Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2021-11-23
Books mentioned on The Ballad of Eel Horse
Garrison is joined by Robert Evans to discuss “feaguing” in horses and why eels keep being shoved up butts. Footnotes: https://eels.
Robert Evans discussed Kill Anything That Moves by Nick Turse and WAR STORIES by Gary Kulik. Also mentioned: A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
Discussed“We find reference to this process in the excellent classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue. I'm going to read from one from 1785. It says to fe is to put a live eel up the horse's fundament to make him lively and carry his tail well.”
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Kill Anything That Moves
Discussed“But when you're talking about ground level war crimes like we were talking about here, you'll run into a couple of different books. Nick Ters's Kill Anything That Moves and Gary Kulick's war stories.”
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WAR STORIES
Discussed“But when you're talking about ground level war crimes like we were talking about here, you'll run into a couple of different books. Nick Ters's Kill Anything That Moves and Gary Kulick's war stories. Uh and these are very opposed books.”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Paradise Lost
“Garrison, I want to congratulate you here because for years, Sophie will back me up on this. I have been trying to work in Paradise Lost connections to Behind the Bastards.”
Plugged After the Revolution
“I wrote a book called After the Revolution. Maybe the sequel will include an eel horsehorse if it's tasty. Maybe that's the future of food.”