61 BC - Lake America, The End of Days, and What I Did On My Summer Vacation with Anthony and Mike

And just like that, we're back.

We are back for season three here in the back corner.

What do we say? Welcome back to the dozens.

And the dozens.

We are glad

you're here.

We just got to get a little WD-40 on this podcast.

Get the rust off.

Going to

work the rust off.

Yeah,

no, we're back, man.

Yeah.

It has been a fruitful summer hiatus.

It has.

There's been rest, rejuvenation, adventures.

We'll talk about some of those.

And yeah.

But the children are getting

restless.

I'll tell you.

I've been bombarded.

Yeah.

I've had at least

four people ask me,

when's the back corner coming back? We've had dozens of requests from four different people.

When

are you guys coming back?

Yeah.

So with that, we're back.

61 BC.

61 BC.

Season three.

Yeah.

We are here.

Yeah.

Definitely thanks to Captain Ron for the refresh in the back corner.

Yeah, we got a little rejuvenation going on here.

Some new items around.

Yeah.

It looks great.

I'm stoked on my G.I. Joe poster, man.

That brings

back

so

much childhood

memories.

If you're watching, you'll know what we're talking about.

If you're listening, you'll have to watch.

Go on YouTube sometime.

You have to

have pretty incredible hearing to be able to tell we changed some things on the set if you're only doing the audio-only

version.

For the piece de la resistance, we'll put it up.

Oh, what is that? Excuse me.

I

know

what that is.

What

is this? Come on.

Come on.

You almost got kicked out of the

group chat.

This is Sting.

You've seen it before.

Once upon a time long ago.

You'll

feel it this time.

Actually, life-size sting.

What? I

like that it's not glowing blue.

That means no orcs.

No

orcs present.

If it does start to glow blue and we run away, you'll know why.

That'd be

great.

So, yeah, sting is in the back corner.

Okay.

I love it.

We're going to put sting in its place.

Carry on.

I was at a place recently where they had the sword that was broken and reforged, whatever that thing's called

again.

Shards of Narsil.

Narsil, there we go.

Andruil, I think.

Yeah.

Andruil.

I feel like that's, when I read some of the words that Tolkien made up, sometimes I look at them and I go, I don't think he ever said these out loud.

I think he just put the letters together in a way that looked cool.

Narsil was the name of the sword when it was Isildur's.

Oh,

yes.

Oh, no, sorry.

Isildur's father.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, and Isildur took the shard and then sliced it.

Well,

I'm not the only researcher here who

doesn't really read a lot of Tolkien.

So

for the four of you who are left, we just want to say welcome back.

Do you want to introduce our nerdy guests? We might as

well.

All right, here we go.

Bring in the mic.

It wouldn't be a new season in the back corner if we didn't have Mike and Anthony on.

Mike has been traveling the world all summer, but he's back at home base now.

And Anthony is genetically incapable of getting lost, so he can always find his way back to the back corner.

They're here to help Brent and I warm up and stretch for the season so we don't pull a podcast muscle.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mike McNeil and Anthony Moore!

If

you are an audio only, you got to go back and just see

the sweet new mic that I have for doing that.

Oh, man.

It did just like boost your delivery.

I can

feel it

flow through me.

It's

like when you hear these guys that do like these... play superheroes or whatever, like where they have tons of makeup and they're like, as soon as it's on, I'm in character.

I just feel like as soon as I get that bad boy in my hand, Bruce

Buffer.

Yeah.

There's gotta be some Sunday morning where that comes into play.

Definitely.

Definitely.

What a drop that would

be.

Like

on a really slow pull.

Yeah.

For those of you who are listening, it's like a classic old radio announcer-y.

If you've ever seen like Elvis or old footage of Madison Square Gardens, like the mic that comes down from the ceiling.

Anyways, it's going to be a great season because we have that.

So that's probably

going to change everything.

New segments, all kinds of fun things.