Sam getting winded just twirling around trying to kill everything with a flaming sword

It's almost so bad. I want to see it Welcome back to On the Throne, the Shat On TV Podcast Companion piece to the incomparable

HBO series Game of Thrones.

I'm one of your host, Gene Lyons, and alongside me is my co-host, Big D, Dick Ebert.

Good evening.

And this is our small council fan email episode

where we look back on this week's episode of Game of Thrones

and provide our feedback on the top

listener emails for the week all part of a segment we call the small council

aka the Red Keep Diaries. This week's episode was called Stormborn.

You listen to our ideas on Tuesday's deep dive.

Now it's our turn to hear from you.

I feel like I got to start off by apologizing.

Going through the emails today, we normally will do a voting procedure where the three of us vote on them and we pick the top.

There were so many good ones that each one I wanted to force it in and if I had my way this probably be like a two and a half hour

podcast but if we don't read yours on the air there are so many that almost made the cut I feel terrible for not

including everybody but the emails were

getting are fantastic. Yeah if you didn't make the cut you can squarely blame me

because I had to take Big D and whack some of his back out of there because I was like

no no we're sticking to these and that's it

We had a lively debate on a few of them and so we we really settled on some top ones but please please please go to chat on TV.com and check out the rest of these because they are

phenomenal, phenomenal emails a lot of more on the same topic so we had to kind of pick one

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