Blood Meridian
Novel by Cormac McCarthyWikipedia
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Oct 12, 2026
AnnaPANELIST
[laughs]
ElliotPANELIST
This book is not Greer's The Female Eunuch, but Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian.
ElliotPANELIST
This is not the Dialectic of Sex by Shulamith Firestone, but- [bell rings] ... Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince.
AnnaPANELIST
[laughs]
Steve YuskoHOST
You know, he points out that opposing factions often share identical monotheism foundations, yet remain trapped in violence due to dogmatic illiteracy.
Steve YuskoHOST
Fans will spot that War Is a God is a direct nod to Cormac McCarthy's novel, Blood Meridian.
Steve YuskoHOST
Now, before we move into Eastern philosophy references, I wanna jump into the comments with you.
Steve YuskoHOST
Drop a comment right now and tell me, have you ever noticed that modern culture twists sacred texts to justify political anger? And which one of these lyric breakdowns hit you the hardest? Let me know down below.
SteveHOST
We are reading a couple of chapters every other day.
SteveHOST
I tried reading one chapter a day for Blood Meridian because it had 23 chapters in it.
SteveHOST
And that really worked out.
SteveHOST
And at the end of the month, I had Stephen Fry come to talk to me about Blood Meridian and kind of break down because he wrote the book, Understanding McCarthy.
SteveHOST
It was a perfect guest.
SteveHOST
I hope to have him back for another book, maybe even another McCarthy book.
5 MINS LATER
SteveHOST
I also wanted to ask all of you what your thoughts are on the format because my idea was to have an episode every couple of days and to read along slowly and deliberately and just to kind of soak it all in.
SteveHOST
I think this format worked really well.
Ian DangerousHOST
And the question is, does the movie do enough to undo those arguments? And I mean, what we're saying here is that it doesn't, but at the same time, it's not so egregious that it undoes all the things the movie does right, which is a lot of the humor and the satire of the American West.
Ian DangerousHOST
And kind of this Cormac McCarthy-esque brutality and Blood Meridian-like landscape that he's laid out in this movie.
Ian DangerousHOST
But I do think all things said and done, boys, I think what we're coming to the conclusion of is this needed a rewrite.
Ian DangerousHOST
At the very least, a rewrite.
TronHOST
That's, I, I didn't...
TronHOST
It seems like the character that he'd be like, uh, uh, Judge Holden from Blood Meridian.
TronHOST
It was, like, maybe what he's modeled after-
JeremyHOST
Oh, fuck
TronHOST
... except it's not a, not as much as a-
JeremyHOST
Blood Meridian.
JeremyHOST
Oh
TronHOST
... not as much as an evil fuck.
speaker_1GUEST
And I gave it to a friend and she goes, you know, this guy wrote this other book.
speaker_1GUEST
You've got to read this thing, and it was Blood Meridian, and I read that, and I read it in one sitting.
speaker_1GUEST
I've never read any
Gord MagillHOST
Cormac McCarthy.
Benjamin BoyceGUEST
I think there's two types of Faustianism.
Benjamin BoyceGUEST
One which is, "I can solve all these problems." The other is, "My spirit needs to understand the world." There's this, I wish I had it memorized, there's this book by Cor- McCarthy, Blood Meridian, and there's this character in it, it's just one of the most startling characters in American fiction, literature, uh, the, the judge.
Benjamin BoyceGUEST
And he has this notebook.
Benjamin BoyceGUEST
He's going around, he's, he's documenting everything.
SteveHOST
And we still have quite a bit of book, but it's not a long Stephen King book when you really think about it, and it reads extremely fast.
SteveHOST
I mean, I, I fly through these pages, and it could be because we just finished Blood Meridian [laughs] and Cormac McCarthy, and we're all...
SteveHOST
I'm also reading The Prince of Nothing and Second Apocalypse from R. Scott Baker.
SteveHOST
So those books read a lot slower.
FredHOST
No, I just said it's a book about comedy.
MikeHOST
Damn, you should tell her I've read Blood Meridian.
MikeHOST
Have her read that.
MikeHOST
And she's like, Mike wants
MikeHOST
I just got to finish this, and then I'll read the book.
MikeHOST
I talked to fucking Colin Heaton last night.
MikeHOST
I was like, hey, you read Blood Meridian? I loaned it to him fucking six months ago.
MikeHOST
He's like, I really got into dungeon crawler fucking sapomance or whatever the fuck it is.
Benjamin BoyceGUEST
I wish I had it memorized.
Benjamin BoyceGUEST
There's this book by Cor- McCarthy, Blood Meridian, and there's this character, and it's one of the most startling characters in American fiction literature.
Benjamin BoyceGUEST
Uh, the, the judge, and he has this notebook.
Benjamin BoyceGUEST
He's going around.
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