Cussler Hustlers
Two strangers, American and Canadian, go through EVERY Clive Cussler novel, from a (hopefully) modern progressive viewpoint. They also get off on tangents and talk about BETTER books, but there’s so much to love with these nerdy macho time capsules.
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Episodes
Saturday Aug 12, 2023
Saturday Aug 12, 2023
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?
Saturday Aug 05, 2023
Saturday Aug 05, 2023
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.
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
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.
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
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.
Saturday Jul 22, 2023
Saturday Jul 22, 2023
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.
Saturday Jul 22, 2023
Saturday Jul 22, 2023
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.
Sunday Jul 16, 2023
Sunday Jul 16, 2023
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.
Sunday Jul 16, 2023
Sunday Jul 16, 2023
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!