Game of Thrones Season 8, Episode 1 podcast

Game of Thrones Season 8 - Bran is going to build a new wall perhaps. Like the old “Bran the builder did, using magic like 1,000’s of years before.

Places listening: Canada, The United Arab Emirates, France, Spain and Italy. 

For the first time in a long time no Ashburn, VA this whole week… do you guys in Ashburn hate Game of Thrones? Did you move? Let us know.  

#DragonSeason 

Dan O’Brien has had “brutal sound quality” — we’ll see if we can engineer a solution. 

Wine, Wall & Dragons Season 8 Episode 1

opening - little kid running in the snow - the unsullied have come to Winterfell- and there’s thousands upon thousands of them.

Jon and Dany ride together to Winterfell - Arya sees Jon for first time and she sees the Hound and Gendry - Family Reunion for Arya.

The Two Dragons make their entrance  - dramatic as always. 

Bran is waiting for Jon - the whole crew is. Its amazing how far flung all of these characters have been until this moment. 

Bran breaks the news on Ice Dragon - and wastes no time doing so. 

Lyanna Mormot throwing lots of shade at Jon for “bending of the knee”. 

Sansa is worried about groceries  - seems about right. 

Tyrion and Sansa have their first awkward convo since Joffrey’s wedding. Sansa gives Tyrion some hot truth on Cersei bailing on him.

Jon and Arya reunion got a little bit dusty in my house - "You used to me taller”, line was good. 

Kyburn tells Cersei the dead have broken through the wall — and she says “good”. Euron has the Iron Fleet off the shores of King’s Landing. 

Yara - still a prisoner.

Golden Company - 20,000 men 2,000 horses - zero elephants. Captain Strickland is the leader of the Golden Company - nothing like a new character with 6 eps left. 

Bronn in the house of ill repute as usually / Kyburn with the C-Block and wants to make a deal to do so. She wants Bronn to kill Jamie and Tyrion with a cross bow. Weird Flex. And she cranked Euron Greyjoy and lamented about not getting Elephants from Golden Company 

Theon is breaking Yara out of jail — wow first episode. Yara and Theon are making for Pyke and the Iron Islands. 

We’ve now got 3 queens - in the realm. 

Davos - proposing a marriage between Dany and Jon — eek — when’s Bran gonna break the news. 

Is Jon going to ride Rhaegal ??? HOLY ESS! Jon’s riding a Dragon Ep 1 — BOOM! 

Water Fall love scene - call back to the old wildling watering hole. Drogon EYE BALLING Jon Snow. he’s a peeping tom! 

Gendry, Hound and Arya reunion. It was pretty comical. 

Jon Snow and Sansa — doing the old “you bent the knee” argument, again. 

Sam Tarly ! With Jorah and Dany! BOOM! Then she learned she burned his dad and brother. Tough look, tough moment. 

Sam and Bran gonna talk. Sam is going to have to tell Jon. This is going to get complicated AF. Jon is Aegon the 6th — hell of a moment. 

Tormund, Berric and the boys - walk into a murder scene 

The Umber Boy is dead and the Night king had him pinned to wall. He’s a wight - and it’s creepy AF. 

Jamie arrives in Winterfell - Bran is eyeballing him from Jump Street. 

March Madness Picks based on where we should've gone to college

2019 March Madness 

Sampling Bud light Drafts at various bars - for best tasting ? Could that be a thing? Maybe with Natty Light? Maybe best “dollar draft/ door brew/ brick light” type beers

What to you make of Bud Light having a marketing campaign based on having ingredients on the label and not having corn syrup? Is it genius or desperate? 


Fake band name of the week: Fajita Theory 

30,000 downloads - thank you - Ashburn VA, Felixstone, UK and Weston, MA (Booger Brown)?

United Kingdom 2nd place, Angola #3, Australia, Canada and Philippines  

Lukewarm NIT Takes 

It’s kind of like a nice “going away party” or like the brunch the day after a wedding. You weren’t sure if you we even going to go, but you did and had a fun time seeing everybody one more time before finally having things end. 

Great vibe, an appreciative vibe during pregame, etc

Negative - you can’t do any “canned music” or sponsor promos that get the fans excited. 

I get not allowing the home team intro, I get letting both teams Spirit teams perform, etc. - but in this day & age of dwindling attendance and tepid interest in the NIT at best… wouldn’t a dance cam, or a bevy for free t-shirts being tossed into the crowd, or a free pizza delivery help spice stuff up. 

More importantly, they only allow pep band music. Can’t mix it up with any recorded tracks over the PA. Which takes away 1) the entire Jock Jams catalog. 2) Sandstorm and Zombie Nation techno-fests 3) And pretty much any hit song from the past 5 years. 

Picking a national title based on where I should have actually gone to college.