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Welcome to the Game of Thrones podcast, the unofficial podcast for Game of Thrones on HBO. I'm Jim.

I'm Aeron.

And we're here. We just got done watching Season 8 episode 1. I have no idea what this episode is called because

apparently HBO didn't tell anybody.

It's called Are You The Mother's? Like it didn't leak.

Yeah, they didn't. They've been, I did a little bit of looking and in the thread, the official

like the pre-thread on like the different Reddit sites, they had no title and people like the top 50 threads

or people praising HBO for like being iron clad with the spoilers. They don't even let the episode die.

But I think it's called Areia and the Caravan of Emotions.

Okay. It could be got that brand stare. Could be that.

The brand will ruin the mood of any room that he's in.

It could be John's mind is blown. Yeah, yeah, because that was a really good scene.

What do you think of the episode?

Man, I had, so I have this kind of like excitement but nervous. I feel like I'm watching a kid, my own child do like a piano recital

where it's like I'm really excited if everything goes well, but like for the whole time they're playing, I'm like, you know, waiting for the bad note to come.

So I guess yeah, I think with that kind of high pressure, high wire expectation act, I think it did really good.

I was a little worried and I felt like there's a lot of throat clearing and a lot of like, you know, like like it felt like they were stalling before.

But I think you also needed some time to reshift back in to the episode.

And I also was delighted that they read the credit sequence.

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