Michael and Ethan begin their discussion of Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy, while drinking slightly different iterations of Redbreast 12yo Irish whiskey in sherry cask finishes.

In this episode:

Improv that goes great!

Multiple instances of Wikipedia research in real time!

Gaslighting future podcast historians!

Thomas Hardy shade!

Shades of Thomas Hardy! And Shakespeare!

Ethan does a bad job talking about Lady Audley’s Secret!

Ethan misquotes Gene Wolfe—it was “contemporaries of Herodotus and Mark Twain”!

I felt like I needed one more bullet point with an exclamation!

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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.