Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch

Michael and Ethan begin their discussion of Filthy Animals, by Brandon Taylor, while drinking slightly different iterations of Redbreast Irish whiskey in sherry cask finishes.

In this episode:

Ethan admits to torturing a co-worker

This was a very trying episode for Michael

Esoteric rants (surprise!)

Yes, Ethan has been playing a lot of chess lately

Some real digs at true crime

Next time Michael and Ethan will begin discussing Filthy Animals, by Brandon Taylor. 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.

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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 continue 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:

A messy beginning. (Also messy in the middle, and at the end)

Some Walker Percy, some Apostle Paul, and a bunch of the Apocrypha

A slight foray into Names With Michael

Extremely counterfactual counterfactuals

The BHT, and whether it’s bad

Next time Michael and Ethan will begin discussing Filthy Animals, by Brandon Taylor. 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.

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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 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!

Next time Michael and Ethan will continue their discussion of Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy. 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.

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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.

An extra-special, extra-troublesome-for-Ethan, First Paragraph Challenge, featuring Karen, the Voice of the Rules.

In this episode:

A special, pretty troublesome, guest!

Disclaimers from Ethan: Collect all 3!

They’re guessing what the title of the book is based on the first paragraph. Ethan at no point makes this explicit. Sorry.

Sorry to Neil Gaiman yet again

Michael, Ethan needs you

Karen undercuts Ethan by doing things like being right, being reasonable, and being good at math

Take that, Michael!

Karen gets the pronunciation of “Gloucester” deeply wrong, sorry to all our British listeners

Ethan does technically win, but he has the good sense not to mention that on the podcast

Next time Michael and Ethan will begin their discussion of Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy. 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.

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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.

An extremely special episode where, after a 5-year ban, Michael finally gets to talk about vampires.

In this episode:

Michael is or is not a vampire

Michael finds vampires everywhere

Ethan knows how lists work

Ethan compares Michael to Einstein, but only by accident

Florence and the Machine and Vampires

Vampires everywhere!

Some ill-advised digressions in the middle of the episode, sorry

Much place-setting, as usual

To be clear, Ethan is deeply ashamed of everything Twilight-related that comes up in this episode, including his own writing, which will not be linked to now or ever

Next time Michael and Ethan will begin their discussion of Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy. 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.

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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 continue their discussion of The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene. while continuing to drink Highland Park 12 Year Old Viking Honour Edition. BUT THERE’S A TWIST!

In this episode:

Ethan explains this up top, but he had a glitch that caused him to record not with Michael, but several weeks in the future from Michael. Thus, Ethan is VERY SORRY THAT:

1. This podcast is probably somewhat disjointed.

2. There are probably audio issues in it.

3. It is probably at least somewhat incoherent.

HOWEVER! It MIGHT be entertaining! No one knows!

Next time Michael and Ethan will begin their discussion of Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy. The audio experience will be better! Hopefully! 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.

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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 Begin their discussion of The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene. while continuing to drink Highland Park 12 Year Old Viking Honour Edition.

In this episode:

Everything is arbitrary

Bladder perspectives

The broad drunk history strokes

We prove we read the book

Excursions within excursions

A teaser for next time!

Next time Michael and Ethan will continue their discussion of The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene.. 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.

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.

WHAAAATTTT?

It’s an extra-big, extra-in-the-sense-of-you-get-three-episodes-this-month, extra in the way Michael and Ethan are always extra, VERY SPECIAL EVENT PODCAST!

Our first episode came out on December 23rd, 2016. So here, today, December 23rd, 2021 [plus a few days because Ethan has NEVER been good with meeting actual deadlines] we offer you a thorough, comprehensive retrospective, in which we discuss literally every single thing we covered in the first five years. So really, you could listen to this and then skip to season six.

Also, future Ethan realizes that a tone poem is originally a musical genre and not a cinematic one, don’t @ him about that. (@ him about other stuff.)

Next time Michael and Ethan will begin their discussion of The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene.. 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.

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 continue their discussion of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See while drinking Highland Park 12 Year Old Viking Honour Edition.

In this episode:

What’s a plot?

Misunderstanding misunderstandings

Michael says “duty” a bunch of times and Ethan doesn’t even giggle. That’s maturity

Just some fanboy moments about Lisa See (to balance out the s*** we talked last time)

Michael would like everyone to know that Ethan’s words are his own and not MIchael’s

Excursus into the impossibility of historiographed personality insertion

Ethan knows his limits (hopefully)

Not the worst reading group guide of all time

Next time Michael and Ethan will begin their discussion of The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene.. 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.

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 begin their discussion of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See while drinking Highland Park 12 Year Old Viking Honour Edition.

In this episode:

Dark self-reflection

Some clarifications

Excursus into Cormac McCarthy (sorry)

A lot of time discussing the word “for”

The SF version of Henrik Ibsen

It Doesn’t Have to be Intentional for a Grad Student to Analyze It: A Thesis

Next time Michael and Ethan will begin their discussion of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See.. 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.

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.