The Hedge Knight - Part 1
History of Westeros (Game of Thrones)
History of Westeros
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🗓️ 28 June 2021
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
We begin with a discussion of the current setting in Westeros, the life of an orphan from Flea Bottom, the difference between a hedge knight and a sellsword, how funerals and death bookend this story and the entire Dunk & Egg cycle, plus quite a bit more. Remastered 2026.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Valerie Reedus for Dunkin' Egg. |
| 0:12.5 | If you're thinking of making a podcast, Spotify is doing a great job of making it both easy |
| 0:17.1 | to get started and then expand into more options as you grow, and it's all in one place |
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| 0:26.8 | even make money, including videos, Q&As, and polls. |
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| 0:35.7 | in that regard. |
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| 0:42.6 | slash podcasters. |
| 0:44.8 | Our approach will be different than it was for a song of ice and fire, rather than setting |
| 0:48.9 | out a specific number of chapters for each week, we'll aim to spend two hours per episode |
| 0:54.4 | covering as much as we can each time, we'll cover the setting, the parallels, the plot |
| 1:00.1 | connection to a song of ice and fire, the plot within the story itself, and almost everything |
| 1:04.7 | else you can imagine, and I know you can imagine quite a bit. |
| 1:09.2 | So this should be a lot of fun, yeah, we're changing the format a little bit, but the discussions, |
| 1:14.2 | the humor, analytical style should all be pretty much the same, but there is a lot to do |
| 1:19.7 | this by a chapter because the chapters are so much shorter, right? |
| 1:23.6 | Yeah, in some ways they're not even chapters, you could look at them that way, but I don't, |
| 1:31.1 | so I wanted to come up with a different way to manage this, and I think this is going |
| 1:35.5 | to be pretty fun. |
| 1:36.7 | So you've already heard him speaking, but we should reintroduce our friend, our longtime |
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