The Lord of the Rings with Talia Lavin
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
A few Halfling hippies assemble an eclectic fellowship and go on the adventure of a lifetime. Dads and daddies abound. We talk Hobbits, fan fiction, thirsting for Viggo, and The Lord of the Rings with our pal Talia Lavin.
You can find Talia's book Culture Warlords here. You can find Talia on Twitter here.
We made a playlist to accompany this episode! It's comprised of songs that come to mind when we all think about this movie.
Why Are Dads is a show in which hosts Sarah Marshall and Alex Steed attempt to understand what the hell it means to be the grown children of dads and other dad-like figures. And, as they do with all difficult subject matter, they do so by looking through a pop culture lens.
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You can find producer and music director Carolyn Kendrick's music here. She's also on Twitter.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Sarah Marshall. |
| 0:08.3 | Hello. |
| 0:09.5 | Hello. |
| 0:12.1 | You are listening to Y.R. Dead's. |
| 0:17.2 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 0:18.5 | These are clearly too many rings. |
| 0:21.4 | Yes, that's too many rings. |
| 0:23.3 | There's nine and then a tenth maybe, or is there eight and then a ninth? |
| 0:27.5 | Who even knows? |
| 0:28.5 | It's hard telling. |
| 0:29.5 | Talia knows. |
| 0:30.3 | Talia knows. |
| 0:31.5 | But this is the intro, so she's not here yet. |
| 0:34.0 | You're listening to Why Are Dads, a show where we find excuses to talk about things |
| 0:39.0 | if they're tangentially related to dads. Yep. And Dads are everywhere, so we can talk about |
| 0:45.0 | whatever we want, but we do stick to movies. So what did we talk about today, Sarah? We talked about |
| 0:50.1 | Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, not Ralph Back. She's equally consequential film. |
| 0:56.0 | And we talked about it with Talia Lavin, which was a great joy because she is actually |
| 1:01.5 | from Middle Earth originally deep down inside. Yeah, spiritually Talia is from Middle Earth. |
| 1:08.5 | Yes. Like she grew up there. |
| 1:12.3 | She knows what it's like. |
| 1:13.8 | And she's telling us about it. |
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