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Jan 6, 2020
Jan 6, 2020
2hr 45 min
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.
Dec 30, 2019
Dec 30, 2019
1hr 51 min
Dec 23, 2019
Dec 23, 2019
1hr 40 min
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!
Dec 16, 2019
Dec 16, 2019
1hr 29 min
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
Dec 9, 2019
Dec 9, 2019
1hr 19 min
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?
Dec 2, 2019
Dec 2, 2019
1hr 7 min
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)
Nov 25, 2019
Nov 25, 2019
1hr 24 min
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.
Nov 18, 2019
Nov 18, 2019
1hr 56 min
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!
Nov 11, 2019
Nov 11, 2019
1hr 17 min
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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,His Grace King Stannis Baratheon tells the Lannisters to get the hell off his lawn, and they respond in a multitude of ways, some smart, some ... less so.
This week, we:
- Talk about the worst theater commander in ASOIAF
- Look at Tyrion and Cersei, explore their dynamic through lies and mummery
- Give an honest appraisal of why Cersei is so freaked out why Tywin or Joffrey will find out about her relationship to Jaime
- Explore Tyrion's relationship with his image of the demon monkey man
- Get in deep (phrasing) on the sexual dynamics in Westeros vs the Summer Islands
- It's Varys and Tyrion talk politics time, and boy are we having fun.
- Answer definitely the question on who was the Hand of the King who built the tunnel to Chataya's brothel in King's Landing
Next week, Bran II, in which the Northmen left behind by Robb’s army come to Winterfell to make demands...from bended knee, of course. And we will be joined for this very political chapter by our most frequent guest, Steven Attewell!
Nov 4, 2019
Nov 4, 2019
1hr 6 min
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 pig-faced shit-knight Amory Lorch wipes out Yoren of the Night’s Watch and most of his charges. It’s not all bad news, though; at least Arya saves Rorge and Biter!
This week, we:
- Go through some of our favorite and "favorite" Apple Podcast Reviews
- Talk about the unsettling feeling of dread settling over the scene well before Amory Lorch shows up
- Talk about the Tolkienesque aspects of this chapter and how George reinterprets Tolkien's critiques of the crimes against nature.
- Discourse on Yoren as an idealist and how his ideals aren't so far removed from the current time of the story
- Battlechapter! Battlechapter! Slaughter ... chapter?
- Address why Amory Lorch as a war criminal takes backseat to Gregor and Vargo Hoat
Next week: Tyrion III, in which the Lannisters react to His Grace King Stannis Baratheon’s letter declaring them traitors (fuck yeah, righteous) and Tyrion begins work on a project for his metalworking class that probably won’t turn out to be important at all.