Beards, Books, and Bourbon Podcast

There's a reason why Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize.  In The Road, his mastery of literature is seen in the way he uses setting and description in contrast to sparce dialog.  We forgot to tal…

Tonight's episode is all about excellence.  Excellence in literature as Stephen and Mark walk down The Road with the legendary Cormac McCarthy and pairing it with the fruit of two legendary craftsmen…

Murder and knitting analogies and apocalypse, oh my!  Good thing we're drinking this tasty dark rye.  Come find out what we forgot to talk about in "Wool" by Hugh Howey as we revisit Basil Hayden Dar…

What can you possibly forget about the end of the world?!?!?  We'll find out with Copper & Cask!

This is the way the world ends.  This is ALL the ways the world ends!  Pour a glass of Castle and Key, build your bunker and hold onto your butts, because it's game over, man.  Game over.

It's not out fault!  Cosmic horror causes madness, and we were bound to forget something.  But the Uncle Nearest should help jog our memories.

It's cosmic horror and madness as Stephen and Mark explore "By The Light of Dead Stars" by Andrew Van Wey.  As they lose their marbles and their souls, they'll try their luck with Puncher's Chance Bo…

Have we ever done an oopsisode on a theme show?  We can't remember, but it's sure to haunt us later on down the road.

On tonight's episode, Stephen and Mark will discuss ghosts in the stories and movies they have seen.  To keep them from dying of fright, they will amor up with Buffalo Trace.

Our theme show where we discuss the use of shadows in story and movies and we drink some Piggyback Rye to make ourselves less afraid of the dark!

Oh look!  The oopsisode where we talk about the stuff we forgot about in the book about forgetting.  Irony??  I can't remember.

Stephen and Mark are back with another amazing book from author, Blake Crouch.  Abandon is a town where things never seem to go well for people.  Not a hundred years ago, and not now.  Possibly not e…

It's easy to forget things when you're scared out of your mind, and in our latest book, Stephen and Mark forgot to talk about The Cunning Man.  To keep their sanity, they will revisit an old favorite…

What happens when you mix two guys, a bottle of bourbon, and an army of gore fiend automatons?  Either nothing good, or something funny.  Maybe both.

Once again we go downt he rabbit hole with T Kingfisher as we get sucked into her novel "The Twisted Ones".  We love Kingfisher's style of writing, her protagonists, and the masterful way she laces c…

With special guest star Basil Hayden Burnt TOAST.  Because that word should always be in all caps.  Like this.  TOAST.