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Michael, Ethan, and special guest Karen continue to discuss Eric, by Terry Pratchett, while drinking Bowmore 12yo Islay Single Malt.. In this episode: Ethan is always the villain This podcast is made up of 100% “recovering” teachers’ pets Pratchett builds layers into a silly pun K is TWO letters before M, a fact that 100% of this podcast fully understands This is not the “Madame Blavatsky and her insanely racist occultism” podcast Pratchett satirizes the Faust/Mephisto relationship by making the Rincewind/Eric relationship… wholesome? Sorry Karen’s punishment was actually everyone’s punishment (poem text if you for some reason want to know the rest) Just like, a LOT of ratings at the end. Like, a massive number of ratings by volume. Next time Michael and Ethan will discuss Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin! 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.)

Michael, Ethan, and special guest Karen discuss Eric, by Terry Pratchett, while drinking Bowmore 12yo Islay Single Malt.. In this episode: Michael opens with a reference to a pre-show joke the editor doesn’t remember, AND doesn’t have Michael’s audio for, so Michael is extra bad this time Karen has the pallet of a sugar glider/hummingbird (also she’s here) Scoptions Ethan says he’s going to do a thing/did a thing and it’s a lie but editor Ethan knows it’s a lie so that’s okay If you listen closely around 9:30 you can hear the foreshadowing of Sarah’s indignation Eventually we do discuss the book Using the Book of the New Sun to explain Discworld Discworld fits all the reading colors #smh/Karen as reverse bobblehead Eric is just acts 3 and 4 of Marlowe’s Faust Rincewind’s version of the hero’s journey: “The hero refuses the call —> The hero refuses the call —> The hero refuses the call —> etc.” Karen is a good sport FaustEric as end-of-history concept Impressive of Pratchett to predict how Christopher Nolan would retell the Odyssey 36 years beforehand Next time Michael, Ethan, and Karen will continue to discuss Eric, by Terry Pratchett! 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.)

Michael, Ethan, and special guest Josh discuss Justice Leage of America #10, by Gardner Fox, and Captain America #107, by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, while drinking Craigellachie 13yo Speyside Single Malt.. In this episode: Bet you didn’t know we had a full-time Silver Age Comic Books Expert! Bet you didn’t know it was possible to read a palimpsest! Bet you didn't know DC comics were also Lovecraftian! Bet I can’t keep this format up any longer without going a little wacky! The Discovery of Phosphorus, by Joseph Wright Ths podcast brought to you by Lucky Strikes! No one can win the podcast. Gaslightinig Captain America??? We GOTTA talk about Faustus The movie Nightmare Alley may be closely related to Captain America 107, or it may be completely unrelated Is Dr. Faustus Freud? If so, is he compensating for something? Captain America should have at least checked the website first Three is a magic storytelling number Captain America=one-punch man???? Cap may not be Othello, but Dr Faustus may be Iago That said, this Dr Faustus is not Faust This Faust is just chasing clout Josh’s Faustian comic recs: Mephisto (Marvel) Aunts before pants? (No) Underworld Unleashed (DC) Text for the Faust Race Next time Michael and Ethan will discuss Eric, by Terry Pratchett! 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.)

Michael and Ethan discuss The Seven Strings of the Lyre, by George Sand (also known as A Woman’s Version of the Faust Legend), while drinking Craigellachie 13yo Speyside Single Malt.. In this episode: Strong start claiming to do a chiasmus but APPARENTLY, ACTUALLY doing an Antimetabole. A lot of sports talk from two guys who know nothing about sports Inappropriately asserted man mid-life crises; unenthusiastic Masters theses We gotta talk about the lyre, and the seven strings thereof Alastor; or, the Spirit of Solitude, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (in case you also couldn’t/can’t help yourself) The Divided Soul, by Heidi White (it’s literary criticism, but also life criticism) Worry about what the Capital T “Truth“ is We do finally talk about the Lyre and its strings Man has to bottom out somewhere Shakespeare references Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Sand references Shakespeare Rockstar gnosticism Next time Michael and Ethan will discuss two comics: Justice Leage of America #10, by Gardner Fox, and Captain America #107, by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby! 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.)

Michael and Ethan discuss The Seven Strings of the Lyre, by George Sand (also known as A Woman’s Version of the Faust Legend), while drinking Craigellachie 13yo Speyside Single Malt.. In this episode: The title of this play is annoying, not George Sand’s fault A lot about fan fiction GK Chesteron’s “A Defense of Penny Dreadfuls” Madame de Stael, by Maria Fairweather The point is not to win the argument, the point is to have the argument What’s a polite way of saying “knocked around like a hockey puck”? Narrowcasting: when we engage specifically with the “Half-Blood Prince” who marked up Michael’s copy That said, the notes are potentially extremely bad (or at least highly debateable) The ur-text Ethan is thinking of is the Nag Hammadi Library, whose original English translation was published in 1978 (so Ethan was at least 12 years wrong) Magnetism Next time Michael and Ethan will continue to discuss The Seven Strings of the Lyre, by George Sand! 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.)

With special guests Kelsie, Hannah, and Jessica from the Reading Revisited podcast, Michael and Ethan discuss “The Little Mermaid” by Hans Christian Andersen, while drinking Craigellachie 13yo Speyside Single Malt.. In this episode: First and most important: NO SNITCHING There’s no rule that says you can’t mock husbands Talking about the end first Getting what you want vs. getting something better Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain, by Ed Simon Lowercase love vs. Uppercase Love Myths and the myths behind them Pride must suffer pain (mean) If the deal is today-only, walk away Potential uses for a mermaid’s tongue If you haven’t been reading fairy tales, they’re actually very nice Here’s one investigation into the alleged Einstein “read your children fairy tales” quote One version of the Children of Lir Andersen’s Fairy Tales as translated by Tiina Nunnelly There’s still no snitching Next time Michael and Ethan will discuss The Seven Strings of the Lyre, by George Sand! 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.)

Michael and Ethan discuss the 1926 silent film Faust by F. W. Murnau, while drinking Tamdhu 12yo Single Malt. In this episode: Quintessential film bro stuff Everything is political with a small p, but some things are political with a capital P (especially in cinema of the Weimar Republic) Faust is saved (spoilers) Silent film may be the only genre less subtle than the musical Ethan absolutely garbles a reference to Christopher Isherwood, partly by thinking he might be Herman Hesse. Isherwood was associated with Vedantic Hinduism and his novel Goodbye to Berlin was the basis for the musical Cabaret. Emil Jannings shade (deserved) Hitler’s Monsters, by Eric Kurlander In case it was unclear: Ethan didn’t want to be watching this film, even as he was watching this film All things are Star Trek (annoying) Michael makes an unacknowledged “jam” pun If you want to read along to our recurring unlistenable segment Next time Michael and Ethan will discuss “The Little Mermaid” by Hans Christian Andersen! 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.)

Michael and Ethan discuss Jack Faust, by Michael Swanwick, while drinking Tamdhu 12yo Single Malt.. In this episode: Caliban and the Witch, by Sylvia Federici Jack Faust is Goethe’s Faust and Marlowe’s Faust and a little bit Gounod’s Faust (which is also Goethe’s Faust) Faust goes from a disciple to Pontius Pilate in one paragraph What’s behind the door?????? (it doesn’t matter) The Star Trek-ification of Faust Faust decides he is God, something that always goes super well for everybody Interjections at random times from our special guest, Michael’s cat A fun triumvirate of epigraphs! (Including Jack the Ripper) Tap into Poetry Next time Michael and Ethan will discuss F.W. Murnau’s silent film, Faust! 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.)

Michael and Ethan discuss Jack Faust, by Michael Swanwick, while drinking Tamdhu 12yo Single Malt.. In this episode: The End of History and the Last Man (wiki page) A theory of threads and tatters Spoilers for Office Space and Fight Club, I guess Then We Came to the End… of history? Jack Faust was published in 1997, but it makes more sense as a 2026 novel Turns out, reducing other humans to instruments of pleasure is extremely dehumanizing Leaf, by Niggle, by JRR Tolkien Ethan fails to call Michael out for using Latin, but here’s the phrase he uses (nerd) Fiction writers across the board agree: don’t try to make yourself God Speech from The Great Dictator Tap into Poetry Next time Michael and Ethan will continue discuss Jack Faust, by Michael Swanwick! 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.)

Michael and Ethan discuss the short story “Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day,” by Jonathan Howard, while drinking Tamdhu 12yo Single Malt.. In this episode: Shout-out to Jamie from the Chanhassen Total Wine Very interesting Bluetooth headphone talk A short story is somewhere between a tweet and a novel, but closer to a tweet Putting the screws to Michael Faust both is and is not a necromancer Cabal both is and is not a D&D figure What is a homunculus? or, Ethan is Frankenstein(‘s monster)ed by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Fantasy Autism Hero Mr Spock is the Star Trek guy, not Dr Spock, a distinction you need and Ethan doesn’t Some remarks on “chatty” prose styles and TV writing Inevitable Lovecraft discussion, sorry Conclusion: TV writing predates TV A third-person narrator can have an opinion (and a D&D alignment) Next time Michael and Ethan will discuss Jack Faust, by Michael Swanwick! 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.)

What makes a Faust story? Michael, Ethan, and special guests Josiah & Jacob discuss this ontological question and all things Faust in this special episode. In this episode: Michael begins confrontationally. Is this episode Faust? Is this podcast Faust? Ethan is NOT in Law School. Is capitalism Faust? The Bible is inevitable. Josiah brought it up. Totally. It was Josiah. He's very smart. The Josian Anti-Faust idea (C) 2026. Demon, Helen, Margaret - Where are the lines of demarcation between them? Two questions: 1) What are you willing to sacrifice [to get what you want; and is it your very soul]? 2) What do you worship? (Josiah came up with the smart thing again. (C) 2026.) What you worship you will sacrifice. Ethan cheats with Wikipedia. Vein. American Faust: do we win? (Sorry for the Beetlejuice summoning.) If it looks like an exchange but is a gift, it's grace. If it looks like a gift but is an exchange, it's vampi-- Faust. When you're having night terrors, fart in the Devil's face and confess the Apostles' Creed. Shout-out to Reading Revisited! Every time he comes on this podcast, Jacob makes it a different podcast and/or a deal we need to wiggle out of. There are other things in Detroit other than Eminem. Let it be known, we can be charitable to a garbage fire. The answer is a tautology. Or cake. Here's each work we discuss: Is it Faust? The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton: Is it Faust? The book of Job: Is it Faust? It's A Wonderful Life: Is it Anti-Faust? Is it Faust? Jesus tempted in the desert: Is it Faust? Is it Anti-Faust? Is Faust a fan-fiction of Jesus? Genesis 3: Is it the OG Faust? A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens: Is it Faust? Trust, by Hernan Diaz: Is it Faust? The Secret History, by Donna Tartt: Is it Faust? The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde: Is it Faust? "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," by Oscar Wilde: Is it Faust? Of One Blood, by Pauline Hopkins: Is it Faust? Hadestown, by Anaïs Mitchell: Is it Faust? Orpheus & Euridice: Is it [proto-]Faust? Dracula, by Bram Stoker: Is it Faust? Hades & Persephone: Is it Faust? Interview with the Vampire: Is it Faust? Underworld: Is it Faust? "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," by Charlie Daniels: Is it Faust? Robert Johnson: Is he Faust? O Brother, Where Art Thou?: Is it Faust? Oedipus: Is he Faust? Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke: Is it Faust? Devil's Advocate: Is it Faust? Beetlejuice: Is it Faust? Macbeth, by William Shakespeare: Is it Faust? The Waterboy: Is it Faust? Rick & Morty: Is it Faust? Doctor Who: Is it Faust? Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie: Is it Faust? Ghosts, S4E22-S5E1: Is it Faust? The Passenger, and Stella Maris, by Cormac McCarthy: Are they Faust? Previously featured on Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy: Is it Faust? Grimm's Fairy Tales, e.g. "The Devil's Sooty Brother," "Bearskin," "The Devil and His Grandmother," "The Gravemound," "The Peasant and the Devil," "Doctor Know-all," "The Spirit in the Bottle": Are they Faust? Irish Fairy Tales, and Russian Stories: Are they Faust? Luther throwing his inkwell at the Devil: Is it Faust? "The Little Mermaid," by Hans Christian Andersen: Is it Faust - WAIT, we'll talk about it later! "The Magic Thread": Is it Faust? Click: Is it Faust? The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare: Is it Faust? Breaking Bad: Is it Faust? Rapid(-ish) Fire: Fullmetal Alchemist "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked," by Cage the Elephant Better Call Saul Melmoth the Wanderer, by Charles Maturin - WAIT, we might also talk about that later(?) It Follows The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Death Note "Button, Button," by Richard Matheson "The Monkey's Paw," by W.W. Jacobs The Third Man[, by Graham Greene] The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis That Hideous Strength, by C.S. Lewis The Magician's Nephew, by C.S. Lewis Out of the Silent Planet, by C.S. Lewis Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis The Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe Hamlet, by William Shakespeare Love's Labours Lost, by William Shakespeare "Goblin Market," By Christina Rosetti Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones Paradise Lost, by John Milton The Tempest, by William Shakespeare "Calliope," by Neil Gaiman Ravelstein, by Saul Bellow Previously featured on Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch KPop Demon Hunters The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne Previously featured on Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Previously featured on Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley Liar, Liar Bruce Almighty Big Darby O'Gill and the Little People Phantom of the Opera[, by Gaston Leroux] "Alastor," by Percy Bysshe Shelley Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo "Young Goodman Brown," by Nathanael Hawthorne Wittenberg, by David Davalos - DON'T BOTHER Stranger Things (especially Season 5) Next time Michael and Ethan will discuss “Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day,” by Jonathan L. Howard! 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.)

Michael, Ethan, and special guest Josiah discuss Gounod’s opera Faust while drinking Suntory Toki Japanese whisky. In this episode: We watched Opera de Lille’s production of Gounod’s Faust This is a two-intermission opera Josiah’s favorite aria How sincere is Faust? (not a Romeo and Juliet discussion) Also not The Age of Innocence podcast However, it MIGHT be the “Tragedy of Marguerite” podcast Misinterpreting the plot to make it more interesting Did the devil make Faust do it, or did Faust make the devil do it? The Romantic Era in literature is from when Michael said to when Ethan said; the Romantic Era in music begins a couple decades before the date Ethan said Does Michael hate opera??? Next time Michael, Ethan, and Josiah (still/again!) will discuss the Gounod opera Faust! 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.)

Michael, Ethan, and special guest Josiah discuss The Memory of Whiteness, by Kim Stanley Robinson while drinking Suntory Toki Japanese whisky. In this episode: The orchestra! Lots of tree stuff, also snake stuff and lizard stuff Curation vs collage vs other art stuff We GOTTA talk about the metadrama Vertumnus, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1591) (another trap for a date-pilled boy) At least two topological surnames All (or at least some) about Margaret College is the time when men become deterministic Margaret in this book is the scholars from Marlowe, Margaret from Goethe, Zeitblom from Mann, and also Horatio from Hamlet Two-thirds of this podcast think the book is an anime The score: 2 damned, 2 saved, 2 (????) (Enraging) Next time Michael, Ethan, and Josiah (still/again!) will discuss the Gounod opera Faust! 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.)

Michael, Ethan, and special guest Josiah discuss The Memory of Whiteness, by Kim Stanley Robinson while drinking Suntory Toki Japanese whisky. In this episode: Accusations of cuckoo-bird-ery Is this book Faust? Is this book Alastor? Is Alastor Faust? Having a stroke, falling into a singularity: pretty much the same thing The Contexts of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Faust Translations, by Mathelinda Nabugodi Determinism leads to free will leads to determinism leads to free will, etc Have you ever heard of a piece of music starting with a prologue??? Ethan scoops Josiah, but at least he gives Josiah credit for it Lots of mountain stuff The music of the spheres? THAT’s provocative Ethan loses but is only called out for it the second time Nepenthe, the drug of forgetfulness Some extremely cool and not at all completely nerdy discussion of different types of genitive We are not doing any kind of linking or backgrounding of the punishment song. We’re all suffering together Note: Josiah did force the karaoke to go on MUCH longer, but the editors have cut it down purely for the sake of avoiding a copyright strike and for no other reason Next time Michael, Ethan, and Josiah will continue to discuss The Memory of Whiteness, by Kim Stanley Robinson! 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.)

Michael, Ethan, and special guest Jacob discuss the short story “The Devil and Tom Walker,” by Washington Irving, while drinking Suntory Toki Japanese whisky. In this episode: Is Michael the devil? What gives Benet the right? Pedestrian deals with the devil Faust scoreboard so far: 2 damned, 2 saved, 1 (?????) Honesty and deeper honesty God terms, devil terms, and Deadpool terms Rules, rules, we want more rules Hey hey we talk about the Monkees! (Also The Devil’s Advocate, The Simpsons, and, inevitably, Star Trek) “Little brothers should always let their older brothers go first.” - Book of Hezekiah 14:12 The Devil and Daniel Webster — 1941 film Next time Michael and Ethan will discuss The Memory of Whiteness, by Kim Stanley Robinson! 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.)