Episode 30 for the week of October 5th (but released eight years later!), in which we embark on the first of our two-part Dunk & Egg special.  Here, we spend two hours poring over GRRM’s first Dunk & Egg novella, The Hedge Knight, discussing Chase’ resemblance to Daeron Targaryen, and various other things I forgot because this was recorded so long ago.

Spoiler warning: For those of you who have not read the Dunk & Egg stories, this episode (and the next) will obviously be full of spoilers and life-ruiners.

Episode 29 for the week of August 16th, in which (as a continuation of a previous episode) we discuss a variety of what if? scenarios, the casting of Sean Bean and Jennifer Ehle, and explain the reason, details and continuing status of our hiatus. Just our luck though, a couple days after recording, the rest of the casting choices were announced and we have no coverage of that.

Unfortunately I couldn’t find the audio clip of Irish listener Rick asking his question, but it’s included at the end of episode 10, the first What If? episode: http://podcastoficeandfire.com/?p=18

Listeners Sam, Brianna and Julani join us for this episode. Thanks for coming, folks, we enjoyed having you!

Hi everyone!  To everyone’s surprise and dismay, the Podcast of Ice and Fire will be experimenting this weekend in this form of a call-in show.  We’ll need your participation to reach maximum sexiness levels.  This one will be a What If? episode, volume two.  We have some questions submitted, but hopefully we can get some live guests in to ask questions (and fact-check like bastards).

The show will be recorded on Sunday, August 16 at 11:00 AM Pacific/1:00 PM Central/2:00 PM Eastern. If you want to be included, please send us your Skype username via the contact bar on the right side of the website.  We will invite you in to participate during live recording on Sunday.

I’m sure you’ve noticed, but we haven’t released in a couple weeks. Certain life issues have gotten in the way, for all of us, and until that all clears up we’ll be on a hiatus for at least a month. This is no Fenris Hiatus, I assure you that (if you understand that reference, high fucking five), but we’re not dead yet.

Please keep sending in any show ideas (What Ifs? Hedge Knight, HBO series, etc), feedback, and declarations of love. Twitter, voice mail, or just old fashioned email via the contact box to the right… We all still love to receive that, whether it be positive or negative. It’s all welcome.

Sorry again, we’ll try and get everything back in gear soon enough. Don’t go forgetting about us!

Episode 28 for the week of June 28th, in which we discuss chapter 55 of A Game of Thrones, debate whether Jorah Mormont is a rad ass dude or a rat ass dude, and examine Chase’s personal ambition to grow a beard in his nether regions.  Also something about bloodriders. Our guest host this week was Lauren.

Keep an eye on the blog for more updates regarding future episode topics.  And in the meantime, leave those sexy voicemails for APOIAF on Skype!

You can send us any questions, comments, declarations of love, show ideas, etc. via the comment box to the right, which goes straight to iceandfirepodcast@gmail.com. You can also follow and message us on Twitter @apoiaf. But the newest, most fangdangled contraption Amin has managed to rig up is the Skype voice mail system.  Simply call up the user APOIAF, wait for the beep and leave your message. Voice only, please, as text will not be received.  Who knows, you may even appear in an episode! Although if you don’t want to be put on air, please specify that.

If you would like to guest host on the days we’re missing a member, feel free let us know. We usually record on Thursday nights at 8-10pm CST, so make sure you’ve got the schedule for that.

Episode 27 for the week of June 7th: from the recesses of time and space, the lost Books mini-episode has resurfaced! In this we talk about other books in the fantasy and sci fi genres that we’ve been reading or have read in the past. Recommendations and condemnations come hand in hand to this swank party, so there’s a little something for everyone.

P.S. When we get to romance novels, this is what we were laughing about.

Episode 26 for the week of June 10th, in which we talk about Chapter 54 of Game of Thrones (focusing far too little on Hodor’s nude scene), the bannermen under House Stark, who Robb might have sent to lead his troops south in the war and probably a lot of other things that might have been cut.