Emily’s Middle Earth Birth Plan

The Really Very Crunchy Podcast

Emily & Jason Morrow

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Emily and Jason sit down to discuss their current birth “plan”… which is really more of a loose collection of highly questionable options. There’s the hospital. There’s the shack. There’s the home birth. There’s the possibility of free-birthing on their way to Alaska. No matter where it happens, one thing is non-negotiable: the birth must be Middle-earth themed. 00:00 Prepping for the Winter Storm 10:53 Lord of the Rings 20:29 Feeling unprepared for birth 25:37 Free-birthing 29:22 Disclaimer: Emily’s content warning 46:30 Modern medicine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the really very crunchy podcast with your host, Emily. And Jason. Emily, we survived the
0:07.0	great winter storm of 2026. Can you believe it? I'm kind of disappointed at how that was sort of a dud.
0:15.5	Are you slightly disappointed that like, and I know this is, you know, crazy. I'm not meaning this in like a in a weird way but
0:23.6	there's a part of me that's disappointed that we didn't have an all-out crisis i don't want a
0:30.1	crisis but to lose the power for an hour you know it's kind of the same it's the same idea
0:37.0	like preppers i'm going back to the preppers.
0:39.8	Maybe we'll get that prepper podcast after us again.
0:43.1	But like preppers, the hardcore ones, I think there's something in them that hope something bad happens.
0:51.6	Because they want their skills and their, you know, their preparedness to just really shine through.
1:01.2	And they've invested a lot of money.
1:03.8	I mean, they need the world to go dark just so that they could feel like they made a good investment.
1:10.7	I did think that it would have been more helpful if we were more prepped for this winter
1:19.2	storm, except I went to the store. We went to the store to like panic by.
1:24.7	Yeah, well, we're Kentucky and so we have to. Yeah. Yeah. But then I'm like, I don't want anything here. So I didn't buy anything. We were in Gatlinburg and we figured the stores would be insane in Paducah on our way home. We were right. So we stopped in Gatlinburg and shopped out of public, which was kind of a nice experience. It would be cool if we had some other grocery options here. Yeah. What Paducah currently has, yeah. Walmart. Kroger, too. Oh, good. Yeah. I'm glad Kroger's here. We do have Banks Market who is trying sometimes. Are they trying? Sometimes.
2:02.6	Really in the organic space?
2:05.1	Not necessarily in the organic space, but they... Not necessarily on the non-poison space, but...
2:07.9	We also have Midtown Market, which is a tiny little market.
2:11.0	That barely counts as a grocery store because it's more like a, yeah, it's a quick stop.
2:16.4	I like them.
2:17.4	I like, I go there to shop.
2:19.4	Love their customer service.
2:21.9	But like, it is very expensive.
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