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Michael and Ethan discuss James, by Percival Everett, while drinking Glenfiddich 12.In this episode:Discourse on decade-old BBC show “Rev”Duels/debates (aka, Nat tease)If we didn’t already know, which we did, now we would knowThe Cross and the Lynching Tree, by James H. ConeJames as atheist/agnostic Biblical prophetThe fragility of power, or, shotgun = virility???TarnationFor reference: the character Michael is talking about later in the episode is young George and NOT EasterNoticeHeretical Fictions, by Lawrence I Berkove and Joseph CsicsilaWas Huck Black? by Shelley Fisher FiskinIs this a dagger which I see before me?Next time Michael and Ethan will continue to discuss James, by Percival Everett! Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page. Join us on GoodReads!Get on our Substack!Donate to our Patreon! MUSIC & SFX: "Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission. "The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. "Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.(Links to books & products are affiliate links.)

Michael and Ethan discuss James, by Percival Everett, while drinking Glenfiddich 12.In this episode:Yanking the timeline 30 years into the futureIt’s really hard to make a bookJames’ style is either noirish, or journalistic, or bothWe do give away the one real spoiler in the bookPrognosticating Twain’s reactions, ahistoricallyMake sure to take Michael’s many manifold meaningsExcellent Electic Lit interview with Percival EverettThe goosebumpiest part of the novelThe Cross and the Lynching Tree, by James H. ConeNext time Michael and Ethan will continue to discuss James, by Percival Everett! Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page. Join us on GoodReads!Get on our Substack!Donate to our Patreon! MUSIC & SFX: "Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission. "The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. "Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.(Links to books & products are affiliate links.)

Michael, Ethan, and special guest Jacob discuss Way Station, by Clifford D. Simak, while drinking Glenlivet 12.In this episode:It’s nice to be at the point in civilization where we know how all the letters should soundFirst pages, first paragraphs, first lines: seems like a trap for EthanPay attention to soundObligatory references to The Dying Earth (one) and Star Trek (many)Michael is almost gotten, which he deserves, because he’s still talking about Star TrekSimak is the missing link between Star Trek and CS LewisThoughts on religions we don’t followWe write fanfic of this bookThis book is at least seventeen different novelsJacob definitely loses but no one notices in the midst of discussing Hodags and ratsassinsWisconsin has the custodian of the galactic talisman, so, Go Pack GoNothing else sports-related is saidMichael doesn’t hate the Packers, he hates himselfNext time Michael and Ethan will discuss James, by Percival Everett! Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page. Join us on GoodReads!Get on our Substack!Donate to our Patreon! MUSIC & SFX: "Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission. "The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. "Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.(Links to books & products are affiliate links.)

Michael, Ethan, and special guest Jacob discuss Way Station, by Clifford D. Simak, while drinking Glenlivet 12.In this episode:The witness is treated as hostileFinding the Hodag where the Way Station is in the Driftless regionThe dispelling of illusionsThe CIA defeated by a conversationBible as metaphor for technology vs. technology as metaphor for BibleScience fiction basllica!Rat assassin! (Ratsassin?)Next time Michael and Ethan will discuss Way Station, by Clifford Simak! Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page. Join us on GoodReads!Get on our Substack!Donate to our Patreon! MUSIC & SFX: "Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission. "The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. "Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.(Links to books & products are affiliate links.)In this episode:Language, Migration, Faith, Treachery, Faith, and the Great River: a Star Trek analogy that only Michael caused to happenEnglish as a “grabby” languageLots of talk about God and faith and vulnerability, a lot of it not very fun to be sassy about in a bullet point (thanks guys)De-validating pedantry (for perhaps the first time in this podcast’s history)Deeply uneasy fart-based transitionsThe Battle of Waterloo, by William McGonagallFor context, because the boys fail to give ANY, McGonagall was a Victorian poet who is often considered the worst poet in the English languageAlso, McGonagall IS CthuluMidwest Immigration Bond FundNext time Michael and Ethan will discuss Way Station, by Clifford Simak! Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page. Join us on GoodReads!Get on our Substack!Donate to our Patreon! MUSIC & SFX: "Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission. "The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. "Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.(Links to books & products are affiliate links.)

Michael and Ethan finish their discussion of Rivermouth, by Alejandra Oliva, while drinking Smokehead Twisted.In this episode:Language, Migration, Faith, Treachery, Faith, and the Great River: a Star Trek analogy that only Michael caused to happenEnglish as a “grabby” languageLots of talk about God and faith and vulnerability, a lot of it not very fun to be sassy about in a bullet point (thanks guys)De-validating pedantry (for perhaps the first time in this podcast’s history)Deeply uneasy fart-based transitionsThe Battle of Waterloo, by William McGonagallFor context, because the boys fail to give ANY, McGonagall was a Victorian poet who is often considered the worst poet in the English languageAlso, McGonagall IS CthuluMidwest Immigration Bond FundNext time Michael and Ethan will discuss Way Station, by Clifford Simak! Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page. Join us on GoodReads!Get on our Substack!Donate to our Patreon! MUSIC & SFX: "Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission. "The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. "Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.(Links to books & products are affiliate links.)

Michael and Ethan discuss Rivermouth, by Alejandra Oliva, while drinking Smokehead Twisted.In this episode:Interrogating Michael, linguistically and in other waysThe Michael’s Translation Soapbox Podcast: a temptationBlindly table-settingBook baggageCrowds as statistics vs crowds as groups of actual humansThe hermenutical principle of honesty, honestlyCantankerous faithThe paradox of lack of description vs depth of described humanityNext time Michael and Ethan will continue to discuss Rivermouth, by Alejandra Oliva! Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page. Join us on GoodReads!Get on our Substack!Donate to our Patreon! MUSIC & SFX: "Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission. "The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. "Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.(Links to books & products are affiliate links.)

Michael and Ethan and special guest Nick conclude their discussion of Stuart Turton’s third novel, The Last Murder at the End of the World.In this episode:The ten commandments of detective fictionTopics in TurtonologySchrodinger’s locked room mysteryIf you bend any genre too far, horror leaks outPixar Extended Universe teasingThinking about thinking about The TempestDO THE WORKDetective fiction lightning roundNames With Michael lightning roundNext time Michael and Ethan will discuss Rivermouth, by Alejandra Oliva! Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page. Join us on GoodReads!Get on our Substack!Donate to our Patreon! MUSIC & SFX: "Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission. "The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. "Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.(Links to books & products are affiliate links.)

Michael and Ethan and special guest Nick begin their discussion of Stuart Turton’s third novel, The Last Murder at the End of the World.In this episode:Thanks to JaredThe ten commandments of detective fictionMurder plots versus murder mysteriesBut like, what even is human, anyway, right?And what is supernatural, even?Clarke’s Third Law: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”We must imagine Prometheus happySome bad news about ambiguity in novelsNext time Michael, Ethan, and special guest Nick will continue to discuss The Last Murder at the End of the World, by Stuart Turton! Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page. Join us on GoodReads!Get on our Substack!Donate to our Patreon! MUSIC & SFX: "Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission. "The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. "Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.(Links to books & products are affiliate links.)

Michael and Ethan continue discussing Nobber, by Oisin Fagan, while drinking The Midnight Silkie (Michael) and Red Locks (Ethan) Irish whiskeys.In this episode:Michael forgets, for the second time in four episodes, to call for Karen to read the rules. Rude. Good thing Karen just came in and started reading themA real SCAREcrow, or, a murdered murderWho is the greater fool, the fool or the fool who calls the fool a fool?Pinning down the black box that is the murder of crowsNobber is hell (?)Nobber is colonialism (and colonialism is also hell, so…)Palimpsests of colonialism, how’s that for some English-major talk?Ethan gets to say vampire words a bunch of times“The Terrific Cyclone of 1893,” by William McGonagallNext time Michael and Ethan will discuss The Last Murder at the End of the World, by Stuart Turton! Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page. Join us on GoodReads!Donate to our Patreon!BUY A NIHILIST BLANKET! Your Hosts: Michael G. Lilienthal (@mglilienthal) and Ethan Bartlett (@bjartlett) MUSIC & SFX: "Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission. "The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. "Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.(Links to books & products are affiliate links.)

Michael and Ethan begin their discussion of Nobber, by Oisin Fagan, while drinking The Midnight Silkie (Michael) and Red Locks (Ethan) Irish whiskeys.In this episode:The question and the answer is “WTF?”Bafflement loves companyNihilism (question mark?)Plague booksMichael says “plague-ground” and Ethan completely fails to call him on itVery relevant and very pointedAcquisitiveness so strong it breaks the fourth wallA clumsy trap for MichaelBestiality!Scientific reasons are sometimes bestial, and bestial reasons are sometimes scientificIs this book trying to make us, the reader, into the Christ figure?Alchemical hermaphrodite, a possibly or possibly-not Ethan-only jointNebuchadnezzar!Dueling heresies/heresies all the way downNext time Michael and Ethan will discuss Nobber, by Oisin Fagan! Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page. Join us on GoodReads!Donate to our Patreon!BUY A NIHILIST BLANKET! Your Hosts: Michael G. Lilienthal (@mglilienthal) and Ethan Bartlett (@bjartlett) MUSIC & SFX: "Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission. "The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. "Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.(Links to books & products are affiliate links.)

Michael and Ethan continue discussing Glorious Exploits, by Ferdia Lennon, while drinking The Midnight Silkie (Michael) and Red Locks (Ethan) Irish whiskeys.In this episode:Jokes (get better the more you tell them)Spoilers for Downton Abbey series 3 (2012)If you haven’t watched every example of German Expressionist silent cinema, do you even lift?Nostalgia for a time when plays could induce riotsSlouching toward assigning a graduate thesisMultiple “Gift of the Magi” situations humanly complicate multiple charactersWhat is art?Next time Michael and Ethan will discuss Nobber, by Oisin Fagan! Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page. Join us on GoodReads!Donate to our Patreon!BUY A NIHILIST BLANKET! Your Hosts: Michael G. Lilienthal (@mglilienthal) and Ethan Bartlett (@bjartlett) MUSIC & SFX: "Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission. "The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. "Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.(Links to books & products are affiliate links.)

Michael and Ethan begin discussing Glorious Exploits, by Ferdia Lennon, while drinking The Midnight Silkie (Michael) and Red Locks (Ethan) Irish whiskeys.In this episode:Don’t worry about why Karen reading the rules happens so suddenlyThis book is The Producers, the Great Escape, AND the Gift of the MagiSometimes the real story is the anachronisms we met along the way“Version” is fineObligatory Shakespeare digressionTechnically not a history podcastKing Offa’s Arabic coinEuripedes’ Deus is not quite as ex machina as you might expectMichael and Ethan: rabbit holes all the way downNext time Michael and Ethan will continue to discuss Glorious Exploits, by Ferdia Lennon! Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page. Join us on GoodReads!Donate to our Patreon!BUY A NIHILIST BLANKET! Your Hosts: Michael G. Lilienthal (@mglilienthal) and Ethan Bartlett (@bjartlett) MUSIC & SFX: "Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission. "The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. "Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.

Michael and Ethan, finally alone, finish the discussion of their Mondo Book for the year: Persuasion, by Jane Austen.In this episode:Finally alone except for a dog and catPersuasion Chapter 53Persuasion is either Much Ado About Nothing or Parks and Rec or bothOur highest aim on this podcast is “possible legitimacy”Jane Austen can’t have anybody naked, even in the 1990sPeople have been really gross and done really gross stuff for a long timeDid Lee Harvey Oswald kill Kennedy using the butterfly effect?Novel + satire + socialist(?) class critique = Jane Austen is a geniusMrs Smith and ZombiesCommunity comes out through conversationHow much of community is persuasion?We still need each other whether we like it or notNo community has ever flourished without the possibility of people you don’t likeMichael brag brag bragsNext time Michael and Ethan will discuss Glorious Exploits, by Ferdia Lennon! Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page. Join us on GoodReads!Donate to our Patreon!BUY A NIHILIST BLANKET! Your Hosts: Michael G. Lilienthal (@mglilienthal) and Ethan Bartlett (@bjartlett) MUSIC & SFX: "Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission. "The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. "Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.

Michael and Ethan, with special wife guests Karen and Sarah, discuss their (somewhat slimmer than usual) Mondo Book for the year: Persuasion, by Jane Austen.In this episode:Again making use of our intern-generated, wonderful, thoughtful, very serious discussion guideKaren definitely makes multiple references to to Mrs Jennings, a character from Sense and Sensibility and NOT this novelA block of wood would be a better father than Anne’s actual fatherMeanwhile, Ethan says “verb” when he clearly means “adjective” so I guess everyone’s a sinnerThe wives get in some pretty good burns on Sir Walter, including:Sir Walter is so obsessed with himself that he takes the opening of the novel away from AnneSir Walter is a toddlerFrom the beginning of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:NOTICE.Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR                PER G. G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE.Is Anne a real character with agency or just sort of a wavy balloon guy for the wind to blow around?Karen is Anne, Anne is Emma, Sarah is the walrus, coo coo ca chooComing soon: Persuasion and the Alien InvasionPersuasion and PsirensNext time Michael and Ethan will continue the discussion of their Mondo Book for the year: Persuasion, by Jane Austen! Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page. Join us on GoodReads!Donate to our Patreon!BUY A NIHILIST BLANKET! Your Hosts: Michael G. Lilienthal (@mglilienthal) and Ethan Bartlett (@bjartlett) MUSIC & SFX: "Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission. "The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. "Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.In this episode:What an excellent rule (sorry, Risha)An unpopular opinion that captures several important thingsAusten as a writer who maybe should be listened to at least as much as read?Reading novels was basically the 19th-century version of GameboyJANE DID A CLIFFHANGERIs Persuasion unfilmable?VERY EXCITING DICTION DISCUSSIONJane Austen: all sarcasm all the time maybe?The Keira Knightley one, the one with the Dashwood Sisters, the one with the name we can’t say…One very simple blockage: the miscommunication tropeThe blockage is always the title of the bookNext time Michael and Ethan will continue the discussion of their Mondo Book for the year: Persuasion, by Jane Austen! Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page.Join us on GoodReads!Donate to our Patreon!BUY A NIHILIST BLANKET!Your Hosts: Michael G. Lilienthal (@mglilienthal) andEthan Bartlett (@bjartlett)MUSIC & SFX:"Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission."The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License."Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.

On this “special” episode, Michael forces Ethan to play his weird game, smooch/marry/kill, but with books. If it’s a bad episode, it should be emphasized, it IS Michael’s fault.In this episode:It almost turns into the Dune/Lawrence of Arabia show ALMOST IMMEDIATELY and that’s Michael’s faultMichael references a “summer evening” which is relevant to when we recorded this episode but not to when it’s coming out, sorryIt also almost becomes a cocktail episode which is also Michael’s fault, and these bullet points are even before we get to the actual premise of the episode which Ethan is VERY salty aboutEthan and Psyche rout Michael’s little death trickWe don’t know what the MPA rating standards are for podcastsJapanese cats make the most enticing smooches because you have to work for themThis podcast’s next t-shirt and also tagline: “Low demand, high fun”EVERYONE BE COOL AND IMAGINE ROUND TWO IN WISHBONE TERMSWE DON’T CONDONE NASTINESSHendiadys: one through two, and we love itOld armchair smooch: a very real thing that people do say and have saidTom Jones expected to be killed one of these daysNext time Michael and Ethan will continue the discussion of their Mondo Book for the year: Persuasion, by Jane Austen! Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page. Join us on GoodReads!Donate to our Patreon!BUY A NIHILIST BLANKET! Your Hosts: Michael G. Lilienthal (@mglilienthal) and Ethan Bartlett (@bjartlett) MUSIC & SFX: "Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission. "The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. "Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.