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372 Pages We'll Never Get Back

Episode 51 – Grandpa, No!

372 Pages We'll Never Get Back

372 Pages We'll Never Get Back

Arts, Books, Comedy

4.8595 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2019

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

In between the General reading reports, Trucking Through Time manages to fit in some genuinely insane moments. Our heroes literally get to meet God, and it’s the second craziest thing that happens. (The first is our favorite moment in all of literature.) We’ll listen in on some surreptitious recordings made by Harris’ family, examine the … Continue reading "Episode 51 – Grandpa, No!"

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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome to 372 pages. We'll never get back a podcast book club where we read books that we are not expecting to like.

0:22.2

We, of course, being me, Connor Lestoka, and Mike Nelson, who joins me here as always.

0:28.0

Mike, what's going on?

0:28.9

Oh, Connor, I'm enjoying a, let's see, a Palm Baya?

0:34.2

How do you pronounce that?

0:35.3

I don't know, because you clearly just made it up, so I don't know how to pronounce it.

0:39.5

It's a Dr. Seuss brand. No, this is Apple Cranberry. So I'm enjoying LaCroy, and I'm trying to get my vocal cords warmed up to talk about Charles E. Harris, all that he has done, all he is bestowed upon the world.

1:00.8

Yes, Charles E. Harris, author of Trucking Through Time, the time travel story about two Georgia boys who travel back in time to the 17th or 18th century, meaning 1600s or 1700s,

1:08.4

and encounter a band of a tribe of Indians, as well as some soldiers

1:14.9

from the American Army, and it's all coming to a head with these guys.

1:18.4

There have been some incidents that have riled up the U.S. Army, and they're planning

1:23.4

an invasion when we last left them off.

1:25.8

But we had our own little invasion this week.

1:28.0

We hosted a call-in show for our Patreon supporters.

1:33.5

We had people for about an hour.

1:35.4

We opened up the phone lines, and people called in to give us their tips, their suggestions,

1:41.6

just sort of rant in general.

1:43.3

And I was pleased. There very few, very few lizard people call in.

1:48.9

I was surprised at that too.

1:50.3

No denunciations of any particular group or person.

1:54.2

Only one guy who wanted to talk about sterilization through fluoride in the water supply.

1:58.8

So, yeah, there was the, you know, 10-minute rant on there's a second moon behind the moon, which, you know, like, but hey, our people were into different things. I mean, so, you know, that was just sort of. I know, that's what I was going to say. It was my subtle way to nudge you on from that topic. We're not going to make that stick. Fine, all right. But yeah, it was fun to put voices to names and fun to actually get a chance. Every time that we go out

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