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Dr. Ben Reinhardt, lovely to have you on the show.

It's great to be here.

Give people a quick bio of you.

All right.

So I'm currently a professor of English at Franciscan University of

Steubenville. Before that, I was at Christenheim College for about nine years. I was born in Indiana

to an Anabaptist family, converted to Catholicism and graduate school at Notre Dame. And that's

the 15 second version. And a Tolkien geek. And a Tolkien geek, yeah.

I know I have an answer to this, but I want to know yours.

What's the difference between a nerd and a geek?

Oh, between a nerd and a geek.

Geek's more derogatory, isn't it?

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