Boars, Gore, and Swords podcast: Ravens to Penthouse

Boars, Gore, and Swords 8:19 am Tue Nov 26, 2013

Boing Boing's latest podcast is called Boars, Gore, and Swords (BGaS for short). It's hosted by stand-up comedians Ivan Hernandez and Red Scott. In each episode they break down HBO's Game of Thrones and George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. They also talk about movies, TV, science fiction, fantasy, and other lots of other things. You should know that they use salty language. Enjoy! — Mark

In this episode, Red and Ivan discuss chapters Jon V and Daenerys IV in A Storm of Swords (Catch up on past podcast episodes here to listen to previous chapter breakdowns). Also: BGaS announces it's joined the Boing Boing podcast network! Red and Ivan discuss stone scrapers, proper arrow removal, fun things to say to a conquering army, blue hair, and NaNoWriMo. Closing song is "Last (Fire) Kiss" by Dan Preston..

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