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Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch episodes
- Way Station, by Clifford Simak, and Glenlivet 12, Part 1
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 hostile
Finding the Hodag where the Way Station is in the Driftless region
The dispelling of illusions
The CIA defeated by a conversation
Bible as metaphor for technology vs. technology as metaphor for Bible
Science 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.
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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.
(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 happen
English as a “grabby” language
Lots 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 transitions
The Battle of Waterloo, by William McGonagall
For context, because the boys fail to give ANY, McGonagall was a Victorian poet who is often considered the worst poet in the English language
Also, McGonagall IS Cthulu
Midwest Immigration Bond Fund
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.)
1 hr 5 min - Half Pint with Pints with Jack
We made some new friends with the Pints with Jack podcast! Listen in to our interview on their Half-pint special!
33 min - Rivermouth, by Alejandra Oliva, and Smokehead Twisted, Part 2
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 happen
English as a “grabby” language
Lots 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 transitions
The Battle of Waterloo, by William McGonagall
For context, because the boys fail to give ANY, McGonagall was a Victorian poet who is often considered the worst poet in the English language
Also, McGonagall IS Cthulu
Midwest Immigration Bond Fund
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.)
1 hr 38 min - Rivermouth, by Alejandra Oliva, and Smokehead Twisted, Part 1
Michael and Ethan discuss Rivermouth, by Alejandra Oliva, while drinking Smokehead Twisted.
In this episode:
Interrogating Michael, linguistically and in other ways
The Michael’s Translation Soapbox Podcast: a temptation
Blindly table-setting
Book baggage
Crowds as statistics vs crowds as groups of actual humans
The hermenutical principle of honesty, honestly
Cantankerous faith
The paradox of lack of description vs depth of described humanity
Next 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.)
1 hr 8 min - The Last Murder at the End of the World, by Stuart Turton, and Smokehead Twisted, Part 2
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 fiction
Topics in Turtonology
Schrodinger’s locked room mystery
If you bend any genre too far, horror leaks out
Pixar Extended Universe teasing
Thinking about thinking about The Tempest
DO THE WORK
Detective fiction lightning round
Names With Michael lightning round
Next 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.)
1 hr 7 min - The Last Murder at the End of the World, by Stuart Turton, and Smokehead Twisted, Part 1
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 Jared
The ten commandments of detective fiction
Murder plots versus murder mysteries
But 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 happy
Some bad news about ambiguity in novels
Next 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.)
1 hr 8 min - Nobber, by Oisin Fagan, and various Irish whiskeys, part 2
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 them
A real SCAREcrow, or, a murdered murder
Who 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 crows
Nobber 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 McGonagall
Next 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.)
1 hr 5 min - Nobber, by Oisin Fagan, and various Irish whiskeys, part 1
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 company
Nihilism (question mark?)
Plague books
Michael says “plague-ground” and Ethan completely fails to call him on it
Very relevant and very pointed
Acquisitiveness so strong it breaks the fourth wall
A clumsy trap for Michael
Bestiality!
Scientific reasons are sometimes bestial, and bestial reasons are sometimes scientific
Is this book trying to make us, the reader, into the Christ figure?
Alchemical hermaphrodite, a possibly or possibly-not Ethan-only joint
Nebuchadnezzar!
Dueling heresies/heresies all the way down
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.)
1 hr 19 min - Glorious Exploits, by Ferdia Lennon, and various Irish whiskeys, part 2
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 riots
Slouching toward assigning a graduate thesis
Multiple “Gift of the Magi” situations humanly complicate multiple characters
What 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.)
1 hr 13 min - Glorious Exploits, by Ferdia Lennon, and various Irish whiskeys, part 1
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 suddenly
This book is The Producers, the Great Escape, AND the Gift of the Magi
Sometimes the real story is the anachronisms we met along the way
“Version” is fine
Obligatory Shakespeare digression
Technically not a history podcast
King Offa’s Arabic coin
Euripedes’ Deus is not quite as ex machina as you might expect
Michael and Ethan: rabbit holes all the way down
Next 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.
1 hr 9 min
About Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch
From the publisher's feed
With their expertise in a grand total of 3 advanced degrees in English literature, as well as a lifetime of reading, Michael & Ethan get together every other week to drink Scotch and talk about…
books, but not about Scotch. You don’t need to listen in order, but just search for a book (story, play, poem, etc.) that interests you and follow along!