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

I'm Aaron and we're here after having just watched mere seconds ago, uh, the latest episode of Game of Thrones 802.

Nobody knows the title. It's Game of Thrones episode 69 according to HBO.

What are you going to do? Uh, they at some point they do put up the titles and I don't understand why you wouldn't just do that when you go live with your episode.

They don't have that technology.

Yeah, it's beyond them. Multi-millio for the double these call the president of HBO at 859 and whisper the episode title to them and they just can't get it into the system fast enough that they would see proceed.

Seeker seed. Seeker seed is crazy. What do you think of this episode? I love this episode is pretty good. This I didn't expect this is a.

So this is another type of setup episode. This is a setup episode that sets up your emotional stakes and reminds you of why you're invested in the things that are about to happen.

And we had, you know, there was some unfinished business that we needed to see with Jamie and how he'd be accepted at the Court of Winterfell and, you know, how he'd mesh with brand and how things would fall out between John and Danny and, and like we talked about last episode that this is going to be.

One of the big things of the season is going to be, you know, Danny and John, maybe not turning against each other, although maybe that will happen, but how they can like win the North and unite all these different tribes and and interest and factions and I felt like the episode went a long ways to showing that they know that they need to do that with Danny's having a sit down with Sansa and it didn't get quite resolved, but it came so damn close.

What do you think? No, I thought this episode was actually great. Probably better than the first one. I didn't feel like any of it was clunky. I thought this is exactly the type of episode they need to do before presumably a lot of these characters go off to die. Right. I wanted to get all of that unfinished business off the table.

But we knew a lot of this stuff had to happen. And so now, and it happened in really nice ways. I thought maybe the best scene of the entire episode is brand being knighted.

That was a really meaningful scene. I thought there were a couple of other good ones. What would you think about Arya and Gindry hooking up?

Man, because I I felt like that this was a very fan service the episode and I'm a fan and I felt like it was servicing me for the most part. Like all that Jamie and brand stuff is so good and you know, Tyrion had a sit down with brand and that was really cool. And I like to bring it or the Sansa and Danny stuff and all the the Jamie and Tyrion stuff was really good.

But I don't know if I was ready to see Arya start getting busy with Gindry. Like I wasn't like I was thinking like, you know, okay, they're shipping them obviously last episode. The Arya looks like she's kind of in Charmed by him vice versa and didn't as the full on like, yeah, our Ned's little girls all grown up now, I guess.

Yeah, she does what is it the RV gambit from Independence Day? Right. Yeah. Yeah. Right. The dude's trying to sleep with her before they all, you know, potentially die. Who knows it will be around tomorrow. I do feel like don't you think that's in like Arya's character like her kind of adventuresome streak.

Yeah, this is a new experience if I die tomorrow. Why not? Sure. Gindry's a good looking guy. I've known him a long while. He's a good he's a good guy. I just know if I were Gindry, I'd be checking for leeches. Right? Yeah. I'll be looking where she put the leeches. I know how this goes. Right. I when she was questioned about how many women he's been with. I'm like, they're not going to get his not a total. He's no way he's a virgin. And I know the three is a good like three is the right number for Gindry.

I think is it? Yeah. What if you see him? That's too many. That's too many. Are you slamming Gindry right now? I'm just saying Gindry is not that guy on the street.

On the streets of steel. There's not not to do but swing your hammer or swing your hammer. And what I'm saying. He's got to swing that hammer. He can't be busy swinging his hammer.

Yeah. If he's going to get good at swinging his hammer. You know what I'm saying? All right. I don't know. I don't even know what I'm saying.

Six out of seven Gindry's agree. Three is the right number. Yeah. That that seventh Gindry is a real real corker.

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