Not A Podcast ASOIAF Re-Read Podcast

Hello and welcome to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

Jeff is off for a couple months, so Emmett is resuming his Lord of the Rings episodes. Here's the first episode on the fifth chapter of Book Four, in which Faramir puts Frodo on trial for the murder (?) of his brother Boromir. The next episode will cover the rest of the chapter, including the titular Window of the West.

Hello and welcome to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

Jeff is off for a couple months, so Emmett is resuming his Lord of the Rings episodes. Here's the fourth chapter of Book Four, in which Sam's just trying to enjoy a home-cooked meal when the war interrupts, bringing with it a new character: Faramir. 

Hello and welcome to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

Jeff is off for a couple months, so Emmett is resuming his Lord of the Rings episodes. Here's the third chapter of Book Four, in which our hobbit heroes finally arrive at the entranceway to Mordor...only to find that there's no way through, and they'll have to trust in Gollum yet again. 

Hello and welcome to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

Jeff is off for a couple months, so Emmett is resuming his Lord of the Rings episodes. Here's the second chapter of Book Four, in which Gollum leads Frodo and Sam through the happiest place in Middle-Earth: the Dead Marshes.

Hello and welcome to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

Jeff is off for a couple months, so Emmett is resuming his Lord of the Rings episodes. Here's the first chapter of Book Four, in which Frodo and Sam wander in circles before running into their new best friend: Gollum, aka Smeagol. 

Hello and welcome to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

Jeff is off for a couple months, so Emmett is resuming his Lord of the Rings episodes. Here's the last one on Book Three, covering Saruman's downfall at Isengard and Pippin finding the Palantir, before we begin coverage of Book Four next week with Frodo, Sam, and their new best friend Gollum.

- Abandon analysis and live in the moment, wishing we were reading this chapter for the first time

- Watch as Dany wears masks and falsehoods before donning the garb of war

- Witness Dany re-embrace her ethereal and magical side to make positive political change in the present -- but with long-term consequences

- Watch as all masks drop as Dany springs the trap on the most heinous people imaginable

- Wave farewell to the end of the Act 1 of ASOS.

- Analyze why Quaithe, why does she make an appearance in this chapter.

- Wave farewell to Ghost

- Break down Jon's crucial line: "we look up at the same stars, and see such different things"

- Continue Jon's espionage storyline from previous chapters

- Weep for the tragic romance of Jon and Ygritte

- Look back at Gendel and Gorne

- Frame this chapter as a crucible pivot point within Davos' ASOS arc

- Explore the ambiguous duality in his dynamic with Melisandre

- Deconstruct Melisandre's rigid binary worldview

- Poke fun at Alester Florent

- Set up Davos' quandary going forward: how does he further Stannis' cause as anything but a suicide mission?

- Announce our next patreon episode on the 2003 Battlestar Galactica: Miniseries

- Look into the woods with Bran and Summer.

- Talk about Bran in the context of the hero's journey and what that means for such a young kid

- Love the crap out of the scene with the Liddle Man

- Go deep into the Knight of the Laughing Tree story and who the knight might be (Quaithe? No.)