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Episode 48 - Trucking Through Time

🕑 Added 2019-07-10 18:47:42 +0000 UTC

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372 Pages We'll Never Get Back

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

Jessica Lachewitz

Conor, please share your hip hop Spotify playlist!

Mark Burger

Folks 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

Theodore Lehman

I only just started Chapter Four. R.I.P. Yanni. :(

Theodore Lehman

So, 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.

Kerry S.

This 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

Erika Flowers

My 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.

Theodore Lehman

How this author had been a trucker for 35 years without learning how to spell 'bungee' I dare not speculate.

372 Pages We'll Never Get Back

i 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

Bianca Kates keeps forgetting to change her Patreon name

Also, 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

If 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

Erika Flowers

Fellow 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.

Zach Dewoody

When I went to Pike’s Peak they were selling T-shirts that describes different fatal attempts to climb the mountain.

Zach Dewoody

Minor 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.

Carson Heschle

The 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.

Erika Flowers

Oh, 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!

Kerry S.

I've worked in publishing. I'm pretty sure the font is "Courier Anorexic"

Fubuki

The 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.

mc

The 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!

Heather

For 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

I'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.

Erika Flowers

the 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.

Elizabeth Clark

TMI 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.