The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret - Trailer

Episode Date: October 22, 2019

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan-Young and Francine Carrel, read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series in chronological order. We’ll be splitting each book into three weekly episodes, with a week off in between books to refresh our brains. This trailer should give you an idea of what you’re in for. We’ll laugh, we’ll cry, and occasionally we’ll try for a bit of nuanced analysis. Join us on November 4th for Episode 1! Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: [e-mail] to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Thanks to Chris Collins at indiemusicbox.com for the very reasonably priced music. Onna stick. 

Well, how are we going to reduce the reflected sound of underground spirits now, Francine? Hello and welcome to the Truth Shall Make He Fract, a podcast in which we're reading and recapping every book from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series in chronological order. I'm Joanna Hagan Young. And I'm Francine Carroll. In a distant and secondhand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling starmists swather and part. Brief albatross interlude. I can definitely say that it's had a huge impact on me through the ways it must have

shaped my thoughts and my sense of humour and my writing. And partly because I did feel like it was a very constant companion and in the shit times, and that is a big thing. I don't think I've ever not enjoyed or felt better having read a Pratchett book. If you're only going to read one series of books, it's not a bad one. Comes a lot of genres. I mean, you've got police procedural, there's Shakespeare parodies, straight-up horror, and I like that some of them are kind of what if this entire concept comes to the Discworld, like rock music or films.

Shopping malls. And then some of them are smaller, individual, like I'm going to be straight-up parody this one thing from popular culture. It doesn't matter if it has any grounding in reality. The luggage, our darling little chest on the dear little legs with the terrifying teeth, is threatening to push rinse wind into a river. And then he kind of justifies it in interesting times. He then turns that into a really interesting allegory for sovietism and...

Yeah, sovietism and the cultural revolution at the same time, yeah. Yeah. I'm misusing the word allegory again, I think. I know I looked it up. Isn't that like one of the ancestors of the T-Rex? No, that's an alligator. No, it's an allosaurus. I just, I have a really specific type, and it's holding a sword. Have it aside.

Segway. Segway. Two. Equal rights, which is like book three. And some of the way the man speaks of women in it, and you can tell these things he's watched. And he noticed seeing it and seeing it for what it was, and then wanting to write about it. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to take it into an area that would give you a conifption. I mean, I'm always on the verge of conifption, it doesn't take much supremacist to make me connect.

You've made quite a few more political and sociological points than I have. That is a very polite way to call me a social justice warrior, and I appreciate it. If I'm gonna do a bit, you have to be like me up on your paleontology, dude. I don't know if the book ever says mandibles, but I feel mandibles are strongly implied. Yeah, I'm inferring mandibles throughout, whether or not they are explicitly mentioned. Yes. I get the feeling that he was actually one of Pratchett's favourites to write, and I'm basing that on absolutely nothing apart from the joy he seems to take

in the little details and the dialogue. Which is a shame, I feel like more characters could have been thrown to lions. The strangest thing is that I have an iPhone, which means in the music thing it will also... And on that, dear listeners, don't let us detain you.