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Episode 29 - What The Hell Was That? (Patreon)

Published:
2019-01-11 13:52:02
Imported:
2023-08

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Well, the pace sure as hell was unrelenting, folks. We've reached the end of TekWar, and there both is and isn't a lot to talk about. Chest-high walls, disdainful robot pimps, the brief and wondrous life of Sonny Hokori are all just the tip of the iceberg. Thanks to all who hitched their wagons to the Shatlart skytrain for this plasride!

As announced in the episode, we'll be taking a look at the TekWar TV movie soon as a Patreon exclusive, so stay tuned for that. Conor also has his eye on the next title, so we will get started on that soon as well! Also, we'll pick a "lucky" winner to receive the copy of the book that Conor took all his notes in, we'll do that shortly. Mike still has yet to receive his, which may be for the best.

Also, thanks to your generosity, we sent a $300 donation to 826 National, the non-profit who helps underserved children with creative writing programs (who we've supported before.) They're a great org and we're eliminating any future Shatlarts!


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Stephen Spears

Posting from the distant plas-laden future to add that just this year (2023) an audiobook version of TekWar was released for some reason, which I listened to as I revisited these episodes. Sadly, Mr. Shatner does not narrate the audiobook. I will say that the narrator does as a good of a job as one could expect with all the goofy wording in this book. However, at the end of the audiobook there is an interview with Shatner and the audiobook's narrator, Jeffrey Kafer. There was zero mention of Goulart or any ghostwriting at all. Mr. Kafer was very deferential to Shatner and his insightful vision of the future. Shatner's responses to questions were very halting, he rambled a good bit, and he seemed generally distracted as well as distracted by noises around his home office. At the end, the narrator and his producer share a good laugh about the trees being chainsawed seemingly right outside Shatner's window.

Anonymous

"Tumbled to", on the other hand, is old-timey (late 19th century) Cockney slang. It's the kind of thing 'Arry would say in Punch. It used to also mean "took quickly to" ("he tumbled to pickpocketing right quick" or the like) or even just "consented to", but the surviving meaning is "caught on to". It has kind of a gritty underworld sense to it, and I suspect Shatlart is trying to be hardboiled but, again, not quite using the right word.

Chuck Nice

Don't banshees keen? I feel like I know that word because of D&D

372 Pages We ll Never Get Back
>>18978432

(Mike says -- ) Yeah, it's the starkness of the sudden late 19th century cockney slang that I think we're all calling bulls--t on, right? I mean, it's a dumb island in a vast sea of even-dumber-ness.

Daniel Laird
>>18980676

Same here. But, Mike is also right that this is a term that has fallen out of style for some decades. As this is The FUTURE, it's at best a strange affectation.