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hello you are listening to an extra special bonus episode of nerdat Recaps Game of Thrones with Peter Sengel.

Peter, you just couldn't stay away.

I couldn't stay away.

This is the equivalent of like when you go to a concert and everybody leaves the stage and musicians and everybody claps and they come on to do the encore that you know they planned.

And you're like, come on.

Because you know we weren't just going to go away.

We had to come

back and talk more. You couldn't stop us. We don't care if you wanted this too. So this presupposes

that there's like a group of people applauding us somewhere. Yes, we are imagined, it's a beauty

of radio. We can't see or hear you. So we imagine that you're very enthusiastic about us.

Yeah, and we're pretty sure that you wanted us to play our greatest hits, but we don't really know what those are, so instead we'll just talk more about Game of Thrones.

Yes, that really big hit from the first album been playing for years.

So what happened was, if you listened to the amended podcast, we had a technical difficulty

in what we lost some of the conversation that we had that covered a fairly big chunk of the final episode.

So we're going to try to recreate the things that we said and the opinions and the conclusions.

And then I think if you don't mind, all the three of us will sort of sum up our opinions of this season.

And it kind of occurs to me, why would you care what you think of what we think of the season?

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