Cussler Hustlers

Cussler Hustlers S2 E4: Skintight Rainbow Explosion

Columbo is BACK! Also Dirk Pitt, but it's harder to get excited about that. Don't let his outfit fool you: this episode is CHOCK FULL of manliness. Fairly bursting with it. One boat does indeed burst with it. Fortunately it's full of henchmen, so everything's fine.

Cussler Hustlers S2 E3: Oh Lawd, He Be Foppin’

Carpeted boats, carpeted bathrooms, carpeted women. In the age of upholstery, our hosts try to figure out of Clive knows how sexist he's being, or if he's making an incisive statement about masculine culture? Pull out your centerfold pinups of Cannery Weekly for this one!

Cussler Hustlers S2 E2: Wrestling Nipples

We start discussing some real gruesome (and delicious!) true crime, then remember we have a podcast. Dirk the Insufferable has seventeen bouts of Gut Knowledge around some corpses, and then gets shot out of the sky.Also, if you can figure out why we called the episode this, please let us know?

Cussler Hustlers S2 E1: Dang Bungtwister

Our hosts dive into Clive's 2nd book, Iceberg! A shorter one this week, due to repeated failures with that most unpredictable of modern technologies: book printing. We do get into swans, goats, worms and gremlins, though, so... y'know, pretty regular show.

Cussler Hustlers S1 E6: Cat Food & Bowel Drizzlies

The thrilling conclusion to The Mediterranean Caper! It's got everything: gunshot wounds, cat food, and "a young black" who doesn't deserve a name but is absolutely crucial to the plot. Also some diversions into some of the worst war crimes in history, and the Russian women who would have made for a much better book.

Cussler Hustlers S1 E5: Crotch Marines

In this episode, Clive remembers that he has to get to the plot before the end of the book. We finally meet this book's Giant Henchman, along with seventeen other characters that don't matter. Also, some charming banter about funerals and drug dealers.

Cussler Hustlers S1 E4: Don’t Bring A Donkey To An Airplane Fight

Our brave hosts dodge the pitfalls of unwitting but well-meaning racism. Does Dirk dodge as diligently? Only time will tell! Also, an awful lot of dog talk. Entirely too much, really.

Cussler Hustlers S1 E3: Villainous Villains

Our plucky hosts get a little tipsy and try to figure out who the villain of this story is (here's a tip: IT'S THE .) They also start sorting out their audio issues, for your continued aural pleasure.

Cussler Hustlers S1 E2: Smack

Despite there being no actual in this section of the book, we JUST can't get the previous chapters out of our mind. We follow Dirk as he proves to be really good at his day job (which he hates), and then violently assaults foreign nationals while in his Air Force uniform.

Cussler Hustlers S1 E1: Powerful Dirkings

Two strangers dive into EVERY Clive Cussler novel, starting with 1973's Mediterranean Caper. Old-school toxic masculinity? You bet! Domestic violence? Boy howdy! Cool old boats and planes? So many! Getting off on irrelevant tangents? I mean, it IS a podcast. Join us!