Trial by Content

Joanna, Dave and Neil are so much fun together. Easy to see they are long time friends with inside jokes and great energy. Really enjoying the HotD discussions!

Joanna’s a once in a generation podcaster while also being a once in a generation nerd, just incredible stuff (Shouts House of R)

I have no idea whether they choose their topics or if their hands are tied by the Ringer network but this format and the topics they cover (baseball for opening month?) is just NOT what I loved about these podcasters BEFORE the Ringer acquired them. Back when their “off season tour” between GoT seasons, their non-Ringer show was AMAZING (not too mention how great their GoT coverage was while in season). Now I’ll check in time to time but more often than not, the topics feel forced upon them. The sound design on this podcast is fine but makes me miss Da7e’s production style on Storm of Spoilers. Luckily there’s still the Fighting in the War Room Podcast. Joanna’s wealth and Bay Area life has lifted her further and further out of touch with the rest of us not wealthy folk. Her smugness and elitism feels deeper than ever. I’ve lived in California for 20 years now (both north and south); and Joanna is now the type of person that I feared becoming when I moved from Jersey to California. She feels like the smugness cloud from that South Park episode about the Bay Area and Priuses. Miss you guys and the way it used to be.

The opening where they each say what they have and have not read in the got universe is so incredibly annoying. It’s not even a funny bit so what is the point of that? And guess what, it’s also the ad for the podcast that you’ll catch often when listening to other podcasts so they double and triple down on the awful bit. That they repeat every episode!! And every ad! It’s an utterly baffling choice.