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The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret

By: Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel
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The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan 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 of analysis, discussion and tangents, with a week off in between books to refresh our brains.© 2025 The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret Art Literary History & Criticism
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  • 6: The Long Earth Part 2 (Potato Thoughts)

    6: The Long Earth Part 2 (Potato Thoughts)
    Jul 13 2025

    The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel have emerged from Discworld and are now exploring the worlds of speculative fiction.


    This week, The Long Earth Part 2!


    Elephants! Elves! Evolution! Extinction?


    Find us on the internet:

    BlueSky: @makeyefretpod.bsky.social

    Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret

    Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret

    Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com

    Patreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefret

    Discord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP


    Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on BlueSky @2hatsjo and follow Francine @francibambi


    Things we blathered on about:

    The Album - Only You Can Save Mankind Soundtrack

    Tracklements - Oxford Reference

    I Made a Massive 14,000 Page Book - YouTube

    Archaeoacoustics - Wikipedia

    history of the entire world, i guess - YouTube

    Is there a similar word to 'twain' but meaning 'three' instead of 'two'? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange


    Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com
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    1 hr and 32 mins
  • 5: The Long Earth Part 1 (Elephants and Airships)

    5: The Long Earth Part 1 (Elephants and Airships)
    Jul 6 2025

    The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel have emerged from Discworld and are now exploring the worlds of speculative fiction.

    This week, The Long Earth, Part 1. (Chapters 1-25)

    Potatoes! Ferrous Postcards! Reinvented Loincloths!


    Find us on the internet:

    BlueSky: @makeyefretpod.bsky.social

    Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret

    Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret

    Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com

    Patreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefret

    Discord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP


    Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on BlueSky @2hatsjo and follow Francine @francibambi


    Things we blathered on about:

    Evolution (Baxter novel) - Wikipedia

    The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter – review - The Guardian

    Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter on The Long Earth - The Guardian video interview

    Lobsang Rampa - Wikipedia

    Gomphothere - Wikipedia [not golophonts or whatever I said]

    Skunk Works - Wikipedia


    Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com
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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • 4: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab

    4: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab
    Jun 9 2025

    The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel have emerged from Discworld and are now exploring the worlds of speculative fiction.


    This week, a review of V. E. Schwab’s new book - Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

    Toxic! Lesbian! Vampires!

    Find us on the internet:

    BlueSky: @makeyefretpod.bsky.social

    Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret

    Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret

    Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com

    Patreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefret

    Discord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP

    Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on BlueSky @2hatsjo and follow Francine @francibambi

    Things we blathered on about:

    Bones | Explore Immortal Destinies — Author V. E. Schwab

    Author V. E. Schwab on toxic lesbian vampires and being a messy gay

    @OddPride on TikTok "I couldn't help it I was only hungry"

    Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com
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    1 hr and 26 mins
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I wasn't sure what to expect, but what I got were a lot of laughs and a lot of insights to a really cool book series. The podcasters are a delight to listen to and have a lot of fun talking about what are clearly some of their favorite books, or sometimes maybe not their favorite books, but still doing them all justice. I wish I had found this podcast to survive the pandemic with, it would have given me laughter in a dark time. But I'm getting them now so I guess that's a fair trade. I don't always agree with everything that is said, but it's always giving me something to think about in a new way. I just finished the first 100 episodes and am looking forward to many more.

Great ramble through some old favorites

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…to take food to your neighbor…” …needs to not be allowed to post anything, because they do not understand what being a real neighbor means. If someone brings you food, even if you’re allergic to EVERYTHING in the known multiverse, you thank them for being NICE.

I might not agree with every word said on this podcast, but so what? On that issue, you’re spot-on. Also, anyone bringing a control-obsessed person some food is going the extra 1.625 km, as that takes extra friendliness AND neighborliness!

Lot of liness-ness here. Appreciate your reading these, because my Scrooge’s self resents paying Audible for monotone performances from persons believing “speaking nasally” creates 20 different characters based solely on nasal blockage of varying sizes.

I’m also now terrified of the idea of a thousand magpies showing up at my door, particularly if they’re caroling. I do, however, wonder whether there’s a triangle-shaped banana. Or a banana-scented triangle?

Anyone who thinks it’s ethically wrong…

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