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The battle for Middle-earth rages on as Philosophy in Film journeys into The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. This episode delves into the shifting alliances, moral dilemmas, and heroic struggles that define the second chapter of Peter Jackson's legendary trilogy. Craig sounds the Horn of Helm's Deep with Producer's Notes (9:02), while Alain embarks on a perilous march through Synopsis Pass (19:35), charting the intertwined fates of Frodo, Aragorn, and the fractured Fellowship. Chris then lights the way in Philosopher's Corner (42:38), exploring Sam's rally of resilience, perseverance, and the fight for a better world. The Round Table (50:34) charges headfirst into the film's depiction of war, corruption, and perseverance, before Reviews (1:48:24) and #Mailbag (1:58:28) bring messages from the realm of listeners. As always, we discuss the philosophical and non-philosophical aspects of the movie—because when all hope seems lost, sometimes the smallest light can guide the way. TWO Featured Beers by Born Brewing Co. (Calgary, Alberta) 1 - Early Dawn Earl Grey Pale Ale 2 - Chasing Daylight Black IPA Sponsor this episode: Magic Mind - www.magicmind.com/pif20 Use CODE: PIF20 at checkout to receive 20% off any 1-time purchase, or 48% off your first subscription!
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Tendremos hoy un programa de sobre la obra “La Traición de Isengard” de J.R.R. Tolkien y Christopher Tolkien. En este diremos cosas sobre esta obra, tocaremos un poco fragmentos y no diremos citas en ninguna ocasión excepto a través de varios poemas. LOCUTOR Y DIRECTOR: Miguel A. Mateos Carreira GUION: Miguel A. Mateos Carreira y Club Aratar de Galicia (Miguel C. Gómez) MUSICA: GarageBand Este programa está libre de citas del libros salvo las referencias obvias y necesarias a los capítulos, secciones y similares. Para las referencias de las posibles citas explicamos como va el tema en la presentación, pero para los despistados se dirá el número de página de la edición que usamos (en este caso la de Minotauro de 1993) y si es preciso la línea o líneas y en caso de notas se dirá la Nota 1 de la página 239, por ejemplo. Citas autorizadas. 1. Por referencia a esta publicación orixinal en citas. Juliá, Eulalía y Müller, Maria Clarudia (2023). "Haiku por Navidad". Sevilla. Hotaru. La Senda del Haiku.
Tendremos hoy un programa de sobre la obra “La Traición de Isengard” de J.R.R. Tolkien y Christopher Tolkien. En este diremos cosas sobre esta obra, tocaremos un poco fragmentos y no diremos citas en ninguna ocasión excepto a través de varios poemas. LOCUTOR Y DIRECTOR: Miguel A. Mateos Carreira GUION: Miguel A. Mateos Carreira y Club Aratar de Galicia (Miguel C. Gómez) MUSICA: GarageBand Este programa está libre de citas del libros salvo las referencias obvias y necesarias a los capítulos, secciones y similares. Para las referencias de las posibles citas explicamos como va el tema en la presentación, pero para los despistados se dirá el número de página de la edición que usamos (en este caso la de Minotauro de 1993) y si es preciso la línea o líneas y en caso de notas se dirá la Nota 1 de la página 239, por ejemplo.
Danny and Kevin do! They also remember Edoras, and the Watcher in the Water, and oliphaunts, and eagles, and Saruman, and Isengard, and the song Eowyn sings in the expanded edition of The Two Towers when Theodred is buried. They remember all of these things from much better movies than the newest entry in the Lord of the Rings cinematic universe: The War of the Rohirrim. New Line Cinema and Warner Brothers hoped other LOTR fans also remembered these things and wanted to see a two hour and fifteen minute long movie to learn how Helm's Deep received its moniker. They were shockingly mistaken as no one is going to theaters to see this animated picture. Don't fret if you miss this at your local cinema, as this flick will soon be where it was meant to be: streaming on Max! Follow us on Instagram and email us at coffeeanddeathsticks@gmail.com
LOTR The Two Towers is lauded as everyone's favourite movie in the series, but does it hold up 20 years on? This week, Tommy and DL discuss the good, the bad and the wizardly of the classic series from the early 2000s. ***********************Time Codes:Intro0:31What have you been up to?7:08Red Rising Book 3 *SPOILERS START*11:07Red Rising Book 3 *SPOILERS END*20:48MAIN TOPIC: LOTR The Two Towers **FULL SPOILERS**21:03Stupid Plot Summary23:33Cast & Crew24:31Everything just works29:16CGI34:18World-Building37:33Performances38:58Helm's Deep45:52Wow, this is really GUD49:34Tones & Themes53:333 Best & 3 Worst55:00Critical Reception1:00:44Better or Worse than Aquaman (2018)?1:02:16Trivia True or False1:03:04Wrap-Up1:06:50Main Topic:The Two Towers has the fellowship broken, following two pairs of hobbits and the man-elf-dwarf dream team on separate journeys to save Middle-Earth.The cast couldn't be stronger, and the effects more seamless than in this classic. We could write paragraphs here, but we'd prefer Tommy and DL do their thing to give this epic film justice!Did the action with the Balrog fight throw you off? Were you distracted by Aragorn's wet dream on a long walk? And did you know they were taking the hobbits to Isengard? Let us know by contacting us at thepodcastassemble@gmail.com or hitting us up on socials, and we'll give you a shout-out on the pod!Website || Instagram || Twitter || YouTube || EmailAnd while we've got you, we'd love it if you gave us a 5 star review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and let us know what you think of the show.#ianmckellan #lordoftherings #karlurban #legolas #aragorn #gimli #eomer #eowyn #theodenking #twotowers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode of CrossPolitic, we dive deep into the battle lines of our time, examining the malevolent influence of figures like Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins. Are they the "Two Towers"—Mordor’s open malevolence and Isengard’s compromised, co-opted church? We explore how the modern church mirrors the failures of Christendom in Germany during the Third Reich, abandoning its call to confront evil with truth. Join us as we discuss the cultural collapse, the need for a faithful remnant, and how God’s sovereignty fuels the fight to reclaim relevance and stand against tyranny. Fight, laugh, feast—and resist Mordor!
In this episode of CrossPolitic, we dive deep into the battle lines of our time, examining the malevolent influence of figures like Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins. Are they the "Two Towers"—Mordor’s open malevolence and Isengard’s compromised, co-opted church? We explore how the modern church mirrors the failures of Christendom in Germany during the Third Reich, abandoning its call to confront evil with truth. Join us as we discuss the cultural collapse, the need for a faithful remnant, and how God’s sovereignty fuels the fight to reclaim relevance and stand against tyranny. Fight, laugh, feast—and resist Mordor!
In this episode of CrossPolitic, we dive deep into the battle lines of our time, examining the malevolent influence of figures like Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins. Are they the "Two Towers"—Mordor’s open malevolence and Isengard’s compromised, co-opted church? We explore how the modern church mirrors the failures of Christendom in Germany during the Third Reich, abandoning its call to confront evil with truth. Join us as we discuss the cultural collapse, the need for a faithful remnant, and how God’s sovereignty fuels the fight to reclaim relevance and stand against tyranny. Fight, laugh, feast—and resist Mordor!
The Fellowship of the Ring is a masterclass in how to creatively adapt a book while technically also skipping, say, 4 entire chapters without missing a beat. I am more amazed at what Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and the whole team pulled off. It rejuvenated J.R.R. Tolkien's work in a way that kept many of his important themes in it. We continue to analyze what made these movies so special and compare them to the books where we can. Time Codes: 1. Intro (0:00) 2. Peter Jackson Directing Action (0:51) 3. A Shortcut to Mushrooms (8:32) 4. Ring Wraiths (17:11) 5. Bree (28:09) 6. Strider (49:14) 7. Weathertop (1:05:59) 8. Isengard (1:24:18) 9. Flight to the Ford (1:31:20) 10. Rivendell (1:57:28) 11. The Council of Elrond (2:27:35) 12. No Oath nor Bond is Laid (2:48:15) **We're Now On Spotify**: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gIzzvT3AfRHjGlfF8kFW3 **Listen On Soundcloud**: https://soundcloud.com/resonantarc **Listen On iTunes**: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/state-of-the-arc-podcast/id1121795837 **Listen On Pocket Cast**: http://pca.st/NJsJ Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/resonantarc Subscribe Star: https://www.subscribestar.com/resonant-arc Twitter: https://twitter.com/resonantarc Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/resonantarc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/resonantarc TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@resonantarc
En Territorio Grognard nos gusta dedicarle el tiempo necesario a aquello que se lo merece, así que tras presentarse voluntario D. Carlos Márquez para seguir hablando de la obra de Tolkien, y decirme D. Eligio R. Montero que tenía un montón de notas y de descubrimientos asombrosos sobre la ecología y etnografía de los mumakil, no nos quedó más remedio que sentarnos a grabar. Nuestros invitados harán un jugoso y detallado repaso a las facciones, tanto de los Pueblos Libres como de La Sombra, que participaron en la Guerra del Anillo. Lo harán, cómo no, desde un punto de vista wargamero, destacando aquellos aspectos que un potencial autor de un juego operacional o gran táctico debería tener en cuenta para diseñar las fuerzas y recursos de estas facciones. Al final del audio escucharéis una canción de la Sociedad Tolkien Española, "Los Túmulos de Mundburgo", en la que participó Carlos y cantada por los propios miembros. Gracias, tolkiendilis. Partes: 00:00:00 Presentación 00:56:00 Hombres del Este, Harad, Hombres del Valle, La Carroca, Bree y los Hobbits. 02:39:00 Elfos, Isengard y Rohan 04:17:00 Mordor y Gondor 06:17:00 Epílogo: menciones honoríficas Tal y como se indica al final del episodio, los audios de terceros se incluyen bajo los acuerdos de ivoox con la SGAE.
Send us a textJoin Mike & Corey in Isengard as our characters confront Saruman high in his tower. There will be wizard battles, beers and honey cakes. In this episode Hobbit News is more exciting than ever and we take a bittersweet break from The Mathom House... but it shall return.Support the show
Join John and Patrick as they dive into the rich, agricultural tapestry of Middle-earth in this episode focused on the symbolic significance of fresh produce and farming in Tolkien's world. Explore how the idyllic Shire, with its abundance of gardens and homegrown foods, contrasts with the industrial blight of Isengard and the barren wastelands of Mordor. Through these contrasts, Tolkien reveals deeper themes about the battle between good and evil, and the moral compass of Middle-earth's inhabitants. We'll also uncover how Tolkien's own life experiences shaped these landscapes and delve into the surprising connections between iconic scenes and simple, everyday vegetables. Whether you're a fan of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, or The Rings of Power, this episode offers a fresh perspective on how food and farming are central to the moral fabric of Tolkien's universe.Join the History of Fresh Produce Club (https://app.theproduceindustrypodcast.com/access/) for ad-free listening, bonus episodes, book discounts and access to an exclusive chatroom community.Instagram, TikTok, Threads:@historyoffreshproduceEmail: historyoffreshproduce@gmail.com
Join the Mellon Heads as we delve into the rich history and mystique of Isengard and the Tower of Orthanc. In this episode, we explore the transformation of this ancient stronghold from a place of wisdom to a symbol of Saruman's ambition and betrayal. Enjoy this week's deep dive into one of Middle-Earth's most iconic locations, filled with exciting lore, fun games and typical Mellon Head banter. Play along with our Lord of the Rings movie "Quotes Game" as Johnny quizzes Dave on his Isengard knowledge and put yourself to the test against these LotR nerds! Episode out everywhere now!! Check out our episode on the Blue Wizards here!
In this Book Nook mini series we dive into the great fantasy series by J.R.R. Tolkien. We are tackling it book by book so each episode will cover half a paperback volume. Journey with us through one of the greatest works of Christian imagination in a century that is all the more relevant today.Part Three covers the first half of The Two Towers. We follow Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli as they pursue their hobbit friends captured by the orcs of Isengard. We meet the Riders of Rohan and their aging King Theoden as well as their treacherous enemy, the Wizard Sauruman. How can we make right choices when all seems stacked against us and nothing is certain? What shows wisdom to be a deception? What does it look like to push back despair in favor of hope? Join the journey with us!
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In this Deep Dive episode, Grant and Jay take on the chapters Helm's Deep and The Road to Isengard, as well as taking on part of the history of the Hornburg and the Battles of the Fords of Isen. Check us out on Goodreads: Grant: www.goodreads.com/user/show/175355524-grant-mulder Jay: www.goodreads.com/user/show/61189862-jay-benedict Contact us at exploringmiddleearthpod@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram! @exploringmiddle_earth Follow us on Twitter! @ExpMiddleEarth https://twitter.com/ExpMiddleEarth Connect with us on myspace: https://myspace.com/exploringmiddle-earth Intro and outro music as well as the logo created by Zach Noorman https://anchor.fm/exploringmiddleearthpod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/exploringmiddleearthpod/message
What are some of the hottest takes out there? We gathered all the unpopular opinions from the community, and also share a few of our own. Our Patron Stephen joins in on the fun and gives his thoughts. More Open Topic Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4AjD8eksrQEbY6i8_wCaxxMH9ULExZ6_ Our Links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IntotheWest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ITWpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/intothewestpodcast/ Our Sponsors: Baron of Dice With dice for all wargaming systems, including MESBG, go check them out! Link: https://baronofdice.com/?ref=WEST 5% off Promo Code: WEST Mithril Brush, An online painting competition dedicated to Middle-earth. For more information on how you can enter or support this competition, visit https://www.patreon.com/TheMithrilBrush & https://www.instagram.com/mithrilbrush 00:00 Introduction 00:59 The game isn't balanced 07:30 Armies should have weaknesses 11:32 It's worth spending Might to kill warriors 16:45 Elite armies are overlooked 21:08 Heroic Strike is overrated 27:25 Special Strikes are not well designed 29:17 Fight Value is overrated 30:50 The Forsaken is the best 32:04 Isengard is the best 33:37 Alliance Matrix isn't needed 35:00 We need less supplements 36:46 Rangers of Ithilien was overnerfed 38:59 Bring back Volley Fire 40:59 Skill is more important than a good list 43:16 Not everything needs a profile 45:36 Azog/Bolg shouldn't be F7 47:08 Suladan is fine 49:24 Knight of Umbar doesn't suck 50:48 Glorfindel & Rivendell suck 52:46 Isengard Berserkers should have Burly 54:08 Siege engines should be banned 55:50 Maelstrom deployment should alternate 57:30 Mounted heroes suck 01:00:39 Veto system limits army variety 01:03:04 Lower point games are more fun Credit: Music: Redline Musician: EnjoyMusic Site: https://enjoymusic.ai
On the way to Mordor, allies must be gathered, and foes must be defeated! From the halls of Rohan, to the pillar of Isengard, to the walls of Helm's Deep, can the Fellowship remain intact? Gandalf has a wizard duel. Rigby's got the touch. Courage makes a difficult decision. • • • Patreon: patreon.com/improvtabletop Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / TikTok: @ImprovTabletop Email: ImprovTabletop@gmail.com Donations: ko-fi.com/improvtabletop • • • Audio Credits Improv Tabletop's theme song is “Melodic Marauder”, written by Scott Villanueva, and performed by Scott Villanueva and Ned Wilcock. The following also by Ned Wilcock. “Fuguenchillen” “The Seven Most Dangerous Things in the Outback” The following songs are from tabletopaudio.com. All of the 10 minute ambiences on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). “Barovian Castle” The following songs are used courtesy of Arcane Anthems, creator of royalty-free music for TTRPGs. Support Arcane Anthems on Patreon at patreon.com/arcaneanthems “The Indomitable” • • • This actual play episode uses the Fate Accelerated RPG rules by Evil Hat Productions. This is a fanmade work of parody. Improv Tabletop is not affiliated with the Lord of the Rings brand or its owners The Tolkien Estate, Embracer Group/Middle-earth Enterprises, Warner Bros./New Line Cinema, and Amazon Studios; nor with the Cartoon Network brand or its owner Warner Bros. Discovery.
We invite Don from North of the Shire podcast onto the show to break down one of the game's classic armies, Isengard! Tune in as Don shares his two cents on the heroes and warriors of one of his favourite armies. Video: https://youtu.be/DjkjqzpfJww Our Links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IntotheWest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ITWpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/intothewestpodcast/ Our Sponsors: Baron of Dice With dice for all wargaming systems, including MESBG, go check them out! Link: https://baronofdice.com/?ref=WEST 5% off Promo Code: WEST Mithril Brush, An online painting competition dedicated to Middle-earth. For more information on how you can enter or support this competition, visit https://www.patreon.com/TheMithrilBrush & https://www.instagram.com/mithrilbrush Thank you to everyone who submitted their photos for this video; make sure to check out their work on Instagram: Our patron Alex Anglin Our patron Max (MTM Printworks) Kevin Evancio @heroichighlights 00:00 Introduction 08:04 Dunland Heroes & Grima 14:43 Saruman 21:34 Lurtz 29:05 Mauhur 33:11 Vrasku 36:28 Ugluk 41:05 Uruk-hai Shaman 45:09 Uruk-hai Captain 47:35 Uruk-hai Scout Captain 49:26 Uruk-hai Drummer 51:29 Sharku 53:21 Orc Captain 54:54 Uruk-hai Warrior 59:00 Uruk-hai Scout 01:00:00 Uruk-hai Berserker 01:02:18 Feral Uruk-hai 01:04:47 Isengard Troll 01:08:35 Dunlending Warrior 01:10:07 Dunlending Huscarl 01:12:20 Wildman of Dunland 01:14:11 Dunlending Horseman 01:16:46 Crebain 01:18:23 Orc Warrior 01:20:12 Warg Rider 01:22:00 Uruk-hai Demolition Team 01:25:18 Uruk-hai Assault Ballista 01:28:56 Snaga, Orc Captain Credits: Music: Tavern Loop One by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Patrons got this episode two weeks early. Sign up for our Patreon for monthly bonus episodes, shoutouts in our shows, occasional early episode drops, and more!Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/TheOldKidsMovies__________________We're back for the most action-packed adventure in Middle-Earth to talk about the second LOTR movie – The Two Towers! While we love the acclaimed action sequences, we forgot how meh we were on the Arwen story here. Anyways, they're taking the Hobbits to Isengard. Follow and support the show and the hosts!Support us on Patreon for as little as $1Subscribe on Apple (and write us a review!)Subscribe on Spotify (and leave us a rating!)Follow us on InstagramFollow us on TwitterFollow AJ on TwitterFollow Trevor on TwitterFollow AJ on LetterboxdFollow Trevor on LetterboxdSpecial shoutout to our upper-level Patrons:EmilTravis Beale Ben FranchiRay MunozSteven ShinderTrever Sprouse Everyone who signs up for our Patreon at the $4 level will be given shoutouts in each episode and episode show notes.Next week: the last LOTR movie.
They're taking Reginald to Isengard! Luckily we've got some good company to kill time on the journey, as Red from Overly Sarcastic Productions joins Dom on the pod to talk about J.R.R. Tolkein's The Fellowship of the Ring, among other LOTR lore.This podcast, like Dom's videos, sometimes touches on the foul language, violence, assaults, and murders in the books we read. Treat it like a TV-14 show.For the full episode with video, and bonus content, check out Dom's Patreon:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DomSmithWhere to find Red: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@OverlySarcasticProductionsAurora: https://comicaurora.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OSPTwitter: @OSPyoutubeWhere to find Dom:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Dominic-NobleWebsite: https://www.dominic-noble.com/Second channel: https://www.youtube.com/@domnobletoo8238Twitter: @Dominic_Noble Instagram: @dominic_nobleMerch:https://www.teespring.com/stores/domi...For information about sponsoring a video, convention appearances and similar business inquiries please contact my representation at dominicnoble@viralnationtalent.comEditor:Sophia Ricciardiwww.sophiakricci.com Music:“European Waltz” performed by Il NeigeYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DJilneige
Whitey and Damo are joined by Jeff from MCU's Bleeding Edge and they go head first into Middle Earth again for the Two Towers"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" is a cinematic masterpiece that continues the epic journey begun in "The Fellowship of the Ring." Directed by Peter Jackson, this second instalment in the trilogy is a compelling blend of fantasy, adventure, and drama, set in the richly imagined world of Middle-earth.The film opens where the first left off, with the Fellowship scattered. Its members are now divided into three groups, each facing their own challenges. Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), Legolas (Orlando Bloom), and Gimli (John Rhys-Davies) pursue the Uruk-hai to rescue Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin (Billy Boyd). Meanwhile, Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) continue their perilous journey to Mordor, guided by the treacherous Gollum (Andy Serkis). The third narrative thread follows the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen), believed dead, as he returns in a new guise to aid the people of Rohan against the forces of Saruman (Christopher Lee).The film excels in expanding the scope of Middle-earth, introducing new landscapes and cultures. The kingdom of Rohan, with its horse-lords and majestic halls, is a standout, beautifully realized with a keen eye for detail. The besieged city of Helm's Deep, where much of the film's action converges, is a marvel of set design and visual effects, providing a backdrop for one of the most spectacular battle scenes in cinema history.Jackson's direction is both grand and intimate. He masterfully balances large-scale battles with quieter moments of character development. The film's pacing is excellent, interweaving the various storylines seamlessly and keeping the audience engaged throughout its three-hour runtime.The cast delivers outstanding performances. Mortensen's Aragorn is both regal and rugged, embodying the reluctant hero with a sense of gravity and depth. McKellen's Gandalf is a source of wisdom and strength, while Serkis's groundbreaking performance as Gollum is both pitiable and unsettling. The CGI character of Gollum, a blend of animation and performance capture, was a significant achievement for its time and remains a high point in the use of digital characters in film.Howard Shore's score is another highlight. His music perfectly complements the on-screen action, enhancing the emotional resonance of each scene. The themes introduced in the first film are expanded upon here, with new motifs that reflect the evolving narrative.The adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's work is respectful and inventive. While changes were made for cinematic purposes, they serve the story well, maintaining the spirit of the source material. The screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair, and Jackson is a careful balancing act of staying true to Tolkien's vision while making the story accessible and engaging for a modern audience.The visual effects are groundbreaking. The integration of practical effects and CGI creates a believable, immersive world. The Battle of Helm's Deep, in particular, showcases this blend to stunning effect. The use of forced perspective, miniatures, and digital effects to create the various races of Middle-earth is seamless and convincing.The Two Towers also delves deeper into the themes of power, corruption, and redemption. The film explores the seductive nature of power through the characters of Saruman and Gollum. Saruman's fall from grace and Gollum's internal struggle with his 'Smeagol' persona are poignant illustrations of these themes. The film also examines the bonds of friendship and the resilience of the human (and hobbit) spirit in the face of overwhelming adversity.The movie is not without its flaws. Some fans of the books may take issue with the changes and omissions in the adaptation. Additionally, the film's middle position in the trilogy means it lacks a true beginning and end, potentially leaving some viewers unsatisfied. However, these are minor critiques in an otherwise outstanding film."The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" is a triumph of filmmaking. It is a rare sequel that not only lives up to its predecessor but also deepens and enriches the overarching narrative. The film combines a strong story, well-developed characters, impressive visuals, and a magnificent score to create an unforgettable cinematic experience. It is a testament to the power of storytelling and the potential of the fantasy genre. For fans of Tolkien, cinema, or just great storytelling, "The Two Towers" is an essential film that continues to resonate and inspire.Check out The MCU's Bleeding Edge Youtube channel and check out what Jeff, Cyber and Andres have been up to. You might even discover a few episodes where Whitey is strutting his stuff.https://www.youtube.com/@themcusbleedingedgePlease follow the Podcast and join our community at https://linktr.ee/borntowatchpodcast If you are looking to start a podcast and want a host or get guests to pipe in remotely, look no further than Riverside.fmClick the link below https://riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=campaign_1&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=matthew
We have talked about for it years. It's finally time to visit the world of Tolkien and dive deep into both trilogies and the "Rings of Power" Amazon series. Nick, Creston & Matt start off with the second movie, The Two Towers. In this deep dive, we recap and review the first movie in the OG trilogy while using the books to expand on the lore of Middle Earth. While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard. Want to support us? Patreon.com/2Game Want exclusive merch? https://www.bonfire.com/store/2game/?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=store_page_share&utm_campaign=2game&utm_content=default Social Media: FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/gaming/2Gamepodcast TWITTER: https://twitter.com/2GamePodcast1 TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@2gamepodcast YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/@2game794?si=4Sn545eDOMsND7Dv Want to create your own podcast? Use our affiliate link to join Riverside FM. By signing up, we get a little kick back from your subscription purchase. https://www.riverside.fm/?via=matthew-primeaux --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matthew-primeaux/support
Welcome to Watch. Review. Repeat. This is the podcast where two best friends discuss the latest in film and television and then do it all over again the following week! The fifth entry in Watch. Review. Repeat.'s ongoing series of bonus episodes covering epic films, one film at a time, is the continuation of Colton and Andrew's long overdue coverage of Peter Jackson's adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy novel, 'The Lord of the Rings'! On this episode, bonus episode thirty-two, Colton and Andrew once again find themselves in Middle-earth, edging closer to Mordor and defending against the hordes of Isengard in 'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'! Plus, Colton offers the second part of a look at the making of the 'The Lord of the Rings' film trilogy! This episode was originally presented as a Patreon exclusive bonus episode. Support us on Patreon to gain timed exclusive access to all future bonus episodes and early access to all regular episodes. 00:00:00 - Intro 00:05:07 - Colton's Fun Facts About 'The Lord of the Rings: The The Two Towers'! 00:10:46 - The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings' Trilogy Part 2: Casting, Filming, Practical Effects 00:42:58 - 'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers' (2002) (Spoilers) 01:35:50 - Conclusion/Outro Visit our website! Support us on Patreon! Thank you for listening, and please send any feedback to watchreviewrepeat@gmail.com! Intro/Outro Credit: Mechanolith Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ For more information on Ink to Film Podcast, check out www.inktofilm.com.
Christmas is nearly here and team D2DLP is keeping things extra festive with a deep dive into the listener mailbag. It turns out that people are in fact listening, and they have questions. Lots of questions. These include, but are not limited to: Where is the best fireworks viewing spot? What is a fun place at DLP for having a cocktail? What the heck is a jamboree? Why is that restaurant over there on fire? Marq, Beth and Vanessa answer these « burning » questions to the best of their collective abilities and also launch into an in-depth discussion of the new Brasserie Rosalie dining location at Disney Village. This restaurant stirred up contoversy among the team. Is a motorised chandelier really enough to qualify a place as "family-friendly"? Have a listen and decide for yourselves. Maybe the team can't take you walking in a winter wonderland, but they CAN make you feel like you're at Disneyland Paris, thanks to a detailed trip report provided by one of their top listeners. Jen sent a full accounting of her November trip and shares her list of pros and cons and even a top tip for getting though a long, cold, wet day at DLP. In this episode, Beth also says "Isengard" when she meant to say "Asgard". If anything like this happens again, she'll be promptly shipped off to a LOTR podcast. The D2DLP team wishes all their lovely listeners a happy and healthy holiday season. Marq, Beth and Vanessa will be back in two weeks with a 2023 roundup and a look ahead at 2024. In the meantime, please follow Dedicated to DLP on Instagram and Facebook. Or send your own questions, remarks and trip reports to dlp@dedicatedtodlp.com No actual country bears were harmed in the making of this podcast.
Andrew and Don are back together for a chat after an unplanned break. They discuss what they have and haven't been doing over the last couple of months. Topics include a team tournaments, the loss of hobby mojo, clear plastic soldiers, and a listener question on Isengard. email us at Northoftheshirepodcast1@gmail.com Support us at: https://ko-fi.com/northoftheshire
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In episode seven, Tilly and Ash go strider-ing into the heart of the archaeological problem and continue their tavern-talk with archaeobotanist Genoveva Dimova. They ask the burgeoning questions: how would you sample an Ent? What is dendrochronology? And do Ents have teeth?TranscriptsFor rough transcripts of this episode, go to: https://www.archpodnet.com/trowel/7Contact Email: andmytrowel@gmail.com Instagram: @and.my.trowelArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/archaeology-podcast-network?ref_id=5724Affiliates Motion: https://www.archpodnet.com/motion Motley Fool Save $110 off the full list price of Stock Advisor for your first year, go to https://zen.ai/apnfool and start your investing journey today! *$110 discount off of $199 per year list price. Membership will renew annually at the then current list price. Liquid I.V. Ready to shop better hydration, use my special link https://zen.ai/thearchaeologypodnetworkfeed to save 20% off anything you order.
In episode six, Tilly and Ash need some help with a commission from the Hoggle-Bush Historical Society of Fanghorn Forest. With special guest, archaeobotanist Genoveva Dimova, they stumble into the battlefields of Isengard to ask the question: how do you identify an Ent in the archaeological record?Links Gen's Website Gen's Instagram: @gen_dimova Pre-order Gen's book! Gen's Goodreads Dendrochronologia JournalContact Email: andmytrowel@gmail.com Instagram: @and.my.trowelArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/archaeology-podcast-network?ref_id=5724Affiliates Motion: https://www.archpodnet.com/motion Motley FoolSave $110 off the full list price of Stock Advisor for your first year, go to https://zen.ai/apnfool and start your investing journey today!*$110 discount off of $199 per year list price. Membership will renew annually at the then current list price. Laird SuperfoodAre you ready to feel more energized, focused, and supported? Go to https://zen.ai/thearchaeologypodnetworkfeed1 and add nourishing, plant-based foods to fuel you from sunrise to sunset. Liquid I.V.Ready to shop better hydration, use my special link https://zen.ai/thearchaeologypodnetworkfeed to save 20% off anything you order.
We're taking the hobbits to Isengard! We pitch our ideas for mage towers.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Part 2: Isengard's New Management Manu (@ManuclearBomb) and Emily (@JRRTweetien) enjoy some well-earned comforts standing on the field of victory! Isengard has a new head honcho, and we take a look back at the roads and places we've been before the road whisks us away yet again. But first, we talk title cards! --- Emily wrote a chapter in In One Woman's Life: Celebrating Mary Brooksbank! Get a copy here! Become a Patron of My Brother, My Captain, My Podcast My Brother, My Captain, My Podcast Reference Guide My Brother, My Captain, My Podcast on Twitter My Brother, My Captain, My Podcast on Instagram Manu's Twitter Emily's Twitter
“Come with me if you want to live”. . . a life filled with fun movie trivia! Was 1984 the best year in cinema history? We don't know, but we DO know that we've now done 5 films from that year on this podcast. We've shown resident young person Amber Joy James Cameron's newest two films, Avatar and Avatar 2, and now we go back to the first film he ever directed (Piranha 2 doesn't count) it's “The Terminator”! (And yes, the title is “The Terminator” not just “Terminator”). Listen as we discuss the amazing effects that make this film so memorable, the way James Cameron was able to pull so much off for so little, and how this film is connected to both Rambo First Blood Part 2 and Aliens besides just being written by Cameron. Amber was appalled, as she realized almost immediately upon finishing recording that she was incorrect about which classic YouTube song has The Terminator in it – it is in fact “Why Is The Rum Gone” and not “Taking the Hobbits to Isengard”, an error for which she would like to express her deepest apologies.Here are both songs for your listening pleasure:Taking the Hobbits to Isengard: https://youtu.be/uE-1RPDqJAY?si=BsUYL7Tp5eUg9MZZWhy is the Rum Gone: https://youtu.be/JImcvtJzIK8?si=QhEOB7EC4AizJ2p4 INDIE FILM SPOTLIGHT: Raj, directed by Levi Hintermeister and Hannah Rosalie WrightWatch now on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bHZXiWaABAU?si=4o5noMaWVdM7rbYX Watch the “Cumming in the Gym” Excerpt from Pumping Iron: https://youtu.be/-xZQ0YZ7ls4?si=xmmG29-4Yz_2zP3v Watch our award winning feature film Almost Sorta Maybe, now on streaming – search for it on Amazon, WatchFreeFlix, Spectrum, Comcast or Xfinity – or follow the link below to watch it on Tubi! https://tubitv.com/movies/100000169/almost-sorta-maybe Become a Patron of Patrick and Lolo today for access to exclusive episodes and videos, including our most decorated short film yet, VEGAN APOCALYPSE!https://www.patreon.com/ixfilmproductions Have a favorite (or least favorite) famous movie that you think we should've seen? Reach out to IX Film Productions on Twitter, Instagram or email and we'll add it to our list!Follow IX Film Productions for podcast updates, original web shorts, behind the scenes sneak peeks and comedy feature films at:Facebook: www.facebook.com/ixfilmproductionsInstagram: @IXProductionsYouTube: www.youtube.com/ixfpSubscribe to our newsletter for monthly updates on our website: www.ixfilmproductions.com"First Timers Movie Club" is brought to you by IX Film Productions."Making the World a Funnier Place one Film at a Time"MusicThe Curtain Rises by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5007-the-curtain-risesLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This week, our hosts discuss how the film version of the Two Towers doesn't fully incorporate all the material from the book. Instead, it moves much of the material into the next movie. They toss around the question of why the writers would do this.
The “dog days” of summer formally ended last Friday and fall doesn’t officially start until late September…so with consistent triple digit temps determined to become that weekly standard, I can’t be the only Austinite who’s stopped checking the ten-day forecast. But that doesn’t mean we can’t recognize this period typically associated with seasonal transition, which […] The post Queen Serene: “Isengard” appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.
Though reviewing the movie version of the Two Towers, our hosts follow Tolkiens presentation by focusing solely on Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Merry, and Pippin. As always, they share their likes and dislikes. They also discuss how well the movie has held up over the last twenty years.
Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Oriana's choice of topic: land. By default the Middle-earth legendarium is about a place that never was, however rooted in the actual planet we live on, and the range of details from sweeping mountains and vast continents to small roads and fields evident throughout the cycle of stories is a key part of what has made Tolkien's work so vivid and loved. Both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are specifically about journeys as the key plotline, where characters move into spaces that they'd only heard about dimly or not at all as they seek to fulfill their aims. That said, there's certainly more than this to how Tolkien considers and situates the geography of his creation, including the in-universe explanations of that creation to start with and Melkor's marring of it. How has Tolkien's grounding of Middle-earth in the feeling of Northern Europe in general shaped perceptions of fantasy worlds since, and what authors and traditions have worked against it? What are the senses of how layers of history have both informed and shaped the land and the peoples who were and are there in the legendarium, and how does that emerge along the way as the stories progress? Have the expectations and experiences of quick and easy travel shaped our reaction to understanding how slow journeys are, especially on foot, as was the case for most of human history? And did the stones of Eregion indeed actually speak?SHOW NOTES.Jared's doodle. And who wouldn't enjoy that view, we ask?The WGA strike is of course still happening. And you should still support it! And the actors too!And indeed, Andy Serkis's The Silmarillion reading is out!So yes, not only did a fan purchase the Magic: The Gathering The One Ring card by lucky chance, following the episode recording he sold it to hardcore MTG fan Post Malone. Truly this is a world we are in.The promo performance of “Now And For Always” from the revival of the LOTR musical is pretty nice! Performances did start soon after the episode recording and an initial Guardian review was quite complimentary. More promo photos are available, and again there's always our episode on the original production…The Rings of Power Emmy nominations. Of course, when the Emmys themselves will happen is another matter.The Society of American Archivists' announcement of William Fliss's award for his continuing work with the Marquette University Tolkien archive.We meant to mention that fellow Megaphonic podcast The Spouter-Inn discussed The Fellowship of the Ring as part of a cluster of books about land, and then had Oriana on as a guest.Much of the Christopher Tolkien-edited History of Middle-earth series is essentially about Tolkien's decades-long process of setting down what Middle-earth actually was. Among the key books in the series in this regard are The Shaping of Middle-earth and Morgoth's Ring.I suspect most of us had our own Oregon Trail experiences.No, we are not going to relitigate the Eagles. Just listen to our episode.The article on Tolkien and Aldo Leopold is Lucas Niiler's 1999 piece “Green Reading: Tolkien, Leopold and the Land Ethic.”Who wouldn't love the Glittering Caves? (And indeed, check out our dwarves episode as well as our Ghân-Buri-Ghân episode.)Colonialism/imperialism and environmental destruction? Who could guess there'd be a connection. (Enjoy this book for some other light reading.)Very light, but this piece on Roman ruins in the present day helps underscore this sense of persistence into the present Tolkien captures well. (In contrast, the Duwamish have had to fight erasure.)If you want to go to Three Rivers, learn a little more about it.A 2015 Vox piece on the invention and criminalization of jaywalking.Peter Jackson's vision of Isengard as industrial hellhole. (The tree being flung down is at 1:20.)Earthsea is always a vibe but as Jared notes, check out Annals of the Western Shore.A Thousand Thousand Islands is indeed no longer going, sadly, but you can get a taste of it here.Guy Gavriel Kay's had quite the career!And indeed some younger authors to check out who aren't doing Europe all over again include R. F. Kuang and Tasha Suri.Fonda Lee has the Green Bone Saga to check out, aka the ‘Jade' series.And indeed the fan film Born of Hope about Arathorn is on YouTube!Support us and our network on Patreon and you can join us to talk Tolkien (and more!) in our friendly Discord.
Brandon Sherman, Cloud Security Engineer at Temporal Technologies Inc., joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss his experiences at recent cloud conferences and the ongoing changes in cloud computing. Brandon shares why he enjoyed fwd:cloudsec more than this year's re:Inforce, and how he's seen AWS events evolve over the years. Brandon and Corey also discuss how the cloud has matured and why Brandon feels ongoing change can be expected to be the continuing state of cloud. Brandon also shares insights on how his perspective on Google Cloud has changed, and why he's excited about the future of Temporal.io.About BrandonBrandon is currently a Cloud Security Engineer at Temporal Technologies Inc. One of Temporal's goals is to make our software as reliable as running water, but to stretch the metaphor it must also be *clean* water. He has stared into the abyss and it stared back, then bought it a beer before things got too awkward. When not at work, he can be found playing with his kids, working on his truck, or teaching his kids to work on his truck.Links Referenced: Temporal: https://temporal.io/ Personal website: https://brandonsherman.com TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: In the cloud, ideas turn into innovation at virtually limitless speed and scale. To secure innovation in the cloud, you need Runtime Insights to prioritize critical risks and stay ahead of unknown threats. What's Runtime Insights, you ask? Visit sysdig.com/screaming to learn more. That's S-Y-S-D-I-G.com/screaming.My thanks as well to Sysdig for sponsoring this ridiculous podcast.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. I'm joined today by my friend who I am disappointed to say I have not dragged on to this show before. Brandon Sherman is a cloud security engineer over at Temporal. Brandon, thank you for finally giving in.Brandon: Thanks, Corey, for finally pestering me enough to convince me to join. Happy to be here.Corey: So, a few weeks ago as of this recording—I know that time is a flexible construct when it comes to the podcast production process—you gave a talk at fwd:cloudsec, the best cloud security conference named after an email subject line. Yes, I know re:Inforce also qualifies; this one's better. Tell me about what you talked about.Brandon: Yeah, definitely agree on this being the better the two conferences. I gave a talk about how the ground shifts underneath us, kind of touching on how these cloud services that we operate—and I'm mostly experienced in AWS and that's kind of the references that I can give—but these services work as a contract basis, right? We use their APIs and we don't care how they're implemented behind the scenes. At this point, S3 has been rewritten I don't know how many times. I'm sure that other AWS services, especially the longer-lived ones have gone through that same sort of rejuvenation cycle.But as a security practitioner, these implementation details that get created are sort of byproducts of, you know, releasing an API or releasing a managed service can have big implications to how you can either secure that service or respond to actions or activities that happen in that service. And when I say actions and activity, I'm kind of focused on, like, security incidents, breaches, your ability to do incident response from that.Corey: One of the reasons I've always felt that cloud providers have been cagey around how the services work under the hood is not because they don't want to talk about it so much as they don't want to find themselves committed to certain patterns that are not guaranteed as a part of the definition of the service. So if, “Yeah, this is how it works under the hood,” and you start making plans and architecting in accordance with that and they rebuild the service out from under you like they do with S3, then very often, those things that you depend upon being true could very easily no longer be true. And there's no announcement around those things.Brandon: No. It's very much Amazon is… you know, they're building a service to meet the needs of their customers. And they're trying to grow these services as the customers grow along with them. And it's absolutely within their right to act that way, to not have to tell us when they make a change because in some contexts, right, Amazon's feature update might be me as a customer a breaking change. And Amazon wants to try and keep that, what they need to tell me, as small as possible, probably not out of malice, but just because there's a lot of people out there using their services and trying to figure out what they've promised to each individual entity through either literal contracts or their API contracts is hard work. And that's not the job I would want.Corey: No. It seems like it's one of those thankless jobs where you don't get praise for basically anything. Instead, all you get to do is deal with the grim reality that people either view as invisible or a problem.Brandon: Yeah. It sort of feels like documentation. Everyone wants more and better documentation, but it's always an auxiliary part of the service creation process. The best documentation always starts out when you write the documentation first and then kind of build backwards from that, but that's rarely how I've seen software get made.Corey: No. I feel like I left them off the hook, on some level, when we say this, but I also believe in being fair. I think there's a lot of things that cloud providers get right and by and large, with any of the large cloud providers, they are going to do a better job of securing the fundamentals than you are yourself. I know that that is a controversial statement to some folks who spent way too much time in the data centers, but I stand by it.Brandon: Yeah, I agree. I've had to work in both environments and some of the easiest, best wins in security is just what do I have, so that way I know what I have to protect, what that is there. But even just that asset inventory, that's the sort of thing that back in the days of data centers—and still today; it was data centers all over the place—to do an inventory you might need to go and send an actual human with an actual clipboard or iPad or whatever, to the actual physical location and hope that they read the labels on hundreds of thousands of servers correctly and get their serial numbers and know what you have. And that doesn't even tell you what's running on them, what ports are open, what stuff you have to care about. In AWS, I can run a couple of describe calls or list calls and that forms the backbone of my inventory.There's no server that, you know, got built into a wall or lost behind and some long-forgotten migration. A lot of those basic stuff that really, really helps. Not to mention then the user-managed service like S3, you never have to care about patch notes or what an update might do. Plenty of times I've, like, hesitated upgrading a software package because I didn't know what was going to happen. Control Tower, I guess, is kind of an exception to that where you do have to care about the version of your cloud service, but stuff like, yeah, these other services is absolutely right. The undifferentiated heavy lifting it's taken care of. And hopefully, we always kind of hope that the undifferentiated heavy lifting doesn't become differentiated and heavy and lands on us.Corey: So, now that we've done the obligatory be nice to cloud providers thing, let's potentially be a little bit harsher. While you were speaking at fwd:cloudsec, did you take advantage of the fact that you were in town to also attend re:Inforce?Brandon: I did because I was given a ticket, and I wanted to go see some people who didn't have tickets to fwd:cloudsec. Yeah, we've been nice to cloud providers, but as—I haven't found I've learned a lot from the re:Inforce sessions. They're all recorded anyway. There's not even an open call for papers, right, for talking about at a re:Inforce session, “Hey, like, this would be important and fresh or things that I would be wanting to share.” And that's not the sort of thing that Amazon does with their conferences.And that's something that I think would be really interesting to change if there was a more community-minded track that let people submit, not just handpicked—although I suppose any kind of Amazon selection committee is going to be involved, but to pick out, from the community, stories or projects that are interesting that can be, not just have to get filtered through your TAM but something you can actually talk to and say, “Hey, this is something I'd like to talk about. Maybe other people would find it useful.”Corey: One of the things that I found super weird about re:Inforce this year has been that, in a normal year, it would have been a lot more notable, I think. I know for a fact that if I had missed re:Invent, for example, I would have had to be living in a cave not to see all of the various things coming out of that conference on social media, in my email, in all the filters I put out there. But unless you're looking for it, you've would not know that they had a conference that costs almost as much.Brandon: Yeah. The re:Invent-driven development cycle is absolutely a real thing. You can always tell in the lead up to re:Invent when there's releases that get pushed out beforehand and you think, “Oh, that's cool. I wonder why this doesn't get a spot at re:Invent, right, some kind of announcement or whatever.” And I was looking for that this year for re:Inforce and didn't see any kind of announcement or that kind of pre-release trickle of things that are like, oh, there's a bunch of really cool stuff. And that's not to say that cool stuff didn't happen; it just there was a very different marketing feel to it. Hard to say, it's just the vibes around felt different [laugh].Corey: Would you recommend that people attend next year—well let me back up. I've heard that they had not even announced a date for next year. Do you think there will be a re:Inforce next year?Brandon: Making me guess, predict the future, something that I'm—Corey: Yeah, do a prediction. Why not?Brandon: [laugh]. Let's engage in some idle speculation, right? I think that not announcing it was kind of a clue that there's a decent chance it won't happen because in prior years, it had been pre-announced at the—I think it was either at closing or opening ceremonies. Or at some point. There's always the, “Here's what you can look forward to next year.”And that didn't happen, so I think that's there's a decent chance this may have been the last re:Inforce, especially once all the data is crunched and people look at the numbers. It might just be… I don't know, I'm not a marketing-savvy kind of person, but it might just be that a day at re:Invent next year is dedicated to security. But then again, security is always job zero at Amazon so maybe re:Invent just becomes re:Inforce all the time, right? Do security, everybody.Corey: It just feels like a different type of conference. Whenever re:Invent there's something for everyone. At re:Inforce, there's something for everyone as long as they work in InfoSec. Because other than that, you wind up just having these really unfortunate spiels of them speaking to people that are not actually present, and it winds up missing the entire forest for the trees, really.Brandon: I don't know if I'd characterize it as that. I feel like some of the re:Inforce content was people who were maybe curious about the cloud or making progress in their companies and moving to the cloud—and in Amazon's case when they say the cloud, they mean themselves. They don't mean any other cloud. And re:Inforce tries to dispel the notion there are any other clouds.But at the same time, it feels like an attempt to try and make people feel better. There's a change underway in the industry and it still is going to continue for a while. There's still all kinds of non-cloud environments people are going to operate for probably until the end of time. But at the same time, a lot of these are moving to the cloud and they want the people who are thinking about this or engaged in it, to be comforted by that Amazon that either has these services, or there's a pattern you can follow to do something in a secure manner. I think that's that was kind of the primary audience of re:Inforce was people who were charged with doing cloud security or were exploring moving their corporate systems to AWS and they wanted some assurance that they're going to actually be doing things the right way, or someone else hadn't made those mistakes first. And if that audience has been sort of saturated, then maybe there isn't a need for that style of conference anymore.Corey: It feels like it's not intended to be the same thing at re:Invent, which is probably I guess, a bigger problem. Re:Invent for a long time has attempted to be all things to all people, and it has grown to a scale where that is no longer possible. So, they've also done a poor job of signaling that, so you wind up attending Adam Selipsky's keynote, and in many cases, find yourself bored absolutely to tears. Or you go in expecting it to be an Andy Jassy style of, “Here are 200 releases, four of them good,” and instead, you wind up just having what feels like a relatively paltry number doled out over a period of days. And I don't know that their wrong to do it; I just think it doesn't align with pre-existing expectations. I also think people expecting to go to re:Inforce to see a whole bunch of feature releases are bound to be disappointed.Brandon: Like, both of those are absolutely correct. The number of releases on the slide must always increase up and the right; away we go; we're pushing more code and making more changes to services. I mean, if you look at the history, there's always new instance types. Do they count each instance type as a new release, or they not do that?Corey: Yeah, it honestly feels like that sometimes. They also love to do price cuts where they—you wind up digging into them and something like 90% of them are services you've never heard of in regions you couldn't find on a map if your life depended on it. It's not quite the, “Yeah, the bill gets lower all the time,” that they'd love to present it as being.Brandon: Yeah. And you may even find that there's services that had updates that you didn't know about until you go and check the final bill, the Cost and Usage Report, and you look and go, “Oh, hey. Look at all the services that we were using, that our engineers started using after they heard announcements at re:Invent.” And then you find out how much you're actually paying for them. [pause]. Or that they were in use in the first place. There's no better way to find what is actually happening in your environment than, look at the bill.Corey: It's depressing that that's true. At least they finally stopped doing the slides where they talk about year-over-year, they have a histogram of number of feature and service releases. It's, no one feels good about that, even the people building the services and features because they look at that and think, “Oh, whatever I do is going to get lost in the noise.” And they're not wrong. Customers see it and freak out because how am I ever going to keep current with all this stuff? I take a week off and I spend a month getting caught back up again.Brandon: Yeah. And are you going to—you know, what's your strategy for dealing with all these new releases and features? Do you want to have a strategy of saying, “No, you can't touch any of those until we've vetted and understand them?” I mean, you don't even have to talk about security in that context; just the cost alone, understanding it's someone, someone going to run an experiment that bankrupts your company by forgetting about it or by growing into some monster in the bill. Which I suspect helps [laugh] helps you out when those sorts of things happen, right, for companies don't have that strategy.But at the same time, all these things are getting released. There's not really a good way of understanding which of these do I need to care about. Which of these is going to really impact my operational flow, my security impacts? What does this mean to me as a user of the service when there's, I don't know, an uncountable number really, or at least a number that's so big, it stops mattering that it got any bigger?Corey: One thing that I will say was great about re:Invent, I want to say 2021, was how small it felt. It felt like really a harkening back to the old re:Invents. And then you know, 2022 hit, and we go there and half of us wound up getting Covid because of course we did. But it was also this just this massive rush of, we're talking with basically the population of a midsize city just showing up inside of this entire enormous conference. And you couldn't see the people you wanted to see, it was difficult to pay attention to all there was to pay attention to, and it really feels like we've lost something somewhere.Brandon: Yeah, but at the same time is that just because there are more people in this ecosystem now? You know, 2021 may have been a callback to that a decade ago. And these things were smaller when it was still niche, but growing in kind of the whole ecosystem. And parts of—let's say, the ecosystem there, I'm talking about like, how—when I say that ecosystem there, I'm kind of talking about how in general, I want to run something in technology, right? I need a server, I need an object store, I need compute, whatever it is that you need, there is more attractive services that Amazon offers to all kinds of customers now.So, is that just because, right, we've been in this for a while and we've seen the cloud grow up and like, oh, wow, you're now in your awkward teenage phase of cloud computing [laugh]? Have we not yet—you know, we're watching the maturity to adulthood, as these things go? I really don't know. But it definitely feels a little, uh… feels a little like we've watched this cloud thing grow from a half dozen services to now, a dozen-thousand services all operating different ways.Corey: Part of me really thinks that we could have done things differently, had we known, once upon a time, what the future was going to hold. So, much of the pain I see in Cloud is functionally people trying to shove things into the cloud that weren't designed with Cloud principles in mind. Yeah, if I was going to build a lot of this stuff from scratch myself, then yeah, I would have absolutely made a whole universe of different choices. But I can't predict the future. And yet, here we are.Brandon: Yep. If I could predict the future, I would have definitely won the lottery a lot more times, avoided doing that one thing I regretted that once back in my history [laugh]. Like, knowing the future change a lot of things. But at least unless you're not letting on with something, then that's something that no one's got the ability to, do not even at Amazon.Corey: So, one of the problems I've always had when I come back from a conference, especially re:Invent, it takes me a few… well, I'll be charitable and say days, but it's more like weeks, to get back into the flow of my day-to-day work life. Was there any of that with you and re:Inforce? I mean, what is your day job these days anyway? What are you up to?Brandon: What is my day job? There's a lot. So, Temporal is a small, but quickly growing company. A lot of really cool customers that are doing really cool things with our technology and we need to build a lot of basics, essentially, making sure that when we grow, that we're going to kind of grow into our security posture. There's not anything talking about predicting the future. My prediction is that the company I work for is going to do well. You can hold your analysis on that [laugh].So, while I'm predicting what the company that I'm working at is going to do well, part of it is also what are the things that I'm going to regret not having in two or three years' time. So, some baseline cloud monitoring, right? I want that asset inventory across all of our accounts; I want to know what's going on there. There's other things that are sort of security adjacent. So, things like DNS records, domain names, a lot of those things where if we can capture this and centralize it early and build it in a way—especially that users are less unhappy about, like, not everyone, for example, is hosting their own—buying their own domains on personal cards and filing for reimbursement, that DNS records aren't scattered across a dozen different software projects and manipulated in different ways, then that sets us up.It may not be perfect today, but in a year, year-and-a-half, two years, we have the ability to then say, “Okay, we know what we're pointing at. What are the dangling subdomains? What are the things that are potential avenues of being taken over? What do we have? What are people doing?” And trying to understand how we can better help users with their needs day-to-day.Also as a side part of my day job is advising a startup Common Fate. Does just-in-time access management. And that's been a lot of fun to do as well because fundamentally—this is maybe a hot take—that, in a lot of cases, you really only need admin access and read-only access when you're doing really intensive work. In Temporal day job, we've got infrastructure teams that are building stuff, they need lots of permissions and it'd be very silly to say you can't do your job just because you could potentially use IAM and privilege escalate yourself to administrator. Let's cut that out. Let's pretend that you are a responsible adult. We can monitor you in other ways, we're not going to put restrictions between you and doing your job. Have admin access, just only have it for a short period of time, when you say you're going to need it and not all the time, every account, every service, all the time, all day.Corey: I do want to throw a shout-in for that startup you advise, Common Fate. I've been a big fan of their Granted offering for a while now. granted.dev for those who are unfamiliar. I use that to automatically generate console logins, do all kinds of other things. When you're moving between a bunch of different AWS accounts, which it kind of feels like people building the services don't have to do somehow because of their Isengard system handling it for them. Well, as a customer, can I just say that experience absolutely sucks and Granted goes a long way toward making it tolerable, if not great.Brandon: Mm-hm. Yeah, I remember years ago, the way that I would have to handle this is I would have probably a half-dozen different browsers at the same time, Safari, Chrome, the Safari web developer preview, just so I could have enough browsers to log into with, to see all the accounts I needed to access. And that was an extremely painful experience. And it still feels so odd that the AWS console today still acts like you have one account. You can switch roles, you can type in a [role 00:21:23] on a different account, but it's very clunky to use, and having software out there that makes this easier is definitely, definitely fills a major pain point I have with using these services.Corey: Tired of Apache Kafka's complexity making your AWS bill look like a phone number? Enter Redpanda. You get 10x your streaming data performance without having to rob a bank. And migration? Smoother than a fresh jar of peanut butter. Imagine cutting as much as 50% off your AWS bills. With Redpanda, it's not a dream, it's reality. Visit go.redpanda.com/duckbill. Redpanda: Because Kafka shouldn't cause you nightmares.Corey: Do you believe that there's hope? Because we have seen some changes where originally AWS just had the AWS account you'd log into, it's the root user. Great. Then they had IAM. Now, they're using what used to be known as AWS SSO, which they wound up calling IAM Access Identity Center, or—I forget the exact words they put in order, but it's confusing and annoying. But it does feel like the trend is overall towards something that's a little bit more coherent.Brandon: Mm-hm.Corey: Is the future five years from now better than it looks like today?Brandon: That's certainly the hope. I mean, we've talked about how we both can't predict the future, but I would like to hope that the future gets better. I really like GCP's project model. There's complaints I have with how Google Cloud works, and it's going to be here next year, and if the permission model is exactly how I'd like to use it, but I do like the mental organization that feels like Google was able to come in and solve a lot of those problems with running projects and having a lot of these different things. And part of that is, there's still services in AWS that don't really respect resource-based permissions or tag-based permissions, or I think the new one is attribute-based access control.Corey: One of the challenges I see, too, is that I don't think that there's been a lot of thought put into how a lot of these things are going to work between different AWS accounts. One of my bits of guidance whenever I'm talking to someone who's building anything, be it at AWS or external is, imagine an architecture diagram and now imagine that between any two resources in that diagram is now an account boundary. Because someone somewhere is going to have one there, so it sounds ridiculous, but you can imagine a microservices scenario where every component is in its own isolated account. What are you going to do now as a result? Because if you're going to build something that scales, you've got to respect those boundaries. And usually, that just means the person starts drinking.Brandon: Not a bad place to start, the organizational structure—lowercase organizations, not the Amazon service, Organizations—it's still a little tricky to get it in a way that sort of… I guess, I always kind of feel that these things are going to change and that the—right, the only constant is change. That's true. The services we use are going to change. The way that we're going to want to organize them is going to change. Our researcher is going to come out with something and say, “Hey, I found a really cool way to do something really terrible to the stuff in your cloud environment.”And that's going to happen eventually, in the fullness of time. So, how do we be able to react quickly to those kinds of changes? And how can we make sure that if you know, suddenly, we do need to separate out these services to go, you know, to decompose the monolith even more, or whatever the cool, current catchphrase is, and we have those account boundaries, which are phenomenal boundaries, they make it so much easier to do—if you can do multi-account then you've solved multi-regional on the way, you've sold failover, you've solve security issues. You have not solved the fact that your life is considerably more challenging at the moment, but I would really hope that in you know, even next year, but by the time five years comes around, that that's really been taken to heart within Amazon and it's a lot easier to be working creating services in different accounts that can talk to each other, especially in the current environment where it's kind of a mess to wire these things all together. ClickOps has its place, but some console applications just don't want to believe that you have a KMS key in another account because well, why would you put that over there? It's not like if your current account has a problem, you want to lose all your data that's encrypted.Corey: It's one of those weird things, too, where the clouds almost seem to be arguing against each other. Like, I would be hard-pressed to advise someone not to put a ‘rehydrate the entire business' level of backups into a different cloud provider entirely, but there's so steeped in the orthodoxy of no other clouds ever, that that message is not something that they can effectively communicate. And I think they're doing their customers a giant disservice by that, just because it is so much easier to explain to your auditor that you've done it than to explain why it's not necessary. And it's never true; you always have the single point of failure of the payment instrument, or the contract with that provider that could put things at risk.Is it a likely issue? No. But if you're running a publicly traded company on top of it, you'd be negligent not to think about it that way. So, why pretend otherwise?Brandon: Is that a question for me because [laugh]—Corey: Oh, that was—no, absolutely. That was a rant ending in a rhetorical question. So, don't feel you have to answer it. But getting the statement out there because hopefully, someone at Amazon is listening to this.Brandon: That's, uh, hopefully, if you find out who's the one that listens to this and can affect it, then yeah, I'd like to send them a couple of emails because absolutely. There's room out there, there will always be room for at least two providers.Corey: Yeah, I'd say a third, but I don't know that Google is going to have the attention span to still have a cloud offering by lunchtime today.Brandon: Yeah. I really wish that I had more faith in the services and that they weren't going—you know, speaking of services changing underneath you, that's definitely a—speaking of services changing underneath, you definitely a major disservice if you don't know—if you're going to put into work into architecting and really using cloud providers as they're meant to be used. Not in a, sort of, least common denominator sense, in which case, you're not in good shape.Corey: Right. You should not be building something with an idea toward what if this gets deprecated. You shouldn't have to think about that on a consistent basis.Brandon: Mm-hm. Absolutely. You should expect those things to change because they will, right, the performance impact. I mean, the performance of these services is going to change, the underlying technology that the providers use is going to change, but you should still be able to mostly expect that at least the API calls you make are going to still be there and still be consistent come this time next year.Corey: The thing that really broke me was the recent selling off of Google domains to Squarespace. Nothing against Squarespace, but they have a different target market in many respects. And oh, I'm a Google customer, you're now going to give all of my information to a third party I never asked to deal with. Great. And more to the point, if I recommend Google to folks because as has happened in years past, then they canceled the thing that I recommended, then I looked like a buffoon. So, we've gotten to a point now where it has become so steady and so consistent, that I fear I cannot, in good conscience, recommend a Google product without massive caveats. Otherwise, I look like a clown or worse, a paid shill.Brandon: Yeah. And when you want to start incorporating these things into the core of your business, to take that point about, you know, total failover scenarios, you should, you know, from you want it to have a domain registered in a Google service that was provisioned to Google Cloud services, that whole sort of ecosystem involved there, that's now gone, right? If I want to use Google Cloud with a Google Cloud native domain name hosting services, I can't. How am—I just—now I can't [laugh]. There's, like, not workarounds available.I've got to go to some other third-party and it just feels odd that an organization would sort of take those core building blocks and outsource them. [I know 00:29:05] that Google's core offering isn't Google Cloud; it's not their primary focus, and it kind of reflects that, which was a shame. There's things that I'd love to see grow out of Google Cloud and get better. And, you know, competition is good for the whole cloud computing industry.Corey: I think that it's a sad thing, but it's real, that there are people who were passionate defenders of Google over the years. I used to be one. We saw a bunch of them with Stadia fans coming out of the woodwork, and then all those people who have defended Google and said, “No, no, you can trust Google on this service because it's different,” for some reason or other, then wind up looking ridiculous. And some of the staunchest Google defenders that I've seen are starting to come around to my point of view. Eventually, you've run out of people who are willing to get burned if you burn them all.Brandon: Yeah. I've always been a little, uh… maybe this is the security Privacy part of me; I've always been a little leery of the services that really want to capture and gather your data. But I always respected the Google engineering that went into building these things at massive scale. It's something beyond my ability to understand as I haven't worked in something that big before. And Google made it look… maybe not effortless, but they made it look like they knew what they were doing, they could build something really solid.And I don't know if that's still true because it feels like they might know how to build something, and then they'll just dismantle it and turn it over to somebody else, or just dismantle it completely. And I think humans, we do a lot of things because we don't want to look foolish and… now recommending Google Cloud starts to make you wonder, “Am I going to look foolish?” Is this going to be a reflection on me in a year or two years, when you got to come in to say, “Hey, I guess that whole thing we architected around, it's being sold to someone else. It's being closed down. We got to transfer and rearchitect our whole whatever we built because of factors out of our control.” I want to be rearchitecting things because I screwed it up. I want to be rearchitecting things because I made an interesting novel mistake, not something that's kind of mundane, like, oh, I guess the thing we were going to use got shut down. Like, that makes it look like not only can I not predict the future, but I can't even pretend to read the tea leaves.Corey: And that's what's hard is because, on some level, our job, when we work in operations and cloud and try and make these decisions, is to convince the business we know what we're talking about. And when we look foolish, we don't make that same mistake again.Brandon: Mm-hm. Billing and security are oftentimes frequently aligned with each other. We're trying to convince the business that we need to build things a certain way to get a certain outcome, right? Either lower costs or more performance for the dollar, so that way, we don't wind up in the front page of newspapers, any kinds of [laugh] any kind of those things.Corey: Oh, yes. I really want to thank you for taking the time to speak with me. If people want to learn more, where's the best place for them to find you?Brandon: The best place to find me, I have a website about me, [brandonsherman.com 00:32:13]. That's where I post stuff. There's some links to—I have a [Mastodon 00:32:18] profile. I'm not much of a social, sort of post your information out there kind of person, but if you want to get a hold of me, then that's probably the best way to find me and contact me. Either that or head out to the desert somewhere, look for a silver truck out in the dunes and without technology around. It's another good spot if you can find me there.Corey: And I will include a link to that, of course, in the [show notes 00:32:45]. Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me today. As always, I appreciate it.Brandon: Thank you very much for having me, Corey. Good to chat with you.Corey: Brandon Sherman, cloud security engineer at Temporal. 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Hallo und einen schönen Tag aus Neu-Isenburg! Nein, dies ist kein Saruman-Podcast, Manu und Michel waren nur in einer Stadt auf der Bühne die sich bisschen so anhört wie Isengard. Dort haben die zwei einen wunderbaren Abend mit euch verbracht (vielen Dank! Es hat sehr viel Spaß gemacht!) und jetzt könnt ihr es euch selber auch nochmal anhören. Wir erfahren, was der Dumbledore eigentlich in seiner Jugend getrieben hat, und wie Harry nachts in einen kalten Weiher steigt. Und natürlich vieles mehr. Achtung! Diesmal Spoilern wir auch einiges! Viel Spaß :) Werbung: Koro: korodrogerie.de - Code HÜTTE für 5 % Rabatt auf deine Bestellung
“I told you he was tricksy. I told you he was false.”The Epic Journey ContinuesWith his three epic films of one epic book shot back to back, it's amazing that Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens found a path through the stories to build a film that works as well as this one does. Sure, it has elements of many famous middle films in trilogies, but it still stands strong. Join us – Pete Wright and Andy Nelson – as we continue our journey through Middle Earth with a conversation about Jackson's 2002 film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.Here's a hint at what we talk about.How well do the extended and new scenes work in this film? We quite like them. Our characters are split so we have a number of story threads to track. Do they all work? Lots of new characters. Gollum is often brought up as the biggest and most important addition to the film because of the process of motion capture with Andy Serkis to bring him to life. He's astounding and certainly worth a discussion. Does the CGI still generally work? Jackson's cinematic style comes through a few times. Does it always work? What about his epic battle sequence in Helm's Deep? There's plenty to talk about with these films and this franchise. And we talk again about the plight of the cave trolls. We have a great time talking about it, so check it out then tune in. The Next Reel – when the movie ends, our conversation begins!Join the conversation with movie lovers from around the world on The Next Reel's Discord channel!Film SundriesLearn more about supporting The Next Reel Film Podcast through your own membership.Watch this on Apple or Amazon, or find other places at JustWatchScript OptionsTheatrical trailerPoster artworkFlickchartLetterboxd(00:00) - Welcome to The Next Reel • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers(01:18) - Story Construction(08:29) - Extended Edition(15:04) - Cave Trolls(16:33) - Frodo, Sam and Gollum(19:58) - Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas(21:33) - Gimli Effects and Jokes(23:13) - Cinematic Tricks(30:58) - Gray to White(34:08) - Releasing Theoden(37:15) - Isengard and Fangorn and Ents(43:48) - Faramir(47:53) - Helm's Deep(57:21) - Jackson's Moments of Realization in Death(59:07) - Saying the Title(01:00:11) - Name Change Requests(01:01:26) - Race and Gender(01:06:10) - Gollum's Final Moment(01:10:16) - Credits(01:11:06) - Awards(01:15:36) - The Box Office(01:16:58) - Last Thoughts and Middle Story(01:18:52) - Coming Next Week • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King(01:21:47) - Letterboxd(01:23:05) - Wrap Up
“I told you he was tricksy. I told you he was false.”The Epic Journey ContinuesWith his three epic films of one epic book shot back to back, it's amazing that Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens found a path through the stories to build a film that works as well as this one does. Sure, it has elements of many famous middle films in trilogies, but it still stands strong. Join us – Pete Wright and Andy Nelson – as we continue our journey through Middle Earth with a conversation about Jackson's 2002 film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.Here's a hint at what we talk about.How well do the extended and new scenes work in this film? We quite like them. Our characters are split so we have a number of story threads to track. Do they all work? Lots of new characters. Gollum is often brought up as the biggest and most important addition to the film because of the process of motion capture with Andy Serkis to bring him to life. He's astounding and certainly worth a discussion. Does the CGI still generally work? Jackson's cinematic style comes through a few times. Does it always work? What about his epic battle sequence in Helm's Deep? There's plenty to talk about with these films and this franchise. And we talk again about the plight of the cave trolls. We have a great time talking about it, so check it out then tune in. The Next Reel – when the movie ends, our conversation begins!Join the conversation with movie lovers from around the world on The Next Reel's Discord channel!Film SundriesLearn more about supporting The Next Reel Film Podcast through your own membership.Watch this on Apple or Amazon, or find other places at JustWatchScript OptionsTheatrical trailerPoster artworkFlickchartLetterboxd(00:00) - Welcome to The Next Reel • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers(01:18) - Story Construction(08:29) - Extended Edition(15:04) - Cave Trolls(16:33) - Frodo, Sam and Gollum(19:58) - Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas(21:33) - Gimli Effects and Jokes(23:13) - Cinematic Tricks(30:58) - Gray to White(34:08) - Releasing Theoden(37:15) - Isengard and Fangorn and Ents(43:48) - Faramir(47:53) - Helm's Deep(57:21) - Jackson's Moments of Realization in Death(59:07) - Saying the Title(01:00:11) - Name Change Requests(01:01:26) - Race and Gender(01:06:10) - Gollum's Final Moment(01:10:16) - Credits(01:11:06) - Awards(01:15:36) - The Box Office(01:16:58) - Last Thoughts and Middle Story(01:18:52) - Coming Next Week • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King(01:21:47) - Letterboxd(01:23:05) - Wrap Up
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Part 16: Last March of the Ents Hroom! Hroom! Manu (@ManuclearBomb) and Emily (@JRRTweetien)'s business is with Isengard tonight, with rock and stone! As the forests of Fangorn to Isengard come against, we look at the influence of William Shakespeare on your hosts as well as JRR Tolkien - then it's onto one of the most powerful scenes in all of cinema. Hold on, little hobbits! --- Emily wrote a chapter in In One Woman's Life: Celebrating Mary Brooksbank! Get a copy here! Become a Patron of My Brother, My Captain, My Podcast My Brother, My Captain, My Podcast Reference Guide My Brother, My Captain, My Podcast on Twitter My Brother, My Captain, My Podcast on Instagram Manu's Twitter Emily's Twitter
Episode 490: The Time Has Come...Join us in Jackson, MS at The Country Squire on MARCH 4th 2023 for the grand finale of Country Squire Radio! Details at TheCountrySquireOnline.comTo see the pictures of Jon David from the earliest days of recording be sure to check out patreon.com/CountrySquireRadioListener Feedback: Mitchell Chambers - Hi Beau & JD, I am a new listener who discovered the CSR podcast about a week ago. I've been a pipe smoker for almost a year now and today I signed up for your patreon at the listener level. Thank you both for so many incredible podcasts. I have been bingeing some older episodes and today I found myself getting quite emotional while listening to the episode on the soldier and sailor archetypes. It made me thinking of all the WW2 vets that I went to church with when I was a kid. Sadly, they've all passed on now. In the show you mentioned the famous Marine, Alabamian, and pipe smoker, Dr. Eugene Sledge, who was my granparent's neighbor at one time. Dr. Sledge taught biology at the university in my hometown of Montevallo, Alabama. He died when I was still quite young. But I've been told he was a private man who was often seen smoking his pipe and bird watching. Thank you both for the incredible work.Jeremy Dukes - I hope you both had a wonderful holiday season with your families. Looking back on all the new-style-format shows in ‘22, I have to say I was pleasantly surprised at how well they fit with the tone of the show itself. I often listen to Country Squire Radio while working in the woodshop, and I found the intimacy of the episodes felt similar to when friends are over shooting-the-breeze with me while I pine away on some project. In fact, a couple of the “Father to Father” episodes were so poignant, I stopped whatever I was working on, sat down with my pipe, and listened intently because I was connecting so well to the conversation as a young(ish) father myself. Love what you guys do and appreciate you both for doing it.Hello Beau and Master Jon David, I hope you guys are doing well. I would like to know your take on pipe smoking while eating. As a predominantly evening pipe smoker myself, this is the time of the day when my wife and I sit down to nibble some food and enjoy a glass of wine or beer while talking about our day. This moment of interaction and relaxation seems perfect for a nice bowl of tobacco. However, by this time, I am already hungry and need to eat something. At first, I avoided ‘pairing' pipe tobacco and food but, as time went by, I kind of got used to it. Now, I do not mind smoking my pipe while eating. Of course, I do not do it Hobbit-in-fallen-Isengard style, but rather keep altering between eating, drinking, and smoking. Well, I hope I am not committing any heresy here, but that is how things typically go for me. LOL And I would not give up this moment of partnership and communion with my wife for nothing in this world. Love the show. Love you guys (if I am allowed to say that). Keep up the good work. Cheers from Brazil, Gerson FernanDINO (let's see if Beau gets my surname right this time) LOLAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Pop culture columnist and fantasy fiction writer Elizabeth Dresdow joins the podcast to discuss chapter 11 of The Hobbit, “On the Doorstep.” She shares her thoughts on “The Rings of Power” and its reception and explores with Fr. Andrew why the Dwarves can't seem to remember that they have a key. They wrap up with reading an iconic moment from LOTR and a prophetic jaunt toward Isengard.
Pop culture columnist and fantasy fiction writer Elizabeth Dresdow joins the podcast to discuss chapter 11 of The Hobbit, “On the Doorstep.” She shares her thoughts on “The Rings of Power” and its reception and explores with Fr. Andrew why the Dwarves can't seem to remember that they have a key. They wrap up with reading an iconic moment from LOTR and a prophetic jaunt toward Isengard.
Pop culture columnist and fantasy fiction writer Elizabeth Dresdow joins the podcast to discuss chapter 11 of The Hobbit, “On the Doorstep.” She shares her thoughts on “The Rings of Power” and its reception and explores with Fr. Andrew why the Dwarves can't seem to remember that they have a key. They wrap up with reading an iconic moment from LOTR and a prophetic jaunt toward Isengard.
Rohan survived the Battle of Helms Deep, Isengard's power is broken and the palantír is now in it's rightful place, while Frodo has been stung by Shelob and presumed dead and Sam makes the choice to continue the journey with the Ring alone, until he learns Frodo is in fact, not dead. Today we move forward into the third and final novel in the acclaimed Lord of the Rings series where we are covering Chapter 1 through Chapter 5 (Minas Tirith-The Ride of the Rohirrim). Stick around as we get a look at Gondor preparing for war, Denethor having a power struggle with Gandalf, the appearance of Aragorn's old friends from the North, a secret revealed to the Enemy, a path that none living should take, the beginning of the battle at Gondor, Théoden's fateful decision, and a face to face with the Black Captain and the White Wizard. With Chase & Josh moving into the final installment of the book series, highlighting a few foreshadowed and full circle moments, providing major key takeaways of each chapter, producing evidence of certain opinions, and closing out with intricate debates, you don't want to miss this. "Farewell, Peregrin son of Paladin! Your service has been short, and now it is drawing to an end. I release you from the little that remains. Go now, and die in what way seems best to you."
Today Chase & Josh close out The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in its entirety as we compare the second half of the Extended Edition film, to its corresponding sections of the novel. Keep in mind the sequences do not line up as the perspectives shift focus so there are moments that happen early in the novel, that do not occur until later in the film and vice-versa! Tag along as we discuss some of the notable differences found between the movie and the book such as; the Isengard wolves ambush of Rohan, the budding love triangle of Arwen, Éowyn and Aragorn, the portrayal of Faramir's character, who Gandalf brings on the first light of the 5th day to save Rohan at Helms Deep, and Frodo coming face to face with the Nazgûl. With the Riddikulus Crew discussing the main notable differences that stood out to each individually, providing a numeric grade in regards to Part 2 of the film as well as a numeric grade for matching moments of the novel, giving an overall score for the Two Towers as a whole and comparing an epic battle scene with another franchise, this is one you don't want to miss. "But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo." - Faramir
Gandalf has rejoined the fray at the turning of the tide and with the help of Aragorn, Legolas & Gimli, King Théoden and his men leave Edoras ready for battle. And today, a battle they will get. Thanks for stopping by today as we jump into the next five chapters of The Two Towers which include Helms Deep through The Palantír. Stick around while we cover the siege which encompasses all of Saruman's might against a much smaller force, the Ents taking advantage of a defenseless Isengard, a grand reunion amongst friends, a dispute amongst Wizard's, and an glass ball orb that almost ruins everything. With Chase and Josh describing one of the most climactic battles in the series, discussing what stuck out most in each chapter, touching on easy to miss detail, pointing out major foreshadows, and debating some interesting questions... Don't miss out! "Behold, I am not Gandalf the Grey, whom you betrayed. I am Gandalf the White, who has returned from death. You have no colour now, and I cast you from the order and from the Council."
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