Hungerford’s got his groove back this week as Ivan, Red, and guest Colleen stumble blindly over “Blackwater”. After viewing the corrections below follow @mhunger on twitter as we attempt to get him 100 twitter followers. May the odds be never in our favor.

Wait, what? Number 9 overall in iTunes TV & Film category! But still 3rd Greatest Game of Thrones podcast.

You know something, Jon Snow.

Awesome (and surprisingly cuddly) painspider art from Bannerman Amelie Belcher.

Every week, Bannerman Matt Hungerford sends in his corrections.  In a NEVER BEFORE SEEN double correction, this week Hungerford covers “The Old Gods and The New” (podcast here) as well as “A Man Without Honor” (podcast here). LET THE HUNGER GAME BEGIN!

Episode 2x06

• The way white walkers make wights is unclear. From the way Wildlings insist on the burning of corpses you can probably assume anyone that dies north of the Wall, regardless of the nature of their death, is a risk to come back. 
• Why was the high septon torn apart? In a city where everyone outside the nobility is starving, the high septon is conspicuously fat. I don’t think he was ripped apart for food, more because he was very very unpopular.
• Dreadfort guy is Roose Bolton and you can see his house symbol, a flayed man, on his breastplate. He also offers to send to reclaim Winterfell not his son (because he doesn’t have any) but his bastard, Ramsey.

Hey this was a pretty good episode by your standards! Good work!

Episode 2x07

• Crazy iron mask lady (Quaithe) was tattooing the naked guy to give him some kind of magical protection since he’ll be passing near the ruins of Valyria (it’s not nice this time of year (or for the last few centuries))
• You guys had it then you lost it… the alchemists are making wildfire, not dragon fire
• Tyrion really does not care for Joffrey but Cersei would never, ever contemplate them murdering her son. Out of the question!
• If you want a hint about who the flaming-corpsicle kids are, rewatch the scene from the start of the episode with Bran, Rickon, Osha and Hodor. That is all!

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Every week, Lord Hungerford sends in his corrections.  This week Ivan and Red mangled episode 2x05 “Garden of Bones” despite guest Guy Branum’s help, you can find the podcast by clicking here.

There’s always less to do when you have someone who read the books on

• The acknowledged bastard Guy is thinking of is Edric Storm, currently hanging out in Storm’s End if he exists in the show at all (doubtful at this point). Fun fact: He was conceived by Robert on Stannis’s wedding night, in his wedding bed! Stannis took this very well.
• Between Jaqen talking about the red god and the fact that Arya gives him a different name that she does in the book this episode has caused historic amounts of nerd rage
• IT’S THE PAINTED TABLE DO YOU EVEN READ THESE. More fun facts: the Painted Table was made before the Targaryen invasion and so does not have King’s Landing on it, since that was the beachhead where they landed then attacked from.
• There’s only two named pieces of furniture in the series so far and Aegon the conqueror made them both. I guess he really liked furnishings!
• Yes, the north of the Wall storyline is slow and doesn’t seem to be going anywhere… kind of like how Theon was given a bigger part in the first season so you would appreciate him now the really, really good stuff with the Night’s Watch to come is being set up with the endless talking now.
• Qhorin Halfhand is so-called because he lost most of his right hand in battle with a wildling. He then learned how to become an even better warrior with his left hand and is now a legend in the Watch. He was once a friend to Mance Rayder before he deserted the Watch and fled north.
• Creepy iron mask lady is Quaithe, a shadowbinder and priestess of R’hllor like Melisandre
• That guy’s name is actually Zarozan Ducksauce.

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Every week, Bannerman Matt Hungerford sends in his corrections.  This week Ivan and Red mangled episode 2x04 “Garden of Bones”, you can find the podcast by clicking here.  The Hunger Game begins below:

And we’re off!

• The “bat-wing mask” is worn by Lannister guards, maybe the mythical blacksmith in your audience has more details
• This guessing is getting ridiculous, so here are the POV Characters in Clash of Kings:
• Prologue: Maester Cressen, the maester at Dragonstone who dies in the first episode. Rest of book: Tyrion Lannister, Catelyn Stark, Ser Davos Seaworth, Sansa Stark, Arya Stark, Bran Stark, Jon Snow, Theon Greyjoy, Daenerys Targaryen
• That battle scene at the beginning and the aftermath with Robb and the nurse from Volantis is made up for the show. The nurse may also be another character who’s actually in the books but is apparently getting a whole new back story so we’ll see how that goes.
• Joffrey’s crazy torture session: made up but based on a mention in the books from Tyrion who thinks about sending some prostitutes to him to make him quit being such a dick.
• The Lannisters will never acknowledge they don’t have Arya cause it makes them look like idiots and makes it harder to get Jaime back
• The box with Ned in it is small-ish because it only has his bones in it not his corpse
• Renly doesn’t just have 20,000 dudes, he has 100,000! You may have confused his army with Stannis’s. The fact that he has this giant army coming at King’s Landing from the south while Robb kicks Tywin’s ass up in the riverlands is why the Lannisters are so worried.
• Essos in general does not have countries but is filled with city-states each convinced they are the world’s greatest.
• Joffrey and Cersei are afraid of Tywin and for good reason, which is why they tolerate Tyrion as much as they do.
• Lancel is quite real and almost all his scenes are from the book, where he is 16.
• Stannis has always treated Davos (and everyone) the way he does now, which is why Renly taunts him that “you never wanted any friends” during their parley. Fire Yoko is to blame for a lot of things but not this! Davos’s affection for him mostly comes from the fact that he came from absolutely nothing, grew up a smuggler and is now a knight and right hand of a king.
• You are correct in noticing how weirdly pointless Davos’s smuggler skills are in the show, mostly because it’s a combination of several different scenes from the book where he needs to get Melisandre through rocky shoals to the bottom of a castle in a sailboat. This version is much easier on the budget.
• Time is flowing rather loosely but it definitely hasn’t been 9 months since Stannis and Melisandre had sex, probably a few weeks or a month at most. She’s just got some crazy powers.
• Nice try guys, but they always show the Wall in the credits even in episodes where Jon doesn’t appear. It happened several times in season one so don’t get too excited

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Every week, Bannerman Matt Hungerford sends in his corrections.  This week Ivan and Red mangled episode 2x03 “What is Dead May Never Die”, you can find the podcast by clicking here.  The Hunger Game begins below:

Good job this week!

• Bryan Cogman wrote the first two episodes only if he was using an alias and pretending to be David Benioff & D. B. Weiss, the showrunners.
• Hodor has appeared before this season but I think this is the first time he has said anything.
• Old Nan is alive in the books but does not really appear after the first one so they don’t have to cut anything.
• Theon’s father is Lord Balon Greyjoy.
• That whole scene Renly and Margaery was invented so you can blame Bryan Cogman for it [I will thank him for it, great scene. - Red]. Not only was the scene made up, but so is Margaery having a personality or agenda of her own so hooray for fixing the book’s mistakes.

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