Stalker fan confronts GRRM at World Con and Dunk and Egg Season 2 & 3 News
Bend the Knee: A Song of Ice and Fire Podcast
Game of Thrones
4.4 • 950 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
George R.R. Martin’s long-awaited The Winds of Winter sparked controversy at Seattle Worldcon 2025 when a fan crossed the line during a panel with Brandon Sanderson. The audience member bluntly told Martin he “wouldn’t be around for much longer” and asked if Sanderson might finish the series. The offensive comment drew backlash, with fans rallying behind Martin in support.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The United States. |
| 0:09.0 | The United States. Hello and welcome to Ben the Needs, a song of ice and fire podcast. |
| 0:29.3 | I am Sir Matt. |
| 0:30.5 | And I am Sir Jimmy of House Nets. |
| 0:31.7 | Welcome back to our song of ice and fire book club. |
| 0:33.4 | Today we are talking about some news, a little bit Dunkin' Egg, a little George Mishap that happened at one con. Pretty unfortunate news. Yeah, not ideal. Should we start with the bad or should we start with the good? Well, I think first we should update everyone. How's your blood pressure? Is it good? It's good. That's the ongoing saga. It was good, man. It was good. Actually, today it was like 129 over 86. So it's the that's the ongoing saga it was good man it was good actually today it was like |
| 0:54.4 | 129 over 86 so it's the first time that my top number has been below 130 in quite some time |
| 1:02.0 | yesterday actually my lower number was below 80 so that was that was pretty good I think it's it's |
| 1:07.5 | trending in the right direction man we're We're trending. We are trending. |
| 1:10.9 | It's the sodium. |
| 1:11.7 | I'm just, |
| 1:12.3 | I'm working hardcore and cutting it out, losing some more weight, just, you know, I saw you snorting salt when we recorded once and I said, I don't think that's a good idea, Matt. Ah, yeah. Just a whole line. I was like, no, dude i'm doing it's doing good how about how you man you're you're kind of enjoying some time off here and then you're |
| 1:11.0 | start yeah yeah start my new It's like, uh, now, dude, I'm doing, it's done good. How about, how are you, man, you're, you're kind of enjoying some time off here and then you're |
| 1:29.5 | starting. |
| 1:29.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.5 | My new job. |
| 1:32.1 | My new old job. |
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