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A Trailer Must Have Two Heads - HotD S2 (livestream)

A twist, two trailers at once - we'll discuss them both this Sunday at 3 pm eastern. Many screenshots from both trailers will have their due!

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A Song of Ice and Fire and Rome (audio)

“How often do you think about the Roman Empire?” is a fun question that went viral in 2024, but in this episode we’re concerned more with how often GRRM thought about Rome (and not just the e...

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The Education of Varys (audio)

A look at the early life of the man who became the most devious in the Seven Kingdoms. We’ll delve into his days on the street, learning to steal and survive, to the mummer’s troupe and being s...

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A Song of Ice and Fire and Rome (livestream)

Live this Sunday at 3 pm eastern! “How often do you think about the Roman Empire?” is a fun question that went viral in 2024, but in this episode we’re concerned more with how often GRRM thou...

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A Song of Ice and Fire and Dune w/ Alt Shift X - Spoilers (audio)

The second half of Aziz's discussion with Alt Shift X. This portion includes spoilers for all Dune books and includes discussions on themes and parallels... and some major differen...

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Trivia on 3/26 and Gaming on 4/30

Announcing our March ASOIAF trivia night and our April Jackbox Games night! ASOIAF trivia will be on Tuesday March 26th at 9 pm eastern.

And on Tuesday April 30th at 9 pm eastern, we are play...

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The Curious Case of Coldhands (audio)

He’s an undead ranger and skinchanger with an elk and ravens… and a mission. He saves Sam & Gilly and leads them to the Black Gate at the Nightfort so they can bring Bran and friends to him...

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The Education of Varys (livestream)

Live this Sunday at 3 pm eastern, voted on by y'all! A look at the early life of the man who became the most devious in the Seven Kingdoms. We’ll delve into his days on the street, learning to st...

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2024 Topics Moot Winners!

The 12 Winners

1 Undead Character - Coldhands
2 Unfinished Scripted Series - Nymeria
3 Robert's Rebellion Era - The Abduction of Lyanna

You favored historical ...

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A Song of Ice and Fire and Dune w/ Alt Shift X (audio)

DUNE is one of the most successful sci fi creations of all time, and GRRM is absolutely one of the many who was influenced by it. In this episode, Aziz and Alt Shift X discuss both authors, their s...

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Influences Runoff: Black Dinner vs. JRR Tolkien

There was a TIE in one of our previous polls (last Friday's poll is also looking SUPER close).

This poll will run until Friday. Shortly afterwards I will announce the full list of winners fo...

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Supernatural and Miscellaneous Final Poll

Time to pick 3 winners from Monday and Wednesday's finalists!

Multiple choice is ON

Next Friday we will announce the winners of all the polls* - and before that we have a runoff poll be...

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The Curious Case of Coldhands (livestream)

Live this Sunday at 3 pm eastern! He’s an undead ranger and skinchanger with an elk and ravens… and a mission. He saves Sam & Gilly and leads them to the Black Gate at the Nightfort so they...

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Miscellaneous Topics Poll

We came up with so many topics for the Moot, and as usual the goal is to put them into fun categories that turn into polls. However, some topics are not easily categorized! 

The top 3 fr...

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The First House of the Dragon (Fire & Blood VRR) (audio)

Aegon and Visenya faced no true threats to their reign from the outside, but the biggest problems can start from within, and even the first House of the Dragon was troubled by such. An abundance of...

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Supernatural Questions Poll

Questions within Questions within Questions... Topics that seek to explain the unexplainable - or at least narrow things down a bit. These will surely have plenty of setup and context, and ways for...

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Young POV vs. non-POV Poll

The six winners from the earlier-this-week polls are: a bunch of the oldest characters plus Jaime. Varys isn't as old as the rest but he's probably over 50 while Jaime is 34-35. Nevertheless he is ...

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The First House of the Dragon (Fire & Blood VRR) (livestream)

Aegon and Visenya faced no true threats to their reign from the outside, but the biggest problems can start from within, and even the first House of the Dragon was troubled by such. An abundance of...

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Young ? non-POV Poll

RE-POST if you voted already, please do again - I mistakenly left off multiple choice - oops!

The companion poll to Monday, a list of compelling older characters who do not have POV's whose ...

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The Dragon's Peace (Fire & Blood VRR) (audio)

The First Dornish War was Aegon the Conqueror’s last war. For the rest of his reign he was largely concerned with peace. However, enforcing peace in warlike Westeros is no easy thing. Did Aegon a...

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Young ? POV Poll

Given our style, it's basically impossible to cover any of the main POV characters in one episode. That's why we came up with the A Neducation episode - an episode where we focus on a period of the...

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Authorial + Historical Influences Winners Poll

You weighed in on the polls Monday and Wednesday, here are the ones that got the most votes.

The initial polls were preliminary, the top 3 from this poll will become episodes in 2024!

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Discord Hangout - 2/27 at 9 pm eastern!

Our next monthly Discord hangout will be Tuesday February 27th at 9 pm eastern - we are playing custom Quiplash for ASOIAF/HOTD/GOT, as well as other Jackbox games, so join the Discord server ( View Post

Valar Rereadis: Fire & Blood - The Dragon's Peace (livestream)

The First Dornish War was Aegon the Conqueror’s last war. For the rest of his reign he was largely concerned with peace. However, enforcing peace in warlike Westeros is no easy thing. Did Aegon a...

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The Mystery of the Dornish Letter (Fire & Blood VRR) (audio)

The deaths of Queen Rhaenys and even moreso, Princess Meria, led to the end of the First Dornish War. But ultimately the final decision was made by Aegon upon receipt of the mysterious letter that ...

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Historical Influences Poll

Following up the authorial influences - let's pair that against history. The top 3 choices from this poll will compete on Friday against the top 3 choices from Monday's poll. Also like Monday's pol...

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Authorial Influences Poll

Topics Moot continues with some meta-subject matter - authors who have influenced GRRM the most!  This is not an exhaustive list as a few of the authors who might other appear on this list are...

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Robert's Rebellion Era Poll

Despite being the primary backdrop for early ASOIAF, the majority of the events of the War of the Usurper remain uncovered by HoW. Let's cast a bit more light on those shadows...

This one is ...

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Valar Rereadis: Fire & Blood - The Mystery of the Dornish Letter (livestream)

The deaths of Queen Rhaenys and even moreso, Princess Meria, led to the end of the First Dornish War. But ultimately the final decision was made by Aegon upon receipt of the mysterious letter that ...

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Existing But Unfinished Scripted Series Poll

Over the years we've started several series of episodes that remain incomplete. Topics Moot brings a chance to weigh in on which of those we should get back to.


For those of you wi...

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