What Game of Thrones Has Taught Us About Politics

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🗓️ 1 September 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

"Winter is coming," they warned us, and the seventh season of Game of Thrones might have proved them right. But no one mentioned that winter in Westeros would coincide with so many troubling events in real-world politics. In this episode, Megan Garber, staff writer for The Atlantic, joins Radio Atlantic cohosts Alex Wagner and Matt Thompson for a conversation about lessons from the show, and other recent pop culture. - If you're not a Game of Thrones fan, or don't want to be spoiled, worry not: the second segment of our conversation (around the 16:30 mark) turns beyond the show to discuss recent movies, books, and TV shows with political lessons to offer. - If you are a Game of Thrones fan, be forewarned: we discuss spoilers up to and including the final episode of season 7. For links and other show notes, go here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	For six years the HBO Show Game of Thrones has warned us winter is coming and now it seems it's here
0:07.9	in so many ways what lessons can we draw from Westeros in winter?
0:13.2	And how might they apply to our very real world?
0:16.3	This is The Atlantic.
0:35.0	Here with me in the studio in DC is Atlantic Staff Raider Megan Garber.
0:39.7	Hi Megan.
0:40.4	Hello.
0:41.8	And over there in New York is Atlantic Contributing Editor and CBS Anchor Alex Wagner.
0:48.4	Hi Alex.
0:49.4	Hi guys.
0:50.9	This week, editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, our co-host is off Galavanting, so he is not going to join us for our conversations today,
0:59.8	and without him, we three will discuss Game of Thrones.
1:04.4	Who doesn't want to talk about Game of Thrones?
1:06.1	Who does not want to talk about Game of Thrones?
1:07.8	Even if you don't watch Game of Thrones,
1:09.3	you should want to talk about Game of Thrones.
1:11.3	In fact, that is exactly the case. This is the show that has
1:15.3	launched a million takes. The HBO show Game of Thrones of course based off of
1:20.4	George R. R. Martin's epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire, is often compared to everything.
1:29.4	I checked and in random corners of the internet the list of things that have been described as being
1:34.4	like a Game of Thrones episode includes a Richard Dawkins tweet.
1:39.6	Finals week at UC Santa Barbara. The apparent discovery of a buried forest off of the
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