Episode 267 – Hatchet
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
We’re getting back to nature with this Flashback Summer episode. Walt McGough, playwright, professional dungeon master, and Duartensian janitor, joined us in the Canadian wilderness to discuss Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. Make sure to download a copy of this episode for your emergency Go Bag!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Episode #200 (featuring Walt DMing our D&D game set in the land of Duartensia)
Coming up next: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about one boy's hunger game so you don't have to. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:19.9 | And I'm Kate. |
| 0:23.4 | And for this episode, we read Hatchet by Gary Paulson. Joining us to discuss this classic adventure story is the Dwartensian janitor, |
| 0:30.7 | Walt McGoth. Hey, everybody. Hi, Walt. Welcome back. Hello. I'm happy to be here. |
| 0:36.8 | Happy to have you. |
| 0:38.5 | While it is being modest, describing himself as the janitor, he's the world builder, really, |
| 0:43.8 | of Dorotencia, which I guess, I guess, though, janitorial work, I shouldn't undervalue it |
| 0:48.6 | because that is a really important part of it. |
| 0:50.0 | I mean, y'all did make a very large mess when we were last there. |
| 0:53.8 | And I feel like once, so I built the world and then you messed it all up. |
| 0:57.0 | And so now it's mostly just cleaning the world. |
| 0:59.4 | Okay. |
| 1:00.4 | Well, thank you so much for that. |
| 1:01.8 | That's really important. |
| 1:04.3 | I enjoy it, though. |
| 1:05.3 | I do it out of love. |
| 1:06.9 | If you don't know what we're talking about, you didn't listen to our special anniversary episode from the year, question mark, years ago. |
| 1:18.5 | I don't remember when we did it, but I remember it was fun as hell when we did it. |
| 1:22.0 | It doesn't exist anymore. |
| 1:23.6 | Walt was the DM for our World Spicer's themed D&D game that was set of course in the land of |
| 1:30.2 | Dwartensia |
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