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

We're coming to you from the North Barthing and the beautiful state of Ohio.

And friends, today, I am joined by Bill Joe Baggins. Joe Lewis, how you doing, buddy? I'm doing phenomenal. Man, this is,

this is so cool. So surprise everyone. We are, here we are. We got some announcements. We got some

sort of news to share. I know we've been kind of away for a bit and we're going to explain all of this.

I don't even know that Joe knows. I've just said, we're going to hit record and we're just

going to roll with this because a lot of things have happened in the past, I don't know,

year plus and even just like since Lane and I recorded, we've actually recorded two episodes.

And Joe, we were like bouncing around.

I told you, I was like, I think you were asking me, which chapter are you on?

Because you've seen us like on the Instagram covering, you know, out recording, doing different stuff.

So like which episode are we on?

We're doing the gathering clouds.

And although the clouds are gathering today today we're gathering and we're this

i feel like i needed to bring a ray of of sunshine into all of these these clouds that are gathering

that's why i got all bill at joe here but yeah that's the chapter we're doing today

so we actually just to to get everyone caught up here the next episode which is going to be chapter

16 lane and I recorded that

episode, my friend, I think like, I don't know, October or September. I can't remember which one,

which is crazy, right? So, you know, we were doing that and then we were deciding whether or not

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