Category: podcast

Lawyers, Guns & Money podcast: Game of Thrones, Season 4, Episode 3: “Breaker of Chains”

SEK & Steven Attewell on the new episode of Game of Thrones. Enjoy!

Audio available here.

Purchase Steven Attewell’s Race for the Iron Throne: Political and Historical Analysis of “A Game of Thrones” at that link. You know you want to!

Lawyers, Guns & Money podcast – Game of Thrones, Season Four, Episode Two – “The Lion and the Rose”

In which Steven Attewell and I discuss how boring tonight’s episode of Game of Thrones was:

Listen to the audio here.

LG&M podcast: Game of Thrones, Season 4, Episode 1: “Two Swords”

Watch the podcast below, whenever YouTube starts behaving, which should be an hour after I post this, if last night is any indication:

Listen to it here.

As per the post below, you can read my re-cap of it, if you’d like.

Steven’s written two pieces at some little outlet called Esquire, which are available here and here.

A link to his book will be available in this post tomorrow morning, once Amazon gets its shit together. right now, actually.

(Also, we’ll resume Season One podcasts as soon as YouTube begins cooperating. We apologize for the delay.)

LG&M podcast — Game of Thrones, Season One, Episode Eight — “The Pointy End”

Here is SEK and Steven Attewell discussing “The Pointy End”:
Audio available here.

Works discussed by Attewell include (warning: these links contain spoilers for all books):

• Arya IV (why Syrio Forel is dead and would be offended if you said he wasn’t)
• Sansa IV (why people dislike Sansa, the interview with the Queen, Cersei’s gambit, and more)
• Sansa V (Joffrey the instant tyrant, Sansa’s plan to save her father wasn’t bad)
• Tyrion VII (meeting Tywin, the Lannister Campaign of the War of Five Kings, the mountain clans as a comment on democracy and modernity, why Bolton marched)
• Catelyn VIII (why you don’t need Robb to be dumb to make Catelyn smart, and vice versa, the Lannisters’ opening move and Robb’s choice)
• Jon VII (ZombieTalk and some other stuff, but mostly ZombieTalk)
• Daenerys VII (the cost of rightful heirs, Dothraki racism, and more)

LG&M podcast: Game of Thrones, Season One, Episode Seven — “You Win or You Die”

Watch SEK and Steven Attewell discuss the seventh episode of the first season of Game of Thrones below:

Audio available here.

Works Attewell discusses (warning these contain spoilers for all books):

• Jon VI (institutional politics of the Night’s Watch, Mormont’s vision, the limits of meritocracy)
• Dany VI (the Varys/Illyrio Conspiracy, assassination attempts, false flag operations, and more)
• Eddard XII (why both Eddard and Cersei were acting crazy)
• Eddard XIII (the will, Renly and Littlefinger’s offers, the war was going to happen anyway)
• Eddard XIV (why paper matters, Littlefinger’s nessun dorma, and more)

LG&M Game of Thrones podcast: “The Wolf and the Lion”

Audio available here.

Posts SEK discusses in this episode:

• Everyone is always alone, everyone is always surrounded in “The Wolf and the Lion”

Posts Attewell discusses in this episode:

• Eddard VII (Part II of the Ser Hugh Assassination Theory, caring about the bros, Eddard nearly breaks the investigation wide open, return to the Lannister Conspiracy, and much more)
• Tyrion IV (Tyrion as evidence that Catelyn is good at politics, the real mistake in taking Tyrion is failing to inform, history of the vendetta)
• Arya III (going through the looking glass on the Varys/Illyrio Conspiracy, history of medieval espionage)
• Eddard VIII (badge on the table moment, why Eddard actually resigned, political thought on the Small Council, and more)
• Catelyn VI (the Vale as defense in depth, the Blackfish as a political observer, Lysa as the ultimate victim of patriarchy, historical parallels of the Eyrie)
• Eddard IX (Eddard as noir detective, how the fight could have gone very differently)

Archives:

• Back to the beginning with “Winter Is Coming” (S01E01)
• Life is a Kingsroad, we want to ride it all night long (S01E02)
• Us on “Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things” (S01E04)
• Us on “Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things” again (S01E04)
• 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).

Amusing and related videos:

LG&M Podcast: Game of Thrones, “Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things” Part 2

Here’s the second part of the podcast, about which Steven feels quite adamant, as evidenced by his vehement fist-pumping:

The first part’s available here.

Audio available here.

An LGM podcast: Life is “The Kingsroad,” they want to ride it all night long

Steven Attewell and I decided that we didn’t want to wait until next February to continue talking about Game of Thrones, and so we decided to start over. Here’s our take on “The Kingsroad,” the series’ second episode.

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

• Daenerys III (learning the dothraki way, cultural assimilation as a source of strength)
• Tyrion I (slapping princes, having breakfast with his siblings, Tyrion as Richard III/Claudius)
• Jon II (making his goodbyes,  his complicated family dynamics)
• Catelyn III (the attack on Bran,  the ahistorical nature of “always a Stark in Winterfell,” Bran as Fisher King)
• Sansa I (Sansa as a critique of romantic medievalism within fantasy genre)
• Eddard III (Robert’s trial, Cersei’s political skills or lack thereof, royal justice)

Video:

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).

Podcast: Play in new window | Download