Chapter 30 - In Which Phileas Fogg Simply Does His Duty Chapter 31 - In Which Fix, the Detective, Considerably Furthers the Interests of Phileas FoggFogg doing his duty sounds routine. In this context it is anything but.Chapter 30 gives us a side of Phileas Fogg that the whole book has been quietly building toward - and it's worth the wait. Then Chapter 31 has Fix, of all people, doing something that actually helps Fogg. The detective who has been a thorn in this journey's side for thousands of miles makes a choice in this one that changes everything.We are very close to the end now. Let's go.You could've enjoyed this full episode early if you'd been a Patron! Become a Patron (https://www.patreon.com/anotherworldaudiobooks) & get more episodes EARLY!Want a free audiobook? All you have to do is ask! Choose from the ever-growing AWA Library (https://anotherworldaudiobooks.com/#library)!If you enjoyed this episode, would you mind telling a friend about the podcast??:) It's really the only way the show can grow (and really the only way I'll be able to continue putting out episodes for you)! Thanks a million!!!____Thanks to our sponsor - Invicta Web Design! Get a professional, website, headache free. Just go to https://invictaweb.design/For all things Another World, go to https://anotherworldaudiobooks.com/ (seriously, you should - I'm giving away a FREE audiobook to anyone who goes to the website & requests it!!!)Thanks for listening & for SHARING the podcast!____Support the podcast on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/anotherworldaudiobooks) and get tons of awesome perks!Check out the merch store https://another-world-audiobooks.myspreadshop.com/! Tons of awesome, hand-drawn designs (by yours truly!:) for t-shirts, hoodies, hats, mugs & more. PLUS every purchase goes to bring you more awesome audiobooks!Support the podcast by purchasing FULL audiobooks - all purchase links are at https://anotherworldaudiobooks.com/!If that’s not for you, don’t worry, I’ll still make you audiobooks;) All I ask is that you listen & share the podcast with your friends!
Aug 2
26 min
Chapter 28 - In Which Passepartout Does Not Succeed in Making Anybody Listen to Reason Chapter 29 - In Which Certain Incidents Are Narrated Which Are Only to Be Met With on American RailroadsPassepartout has something important to say and absolutely nobody wants to hear it.Chapter 28 is a masterclass in frustration - our man can see exactly what's coming and cannot get a single person to take him seriously, which is both very funny and increasingly alarming. Then Chapter 29 delivers on the promise of that title in the most Verne way possible. "Certain incidents only to be met with on American railroads" is doing a lot of work as a description, and the chapter earns every bit of it.This is peak adventure territory. Let's go.You could've enjoyed this full episode early if you'd been a Patron! Become a Patron (https://www.patreon.com/anotherworldaudiobooks) & get more episodes EARLY!Want a free audiobook? All you have to do is ask! Choose from the ever-growing AWA Library (https://anotherworldaudiobooks.com/#library)!If you enjoyed this episode, would you mind telling a friend about the podcast??:) It's really the only way the show can grow (and really the only way I'll be able to continue putting out episodes for you)! Thanks a million!!!____Thanks to our sponsor - Invicta Web Design! Get a professional, website, headache free. Just go to https://invictaweb.design/For all things Another World, go to https://anotherworldaudiobooks.com/ (seriously, you should - I'm giving away a FREE audiobook to anyone who goes to the website & requests it!!!)Thanks for listening & for SHARING the podcast!____Support the podcast on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/anotherworldaudiobooks) and get tons of awesome perks!Check out the merch store https://another-world-audiobooks.myspreadshop.com/! Tons of awesome, hand-drawn designs (by yours truly!:) for t-shirts, hoodies, hats, mugs & more. PLUS every purchase goes to bring you more awesome audiobooks!Support the podcast by purchasing FULL audiobooks - all purchase links are at https://anotherworldaudiobooks.com/!If that’s not for you, don’t worry, I’ll still make you audiobooks;) All I ask is that you listen & share the podcast with your friends!
Jul 26
30 min
Chapter 26 - In Which Phileas Fogg and Party Travel by the Pacific RailroadChapter 27 - In Which Passepartout Undergoes, at a Speed of Twenty Miles an Hour, a Course of Mormon HistoryAmerica by rail, and Verne is clearly delighted to be writing it.Chapter 26 puts the whole party on the Pacific Railroad - the transcontinental line that was, at the time this book was written, one of the genuine wonders of the modern world, and Verne treats it as such. Then Chapter 27 gives Passepartout a captive audience situation he did not ask for and cannot escape, courtesy of a very enthusiastic Mormon gentleman with a lot of history to cover and a long stretch of track to cover it on.Honestly Passepartout deserves a rest. He is not getting one. Let's go.You could've enjoyed this full episode early if you'd been a Patron! Become a Patron (https://www.patreon.com/anotherworldaudiobooks) & get more episodes EARLY!Want a free audiobook? All you have to do is ask! Choose from the ever-growing AWA Library (https://anotherworldaudiobooks.com/#library)!If you enjoyed this episode, would you mind telling a friend about the podcast??:) It's really the only way the show can grow (and really the only way I'll be able to continue putting out episodes for you)! Thanks a million!!!____Thanks to our sponsor - Invicta Web Design! Get a professional, website, headache free. Just go to https://invictaweb.design/For all things Another World, go to https://anotherworldaudiobooks.com/ (seriously, you should - I'm giving away a FREE audiobook to anyone who goes to the website & requests it!!!)Thanks for listening & for SHARING the podcast!____Support the podcast on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/anotherworldaudiobooks) and get tons of awesome perks!Check out the merch store https://another-world-audiobooks.myspreadshop.com/! Tons of awesome, hand-drawn designs (by yours truly!:) for t-shirts, hoodies, hats, mugs & more. PLUS every purchase goes to bring you more awesome audiobooks!Support the podcast by purchasing FULL audiobooks - all purchase links are at https://anotherworldaudiobooks.com/!If that’s not for you, don’t worry, I’ll still make you audiobooks;) All I ask is that you listen & share the podcast with your friends!
Jul 19
26 min
Chapter 24 - In Which Mr. Fogg and Party Cross the Pacific OceanChapter 25 - In Which a Slight Glimpse Is Had of San FranciscoThe Pacific Ocean. The longest leg of the journey, and Verne dispatches it with characteristic efficiency.Chapter 24 gets the whole party across the Pacific in the way Fogg does everything - on schedule, without sentiment, and without once stopping to appreciate how remarkable it is that they're doing it. Then Chapter 25 lands us in San Francisco, and "a slight glimpse" is Verne being modest — there's enough happening in this chapter to make an impression.America. Final stretch. Let's go.You could've enjoyed this full episode early if you'd been a Patron! Become a Patron (https://www.patreon.com/anotherworldaudiobooks) & get more episodes EARLY!Want a free audiobook? All you have to do is ask! Choose from the ever-growing AWA Library (https://anotherworldaudiobooks.com/#library)!If you enjoyed this episode, would you mind telling a friend about the podcast??:) It's really the only way the show can grow (and really the only way I'll be able to continue putting out episodes for you)! Thanks a million!!!____Thanks to our sponsor - Invicta Web Design! Get a professional, website, headache free. Just go to https://invictaweb.design/For all things Another World, go to https://anotherworldaudiobooks.com/ (seriously, you should - I'm giving away a FREE audiobook to anyone who goes to the website & requests it!!!)Thanks for listening & for SHARING the podcast!____Support the podcast on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/anotherworldaudiobooks) and get tons of awesome perks!Check out the merch store https://another-world-audiobooks.myspreadshop.com/! Tons of awesome, hand-drawn designs (by yours truly!:) for t-shirts, hoodies, hats, mugs & more. PLUS every purchase goes to bring you more awesome audiobooks!Support the podcast by purchasing FULL audiobooks - all purchase links are at https://anotherworldaudiobooks.com/!If that’s not for you, don’t worry, I’ll still make you audiobooks;) All I ask is that you listen & share the podcast with your friends!
Jul 12
27 min
Chapter 22 - In Which Passepartout Finds Out That, Even at the Antipodes, It Is Convenient to Have Some Money in One's PocketChapter 23 - In Which Passepartout's Nose Becomes Outrageously LongPassepartout learns a lesson that honestly should not have needed learning at this point in the journey.Chapter 22 finds him in a situation that a little money would have solved immediately — money he does not have — and Verne wrings every bit of comedy out of it that he possibly can. Then Chapter 23 has Passepartout's nose growing outrageously long, which is not literal but is somehow even better than if it were. Enjoy!You could've enjoyed this full episode early if you'd been a Patron! Become a Patron (https://www.patreon.com/anotherworldaudiobooks) & get more episodes EARLY!Want a free audiobook? All you have to do is ask! Choose from the ever-growing AWA Library (https://anotherworldaudiobooks.com/#library)!If you enjoyed this episode, would you mind telling a friend about the podcast??:) It's really the only way the show can grow (and really the only way I'll be able to continue putting out episodes for you)! Thanks a million!!!____Thanks to our sponsor - Invicta Web Design! Get a professional, website, headache free. Just go to https://invictaweb.design/For all things Another World, go to https://anotherworldaudiobooks.com/ (seriously, you should - I'm giving away a FREE audiobook to anyone who goes to the website & requests it!!!)Thanks for listening & for SHARING the podcast!____Support the podcast on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/anotherworldaudiobooks) and get tons of awesome perks!Check out the merch store https://another-world-audiobooks.myspreadshop.com/! Tons of awesome, hand-drawn designs (by yours truly!:) for t-shirts, hoodies, hats, mugs & more. PLUS every purchase goes to bring you more awesome audiobooks!Support the podcast by purchasing FULL audiobooks - all purchase links are at https://anotherworldaudiobooks.com/!If that’s not for you, don’t worry, I’ll still make you audiobooks;) All I ask is that you listen & share the podcast with your friends!
Jul 5
31 min
Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of men put their names to a document that changed the world. They were farmers, lawyers, merchants, and statesmen - imperfect people living in an imperfect time - and they did something that had never really been done before. They looked at the most powerful empire on earth and said - "No". And then they wrote down exactly why.John Adams knew what this moment meant. The night before the Declaration was adopted, he wrote to his wife Abigail with words that were incredibly prescient:"It [Independence Day] ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more... I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is more than worth all the means, and that posterity will triumph in that day's transaction." He was writing about us. We are the posterity he trusted to triumph.The Declaration of Independence is not a dusty relic. It is a living argument - one that has been tested, stretched, fought over, and defended by every generation of Americans since 1776. The ideals it contains are not a description of what America was. They are a challenge about what America is supposed to be. That work is never finished. It was never meant to be.On this 250th anniversary of American independence, we're doing something a little different on Another World Audiobooks. No novel, no adventure story - just the words themselves, read aloud the way they were meant to be heard. Because there is something about hearing this document spoken out loud that a silent reading simply cannot replicate. These were not words written to sit quietly on a page. They were written to be declared.The passion that drove the founding generation - the willingness to sacrifice everything for an idea worth believing in - is not a thing of the past. It is an inheritance. And inheritances come with responsibility.So on this Independence Day, wherever you are and however you're celebrating - listen to these words. Let them truly sink in. Remember what was risked to hand you this. And then go do something worthy of it.Happy 250th, America. Here's to the next 250.
Jul 4
9 min
Chapter 20 - In Which Fix Comes Face to Face with Phileas FoggChapter 21 - In Which the Master of the "Tankadere" Runs Great Risk of Losing a Reward of Two Hundred PoundsThe moment Fix has been building toward for half this book finally arrives — and it does not go the way he planned.Then we get everyone onto a small vessel called the Tankadere in conditions that make the two-hundred-pound reward sound a lot less appealing than it did on dry land.Fogg remains unruffled. Everyone around him is not. Let's go.You could've enjoyed this full episode early if you'd been a Patron! Become a Patron (https://www.patreon.com/anotherworldaudiobooks) & get more episodes EARLY!Want a free audiobook? All you have to do is ask! Choose from the ever-growing AWA Library (https://anotherworldaudiobooks.com/#library)!If you enjoyed this episode, would you mind telling a friend about the podcast??:) It's really the only way the show can grow (and really the only way I'll be able to continue putting out episodes for you)! Thanks a million!!!____Thanks to our sponsor - Invicta Web Design! Get a professional, website, headache free. Just go to https://invictaweb.design/For all things Another World, go to https://anotherworldaudiobooks.com/ (seriously, you should - I'm giving away a FREE audiobook to anyone who goes to the website & requests it!!!)Thanks for listening & for SHARING the podcast!____Support the podcast on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/anotherworldaudiobooks) and get tons of awesome perks!Check out the merch store https://another-world-audiobooks.myspreadshop.com/! Tons of awesome, hand-drawn designs (by yours truly!:) for t-shirts, hoodies, hats, mugs & more. PLUS every purchase goes to bring you more awesome audiobooks!Support the podcast by purchasing FULL audiobooks - all purchase links are at https://anotherworldaudiobooks.com/!If that’s not for you, don’t worry, I’ll still make you audiobooks;) All I ask is that you listen & share the podcast with your friends!
Jun 28
31 min
Chapter 18 - In Which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Fix Go Each About His BusinessChapter 19 - In Which Passepartout Takes a Too Great Interest in His Master, and What Comes of ItEveryone goes their separate ways in Hong Kong — and that is immediately a problem.Chapter 18 splits our three main players off in different directions, which sounds harmless enough until you remember that Fix has an agenda and Passepartout has absolutely no filter. Chapter 19 delivers on exactly what that title promises - our man gets a little too involved in making sure things go well for Fogg, and the consequences are the kind that are very funny to everyone except Passepartout.This might be one of my favorite episodes yet. Let's go.You could've enjoyed this full episode early if you'd been a Patron! Become a Patron (https://www.patreon.com/anotherworldaudiobooks) & get more episodes EARLY!Want a free audiobook? All you have to do is ask! Choose from the ever-growing AWA Library (https://anotherworldaudiobooks.com/#library)!If you enjoyed this episode, would you mind telling a friend about the podcast??:) It's really the only way the show can grow (and really the only way I'll be able to continue putting out episodes for you)! Thanks a million!!!____Thanks to our sponsor - Invicta Web Design! Get a professional, website, headache free. Just go to https://invictaweb.design/For all things Another World, go to https://anotherworldaudiobooks.com/ (seriously, you should - I'm giving away a FREE audiobook to anyone who goes to the website & requests it!!!)Thanks for listening & for SHARING the podcast!____Support the podcast on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/anotherworldaudiobooks) and get tons of awesome perks!Check out the merch store https://another-world-audiobooks.myspreadshop.com/! Tons of awesome, hand-drawn designs (by yours truly!:) for t-shirts, hoodies, hats, mugs & more. PLUS every purchase goes to bring you more awesome audiobooks!Support the podcast by purchasing FULL audiobooks - all purchase links are at https://anotherworldaudiobooks.com/!If that’s not for you, don’t worry, I’ll still make you audiobooks;) All I ask is that you listen & share the podcast with your friends!
Jun 21
26 min
Purchase the FULL audiobook HERE!Or sign up as a "New Resident" ($5/month) or higher tier Patron HERE and get BOTH the new version of Frankenstein PLUS Around the World in 80 Days FREE!Okay this is a big one. I've been working hard behind the scenes and I've got not one but TWO full audiobooks available exclusively for patrons right now.First - Around the World in 80 Days. We're not even halfway through on the podcast feed, but the full book is already done and waiting for you. If you want to find out how Fogg's wild adventure ends without waiting week by week, just shoot me a message here on Patreon or at [email protected] and it's yours.But that's not all.I also just finished a complete, brand new recording of Frankenstein.Now - some of you have been around long enough to remember when we did Frankenstein on the podcast years ago. Back when I was a wide-eyed newbie with a questionable microphone and a lot of enthusiasm making up for what I lacked in experience. You stuck with me anyway, and I will never forget that.This is not that recording.This is Frankenstein done right - with years of additional experience, a proper microphone, and everything I've learned since those early days poured into every chapter. It's the same great story, but the version I always wished I could give you. I'm really proud of how it turned out.Getting two full audiobooks this far ahead of the podcast feed takes a serious amount of work - but you're worth it. Genuinely.Both are yours free if you're already a patron. Just reach out and I'll get them to you.And if you're not a patron yet - now is honestly a really good time to change that. Sign up for the New Resident tier ($5/month) or above and you'll get both books as a thank you for joining, plus all the usual perks. But this offer won't be around forever, so don't sit on it too long.Become a Patron Today!
Jun 19
39 min
Chapter 16 - In Which Fix Does Not Seem to Understand in the Least What Is Said to HimChapter 17 - Showing What Happened on the Voyage from Singapore to Hong KongFix is having a rough stretch, and it is deeply enjoyable to watch.Chapter 16 puts him in a conversation where he is genuinely, completely lost - and the comedy of a professional detective being this thoroughly confused is something Verne clearly relished writing. Then Chapter 17 gets us on the water between Singapore and Hong Kong, and the voyage produces exactly the kind of unexpected development that keeps this story moving at such a relentless pace.New city, new complications. Let's go.You could've enjoyed this full episode early if you'd been a Patron! Become a Patron (https://www.patreon.com/anotherworldaudiobooks) & get more episodes EARLY!Want a free audiobook? All you have to do is ask! Choose from the ever-growing AWA Library (https://anotherworldaudiobooks.com/#library)!If you enjoyed this episode, would you mind telling a friend about the podcast??:) It's really the only way the show can grow (and really the only way I'll be able to continue putting out episodes for you)! Thanks a million!!!____Thanks to our sponsor - Invicta Web Design! Get a professional, website, headache free. Just go to https://invictaweb.design/For all things Another World, go to https://anotherworldaudiobooks.com/ (seriously, you should - I'm giving away a FREE audiobook to anyone who goes to the website & requests it!!!)Thanks for listening & for SHARING the podcast!____Support the podcast on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/anotherworldaudiobooks) and get tons of awesome perks!Check out the merch store https://another-world-audiobooks.myspreadshop.com/! Tons of awesome, hand-drawn designs (by yours truly!:) for t-shirts, hoodies, hats, mugs & more. PLUS every purchase goes to bring you more awesome audiobooks!Support the podcast by purchasing FULL audiobooks - all purchase links are at https://anotherworldaudiobooks.com/!If that’s not for you, don’t worry, I’ll still make you audiobooks;) All I ask is that you listen & share the podcast with your friends!
Jun 14
25 min
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