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

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"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

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On this “special” episode, Michael forces Ethan to play his weird game, smooch/marry/kill, but with books. If it’s a bad episode, it should be emphasized, it IS Michael’s fault.

In this episode:

It almost turns into the Dune/Lawrence of Arabia show ALMOST IMMEDIATELY and that’s Michael’s fault

Michael references a “summer evening” which is relevant to when we recorded this episode but not to when it’s coming out, sorry

It also almost becomes a cocktail episode which is also Michael’s fault, and these bullet points are even before we get to the actual premise of the episode which Ethan is VERY salty about

Ethan and Psyche rout Michael’s little death trick

We don’t know what the MPA rating standards are for podcasts

Japanese cats make the most enticing smooches because you have to work for them

This podcast’s next t-shirt and also tagline: “Low demand, high fun”

EVERYONE BE COOL AND IMAGINE ROUND TWO IN WISHBONE TERMS

WE DON’T CONDONE NASTINESS

Hendiadys: one through two, and we love it

Old armchair smooch: a very real thing that people do say and have said

Tom Jones expected to be killed one of these days

Next time Michael and Ethan will continue the discussion of their Mondo Book for the year: Persuasion, by Jane Austen! 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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"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, with special guests Lydia and Christina (aka Stiners), discuss their (somewhat slimmer than usual) Mondo Book for the year: Persuasion, by Jane Austen.

In this episode:

Our intern wrote us this very thorough, very thoughtful, and overall excellent discussion guide

A sort of Damocles

True gnosis will lead you to a binary choice

Christina’s Walter Elliot thoughts

Captain Wentworth: a hot blank canvas

Lydia would maybe have to bully Wentworth

There aren’t any examples of persuasion in this book other than like 75 examples

Jane Austen: Unionize! (because it’s about marriage but also class solidarity)

We will be producing “Persuasion but it’s the Blair Witch Project” soon

Coming soon: Lydia’s Ramblings (maybe)

Next time Michael and Ethan will continue the discussion of their Mondo Book for the year: Persuasion, by Jane Austen! 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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"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, with special guests Erin and Risha, inaugurate their discussion of their (somewhat slimmer than usual) Mondo Book for the year: Persuasion, by Jane Austen.

In this episode:

What an excellent rule (sorry, Risha)

An unpopular opinion that captures several important things

Austen as a writer who maybe should be listened to at least as much as read?

Reading novels was basically the 19th-century version of Gameboy

JANE DID A CLIFFHANGER

Is Persuasion unfilmable?

VERY EXCITING DICTION DISCUSSION

Jane Austen: all sarcasm all the time maybe?

The Keira Knightley one, the one with the Dashwood Sisters, the one with the name we can’t say…

One very simple blockage: the miscommunication trope

The blockage is always the title of the book

Next time Michael and Ethan will continue the discussion of their Mondo Book for the year: Persuasion, by Jane Austen! 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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"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.

CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of suicide.

Michael and Ethan continue their discussion of Stella Maris, by Cormac McCarthy, while drinking Bunnahabhain 12yo single malt.

In this episode:

Michael is mean

As Likely to End the World as to Save it: Knowledge and Science in Cormac McCarthy, by Philip Bunn (this bullet point happened a few eps ago, but it deserves repeating)

Unconscious/subconscious, and what the difference is, and whether it matters

Trying to be the smartest person in the world, and also have companionship

The dangers of language, or, words are bad

Lotsa Gnosticism

William Blake, and a little bit Lovecraft, but mostly Blake

A memory of a stupid review

Like The Passenger, this book is secretly about the atomic bomb

Anaximander, who thought existence is a wrong done to the universe

Hurtfully, this book is Catcher in the Rye

Ethan gets the name of Pokemon Rollout deeply wrong right at the end, lol

Next time Michael and Ethan will the discussion of their Mondo Book for the year: Persuasion, by Jane Austen! 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.