Electric Bookaloo: Prologue (A Storm of Swords)

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🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Maester Anthony has returned from his sabbatical and begins coverage of the best book of Martin's series: A Storm of Swords. Put on your best wedding-formal attire and join him for a bloody good time over at Electric Bookaloo. Chet the would-be serial killer has designs on Sam's neck. Also, we finally answer the question: where are the maesters getting their blood-sucking leeches? Elysia and Padraig stop by to discuss the prologue to A Storm of Swords (ASOIAF). Theme song: Game of Thrones (80’s TV Theme) by Highway Superstar Hey there! Check out https://support.baldmove.com/ to find out how you can gain access to ALL of our premium content, as well as ad-free versions of the podcasts! Join the Club! Join the discussion: [email protected] | Discord | Reddit | Forums Leave Us A Review on Apple Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Game of Thrones to Electric Boop Kalu, I'm you know, Santhony.
0:27.7	Yes, this is also the feature that features House of the Dragon and Night of the Seven Kingdoms and everything George R.R. Martin adjacent.
0:36.1	Today, however, we jump into the prologue of A Storm of
0:39.9	Swords, which, according to many fans, is the best book of the series. I'm looking forward to
0:45.8	rereading it. For me, the first book is still pretty amazing, but maybe on this reread,
0:53.0	in conversation with some very smart people and some people that love the book, maybe I'll change my tune.
0:59.0	Maybe this will become my favorite book, but the jury's still out on that.
1:02.6	Today, old friends, Padrig and Alicia from the Lordhounds are joining me to discuss the POV of despicable Chet and his murderous inclinations.
1:13.1	As always, you can email
1:14.6	me at book at baldmove.com.
1:17.6	We love iTunes reviews.
1:19.8	We'd love if you'd share this podcast
1:21.8	with friends. All right, without further ado,
1:24.7	here is Podrig and Alicia.
1:28.8	So I'm Anthony. I am recording from Dayton, Ohio.
1:33.2	Hi, Alicia, recording from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
1:36.7	Hi, I'm Podrig. I'm recording from County Kildare in the Republic of Ireland.
1:40.9	All right. Well, thank you guys for joining me.
1:42.7	Now, you two have never recorded one of these
1:45.6	chapters with me together before. Is that right? That is correct. Correct. All right. So I was in a
1:52.5	conversation, I think it was with Elio, who's one of the co-authors of a world of ice and fire and what elio said was this was the book
2:04.1	that that martin really started getting critical acclaim with and like the first book was sort of like
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