Two Brothers. One Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Book. So Many Endings.
September 23, 2018 7:53 PM Subscribe
Finish It! is a completionist Choose Your Own Adventure podcast, focusing on one book at a time. Each week, Matt and Chris get one attempt each at this Choose Your Own Adventure until they read every single ending. Will they ever choose every adventure? Will anyone listen?! Join them on their descent into a madness of their own design.
Currently 22 episodes in, brothers Matt and Chris are still working their way through the very first Choose Your Own Adventure book, The Cave of Time.
The author and creator of the Choose Your Own Adventure format, Edward Packard, now has a blog in which he is highly critical of the Trump administration. He's also written a book which is all about how to make good decisions.
For Finish It!, start with Episode 1, and enjoy as their despair at ever finishing grows deeper, and their project becomes more creative, more inventive, and ever more hilarious.
Currently 22 episodes in, brothers Matt and Chris are still working their way through the very first Choose Your Own Adventure book, The Cave of Time.
The author and creator of the Choose Your Own Adventure format, Edward Packard, now has a blog in which he is highly critical of the Trump administration. He's also written a book which is all about how to make good decisions.
For Finish It!, start with Episode 1, and enjoy as their despair at ever finishing grows deeper, and their project becomes more creative, more inventive, and ever more hilarious.
I listened to the first episode last night and found myself laughing out loud a few times. Their major issue so far seems to be one of the ones I have with any CYOA book -- some things I want to choose are chosen for me!
As to madness of their own design, I'd disagree, hippybear -- no one has forced them to go through each ending of each book in a weekly podcast. They figure, optimistically, they'll be done with the Cave of Time in about 20 weeks from the first podcast episode. Judging by the fact they're on episode 22 and are still on the Cave of Time... yeah, this is definitely of madness of their own design.
As an aside, LOVE the link to Edward Packard's site, meese! I might have written him fanmail. :D
I might have read dozens of these books as a kid...
posted by juliebug at 3:37 PM on September 24, 2018
As to madness of their own design, I'd disagree, hippybear -- no one has forced them to go through each ending of each book in a weekly podcast. They figure, optimistically, they'll be done with the Cave of Time in about 20 weeks from the first podcast episode. Judging by the fact they're on episode 22 and are still on the Cave of Time... yeah, this is definitely of madness of their own design.
As an aside, LOVE the link to Edward Packard's site, meese! I might have written him fanmail. :D
I might have read dozens of these books as a kid...
posted by juliebug at 3:37 PM on September 24, 2018
Perhaps I'm not patient enough, but I didn't enjoy the little snippets I heard because it felt like they were so busy commenting all the time they kept interrupting the story and I wanted to be read the story and choose my adventure. :(
I realize I may have missed the point.
posted by fantasticness at 9:07 PM on September 24, 2018 [1 favorite]
I realize I may have missed the point.
posted by fantasticness at 9:07 PM on September 24, 2018 [1 favorite]
I'd like to subscribe to the RSS feed for this, but danged if I can find it. Just Stitcher and iTunes locked-in feeds.
posted by doctorfrog at 2:28 PM on September 25, 2018
posted by doctorfrog at 2:28 PM on September 25, 2018
https://finishitpod.com/category/podcast/feed/
posted by hippybear at 5:50 PM on September 25, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by hippybear at 5:50 PM on September 25, 2018 [1 favorite]
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