Beards, Books, and Bourbon Podcast

Stephen and Mark travel to different worlds were tentacles are replaced wtih roots...and organs.  Come take a wild backwater cosmic horror ride in T. Kingfisher's "The Hollow Places".  They will expl…

Stephen and Mark talk about how sometimes people just want to be seen.  They want to be acknowledged.  They want to be let back into the room.  For this heady talk, we take a little time to revisit a…

Stephen and Mark explore a short but compelling story about a troubled boy who calls for a monster in the dark.  This is a bittersweet  and complex tale.  Nothing goes better with it than Basil Hayde…

What could we possibly forget about Bag of Bones?  Well, since it's a Stephen King book and we can't manage to even get through half of it in the main episode?  Yeah, it feels better to just say, pre…

Once again, Stephen and Mark return to the universe of Stephen King in this massively surprising and haunting tale of ghosts, racism, and the sins of the father.  They'll need something to offer the …

They always forget something!  Listen as Stephen and Mark talk about what they forgot to talk about in "The Sea of Tranquility" by Emily St. John Mandel.  In this oopsisode, they will revisit Chatino…

Stephen and Mark take a romp through time and space, through relationships lost and found, through paradoxes and moral dilemmas.  Cosmic anamolies and personal inevitabilities abound in the wonderful…

We cannot say "what we forgot" in this oopsisode, because it is too easy to forget, if you believe in the curse.  So, Stephen and Mark will discuss what they remember of The Invisible Life of Addie L…

In which we learn what it means to be terribly British while we revisit one of our favorites in the rye family.

Stephen and Mark talk about things they forgot to talk about while revisiting Old Elk bourbon.

Stephen and Mark discuss the long awaited "Recursion" by Blake Crouch.  This one was both deep and brutal.  Time travel and hard choices are bouyed up with the sweet and complex taste of Journeyman D…

Stephen and Mark spend a little time revisiting Relics as well as Dexter 3 Wood Bourbon!

In this mad and gory tale about exotic species hunting taken to a whole new level, Stephen and Mark will discuss "Relics", complete with a scene inlvolving eating roast faerie, and inappropriately pa…

If it weren't for this week's guest host, Michael Wagner, we'd call this episiode Artificial Idiocy.  In this theme episode, we talk about A.I. in sci-fi with a real subject matter expert in the fiel…

If we could have time in a bottle....it would probably taste like RIFF.