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Codey and Jonnie talk about the games that should have farming. Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:01:25: Feedback 00:09:04: What Has Codey Been Up To 00:18:53: News 00:41:00: What Games Should Have Farming 01:08:35: Entomology Rant 01:12:51: Outro Links Fae Farm on Consoled My Time at Sandrock Kickstarter Lightyear Frontier “Neighbours and Animals” Update Stardew Valley 1.6 on Mobile/Consoles Paleo Pines Upcoming DLC Tales of the Shire Video Contact Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript (0:00:30) Codey: Hello farmers and welcome to another episode of the harvest season. My name is Cody (0:00:36) Jonnie: My name is Johnny. (0:00:37) Codey: And we are here today to talk about cottagecore games (0:00:42) Jonnie: Whoooo! (0:00:45) Codey: Okay, I’m not gonna ask Johnny how he’s doing cuz we’re that’ll just get us right into the issue so the issue at hand (0:00:54) Codey: So I’m going to first mention today’s topic is what game what games we think shouldn’t (0:01:00) Codey: Include farming. So these are games that do not have like big farming components or there (0:01:06) Codey: It’s like a series that has not had a farming game (0:01:10) Codey: Specifically that we think are like ripe for the plucking (0:01:15) Codey: So that’s what we’re gonna talk about we also have a bunch of game news (0:01:19) Codey: And then we’re I’m gonna talk about what I’ve been up to but Johnny does not want to talk about what he’s been up (0:01:26) Codey: To he has something else to talk about (0:01:28) Jonnie: Well, that’s because I haven’t had time to play games because I’ve been raging about last week’s episode (0:01:35) Jonnie: uh where Kev and Al made a (0:01:39) Jonnie: Tier list and I’m hoping you can hear the finger quotes that I was making when I said that they made a tier list (0:01:41) Codey: Uh-huh. (0:01:43) Codey: I did. (0:01:46) Codey: I did hear those finger calling. (0:01:46) Jonnie: because (0:01:48) Jonnie: I’m sorry guys. But what was that? That was a terrible tier list first of all. Okay. I am a tier list purist (0:01:56) Jonnie: I feel like so many tearless now, they just… (0:01:58) Jonnie: …people undermine the purpose of having an S-Tear. (0:02:02) Jonnie: S-Tear is meant to be for the elite. (0:02:05) Jonnie: You cannot have 20 characters in S-Tear. (0:02:05) Codey: Yeah. (0:02:09) Jonnie: Which I don’t know how many they put in, but it was a lot. (0:02:12) Jonnie: There were too many S-Tear characters. (0:02:12) Codey: Yeah. (0:02:14) Jonnie: Are you a purist when it comes to tearless Cody like me? (0:02:17) Codey: I, yeah, I think that like, so from listening to the episode I didn’t have any strong feelings but I did feel like there were some people that they put in the S tier that I felt like they were more, they felt more strongly about and like that’s the situation where like, that’s like, those should be the people (0:02:35) Codey: in their own tier, or like in a tier above S tier or something or like bump everyone else down to A I’m not entirely sure how they want to work on that but as it stands like it was just kind of, I mean, I didn’t necessarily disagree with where they put a lot (0:02:51) Codey: of people, but I agreed with some of the sentiment talked about in the slack. So what what were those sentiments. (0:02:58) Jonnie: And so, like, so first of all, too many in S-Tear. Agree with you, Coda. You bump everyone down. (0:03:05) Jonnie: Also, no F-Tear. Like, Stardew Valley has F-Tear characters. It’s very clear. (0:03:05) Codey: Correct. (0:03:07) Codey: Yeah. (0:03:12) Jonnie: A tier list is not about being nice and making friends. (0:03:15) Jonnie: A, these are digital characters. Who cares? (0:03:17) Jonnie: And B, who’s saying that Demetrius, Pan, and, uh, (0:03:22) Jonnie: Mayor Lewis are not F-Tear. They’re my personal F-Tear characters. Uh, like, they are F-Tear. (0:03:28) Jonnie: No D. Add an F-Tear. (0:03:29) Codey: Okay. (0:03:31) Jonnie: Oh. (0:03:32) Codey: Yeah. (0:03:33) Codey: Well, and I feel like they would have, the boys, (0:03:35) Codey: I mean, Kevin and Al are probably like, (0:03:38) Codey: they think Clint is F-tier. (0:03:40) Codey: Like I was shocked that they didn’t use F-tier for that. (0:03:44) Jonnie: Oh, so Clint is below F tier. Clint is in Clint tier. (0:03:48) Jonnie: I have done my own tier list, which I have put into the Slack, so if you are interested (0:03:53) Jonnie: in seeing a real tier list, patreon.com/dhspart. (0:03:54) Codey: Yeah. (0:03:59) Jonnie: I don’t know, maybe Al can link my tier list in the show notes for this one, because I (0:04:03) Jonnie: feel like it’s a much better tier list. It’s soon to be officially endorsed by the show. (0:04:08) Codey: Yeah. (0:04:09) Jonnie: It’s just objectively, objectively better. (0:04:12) Jonnie: But I even feel like some of the (0:04:14) Jonnie: choices of who they put into S-Tear is just like confusing. (0:04:19) Jonnie: So my personal S-Tear, just to be clear, is Hayley, Linus, and Willy. (0:04:25) Jonnie: Right? (0:04:25) Jonnie: For me, they’re the three characters with the most story that, not that I relate to, (0:04:32) Jonnie: that’s the wrong word, but that I feel some attachment to the story, right? (0:04:36) Jonnie: And each person, I’m sure, would have different characters that they would put in there. (0:04:40) Jonnie: I’m sure everyone would probably have Linus. (0:04:44) Jonnie: Who’s, when I’m saying like, “What do I like about the characters in the game?” (0:04:49) Jonnie: Like, those are the stories that I’m most going to refer to. (0:04:52) Jonnie: And like, that’s independent, right? (0:04:54) Jonnie: Like, the character I probably romance, or have romance the most across the game is Leah. (0:04:59) Jonnie: But Leah is like a solid B-Tear character, you know? (0:04:59) Codey: Yeah, I was going to say. (0:05:02) Codey: Wow. (0:05:03) Jonnie: She’s fine, but boring, so she’s a B-Tear character. (0:05:05) Codey: Yeah. (0:05:07) Codey: I guess like that was the other thing is that they were going off of like how they thought the characters were. (0:05:13) Codey: It was unclear to me how the grading was because they were like, no, no, like not how we feel that they are as a character that has been created but who they are as people. (0:05:25) Codey: and that’s like kind of difficult to judge because (0:05:29) Codey: you’re getting like the one-sided situation from a lot of these people (0:05:33) Codey: like I don’t know clint’s backstory I don’t know I don’t know who hurt him you know (0:05:38) Jonnie: Clint hurt Clint. It’s all his own fault. (0:05:43) Codey: oh no (0:05:44) Jonnie: And that’s why he gets Clinted. That’s why he gets Clinted here. (0:05:47) Jonnie: Um… (0:05:49) Jonnie: Uh… (0:05:50) Jonnie: Do I have anything else to say about the… (0:05:52) Jonnie: Oh, look, I feel like the other thing that really stood out to me on the tier list is (0:05:58) Jonnie: there’s like a little snip that I took of S-tier (0:06:00) Jonnie: that has Jodie, Leah, Robin, and Penny all together. (0:06:00) Codey: Yeah. (0:06:06) Jonnie: I just, I don’t want to know, you know, if there’s- (0:06:08) Jonnie: there’s maybe a sort of similar visual style between those four characters. (0:06:12) Jonnie: Um, I’m just gonna let that one- (0:06:12) Codey: Uh-huh, perhaps perhaps all with a certain hair color perhaps (0:06:20) Jonnie: Right? Right? (0:06:25) Codey: Yeah, I I didn’t even think about that until you showed me you showed me the picture and I was like, oh no (0:06:27) Jonnie: But to be honest, right. (0:06:35) Jonnie: And it’s just funny because the way they put it in the t- (0:06:35) Codey: They’re all (0:06:38) Jonnie: list that they were just all together with Linus sort of hanging out in the middle and I was like, “Yeah, it’s just Linus and his lady, sir.” (0:06:42) Codey: Yeah! (0:06:44) Jonnie: Just hanging out. (0:06:46) Codey: Linus and his four redheads, yeah. (0:06:48) Jonnie: Yup. (0:06:50) Jonnie: But to be honest, this is why I like tier lists, right? (0:06:54) Jonnie: Like one, people have different approaches. (0:06:56) Jonnie: And I think people do tend towards being too nice. (0:06:58) Jonnie: And it’s like, we’re just going to, you know, push things up above where they need to be, which I would like to see people move away from. (0:07:04) Jonnie: away from, but it generates (0:07:08) Jonnie: good discussion right because it’s it’s one of those things where it’s like (0:07:11) Jonnie: actually the act of going through that it’s kind of or through creating my (0:07:15) Jonnie: own tier list it’s thinking about like what what is it that I like about (0:07:18) Jonnie: characters in games and I think when I look at my (0:07:23) Jonnie: s tier the thing that I it’s like I like characters that (0:07:26) Jonnie: uh go on journeys and have probably relatable but not wholly positive (0:07:32) Jonnie: stories right like um all three of the characters i (0:07:38) Jonnie: have like uh challenges or or negative aspects (0:07:42) Jonnie: but but overall their stories are a positive ones (0:07:45) Jonnie: um or or about kind of like I guess different perspectives (0:07:49) Jonnie: um on things so anyway that was that was the thing I learned about myself (0:07:53) Jonnie: from uh from doing the tier list um I also just put all of the the minor (0:07:57) Jonnie: characters and dekes i’m like how do you rate the bouncer which you know (0:08:00) Jonnie: kev was keeps keeps him to have a real love for the bouncer (0:08:02) Codey: Yeah, yeah, Kev was like S tier immediately and I was like this bro has two lines my guy (0:08:06) Jonnie: - Oh. (0:08:10) Jonnie: laughing Right? (0:08:12) Codey: Or like the dwarf like all of these people that like you don’t really see that much of (0:08:18) Codey: And I don’t have enough information to make an educated guess (0:08:21) Codey: I think it would be so another thing is that I haven’t really personally gotten into a lot of the like (0:08:27) Codey: Backstory of a lot of the characters in Stardew Valley, but I have been doing that for Coral Island (0:08:32) Codey: I’d love to make an S a list for Coral Island. I would get heated about that for sure (0:08:38) Jonnie: I feel like that sounds like a great idea for an episode, and I know immediately that we would disagree on some characters. (0:08:42) Codey: Yeah (0:08:46) Codey: HAHAHA! (0:08:46) Jonnie: Because if I remember rightly, you are a fan of Scott, and I think he is like the driest possible character in that entire game. (0:08:55) Codey: I am very close to marrying Scott right now. (0:09:03) Jonnie: Ahh… (0:09:03) Codey: So I was, so I guess we’ll move forward (0:09:08) Codey: into what I have been up to. (0:09:10) Codey: On top of tearing my calf muscle, (0:09:14) Codey: I have also, that has given rise (0:09:16) Codey: to a lot of time of sitting down, (0:09:19) Codey: which means I can play games, which is great. (0:09:24) Codey: I’ve been playing Disney Dreamlight Valley still, (0:09:26) Codey: trying to get like 100% on a lot of the achievements. (0:09:29) Codey: Right now I’m trying to finish off the critters. (0:09:31) Codey: I only have two more critters. (0:09:33) Codey: And I actually, it’s a big tip (0:09:35) Codey: for people who are playing Stardew Valley (0:09:37) Codey: and who are looking for certain critters. (0:09:39) Codey: You, each critter like comes out at a specific day (0:09:44) Codey: at a specific time. (0:09:45) Codey: So like the two things that I want, (0:09:47) Codey: which I think are like the pink crocodile (0:09:49) Codey: and the red fox are both on Saturdays. (0:09:54) Codey: I usually don’t play on Saturdays. (0:09:57) Codey: So that’s why I don’t have them yet. (0:09:59) Codey: But they both come out on Saturday (0:10:01) Codey: and they come out at different times (0:10:02) Codey: and they have different, (0:10:03) Codey: like all the critters have different requirements. (0:10:05) Codey: Like the crocodiles want a certain, (0:10:07) Codey: like lobster is their favorite (0:10:08) Codey: and the foxes want sturgeon or whatever it is. (0:10:13) Codey: And so I finally just looked all of that up (0:10:15) Codey: because I had realized that they were only there (0:10:19) Codey: at certain times. (0:10:20) Codey: And so I was like, okay. (0:10:21) Codey: And when you go into the game, (0:10:24) Codey: you can look at the critter page (0:10:25) Codey: and it’ll be like, not here today. (0:10:27) Codey: Like this one’s not here today. (0:10:30) Codey: But I was like going online (0:10:32) Codey: and I was just never seeing them around. (0:10:34) Codey: And so I finally was just like, screw it. (0:10:36) Codey: I’m Googling it. (0:10:37) Codey: And I found out it’s Saturday. (0:10:38) Codey: So tomorrow is going to be lit for me. (0:10:41) Codey: I’m hoping to get both solidified. (0:10:43) Codey: That’d be awesome. (0:10:45) Jonnie: Can I ask, when you say you’re 100%ing all of the achievements, is that including the like, you know, harvest 10,000 blueberry achievements, like all of those things? (0:10:56) Codey: I already have that I already have those the one that I it is the one that I don’t have (0:10:58) Jonnie: Oh my god. (0:11:00) Jonnie: Cody? (0:11:02) Jonnie: It’s a lot! (0:11:05) Codey: right now that’s really frustrating is like water 7000 plant crops because I have water (0:11:12) Codey: like so I would plant for a long time I was planting when it was raining so it’s super (0:11:17) Codey: simple and you can just literally plant like wheat and then harvest like by the time you’re (0:11:22) Codey: done planting like a little like eight by eight square. (0:11:26) Codey: it’s already like ready on the other side so then you just go back to harvesting and then you just (0:11:30) Codey: go plant again. um but one of them is to water 7000 plants and so now i’m having to plant all (0:11:38) Codey: this stuff that I don’t care about uh just so that I can but it’s fine because there’s another (0:11:43) Codey: achievement where you’re supposed to buy seeds buy like 600 seeds or something from each of the (0:11:50) Codey: biomes and I think I still need to buy like another 300 seeds from the Glade of Trust so (0:11:54) Codey: I need to buy seats anyway. (0:11:56) Codey: It’s fine, I almost have all of this stuff for the gosh, what was the Tiana DLC called? (0:12:05) Codey: I don’t remember, but it’s the one that like brought in Tiana and a bunch of her furniture (0:12:12) Codey: and wardrobe stuff. (0:12:14) Codey: I’ve almost completed that star path and have everything that you get from that. (0:12:20) Codey: I think it still has a couple days, so I’m going to hope that that’s true because then (0:12:24) Codey: And I think that they’re gonna start like a spooky– (0:12:26) Codey: Halloween path–star path. (0:12:28) Jonnie: Do you get anything for completing all of the achievements other than, like, there was (0:12:34) Codey: No. It’s that currency. Yeah, you get like the dreamlight. I have like almost 100,000 dreamlight. (0:12:43) Codey: You which you use dreamlight to either to like unlock new realm. So like when they open whatever (0:12:50) Codey: the next realm is, let’s say it’s hocus pocus. If they unlock the hocus pocus realm, and then you (0:12:56) Codey: have to go to the castle and like open the door, the gateway to that realm, that’s like where you (0:13:01) Codey: use the dreamlight. (0:13:04) Codey: and usually the doors only need like 10,000 and I have almost 100,000. (0:13:09) Codey: yeet. (0:13:10) Jonnie: One last question because I feel like you and I are sort of the DTV correspondence on the show and I haven’t played since, you know, you and I, I think last talked about it, and that was, you know, when the story finished and I hit credits on the game, how do you feel the game is going in terms of, like, is it kind of just adding new stuff and mini stories and it’s kind of just like, if you’re into it, it’s good or like, is the game expanding beyond that? (0:13:14) Codey: yeah. (0:13:17) Codey: oh yeah. (0:13:21) Codey: mm-hmm. (0:13:21) Codey: yeah. (0:13:40) Jonnie: Or is it that you need to play it, you know, with the style paths as they’re coming out? Like, what’s, what’s your current take on state of the game for maybe someone that dabbled in it a little bit when it was an early access or something like that? Where are you at? (0:13:47) Codey: Yeah, so I would say the star paths are important if you’re interested in collecting all of (0:13:59) Codey: the like outfits and furniture things. (0:14:04) Codey: I thought that the dapper delights I think is actually what it’s called star path that (0:14:09) Codey: has a lot of Tiana stuff. (0:14:11) Codey: I really liked all a lot of the stuff that was in that star path so and also just from (0:14:16) Codey: playing consistently. (0:14:17) Codey: have a ton of moonlight, or moonstone, or whatever the heck it’s called. (0:14:21) Codey: So, you know, paying 2,500 moonstone to, which I’ve never had to pay real money. (0:14:28) Codey: I always just get it for free by playing the game. (0:14:32) Codey: Paying 2,500 moonstone to get access to the full star path was a no brainer for me. (0:14:38) Codey: But that’s really what the star paths are good for, is just the furniture, the wardrobes, (0:14:46) Codey: that kind of thing. (0:14:47) Codey: And so if you’re really not into that, the star paths are not necessary. (0:14:53) Codey: Every time they release a star path, they kind of have been releasing a new character (0:14:58) Codey: along with it. (0:14:59) Codey: But you don’t have to do the star path, you can just come and be like “I wanna meet Tiana,” (0:15:03) Codey: or “I wanna meet Mulan,” or whatever. (0:15:05) Codey: But also I don’t think that that content goes away. (0:15:07) Codey: I don’t think that if you miss when Mulan shows up, that you’re not gonna get to ever (0:15:13) Codey: meet Mulan. (0:15:14) Codey: It’s just that you’re probably not going to get immediate access to the site. (0:15:17) Codey: I’m assuming that they’ll become available like through the store, but that’s, um, like through, uh, Scrooge’s store, but you can’t pick what shows up there. (0:15:29) Codey: It just kind of like randomly goes through a bunch of stuff. (0:15:33) Codey: So if you’re wanting something specific, you kind of just have to like, um, and then the achievements, I mean, there’s no purpose. (0:15:40) Codey: I did this with World of Warcraft too. (0:15:42) Codey: Um, I just went and like pet all of the critters and did all of the silly stuff. (0:15:47) Codey: Just because it, seeing little achievements like being done just makes my dopamine skyrocket. (0:15:55) Codey: So that’s, that’s, that it’s not necessary at all. (0:16:00) Codey: So if it’s, if you’re like, not really sure, or if you’re not really tied to any of these characters, (0:16:04) Codey: or if you don’t super care, like I would just wait for a big content update or something. (0:16:09) Codey: Um, I’m assuming eventually this like rift in time thing will just become free to play and you won’t have to like, (0:16:16) Codey: to like because it’s a paid deal. (0:16:17) Codey: You’ll see currently, but, um, and it has like, it adds a whole nother dimension (0:16:22) Codey: cause it adds a whole extra tool. (0:16:26) Codey: Um, which I think messes with time, but I have not even, since I don’t have that, (0:16:32) Codey: I haven’t even unlocked any of that stuff yet. (0:16:34) Codey: And I think it also adds multiple characters that I again, don’t have access (0:16:39) Codey: to, but I’m not really that worried about it. (0:16:41) Jonnie: nice it’s good to hear like it feels like they’re developing that game in a really positive way (0:16:41) Codey: So yeah. (0:16:43) Codey: Yeah. (0:16:47) Jonnie: but also a way that kind of you know ultimately these games are you know need to make money so (0:16:53) Jonnie: it sounds like they’re striking that balance in a in a healthy way which not many games do these days (0:16:56) Codey: Yeah (0:16:58) Codey: Yeah, I definitely agree. I think the other thing (0:17:04) Codey: So the other thing I’ve been playing is coral island and last time al and I talked about coral island we were talking about 1.1 (0:17:11) Codey: And I we talked about like the different things that 1.1 brought and how we didn’t get to any of them (0:17:18) Codey: so I finally got to give the mer people what they (0:17:25) Codey: which was like five osmium (0:17:26) Codey: crops and five osmium essences and then once you give that to them it basically (0:17:32) Codey: like allows you to get a tail and and then the moving around in the underwater (0:17:38) Codey: area is so fast so that’s great after that they then ask for you to bring them (0:17:47) Codey: 75 osmium crops and 30 osmium essences and that’s where I’m currently stuck (0:17:54) Codey: because I like can’t go into a (0:17:56) Codey: bunch of the buildings because they’re like you’re not allowed in here and (0:17:59) Codey: stuff like that like just getting a tail doesn’t mean that they all (0:18:01) Codey: automatically accept you but that also means that I need to like harvest 75 (0:18:07) Codey: osmium crops I finally have improved a lot of my stuff to be able to do that (0:18:12) Codey: but whatever I’m in my second year now and I almost have most of the lake shrine (0:18:19) Codey: like temple like finished but I’m not entirely sure like how much I can really (0:18:25) Codey: do without. (0:18:26) Codey: Like getting the very specific fish that you can only get in the first seven days of fall. (0:18:33) Codey: That kind of stuff, but I’m really enjoying coral island right now. Like I that’s that has (0:18:37) Codey: my full attention really except for tomorrow when it’s going to be Disney dream my about. (0:18:43) Jonnie: Yeah, I’ve been thinking about maybe jumping back into Coral Island now at one point. (0:18:48) Codey: Yeah, so yeah, that’s what we’ve been up to. (0:18:54) Codey: So we’re going to jump into game news here. The first thing on our list that Al has procured for (0:18:59) Codey: us is Fey Farm, which is coming to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, (0:19:10) Codey: and the Windows Store. So I guess that’s it’s only been on Switch and Steam, yeah? Question mark. (0:19:18) Jonnie: Sure, why not? (0:19:19) Codey: Okay. It does say… okay, I should just read more. That’s gonna happen on the 22nd of October, (0:19:31) Codey: and on the Twitter post that they posted a quote, “The new versions will include all content up to (0:19:37) Codey: date and full cross-play with the existing PC and Nintendo Switch edition.” So yeah, currently it’s (0:19:43) Codey: on PC and Nintendo Switch, and you’ll be able to cross-play with everything. (0:19:49) Codey: So if you’re wanting it, if you’ve been like, “Oh man, I’ve been waiting for it (0:19:53) Codey: on PlayStation or Xbox, like here’s your time.” Did you play Fey Farm? I can’t remember. I think (0:19:58) Codey: you were mad at it, right? (0:19:58) Jonnie: Yeah, well I like how Fae Farm plays as a game. There’s lots of good quality of life stuff that (0:20:06) Jonnie: they do. The movement is very fun. Unfortunately, the quest story world… it wasn’t there for me. (0:20:15) Jonnie: And you know, it was so far away that I didn’t really have any desire to go back. I know they’ve (0:20:20) Jonnie: done a number of updates on it. So I think if you’re someone who more… you’re just like, (0:20:26) Jonnie: I like farming, I like doing that sort of stuff. (0:20:29) Jonnie: I think this is a very good game for that. (0:20:32) Jonnie: If, like me, you prefer more of a story narrative to your games, this is not one too satisfying. (0:20:40) Codey: Well, maybe that’s something maybe that’s next after console not what (0:20:46) Jonnie: Well, they did some work on it, but it was just that the characters were so bland that (0:20:53) Codey: Oh, I remember this, mm-hmm. (0:20:54) Jonnie: it just felt like it was, yeah, it was just so far away that I know that I’ve done some (0:20:58) Jonnie: work on it, but it’s like some work on it would maybe get it to a point where it’s (0:21:02) Jonnie: acceptable. (0:21:03) Jonnie: It felt, to me, it felt like it needed a huge overhaul and there was a lot of, like, some (0:21:08) Jonnie: of the major quests in the game, it would kind of, you would get to an important point (0:21:12) Jonnie: and it would be like, “And you went and did the thing!” and then you wake up the next (0:21:16) Jonnie: “Oh, okay, I would kind of like to see me doing the thing, that would be, that would be cool!” (0:21:22) Codey: Would have been cool, I don’t know, maybe. (0:21:26) Codey: Okay, well maybe that’ll come later. (0:21:30) Codey: Next on our list is My Time at Evershine, (0:21:34) Codey: which I did not remember this game, (0:21:37) Codey: so my brain thought that this was Ranch of River Shine, (0:21:42) Codey: which I think was the horse game. (0:21:45) Codey: This is not that. (0:21:46) Codey: Next, my time game, so my time at Portia, my time at Sandrock, this is the third installment of that. (0:21:52) Codey: So the Kickstarter is now live and there is a new fancy trailer. (0:21:58) Codey: The Kickstarter goal was $200,000 and that goal was hit in 35 minutes. (0:22:06) Codey: They then unlocked $500,000 in 3 hours, $800,000 in 11 hours, (0:22:14) Codey: And then, uh, 20– (0:22:16) Codey: 26 hours was when they reached a million, and at the time–let me see if it’s changed drastically since I looked. (0:22:24) Codey: Uh, yep, it’s–it did. It went up 30 more thousand dollars. (0:22:28) Codey: Um, it is at almost 1.3 million dollars right now. Wild. (0:22:32) Codey: And it still has quite a way to go. (0:22:33) Jonnie: Yeah (0:22:36) Jonnie: It’s it’s pretty nuts, but this is one of those things that I feel like is (0:22:42) Jonnie: Just generally good right like I think in general around here (0:22:47) Jonnie: we’re not huge fans of these games, but they clearly have their fans and (0:22:53) Jonnie: They obviously my time at Sandrock landed because my time at ever shine got funded so well and I feel like (0:23:01) Jonnie: You know looking at the trailer for my time (0:23:03) Jonnie: Like it looks like a good next iteration on this formula that is (0:23:10) Codey: Mm-hmm. Yeah, um it and they’ve got a lot of stretch goals that they hit as well (0:23:16) Codey: Um, so at 200 i’m just going to go through these rapid fire (0:23:19) Codey: Um, 200 000 was an in-game t-shirt for all backers 250 was uh flirting (0:23:26) Codey: Uh to build emotional connections with npc’s faster. Okay, uh, 300 000 you got the bathtub (0:23:35) Codey: Okay. 400,000 was player voted interaction so it’s a new. (0:23:40) Codey: Romance interaction players can design and vote on their favorite designs interesting looks like some options might be hug or I can’t see that picture very well hug or something else for romance 500,000. (0:23:54) Jonnie: And it looks like maybe a kiss. (0:23:56) Codey: Okay, disgusting at 500. (0:24:00) Codey: It was you unlock they unlocked voting for someone a character from either my time at Portia or my time at Sandrock that can vote. (0:24:11) Codey: So it would be a character that would come into ever shine 600,000 was swimming 700,000 was hot springs 800,000 was a new special pet Oh, they got me players can submit their designs are taking people’s designs 900,000 was a pajama set million was 10 new photo poses and then they put they had hidden goals and of course those goals are unlocked at this point so we have to do that as well. (0:24:40) Codey: We have the hidden goal of log on will will be Logan Logan will be visiting my time. I don’t know. Is this Logan a character a good character from (0:24:46) Jonnie: - Logan. (0:24:53) Codey: The thing. (0:24:54) Jonnie: I don’t know. (0:24:55) Codey: Okay. (0:24:56) Jonnie: It looks like it’s, (0:24:56) Jonnie: I’m assuming it’s a character from my time at Samurai. (0:24:59) Codey: Okay. Yeah, he has like a cowboy hat thing and then a visitor from the past the builder from Sandrock will visit settlement to with Logan for a story quest, you’ll be able to tweak their appearance name and really. (0:25:11) Codey: To get the desired effect. So that is where we currently that’s it. (0:25:15) Codey: I think we’ve already got that. No, no, wait, it’s not clear to be what’s going on with this goal thing. I think it is. Yeah. So at 1.2 million was that and we were already, we’re already at that at 1.4 million the stretch goal, you can now adjust your height cue the that should have been option thing and then so that was what we’re still going for and at 1.7 million is another romance. (0:25:40) Codey: Yeah, not gonna play this but cool. (0:25:41) Jonnie: Look, I keep thinking about whether or not I want to try my time at Samrock just to see (0:25:47) Jonnie: what they’re doing, so I’m not going to commit to not playing this. (0:25:54) Codey: I don’t know it gives me like when I watch the trailer, it’s giving like final fantasy vibes and I I didn’t like final fantasy internet come at me. Okay. (0:26:04) Jonnie: I don’t say that I don’t like Final Fantasy because I’ve never played Final Fantasy. (0:26:09) Codey: Okay. (0:26:10) Codey: cool. This is a safe space. (0:26:14) Codey: Next up is light year frontier. They have a new neighbors and animals update. (0:26:21) Codey: So this is an update that will that is out now actually, it became available out a couple days after we’re recording but it will be out by the time this comes out. (0:26:32) Codey: A big question a lot of people had is if they have save files already is that going to work with a new update it will 100% so you’re. (0:26:40) Codey: They will just like if you have an early access save it will just merge right into the new update. I believe this is also a free update, which is cool. (0:26:51) Jonnie: Ah yeah, so like, yeah Frank, if I remember rightly, is still in demo. (0:26:55) Codey: Yeah. Oh, no, no, it’s in early access now. (0:26:59) Codey: Early access and it has a demo, but the demo is trying to see it the demo itself is coming down on October 8 so you. (0:27:10) Codey: Yeah, so you can get if you buy it, then you can access it now and play it now, but if you have I don’t think that you’re safe from the demo goes over I think it’s your save from early access. (0:27:22) Codey: So the demo was just like a small like if you can just play it for free and see how you like it, but then if you buy it as an early access game, then you’ll get access to this update and whatever file you have will move on to the update. (0:27:38) Codey: This update is including, so it’s called. (0:27:40) Codey: Neighbors and animals, so the neighbors, uh, you invite two new characters, um, to (0:27:46) Codey: your area and it’s a rancher named Diane who of course helps you with the animals. (0:27:51) Codey: Um, and a field research scientist, uh, named all, it doesn’t really say what (0:27:57) Codey: exactly he is, but he does, he helps you like splice seeds together. (0:28:02) Codey: Um, and he has flowers in his beard and I love that. (0:28:06) Jonnie: Yeah, I tried Lightyear Frontier, it didn’t really grab me, I guess this is, I think if you were enjoying Lightyear Frontier, this sounds great, but it doesn’t seem like a huge uptake from my perspective. (0:28:15) Codey: Yeah I think like it’s just a little bit of extra like a couple characters and (0:28:24) Codey: then the animals but other than that I don’t I also don’t really think this is (0:28:28) Codey: adding that much and I am not a fan of space so. Next on our list is Stardew (0:28:37) Codey: Valley. 1.6 is now coming to mobile and switch on the fourth of. (0:28:45) Codey: and concerned ape said quote the console and mobile ports will release at version (0:28:52) Codey: 1.6.9 which will also come to PC around that time. I’m looking forward to having (0:28:58) Codey: 1.6 fully released on all platforms then I would like to finish Haunted (0:29:04) Codey: Chocolate to your next. Thank you. Correct. Correct. So yeah if you (0:29:06) Jonnie: I will believe it when I see it. (0:29:08) Jonnie: Sorry, in reference to haunted chocolate yet not 1.6 coming to mobile. (0:29:16) Codey: console and mobile ports for that are coming out super cool November 4th and so (0:29:22) Codey: if you’ve been waiting to jump back in until that it’s it’s gonna I also like (0:29:27) Codey: how it’s like not only coming to console and mobile at that point but it’s also (0:29:31) Codey: just going straight to like the most updated version and so it’s not like oh (0:29:37) Codey: some are gonna be at 1.6.2 and some are gonna like or anything like that like (0:29:40) Codey: everyone is going to be up to date at the same time. I really like that. (0:29:45) Codey: Next we have paleopines. So there are two upcoming DLCs. The trick-or-treat DLC and (0:29:53) Codey: the spooktacular DLC. We’re getting into spooky season y’all. For trick-or-treat, (0:30:00) Codey: quote, “This DLC is all about a brand new nighttime adventure. Explore paleopines after dark, collect (0:30:06) Codey: treats from your townsfolk pals, and uncover a mysterious trickster who’s up to no good. (0:30:12) Codey: there’s even a cool minigame award off (0:30:15) Codey: some rewards and a chance to befriend some spooky colored dinos that look like (0:30:20) Codey: they’ve crawled straight out of a Halloween movie. I don’t think that (0:30:24) Codey: they’ve put pictures of this up. Oop there’s a trailer video I’m gonna watch (0:30:29) Codey: it now because just come out of a Halloween movie like I don’t know what (0:30:35) Codey: Halloween movies y’all are watching but if a dinosaur came out looking like what (0:30:40) Codey: I would expect coming out of a Halloween movie it would be a little gory (0:30:45) Codey: cuz I watched yeah okay so I just saw one of them was a dinosaur with a pumpkin on (0:30:46) Jonnie: Yeah, I’m guessing these are going to be a little bit cuter. (0:30:52) Codey: its head that is actually adorable unfortunately and then spooktacular DLC (0:31:03) Codey: quote want to make your ranch the spookiest place on the block the (0:31:06) Codey: spooktacular DLC has everything you need decorate your land with spooky scarecrows (0:31:11) Codey: bubbling cauldrons and more you can even get in on the fun with some fang (0:31:15) Codey: fantastic thing thing vampire hot outfits for your rancher dress up and (0:31:21) Codey: show off the Halloween spirit okay so that is more like I don’t know why these (0:31:26) Codey: are they at different times why are there two why are why are they why are (0:31:29) Jonnie: Who knows? Who knows? (0:31:31) Codey: they (0:31:32) Jonnie: Because more DLC means more money. (0:31:33) Codey: it’s true well I thought that okay I don’t know they’re cute though if you (0:31:39) Codey: like paleopines and you’re just looking for more skins and cute minigames and (0:31:44) Codey: stuff, let’s come out. (0:31:45) Codey: Okay, I feel like this is the one that’s going to take a lot (0:31:49) Codey: of our, a lot of our time, unless you don’t have too much (0:31:53) Codey: to talk about it. But I assume you do. Last but certainly not (0:31:56) Codey: least, tales of the Shire. So on September 22, it was Hobbit Day, (0:32:02) Codey: because correct me if I’m wrong, that is Bilbo and his uncle’s (0:32:09) Codey: birthday. No, Bilbo and thank you Frodo and Bilbo’s birthday. (0:32:10) Jonnie: Ah, photo of Bilbo’s birthday? (0:32:15) Codey: So that came out on Hobbit Day and it was a 18 minute trailer. (0:32:18) Codey: It was super cute. What did you think about the trailer? (0:32:22) Jonnie: I don’t think there was anything new revealed in the trailer or in the in the showcase, I think it was mostly just new like more detail on stuff we already knew, so there wasn’t a ton, I think that I have to say about it, other than putting a bunch of New Zealanders to speak on camera is like the worst possible choice to get people excited about your game (0:32:48) Codey: What? I loved it! (0:32:53) Jonnie: As a people, we are not exciting to listen to and terrible on camera and I was just like this was certainly a choice and not a very good one (0:32:54) Codey: Did you know anyone who was on camera? (0:33:06) Codey: Okay, awesome. (0:33:06) Codey: Because New Zealand is such a tiny place, clearly. (0:33:09) Codey: You guys all know each other. (0:33:11) Codey: Well, that’s super cool. (0:33:13) Codey: Okay, but like what, so of the things that we saw some more content on, like did you (0:33:18) Codey: have anything that you were really jazzed about or anything? (0:33:21) Jonnie: So for me, the thing that I am most excited about with this is the focus on cooking. (0:33:28) Jonnie: And for me, it’s the idea that the game is built around a specific aspect of cosy games. (0:33:38) Jonnie: We have had so many cosy games that just do the Stardew Valley thing of, (0:33:45) Jonnie: “We’re going to do all of it, and it’s all equally important.” (0:33:50) Jonnie: what I like about this. (0:33:51) Jonnie: Is that it’s like very focused around the thing that is important to Hobbits, right? (0:33:55) Jonnie: Um, there was a game I recall, I don’t think it’s ever come out yet, but it’s been around (0:34:02) Jonnie: in the news for a while, which was based around building and owning an inn. (0:34:06) Jonnie: And the more we learned about that game, the less it felt like it was in any way connected (0:34:09) Jonnie: to owning an inn, because it just had every feature from every other cozy game. (0:34:10) Codey: Yeah. (0:34:15) Jonnie: And that’s the thing that has me most excited. (0:34:18) Jonnie: and you see it through some of the little choices (0:34:21) Jonnie: that you’re making as well, like the fact that it’s not a grid based placement system for decorating in your hobbit hole (0:34:24) Codey: Yup. (0:34:28) Jonnie: so that it can be a chaotic mess, like I imagine a hobbit hole would be, to me it just feels like those little decisions are… (0:34:37) Jonnie: it makes sense in the game that they are building and in the world that they are building that game in. (0:34:42) Codey: Yeah, I really like that was one thing that really stuck out to me is like the customization (0:34:49) Codey: capabilities of the decorating where it like showed a character putting something on a (0:34:56) Codey: couch like a pillow and they were able to like position it any way they wanted and like (0:35:02) Codey: turn it like just like 10 degrees or whatever and just make it like exactly how they wanted (0:35:07) Codey: it and I thought that I love when games do that like I’ve always loved it. (0:35:12) Codey: The Sims, after the first couple of Sims, they’ve added a way that you can do that. (0:35:17) Codey: There is a grid-based system, but you can hit a key and then it’ll let you put things (0:35:21) Codey: wherever you want. (0:35:23) Codey: So it gives more, it doesn’t feel as rigid. (0:35:26) Codey: I super appreciated that about this. (0:35:29) Codey: They also said as you play, some of the spaces in your home are boarded up, but as you’re (0:35:37) Codey: playing the game, you get access to more of those rooms. (0:35:40) Codey: get someone to help you. (0:35:42) Codey: Take the boards off of one door and then they’re like, and then you can (0:35:45) Codey: decorate that room, that room, however you want. (0:35:48) Codey: And I was like, and they showed a really cool library. (0:35:50) Codey: And I was like, y’all know, I’m just going to make a lib, all libraries. (0:35:54) Codey: Right. (0:35:55) Jonnie: yep (0:35:57) Codey: I’m going to have a living room, like a living area that has like a desk. (0:36:02) Codey: Uh, and then of course you have your pantry with all your food and your (0:36:05) Codey: kitchen and like probably a kitchen table room or what is that called? (0:36:08) Codey: Dining room, uh, probably a bedroom. (0:36:11) Codey: right, but every other (0:36:12) Codey: room that I unlock is just going to be another version of a (0:36:15) Codey: library because that would be what my house would look like. (0:36:19) Codey: So I also really, the highlight of the video for me was the art (0:36:25) Codey: director’s dog. There’s a moment where he like talks about I (0:36:28) Codey: don’t even know what he says but he starts walking and the camera (0:36:31) Codey: just like zooms in at his feet and there’s just a dog walking (0:36:34) Codey: next to him. It’s this little white poofy dog. So cute. I (0:36:38) Codey: I loved that. (0:36:39) Codey: Have you pet that dog? (0:36:40) Jonnie: have not pet that dog. Okay, I’ll add it to the list of things to do next time I’m in Wellington. (0:36:47) Codey: Okay, cool. (0:36:49) Codey: The other thing that I really wanted to point out was the cooking mechanic. (0:36:53) Codey: They really seem to have a lot of options and (0:36:57) Codey: a lot of different ways that you could do that. (0:37:00) Codey: So for example, they had, I think you were cooking meat or something, but (0:37:04) Codey: you were cutting it. (0:37:05) Codey: And there was an option between going really chunky or really fine cut. (0:37:12) Codey: It just had to do with how long you chopped for, right? (0:37:17) Codey: So if you chopped for only a small amount of time, it was on the chunkier side. (0:37:21) Codey: And then there’s a bar that it’s the longer you chop that just keeps moving to (0:37:25) Codey: the right and it’s just finer and finer and finer. (0:37:28) Codey: And it kind of gives you a discrete or a continuous scale. (0:37:32) Codey: And I really like that cuz it allows for a lot of nuance in cooking. (0:37:36) Jonnie: Yeah, I agree. Right. For me, that’s one of the things that seems like has been done really well about the game is because different recipes, as I understand it, will require like some might want chunkier meat or some might want more finely diced. (0:37:51) Jonnie: Right. And so you can. And I can’t remember if it was shown in this video or a previous one, but there was different sort of flavor scales. (0:37:58) Codey: Yeah, yeah, it was like smokey, smokey versus something else, yeah. (0:38:01) Jonnie: So you’re actually. (0:38:04) Jonnie: Exactly. So you’re actually cry- (0:38:06) Jonnie: crafting dishes rather than, rather than just like kind of the standard cooking, right? (0:38:14) Jonnie: Which is just like do the action on time, which is fine. (0:38:18) Jonnie: You’re doing real cooking and that’s very much at the core of the game and it seems like it’s got a- (0:38:25) Codey: Mm-hmm. Yeah for sure. Um, was there anything else that you wanted to talk about with Tales of the Shire? (0:38:30) Jonnie: Oh yeah, so the other thing, in general discourse about this game, I see a lot of commentary (0:38:39) Jonnie: around the art style, and obviously because it’s the internet, most of the commentary (0:38:45) Jonnie: you see is people that don’t like it, and for me the art style is unique. (0:38:52) Jonnie: I totally get why people may not love this art style, but I almost feel like a lot of (0:38:57) Jonnie: the reaction is because art has become (0:39:00) Jonnie: a little bit homogenous in games recently and this is a different art style. Yes, like it is (0:39:08) Jonnie: a relatively simple art style but I think it works for what the game is and it’s not something (0:39:15) Jonnie: that I’m going to sit stand here and say it’s my favorite but I think it works and I feel like (0:39:20) Jonnie: it’s getting a lot of overly negative views on the art style simply because it’s not (0:39:27) Jonnie: aligned to what we commonly think of art style. (0:39:30) Jonnie: Where it’s like either your pixel or you know like this kind of you know legend of uh not legend (0:39:38) Jonnie: of Zelda Breath of the Wild style like you know like it just feels like there’s a small number of (0:39:44) Jonnie: categories now and if you don’t fit into one of those then people look at it and go that it’s bad. (0:39:48) Jonnie: But when I look at this I get um uh to me it kind of aligns to the an art style that was sort of (0:39:56) Jonnie: preeminent in you know mid-2000s. I think of games like Fable. (0:40:00) Codey: Mmm, yeah. (0:40:01) Jonnie: And you know Fable is like very English, old England inspired. Obviously Lord of the Rings, (0:40:08) Jonnie: the Shire, very inspired by that region of the world. So there’s something like actually (0:40:13) Jonnie: that I like about this art style that makes me feel slightly nostalgic. So anyway I just (0:40:18) Jonnie: see a lot of negative discourse and I think that’s largely driven by people being less accepting of (0:40:24) Jonnie: things that are trying something new and I quite like what this is doing. (0:40:28) Codey: - Yeah, I think that that was my initial gut reaction too, (0:40:31) Codey: was like, oh, this is the unknown. (0:40:33) Codey: Like, ah, spooky. (0:40:35) Codey: But I feel that like the more I see trailers of it, (0:40:39) Codey: the more it’s like endearing to me. (0:40:40) Codey: And I think it’s just something I just need to get used to. (0:40:42) Codey: I don’t think that it’s bad. (0:40:44) Codey: I think it’s just different. (0:40:45) Codey: And I’m excited to see where it goes. (0:40:46) Jonnie: Exactly, uh, only other thing is, uh, Lidl. Lidl, best character. (0:40:52) Jonnie: Lidl is the goose that’s got the armour. (0:40:53) Codey: Oh cute. Cool. Well that is the news. Okay so today we are talking about what games should include (0:41:06) Codey: farming. So these are games either that we’re coming up with off the top of our head or existing (0:41:11) Codey: games that just like why don’t they have a farming aspect to them really. So when this was pitched to (0:41:19) Codey: to me. I think it was pitched because of some of the conversations that like Al (0:41:23) Codey: and Kevin had been having. And I was like really sitting there. I was like, man, okay, (0:41:29) Codey: think of games that are not farming games. My brain went to like Call of Duty. And I was like, (0:41:36) Codey: no, or like Baldur’s Gate. I don’t think that’s gonna have farming in it. I do know World of (0:41:42) Codey: Warcraft did have farming in it in the midst of Pandaria expansion. It was actually pretty cool, (0:41:47) Codey: but it was just kind of like a small little way to get experience with a certain fact. (0:41:53) Codey: I didn’t even think about that! (0:42:12) Jonnie: The first game that came to mind for me was Skyrim, yeah, to me, yeah, so to me it was (0:42:24) Codey: Oh my gosh! Okay, elaborate. I’m here for it. (0:42:28) Jonnie: one of those like Skyrim is such a big game right and when I was thinking about what would (0:42:37) Jonnie: make sense for a sort of genre to add farming too. (0:42:43) Jonnie: The thing that really stood out to me is like how would it meaningfully add something to (0:42:48) Jonnie: the gameplay of the game right and I don’t recall if Skyrim had like if you could build (0:42:56) Jonnie: farms when you could do some of the house building stuff but that was sort of you know (0:43:01) Jonnie: very limited and you know I guess when I say Skyrim right it’s like any sort of Bethesda (0:43:06) Jonnie: style open world game I kind of feel like this applies to where it would be great if (0:43:11) Jonnie: if you could… (0:43:14) Jonnie: just… (0:43:14) Jonnie: more farming, because farming is a… (0:43:18) Jonnie: like, often you get resources from farms that exist, right? (0:43:22) Jonnie: Like, whether it’s potatoes or whatever it is. (0:43:26) Jonnie: But equally, kind of, the more I thought about it, the more the thing that stood out to me (0:43:32) Jonnie: is the ability to do farming in a way that’s slightly different (0:43:36) Jonnie: because you have so many different locations that you could do farming in. (0:43:40) Jonnie: and what I started thinking about. (0:43:41) Codey: Yeah. (0:43:42) Codey: Oh, I’m sorry. (0:43:42) Jonnie: was the idea of like, imagine what farming would be like in Fallout, where you have soil that is full of radiation, and maybe you are generating all of these, you know, plants that have mutations on them, or maybe in Skyrim, where you’re farming near the mountains, and you know, it’s really icy, maybe that changes how you farm, or in a game like Starfield, which nobody played because it was terrible, like, what is it like farming on? (0:43:44) Codey: I’m sorry. (0:43:46) Codey: I’m sorry. (0:43:48) Codey: I’m sorry. (0:43:50) Codey: I’m sorry. (0:44:09) Codey: Yeah. (0:44:12) Jonnie: a planet that’s further away from the local star that the planets are orbiting around, so I got really excited about like, the variation that’s possible within those sorts of things. (0:44:20) Codey: Yeah. (0:44:26) Codey: Yeah, I think that that is really a cool idea, like I’m thinking about, you know, the farm that (0:44:33) Codey: you would have in like Whiterun or around Whiterun will be completely different than the one around (0:44:38) Codey: Markarth, which is going to be a higher elevation versus like the one in the swampy area that I (0:44:46) Codey: hate going to that’s gonna have completely different things like it’s (0:44:50) Codey: like water and then like of course the solstheim when you go there there’s (0:44:57) Codey: probably different crops there I’m sure I’m all in for this I did a quick (0:45:03) Codey: Google and apparently there is like a content creation thing that someone made (0:45:07) Codey: that does this which I’d prefer it to be there are so many mods you can get for (0:45:14) Codey: this game it’s ridiculous but I don’t know it’s I would like it to be more of (0:45:19) Codey: of a, like, in the– (0:45:20) Codey: game thing. Um… (0:45:22) Jonnie: Yeah I want it to be inbuilt right because like I can imagine you know like maybe there’s a farming guild and you need to go and grow certain crops or at which role might require a farm in like you could I think you could build a lot more story around the nature of farming in an open world game. (0:45:23) Codey: Yes. (0:45:41) Codey: Yeah, the only so there’s there is one plantation that you can get in the game right now. It’s called Golden Hills plantation (0:45:49) Codey: So you just you start the farm, but then you have to hire a steward hire people to work the farm (0:45:56) Codey: Tell them them what to plant tell them what to build (0:46:01) Codey: By animals and then you just come up and the stewards like here’s your money. Here’s here’s the (0:46:05) Jonnie: Yeah, that doesn’t sound correct. (0:46:06) Codey: Here’s the profit and it’s like okay, but like I want to do it (0:46:11) Codey: And there could be magic that is just like growing (0:46:17) Codey: like helping to grow (0:46:20) Codey: Trying to think of what magic system conjuration (0:46:22) Codey: Ah. (0:46:23) Jonnie: but it could be it could be a new magic system right like because those those games don’t really have strong nature based stuff but it exists because you have dry ads and like that the some of the lore exists but it’s not something that’s been integral to the player character. (0:46:32) Codey: yeah (0:46:37) Codey: uh-huh (0:46:40) Codey: Yeah, it’s really not so there’s the (0:46:43) Codey: Six types of magic are alteration, conjuration, destruction, enchanting, illusion, and restoration, but like farming doesn’t really fit in (0:46:50) Codey: Oh my gosh. I am (0:46:52) Codey: You’ve sold me. Um, I love Skyrim (0:46:56) Codey: so (0:46:57) Codey: I can’t believe that didn’t come to my mind (0:47:00) Codey: Um, it’s like a whole new skill tree, too (0:47:03) Codey: Okay (0:47:03) Jonnie: Yeah, it’s- there’s so many options, right? What about you, Cody? What was- what was the thing that sort of landed for you? (0:47:10) Codey: So, of course the lowest hanging fruit the fruit that’s basically on the ground at this point, um is pokemon (0:47:18) Codey: Um and people are gonna be like oh you berries (0:47:22) Codey: There’s so much more that you could do with that (0:47:24) Codey: um (0:47:25) Codey: Or like working with pokemon the pokemon that are food already like using them to help (0:47:32) Codey: You farm like (0:47:35) Codey: I could see like the (0:47:37) Codey: Uh olive guy helping you with like trees and he’s helping you take care of trees and he gives you advice on like how to (0:47:46) Codey: Harvest different tree-based fruits (0:47:48) Codey: um, you know (0:47:51) Codey: Miltank and other such things, uh, that Wooloo wool so much wool from that baby writer (0:47:59) Codey: Uh, all the pigs could find truffle. I mean there’s like (0:48:03) Codey: So many options for that (0:48:05) Codey: There is a player made game when I was googling if this exists or not (0:48:11) Codey: In any way, there’s a player made game that someone said that is going to have this but to my knowledge it has been in (0:48:18) Codey: creation or like in (0:48:21) Codey: Development for like a decade at this point so and it’s not sanctioned so (0:48:27) Codey: I am not gonna hold my breath on that (0:48:30) Codey: Oh. (0:48:31) Jonnie: And even the ability to use Pokemon for the jobs, whether it’s using ground-type Pokemon to help (0:48:39) Jonnie: level out and create the plots that you farm in, or using Gurdo and Kin to build your farm buildings. (0:48:50) Jonnie: And just some of

The loss of innocence is a fairly common theme in literature, and wouldn't you know, Tolkien handled it too! As with most things, he manages a nuanced take showing both the positives and negatives of innocence and its loss, if you know how to read his tale. Check out the whole Hobbit Day playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCeOWemVWFcbslFv0kk1_HQMb6o0Q-k5L&jct=TO0kZczE9iWwleNbEk4J6g Other Links: Playeur (formerly Utreon): https://playeur.com/c/TolkienLorePodcast/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-355195 Odysee: https://odysee.com/@TolkienLore:f Twitter: https://twitter.com/jrrtlore Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tolkiengeek Xero Shoes (affiliate link): https://xeroshoes.com/go/TolkienGeek Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/EVKynAj2m9 (If link is expired contact me at tolkienloremaster@gmail.com and I'll send a fresh invite link). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joshua6469/support

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Welcome back to the Manor!  And happy anniversary to us.  We started our podcast quite a few years ago on Hobbit Day and we're back at it again this year.  This time, we're delving into the 1977 made for television film "The Hobbit" by Rankin and Bass.   Pour yourself a pint and enjoy our take on it, which also includes some behind the scenes "making of" items that are difficult to find! Next week's episode is about the Cray Brothers and Python's Piranha Brothers. Get in touch with us at Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/twinterrorsmacabremanormeadmetalmayhe/ Or on twitter: @Terrors_Manor On Instagram: @macabremanormeadmetalmayhem You can also find our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, and I Heart Radio; pretty much wherever fine (and our) podcasts are aired. Image courtesy of: James

Go dancing with hobbits for Hobbit Day on the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast #678. Subscribe now! Keltricity, The BorderCollies, Dublin Gulch, Louise Bichan, Clanna Morna, Dancing With Hobbits, Celtic Wood and Wires, Clay Babies, Brother Sea, Ironwood, Adria Jackson, The Walker Roaders, Mary Frances Leahy, Toby Bresnahan, Clare Cunningham GET CELTIC MUSIC NEWS IN YOUR INBOX The Celtic Music Magazine is a quick and easy way to plug yourself into more great Celtic culture. Enjoy seven weekly news items for Celtic music and culture online. Subscribe now and get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free. VOTE IN THE CELTIC TOP 20 FOR 2024 This is our way of finding the best songs and artists each year. You can vote for as many songs and tunes that inspire you in each episode. Your vote helps me create next year's Best Celtic music of 2024 episode. You have just three weeks to vote this year. Vote Now! 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THIS WEEK IN CELTIC MUSIC 0:07 - Keltricity "Louis Cyr  -  Motel Henry" from Live at Terra Firma Radio 3:14 - WELCOME 5:28 - The BorderCollies "Kishors" from To the Hills and Back 9:01 - Dublin Gulch "Ballad of the Button Box" from Tap 'Er Light 14:20 - Louise Bichan "The Little Cowpig" from The Lost Summer 16:32 - Clanna Morna "Maid On The Shore" from From The Lowlands To The High Seas 21:54 - FEEDBACK 25:22 - Dancing With Hobbits "Old Took's Victory Dance" from Dancing With Hobbits 28:31 - Celtic Wood and Wires "The Boatman's Dance" from Close The Back Door 31:49 - Clay Babies "Rakes Of Kildare / Drowsy Maggie / Cup Of Tea / Reel Of Mullinavat" from Speechless Vol. 1: Sloppy Session in the Sticks 36:29 - Brother Sea "Oll' Vel Onen" from Brother Sea Ep 40:56 - Ironwood "Crawl on Duke Street" from Gretna Green 44:42 - THANKS 46:38 - Adria Jackson "Solveig's Song" from Troubadour 50:41 - The Walker Roaders "The Story" from The Walker Roaders 55:02 - Mary Frances Leahy "Dance of the Fairies" from First Light 59:00 - Toby Bresnahan "Jock Stewart" from All In Good time 1:02:12 - CLOSING 1:03:17 - Clare Cunningham "Éireann i mo chroí" from ON MY WAY (AR MO BHEALACH) 1:07:24 - CREDITS The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather and our Patrons on Patreon. 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September 22 is Hobbit Day. Does fantasy literature have a role in the Christian family? It does. It awakens the imagination and inspires the conquest of God's people. So sit back, read the Hobbit as a family, and eat good food together as you give thanks for God's goodness. 

Welcome back to the Manor! We hope you brought a ton of dimes to get through all of the tolls.  This week we're talking about the 50th anniversary of that most magnificent of Mel Brooks films, Blazing Saddles!  How it was made, historical context, trivia, what we liked, thoughts from the stars themselves... everything!  So big you'll think it's an elbow! Pour yourself a pint or a shot of sipping whiskey, hold your shooting arm steady, and enjoy! Next week's episode is our annual Hobbit Day/anniversary episode!  Wooo! Get in touch with us at Podbean: www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/twinterrorsmacabremanormeadmetalmayhe/ Or on twitter: @Terrors_Manor On Instagram: @macabremanormeadmetalmayhem You can also find our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, and I Heart Radio; pretty much wherever fine (and our) podcasts are aired. Image courtesy of: James

HOBBIT DAY!!We definitely celebrated!!Pollen protection ring of powerIt doesn't work! https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-panel-says-common-counter-decongestant-phneylephrine-doesnt-work-rcna104424Making the most of training Like a science lessonTrigger warning - seamless integrationLack of brand consistency It's a funny thing…your brainCrystal bowl presentnever enough cerealBeakman's World: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106367/Which was better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uFtsR2mgN8Wishbone: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112225/Full Episodes! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXUunJz_da3FB5YWRoDofUj707xs-Se8HZoboomafoo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLDzhgFy7Mw&list=PLXUunJz_da3GU7N0JgJY2CWQN_WSgvI-P&index=2Check out our other episodes: ohbrotherpodcast.comFollow us on InstagramCheck us out on Youtube

The Migs Report. Today is National Ice Cream Cone Day and Hobbit Day. 

As we mark the 50th anniversary of JRR Tolkien's death this month, we discuss the author's great Catholic faith with Holly Ordway of Word on Fire. We also discuss the beauty of the divine as witnessed through the seasons with Emily Malloy out with a new Theology of Home book called Arranging the Seasons. Father Roger Landry also offers an inspiring homily for this Sunday's Gospel. Catch the show every Saturday at 7amET/5pmET radio!

In the month of September, we mark the 50th anniversary of the passing of one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, JRR Tolkien and we celebrated this week both Hobbit Day and Tolkien Week. This week on Register Radio we talk to author and Tolkien expert Joseph Pearce about the legacy of the devoutly Catholic scholar and his masterwork The Lord of the Rings.

In the month of September, we mark the 50th anniversary of the passing of one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, JRR Tolkien and we celebrated this week both Hobbit Day and Tolkien Week. This week on Register Radio we talk to author and Tolkien expert Joseph Pearce about the legacy of the devoutly Catholic scholar and his masterwork The Lord of the Rings.

Embark on a one-of-a-kind journey with hosts Msgr. Kieran Harrington and Katie Ruvalcaba in this special episode of 'Frontiers of Faith.' Get ready to celebrate Hobbit Day, revealing Katie's undeniable nerdiness and Fr. Kieran's role as the 'cool uncle' who shares life's adventures. Amidst the laughter and camaraderie, explore profound themes of God's unwavering generosity and the complexities of life removed from God. Through engaging anecdotes, discover how these contrasting elements intertwine in our spiritual journeys, offering insights into the essence of forgiveness and redemption. 

How would Bilbo, who knew nothing of Gollum's personal history, know to refer to his grandmother of all people in relation to Gollum sucking eggs? It was probably Gandalf! Don't forget to check all the other videos put out for Hobbit Day! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzxLO5Ihf4Fo2t5AjwbMXlI8S0ZkCH_iA&jct=BGiscSJHFxiH9Ex4fMTkCXuDR1nGww For more on the Hobbit retcon, check out my video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIbXfJ72j4c&pp=ygUedG9sa2llbiBsb3JlIHRoZSBob2JiaXQgcmV0Y29u Other Links: Playeur (formerly Utreon): https://utreon.com/c/TolkienLorePodcast/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-355195 Odysee: https://odysee.com/@TolkienLore:f Twitter: https://twitter.com/jrrtlore Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tolkiengeek Xero Shoes (affiliate link): https://xeroshoes.com/go/TolkienGeek Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/EVKynAj2m9 (If link is expired contact me at tolkienloremaster@gmail.com and I'll send a fresh invite link). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joshua6469/support

Welcome back to the Manor!  We're celebrating Hobbit Day as usual, with a long episode and with very little editing!  It's just how we like to celebrate both Hobbit Day and our anniversary!   Pour a pint, light your pipe, pull up a barstool and enjoy! Next week's episode is on Gen Con. Get in touch with us at Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/twinterrorsmacabremanormeadmetalmayhe/ Or on twitter: @Terrors_Manor On Instagram: @macabremanormeadmetalmayhem You can also find our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, and I Heart Radio; pretty much wherever fine (and our) podcasts are aired. Image courtesy of: James

In the month of September, we mark the 50th anniversary of the passing of one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, JRR Tolkien and we celebrated this week both Hobbit Day and Tolkien Week. This week on Register Radio we talk to author and Tolkien expert Joseph Pearce about the legacy of the devoutly Catholic scholar and his masterwork The Lord of the Rings.

Bilbo and Frodo's Birthday

Puntata dedicata al compleanno di Bilbo e Frodo. Analisi de “Il Meraviglioso Mondo degli Snerg” di E. Wyke-Smith che ispirò Tolkien a creare gli Hobbit per il suo Legendarium. Conducono Simone Claudiani, Fina Ciaravella, Alessandra Olivieri. Ospiti della serata: Nicola Camerlengo, Nicolò Maggio, Giovanni Olivieri.

We're celebrating Hobbit Day pre-emptively with a viewing of Rifftrax's take of The Fellowship of the Ring! Thrill as we discuss a film that we've all seen at minimum thirty times and STILL manage to clock in at nearly two hours of discussion. Go figure.Host segments: who doesn't love a Rugged Fellow (TM); updating Tolkein's perspectives; Joe clarifies wanting a "hard R"; Sam's gonna Sam; we love Viggo; Rifftrax vs. toxic masculinity; beyond improvement Joe Don Bombadillo.

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to some math!  Would you like to know the top inflation adjusted movie franchises?  Then listen on!  And if you disagree, let's compare math! Next week's episode is our annual Hobbit Day/anniversary episode! Get in touch with us at Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/twinterrorsmacabremanormeadmetalmayhe/ Or on twitter: @Terrors_Manor On Instagram: @macabremanormeadmetalmayhem You can also find our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, and I Heart Radio; pretty much wherever fine (and our) podcasts are aired. Image courtesy of: James

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Experts in medicine, psychology, philosophy, and theology recently collaborated on a  new book, which comprehensively outlines a coherent view of the human person. Dr. Paul Hruz, one of the medical contributors to Sexual Identity: The Harmony of Philosophy, Science, and Revelation, joins to talk about the book and what exactly are the factors of biological sex. Later (22:55) Kara joins to celebrate Hobbit Day, and put up with Andrew's effusive praise for JRR Tolkien's The Silmarillion, part of which overlaps with the new show The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Episode Notes

Experts in medicine, psychology, philosophy, and theology recently collaborated on a  new book, which comprehensively outlines a coherent view of the human person. Dr. Paul Hruz, one of the medical contributors to Sexual Identity: The Harmony of Philosophy, Science, and Revelation, joins to talk about the book and what exactly are the factors of biological sex. Later (22:55) Kara joins to celebrate Hobbit Day, and put up with Andrew's effusive praise for JRR Tolkien's The Silmarillion, part of which overlaps with the new show The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Episode Notes: https://www.marriageuniqueforareason.org/2022/09/23/ep-98-biology-and-the-sexes-plus-the-silmarillion/

A Hobbit Day feast.

Welcome to September 22nd, 2022 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate living history and small heroes with hairy feet. If you have made it to 100 years old, congratulations! Today we celebrate you on National Centenarian's Day. In the United States alone, there are estimated to be nearly 72,000 centenarians. The youngest of those were born after the end of World War I and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. They represent a living history full of tales not found in books and their stories animate and compliment what we already know. On National Centenarian's Day, count yourself lucky if someone you love can share stories that bring history to life from their very own past. Do you guys know anyone that's over 100? In the early 1930s, J.R.R. Tolkien created the greatest fantasy epic of all time. There were dragons, goblins, and wizards but at the heart of his stories were Hobbits. Bilbo and Frodo Baggins played a big part in saving Middle Earth, but neither was anything special. They were ordinary folk like you and me, who got caught up in something far bigger than themselves. These small creatures are meant to be stand-ins for the regular guy, and to be examples of how people can grow beyond their comfortable lives when they take risks. On Hobbit Day, we encourage you that “even the smallest person can change the course of history.” I'm Anna Devere and I'm Marlo Anderson. Thanks for joining us as we Celebrate Every Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Migs Report. Today is National Elephant Day, Hobbit Day, and Ice Cream Cone Day.

Happy Hobbit Day 2022! In this video I talk about that most famousest of hobbits, Frodo Baggins, and the uniqueness of his heroism, which is neither the typical ancient mode of hero like Beowulf, nor yet the more modern variation like Sam Gamgee, but which nevertheless is an important character type for us to learn from. Here's the playlist for other Hobbit Day videos from the other contributing YouTube channels: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBCsLcBwXZ_olx0ws0bTUsuGZTKRX7Y27 Other Links: Utreon: https://utreon.com/c/TolkienLorePodcast/ Rumble at https://rumble.com/c/c-355195 Odysee: https://odysee.com/@TolkienLore:f Twitter: https://twitter.com/jrrtlore Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tolkiengeek Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/EVKynAj2m9 (If link is expired contact me at tolkienloremaster@gmail.comand I'll send a fresh invite link).

Welcome back to the Manor!  It's Hobbit Day, which also means it is our anniversary episode!  We eat (and talk about) second breakfasts and foods of Middle Earth in general.  We hope you've been enjoying us and we look forward to another year of inane (and that's not a misspelling) episodes! And yes, we know we're six days early, Hobbit Day being the 22nd, but it's six days early or one day late.   Next week's episode is the last of our pre-DP Tommy Bolin episodes. Get in touch with us at Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/twinterrorsmacabremanormeadmetalmayhe/ Or on twitter: @Terrors_Manor On Instagram: @macabremanormeadmetalmayhem You can also find our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, and I Heart Radio; pretty much wherever fine (and our) podcasts are aired. Image courtesy of:  

Welcome back to the Manor and get ready for some honey mead fun.  We've already mentioned Ravenwood Meadery once in the podcast, but it was so good, this time we went the full monty.  No, not the male stripper way.  Nobody wants that.  But we did try several of their meads.  We give background information on mead styles and tasting notes and some background on the meadery itself.  Plus this one is live!  So you get to hear Jody and James get progressively more tipsy as the episode goes on.  MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Next week's episode is our anniversary episode, which means Hobbit Day!  Our Hobbit Day 2022 spectacular will be about food in Middle Earth in general and second breakfasts in particular.  Plus, it'll be live! Get in touch with us at Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/twinterrorsmacabremanormeadmetalmayhe/ Or on twitter: @Terrors_Manor On Instagram: @macabremanormeadmetalmayhem You can also find our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, and I Heart Radio; pretty much wherever fine (and our) podcasts are aired. Image courtesy of:

Tim, Chris, and Harley talk about Life day, Hobbit Day and many other holidays that may or may not be real. Also Italian history, spoon magic and spam worth millions! Time Stamps 4:53 - Rec N' Rev 14:30 - Tim's “Well, Actually” 17:15 - What Did I Miss? 26:54 - Holidays We Love 48:50 - Holidays We Loathe 56:59 - Holidays of the Random Kind 1:01:08 - Holidays We Want 1:09:10 - Fan Questions 1:19:19 - Final Thoughts SHOW NOTES - HERE LEAVE A VOICEMAIL QUESTION AT ‪(254) 218-4042‬. FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND GET MORE INFO AT - HERE SUPPORT AND DONATE TO THE PODCAST - HERE CHECK OUT OUR SPOTIFY EPISODE SOUNDTRACKS - HERE --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alwaysmorepod/support

The Wade Center Podcast's six-part, in-depth exploration of The Lord of the Rings has arrived precisely when it was meant to—just in time for Tolkien Week and Hobbit Day! In this first installment, Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing, along with Producer Aaron M. Hill, discuss many of the major themes, characters, and opening chapters of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy novel about Frodo, Gandalf, Aragorn, and the Company on Nine's legendary quest through Middle-earth to destroy the Ring of Power.

It's Hobbit Day! We're rounding out a trilogy of celebrated nerd holidays and arguably the best is last. First up we talk some Ted Lasso impressions and discuss just a couple news stories before diving headfirst into Lord of the Rings like Gandalf after a Balrog! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/popcastrocks/support

We celebrate the joint birthdays of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins and describe the delicious Hobbit themed fare.

Come join us for Bilbo and Frodo's birthday as we discuss the film that launched a franchise, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Sit down with us for Breakfast, Second Breakfast, Elevenses, Luncheon, Afternoon Tea, Dinner, and Supper and find out what we love so much about this film and maybe some of what we don't love so much. Share us with your friends and family. Hit subscribe. And rate and review us wherever you get your podcasts. Intro Music by: @SozuSozin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rewound-up/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rewound-up/support

Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam all changed radically due to their adventures, and in ways that strangely mirror each other. In this video I explore how their adventures changed them—the good, the bad, and the rest. The playlist for all the videos by my fellow YouTubers is here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSSf8JTB0Nrqdd1U_JmGQcTTWFrihAN_u Other Links: Rumble at https://rumble.com/c/c-355195 Odysee: https://odysee.com/@TolkienLore:f Twitter: https://twitter.com/jrrtlore Patreon: www.patreon.com/tolkiengeek

This is Today features the stories that make this day unique. It's Wednesday, September 22, 2021, and here is what we talk about today:Autumnal Equinox – Changes Annually September 22, 2020World Rhino DayElephant Appreciation DayCar Free DayNational Online Recovery DayAmerican Business Women's DayDear Diary DayHobbit DayNational White Chocolate DayNational Legwear DayNational Girls' NightNational Centenarian's DayNational Ice Cream Cone DayYankee 413Gerald FordHelp to support this podcast:Become a Patron!Subscribe to Learning More Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Puntata dedicata al compleanno di Bilbo e Frodo per il nostro corso di inglese. Ospiti della puntata Paola Cartoceti Marta Tamburini, Enrico Spadaro. conduce la puntata Myriam Nicolini Simone Claudiani.

Today Is American Businesswomen's Day, The Autumnal Equinox,  World Car Free Day,  Chainmail Day,  Dear Diary Day,  Elephant Appreciation Day,  Hobbit Day,  Ice Cream Cone Day,  International Day of Radiant Peace,  National Centenarian's Day,  National Girls' Night In, National Falls Prevention Awareness Day,  National Leg Wear Day,  National On-line Recovery Day, National Walk n' Roll Dog Day,  National White Chocolate Day, World Rhino Day, Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network Awareness Day, and Remote Employee Appreciation Day. Celebrate each day with the It's Today Podcast. Please subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and share with everyone you know. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/Itstoday)

However You Celebrate Today, Make Sure You Save Room For Second Breakfast! Welcome to September 22nd, 2021 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate living history and small heroes with hairy feet. If you have made it to 100 years old, congratulations!  Today we celebrate you on National Centenarian's Day.  In the United States alone, there are estimated to be nearly 72,000 centenarians. The youngest of those were born after the end of World War I and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. They represent a living history full of tales not found in books and their stories animate and compliment what we already know. One of my dearest friends lived to be 104 and her stories about living through WWII still stick with me to this day.  On National Centenarian's Day, count yourself lucky if someone you love can share stories that bring history to life from their very own past. In the early 1930s, J.R.R. Tolkien created the greatest fantasy epic of all time. There were dragons, goblins, and wizards but at the heart of his stories were Hobbits. Bilbo and Frodo Baggins played a big part in saving Middle Earth, but neither was anything special. They were ordinary folk like you and me, who got caught up in something far bigger than themselves. These small creatures are meant to be stand-ins for the regular guy, and to be examples of how people can grow beyond their comfortable lives when they take risks. On Hobbit Day, you may not slay a dragon, but you can step outside your comfort zone to make a difference. And there's still time in the day for “second breakfast.”  I'm Anna Devere and I'm Marlo Anderson.  Thanks for joining us as we Celebrate Every Day.

Stephen Scourfield celebrates International Hobbit Day (Wednesday September 22) and discusses The Lord of the Rings films' enduring effects on New Zealand tourism. Will Yeoman meets Professor Leigh Simmons, author of the new book Naturalist on the Bibbulmun: A Walking Companion (UWA Publishing).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome back to the Manor!  Our episode on pub poetry the other week caused this year's Hobbit Day episode to be a bit shorter, but more creative.  Rather than go on for hours about various things, we both wrote a poem about Hobbits!  Pour a pint of your favorite Green Dragon ale and enjoy!  Happy Hobbit Day (next week)! Next week's episode is about the soundtrack to the 1981 movie Heavy Metal. Get in touch with us at Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/twinterrorsmacabremanormeadmetalmayhe/ Or on twitter: @Terrors_Manor You can also find our podcast on iTunes and Spotify and I Heart Radio and wherever fine (and our) podcasts are aired. Image courtesy of:

Welcome back to the Manor!  Pour yourself a wee dram of whiskey (or whisky, if you'd rather have Scotch than Irish or American) and listen to our tale of the actual true story of the great, flaming, building destroying, alcohol poisoning, whiskey fire that took place in Dublin, Ireland, in 1875.  Fun times! Next week's episode is our annual Hobbit Day episode!   Get in touch with us at Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/twinterrorsmacabremanormeadmetalmayhe/ Or on twitter: @Terrors_Manor You can also find our podcast on iTunes and Spotify and I Heart Radio and wherever fine (and our) podcasts are aired. Image courtesy of: wiki commons

Episode 139: Microsoft Proves Money Wins All Arguments ALL ABOARD for Crazy Train of Thought brought to you by The Idiot Savants! The best place on the internet to get breaking news, a month after it happens. Ryan Wolf sits down with a cadre of comrades including Pokèmaster Troy Osborn, Martin Freeman wannabe Samwise Romero, and Call of Duty’s own Colin Freakin’ Giffy. #CHECKALOOK at our topics: Sam tests out Prince of Persia: Sands on Time on Steam. Does it hold up? (00:03:05) Not all who wander are lost on Hobbit Day (00:11:39) We try to preorder Xboxes (00:21:03) News: Microsoft buys Bethesda/Zenimax (00:38:42) Xbox One X sales on Amazon (01:07:21) Xbox Design Lab temporarily closed for retooling (01:11:41) Thank you so much for listening! Please let us know if you enjoyed this. We don’t say it enough, but your entertainment is the reason we do this. Free Stickers - https://www.instagram.com/p/B9nZ3IQJNKE/ Website: https://www.theidiotsavants.co/ Really Cool Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/theidiotsavants?ref_id=13241 Find The Idiot Savants here: https://www.theidiotsavants.co/social Review us HERE: https://apple.co/2nXHD4p Intro Music: “Departure” by Dan Fur https://twitter.com/DanFurmusic https://spoti.fi/2lPPCzm Crazy Train of Thought Featured Music: https://spoti.fi/32rEYhY

Greetings Gunn Runner Pub Songs Podcast on the charts. New singles gaining traction. Coffee with the Celtfather is back. And finishing up the Selcouth CD. And a rant on voting. It's all on Celtfather Monthly, show #269 Before we start, I want to remind you to register to vote. It looks in most states, you have until about October 5th to register, but it does vary. And just because you think you're registered, does not mean you are. Georgia has a lawsuit against it because there were over 200,000 people illegally purged from the voting record. Go to vote.org to check your registration and to register. 0:36 - PODCASTS Four episodes of the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast were released in September, including a Celtic Women's special for Halfway to St Patrick's Day. I had a lot of great comments about that episode. Coming up is a Celtic Fusion episode and a Samhain or Celtic Halloween episode. I'm still debating how to theme the show. The first episode of the Pub Songs Podcast in September was a performance I recorded for Virtual Dragon Con. It was a fun show. Though as always, it's weird doing shows without audiences who respond. But I feel like I'm getting good at it. At the end of the month, the Pub Songs Podcast topped the Music Commentary Charts on Apple Podcasts. That's because I did the first big push I've done for the show in a LONG time. It was all a part of the Hobbit Day show I released on Sept 22. It features hobbit songs as well as the second single from the Dancing With Hobbits album I'm recording with Sam Gillogly. It's called "Brandywine River Reel". I feel like that was a good episode where I share my love of hobbit origin story. I created a couple themes for the October shows. One is about coming together. And the other is Firefly-related in time for the single release of "Tough Times" which I hope to get done before the election. It's also time to start thinking about the Celtic Christmas Podcast again. I know that sounds early for you. But in the music biz, bands should start submitting Christmas music tracks to radio and such in October. So that's one thing I hope to start on next month. 2:39 - VIDEOS I released several new video singles this month. There's one for "Whiskey in the Jar". This one is just me and the autoharp. It seemed like a good idea for a video to record since I released a single at the beginning of the month too. Another features two toy sheep I got for my daughters last summer. It's called "Sinead & Saoirse at Killarney National Park" and features the music of "Hobbit Hornpipe". The videos are all from my Celtic Invasion of Dingle last summer. We had a side trip to Killarney which was a lot of fun. And got silly too! My favorite video was "Lords of the Run". I go running with a couple friends 2-3 times per week. We decided to run in costume on the Saturday of Dragon Con to celebrate the Dragon Con parade that didn't happen this year. It was SO MUCH FUN to record. The video also features the music of "Brandywine River Reel". Coffee with The Celtfather is BACK for Season 7. This time it's on YouTube every Thursday at noon eastern. So far, I am feeling really good about the move from Facebook. Most of my regular viewers made the transition. The time seems better. Attendance feels up. And those who watch actually stick around (unlike on Facebook). Oh! As a cool bonus, I have themes for many shows. I've no problem coming with theme ideas too because of all the singles I'm releasing. So woohoo!!! I also am now notifying Coffee fans every Thursday via email. If you haven't signed up, please do so! 5:06 - IN THE STUDIO Last month, I scheduled 12 different singles I planned to release. I have new tracks coming out every 2-3 weeks through January. So far, the results are encouraging. I'll tell you more about the stats in a wee bit. But each of my singles is doing better and better. This test is looking very positive. Meanwhile, I'm still working on my next CD Selcouth. I have three new songs finished. But I still have some big tracks I need to finish recording. My goal was to release the album to fans by November. I'm starting to doubt whether I will achieve that goal. Songs that need work include: Breathing Bright Side of Everything Genetic Counseling Song By Amazing Grace? Serenity Valley Waltz Kilty Pleasure I'm so proud of all of those tracks. Which is why I find myself coming to a mental block to completing them. But I hope to make more progress tomorrow. 7:11 - MERCH The Sainted Song Hengers Collection is back in my store. This features this year's Irish & Celtic Music Podcast shirt, some pint glasses and more. It's only available for a limited time. I also added some two new USBs: Cats 'n' Celts and Rise of The Celtfather. Oh! And if you're subscribed to my mailing list, you'll get a discount code to save 15% in my store. Shop at magerecords.com. If you're a Brobdingnagian Bards fan, then you might want to pick up one of the last copies of "Songs of Ireland". We have finally almost sold out of that physical CD. I think there's only five copies left. You can get it in the Bards store. 9:12 - CELTIC TRAVEL Join my in 2021 for the Celtic Invasion of Scotland. We're staying in a castle in Helensburgh, Scotland. This is about 20 minutes from the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond. 9:32 - WEBSITES I made several updates in preparation for Halfway to St Patrick's Day to that website. I made sure all the links were updated as well as any new information. I updated lyrics for the Irish Song Lyrics website, including: "We'll Have A Pint", "Everybody Needs A Drinking Song", "Prettiest Hobbit" and "Whiskey in the Jar" since I added a new video. 10:05 - SHOWS PLANNED FOR OCTOBER THURS: Coffee with The Celtfather, YouTube (Season 7) @ 12:00 PM EST OCT 3: Interstellar Ginger Beer & Exploration Co in Alabaster, AL @ 6:00 - 8:00 PM EDT OCT 17: The Lost Druid in Decatur, GA @ 7:00 - 9:00 PM EDT OCT 22: Celtfather Live on YouTube @ 8:00 - 9 PM EDT 12:00 - STATS Mailing list subscribers = 1203 is up from 1171 Celtic Music Magazine = 4008 is up from 4003 YouTube Subscribers = 4790  is up 52 from 4738 Facebook Likes = 3759 is up from 3755 Instagram = 1851 is up from 1838 Spotify followers: 1632 is up 24 from 1608 is up 29 from 1579 # Number of listens on Spotify: 2588 is up from 2280 Latest Spotify Single Stats: "Hobbit Hornpipe" released Aug 26: 801 is up from 18 "Whiskey in the Jar" released Sept 8: 160 "Brandywine River Reel" released Sept 22: 22 Most-popular songs on Spotify: The Widow and the Devil (1.4K), Hobbit Hornpipe (789), Doctor of Gallifrey (469), A-Working in the Garden (251), Hero of Canton (200) Most-popular songs on Amazon Music: Hero of Canton (454), Doctor of Gallifrey (280), The Widow and the Devil (78), Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster (39), Bring Me Home, Boys (39) 16:33 - PATREON Patreon Subscribers: 162 is up from 159 Patreon Monthly Income: $1196 is up from $1178 We'll see what happens to those numbers when I finish this podcast on a rant. But first... Thanks as always for supporting my music. Streaming music gives you a quick and easy way to sample all of my music. Digital sales keep my business running. Tips and CD sales allow me to tour. Kickstarter funds physical products like CDs, shirts and other merch. And Patreon funds my songwriting! Join the Gunn Runners Club on Patreon to support my songwriting. You will step behind-the-scenes with new music, bonus podcasts, videos, and live concerts. 17:32 - RANT ON VOTING At the start of the podcast, I asked you to register to vote. It is absurd to say. But I feel like it's now necessary to encourage you to vote in November.  Some people are talking about voting fraud. Some are talking about foreign interference in our elections. Some don't think voting makes a difference. I want to share a few hopefully bipartisan thoughts on the topic. The statistics say that voting fraud is immaterial. Anyone who tells you otherwise is committing voter fraud by making you think your vote doesn't count. It does. So don't believe those liars. We already know that Russia and China are trying to manipulate the outcome of this election. We know that Russia succeeded in the last election. They're using social media to manipulate us. How? They share memes and fake news that appeal to you. And you end up sharing them. My suggestion. Stop. Put a moratorium on sharing news or memes until December. Instead, share who you plan to vote for and why. That said, I will vote for Joe Biden in November. And I will tell you why. I want to bring kindness back to the White House. I want stability. I want a return to Law and Order. Trump promises that but makes things worse Every time. Vice President Biden will do that. He's not the candidate I want. But he's the candidate our country needs. He's a moderate who will actively try to serve ALL Americans. Not just his people. Trump is threatening our Constitution. He said he will refuse to leave office if he loses. That is the definition of a coup. That is treason. And right now, the polls have him with a 22% chance to win. A landslide victory is the only way America will have peace and prosperity back in our nation. It's the only way Trump will willing leave and our country will remain intact. So Yes, I do want you to vote for Joe Biden in November. Our country depends on it. Thank you for supporting Sci F'Irish music at Celtfather.com! #CFMonthly

The Mandalorian Season 2 trailer is finally here! Morgan and Jeff share their shot-by-shot reactions and theories about what comes next in the adventures of Din Djarin and The Child. From possibly visiting the aquatic world of Mon Cala to whether the snowy world is Hoth, Ilum, or the planet where Ahsoka and the clones crash land, we are talking all about Mando and Baby Yoda. The Mandalorian Season 2 comes to Disney+ Friday, October 30th.Mentioned in this EpisodeSeptember 22nd is Hobbit Day - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbit_DayPenny McCarthy, hand double for Carrie Fisher, passes away - https://insidethemagic.net/2020/09/star-wars-original-trilogy-actress-passes-away-rwb1/Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passes away - https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/100306972/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87Alden Ehrenreich says news reports about Solo’s financial success were misleading -https://screenrant.com/solo-movie-alden-ehrenreich-misleading-coverage-box-office/amp/Rumors swirl that Pedro Pascal quit The Mandalorian - https://movieweb.com/amp/the-mandalorian-season-2-rumor-pedro-pascal-quit/Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge merchandise headed to shopDisney.com on September 28 - https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-galaxys-edge-shopdisneyThe Mandalorian Season 2 Trailerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW7Twd85m2gJJ Lendl, artist website - https://www.jjlendl.com/JJ Lendl on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jjlendl/Register to vote or check your voter status with HeadCount.org - https://www.headcount.org/Connect With UsIf you enjoyed this episode please subscribe, rate, and review. Your ratings and reviews help support our podcast! Don't forget to follow us on social and thank you for listening.Twitter: @ForceWorksPod; Instagram: @ForceWorksPodcastJeff: @rooksjeff (Twitter); @rooksjeff (Instagram); u/rooksjeff (Reddit)Morgan: @MorganGeeksOut (Twitter); @thegirlandthegalaxy (Instagram)Email: forceworkspod@gmail.comOur Luminous Beings LTD Etsy Store: http://luminousbeingsltd.com/

Today is Hobbit Day, so Stuff to Blow Your Mind returns to Middle Earth once more. Join Robert and Joe for a discussion of orcs and their origins both in the dark corners of the human imagination and the loathsome pits of Utumno. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Hobbit Day is here. So we’re gonna pour a pint and drink to the hobbits that we love in our lives. Welcome to the Pub Songs Podcast, the Virtual Public House for Celtic Geek culture. I am your Guide. My name is Marc Gunn. Today’s show is brought to you by my Gunn Runners on Patreon. Subscribe to the podcast and download free music when you sign up at PubSong.net. WHO'S PLAYING IN THE PUB TODAY 0:23 - SONG: “We’ll Have a Pint” from Don’t Go Drinking With Hobbits 2:15 - WELCOME -- Post a review in Apple Podcasts. -- Theme inspiration. I have singles scheduled to be released every 1-3 weeks. It’s inspiring themes for Coffee shows, podcasts, video singles. -- Upcoming releases: O’er the Way on Oct 1, Together on Oct 7, and October Waltz on Oct 14 -- New songs mixed: “Back in the Ocean” -- Video: Hobbit Drinking Songs at Dragon Con -- Irish & Celtic Music Podcast: Halfway to Celtic Women for St Patrick’s Day and Sunflower -- Irish & Celtic Song Lyrics. Do you have song chords you’d like to see on this website? Email me. -- Videos: Lords of the Run, Sinead and Saoirse at Killarney National Park TRAVEL WITH CELTIC INVASION VACATIONS. Every year, I take a small group of Celtic music fans on the relaxing adventure of a lifetime. We don't see everything. Instead, we stay in one area. We get to know the region through its culture, history, and legends. You can join us with an auditory and visual adventure through podcasts and videos. We’re going to Scotland in 2021. Join the invasion at http://celticinvasion.com/ 7:31 - STORY: The Hobbit, Hobbit Day and ALEP -- What Is Hobbit Day? -- How I fell in love with The Hobbit -- ALEP: A Long Expected Party -- Podcast: True Story of Don't Go Drinking With Hobbits -- Happy Hobbit Day Music downloads -- Videos: Hobbit Day Celebration 2019, Hobbit Songs, 13:20 - About “Brandywine River Reel” 16:28 - SONG: “Brandywine River Reel” by Marc Gunn & Sam Gillogly from Dancing With Hobbits 19:40 - JOIN THE PUB CHAT (read and see videos at bottom of notes) Celtic Geeks read. We study history. We watch geeky or Celtic TV and movies. What are you reading, learning or watching? You can send a written comment along with a picture of what you’re enjoying to marc@marcgunn.com. Chat in the Celtic Geeks group on Facebook. 22:17 - SONG: “Everybody Needs A Drinking Song” from Don’t Go Drinking With Hobbits 25:04 - UPCOMING SHOWS THURS: Coffee with The Celtfather on YouTube @ 12:00 PM Eastern More shows coming... 27:20 - SUPPORT WHAT YOU LOVE If you enjoy the music in this show, please show your support. Buy Don’t Go Drinking With Hobbits, the songbook or other merch. Follow me on streaming. And tell a friend. Streaming music gives you a quick and easy way to sample my 23 albums. Digital sales keep my business running. Tips and CD sales allow me to tour and have online concerts. Kickstarter funds the production of physical products like CDs, shirts, and other merch. And Patreon funds my songwriting! Keep me song writing. Join the Gunn Runners Club on Patreon. Follow the link in the shownotes. Special thanks to my newest patrons: LP Chan, Minchowski 28:33 - SONG: “Prettiest Hobbit” from I Will Not Sing Along and Name On My Soul Pub Songs Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn. To subscribe, go to Apple Podcasts, Spotify or to my website where you can subscribe to my mailing list. I’ll email you regular updates of new music and podcasts, special offers, and you’ll get 21 songs for free. Welcome to the pub at www.pubsong.com! #pubsongs PUB CHAT Howard Fisher emailed: "Marc, Greetings!  I first heard the wonders of Irish and Celtic music through my love of the Chieftains and the Pogues; but finding your podcasts was a revelation in more than one way. Even though I had love for the music, I had no idea that I would also find a love for the autoharp.  Almost instantly I bought one and began online zoom lessons and although the first month or so has been difficult, my autoharp and I are now in the honeymoon phase and we are both falling in love with each other daily.  Thank you for inspiring me to take this on.  Your tune "Don't Go Drinking with Hobbits" is one of the first real songs that I am working on and I love singing and playing it.  Being a Tolkien fan, I can't wait to hear your new Hobbit songs.  Thanks for all the work that you do.  Take care.  Howard"  

We're going on an adventure! But before we do, we need to eat our second breakfast.

To celebrate "Hobbit Day", today we begin Season 4 of "Pints With Jack"! This season we'll be reading through C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters". In this episode we introduce our new co-host and talk about what to expect this season...

Today on the show:-Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has died and Trump’s Republican are scrambling to replace her before the election, regardless of the rules they themselves imposed on this situation in the past.-UFC fighter Colby Covington is very upfront with his racism.-The Emmy Awards concluded last night.-The full trailer for Marvel’s WandaVision dropped […]

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to our annual Hobbit Day episode!  (Which also marks our second anniversary!)  Each year we talk about Hobbits to celebrate Bilbo and Frodo's shared birthday of September 22nd.  This year, we get into how the movies made the hobbits, especially Merry and Pippin (but a fair bit of Samwise, too) the short shrift and how much more awesome they were in the books. We also talk a bit about what we'll be doing to celebrate.  So pull a pint from the cellar and pull out your favorite pipeweed, and join us in the merriment!  (Get it? Snicker snicker.)  Let's celebrate hobbits and the ending of our second year of podcasting.   Next week's episode continues the Led Zeppelin III era.   Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/twinterrorsmacabremanormeadmetalmayhe/ Or on twitter: @Terrors_Manor Image courtesy of: promotional still of Merry and Pippin (which has been purchased by James)

Welcome to a special episode!  We wish Elvira, that most gorgeous of ghouls, the mistress of the dark, she who put the "bra" back in bravo, a happy 69th birthday.  Well, we actually go into some detail about why we love her, too. Don't worry.  There's still an episode coming out tomorrow. Next week's episode is on Hobbits!  It's our annual Hobbit Day episode, celebrating Bilbo's and Frodo's shared birthday on September 22nd (so we release that day or the Friday before).  Check it out!  We give Merry, Pippin, and Sam their due.   Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/twinterrorsmacabremanormeadmetalmayhe/ Or on twitter: @Terrors_Manor Image courtesy of Wiki Commons.

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to more Deep Purple.  To quote Dee Snider "You're Gonna Burn in Hell!"  Well, one of those words are correct for this episode.  We introduce the new bandmates into DP, making the mark III line-up and discuss their first album together, DP's 8th studio album "Burn."  It's good stuff! Next week's episode... we have two!  Thursday will be a special tribute to Elvira on her birthday and our usual Friday episode is on Hobbit Day!  Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/twinterrorsmacabremanormeadmetalmayhe/ Or on twitter: @Terrors_Manor Additional image from Jody's album library.

Jasmine Henri Jordan (Neo-Futurists) loves a party so much she wants to plan them in her afterlife, as long as she doesn't have to plan her own. She tells me about the Hobbit Day she would choose to relive over and over again, thinking she was grieving college when she just needed glasses, and poses the question, "If you hate astrology, do you also hate queer people?" Invite your enemies, just like Jasmine would to her funeral, and enjoy this episode! Follow Jasmine on IG: https://www.instagram.com/live.laugh.blood/ (@live.laugh.blood) Follow me on https://www.instagram.com/thisisdavemaher/ (IG), https://twitter.com/ThisIsDaveMaher (Twitter), and sign up for my newsletter, https://thisisdavemaher.substack.com/welcome (Hella Immaculate)! Support this podcast

The household (having recorded the episode on September 22, otherwise known as Hobbit Day) discusses which area of Middle Earth they would ideally live in. They also talk about the recent youth-led climate strikes and trending teen Greta Thunberg. Also a topic: the slimy man of the hour, Justin T (not the one married to Jessica Biel). The conversation takes a surprising turn into an exploration of grace and Pastor Karla Monterrosa blesses the congregation. Editing by Karla Monterrosa. Original cover art for this episode and theme song by April dela Noche Milne. Ad music by Blue Dot Sessions. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @qtynpodcast

Hobbit Day is Sep 22, Friend! ^^

Another special for Hobbit Day (which is in two days from this episode posting)!  Here we give our own special treatment to those much talked about people and things, Tom Bombadil and the Barrow Downs' Barrow Wights, as well as Goldberry and the Old Forest.  What we liked, who they are, why it's okay that they weren't in the movies, and much more.  Grab a pint and a pipe and enjoy!   Image:  we were going to sneak in an awesome Barrow Downs image, but we couldn't get the right (we don't want to steal copyright if we can help it).  We've also used pretty much all our book cover images of Tom.  So here's a picture of James' Hobbit Day celebrations from 2018.

Tomorrow, we are Halfway to St Patrick’s Day. September 17 marks the six month occasion which gets us to the biggest modern Celtic holiday of the year. We’re celebrating with quite a bit more Celtic music on the Pub Songs Podcast. Marc Gunn & Jamie Haeuser, The Gothard Sisters, Brobdingnagian Bards, The Selkie Girls, Gwendolyn Snowdon, Brendan Loughrey, Heather Dale, The Doubleclicks, Battlelegs, Poitin, Liz Madden, Burning Bridget Cleary, The Muckers, Dylan Foley, Melanie Gruben, Brobdingnagian Bards Welcome to the Pub Songs Podcast, the Virtual Public House for Celtic Geek culture. My name is Marc Gunn. I am a Celtic Geek musician and your guide to honoring our past and adapting for our future. Today’s show is brought to you by my Gunn Runners on Patreon. Your generous pledge of $5 per month allow me to create music, podcasts, and my weekly video show, Coffee with The Celtfather. Thank you! If you have comments or want to chat in the pub, then I want your feedback. What are you doing today while listening to the Pub Songs Podcast? How has this show inspired you? Send a written comment along with any pictures to marc@marcgunn.com. Use the hashtag #pubsongs in the subject of your email. Cead mile failte! PubSong.net WHO'S PLAYING IN THE PUB TODAY 0:16 - "Gypsy Rover" by Marc Gunn & Jamie Haeuser from How America Saved Irish Music 3:29 - WELCOME. You may not realize it, but there are time stamps in the shownotes of each episode. If there’s a song you enjoy, you can easily listen to it over and over again. If you don’t like it, skip to the next song. I’m pretty sure this feature works in most podcatchers. Find out more about the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast here. 4:37 - "Rose, Marie and Heather" by The Gothard Sisters from Midnight Sun 8:00 - "Johnny Jump Up" by Brobdingnagian Bards from Gullible's Travels 11:31 - "Why Should I Cry" by The Selkie Girls from Long Time Traveling 16:49 - HALFWAY TO ST PATRICK’S DAY STORY AND MUSIC. We are just six months away from St Patrick’s Day. That’s the biggest holiday of all Celtic musicians, even us fringe Celtic Geek musicians like me. Cool Articles: Top 10 Halfway to St Patrick’s Day Songs How to Celebrate Halfway to St Patrick’s Day? Pub Songs Podcast Episodes: Halfway to St Patrick's Day Pub Songs #160 Hobbit Day, Halfway to St. Patrick's Day, and Talk Like a Pirate Day #107 St Patrick’s Day Podcast 6 Months to St Patrick’s Day: This actually predates my knowledge of Halfway to St Patrick’s Day, I think, but it started on September 17, 2011 Irish & Celtic Music Podcast Episodes: Halfway to St Patrick’s Day #325 Halfway to St Patrick’s Day Podcast #275 Halfway to St Patrick’s Day #224 Halfway to St Patrick’s Day #145 And of course if you’re looking for more St Patrick’s Day music, I have a whole website dedicated to it, including more podcasts, video concerts, free Irish music downloads and more. 18:42 - "The Next Market Day" by Gwendolyn Snowdon from Three Strand Braid 21:42 - "Sean South" by Brendan Loughrey from To Those Who Fell 24:16 - "Mordred's Lullaby" by Heather Dale from Avalon 28:55 - BEHIND THE MUSIC: Inclusion versus exclusion. From traditional Irish music to filk circles. 44:10 - TRAVEL WITH CELTIC INVASION VACATIONS. Every year, I take a small group of Celtic music fans on the relaxing adventure of a lifetime. We don't see everything. Instead, we stay in one area. We get to know the region through its culture, history, and legends. You can join us with an auditory and visual adventure through podcasts and videos. 2020 is the Origins of Celtic Invasions. You can find out more about this exciting trip. Join the invasion at http://celticinvasion.com/ 44:59 - "Ennui (On We Go)" by The Doubleclicks from Dimetrodon 48:07 - "Another Round For Us" by Battlelegs from The Very Best of Battlelegs, Vol. 1 50:15 - "St Patrick's Day Polkas" by Poitin from Irish Celtic Music and Bofiguifluki 56:32 - "Banks of the Ohio" by Liz Madden from My Irish Home 59:48 - UPCOMING SHOWS * Sep 21: Pepper Place Farmer’s Market, Birmingham, AL * Sep 27-28: Browncoat Ball, Las Vegas, NV * Oct 11: Interstellar Ginger Beer & Exploration Co., Alabaster, AL * Oct 12: Brennan’s Irish Pub, Birmingham, AL * Coffee with The Celtfather, Wednesdays at 10:30 am EST on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube 1:00:45 - "The Elfin Knight" by Burning Bridget Cleary from Totes for Goats 1:04:28 - "The Widow and the Devil" by Marc Gunn from Kilted For Her Pleasure 1:07:48 - "One More Stout" by The Muckers from One More Stout 1:11:28 - "The Discontented Man / Crabs in the Skillet / Dancing Eyes" by Dylan Foley from Deliriously Happy 1:16:17 - "Irish Fire" by Melanie Gruben from Single 1:21:16 - THIS PODCAST IS LISTENER SUPPORTED. If you enjoy visiting the pub, please join the Gunn Runners Club to get more podcasts, videos, bootleg concerts, and exclusive MP3s. Special thanks to my newest patron: Andrew H., Bill M., David & Paulette G., Alan D, Moose Thank you for so kindly supporting my music. Go to marcgunn.net to join the Gunn Runners on Patreon today. Let's make a friendlier world. If you enjoy the music in this show, support the artists. Buy their music and merch. Follow them on Spotify. Let them know how much you love what they are doing. And tell a friend. Now when I say “tell a friend”, what I’m talking about is creating a viral sensation. Every now and then, I listen to a song like Melanie Gruben’s song “Irish Fire”. I am blown away by the songwriting and her incredible voice. Because of it, I tell you. I recorded that track and shared it with you. That’s what it means to go viral. So if there’s something that moves you, please do the same. You can tell a friend one-on-one or by email or in rave about it on social. Whatever. Your excitement and enthusiasm is contagious. So get excited and share your excitement. 1:23:34 - "Seven Drunken Nights in Hobbiton" by Brobdingnagian Bards from I Will Not Sing Along Pub Songs Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn. To subscribe, go to Apple Podcasts, Spotify or to my website where you can join the Gunn Runners Club on Patreon and support my music and this podcast. I’ll also email regular updates of new videos, podcasts, stories behind the songs, plus 21 songs for free. Welcome to the pub!  www.pubsong.net.

Welcome to the Manor and the second of our "what we do on a holiday" special, this time for Hobbit Day!  Join us, as we celebrate both Bilbo's and Frodo's birthdays on September 22nd.  We wanted to get this episode out a bit early, so you can prepare yourself.   So listen on, if you want ideas on how to celebrate.  Of course, since it's us, it definitely involves reading and/or drinking, but there's lots more! Picture:  part of James' 2017 Hobbit Day festivities.  Yes, he had already decorated for Halloween.

A tangent episode in which Kaisha, Kelsey and Dylan celebrate Hobbit Day in style. Join us fireside as we try to stump Dylan with LOTR trivia. We chat about the problem with knowing more than the question is asking in trivia competitions. Dylan talks about backing out of Trivia Night because he didn’t want to go to Lord of the Rings trivia alone and win. We revel in Kaisha’s regal authoritative voice. We learn the danger in doubting Dylan. You can find full show notes on www.readwriterepeatpod.com.

Elendil!!! We are introduced to Éomer, Third Marshal of the Riddermark, and the Riders of Rohan in chapter II of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Two Towers. Special thanks to everyone who came out to see us in Amanda, OH and all those who celebrated Hobbit Day around the world. The Bywater Post: please send your "Tolkien Stories" to anunexpectedpod@gmail.com We will read and share those on the podcast! You can also leave us a voicemail by calling: (740) 422-9395 [3 min max]. Feel free to ask us a question, read a chapter summary, sing a song, or tell your story! Join the group discussion at https://www.facebook.com/uptalkintolkien The reread will continue on October 14th! Make sure to read Chapter III If you'd like to support the show and get access to additional Middle Earth content then hit us up at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/uptalkintolkien Patreon exclusive podcast series include:  There and Back Again – Lane’s travelog for New Zealand traveling LOTR fans Peekin’ in the Palantir- Predictions about the show/future of middle earth Hobbit's Guide to Middle Earth – Middle Earth history discussions

They found him resting! Boromir's time has come and he has paid a great price as we discuss chapter I of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Two Towers. Special thanks to everyone who came out to see us in Amanda, OH and all those who celebrated Hobbit Day around the world. The Bywater Post: please send your "Tolkien Stories" to anunexpectedpod@gmail.com We will read and share those on the podcast! You can also leave us a voicemail by calling: (740) 422-9395 [3 min max]. Feel free to ask us a question, read a chapter summary, sing a song, or tell your story! Join the group discussion at https://www.facebook.com/uptalkintolkien The reread will continue on October 7th! Make sure to read Chapter II If you'd like to support the show and get access to additional Middle Earth content then hit us up at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/uptalkintolkien Patreon exclusive podcast series include:  There and Back Again – Lane’s travelog for New Zealand traveling LOTR fans Peekin’ in the Palantir- Predictions about the show/future of middle earth Hobbit's Guide to Middle Earth – Middle Earth history discussions

Hosts Shane, Randy, and Will celebrate Hobbit Day b packing upthe Gandalf pipe with some Rule 1 and playing The Hobbit board game!

In today's Hobbit Day episode, I discuss the nature of gift giving for Hobbits and make some comments and suggestions about the nature of gift exchange. Also mentioned in this episode are theologian John Milbank and essayist G.K. Chesterton

Did you know that September 22nd is Hobbit Day?

The World Ending, Hobbit Day, Finding a Perfect PErson, No Moral Finish Line, Girl Waving Story, Church Politics, McFinderson's, God Chooses "Those" People, Mordor Family Feud, Forgiveness, Hansen vs. Hanson, The Soul, Breaking Animal News;

In occasione dello #HobbitDay, la nostra associazione è stata invitata presso la Locanda della Contea di Montalenghe (TO) a tenere una conferenza sulla prima importante pubblicazione del prof. J.R.R. Tolkien, Lo Hobbit appunto, a 80 anni dalla sua pubblicazione. Intervengono Chiara Nejrotti, Renzo Caimotto, Luisa Paglieri e Emanuele Manfredi. Presenta Luca Catalano, titolare della locanda e membro fondatore degli Ainur. Un giorno il professor Tolkien, durante la correzione di alcuni elaborati dei suoi allievi, si distrasse e scribacchiò su un foglio: “in un buco nel terreno viveva uno Hobbit”: da quest’episodio sarebbe nato il racconto che lo avrebbe reso famoso e che avrebbe poi portato all’opera maggiore: Il Signore degli Anelli. Tolkien stesso nelle sue lettere, dichiarò di non sapere assolutamente chi o che cosa fosse uno hobbit, mentre scriveva quelle parole apparentemente senza senso; soltanto in seguito nacquero La Contea e Bilbo Baggins. Ma come si situa la creazione de Lo Hobbit all’interno dell’opera tolkieniana? Se i legami presenti con Il Signore degli Anelli sono evidenti, vi sono tuttavia anche notevoli differenze tra la visione epica del secondo ed il tono più scanzonato, da romanzo per ragazzi, del primo. Diversi elementi inoltre, e in primo luogo l’Anello, cambiano completamente il proprio ruolo e la propria funzione. Lo Hobbit non è il “prequel” dell’opera principale, ma un romanzo con caratteristiche proprie che ha costituito il passaggio di congiunzione tra i racconti della Prima Era narrati nel Silmarillion e la produzione, apparentemente minore, di racconti e ballate che l’Autore scrisse innanzitutto per divertire i propri figli. Inoltre vi sono in esso tracce di una concezione più vicina al folklore del racconto popolare, anche se la grande epica già vi fa capolino. Un romanzo apparentemente semplice, che invece nasconde in sé numerosi percorsi da scoprire per poter comprendere meglio l’unità dell’intera opera tolkieniana. Nella nostra tavola rotonda ci metteremo insieme in cammino alla loro ricerca.

In occasione dello #HobbitDay, la nostra associazione è stata invitata presso la Locanda della Contea di Montalenghe (TO) a tenere una conferenza sulla prima importante pubblicazione del prof. J.R.R. Tolkien, Lo Hobbit appunto, a 80 anni dalla sua pubblicazione. Intervengono Chiara Nejrotti, Renzo Caimotto, Luisa Paglieri e Emanuele Manfredi. Presenta Luca Catalano, titolare della locanda e membro fondatore degli Ainur. Un giorno il professor Tolkien, durante la correzione di alcuni elaborati dei suoi allievi, si distrasse e scribacchiò su un foglio: “in un buco nel terreno viveva uno Hobbit”: da quest'episodio sarebbe nato il racconto che lo avrebbe reso famoso e che avrebbe poi portato all'opera maggiore: Il Signore degli Anelli. Tolkien stesso nelle sue lettere, dichiarò di non sapere assolutamente chi o che cosa fosse uno hobbit, mentre scriveva quelle parole apparentemente senza senso; soltanto in seguito nacquero La Contea e Bilbo Baggins. Ma come si situa la creazione de Lo Hobbit all'interno dell'opera tolkieniana? Se i legami presenti con Il Signore degli Anelli sono evidenti, vi sono tuttavia anche notevoli differenze tra la visione epica del secondo ed il tono più scanzonato, da romanzo per ragazzi, del primo. Diversi elementi inoltre, e in primo luogo l'Anello, cambiano completamente il proprio ruolo e la propria funzione. Lo Hobbit non è il “prequel” dell'opera principale, ma un romanzo con caratteristiche proprie che ha costituito il passaggio di congiunzione tra i racconti della Prima Era narrati nel Silmarillion e la produzione, apparentemente minore, di racconti e ballate che l'Autore scrisse innanzitutto per divertire i propri figli. Inoltre vi sono in esso tracce di una concezione più vicina al folklore del racconto popolare, anche se la grande epica già vi fa capolino. Un romanzo apparentemente semplice, che invece nasconde in sé numerosi percorsi da scoprire per poter comprendere meglio l'unità dell'intera opera tolkieniana. Nella nostra tavola rotonda ci metteremo insieme in cammino alla loro ricerca.

It's a surprise bonus Hobbit Day episode of "Lights. Camera. Reaction!" Logan, Kelly, Charles, and Caitlin sit down and discuss the 2001 epic fantasy "The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring". Directed by: Peter Jackson Written by: Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson | Based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellan, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, John Rhys-Davies, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Bean, Cate Blanchett, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Liv Tyler, Hugo Weaving

Dit is de vierde moopisode uit onze Moovies Podcast. We bespreken de The Lord of the Rings films ter ere van Hobbit Day en Tolkien Week. Hopelijk kunnen jullie het smaken! Stay tuned!

Hobbit Day is on September 22nd. We're gonna celebrate it with the true story behind my popular song and album "Don't Go Drinking With Hobbits". I'll share the origins of Hobbit Day and how I fell in love with The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings as well all of the exciting things that have happened due to my love of hobbits. Subscribe to my mailing list for a free hobbit song and to the podcast at http://celtfather.com/. What's in this Week's Show Origins of Hobbit Day How I Discovered Hobbits Halflings and D&D Psychology of a hobbit The facts as I remember them of the truth behind "Don't Go Drinking With Hobbits" Origins of Memories of Middle earth How you can have a happy hobbit birthday Hobbit Resources Mentioned Don't Go Drinking With Hobbits CD Memories of Middle earth CD How to Have a Hobbit Birthday eBook Tolkien Society Review of our LOTR Oscar Party. (Oh! I just saw this feature of Brobdingnagian Bards in the Austin Chronicle, but it's unrelated) Hobbit Birthday Song A Long Expected Party Listen to Don't Go Drinking With Hobbits on the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast More Hobbit Songs .com Celtfather News New Single: "The Long Arm" from the upcoming album As Long As I'm Flyin'. Watch the lyric video for "The Long Arm". The single is out on September 21, 2017. Watch The Mercenary Show on Concert Window on Thursday evening. Details here. One song left to finish for my Browncoat album Check out my Halfway to St Patrick's Day shows on the Pub Songs Podcast and the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. Also check out Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast where he talks about the Celtic Holocaust. I blogged a bunch this week. Check out what I wrote here. Get Brobdingnagian Bards new album Dragons and Virgins. You can only buy it in September. You can also get 5 Classic Marc Gunn CDs for just $24. Huge thanks to New Patrons in the Gunn Runners Club: Anita Gorrell, Raeyln Bangel, Matthew MacMillan, Linda Reynolds-Burkins, Justin Lawrence, Robyn Louise Finner, Tom Smith, Robert Eby, Evan Meehan. You can support my music and travels for as little as $1 per month when you join the Gunn Runners Club and become a patron of my music. If you enjoy this show, subscribe to the podcast and my mailing list at celtfather.com.

We've known each other for a long time, y'all - and as Joe and Devori prepare to head west to celebrate Hobbit Day (one of our longest traditions as friends) we thought you might want to more know more about Hobbit Day! Or not! It's really up to you, we guess. But please listen to this short anyway.

We've known each other for a long time, y'all - and as Joe and Devori prepare to head west to celebrate Hobbit Day (one of our longest traditions as friends) we thought you might want to more know more about Hobbit Day! Or not! It's really up to you, we guess. But please listen to this short anyway.

Which phrase is more appealing to you? At Dragon Con, Mikey Mason and I were talking about this branding topic. He calls his music Geek Comedy Rock. I call mine Celtic Geek. We obviously prefer the term Geek music over Nerd music. But the NerdCore genre has Nerd Music taking off around the country. Would it be better to use "Nerd music"?  Whether it's called Nerd or Geek, it's all great fun. Music from Marc Gunn, Tom Smith, Rambling Sailors, Bill & Brenda Sutton, Brobdingnagian Bards, The Blibbering Humdingers, Aurelio Voltaire, Mikey Mason, Devo Spice.   Pub Talk Now September 22nd is Hobbit Day, and I'm planning a Hobbit Drinking Songs on Concert Window. It's a free concert you can watch anywhere in the world. What struck me about Hobbit Day is that September seems to be Celtic Geek month. Septmber 17th is Halfway to St. Patrick's Day. September 19th is Talk Like a Pirate Day. September 22nd is Hobbit Day. Actually September 17-24th is Tolkien Week. So there's a lot of geekiness to celebrate this month. That said, I am hoping to get 100 people to say they are interested in attending my Hobbit Drinking Songs show on Facebook Event page. So if you're interested, please let me know. Then share the event page and the video so others might know about the big day. My former bandmate, Andrew McKee, finally has a mailing list. Head to his website at andrewmckee.com to subscribe and find out about his new album. If you want to get an early copy, you can also pickup the all new Ludicrous Drive of the Brobdingnagian Bards. It features all 13 of our albums, plus, videos and some live concerts, all in a spiffy, laser-engraved, wooden USB drive. Kilted Kings launched our Kickstarter for "Name On My Soul". We hit our initial goal. We're just $204 away from our stretch goal. Check out The Celtfather podcast if you want to find out more about the songs on the album. Will you help? I want to thank all of my patrons. Inspired by the growing success of my fan club, I setup my first Milestone in over a year. It's a 30 minute morning concert on Facebook Live with songs picked by patrons. It costs as little as $1 per month to become a patron, and you'll get bonus blogs, podcasts, videos and more. A big thanks to our newest patrons: Scot Mealy, Blair Holley, Kerry Komai, David C. Newport, Russell Thornes, Scott & Melanie Wienhusen, Beth Copenhaver. Become a Patron Today. Because music is happiness!   Who's Playing the Pub Today 0:12 "Don't Go Drinking With Hobbits" by Marc Gunn from Don't Go Drinking With Hobbits 6:40 "Talk Like a Pirate Day" by Tom Smith from Greatest Hits 12:10 "Mary Ellen Spider" by Rambling Sailors from Ports of Call 16:00 "Where's My Flying Car?" by Bill & Brenda Sutton from And They Said It Wouldn't Last 18:55 "Angel's Lament" by Brobdingnagian Bards from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales 22:37 Pub Songs News 25:31 "Natural 20" by The Blibbering Humdingers from Free Awkward Hugs 29:35 "Docking Bay 94" by Aurelio Voltaire from Bitrektual 34:17 "Han Solo Cool" by Mikey Mason from Barbarian Jetpack 38:20 "Who Is the Doctor?" by Devo Spice from I Am the Doctor "Doctor of Gallifrey" by Marc Gunn from Sci Fi Drinking Songs A couple things before we finish, would you like to get a short email from me, every week or two where I tell you what's new with my music and share some cool Celtic and Geek things I find online, plus get a free album of my music? If you want to receive that, sign up at www.celtictop5.com. A special thanks to my Gunn Runners on Patreon. You can support my music and podcasts for as little as $1 per month. The Pub Songs Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather. If you enjoyed this episode, then please post a review on iTunes or your favorite podcatcher. As always support the musicians who support this podcast, buy their CDs, and then tell your friends to visit pubsong.com.

This month, the Pub Songs Podcast is dedicated to the dragons who deserve protection. You'll hear some music from my new CD, Pirates vs. Dragons, plus some dragons songs from Brobdingnagian Bards, Boogie Knights, Gallamor The Bard, TheLoneGunman, Tania Opland and Mike Freeman's collaboration with Anne McCaffrety, and Dan the Bard. Pub Talk Pirates vs. Dragons topped the charts, climbing as high as #9 on the Top Now charts where it stayed for most of August. The album is still on sale at savedragons.com. The Medieval Virgin Join me on Concert Window on Hobbit Day, that's Thursday, September 22, 2016. I'm doing a free internet concert. The Louisiana Renaissance Festival is my home faire. They endured two devastating floods this year. The first was called hundred year flood, happening the spring. The latest is being called a 500 year flood, because it's a near impossibility that this would happen. Nevertheless, the festival was covered in 27 feet of water. Much of the faire was submerged. There's just over two months before the festival will open. They need your support to make that happen. There are three ways you can help: 1. DONATE at http://unbouncepages.com/renfest/ 2. BUY TICKETS NOW 3. LIKE my Facebook VIDEO and SHARE it with all of your friends. And ask for their help. Kilted Kings are launching a Kickstarter for our debut album "Name On My Soul". It closes on Sept 27, 2016. The music is already recorded. But we need your help to pay for duplication of the CD. Go to KiltedKings.com to support us. Big thanks to all my new Patrons on Patreon. I want to send out a special thanks to Virginia Hagan, Christopher Cornette, Andrea Lucia, Jeff Lane, Schellie Neill, Jen Wallace, Keri Hamlin, Kate Dempsey, Alexis, Elaine Hogendorfer, and Chrysilla. Thank you all for being Patrons of My Music. I made a big change to my patron site this month. There's only one level. You can pledge as little as $1 per month and get all of the content you could possibly hope for. This is an amazing way to support my music. Go to marcgunn.net for details. Brobdingnagian Bards at DragonCon   Who's Playing the Pub Today 0:12 "The Truth About Dragons" by Marc Gunn from Pirates vs. Dragons 3:33 "Do Virgins Taste Better Medley" by Brobdingnagian Bards from Live: Nex Monoceroti, Per Risibus 8:52 "The Virgin Diet" by Marc Gunn from What Color Is Your Dragon? 11:46 "Do Pirates Taste Better" by Marc Gunn from Pirates vs. Dragons 18:00 "Dragons Feed Tonight" by Boogie Knights from Cavalier Attitude 20:17 "Dragon For Sale" by Gallamor the Bard from Gather Day 23:02 "Momma Won't Let Me Have a Dragon for a Pet" by TheLoneGunman from Knights, Princesses, and the Dragons That Come Between Them 24:52 "Dragon Lady" by Tania Opland and Mike Freeman from The Masterharper of Pern 26:56 "The Red Dragon Inn" by Dan the Bard from Epic Lute "Keep Them Soaring" by Marc Gunn from Pirates vs. Dragons A couple things before we finish, would you like to get a short email from me, every week or two where I tell you what's new with my music and share some cool Celtic and Geek things I find online, plus get a free album of my music? If you want to receive that, sign up at www.celtictop5.com. A special thanks to my Gunn Runners on Patreon. You can support my music and podcasts for as little as $1 per month. The Pub Songs Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather. If you enjoyed this episode, then please post a review on iTunes or your favorite podcatcher. As always support the musicians who support this podcast, buy their CDs, and then tell your friends to visit pubsong.com.

September 22 is Hobbit Day, the day that both Bilbo and Frodo were born according to The Lord of the Rings. It is celebrated by fans of the series by having banquets and parties in the fashion of the opening of the Fellowship of the Rings or some may just go barefoot in honor of Hobbits. Also on the 22nd are the independence day of both Bulgaria and Mali from the Ottoman Empire and France respectively.

Geek Improvement Podcast Episode 23 Hobbit Day, the Mythgard Institute, the Siege of Orgrimmar and more on this week’s episode! Zac may be MIA, but we’ve got two of Geek Improvement’s own to keep his seat warm. Click here to download the podcast directly. You can follow us on Twitter: @geekimprovement, send us an email: podcast@geekimprovement.com or call in at 65 RING GEEK (657-464-4335). We’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions for topics! Drop us a line! Show Notes: Hobbit Day on September 22nd - http://legendarium.mymiddleearth.com/2013/09/19/heath-dill-hosting-hobbit-day-on-middle-earth-network/ Medium Rare & Back Again - http://dilliciousfoods.com/product/uncategorized/medium-rare-back-again-hardcover-pre-order/ Lord of the Rings Subway Signs  - http://puckworks.blogspot.com/ via: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=569796133055996&set=a.291674244201521.63650.160617097307237&type=1&theater The Mythgard Institute - http://www.mythgard.org/ and http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-mythgard-institute The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ_duzQzS1I Database of futuristic UIs - http://www.noteloop.com/kit/fui/ Gravity - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiTiKOy59o4 Spoonflower - http://www.spoonflower.com/ Shadow: Community of Dreamers - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hunterleesoik/shadow-community-of-dreamers Breaking Bad Rock Candy - http://foodbeast.com/2013/08/14/how-to-make-breaking-bad-meth-candy/ Guild Launch - http://www.guildlaunch.com/ Siege of Orgrimmar Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slzQOyS5TqQ Mass Effect: Paragon Lost - http://masseffectparagonlost.com/ Marvel Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. starts Tuesday, 8 PM ET on ABC - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3T-evQZiQo

It is a first-time "group episode" as Prof. Corey Olsen, Dave Kale, and Trish Lambert are joined by a panel of analysts and experts who are playing the prediction. Broadcast as part of the Middle-earth Network Hobbt Day festivities, the panel conversation centered on the new movie trailer, covering critical issues that included spider legs, tree roots, Fabio Bilbo, and hedgehog acupressure.

This Day in Skepticism: Golden Tablets and Hobbit Day; News Items: Warp Drive, Bad Science Reporting, Dark Energy Camera, Crowdsourcing Science, Spheres on Mars, CSICon 2012; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Blue Moon and Frances; Science or Fiction

This Day in Skepticism: Golden Tablets and Hobbit Day; News Items: Warp Drive, Bad Science Reporting, Dark Energy Camera, Crowdsourcing Science, Spheres on Mars, CSICon 2012; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Blue Moon and Frances; Science or Fiction

This a busy month for cool events. Sept 17th is Halfway to St. Patrick's Day. Sept 19th is Talk Like a Pirate Day, and Sept 22nd is Hobbit Day. Which to celebrate? How about all of them?! News: Help Me TOP THE CHARTS! Sign up to send "Don't Go Drinking With Hobbits" to the Top of the Charts Special Feature on Don't Go Drinking With Hobbits Halfway to St. Patrick's Day Live Sci Fi Drinking Songs Show Live from DragonCon Coming Soon! Working on eBooks: Music marketing and cat children's books New Video: Listen to "La La La (Geek-Style)" by Marc Gunn on YouTube Celtic Music CD: Save 50% off Kilted for HIS Pleasure Celtic Invasion of Scotland: I don't drink, is that a problem? Upcoming shows: Wkd, Sep 22-23, Sherwood Celtic Music Festival in Paige, TXWkd, Oct 5-7, CONTRAflow in New OrleansWkd, Oct 12-14, Con-Stellation 2012 in Huntsville, AlabamaWkd, Oct 19-21, Stone Mountain Highland Games in Stone Mountain Park, GAAll Six Weekends of Louisiana Renaissance Festival CONFIRMED Music: "Whiskey Johnny" by Captain Black Jack Murphyfrom Pogue Mahone Means Kiss My Arse "Don't Go Drinking With Hobbits" by Marc Gunnfrom Don't Go Drinking with Hobbits "Old Dun Cow" by Brobdingnagian Bardsfrom Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales "A Cat Named Rover" by Marc Gunnfrom Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers "Parting Glass" by Marc Gunnfrom Soul of a Harper 4 Ways to Support the Pub Songs Podcast If this show entertained, you can return the favor after listening to each show: Buy Marc a Pint at PubSong.com, Buy one of Marc Gunn's CDs, Follow the links above to order music on CD Baby, or Click this link to buy anything on amazon.

September 22 is Hobbit Day! It's the day Bilbo Baggins and Frodo celebrated their birthday at the beginning of Fellowship of the Rings. You can celebrate the occasion with music from the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. I shared the entire album in show #128 in 2012. If you enjoy it, you can go to http://hobbitsongs.com/ to buy all of my hobbit songs. Listen and subscribe to the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast at http://celticmusicpodcast.com/. This week’s show is a special feature on Marc Gunn’s latest album Don’t Go Drinking With Hobbits. While you can enjoy the album in its entirety for free, I want to ask a special favor from you. At noon CST on September 22, 2012, I want to push the title track “Don’t Go Drinking With Hobbits” to the Top of the Charts on Amazon and iTunes. I need your help. If you enjoy the album or the title track, please consider buying the single and/or the album on that day, at that time. Your simple purchase will help to push this single and album to the top of the charts and will also help promote Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit movie in December. All it takes is a mere 99 cents a little bit of time. If you can’t remember to buy it on that date, then sign up to my personal Top the Charts mailing list (not the same as the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast Top the Charts list) at celticmusic.org/DontGoDrinkingWithHobbits/. And whether you plan to buy the single or not, share the URL above with your friends. Anyone who loves the The Hobbit or fantasy music or sci fi conventions or Renaissance festivals will love this album. So share, share, share. Your simple contribution will go a long way to helping me change the way you hear Celtic music. Buy on iTunes Buy on Amazon Tracks A Working in the Garden Scouring the Shire Don’t Go Drinking With Hobbits Elves The Ring of Hope Prancing Pony Said the Horse to the Hobbit Let’s Get Drunk Tonite Everybody Needs a Drinking Song Rose We’ll Have a Pint of Stout The Shire Polkas A Well-Dressed Hobbit Hobbit Birthday Song Bilbo’s Farewell Wildflowers of Party Field Cat and Rat Do You Fancy a Drink? The Hobbit Journey Home Raise a Glass in Parting Podcasts Sharing This Show I’m looking for other podcasts interested in sharing this show on their podcast feeds. Let me know when you post it and I’ll get you added to the roll call. Thanks! Pub Songs Podcast Renaissance Festival Podcast