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George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire (ASoIaF) novels are our focus: Analysis and theories, readings, adverts from Westeros, music from the fandom, guests, and more, with your hosts yolkboy and Lady Gwynhyfvar. Radio Westeros is the only radio station this side of Asshai... Spoilers all books! Support: patreon.com/radiowesteros Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Game of Groans

Emily Bateman and Kate Koballa

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Emily Bateman, a millennial woman who never got into Game of Thrones, finally sits down to watch and analyze each consecutive episode of the popular HBO show. With the help of her sister, Kate Koballa, and sometimes a guest, Emily tries to figure out what the heck is going on in the show, why it was so popular at the time and who is actually going to win the game of thrones (if there actually is a winner at the end).
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Valar Morghulis! Join us as we explore the deep, dark secrets of Westeros. New & Innovative perspective on the Game of Thrones TV series as well as in-depth coverage of the upcoming House of the Dragon series. Valar Dohaeris! Contact: Email: [email protected] Website: Home | South Side Westeros IG: Southsidewesteros (@southsidewesteros) Twitter: South Side Westeros (@Sswesteros) / Twitter Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/southsidewesteros/ Donate:Buy me Coffee: Sswesteros Patreon ...
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Old Sounds and the New

Momentous Voice Productions

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"Old Sounds and the New" is a show dedicated to the world of "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R.R. Martin. Join Dan, Bill and Alex on our Game of Thrones hype train rewatch marathon leading up to HBO's EPIC SERIES FINALE in Season 8 as well as all breaking news on the remaining books in the series and television spinoff's that follow.
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In the second installment of our three part series on Bran Stark, we cover Bran in ACOK including the growing importance of dreams in his arc, the arrival of a number of new faces at Winterfell, and the unexpected arrival of one very familiar person. Join us as we dive deep on greendreams and wargs, politics and players, hints and foreshadowing, an…
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Join us for our deep dive into the Battle at the Wall - the set piece battle of a Storm of Swords! We recap all of the characters involved and explore the setup: from Jon Snow's time with the Free Folk and the subsequent attack on Castle Black, to how Mance Rayder motivated thousands of Free Folk to move south as one group, and what brought Stannis…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate join together to do a wrap-up of HOTD and the podcast as a whole. They discuss cast interviews, Rotten Tomato scores, a GOT storybook, negronis, fancy dress time, wigs, and nice guys. Additionally, Kate wants thematic symbolism and Emily has feelings about internet spoilers. THANK YOU for joining us on th…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Jay Davis from Super Bracket Bros to talk about the season finale, Episode 8 of Season 2, The Queen Who Ever Was. They discuss horse-mermaids, a chunky recap, men with blue hair, Larys' Swiss bank account, the Fast and Furious movies, The Witcher, rabid lamination, and the Kit Harrington cli…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Dylan Wren from Your Friendly Neighborhood Gamers to talk about Episode 7 of Season 2, The Red Sowing. They discuss spoilers for "The Witch" movie, the power of friendship, purebred dogs, the aura of ableism, a dragon arms race, Daemon and his influencer apology, the whisper campaign cloak, …
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The conquest of Dorne was not accomplished in Aegon the Conqueror’s lifetime, nor even his children’s and grandchildren’s lifetimes. But it would not be for want of trying, nor personal sacrifice, by the blood of the dragon. Join us as we dive into nearly two centuries of struggle between Targaryen Westeros and the principality of Dorne. Support us…
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In the third installment of LG and Friends, originally streamed live on YouTube, LG sits down with Emily of the Eyrie to discuss Sansa VII from ASOS. We dive into one of the great chapters in ASOAIF - the Snow Castle, Moon Door and more. Support us! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Jason Edwards to talk about Episode 6 of Season 2, Smallfolk. They discuss where lions live in Westeros, Alicent's gentle parenting, fantasy bullshit & deep lore, Aemond not having enough therapy, Dire Hard Goldenbooks, Larys going into worm mode, and Alicent's backup son. Additionally, Jaso…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Eliah Nelson from Super Bracket Bros to talk about Episode 5 of Season 2, Regent. They discuss gay marriage in Dorne, the YA spinoff of GOT, ghost confessionals, overstimulating crowds, angry husband vibes, widow wine moms, and actual chaos ladder, and that Daemon is a Kardashian. Additional…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Sarah Sheppard to talk about Episode 4 of Season 2, The Red Dragon and the Gold. They discuss the podcast five timers club, The Haunting of Hill House, Sesame Street names, manic pixie dream witches, Jace being bitchy, peak Jim Carrey, the fine line between horny and suspicious, and dragons …
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Andrew Kimball from Your Friendly Neighborhood Gamers to talk about Episode 2 of Season 3, The Burning Mill. They discuss time being irrelevant again, a permanent sneer, Joffrey being the middle child, this episode being poorly written, Dylan's HBO algorithm, Tyland Lannister's character arc…
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Our deep dive on the Free Folk includes a look at their origins and culture, a recounting of the history of Kings Beyond the Wall, getting to know their people including Mance Rayder, Tormund Giantsbane, Craster and more, and a discussion of their role in ASOIAF. Support us! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Nav from A Song of Ice and Fire Symposium to talk about Episode 2 of Season 2, Rhaenyra the Cruel. They discuss cathartic arguments, Mark Zuckerberg shark eyes, incredible face acting, too many Aegons, Legos, pop-up video for HOTD, the event coordinators for King's Landing, Jon Snow wannabes…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Mark Metta talk about Episode 1 of Season 2, A Son for a Son. They discuss Hulu with ads, bad news ravens, all blonde kids look the same, Bruce Willis in Red, more weird little guys, the definition of magnanimous, Larys being an introvert, Costco CEO, the return of the crime hoodie, the plot…
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It's that time of year for the Super Bracket Bros, The Friendly Neighborhood Gamers, Game of Groans, and The Wait For It podcast to gather around a holiday topic and argue about it. For our fifth anniversary, the gang aims to find out what the best Santa Claus of all time is. Follow all of the shows with the links below https://superbracketbros.buz…
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In our first in depth look at Bran Stark, we cover Bran's arc in A Game of Thrones, from the discovery of a pack of abandoned wolf pups in the summer snow, to the arrival of terrible news from King's Landing many months later. Along the way, Bran's life changes utterly and we trace the source and course of those changes, and much, much more. Suppor…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are still taking time away from "canon" episodes and have watched a holiday movie with a Game of Thrones actress in it. We decide to watch Emilia Clarke's movie, "Last Christmas." They discuss modernizing language can be bad, manic pixie dream boys, Whamageddon, Patti Lupone, Fleabag, suspension of disbel…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are taking time away from "canon" episodes and just play some games this month in a bonus episode. Emily has created some lists that Kate has to "blind rank" and it gets quite interesting. They discuss actors being hotter than their characters, Dimension 20, award-bait speeches, that Cersei was a victim b…
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It's the first installment of a new livestream series, in which LG welcomes guests from the fandom to talk about their favorite chapters. In this episode, originally streamed live on YouTube, we welcome Joe Magician in deep conversation about the AGoT Prologue. Support us! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate talk about the season finale Episode 10 of Season 1, The Black Queen. They discuss the infamous war table, the Olsen twins, a Dragonstone Hotel, Breath of the Wild, symbolism, how dragon bonding works, jade eggs, and Viserys as a Force ghost. Additionally, Emily thinks the finale was a little anticlimacti…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Eliah Nelson from Super Bracket Bros to talk about Episode 9 of Season 1, The Green Council They discuss the series was leading up to this episode, all characters are morally grey, the return of weird little guys, Criston's dumb hat, an evil himbo, truth bombs, Mysaria's bad accent, an aggre…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Nav from A Song of Ice and Fire Symposium to talk about Episode 8 of Season 1, The Lord of Tides. They discuss the heavy Season 2 marketing, the war room table, too many swords, Aegon's dream, that there's only one drug in Westeros, fantasy politics, and that Viserys is a great grandfather. …
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In the 7th and final installment of our long running series with History of Westeros on the Dance of the Dragons, we cover the beginning of the reign of Aegon III, including the long awaited arrival of Cregan Stark and the Hour of the Wolf that followed; and we remember the ladies who were suddenly some of the most significant people in the realm. …
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Dylan Wren from Your Friendly Neighborhood Gamers to talk about Episode 7 of Season 1, Driftmark. They discuss Daemon's unknown age, the very bad night filter, good costume design, questions actually being answered, The Greens sounds like a slur, blood marriages, and that Alicent needs one r…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate talk about Episode 6 of Season 1, The Princess and the Queen. They discuss the Book of Mormon musical, GOT genetics, plain-featured children, female writers, that Alicent is still naive, that Criston Cole is the ultimate nice guy, and that Aegon sucks. Additionally, Emily realizes she has no favorite char…
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Come with us to the furthest points of the compass! From Sothoryos to the Sunset Sea to Asshai and, finally, the Lands of Always Winter in the extreme north. What do we know about these far-away and mysterious places? A surprising amount! We discuss which characters have explored where, how we might see or hear about these locales on page, and what…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Jay Davis from Super Bracket Bros to talk about Episode 5 of Season 1, We Light the Way. They discuss hibiscus flowers, giant braid crowns, The Witcher series, naive characters, Barbie lore, resting smug face, and intentionally confusing scenes. Additionally, Emily did not anticipate Rhea ge…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Sarah Sheppard to talk about Episode 4 of Season 1, King of the Narrow Sea. They discuss Gay Westeros, costume consistencies, small writers rooms, Dragon Riders of Perth series, sexual harassment in the workplace and big Jasmine energy. Additionally, Sarah decides she wants to vacation in Ki…
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In this episode we cover the Conquest of Westeros by the dragon lord Aegon Targaryen-- the battles fought and the kings who burned and died defiantly, as well as those who knelt or flew; and how the resistance of a single Princess led to the Conquest being incomplete. Support us on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate talk about Episode 3 of Season 1, Second of His Name. They discuss the confusing title, The Mummy, that a pug would not survive in Westeros, poor communication, hunting trip red flags, dragon genetics and The Wicker Man. Additionally, Emily still finds the crabs hilarious not menacing, Kate thinks Caraxes…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Andrew Kimball from Your Friendly Neighborhood Gamers to talk about Episode 2 of Season 1, The Rogue Prince. They discuss Westeros small claims court, sea carnage, too many council meetings, the movie adaptation Rampage, and the confusing title sequence. Additionally, Emily doesn't believe t…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Eliah Nelson from Super Bracket Bros to talk about House of the Dragon Episode 1 of Season 1, The Heirs of the Dragon. They discuss weird vibes, good CGI dragons, too many council meetings, really bad communicators, GOT nostalgia, big Jorah energy, and that Daemon is the Hot Topic Targaryen.…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate list everything they collectively know about House of the Dragon before starting to watch the series. They discuss the Aryan race of Game of Thrones, Hot Fuzz, British actors and incest. Additionally, Kate explains why she didn't want to watch HOTD originally, and they both make a large prediction about t…
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We're back with an episode all about the Night's Watch in the post-Conquest era -- covering all the notable characters and events, the reasons for the slow decline of the organization, its role in the main storyline, and where it will fit in The Winds of Winter and beyond. Support us on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate react to listener voicemails and then take some Game of Thrones character quizzes. They discuss bad acting from Bran, Vin Diesel, that chapter books should have numbered chapters, love gets everyone killed in GOT, an Olenna Tyrell backstory would be dope, and that super villains never have good lives. Add…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate talk about The Last Watch, the HBO Max Documentary. They discuss spoilers for Frozen 2, table read politics, actors on Cameo, the heroes of the documentary, the dope wrap jackets, the sad looking Ghost head and how stressed everyone was. Additionally, Emily really has come around on Kit Harrington as a pe…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate talk about Game of Thrones as an entire series, Emily's prior "knowledge" of GOT, as well as some links and videos pertaining to GOT. They discuss Kit Harrington and Rose Leslie's wedding, the Coldplay Game of Thrones Musical, practical effects and sets, vaguely European accents, murder butterflies and pl…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate talk about the series finale Episode 6 of Season 8, The Iron Throne. They discuss the short recap, the happiest Dany has ever looked, red flags, dramatic irony, evil dictator vibes, democracy, Tyrion’s joke from season 1, what happened to Arya’s horse, that the episode didn’t feel like a finale, renting V…
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We explore the history of the Night's Watch, from its foundation in the Age Heroes up to the Conquest. Along the way we look at the Wall and its castles, notable past members, the culture of the organization and its real life and literary inspirations. Support us on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Jay Davis from Super Bracket Bros to talk about Episode 5 of Season 8, The Bells. They discuss Hunchback of Notre Dame, the reserve Dothrakis, aggressive dog breeds, Arya’s concussion count, Rotten Tomatoes scores, unnecessary scenes, copy-pasted ships, the Oberyn special, closure vs neat li…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Andrew Kimball from Your Friendly Neighborhood Gamers to talk about Episode 4 of Season 8, The Last of the Starks. They discuss that winter has ended, Mean Girls, loose ends that don’t need to be wrapped up, giant horses, how Jon would be a good house husband, Dany’s tiny army, the Starbucks…
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The odyssey of Nymeria and the Rhoynar is one of the great Westerosi legends and we begin our exploration of the third great migration from Essos with a look at Rhoynish history and culture, as well as their inevitable bloody clash with dragonlords of Old Valyria. Then we trace the voyage of the Ten Thousand Ships as they wandered for years around …
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Nav from A Song of Ice and Fire Symposium to talk about Episode 3 of Season 8, The Long Night. They discuss the lack of dialogue, if GOT were a horror movie, Breaking Bad, sad piano music, Beric's crucifixion pose, Marvel's Endgame, and the Unsullied not wearing enough layers. Additionally, …
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by close friend Sarah Sheppard to talk about Episode 2 of Season 8, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. They discuss how people respond when doom is inevitable, fast travel, "peak" Cersei, Bridgerton, closure for Jorah, Tiktok fan edits, Jaime being bad a plans, where Ghost came from, face acting, …
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate talk about Episode 1 of Season 8, Winterfell. They discuss episode length for the final season, the Fast and Furious movies, a well-done recap, Euron's manic confidence, Jon not knowing how to talk to girls again, the Saw movies, all of Bran's weird eye contact and Cersei needing just one female friend. A…
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This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Andrew Kimball from Your Friendly Neighborhood Gamers to talk about Episode 7 of Season 7, The Dragon and the Wolf. They discuss this being the longest episode to date, Jaime's puppy-dog eyes, Godzilla's atomic breath, beautiful music design, speed-running character growth, satisfying deaths…
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