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

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FICTIONSHARK

Kati Lattari (Twitter link with links to novel releases)

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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.