Episode 164 - Heads We Win - HoD S3E2

It’s season 3 of House of the Dragon! Eileen and Spencer are very excited to watch the newest season. Will Rany take the throne? Will Daemon stand by her? Will Alicent make her escape? The pyke guy is busy this episode! What will Corlys do now? Will Sheepstealer be welcome in the Vale? Confused? You won’t be after this episode of Royal Highness!

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SPEAKER_06 0:16

The the the cold you think you're hearing is probably my allergies. And uh uh I just generally kind of feel like a bag of shit.

SPEAKER_02 0:28

Uh huh.

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In the other room.

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Ah love children's love. It's so special and heartwarming. What do they say about children? It's a little piece of your heart walking around mocking you.

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That's a little piece of my heart.

SPEAKER_03 0:48

Yeah.

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I don't know. I think it's a different piece.

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Hello. And welcome. Wow. Hello. Hello. Hello? Hello. And welcome to the Royal Highness podcast where we watch George Martin shows for the first time while enhanced with cannabis products and then talk about them while we're still enhanced with cannabis products. And we are watching season three of House of the Dragon. Hello, Spencer.

SPEAKER_06 1:24

Hello, Eileen.

SPEAKER_03 1:26

Wow. Season three, episode two, titled Uh I don't know. Oh no.

SPEAKER_06 1:34

Queen's Landing.

SPEAKER_03 1:36

Very good. Yeah. Did you pull it out of your ass or did you have it up on your screen? Oh wow.

SPEAKER_06 1:41

No, I I remembered having seen it. Oh very good. That's not what it's called.

SPEAKER_03 1:47

Queefs Landing. No, it's close to that. Okay. Ah, Demon Keefs. Remember Demon Queefs? Okay. Yeah. Um HBO Max.

SPEAKER_06 1:57

I liked that show.

SPEAKER_03 1:58

I did like that show. Uh HBO Max says, as Alicent risks everything to fulfill her end of the bargain, Renera must decide whether the Iron Throne is worth the cost. There was some dramatic acting in this show.

SPEAKER_06 2:13

There was a lot of snot.

SPEAKER_03 2:15

There was. There was there was ugly crying.

SPEAKER_06 2:19

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03 2:20

And been there. So no shame. All right. I wonder if it was cosmetic snot or her own snot that they she was able to like drum up from crying.

SPEAKER_06 2:30

I don't think there's stunt snot.

SPEAKER_03 2:32

You don't think so? Oh, I guarantee you there is stunt snot. Like uh like prosthetic snot for um cosmetic purposes or for like scenes just like this.

SPEAKER_06 2:43

I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 2:44

Now I gotta know.

SPEAKER_06 2:48

That's a ask Reddit question. Yeah. Do you guys know anything about stunt snot?

SPEAKER_03 2:57

That was the name of my website.

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All right.blogspot.com.

SPEAKER_03 3:05

Don't go there now because it's just real old stuff.

SPEAKER_06 3:08

Yeah. I mean I I I reserved the URL, but it's like I haven't posted anything in like five years.

SPEAKER_03 3:15

It's just got like a blinking like 8 bit under construction. Under construction. Okay. All right. Recap. We see Rainera being all like not Rainera, Raina, being all like, bitch, you lied to me about there and being no more dragons. There's a whole wild dragon out there. Uh then we see Jace and Rainey talking about Alison and how Rainey wants to trust her, and Jace is like, don't do it. Then of course we see Rainey telling the council she's gonna do it, and uh Alison's just gonna open the gates and she's gonna give us egg on it. Isn't that great? And as she's talking, Jace is just seething. Yeah, he was really that Arthur hand clench thing, but with his mouth, yeah, but with his face, yeah. Uh you okay? I'm stuck, I'm stuck, get the crowbar. Laris and Aegon in their their little tin can getting caught in the woods, and then uh chicken wing and his eye patch taking over the throne since Aegon fucked off. We see Damon finishing up one battle, turning around to find another one.

SPEAKER_06 4:38

Fuck that's always something, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03 4:42

You know, that's just how some days go. And then we have Alison telling uh Aegon or Aemon, I fucking chicken wing, to go to Harrenhal. And then the three dragon riders arguing about whether they should hang around because it doesn't seem like Vegar is gonna show up. So we find out today that they laugh they had been there two days.

SPEAKER_06 5:07

Well, I mean, to be fair, Alf hasn't had a a decent poop in a while because he's been terrified of the woods.

SPEAKER_03 5:16

I can't blame him though. Uh we get the recap of the epic boat battle, and then Jace going, I'm going to battle, you're staying in there. Click, locking mommy up, and uh then Jace and Bella going, let's go.

SPEAKER_06 5:30

Uh well, do what mom's gonna do.

SPEAKER_03 5:33

Super twins react, or whatever they say.

SPEAKER_04 5:36

Super twin powers activate.

SPEAKER_03 5:38

Activate. Okay, yeah. React is what they're like. They have to take they have to go back to their regular form. Reactivate, react form of a MacGuffin. Form of red herring. All right. So we see Raina and she still are fucking everything up, going, oh no, burning all the boats. And Bela recognizes Raina, right? Yes. That's my sister. Like, who would say that on the back of their they would just think it, wouldn't they? They'd just be like, fuck, that's my sister. They wouldn't be standing up there going, that's my sister. I don't know, it was just weird.

SPEAKER_06 6:14

I could tell you that I've seen people uh like for instance today, I'm um uh I I was driving home from work with my windows closed in the car by myself, and uh I drove past our mutual friend B's place, and he saw me and he pointed at me like a dork, and I went, Hey, it's b to all the people not in the car, nor to him, no one could hear me. I just said it to the car, and then I kept going. And I was just like, why did I shout that? What's wrong with me?

SPEAKER_03 6:56

Oh, so this actually stood out to you as something unusual. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 7:01

I mean, I was well, it is a little it we something we all do in a way.

SPEAKER_03 7:06

Where we just like honey, I do it on the regular, like all day long. We all do it all day long, all day long.

SPEAKER_06 7:13

But we when we shout a thing to no one, as if you know the act of acknowledging that thing would satisfy the thing itself. Okay. Hey, my bag of chips. The chips are like, I don't fucking care.

SPEAKER_04 7:29

I've been here the whole time. Where were you? And so the two of you have just negated Eileen's initial premise that she wouldn't just yell out, that's my sister. No, we we do, but why?

SPEAKER_06 7:43

Yeah, that's true. Did she do it? Are we like, I mean, did she say it? No one could hear her. It's not like they had like walkie-talkies on the dragon.

SPEAKER_07 7:52

Oh, that's just her over.

SPEAKER_06 7:54

You know, that would be great. But yeah, well, no, it was just a tin can and a string. They can't get too far apart.

SPEAKER_03 8:00

Uh, that could get awkward. You know there's gonna be a turn where it just gets yanked out of your hand. I'm in the middle of talking. Boing! Tin can goes flying, smacks the dragon in the ass. It bucks. Okay. Uh oh, where were we? Okay. Oh, yeah, uh, Raina and Sheep Stealer, uh just fucking everything up, burning all the boats, Bela recognizing her, and then Jace.

SPEAKER_05 8:32

Yeah, on the boats.

SPEAKER_03 8:33

And then Jace getting into I said a little dance party. Uh Jace getting pulled into the sea. Oh, with a lot of arrows in him. Like three. I was like, shoot. And then he's clearly dead, and then just for funsies, shoot, shoot.

SPEAKER_06 8:50

Yeah, you know, I was I I was on Reddit uh um last week, and there were a lot of people discussing how just sad the whole Jace dying thing was. I'm like, well, first of all, it's the story. And second of all, he's they were like, he's just some guy in the water. It doesn't matter that he's the crown prince, he's just a dude. But he was on a dragon a minute ago.

SPEAKER_03 9:18

Yeah. So not just a dude, right?

SPEAKER_06 9:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:21

I mean not all of us can ride dragons.

SPEAKER_06 9:24

So if if some guy got out of a like, let's say uh a really nice convertible and we immediately shot him with a bunch of arrows, would it would it make any difference that he had just been in a convertible?

SPEAKER_03 9:38

But right now he's just a slab of meat, you're saying, with some arrows in it?

SPEAKER_06 9:41

Once you get out of that car, you're just another body.

SPEAKER_03 9:44

Yeah, well, there you go. That's that's the t-shirt. Once you get out of that car, you're just another body.

SPEAKER_06 9:54

I feel like that might be a bad thing.

SPEAKER_03 9:56

His face was balled up in a fist. I don't know. Okay, so I grooved to the music because I'm really enjoying it and I like the animation. Yeah. The tapestry had Jace at the end of it full of arrows. That was quick. They had this ready to go.

SPEAKER_06 10:16

I mean, they probably planned out the majority of what was going to happen this season. That's okay.

SPEAKER_03 10:21

But you got lots of we got the waves in there this to tonight. I didn't I don't remember it last week, but I could have been, I could have been typing. Um I was watching it pretty intently.

SPEAKER_06 10:31

Uh I was I was like, well, this is this is they really did catch up with everything that's happened. This tapestry is very long.

SPEAKER_03 10:39

The tapestry is very long, but I enjoyed every second of it. Now, how many how many episodes are there gonna be? Do we know?

SPEAKER_06 10:45

I can tell you momentarily.

SPEAKER_03 10:47

This feels like something we should know.

SPEAKER_06 10:50

This season has uh nine. Eight episodes.

SPEAKER_03 10:55

Oh Mike seemed very consistent confident in the nine, and then when you said eight, he just put one finger down.

SPEAKER_06 11:03

Yeah, I mean, I looked, I looked. It's yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:06

It's eight episodes. Okay. Oh, that doesn't feel like enough. Speaking of Jace, we get an underwater view of him. Or it could be anyone, I guess. It's just some guy floating in the water.

SPEAKER_06 11:16

I wondered the same thing.

SPEAKER_03 11:17

Like, who's that guy? Yeah. The carnage is continuing uh above ground, above water. I have to say, I am very, very jealous of Bela's saddle.

SPEAKER_06 11:29

It looks sturdy.

SPEAKER_03 11:30

It's nice, it looks like it really holds her, you know, she can really maneuver in it and uh but feel secure, right? In a barrel roll or whatever. Oh a barrel roll. That's a good saddle. I'm on board with that saddle. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 11:48

I wonder if there's like a place to store things.

SPEAKER_03 11:52

Ooh, like a saddle bag. Like because it is pretty big.

SPEAKER_06 11:56

I was I was thinking more modern, like a thing that you just kind of push in and it clicks, and then the drawer comes out, and you can put your phone in and your cigarettes, and like a handful of coins, and then it clicks back in.

SPEAKER_03 12:10

And a couple pieces, a couple of sticks of gum, not in the original on the original packaging, but in the wrapper still. Yes, just loop, still in the foil. Yeah, that's what you'd find in there. And one glove. What uh and an ice scraper from an auto body shop.

SPEAKER_06 12:29

A pen with no cap.

SPEAKER_03 12:31

And Mike's, I keep all right.

SPEAKER_06 12:36

Or those originals that you stole from grandma's house.

SPEAKER_03 12:39

Okay, so now we see Jace being put on the guys' shoulders and carried into the castle. The battle is won, but at what cost? Rainey appears, sees Jace on the floor, and kinda loses her shit. What did you do?

SPEAKER_05 12:56

What did you do?

SPEAKER_06 12:58

She puppied at him. What did you do? Did you poop on the floor? Jace? Were you bad?

SPEAKER_03 13:05

Did you did you die in battle? Did you die? Did you die in battle? Bad princess.

SPEAKER_06 13:10

It would have been so good if she walked to the room, the side of the room there and grabbed one of those scrolls from the wall and just came back over and bopped him on the snout with it. Don't told you, stop dying in battle. No, you don't give a treat. That was emotional. She's making a scene.

SPEAKER_03 13:28

She is. And and so who is it that came over to her? What's his name? Sir Laurent. That's Sir Laurent. So Sir Laurent is like, pull yourself together.

SPEAKER_06 13:39

Then he slaps her, and then the nun comes up, and then he's and then it's the next lady and slaps. Yeah, it's just that seeing an airplane over and over again.

SPEAKER_02 13:47

She's just like, How dare you?

SPEAKER_06 13:50

Woo! Wow. How could you you touching me? You none of you people, you all suck buttons. All of you are butt suckers.

SPEAKER_03 14:02

She's having a damn good rant at them for locking her up and letting him go about his shenanigans, right? She's like, You're supposed to listen to fucking me, not not this kid. And he they're all like, oopsie.

SPEAKER_06 14:18

Yeah, that was uh that was the first of many scenes where Rhaenyra went over the top.

SPEAKER_03 14:26

Uh, I believe this is the episode they will be submitting for her Emmy.

SPEAKER_06 14:31

I think you may be right.

SPEAKER_03 14:33

Yes, I I mean there was a booger. There was. I that is hard to create in in makeup. So if she created that booger herself, she should also get uh like special effects credit. Maybe she can get an Emmy.

SPEAKER_06 14:50

It sounds like an MTV award. Best booger.

SPEAKER_03 14:55

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_06 14:56

Longest fart recorded.

SPEAKER_03 14:58

Somebody was talking to me to uh today about headbanger's ball, and uh it just reminded me of that. Okay. Back to the battle, and the boat guys uh who've made it to shore are just getting like picked off.

SPEAKER_06 15:15

This was the fuck hut beach, was it not?

SPEAKER_03 15:18

I believe I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 15:21

It sure looked like it.

SPEAKER_03 15:22

I'm like, this looks how many episodes has it been since the fuck hut? Because I can't remember.

SPEAKER_06 15:28

It's the sort of thing you don't forget.

SPEAKER_03 15:31

Now which fuck hut? Is this is this John Snow's fuck hut? No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_06 15:36

This is Damon's Damon and Renero's fuck hut.

SPEAKER_02 15:40

Oh, that's right.

SPEAKER_06 15:43

Remember they ran off to the fuck hut, and we just were like, wow, Uncle Niece. Good job, TV.

SPEAKER_03 15:52

Yippie. Okay. Uh so they're looking for Corless.

SPEAKER_06 15:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:00

This is a lot of dead people. This is a lot of dead people who are weighed down by armor.

SPEAKER_06 16:05

It would have been easier for them to just look for anyone alive.

SPEAKER_03 16:11

Yeah, just listen for groans, head that way.

SPEAKER_06 16:13

And it seemed like, you know, if they had found someone who wasn't Corless, but someone who was still alive, they would have just been like, ah, sorry. We're busy.

SPEAKER_03 16:26

Do you wanna do you want us to just get it over with? What are you thinking? We could at least do that for you.

SPEAKER_04 16:33

Was this the Game of Thrones version of uh Marco Polo? Lord Corless. Oh my god. Alas, Lord Corless.

SPEAKER_06 16:40

Alas great. Uh you know what? They should there's a there is a a third thing you can shout when you're lost or separated from your party, and it is very simply the Ric Flair noise.

SPEAKER_01 16:58

What?

SPEAKER_06 16:59

So if you're in a group, you and you get separated, like at Walmart, God forbid you should have to go there. And you need to find your your your party. You just kind of find an empty spot and go woo! And then you'll hear one off in the distance.

unknown 17:16

Woo!

SPEAKER_06 17:18

And then you you just kind of work your way towards each other.

SPEAKER_03 17:21

Okay, you're gonna laugh, but m my family and I had similar. Oh great. Only it was the whipperwill whistle. Because we had a whipper will at our house, and it goes. Only you do it louder than that, of course, in the store. And they would answer back.

SPEAKER_06 17:45

That's great. My wife just stands in the middle of things and goes, husband. Um, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:53

You just need to clip one of those balloons to her.

SPEAKER_06 17:57

You know, those balloons in the party section. One that says, I'm with stupid. And it always points towards yeah, I do call her in the store. It's like, what? Where'd you go? I haven't gone anywhere. You've gotta be fucking kidding me. How many kinds of hair bleach are there?

SPEAKER_03 18:15

It's always fit million.

SPEAKER_06 18:17

Yeah, I mean, that wall is just a bunch of people with varying shades of blonde hair.

SPEAKER_03 18:23

It's insane, it's crazy. I used to dye my hair. I got I got over it a long time ago. Um, and then I went with crazy colors for a while because that was fun for a little while until everybody started doing it, and and it kind of became a thing, and I'm like, I'm over it now. Mine were professionally done though, because I don't not trust myself to do that kind of shit.

SPEAKER_06 18:44

I don't have enough hair to dye.

SPEAKER_03 18:46

Yeah. But I mean, I used to do it like when it was this short, I would do it myself. Do it some Auburn or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. But um, yeah, it's a it's a huge wall. And it's like the shades are let's just say, unless you're one of those people who can see all the pebbles in those like round circle find the number things to see if you're colorblind or not. Some of these are gonna be like, what the fucking different?

SPEAKER_05 19:14

I did an eye test and it said, fuck you.

SPEAKER_03 19:17

Yeah.

unknown 19:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 19:24

Who is this uh that's uh approaching Ray Raina? It's uh Raina and she's up to see uh Lady What's her bucket? Lady Aaron. Lady Aaron, right? Who's not having any of it? Okay. So and Raina's like, look, do you want a dragon? Because look what I got.

SPEAKER_06 19:47

Also, I need asylum because I'm totally going to be fucked by the queen.

SPEAKER_03 19:52

Yeah, I did some stuff. Odds pretty good she's gonna come looking for me.

SPEAKER_06 19:57

So I'm in deep shit. So I'm gonna turn this to my advantage by offering you dragon and the protection thereof. And uh Lady Young says, I don't ever want to see your jerk off face in my office again.

SPEAKER_03 20:11

Go home, tell your mother what you did. Basically, like I it's just like, Where does a dragon live? Anywhere it wants, basically. So she's like, Can't stop you from living here. I don't want to see you again. Here's my question. She just said, I fucked up in this battle. I couldn't control the dragon. So what advantage do they have by keeping her around?

SPEAKER_06 20:39

If she can't control it, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:44

She's got a she's got an uh a dragon that she just it's like riding a wild hog. It might be fun for a while, but it ain't gonna go where you want it to go. And at some point it's gonna get hairy.

SPEAKER_06 20:55

Um, there's a way to fix that.

SPEAKER_03 20:57

Don't ask me how I know.

SPEAKER_06 20:59

You know what? Now that you said that, I'm going to. How do you know what it's like? Is there a wild hog riding thing in Crash Bandicoot?

SPEAKER_03 21:10

There is. There is a wild hog ride in the original Crash Bandicoot, and it's a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_06 21:14

It's the best the most fun level. I wrote pigs in Minecraft, but all you need to do that is a carrot on a stick. Oh.

SPEAKER_03 21:22

See, in this, as soon as you jump on the hog's back, he's it all you can do is like go left and right because he just goes. You he will not stop. So you can jump, go left and right, but there's no stopping. Very cool. So yeah, it's very cool. It's a lot of fun. It's one of the I like I said, one of my favorite levels. Okay. After that, we get the run fair and the fish feed song.

SPEAKER_06 21:42

Oh my god, yeah. Jaunty music. They're making up on the spot. A song called Fish Feed involves stick a dragon up your ass, which is kind of fun.

SPEAKER_03 21:51

It is. And Strong shows up at the after party. Mm-hmm. And he's brought a gift. He's brought some wine.

SPEAKER_06 21:59

In an open container carried by two people. Please.

SPEAKER_03 22:03

It's hmm, I don't know. Well, back then they couldn't really have, you know, package laws.

SPEAKER_06 22:09

They couldn't have a fucking lid.

SPEAKER_03 22:10

It was just sloshing around. I didn't notice.

SPEAKER_04 22:14

It was just like a like a c a cauldron on chains. No, it had a lid. I had uh because I watched this thing twice. So yes, it had a lid. I noticed that the second time.

unknown 22:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 22:25

All right. I heard it's sloshing.

SPEAKER_03 22:27

Slurs there might have been some slurpin. Slurpin.

SPEAKER_06 22:30

And he got a message in the tiniest little pallet.

SPEAKER_03 22:32

From the queen. I'm like, was it so it's it's the size that you would tie around a bird.

SPEAKER_06 22:40

Yeah. So perhaps it was sent to Raven. She sent a Raven to Lord Strong, who gave it to Strong, who that's what he was doing.

SPEAKER_03 22:49

So it's kind of oh, he's softening the blow with the wine. Good call. I think he knew it was in the he might have already read it.

SPEAKER_06 22:56

Hey, buddy, you want a cheeseburger?

SPEAKER_03 22:58

I got some bad news.

SPEAKER_06 23:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:01

But we'll go get ice cream later, okay?

SPEAKER_06 23:04

But how about if you go capture King's Landing?

SPEAKER_03 23:06

That'll be right. Right, right. Here's my question. When they were fighting the Lannisters, did the Lannisters have an actual fucking lion in battle? Did we see this? No. No, but it wouldn't surprise me at all. But but there was a lion's head on a pike, along with a couple other guys.

SPEAKER_06 23:28

Then I'm guessing that happened.

SPEAKER_02 23:30

I want to see the battle scene with the lion in it. Why did they deny us the behavior?

SPEAKER_06 23:38

I'll tell you why. Oh, I know, animal cruelty loss. But no, no, you got dragons. Quit being greedy.

SPEAKER_03 23:46

That's true. But you also had what's this fucker cutting the like the horse from the haunches down in the diagonal slice in that one scene.

SPEAKER_06 23:58

That was like a million years ago.

SPEAKER_03 24:01

I understand this. However, it's in the future here, but I still want to see the scene with the with the lion. And I feel I feel denied, honestly.

SPEAKER_06 24:15

I'm really sorry to hear that, but wait a minute.

SPEAKER_03 24:19

Anywho, okay. He sits to, you know, he sits to read the the scroll. He's like, oh shit, Jace is dead. Gotta go to King's Landing. Gonna go help Rainey take the Further on the throne. Yay! All of the sudden he's in hanging out with Alice, the witch, while his dragon is drinking water. So we get a close-up. If you've ever watched like a moose or a deer just sit in the water and drink with their whole bottom lip in the water and just slurp, slurp, slurp. It was the dragon doing this.

SPEAKER_02 24:55

It was anormal.

SPEAKER_06 24:58

I didn't write anything about this because I knew that you would have a lot to say about Caraxes having a having a having a chug.

SPEAKER_03 25:09

He was so cute.

SPEAKER_06 25:11

I just wanted to I don't know that cute is the word I would use to describe.

SPEAKER_03 25:16

I wanted to just stretch his little eye nubs.

SPEAKER_06 25:19

You know, right above the eyes. And all of a sudden you don't have any hair.

SPEAKER_03 25:25

That's just hair. So Alice says, I'm a witch, you're a bad omen. And he turns to her and he's basically, what are you for anyway?

SPEAKER_06 25:36

Um, I want Heron Hall.

SPEAKER_03 25:39

Yeah. And he's like, um, well, I can't just give it to anybody. I can't just give it to a dirt person. If I give it to a dirt person, then all the dirt every dirt person. That's right. They're gonna say, I've been here forever, just like you're saying you've been here forever. I get that. I get it. You've been a good, good witch. I get it. But if I Are you a good witch or a bad witch? No such thing.

SPEAKER_06 26:05

Anyway. Well, one of those things has to be true.

SPEAKER_03 26:09

In Wizard of Oz? I don't know. You have to see the whole fucking wicked scene. All the reads all the books. No. I don't know. In the original, yes, she's a bad witch. Okay. Okay. She sends monkeys after a girl.

SPEAKER_06 26:23

Okay. And uh I think some sort of some sort of prize for having served the queen.

SPEAKER_03 26:30

Yeah. And she's like, fuck off and don't come back. I'm like, okay.

SPEAKER_06 26:37

That's fair.

unknown 26:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:39

There's a lot of that.

SPEAKER_06 26:40

This episode. And this episode should really just be called Go Away.

SPEAKER_03 26:43

Yeah. Everybody fucks off. Oh, we have had we've had episodes like that. So everybody fucks off episodes. They fuck off. Uh picking through the bodies and uh Alan. Alan! Still looking for Corelas. And uh Moondancer arrives with Bela. So she's like, I've brought you some water in an REI water jug.

SPEAKER_06 27:08

I think it was easy. I think it was uh booze.

SPEAKER_03 27:12

Okay. It looked like my overnight oats shaker. I'm not gonna lie.

SPEAKER_06 27:16

Yeah, I don't know. It was wild. So they have a chat about about uh Corless and how he's he's a stubborn ass, but he was a good husband and all this. And Alan's like, well he's dead already. And she's like, oh no, he fucking not. Adam is out there flying around too. Mm-hmm. And over the ocean. He sees him from his dragon. I don't know how, but whatever.

SPEAKER_03 27:44

Now, you know they shoot these on a sound stage.

SPEAKER_06 27:47

That's what you think. Actually, dragons.

SPEAKER_03 27:50

They told you they told Corless to lie on your side and pretend like water is like rolling you over. We'll put water in later.

SPEAKER_02 28:03

Rolling over.

SPEAKER_06 28:04

Rolling over. They could have put a little water, they could have put him in a kiddie pool.

SPEAKER_03 28:09

Shit, it was so funny. Anyway, I'm like, oh, there he is. This is rolling on oh, I see his hair on the rocks.

SPEAKER_06 28:17

I don't think they shoot these in the soundstage.

SPEAKER_03 28:20

I think you think they really had Corless in the ocean. Well, yeah. Sure. Spencer. Not deep. Spencer might be here.

SPEAKER_06 28:29

They probably had him in a little waiting pool or a tide pool, and they're like, just lay there for a minute. And he's like, right. Glub glob, motherfucker.

SPEAKER_03 28:38

I bet we can find out. I bet the Googler will tell us.

SPEAKER_06 28:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 28:41

Maybe that's a bonus there. Maybe that's a bonus episode. How are all these things shot? That'd be fun to know. And I know they do something at the end of every episode, but I always get finish up like right before we start.

SPEAKER_07 28:53

I never watch the extras.

SPEAKER_03 28:57

Yes, listeners. We literally watch the show and then jump on here and talk about it. It's fresh. While it's fresh, it is.

SPEAKER_06 29:07

It is well in our minds so fresh. Fresh is kind of um relative. You can make salsa out of it.

SPEAKER_03 29:14

Oh. So fresh. Spicy. And spicy. Hey, we go back to Laris and Aegon in a cage going to being transported, and there's a ruckus. Well, first there's a really funny scene. Is this the scene where he's like, well, you don't seem to be in pain anymore? He's like, but I'm not fucking talking to you.

SPEAKER_06 29:38

Laris is just like kind of this is this is a scene where I really appreciate Laris. And I don't normally say that because he's a creep. And um my God. He's they're like, well, we'll see what has happened as the the the sardine can comes to a stop and he opens the door and sees Triarchy folks battling with someone. I don't know who.

SPEAKER_03 30:06

Whoever was transporting them is fighting with somebody.

SPEAKER_06 30:10

Yeah. And um and he just says something pithy, and I I wish I typed it out. He's like, oh, well, this is not what I expected. And he's very chill about the whole thing.

SPEAKER_03 30:22

Well, and the funniest thing is that at one point, Aegon literally gets the chance to just fall on a guy.

SPEAKER_06 30:29

Yeah. He goes out, he gets out of the can, grabs an arrow out of somebody who just the guy who was shot in front of them, and then falls on a dude who is supposed to usher them back into the can and just stabs the shit out of them.

SPEAKER_03 30:44

There was some pent-up anger in that stabby stabbing.

SPEAKER_06 30:47

Yeah, because he can't stab Laris, so he's gonna stab the shit out of this dude.

SPEAKER_03 30:51

Yep.

SPEAKER_06 30:52

And he's like, okay, we'll go. We're going to Rook's rest. I said so, says Aegon, and and Laris is like, That's where they're going?

SPEAKER_03 31:01

That's where he said they're going.

SPEAKER_06 31:02

Yeah. Well, find someone there who is in favor of us. Don't worry. Because that's where I think, up until when they move, I think that's where uh Cole and Gwane are.

SPEAKER_03 31:15

Oh, before they start.

SPEAKER_04 31:17

Okay. Okay. But I have to say, I love the line where he says, it's too perilous. It's too perilous.

SPEAKER_03 31:28

And Aegon's gonna walk there, basically. He's like, uh huh. If I get, I'm walking. And we find out after everything they went through on the battle, on the boats, all the fighting and the smoke and the blood and the bodies and the being in the ocean and bashed against the rocks, and they fish him to shore, and he's just standing there, sitting there talking to them. So then I was like, wait a minute, wait, wait, wait. If I trip going down the stairs, I'm out for a day and a half. Nobody better talk to me. I gotta hang out. And this guy.

SPEAKER_06 32:07

We might not be able to finish the record.

SPEAKER_03 32:09

What the fuck? Oh my god. They should if this is a big thing. Not even a broken toe?

SPEAKER_06 32:16

Yeah. Nothing? Well, he did lose his home and his ship. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 32:23

But bitch, he was he ha his body was had to have been funked.

SPEAKER_02 32:31

And he just like sitting there chatting. Give me a fucking break.

SPEAKER_01 32:38

They didn't he's fine. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 32:40

But he gives Alan his name. That's all he can afford to give him now. I got no money, but you can you can be a Valerian. Uh-huh. And Alan's like, sweet.

SPEAKER_03 32:51

He does, he looks at Adam, and I think he's gonna do the same for him, and he does not.

SPEAKER_06 32:56

He's like, You got a dragon, fuck you.

SPEAKER_03 33:00

Rude. Oh. Alison sees a uh does she see Rainey approaching? Is this when she goes running around? No, she's just wandering around.

SPEAKER_06 33:10

It's okay. This is where I have a tangent.

SPEAKER_04 33:13

No, she she's watching one eye leave towards Heron Hall. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 33:18

Right, right, right, right, right, right, right. Payman on Vagar, he's taken off. Okay, so I I have a complaint, and it's not it's not about Olivia Cook as an actress. Uh, it's about Alicent and how Olivia Cook is playing her. She always looks like she's holding in a poop. Just just I don't you know that feeling where you're like, if I don't get to a toilet in like 30 seconds, I'm gonna be bingo stamping my underpants. And that's the look she has on her face all the time until the end of this episode when she gets a new face entirely.

SPEAKER_03 33:54

Yeah. But okay. That said, this scene. Oh no. She goes down to apparently the King's Guard's locker room. The Gold Cloaks Barracks. The Gold Cloaks Barracks, and we get some full frontal nudity, and the boys doing it are giddy about it. Because they are no they are giggling as they're standing there with balls out.

SPEAKER_06 34:27

And I've got lots of peepees in this in this room.

SPEAKER_03 34:30

Yes, there are many, many, and good on them.

SPEAKER_06 34:34

I don't mind peepees.

SPEAKER_03 34:36

It's it's not it's not like women are going, oh yeah, show me the pee-pees.

SPEAKER_06 34:45

No one has ever said that in the history of ever. I don't care.

SPEAKER_03 34:50

You know what, Spencer? What I would defy you. I guarantee you, at some point, someone has said, no, show me the peepees.

SPEAKER_06 34:59

Because listen, listen, this is just a fact of life. Penises are ugly. Actually, genitals are kind of ugly. Correct. I was gonna say.

SPEAKER_03 35:09

I'm not gonna lead lean to one side or the other. There's no ugly, it's just they are what they are, they are functional. Correct. They are functional more than decorative.

SPEAKER_06 35:22

All right for the most part.

SPEAKER_03 35:25

Because technically, I don't think boobs are genitals. No, they are not. They're not, they're they're not to be confused with genitals, correct.

SPEAKER_06 35:35

Well, mine are purely decorative, but bubes are a secondary sex characteristic, so they are, but so are elbows. But who doesn't get a little randy at the sight of an elbow?

SPEAKER_03 35:48

Correct, which is why you have to wear long sleeves at all times.

SPEAKER_06 35:52

Not today.

SPEAKER_03 35:54

Correct, because today it felt like we lived in a sauna.

SPEAKER_06 35:59

I walked out of the building after work today towards my car, and I literally yelled. Look at those body elbows and ankles.

SPEAKER_03 36:05

Oh, that's a s is that a shoulder. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 36:11

Um Puritan.

SPEAKER_03 36:13

She's telling uh she's telling Largent that hey, uh Rainy's coming back, and uh it's because of who did he she oh uh who did she say was the cause of it? Helena?

SPEAKER_06 36:27

Yeah, Helena's letting her in uh as as because uh Aegon's gone, Eamon's gone, blah blah blah. We're gonna let Helena order uh Renera into the castle.

SPEAKER_03 36:40

Right. So how do you feel about that? She's just feeling about how do you feel about that?

SPEAKER_06 36:47

And this guy's name, by the way, is um I thought it was Largent. It's Luthor. Oh, Luthor. Luther.

SPEAKER_03 36:55

I knew it was an owl. So the dragon riders uh greet Damon. Oh god.

SPEAKER_02 37:00

And they're like, he says, What the fuck are you guys doing here? You're supposed to be out waiting for Vagar.

SPEAKER_03 37:09

And they're like, Well, uh, you know, it didn't show up, so we kind of just, you know, we couldn't.

SPEAKER_06 37:16

He left after two days, you cowards.

SPEAKER_03 37:19

Yeah. And then uh Ulf Erf, what's his name?

SPEAKER_06 37:24

Ulf.

SPEAKER_03 37:25

Alf, that's right.

SPEAKER_06 37:26

Ulf and what's the other guy's name though? I don't care. It's a normal name. Hugh. Hugh Hugh and Ulf.

SPEAKER_03 37:37

Alan and Alan had gone. No, Adam had gone helping to help. And fucked off to help go help Corlus, yes.

SPEAKER_06 37:44

Now, um Ulf does not shut up.

SPEAKER_03 37:48

I wrote exactly I said Ulf talks too much. It's exactly what I said.

SPEAKER_06 37:55

And it's it's like to the point where he talks so much that Damon backhands him to shut him up.

unknown 38:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 38:03

I don't know that it was so much because of the dumb shit he was saying. It's just that there was so much of it. And he put a stop to it by whapping him. And then Damon just walks off, and Hugh's like, Should we go back to Heronwolf?

SPEAKER_03 38:16

Buddy? Damon, should we go? Should we stay? Oh, we'll just wait here for you then, okay? Whenever you decide. Can I go get a snack? Do I have to stay here?

SPEAKER_02 38:29

Here or can I move over to the side?

SPEAKER_03 38:31

So he's walked off to find he's walked off to find Rainey's companion. What is her name again? I cannot remember that name for the life of me.

SPEAKER_06 38:42

I spelled it wrong 15 times.

SPEAKER_03 38:45

She intercepts him, right? On her on his way to go talk to Rainey. Yes. Why did I think I thought Rainey had already left because I thought that was her flying over, but now that I know it was Damon flying over, that caused out blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

SPEAKER_06 39:00

She's like, the queen is busy being miserable.

SPEAKER_03 39:04

Right. So let her be miserable for a while. And he basically lays in to her about worming her way into their life. He's like, Yeah, because remember prisoner.

SPEAKER_06 39:15

He he kept her as a slave for uh some time and then kind of left her here. And then and I I don't think I'm misreading this. I'm fairly certain that Masaria is like Renira's lover or or companion at the very least.

SPEAKER_03 39:34

Yes. That's been confirmed.

SPEAKER_06 39:37

Has it?

SPEAKER_03 39:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 39:39

By what?

SPEAKER_03 39:40

Well, they've been kissy kissy.

SPEAKER_06 39:42

Yeah, that's not a damn thing because Eamon just kissed his mother on the mouth. That can be a lot of things.

SPEAKER_03 39:47

That's true. This is a weird world.

SPEAKER_06 39:50

Yeah, but I think based on the things that they're saying about each other, is that they're very, very, very, very close indeed.

SPEAKER_03 39:56

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 39:57

And so she knows Renera's mind and heart better than Damon will at any point.

SPEAKER_03 40:03

Of course. So the funny thing is, he's like, What are you playing at, basically? She she looks at him and I said, I thought in my head, just say, Not everything's about you, Damon. And then she goes, Not everything is about you, Damon.

SPEAKER_06 40:21

Yeah, that's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_03 40:23

Sickburn.

SPEAKER_06 40:24

So they have a little bench time, they talk about Rainier's sanity and if she can trust Alison. And then someone runs up and says, Vegar's been sighting, headed towards the riverlands.

SPEAKER_07 40:35

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_06 40:35

And Damon goes, Oh, how about that shit?

SPEAKER_03 40:39

Yep, so Alison's like, we see her determine music. Goes to the guard. Go guard the council room.

SPEAKER_06 40:50

Yeah, Sir Rickard is like, I don't want you to wander off. You should stay by me. And she's like, fuck you! I got stuff to do. Go make the small council room secure. I'm gonna go do the things. You are not following me during Yeah, I got shit to do.

SPEAKER_03 41:08

I might have to take a shit. You don't want to watch that stuff. Yeah, it's nasty.

SPEAKER_06 41:11

I've had the diarrhea because I had Chipotle. Anyway, next scene.

SPEAKER_03 41:15

Next scene, Rainey is really out of it. She is doing the laying on her side in a fetal position after somebody you love dies. We know we've all been there.

SPEAKER_06 41:26

And there are Jamie Jams, too.

SPEAKER_03 41:27

Yeah, and Rainey's uh says, Hey, I heard Sheep Stealer has a rider, and he's like, nah, it can't be.

SPEAKER_06 41:38

Well, but they don't know who it is. So I want you to find whoever that is and beat him into snot. Speaking of snot, we'll get to that. He's like, it will be done. And then he's like, okay, so remember all that other stuff that you planned out? Well, Vagar left, so you know, Vagar left. And then she goes, fucked up. I don't even know if I want the thing anymore. Right. Yeah. And all I could think was this is the one time where I would like Rhaenera to fucking do something. And she's thinking about not doing something. Hey ma'am, her kid just died. I I understand that. But it's also a TV show. And she has said for two and a half well, two seasons and one episode, what would you have me do?

SPEAKER_03 42:29

Something. Well, and and she's been saying, The throne belongs to me. I shall go. Go get it. Go get it. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_06 42:39

He says a bunch of shit to her in High Valerian, which I didn't understand or ignore, or whatever you want to call it.

SPEAKER_03 42:47

Uh, this next scene is uh who the fuck is Jasper?

SPEAKER_06 42:52

He's the Lord of a Master of Laws.

unknown 42:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 42:55

And um I actually Did we know about him before this scene?

SPEAKER_06 42:59

Probably. I don't remember him, but I'm pretty sure he was in last season and whatever. All I know is that I got to yell the thing in my living room that I yell when this shit happens, and I will yell when it's appropriate.

SPEAKER_03 43:14

Don't be rapey. Sir, stop raping! Sir, stop raping. She grabs a stone turtle and smacks the furk out of him, though. Because he was trying to. And gives him a good groin kick, too. Oh, there's a she put up a good fight.

SPEAKER_06 43:32

As the the shit starts going down, the maester and a couple of guards walk in and and ha ha ha ha ha. The guards take him away, and the maester's like, Alison, I don't know what you did, but it sure does seem desperate.

SPEAKER_03 43:46

Damn, girl, yeah. Okie dokie. So we've got Rainey and Damon coming down the steps to Bartimos?

SPEAKER_06 43:57

Sir Bartimos, the the one of her advisors.

SPEAKER_03 44:01

And he's like, This just reeks of trap. And um And she's like, I don't want to fucking talk. We'll see.

SPEAKER_06 44:09

They she has a sword.

SPEAKER_03 44:11

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_06 44:12

It's kind of nice.

SPEAKER_03 44:13

Yeah. And uh uh um Mysterio gives her her crown. Ah, Mysterio, that's great.

SPEAKER_06 44:19

That's what she's that's her name now.

SPEAKER_03 44:23

Her that crown seems more ornamental than practical, yes?

SPEAKER_04 44:27

All crowns are ornamental. Also, she's carrying this isn't so shown in the show, but I know this from talking to other people. She's carrying Jace's sword. Ah.

SPEAKER_06 44:41

Okay, well. There's no way to tell that. You're right, but it's cool that that's what she's got.

SPEAKER_03 44:46

So all the time she's been wanting to be queen.

SPEAKER_06 44:51

No.

SPEAKER_03 44:52

She's never picked up a sword and like hacked at a few things just for funsies. She's like, she's telling Danny. That is Darryl Harris. Rainey. Mysterio, Mysterio is telling Rainey to send for her when you get there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:06

Send for me when you get there, and Damon's like three dragon escorts, pretty sweet.

SPEAKER_03 45:14

Yeah. Damon's giving well, two dragon escorts, really. Well, I guess.

SPEAKER_07 45:18

There were three.

SPEAKER_03 45:19

Yeah, there were three.

SPEAKER_06 45:22

Well, four dragons flew away. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 45:25

So Damon's given her shit about Mysterio. And the other writers have arrived at the dragon garage.

SPEAKER_06 45:32

Right? Dragon Garage.

SPEAKER_03 45:35

So David's Damon's like just don't do anything stupid. Don't think. Just do what I tell you to do. Don't don't make any judgment calls. Just just do what I tell you to do.

SPEAKER_06 45:54

There is nothing you should have to do that will at any point require thinking. And they moves him on the forehead like don't buit think.

SPEAKER_03 46:05

Helena comes into uh or Alison goes into Helena and I finally saw it. I saw the resemblance. Okay, now I can't the same person. Yes, I know. I gotcha. Now all I can see. Okay, it's so it wasn't just that character on The Last Kingdom. She's apparently just like this.

SPEAKER_06 46:26

So well no, because Elton was a little bit sharper, but Helena's kind of dopey. Well, I don't know. I'm not gonna I don't know this. She's kind of dopey. She's like chickens.

SPEAKER_03 46:40

But the two of them were kind of the same. Neither one of them wanted to be queen, right?

SPEAKER_06 46:44

Oh my god, I just realized Helena is Peter Griffin. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05 46:51

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_06 46:52

That seems right. Hey! I'm the queen. I want to keep some chickens. The boys were nice. I mean, that she literally says four things and grins, and that's her whole part. Anyway, they talked to Sir Frederick, who's who's on the parapets with his Ballista and archers and what have you.

SPEAKER_03 47:12

And um She's like, no shooting any dragons. And Helena from behind. I don't have any beasts behind.

SPEAKER_01 47:20

Yeah, I don't want any beasts to be harmed. That was good, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 47:26

Can you do it right, man? He's not happy about it that he can't shoot any dragons, but he's like, well, whatever. He doesn't really say anything. No. We go back to uh the in the woods. We go to the um Boy Scout camp out and we see some rabbits. There's gonna be some rabbit skinning. I'm so excited. It's been a while. It's been a hot minute since we've had some good rabbit skinning. They need to pull that out of the back drawer of the props closet. Yeah. Dennis, go get the skinned rabbits. I'm on this show too. We see Crispin, he sees Vagar fly over, right? Yeah. So he's like, oh, to her and hole. Because he's gone. So A, we see Eamon coming off the back, just hacking his way through dudes. Mm-hmm. He stabbies. Okay. So he comes in and he's just like just like burning the fuck out of everything.

SPEAKER_06 48:20

Yes. Light lighting the place up, so to speak.

SPEAKER_03 48:23

Yeah. Emon jumps off his back and is like picking off the remaining dubes. And there's a scene where he stabby stabs a flaming guy.

SPEAKER_06 48:31

I made a note about that. Stab a burnt guy. That's overkill.

SPEAKER_03 48:38

I'm already crispy. My question is, did this stunt man get paid extra to not only get stabby stabbed, but to be on fire while doing it?

SPEAKER_06 48:46

They don't actually stab them. It's it's a special effect. It's like a squishy sword. You poke and it goes chink into itself.

SPEAKER_03 48:53

What?

SPEAKER_06 48:53

That's not real. No one got stabbed. And I did I just What? Did I just shit in your Cheerios a little bit? I did make a comment. Stab a burnt guy, that's overkill. Good ol' Osfirth. And then um I made another comment about how he gets into the room he gets into the the quote unquote throne room or the main hall. And Lord Strong and his two sons are sitting there. And Amon's like, pick up a sword. Like this disguise is sitting here eating. Like, what? Do what now? Pick up a sword. And Lord Strong's like, hold on, hold on, hold on. You just interrupted my salesbury steak. Get super close to him. I don't have any weapons. There is no one here but us. And like a lot of crispy people, you can and then he's dead.

SPEAKER_03 49:53

And we hear Father! And then one of the goober boys Danny Bondaducci is not happy. Daddy's not happy. And neither is Shaggy.

SPEAKER_06 50:05

So he kills them by. Like Yoinks. Um one of them does manage to stab Amen in the back.

SPEAKER_02 50:10

I didn't see that.

SPEAKER_06 50:12

I saw it, but I didn't think it was significant. Until as he notices that Alice is standing in the doorway, he reaches around and touches the spot where he's bleeding from, and then collapses and asks for help. And she just kind of looks at him. Now this could go two ways.

SPEAKER_03 50:32

Right. And that's just how they leave it. We don't see that again, do we?

SPEAKER_06 50:36

No. But this is kind of what I'm looking, I'm I'm looking for here. Because she just got shafted by Damon. Because she wants Heron Hall, and he said no.

SPEAKER_03 50:46

Right.

SPEAKER_06 50:47

And maybe if if she helps Eamon. Is she gonna double cross? What are we gonna what do we think?

SPEAKER_03 50:55

She's gonna, yeah, for sure. She's gonna she's gonna help. She's gonna help them.

SPEAKER_06 50:59

Is Eamon gone?

SPEAKER_03 51:01

I don't think so. Okay. He wasn't paraded in, I don't know. I don't think so. I guess we'll find out what we know.

SPEAKER_06 51:08

We will. What just happened?

SPEAKER_04 51:11

Did somebody put a cucumber on your desk?

SPEAKER_06 51:14

No, it's leave all this in.

SPEAKER_03 51:18

That's no, I got thrown another devil dog at me. Okay, so it scared the crap out of me. Oh man, they're better than I remembered, too. So here comes the Dragon Brigade, and that is quite the city. Um, when we get a lot of people running from Godzilla at the Renfair. I forgot about the baby, the baby that didn't get killed, right? So we still got one baby and Helena and Alicent. Uh-huh. And they are just running through town, basically. And then where does a 70-ton dragon land?

SPEAKER_06 52:06

Anywhere at once.

SPEAKER_03 52:10

Why though? Okay, so we got all these dragons. Why does it some of them sound like dolphins?

SPEAKER_06 52:17

Because they're happy.

SPEAKER_03 52:18

They're chirping. I think they are okay. Chirping I can get behind, but this sounded like like literally they took recordings of dolphins and just stuck it in between the grunts and the no no no. No, okay. Uh I take it back. Not dolphins. Whales.

SPEAKER_06 52:37

Ah. Yeah, they are making a whale song. It does, yes.

SPEAKER_03 52:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 52:46

I heard that laughter.

SPEAKER_03 52:48

So the greens uh lay down their swords basically as Raining gets there. They had really good CGI on the back of that dragon. It was very cool the way it rippled. Yeah. Oh, that was awesome. I'm guessing AI, goddammit.

SPEAKER_06 53:04

Anyway. No, no, no, no. No? No. You can't just use AI for anything because it will it will it will piss off the creatives to a s to a level that is beyond words.

SPEAKER_03 53:19

And so well well well deserved, though.

SPEAKER_06 53:23

Yeah, I don't think I I fucking hate AI.

SPEAKER_03 53:27

I know. And I think that's a good thing.

SPEAKER_06 53:28

But at the same time, I think it's like yelling about radio or yelling about these darn No, it's not because for years and years and years, science fiction authors predicted that we would make a computer that would destroy us all, and everyone's like, Yeah, we probably shouldn't do that. And then a bunch of guys got together and said, We're gonna do it anyway, and none of us fucking asked for it.

unknown 53:54

Right.

SPEAKER_06 53:55

None of us asked for it.

SPEAKER_03 53:56

I didn't ask for it, but none of us rejected it either.

SPEAKER_06 53:59

I have rejected it. I don't use AI shit.

SPEAKER_03 54:03

I don't use it on my phone. But you do. I mean, whether you want to or not, you do. I don't make this here.

SPEAKER_06 54:10

I'm not gonna deliberately use it. That's my point.

SPEAKER_03 54:12

Tune into our very special podcast, Eileen and Spencer argue about shit.

SPEAKER_06 54:17

No, no, we're not arguing because I think we both agree. Yes. But we're going at it from a different angle.

SPEAKER_03 54:22

I have a question.

SPEAKER_06 54:23

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 54:24

Why was everybody at this place wearing green just because it was the greens?

SPEAKER_06 54:33

Yes. Literally, that's it. Because the high tower stuff is green.

SPEAKER_03 54:38

But why did all the peasants have to wear green? That's just a coincidence. No, it's not. Because you have to see what he's doing. There's a everybody, everybody every day has to wear green. That seems stupid. At least a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 54:57

Alright. Maybe it was their free choice. Who knows?

SPEAKER_06 55:02

There's a lot of different shades of green. Maybe you should calm down a little.

SPEAKER_03 55:05

So they walk into the where are where were they walking when the um all the guys rushed at them from behind? And Damon gets like all of them, like one by one. Again, they all just attack him one by one.

SPEAKER_06 55:21

That's like in the the like the little the room with the area above and around it, like the where at some point there will be a map. That's the map room, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 55:32

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's where Cersei puts the map on the floor, right? Yeah. Okay. I need a big map.

SPEAKER_01 55:38

So I can walk on it like Godzilla.

SPEAKER_05 55:41

That's how I move tiny chess pieces around. Um Would you like some wine?

SPEAKER_03 55:49

Oh man. And then he's basically, who else wants some of this? And nobody's like, nobody's up for it.

SPEAKER_06 55:55

So who dares rise against us in our house? That is how he said it.

SPEAKER_03 55:59

That's pretty badass. He did not say who else wants some of this. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 56:04

Anybody else? Who wants your bitch ass stabbed?

SPEAKER_03 56:07

So he opens up the throne throne room, and this is apparently the moment. Mm-hmm. Um, and as she's walking towards the throne very ricketedly, it takes a lot of effort. She looks enfeebled. She's grieving, A. She's overwhelmed by the fact that this is all she's wanted, and now it's finally happening.

SPEAKER_05 56:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 56:30

And she's a little like her nervous system, I believe, has shut down. Yeah. At least that would be the direction. Like I think that's a very good reason. Yes. That's a very good reason. And so she's walking, and then all of a sudden, Rickard and the guard arrive. They're like, na-na-ha. So Rainey draws her swords, her sword, and the guards laugh. And I went, Oh.

SPEAKER_06 57:00

What's so funny about that? She has a sword. She can chop. As we see.

SPEAKER_03 57:08

Yeah. But she is not trained in battle. They can tell just by the way. That's also true.

SPEAKER_06 57:15

I mean, who knows what's going on out there.

unknown 57:17

Right.

SPEAKER_03 57:18

I thought, here was here's what I thought. Again, I'm not the writer, but I wanted her to be a badass with that sword. Like to find out that she's been training secretly behind the scenes, right? With some sword master to learn how to wield a sword. But she just got it from Jay's. Because he just died.

SPEAKER_06 57:40

So anyway, uh that's no one needs to know this isn't actually mine.

SPEAKER_03 57:45

Sir Luther and Damon uh have a nice uh reunion when the city watch arrives to help out.

SPEAKER_06 57:52

Yeah. And we're in favor of the the queen and we remember our commander. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

unknown 58:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 58:00

So then she's just starting to head towards the throne, and she's like, wait, not yet. Then she wants Aegon.

SPEAKER_06 58:06

She wants Aegon before she can sit down in her spiky chair, which does not make sense.

SPEAKER_03 58:16

I guess she wants to kill him to take the throne. Yeah, yeah, well. Right. Now, uh oh spaghetti. I don't understand it either. We'll get to that. Uh-oh, spaghettio, he's gone. No matter how many people they, you know, try to kill. He's not there. There's nothing they can do.

unknown 58:37

Right.

SPEAKER_06 58:37

And again, Grandmaster Orwell tells uh Damon, listen, Claris and Aegon are gone. I get that, and you're probably gonna have to kill me, but I can give you a head that will satisfy you more. Which is a thing I just said out loud. Not entirely sure.

SPEAKER_03 58:57

Well now.

SPEAKER_06 58:59

And then the head in question is Lord Jasper's head. At least that's what we're led to believe until some handsome fella says French Dagman!

SPEAKER_05 59:11

Lord Laris left you a gift back here.

SPEAKER_03 59:15

Oh my god. It is literally, it is who's the guy that says Giggity? A gun. Quagmire. Quagmire. It is Quagmire. And he's got a lantern, and he is like, Laris left you a higher.

SPEAKER_06 59:32

This sort of presenty requires a torch.

SPEAKER_03 59:36

He goes and he laughs at what he sees, and but we don't know what it is. Did you know what it was?

SPEAKER_06 59:42

No, all we hear is heavy breathing, and I'm like, so it's a it's a man because you can hear it's a person. No, it was definitely a male breathing. Oh, I didn't hear the breathing. I did. My headphones were fucking loaded. Oh, I don't watch it with headphones. So I want to shut out the world. Also, I can't hear well.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:04

I should, and I'm thinking to myself, I should know who this is. I should know who this is. This guy can stand in his place. No, no, no. Even after they show him, I didn't recognize him.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:14

You didn't recognize a high tower.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:17

Nope. Oh. Not until I figured it out, not until Alicent came in. Oh, that was her daddy.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:24

I recognized him right away because he was uh you know, his hand and he was clever, and I kind of liked him.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:30

And and well, yeah. So this is rock. He's like, hey, I know you're gonna behead me. Uh can can Damon do it so I don't have to get hacked at, I think is what he says.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:47

Yeah, do it. Have I have Damon do it? I don't want to want to be hacked.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:52

So he gives so Damon gives her his sword. Now, why would you do this? So it's a hot, it's a heavier sword. It's a heavier sword. Most likely a sharper sword.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:03

Probably. Um I don't think she wants Jace's sword to spill out his blood. I guess maybe. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:08

I just maybe she's she's sizing up his neck like she's trying to figure out which apples to pick at the store. You know? So he kind of gives it like bears his neck. He's like, right here, there we go right there. Takes a swing. And and it comes out of nowhere. It's like, I think he starts to say something, and she just goes, Whew.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:36

Misses. Because they're here.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:38

Hits him in the nape of the neck, or like the backy part. Between the shoulder blades.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:45

And he's just going, oh. But then she just gets it out and just clean, clean through the neck. That was the second one, it was good.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:53

And that's this is when the booger happens.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:56

Yes. So Damon grabs the sword, takes care of the Master of Laws, whoever the fuck he was. That was really fast.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:02

He's just like, head off. Good. Nice and quiet in here. And then finally, finally, finally, with booger on face, Rhineira sits she sits in the Iron Throne. And moments later, clear! says someone, and the crowd parts, and in walks Alicent and Helena to find her father's head separated from his body. And Reneira very smugly on the throne, like, well, here I am anyway, aren't I?

SPEAKER_03 1:02:39

And then Alicent went, What did you do?

SPEAKER_05 1:02:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:44

What did you do? And the cycle continues. So that's it. Did we miss anything, Mike?

SPEAKER_04 1:02:51

Nope, you got it all. I referred to the guy in the dungeon as Eddie. I said, Eddie's back, baby. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:59

He was he was looking rough. This is a man who lives down there. You can tell. He's he's got a job, he does it well.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:06

And those were the dark cells, which are like the solitary confinement with no light, no torches, because Dama comes in and says the dark cells have grown larger rats.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:16

Oh yes. Oh, God. Alright, alright, alright. So thank you so much for listening to our podcast. Let us know you listen. Uh, write us an email, royalhighnesspod at gmail.com. Uh, you can message us on Facebook, because you know, Meta owns everything. Um, you can share this on uh Substacks or Reddit's or whatever for Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon, Red Last Kingdom, you know, whatever. I'll thank our producer Mike. Thanks, Mike, you're welcome. And those fine folks over at Injured Nerds Productions, and we cannot wait to do it.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:55

It's up, always.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:03

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