E07 Moon Called 05: A Family Circus Cartoon of a Plan

Uncle Mike's Book Club Discusses chapters 14-15 of Moon Called. We go to the warehouse to rescue Adam and Jesse and witness a plan so convoluted, Sheev Palpatine could have thought it up. We discuss Jesse’s relationship to the werewolves, ALL the gun information and video game guns, using a wire coat hanger to get into your car with the keys locked inside, Tad’s offscreen appearances, the Rube Goldberg plan of Gerry’s, a tangent about women choosing to be werewolves and comparing becoming a werewolf to choosing a golf course, sexism in time travel, and why Kelly didn’t love Doc Carter Wallace’s closing scene. 

Random things mentioned: Lots of songs I can’t keep track of. Acme Products from the old Warner Bros. cartoons, Star Trek where people in Red Shirts die on away missions, “Bad Wolf” from Doctor Who, “It’s super effective!” from Pokémon, Star Wars Prequels, The Goonies, OK Go videos, Pokémon, using wire coat hangers to get locked keys out of the car (ask your parents), The original Star Wars movie (“That’s a presence I haven’t felt since…”), Girl from Ipanema.

Recording note: We’re all pretty sick with colds in this episode. And Brittany was so busy trying to get Eric lined up to the mic that she kept missing it herself. Whoops. We do (slowly) make quality progress over the various episodes, I promise!

As always, there are potentially spoilers for every single book published in the Mercyverse: shorts, the Mercy Thompson book series, AND the Alpha and Omega book series (everything through Blind Date with a Werewolf, anyway). It’s okay if you aren’t caught up, as long as you’re okay with spoilers for books you haven’t read yet. 

Links:
* Our Bluesky account: SheWhoWrenches.bsky.social
* Patricia Briggs' official website with complete book list: https://www.patriciabriggs.com/books/
* Stories in timeline order (how they happen for Mercy): https://www.patriciabriggs.com/books/printabletimeline.html

Recording Date: 1/16/2026

Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro  
00:00:28 Recap Guy for Moon Called
00:03:44 Start covering the climax at the warehouse 
00:13:19 Guard wants to keep dosing Adam & Knee Cap Guy  
00:13:39 Adam getting coherent  
00:14:02 David Christiansen’s Mole Comes In  
00:14:21 Adam Sweating Silver  
00:14:39 Tour of Weaponry & Video Game Guns  
00:17:10 David's guy shoots the other Mercenary  
00:17:42 Pirate Game and Tad Adelbertsmiter’s introduction tangent  
00:18:26 Getting out of the warehouse full of werewolf mercenaries  
00:19:49 Mercy Thompson sensing witchcraft magic  
00:22:44 Calling Gerry with wolves
00:24:19 Gerry's Plan  
00:25:30 The take on Gerry’s plan from Bone Crossed  
00:27:54 Bran "takes care" of Doc Carter Wallace and the fallout in Aspen Creek  
00:30:45 Women and The Change to Werewolf  
00:33:51 Are super old werewolves actually less sexist/homophobic than medium-ones?  
00:34:34 Healing / germ immunity advantages of being a werewolf  
00:34:55 Wrap up the episode