard myself. I am in the middle of War of the Flowers right now! Happy to hear that there will be a 2025 re-read of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn!!

For what it’s worth, the new camera angle complements your facial structure and adds another layer to the overall warm and welcoming vibe of your videos. I’m really looking forward to the next stage of your channel.

hey jimmy, there's a great book on consciousness and intelligence called blindsight by peter watts, check it out! btw i read stoner recently, it was great, and i think you should check out a serious man by the coen brothers. it's a masterpiece, it's got a bit of the stoner vibe but with (a lot more) humour and all the coen craziness. i know you're not into movies that much but this one's worth it

Nice discussion. I am more of your opinion regarding the last part about reading for enjoyment vs something else - it's still enjoyment for those who it for leisure, its still subjective. I wonder how you feel about Osten Ard vs Westeros (or Planetos I guess). Not at all that one has to choose one over the other but in terms of what they're trying to accomplish, I wonder which one came closer for you? Particularly the last two books of ASOIAF vs say the second and third books in the Last King of Osten Ard series - it's an interesting comparison I thought. And again, I'm just doing this because it is enjoyable to me! Have you read The Dandelion Dynasty? Interesting series. But ASOIAF is ASOIAF isn't it. I can see now why people are so eager for this series to be continued by GRRM the more I get into the lore and reddit/forum discussions. I really hope he manages to do it. 🙏🏽

Really enjoyed the conversation guys! We need more Jimmy and Philip content, looking forward to the next one! ❤

Great episode as always! The new UI and layout is a slay 💅🏻 I’m always here for new graphics as a graphic design girlie. Excited to see the new stuff you do and if anyone can do it it’s you man

Hi Jimmy in regards to the last convo on why people feel comfortable rating games without finishing them but not books. I think when we play a game and rate it however we do, we often do so feeling as if we had understood the systems, mechanics and what a game had to offer and thus have an understanding on what may come later. Of course, there may be peaks that we do not reach, but often 50% into a game, due to how game design works inherently, it is much more likely to show it's cards in what it is trying to do and offer the consumer. Contrast this to a book structurally, where an author may hold their hands as to what they are getting to until the very end. I mean you can take this with toll of the hounds even, where we slowly see how all these slice of life plotlines come together into it's thematic climax. Now this is not to say this is the case of all games or all books, some games such as "The Messanger" where the whole genre of the game changes at the half point, there are also cases where a game is incredibly narratively focussed in a manner where, no we cannot form an opinion on it, because the focus of the game is not on it's mechanics but for the narrative it is ramping up towards. The same can be said with a book that we may pick up, get the general idea that it is just going to be a heroes journey and thus we can have an idea early on, as to what the author is going for. While I say this, I do feel due to the nature of the two mediums, games are more incentivised to show their hands earlier on - it's just a part of game design - and despite how amazing an ending sequence can be, we GET the game earlier on.

I had to make a comment about the imagination thing (Wasn't sure how to summarise this long ass comment for the livestream) , I'm reading Malazan right now, and the way I read is I HAVE to imagine every single scene in my head, otherwise I can't move on. To give an example, if there is a fight scene and the description is saying that someone swings a sword this way, and takes a step in this manner, I have to imagine it my head, but ALSO have it make sense, otherwise I am not going to move on from that section. And you can "imagine" how in a series like Malazan which already takes a while to read, it takes me an even more exorbitant amount of time to get through it, and even getting through a few scenes a day to me is an accomplishment. I suppose I enjoy putting a lot of energy into my reading is how I would describe it. But can it get tedious? very much so. For someone that just reads the words on the page or struggles to visually imagine what's happening ( and I'm not tryna say this as in "Oh, you just read the words on the page? yeah us visual readers are just built different"), you must imagine an image in your head when you're reminiscing about something you've read, yes? "it was cool when Karsa did this thing" even if when you initially read it you weren't picturing an entire scene. So does an image pop in your head of Karsa, or do you just remember reading what happened? because for me every time it's visual.

Okay look, I would tune in here even if the quality looked like a 2000s video chatroom, but dang this new software looks slick! Loved this gloriously long episode with our dear doctor fantasy, he is truly such a delight. And as someone who happily rates books on goodreads, I am very flattered that Philip still considers me a beautiful person, my day is made, hahaha. Thanks for the great fun. I can't wait for the channel overhaul with everything going live, you are gonna rock that Jimmy! 🤩

I really need to read Memory of Sorrow and Thorn. I remember reading his cat series when I was a kid and then I guess I forgot about him.

Great video idea Jimmy…. Best book 1’s in a series you haven’t finished

Philip's theory on Pat Rothfus is actually what happened to Scott Lynch. He's been very open about his mental health, so it sucks when I still see people acting smug about him.

Gotta say also the new look is rockin!

One of the best Chatting.