Sep 2021

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Ep 495 - Eragon, by Christopher Paolini ...

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Natasha from the Unspoiled podcast joins us this week to hatch a podcast about Eragon, a book that borrows freely from every other fantasy/sci-fi story that existed as of its creation in the early 2000s.

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Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.

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