in the Lord of the Rings. We also have 20 questions that are based in the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit,

kind of primarily. And then we've got the quote section, which is 20 quotes. A third of them are Tolkien.

The other third are me. The other third are S. It's a guest who said it. So.

Can we also say, too, if people want to just come up and ask a random question, like of us in the podcast, if it's, you know, introduce yourself, say hi, tell us where you're from. You can also do that, too. It's going to be just sort of our LEP live podcast. And is it okay? Yeah, and it wouldn't be fitting if we didn't get sappy, like I just want to say this has been so much fun last night was incredible today it felt just like like a carryover

of the one long party um it's been six years since we've done something like this we never did it

outside of the backyard and um I was nervous I was really I didn't know like I can't believe

there's this many people here right now and and yet it feels like we're, it's a small group, you know, which is pretty amazing. And Tino, what's up, dude? Oh my gosh. What is he did? Okay. Yeah, people like that. I've spoken to Tino for how many years, seven years, something like that.

Never met before until right now.

And he's a stayed away.

It's just the magic of this fandom.

So thank you guys for making the effort to be here.

Thank you for putting up with lost trivia questions and, hey, nice hat.

And, you know, crazy antics and Joe Lewis, you know, rigging a potato. Whoa. Maybe. Whoa. Was it rigged? We'll see. That might be one of the trivia questions. Okay. Yes. Ready? Yeah. Are we gonna do, should we do an intro or? Say it again? Should we do an intro for like the thing? Oh yeah, shoot. This is an episode.

I'm also recording everything so that way just in case we, you know.

Let's do it.

Because before we started, I do want to say that like last night, when I left and I met many of you last night, we called each other.

As called me on the phone the whole way.

He was like, that was so much fun.

Did you talk to so-and-so? I had a blast with, you know, yeah, with all of you. And I went home and I told my wife, I was just like, so we have this renewed spirit for the podcast, and I've never wanted to do it more than I do now, actually. So it is like, it's amazing. And I'm, we're fired up. We're now late. I call. I was like, get your calendar out, son. It is time to, it is time to get through the Silmarillion and just get after it and just keep right on going. So we're just pumped. We're excited. And all the memories too, like Joe is telling me just like him being on that last episode of Return of the King and just right here it is. Here's the picture. Here's the picture of him being there and us wrapping up that initial reread. And what is that? A raisin? There's an onion on there from Steve's potatoes. Good. God bless it. That's pretty good. So anyways, just to say, I just want to say, and sort of Echo Lane, it's just been an amazing experience, so much fun. So, yeah. They're so fired up. They're going to write an audio drama. Shut up. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Okay. Here's how we can do this. If you want to, if you want to answer the question, just coming up to the mic. Is that cool with everybody? Unless you don't want to be recorded, then just raise a hand. Yeah, it's up to you guys. question number one do you me hit an intro real quick oh yeah shoot i'm just i had to get my sentimental

feelings out real quick let's go intro um hello and welcome to an unexpected podcast i'm es and i'm lane

and i'm bill joe baggins at your service and we're talking oh yeah give my roundup play yeah yeah and we're

joined by all of our friends here today give it up for our friends first time ever

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