Episode 77 – Boxcar Children

The Worst Bestsellers

Worst Bestsellers

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.5 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2017

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Mystery of the Purple Pool by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Flashback Summer goes all the way back to 1942 to read The Boxcar Children and The Mystery of the Purple Pool (Boxcar Children Mystery #38) by Gertrude Chandler Warner. Kait has returned from her Comet pilgrimage, and we were also joined by Katie Schenkel (@JustPlainTweets), writer of Moonlighters, to unpack the biggest mysteries of all: why the Boxcar Children made homelessness seem to appealing, and why their boxcar past equipped these extremely well-behaved children with detective skills. Pour yourself a glass of milk in your favorite pink cup and listen now!

Readers advisory: Here.

Footnotes: “The Boxcar Children” and the Spirit of Capitalism by Jia Tolentino

What the hell happened to the Boxcar Children’s parents?

Candy pairing: Kait says Werther’s Originals, Katie says satellite wafers or candy cigarettes, Renata says bread.

Coming up next: The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about the original tiny house hunters so you don't have to.
0:18.3	I'm Renata.
0:19.5	And I'm Kate.
0:20.7	And for this episode, we read The Box Car Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner and the Boxcar Children
0:26.6	Number 38, The Mystery of the Purple Pool.
0:30.1	Joining us to discuss these juvenile mysteries is Katie Schengel, writer of the comic
0:36.4	Moonlighters, who would like to have a pink cup.
0:39.3	Hello, Katie.
0:40.7	Hi.
0:41.6	Also, welcome back, Kate.
0:43.5	How was your comment?
0:46.4	Uh, the comment was amazing.
0:48.7	I cried for the entire thing.
0:52.0	I was everything I hoped for.
0:55.4	We won't talk about the Tony Awards ever.
0:57.9	We will never talk about the Tony Awards again,
1:00.7	and the American Theater Wing knows why.
1:03.2	They know what they did.
1:05.1	They do fucking know what they did, those assholes.
1:09.3	I'm so mad.
1:13.4	Sorry, we're not talking about it. they did those assholes. I'm so mad. Sorry.
1:14.1	We're not talking about that now.
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