Episode 49 - A Bad Day for the Home Team
Added 2019-07-18 17:21:58 +0000 UTCHaving trucked through time, our heroes Chad Hand and Dale Rhea (seriously) must now deal with the perils of life in the late 17th or early 18th century. This mainly involves taping things to sticks and feeding a young boy pork and beans.
We'll also get to meet approximately three dozen members of the Sioux tribe, some of whom manage to die before they're even introduced. We'll also meet members of the US army, introduced in an unconventional manner Harris employs known as "confusing the living shit out of us."
Fanfic this week proved both hilarious and tricky, and we unearthed a dark web interview with the author himself.
For next week, read thru Chapter 10, page 174!
(Heather's character spreadsheet available here)
Comments
After an entire can of pork and beans, Slim Fox was soon renamed Runs For Bushes.
RotoLando
2019-07-25 14:57:41 +0000 UTCGood idea giving a syrupy, high-fructose Del Monte fruit cocktail to a kid who's probably never eaten refined sugar in his life. Are we sure he 'fell asleep' afterwards, and didn't pass out from hyperglycemia?
Brocktoon
2019-07-22 19:48:08 +0000 UTCtruly insane. Sounds like a terrible BBC comedy.
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
2019-07-22 02:32:21 +0000 UTCJust FYI, I'm keeping it up to date and I've added a short description of each character. It could be considered spoiler-y, so Caveat Emptor.
Heather
2019-07-21 19:11:01 +0000 UTCI completed this week's reading assignment while flying back home from a business trip on a delayed flight with zero sleep. I'm glad to hear that the fact I couldn't tell who the hell Harris was talking about (Collins? Rawlins? Black Eagle? Gray Wolf? Captain Tim?) was due to bad writing and not just exhaustion.
Peter L
2019-07-21 02:57:26 +0000 UTCAhh, but is it spelled lychgate, lyke-gate, lyke gate, lyku-gate, lichgate or Old English, lic gete? That's the pertinent question that Chad and Dale should be agreeing about. - mjn
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
2019-07-20 01:27:39 +0000 UTCI call dibs on recording the audiobook. I’m practicing my folksy, friendly, long-time-companion voice for our indistinguishable heroes and my best racially insensitive “Indian” accent for our tribal friends.
Chariti Messer
2019-07-19 14:51:37 +0000 UTCMy Dad drove truck for years and the “bungi straps” are called “rubber snubbers” in California trucker parlance. Amazon is calling them “Natural Rubber Tarp Straps Snubber Bungee Cords w/ Hooks.”
Chariti Messer
2019-07-19 14:40:05 +0000 UTCI don't know if petty pedantry counts as PLAYING GOD, or if fixating on this means I've abandoned all human decency, but for Mrifk's sake lich is not pronounced "lick."
George Allen
2019-07-19 14:37:01 +0000 UTCre: your discussion of the native names sounding like $5.99 wines - I am currently drinking a bottle of one of the wines Conor name checked, Smoking Loon. I'll have you know it cost... well, it's exactly $5.99 at my local liquor store. Two for $10. Keep up the good work.
Michelle
2019-07-19 09:33:57 +0000 UTCWe forgot to share the spreadsheet! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16h_T9EVsGWa9OP1i-4m8To4jHcdaeRC0n7kauXpQvpY/edit
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
2019-07-19 03:12:10 +0000 UTCI'm wandering around on hills seeing only hills upon hills and I don't even have a crude map!
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
2019-07-19 01:23:45 +0000 UTCYAAAAAAASSSSSSSS I AM IN MIKE'S HEAD
Heather
2019-07-18 22:38:34 +0000 UTCSo excited, this is top-tier 372. Back during the first announcement, I got confused on Dale and Chad's grasp of how to refer to history: they are saying "17th or 18th century", but that's an author mistake - Chad and Dale are well aware they are in the "late 1700's or early 1800's", but the author confused that with "18th or 19th century." I was like "I am no history buff, but I am fairly certain that this isn't what North America in the 1600's was like yet..." I know it's a nitpick, but once they started referring to the United States and the Army, I had to do some math. There were a fair amount of big events that happened in the late 1700's that didn't quite line up.....
Erika Flowers
2019-07-18 20:04:37 +0000 UTC
