B4TD055: House of the Dragon S1E07 – Cersei Lannister – Podcaster!

In this Part 1 of the panel cast, Queen Cersei Lannister is joined by Maester Intern Kelly, Susan, Holly, and John (Sneh) to discuss all things House of the Dragon S1E07 “Driftmark”. We want your feedback! Tweet @b4thedragonpod, email mattsaudioblog@gmail.com, comment on our website posts (mattsaudioblog.com) or on our YouTube videos (search for “Before the Dragon Podcast”, and subscribe)!

Some sounds and music are licensed through Artis IO (https://artlist.io/.Proof) of all licenses are found in a publicly shared Google Folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1to5jB5pXtiovOSAkrsaDRaReQQX9TfON?usp=sharing

Time Stamps:
00:00:00 – Spoiler Alert and Intro
00:01:19 – Welcome, Punishments Serving, and Episode Ratings
00:09:13 – Musical Analysis: Can we have just a shred of continuity?
00:18:16 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: Season 2 in Spring of ’24?
00:22:45 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: An Eye for an Eye (Alicent or Guity)
00:31:14 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: Daemon and Rhaenyra
00:38:16 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: An Eye for a Dragon (Aemond’s star or infamy rises?)
00:52:18 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: Mission Impossible (Laenor’s Mission Impossible)
01:01:44 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: Name or Blood? What makes a Legacy?
01:08:51 – Maester Impossible: Kelly’s Top 5 Famous Club Foots

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B4TD054: House of the Dragon S1E07 Initial Reaction

Matt gives his initial reaction to House of the Dragon S1E07 “Driftmark”. Tweet to @b3thedragonpod, send emails to mattsaudioblog@gmail.com, leave comments on the website (mattsaudioblog.com) or on the YouTube videos (Search for “Before the Dragon Podcast” on YT).

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BB046: Lord of the Rings The Rings of Power S1E06

Matt is joined (partially) by Youtuber PriscilaTV (https://www.youtube.com/c/PriscilaTV1) to discuss S1E06 of Amazon’s Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power! If you have thoughts regarding that episode (or any LOTR episode, or the podcast in general) feel free to tweet @bustblockbuster or @DoublePHQ, send emails to mattsaudioblog@gmail.com (or hello@doublepmedia.com) or comment at the website (mattsaudiblog.com or doublepmedia.com) or comment on the Double P YouTube youtube.com/c/doublepmedia.

Also be sure to check out Double P Media’s Facebook page at facebook.com/DoublePHQ. Don’t forget that PriscilaTV does her own reviews of LOTR on her channel (in easily auto-translatable Portuguese) on Fridays and joins Universo 42 (https://www.youtube.com/c/U42Oficial) on Saturdays for more LOTR discussion!

Time Stamps:
00:00:00 – Apologies and Introductions
00:02:16 – Episode Ratings
00:06:16 – Music Analysis: Pitch Modulation and Polytonality (a quasi-Double P!)
00:14:57 – Recap and Observations
00:34:35 – What’s Worse?
00:39:09- Feedback
00:40:25 – Thanks and Podcast Info

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B4TD053: House of the Dragon S1E06 – I Believe the Children are Our Future

In this Part 2 of the panel cast, Matt is joined by Susan, Holly, and John (Sneh) to discuss all things House of the Dragon S1E06 “The Princess and the Queen”. We want your feedback! Tweet @b4thedragonpod, email mattsaudioblog@gmail.com, comment on our website posts (mattsaudioblog.com) or on our YouTube videos (search for “Before the Dragon Podcast”, and subscribe)!

Some sounds and music are licensed through Artis IO (https://artlist.io/.Proof) of all licenses are found in a publicly shared Google Folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1to5jB5pXtiovOSAkrsaDRaReQQX9TfON?usp=sharing

Time Stamps:
00:00:00 – Spoiler Alert and Intro
00:00:56 – All the Official Stuff is Great!
00:04:43 – Welcome and Ratings for S1E06
00:08:48 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: I Believe the Children are our Future!(Aegon and in General)
00:17:10 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: I Believe the Children are our Future!(Jacaerys)
00:20:33 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: I Believe the Children are our Future!(Baela and Rhaena)
00:24:02 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: I Believe the Children are our Future!(Helaena)
00:26:58 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: I Believe the Children are our future!(Aemond)
00:30:55 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: I Believe the Children are our Future! (Lucaerys aka “Over-Luked”)
00:31:30 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: I Believe the Children are our Future!(Joffrey – and baby names, and grandparents)
00:35:14 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: Dragon Count and Dragon Pit
00:42:28 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: Nothing Small about the Small Council Anymore
00:52:32 – Three Words (3 word descriptions of the episode)
00:59:03 – Brothelmates (Best Coupling)
01:04:13 – Seven Hellz Game (now drawing TWO names per week)
01:15:49 – Feedback
01:20:07 – Closing Thoughts

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B4TD052: House of the Dragon S1E06 – Likely Lord Larys

In this Part 1 of the panel cast, Matt is joined by Susan, Holly, and John (Sneh) to discuss all things House of the Dragon S1E06 “The Princess and the Queen”. We want your feedback! Tweet @b4thedragonpod, email mattsaudioblog@gmail.com, comment on our website posts (mattsaudioblog.com) or on our YouTube videos (search for “Before the Dragon Podcast”, and subscribe)! Some sounds and music (specifically “The Abyss” by Leva in this episode) are licensed through Artis IO (https://artlist.io/.Proof) of all licenses are found in a publicly shared Google Folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1to5jB5pXtiovOSAkrsaDRaReQQX9TfON?usp=sharing

Time Stamps:
00:00:00 – Spoiler Alert and Intro
00:00:49 – Who’s the new most hateable character in HotD?
00:01:45 – Welcome and Ratings for S1E06
00:08:48 – Music Analysis: An Old Theme recharacterized and a theme for Likely Lord Larys?
00:22:18 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: The intro IS changing! (Does anyone care?)
00:28:03 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: New Faces/Same Old Characters!
00:42:39 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: Likely Lord Larys Strong
00:54:04 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: A Dragon Rider’s Death. Laena and Vhagar (and Daemon…Larys?)
01:15:11 – Tiny Wheel of Topics: Ser Harwin Break-Cartilage Strong and Ser Criston Cartilage
01:24:21 – Enter Our Contest (and all 5 Scenes “from a Westerosi Movie”)

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B4TD051: House of the Dragon S1E06 Initial Reaction

Matt gives his initial reaction to House of the Dragon S1E06! He rambles so much back and forth between subjects, we can’t even timestamp anything! 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).

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BB045: Lord of the Rings The Rings of Power S1E05

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

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B4TD050: House of the Dragon S1E05 Music Analysis

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).

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B4TD049-House of the Dragon S1E05 – Sorry

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 –

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B4TD048: House of the Dragon S1E05 Initial Reaction

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

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