054 | Movies | The Hobbit Part 1: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

It's Christmas and we have a new Tolkien Movie! The Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey is ON!  That, and we talk about Transpektor Bowers continued descent into madness.

Be sure to check out our comic, Hurry The Rabbitoid Knight: Prelude to Epilogue!

Radio Free Echo Rift is your the twice weekly Pirate Pop Culture Podcast brought to you from Deep Beneath the City of Philadelphia! We have thirty minutes to record each episode here in the confines of the Waiting Room - the only place our evil overlords, the Researchers, can’t monitor our activities. If we were ever caught, we’d be atomized for sure!

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Download Episode 54: The Ho-Ho-Hobbit

00:40 - Intro
01:30 - No More Transpektor Bowers in the Waiting Room
06:10 - A Tolkien Film for Christmas!
06:31 - Memories of The Lord of the Rings, 9/11/2001, etc.
11:06 - Intro to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
12:37 - Warning: We're not Lord of the Rings Guys
16:53 - The Dwarves
19:04 - Bilbo and Martin Freeman
21:27 - Liked seeing Sylvester McCoy/Doctor Who
22:03 - What is with Gross Movies?
24:44 - The Length of the Movie
26:49 - Putting Characters in Danger
28:33 - We're in for a Great Ride with these Movies
28:54 - Outro, We forgot to talk about Tom!

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