Speaker 1: Hello, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome back to another episode of
geek Verse Podcasts. I am one of your hosts, The
Horse Thief spell correctly Taylor Field. I'm joined by.
Speaker 2: I'm the Big Old Goose Egg Curricles.
Speaker 1: We're here continuing our trek into West ROAs, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, again,
we're skipping the spoilers because these are like like ten
minute episodes, so there's nothing non spoilers to cover. Did
I say that right? We're skipping the spoilers. Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, no,
we're only going to.
Speaker 2: Talk non spoilers.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: No, that's not the case.
Speaker 1: So we're getting into the nitty gritty right off the
hop here. And then I mean, if it's short enough,
like do we do an ad break? If it's like
twenty minutes, I don't know. If we do, know, okay,
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you feel about this week's episode? What's what's driving with you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? What's driving with me? I'd say a plenty. I
am continuing to really enjoy this show coming off last week.
I think this was another really strong week. There was
some escalated danger in this week's episode. I feel like
there's some intense moments and some some plot things that
are like really starting to get underway, basing around like eggs,
like who who the character of Egg is. Of course
in this episode we kind of find that out a
little bit more. And yeah, no, I think it's really
really good. I'm excited then tournaments kind of getting going,
but like it doesn't really until Sir Duncan the Tall
gets swinging for for you know, in my eyes. But
I'm excited for all that to come about. And yeah, no,
I thought it ended really strongly, and uh, I'm excited
to see kind of what happens after this and what
it all means really going forward, especially we're with Sir
Dunk and part of me an Egg.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like the relationship just continues to be one that
I really I can appreciate and enjoy because Eggs just
like taking the horse out and training the horse and
doing all this stuff. And he's not even telling mister
Dunk you know what he's what he's up to, right,
He's just doing shit.
Speaker 2: I feel like it could be dangerous, Like the boy
could just get murdered or like just kidnapped and somebody
takes that horse and he's just he's just out of
the tournament.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, dangerous world that that the Mad Night or
whatever his name was, he just sawners up, no shoes
on either, he's barefoot, and did you steal that horse? Boy?
This is yeah Game of Thrones, Like you don't want
to be a kid out here alone with like a
big ass sword on this horse. Just the horse is
like stocked up with the full inventory of goods.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's bait baby right there, totally, especially for
the guy with no shoes, like.
Speaker 1: I have no shoes, yeah, which this is It's interesting
because this show has done this a couple of times now.
As soon as we saw the guy with no shoes,
it cuts to like a quick flashback sequt showing like
a brief origin of where he's just laughing and his
eyes dead. Yeah. It just really uh, quite something. But
that's not something they've done in the previous Game of
Thrones either. And I feel like this episode, no, we
got like the first like intro or it was like
nine to seven Kingdoms and it was just like white
and the title card popped up and it just give
us a theme or anything. It just kind of like
eased into you know, it's intro I guess if that
makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, no intro house the Dragons had like
the same intros Game of Thrones, didn't it like same
song and everything.
Speaker 1: It did, Yeah, same exact song everything. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah. A good shout out for like the little
flashback clip that they have, because they've done that multiple
times in the season now, and I feel like majority
of the times that they do it, it's like a
comedic purpose when they're like telling a story and it
just goes to like a quick cut. Especially Buddy, it
just took the fucking the spear to the eye. Just
such a dangerous wild activity that these guys are doing,
and I mean not just for the riders but also
the horses is evident here what a fucking dirty we play,
just going right for the horse.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's some bullshit.
Speaker 2: Crowds rightfully upset. And this guy is just such a
wild card, just yeah, such a wild factor. I feel
like he's just pissing everybody off, going to the place,
cutting the finger off of like the main actor because
it murder the fake uh fake dragon. Yeah.
Speaker 1: This it's a sport that I don't think nobleman should
be involved in. I mean, if you got like the
one heir to the throne, like here, throw them in
this fucking arena. Where his horse could get speared through
the throat or you know, jousted through his eye, like goddamn.
But I like when characters flex too, like when you
got characters heading under the radar and then it's like,
you know, wait till my father has about this kind
of like a Malfoy moment. But uh, I'm trying to
think of a good example in comparison to that. Oh,
I got one, I got one, Okay, Aladdin when the
cat of the guards hain Aladdin and like, look at
this a street mouse, and then Jasmine pulled her head
back like they're like, oh, princess, you know wow, that's.
Speaker 2: That's such a good comparison. Surprised you had that loaded
up in your back pocket. Fits perfectly here. Yeah you
mentioned Duncan egg and uh yeah. They continue to just
have absolutely fantastic chemistry together. A couple of moments in
this episode that I really love their back and forth.
One in particular was when they're like at the bar
after after the fact. I can't remember his name, but
the guy that he's been reoccurring, we've talked about him
in every episode so far, but he's just singing and dancing.
They're they're talking about this woman named Alice who was
born missing some digits, but she would just please men
by shoving her her fist up their asses. And just
like the breakdown of like especially like the little child
actor like just given his his spiel, like the descriptive
words around it.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It was so funny and they're just like so serious
talking about it. It was. It was a funny sequence,
but a scene that I really enjoyed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, that was good. I like Eggs song too,
that that he was singing, just like all like the
bastard targarian lines and all these different different things, and
like it does this is another another poll Like in
Shrek when they go to Lord Farquad's castle and they
play the little play thing and it's like shine your shoes,
wipe your face instead of ass and it's just the
song kind of he's singing, it has that like instead
of like you know, cock and stuff like that. It's
just kind of shifts notes into something else, but it's
implied with the rhyme that's instilled in the song. So
I want to relisten to it because I feel like
there's all it kind of covers the ground of a
lot of different Targarian characters. But again, in this world
there's like twenty Eggons and fifty am In Targerians. Like,
you can't fucking keep track.
Speaker 2: Of all these people. So man o, the names, oh
for sure, those are just the ones that sound cool.
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah. And I'm not sure where this targarian
falls in the lineage of things, because if we have
the two we met, the one Targerian that the drunkard,
and then we've got the two that are in charge,
the two royal Targarians. And obviously egg is the one
son of the one who's like in power.
Speaker 2: Is that the one that's like the king?
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if he's the king? Are you talking
about like the hand guy the well the hand is
a Targarian, but his hand and his brother is I
guess maybe king.
Speaker 2: That would make sense, younger brother, the one that lost
his sons.
Speaker 1: He's he's like he's the older one. I thought, oh,
he's the soldier guy.
Speaker 2: I thought the Hand was the older one out of
those two.
Speaker 1: Again, my my knowledge is is discredit us like, no
fucking I.
Speaker 2: Never claimed to know all this, Okay, I didn't read
this book.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I will. I know that, Okay, the guy
that lost his sons, I know obviously. Okay, that's Egg's father, Okay, yeah, yeah,
and so he's out here. But the older brother that's
aimoned and I don't know where he's at because Aimon
is obviously. Oh no, he's probably being a master right
now because he wants to. He ends up on the
wall with John Snow.
Speaker 2: And did they mention him in this episode something about
I might have been in that song that Egg was singing.
I don't know. There were so many names being spewed about.
I would have to re listen to to really pinpoint
who they were talking about. Yeah, he did mention someone
being sent to be a master because you're just so
stupid or just so so bad at whatever it was.
But I can't maybe that is scene, or if it
was another time that they're talking about them. It might
have been. Actually when h Buddies drink Insider with Duncan
in the tent and you just ship talking all the Targanians,
it might have been in that scene. I can't quite
remember now.
Speaker 1: That makes sense, And I could I could see that
having some kind of like tie into to his brother
that fit. I can't remember too if last week I
said this because, uh, the targarian who's just on like
a rampage and jouster or whatnot and breaking ladies fingers.
He's the guy that thinks he can become a dragon
if he gets doused in dragon fires. He's very protective. Yeah,
he's so much wants to fucking be one and just
melt himself. Good. God, seems like quite the character. Well,
every every Game of Thrones, it oderation has to have
that version of just your your fucked up person. Right,
you've got your Geoffrey, you've got your Ramsey. Hel's the dragon?
Did it helps the dragon? I guess Raniera's husband, Matt
Smith's character. He's a little fucked up. He's done some
bad ship.
Speaker 2: It, oh for sure?
Speaker 1: Hmm demon demon? Yeah yeah, so I guess maybe this
guy is supposed to be set up as that it's
just that. But then we have the other character we
haven't seen yet either he was the Lanister one right
where he was just like beating the ship out of
his cousin, or it was that that wasn't the same
character here, No, because this guy came in later.
Speaker 2: Which guy are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Like remember his dunk showed up and he was walking
around at the start of like one of the people.
Speaker 2: So that was this guy's cousin that he was like, okay, okay, okay,
because and then they're talking about him again like uh,
like who do you think your cousin's gonna pick. It's like,
whoever gets injured, that's who he's gonna challenge. He's a
very un honorable individual. Yeah, I guess it kind of
fits that. I'm sure that guy's gonna get bopped. I
have a feeling that he's just gonna get handed in
the attorney if we see him again.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. And so the speaking of the attorney, we
have the one guy who came to Sir Dunk and
was like, hey, like we're rigging the game, and not
really rigging the game, like we'll set you up with
like to the to the nines, like armor, everything you need,
Like if you can, if you can get this win,
you can dump this this one dude which I can't
remember his name, but if you dump him, then everyone
that bet on you, you know, we'll just get yeah bitch. So,
but he wants a fair fight. He doesn't want to
just do it like cheaply. So I wasn't sure if
it was implied to other guy is going to take
the fall and then purposely lose that these guys can.
Speaker 2: Get I don't think so, because they're talking about like
the Targerian guy. Weren't they like the guy that's like
supposed to be the favorite of the journey, not the
crazy guy. Not the crazy A different one, the other one.
I think we saw him last week's episode. I can't
remember his name. I should have brought my my list
of faces. All the names blend together. But whoever it is,
that was the idea, like basically supposed to Actually, no,
I'm totally mistaken because because he was talking about the
like the hometown favorite, I think, and then he was
gonna be like the the enemy or the yeah, just
pissing off all the locals. If he takes him out,
but wherever he I'm sure it'll be important, but maybe
it'll just be fast tracked to fight in a Targarian. Now,
after what happens out of this.
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, yeah, I mean this episode three? And
how many episodes are there?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 1: Six episodes? I hope more sent through this is saying
five episodes. No, get out of here. It's that's crazy episodes.
That's not right, that was it.
Speaker 2: It was just three episode show.
Speaker 1: It's all over. Uh six episodes. Yeah, so we're fifty
percent of the way down the show already.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: I guess it makes sense with considering that we just
kind of hit like a big climactic now already, so
suddenly in the show.
Speaker 2: But geez, Louise, I feel like the tournament like hasn't
even started.
Speaker 1: No, it hasn't. I mean it started for high Borns
and no woman, right, you know they Richie Rich.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're in there. It's funny to I
feel we just had a special bread and Butter episode
talking about foods in in various places and mythological lands,
and man should have watched this before we did that episode,
because when they were making that breakfast was those giant
ass goose eggs. Man, when he cracks the egg and
the yolk is just massive, like the size of like
a whole plate. Those eggs look so yummy. They had
some sort of bacon on there and then just I
don't think they had anything else. It was just straight
on there.
Speaker 1: But bacon grease mixed in there.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, those goose eggs look so good though, like
just the orange yolks. I was I was licking my
lips thinking about that. So yeah, add that one to
the list of foods that I want to try out
in different fantasy worlds.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, I'm with you on that.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I like too. It's like an awkward
encounter with the ShopKeep where he's trying to get the
goose eggs and guys are gonna kill the goose. Reminds
me like rush hour rush hour.
Speaker 1: That's exactly it takes the goose.
Speaker 2: He just takes the goose of them, and then and
then he's like standing there with his goose eggs after
and that lady, you know, before she gets her finger
ripped off, she just like walks by him. It's like
you want a goose egg because he's just holding this goose.
This guy's just so awkward and then and then you
have egg just kind of just gotta bug them about
it after. It was a funny sequence.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I like that they have all those lighthearted
moments and in here it's it's great and it makes again,
it gives it a sense of identity for itself and
just makes it feel very different in comparison to all
the other Game of Thrones shows that we've seen so far,
So I really really do like it. I'm trying to
think what else I have on this episode, but I don't.
It was just the you know, some humble beginning and
middle and then a climactic end. And again that the
episodes are so short, so they they do a good
job so far. It's squeezing in what they can for
the narrative to progress it forward, and they give us
a little bit more connection to our characters, and they're
doing a pretty good, uh a good job with the
half hour that they've been allotted. So that's a compliment,
I guess, because some shows, you know, you just you
get botched. I remember some of those Mandalorian days where
you get like that thirty minutes or twenty minutes, like man,
what the fuck? You know? You wait up till midnight
and you get absolutely just pennies.
Speaker 2: Oh I know, you do the you watch the episode,
we do the recording, and then you just go to
bed and you're like, I'm gonna get three a half
hours of sleep for that shit, kid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: But these feels wouldn't change for the world.
Speaker 1: No, No, uh, you got anything else.
Speaker 2: Another scene I wanted to shout out was when they're
going through the little town market thing and there's like
the fortune teller that's there and I can't remember. She
says like sins to Sir Duncan, like you're gonna be
really good in the tournaments and something like that, and
it's like, oh, yeah, I do the kid. It's like
you're gonna be a king and you're gonna bleed out
of your mouth and like just all these like dark
omen type things, and egg is just like terrified. It's like,
why the hell would you say that. He's like just
just scared for his life, and Sir Duncan is just
just laughing about him, basically saying that it's complete nonsense.
But I wonder how much of that is true, you know,
because he is tied to the Tigerians or.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's gonna be that's gonna be something. I'm hoping
Eggs prediction comes true where he's like, you know, I'll
go to fight for my lord, come back and marry
the second prettiest maid in the land, Like what about
the first? You'll have the first, sir, that's much better out.
I'll look for him. Oh.
Speaker 2: I also like just asked her dunk. He's like, why
is there black hair sprouting up above my stones? It's like,
why are you asking me that? Just so the lines
are so funny.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I love the dynamic between the two of them,
and I think that can be it can be a
hit or miss. You gotta get two characters that have
such great chemistry with each other or two actors, I guess,
and they landed it with these two. It's it's it's great.
So to show that I had a pitch to my dad.
I think he'd really get a kick out of it
with the their their dynamic together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's good. So beyond that, though, not a
whole lot uh to really pull from. I mean, all
the scenes and everything they do look phenomenal, Like I
can definitely feel like I'm in a West ROAs world.
They do just such a good job with the costumes
and the horses, everything, the night shots they look phenomenal.
Speaker 1: And it's it's it's funny too. I mean it's just
been one set that they've just been focused on. They
haven't gone anywhere else like other Game of Throne shows do,
so I mean it just goes to show how far
you can get with just a small budget and just
one set piece. Really, so they're they're maximizing what they've
been given for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 1: But uh, that's that's it. That's probably the shortest podcast
episode ever of all fucking time, right there. Uh. We
will be back though next week. You know. I'm I'm
gonna be away for a little bit, but I will
be back. I'm gonna be here for a Fallout because
we have the fall Out finale this week, so definitely
check that out. I'm pretty sure it'll be Dylan, myself
and Uh and Travis. I picked up my Fallout pop.
Did you go get some pop? Kirk?
Speaker 2: No, I didn't. It was it was on the other
side of the aisle and I was just guard. My
task and that moment was to guard the cart, so
I couldn't really move and there's just a string of people.
So I'm like, I don't I don't want to leave
the car to go we get a case.
Speaker 1: But how is it I haven't drank it yet, No,
I've been I've been waiting, saving it for the review. Yeah,
and then I think Travis. Travis message me is like
save save one for in our next in person cast.
So yeah, whenever that's.
Speaker 2: Guy he just wants one of your pops.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you all have all of his drinked by that
and swipe one of mine. Cool, all right, Yeah, we'll
see you in the search bar. Lays, gentlemen, have a
good one.