Merbear and the Maiden Jer - Game of Thrones
26 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 5 years ago -It's the final season of Game of Thrones and MerBear and The Maiden Jer are ready as the long night is upon us…. This podcast is the place where book lovers and TV watchers can meet and journey together deep inside the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. Meredith and Jeremy are super fans of the world George R.R. Martin has created and on each episode of they’ll dissect their favorite moments, characters and go over every gut wrenching scene to see how they shape what’s to come. They'll fill in the gaps between the book and the TV show, by giving you some of the more detailed history of characters and prophecies and answer the big questions …like who will defeat the night king? Who lives? who dies? and when all is said and done who will be sitting on the Iron Throne.
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The IronThrone
May 21, 2019 20:00 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBAfter King's Landing is nearly destroyed, Grey Worm executes all captured soldiers on Daenerys' orders. Tyrion finds Jaime and Cersei dead in the Red Keep ruins. Daenerys rallies the Unsullied and Dothraki, declaring she will liberate the entire world. Denouncing Daenerys' tyranny, Tyrion resigns as Hand, then is imprisoned for treason to await execution. Fearing Daenerys may kill Jon and Sansa, Arya and Tyrion tell Jon that Westeros' fate lies with him. Jon confronts Daenerys, but unable to...
The Bells
May 14, 2019 09:00 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBVarys wants Jon to take the Iron Throne, but Jon refuses to betray Daenerys. After Tyrion informs her of Varys' plot, she has Drogon burn Varys. Daenerys plans to incinerate King's Landing, but Tyrion conspires with Jaime to surrender the city if Jaime can convince Cersei to abdicate and secretly leave. As Jaime, Arya, and Sandor infiltrate King's Landing, Daenerys has Drogon destroy the scorpions, Iron Fleet, and the Golden Company, allowing her army to enter. The Lannister forces are overw...
The Last of the Starks
May 06, 2019 21:00 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBThe North mourn their dead, burning them on funeral pyres. During a somber feast, Daenerys legitimizes Gendry as a Baratheon, and names him as Lord of Storm's End. Gendry proposes to Arya, but she declines. Jaime and Brienne sleep together. Daenerys wants Jon to hide his true parentage, though he wants Sansa and Arya to know. Tormund tells Jon he will return north with the Wildlings. Bronn arrives to kill Jaime and Tyrion, but spares them in exchange for Highgarden. During a war council, Dae...
The Long Night
April 30, 2019 21:00 - 53 minutes - 49 MBThe third episode of Game of Thrones Season 8 was as epic as we hoped. With an 82 minute running time, it was the longest episode in the final season. There was good reason for it, as it was one of the bloodiest battles in the show’s history and too good fit in an hour. David Benioff and Dan Weiss know what the fans want and they delivered with an episode that reportedly took 55 days to shoot. The Living Army meets the Army of the Dead outside of Winterfell, but are quickly overwhelmed by t...
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
April 22, 2019 21:00 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBThe final guest list at Winterfell is filled with arrival of a few remaining fighters - some bringing news of the danger ahead. Jamie’s moral compass is tested before his new queen, but he’s far from the only one being scrutinized under immense pressure. With news of the Night Kings army approaching, Winterfell finishes hurried preparations while people come to terms with the impending war and it’s probable repercussions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Winterfell
April 15, 2019 19:58 - 51 minutes - 47.6 MBThe final season of Game of Thrones began where the series originally began, in Winterfell. The show runners have mentioned that this final season would echo the first one and last night's episode showed that. There was a royal procession, and a small boy climbing a tree to take in the sights, his eyes wide at the sight of thousands of marching men coming through the gates. The difference is that eight years later it isn’t Bran Stark gazing out in wonder. Bran is much older, wiser, and fill...
Game of Thrones Season 8 Preview
April 12, 2019 04:00 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBThe final season of HBO’s Game of Thrones is just days away, and you need to be prepared to head into what is guaranteed to be an explosive conclusion, 8 years in the making. On this week’s episode of Merbear and The Maiden Jer, Jeremy Baker and Meredith Geddes take you back through season 7, highlighting they key moments that got us where we are. We’ll talk to Aziz from History of Westeros who will shed some light on the mythology of ice dragons, and why he believes Cersei is the one to wat...
The Final Season
April 09, 2019 14:52 - 1 minute - 1.35 MBAs winter sweeps over the seven kingdoms, the future of Westeros has never been more uncertain. What started as battle for the Iron Throne in King’s Landing has become a war between the living and the undead. Meredith (Merbear) and her trusty sidekick Jeremy (The Maiden Jer) are ready for the final season of Game of Thrones! New episodes coming soon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Fire and Blood
November 22, 2017 23:16 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBMeredith Geddes and Jeremy Baker rewatch Game of Thrones from the beginning.The North secedes from the Seven Kingdoms and proclaims Robb as their king. With Jaime captured by the Starks and Robert's brothers challenging Joffrey's claim to the throne, Tywin appoints Tyrion as acting King's Hand, while Tywin fights to defend Joffrey's reign. Jon plans to desert his post at the Wall to avenge Ned and support Robb, but his friends convince him to honor his oath and stay. Jon then joins a Night's...
Baelor
November 16, 2017 20:21 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBMeredith Geddes and Jeremy Baker rewatch Game of Thrones from the beginning. The Stark army arrives at the Twins castle; Catelyn convinces Lord Frey to let them pass and assist them, in exchange for her agreeing to the marriage of Robb and Arya to Frey's children in the future. Robb sacrifices 2,000 soldiers in a confrontation with the Lannister army, to capture Jaime. In a public hearing, Ned confesses to treason and publicly affirms Joffrey is rightful heir. However, rather than sentencing...
The Pointy End
November 07, 2017 23:48 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBMeredith Geddes and Jeremy Baker rewatch Game of Thrones from the beginning.Arya manages to escape the Red Keep after her Braavosian sword master delays the guards sent to arrest her, but Sansa is captured. Robb hears the news and prepares the Northern armies to fight the Lannisters, leaving Bran behind to rule Winterfell. Lysa refuses to fight the Lannisters, and Catelyn leaves to join Robb's camp. Tyrion and Bronn are surrounded by Shagga and his men. Tyrion convinces them to escort them ...
You Win Or You Die
October 31, 2017 22:49 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBMeredith Geddes and Jeremy Baker rewatch Game of Thrones from the beginning. In King's Landing, Ned tells Cersei he knows all of her children are Jaime's. They soon learn that Robert has been critically wounded by a boar while hunting. A dying Robert names Ned as the "Protector of the Realm" to rule until Joffrey reaches the legal age. Ned sends a message to Stannis, Robert's brother, intending to enthrone him since Robert has no true legal heirs. Ned tells Petyr Baelish about his plan and a...
A Golden Crown
October 24, 2017 22:28 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBMeredith Geddes and Jeremy Baker rewatch Game of Thrones Robert reappoints Ned as Hand and tasks him with running affairs until Robert returns from hunting. Villagers from Riverrun arrive in the throne room with news of atrocities committed by raiders, who Ned deduces were led by Gregor Clegane, a Lannister retainer. Ned sentences Gregor to death and sends a message to Tywin Lannister, summoning him to a trial. Ned decides to send Sansa (now reconciled with Joffrey) and Arya back to Winterfe...
The Wolf And The Lion
October 17, 2017 22:23 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBMeredith Geddes and Jeremy Baker continue their quest to rewatch Game of Thrones from the beginning. Ned refuses to participate in Robert's plan to assassinate the pregnant Daenerys Targaryen and resigns as Robert's Hand, angering him. Catelyn and Tyrion (whom she has taken as her prisoner) arrive at her sister Lysa's home in the Eyrie. News of Tyrion's capture reaches King's Landing where Jaime Lannister, the Queen's twin brother, demands answers from Ned. A vengeful Jaime orders Ned's men ...
Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things
October 11, 2017 22:30 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBMeredith Geddes and Jeremy Baker from CFOX continue their quest to rewatch Game of Thrones from the beginning. Tyrion makes saddle modifications for Bran that will allow the paraplegic boy to ride. Ned searches for clues to the unexplained death of his mentor and predecessor Jon Arryn and, in the process, discovers King Robert's illegitimate son. Robert and his guests witness a tournament honoring Ned. Jon takes measures to protect Samwell Tarly, an awkward and friendless boy, from the abuse...
Lord Snow
October 04, 2017 00:08 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBMeredith Geddes and Jeremy Baker from CFOX continue their quest to rewatch Game of Thrones from the beginning. This week Taylor Assion from the Stormcrow Alehouse, Tavern, and Manor returns to yap with us. Mer, Tay, and Jer talk all things episode three, Lord Snow. TNed joins the King's Small Council at King's Landing, capital of the Seven Kingdoms, and learns just how poorly Westeros is being managed. Catelyn tries to covertly warn her husband but is intercepted by an old friend, Councillor...
The Kingsroad
September 26, 2017 23:37 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MBMeredith Geddes and Jeremy Baker from CFOX continue their quest to rewatch Game of Thrones from the beginning. Mere and Jer talk all things episode two, Winter is Coming. Having accepted his new role as King's Hand, Ned leaves Winterfell with his daughters Sansa and Arya, while Catelyn stays behind to tend to Bran. The unconscious Bran is attacked by an assassin, but his direwolf saves him. Catelyn decides to go to King's Landing to tell Ned about the attempt and suspected Lannister involve...
Winter Is Coming
September 19, 2017 22:31 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBMeredith Geddes and Jeremy Baker from CFOX take a page out of Coldplay's playbook and go "back to the start." Mere and Jer talk all thing episode one, Winter is Coming. In the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, a soldier of the ancient Night's Watch order survives an attack by supernatural creatures known as the White Walkers, thought until now to be mythical. He rushes to Castle Winterfell, which is ruled by Eddard "Ned" Stark, Warden of the North, who decapitates the soldier for desertion. In Kin...
Post season wrap up
September 11, 2017 22:08 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBJeremy was off helping welcome the newest member of his family, so Meredith sat down with Fearless Fred from Toronto to wrap the up the season as a whole. - Is Bran the Night King? - Is Dany going to handle the news on Jon well? - Where the hell is Ghost? - Will Cersei ever see her new kid? - Who is going to sit on that darn throne? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Dragon And The Wolf
August 29, 2017 00:14 - 1 hour - 69.6 MBMeredith Geddes and Jeremy Baker from CFOX are joined by Taylor Assion from the Storm Crow Tavern & Alehouse to discuss the season 7 finale! At King's Landing, the wight is presented to the Lannisters. Cersei demands Jon's neutrality in the Great War, but he upholds his oath to Daenerys, provoking Cersei to leave. Tyrion meets privately with Cersei, apparently persuading her to ally. Cersei later reveals to Jaime that she was lying and instead intends to use the Golden Company of Braavos to ...
Beyond The Wall
August 21, 2017 23:04 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBMeredith Geddes and Jeremy Baker from CFOX are joined with Fearless Fred from 102.1 The Edge and Issue Zero as they discuss episode 6 of Game of Thrones Season 7, "Beyond The Wall." At Winterfell, Littlefinger plots to isolate Sansa. Tensions between Arya and Sansa grow following Arya's discovery of the letter Sansa sent as a child begging for Robb's fealty to Joffrey. Sansa discovers Arya's bag of faces she took from Braavos. At Dragonstone, Tyrion counsels Daenerys about her upcoming negot...
Eastwatch
August 14, 2017 20:59 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MBJoin Meredith Geddes and Jeremy Baker from CFOX are joined with Drex from CKNW as they discuss episode 5 of Game of Thrones Season 7, "Eastwatch." Jaime and Bronn return to King's Landing. Daenerys offers the remnants of the Lannister army the choice to either pledge fealty to her or die. Against Tyrion's advice, she has Drogon burn Randyll and Dickon Tarly, who refused to submit. Jorah arrives at Dragonstone and reunites with Daenerys. Maester Wolkan alerts Jon and the Citadel about the wig...
The Spoils of War
August 09, 2017 00:00 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MBJoin Meredith Geddes and Jeremy Baker from CFOX as they discuss episode 4 of Game of Thrones Season 7. Arya returns to Winterfell, where she reunites with Sansa and spars with Brienne, both of whom are unnerved by her exceptional fighting skills. Bran unemotionally bids farewell to Meera, divulging that he is no longer the boy she accompanied through the North. Littlefinger presents Bran with the dagger that was previously used in his attempted assassination. Cersei assures the Iron Bank a f...
The Queen's Justice
August 01, 2017 23:44 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBJoin Jeremy Baker and Meredith from CFOX as they discuss episode 3 of Game of Thrones Season 7. Jon arrives at Dragonstone. Daenerys demands his fealty. He refuses and focuses instead on convincing her to fight the Army of the Dead. Following Tyrion's advice, Daenerys grants Jon access to the island's dragonglass. Melisandre hides her presence from Jon and leaves for Volantis. Bran arrives at Winterfell and reveals his newfound role as the Three-Eyed Raven to Sansa. In King's Landing, Euron ...
Stormborn
July 24, 2017 23:11 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBJoin Jeremy Baker and Meredith from CFOX as they discuss episode 2 of Game of Thrones Season 7. Daenerys sends the Dornishmen with Yara's fleet to Sunspear and the Unsullied to Casterly Rock, deciding to place King's Landing under siege. She questions Varys' loyalty and threatens to burn him alive if he ever betrays her. Melisandre arrives and encourages her to invite Jon Snow to Dragonstone. Grey Worm and Missandei consummate their relationship. Cersei gathers several lords, asking for thei...
Dragonstone
July 24, 2017 22:22 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBWe discuss the events of the premiere of Game of Thrones. At the Twins, the remaining lords of House Frey are poisoned by Arya, disguised as Walder Frey. The White Walkers march toward the Wall, where Tollett allows Bran and Meera inside. At Winterfell, despite Sansa's disapproval, Jon secures the loyalties of Houses Umber and Karstark, who fought alongside Ramsay in the Battle of the Bastards. At the Citadel, Samwell steals books that reveal a large reservoir of dragonglass in Dragonstone, ...