Not A Podcast ASOIAF Re-Read Podcast

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter (though not in this case) podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!   In this episode, Jon meets up with good friends, gets challenged by his mentors and readers are introduced to Azor Ahai Reborn: DOLOROUS EDD!   This week, we:   - Talk about the Others and the Five Year Gap   - Make the case that these...

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter (though not in this case) podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!   In this episode, the Winged Wolf and the Stark in Winterfell fight for the soul of our precious baby boy Bran, the future King of Westeros. Long may he reign. Yeah, we said it.   This week, we:   - Defend King Bran   - Analyze the inte...

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter (though not in this case) podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!   In this episode, everyone’s a gangster until a gangster walks in the room.   This week, we:   - Discuss the themes of each book   - Look at Tyrion at Michael Corleone from The Godfather   - Analyze the series of tests that Tyrion has t...

 Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter (though not in this case) podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! In this episode, Arya Stark wanders the war-torn Riverlands with her new companions: kids who try to rob her, adults who threaten to kill her, and her guardian Yoren, who beats her. It’s...it’s just so much fun to make new friends.   Th...

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter (though not in this case) podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! In this episode, Arya Stark wanders the war-torn Riverlands with her new companions: kids who try to rob her, adults who threaten to kill her, and her guardian Yoren, who beats her. It’s...it’s just so much fun to make new friends. This...

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! In this episode, STANNIS the objectively rightful King of Westeros and his morally unambiguous sorceress begin their crusade to set the world to rights. We foresee no complications whatsoever.  This week, we: - Talk about the choice of introducing Stannis and Mel...

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! In this episode, Maester Cressen stares down a giant Eye of Sauron in the sky above Dragonstone before meeting with his king...and the latter will be covered next week, as part of "Red, Part 2." Don't blame us, the chapter is 10,000 pages long!!  This week, we: -...

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! In this episode, an exiled widowed teenager stranded in the wasteland is reborn as the Mother of Dragons. Now that’s how you end a book. This week, we: - Frame the dragonbirth as as religious experience, not only for the characters but for us, the audience - Brea...

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! In this episode, the vassals of Winterfell and Riverrun come together to declare with one voice that Robb Stark is the King in the North! King in the North! KING IN THE NOOOOORTH!  This week, we: - Reminisce a bit on AGOT and what we're looking forward to in ACOK...

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! In this episode, Jon Snow attempts to abandon his Night's Watch vows in order to ride off and join Robb in avenging Ned...only for his brothers and his LC to tell him that his place is at Castle Black fighting the army of the dead.  This week, we: - Ponder what J...

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! In this episode, Tywin helpfully lists all the myriad ways in which Team Lannister is screwed before putting Tyrion of all people in charge of saving the day. This week, we: - Talk about how Tywin kind-of forgot about Dorne and the Reach - Tywin gets his sweet, s...

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! In this episode, Eliana from Girls Gone Canon joins us to talk about how Daenerys wakes up from nightmares of fire and blood and death to...a reality full of fire and blood and death. Cheerful stuff, George. This week, we: - Discuss what it means to come back fro...

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! In this episode, Sansa Stark, reeling from witnessing her father’s execution, is forced to stand strong against Joffrey (who is the worst), Meryn Trant (also the worst), and Sandor Clegane (not entirely the worst??) This week, we: - Talk some Shirley Jackson - Ge...

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! In this episode, good ol' Maester Luwin reassures Bran and Rickon that their creepy nightmares about their dad being dead are meaningless...and of course, he is proven 100% right. Since when do dreams *mean* things?! This week, we: -Discuss the different directio...

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! In this episode, George RR Martin finally stops dicking around, pulls out our hearts, and steps on them while we watch. This is the chapter where Dad dies. We also talk: - An off-screen event we would have loved to see on-page - Ned's death is a tragedy, not a ge...

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! In this episode, George gets his horror on as everything collapses around Dany--personally, politically, and of course, magically. We also talk: - Daenerys as a physical dragon - Foreshadowing things to come with flies, hitting the mood just right - The importanc...

...and that's a wrap. Join Jeff and Emmett in discussing the sorrowful, the satisfying, and the sickening in "The Iron Throne," the series finale of Game of Thrones!   Our patreon:  www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF   Our twitter:  twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF   Our facebook:  www.facebook.com/groups/289889118235797/   Our youtube page:  www.youtube.com/channel/UCmmDfPdG…iew_as=subscriber   Emmett's tw...

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! In this episode, Catelyn Stark describes the Battle of the Whispering Wood with such lyrical beauty you almost forget that a bunch of people are dying horribly. - Discuss Arianne and Daenerys - Unpack the poetry and the hard tactics of the battle - Contrast Robb'...

Well, that was something. King's Landing: dead. Sandor: dead. Cersei: dead. Jaime: dead. Euron: Good riddance. Here, we talk about our favorite and least favorite moments, we delve deep into Daenerys as destroyer or worlds and talk about Jaime as the NotAQar!   Our patreon:  www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF   Our twitter:  twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF   Our facebook:  www.facebook.com/groups/289889118...

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! In this episode, Tyrion has yet another frosty conversation with his dear old Dad, meets the woman he’ll murder at the end of book three, and then gets knocked out by a hammer, thus missing the battle ...oh wait, that’s the show. No offense, they didn’t have the...

Time for the episode nobody liked! There's plenty of good and bad to discuss in "The Last of the Starks," and Jeff and Emmett dig into it, from Euron hitting Rhaegal with a folding chair to Dany unlocking the Stannis within. Enjoy!    Our patreon:  www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF   Our twitter:  twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF   Our facebook:  www.facebook.com/groups/289889118235797/   Our youtube page:...

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! In this episode, Dany plays witness to the war crimes committed by Drogo and his Dothraki in the name of her claim to the Iron Throne, and decides to save (some of) the innocents...one of whom will change her life forever. This week, we: -Discuss those weird half...

Last week was the best episode ever.   This week though ... hoo boy.   Join Jeff and Emmett as they come not to praise "The Long Night" but bury it.   Our patreon: www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF   Our twitter: twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF   Our facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/289889118235797/   Our youtube page: www.youtube.com/channel/UCmmDfPdG…iew_as=subscriber   Emmett's twitter: twitter.com/Po...

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! In this episode, Jon Snow, Zombie Hunter, is confronted with split loyalties and hears some heavy advice on that subject from his secret great-great-great uncle Aemon. Oh, and he gets a sweet Valyrian steel sword too, I guess. And the Amen Brothers were joined by...

It's time for the Best! Episode! Ever!  Join Jeff and Emmett as they sing the praises of "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms," the episode that's been making everyone cry for the last few days. Jenny's Song, Grey Worm and Missandei, the Others as a metaphor for the end of memory and meaning, and of course, the knighting of Brienne of Tarth...it's all here. Our patreon:  www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF...