Matt is once again joined by YouTuber PriscilaTV, this time to talk about Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power S1E05. Contact the podcast by tweeting @bustblockbuster, sending emails to mattsaudioblog@gmail.com, leaving comments at mattsaudioblog.com, or by leaving comments on the Double P Media YouTube (youtube.com/c/DoublePMedia). Contact the bosses by tweeting @DoublePHQ or joining the Facebook page at facebook.com/DoublePHQ
Time Stamps: 00:00:00 – Intro, Episode Ratings, and Podcast Information 00:06:32 – Music Analysis (The Main Theme) 00:19:15 – Episode Recap: Harfoots 00:29:06 – Episode Recap: Lindon 00:43:33 – What’s Worse Round 1 00:48:50 – Episode Recap: Southlands 01:01:58 – Episode Recap: Numenor 01:24:08 – What’s Worse Round 2 01:28:49 – Wrap Up
Matt explores 2 themes presented in S1E05 of House of the Dragon “We Light the Way”: The Alicent/Hightower theme, and the Velaryon theme! Tweet @b4thedragonpod, send emails to mattsaudioblog@gmail.com, comment on the website (mattsaudioblog.com) or on our YouTube videos (search “Before the Dragon Podcast” there, subscribe, like, and comment).
Sorry – a turn of events this week prevented us from having a panel cast covering S1E05 of House of the Dragon. This small pod just covers feedback received and the final Westerosi “Scene from a Movie”. We still want to know what you thought of this episode, what your 3 word description is, what your best coupling (Brothelmates) is, and we want you to win our contest (submit all 5 actual movies our Westersosi scenes are based on and win official show merch from the Warner Bros store on us)! To do all of that tweet @b4thedragonpod, send emails to mattsaudioblog@gmail.com, leave comments on website posts or use the contact from at mattsaudioblog.com, or leave comments on our YouTube videos (search for “Before the Dragon Podcast” there, and comment, like, and subscribe)! Some sounds and music used in this podcast are licensed to Matt via Artist IO (https://artlist.io/) and all licenses are accessible for viewing in a publicly shared Google Folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1to5jB5pXtiovOSAkrsaDRaReQQX9TfON?usp=sharing –
Matt gives his initial reaction to House of the Dragon S1E05! He wants to know YOUR reaction! Send your 3 word descriptions, best couplings, and show or podcast thoughts by tweeting @b4thedragonpod, emailing mattsaudioblog@gmail.com, or commenting on the website (mattsaudioblog.com) or the YouTube videos (search for “Before the Dragon Podcast).
Time Stamps: 00:00:00 – Spoiler Alert and Intro 00:01:05 – Stat of the Episode 00:02:51 – Podcast Info 00:03:20 – Rating 00:03:46 – Tension in ALL Storylines! 00:05:03 – TWO Murders! 00:06:57 – Alicent (and Otto) 00:09:58 – Laenor’s Bad Day(s)! 00:11:19 – Rhaenyra Shares TOO little TOO late! 00:16:38 – Hats Off to Milly and Emily!! 00:21:00 – 3 Words, Brothelmates, and Seven Hellz Updates! 00:24:28 – Closing Thoughts
Susan Holly Kelly, John, and Matt continue to explore House of the Dragon S1E04 “King of the Narrow Sea”. Games are played like 3 words, Brothelmates of the Week, and Seven Hellz, as well as covering your submissions and feedback too!
If you want to send feedback get it to us by Tuesdays at 5pm Pacific time to ensure it gets included in the Thursday cast, but if you don’t make that deadline we’ll share yours the next week anyway! Send tweets to @b4thedragonpod, email mattsaudioblog@gmail.com, comment on our web posts (mattsaudioblog.com) or on our YT videos (search for Before the Dragon Podcast there, subscribe, like vids, and comment)!
John also does a podcast about Horror genre films, so be sure to check out The Wicked Wild Podcast (thewickedwild.com)!
Susan, Holly, Kelly, and John join Matt to discuss S1E04 of House of the Dragon. You also get issue 4 of Scene from a Westerosi movie. Figure out what actual movie our Westerosi movie scene is based on, and submit as many of the 5 that you can to be eligible to win free official HBO House of the Dragon or Game of Thrones (your choice) Merchandise from the podcast! How do you submit? Tweet your guesses (or any feedback, 3 word descriptions, or best couplings) to @b4thedragonpod, send emails to mattsaudioblog@gmail.com, comment on our website posts (mattsaudioblog.com) or on our YouTube videos (search for Before the Dragon Podcast on YT, subscribe, like, and comment on our videos).
Time Stamps: 00:00:00 – Spoiler Alert and Intro 00:02:11 – Episode Ratings 00:09:20 – Music Analysis Intro 00:10:04 – Music Analysis – Rethinking the Dragon Connection Theme 00:22:06 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: The Eustace/Mushroom Compromise and a new show canon 00:43:23 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: The Westerosi Hatfields and Mccoys 00:50:29 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: Alicent’s Awful Assignment 00:59:56 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: Why White Worm? WHY???? 01:08:05 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: Dagger Prophecy 01:14:03 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: YAYnyra or NAYnyra (Rhaenyr-YAH, or Rhaenyr-NAH?) 01:24:10 – Westerosi Movie Scene 4
Spoiler Alert! We wanted to give you heads up that book knowledge does bleed into this presentation heavily, and may be considered spoilers by some! Otherwise, Kelly gives you a tour of all the sigils that came courting for Rhaenyra’s hand at Storm’s End! Tweet the podcast @b4thedraggonpod, send emails to mattsaudioblog@gmail.com, leave comments at the web page (mattsaudioblog.com) or in our YouTube videos (search for “Before the Dragon Podcast” there).
Matt gives his initial reaction to House of the Dragon S1E04 King of the Narrow Sea. Tweet @b4thedragonpod, email mattsaudioblog.com, leave comments on the web posts (mattsaudioblog.com), or on the YouTube videos (search for Before the Dragon Podcast there).
Matt is once again joined by YouTuber PriscilaTV, this time to discuss S1E03 of Amazon Prime’s Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power “Adar”! They recap and discuss the episode, play the “what’s worse game”, cover some feedback, and Matt gives a full musical breakdown of the theme for Numenor.
We want to hear what you think! Tweet @bustblockbuster, send emails to mattsaudioblog@gmail.com or leave comments on the webpage (as well as finding all back episodes of the podcast and podcast app links): mattsaudioblog.com
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Time Stamps: 00:00:00 – Introductions 00:01:31 – Episode Ratings 00:14:42 – Music Analysis: Numenor Theme 00:26:03 – Recap and Discussion: Numenor 00:56:19 – What’s Worse (Round 1) 01:04:18 – Recap and Discussion: Harfoots 01:15:07 – Recap and Discussion: Arondir 01:22:52 – What’s Worse (Round 2) 01:29:48 – Feedback 01:34:15 – What is the context of a fire not being hot? 01:37:32 – Wrap up/Subscribe to PriscilaTV!
Susan, Kelly, John, and Matt continue to discuss House of the Dragon S1E03 “Second of his Name”. A “serious” discussion breaks out, then they continue to explore the Tiny Wheel of Topics, and get a surprise Top 5 list from Kelly! They also play the 3 word description game, nominate the best couplings for the episode (Brothelmates), and play Seven Hellz, where they now draw not one, but TWO names to be potentially punished by in the next episode.
Send us your feedback, 3 words, Brothelmates, or guesses at this week’s “Scene from a Westerosi Movie” (see previous episode) by tweeting @b4thedragonpod, sending emails to mattsaudioblog@gmail.com, leaving comments at the website (mattsaudioblog.com),or on our YouTube videos (search for Before the Dragon Podcast there, subscribe, like and comment)!
Time Stamps: 00:00:00 – Spoiler Alert and Intro 00:00:50 – Serious Topic Time: CGI Oh Deer! 00:02:37 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: Otto will try ANYTHING! 00:13:26 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: Miguel Departs 00:22:26 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: More Deer! (The White Hart) 00:34:30 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: Crabfeeder Who? 00:40:38 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: Valaryon Cold Intro? 00:46:38 – Kelly’s Top 5 White-Blond Hair Styles of HotD 00:50:09 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: Sidecar Characters – Favorite Sceentime Fresh Faces 00:55:10 – Three Words 00:58:22 – Brothelmates (Best Coupling) 01:03:38 – Seven Hellz Game (now drawing TWO names per week) 01:10:11 – Feedback 01:12:47 – Final Thoughts (about CGI Deer – oh! And about the episode!)
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