Speaker 1: Warning. Today's episode contains spoilers for Rings of Power season
Speaker 1: two episode five. Hello, my name is Jason Accepcion and
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Speaker 3: And in today's episode, in the previously on, we are
Speaker 3: remembering two giants who passed recently, James L. Jones, the
Speaker 3: prolific theater actor, voice actor, thespian movie actor legend, and
Speaker 3: the fantastic comic book artist John Cassaday who was the
Speaker 3: co creator of Planetary and most famously the artist on
Speaker 3: Joss Whedon's Astonishing X Men. And in the airlock well
Speaker 3: be heading into Calebrimble's Forge for Rings of Power episode five.
Speaker 1: The first previous sad news. This week we lost an icon,
Speaker 1: James Earl Jones, who lent his acting talents and his
Speaker 1: voice acting talents to innumerable iconic roles such as Mufasa
Speaker 1: from The Lion King, such as Darth Vader from Star
Speaker 1: Wars and many other non original trilogy Star Wars projects,
Speaker 1: has passed away this week. It's actually I was talking
Speaker 1: about this on with some other friends. It's just looking
Speaker 1: at his IMDb. It's actually insane the amount of things
Speaker 1: that he has done, and he's a part of, like
Speaker 1: an indelible part of so many people's lives with his work.
Speaker 2: Rest in power.
Speaker 3: James Earl Jones, Yeah, I mean he was also a
Speaker 3: you know, a theater actor before he ever became a
Speaker 3: famous film actor. He won two Tony Awards, and he
Speaker 3: was he originated the role of Troy Maxon in Fences
Speaker 3: by August Wilson, which would then you know, go on
Speaker 3: to be played by Denzel Washington in the movies. Also,
Speaker 3: he won two Emmys for a mini series about the
Speaker 3: wats Riots. Like, there's so much, even beyond the obvious
Speaker 3: genre stuff, and he was just such I mean, he
Speaker 3: was also ninety three. So whenever I feel sad about
Speaker 3: this stuff, I've also got to remember, like, what a
Speaker 3: fantastic life, what a great run.
Speaker 2: He gets a shit on Orson Critic.
Speaker 3: Like heck, like you know, yeah, fantastic.
Speaker 1: And John Cassidy artist extraordinay, Yeah, who is the pencil
Speaker 1: behind a lot of my favorites, Astonishing X Men, which
Speaker 1: he meant, which is kind of the title that got
Speaker 1: me back into the X Men after almost a decade away.
Speaker 1: The main Civil War titles in the Marvel Civil War
Speaker 1: crossover event John Cassiday and A Planetary, which is kind
Speaker 1: of the last unadapted really great comic book thing of
Speaker 1: the last fifteen years.
Speaker 2: Really sad to lose him. Great great artist.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and also just a really he was one of
Speaker 3: those guys who when everyone was remembering him, Jim Lee
Speaker 3: was remembering him, just talking about how he was also
Speaker 3: an incredibly kind guy. I was not lucky enough to
Speaker 3: meet him, but that was very interesting. It's always interesting
Speaker 3: to see someone who's remembered both for their massive artistic
Speaker 3: impact but also for the kind way that they treated people.
Speaker 3: And he actually was.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: He also worked on the Star Wars comics when they
Speaker 3: relaunched them. He was a concept artist on Watchman, the
Speaker 3: two thousand and nine movie. Yeah, just another really sad loss.
Speaker 3: And unlike James L. Jones, John Cassidy was only fifty two,
Speaker 3: so very very sad loss.
Speaker 1: Then we apologize for the tunnel shift, but we must
Speaker 1: mention this news. Colin Ferrell hated the Penguin suit Penguin.
Speaker 1: The Penguin coming to Max shortly. We will be covering
Speaker 1: that series. Colin Ferrell, in a recent interview, asked about it,
Speaker 1: said quote, I don't know, man. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: I loved it, but it got on me a little
Speaker 1: bit by the end of it. I was bitching and
Speaker 1: morning to anyone who would listen to me that I
Speaker 1: fucking wanted it to be this because of the Penguin suit.
Speaker 4: I do not blame him.
Speaker 3: I have been lucky enough to watch the first couple
Speaker 3: of episodes, and he is in that suit. As Joelle said,
Speaker 3: he's wearing the suit. You believe like he's fully in that.
Speaker 4: That is a full body suit.
Speaker 3: Like I I'm very excited to talk about the show
Speaker 3: with you when it hits screens soon. But you know what,
Speaker 3: I read this and I thought that's fair enough. Man,
Speaker 3: I feel enough. I think it was. But you know what,
Speaker 3: I hope he does get back in the suit because
Speaker 3: that man, he's very good as the penguin.
Speaker 4: I'm a fan.
Speaker 1: Coming up next, we're stepping into the airlock and talking
Speaker 1: about Rings of Power. All right, Rings of Power Season two,
Speaker 1: episode five, and the rings are flowing, baby, there are
Speaker 1: rings and they are powerful, and they are coming out.
Speaker 1: The new rings for the dwarves, fresh at a Calabrinbo's
Speaker 1: forge have arrived in case of Doom.
Speaker 4: Looking beautiful.
Speaker 1: They look beautiful, violish, and Duran picks his. You know,
Speaker 1: they come in like a cookie, you know those cookie
Speaker 1: those like round cookie tins with all the assorted cookies.
Speaker 1: It comes in like a round cookie tin. Knives.
Speaker 3: Why you expect that to be inside a sewing kit. Yeah,
Speaker 3: hare are some rings, No cookies, just rings.
Speaker 1: So and then so Duran the third picks, of course,
Speaker 1: picks the ring with the biggest rock on it. It's
Speaker 1: got this big beautiful blue stone on it, and he's like, yeah, baby,
Speaker 1: he puts that on and you could feel the rings
Speaker 1: vibrating with strange power. Immediately, Duran goes to where the
Speaker 1: sun shaft of pears are taking place after the cave in,
Speaker 1: and it's tough going.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: All the miners are like, I don't know, it's very unstable.
Speaker 1: We don't know where to where to start cutting the
Speaker 1: shaft next because there could be a cave in anywhere.
Speaker 1: And Duran is like he's feeling the power from the ring.
Speaker 3: He's actimate, acting very sus I would say, if I
Speaker 3: was giving feedback, it's a caliberbo on anatole. I'd say, like,
Speaker 3: take a little, give it like when you put on
Speaker 3: the ring. Let it take like a week. Let it
Speaker 3: take like a week, because this time puts on the ring.
Speaker 3: And suddenly he's like a stone singer.
Speaker 4: He's going around. He's like you bet.
Speaker 3: He's like, just hit here, baby, give me that hammack,
Speaker 3: Give me that hammock, Give me the hamma.
Speaker 1: Give me a axe, he says to Dirren to his son,
Speaker 1: and his son's like, Dad, no, because a load, don't
Speaker 1: do it here, and he shut up my mind, give
Speaker 1: me the axe and he cuts there and boom, cuts
Speaker 1: right to the outside. Here comes sunlight coming in, and
Speaker 1: everybody is like, whoa holy shit. The dwarves are going
Speaker 1: crazy and they fucking love their king. He's pointing out
Speaker 1: other places like here, here, here, and they're cutting through
Speaker 1: and it's the crisis of no sunlight is basically over.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: And then he gives like the most unhinged speech where.
Speaker 4: He's like, why would people live above.
Speaker 3: He's like the sun and the moon or in controled
Speaker 3: down here, we control the control. The sun comes to
Speaker 3: us when we want, When we.
Speaker 1: Want the sun, we canna have the sun anytime we want. Mountain.
Speaker 5: There's no better way to live than down.
Speaker 3: I feel like anyone who's in that was probably like,
Speaker 3: what's going on? Did he just was that a shift
Speaker 3: recently that happened to this man? Because I did he
Speaker 3: get some new kind of because I feel like it
Speaker 3: might be connected.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Lisa and the apparently now out of work Stone
Speaker 1: singers are like, something is a miss. We live They
Speaker 1: are right. We go to reggaeon where kel Brimbor is
Speaker 1: riding real high.
Speaker 4: He is own supply.
Speaker 6: Baby, you want to talk about speeches, speech afying, My
Speaker 6: guy gives like an hour speech in which he takes
Speaker 6: one hundred percent credit.
Speaker 1: Oh, the alliance between elves and dwarves. I have done it.
Speaker 1: We have done it here together. You know we have
Speaker 1: done it.
Speaker 3: I will say they are doing a great job with
Speaker 3: Kellerbrimble because it is very much a relatable situation. Sure,
Speaker 3: do we know someone who's crafting magical rings and you know,
Speaker 3: giving them out and causing chaos? No? But do we
Speaker 3: know someone who in the office is a generally nice person,
Speaker 3: but who can't stop taking credit for other people's works. Yes,
Speaker 3: like that is Actually the thing I think is most
Speaker 3: interesting is with him specifically. It's so easy to see
Speaker 3: how the ring is influencing and it is making his
Speaker 3: ego and his obsession with being the one to do
Speaker 3: something magnificent.
Speaker 4: And it is so funny because he.
Speaker 3: Is just like, we've done it, babe, We've like, we've solved,
Speaker 3: We've solved the Elven.
Speaker 4: And Dwarf war. Now we're just all friends with these rings.
Speaker 1: It's as if Calibrinmore's personality has like imbued itself on
Speaker 1: the rings. The dwarves are there, Emissaries from the dwarfing
Speaker 1: kingdom of Kozdoum are there, delivering the doors of Duran
Speaker 1: as a thank you gift, you know, operated by moonlight,
Speaker 1: you know secret password, the whole bit, you know the
Speaker 1: bit you've seen Lord of the Rings.
Speaker 4: I've seen Lord of the Rings.
Speaker 1: And calibrin Wore is so pleased that this. Meanwhile, he
Speaker 1: can't help but notice it that his creative partner, good pal,
Speaker 1: his good pal, Anataur is stucking away emotionally in a tiff,
Speaker 1: stocks away out to the out to the balcony, and
Speaker 1: he's upset and kil was like, what's wrong, bro? Hey
Speaker 1: you okay, listen? Sorry I should have mentioned your contributions.
Speaker 1: This made me left, so I should have I should
Speaker 1: have mentioned.
Speaker 4: I got carried away.
Speaker 1: I got carried away.
Speaker 3: My favorite part is that Sarah like, obviously he's not
Speaker 3: really that bothered about like create a right spot. He
Speaker 3: is bothered about is He's like, you talked for too long, bro,
Speaker 3: he said.
Speaker 1: He's like I told you not to go on just
Speaker 1: on a roll, and you can't stop. You please.
Speaker 3: And also I think like Anatar is starting to realize one.
Speaker 3: He is like a very obvious kind of love bombing
Speaker 3: gas lighting ship.
Speaker 4: It's like Patriot to recognize it.
Speaker 1: It's a lover's tiff, it really is. And then Saron
Speaker 1: says something after Killer Brimble apologizes, you know for uh
Speaker 1: you for for not mentioning him in the speech and
Speaker 1: his important contributions, i e. The Alloy idea Anatar slash,
Speaker 1: Saron does something that made me love him and made
Speaker 1: me want this entire series this season to just be
Speaker 1: focused on him. He goes, well, Kilerbrimble, I would be
Speaker 1: in a more festive mood, more apt to celebrate our
Speaker 1: grand achievement in bringing the Elves and the Dwarves together,
Speaker 1: but I just can't because of all the suffering that's
Speaker 1: going on in Mortars.
Speaker 3: Honestly, no, I think you raised like you you raised
Speaker 3: such a good point because the truth they fat with.
Speaker 4: Look, Charlie Vickers.
Speaker 3: Was great in season one, is holgrad but he is
Speaker 3: transcendent as Anata the Right is so funny. Sarn is
Speaker 3: always up in people's business, like, you know, don't have
Speaker 3: a good time because Saron's out there, I don't know
Speaker 3: where Be's out there, and someone's causing problems in Mordoor
Speaker 3: and I'm just, oh, I'm feeling so bad about it.
Speaker 3: Like it's so enjoyable to watch him that when we
Speaker 3: go to other storylines aside from the Dwarves, I do
Speaker 3: love the Dwarves, but I do feel like, especially in
Speaker 3: this episode, this could have just been a Keller Brinbugh
Speaker 3: Anatar botty episode because they're so good together and Kellerbrinbugh
Speaker 3: is starting to He's like the partner who's starting to
Speaker 3: pull away. He's starting to realize that maybe there's something
Speaker 3: a little bit wrong, you know, he can instead of
Speaker 3: feeling guilty when Anatar pulls this idea of Oh, there's
Speaker 3: so much suffering in more or kelerbrim was like, wait
Speaker 3: a minute.
Speaker 4: He's like, I think I know what you're doing.
Speaker 3: Actually, like you are just bringing this up because you
Speaker 3: still want me to make these rings for the men,
Speaker 3: and I don't want to give any rings to men.
Speaker 1: I don't know that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, these two are so interesting together.
Speaker 1: And then so Killerbrimber is like, yeah, listen, I don't
Speaker 1: want to make the rings for the men, but you
Speaker 1: clearly want to talk about this more. Let's let's do this.
Speaker 1: Let's part. The doors are here. They just delivered the
Speaker 1: doors of Duran. Let's have a good time tonight. We've
Speaker 1: got Canna pays, there's our darves and stuff and dream
Speaker 1: assistance just assistant. Yeah, let's just let's put a pin
Speaker 1: in that and we can talk about it tomorrow.
Speaker 2: And then Sarna is like, no, I want to.
Speaker 1: Talk about it now.
Speaker 3: These two are like such a little married couple. They
Speaker 3: really are, and I feel like anatar is this is?
Speaker 3: This is Suren's one failing this episode is he is
Speaker 3: too arrogant in pushing this point without understanding the fact
Speaker 3: that for two thousand and three thousand years the elves
Speaker 3: have been dealing with the destruction of what men did.
Speaker 3: And I think that this is what really pushes Calibrimble
Speaker 3: over the edge to sort of a vague freedom from Sourn.
Speaker 1: I just think Saren is I agree with you, but
Speaker 1: I think Saren has never faced a challenge like the
Speaker 1: ego of Calibrin boor no, like Jetty's yeah killer and
Speaker 1: Kelibrinbore to your point is like, listen, you want to
Speaker 1: talk about the destruction and what was formerly the south Lands,
Speaker 1: Well who did that? I think it was a men, right,
Speaker 1: men right in the in the service of a dar
Speaker 1: and Sarahn right. Saren is okay, okay, forget the south
Speaker 1: Lands now now known as a border. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: Numan or I my heart aches.
Speaker 4: With it's beautiful.
Speaker 1: It's beautifuliful of the fountains and the everything, and I'm
Speaker 1: sad and my heart aches in desperation for them, and
Speaker 1: I just hope that rings, perhaps the rings that we
Speaker 1: create together could bring them peace. And Kellerburn's like Calibrimoar
Speaker 1: was like no, no, no, no, no no, We're not giving
Speaker 1: the bad rings.
Speaker 4: That's no men, no rings for men.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And it sounds like, well, you don't know
Speaker 1: men like I do. There are some I understand that
Speaker 1: they get wild and they're prone to the basest of immoralities,
Speaker 1: but when their backs are against the wall, a hero
Speaker 1: always emerges. There's some wonderful heroes among them, like Lebron, James,
Speaker 1: Asia Wilson, Michaels. I could go on and on. We
Speaker 1: need rings for these great morals, and we need nine rings.
Speaker 1: Oh eight times nine, okay, yeah, show why. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: because three for the elves, and to balance it out,
Speaker 1: you do the square root you square times three and
Speaker 1: that's nine, right, and said Caliberbers, like, what are you
Speaker 1: even talking about? I made three perfect rings plus the
Speaker 1: seven for the dwarves.
Speaker 3: I go, no, five, I mean, I don't need to
Speaker 3: be making nine men. And obviously it's obvious that Anato
Speaker 3: wants nine rings so that the men have more power, Like,
Speaker 3: let's be real, because they have more corrupt if everything
Speaker 3: having it.
Speaker 2: No, He's saying no, no, no.
Speaker 1: And then so finally Anatar says, okay, you say no, Well,
Speaker 1: guess what I know how to work the forge. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna just make up now. Calibermore looks truly worried,
Speaker 1: because you can tell he's thinking, what if anatar makes
Speaker 1: better rings than mine? What if this is better? We
Speaker 1: go to New Minor where Farison is you want to
Speaker 1: talk about high on his own supply. He's talking to
Speaker 1: this fucking guy. He saw it to his trade. He's
Speaker 1: up on the tower. He saw that to his trader.
Speaker 1: Son Kevin on Gaye fourth, on a clear day, you
Speaker 1: can see the White Tower, the keyst eye can see
Speaker 1: the White Tower, the gateway to the undying lands right here.
Speaker 1: And He's like, I think the El's did this on
Speaker 1: purpose to taunt us with the fact that we have
Speaker 1: mortals and there are not.
Speaker 4: And Kevin, they don't even think about you.
Speaker 1: They don't care.
Speaker 3: They will just like you will live and die in
Speaker 3: the time that they are just chilling, drinking like an
Speaker 3: Alvin lemonade.
Speaker 4: That they're not thinking about you.
Speaker 1: Your lifespan. It can be contained in an Elven fart.
Speaker 1: They they don't worry about it. And Kevin is like,
Speaker 1: forget all that, this is the age of men. Let's
Speaker 1: build a better moment, or we can start right now,
Speaker 1: and let's do it. And Pharozon then says the craziest
Speaker 1: thing that I've ever heard of. Father's say he says, listen,
Speaker 1: when you were a baby, your mother, our former Queen
Speaker 1: Muriel prophesied that you would die in a terrible way.
Speaker 4: What why would you tell.
Speaker 3: And then and then and then he and then Kevin's
Speaker 3: like wait what did she say? And and Parizone's like, well,
Speaker 3: if you do I want, maybe I'll tell me.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll tell you what? What the fuck is this? Anyway?
Speaker 1: What about mural? Muriel is all in her the bedchamber,
Speaker 1: she's chatting with Ellen Bill and Ellen was like, we
Speaker 1: gotta take the city back, we gotta take.
Speaker 2: Nu Minir back from these fucking traders.
Speaker 1: And She's like, no, why because I saw a vision
Speaker 1: when I've touched the Palenteer hundreds if not thousands of times,
Speaker 1: I saw a vision of the destruction of New Minor
Speaker 1: m h And what did you see when you looked
Speaker 1: into it? He's like, oh, I just saw like me
Speaker 1: wandering around lost. And She's like, see this, whatever has happened.
Speaker 1: I get that we disagree with it, but it clearly
Speaker 1: has changed the future of noumenor the downfall of Numanar
Speaker 1: now will not happen. And so whatever Farizon says, whatever
Speaker 1: his lackey say to you just shut up and take
Speaker 1: it because now Newmonar is not gonna be destroyed and babe,
Speaker 1: and that's it.
Speaker 4: This is such a dumb plan.
Speaker 3: I just say, we were talking about this with you know, Joelle,
Speaker 3: and I'll produce this beforehand. It's like the women. I
Speaker 3: feel like the women in the show this season are
Speaker 3: not necessarily getting written in a way that convinces me
Speaker 3: that they are smart, like this is. I'm like, just
Speaker 3: because a guy that you like touched your magical elfstone
Speaker 3: and he saw a different vision, that doesn't mean you
Speaker 3: didn't see that doesn't mean the downfall of Newman.
Speaker 4: It's not gonna happen, Babe.
Speaker 3: I feel like that's just a vision for him, like
Speaker 3: that you've seen the downfall. Like, let's not believe that
Speaker 3: Farison is somehow the like I think this is a leap.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree with you.
Speaker 1: And it makes me think, well, maybe Klibrimbo is right, Like,
Speaker 1: let's not give elf shit to the men right now.
Speaker 1: I think all that ready true.
Speaker 3: They are not ready. They're too they're actually ironically too faithful.
Speaker 3: They don't question it enough.
Speaker 1: So Ellendale goes down to the city and he finds
Speaker 1: Valandille and many of his former soldiers, and they're all
Speaker 1: returning their army uniforms because they're being stripped of their
Speaker 1: ranks for disloyalty. And this is all Arian's idea. Ellendill's daughter,
Speaker 1: she gives her dad shit over the recent war, which
Speaker 1: she feels like was elf bullshit and that cost well forget.
Speaker 4: This power just by like selling out her dad.
Speaker 3: I guess another woman I'm not a fan of in
Speaker 3: this show, a new creation to just be created to
Speaker 3: be annoying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And she's like, this is the reason my brother,
Speaker 1: your son died. He's still alive. But she doesn't even.
Speaker 3: Feel like she even likes It's still like she's acting
Speaker 3: out like and I like the Kevin when he's like,
Speaker 3: he's like, what's it like to have a daughter who
Speaker 3: doesn't respect you? I wasn't like to have a dad
Speaker 3: who doesn't like you, who's just like your mom said,
Speaker 3: you're gonna die?
Speaker 4: Broh, Like what was it like for you?
Speaker 1: Bad?
Speaker 4: What do you think it's like?
Speaker 1: So it's a bad situation. And that night, gasp of
Speaker 1: all gasp, guess what, Parizon goes over who talenteer and
Speaker 1: he takes the cloth off of it, and you just
Speaker 1: know that he'd be touching that thing.
Speaker 2: He's touching that orb.
Speaker 1: We go, uh. We go to Lindon where gil Galad
Speaker 1: gets a letter from Kelly. This is a beautiful letter
Speaker 1: from Kellen Frimbur and Keller Brimble. The letter says, Hey,
Speaker 1: so so delighted that you love the three eleven rings.
Speaker 4: That you told me.
Speaker 1: It was just someone love love those. I love to
Speaker 1: hear that. And by the way, after I made those rings,
Speaker 1: I didn't make anymore.
Speaker 2: I just shut the forge down.
Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah, no dwarfing rings, no anatar, no nothing else.
Speaker 1: The High King is very, very suspicious, suspicious about this.
Speaker 1: He gets a military briefing about the goings on in
Speaker 1: Mordoor and everybody is basically saying, like, you know, we
Speaker 1: have to we should launch the invasion of Mordoor, and
Speaker 1: he consults the Ring about whether to do it or not.
Speaker 1: We go to Kosa Doom. Desa is arguing with her
Speaker 1: husband during the fourth about this new way of mining
Speaker 1: and the fact that there's no stone singer, no use
Speaker 1: for stone singers now, and during the fourth is like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's great though. The sun shafts are
Speaker 1: open and it seems to be working. They go shopping
Speaker 1: and they discover.
Speaker 4: That I do love the dwarf market, like I'm a fan.
Speaker 4: I would go that instantly.
Speaker 1: I would be spending much coin in the dwarf market.
Speaker 1: And guess what. Formerly Prince Duran is spending a lot
Speaker 1: of coin because they're trying to buy this little trinket
Speaker 1: for their daughter. And they find out that the king
Speaker 1: has raised taxes one hundred percent coin for every Yeah,
Speaker 1: for every coin spent, you put another one in his pocket. Matt,
Speaker 1: It's crazy. Anyway, they strike a reasonable deal even with
Speaker 1: the new taxes for this little tuning crystal. But Decent
Speaker 1: drops it. It rolls all the way down, down, down,
Speaker 1: down deep into the caverns. She goes down there to
Speaker 1: go get it, use your stone singing to find it.
Speaker 1: She picks it up, but guess what. Something is awakened
Speaker 1: down there deep in the caverns. It's roaring, it's it's
Speaker 1: something bad is coming. King Durn has dinner with the
Speaker 1: emissaries from the other Dwarf in Realms, and he says, listen,
Speaker 1: the threat of Saarn is rising, but we have something
Speaker 1: that we can face him with. Now, check out the
Speaker 1: connected to him at all. Don't worry about that.
Speaker 2: We can face Sarah.
Speaker 1: Now, look at these beautiful rings that I have for you.
Speaker 1: And he and one of the emissaries reaches me, get
Speaker 1: take your hand out of there. It's not for you,
Speaker 1: and not the other king. There's one the other kings.
Speaker 3: But also I have to say, yeah, there's a bad plot.
Speaker 3: I never get like come on.
Speaker 1: But of course, because Duran is like high, like smoking
Speaker 1: this ring like it's a crack rock, like he's like, he's.
Speaker 3: Definitely down bad for the ring right much last than
Speaker 3: anyone else.
Speaker 1: And he says to these emissaries that listen, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give these rings to your kings, but it's gonna come.
Speaker 1: It's gonna come at a price because I want kause
Speaker 1: Doom to be the wealthiest, the most powerful of all
Speaker 1: the Dwarfing kingdoms. And he says, listen, here's where we're
Speaker 1: gonna do.
Speaker 2: I have this ring.
Speaker 1: Now, this ring is showing me everything that's in this mountain.
Speaker 1: It's fucking nuts. What's in this mountain. We haven't even
Speaker 1: scratched the surface of the wealth that's in this mountain.
Speaker 1: Down deep is filled with gold.
Speaker 3: It's gold.
Speaker 1: And he's starting to lose it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: There's a moment where he like has his ring off
Speaker 1: and he's like, where are the who's stolen my ring?
Speaker 4: Where is it really given?
Speaker 3: Like? And Lord of the Rings like my precious yes,
Speaker 3: And and.
Speaker 1: His assistant like, sire, you took it off. It's right
Speaker 1: there and you didn't remember it?
Speaker 4: Not that deep? Shut up.
Speaker 1: We go to his son during the fourth go to
Speaker 1: desa Uh, and Lisa is like, there's something evil down there.
Speaker 1: He goes to tell his dad. He's like, Dad, we
Speaker 1: can't do this mining for gold thing because Lisa found
Speaker 1: said there's something evil down there and it's coming. And
Speaker 1: the king says, oh, shut up, listen. With this ring,
Speaker 1: I can see everything on there. I don't see anything evil.
Speaker 1: All I see is gold gold, go goll Golgauld. We
Speaker 1: go to a reggaon Calibrimbore is watching, you know, them
Speaker 1: working on these brand new rings for men, and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the tools are flying around invisible
Speaker 1: by themselves. What the fuck is going on? Calibrimbo's assistant,
Speaker 1: Darias is testing out one of these new rings for men.
Speaker 1: She turned invisible. Oh that's familia. Yeah, calibri Bar has
Speaker 1: to go down there and like wrestle a hammer out
Speaker 1: of her hand and then manage to get the ring
Speaker 1: off of her She becomes visible again and she's like,
Speaker 1: this is crazy.
Speaker 2: I was in some.
Speaker 1: Horrible place where where it smelled death and then I
Speaker 1: saw what And she basically described Sourn's true form.
Speaker 3: She sees it like that spiky, yeah, spiky crown on.
Speaker 4: He's living life down.
Speaker 1: Then Anatar is just like Conda, Oh that sounds terrible,
Speaker 1: but don't worry, it's just a vision.
Speaker 4: I'm hire beautiful Anata to help you. Definitely not sour On.
Speaker 1: Kelbermers like, what you do to these new rings? And
Speaker 1: Daria's like, well we added a little bit of mythroll
Speaker 1: to that one. Kilber was like, no, no, no, don't
Speaker 1: do dad, what are you crazy? You know, don't do that. Anatar,
Speaker 1: So well, maybe you could just tell us what to do.
Speaker 1: You could just give us a little hat about how
Speaker 1: we could, you know, go go go a little further
Speaker 1: and uh, Kelbermer.
Speaker 2: Is like no, I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 1: But before he can really answer, during the fourth arrives
Speaker 1: with news of the dwarf in rings. So during the
Speaker 1: fourth says kel Brimborg. My dad is like fucked up.
Speaker 1: Now he's a changed guy.
Speaker 3: It was literally one day like he's like he put
Speaker 3: that ring on and he started acting up like he
Speaker 3: was abling.
Speaker 1: Crazy and he wants like, listen to this. He's saying
Speaker 1: to the other dwarfing Kings that he wants half of
Speaker 1: their wealth before he hands over the rings. He's never
Speaker 1: been greedy like this, Kelly Brimore. Keller Brinble is insulted
Speaker 1: and a little bit anxious about the suggestion that his
Speaker 1: rings might be like not working, that they might need
Speaker 1: like a user update or a recall or something. And
Speaker 1: Durrance says, well, what do you know about this guy?
Speaker 2: Natar?
Speaker 1: This mappen you with the ring?
Speaker 3: By the way, can I just say Duran saw through
Speaker 3: Anato and they Duran said, no, who is Anata? What
Speaker 3: are you doing there?
Speaker 4: How do you know?
Speaker 3: Keller Brinble, why are you in the forge? And then
Speaker 3: you know what, he had a little when the rings
Speaker 3: first appeared.
Speaker 4: But now he said I've had enough? Who is Anata?
Speaker 3: And I think this is the moment where Keller Brimble
Speaker 3: is like, oh, maybe my gut feeling that something was
Speaker 3: wrong is because that's gonna be his Johnny over the
Speaker 3: rest of that.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Anatar is continuing to seduce Daria, and he's like,
Speaker 1: the unseen world. Wow, you know what, guy, you know
Speaker 1: what that darkness you saw? I bet you it was
Speaker 1: Kerim because you know, admit it, Daria, he's been different.
Speaker 1: He's been different ever since he started making the rings.
Speaker 3: He's been diminished and diminished.
Speaker 1: And then he and then he puts the chariot toob
Speaker 1: and he says, you know what, Daria, in this light
Speaker 1: by the fire, I'm looking at your eyes shining like
Speaker 1: that little sparkle coming out of him. You just look
Speaker 1: like my number one boog Ladriel.
Speaker 4: Oh crazy.
Speaker 1: And you know what you look like to me? You
Speaker 1: look like a person that is gonna want to listen
Speaker 1: to a word from our sponsors.
Speaker 2: Well you're right back after this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're back. We're back. We're back in Newmanora taking
Speaker 1: part in a funeral ceremony for the blessed war dead.
Speaker 1: Kevin comes in and says, immediately.
Speaker 5: By order of my fathers, Sara's on this shrine has
Speaker 5: been condemned. When I'm knocking all down right now, we're
Speaker 5: gonna put a baseball stadium, right yeah, and he says,
Speaker 5: howdiophil your daughter hates you.
Speaker 1: Ellendill Ellendal with an a sister from Valendale, doesn't take
Speaker 1: the bait. But then it goes crazy. Kevin is like, oh,
Speaker 1: look at this totally relican. He just like drops another ground.
Speaker 3: By the way, somebody ominously is like, if we do
Speaker 3: not look after this specific mcguffin, the souls will not
Speaker 3: be settled. So you know that this is another hint
Speaker 3: that Neumanor is gonna fall. When Kevin inevitably smashes it.
Speaker 1: Which he does. There's a big fight that happens and
Speaker 1: Valendille and Kevin they get in a fight and the yeah,
Speaker 1: Valandale breaks Kevin's arm and he's about to kill him,
Speaker 1: but then Ellendal says, don't do it, but then get
Speaker 1: a shrine.
Speaker 3: Valandal turns around and with his good arm, kem stabs
Speaker 3: in the back. Absolutely furious valand one of the best
Speaker 3: people in the show justice for him.
Speaker 4: Also, fuck you, Ellendille, this was your fault.
Speaker 3: I hope this haunts you every night because like you
Speaker 3: could have just let him kill this idiotic character who
Speaker 3: is essentially just like a two D like I'm a
Speaker 3: bad British character who could be in any show from
Speaker 3: Rome to Game.
Speaker 4: Of like Valandill was a good man.
Speaker 1: He's like the the dick ex boyfriend that shows up
Speaker 1: in like season three of Downton Abbey or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly exactly like Kevin go Away.
Speaker 1: Yeah ellend Dill is placed under wrestle a lot of
Speaker 1: time to think about this. Meanwhile, Kelli Brinbore says to Anatar, Hey,
Speaker 1: something's wrong with the dwarf and rings, and Anatar is like,
Speaker 1: are you sure the dwarves aren't manipulating you? They're trying
Speaker 1: to get you to like improve the rings and something badness.
Speaker 1: It's so funny, Like you shouldn't in what world?
Speaker 4: I have to say?
Speaker 3: This is a This is absolutely a testament to the
Speaker 3: writers in what.
Speaker 4: World did you see that you would be?
Speaker 3: I love it, but absolutely fun The anatom guy, he's
Speaker 3: so over the top, he's so ridiculous and he's so
Speaker 3: charming that you're just like, go for it, like you're
Speaker 3: doing it, just keep going bad.
Speaker 1: I absolutely love it. And he's like, and by the way, Killerbrimble,
Speaker 1: I didn't do anything for the rings, we did it.
Speaker 1: I was screaming at it because bro, and he says,
Speaker 1: you know what changed klierbrinmore, you know what, maybe imbued
Speaker 1: the rings with some dark energy. How about the fact
Speaker 1: that right before you may the dwarven rings, you fucking
Speaker 1: wrote a letter in which you lied to your king Gilgilt.
Speaker 1: Did you not line him? Did you not mind him?
Speaker 1: And he Gilbert was like, what.
Speaker 4: What He's like, it wasn't that deep. It wasn't that deep.
Speaker 3: And He's like, actually it was because that's the seit
Speaker 3: and the sas in the rings.
Speaker 1: It's in the rings.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: You told him you werely meig three, that you beat
Speaker 1: ten rigs, and Anatur says, like, you have one. You
Speaker 1: have two choices. I'm sorry, but this is what you
Speaker 1: have to do. Either you go to Lindon and you
Speaker 1: dropped your knees in front of Gill Glad and you say,
Speaker 1: I confess I went against your wishes, I made more
Speaker 1: rings than I should have, or you make the rings
Speaker 1: for men, which I don't understand the logic of this.
Speaker 4: Sure man, I think he's like, I guess, I guess.
Speaker 3: The threat is like, if you don't go and confess,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna like snitch on you, so you have to
Speaker 3: just or you can just do what I want, which
Speaker 3: is make the ring.
Speaker 1: Make the rings.
Speaker 3: I think Anata played this one wrong. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 4: I think I think he's pushed it too far.
Speaker 1: We will see. We go to Kasadoom where Duran is
Speaker 1: trying to convince his dad to stop using the ring,
Speaker 1: and his dad is like, listen, this ain't happening.
Speaker 2: That ain't happened. But let me tell you what is happening.
Speaker 2: My boy, my beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 1: Wise boy, who brought the idea about the alliance with
Speaker 1: the elves to me, and that brought the ring to me.
Speaker 1: I love you, my boy. I put the torque of
Speaker 1: princehood back on your neck, and you are my son
Speaker 1: and a once again. Now I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 3: I feel like he was happier without the talk of prince,
Speaker 3: but I understand the draw to it.
Speaker 4: Thesea is just a shocked as me. She's like, well
Speaker 4: she sees.
Speaker 1: That tork of Princeton. Duran comes comes home and he's
Speaker 1: got this like a bashed look at his face, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm wearing the tork of Princeton again.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 3: He's like he's like trying to hide it under his
Speaker 3: bed and she's moving the bed and she's like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, why did you do this?
Speaker 1: And she says to him, listen, you swear to me
Speaker 1: you will never wear that ring, and don't put that
Speaker 1: ring one Calibrimborne then makes another speech in which he says,
Speaker 1: bye bye, my workers. We fail as a team. Though
Speaker 1: every success is mine alone, but we fail as a team,
Speaker 1: and we fail, and we have failed. The dwarfing rings
Speaker 1: are a failure. And Darnia's like, well, hold on, boss,
Speaker 1: we followed your design to the letter. He's like, shut up.
Speaker 1: He says, the only way we could make this right,
Speaker 1: and this is my idea.
Speaker 4: By the way, oh definitely all alone.
Speaker 2: We gotta make the nine rings for the men.
Speaker 1: We got it. That's how we make this right, because
Speaker 1: it'll balance out I guess the bad rings. We make
Speaker 1: nine perfect ones, and that'll balance out the seven imperfect
Speaker 1: ones to go along with the three perfect ones that
Speaker 1: I made previously. Even this deceit would still be going
Speaker 1: on by the that's right, And he says that's not.
Speaker 1: That's right, and he says, from now on, like a
Speaker 1: true boss, like a true corp CEO. He says, from
Speaker 1: now on, you want to work from home, you're fired.
Speaker 1: You want time off, you're fired. You take a lunch break,
Speaker 1: you're fucking fired.
Speaker 4: No, there's a baby.
Speaker 1: You're fired. You want out. You can walk out the
Speaker 1: door right now. Otherwise we start now making the rings.
Speaker 1: Anatar plays good cup. He goes, oh, hold on, guys,
Speaker 1: I know Keler Brimbo or the boss. Listen, he's a genius.
Speaker 1: He's under a lot of I again, I love Anatar sar.
Speaker 1: He's under a lot of pressure right now. Okay, but
Speaker 1: this is important, so let's just get to work and
Speaker 1: just like, let's just do it, okay, and Keller brimboo like,
Speaker 1: just don't bother him. Keli Brimbo goes off to the
Speaker 1: other room and like fucking shakes and cries.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, Because I this is actually my read.
Speaker 3: I think Cali Brimbo has seen through Anata and this
Speaker 3: is like he didn't know what else to do then
Speaker 3: go along with him on the face of it, and
Speaker 3: I think like that.
Speaker 4: I think when he goes off and he's like crying, he's.
Speaker 1: Like, oh shit, it man, this guy's been playing me,
Speaker 1: Like what the fuck do I do?
Speaker 3: I got to guard to King Galad like ah, but
Speaker 3: he's just buying himself something.
Speaker 1: I think. I think it's that, and I also think
Speaker 1: it's his I also I think there's two competing things
Speaker 1: going on. One he understands that he can't trust Anatur,
Speaker 1: he knows this now, but he's equally as worried that
Speaker 1: those imperfect Dwarven rings will ruin his.
Speaker 3: Reputatione yes, yes, yes, And so he's like, how do
Speaker 3: I square this circle?
Speaker 1: How do I both get out from Anatar's grip but
Speaker 1: also make sure that no one ever finds out about
Speaker 1: these tainted rings that I made? How do I do this?
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the fucking Orcs are stirring folks.
Speaker 4: Here they are.
Speaker 1: The Orc army has moved through the woods. There now
Speaker 1: within sight of a reggaeon the ohe there at the distance.
Speaker 1: L Rond bearing Gladiol's ring, rushes to lynd On. He
Speaker 1: says to Gil, listen, we gotta get the army to
Speaker 1: a reggaeon immediately. The Orcs are coming. They're moving through
Speaker 1: the forest. I've seen this. I fought them the whole
Speaker 1: thing they have Gladril. Gil says, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I've been using this ring right here. And what I
Speaker 1: know is this Suron has been behind all of this
Speaker 1: and he's moving the pieces and that's going to Reggaeon.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what he would want. We have to pick one,
Speaker 1: either a Dar or Saron to fight. We can't fight both.
Speaker 4: And glad fight like that.
Speaker 1: Dar is like a fucking like he's nothing, it doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: He's just a guy. At the same time, Gladiel is
Speaker 1: delivered to the Orc camp. The Orcs are about to
Speaker 1: like cut off Gladiel's hair and mess with that, just
Speaker 1: like fucking around, and and a Dar stops them. He's like, no, no,
Speaker 1: don't do that. And she pulls out a blade that
Speaker 1: she is hidden and she puts into a darter's neck
Speaker 1: and he's like great, great, great, I love this fight.
Speaker 3: He's like, I'm vibing. This is like exactly how this
Speaker 3: is what I would do if we're on the same page.
Speaker 1: I like this, And let me let me propose a
Speaker 1: deal to you, Gladriel. What if no one will expect this.
Speaker 1: What if you and I we team up and we take.
Speaker 2: Down the person that we really want to take down,
Speaker 2: and that's Sarah. You and I together, it's.
Speaker 1: An unbeatable team Bomb Bomb Bomb and while this is happening,
Speaker 1: the rings for men are being forged, we watch fuck
Speaker 1: say and uh and that is episode five. I Rosie,
Speaker 1: I've said it before, I said it all episode I'll
Speaker 1: say it again.
Speaker 2: I just love what Sarah is cooking.
Speaker 1: I need to watching.
Speaker 3: He is so letting this man cook his rings in
Speaker 3: the forge because it is enjoyable to watch.
Speaker 4: He is just delightful. I mean, he's my favorite jeweler.
Speaker 3: I would say he is, uh, just such a conniving
Speaker 3: man in the most delightful way. It's been a long
Speaker 3: time since we had a villain you could root for.
Speaker 1: Like it's a delicious it's he's a delicious villain. And
Speaker 1: what makes him so uh so routable, if that's a
Speaker 1: word definite, is the fact that the people that he's
Speaker 1: going up against Kelbrimborg, King Gilgalad are so ego maniacal,
Speaker 1: like they are both they have such a high escheme
Speaker 1: of themselves and they're also like not up to the challenge,
Speaker 1: and those two things together make them just very vulnerable
Speaker 1: to the charms and manipulations of Sarahn, which have been
Speaker 1: wonderful to watch. Yeah, I mean, no question when Sarahon
Speaker 1: is saying what he says to Calibrip, my heart aches
Speaker 1: for the people of the Southlands. We need Could they
Speaker 1: not have rings of their own to try and fight back.
Speaker 3: It's just so good, wasn't it you who put a
Speaker 3: broken sword in there? And then like, yeah, may the
Speaker 3: Mount Doom explodes so that everyone would get turned into
Speaker 3: like fucking more door dwellers, Like what are you talking about?
Speaker 3: I love you? This is so good and I like
Speaker 3: how now you'll see his second plan is like Sourn's
Speaker 3: assistance is Calibrimble's assistant. He's like, okay, well, Calibrimble, I
Speaker 3: can see this is going badly. I'm going to pretend
Speaker 3: he's becoming evil and now I'm going to just like
Speaker 3: chop this assistant and see what she can do for me.
Speaker 3: I believe she can make it happen.
Speaker 1: You mentioned THEO. I wanted to shout out a really
Speaker 1: fun theory saw on the Lord of the Rings on
Speaker 1: Prime subreddit posted by late Stage PhD as so good
Speaker 1: his theory. Their theory excuse me. Their theory is basically
Speaker 1: that you know, based on the evidence that THEO must
Speaker 1: be somebody like they're spending too much time, but he
Speaker 1: must be so many important and the theory is essentially
Speaker 1: that THEO will eventually be the King of the Dead.
Speaker 2: Who's whose dead army?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: And the leverage of making them fulfill their oath. It
Speaker 1: basically swings the final battle against sarahon in Return of
Speaker 1: the King. I really like this theory because there is
Speaker 1: a lot of like talk of like promises and oaths
Speaker 1: going on around THEO.
Speaker 3: It's wonderful and he is the king of the oath breakers,
Speaker 3: and we know that THEO is like someone who has
Speaker 3: struggled throughout his life to you know, do any good thing. Yes,
Speaker 3: very very interested in this one. I think it's very
Speaker 3: fun and I think it could be quite a tragic
Speaker 3: ton if that's something we see over the seasons that
Speaker 3: we have coming.
Speaker 1: On next week's episodes of X ray Vision, we're diving
Speaker 1: into our favorite animated shows on Netflix and then later
Speaker 1: in the week kicking off Penguin.
Speaker 3: Wait.
Speaker 4: It's like that.
Speaker 1: That's it for this episode. Thanks for listening, bye. X
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