Hey, everyone. Anytime I hear about major deforestation in the Amazon, I think, wow, the

ants there must suck at their job. Today's book is The Two Towers by George R. Martin.

I'm Kellynne Erskine. I'm a comic, a father, and I was against conspiracy theories until I saw

that the same guy made both this amazing trilogy and the awful Hobbit trilogy.

So that only makes sense with my new theory that the Hobbit movies were actually directed by Smeagle

in order to make us not care about Bilbo anymore.

And I'm David Vance.

I love how the staunchly Catholic

Tolkien made a saga full of Christian

symbolism with hobbits who are always

smoking some kind of weed.

The two towers

teaches an important lesson for Sauron,

Voldemort, Thanos, and the Spanish Empire.

Don't put all your powers into jewelry.

And this is the book pile. All right, quick sidebar for any Tolkien fans who love this book,

you can actually do your own quest of throwing a bookpile review into the fires of the Apple

podcast algorithm. And if you do, we'll send you some

big old eagles. If you don't, we'll bite off your finger and do it ourselves.

This one's sort of an inside joke from the Steinbein, who says, five stars. Kellyn, you can keep the four and a half pints.

It's a callback from last week.

Too late, they're on their way.

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