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🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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HBO hopes to win the streaming wars with House of the Dragon, a prequel to Game of Thrones. But GoT’s disastrous finale disappointed viewers, and the prequel is being released as HBO’s parent company, Warner Brothers Discovery, undertakes massive cost-cutting measures. Still: DRAGONS. This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Tori Dominquez, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On Sunday Game of Thrones fans and also HBO hopes people who never watch Game of Thrones
0:05.6	get to return to wild, wild, westarose for more politicking, more iron thrown grabbing,
0:11.6	more backstabbing, more front stabbing, more wildly distressing, sibling relationships.
0:18.0	Also, there be dragons.
0:20.4	Yeah, a power man should never have trifrupled with.
0:24.9	House of the Dragon is a prequel to Game of Thrones.
0:27.6	It's centered on the ice blonde ice-colleted Targaryen clan
0:31.6	and set 200 years before Queen Danny loses her mind and burns it all down.
0:37.0	But some things remain constant.
0:39.7	I have decided to name a new man. I'm your man.
0:43.8	If you watch Game of Thrones, you will not be shocked to learn
0:46.7	the family rivalry ends up destroying so much.
0:50.0	Coming up on today, explain.
0:51.4	Do you think his round will ever accept the aesthetic?
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