My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 372 - HOUSE OF THE DRAGON SEASON 2 EPISODE 7

Episode Date: July 29, 2024

Robbie, Clem, Nick Hamilton, and Nicky Smokes return to recap and discuss 'House of the Dragon' Season 2 Episode 7! In this PENULTIMATE episode, Rhaenyra continues trying to find riders in their bloodline to get unclaimed dragons, Daemon has more nightmares (and gets served by a child), and Alicent goes for a swim! #HouseOfTheDragon #GameOfThrones #HotD #GameOfStools ****************************************   My Mom's Basement is a weekly podcast hosted by Robbie Fox, started in March 2019, to discuss movies, music, comic books, wrestling, mixed martial arts, and more with his friends and idols alike!   Subscribe on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/MyMomsBasementWithRobbieFox Subscribe on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-moms-basement/id1457255205 Follow Robbie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatrobbiefox Follow Robbie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobbieBarstool My Mom's Basement Merchandise: https://store.barstoolsports.com/collections/my-moms-basementYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/mymomsbasement

Hey, My Mom's Basement listeners. You can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Thank you. Hello and welcome back to Game of Stools presented by Barstool Sports, my mom's basement, however you want to say it. It is Robbie Fox. It is Clem. It is Nick Hamilton and KFC is out today. So we said, who can we get on? That's a huge House of the Dragons fan at Barstool. We said, should we get one of the nerds? I said, I don't think we should get one of the nerds. Let's bring one of the jocks down to the basement. It's Nicky Smokes. What's going on? It's an honor to be here. I love your guys' show. I watch it every single, after every single episode, I watch it.

You guys are like my director's deep dive. I'm just glad to be here. This is amazing. That final shot was insane, but I'll save that for later. Thank you for having me. I'm happy to be here. Clem, how are we doing tonight? I'll tell you what, Rob.

Let me tell you a little story. First of all, welcome to the show, Nicky Smokes Honor, where there's a smokes, where there's smokes, there's dragons. That's what they say. I kind of wanted a little more of a debaucherous episode just to really get some crazy thoughts that only your brain can churn out, but plenty of time left in this show. Rob, let me tell you,

remember in Forrest Gump when Lieutenant Dan sends him that letter about how they bought some Apple stock and they never worried about money again? Yep. Me and Nicky Sm. We got a whole lot of Hugh stock at pennies on the dollar, and we are catching

the fucking, because we're flying dragons down, Nicholas! We were buying low even last week when he was beating up old people. We're like, we're still buying. We're going to buy it all. It doesn't matter. We're just going to push through, and it's paid off. We got the biggest fucking dragon. Oh, God, it's beautiful, man. the biggest fucking dragon Oh god it's beautiful man

It's fucking beautiful Now I will say this Overall thoughts of the episode I'm gonna just like get ahead I don't know what the people in the comments are saying Did not feel penultimate-y In terms of Game of Thrones Penultimate usually is like the oh shit Moment of the season

We had some good moments I don't know if we had the penultimate Moment tonight Yeah I expected the whole episode to be very action oriented like the oh shit moment of the season. We had some good moments. I don't know if we had the penultimate moment tonight. Yeah, I expected the whole episode to be very action-oriented. I feel like penultimates for Thrones usually are, and then the finale they deal with the fallout of everything, kind of set up a new season. It feels like that's going to all put off to next week. Yeah. That's why I was thinking about that.

The last season did this too, right? Weren't we like a little expecting a lot more with the penultimate and then they would just left it all for the finale wasn't last season's penultimate the uh rain niece popping up in the coronation right yeah we got the bees beneath the boards which was yeah great but which again like this episode like we got an awesome moment with the dragons in the end but everything else was a lot of the more like plotting like set up. Yeah, definitely.

I got a good episode though. Like I thought, I thought it was good. I got to know Nikki's team allegiance here, how he feels about, you know, just the characters in general. Are you team black,

team green? Are you kind of just a team black all the way? I can't stand. I can't stand Allison. Now Renera did some shit in this episode where I was like, oh, shit. Like, she's kind of crazy. But I still ride with my queen, and her gamble paid off. So it was a big, big, big win for us today.

This episode was the first time I was like, her and Daemon make sense. They're just pulling off hijinks right now, just trying some shit. And it worked out on both sides finally but like when she when the dragon riders or the trainers left i was like this might be bad you know what i noticed this episode too is you remember the final season of thrones like even the episode everyone hated it might even be the finale there's that awesome shot of khaleesi with the fucking dragon wings coming out behind there. And everyone's like, that's the most awesome thing.

It feels like they heard the response to that. And they're like, we're going to make sure that every shot with the queen and a dragon both in it is fucking wallpaper worthy. Like even the one that opens the episode when it's like sea racks and sea smoke. They're on the beach faced off. Look like the fucking like a samurai movie or something like side stroller it was so badass and like you said the shot that ends the episode not to skip ahead too much that's like one of the coolest shots in any thrones anything that was amazing i i got goosebumps throughout my entire body like during

that final shot like I was like floating. I was like, this is why we watched the show for that exact. I do. And I think HBO, I don't know if it was fucked up just for me or for anyone else tonight. I watched the entire episode in like two 40 P it was like the worst quality I've ever seen.

Cause I might, I think my internet was bad or something. It was McDonald's wifi tonight. And I still was like, oh, my God. But, yeah, I'm excited to see that shot in HD. It was like I watched the episode without glasses on tonight. It was kind of fun. I'll admit it, man. When that last shot, I said, let's fucking go, which it's like a sport.

You know a show is good when you're throwing out some sports yelling during it. So I think we got that. And every house of the dragon episode from here on out just give me a showdown with two dragons on a beach i don't care if it makes no sense if they're on the same team just give me some fucking dragons just like staring each other down that shit was awesome it felt like a western shootout scene yeah just with dragons it was so sick so that was sick i liked liked that Adam immediately is like, hey, I'm pledging myself to you. One thing in the intro where I was like, come on, Rhaenyra.

I get that you got to like kind of make sure they're on your side first so you don't get backstabbed. But she gave him a little bit of a hard time. I wanted her at this point where that security guard from the viral video who's not even really checking. He's just like, yeah, go in with the the fucking wand we're taking anyone we can get if they have a dragon they're on the team you don't really have to do a background check at this point we're not drug testing where you could do what you want on your off season you're on the team our boy c smoke too we didn't say this last week let's just call it is now that it's been confirmed. It's Adam with two Ds. Seasmoke has a type. Once you go black,

that's the truth with dragons as well. I saw the Peter Griffin meme. The different shades and it's like a rider or fucking hurt to a crisp. The memes last week I texted you guys after the episode

because I went and looked. They were off the charts. A bunch of stuff I could not retweet. I love how right after the episode, my timeline straight dragons, and I'm just lost in the memes the whole time. It's amazing. I love it. It's a great Twitter to be involved in. Yeah.

This is what Twitter – we're getting back to what Twitter is meant to be. Everyone's tweeting about the same thing. You can just spend hours scrolling. It's the best. It's like the closest thing to an NFL Sunday. You know, like when everyone is watching the same primetime game tweeting, like, oh, what a terrible throw. Like that's what Dragons is.

Like I love it. I'm here for it. Yeah, you don't need the hashtag nothing. Everyone is just on the same page. It's just like, oh, we all watch that. We know what you're talking about. And I don't want to jump too far ahead ahead so if you want me to shut up i'll shut up but you pronounce his name ulf right ulf yes did you guys ever like in that final scene think he was like switching sides i was like damn this prick just hijacked that dragon was like flipping sides i i definitely thought that in the moment i was like especially

as he started like kind of getting lower i was like i mean this guy he's a commoner but you get a dragon you go to the highest bidder like i thought it was more of a hey my asshole buddies didn't believe me all these years and now i'm gonna go on them right yeah i told you i got this girlfriend in canada who's a smoke show and now i'm gonna bring her them right yeah i told you i got this girlfriend in canada who's a smoke show and now i'm gonna bring her on the bars and let her meet all the boys here and that was his fucking dragon it's also i was my comparison would be gta he put in the cheat code for the fighter jet and he's just like i gotta take this for a ride real quick like i'll get to the mission later i just gotta test this thing out. That's great. We see Allison.

She's getting her wound clean. They're like, it's going to leave a scar. You know, it's like she's always going to remember that the people left a scar on her. And then she wants to go out with Sir Ricard. And she's got just that side plot the whole episode where she goes out. Gooch had a funny tweet where he's like, they're at war. And she's pretending she's in a music video over there. She takes a bath.

She fucking puts on like a nice dress and all that. That was her thing. The whole episode, just her and Sir Ricard out in the forest. And they kept saying Ricard. Like it kept reminding me of another word I shouldn't say on this program. We had a Ricard, right? That was the dude who did in Zigzag. Was that Ricard?

Yeah. Not Zigzag. And I have to say this, allison i was yelling at her i'm like you're the reason all this shit is fucked up this episode i'm yelling at her as if we haven't known this for a season a whole season at this point but like you have to remember she's just been locked in that fucking castle pressure cooker watching her idiot sons do idiot some things watching her fucking i guess grandkid gets next lit i would just want to just be out enjoying nature like at some point you have to be like what's the point of all this just let me have some fun and i would never go back without was her i i i thought i don't know if we're going to get like a uh i don't want to get

demonetized here i don't want her to take her own life i guess i'll say i thought that's what we were going to get this episode yeah alive as they said yeah i thought that was coming too like especially like the walking out in the water that's like famous in a bunch of like books and movies where like the woman will just walk out in the water and drown herself and it's like i thought we were getting that and then like uh breaking bad kind of skylar white does that yeah yeah yeah i ask nicky his thoughts on allison here and this is where i get a little worried i don't know we're gonna get the nicky smokes uncut to the gut here but what are your thoughts on allison overall this episode i guess in general the actress that plays her i've got i knew that's where he was going with it i knew i've got nothing

but great things to say about the actress that plays her. As for the character, I kind of feel bad for her right now. Like you said, this is all her fault, but you just see over this entire season how irrelevant she's become episode by episode and just losing all of her power. So a part of me kind of feels bad for her. But then again, she's listening to her husband who's geeked out on heroin and butchers the last saying, which starts this whole war. So she kind of made her own bed and now she's got to lay in it. Do you think she ever thinks like, I really shouldn't have married that old man when I was 15? Probably cross her mind. Clem, also, can I just ask, what is that dragon on?

So this is a dragon no all right so this is the closest I could get to I am my boy Hugh who I bought for three fucking cents I bought a billion shares of him and I'm riding a dragon and this is a dragon piggy bank my wife got my daughter with a dragon mask on top so I'm Hugh the fucking Hugh the hammer right he even has a awesome name I knew you were Hugh the hammer that was very clear right? He even has a awesome name. I knew you were Hugh the Hammer. That was very clear. As soon as you joined, I was like, obviously he's dressed as Hugh the Hammer tonight. Anyone with eyes could see that.

I was just curious. The entire chat before you got on all agreed they're just like Clem's Hugh Hammer, right? The brainstorming that goes on before this is obviously like i'm like russian like i don't want to like i can't leave the fellas we have a full-blown sleeping bag right here that i was going to try to put on and be on the pockets with but i didn't know how to

make it work and it's a traceratops uh uh sleeping bag so yeah there's a lot a lot of lines in the water before we went live tonight the fact you had something with bronze wings too like that's that's unbelievable i'm gonna act like i going to wake up in the next morning. Costumes are just like scattered across the floor. And that's the other thing. So we're like being like, I thought I saw the dragon mask in AJ's toy box. I think this is downstairs in the basement.

This is, so we're just piecing this shit together on the fly. Cause there was like, there's really no other costumes from this episode that are really worth it. Again. I don't. Yeah. I was curious what you'd do yeah i was very curious i was this close to pulling just george r martin

again just running it back i was hoping you wouldn't do adam or alan you know there's someone else at the company who's done that before we're not gonna do that um we see lord jasper go and tell laris that sea smoke has a new rider and laris is kind of like oh maybe you go tell amand yourself they don't know if it's true or not this uh i i enjoyed this because even though it's thrones and it's a fantastical mystical world and we're talking you know new riders on dragons this is just two dudes around the water cooler. How can we gain favor with the boss? And it was almost like a very modern conversation in that way.

Also, just any scene with Laris, my ears perk up a little bit. And I'm like, I hate this pervert, but I know this is important. Yeah. Anything that gets to him, it's going to every avenue. When he speaks, you listen. Yep. Yes. Yep. to him it's going to every avenue when he speaks you listen yep yes yep uh our boy laris is cooking lasagna and nikki smokes i know you know this what's lasagna known for what's that one letter in lasagna that moves in silence right here g brother g that's right and that's our boy he's like he could definitely he definitely could like get his second source triple source triple verify

this news before he drops his laris bomb he's's like, nah, we'll just let that flow because he knows his fucking dog is way behind the Aemon horse in the race right now in the race for the Iron Throne. So he's just going to keep that to himself. He doesn't realize they're assembling a super team in Dragonstone right now. Holy shit. That actor

very under the radar as one of the best parts of the show, I think. The Laris actor. Yeah. Yeah. He's, he's one that like, I feel like we're going to see him in the future and just different shows popping up now.

Agreed. Like he, he's really brought it. It's going to be weird though. When you see him walk without a fucking club foot, it's going to be like Kaiser Sosa. Yeah. He probably has like a hardcore British accent or something.

It'd be awesome. He had like a fucking like Alabama accent and it's the opposite. Oh, that's great. We see Corliss told about Sea Smoke. Rainier is not at the meeting and she's just not at the meeting to be talking to her girl, Masaria. So Jace is all pissed off about it. The white worm tells her there's like bastards everywhere she's kind of the one to open up rainier's eyes where she's like you know uh i used to work in a whorehouse and these targaryens they

were fucking and these girls they were having those babies they're all over the place again a scene where i want rainier to be like oh my god this is this is amazing this is exactly what i needed to hear she has a little pushback at first where it's like girl beggars can't be choosers you're at war we got dragons we need them claimed we need dragons on our side and she eventually decides it with a badass line one of those fist pumping lines where i was like all right the team is getting better let us raise an army of bastards oh my god I was so in on that. I'll tell you what, watching Thrones makes me want to be a bastard.

Like they're, they take over every time. That's funny. Yeah. That's, that's very funny. Why did my parents have to get married before they had hit so fucking hard.

And I was thinking about Nikki. I think you can probably like claim this. Obviously, if your city is like New York, LA, population boons, I feel like Miami would be the bastard capital of the world in the United States. I feel like we'd have a lot of potential dragon riders down there in your beloved Miami.

Yeah. No, you can say that for sure. I've seen the strip clubs down there. They're from another planet. They're amazing. It's the another country as where i like grew up it's nuts yeah there's a bunch of cargarians down at tootsies that's for sure you see corliss and uh adam of hull speak he's like hey uh can i get a leave of absence you know like i got some shit going on and he grants him the leave and everything kind of gives him a job and stuff with the with the queen. That was a good conversation.

I want more there. Like I want more between Corliss and Adam going forward. I don't know how much we're going to get because we got one episode left in the season. But we just had a few conversations between them all season. And every time I was pretty pretty interested i feel like that scene though said a lot without having to say much because i feel like that was the first time corliss like recognizes him basically as a person you know he's like well done and that's like that that fuck i'm sorry i can't speak right now but the whole time he's just trying to get him

to recognize him he just wants to be recognized by his father like that's the first time he's ever gotten that so i think that was huge for them to like going forward yeah i like the scene too where he's like later on he's talking to alan or at alan yeah alan um that whole scene between them was great where he tells them like listen i got the fucking sea and salt in my blood like i don't want anything more than that he's like all right fucking hey like this is my guy corliss gave him a that's my boy that yeah it's like he has the mother's blood you got my blood that is that's perfect that's that's who i meant by the way alan i wanted more between alan and corliss adam i i understand like the adam stuff uh was good but yeah i mixed those two up all the time i yeah so alan was the guy he was talking to more alan was just kind of the other dude right

he was just the other guy that they'd kind of have their conversations and that's what made it so shocking that he got him but i can only speak for myself and i have a brother younger brother i can't imagine the jealousy that would rage through my body if my if we're poor and then my brother just swoops in with a dragon that basically was like please ride me please ride me i just stabbed my brother in the throat and even if i couldn't take his dragon i i would at least be able to live with not seeing him just fucking you know casting that ticket unless i guess you're like uh it's like uh what's it called on netflix if you guys watch the receiver show like justin jemison like all his brothers tried to make it they couldn't make it and now they got a superstar

brother who's like the best receiver in football you get to kind of go along for the ride so i guess that's i guess what alan's gonna deal with here so good for him better man than me yeah that's why like growing up it was i was a year apart from my brother and it was always like even grades everything were like measuring like who did better this one would take a few years to get over it would be i'd have to like be captain of that goddamn ship and like win the war and then be like all right we're we're even now right it still wouldn't be still got a dragon in suburbia that's like my brother wins the corvette that's at the fireman's fair every year and i'm driving around the 1991 ford taurus and i'm just like this fucking asshole like even no it's like you're still driving a bike

um i liked this scene damon meets with the new lord paramount lord oscar um oh my god this kid oscar in thrones were conditioned for kids to be strange like you know weird like annoying little shit bags i'm all in on this kid this kid was just like not taking any shit he pledges himself to the queen and king consort and i loved he kept throwing that in and he's like you're not the fucking king motherfucker you're the king it's like throwing you're not the champ you're the interim champ remember right um and he's like my army hates you i don't even know if my army's gonna listen to me i'm a kid i just got command to this um but they meet with the river lords and he gives a good speech in front of all of them shits on damon in front of them so they're

kind of they know he's on their side but they have to unite in this moment and then willem blackwood kneels to him and he's like you know forgive me for my transgressions or whatever and he's like all right i accept you as my vessel vassal whatever he called him he's like but yeah no this ain't gonna work and he fucking goes and has damon cut his head off in front of everyone i love this kid he's showing them yeah i'm a kid don't mistake my kindness for weakness because of that i'll have your head cut off that was awesome this is the first oh go ahead go ahead this is the first good tully we've seen since blackfish like we haven't had a tully that actually has a set of balls since like that one who was just like the, the uncle or whatever.

Finally, we're seeing one like stand up and actually be like this Lord Paramount. That's supposed to be a huge fucking deal. Like he finally is actually speaking with his chest and shout out Oscar, the grouch just being named after that. Yeah, that's crazy. Did you know that Nikki Oscar,

the grouch was named after this or this this guy was named after Oscar the Grouch. The other guy was Grover. This is Oscar. They're all Muppets because they're kind of like puppets in it all. Yeah, and there was in the book, there's an Elmo. But the show was like, we can't have Elmo in here. We can't go that far. Yeah, they cut that one out.

Did Damon's stock go down after he got manhandled by this 14-year-old in front of everyone? Like that kid bullied him. I don't think he got bullied by a 14 year old. It was getting to the point where I convinced myself. I was like, is he going to like when there's the moment where Damon says something and then Oscar like walks right up to him? And I was like, is Damon going to let Oscar like fucking bitch smack him in the face in front of everyone, just to show them this kid,

like, listen to him. But obviously they can't go that far. They're not like making wrestling level works and game of Thrones, but like he was, he was proverbially or verb verbally bitch smacking him in front of everyone. Hit him with a prince.

Yeah. The prince was good. Oh yeah. He wrote the p word too i forgot about that and it's a great moment for oscars if you remember damon basically told him to like go put a pillow over your dad's head or grandpa's head and just kill him and now it's like look who's getting bullied now i loved it i was happy for him great that's agreeing with you nikki that yes damon stock is at an all-time low. Lorenzo just said he is the 2008 housing market.

Stocks are on the low. Stocks crashed. Well, see, this is the thing. Me and Nicky also put our... Me and Nick Hamilton put our life savings into Damon, and we rode a roller coaster. That bought a house. That bought some vacation out for us. But we also held onto a lot

of stock, and we need the huge stock to hit, or else we're going to be fucking bankrupt david's gotta do something big this whole i'm gonna say i tell you what people are upset about the nightmares this season he had a fucking another nightmare this episode i thought we were gonna be over it gaz is gonna be pissed about this gaz came up to me in the office this week he was like if he has one more nightmare i'm gonna lose my fucking mind and it was it was like every nightmare is like decent like it's like a good scene we got fucking king viscerous and he's like do you really want the crown it ruins everyone that wears it it's good stuff and i like seeing that this actor come back patty something his name was he was

great so i like seeing him um but i'm just yeah it's time to go to war i'm over the nightmare so i'm over there i do think that was the last nightmare though i think i hope so the final stamp because the whole time it's just damon his obsession with the crown and now he's looking right at it and now he doesn't even know if he wants it anymore so i feel like he had to go through all those nightmares to get to that one which is like the point they were trying to make the whole time and trust me damon guys team damon everyone riding with me and nick i think we're at the He had to go through all those nightmares to get to that one, which is the point they were trying to make the whole time. Trust me, Damon guys, Team Damon, everyone riding with me and Nick, I think everyone's on the same page.

We're Team Damon guys. But he fucking breaks the oath for Nara. I will dump that motherfucker. I'll hit sell on that stock. Don't care what kind of event I take. We are Nara first and foremost before all else on Team Black. Always. Yeah, this dream, I think i said last week i'm done with the dreams this one at least was something different when they were just like

replaying scenes that we've seen like you can do that imagine they have that and then just the next night it was this with viserys like you could have condensed that and that would have been fun going down on viserys yeah but when they just kept redoing scenes from season one i was out on that i feel like they could have done the dream sequence in like three episodes they could have come we also said like last week seeing viserys is like seeing like one of your beloved ex-athletes on the jumbotron everyone goes to standing ovation because he was such a good king this viserys so this is busy bone where he's just falling apart i don't need to see this for i don't see patrick ewing in the orlando magic jersey like that just makes me sad i don't like

remembering busy when you have a eyeball or like the right side of his face yeah that was tough also i gotta ask this um because of the river the river people is well in black with the dude who got his head shut up chopped off is was, was he the kid that was bad-ass in season one? And God damn it. So then we didn't get anything cool from him other than like basically war crimes. He, he was there to put over,

uh, Oscar, you know, and wrestling. They had to make him bad-ass. So when Oscar kills him, he kind of absorbs that bad-ass aura. That makes sense. Makes sense. Uh that makes sense we get this scene where or while the like the meister he's walking agon back to bed he falls

and sad he i mean the kid is like before he got burnt up he looked like he was 21 years old and at this point he's in his 90s he's got no ear. He looks like Mick Foley in that way. He falls or Laris. Yeah. Gross. Laris interrupts. Jesus. Thanks Robbie. Laris interrupts.

He continues to resonate with him as a freak. He's like, yeah, you're going to be like, you know, for a while, you're still going to be like, uh, different. And it's like, yeah, you're going to be like, you know, for a while, you're still going to be like different.

And it's like, we know what you're trying to say, Larry. You're trying to say he's a fucking freak. He's got a bit of a club foot like you now. But Larry is apparently the one pushing him. He says, like, on the way out, he's like, sir, like, he can't take much more. And Larry is like, keep fucking going. Why is Larry is Larry trying to kill him – is Laris trying to kill him, or is he actually trying to make him stronger?

I think he's trying to make him stronger. Yeah, because remember, Amon called him a toad, and he thought he was about to be handed the king, and he was like, no, you're just a toad. Go figure it out. So now he's pivoting, and all I'm saying, there's a lot of internal conflict with Team Green because I think he's scheming up to get Aegon healthy,

to get rid of Amon. There's a lot of bad shit going on on the green side. That he's scheming up to get a gone healthy to get rid of amin there's a lot of there's a lot of bad shit going on on the green side that's all i'm gonna say no i'm with you nikki i think i i think a gone's crazy as it is in trouble car amin's in trouble because a gone has at least a clubfoot by inside and those these whisper guides they're the ones who make the kings more than anybody else so no no, I'm with you on that. And that fucking maester, God bless him. That guy like tells the truth, tells it as is.

And it's like walking the King as he's like, I thought it was like, like fell off at some point. It was, it was bananas. And you know what? I said this last week, fellas,

his genes are not good. He looked just like busy did in that dream. His fucking face was falling apart. That dude does not have good recovery. That guy is never going to get back to 100%. even close he's cooked literally oh speaking of cooked the sheep in the veil are still cooked by that wild dragon see that that was fucking transition that was some shit um and it's bayla right who's in the veil and she goes out to check it out or is it a different? Reyna? Is it Bela? Reyna? I think it's

Reyna. Why does this show make everyone's name so similar? Reyna, Reyneese, Reyneera. Amen, amen. It's crazy. Oh, I know her name. I call her the sad one. Or

what's the girl from Encounter we talked about last week? Thank you to the chats, Raina. But yeah, she's going to check it out. Is she going to try to claim that wild dragon? Definitely going to try. I don't know how it's going to go for her. I think she's going to get cooked. Yeah.

I feel like they gave us too much. Like by the end of the episode if if she was the first one to claim one fine we've seen a lot of claiming i feel like we're gonna get have to get one ripped away from us we have seen a lot of burning too though yeah i mean this episode we got the guy last week um more of alice and sir ricard out in the forest then jace is pissed he goes and confronts his mom he's like what the fuck you're only listening to the white worm now he's like is you just she's telling you what to do she's commanding the armies now and she's like we can end and mean we can end a needless war like this

we need the dragons and shit and he just drops the harwin strong shit right on her and he's like hey do we want to talk about my hair color do we want to think about did you you know make your did you have good decision making when you invited harwin strong into your bed did you not think i would come out with this fucking hair like it's a it's a great scene and another uh like he's not a kid actor at this point he's getting older but he he doesn't annoy me and even though he's like the angsty teen in this moment it's like he's got a fucking point yeah season one he was very he was like a big pushover but now he's coming into his own so i like it he bought i got a lot of shit from the small council that one episode when i was i was like this guy is in my top five team black people they're like he's you know going

he was recruiting but he kind of was like getting, he had his dragon with him. They were doing all their recruiting. Then he goes around, he throws the M word around, calls them mom girls. I'm like this fucking guy, Jason, some fuck. And he's challenging his mom more than anybody. I am fucking hashtag done with Jason. I am out on him. Whoa.

You're out on him. I was out on him and I got bullied to like, I think I put him at like five in terms of my, my power lvp he's my lvp oh he's not enough he's got he's kind of got a point you're gonna talk about our queen the fair and era the true fucking i i kneel to the queen but if anyone can push back on the queen right now, I think it's her son. I agree. I mean, it's like the kid didn't know his whole life that her fucking,

she was banging the help. Like we knew this. He knew he just, it was like, it was like he knew, but it's like, it was like he knew about, you know,

like, I don't even want to say the guy's name, but like Christmas. And he didn't want to, he didn't want to let his parents know that he knew. All right, Bob, it's important to let's call the people. Mom girlsongrels just put that on the put that on your fucking uh

i'm on your side on this like just once again just aligned over here we've been through some shit with team david we've we've like supported his war crimes his wife that just happened to die like i think i obviously he did have a point with this stuff being like if any bastard can claim a dragon, that's the last thing that I got going for me right now. He's speaking up so much to Rhaenyra that he's getting bold. He's going to do something fucking stupid. Him and Ulf are just going to fuck something up.

Know what they say? Young, dumb, and full of blank. That's what he is right now. He's hungry. He wants some action, and he's not getting any. And I do think that when shit pops off, excuse me, when shit pops off and the war, I think, is going to go sideways and there's going to be infighting and stuff at some point,

it's going to be because everyone has a dragon, there's no bloodline, there's no real succession plan, and everyone's going to be like, fuck it, we have a dragon somewhere in this lineage, and it's going to be because everyone has a dragon. There's no bloodline. There's no real succession plan. And everyone's going to be like, fuck it. We have a dragon somewhere in this lineage. It's going to be absolutely... So I understand he's not wrong, but he's an asshole. It's like Walter Soapjack from fucking Big Love Asking. You're not wrong, Walter. You're a fucking

asshole. Since you mentioned the White Worm, I'm so happy Nikki Smokes is on this episode. Nikki, I came on the podcast last week and I can't see crying and whining about two beautiful young women because i know you were enjoying it as much as i was right i thought it was i thought it was a great scene and it caught me off guard because

i saw them hugging and like i know those hugs and it just kept getting long i'm like are they are they about to make out right now and then sure as hell they're swapping spin and i was like look i don't hate it i'm a fan of it honestly it didn't bother me whatsoever jake malicek another one of our co-workers had the balls to tweet like that scene is so unnecessary i'm like brother did you not watch the episode before where damon's banging his mom and eating her out like what are we talking about that was on a scale of one to ten, that's a one in the Thrones world, bro. That was nothing.

We could start exploring this a little more and cut out a few more dreams. We could just see what's up. That's even going on. Two minutes I wouldn't have mine. That would have been great. We're fine with one long time. Just constantly you hear from Jace outside

um speaking of the white worm she starts giving alan some notes she's like make sure this gets passed along to him make sure this gets passed along to her they pass and you know notes to they're basically sending invites out to the target area and bastards they're putting word out that they're recruiting the ulfs uh ulfs boys hear the story tell them at a bar and he has a very funny scene he's like yeah you know but since the injury my leg hasn't been the same the acl in college yeah literally he's like giving every excuse he possibly could under the sun to the point where he drops like i'm not even a 100% sure that this is true. They're like, you've been drinking on us for your entire life and you're not even sure if it's true. I thought that was really funny.

And then you get the flip side where Ulf is kind of the funny story. And then Hugh the Hammer is like breaking down to his wife and he's like, I have to do this. Like, I couldn't even keep you know my fucking daughter alive he starts telling her about his mom how he's a cousin to viscerous and and damon um he's ashamed of himself like and his wife he's like don't you want to be a lady she's like i don't want to be a lady or a widow so you get like the very serious side of it on that and at this point are you are we more hue the hammer are we more off i feel like you guys are probably more hue i don't know where i fall right now probably i feel like all has a little more personality hue has a little more

upside i feel like wolf would if it would be just me on a dragon just like one of your boys you love to hang out with and have beers with and now he's just some dragon rider so like kind of how i got hired by barstool like who's this stupid idiot like on this on this major company now like that's that's how i would describe it but that's i think i think he will use stock will obviously be way higher but yeah yeah i was gonna say off is like a legitimate barstool employee getting out there and like i i listen we me and nick you're gonna get rich off you but there is something endearing as just a regular a regular dude in real life that cross dresses sometimes but nonetheless seeing that it's like okay i'm happy old hats is dragon he's gonna

if he doesn't die within like an episode or two he's gonna be a miracle because i thought he was cooked by the end of the exact time but i am rooting for him i just obviously i want everyone to win but i think he was like the better pick it's probably like ulf is one of us and he is like i'm trying to think of like a media, like Greg Olson, like that guy is like built. That's why you listen to game of stools. No other game of Thrones podcast out there is drawing comparisons to sports as often as we do. Third leg, right, baby.

The hammer's good for the war But like yeah I agree I thought I thought when we saw Ulf taking Flight above King's Landing I'm like he's dead He just killed one that dragon's Cool as fuck gone already like There is no chance He's unless he's just like

Forrest Gump's this and somehow makes it to the End like that's The comparison I'm thinking of he's just gonna Somehow be there all along the way and everyone makes it to the end. That's the comparison I'm thinking of. He's just going to somehow be there all along the way. And everyone's going to be like, how the fuck are you still here? I also wanted to shout out Dylan Dav on Twitter. He tweeted me. He said, big weekend for Hughes.

This was a big weekend for Hughes. You got Hugh Jackman in the box office. Hugh the Hammer riding fucking dragons um speaking of you get the the dragon tamer high valerian people telling rainier like we do not approve of what you're about to do like this shit is crazy she basically it's like she's got the hip new media way and they're like no no no these are not the guidelines that we you know signed a contract to so they're not down for it she's like i'll walk them out myself which i was so like anti i was like this dragon's gonna burn up a fucking whole squad of people the queen's gonna be standing right

there you might as well just ride into battle at that rate but they're not gonna do it she's like i'm gonna do it she gives a good speech to the prospective candidates she's like you know we're looking for someone that really wants the position someone that's skilled qualified um and then she tells him about vermithor which we heard whispers about vermithor and we we you know i've seen a little bit i think um but it's the largest dragon in the world after vagar perhaps the most fierce which was a great line and they call them the bronze fury what a nickname almost dante wilder like bronze bomber that's what it reminded me of and i was like oh this is gonna be not to be trifled with this one i i love her nara and i know why she's probably not doing it because

she's probably holding on by a thread with like her counsel i need her nara and i know why she's probably not doing it because she's probably holding on by a thread with like her counsel i need her to start making an example out of just one person like these dudes if just because you could speak high valerian he has some fucking relation with the dragons you can't just be like fucking poke your finger in my face and be like i'm not doing this it's like all right i'm gonna literally cut your head off your tongue out whatever it may be bring the smack back that's a good that's a good take she she hit the smack in front of nobody and the whispers got out what if she just starts hitting in front of everybody like stephanie mcmahon yeah yeah i don't get it man i don't get it that scene whenever it does come with vagar and

how do you pronounce the dragon's name vermouth vermythor vermythor that that scene that shot when those two end up clashing is going to be insane yeah yeah it'll be scenes movie crazy that's i'm gonna say k is that kd to the warriors with you know vegar lebron on the other side there like we're trying to get a super team. That's the closest I can get. I do think like Team Black's dragons just look way more intimidating. They all look like, Clem, they look like

your dragon you have there where it's the sharp spikes. Like Vhagar even has like almost a wormy look. Like it looks like the dragons are the Nazgul from Lord of the Rings, which Robbie, I know you're not really a fan of. Nicky Smokes, are you a Lord of the Rings guy? This might blow my fucking brain.

I'm trying on my own on this. But yeah, it looks like the Nazgul from Lord of the Rings, which, compared to the dragons we got on Team Black, it doesn't look like it could take us. Nick, let's throw Team Greenabone. There's one dragon on Team Black

that is infamously not like the others. Just a little cuter. You don't have to do it tonight. There was nothing in this episode that involved Moondancer. You don't have to bring her up. It is what it is. Moondancer not getting in that final shot.

That was tough. Moondancer was in that final shot. That was tough. Moon Dancer was in that final shot. You just didn't see her. She got Mike Wazowski. The other dragons were standing in front of her. Yeah, I bought a lot of stock in Moon Dancer. Yeah, I'm going to hang on to it. I wasn't buying stock to resell it later.

I wanted it as a collectible. Okay. It's a cool name, Bob. I'm not going to say it's not a cool name. It's cool colors, white and green. It's fucking fast, like a velociraptor. We'll get into it at a later time. The dragon does kill pretty much everyone, almost everyone.

It's just, you know, the one person that steps out and is trying to claim it first like it reminded me almost of squid game where i was like okay i think one maybe two people are getting out of here alive and the rest of these people kind of know when they're walking out of that platform like this might be it for me yeah yes i might be you know dragon claim her highest honor but this is probably it it burns a bunch of them kind of a crazy scene where rainier is just watching on and her face is just like almost emotionless where she's like i can't believe this is happening again on my watch and eventually hugh the hammer claims it in front of everyone he fucking says come on dragon halts we see olf running away from all of this he almost like steps on a dragon egg i think

did he step on the egg or i think so i think he did he like cracked some of it and then he had the goo come up with his shoe silver wing almost starts playing with him though like almost like it's like a big dog like bounces him over a couple times puts him into the little creek and then he gives it that look he laughs to himself he's like holy fuck i think this thing i think about to claim this dragon flies out on it has that moment joy ride and then we get that amazing final shot of rainier with the dragons on either side of her one on the fucking mountain behind there it was amazing this whole the final like 15 minutes, like the whole episode I thought

was like 7.5. The final 15 minutes of the episode were like a 10 out of 10. Yeah. The first dragon dude, the first guy who stepped up, that guy was like, well, he definitely has the incest part of the Targaryen legacy locked up.

He wasn't riding no dragon with that busted ass eye either. No. definitely has the incest part of the Targaryen legacy locked up in throne of the same thing either no come on no no he's probably like listen either I get a dragon or I get to be taken out of the shitty life that the shitty hand I was dealt so I don't blame him is there a mule version of dragons where it's like half donkey half horse like what what can we get that guy? The Ricardo dragons. And I want to be like, I would definitely go and spin one of the people. I love when they marshal the blonde people up too and you're just like, oh my god, those Targaryens were fucking crazy down in

King's Landing. I would love to say I would just stand there and hope I get a dragon. I can't even play Operation or Perfection without fucking having cold sweats and anxiety. So I couldn't stare down a dragon, that's for sure. And also just got to shout, I don't even play operation or perfection Without fucking like having like Cold sweats and anxiety so I couldn't stare down a dragon that's for sure And also just got a shot I don't know if this was on purpose Or it was like an homage or just like

Have the accident did you realize Hugh did the old Jurassic Park wave To get the dragon's attention And I was like oh I got a little T-Rex Vibes there so I appreciate it He was getting T-Rex vibes from this Vermithor They're like the shot where you see It's just like the head on screen with you i swear i was getting jurassic park vibes maybe it was just subtly like is there subconsciously like in there when i saw

the wave and the only my only criticism of basically the end of those scenes when they both get the dragons how does that one guy be like no fucking way i won the lottery here the dragon lottery like they just are like oh i just wanted one guy i know i'd say no fucking way that i just want to drag i said that would have been a football championship i let alone win a fucking dragon god damn i'd be doing the little sass though me um good shit though good shit and it sets up for a pretty crazy finale next week it feels crazy that it's the finale already i feel like we just started like recapping and getting back into the thrones mindset and it's going to be another like two years after next week probably so

depressing yeah i i'm hoping that it's like i feel like what probably takes the longest is obviously the cgi and the building the dragons so i'm hoping they can flip it quicker this time around but true it does feel like we have spinoffs coming soon too i think there's they're filming some spinoffs right now right duncan egg should be out next year i'm pretty sure although oh yeah careful watching the behind the scenes for this show they just ruined that entire show and like an egg they did yeah they just casually say what the end of that show is i was watching it i was like did they just they just told us what happened like uh so yeah if you're watching behind the scenes here the chat's excited about uh yeah about duncan egg six episode miniseries they're saying that sounds good

i feel like it's supposed to be a little comedic too aren't people saying it's like kind of a funny thrones like a deadpool type vibe no no not that funny not that funny they're pretty great sign me up yeah you just came from deadpool you went straight from the theater to watching the episode tonight right yeah i mean i i couldn't draw up a sunday any better real nerdy sunday i called you a jock at the beginning of the episode just because it felt you know fitting but you're kind of a sneaky nerd yeah i'm a low-key nerd at heart yeah i'd say so that's i saw it yesterday and yeah i could i could spend another hour talking about that movie

my girlfriend just had me talking her fucking ear off just bringing up random things i see just for the past two days like my girlfriend is so sick of the deadpool talk i opened my explore page today and it was literally every single picture on my explore page was like a different picture of Wolverine. Check this shit out. Isn't that sick? At least it's not girls, right? Who did I tell you was? My bad, my bad.

Go ahead. No, I explained what the Wolverine on the bed meme was. And then. Oh, yeah. It was cool that he redid it. Dude. I took a screenshot of my explore page. Oh my God,

dude. Spoilers. Spoilers. Spoilers. That was, that was fucked up, but look at my explore page. Oh my God.

Mine's not quite like that. Explaining to my wife, like one funny part of the movie i realized i was the dude like holding his girl's neck and just like i was the medium where i'm like and then this happened and then that happened it's just yeah it's a tough one so nicky had himself a hell of a sunday and i think next sunday now i saw the small council someone said it better not be like we're learning how to ride dragons montage for the, for the week. I didn't see the next week on, does it look like we got some shit popping off or what?

Oh yeah. Big time. Uh, it seems like I, I was looking, I was getting this set up, but I guess to Sari and the blue dragon showed up, uh,

with Darren. So, Oh yeah. So we got that little tidbit sprinkled on us tonight, too. Yeah, so we have that in the mix. And Elena's dragon, I just saw some of the small councils do. That's just popping around there. I don't know. Again,

I feel like it should be against the law to put someone with her brain capacity, I think is what you could say, on a dragon. You can't give someone like that the new codes or the big red button because bad shit could happen. We need an even match for hugh though so i think that they'll they'll go at each other the preview for next week looked awesome and there was just a few shots of like i don't know if they i could call them cities but towns just burnt to a crisp and i was like

oh boy like i don't know what dragon is doing that. Probably Vhagar if I had to put odds on it. But I'm very excited for next week. I feel like next week is going to be like some real shit going down. I think we're going to lose some characters that we like. I think so too. I think we need Damon. I said it this week. We really need him next week.

We need him handling all the business in the Riverlands like Michael Corleone, basically. And if he doesn't, it's over. And it's probably because he dies as well, because you can't just go through this whole season and not do shit. And like you guys said, usually it's 10 episodes. The fact that it's eight, but honestly, I don't even know what we would have gotten if they gave us 10. It would have been even more

dead time. So it would have been fun. True. More nightmares. Yeah, just a full nightmare episode. And next week is 73 minutes long, the small council is saying. That's great. I think someone said it's one of the longest episodes of Thrones ever. Battle of the Bastards

might be longer, but it's one of the biggest ones. Good. MVP for this week? Nikki, who do you got mvp oh i mean i mean it's got to be uh it's got to be hugh right yeah he's up there i guess you could put uh i mean she's always like getting like also received votes but hugh doesn't happen without white worm right and then yeah shout out the chicken now i know the chicken right it's good i didn't know why it's like she's wearing red i don't know she's like oh no she's the one who started the riot so chicken honorable mention

oscar though yeah true yeah you know what that that's a good call people in the chat were saying of the year i liked that shout out that was good and then lvp damon i think it's damon yeah he got showed up by a kid he's having more nightmares he's second guessing himself he's gonna have to go back to rainier with his tail tucked between his legs which i want him to do but no way he does no way he does he's walking's walking back and like, I got the Riverlands. I got them all. He's going to leave out the details where he got bitch slapped by a kid. He's just going to be like, I got the army for you. I agree with you, Nick.

Like, yes, he got manhandled verbally by a 12 year old kid, but he did get what he wanted. I think you can make the argument, Alison. I mean, this girl's just checked out floating in the river, staring at a fucking owl while people are starving and dying and finding new dragons. And now, yeah, they're in a tough spot. So Allison just sits back and does nothing.

It's crazy. Was she staring at an owl? Was there actually an owl? It might have been a raven. Yeah, it was some type of bird. That'd be Alice Rivers, right? If it was an owl, I didn't catch that it was an owl but is it the owl that alice had on her arm because like there's a theory that she's a warg like yeah she could just be like that'd be interesting go boil this lake right now

yeah we had a hot spring and that's what i think you guys said that i didn't see the next on but if there's towns burning my bet's gonna to be it's Damon making the towns burn. Now he has the army. He can now burn the towns and the army can come in and do army shit. So hopefully, hopefully we just get a lot of shit next week. Can I shout out the chat real quick? This comment is just so hilarious. Trevi B goes, LVP for Allison swimming with clothes on.

Great comment. I will say for Thrones, not what i was expecting like as she started walking towards the lake she should have been butt naked like um like elise's in episode one just for plot reasons right yeah wearing all white don't see a damn thing nikki she must have had a lot of layers on. They made great fabric back then. Also, I'm going to do it. Jace is my LVP. You could say he's doing it to protect himself. I completely understand.

If she listens to him, it's like, all right, let's not bring in all the bastards. We don't have you and Ulf flying fucking dragons right now. Ben's down the road probably, but for the short term, winning the war, I feel like it's a good thing. He's also LVP because he's right. Like, this ruins any chance of a claim he has. Like, Rhaenyra has

kids with Daemon that definitely are more like Targaryen. So they would definitely challenge the claim. It's just going to happen again and again and also i think we should shout out for lvp everyone that pulled up to claim a dragon who just got burned to a crisp i mean they're absolutely useless yeah especially that first guy that just like

brother you never had a chance at that guy might have died his hair and was just like just fucking do it already just kill me yeah i i first i appreciate vermithor too like not just lighting a fire but i was like come on man and they started eating like all right now at least you're getting some protein out of this like you're making it worth your while so i like that we didn't just have mindless violence like he fed off of it too and just showed his fucking big swinging dick and our is vermithor a girl we have to know this because we thought bagar was a boy this whole time so i guess the small council vermithor does girl? We have to know this because we thought Vhagar was a boy this whole time. So I guess the small council. Vermithor.

Does he identify as a male or woman? Yeah, a girl or boy. Vermithor. Which, either way, it's interesting. If it's a girl, it's like, oh, fucking cat fight. And if not, it's like, oh, shit, this is crazy. Guy, he's a boy.

You might have to add Top Bastard Like, oh shit, this is crazy. You know, like guy, he's a boy, he's a boy. You might have to add top bastard going forward. There's just so many of them. We got a lot of bastards now, like bastard of the week. You got the bastards versus purebloods. Like that's just the two sides we got. Shirts versus skins, yeah. I would love it if Rhaenyra did have like, she's like, this this is my bastard army and they're like the crazy fucks they'll do whatever like they bite when they fight they kick

they hitting the balls like they don't care i would like an army of bastards at some point um all right that was the penultimate episode of season two thank you nikki smokes for joining and filling in for kfc this week we'll be back next week to talk about the house of the dragon season two finale. Very excited for it. Hopefully you will be back as well. We'll be going live right after the episode on all the channels on all the, uh, my mom's basement channel. So tune in.

We'll see you then.