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Welcome to EW's Game of Thrones Weekly Podcast,

and if I'm talking a bit faster than usual,

it's because I'm

trying to keep up with the pace of events on the show this week, in which everything happened.

Well, not everything, but plenty did happen. The faster pace producers have been promising,

really kicked into gear with a dizzying run of events in which so many things went down,

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