Episode 168 - 3 Arrows - HoD S3E6

It’s season 3 of House of the Dragon so Eileen and Spencer are enhancing and reviewing the current episodes! So many plans are hatched and thwarted. Are Gwayne and Daeron an item? Will Adam be mad at Alyn for stealing his girl? Will Corlys survive yet again? If not will Alyn become the Full Time Hand? Will Allicent accede to Rhany? Will Heleana finish the tapestry before the next episode? Will Aemond hatch some new eggs? Confused? You won’t be after this episode of Royal Highness!

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Transcript

SPEAKER_05 0:18

There we go. There we go. Lieutenant God, you noticed that before we got halfway through the show there.

SPEAKER_02 0:24

I wouldn't know. I wouldn't let you go, because I always keep an eye on that little guy.

SPEAKER_06 0:28

We can we can go through a recap.

SPEAKER_01 0:38

Exactly. That's what I'm waiting.

SPEAKER_02 0:57

Alrighty. Hello. Welcome to the Royal Highness podcast, where we watch George Martin shows for the first time, while enhanced with cannabis products, and then we talk about them while we're still enhanced with cannabis products, and we're watching season three of House of the Dragon. Hello, Spencer.

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Hello, Eileen.

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Hello, Mike. See? I started something new. Now you're prepared. Yay! Good night, Moon. Good night, Mush. All right. Good night, Dolid.

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Bye bye, bucket.

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That's not in that's not in Good Nightmare. Okay, House of the Dragon, season three, episode six titled.

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Good night, John Boy. Oh fuck, I'm supposed to do that.

SPEAKER_02 1:43

No. Faceless Men. Let's do it again. Okay, uh Okay, House of the Dragon, season three, episode six titled Faceless Men.

SPEAKER_07 1:53

Ooh.

SPEAKER_02 1:54

And this has me very excited because I'm like, ooh, ooh, ooh. I was hoping we'd see how they started.

SPEAKER_06 1:59

Yeah, this was not the thing. I think the Faceless Men uh Bravos had zero of a face long before this episode.

SPEAKER_02 2:09

Hmm. Okay. Okay. Okay. So HBO Max says, while Heinera and Damon focus on how best to deal with Ormond, tensions among their neglected allies begin to erupt.

SPEAKER_07 2:25

Where are all these fucking accents coming from? Rainera and Ormond.

unknown 2:30

Ormond.

SPEAKER_07 2:32

This time we talk about. No, we're not doing that. Demon focus how best to deal with Ormond. Ormond.

SPEAKER_02 2:46

Okay. Recap. Rainy's like, we gotta go house to house in Tumbleton, where the Bumble Buddies live. Uh uh to root out Hightower and his dudes. Tully's camp got slowed up by Krispy Kreme. Um, and now but now Crispy and Gwen are stuck. And Crispy has some sort of like god complex, so he's gonna try to get across the river no matter what.

SPEAKER_06 3:08

Yeah. Okay, he's the Seleniana warriors.

SPEAKER_02 3:12

Yeah, Gwen's like, whatever, man, peace out. Uh we see Hightower get the note from Baratheon. Corless went to go look for the Triarchy Raiders. Because that man can't sit still.

SPEAKER_06 3:25

No, he's he's a doer, he's not a watcher.

SPEAKER_02 3:28

Yeah. So he's like, can't sit around, gotta go. Uh but he left uh who in charge? Uh that's right. Um is gonna go to Tumbleton and who wants to go to, because that's where he heard his wife he's hanging out. Uh we see Damon finding Rain, Raina. Which one is she?

SPEAKER_06 3:52

Raina.

SPEAKER_02 3:53

Raina. Okay, so he finds Raina. Uh we see Helena telling Alice she thinks Aegon is still alive. He burns without fire. Does that what does that mean? Is he gonna have a fever?

SPEAKER_06 4:06

Hmm, he's got a fever. And the only prescription. Smaller how bell. Amon Targaryen, I put my pants on the same way you do. Except when I put my pants on, I make gold records.

SPEAKER_02 4:27

Uh we see Amon and the Witch. Uh him waking up from a he was like full chicken wing, wake chicken wing waking up about a from a dream about. Wow! Are any of my words making sense?

SPEAKER_06 4:41

Some of them did. Full chicken wing waking up from a dream about okay.

SPEAKER_02 4:48

Amon and the witch, he's waking up from a dream about Vagar. Right? She's like, she's gone. And Rainey's hunting uh your dragon, Rainy's hunting you. And then we see Aegon and Laris, and Aegon very gleefully killing that dude with a dragon scale, I believe. Oh, he has a dagger. Would have been cool if you stabbed him with the anyway. Alison's trying to uh help Helen escape, and Missy catches him, of course.

SPEAKER_06 5:21

After four seconds of of fleeing.

SPEAKER_02 5:24

Yeah, so Alison's like, look, I need you just. You have to have to help me. And then they're trapped. Until this episode, when they're just not. We have no explanation of how they got out of the dungeon.

SPEAKER_06 5:37

I imagine what probably happened is that the guards went into their quarters, saw the big crack in the wall, pushed the crack open, and went, Oi, and pointed at them.

SPEAKER_05 5:48

They showed that. They showed the guards coming in and finding them in the time.

SPEAKER_06 5:52

I wrote it down. The guards find Alison and Helena. But they don't explain how they found them. I mean They just found them. They just did.

SPEAKER_02 6:02

Alright, small council fighting, Missy and Damon like going back and forth. Um, then we see High Tower getting another message about the gold getting transferred, right? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. And then Damon telling Rainey about Aaron.

SPEAKER_06 6:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:20

I wrote Damon. Damon telling Rainey about right, Damon, and I'm like, nope, that's not right. Listen, it's me. I'm me. Alright. Here's a coin with my face on it. That was a terrible Matt's head. Yeah, doesn't matter. I apologize.

SPEAKER_06 6:35

You don't have to.

SPEAKER_02 6:36

Yours is better. Yours is good.

SPEAKER_06 6:38

It's just whiny.

SPEAKER_02 6:39

It's just a little more high-pitched, a little more nasally. I really would like some bacon.

unknown 6:44

Hmm.

SPEAKER_02 6:45

Say fish fingers.

SPEAKER_06 6:46

Fish fingers.

SPEAKER_02 6:47

That's pretty good. All right. Wait, wait.

SPEAKER_06 6:50

Was that is that like uh Matt Smith Shibeleth here? Is that how you know it's the property?

SPEAKER_02 6:56

I don't know. I just know that my first introduction to Matt Smith was as the doc in Doctor Who, where in the first episode he was in, he asks for fish fingers and custard.

SPEAKER_06 7:07

Fish fingers and custard. I don't know if that's right or not. I've never watched that show.

SPEAKER_02 7:13

That was one of my favorite seasons. Anyway.

SPEAKER_06 7:16

It's got Smat Myth in it. How could it be bad?

SPEAKER_02 7:19

Yeah, I know. Smat Myth. Um, and he shows up at the Feast of Traitors again. We get to see that again because that was nice. Yeah. Um, and then epic theme music playing, which is what closed captioning tells me is happening.

SPEAKER_06 7:30

You know, I still enjoy the theme song.

SPEAKER_02 7:33

I let it play the whole way through every time.

SPEAKER_06 7:37

It gets me in the mood.

SPEAKER_02 7:39

So do you do anything when the big drums come in when he goes bum bum? Dude, do you like it? No, because I do the Muppet Head.

SPEAKER_03 7:51

There are other people.

SPEAKER_06 7:53

There are other people in the room while I'm watching the program. And if every every you know, every Monday night, around eight o'clock, I start doing the Muppet Head in the living room, people are gonna start coming over and watching for fun, and it's gonna distract me.

SPEAKER_02 8:10

We have found a way to monetize this podcast.

SPEAKER_06 8:12

Yeah. Finally. Think of the children. For the price of a cup of coffee, you can watch me look like an ass.

SPEAKER_02 8:23

You just look enthusiastic like I do, at least that's how I imagine.

SPEAKER_06 8:29

I also can't do the Muppet Head without making the noise.

SPEAKER_03 8:32

Oh I go boom, boom. Oh my god, it's eight minutes, we haven't gotten anywhere.

SPEAKER_02 8:44

All right, epic theme music playing. Yes, we have. We did the whole recap. Are you kidding me? This is this is better than most of the things. It is actually. Okay. Oh, we have a misty forest with some guys walking through the forest.

SPEAKER_06 8:56

Yeah. They're not riding a horse or running.

SPEAKER_02 8:59

Nope. It's crispy and his boys. And some of as one of his guys comes back, he's like, so we found the Tully's camp up ahead, but there's something weird going on.

SPEAKER_06 9:09

That should have been the signal to not.

SPEAKER_02 9:11

You should come take a look, and I'm like, It's a trap. This sounds fishy.

SPEAKER_01 9:17

Um, it's a trap. Oh, it's a trap. Definitely a trap.

SPEAKER_02 9:21

But they're like, ooh, so curious. Hey, let's go see.

SPEAKER_03 9:24

I want to know. Um I want to know how they got them to look dead. Uh, I think they were probably already pretty beat up by then. I guess so. But they have to be a little bit of a few.

SPEAKER_02 9:32

Because these are the guys they sacrificed. These are the guys they sacrificed. So, anyway, so there's lots of dead guys and cows, and he's like, Wow, there's a lot of rivermen. It's like we don't know who killed them. And then suddenly Crispy's like, Mmm, this doesn't look great, and he kicks a guy, and it's an ambush.

SPEAKER_06 9:51

Yeah, these men didn't fall here.

SPEAKER_02 9:53

Mm-mm.

SPEAKER_06 9:54

Yeah. Well, I mean, they're on the ground.

SPEAKER_02 9:57

Yeah. So it was, yeah, they were kind of faking dead. That's a pretty good thing.

SPEAKER_06 10:02

But that's how you get down on the ground as you fall.

SPEAKER_02 10:05

Well, you can get down slowly. Get down on it. Get down on it.

SPEAKER_06 10:14

Uh, yes. And so it's a trap. And this is a great fight scene. Um, there's lots of splurching. Oh, the slurping was out of control. Uh, someone got a mace in the face. That was fun. Two! Two times. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:28

Two times, two mace in the face.

SPEAKER_06 10:30

I mean, it got stuck in that one guy's face, and he's like, fucking sword.

SPEAKER_02 10:34

Nope. Splurch. Ah, punch. Hack, hack, hack. You know, it was fun. It was a good one. Swords clanging.

SPEAKER_06 10:40

It's been a while since we had a good bloody fight scene.

SPEAKER_02 10:43

Yeah, and at the end of it.

SPEAKER_06 10:44

This is a good one.

SPEAKER_02 10:45

Yeah, this was a good one. This had lots of splurching, lots of um really good special effects.

SPEAKER_06 10:50

Good choreography, too. I mean, they really knew how to get from one kill to the next effectively.

SPEAKER_02 10:58

But that was it one camera? No.

SPEAKER_06 11:01

There were a couple, but it was okay, it was well done. You know, it wasn't confusing either. That's another thing. It wasn't it wasn't just Utre slaying loads and loads of similarly clothed Danes. They all look the same. Kill everyone!

SPEAKER_02 11:18

How do you know which guy is yours? You can't possibly know every one of your guys' faces. And when they all look like Vikings, how the hell? How do you know?

SPEAKER_06 11:27

How do you because they they glow green if they're good guys or red if they're bad guys?

SPEAKER_02 11:34

You think they have to like flip a coin and then go shirts and skin shirts and skins?

SPEAKER_06 11:39

Look, mate, we can't all be wearing the same color armor. Would you do me a favor and put a twig in your hair? And then I will start marauding all those with twig hair.

SPEAKER_03 11:52

You know, it just doesn't sound like such a bad idea.

SPEAKER_02 11:55

No, if you put you have your own guys put twigs in their hair so you know not to splurge them.

SPEAKER_07 12:00

Yeah, in an unpleasant way. But you do that beforehand.

SPEAKER_02 12:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 12:03

You don't call a truce and be like, whoa, I've hit me mates. Hold on.

SPEAKER_02 12:10

I'm sure you've hit some of yours. So let's think about this. We need a way to differentiate.

SPEAKER_07 12:18

Get one of the net jerseys from the box and put it over your armor. Everyone wearing the blue nets is on one side. And when we're all dead, put them back in the box so they can be washed for the next gym class. I've nightmares about the net jerseys.

SPEAKER_02 12:37

The smell, just the smell. We didn't have those.

SPEAKER_06 12:40

They did not when I was a kid. It was a every so often thing they would come out.

SPEAKER_02 12:45

Like it was literal shirts and skins.

SPEAKER_06 12:48

No, we couldn't do skins. Uh this this was in this was in the 90s. Skins was out of out of that was out of pocket. 80s was different, man. 80s was different. I would not have gone skins either because I'm shaped like a pear.

SPEAKER_02 13:06

It didn't matter, man. It did not matter. It was all luck of the draw. You count it out. And of course, girls didn't have to participate.

SPEAKER_06 13:16

That's really fucking fair.

SPEAKER_02 13:18

Anyway, moving on. Anyhow. Okay, so anyhow, it appears that Crispy has uh won and he's yelling, We light the way. But all of a sudden, as they're all kind of going, Yeah, whoo man, I'm fucked up, but uh we won. Yeah, they realize they are completely surrounded.

SPEAKER_06 13:44

Yeah, it's it's uh the old fella whose name I can't recall.

SPEAKER_02 13:49

I I wrote him as the old man.

SPEAKER_06 13:51

Yeah, the old guy and Oscar Tully. I'm gonna find out who that young fella is. Um and the old fella, you mean? Yeah, did I say was that what I said? What did I say?

SPEAKER_02 14:01

No, you said the young fella. Because you were talking about Oscar Tulla. Oscar Tully. Tuscar. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So basically, uh Crispy's like, hey, I got an idea. Uh why don't you guys and me just fight? And no, first he's like, uh, hey, uh, your guys are gonna die too if we do this. I mean, some of them anyway. I mean, we're pretty tired, and there's only like what, 14 of us left. But we're gonna put up a good fight. So some of your guys are gonna die. So uh what do you say? Uh instead, we do me against the two of you. Basically a child and an old man.

SPEAKER_06 14:46

Um by the way, the old man's name was Roderick Dustin.

SPEAKER_02 14:50

Roderick Dustin, is it now? That sounds like a character in one of the Harlequin romances that I read in this.

SPEAKER_06 15:00

Yeah, this it sounds like Roderick Thrustmeat came out of the castle door.

SPEAKER_02 15:11

They weren't that blatant about the names.

SPEAKER_06 15:13

Sir Thrustmeat, he donged Dongley down the stairs, testicling both ways.

SPEAKER_03 15:20

Did you see Chuck Tinkle has a new book? Oh my god! Is it potted in the butt?

SPEAKER_02 15:26

No, no, no, it's not actually, it's got a real name this time, but he has some that are that actually have names, but anyway. So as he's saying, as he's saying, yeah, let's just go, the most realist Game of Throne moments in so fucking long happened, and I was like, yeah, shot with arrows.

SPEAKER_06 15:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:48

Shoot, shoot. He's like, One in the face, and then shoot in the face, and then floppy flop.

SPEAKER_06 15:56

Yeah, that was the woman who talked about during the song they sang in the woods about sticking a dragon up someone's ass. She finally she got to do something. Um she has a name, as it turns out. And it's uh Alison Alison Blackwood. Doty Doty. There you go. I don't name these characters because I would have named it.

SPEAKER_02 16:18

I don't either.

SPEAKER_01 16:19

I would have named her Strong Thrust Meat. Is that what I said? Strom thrust meat.

SPEAKER_02 16:27

Is that the is that the uh porn version of Strom Thurman?

SPEAKER_06 16:31

No, there is no porn version of Strom Thurman.

SPEAKER_02 16:34

There is now because I thought of it.

SPEAKER_06 16:36

That's the one exception to Rule 34, I think.

SPEAKER_02 16:40

I think there is Strom Thurman porn out there.

SPEAKER_06 16:43

Centenarian South Carolinian racist senator? Who would make porn of that?

SPEAKER_02 16:48

There's anybody out there. Okay, this is my challenge. No, we're not commissioning Strom Thurman. No, I'm not. I'm not commissioning it. I quit the show. But if you find a if you find some, send me a link to Royal HighnessPod at Gmail.

SPEAKER_06 17:04

I'm not ruining my search engine to find that for you.

SPEAKER_02 17:07

Did you I don't want to do, I want one of our listeners to do.

SPEAKER_06 17:11

That's fine. Okay. That's mean and horrible what you've just done. You've polluted our one listener.

SPEAKER_04 17:19

Man.

SPEAKER_06 17:20

Am I suggesting Strom Therman porn? Go for it.

SPEAKER_02 17:24

Now the AI is going, I'm getting right on that just in case anybody needs it later.

SPEAKER_06 17:30

It's one of those things where Gemini just goes, listen, I I think you need to talk to somebody.

SPEAKER_02 17:36

I think I want to I want to include the prompt uh Mitch McConnell.

SPEAKER_06 17:41

Oh. I saw a really great video of his most recent proof of life picture. Where after after the picture was taken, uh his wife says in Mandarin for some reason, see, he's just fine, and then folds him up into a cardboard box and carries him away. Like it wasn't him, it was just a cutout. Yeah, exactly. I'm like, wow, first of all, probably true. Second of all, that's that's AI that I didn't get mad at for a change. Anyway, moving on.

SPEAKER_02 18:21

All right. Okay, where were we? Oh, it gets he gets shot through with arrows. He's deadily dead, dead, dead. Um, and then presumably the rest of those men are dead as well, yes. They get exponentially splurched, we can assume. We don't get to see the whole battle. You know, we just we just they kind of fade off into the distance being slaughtered, basically.

SPEAKER_06 18:41

Yeah, and the next thing we see is the guards finding Alicent and Helena. Remember that scene?

SPEAKER_02 18:49

Alicent getting the news that they're here. What does that mean?

SPEAKER_06 18:54

The guards.

SPEAKER_02 18:56

The guards.

SPEAKER_06 18:56

Oh no, she doesn't get the nudes. Nudes.

SPEAKER_02 19:00

She didn't get the nudes? Good.

SPEAKER_06 19:02

Because they were straps.

SPEAKER_02 19:03

Nobody should be sending nudes in 2026. That's such a bad idea. No idea.

SPEAKER_06 19:08

She wasn't being told they're here. One guard says to the other, they're here, and then they're discovered.

SPEAKER_02 19:14

Oh, alright.

SPEAKER_06 19:16

One guard says to the other, hey, they're here.

SPEAKER_02 19:19

Oh, that's right. He kind of looks behind him. He's like, Oh, they're here. I gotcha. That's your Nazi telling me that's where they got caught. There you go. I was so confused about that.

SPEAKER_06 19:28

I don't think caught. I mean, they got caught last episode when they got out of their room and took four steps. And Sarah's like, Don't you think you maybe shouldn't go anywhere?

SPEAKER_02 19:40

Yeah. Cut to Damon talking about Sir Luther and 50 of his guys that he's lost so far. See, I got 25. He said 50.

SPEAKER_06 19:51

He said 50. Four score and ten. That's 90, first of all. And there hasn't been 90 men dead.

SPEAKER_02 19:58

Didn't you say fourscore and ten?

SPEAKER_06 20:00

No. Abraham Lincoln said that. No.

SPEAKER_02 20:08

I think he said fourscore and twenty.

SPEAKER_06 20:11

No, score is twenty.

SPEAKER_02 20:12

I know.

SPEAKER_06 20:13

I almost said I can't remember the fucking getting forgotten.

SPEAKER_02 20:16

I can't he's seven yet.

SPEAKER_06 20:17

Four score and seven. Okay, yeah. He said he said five and twenty. Actually, he said two numbers. The first one was like 14. And then altogether, five and twenty of the the gold cloaks have been slaughtered.

SPEAKER_02 20:31

Alright. I don't know how it came up with 50, but he's like, You're losing a King Karen. And all she can see is look, he's humiliating me. Nothing I can do. Where are all my guys?

SPEAKER_06 20:42

Then it's really interesting. Exchange where Damon's like, here's what we'll do. I will go burn the fuck out of the Footly building. And the two jackasses who just joined the council last week are like, Oh yeah, Dragon's known for being precise once again. And Damon just whips a cup at Manderly, which I really appreciated. The chief of police at Malibu is a real reactionary. I mean, this is good.

SPEAKER_02 21:09

Oh god. And then Alan Alan's like he's he agrees with the weirdos.

SPEAKER_07 21:15

Yeah, he's like, I maybe dragon isn't the best.

SPEAKER_02 21:17

He's got such a deep Oh my god. You can like feel it in your chest when he talks. He's got like that mmm.

SPEAKER_07 21:24

Hmm. Dragon may not be the best idea.

SPEAKER_02 21:27

How about you actually hit that note? Very good. That's really good.

SPEAKER_07 21:30

I'm abstraining. I'll bad.

SPEAKER_02 21:36

Anyway, um working hard for the money. All that hard for the m I don't know. We don't got any money. I think we gotta check for a penny.

SPEAKER_03 21:48

Hey you guys, we're ready. Which is crazy.

SPEAKER_02 21:51

Alan's trying to say, look, we have to be firm, but wait a little longer because I'm sure dad's gonna send some guys. And then Damon's like, uh, we gotta move now. And she's like, Dad wouldn't want me to just rush in there. She's like, um I'm gonna send in nine. Basically one-on-one assassins.

SPEAKER_06 22:12

Yes.

unknown 22:12

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 22:13

She wants it done sneaky-like. And sneaky sneaky. Damon's like, well, alright, then I'll go. And she's like, no, because everyone knows who you are. Yeah. It's gotta be bad.

SPEAKER_07 22:28

Oh, look, it's Diamond Targaryen come to kill Ormond.

SPEAKER_06 22:32

Way to go, Alf. You fucking numpty. Wait, that's not his job, but sure. What happens then?

SPEAKER_02 22:39

Lionel shows up. He's like, the Barathians have arrived.

unknown 22:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:42

It's Rainy.

SPEAKER_06 22:44

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 22:45

And so she goes to the courtyard where there will be a map someday. It's not Boros as she had expected.

SPEAKER_06 22:53

No, it's his ne nephew or something. Cousin? Cousin. And he's like, no, my cousin is busy with the vulture king at the Red Mountain.

SPEAKER_02 23:02

And I'm like, where's that story? Who's the vulture king? What the fuck? I want to know about the vulture king on Red Mountain.

SPEAKER_06 23:10

Something indoor, I guess. We don't get to learn about that.

SPEAKER_02 23:14

Okay. Okay. Maybe. I don't know. Maybe we send Dunkin' Egg down to the the Red Whatnut? No, the Red Mountain? Let's do it.

SPEAKER_00 23:23

Mm-hmm. I want to know more.

SPEAKER_02 23:25

About the Vulture King. That sounds awesome.

SPEAKER_06 23:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:29

Yeah. Vultures are awesome. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 23:31

Well, they're ugly.

SPEAKER_02 23:34

Yeah, but they're so cool. Anyway, okay. The um this guy seems nervous, right? But sincere.

SPEAKER_03 23:45

Why are you getting it? I just figured it out. I'm sorry. I just figured it out. What?

SPEAKER_06 23:50

He says, uh if I had anything I he says to to Rune, if there's anything I could offer you, I would gladly lay it at your feet. And she looks him in the face and says, Give me your belt. And I spent the entire episode going, Why did she need his belt?

SPEAKER_02 24:10

Yes, thank you. Because I wrote she wants his belt.

SPEAKER_06 24:14

Yeah. And then I remembered Oh yeah, she just dresses up a bunch of scalawags and sends him down to talk to Norman and Darren. And uh that proceeds that leads to both my favorite scene and least favorite scene in the entire episode. And you know exactly why.

SPEAKER_02 24:33

Then we see a dragon, and I thought with no rider, but then it turns out tiny rider. Yeah. Big dragon. Yeah. It's you and Ulf. Oh my god. And Ulf's just whinging about market day.

SPEAKER_03 24:47

Did you use the word whinging?

SPEAKER_06 24:49

Because I used the word whinging as well. In the in you when you wrote what you wrote? He's whinging about how his life sucks now that he can't drink with the boys, is what I wrote here.

SPEAKER_02 24:59

That's crazy. I didn't write whinging, I just said it.

SPEAKER_06 25:02

Oh, because I wrote it in my notes. Uh, because he was whinging. And uh he also drops the name of a champion during his whinge. Hot pie.

SPEAKER_02 25:14

Hot pie, hot pie, hot pie, hot pie, hot pie, hot pie, hot pie, hot pie. He wants to get a hot pie.

SPEAKER_06 25:19

He wants a hot pie. Which I don't think is the euphemism for anything. I think it's just a hot pie. I like how he even paused before he said it as if to say, I'm gonna say something awesome. Hot pies. Anyway, what's the point of having a dragon if no one's around to see it? I mean that's like the same you could say, instead of dragon, Maserati. He's got a point.

SPEAKER_02 25:44

Yeah, he's like, it's I'm not sure my life's gotten better. He's like, your life's gotten better.

SPEAKER_06 25:49

You can't take your dragon down and park it in front of the pub. You just can't. Because he'll eat a passerby.

SPEAKER_02 25:56

Dragon parking. There's liability. The paperwork? Good. Oh my gosh. Just the insurance to have that lot if you're going to allow dragon park?

unknown 26:06

I can't imagine.

SPEAKER_02 26:07

Anyway, it's absurd. Has he asks Hugh, has your life gotten better? And Hugh doesn't say anything.

SPEAKER_06 26:15

No. Hugh's a man of few words.

SPEAKER_02 26:18

But does he it does he indicate that it has or hasn't?

SPEAKER_06 26:23

I didn't get anything out of Hugh.

SPEAKER_02 26:25

Okay, okay, good. Because I'm like, am I missing something? Because I said, I can't tell. I cannot tell.

SPEAKER_06 26:32

I don't know that he Alf leaves and Hugh takes his place. I guess they watching two-day shifts. Is that how it goes?

SPEAKER_02 26:42

Yep. I said so he has to wait while Ulf goes and scouts for two days. Is that what he's supposed to be doing?

SPEAKER_06 26:49

No, Hugh is doing the scouting and Alf is going back to rest.

SPEAKER_02 26:53

Yeah, right, but he's not supposed to be in town. Well, we'll get to that. Right. Okay. So Rainey goes to see Allison and she's like, Why did you try to leave? What the fuck?

SPEAKER_06 27:05

She's like, he's pregnant, didn't want you to kill the kid. Are you gonna let us do that? Is that okay?

SPEAKER_02 27:10

Right. And Rainey's like, ah, again, you don't trust me. And she's like, come on, this is Game of Thrones. Have you met our writer? You are eventually going to kill this child. Come on. It's inevitable. Yeah. George, errr Martin is not gonna let this child live. He knows you too well. Is that the same hat? That's how the reference is.

SPEAKER_06 27:32

He's wearing the same hat, right?

SPEAKER_02 27:34

Who? R R R R Martin?

SPEAKER_06 27:36

Yeah. Do you get an extra R every time he gets a new hat?

SPEAKER_02 27:40

Or Ooh, I don't know. How many hats does he have?

SPEAKER_06 27:45

Well, he's only got the one hat. No, it's a little newsboy cap. He looks ridiculous. Anyway.

SPEAKER_02 27:50

Oh, like a geek fisherman's hat.

SPEAKER_06 27:52

And Renera leaves and talks to Masaria about how Helena's pregnant and asks if she knew. And of course, Masaria knew, and she lies directly to Rhenira. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:04

And Rainey looks her in the eye and she lies to her.

SPEAKER_06 28:08

I mean, it's her job. But then she says she she's telling somebody, a guard, she's looking over into the map room, and there's somebody down there talking. And she says, That one, the thief and a liar. Tell me when it's done. And I still don't know what the fuck that was about.

SPEAKER_02 28:28

Uh, maybe we'll find out eventually.

SPEAKER_05 28:31

Was that just something to She was pointing out the maid that helped Alicent and Helena escape? Ah see, I looked at the dude instead, and it was the maid. Yeah, me too.

SPEAKER_02 28:44

I thought that's who she was sending after.

SPEAKER_05 28:47

Then, of course, we never get any resolution to that statement because that's the last time that's ever mentioned in this episode.

SPEAKER_06 28:54

And if we go to the end of season five or four or whatever, and we're like, so whatever happened to that maid?

SPEAKER_02 29:02

Justice for Maid Girl. All right. Um this wasn't her choice. They made her do it. They made her do it. Oh, Damon is at the feast scene.

SPEAKER_06 29:12

Yeah, he's in the in the the barracks. Only they took out the bodies. Well, that was good because they were uh they were not tasteful.

SPEAKER_02 29:20

Uh-huh. And all the all a bunch of the gold cloaks come in behind him, and he's like, These guys are gonna be avenged, and they're like, mmm, don't think so. Hop by a spy. Yep, they're turning in their cloaks. And I thought it was just the one, and it was like a bunch. Oh no, I I could see you could see that they were they were all gonna do it. They wouldn't be standing behind him if they weren't all gonna do it.

SPEAKER_06 29:45

I don't know. The the I've I've never resigned on Moss with a group of people.

SPEAKER_02 29:51

I came this close once.

SPEAKER_06 29:54

I imagine that'd be a really good feeling to like have five or six people just go, hey, guess what? We're fucking done, and just leave. It depends on what you're doing. If it's Walmart, fucking do it. Do it now, listener.

SPEAKER_02 30:06

Damon, how does Damon handle this? Does he handle it well?

SPEAKER_06 30:09

Well, he calls them cowards. Yeah, he derides them all. And then they just leave. And he doesn't do anything beyond that. And I suppose he does handle it well. Considering this universe and how he could have handled it, which would have been to murder them all where they stand.

SPEAKER_02 30:26

To start stabby stabbing. Or grab his dragon and huff and puff and roast him in their toasties. Roast him in their toasties. Yeah. That's their armor.

SPEAKER_06 30:38

So we're somewhere nearby where Alan visits. I'm sorry. Alan visits Corlus, who is hanging dead triarchy raiders from the trees.

SPEAKER_02 30:50

Uh, for funsies as pinatas, uh, to keep them away from the bears. Like to do your food in the woods.

SPEAKER_06 31:00

Let this one down, we're gonna eat it later. As the ghoul in Fallout said, this ass jerky ain't gonna make itself.

SPEAKER_02 31:13

He's like, look, Rain, Rainy needs more guys. I have never seen it. She's like, Rainey needs more guys, but he's like, but I'm not asking for her. I'm asking like this is me asking for the the the guys. And Corlist is like, what the fuck? She wants more from me? This bitch wants more from me. He's like, I tell you what, I'm gonna give you a little something something, a little bit of info. Come here, come here.

SPEAKER_04 31:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:41

Tyler Lannister survived the gullet and is going to Rook's rest.

SPEAKER_01 31:47

No way. We already knew that.

SPEAKER_06 31:52

Because remember last week when he met Laris and Aegon, and Laris was like, seven hells.

SPEAKER_05 32:00

Yeah, Rainey didn't know yet. Yeah, but this week Corless was giving the information to Ellen. Is this dramatic irony? Is that what this is?

SPEAKER_01 32:10

I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 32:12

Anyway. So we see that very Tyland Lannister digging a hole for the guy that Aegon stabbed. It's not a deep hole.

SPEAKER_02 32:24

Yeah, it's not a deep hole. Or Laris is like, it needs to be deeper. And uh Tylan's like, you could get your own ass in here and start digging if that's what you'd like.

SPEAKER_06 32:33

If you'd like to continue digging, the shovel is free. And I for a second I thought Laris was gonna take a step towards him and grab the shovel, but he just kicks a body into the hole.

SPEAKER_02 32:44

And this is the guy that he had killed, right?

SPEAKER_06 32:46

Yes.

unknown 32:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 32:47

So Laris says he's found a ship, and uh Tylon says they should go to Castroly Rock, and Aegon can call for the great houses to support him from there.

SPEAKER_02 32:56

And then Aegon goes We can be buddies, we can rule together, it'll be fun. Come to Casterly Rock.

SPEAKER_06 33:02

Tylon, do you think that I'm a terrible man? And this is the greatest hemming and hawing committed to film in a very, very long time.

SPEAKER_03 33:13

Well, I mean, I it's not as though I mean it could be said that everybody has a you know we're all everybody's like You're a dick. But we're all dicks in a way.

SPEAKER_06 33:27

Yeah, I mean who hasn't who among us hasn't stabbed a man for calling you Gregory? Come on.

SPEAKER_02 33:33

For funsies. Yes.

SPEAKER_06 33:35

I mean, um Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:37

So we're going to Essos. Going to Essos.

unknown 33:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:41

Cut to the cave where Rhaenyra's sitting on a rock eating some berries.

SPEAKER_06 33:47

And I wrote something very, very large here. I put this in in caps. Back in the veil, Raina eats berries. From where? Fucking whole foods?

SPEAKER_02 33:59

Did you see the size of those berries? They were gigantic.

SPEAKER_06 34:04

And either she's very, very small, and that's a normal-sized berry, or she's normal sized, and that berry is immense.

SPEAKER_02 34:11

Off in the distance. While eating her berries, she sees two dragons.

SPEAKER_06 34:17

Is that what was happening? I was too busy freaking out about the berry.

SPEAKER_02 34:21

That was it. That was it. That's all we see. So that's all we see is her seeing two dragons off in the distance. That it that is it.

SPEAKER_06 34:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 34:30

Then we go to Amund and um Alice, I guess we've decided to.

SPEAKER_06 34:36

Alice. Alice Rivers, sure enough.

SPEAKER_02 34:38

Alice Rivers. Hi, my name is Alice Rivers, and I am running for city council. If you hadn't heard of me before, I run the local cat sanctuary. Ah, you can come see my pussies anytime.

SPEAKER_07 34:53

I ain't voting for that Alice Rivers. She always smells like piss. Cat piss.

SPEAKER_02 35:05

Anyway. Why? Why are you mean? Why are you mean? Why are you being mean, Alice? Alright. Uh, let's see. What happened? Uh boo-boo-doo boo. Oh, she's fixing up his face. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 35:19

And getting all close to him, and and they're talking about he wants to go find his dragon, and he keeps like leaning away from her and turning away and spinning away, and he's like, Right, Tempest, back off.

SPEAKER_02 35:32

And uh she was aggressively like leaning into him. She's trying to get him to stay. Yeah. Right? It's like, make the world think you're dead through the winter. What have you gotta lose? Right? You know, everybody's a dragon. Yeah, I need my dragon. And he goes, I need a horse.

SPEAKER_06 35:52

Okay, that's a downgrade, but I understand.

SPEAKER_02 35:55

Yeah. She's like, Well, there's a bounty of your life. Everybody's trying to kill you. He's like, Well, then it doesn't matter where I'm at, then I'm always not safe. And she's like, Oh, you're such a dumb ass. Your dragon left so that they wouldn't find you. Because a dragon is hard to f hard to fucking hide.

SPEAKER_06 36:13

Ah, I put to you that's not true. I have an invention that'll help uh it's the dragon be gone.

SPEAKER_02 36:20

And it's really just a it's like a pokeball you can put your dragon in.

SPEAKER_06 36:25

It's a mirror the size of your dragon. You how does that work? You put it in front of the dragon, they can't see the dragon behind the mirror. Inspired by David Copperfield making the Statue of Liberty disappear. Uh it's a dragon going on shark feeling. It's gonna make a fucking mint. I just want Kevin O'Leary to tell me that he's not supporting my idea because he thinks I'm an idiot, so I can walk over and deck him in the throat.

SPEAKER_02 36:48

Yeah. Wow, you've thought about this.

SPEAKER_06 36:51

Yeah. And he just wanna punch Kevin O'Leary in the throat. Who doesn't?

SPEAKER_02 36:55

I don't know who Kevin O'Leary is.

SPEAKER_06 36:57

He's one of the fucking Nimrods on Shark Tank.

SPEAKER_02 37:00

Oh, oh, oh, oh, well. Yeah, that's because I don't want Shark Tank. But I do watch people who make fun of the products from Shark Tank.

SPEAKER_06 37:06

You know, every now and again there's a good idea. Like the smiley scrubby. None of them wanted to do smiley scrubby. I've got a fucking smiley scrubby. Guess what?

SPEAKER_02 37:17

I don't have a smiley scrubby. You do not have a scrub daddy. Zero of a scrub or a scrub mama or scrub baby. I don't have a scrub uncle, a scrub scrub. Scrub uncle! It comes pre-dirtied. You only use it to clean your barbecue grill.

SPEAKER_06 37:32

Scrub uncle's the only he gets you a beer. Listen, I know you're not old enough. Don't tell your mother.

SPEAKER_03 37:38

It's got actually got like a church key in it.

SPEAKER_01 37:42

Where the mouth is.

SPEAKER_06 37:45

You going out tonight? You're gonna need some rubbers.

SPEAKER_01 37:47

Here you go, buddy.

SPEAKER_06 37:49

Whoa, scrub uncle.

SPEAKER_01 37:50

Here's an extra, and here's an extra 20. All right. Um place nice. Scrub uncle wins again, baby.

SPEAKER_02 37:59

Okay, so this next scene had me laughing. It opens with that lady. Who is she again? What's her name, lady?

SPEAKER_03 38:11

Her name is Jane Aaron. Aaron, yes, Lady Aaron.

SPEAKER_02 38:15

And she her and your current goons have kicked somebody through the moon door.

SPEAKER_06 38:21

Yeah. She's like, hmm. And they just missed it, and we hear him. And she's like, it's always fun, isn't it? Watch what she says.

SPEAKER_04 38:36

Oh man. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_06 38:38

Look at how fun this is. Can we do this more frequently? I'd really love to throw people down my terrifying moon door more regularly.

unknown 38:47

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 38:47

We should do this more often.

SPEAKER_02 38:49

We should make a club of it. You know what?

SPEAKER_03 38:51

Moondor Thursday.

SPEAKER_02 38:53

Moondoor Thursdays.

SPEAKER_03 38:55

Love it.

SPEAKER_02 38:58

Okay. Uh, so they've brought Rainey in. Not Rainey, but Raina. Raina.

SPEAKER_06 39:05

Yes. Um she and the large berry.

SPEAKER_02 39:08

Yeah. She she what she had seen was her sister's dragon. And so she had gotten on Cheap Stealer and decided to follow them. And Lady Erin's people saw her, found her.

SPEAKER_06 39:22

And she is meant to be hid hidden. Hidden, right.

SPEAKER_02 39:27

So she gets serious repressed rage. Holy crap, throwing people out moondors, slapping young girls around.

SPEAKER_06 39:36

You know what it is? She never had a scrub uncle to help her out when she was a younger person.

SPEAKER_02 39:41

I think you're right. Or the scrub auntie. The scrub auntie is very cool. It has painted nails, so you have to be delicate with it.

SPEAKER_03 39:51

See, scrub uncle will help you check out the show. Are you okay?

SPEAKER_06 39:59

There's a whole family, a whole family of scrub products, and they're all stereotypical. Like scrub daddy just doesn't speak. He's really tough on the kids. Scrub mommy is like missing pieces of her hair because she's so stressed out from all the effort being. And then we've already discussed scrub uncle and aunt. That's really good. Scrub cousin, just like a bully that's slightly older, so they lord it over you the whole time. Scrub brother and scrub sister just punch you and steal your stuff, because that's what siblings are for. Scrub baby. Scrub baby just cries and poops. It actually makes more mess than it cleans up. And then there's scrub grandparents. Scrub grandpa just sits around and smokes his pipe and watches baseball all day long. And scrub grandma, well, scrub grandma is uh in a home. My head, my head has gone to places it shouldn't. I'm so sorry, Scrub Family.

SPEAKER_02 41:01

I can't speak.

SPEAKER_03 41:04

Oh, okay. So you want shark tank fuckers?

SPEAKER_02 41:09

Dragons. We have uh we hear a dragon screeching and Baylor just kind of hanging out thinking? Now, does she have a dragon and it's hidden away?

SPEAKER_06 41:19

It's in the pit. It's in the dragon pit. And the dragon's just chilling.

SPEAKER_02 41:23

So you're telling me that there's no dragon pit in the veil where the dragon can just hang out?

SPEAKER_06 41:29

No, because King's Landing was designed to house dragons. The dragon pit was designed for dragons. It's like that's true. It's like Dragon's Reach in in Whiterun and Skyrim. It was built to house a dragon. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:42

Um, who came down to who came down to see Baylor?

SPEAKER_06 41:46

Um!

SPEAKER_02 41:48

That's right. And he tells her about seeing Corless, and he's like, but uh, I need you to speak to him.

SPEAKER_07 41:54

There's zero chance you can talk to him.

SPEAKER_02 41:56

Good lord, Spencer. That's really good.

SPEAKER_06 41:59

And she's like, I I can't because I got my own shit to worry about. And he's like, Yeah, pretty much.

SPEAKER_02 42:06

I wrote she's got enough shit already.

SPEAKER_07 42:09

What if we just started making out for no reason?

SPEAKER_02 42:14

What the okay. First of all. First question. Yes, hello. First question. He saw Corless today? Yeah. How far away is Corless?

SPEAKER_06 42:29

Over there. Just like around the corner, Corless? I don't know. I mean, he's on, he's probably near the gullet, and that's near King's Landing. So it couldn't have been too far. And I don't know why he asked her to speak to him when he just did.

SPEAKER_02 42:44

I guess he figures that she'll have more sway over him for whatever reason. I don't know why.

SPEAKER_06 42:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 42:51

Here's the other thing.

SPEAKER_06 42:53

Bela is related to Corlus.

SPEAKER_02 42:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 42:57

I believe. I believe that he is her grandfather.

SPEAKER_02 43:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 43:03

Which makes this make out session weird.

SPEAKER_03 43:08

Well, it's her half uncle. I don't fucking know. But then again, this is This is Game of Thrones.

SPEAKER_02 43:17

Come on, man. This is nothing. This is Targary.

SPEAKER_05 43:21

He would be her half brother, because they oh. No, uncle, uncle. Uncle, half uncle. Yeah, yep. Half scrub uncle.

SPEAKER_02 43:29

Half scrub uncle. Okay. She she approaches him. She approaches him. Gets very close.

unknown 43:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:38

Right? And said she's making a play.

SPEAKER_03 43:41

There is not a lick of chemistry between these two people. As far as we know, this is the first time they've ever talked.

SPEAKER_02 43:50

When she leans in to kiss him, he gets aggressive.

unknown 43:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:56

He he he's he is all up in that like immediately. And that's the last we see of that, I believe. Yes.

SPEAKER_06 44:03

And good too. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 44:09

Now we've got Gawain and Hightower.

SPEAKER_05 44:12

Just a quick comment. They're setting up a love triangle between Adam, Alan, and Bela. Because Adam is interested in Bela when he was talking about they could fly away together.

SPEAKER_02 44:25

Oh, that's right.

SPEAKER_05 44:26

And so now you've got a love triangle developing. I didn't need that in my life. That's what happened. That's what ruined the Hobbit.

SPEAKER_03 44:34

Wasn't she involved with Jace? They were married. That's what I thought.

SPEAKER_02 44:40

And he moves fast. Like a couple days.

SPEAKER_06 44:44

Well, I mean, time means not long. As far as we know, it could be two years on. Who knows?

SPEAKER_02 44:49

No, because didn't we see in the recap like two episodes ago, him being dead? And the battle. The battle that Corless is going to clean up. A day's ride away.

SPEAKER_06 45:00

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. Nothing. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 45:04

Anyhow, time means nothing in this world. I don't care. All right. Gwen with Hightower. That's where we are.

SPEAKER_06 45:14

Yes, Gwen and Ormond having a chat.

SPEAKER_02 45:16

Mm-hmm. Hightower's like, what do you mean you left him there and you came back? And he's like, I told him, peace out. And he he was gonna lose, man. I did not want to die. Don't know what to tell you, my guy.

SPEAKER_06 45:29

Yeah, there was no fight here. It's not good. But we have Ormond is like really arrogant about well, it turns out we have the advantage because we have this place where they can't come because these are her subjects and she's a queen. Also, we have spies back in King's Landing murdering the city watch. So uh so go get yourself cleaned up.

unknown 45:52

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_06 45:53

Because you stinky.

SPEAKER_02 45:54

Yeah, because you smell bad.

SPEAKER_06 45:56

And then he makes a rude comment about how Gwane might might be gay. And I'm like, okay, first off, Darren is his nephew. Uh shut up, Ormond, you fuck. I'm not I was high on hor I was high on Ormond. Not anymore. He's too much of a human.

SPEAKER_02 46:16

He's a prick. You liked Ormond?

SPEAKER_06 46:18

Initially, I thought he was clever. I mean, he did he did threatening nudity a couple episodes ago.

SPEAKER_02 46:26

I'm like, that takes Yeah, that still's not clever.

SPEAKER_06 46:28

That takes some co jones to stand up in front of these rich people and be like, check it out.

SPEAKER_02 46:34

I don't know that swinging your dick. I don't know that swinging your dick is it the move that you think it is.

SPEAKER_06 46:39

No, no, it's just you have to have a little bit of a little bit of swagger in order to do that. You gotta swing it. I appreciated it, swagger. Still swinging it. I don't generally utilize it for anything that is but its intended purpose.

SPEAKER_02 46:55

Which is okay, we should move on.

SPEAKER_01 47:01

Get over that.

SPEAKER_02 47:02

Um, so uh so Darren and Gawain are talking about how Gawain left Darren alone with him, with Ormond, quote, knowing what he was? A piece of shit? Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 47:17

He knew he was a piece of shit, and here I am with the piece of shit, and now he thinks I'm king, and I don't want to be king, and I'll never be king. Please don't leave me here with Mr. Piece of shit.

unknown 47:29

Right.

SPEAKER_02 47:29

And Gwen's like, well then stand up for yourself. I don't know what to tell you, man. I need a nap, like so bad, my guy. Just need a bath. I should maybe maybe a hot shower. Then I'm thinking foot massage, maybe as I go to sleep.

SPEAKER_06 47:45

I kind of re react um to my wife the way Gwen reacted to Darren in this scene. It's like, I'm hearing what you're saying, you're hitting me with a lot, but I'm exhausted. So wait until I've had a nap and a cigarette, and then we will discuss all of this shit.

SPEAKER_02 48:05

Then he'd say he goes, When you were there, did you see my mother? Yeah. Now that scene just ends like that. He doesn't answer the question, nothing is said about it.

SPEAKER_06 48:18

Um, apparently, and this is apparently not remembering No, you are absolutely correct. Okay. There was something cut from that scene.

SPEAKER_02 48:28

Okay. Okay, thank you.

SPEAKER_06 48:30

Gwen puts his arm around Darren and they walk away together. Which implies that there was some sort of discussion to be had about seeing his mother.

SPEAKER_02 48:40

That was a private conversation between the two of them as they walked away.

SPEAKER_03 48:43

Yeah, but we didn't see that. Oh, good lord.

SPEAKER_02 48:46

I was like, how does this end? It just leaves it hanging. I'm thinking, there was nothing really I don't know. Okay, Helena is stitching and ignoring Alison. Yeah. Ah, they're talking, then they start talking about the escape and how it went bad, and Helena starts pricking herself with the needle because she's crazy. Well, she's pissed off at Alfred.

SPEAKER_06 49:11

She's pissed off at Alice for having lied about Helena's child. Her kid was never gonna be caught. It caught it was never meant to come with us. And Alice's just like, look, I'm trying my best to save you. And then Helena's like, You mean you? Listen, just eat. And she storms off, having not eaten. And then we get a look at the tapestry that Helena is making. And now we can talk about the interpretation you had of this particular image. Okay, okay, alright.

SPEAKER_03 49:46

I want to hear what you thought you saw first. Uh I saw a blue-eyed zombie child in a womb. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 49:54

I saw a black castle and Amund in this weird yonic shape. I wasn't gonna because it was a child with a sapphire for an eye. And and that red it did look like a ginger, let me tell you. That's why I use the word yannick. Listener, Yonick is a word that means vaginal.

SPEAKER_02 50:22

Well, what I what I thought it was was she was drawing her womb with her child, and it's gonna be a blue-eyed child, but at the same time it was so bright blue, I'm like, ooh, is this the start of the like the White Walker children?

SPEAKER_06 50:35

I see. I thought the bright blue was uh uh indicating aamond, especially because there was a black castle behind the whole thing.

SPEAKER_02 50:42

I think she's I don't I see you know what? Had I not been enhanced with cannabis products, I might have seen a little more detail, but I paused on it and looked at it for a goodish amount of time.

SPEAKER_06 50:53

15, 20 seconds. So much trouble wore out.

SPEAKER_05 50:58

I wonder if it's going to be featured in the opening credits next week.

SPEAKER_02 51:07

Doing the heads up all right. Uh the stable boy sees Amon as he's getting his horse. So Alice is to kill him. Like, what the fuck? I'm sure he would have just been like, hey man, I'm cool. I'm not gonna tell anybody. But he might have been tempted by the the bounty, I guess.

SPEAKER_06 51:27

Uh well, what's this little kid gonna do against Amon?

SPEAKER_02 51:31

So then she's like if you don't I'm gonna she's like, I gotta show you something. I gotta show you something, I gotta show you something.

SPEAKER_06 51:38

If your spirit is winning. And I thought, what is he gonna is she gonna they're gonna do the sex? Is that what that means? No, no, it was literally a spiritual thing because she grabs this chest and it's and takes the cover off it, and inside is five dragon eggs. Five. Five.

SPEAKER_02 52:02

She's kept them waiting for a Targaryen, and then when one presented itself, she fucking miseried him.

SPEAKER_06 52:08

Yeah. You're not getting on you're not getting out of this cock of duty castle so easily, there one eye.

SPEAKER_02 52:15

Nope. And then he's like, you know what? Maybe I'm not the guy for this. You know what? Everything I touch turns to shit. This is some self-realization here. I'm proud of him for this.

SPEAKER_06 52:29

And he's rugby balling this dragon egg, because it's about the size of a rugby ball.

SPEAKER_02 52:34

And she's like, you know what? I'm tired of being cursed. I bet you are too. She wants to be his something. She doesn't really she's like, I'm gonna be. She's thought about this. I'm gonna be. Okay, so here's how it's gonna go. I'm gonna play Lady of the Water, and you're gonna be the dragon lord. Okay, so first thing we gotta do is have the baby. So give me breakers. Let's go!

SPEAKER_06 53:03

And then they start making out, and I'm like, and again, no chemistry. None at all.

SPEAKER_02 53:10

None. He had more chemistry with uh Agar. Aegon Amund? No, he's Amund.

SPEAKER_06 53:17

Yes, uh Aegon. He had more chemistry, he had more chemistry with Finn from the other show.

SPEAKER_02 53:25

From the other show? Ah, chicken wing.

SPEAKER_06 53:28

Spirth you bastard. Anyway. So it's holding court time for Rhenira, and she is her crown is askew. She's listening to everyone in in order complain about how there's no gold cloaks, so we're screwed. There's no gold cloak, so we're screwed. There's no gold cloaks over screwed. And she's getting really worked up over it, and then she notices that she's cut her finger on the throne again. Put some pool just put some fucking pool noodles on it.

SPEAKER_02 53:56

Pool noodles, I'm telling you. At least on the ones where your hands are gonna be dangling.

SPEAKER_06 54:00

Yeah. Or put your hands in your lap. Mike has a finger.

SPEAKER_05 54:04

So she cut her finger on the same blade that her father cut his finger on, and then he developed the sepsis that drove him mad. Yes.

SPEAKER_06 54:16

Oh. Is this an unwashed spiky chair?

SPEAKER_03 54:21

Has no one gone in and disinfected the Iron Throne? This is some tetanus leading to sepsis for sure.

SPEAKER_06 54:29

Oh no. Well, when she cuts her finger, her her range of hearing light changes, and then she just gets up and leaves. And then they lock everyone in the throne room for some reason.

SPEAKER_02 54:43

That was so weird. I hope there's another exit. That's a fire hazard. Just saying.

SPEAKER_06 54:49

Yeah, it's a big room to have one door. So Damon is gold cloaking by himself for a bit.

SPEAKER_02 54:55

And he's being followed by Prince Humperdink, um, who follows him, but he gets ambushed by Damon, right? Who's holding him?

SPEAKER_06 55:04

Yes. And there's this extraordinary scripted story about how there's tons of them and they hate the queen and they'll never accept her, and no matter what you We are everywhere.

SPEAKER_02 55:14

You don't know who you're fucking with. You can't kill us. You can kill us, but we'll never embrace Rainey.

SPEAKER_06 55:19

It is anonymous, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 55:21

He stabs him in the ear. Guy collapses. Now, yeah, tell me something. The faceless men. If this is the faceless men, right, wouldn't his face change?

SPEAKER_06 55:32

I don't think.

SPEAKER_02 55:33

Doesn't their face change when they die?

SPEAKER_06 55:35

I I think you're you're reading too much into the title.

SPEAKER_05 55:38

He's not a faceless man. The faceless men that she that the title talks about are the assassins that Rainey sends to Ormond. They're faceless, they're they're not recognizable.

SPEAKER_06 55:48

Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_02 55:49

I'm so disappointed. I want this to be a faceless man. I want this to be well, damn it. Okay, I know. It doesn't matter what I want it to be.

SPEAKER_06 55:57

Yeah, the problem is you're expecting this to be clever. And the the first show was exceedingly clever, and this is not anywhere near that clever.

SPEAKER_02 56:08

Not not as clever. So Damon bumps into it.

SPEAKER_06 56:09

It's still good, but it's not that clever.

SPEAKER_02 56:12

Yeah, Damon bumps into Elf.

SPEAKER_07 56:14

Watch where you're fucking oh my prince.

SPEAKER_02 56:20

Ooh. Yeah, and Damon's like, aren't you supposed to stay in the keep? You are not supposed to be.

SPEAKER_06 56:28

I'm just having uh having the air. You know. Uh guy works hard, and I get a couple days off and we'll have some fun. Something you could understand, and he goes to poke him, and uh Damon just levels him out.

SPEAKER_02 56:42

Slap stomp, just bang, just steps on his chest.

SPEAKER_06 56:48

It's like, oh you do that again. You leave the castle, I will have your eyes out.

SPEAKER_02 56:54

And everybody's watching this, and then the girl is the girl spy, isn't it? Is she the one that watches and then runs away and he follows her?

SPEAKER_06 57:02

I couldn't identify her as anyone important. I just noticed that everyone was looking at Damon, going, eesh, he's nice.

SPEAKER_02 57:08

She was in the long grass. He's gonna have to check for ticks later.

SPEAKER_06 57:13

And just out of frame is Russell Crowe walking in the long grass with his hands in the I'm sorry, I saw the wheat and I immediately went to Gladiator. I don't know why.

SPEAKER_02 57:22

Aw. Oh yeah. So he sees a cart, he flags it down. Holder! And then steals the cart and the guy's clothes.

SPEAKER_06 57:32

Yeah. And he rides into Tumbleton as a basket trader.

unknown 57:36

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_06 57:37

Oh, and then my favorite and also least favorite scene at the same time. So Orman and Gwen and Ormin, Gwen, and Darren are sitting around a table eating dinner, and Orman is going on about how you have to choose your council well. And all of a sudden it's announced that there are Bratheans, an envoy from the Bratheans to visit. And these six really stinky guys walk into the room. Apparently, we're we're seeing this scene from Orman's point of view because they are so foul that he cannot concentrate on them.

SPEAKER_02 58:13

Right.

SPEAKER_06 58:14

Because of his nieces.

SPEAKER_02 58:16

He's the cousin to Lord Boros. Now, had Gawain seen.

SPEAKER_06 58:22

He had apparently seen Arian Baratheon, because at the end of it, at the end of the scene, he mentions how he knew.

SPEAKER_02 58:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 58:30

They ask if they could uh bend the knee to the king, who they immediately swear fealty to. There's like no hesitation whatever, so it's clearly a boy, obviously. And they all turn and look, and there's Darren, and and they bend down, and just as soon as they bend down, Gwen draws steel and just starts murdering the shit out of all these people.

SPEAKER_02 58:50

Yep. He's like, these are assassin. And then uh come to kill you and Darren, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

SPEAKER_06 58:55

Yeah, they kill the they stabby stab them quite handily, and they're I mean that the the attack was great, there's a lot of slurping, there's like liquid falls out of a person in a big ol' wave, kind of great. Yeah, gushy gushy. And they get done, and Gwen goes, Look, these men are uh not who they claim to be. I can tell you because Arian Baratheon is fair of hair and a foot taller, and much more handsome than this guy, who he picks up his bloody head and then puts it back down, and then immediately the scene is ruined by Ormond puking up his lunch. And I fucking hate mommy. And I was eating, I had I had elbow macaroni with pasta sauce and cheese on it tonight, and it looked a lot like what he was throwing up, and I was very cross.

SPEAKER_02 59:46

Oh no, that's so sad. I'm so excited.

SPEAKER_06 59:50

Oh, thanks. I hate it.

SPEAKER_02 59:51

Oh man. Yeah, see, puking doesn't bother me. I'm one of those people, I am not a sympathetic puker.

SPEAKER_06 59:58

I'm disgusted by it. It's not that I'm gonna throw up, I just hate it.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:02

Cut to a girl scrubbing the floor with what I'm guessing is the industrial strength. Uh second cousin scrubbers. Second scrub second cousin. Yeah. Second scrub, second scrubby cousin. Oh, first I missed the whole scene with Hugh sneaking up on Kat.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:22

Oh, that's true. I you know what? Because in my mind, they went right together anyway. But yeah, Hugh finds his wife.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:28

Yes. And she's overwhelmed that he's still alive.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:35

Yes. At him. She's like, you know what? You know what I you know what the fuck I had to do? Do you know how long it is? From where we were before to King's Landing? Do you know? Do you know? I walked. Do you know why? Because you're out gallivanting with dragons. What am I doing? Holding shit together here at home. That's what I'm doing, buddy. You're out riding dragons, getting rich, whatever the fuck I needed you here.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:59

And presumably, based on what she said, she had some unwarranted attention on her travel travels to Tumbleton.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:07

Yes. Which we can only assume.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:10

We can glean a lot from the way she spoke to him. And then she's like, Who are you? and just shoves him away and then disappears. So clearly that that relationship is done. And he's like, Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:21

Well, he didn't handle it well. He like slaps her a little and puts his hand over her mouth. And I'm just like, you're not this is not good. This is not the way to persuade her.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:31

No, she's not going to like any of this. She doesn't like any of that.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:36

Then we get the girl scrubbing on the floor with the scrub second cousin, uncle, daddy. The whole damn family. The whole damn family's in that bucket. She's prepared for anything. Get the whole family of scrub people. Scrub spongies. Scrubby puppy. I don't know. Oh, ooh, scrub puppy. Yeah, scrub puppy. Scrub puppy. For all it's just for scrubbing your actual dog. All right.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:03

Um if you have a dog that's scrubbable.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:09

I do.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:11

Oh, we have non-shedding dogs, so you can actually anyway. Um, you can scrub your hairless cat.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:19

I have a hairless cat.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:20

So that's kind of you kind of see this long scene of the girl scrubbing, and Gawain and Orman are in the window overlooking the courtyard watching uh Darren practice with three boys in his courtyard.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:35

He's sparring. And Orman's like, listen, I appreciate what you did. You can go back to uh old town if you want. And then I kind of missed the rest of the scene because I was too busy thinking he didn't have to throw up at the end of that last scene. That didn't need to happen.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:52

That was in the unnecessary puking. Timeout, timeout, unnecessary puking.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:59

We don't need any of that. Well, he does say um Gawain's like, he'll be a good king if you let him. So what's your plan here? And that really doesn't get answered.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:12

But um we don't want to we don't want to see into the mind of Ormond Hightower, I don't think.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:18

I don't think so. He's so smarmy. It's the haircut, I'm telling you. I hate it. Hate it so much. Hate his haircut.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:27

Can't you hate his face instead?

SPEAKER_02 1:03:30

I'm not fond of that either. Okay, then. But the haircut he can do something about. He can't do anything about his face. He can do something without the haircut. Just I'm just putting that out there. So Raimi and Ellison.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:40

Draw my sorrows in this black cherry Kool-Aid.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:43

And Alison's like, listen, Helen is gonna go nutballs if she has to be inside all the time. She needs to get the fuck out of the house. I tell you what, uh, I know where Amond is.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:58

And uh How do you know where Amon is?

SPEAKER_02 1:04:02

Nah, she goes, how do you know? She goes, just just trust me, I know. She goes, I tell you what, if I tell you, you have to let us go free. And Rainey's like, I'm gonna do shit. What's the end? Where? Where is he? She's like, he's at Heron Hall. She's like, fuck. Fucking look there. We look there, of course we look there. It would be really obvious if Vagar was there. She goes, I did not say that Vagar is there. I said, Amon's there. And she's like, it's like she goes, Oh yeah. Then Allie is like, listen, Helen is uh a dreamer, which magical blah blah blah. Uh that's how she knows. Um, and Rainey's like, well, if his drag is not there, then he's alone and he's on foot. So I could just send somebody he trusts with somebody with a big stabby, and they could work together to find and kill Amond. End of problem. And Alien's Alien's Allie's like, mmm okay, but uh oh, I know. I don't want to leave Helen because she's very fragile and weird. You know this about her. Like I said, dreamer has to be outside, plays with caterpillars, puts him in cages, which is odd, because they can just crawl right out. But you know, she's Helena. What are you gonna do? Rainey's like, I tell you what, you go, I'll babysit. It'll be fine. And uh Allie's like, I told you this would happen.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:35

Look, you don't get a choice. You're going.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:37

Oh my Yeah. Then uh we cut to Allie having to explain this to Helena, uh giving her a bowl of brown. This was a hard scene. Because you can tell there's something like wrong with Helen.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:50

She's like, Why am I here?

unknown 1:05:51

Right.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:52

Why didn't you marry me off to someone else instead of having me marry my brother? And she's like, Well, that was Otto's idea. It was better you were here with me than somewhere weird.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:05

Allie basically is trying to convince you to eat. She's like, if you don't eat. I can't leave. I have to know you're gonna eat, so I can leave. So she takes a sip of brown, and then Ellie's like, I'll come back for you.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:17

Like that was enough to I've got one spoon, one teaspoon of Okay, good enough.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:24

Yeah, I'm out. I'm I trust you now.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:27

I would have at least waited until she finished one of the Pop Tarts in the packet.

unknown 1:06:32

Right.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:32

You don't have to eat both of them. You don't have to eat the wrapper, but you do have to eat the Pop Tarts.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:38

So anyway, uh Rainy, we see Rainey sitting on Joffrey's bed. Has this child been awake at all? The entire time he's been there?

SPEAKER_06 1:06:48

And mom the whole time. I don't want to type Joffrey either. I don't like that.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:53

Allison's writing out. We see the priest handing Rainey um like a jerkin. Yeah. With a Baratheon sigil on it, and a note on the back that says your hand.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:10

It's written in blood.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:15

So we've got two boys around a fire thing. It's Corless's guys, and he's giving them a campfire prep talk, and he's gonna send them into the city next, and and he's gonna go with them, and then a bunch of guys come in from the forest and mark them all.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:34

Well and I can tell you this that Orman's lieutenant actually did not murder Corless, he kidnapped.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:42

That's it. Uh, did we miss anything, Mike? Is there anything?

SPEAKER_05 1:07:47

Nope, nope. My only comment is that uh this series seems to be getting more into the mundane aspects of ruling a kingdom. So many times it's at the small council or at the chambers or blah blah blah blah blah. What am I gonna do? What am I gonna do? What am I gonna do instead of let's go kill people?

SPEAKER_02 1:08:06

You know what it is? You know what it is. It's like somebody ran for city council, and they were one of you know the producers and for city council. And then they realized, you know, government moves slowly, it's not all so quick. Somebody else comes along and proves that you can just do whatever the fuck you want because if you do enough shit, they can't catch you all all the time on all the shit, and they just end up bumping into each other um Keystone cops ways, and you get away with all kinds of shit you shouldn't be able to get away with. And that's my soapbox for tonight. Hi, that's it. Hey, thank you so much for listening. Please, please let us know you listen. Share us wherever. We don't care. You know, share us on Brady Bunch threads, whenever the fuck. Email us at royalhighnesspod at gmail.com. You can message us on Facebook. I'll I'll answer you. Thank our producer. I want to thank our producer Mike.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:01

Thanks, Mike. You're welcome.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:03

And all the fine folks over at Injured Nerves Productions. We can't wait to do it all again in two weeks. We are taking next week off to go camping. And until then, love ya. Bye.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:15

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