One Episode To Rule Them All: TMB Does LOTR
Text Me Back! With Lindy West And Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Meagan & Lindy
4.9 • 746 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
"We come to it at last, the great podcast of our time." - Gandalf, sort of
Intrepid hosts Lindy and Meagan battle common dismissals of the fantasy genre and tell us what they love and don't love about the beloved series The Lord Of The Rings.
And speaking of beloved, would you marry Gimli or Aragorn? Kill Frodo or Pippin? The hosts play the most epic game of Eff Marry Kill you've ever heard with the heroes from the Fellowship Of The Ring. And finally - Lindy and Meagan make TMB history with their very first guest ever.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. We wanted to tell you about a new show we are loving, the Culture Study podcast with Anne Helen Peterson. It's a show about exploring the nooks and crannies of the culture that surrounds you. Each week, Anne and a super smart co-host answer listeners questions about the stuff they find interesting and perplexing like, why do clothes suck now? Is Paw Patrol copaganda, or is it not that deep? |
| 0:22.8 | And what's the deal with everyone I know getting a divorce? |
| 0:25.6 | Like Anne's tremendously popular newsletter, the Culture Study podcast is funny, insightful, and kind of weird. |
| 0:32.3 | And it's guaranteed to help you become the most interesting person at parties. |
| 0:36.5 | Listen to The Culture Study podcast |
| 0:38.3 | every Wednesday wherever you get your shows. Fantasy is, I'm not going to say it's not goofy |
| 0:47.5 | because I don't think there's anything wrong with being goofy. But you know, you can get out of it |
| 0:52.5 | what you want. Yeah. Also, I just want magic to be real. So, like, |
| 0:55.6 | that's fine, too. I know. So sum me. Somebody hit the bummer button because magic is not real. |
| 1:06.5 | Text me back. Text me back. Text me back. Text me back. Text me back at once. Why won't you text me back? |
| 1:11.7 | Text me back. |
| 1:13.5 | Text me back, Megan. |
| 1:14.3 | Welcome to text me back. |
| 1:19.5 | A podcast about best friends. |
| 1:27.2 | The best animals and the worst people. |
| 1:30.0 | I'm Lindy West. |
| 1:31.8 | And I'm Megan Hatcher-Maze. |
| 1:34.5 | Or for the purposes of this episode, I am Galindriel, Lady of the Woods of Lothlora West. |
| 1:43.5 | And I'm Megan Wise, Gamjermaiz, lawyer and halfling Gardner, who has never left the Shire. |
| 1:53.2 | And that's because, you guessed it, it's Lord of the Rings Week. |
| 1:58.0 | Lord of the Rings Week, we are so excited. |
| 2:00.0 | We have rewatched the extended versions of the Rings Week. Lord of the Rings Week. We are so excited. We have rewatched the extended |
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