Hello, and welcome to our last episode of season four! We’re reviewing an icon, our idol, and early cast book in William Gibson’s Neuromancer<\i>. It’s got sexy robots, international heists and apartments the size of NYC closets, what more could you need in your cyberpunk? Seriously, this novel is genre defining and explanation avoiding — which is half the fun of listening to this episode. How do Adam, Shaun and Mike try to explain what is inexplicable (and for Adam, unfinished)?

Hey there fellow nerds! We're talking about the 2022 smash movie, Everything Everywhere All at Once while drinking a smoked, maple bourbon peach smash -- kinda an everything all-at-once cocktail. Listen in if you've already watched it, and if not, grab your favorite chapstick, head to Netflix, and give it a watch.

For those mixologists out there, here's my recipe and process for our beverage:

1 oz bourbon (we used Elijah Craig)

1 oz maple syrup

0.5 oz lemon juice

1/2 a peach

Directions:

Slice your peach into 1/4 and place them in your smoking cloche (or other cocktail smoker)

Smoke the peaches for at least 5 minutes as you mix the rest of the cocktail. We used hickory wood for this.

Muddle the peaches in the bottom of your cocktail shaker, then fill it with ice.

Smoke the drinking glasses, making sure to leave the smoke there for a minute.

Put the liquid ingredients into a shaker filled with ice and shake until frost forms on your shaker.

Remove the glass from your smoking device, or vise-versa and pour the cocktail.

Rim the glass with the unsmoked peach, and leave on glass for garnish.

If you want to catch up with our next read, it's the groundbreaking Neuromancer by Neal Stephenson. Genre-defining, compound-adjective-forming, this one is sure to give us a lot to talk about. Until then, stay nerdy!

Today we review a book that's all about our avatar's baby cousin -- the octopus. Ray Naylor's The Mountain in the Sea. What's better than octopodes with a culture and written language? How about a near future where we've created the first sentient android, and a security officer with a first name so long you'd have to scroll down to read it all?

There's more to Naylor's Mountain than this, but after a few surprise beverages from Shaun in our running series of Shaun surprises Mike and Adam with a new brew, what else is there to know? Grab a copy of the book and dive on in!

If first contact with new intelligences isn't your thing, what about the OG cyberpunk from William Gibson? Up next for us is his genre-defining Neuromancer.