Not A Podcast ASOIAF Re-Read Podcast

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! Today, Emmett and Jeff unpack AGOT, Daenerys IV in which Dany and the gang arrive at the “ancient, arrogant, and empty” city of Vaes Dothrak, where in a shocking turn of events, Viserys is an asshole.. This week, we: - Talk about Dany's identity conflict between...

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! Today, Emmett and Jeff unpack AGOT, Eddard IX in which Ned’s melancholy musings on Robert and Lyanna while riding back from visiting a brothel are rudely interrupted by an attack by Jaime Lannister, which leaves Ned wounded and several of his men killed. This wee...

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! Today, Emmett and Jeff unpack AGOT, Catelyn VI in which Catelyn Stark makes it out of the Mountains of the Moon to the Vale proper...only to have to climb yet another mountain. She just can’t win, despite doing nothing wrong, ever. This week, we: - Give our initi...

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! Today, Emmett and Jeff tackle AGOT, Eddard VIII in which Ned Stark pleads with Robert not to murder Daenerys and Viserys and ends up resigning rather than participate in murder. This week, we: - Discuss Ned's three arguments to Robert about not killing Daenerys -...

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! Today, Emmett and Jeff tackle AGOT, Arya IIIin which Arya Stark chases cats through the Red Keep and stumbles upon dragon skulls and a pair of conspirators. This week, we: - Talk about a potential First Blackfyre Rebellion show - Discuss Arya's training montage,...

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! Today, Emmett and Jeff tackle AGOT, Tyrion IV in which Tyrion Lannister rides as a captive of Catelyn’s Stark’s to the Vale, gets ambushed by Mountain Clansmen and sows doubt in Catelyn’s mind about whether he actually sent the catspaw to kill Bran. 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! Today, Emmett and Jeff tackle AGOT, Eddard VII in which in which the Hand’s Tourney comes to a bloody close and the titular Hand has some very revealing conversations with King Robert and Varys the Spider. This week, we: - Answer a question about the convenience...

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! Today, Emmett and Jeff are joined by Chloe, AKA Liesandarbor! This week, we: - Answer a question about the upcoming Long Night - Engage in depth on oh so many aspects of this chapter: the tourney, Sansa as fantasy protagonist, that apparently she's only 12 years...

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! Today, Emmett and Jeff tackle Jeff's favorite AGOT chapter: AGOT, Catelyn V in which Lady Catelyn and her faithful retainer Ser Rodrik have a fateful chance encounter at the crossroads. This week, we: - Answer a question whether any of the gods are real in ASOIAF...

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! Today, Emmett and Jeff tackle AGOT, Eddard VI in which Ned Stark has a frustrating small council session, the reader receives our first inklings of who Stannis Baratheon is and Ned visits an armorer and his apprentice who turns out to be Gendry: Robert Baratheon’...

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! Today, Emmett and Jeff tackle AGOT, Jon IV where Jon makes a friend in Samwell Tarly for life. This week, we: - Answer a question about our favorite Nerstream Era Supreme Court of Westeros ruling. - Talk through Sam and Jon's relationship and how it evolves - Ran...

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! Today, Emmett and Jeff tackle AGOT, Eddard V in which Ned soft-interrogates Grand Maester Pycelle, has a great moment with Arya and gets a lesson in paranoia from Littlefinger This week, we: - Answer a question about whether GRRM not taking an active role in the...

Hello! And welcome to a very, very special edition of the NotACast ... podcast - a patreon sample episode where PoorQuentyn and BryndenBFish throwdown on the fate of Ser Barristan Selmy!   Now, if you listen to us regularly, you know that typically, we give you all one chapter per week, but this past week, both Emmett and Jeff had some IRL responsibilities which prevented them from recording the n...

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! Today, Emmett and Jeff are joined by twitter and IRL extraordinaire ManuclearBomb! He joins the boys today in analyzing AGOT, Bran IV This week, we: - Answer questions about the Blackfyres, the Brotherhood without Banners and the fate of Davos Seaworth - Bran's p...

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! Today, Emmett and Jeff are joined AGAIN by ASOIAF mystic and mythical astronomer: Lucifer Means Lightbringer, AKA LML. He joins the boys today in doing the deep-dive into Daenerys Targaryen's third chapter. Fair warning: there is discussion about rape and sexual...

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! Today, Emmett and Jeff are back in King's Landing, looking at George doing his best emotional work with AGOT, Arya II! This week, we: - Answer questions on Valyrian Steel, Littlefinger, the Age of Heroes adaptation and Ned's plan when he drew the dagger on Little...

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! Today, Emmett and Jeff journey back to the Wall to visit with Tyrion as he eats, drinks and japes his way through dinner and then heads on up to the Wall to hang out with Jon This week, we: - Answer questions on what Robert, Stannis or Renly would have done with...

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! Today, Emmett and Jeff get their hands dirty in the swamp politics of King's Landing as Lord Eddard Stark enters King's Landing, and we have our first small council session. This week, we: - Answer questions on why other theories besides R+L=J don't make sense an...

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! Today, Emmett and Jeff journey north to the beauty and horror of the Wall, hang out with Jon Snow, Alliser Thorne, Tyrion Lannister and Donal Noye This week, we: - Talk about the Age of Heroes show and answer a question about whether Stannis will burn Theon, Asha...

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! Today, Emmett and Jeff get into the thick of King's Landing and all its amazing architecture and wretched politics This week, we: - Answer questions about House Dayne in TWOW and our favorite music from GAME OF THRONES. - We stare in awe at George's description o...

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! Today, Emmett and Jeff are joined by ASOIAF mystic and mythical astronomer: Lucifer Means Lightbringer, AKA LML. He joins the boys today in analyzing AGOT, Bran III, the trippy as shit chapter where Bran falls and learns to fly via the Three Eyed Crow This week,...

It's been a while. We missed you (sort-of), but welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff tackle TWO chapters from AGOT: Sansa I and Eddard III This week, we: - Answer questions! - Emmett does Emmett things and talks about how Sansa is the embodiment of the fantasy reader - Life is not a son...

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! Today, Emmett and Jeff tackle an emotionally-challenging chapter which goes in deep into Catelyn Stark's grief over her son, cover yet another attempt on Bran's life and then we see the inklings of Catelyn Stark, #smart #politician emerge This week, we: - Talk ab...

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! Today, Emmett and Jeff are joined by ASOIAF veteran and aficionado of all things pun and history related: Aziz from History of Westeros. He joins the boys today in analyzing AGOT, Tyrion II, the history behind the chapter and dangerous and exciting foreshadowing...

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! Today, Emmett and Jeff are pleased to present you with "Affairs of the State:": our analysis of AGOT, Eddard II!  This week, we: - Answer two more questions - Get in depth on Robert's psychology - Theorize about Varys being a conduit of bad information to Robert...