Episode 96: A CLASH OF KINGS, THEON II: “The Favorite Child”

Episode 95: A CLASH OF KINGS, JON III: “Winter Knights”

Episode 94: A CLASH OF KINGS, CATELYN II: “Summer Knights” ft. Special Guest Lady Gwynhyfvar from Radio Westeros!

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going  through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

In this episode, Catelyn arrives at the traveling court of the rightful(?) king(?) of Westeros, Renly Baratheon the First of His Name, who makes her a reasonable(?) proposal before Stannis ruins(?) everything, as usual, just because he’s jealous(?)

This week, we:

- talk about the literary influences on GRRM and ASOIAF

- Get in on Catelyn's mental state just prior to her rendezvous with a terrorist king

- Zero in on the Reach, what they stand for and why they suck just as bad as the Lannisters

- Spend hours shitting on Renly

- Why Daemon Blackfyre to Renly to Young Griff is excellent paralleling on George's part

Next week: ACOK, Jon III for Jon III, as LC Mormont’s Great Ranging arrives at Craster’s Keep, the happiest(?) place in Westeros.

The NotACast 2019 Holiday Special Episode: “The Stone is Strong: A Tour of Winterfell!” ft. Special Guest Joe Buckley!

Episode 93: A CLASH OF KINGS, BRAN III: “The Stark in Winterfell” ft. Chloe from Girls Gone Canon

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going  through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

In this episode, friends and family come together to celebrate community and chow down. But Jeff can’t call it Christmas. Thanks Obama.

This week, we:

- Discuss cannibalism v. sacrifice

- Bathe in the warm glow of friends and family at the harvest feast...

- ...while analyzing all the little sad moments that show Bran's frustration with his life

- Introduce Jojen and Meera Reed, our homeschooled kids

- Talk about who their mother might really be...

No regular episode next week, but we will be releasing our latest Patreon episode (talking Winterfell with Joe Buckley, author of Great Castles of Westeros) for the general public on Monday, December 30!

Episode 92: A CLASH OF KINGS, TYRION V: “Bathing in Fire”

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going  through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

In this episode, the street preachers ranting about the apocalypse overtaking King’s Landing don’t even know how right they are.

This week, we:

- Ponder if Euron was Quellon's favorite son

- Cringe at the Alchemists and their dreadful "substance"

- Lament the fate of Cleos Frey, a pawn to be moved

- Dig into the layers of dysfunction and missed opportunities in the Tyrion-Cersei dynamic

- Talk the past, present, and future of wildfire

Episode 91: A CLASH OF KINGS, ARYA V: “The Wasteland”

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going  through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

In this episode, Arya Stark and her companions learn to never trust anyone over 30.

This week, we:

- Talk about whether Robert would have used magic to kill Rhaegar if he had the opportunity

- Get deep on how starving kids and hunger hollow people out

- Demand answers from Tywin as to why the hell he's using these horror tactics

- Examine the death of the mentor figure and how adults really are the worst

- Talk about how Sansa and Arya are similar in their circumstance and what yielding actually brings to peasants and nobles

- Examine Gendarya in depth! Will it happen in the books as it happened in the show? 

Episode 90: A CLASH OF KINGS, SANSA II: “Beauty and the Beast(s)”

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going  through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

In this episode, in which the princess in the tower is sought out by two brave knights who want to spirit her away to freedom. Well, neither of them are knights. And both are completely fucking drunk.

This week, we:

-Discuss theories we hope to be WRONG about (a new concept for Jeff)

-Use Dontos' letter to show how Sansa is gradually maturing in her worldview

-Talk about the imagery of chivalry and how it changes as both character and audience age

-Compare and contrast Dontos and Sandor, Sansa's not-knights in non-shining armor

-Marvel at how differently this chapter reads when you come back knowing who pays Dontos (namely, Littlefinger)

Episode 89: A CLASH OF KINGS, TYRION IV: “Hat Trick”

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going  through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

In this episode, Tyrion’s just gonna need you to sign this NDA. Boilerplate, nothing to it, he swears. Would he lie to you?

This week, we:

- Talk about visual adaptation and what we see when we read ASOIAF.

- Laugh at Pycelle and how he sucks and how Tyrion bowls over him

- Accuse Tyrion of complicity of war crimes as he shrugs his father's war crimes off 

- Say Good Day to Cersei as she comes in warm our hearts

- Watch as Littlefinger and Tyrion fuck with each other

- Listen in on Varys and Tyrion's attempt to manipulate each other

- Argue that Game of Thrones, Season 2's version of this scene was better. 

Next week, Sansa II where we...stay right here in King’s Landing for Sansa II, in which two drunk not-knights take out their issues on her. Sigh. 

Episode 88: A CLASH OF KINGS, BRAN II: “The Home Front” ft. Steven Attewell

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

In this episode, the Northmen come to Winterfell to offer their services to the Starks for nothing in return, because they’re all about manly honor. Right? Right?!

This week, we:

-Defend George's food porn as an essential part of worldbuilding and character development

-Compare Bran to the terrible horrible Walders as microcosms of the Stark v. Frey approaches to politics

-Dig deep into the layers of Northern politics as acted out by everyone from Lord Wyman Manderly to the Umber Uncles to (from afar) the Bastard of Bolton

-Discuss Bran's character arc from a would-be knight to a will-be king, with magic powers along the way

-Frame the Hornwood inheritance crisis as central to the downfall of House Stark

Next week: "one, two, three." Need we say more? Oh, yes: ACOK Tyrion IV will be our next livestream episode, on Monday 11/18 at 830 PM EST!