Welcome to a special edition of Glop Culture. I'm John Puthoritz today in Los Angeles. Not with us on today's

Glop Culture is Rob Long, who if you've been listening over the last couple of weeks

would fall asleep very loudly

during this entire podcast because we are discussing Game of Thrones which Rob

has decided he has contempt and hatred for and so since that is not has We have asked Free Beacon editor commentary magazine columnist and all around

great nerdy guy Matt Kontinetti to join us to discuss the epic third episode of the last season of Game of Thrones.

Hi Matt. Hi John, hi. of the last season of Game of Thrones.

Hi Matt.

Hi John, hi Jonah.

So Matt, if you want to look it up at some point,

Matt wrote a very long essay. I believe for the Claremont Review of Books, about the novel,

the Game of Thrones novels and what he sees to be the epic accomplishment of George R. Martin in

creating a new sort of understanding or a new portrait of power politics. So he is deep in the weeds, right? Is that right, Matt?

You're a very deep. Yes. Like the children of the forest, you are a version of the Children of the Forest. You were the

man in the weeds. Okay. So Jonah. So Jonah, kick us off. So we had this hour and a half

long episode, the Battle for Winterfell, or whatever was called the long night

or something like that.

I think it's still going.

I think it's now, it's like three days.

I think that some zombies are still climbing over Brianna Tarth and yet she is still

surviving so give us a give us your overall take on what was, okay, we agreed to this, what was good

in the episode. What did you like in the episode?

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