{"podcast":{"title":"The Movie Defenders","slug":"the-movie-defenders-1124025","podcast_index_feed_id":1124025,"rss_url":"https://moviedefenders.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.moviedefenders.libsyn.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/a/1/c/2/a1c29401b747451dd959afa2a1bf1c87/MDLogo1-Square.png","author":"Scott Alden","episode_count":269,"summary":"The Movie Defenders is a podcast which discusses the positive aspects of popular movies. Most movie review podcasts spend the entire time tearing down the movies you love instead of celebrating them. We take popular movies that have been ridiculed by critics and defend them. Come listen to a fun discussion of the movies you love, or perhaps re-consider a movie again that you didn't like as much as you wish you did. If you like movies, you found the only podcast with movie reviews that loves them as much as you do!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-27T08:19:22.459143+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-movie-defenders-1124025"},"episode":{"title":"Ep 222: The Hobbit - The Desolation of Smaug","slug":"ep-222-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug","published_at":"2026-04-20T15:49:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-movie-defenders-1124025/ep-222-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-movie-defenders-1124025","url":"https://moviedefenders.libsyn.com/ep-222-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/moviedefenders/Smaug_Show_-_FINAL.mp3?dest-id=556233","summary":"It's time to get the shields up once again as we return to the much unfairly criticized trilogies of all time, The Hobbit trilogy. Today we unpack part two, The Desolation of Smaug. We three really feel these movies get a bad wrap but there is much more here than most see. We get into everything! We also pick our Top 5 Dragons of all time in TV/Movies. So grab your ring of power, don't leave until the moonlight hits you, and be on the lookout for giant bears... it's time for The Desolation of Smaug on The Movie Defenders podcast! Click here to listen and connect anywhere: https://linktr.ee/moviedefenders 00:00:00 Intro and What We've Been Watching 00:29:16 Top 5 Dragons 00:52:56 Movie Discussion Starts 01:18:06 Thorin Meets Gandalf 01:48:25 Beorn 02:20:55 Thorin Holds a Grudge 02:41:15 Something Darker is Coming 02:53:19 Alfrid and the Master 03:01:59 Bilbo Vouches for Thorin 03:21:03 Enter Smaug 03:33:48 Smaug Taunts Bilbo 03:43:14 Thorin Decides to Fight 03:50:08 Cliffhanger Ending Special thanks to our amazing Patreon supporters! Alex Kirkby Alexis Helman Barrett Young Bart German Brett Bowen Daryl Ewry Doug Robertson Ena Haynes Eric Blattberg Jason Chastain Josh Evans Joshua Loy Katherine Boulware Kevin Athey Mark Nattress Mark Martin Megan Bush Michal Kaczmarek Michael Puckett Nick Nagher Randal Silver Sean Masters Stephanie Ewry Tim TJ Walker Attack of the Killer Podcast","meta_description":"It's time to get the shields up once again as we return to the much unfairly criticized trilogies of all time, The Hobbit trilogy. Today we unpack part tw…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":14455,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-movie-defenders-1124025/episodes/ep-222-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-movie-defenders-1124025/ep-222-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}