Previously on Electric Bucaloo. I mean he's always been a little bit saucy, but I would say that this is his sauciest episode.

Yes, his saucy as he gets.

Welcome back to Game of Thrones 2 Electric Bucaloo. I'm your host Anthony. This week's conversation is with Dr. Robert Rouse.

He has taught several classes on Game of Thrones at University of British Columbia. We'll be covering Aria's first POV chapter that's chapter 7.

I'll also include my conversations with Lisa Woolfork and Gregory Webster, both related to Aria.

So it's an Aria Heavy podcast this week. She's my favorite. We'll also check in with Steve, who's done his very first viewing of You Win or You Die episode 7.

First up is the short excerpt from Lisa Woolfork and then we'll cover chapter 7 with Professor Rouse.

The reason why you were on my radar in the first place, Dr. Woolfork, is that I saw that you taught a class at UVA,

related to Game of Thrones and I thought we could swap class stories. So I used this book once for an ethics class and I loved it.

But I want to hear about your class and how it was framed and really how the students received it.

It was a wonderful class. I taught it for about five years and what we concentrated on was because it was an attrunkated semester.

I did this in the summer session, which is just for a week. So in the first week of the class, we read the first novel.

That was the first five days and there was a quiz every day and there was a great rich conversation of the first novel.

And then I paired the novel with secondary scholarly sources. We looked at about 30 episodes of the HBO series.

Okay.

It was pretty great because a lot of students that they were very dedicated whether they had seen the show before or not seen it before.

And so we were all pretty much watching season 7 as it was happening.

We spent a lot of time talking about that, which was some really great and rich conversations.

But I'm not a big fan of just lecturing. I much prefer to have discussions centered student driven learning.

You know what I mean? I really like that. I mean, I think that I'm fascinating and amazing and really smart.

But I don't want to talk for two and a half hours straight about anything.

Yes, both things can be true. You can be fascinating and you can talk for too long.

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