Commander! Ours is the flagship! We cannot give ourselves to a singular pursuit. We must lead the assaultless that fall into disorder. Do you think I sailed across the narrow sea to win your king's war for him.

Welcome to a very special bonus episode of the official Game of Thrones podcast, House of the Dragon.

I am Jason Concepcion.

And I'm Greta Johnson.

There was so much to talk about in the season three premiere of House of the Dragon that we thought, you know what?

Let's just keep this discussion going. So we are back to talk all about the Battle of the Gullet in a bonus episode made possible by Chase Sapphire Reserve for Business.

We have a very fun treat for this one.

We will talk to the director of episode one, Lonnie Peristere, about directing that epic battle sequence.

And that's not all.

We also have exclusive footage from a panel at the ATX TV festival in Austin, Texas,

featuring showrunner Ryan Condal and cast member Steve Toussaint, Harry Colette, Bethany

Antonia, and Abu Bakar song.

All right.

No time to waste.

Let's kick things off with our conversation with director Lonnie Peristere.

We are very excited to be joined by the director of the season premiere, Lonnie Peristere.

Lonnie, welcome to the podcast.

Thanks for joining us.

I'm so excited to be here with you guys.

I'm a big fan of the podcast. It's fun to be with fellow nerds because we like what we do a lot.

Ryan Condal describes the process of creating a show like House of the Dragon in the terms of a chef, preparing a meal.

And everyone eats the meal too fast, but it's like, I feel

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