Category: podcast

LG&M Podcast: Game of Thrones, “Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things” Part 1

This is the first of a two part podcast. The second part will be available on Monday.

Works Attewell discusses (warning, all of these posts contain spoilers for all five books):

• Bran IV (introducing the law of hospitality, the history of prosthetics, and StupidRobb)
• Jon IV (Jon gets over his privilege, Alliser Thorne as a sign of institutional dysfunction, problems with primogeniture)
• Dany IV (Vaes Dothrak as cultural artifact, how did the historical parallels for the Dothraki fare against knights?)
• Eddard V (Pycelle is the worst conspirator in the series, a major step forward in the Littlefinger Conspiracy, and the history of poison plots)
• Eddard VI (institutional power and the Goldcloaks, tourneys as trickle-down economics vs. the 99 percent, noir detective Eddie Stark’s investigation catches a break, checking in with the Littlefinger and Renly/Tyrell Conspiracies, history of trade guilds, police forces, and royal bastards)
• Sansa II (the deconstruction of romantic medievalism and the problematic allure of war, my grand conspiracy theory of the assassination of Ser Hugh of the Vale, and Victorian jousting)
• Catelyn V (assessing Catelyn as a political actor, contingency and inevitability in the meeting of Catelyn and Tyrion, GRRM as a Greek god)

Audio:

• You can listen to the above podcast here.

Archives:

• Back to the beginning with “Winter Is Coming” (S01E01).
• Our very civilized discussion of the premiere (S03E01).
• Fancy-talking about “Dark Wings, Dark Words” (S03E02).
• Here we are blathering on about “Walk of Punishment” (S03E03).
• Don’t watch — because you can’t — us discuss “And Now His Watch Has Ended” (S03E04).
• The rudely interrupted first half of our discussion of “Kissed by Fire” (S03E05).
• The second half of our discussion of religion in “Kissed by Fire” (S03E05).
• In which we discuss “The Climb” sans spoilers (S03E06).
• “The Climb” with spoilers (S03E06).
• “Second Sons.” We has them (S03E08).
• Belatedly, “The Bear and the Maiden Fair” (S03E07).
• You’re all invited to an epic performance of “The Rains of Castamere” (S03E09).
• This is the end … the end of Season Three (S03E10).

LGM Podcast: Not Game of Thrones Edition!

In our latest podcast, I interview George Lovell, author of the fantastic new book This Is Not Civil Rights. In addition to his new book, which examines the letters ordinary citizens wrote to the fledgling civil rights section of FDR’s Department of Justice, we discuss the recently completed Supreme Court term and a little baseball.

Since even my new office computer doesn’t have a webcam, the podcast is designed for the classic podcast format.  But it’s available on YouTube as well:

Other works cited:

• Legislative Deferrals, George’s now-classic first book on Congress, the courts, and American labor.
• George mentioned Mark Tushnet’s Taking the Constitution Away From the Courts.  I forget if I cited it directly or not, but I’ll add that a lot of my thinking about judicial power here was strongly informed by Tushnet’s The New Constitutional Order.
• I also mention Emily Zackin’s new book Looking For Rights In All the Wrong Places.  Zackin argues that the idea that “positive” rights are absent from American constitutionalism vanishes if you look at state constitutions.   As George says, this insight shouldn’t be confused with the (obviously false) argument that states are better at protecting fundamental rights — the forces hostile to civil rights have generally preferred decentralized government for a reason.  But as I read it this isn’t Zackin’s argument, and her important book is a useful corrective to the idea that American constitutionalism is uniquely focused on “negative” rights.

Enjoy!

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“Mhysa”: an LG&M Game of Thrones podcast with Steve Attewell and a Vacationing Jew

Due to some foreseen circumstances — my quarter just ended — it took a little longer than usual to produce this podcast. But produced it has been! Enjoy!

You can listen to the above podcast here.

Our very civilized discussion of the premiere (S03E01).

Fancy-talking about “Dark Wings, Dark Words” (S03E02).

Here we are blathering on about “Walk of Punishment” (S03E03).

Don’t watch — because you can’t — us discuss “And Now His Watch Has Ended” (S03E04).

The rudely interrupted first half of our discussion of “Kissed by Fire” (S03E05).

The second half of our discussion of religion in “Kissed by Fire” (S03E05).

In which we discuss “The Climb” sans spoilers (S03E06).

“The Climb” with spoilers (S03E06).

“Second Sons.” We has them (S03E08).

Belatedly, “The Bear and the Maiden Fair” (S03E07).

You’re all invited to an epic performance of “The Rains of Castamere” (S03E09).

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“The Rains of Castamere”: an LG&M Game of Thrones podcast with Steven Attewell and SEK

I’m not sure what to say that hasn’t been said — actually I am, and will, in an upcoming post (or posts) comparing Tyrion’s wedding to the one in this episode. So here’s Steven Attewell and I discussing “The Rains of Castamere.” Enjoy?

You can listen to the above podcast here.

Our very civilized discussion of the premiere (S03E01).

Fancy-talking about “Dark Wings, Dark Words” (S03E02).

Here we are blathering on about “Walk of Punishment” (S03E03).

Don’t watch — because you can’t — us discuss “And Now His Watch Has Ended” (S03E04).

The rudely interrupted first half of our discussion of “Kissed by Fire” (S03E05).

The second half of our discussion of religion in “Kissed by Fire” (S03E05).

In which we discuss “The Climb” sans spoilers (S03E06).

“The Climb” with spoilers (S03E06).

“Second Sons.” We has them (S03E08).

Belatedly, “The Bear and the Maiden Fair” (S03E07).

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“Second Sons”: an LG&M podcast on Game of Thrones with Steven Attewell and SEK

We apologize for missing last week’s episode, but Google Plus had updated its “Hangouts” feature and we couldn’t find the new button. But it’s been found! Also, in this podcast we have a first: I’ve finally figured out how to incorporate images without making the resulting file too large for Youtube. So now if you’re watching the podcast, you’ll see the visuals we’re describing while we’re describing them. (At least mostly. I’m still experimenting with keeping the size down and the audio quality high. This is tougher than it looks.) In this episode we discuss making my students weep uncontrollably; the dynamics of the relationship between Tyrion and Sansa; the similarities between Dany and Walter White; the politics of Stannis Baratheon; and many other things beside. Enjoy!

Enjoy this fine podcast without the images I painstakingly inserted into it just for you.

Our very civilized discussion of the premiere (S03E01).

Fancy-talking about “Dark Wings, Dark Words” (S03E02).

Here we are blathering on about “Walk of Punishment” (S03E03).

Don’t watch — because you can’t — us discuss “And Now His Watch Has Ended” (S03E04).

The rudely interrupted first half of our discussion of “Kissed by Fire” (S03E05).

The second half of our discussion of religion in “Kissed by Fire” (S03E05).

In which we discuss “The Climb” sans spoilers (S03E06).

“The Climb” with spoilers (S03E06).

UPDATE: In case anyone’s curious as to the spontaneous fits of intemperate profanity.

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