Cussler Hustlers

Cussler Hustlers S3 E4: F*ck Alaska and Hawaii

Nothing robs a magical mystery of its power like answers. James Cameron might have ruined the mystique around the Titanic, but Clive Cussler is here to make sure no-one gets any satisfying answers before he's ready.  This week's question: what is the sound of one nation SCREAMING? Also, special musical guest Engelbert Humperdinck!

Cussler Hustlers S3 E3: The Sexism Is Fantastic!

In this episode, we find the only thing hotter than a Byzanium reactor: Nancy's husband! Fortunately, he uses his James Bond powers for good, so we can focus on Dirk Pitt: Thunder God. And good urinal etiquette.

Cussler Hustlers S3 E2: Ouija Board Romance

Sexy secretaries, child brides, mooching war widows, microfiche (ask your parents), and the question on everyone's lips: WHO IS DIRK PITT?! We rope in the Russians, the French, and the Philippines, and just gloss over all the massacres to keep the plot moving.

Cussler Hustlers S3 E1: Sheriff Dirk’s Misogyny Roundup

Time travel, crying women, whiny liberal feminists, rule-breaking Presidents and shadowy government organizations? The latest Dirk Pitt novel has a disturbing lack of Dirk Pitt so far, but there's plenty of other stuff for us to speculate wildly about!

Cussler Hustlers S2 E6: Vikings of the Caribbean

In the gripping finale of Clive Cussler's second book, the entire plot is recapped multiple times for both the characters and the readers, and most of the action happens off-screen with other people. HOWEVER... we get QUITE the dramatic setpiece for the climactic showdown. Also, Dirk Pitt is a furry, and QUITE tolerant of some... unexpected developments!

Cussler Hustlers S2 E5: Billionaire Treason & Plot

The timely news coverage you've come to expect is in full effect this week! Also several dives into history... 1933 and 1973, to be specific. Was Clive Cussler an early high-tech Communist, or a patriotic neoliberal? Probably the second, but it's fun to imagine!

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.