{"podcast":{"title":"Eye of the Duck: A Film Podcast","slug":"eye-of-the-duck-a-film-podcast-1375623","podcast_index_feed_id":1375623,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/OtrahXd3","website_url":"https://eyeoftheduckpod.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/3c9c3c2a-a53f-40bd-9d24-bdb387b03fb1/829a1e02-f438-4d3c-9dba-e2632a86d74f/3000x3000/sxm-cover-morbid-eye-of-the-duck-3000x3000-final.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Dom Nero and Adam Volerich | Morbid Network","episode_count":273,"summary":"A podcast about movies and the scenes that make them special. Each week, hosts Dom Nero and Adam Volerich explore a movie by finding the scene at its core–what David Lynch calls an \"Eye of the Duck\" scene. Join Dom and Adam as they celebrate cinema's greatest scenes, charting franchises such as Alien, The Evil Dead, and Indiana Jones, and major movements in film history, like '80s Dark Fantasy, Winter Horror, and Cyberpunk.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/eye-of-the-duck-a-film-podcast-1375623"},"episode":{"title":"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)","slug":"the-lord-of-the-rings-the-two-towers-2002","published_at":"2026-01-12T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/eye-of-the-duck-a-film-podcast-1375623/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-two-towers-2002","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/eye-of-the-duck-a-film-podcast-1375623","url":"https://eyeoftheduckpod.com","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/stitcher.simplecastaudio.com/a45adc7c-00f0-441e-ba04-b597645c7a15/episodes/3a37195b-7a0a-4dcb-9668-99e9d5b88bbc/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=a45adc7c-00f0-441e-ba04-b597645c7a15&awEpisodeId=3a37195b-7a0a-4dcb-9668-99e9d5b88bbc&feed=OtrahXd3","summary":"Forth Eorlingas! This week we toss Gimli face first into the forces of the Enemy. It’s another four hour tour of Middle Earth, and this time, we brought Ents. Is the middle film of a trilogy ever the best one? In this case, the jury's out, but one thing is for certain: it has the weirdest title of all three. Topics explored this week include: Legolas’s whole deal, the groundbreaking creation of Sméagol, Merry and Pippin blazin' it with Treebeard, Helm's Deep, Helm's Deep, and a LOT more Helm's Deep.","meta_description":"Forth Eorlingas! This week we toss Gimli face first into the forces of the Enemy. It’s another four hour tour of Middle Earth, and this time, we brought E…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":13999,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/eye-of-the-duck-a-film-podcast-1375623/episodes/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-two-towers-2002/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/eye-of-the-duck-a-film-podcast-1375623/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-two-towers-2002.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}