The Wrap on "Thrones"

GLoP Culture

Ricochet

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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One of the constants on this podcast from the very start has been Game of Thrones. That’s despite the fact that one of the hosts can’t stand the show. That’s why when we really want to get into the weeds on the how, we call in two experts on the genre and the show: the Free Beacon’s Sonny Bunch and the New York Times’ Ross Douthat. Together with John and Jonah, they parse the good, the bad... Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to a special edition of the Glop Culture Podcast. I'm John Podhoritz.
0:11.6	With me as always, Jonah Goldberg in Washington. Hi Jonah
0:15.9	Valer Valardo Horace or whatever the hell they saw with not with us if you are a listener of the GLOP podcast Rob Long who has done
0:25.3	nothing for the last few months but crap all over game of throne so we thought
0:31.0	we would release him from the obligation of appearing with us and while of
0:33.3	appearing with us and while secretly binge watching.
0:36.6	He secretly, this is Jonah's contention and he is going to stick with it to the grave that
0:41.8	Rob is secretly binge watching Game of Thrones. But we have as
0:46.4	a real, we have two major pop culture analysts spokesman and moral philosophers with us in Rob's place to take apart the final episode.
1:00.8	Our friend Sunny Bunch of the Washington Free Beacon, hi Sunny,
1:06.0	Hi, John.
1:08.0	And the New York Times' own Ross Daufit.
1:11.6	Hi Ross. Hi Ross.
1:13.0	Hey John, how are you?
1:14.0	I am good.
1:15.0	I'm good.
1:16.0	I guess. National Review movie critic.
1:19.0	And Sunny, of course, the Washington, the free beacons movie critic and one of the tripartite
1:28.2	hosts of the sub-beacon podcast. Yes finest of terrible podcasts.
1:35.0	Yes, it's the best terrible podcast in America.
1:39.0	Okay, so by my census count, I'm not sure about Sunny, but I think we have two extreme critics of the final episode and I am going to take I'm going to ask that Ross Douthard who I
1:56.2	think is probably the most lettered of the fantasy fans here among us like someone who has read every from the high
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