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?

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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.

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Your Hosts: Michael G. Lilienthal (@mglilienthal) and

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"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 cat

Persuasion Chapter 53

Persuasion is either Much Ado About Nothing or Parks and Rec or both

Our highest aim on this podcast is “possible legitimacy”

Jane Austen can’t have anybody naked, even in the 1990s

People have been really gross and done really gross stuff for a long time

Did Lee Harvey Oswald kill Kennedy using the butterfly effect?

Novel + satire + socialist(?) class critique = Jane Austen is a genius

Mrs Smith and Zombies

Community comes out through conversation

How much of community is persuasion?

We still need each other whether we like it or not

No community has ever flourished without the possibility of people you don’t like

Michael brag brag brags

Next 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.

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Your Hosts: Michael G. Lilienthal (@mglilienthal) and

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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.