Episode 48 - Trucking Through Time
Added 2019-07-10 18:47:42 +0000 UTCLoad your cooler up with knickknacks, good buddy, we're in for a long haul! This is our first episode covering Charles E. Harris' "Trucking Through Time" and if the first two chapters are any indication it's going to be quite the journey!
We'll meet our heroes Chad and Dale, the comically mismatched duo who are more alike than many pairs of identical twins. They're headed to the Bay Area, with nothing to keep them company but a vast library of truck stop books, plastic bags to pee in and toss out the window, and fond memories of Miss Marie. Along the way they'll encounter authentic Western settings, harrowing tales on backs of menus, and two guys named Patch.
We've got all our departments, emails, DSOTW, and some stepped up fan fiction. Plus a controversial segment involving a newly recast 372 Pages Players and a touching overheard conversation between a father and a son.
For next time, read thru Chapter 5!
(Oh, and here's a link to the maps that listener David plotted out for us, as discussed at the end)
Comments
let me figure out how to make it public without it being collaborative, not that i don't trust every single one of y'alls judgment
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
2019-07-22 02:34:00 +0000 UTCConor, please share your hip hop Spotify playlist!
Jessica Lachewitz
2019-07-19 21:15:29 +0000 UTCFolks who haven't heard of "thunder snow"-- Jim Cantore from the Weather Channel was songified back in 2015, and this song pops into my head on the (admittedly rare) occasions I see the word-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzclOi3lGE4
Mark Burger
2019-07-17 14:45:57 +0000 UTCI only just started Chapter Four. R.I.P. Yanni. :(
Theodore Lehman
2019-07-16 22:49:18 +0000 UTCSo, this next reading assignment. Does the Native American named Yanni stick out to anyone else? As far as I know, Yanni is a Greek name. Also I can't stop myself from thinking of the one-episode Dexter's Laboratory character who identified himself as "Yanni, the yanitor," so I hope Yanni comes back to play a big role.
Theodore Lehman
2019-07-16 22:21:33 +0000 UTCThis is probably too late to do much good for many, but Trucking Through Time is available from the publisher for only $11.50. I don't know what the shipping charge is, because they want you to create an account to go to the checkout screen. https://www.authorhouse.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/232183-trucking-through-time
Kerry S.
2019-07-14 02:12:05 +0000 UTCMy wife was very disappointed to learn that, as we are on a 10 hour drive up the interior of CA, there is basically no “trucking” in this book after the first chapter.
Erika Flowers
2019-07-13 02:56:21 +0000 UTCHow this author had been a trucker for 35 years without learning how to spell 'bungee' I dare not speculate.
Theodore Lehman
2019-07-12 09:33:52 +0000 UTCi was very puzzled by this, and never got around to bringing it up during the recording, but in the first few pages of chapter three, something happened that led me to believe it was a road flare. thank you for clarifying! -C
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
2019-07-12 01:56:10 +0000 UTCAlso, this HAS to be Courier New, aka one of the only monospace fonts included with Windows when this book would have been written, circa late 1990s, early 2000s (for a 2002 publication date). I typed out a paragraph from the book and compared it to the Google book scans, and the spacing et al matches: https://i.imgur.com/MBELMAD.png
Bianca Kates keeps forgetting to change her Patreon name
2019-07-11 20:40:35 +0000 UTCIf anyone wants to see what the heck that font is, Google Books has some scanned pages (not the whole book) For the record the text is "Justified", that is it is aligned evenly both left and right to fill the whole row, inserting whitespace as needed between words. You can do this in Word by clicking the thing with 5 lines next to the left/center/right alignment buttons. https://books.google.ca/books?id=ZVKPXm0pvR8C&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=trucking+through+time&source=bl&ots=f6_4FkA1vb&sig=ACfU3U06k_jvPNmG1TUu2pbDRh3cOg30Bw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiCirbEs63jAhWWG80KHSSYCvQQ6AEwDHoECBMQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
Bianca Kates keeps forgetting to change her Patreon name
2019-07-11 19:53:36 +0000 UTCFellow 372ers - at one point (no spoilers), our protagonists talk about a trucker item called a "fuzzie" that they light. I never could figure out what a fuzzie was! I just went forward assuming it was a trucker's emergency road flare. After some Google searching, I did find a reference to a road flare as a "fuzzie". So, add that to the "Qualcomm"-style mystery solved.
Erika Flowers
2019-07-11 19:47:59 +0000 UTCWhen I went to Pike’s Peak they were selling T-shirts that describes different fatal attempts to climb the mountain.
Zach Dewoody
2019-07-11 15:18:11 +0000 UTCMinor point, but as someone who has grown up in OK and TX I can verify that “sick at his stomach” is a regional expression. I believe the correct expression is “sick to his stomach” but I’ve heard both used interchangeably.
Zach Dewoody
2019-07-11 15:16:35 +0000 UTCThe characters repeatedly addressing each other by name reminds me of how evangelicals sound when they pray. “Father God, could you just, Lord, please bless them, Jesus, in your name, Father God...” I’m having youth group flashbacks hahaha.
Carson Heschle
2019-07-11 09:52:24 +0000 UTCOh, this episode is a riot. Conor chided the listeners for coming weak with the fan fiction in the Mister, and WOW even after I read the whole new book I couldn’t remember well enough to tell. Mike’s reaction was so worth it, the fanfic was indistinguishable!
Erika Flowers
2019-07-11 02:50:59 +0000 UTCI've worked in publishing. I'm pretty sure the font is "Courier Anorexic"
Kerry S.
2019-07-11 01:27:11 +0000 UTCThe Black Bear Diner has menus done up in the style of newspapers from the 50's, and they'll have the beginnings of little fluff pieces. Not a lot of hardships, though.
Fubuki
2019-07-11 00:00:48 +0000 UTCThe new 372 Players were really funny, I was laughing very hard. Also, I'll get that Mike Nelson one of these days with a fanfic!
mc
2019-07-10 23:03:02 +0000 UTCFor Dale, I have the guy from Roadhouse that gets knocked out when the taxidermied bear falls on him. For Chad, Sam Rockwell in Three Billboards.
Heather
2019-07-10 22:41:14 +0000 UTCI'm disturbed that my fanfiction seduced Mike with Miss Marie and June Cleaver. I did NOT expect that. I rather expected he'd toss it thinking it was too Clineian.
Heather
2019-07-10 21:35:12 +0000 UTCthe naming automatically sent me to "Tucker and Dale vs. Evil" starring Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine, which fits marvelously. Also - timeframe, I couldn't tell when this book was supposed to be set! If clues come up, post em'. They have a truck computer (Qualcomm), but don't seem to have cell phones or mention the internet. But I swear I read some stuff that set the timeframe in 2002, the time of the writing.
Erika Flowers
2019-07-10 20:48:18 +0000 UTCTMI sharing time: I shared this over on the 372 Pages unofficial Facebook page, but my husband was a truck driver for a while and has confirmed to me that sometimes, out in the middle of nowhere with no facilities around, the bag-as-a-toilet phenomenon is definitely a thing that happens. Especially if you’ve had bad truck stop food and don’t have time to pull over your (hell of a) rig onto the shoulder.
Elizabeth Clark
2019-07-10 19:26:02 +0000 UTCBen Murphy and Danny Trejo, but they both sound like Hank Hill when they say “damn it, boy”.
Elizabeth Clark
2019-07-10 19:16:51 +0000 UTCOddly enough, the MST3K Amazing Colossal Episode Guide had the best 'About the Typeface' of any book.
Brocktoon
2019-07-10 19:11:11 +0000 UTCWho are you guys picturing for Chad and Dale? I've got Danny McBride and Dale Gribble.
RotoLando
2019-07-10 18:54:22 +0000 UTC
