I’m taken to school! To law school. Clint and Merry from the Learned Hands podcast join me to talk about the Sworn Sword. Why are we discussing the middle novella of the Hedge Knight trilogy? Reasons. Listen to the podcast and be blown away by the analysis we bring to the topic. Or take issue with it. Up to you, really.  Download the episode! Our Patreon page at patreon.com/boiledleatheraudiohour. Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan’s blog. Learned Hands podcast Clint Woods on Twitter Merry on Twitter

We continue the talk about the Weimar Republic with the feverish combination of inflation fuelled economic growth, coups, counter-coups, the Versailles treaty and a lot of constitutional analysis! Download the episode! Our Patreon page at patreon.com/boiledleatheraudiohour. Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan’s blog. Jim’s blog Jim on Twitter.

It’s time to watch a Coen Brothers movie. Strap in, imagine George Clooney in viking armor, and let’s delve into TWOW, Victarion I. , Download the episode! Our Patreon page at patreon.com/boiledleatheraudiohour. Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan’s blog. Sean on Twitter.

In a dazzling new series, Jim McGeehin (of Wars of Ice and Fire fame) and I tackle the history of the Weimar Republic. In this issue, we talk about the end of World War I and the revolution that ensued, the Versailles treaty and the escalating violence within Germany as well as trying to assess the chances of democracy.  Download the episode! Our Patreon page at patreon.com/boiledleatheraudiohour. Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan’s blog. Jim’s blog Jim on Twitter.

Tyrion II, you ask befuddled? Did I miss Tyrion I? You did not. For reasons we explain in this podast. Don’t worry, it will all become clear in a moment.  But on to the topic! This episode is not about whether Tyrion is a bully or a bad person or whether misogynistic violence really is the best outlet for your own insecurities. It’s really about ethics in mercenary companies.  Find the chapter here and Tyrion I here…or what we have of it.  Download the episode! Our Patreon page at patreon.com/boiledleatheraudiohour. Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan’s blog. Sean on Twitter.

We’re on the home stretch! Today, in our series on the TWOW sample chapters, Sean and I look at not one but two Barristan chapters! Download the episode! Our Patreon page at patreon.com/boiledleatheraudiohour. Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan’s blog. Sean on Twitter.

We’re taking a break from the usual light-hearted discussions like the one about atrocities and war crimes and go topical: amidst the Corona pandemic, we’re talking about plague and disease in Westeros and our own middle ages. You know, just to take your mind off things. Among the undeniable health risks, we also discuss why plagues generally don’t make for good storytelling and how GRRM employs them. Download the episode! Our Patreon page at patreon.com/boiledleatheraudiohour. Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Steven’s blog. Stefan’s blog.

When Tywin tried to legitimize the Red Wedding to Tyrion, he hyperbolically asked whether it was worse to kill a dozen at dinner than thousands in battle. Tyrion doesn’t have a good retort, so I turned to my trusted colleague Jim McGeehin to get a grip on this issue - and the role of atrocities and war crimes in the story in general, while we were at it. Download the episode! Our Patreon page at patreon.com/boiledleatheraudiohour. Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan’s blog. Jim’s blog Jim on Twitter.

Is there some foreshadowing going on? Will someone die? Is this “A Song of Ice and Fire”? We can answer all of these in affirmative as we take on “Arianne II”, chewing happily through our series analyzing all the preview chapters of TWOW. Follow us through the Rainwood as we accompany Arianne and her merry band not going to their doom at all as she is only trying to find out whether her beloved brother has landed with three dragons and the Golden Company. That was her father’s plan, after all, and Doran’s conspiracies NEVER fail. Download the episode! Our Patreon page at patreon.com/boiledleatheraudiohour. Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan’s blog. Sean on Twitter.

We delve into Arianne I, the next on our list of sample chapters. It’s “A Game of Forebodings”, a chapter choke-full of predictions, prophecies, foreboding and foreshadowing. And it’s not even a  Dany chapter! Rather, the point of reference is Sansa, as you will discover when you listen to this episode of the dynamic duo!   Download the episode! Our Patreon page at patreon.com/boiledleatheraudiohour. Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Steven’s blog. Stefan’s blog.