Ep. 211: - Tyrion IX | A Storm of Swords | "I will be your champion"

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🗓️ 1 November 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Tyrion Lannister is imprisoned in a tower cell of the Red Keep. His uncle Kevan tells him that Tywin, Mace Tyrell, and Oberyn Martell will stand in judgment of him. When Tyrion claims he may demand trial by combat, his uncle replies that Cersei will name Gregor Clegane as her champion. Tyrion sends for Bronn, but finds the former sellsword to be a changed man, soon to marry Lollys Stokeworth, and now being paid well by the Queen. The mercenary leaves Tyrion to fend for himself, unwilling to stand for the dwarf against the Mountain.

At the trial, Tyrion declares his innocence, and claims that Sansa was not responsible either. The witnesses that Cersei has brought forth are numerous, and since Tyrion has no witnesses of his own, their word is without refute. Pycelle notes that Tyrion stole poisons from his solar, and Taena Merryweather claims to have seen Tyrion drop something into the King’s wine.

That night, Kevan tells Tyrion that his only hope is to admit his guilt and he will be permitted to take the black, though Tyrion, remembering what happened to the last man to be made such an offer, is dismissive. They talk about Tyrion's father. Kevan is fiercely loyal to his brother, for it was Tywin who made the Lannisters' enemies pay for their abuse of their father Tytos Lannister, who was a peaceful but weak man. The next morning, Varys nearly seals Tyrion’s fate with damaging evidence against the dwarf.

Later, Oberyn Martell visits Tyrion, and makes it clear that Cersei has tried to buy his vote in the judgment, mentioning marriage. But the Red Viper has other ideas, and even brings up the point that according to Dornish law, Myrcella is the heir, and that his brother may well crown his ward. Oberyn relates the story Tywin had told him that it was Amory Lorch who killed Elia and her children, but Tyrion tells him the truth--that Lorch only killed Rhaenys, and it was the Mountain who killed Aegonand raped and murdered Elia. The Red Viper speaks of saving Tyrion, not as his judge, but as his champion.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The United States.
0:09.0	The Hello and welcome to bend the knee, a song of ice and fire podcast.
0:30.3	I am Sir Matt.
0:32.3	And I'm Sir Jimmy of House Nuts.
0:33.6	Welcome to our song of Ice and Fire book club.
0:35.3	Today we're into aria 12.
0:37.5	Tyrion. I literally was updating it. I was like, Matt, I actually knew it was wrong, but I wanted to see if we could shame you live on the podcast. You were updating the doc as I as I read. So it's Tyrion 9 of a storm of swords. Matt, how are you? Are you discombobulated? Is that what this is? Yeah. Yeah, dude, I got like a pinch nerve of my neck. It's all jacked up, dude. I didn't even know what I did yesterday. Like I was like trying to think, did I even eat yesterday? I can't remember because I was like because i didn't move my neck i've seen
1:12.1	kaira everything i'm feeling better today you know shout at the heart oh heart's fine i've
1:17.8	i've been i've been good there yeah okay good yeah so shout out to dr crin my chiropractor well
1:22.9	i have multiple chiropractors i see her especially but she just worked on it is this is this the one a big fan of the show? No, that's my other chiropractor Jordan, who I see all the time. He can, here's that. Well, I mean, Jordan, we're sorry. He's good. I see him like 20 times. I see him like about good enough, apparently. No, he is good. It does help. I get an adjustment. When I get my neck
1:44.6	adjusted, which I get about every time, it's always like that day and like next day, I'm usually
1:49.3	pretty sore. So why didn't you go to him? Because Teresa made an appointment with Dr. Cranon. She's
1:56.0	like, she doesn't like in an office where you take like the whole family. It's like a whole family.
1:59.9	So she doesn't like him. doesn't it's not true she says he's jordan too so but so she decided he wasn't good enough
2:09.1	this time no no it's because dr crinzo was like a family friend at this point i mean yeah well i mean
2:15.3	a fan of the show i would say is a family friend but i she did a baby chiropractor and we took Ellie there. Oh, okay. And Ellie was like, really. So that's so and then she, you don't trust him with the child. He doesn't do baby. They just do baby. Okay. That's a red flag. That's more his, this place is more like a rackum and crackum kind of type of place you just
2:36.5	churning them out oh dude i go in it's like 15 minutes like crack crack how you doing oh sweet
2:40.7	it's a puppy mill for spines just get right it's like it's what's also like next door and she her
2:47.2	her place is also like much further out it's like in portland so i've like oh all right okay well i try to sew some you know descent in the home camp but i think i failed
2:57.7	nah you failed how you doing man i was everything gone ah you know i'm just uh hanging in there
3:06.3	yeah dude the weather change sucks I hate it
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