Ep 1.33-What's A Hobbit Without Flaws?

All good things must come to an end, a last stage, if you will. Join us as we discuss the very end of Return of the King, prison abolition, authoritarianism, Sam Gamgee's knowledge of buns, hobbit reproduction, and our feelings here at the end of this stage of our wonderful journey!   Covers Return of the King Book VI, Chapter VIII: The Scouring of the Shire (Part B) and Chapter IX: The Grey Havens  Some reading/watching/listening from our discussion this week- Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra Podcast (2023-2024) Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America by Sarah Kendzior (2020) They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent by Sarah Kendzior (2022)  No One Is Disposable: Everyday Practices of Prison Abolition video series by Reina Gossett, Dean Spade, and Hope Dector (2014)  Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis (2003) Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire by Angela Y. Davis (2005)  They Can't Kill Us All by Apes of The State (2023)