This episode of an unexpected podcast is brought to you by Frank Kirk, Joel Smith, and Fathers Everywhere.

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Hello, friends, and welcome to an unexpected podcast. I'm Ez and I'm Lane and we're talking Tolkien.

We're coming to you from the Shire of America, the beautiful state of Ohio and a little village called Amanda.

This week we will be covering many meetings as a part of our journey through Middle Earth.

We're in the house of Elron. We're meeting new people, singing songs and we're getting a very well-deserved rest.

I feel pretty comfy.

I'm actually wearing sweatpants right now, and I feel like I'm well-rested, as I feel really good tonight.

Yeah, I feel really good tonight, too.

And it's also, like, again, we talk about how these episodes parallel.

Stealing my mouth.

Am I stealing?

My words. Not my mouth. Am I stealing my words?

Not my mouth.

I'll take your mouth.

Easy son.

So, but you know, it, like we've had a situation in the last couple weeks, like a many meetings type of experience, you know, me talking to your father, you talking to my father,

you know, just got really emotion.

We thought we were gonna start this episode

just bawling our eyes out today.

We did in the kitchen.

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