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Philip Haberkern

Apr 16, 2026

AnthonyHOST
35:56
Uh-huh
35:56
... and bring him back to Dragon, to Dragonstone, right? So it's interesting to me of, like, the why.
36:04
Why would you want this, this living reminder of your brother's humiliation of you on your wedding day present in this place? And particularly it's gotta drive, you know, Stannis' wife up the wall that this visible reminder is there of that, again, that day of humiliation.
36:23
And so is this part of, again, like, the idea of the blood of the king and the sort of-magical power of that? Is Stannis told to be, you know, instructed to be sort of collecting people like this? I, I'm just curious about that and again, the longer arc-
AnthonyHOST
41:20
Hmm
41:20
... and, and vice versa because we have in, in Patchface again, like this character who keeps cropping up at these key moments, seems to always be at moments affecting Melisandre.
41:35
And like are they antagonistic to each other I think is an interesting question.
41:39
Um, but there's something about him and his experience of drowning and coming back to life, so we're back to like the idea of undersea gods versus gods of the land.
AnthonyHOST
27:04
Mm-hmm.
27:05
He rejects the system, and yet at moments he shows himself a true knight.
27:11
Or someone like, you know, Eddard Stark, who has never said the vows, is not technically, you know, a ser under the Seven, and yet seems fairly chivalrous.
27:21
I can't remember if Brienne of Tarth was allowed to take the oaths or not, but more often than not, for Martin, it's people who aren't capital K Knights who are the truest knights.
27:35
Barristan maintains that status after he's given up his oaths.

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AnthonyHOST
41:17
Mm-hmm.
41:17
But, you know, making sure you have the right dessert to really butter up a guest makes sense, especially when you're talking about bigger issues.
41:25
So this is just...

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