Stark Raven Mad: A Game of Thrones Podcast
126 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 167 ratingsStark Raven Mad is a Game of Thrones podcast hosted by Mike Marbach and featuring a panel of Philly comedians including David Donnella, Rob Alesiani, Whitney Rumble, Frank Farrell and more. We got you covered with episode recaps as well as special episodes for reviews, theorizing, awards and a ton of other fun stuff.
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Episodes
SRM Second Thoughts On “The Winds of Winter”
June 29, 2016 16:03 - 1 hour - 28.8 MBThis episode of Stark Raven Mad covers Season 6 Episode 10 of Game of Thrones titled “The Winds of Winter”. We have a full crew back from the four corners of the world to discuss the finale and we announce the winner of our latest contest. Game of Thrones may Read more…
SRM S06E10: Queen’s Landing
June 27, 2016 05:05 - 1 hour - 37.5 MBThis episode of Stark Raven Mad covers the season finale of Game of Thrones Season 6 titled “The Winds of Winter.” An amazing end to a fantastic season. A King in the North, a Queen in the South, A Queen in the Easter that is headed West… and we STILL Read more…
SRM Second Thoughts On “Battle of the Bastards”
June 22, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 33 MBIn this episode of Stark Raven Mad we take another look at Game of Thrones Season Six Episode 9 titled “Battle of the Bastards”. We try to answer the tough questions like “What is Little Finger’s end game?”, “Why wouldn’t Sansa tell Jon about Baelish?”, “Why wasn’t Wun Wun yielding Read more…
SRM S06E09: Dogs of War
June 20, 2016 05:15 - 1 hour - 27.9 MBThis episode of Stark Raven Mad covers Season 6 Episode 9 of Game of Thrones titled “Battle of the Bastards”. A battle seasons long between one of the shows most reviled characters and one its characters that was dead just a few episodes ago. A payoff seasons long in the making. Oh, Read more…
SRM Second Thoughts on “No One”
June 15, 2016 14:40 - 1 hour - 34.8 MBIn this episode of Stark Raven Mad: A Game of Thrones Podcast we take another look at episode #8 in season 6, “No One”. We take another pass at each story line, but pay particular attention to the cryptic rumor/secret between Qyburn and Cersei and what tricks she might have Read more…
SRM S06E08: Mountain Rage
June 13, 2016 05:24 - 1 hour - 29.8 MBThis episode of Stark Raven Mad covers Season 6 Episode 8 of Game of Thrones Titled “No One”. Some big moves, but still a lot of set-up for the final two episodes. This didn’t keep the episode from having great moments or tension throughout. The next two should be pretty Read more…
SRM Second Thoughts on “The Broken Man”
June 08, 2016 15:56 - 51 minutes - 23.6 MBIn this episode of Stark Raven Mad we take another look at Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 7 titled “The Broken Man”. We look for detailed missed in our first impressions podcast, make some predictions about what’s to come, pick our stand-out stars for Episode 8 and more. Just Read more…
SRM S06E07: Stray Dog
June 06, 2016 05:44 - 56 minutes - 25.8 MBThis episode of Stark Raven Mad covers Season 6 Episode 7 of Game of Thrones titled “The Broken Man”. We got two big character returns, took a tour of the North, increased the tension in Kings Landing and watched Arya not watch her back. We’ll be recording Second Thoughts on Read more…
SRM Second Thoughts on “Blood of My Blood”
June 01, 2016 13:00 - 46 minutes - 21.1 MBIn this episode of Stark Raven Mad we take another look at Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 6 “Blood of My Blood”. We discuss Margaery’s true intentions, the return of Benjen Stark and what that could mean, the twisted mess the Riverlands is about to become and more.
SRM S06E06: Start Your Benjens!
May 30, 2016 16:00 - 1 hour - 29 MBThis episode of Stark Raven Mad covers Season 6 Episode 6 of Game of Thrones titled “Blood of My Blood”. Another great episode in another fantastic season of Game of Thrones. Big things just keep coming from episode to episode. We saw people we haven’t seen in years tonight. One Read more…
SRM Second Thoughts on “The Door”
May 25, 2016 17:39 - 45 minutes - 20.7 MBIn this episode of Stark Raven Mad: A Game of Thrones podcast we take another look at Episode #5 titled “The Door”. We spend a good amount of time talking more about the wall and the impacts of Bran’s new abilities with some more attention paid to other story lines, pick Read more…
SRM S06E05: Warging Out
May 23, 2016 17:38 - 1 hour - 32.6 MBThis episode of Stark Raven Mad covers Season 6 Episode 5 titled “The Door”. From the episode titles I usually try to guess what they could focus around and I did not get this one at all. Great episode. Heartbreaking ending. Luckily SRM is here to talk you through it. Read more…
SRM Second Thoughts on “Book of the Stranger”
May 19, 2016 17:35 - 47 minutes - 21.8 MBIn this episode of Stark Raven Mad: A Game of Thrones podcast we take another look at Episode #4 titled “Book of the Stranger”. David is still filling in as host while I’m on vacation and is joined by Caitlin Weigel and Rob Alesiani. They talk theories about what’s to Read more…
SRM S06E04: Come and See
May 16, 2016 12:51 - 1 hour - 31 MBThis episode of Stark Raven Mad covers Season 6 episode 4 of Game of Thrones titled “Book of the Stranger”. There’s doesn’t seem to be a corner of Westeros or Essos that isn’t gearing up for war and it’s great. Petyr and Sweet Robin are headed to Winterfell, Sansa and Read more…
SRM: Second Thoughts on “Oathbreaker”
May 11, 2016 20:06 - 49 minutes - 22.8 MBIn this episode of Stark Raven Mad, David and Mike look back on Oathbreaker for some more in depth theorizing on where we go from here based on Oathbreaker’s events, introduce the “Duck Tales Check-in”, pick breakout starts for Episode #4 and more.
SRM S06E03: Windbreaker
May 09, 2016 20:02 - 1 hour - 31 MBThis episode of Stark Raven Mad covers Season 6 Episode 3 of Game of Thrones titled “Oathbreaker”. First impressions in this episode with some brief discussion. Much more theorizing in our Second Thoughts podcast which will be out on Wednesday. Overall great episode with one of the best fight scenes Read more…
SRM: Second Thoughts on “Home”
May 04, 2016 20:00 - 52 minutes - 24.2 MBThis is the first of our mid-week episodes we’re calling “Second Thoughts” at least for now. We revisit Season 6 Episode 2 of Game of Thrones to offer some second thoughts on the episode now that we’ve had time to digest everything. We offer our ever changing predictions for what’s Read more…
SRM S06E02: Rise and Shine
May 02, 2016 19:56 - 58 minutes - 26.9 MBThis episode of Stark Raven Mad covers Season 6 Episode 2 of Game of Thrones titled “Home”. Easily one of the best episodes of the series. So much packed into this episode, yet it didn’t really feel like nothing was given too much or not enough time. Everything was so Read more…
Stark Raven Mad: A Game of Thrones Podcast
April 30, 2016 00:39SRM is a Game of Thrones podcast hosted by Mike Marbach and featuring David Donnella, Rob Alesiani, Whitney Harris, Hunter Steffes, Frank Farrell and more. All are Philly area comedians/nerds, so you get people that love talking about the show and cracking wise along the way.
SRM S06E01: Game of Crones
April 29, 2016 01:23 - 1 hour - 34.6 MBWe’re back! We finally have some new material to cover. This episode of SRM covers Season 6 Episode 1 of Game of Thrones titled “The Red Woman”. Pretty much a check-in sort of episode in many respects, with some pretty big moments. Dorne definitely had the most action of the Read more…
SRM: The Iron Bank of Braavos Presents The Stark Raven Mad Stone Cold Locks of 2016
April 18, 2016 03:19 - 1 hour - 39.1 MBIn this very special episode of Stark Raven Mad we have partnered with the prestigious Iron Bank of Braavos to present the Stone Cold Locks of 2016. This is an episode in which each member of then panel gives five predictions for things we will see in Season 6 of Read more…
SRM: Game of Thrones Season 6 PreGame- Season 5 Recap Part 2
April 11, 2016 12:11 - 1 hour - 43.8 MBWe are now under two weeks until the big Season 6 premiere of Game of Thrones and Stark Raven Mad is back with the second half of our Previously On. In this episode we cover where we left off in Mereen, The Wall and Winterferll. As always there’s some discussion Read more…
SRM: Game of Thrones Season 6 PreGame- Season 5 Recap Part 1
April 05, 2016 13:20 - 1 hour - 38.4 MBWe’re just a few weeks out from the premiere of Season 6 of Game of Thrones. In this episode and the next we are covering all the Westerosi and Essos goings on in Season 5. This will save you the frustration of having to rewatch Season 5 just to relive Read more…
SRM: Game of Thrones Season 6 News & Rumors
March 07, 2016 14:52 - 1 hour - 28.6 MBIn this episode of Stark Raven Mad we take a look at the various news and rumors that have been churning over the last few months of us not doing anything. I take the night “off” while David steers the ship through rough waters. Though we’ve been off, we are Read more…
SRM Live! The Game of Thrones Spin-off Pitch Show
September 04, 2015 20:26 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBThis episode of Stark Raven Mad: A Game of Thrones Podcast was put up live at Tattooed Mom’s in South Philly as part of the 2015 Philly Podcast Festival. Special thanks to Tattooed Mom’s and to festival producer Nathan Kuruna for including us. This episode is our Game of Thrones Read more…
SRM Presents: The 2015 SRMies! Game of Thrones Season 5 Awards (Part 2)
July 13, 2015 23:52 - 1 hour - 42.6 MBThis is part two of the SRMies. A fake awards show that honors Game of Thrones Season Five. This half includes such categories as Biggest Heelturn, Redemption of the Year, MVP and much more. Thanks for all the reviews! The contest to win 2 GoT pint glasses runs through July. Read more…
SRM Presents: The 2015 SRMies! Game of Thrones Season 5 Awards (Part 1)
July 07, 2015 01:27 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBIn this episode of Stark Raven Mad we are handing out the coveted SRMies! It’s our award show honoring the best and worst of Season 5 of Game of Thrones. Categories such as “Rookie of the Year”, “Biggest Asshole”, “Most Satisfying Death”, and many more. David came armed with a Read more…
SRM: Game of Thrones Season 5 Wrap-Up (Part 2)
June 29, 2015 23:14 - 1 hour - 45.8 MBThis is the second part of our epic wrap-up. This segment includes breakdowns of The Wall, Mereen, Kings Landing and more with season 5 winners and losers. Our next episode is scheduled to be posted on July 5th and that episode will be the 2nd Annual SRM Awards in which Read more…
SRM: Game of Thrones Season 5 Wrap-up (Part 1)
June 22, 2015 22:50 - 1 hour - 46.6 MBThis episode of Stark Raven Mad is part one of our Game of Thrones Season 5 wrap-up episode. Yes, I said “part one”. It has been cut into two parts, because it went nearly two and half hours. We discuss just about everything about season 5 that we could. There’s Read more…
SRM S05E10: A Stannis of Unfortunate Events
June 15, 2015 05:32 - 1 hour - 76.6 MBThis episode of Stark Raven Mad covers episode 10, the season finale, of Game of Thrones entitled “Mother’s Mercy”. This episode still had me feeling a bit empty. A lot of things almost happening. The episode is full of cliffhangers. Previous seasons, though they laid out things that were to Read more…
New Artwork and Music For Stark Raven Mad!
June 13, 2015 17:50 - 48 seconds - 479 KBAs Stark Raven Mad has grown over the last three years, the home brew nature of the podcast has needed to be improved each year. From using an iPhone’s microphone to record all the episodes [...] Support the show
SRM S05E09: The Dorne Ultimatum
June 08, 2015 05:36 - 1 hour - 77.3 MBThis episode of Stark Raven Mad covers Season 5 Episode 9 of Game of Thrones titled “Dance With Dragons”. Overall a really good episode, but not as overall entertaining to me as episode 8. If I had to guess though Episode 10 will be on par with last year’s finale. Read more…
SRM S05E08: Come at me, Crow!
June 01, 2015 17:43 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBThis episode of Stark Raven Mad covers Season 5 Episode 8 titled “Hardhome”. Good lord. Anyone that’s been complaining about a season in which there’s been a lot of inaction was just silenced. The last 20 or so minutes was some of the best 20 minutes this show has put Read more…
SRM S05E07: Sam the Layer
May 25, 2015 16:51 - 1 hour - 38.2 MBThis episode of Stark Raven Mad covers Season 5 Episode 7 of Game of Thrones entitled “The Gift”. Looks like those 6 episodes of set-up are finally starting to pay off. These last three episodes should be all the dominoes falling. Don’t forget our May contest! Follow us on twitter Read more…
SRM S05E06: Keep Calm and Look Dornish
May 18, 2015 19:49 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBThis episode of Stark Raven Mad covers Season 5 Episode 6 of Game of Thrones entitled “Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken”. Don’t forget our May contest! Follow us on twitter @SRMPodcast and be entered to win the Hedge Knight and the Sworn Sword graphic novels. Awesome prequels to the series. And as Read more…
Gettin’ Close With The Mountain!
May 15, 2015 17:27 - 24 minutes - 11.1 MBHafthór Júlíus Björnsson, AKA “The Mountain” from Game of Thrones, is in Philly for the weekend. He’s going to be appearing at the Philly Ren Faire May 16th and 17th. You’ll have the chance to meet him, get your picture taken and if you planned ahead you’ll get to train Read more…
The SRM Guest Right: Hafthór Júlíus Björnsson (The Mountain!)
May 15, 2015 17:27 - 24 minutes - 11.2 MBHafthór Júlíus Björnsson, AKA “The Mountain” from Game of Thrones, is in Philly for the weekend. He’s going to be appearing at the Philly Ren Faire May 16th and 17th. You’ll have the chance to meet him, get your picture taken and if you planned ahead you’ll get to train and fight with him! He was awesome enough to give me some time to chat about the Ren Faire, Game of Thrones and being one of the world’s strongest humans. He also gave me one of my favorite things ever- an SRM tag that you’ll...
SRM S05E05: Skinner Skinner Bolton Dinner
May 11, 2015 15:40 - 1 hour - 37.3 MBThis episode of SRM covers Season 5 Episode 5 of Game of Thrones titled “Kill the Boy”. Good episode, but more or less another bridge to (likely) bigger payoffs down the road. Thanks to David Donnella, Katie Cwirko, Kevin Pettit and Lizzie Spellman for a really fun discussion. MAY CONTEST: Read more…
SRM S05E04: Shades of Greyscale
May 04, 2015 16:54 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBThis episode of SRM covers Season 5 Episode 4 of Game of Thrones titled “The Sons of the Harpy”. In what was probably the best episode this season so far we were again all over the map. We had tender moments, some comic relief, but also some heartbreaking losses. As Read more…
SRM S05E03: The Hymen Sparrow
April 27, 2015 16:26 - 1 hour - 40.7 MBThis episode of SRM covers Season 5 Episode 3 of Game of Throne’s titled “The High Sparrow”. This is another episode that is moving pieces on the board closer together. People that haven’t been around each other previously or for a long while are now finding themselves in close proximity now Read more…
SRM S05E02: Qyburn Gets Ahead
April 20, 2015 15:57 - 1 hour - 46.7 MBThis episode of SRM covers Season 5 Episode 2 of Game of Thrones. In an episode that took us all over Westeros and Esos we got to check in and also progress several storylines. Lots of ups and downs for characters tonight, but we know very well that the highs for Read more…
#TBT to #GameOfThrones Season 3 Bits + Contest!
April 16, 2015 16:16 - 5 minutes - 2.63 MBThese are two short audio sketches made for the podcast inspired by a couple different things from Season 3 of Game of Thrones. The first is Podrick’s condoms. There was a running joke through Season 3 about Podrick and the whores of Westeros. The second is “Craster’s Keep” which is Read more…
SRM S05E01: Hizdahr The Lorax
April 13, 2015 16:32 - 2 hours - 55.7 MBAnd we’re back! After nearly a year of waiting Game of Thrones returns and SRM is there to spend most of the time talking about Sansa again. Not really. This episode covers Season 5 Epsiode 1 entitled “The Wars to Come”. General consensus was a it was a good episode, but a bit Read more…
SRM: PreGame of Thrones- Season 5 Preview
April 02, 2015 16:38 - 1 hour - 45.7 MBAnd we’re back! This episode of SRM is our “Previously On…”. We will talk about where we left each plot point that we can remember from Season 4 of Game of Thrones. This panel includes Mike Marbach, David Donnella, Lizzie Spellman and Frank Farrell. The new season starts up Sunday, Read more…
SRM: Game of Thrones Season 5 “A Day in the Life”
February 10, 2015 00:33 - 43 minutes - 20.1 MBFor better or worse, the SRM crew is back in action. Tonight we thought we’d get together and watch the “Day in the Life” documentary and then talk about it… only there wasn’t much to talk about. So topics bounced around. A lot. This is our first podcast since earning Read more…
SRM: Live at the 2014 Philly Podcast Festival
August 29, 2014 10:00 - 1 hour - 38.2 MBIt’s been a while, but we finally got a new episode together. This episode of Stark Raven Mad: A Game of Thrones Podcast was recorded live at the Philly Improv Theater on 8/22/14 as part of the Philly Podcast Festival. This show features some Season 5 casting news and then Read more…
Reheated S01E01: “Pilot”
June 30, 2014 05:47 - 1 hour - 35.2 MBGame of Thrones is off the air for now and we are in between episodes of Stark Raven Mad. SRM returns in a little over two weeks. So what are we supposed to do? Apparently more [...] Support the show
SRM S04E10: The Children
June 16, 2014 12:05 - 2 hours - 65 MBIn a season with many epic adventures, incredible spectacle and huge story developments this episode seemed to pack in more of each than probably the entire series combined. It was one of the best episodes of the series if not the best episode. Though some of my Stone Cold Lock of The Century of Read more…
SRM S0409: The Watchers On The Wall
June 09, 2014 05:15 - 1 hour - 40.4 MBWe were worried that we wouldn’t have much to talk about with this episode since it was basically all the battle… but somehow we still managed to talk for an hour and a half. Traditionally, the 9th episode of Game of Thrones is the big one. The one when events happen that Read more…
SRM S04E08: The Mountain and The Viper
June 02, 2014 05:57 - 1 hour - 41 MBThis episode of SRM covers Season 4 Episode 8 of Game of Thrones entitled “The Mountain and the Viper”. Other things happened in this episode other than the fight, but damn. That last scene was a mind eraser. I have quickly gone through all the emotions I can. Emotions that Read more…