Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff breakdown AGOT, Sansa III, where, you guessed it, Sansa hears the phrase "life is not a song." This week, we talk about: - Which part of ASOIAF we'd remove if we had too (The Two Amen Brothers fight over what's right) - Sansa begins to learn that life is not a fairytale and begins editing her own stories to make them seem like songs in re...
Dec 24, 2018•1 hr 19 min•Ep 47•Transcript available on Metacast Hi everyone and happy holidays! Today, we're releasing our holiday special episode all about TWOW/ADOS and how much of it was spoiled by GoT. And we brought a fantastic guest with us: Joanna Robinson of Vanity Fair, Storm of Spoilers, Decoding Westworld and so many other fantastic podcasts and projects! Thanks for making our lives so blessed this year. Seriously, you all are the best! Joanna Robinson at Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/contributor/joanna-robinson Storm of Spoilers: http:/...
Dec 21, 2018•3 hr 47 min•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff breakdown AGOT, Eddard XI, in which Ned Stark sits high atop the uncomfortable Iron Throne and does a bit of northern justice south of the Neck. But was this the smart play? So much to talk about … This week, we talk about: - Loras and Renly's relationship - What's the future for Fire and Blood, Volume Two - The Red Keep: a bloody history...
Dec 17, 2018•1 hr 23 min•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff breakdown AGOT, Tyrion VI, in which Tyrion shares his brutal backstory with his new friend Bronn before making a whole bunch of new friends with the locals. This week, we talk about: -The many battles of TWOW (a favorite topic of Jeff's) -Bronn and Tyrion's evolving relationship -Tyrion's cynicism and where it comes from -The many horrors...
Dec 10, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff breakdown AGOT, Jon V, in which Jon Snow is officially offered a place in the Night’s Watch, but doesn’t feel right about it unless his BFF Samwell Tarly gets to come along as well. This week, we talk about: - The mysterious letter Princess Deria Martell sent to Aegon the Conqueror - Alliser Thorne being (wait for it) an asshole - How Jon...
Dec 03, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Ep 43•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff breakdown AGOT, Catelyn VII in which Catelyn watches one duel and recalls another. This week, we: - Answer a question Littlefinger's involvement in Robert's Rebellion - Talk about the idiot monkey morons known as the Vale nobility - More of the injustice system in Westeros and how it benefits the mighty and hurts everyone else - The trage...
Nov 19, 2018•1 hr 29 min•Ep 42•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff are joined by Chloe AKA LiesandArbor to breakdown one of the most iconic chapters in all of ASOIAF: AGOT, Eddard X. This week, we: - Talk a whole lot about the battles of ice and fire that will kick off TWOW - Radio theater the shit out of the Tower of Joy scene - SO MUCH TOWER OF JOY. DID YOU HEAR ME? - The chivalric dream wakes to the h...
Nov 12, 2018•2 hr 59 min•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff breakdown AGOT, Tyrion V in which Tyrion escapes a perilous situation with his wit, cunning, and a well-timed roll of the dice. Classic Tyrion shit, in other words. This week, we: - Answer a question about whether Jaime Lannister might be Dany's "Treason for love" - Analyze justice in Westeros (Injustice) - Show how Tyrion's mouth gets hi...
Nov 05, 2018•1 hr 27 min•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff analyze AGOT, Bran V in which Bran Stark takes a lovely horse ride atop his brand new saddle, but in ASOIAF-fashion, it ends in blood. This week, we: - Answer a question about Jaqen H'ghar in the black cells - From joy to melancholy to blood: Bran's day out - Why Robb and Bran acted somewhat stupidly in the circumstance - But Theon is the...
Oct 29, 2018•1 hr 21 min•Ep 39•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff unpack AGOT, Daenerys IV in which Dany and the gang arrive at the “ancient, arrogant, and empty” city of Vaes Dothrak, where in a shocking turn of events, Viserys is an asshole.. This week, we: - Talk about Dany's identity conflict between Targaryen and Dothraki - Dany's education as a Khaleesi - Viserys' racism and arrogance and how his ...
Oct 22, 2018•1 hr 27 min•Ep 38•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff unpack AGOT, Eddard IX in which Ned’s melancholy musings on Robert and Lyanna while riding back from visiting a brothel are rudely interrupted by an attack by Jaime Lannister, which leaves Ned wounded and several of his men killed. This week, we: - Talk about the brutal melancholy of the chapter and how GRRM tides the emotions and past ex...
Oct 15, 2018•1 hr 22 min•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff unpack AGOT, Catelyn VI in which Catelyn Stark makes it out of the Mountains of the Moon to the Vale proper...only to have to climb yet another mountain. She just can’t win, despite doing nothing wrong, ever. This week, we: - Give our initial thoughts on the FIRE AND BLOOD excerpt - Catelyn's growing stony heart - Feudalism and Brynden Tu...
Oct 08, 2018•2 hr 25 min•Ep 36•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff tackle AGOT, Eddard VIII in which Ned Stark pleads with Robert not to murder Daenerys and Viserys and ends up resigning rather than participate in murder. This week, we: - Discuss Ned's three arguments to Robert about not killing Daenerys - How Ned leaving is a breakup - How much of a shit Renly is - Who was the merchant Littlefinger pric...
Oct 01, 2018•2 hr 57 min•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff tackle AGOT, Arya IIIin which Arya Stark chases cats through the Red Keep and stumbles upon dragon skulls and a pair of conspirators. This week, we: - Talk about a potential First Blackfyre Rebellion show - Discuss Arya's training montage, chasing cats - Follow up on her chat with dad and how Ned giving her something to do was the best th...
Sep 24, 2018•2 hr 40 min•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff tackle AGOT, Tyrion IV in which Tyrion Lannister rides as a captive of Catelyn’s Stark’s to the Vale, gets ambushed by Mountain Clansmen and sows doubt in Catelyn’s mind about whether he actually sent the catspaw to kill Bran. This week, we: - Answer a question about an AU where Hoster Tully isn't sick. - Discuss how this chapter immediat...
Sep 17, 2018•2 hr 49 min•Ep 33•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff tackle AGOT, Eddard VII in which in which the Hand’s Tourney comes to a bloody close and the titular Hand has some very revealing conversations with King Robert and Varys the Spider. This week, we: - Answer a question about the convenience of Ned figuring out that Jaime was the father of Cersei's children - Discuss Ser Hugh's life and dea...
Sep 10, 2018•2 hr 11 min•Ep 32•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff are joined by Chloe, AKA Liesandarbor! This week, we: - Answer a question about the upcoming Long Night - Engage in depth on oh so many aspects of this chapter: the tourney, Sansa as fantasy protagonist, that apparently she's only 12 years old - Lord Creepyfinger and Sansa - The hold-your-breath conversation between Sansa and Sandor - Ser...
Sep 03, 2018•3 hr 38 min•Ep 31•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff tackle Jeff's favorite AGOT chapter: AGOT, Catelyn V in which Lady Catelyn and her faithful retainer Ser Rodrik have a fateful chance encounter at the crossroads. This week, we: - Answer a question whether any of the gods are real in ASOIAF. - Talk about Catelyn's family, her home and the fractured politics of the Riverlands - The Inn at ...
Aug 27, 2018•2 hr 35 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff tackle AGOT, Eddard VI in which Ned Stark has a frustrating small council session, the reader receives our first inklings of who Stannis Baratheon is and Ned visits an armorer and his apprentice who turns out to be Gendry: Robert Baratheon’s bastard. This week, we: - Answer a question about what era of history in Westeros or Essos and our...
Aug 20, 2018•2 hr 48 min•Ep 29•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff tackle AGOT, Jon IV where Jon makes a friend in Samwell Tarly for life. This week, we: - Answer a question about our favorite Nerstream Era Supreme Court of Westeros ruling. - Talk through Sam and Jon's relationship and how it evolves - Randyll "Lord Fuckface" Tarly gets his due - Foreshadowing for the Red Wedding, Sack of Winterfelland J...
Aug 13, 2018•2 hr 47 min•Ep 28•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff tackle AGOT, Eddard V in which Ned soft-interrogates Grand Maester Pycelle, has a great moment with Arya and gets a lesson in paranoia from Littlefinger This week, we: - Answer a question about whether GRRM not taking an active role in the show led to lower quality seasons. - Throw numerous shade at Pycelle (who deserves every bit of it) ...
Aug 06, 2018•1 hr 23 min•Ep 27•Transcript available on Metacast Hello! And welcome to a very, very special edition of the NotACast ... podcast - a patreon sample episode where PoorQuentyn and BryndenBFish throwdown on the fate of Ser Barristan Selmy! Now, if you listen to us regularly, you know that typically, we give you all one chapter per week, but this past week, both Emmett and Jeff had some IRL responsibilities which prevented them from recording the next chapter episode. So, instead as a little treat, we are making our first patreon-only episode of th...
Jul 30, 2018•2 hr 48 min•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff are joined by twitter and IRL extraordinaire ManuclearBomb! He joins the boys today in analyzing AGOT, Bran IV This week, we: - Answer questions about the Blackfyres, the Brotherhood without Banners and the fate of Davos Seaworth - Bran's physical and emotional broken state - Old Nan's stories and what horror as a genre actually means - R...
Jul 23, 2018•2 hr 29 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff are joined AGAIN by ASOIAF mystic and mythical astronomer: Lucifer Means Lightbringer, AKA LML. He joins the boys today in doing the deep-dive into Daenerys Targaryen's third chapter. Fair warning: there is discussion about rape and sexual assault in this episode. This week, we: - Answer questions about Cersei Lannister's TWOW arc, whethe...
Jul 16, 2018•2 hr 24 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff are back in King's Landing, looking at George doing his best emotional work with AGOT, Arya II! This week, we: - Answer questions on Valyrian Steel, Littlefinger, the Age of Heroes adaptation and Ned's plan when he drew the dagger on Littlefinger. - Talk the impact of trauma on Arya Stark - The way the world works and how it impacts Arya ...
Jul 09, 2018•2 hr 51 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff journey back to the Wall to visit with Tyrion as he eats, drinks and japes his way through dinner and then heads on up to the Wall to hang out with Jon This week, we: - Answer questions on what Robert, Stannis or Renly would have done with Joffrey, Tommen and Myrcella and answer a question about the alliance between Janos and Alliser in A...
Jul 02, 2018•2 hr 32 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff get their hands dirty in the swamp politics of King's Landing as Lord Eddard Stark enters King's Landing, and we have our first small council session. This week, we: - Answer questions on why other theories besides R+L=J don't make sense and answer why there are few Valyrian steel weapons in Essos - Breakdown Ned's no-good, very bad first...
Jun 25, 2018•2 hr 16 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff journey north to the beauty and horror of the Wall, hang out with Jon Snow, Alliser Thorne, Tyrion Lannister and Donal Noye This week, we: - Talk about the Age of Heroes show and answer a question about whether Stannis will burn Theon, Asha and Rickon - Jon as a bully and how he gets his privilege checked hard - Weep about how much of a B...
Jun 18, 2018•2 hr 6 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff get into the thick of King's Landing and all its amazing architecture and wretched politics This week, we: - Answer questions about House Dayne in TWOW and our favorite music from GAME OF THRONES. - We stare in awe at George's description of King's Landing - Cash Rules Everything Around Me (in King's Landing) - Littlefinger and Varys as p...
Jun 11, 2018•2 hr 23 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff are joined by ASOIAF mystic and mythical astronomer: Lucifer Means Lightbringer, AKA LML. He joins the boys today in analyzing AGOT, Bran III, the trippy as shit chapter where Bran falls and learns to fly via the Three Eyed Crow This week, we: - Answer questions our favorite actors in GAME OF THRONES, what religions we'd follow and whethe...
Jun 04, 2018•3 hr 57 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast 
