Steve and Anthony discuss the new actors portraying Rhaenyra and Alicent. Also, Aegon’s hobby is a matter of public record.

Anthony and Steve weigh the evidence of Daemon’s wife’s murder.

Steve and Anthony discuss the two great tornadoes of chaos, Rhaenyra and Daemon, as they both fail upward.

Steve and Anthony cover the third episode of HOTD season one. Then Anthony talks with High Valyrian creator, David Peterson.

Steve and Anthony discuss the ethics of political marriage in episode 102 of House of the Dragon (The Rogue Prince). Then Dr. Iain MacInnis answers a listener question about extra-marital affairs in medieval politics.

Steve and Anthony review the first episode of HOTD season 1. Anthony talks with Dr. Natalie Goodison about medieval birthing and Dr. Iain MacInnis about how medieval folk dealt with dead bodies.

Hazel Grian and Pádraig MacCarron discuss Jon’s relationship to Ygritte and his first magical encounter with a weirwood tree.

Dr. Kelly DeVries explains the various ways that battle strategy was learned and communicated. Did medieval warlords use music on the battlefield?

Sansa faces the looming prospect of a wedding to Joffrey which is further complicated by her newly discovered puberty. Elysia from Wool-Shift-Dust joins to talk about this alongside important thematic elements from Cersei and the Hound.

Prof. Philip Haberkern explains the trickiest of divine figures.