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Several years ago, I was at home alone swiping on tender and while I was swiping away

I noticed this guy who was sitting on a giant metal chair And I was like, where did he find such a big metal chair? Does he own it? Did

he build it? And why would someone want a chair that looks that uncomfortable?

Is that a photo from his sex dungeon? And then I look closer. And the big chair wasn't just a chair. He was made out of swords. Swords

stuck together like a magnet toy.

and that's how I came to learn that this is a very special chair.

It's a chair that people sit on because they all like to watch the same television show.

This is Y-O-Y.

I'm Andrea Salenzi.

And today on the show we're going to explore one of those common online dating experiences, which is seeing your potential mate posed

in a promotional chair for the HBO show Game of Thrones.

The chair has a name, it's called the Iron Throne, apparently. I don't know. I don't watch the show.

The chair gets around though. It usually shows up at premiere events, replicas travel to exclusive pop-up bars and fan conventions, replicas have shown up in the middle of Union Square, in the middle of Times Square.

HBO was even selling replicas for a while. It was only $30,000 plus $1,800 shipping and handling.

As a total outsider to the show, I found myself very turned off

when I'd see a guy in the sword chair and I wanted to understand why.

And in a bit we're going to hear the whole story of the throne with help from a game of

Thrones expert.

Let me just warn you guys that there will be spoilers, Nothing from the new season, season 7, but stuff from before that.

But first, I set my panoply colleague, A.C. Valdez,

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