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PODCAST

The Boiled Leather Audio Hour

Sean T. Collins & Stefan Sasse

The longest-running A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones/House of the Dragon podcast on the internet, featuring Stefan Sasse & Sean T. Collins on pop culture, politics, fantasy, history, and more.

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01:11:32

BLAH 161 |House of the Dragon, episode 7, with Sean...

The Boiled Leather Audio Hour ·

2025/02/05

The newest episode of House of the Dragon is out, and so is our podcast! We’re covering a sad funeral, a nice family meeting, a kid finding a new pet, a grandfather loves his grandchildren. After that, we’re diving into the stupidest discourse surrounding the show: was it too dark? Not thematically. Literally.

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01:02:09

BLAH 160 | House of the Dragon, season 1, episode 6,...

The Boiled Leather Audio Hour ·

2025/02/05

It’s ten years since the last episode, but lucky for everyone, only in narrated time. We meet up with new actresses, aged-up actors and a shit-ton of new characters for a very plot-heavy episode that really does some heavy lifting and proves that the high-stakes gamble this show takes is paying off, big time. Trigger warning: There’s a rather intense debate about death in childbirth and its artistic expression near the end.

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00:48:37

BLAH 159 | House of the Dragon, season 1, episode 5,...

The Boiled Leather Audio Hour ·

2025/02/05

The fifth episode of “House of the Dragon” came out, and the show is still great. It’s one of the best shows out there right now, no question, and it might break in the pantheon of all-time stars. HBO still has its mojo, and we’re telling you what we got from this episode! Expect some mooning mixed in the serious analysis and interpretation. That the latter are even possible is also testament to the strength of the material. But we discuss that.

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00:38:31

BLAH 158 | House of the Dragon, season 1, episode 4,...

The Boiled Leather Audio Hour ·

2025/02/05

Last week we asked whether episode 3 was the best episode yet, and it was at the time. Now it’s been dethroned, and the new heir is episode 4! Sean and I produce our shortest review yet because this was just such a good hour of television that we can only marvel at the many things done right and engage into some details. You will still get a lot out of it, as did we, but when stuff is really good, sometimes you just have to lean back and enjoy.

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00:46:42

BLAH 157 | House of the Dragon, season 1, episode 3

The Boiled Leather Audio Hour ·

2025/02/05

Is this the best “House of the Dragon” episode yet? Granted, it’s only three episodes in, but this is shaping out to be one of the best shows an air right now. Sean and Stefan really gush about how good it is, what themes it develops, how it works structurally and what seeds it sows for the rest of the story.

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00:46:53

BLAH 156 | House of the Dragon, season 1, episode 2

The Boiled Leather Audio Hour ·

2025/02/05

We did it! Sean and I coordinated our schedules and join our forces once again to talk “House of the Dragon”. This time, it’s episode 2. Is it better or worse than episode 1? It’s almost a moot discussion since the show remains pretty strong.

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00:48:59

BLAH 155 | House of the Dragon, episode 1, with Sean...

The Boiled Leather Audio Hour ·

2025/02/05

The House of the Dragon is finally here! Sean and I have written our own reviews (here and here), but now comes the great synthesis of what we think about episode 1. We’re doing the deep dive: characters, actors, production, violence, storytelling, prophecy, real-world issues - you’ll get it all!

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00:44:59

BLAH 154 | Best of ASOIAF - The Defenestration of...

The Boiled Leather Audio Hour ·

2025/02/05

When Bran was thrown out the window by Jaime Lannister, this marked the first real signal that something was different about this series. Today, Sean and I explore as to why this is and what makes this scene special. Plus, we can use the word "defenestration”, which doesn’t get enough usage in common parlance.

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00:59:44

BLAH 153 | Obi-Who Kenobi

The Boiled Leather Audio Hour ·

2025/02/05

The Disney+ Miniseries “Obi-Wan Kenobi” starring Ewan McGregor just concluded its six-episode run. We are talking about why it was a show that exists but doesn’t really rise beyond that. Where does the strange lack of suspense, meaning and emotion stem from? All this, and more, in the current BLAH episode.

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00:47:39

BLAH 152 | The best of ASOIAF - The Knight of the...

The Boiled Leather Audio Hour ·

2025/02/05

We are returing to our new series on our favorite moments in A Song of Ice and Fire. After Sean’s pick of the Tower of Joy last time, this time Stefan chooses The Knight of the Laughing Tree, the most influential and important story in the story that’s told in ASOIAF. What does it tell us about Bran, about the history, about the meta and about so many other things? Who is the Knight of the Laughing Tree? Ok, just kidding, it’s Lyanna. But the other questions are really interesting!

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01:00:58

BLAH 151 | Kaiserreich, episode 7 - Alliances, with...

The Boiled Leather Audio Hour ·

2025/02/05

After we followed Bismarck’s delicate attempt at maintaining European balance in the favor of German foreign policy interests, we now watch it all crash down as Kaiser Wilhelm II takes the reigns and infuses some panage into the whole thing. Listen to us discuss why France, Britain and Russia are drawing together - and whether or not it could’ve been avoided.

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00:46:31

BLAH 150 | Best of ASOIAF - Tower of Joy, with Sean...

The Boiled Leather Audio Hour ·

2025/02/05

Sean and I start a new series, analyzing our favorite moments of the series. This week is about the Tower of Joy.

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01:03:27

BLAH 149 | Kaiserreich, Episode 6: Colonialism, with...

The Boiled Leather Audio Hour ·

2025/02/05

Bismarck famously refused to engage in colonialism, only to do an about-face in the 1880s to create the third-largest colonial empire of the world. It didn’t do much good. A drain financially, utterly indefensible and diplomatically a heavy burden, it weakened Germany, rather than strengthening it. Nor did it bring any good to the colonized; rather the opposite. The first German genocide was perpetrated on Namibian soil, and it would not be the last. Listen to us discussing this dark topic of

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01:12:32

BLAH 148 | Kaiserreich, Episode 5: Balancing, with...

The Boiled Leather Audio Hour ·

2025/02/05

Bismarck felt, in the colloquial French of the times, the "cauchemar des coalitions", the nightmare of coalitions. He wanted to keep the peace, but a peace on his terms. Was this ever possible, or was Bismarck's artful foreign policy in the end only kicking the can down the road, leading to the inevitable breakdown? Listen to find out!

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00:56:55

BLAH 147 | Wheel of Time, with Sean T. Collins

The Boiled Leather Audio Hour ·

2025/02/05

Amazon produced a gigantic fantasy series in the hopes of upstaging Game of Thrones - or at least its own "Lord of the Rings The Rings of Power". Did they succeed?

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01:27:09

BLAH 146 | The Expanse, with Tim Westmeyr

The Boiled Leather Audio Hour ·

2025/02/05

I'm talking about the phenomenon of "The Expanse" with Tim Westmeyr.

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01:09:19

BLAH 145 | Kaiserreich, episode 4 - Kulturkampf, with...

The Boiled Leather Audio Hour ·

2025/02/05

The first political conflict of the Kaiserriech is upon us! The Kulturkampf, the first and titular culture war, against the catholic church and the suppression of the social democrats are major factors.

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02:29:36

BLAH 144 | Happy Birthday to us, with a lot of people

The Boiled Leather Audio Hour ·

2025/02/05

We are ten years old! Almost everyone who is someone in nerddom came over to talk to me and say some kind words.

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01:07:01

BLAH 143 | Kaiserreich, Episode 3 - Constitution,...

The Boiled Leather Audio Hour ·

2025/02/05

With the Kaiserreich now founded, Jim and I take a look under the hood and dissect its constitutional framework.

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01:10:14

BLAH 142 | The Fremen Mirage, the myth of the Chosen...

The Boiled Leather Audio Hour ·

2025/02/05

To talk about his famous blog series, I invited Bret back over to talk about the myths mentioned in the title.

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