Light Bringer - Wrap-Up 2 w/ Philip of Hail Reaper

January 4, 2024

Hosts: PJ Heller, Krossland Shaw

Red Rising Saga Light Bringer

Welcome to our second wrap-up for Light Bringer! We're so excited to be chatting with Philip extensively about Lysander, Darrow, Ideas, and the paths.

Beyond that, please be sure to follow us or subscribe on your podcatcher of choice, and leave a review on iTunes, Stitcher, or wherever. It goes a long way to helping the podcast grow.

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Red Rising Saga Speeches

January 19, 2024

Hosts: PJ Heller, Krossland Shaw

Red Rising Saga Red Rising Book 1 Golden Son Morning Star Iron Gold Dark Age Light Bringer

Hey there folks! This week, we're talking about all the TALKING in Red Rising. We selected one speech for each book, and a unique speaker, breaking them down for you, and talking about our appreciation for characterization, and the love that Pierce puts into each and every one of these.

Next week: Zef, followed by Salems Lot, and then our quest through The First Law begins!

Beyond that, please be sure to follow us or subscribe on your podcatcher of choice, and leave a review on iTunes, Stitcher, or wherever. It goes a long way to helping the podcast grow.

You can also check out our Patreon at Patreon.com/Wordsandwhiskey Check it out!

Another way you could help us out? Refer us to your friends. We love a good referral, don't we folks?

Send us ANY questions to our twitter account, Instagram, or to our email.

See you next week!

Light Bringer - Wrap Up w/ Logan AKA "Zef"

February 1, 2024

Hosts: PJ Heller, Krossland Shaw

Guests: Zef

Red Rising Saga Light Bringer

Welcome to part one of our Light Bringer wrap-up with Zef! Within, we chat predominantly about Phobos, but venture off into a couple of side tangents on children, and Sci-fi at large.

Next week, we'll be giving you a double episode! We lead of with The Blade Itself episode zero, and Zef Wrap-up Part two!

Beyond that, please be sure to follow us or subscribe on your podcatcher of choice, and leave a review on iTunes, Stitcher, or wherever. It goes a long way to helping the podcast grow.

You can also check out our Patreon at Patreon.com/Wordsandwhiskey Check it out!

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Send us ANY questions to our twitter account, Instagram, or to our email.

See you next week!

Joel Daniel Phillips discussing "The Devils", Lit Escalates, and His Journey Through Art

February 28, 2025

Hosts: Krossland Shaw

Red Rising Saga The First Law The Great Leveler

Surprise! Hey there folks, this week Kross was fortunate enough to get to interview Joel Daniel Phillips, and talk to him about his path through art, his work with Joe Abercrombie, Pierce Brown, and VE Schwab, AND a little bit about The Devils! We also get some exclusive thoughts about new projects coming down the pipe... including something fun with Red Rising. A small apology for the audio quality- Squadcast somehow failed to capture the audio quality, but with some wizardry from Andrew and Kross, we were able to recover it and make it work, all in record time.

This is a unique episode is the way that it is also the first episode that we've recorded on video. We'll be sharing that early next week, so that you can get excellent looks at each of the prints that he shared within the conversation, and more.

Beyond that, be sure to check out the merch drop that Lit Escalates has going for special editions of The Devils, and more!

Next week, our friend Adam steps back in to lead the show, and Krossland through discussing Becky Chambers Monk and Robot duology. Don't worry- only another week or so until we return back to The Heroes.

See you then.

PJ's Words and Whiskey Finale

November 7, 2025

Hosts: PJ Heller, Krossland Shaw

The Wisdom of Crowds The Trouble with Peace The Lies of Locke Lamora A Little Hatred The Age of Madness Sharp Ends Red Country Dungeon Crawler Carl The Heroes Stormlight Archive Best Served Cold The Great Leveler Assassins Anonymous The Last Argument of Kings Before They Are Hanged Patreon Exclusive The Blade Itself The First Law King Multiverse 'Salem's Lot The Sunlit Man Echoes from the Fringe Tales and Typos Light Bringer Jade Legacy Jade War Jade City Green Bone Saga The Lost Metal Secret History The Bands of Mourning Shadows of Self Mistborn Era 2 Alloy of Law PJ's Symposium The Hero of Ages Cosmere The Well of Ascension Short Pour Mistborn: The Final Empire Mistborn Sons Of Ares DUNE Dark Age Iron Gold Morning Star Golden Son Whiskey Short Pour Red Rising Book 1 Red Rising Saga

Hey there folks - This episode is a special one, as we end the first 'era' of the podcast. Today, we say goodbye to PJ. We answered a TON of listener questions, and got extra silly, since we were in person together for this one. This episode was recorded immediately following The First Law wrap-up podcast, and was especially saucy.

We'll all miss the damn lad, won't we?

I'll note, while we did our best on editing/production, this is a bit more janky than I'd like. We've got a professionally polished version coming in the next two weeks, so this will likely be updated. Regardless, it still captures the soul of what we wanted, and the fun we had on the show.