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We haven't talked about the Lord of the Rings at all in a really long time and it's probably one of the five most obvious go-to

fictional comparatives for anything that you want to think about because it's so well done

and it's so thematically rich and it's drawing on so much of the same stuff that you

and I talk about and we hang out and So I think it actually demonstrates a tremendous amount of

restraint on my part and I probably should be applauded for how long it's

been since I've dipped into the Lord of the Rings bucket for a likewise

But whatever that streak was it is over today homies because I got one and it's really important

So it's very important. It's all going to make sense.

Do you remember the ants from the Lord of the Rings? They're the tree people, not people who live in

trees but they're trees but they got brains and souls, and they're normally just there in one place, like how

trees are, rooted and everything, but sometimes they become animate and they do stuff, and they

got eyes, and they move around. They're very very slow because

of how they're trees and they're very, very old because they're not like the hybrid poplars like I

plant in my backyard and then they're 40 feet tall in three years and then they die in 10 years.

These are redwoods.

These are big monster type trees.

They're literally redwoods, but they're big old ancient trees that are part of a big old ancient set of forests and in the

grand history of Tolkien's universe middle earth every once in a great

great while it makes sense for the ants to gather together and reach

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