Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch

Michael and Ethan begin to discuss Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys.

In this episode:

The hosts are even more underqualified than usual.

Star Wars: like Star Trek but the science is better.

The terms “revisionist” and “revisionary” are used interchangeably, sorry.

Also sorry for the crunching noises Ethan contributes, geez

Having promised not to talk much about the additional material, the boys obviously talk a LOT about that material

Ethan does manage to mention Ireland, however briefly

This is not actually a history podcast

Next episode Michael and Ethan will continue to discuss Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys. 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. Ethan, and special guest Jacob Kempfert continue to discuss Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis. They basically do the secret third episode in this one, sorry/you’re welcome.

In this episode:

Spaghetti spray, and other types of spray

A concept for the worst Marvel crossover event of all time

Probably Jacob is referencing William Morris

Babbitt is a fantasy novel—in fact, it’s multiple fantasy novels

A new improv game: Babbitt and…

Confusing status for love, and stuff for status

A pretty upsetting digression into The Office

Kip doesn’t take one for the team

Ethan will definitely say things like “As we wrap up” at timestamps that you, the listener, know are wildly inaccurate

Michael and Ethan trap Jacob into trapping them, and therefore surrender the show to Jacob

This here is what they would have turned up regarding 25-year Prohibition, upon doing ANY research—turns out the specific town this Scotch is from had its own.

Just a LOT of power struggles on the back end of this one

We had the Secret Third Episode, so we threaten to have the Secret Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth episodes.

Ethan as tyrant (that was true the whole time, but forgot to include that note before)

Ethan also gets wrong where Bertha is from—he says Jamaica but it’s Dominica

ELBOHOPWMIARWSAAJSHMMELB

FICTIONSHARK

Kati Lattari (Twitter link with links to novel releases)

Next episode Michael and Ethan will discuss Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys. 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. Ethan, and special guest Jacob Kempfert discuss Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis.

In this episode:

Ethan is mean to Michael, but then he pays the price

Perhaps the most fraught rule anyone has introduced

A lot of talk about Azar Nafisi

Sinclair Lewis says the bad thing is bad, but maybe him saying so is also bad

Traps are a good thing

Thinking about thinking, and then thinking about that

Campbell’s Pea Soup

Next episode will be a Patented Special Episode, then they’ll begin talking about Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis. 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 present extremely good theories regarding The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain.

In this episode:

Plagiarism encouraged

Prosecuted, banished, and shot

A wife’s theory shamefully rejected

Is Mary real?

Is Huck Don Quixote?

Or is Huck… much more sinister still?

Tom Sawyer is both a jock and a cop

Sorry we assassinated Huck’s character. Or, not sorry

Next episode Michael and Ethan will begin talking about Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis. 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 By Force Alone, by Lavie Tidhar.

In this episode:

Very important distinctions

Stalker and God and how they relate to this podcast or something?

The wildly offensive Matter of Britain

Does Ethan technically lose?

At least we acknowledge that Stalker wasn’t the point

It both is and is not always about power

For the third time this episode, we’re NOT the religion podcast

Semantics, but also syntax

Next episode will be a Patented Special Episode, then they’ll begin talking about Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis. 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 By Force Alone, by Lavie Tidhar.

In this episode:

We’re not making an Ireland rule

There’s only very large OR very small

Some pretty troubling talk featuring the verb “goad”

Wishbone references. Get on our level.

How Me Evaluate

Surprised by Maguffin

The Choir of Charlie’s Angels

Michael’s titles are/are not the point

Stalker is Southern Reach is The Inferno is The Odyssey is Orpheus and Eurydice

Next episode they’ll continue talking about By Force Alone, by Lavie Tidhar. 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 take a no rules, no kings, anarchy special and explore “The Tay Bridge Disaster,” the most famous poem by William McGonagall, widely considered the worst poet in the English Language.

In this episode:

The podcast very nearly turns into a very different, wasabi-based podcast

Ethan does some puns, but they might not be intentional

McGonagall Online is a great website, honestly.

Michael drops out for a second reading the first stanza, sorry, but you should probably read this for yourself anyway: The Tay Bridge Disaster.

Michael tries really hard to redeem McGonagall.

Bridges, man. You know?

McGonagall is very relatable, honestly

Ethan shares little-known but very true facts about classic Christmas movie “It’s A Wonderful Life”

This poem is a newspaper article

Next episode they’ll begin talking about By Force Alone, by Lavie Tidhar. 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 Ball Lightning, by Cixin Liu.

In this episode:

Michael could take ‘em

Ethan is a tease

How to fit Ireland into China, by way of Kansas

God, aliens, or not aliens

The real friends are the ideas you met along the way

A wild Nat appears!

Poor Emily Dickinson

It was A Dream of Perpetual Motion, duhhhh

Next episode will be one of Michael and Ethan’s patented Specials, then they’ll begin talking about By Force Alone, by Lavie Tidhar. 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 Ball Lightning, by Cixin Liu.

In this episode:

Segues drive us over the edge

We come up with a bad SF novel

There is laziness

Ethan knows nothing about China. Well, he knows 2 things.

The idea is the main character, but also the main character is the idea

Michael would be mad at himself, but he’s intentional (I think)

Next episode they’ll begin talking about Ball Lightning, by Cixin Liu. 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 continue their discussion of The Playboy of the Western World, by JM Synge, with supplemental excursions into Synge’s Complete Works.

In this episode:

A lot of seething

The real drama is in the footnotes (again)

We do talk about the plot, I think?

A possibly baseless Names With Michael

This podcast is just… shooting the breeze… in the wind…

Michael declines

Ethan goes after Rachels and Karens for some reason

Ibsen… or whatever

Next episode they’ll begin talking about Ball Lightning, by Cixin Liu. 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.