- i like how 3 canadians seem to talk long times about bears. that somehow fits

i want to apologize for this. i've been really bogged down with personal things recently, but it's been rather irresponsible of me to shelve the 'cast. i am going to try my best to be at the next recording. thank god for amin holding this thing together.

A bear and two maiden fair?

why has there been nothing on Sweets? Seriously I expected hours of hilarious banter about Sweets and Yezzan, after all how often do you have one of the fattest men alive doing the horzontal Charlston with a hermaphrodite!

Are you going to be discussing any more Dance of Dragons theories?

its great to see the little yellow pokemon more often on the boards again. hope to hear all of you soon again...

but now some comments on the episode:
- i think amin is right. a smaller cast (with one seat occupied by "new" voices) seem really to lead into straigther episodes in terms of "focused". but that does not mean that i don't miss the "lots of people, lots of digressions, lots of strange topics"-episodes
- i like how 3 canadians seem to talk long times about bears. that somehow fits
- i like the term: "he's polishing his helmet..."

I completely agree with everything said in this post.
One of the things I really enjoy about the podcast is its randomness. I think theres a reason why this podcast is the longest running on SOIAF topic. Ive tryed listen to a couple others and have been bored to tears. The more the merrier, I say.
But small podcast is better than no podcast, thats true.

Now I have to agree

I like the lack of always trying to stay to-the-bone serios that aPoIaF often shows.

I started to hear Boiled Leather and came (at last) to Episode 5 with Amin. I have to say that both of the hosts are well-spoken and intelligent but sometimes it bores me to hell. Especially when one of them presents his idea for several minutes and afterwards the other one only has to add: "I agree totally". I like Stefan's articles a lot as they are thought through and impressively well researched. But they have an advantage over the podcasts: You can skim over them and decide first: Is that part interesting or not and therefore read it or not. The episode with Amin was better - because the coversation between three tends to be more unstable and Amin understood it very well to interview the two of them...

When only the two of them speak, both of them sometimes tend to be a little too philosophical - and (although they would deny that) I have the suspicion that they sometimes forget that they are talking about books. I know the books are intended and written as "fantasy and history combined" but that means that - in fact - not a historical figure "thought" or "decided" something but GRRM has made that specific idea/event up totally on his own. So in consequence when discussing the books it would be more appropriate not to say "Jaime Lannister made A, because,..." but to say "GRRM made Jaime Lannister do A, because,...". I know the story is intriguing and I often tend also to the first argumentation, but I never forget that I do not talk about "real" events.

And in addition to that I have a big problem with one of their main points: They often state that "in our 21st century society" it "seems strange" that somebody could root with Tywin or another of the bad(ass) rulers. Hey, why not - ITS A STORY! I'm totally aware that nobility in medieval times gave a shit about the smallfolk and sometimes also their equals. Most of them are despicable in every way we don't like dictators today. Nevertheless some also accomplished applaudable things in terms of military or science or other fields. And not only in the medieval there were military and other leaders (some of them idiots and/or cruel) who's accomplishements in other fields can be seen as great. And don't get me wrong - I surely do not speak about certain european leaders of the 20th century (Mr. H, Mr. S and others).

In fact I could never root for a real historical figure as much as for some fictional BECAUSE I know they were real and did most likely things I would not support. It seems Stefan and Sean often want to show what smartasses they are. They try to show how everybody else forgets, that some of the cruel things in the book are in fact cruel and horrible. But in the same instance both of them forget the most important thing: ITS A STORY!

I still havent listened to Stefans podcast. I'll probably download the episode Amin was on tonight.
It sounds like you need to write them this in an E-mail or on their message boards. If they have one. With all due respect, of course. haha

It's a big internet. There's definitely room for lots of podcasts. Everyone surely fits a niche. We are the fun times, dont take ourselves too seriously and go on random tangents niche.

I listened to the one with Amin i wanted to hear someones perspective on the WoW spoiler chapter.I thought it was alright ...... I think Brynden is gonna gut them though

I have to say, Amin, your appearance on Boiled Leather is what drew me over here - I'm a relatively new fan who is still discovering all the different fan outlets for ASOIAF out there. This one is definitely right up there.
I'm desperately trying to listen to all the podcasts so I can get up to date... only 50 to go. :-/
After the seriousness of Boiled Leather, it's good to be able to laugh at the series. Especially because we are probably going to be waiting for a very, very long time. Keep trucking!

Lastly, I've tried listening to the Cast of Thrones podcast. Since the show has been on hiatus, they've delved into a book reread. I'm not sure how old those podcasters are, but they seem really young. Also, not very well informed, and they never discuss theories or anything from the forums. However, they must have some sort of pull, because they get to interview actors from the show like Syrio (Miltos), Hodor (Kristian), and Loras (Finn?). But, I must say, their version of "girls night out" was pretty good (Wine, Women, and Westeros) and they had a pretty insightful discussion of the women characters in the books. If that's what you want to hear. If you want to hear a bunch of girls cackling while looking at Nikolas Walder-Costau's junk, then listen to our version.

I went to their site after i read your post and apparently only two of their hosts have actually read all of the books. It seems like they are more focused on the tv series. APOIAF is the Mecca of all ASOIAF podcasts. We should make all other podcasts bend the knee.

I was all set to go listen to Amin's appearance, but I'm avoiding advance chapters, so I'm glad I found out they discuss the WoW preview beforehand. I may check out Cast of Thrones just to see what the actors are saying.

Actually, Amin is in two podcasts (I guess one recording split into two), and the first one isn't about the spoiler chapter but one of Stefan's theories about possible motives behind Rickard's (Ned's Dad) "southron ambitions", as related by Lady Dustin. It's pretty interesting, and spoiler free, as long as you've read DWD.