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Encore! Encore!
Tales from the Drum - November 20, 2021 18:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsYou may have noticed a lack of Pratchips this past week. But then again, maybe you didn't. Nobody emailed about it. But you may have said, "Wonder what happened to Pratchips this week." And after the non-appearance of a regular episode yesterday,, you may have said, "Wonder what happened to the ...
Blacksmiths and Liars-to-Children
Tales from the Drum - November 13, 2021 00:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThis week’s short and sweet biography is about Jason Ogg. Then, in the Science of Discworld segment this week, we learn about lies-to-children, also known as education. What we actually have here is an explanation of the framework for the non-fiction, science-education half of the Science of ...
Pratchips 76-- Small Gods: The Steam Engine
Tales from the Drum - November 11, 2021 12:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe steam engine was first developed in Ephebe. It was first used in a boat. Then it powered a tank, which was sabotaged and thus never went in to battle. (Thank you, History Monks.) It’s thus both an item, in the form of a technological advancement, and a concept, in the form of “Hey look what ...
Pratchips 75--Small Gods: Ephebe
Tales from the Drum - November 11, 2021 00:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThink of Ephebe as the Discworld analogue of Ancient Greece. Especially the many-gods and the many-old-men-in-togas philosophers part. Ephebe plays a major role in both Small Gods and Pyramids. Come to think of it, I believe it pops up in Eric, too. In Small Gods Ephebe has the misfortune of b...
Pratchips 74-- Small Gods: Vorbis
Tales from the Drum - November 10, 2021 00:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsVorbis is a Deacon in the Church of Om. He is head of the Quisition, and, as you might imagine, not a very nice man therefor. He has ambitions for more temporal power, as well as for complete control of the Omnian church. He doesn’t reckon on the novice Brutha, though—nor on the Great God Om m...
Pratchips 73- Small Gods
Tales from the Drum - November 09, 2021 17:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsBrutha is a large, illiterate novice who nevertheless has an eidetic memory (think photographic memory on steroids.) For this reason he is selected by the Deacon of the Omnian church, Vorbis, as part of a plan to conquer Ephebe. As we will see in Pratchips 74, this is because Vorbis is not a n...
Math, Science, and History: Discworld Style
Tales from the Drum - November 05, 2021 23:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThis week, after the Gnome re-introduces himself, we consider the numerical immensity of Sir Terry’s creativity. We also introduce Short and Sweet Biographies, this week featuring Angua von Uberwald. In the second part of the show, we begin to explore the Science of Discworld series. All this ...
Pratchips 72-- The Great Pyramid
Tales from the Drum - November 04, 2021 07:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsKing Teppic, speaking through the high priest Dios, decrees that Teppic’s father shall be entombed in a pyramid twice the size of any other ever built. Thus the Great Pyramid is conceived. Built in just six weeks using paracosmic architecture, the pyramid is just too big. It wrenches the kingdo...
Pratchips 71-- Djelibeybi
Tales from the Drum - November 03, 2021 07:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDjelibeybi—literally “child of the Djel”—is 7,000 years old. It is a 3 mile-wide, 150 mile-long kingdom that follows the course of the Djel river. It is a place of pyramids, alligators, and tradition. It is the setting for events which rend the fabric of space-time, motivate a young king to le...
Pratchips 70-- Dios
Tales from the Drum - November 02, 2021 23:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe high priest Dios has a secret. He is also the one who makes sure that the kingdom of Djelibeybi functions as it should—with one day being pretty much like the last. Dios has a problem, though. The new king, Teppic, doesn’t think much of that idea. Then he has another problem: the pyramid b...
Pratchips 69-- Pyramids
Tales from the Drum - November 01, 2021 23:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe ancient land of Djelibeybi—nothing like Roundworld Egypt in any way whatsoever, mind—has a new king. Teppic has been away training as an assassin in far Ankh-Morporkk when his father finally decides to act on his belief that he is a seagull. The high priest Dios takes Teppic’s education in ...
Pratchips 68-- The Truth: Dark Light
Tales from the Drum - October 28, 2021 23:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsOtto Chriek’s fascination, if not obsession with light leads him to experiment with the dark light produced by the Uberwaldean land eels. That has some startling unintended consequences. Those include sending Mr. Pin round the bend, and causing a dog stampede (well, at least it started with dogs...
Dark Light
Tales from the Drum - October 28, 2021 23:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsOtto Chriek’s fascination, if not obsession with light leads him to experiment with the dark light produced by the Uberwaldean land eels. That has some startling unintended consequences. Those include sending Mr. Pin round the bend, and causing a dog stampede (well, at least it started with dogs...
Pratchips 67-- The Truth: Pin and Tulip
Tales from the Drum - October 27, 2021 23:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsMr. Pin and Mr. Tulip are a pair of hired killers. They will also commit associated crimes—for the right price. Mr. Pin, a very rat-like man, is the brains of the operation. Mr. Tulip… well, Mr. Tulip is a man of many parts. He will snort just about any powdery substance he can lay his hands on,...
Pratchips 66 The Truth: Otto Chreik
Tales from the Drum - October 26, 2021 23:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Black Ribboner Otto Chriek becomes the iconographer for the Times, despite the fact that the flash from the salamanders sometimes turns him to dust, and at the very least leaves him rolling and, yes, shrieking on the floor. Otto becomes a vital part of the staff of the Times. His experimen...
Pratchips 66-- The Truth: Otto Chreik
Tales from the Drum - October 26, 2021 23:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Black Ribboner Otto Chriek becomes the iconographer for the Times, despite the fact that the flash from the salamanders sometimes turns him to dust, and at the very least leaves him rolling and, yes, shrieking on the floor. Otto becomes a vital part of the staff of the Times. His experimen...
Pratchips 65-- Ain't it The Truth
Tales from the Drum - October 25, 2021 23:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsYoung William de Worde finds himself producing a paper of news after getting hit in the forehead by a piece of lead type that flies off a runaway cart, owned by the dwarfs, and including a printing press. William finds his hands more than full, with Vetinari having words with him, Sam Vimes wa...
Ain't it The Truth
Tales from the Drum - October 25, 2021 23:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsYoung William de Worde finds himself producing a paper of news after getting hit in the forehead by a piece of lead type that flies off a runaway cart, owned by the dwarfs, and including a printing press. William finds his hands more than full, with Vetinari having words with him, Sam Vimes wa...
Pratchips 64-- The Last Continent: The Luggage
Tales from the Drum - October 21, 2021 23:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIt’s bloody-minded, and it’s also too sapient to be a thing, but in the Last Continent, the Luggage truly discovers its softer side as it falls in with a group of female impersonators who are *really* into shoes. Thanks for popping in for some Pratchips! We love all you guys. We love anyone wh...
Pratchips 63-- The Last Continent: Mono Island
Tales from the Drum - October 20, 2021 23:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThere’s one of everything on Mono Island—until the UU faculty show up. I doubt I have to draw you a picture. Thanks for popping in for some Pratchips! We love all you guys. We love anyone who derives pleasure, enjoyment, or solace from anything we do. And we know you love your Pratchett! Fac...
Pratchips 62 The Last Continent: Mrs Whitlow
Tales from the Drum - October 19, 2021 23:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsMrs. Whitlow manages to get herself stranded on a desert island with several of the UU faculty. She is the soul of propriety, but she does get a pretty big kick out of some of the gentlemen's ideas (and ignorance.) Thanks for popping in for some Pratchips! We love all you guys. We love anyone ...
The Last Continent
Tales from the Drum - October 18, 2021 23:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsFifteen years after his debut in The Color of Magic, Rincewind takes a final bow as protagonist in The Last Continent, the 22nd Discworld novel, published in 1998. Thanks for popping in for some Pratchips! We love all you guys. We love anyone who derives pleasure, enjoyment, or solace from anyt...
Pratchips 61–The Last Continent
Tales from the Drum - October 18, 2021 23:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsFifteen years after his debut in The Color of Magic, Rincewind takes a final bow as protagonist in The Last Continent, the 22nd Discworld novel, published in 1998. Thanks for popping in for some Pratchips! We love all you guys. We love anyone who derives pleasure, enjoyment, or solace from anyt...
The Mended Drum Season 11: episode 1 Caution: Unresolved Metaphors
Tales from the Drum - October 15, 2021 23:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWelcome to an old podcast with a new name. Witches and Wizards Portal, et al. are now officially subsumed in Tales from the Drum. That’s our new name. Season 11 begins with a brief fanfare, a medium ramble, an extended metaphor, and some serious compare-and-contrast. All that in 43 min...
The Mended Drum
Tales from the Drum - October 15, 2021 23:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWelcome to an old podcast with a new name. Witches and Wizards Portal, et al. are now officially subsumed in Tales from the Drum. That’s our new name. Season 11 begins with a brief fanfare, a medium ramble, an extended metaphor, and some serious compare-and-contrast. All that in 43 min...
Pratchips 60-- Men at Arms: The Gonne
Tales from the Drum - October 14, 2021 07:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsOne of those Leonard of Quirm designs that never should’ve seen the light of day. Or at least should have been destroyed immediately thereafter. But it wasn’t, it has occult vibes, and it kills people. It almost takes over Sam Vimes before Carrot destroys it. Narrow escape all ‘round. Our Podpa...
Pratchips 59-- Men at Arms: The Pork Futures Warehouse
Tales from the Drum - October 13, 2021 07:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Pork Futures Warehouse is a monument to the literal-mindedness (or is it bloody-mindedness) of the Ankh-Morkpork mentality. They sell pork futures, right? Well then, there has to be a place to store the future pork they’re selling! Our Podpage webpage is down for maintenance this week. We...
Pratchips 58-- Men at Arms: Cuddy
Tales from the Drum - October 12, 2021 23:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsHe’s the Watch’s first dwarf officer. He teaches Detritus to count. He is unfortunate to run into the killer who’s terrorizing Ankh-Morpork with a gonne. But, he is sent into the afterlife with the most powerful weapon a dwarf could take with, just in case the gods and demons the dwarfs don’t be...
Pratchips 57-- Men at Arms
Tales from the Drum - October 11, 2021 23:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThere’s a killer on the loose in Ankh-Morpork—a killer armed with a gonne. On top of that, the dwarfs and trolls are at each other’s throats, Captain Vimes is getting married, and Carrot conscripts dozens of people to be in the Watch—technically the Citizens Militia, because there has been “an i...
Interregnum
Tales from the Drum - October 08, 2021 23:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWe have a new email address: [email protected]. I’m working on transitioning all our MGP (Medieval Gnome Productions) related email there. Send us an email at the new addy—you never know what might happen! And, PLEASE send me some new questions for Granny! You can ask her anything. Som...