'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' S1E05 - In the Name of the Mother
A Cast of Kings - A House of the Dragon Podcast
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4.2 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 91 minutes
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In this episode of A Cast of Kings, David Chen and Kim Renfro dive into the fifth episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
This episode has a massive portion that’s not from the books. What did we make of how it tied into the themes of the season? Were we convinced that that was really young Dunk we were looking at? Is this one of the greatest Game of Thrones-related episodes ever? Listen to hear us discuss all these questions and more!
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| 0:00.0 | I can't believe it. |
| 0:03.6 | Max has asked me to move in with him. |
| 0:06.0 | I mean, you practically live with each other already, but that's great. |
| 0:09.9 | Did you hear that, Joe? |
| 0:11.5 | Yes, thanks for letting us know. |
| 0:14.3 | I see you've updated your universal credit claim. |
| 0:17.1 | Now you're going to be living together. |
| 0:21.6 | If you're telling other people about a change in your circumstances, tell us too to avoid |
| 0:26.6 | a penalty. Search Tell DWP. |
| 0:30.6 | May the seven bear witness to our solemn and bloody offering. |
| 0:35.6 | May they peer inside our mortal hearts and find the truth. |
| 0:41.7 | May the warrior grant victory to the innocent and reveal the guilty in their falseness. |
| 0:49.7 | May death sustain life. Hello everyone and welcome to a cast of Kings, an unofficial podcast about the HBO |
| 0:59.0 | original series, A Night of the Seven Kingdoms. |
| 1:01.8 | I'm David Chen, and I've never read George R.R.R. Martins, a Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. |
| 1:06.6 | I'm Kim Renfro, and I have read George R. Martins, a Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. |
| 1:11.6 | Welcome back to the show, Kim. |
| 1:13.3 | Thank you. People are missing you last week. Jesse, of course, did a wonderful job filling in for you. But yeah, people are wondering what happened with Kim. Is Kim okay? Kim, are you okay? What's going on? I am okay. You know, life threw me a couple of curveballs, including a case of RSV that me and my toddler |
| 1:30.6 | had at the same time. |
| 1:31.8 | So you're hearing the remnants of that now, perhaps. |
| 1:37.0 | But major shout out to Jesse, my girl stepping in. |
| 1:41.0 | It was really, it was, I had a lot of fun getting to kind of sit and listen to you to react to the episode. |
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