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Hello and welcome to Nerdette Recaps Game of Thrones with Peter Segel.

I'm Greta Johnson.

I'm Tricia Bobita and we are joined by Peter Sagle. The now famous Peter Sagle, because we got written up in the Chicago Tribune. I, as these ladies know, was hoping that we'd become famous

when Weiss and Benioff, the showrunners of Game of Thrones, would hear our brilliance and invite us to take over from them. Mm-hmm. You know. I was ready.

Yeah, we were all ready to go.

We had great ideas for season seven.

But instead, the Chicago Tribune wrote us up, not for our Game of Thrones wisdom, but because of our discussion of you guys lying to me last week about when we started.

This is what we're famous for.

As empowering you.

Empowering me.

Yeah, man.

This is for you, Peter.

Yes.

Knowledge is power.

Incorrect knowledge is a different kind of power.

I mean.

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