The Big Dog Podcast

Join the Big Dogs (Austin & Jake) as we go over chapter 4, 5 & 6 of Mistborn: The Hero of Ages. We discuss the breadcrumbs left by Lord Ruler, the inquisitor spikes and the bits of information we gather from the chapter intros! Next week we will cover chapters 7, 8, 9 & 10.

Join the Big Dogs (Austin & Jake) as we embark on beginning of the end! This week we start The Hero of Ages and go over the prologue, maps, chapter intros and chapters 1-3. We discuss Marsh, Vin, Elend, Lord Ruler and much more! Next week we plan to go over Chapters 4-6.

Join the Big Dogs (Austin & Jake) for the EPIC FINALE of Mistborn: The Well of Ascension as we discuss Chapters 56 through the end of the book! What an amazing end to the book! Catch our unfiltered reactions to everything that happened involving Vin, Elend, Sazed, the Mist Spirit, Marsh, etc. We also reflect on the book/series and look forward to beginning The Hero of Ages. The plan for next w...

Join the Big Dogs (Austin & Jake) as we finish up Part 5 of Mistborn: The Well of Ascension. We discuss chapters 53-55 as we discuss what seems to be the epic climax of this story! We discuss the war in Luthadel and predict what may come in the end of the story. Next week we discuss chapters 56-59 as well as the epilogue.

We are back! Join the Big Dogs (Austin & Jake) as we begin Part 5 of Mistborn: The Well of Ascension. Ton to cover here as we discuss Vin & Elend leaving Luthadel, Allrianne's journey back to Cett, the Koloss invasion and much more! Next week we finish Part 5 by covering chapters 53-55.

Join the Big Dogs (Austin & Jake) as we finish up Part 4 of Mistborn: The Well of Ascension. Insane ending to the Part as we discuss Vin and Zane's fight, Sazed's master plan and the discovery of the Kandra spy! No podcast next week, but we will be back the week of September 27th with a podcast on Chapters 49-52.

Join the Big Dogs (Austin & Jake) as we go over Chapters 42, 43 & 44 of Mistborn: The Well of Ascension. Great chapters here as we discuss Elend's visit to the Koloss army, Vin & Zane's destruction of Cett's army and the aftermath of their actions.

Join the Big Dogs (Austin & Jake) as we begin Part 4 of Mistborn: The Well of Ascension. We dissect Chapters 39, 40 & 41 and center our discussion around the tension building in Luthadel. We talk about Zane, Straff, Vin, Elend, OreSeur, Cett, Sazed and Tindwyl and all of their different roles in the world. Next week we tackle Chapters 42, 43 & 44.

Join the Big Dogs (Austin & Jake) as we finish up Part 3 of Mistborn: The Well of Ascension. We go over Chapters 37 & 38 as we discuss Tindwyl & Sazed's relationship. We also dissect the chaotic assembly meeting and eventual vote for who will be the next king! The plan for next week is to start Part 4 by reading chapters 39, 40 & 41.

Join the Big Dogs (Austin & Jake) as we go over Chapters 34, 35 & 36 of Mistborn: The Well of Ascension. These were a great time to discuss. It's confirmed, Cett is the man. We talk a lot about Cett, atium, Zane, Elend and how Part 3 is going to finish up.

Join the Big Dogs (Austin & Jake) as we go over Chapters 31, 32 & 33 of Mistborn: The Well of Ascension. We are quickly introduced to two more characters who really steal the show in this week's podcast. Philen and Cett provide such good content for us to digest. We also discuss Dockson and his conversation with Vin.

Join the Big Dogs (Austin & Jake) as we begin Part 3 of Mistborn: The Well of Ascension. We go over Chapters 28, 29 & 30 where we have a large discussion about Tindwyl, Elend's decision making and also the what the major events of this book might be.

Join the Big Dogs (Austin & Jake) as we finish up Part 2 of Mistborn: The Well of Ascension. We go over Chapters 25, 26 & 27 where everything centers around Vin. Her shopping trip, her & Elend's meeting with Straff and her dilemma after talking with Zane. Very exciting end to Part 2 and looking forward to what Part 3 has to offer.

Join the Big Dogs (Austin & Jake) as we go over Chapters 22, 23 & 24 of Mistborn: The Well of Ascension. We discuss Kwaan and what his journal entries mean. We dive into the deepening relationship between OreSeur and Vin. And we also discuss Sazed's return and his relationship with Tindwyl. Certainly a fun one! Excited to finish up Part 2 next time!

Join the Big Dogs (Austin & Jake) as we go over Chapters 19, 20 & 21 of Mistborn: The Well of Ascension. We revisit Sazed's journey back to Luthadel and his encounter with the Koloss army. We also discuss the ever-growing interpersonal dynamics of all the parties involved with the seige of Luthadel. We are also introduced to Allrianne who provides an interesting wrinkle!

The Big Dogs are back after a 4th of July weekend! This week we go over Chapters 17 & 18 of Mistborn: The Well of Ascension. This week is all about Zane! We focus our conversation around our new character and dissect his relationship with Vin, Elend and Straff.

Join the Big Dogs (Austin & Jake) as we go over chapters 14-16 of Mistborn: The Well of Ascension. We discuss our newest character Tindwyl, Elend's transformation, Vin's questions regarding The Deepness and Sazed's discovery at Urbene.

Join the Big Dogs (Austin & Jake) as we begin Part 2 of Mistborn: The Well of Ascension. We go over chapters 12 & 13 and get into Sazed's journey with Marsh to the Conventical of Seran. We spend time discussing inquisitors, the Deepness, and Kwaan's writings. We also discuss OreSeur and Vin's relationship as well as the mysterious Terriswoman.

Join the Big Dogs (Austin & Jake) as we wrap up Part 1 of Mistborn: The Well of Ascension. We dissect chapters 10 & 11 and discuss Elend's proposal to the Assembly, the introduction of a mysterious Terriswoman, Breeze's adventurous return and the potential Kandra that has infiltrated the crew.

Join the Big Dogs (Austin & Jake) as we go over Chapters 7, 8 & 9 of Mistborn: The Well of Ascension! We have an engaging conversation about Marsh, the Conventical of Seran, the maps of the Final Empire, and much more. We also learn about duralumin and speculate about how that can be used effectively as well as who "The Watcher" might be.

Join the Big Dogs (Austin & Jake) as we go over Chapters 4, 5 & 6 of Mistborn: The Well of Ascension. We get into the chapter intros and Kwaan's role. We finally find out what Sazed is up to, learn more about Vin's relationship with OreSeur and speculate about what the information we are reading about will lead us to.

Join the Big Dogs (Austin & Jake) as we begin Book 2 of the Mistborn Era One Trilogy! We dive into the first three chapters of The Well of Ascension and try to make sense of the new characters, see how the old characters have grown and predict what we think will happen!

Join the Big Dogs (Austin & Jake) as they discuss the END of Mistborn: The Final Empire. We cover Chapters 37 & 38 and also go through the Epilogue of this epic story. We dive into the powers of Inquisitors, Marsh's unexpected return, Vin's defeat of Lord Ruler and Lord Ruler's secret identity! We've had a blast with this story and can't wait to start Mistborn: The Well...

Join the Big Dogs (Austin & Jake) as they start Part 5 of Mistborn: The Final Empire. We discuss chapters 35 & 36 as we near the end of the book. We get into Kelsier's secret plan, Vin's mission to Kredik Shaw, and speculate about Lord Ruler and the Inquisitors. Super fun one as we make predictions for the end of the story!

Join the Big Dogs (Austin & Jake) as they finish up Part 4 of Mistborn: The Final Empire. We dive into chapters 32, 33 & 34 and discuss Vin & Kelsier's mission to meet with Marsh again, Kelsier's actions at the Pits of Hathsin and everything that went down in Luthadel as the prisoners were brought in for execution! A truly wild ride with some fun predictions along the way.