Thank you for listening! This episode we read listeners emails and... We discuss the disturbing...and poetic chapter 12 where the gang ambushes a community for scalps.  And...we notice significant dates in the novel. We have a Substack page and we have created a list of dates and astronomical movements/descriptions. It's free to subscribe and read! Blood Meridian was published only ten years after the Vietnam war effort of the USA. A lot of movies centered on the Vietnam experience were produced in the late 1970s but especially in the 1980s. Some of those movies were... The Deer Hunter Streamers Birdy 4th of July Full Metal Jacket Platoon Hamburger Hill Good Morning Vietnam Bat*21 The Expendables (yeah we were surprised that was an 80's movie too!) Rambo Air America John Woo's Bullet In The Head Dogfight For The Boys Forrest Gump Dead Presidents