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Radio Westeros ASOIAF Podcast

Radio Westeros E52 - w/History of Westeros - Dance of the Dragons, pt.2

Radio Westeros ASOIAF Podcast

Radio Westeros

House Of The Dragon, Arts, Stark, Lannister, Asoiaf, Hotd, Targaryen, George R.r. Martin, A Song Of Ice And Fire, Got, Game Of Thrones, Books

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2020

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Lady Gwyn and Aziz from History of Westeros continue a series analyzing the Dance of the Dragons. In this episode we explore the opening moves of the conflict, efforts at diplomacy, and the events that led to full scale civil war. Mini sections on Aegon II, the dragons, and the real world history that influenced GRRM complete the episode.

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0:00.0

Radio Westeros, episode 52, in conjunction with history of Westeros, the Dance of the Dragons, Part 2.

0:15.0

Spoilers All Books.

0:18.0

Last time we told you all about the politics and bickering and intrigue and jockeying for position.

0:27.0

This time we have to use stronger language.

0:31.0

Politics gives way to survival, bickering becomes fighting, and intrigue makes the leap to assassination.

0:39.0

When dragons rule the skies, even House Tully can no longer boast of upholding family, duty and honor.

0:47.7

The latitude must be sacrificed for the sake of the first.

0:56.1

But even the hollowed virtue of family loyalty is thrown off as the dancing of the dragons becomes ever more frenzied. The Lord of

1:01.9

Riverun and his heir disagreed over which side to take, and such

1:06.7

disagreements were not uncommon.

1:10.4

After all, this whole dance is a family dispute in the first place.

1:15.1

When the first families fight or dance, as the songs tell us,

1:20.0

the rest of the dance of the dragons. But the words of House

1:35.6

Targaryan on the other hand, those have rarely been so fitting. The

1:41.4

principles of family, our duty may have been in short supply, but there was plenty of

1:48.5

fire and blood to go around.

1:51.6

Hello and welcome to the Dance of the Dragons Part 2.

1:56.0

And yes, that was Yoke Boy.

1:58.0

Welcome back to Yoke Boy.

2:00.0

Credit to him and A Shayya for producing.

2:03.0

And this is the first time the four of us have worked together since season 7.

2:07.5

We have done a lot of Game of Thrones coverage together,

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