Second Breakfast with Cam & Maggie

Ho ho ho. Today we're covering one of Cam's stories, a silly and dark riff on Christmas classics called The Christmas Donkey. 

Listen to the story here: https://cameronfucile.bandcamp.com/track/the-c…

Join Cam and Maggie for their continued death march through Tolkien's dramaticized appendices - I mean, Tolkien's endless epilogues - uh, how about quickly tying up loose ends in an increasingly drea…

Oh boy - a highly stylized, black and white Shakespeare adaptation from A24, that we got to see early, in IMAX? It's like our own personal bat signal was shot into the clouds. This adaptation is fant…

"The hour of doom" comes to a close as our storylines finally merge back together for the first time since Fellowship. Frodo and Gandalf seem to be powering down now that their Quest is complete, and…

We're heading back into Christopher Tolkien's History of Middle-earth once again this week for some fascinating insights into JRRT's creative struggles with Book Five. Denethor's cruelty was carefull…

We’re finally here, at the “end of ends” – Sam and Frodo reach Mount Doom and destroy the One Ring, but is all as it seems? We sure don’t think so. Theology comes roaring back in Tolkien’s writing, b…

It's our 100th episode! To celebrate, we're finally taking a dedicated look at the Harry Potter series of books / audiobooks / movies and exploring their titanic, continued influence on our lives. We…

At one point, we compare this chapter to The Revenant. The quest has never been more grim, grimy, or urgent. Cam and Maggie argue that this gauntlet is the first time that Sam and Frodo have ever tru…

Well hot damn, is there anything cooler than a sandworm? Cam and Maggie finally saw Denis Villeneuve's Dune, and they are just head over heels for the world of Arrakis. There’s so much to talk about …

Book Six of LOTR starts off with a bang as Sam takes over as Ringbearer / protagonist and Tolkien immediately forces him to re-enact Die Hard. Cam continues to develop his “Grey Company” theory as Sa…

Join Cam and Maggie for a rootin’ tootin’ good time as they talk about Chuck Palahniuk’s fantastic Substack newsletter, how good Succession is, and how they definitely didn’t just get back from their…

Nazgûl and orcs and hill trolls oh my! The finale of Book Five of LOTR sees our heroes ride into a trap and parlay with the flaming skull known as the Mouth of Sauron. It’s some fantastic heavy metal…

Christopher Tolkien is back again the third book in his History of Lord of the Rings series, The War of the Ring. Cam read the first half of the book and collected all the most fascinating, illuminat…

Of all the chapters we’ve covered so far, this one probably benefits most from our close reading analysis. Aragorn gathers the captains for a Council of Elrond redux, but the differences from that fi…

Cam and Maggie recount their experience seeing throwback rock-metal supergroup Fuzz at Mohawk in Austin and discuss their new perspective on the 1978 classic Halloween after seeing it at a drive-in. …

Hold on to your helmets, this chapter is all about Aragorn’s rise to power as he leapfrogs past Gandalf the Grey, Faramir, and even Gandalf the White to become the guy everyone trusts to lead them in…

Boo! We're in the home stretch of Spooky Season, so today we're looking at a ton of different horror movies. Think of this episode as a bunch of overly specific recommendations from overenthusiastic …

Well I guess we spoke too soon last week – this battle isn’t quite over yet! Denethor sweeps into the story to battle the ghost of Gandalf the Grey for the Most Disappointing Father Award and then af…

The year is 1971: we just went to the moon, Nixon is President (woops), Disney World just opened...and Led Zeppelin is singing about Tolkien. Join Cam and Maggie as they break down one of Zeppelin’s …

Oh boy – what a finale. I don’t think we’ve ever been this excited for an episode, even Maggie’s recap feels like a spirited campfire reenactment of the chapter. The Witch King rises to previously un…