Honor in Westeros? That’s Adorable

This week on Good2Game Radio, Tony, Jaime, and Vance saddle up and ride straight into Westeros to talk about A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. The guys break down the adventures of Dunk—a towering hedge knight who might be honorable… or might just be really good at pretending he’s a knight. Either way, he’s somehow stumbled into a royal tournament, adopted a bald kid named Egg, and managed to anger a bunch of very powerful people. What could possibly go wrong?

The crew debates Dunk’s questionable knighthood, the surprisingly great Trial of Seven battle, and whether the show’s smaller budget actually works in its favor compared to House of the Dragon. Along the way, they discuss puppet shows, exploding medieval diarrhea jokes, and why being the only honorable guy in Westeros is basically a death sentence.

One thing’s clear: Dunk may be the nicest guy in the Seven Kingdoms… which means he’s probably doomed.

Transcript

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Tony Sisk
Okay. I've got the audio going.

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Jaime G
All right, all right.

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Tony Sisk
Let me know when.

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Jaime G
Go ahead, man. We're we're ready to go.

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Tony Sisk
Are we ready? We're live.

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Jaime G
don't know.

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Jaime G
We're always live.

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Tony Sisk
Make sure. That.

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Sentfrmheaven
This is the Triple P, right?

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Tony Sisk
It is just what it is.

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Jaime G
Wait, if it if it's on Twitch, it is not the triple P.

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Tony Sisk
This is Game of Thrones, man. Game Thrones.

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Sentfrmheaven
Oh, OK, this is Game of Thrones.

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Tony Sisk
This is Night of the Seven Kingdoms.

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Sentfrmheaven
OK, hold on, hold on, hold on. OK, hold on.

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Tony Sisk
This Night of the Seven Kingdoms.

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Sentfrmheaven
All

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Jaime G
Yeah. Yeah. ah which

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Tony Sisk
ah

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Jaime G
Twitch has summoned me now.

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Sentfrmheaven
right. All right, the intro is going.

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Jaime G
It is, man. It's live. It's hot.

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Tony Sisk
Why is there no?

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Jaime G
That intro's fire, bro.

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Sentfrmheaven
if It is. It Somebody did a great job on it.

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Tony Sisk
Sir.

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Tony Sisk
Are we live?

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Sentfrmheaven
We are live in three, two, and one.

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Jaime G
I'm telling you, we're always live.

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Jaime G
At.

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Tony Sisk
ah was that Is that one? I didn't hear the one.

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Sentfrmheaven
yeah One.

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Tony Sisk
All right. Hi, folks. welcome good Welcome back to Good to Game Radio.

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Jaime G
and

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Tony Sisk
I'm your host, Tony, speaking. I got Vance and Jaime with me tonight. And to kick things off, we're going to be talking Night of the Seven Kingdoms.

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Tony Sisk
We haven't talked anything about this show up until this point. ah it But this is a spinoff of the Game of Thrones franchise. ah So it didn't get a lot of publicity.

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Tony Sisk
ah But now I think it's probably one of the hottest TV shows airing right now after only five episodes.

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Jaime G
a stretch and That's a stretch.

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Tony Sisk
Right. No, dude, I'm serious. It is. One, it's HBO.

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Jaime G
a stretch.

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Tony Sisk
It's HBO night. So you know it's it's it's quality right off the bat. But yeah, I think a lot of people didn't know anything about this show. i know Vance doesn't know anything about this show.

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Sentfrmheaven
Nada.

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Tony Sisk
but But that's what we're here for.

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Sentfrmheaven
Ready.

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Tony Sisk
We're here to talk about And get Vance up to speed on Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. So you guys ready to talk? Some ah Game of Thrones? For a little bit anyway, before we start getting into our usual video game topics and and pop culture, things like that. But let's get this thing going.

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Tony Sisk
Hami, did you see the last episode last night?

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Jaime G
i I sure did. I'm team egg all the way.

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Tony Sisk
Mm-hmm. Can you sum up the episode in one word? What's your one word?

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Jaime G
Battle.

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Tony Sisk
Okay. Well, that definitely was that.

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Tony Sisk
My one word would be ah

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Tony Sisk
epic. But I wish I could use a lot more than that one word, but I thought it was pretty epic.

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Jaime G
But Epic doesn't really describe before the episode, yeah

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Tony Sisk
Hey, you get one word. don't know what else to tell you. ah

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Jaime G
Ben. OK.

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Jaime G
Well, I mean, where where do we start with this? I mean,

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Tony Sisk
Well, what do you think, Vance? Where do we start? Got any questions for us?

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Sentfrmheaven
what a What time period is this in?

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Tony Sisk
So, Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is set between House of Dragons, and the original ah Game of Thrones series.

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Jaime G
Yep.

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Tony Sisk
It's about 80 years, don't know, 60 to 80 years, I think, before Jon Snow and everything that happens in the in the original series.

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Tony Sisk
The most important aspect of it is there's no dragons in this show. Unlike House of Dragons and the original a Game of Thrones where dragons kind of like were a big time part of the story.

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Tony Sisk
There are no dragons to to to act

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Sentfrmheaven
Okay, so do they speak about, like, since this was, this is like, 60 to 80 years and, you know, dragons, you know, can live forever? It's like, um so ah are there any mention of dragons or they just don't mention them at all? Hmm.

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Jaime G
Oh, there's mention of dragons.

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Tony Sisk
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

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Jaime G
People know of dragons.

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Tony Sisk
There's even a whole puppet show with dragons that kind of like leads into trouble for our characters in this series because all the dragons are have died off, but the Targaryens, who are the Halseites,

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Tony Sisk
uh rides dragons they they they basically still run the show you know they're they're still the kings and queens of this era and they don't have any dragons uh the fact that they don't have dragons you know people are probably a bit more up front about like being disrespectful toward them And there are repercussions for that.

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Sentfrmheaven
Yeah, right.

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Tony Sisk
As we see, as you if you watch the series, Nine of the Seven Kingdoms, or there are repercussions for disrespecting the house of the Targaryens, even without dragons.

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Tony Sisk
So, yeah. But really the story centers around ah Dunk. Dunk is... ah just a regular guy. He's like a ah very, he's like, what is he? Six, five, Tommy.

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Jaime G
I don't know, man, but the just the name Dunk, when they whenever they he's first introduced, I was just thinking like, man, this this this is a joke character.

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Tony Sisk
Yeah. I think he's six, five. Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
Well, the show leans heavy into comedy, especially the first two of three, two to three episodes.

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Jaime G
It really does.

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Tony Sisk
There's a lot of lot of comedy, especially body humor. you're You're getting like you know people in like you know positions of pretty i guess humorous.

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Tony Sisk
like There's actually a scene where you see Dunk taking a poop.

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Sentfrmheaven
you

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Tony Sisk
ah Literally, you see him taking a poop.

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Jaime G
Oh, we went there.

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Tony Sisk
yeah And he's got like like explosive poop too. He's like he's he's got like diarrhea. And they are showing it. like

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Jaime G
i was actually, whenever this was airing, I was like, man, I hope that's CGI.

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Tony Sisk
Right. But, yeah, it's it it leans a lot into like, you know, just kind of some, you know, funny. don't was it that the 90s show Married with Children.

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Tony Sisk
You know, or Simpsons, The Simpsons, like it's got a little bit of the Simpsons in it um with the with the humor.

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Sentfrmheaven
Right.

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Tony Sisk
um And the start of episode two, I can't really talk about it, but it's like in your face shock.

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Jaime G
ah says ah This is a family-friendly podcast, Tony.

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Tony Sisk
Right. It is.

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Jaime G
We can't we can't go there.

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Tony Sisk
But yeah, the, yeah. But it's just like it it portrays itself very unserious, right? um And so Dunk, who's the main character, and that's short for Duncan, he is a squire for a hedge knight. So a hedge knight is basically knight that does isn't like serving a Lord or a house, right? He's just kind of like a nomadic knight that kind of just wanders the countryside and

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Tony Sisk
ah sells his service, basically. ah

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Sentfrmheaven
So he's like a Hercules.

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Jaime G
A night for hire, if you may.

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Tony Sisk
Yeah, a night fire, basically.

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Jaime G
Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
And Dunk is his squire. And his knight is called ah arland of Sir of And he he is he has died at the start of the series, right? At the very beginning of the episode first episode, he's he has died.

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Tony Sisk
So

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Sentfrmheaven
cease

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Jaime G
Hey, wait, wait, do they ever say why he died?

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Tony Sisk
they have not said why he's died because he's like, I think what one is he's really old drunk.

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Jaime G
I... ah you

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Tony Sisk
and two he's a drunk

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Jaime G
Dude, I think he died of an STD.

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Tony Sisk
he could, well, we're getting into episode two territory.

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Jaime G
I really do think that. Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
ah

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Sentfrmheaven
Man.

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Tony Sisk
Um, but yeah, he's, you know, and the, the first episode, uh, you, you get a lot of flashbacks of, you know, them just kind of riding around the countryside and him getting smacked upside the head by Sir Arlen.

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Tony Sisk
Like, So it's like, i don't is this like a traditional knight-squire relationship? It doesn't come across that way.

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Tony Sisk
ah So it it leads to questions later on in the series. It's like, you know, Sir Arlen dies and that leaves the horses and the equipment to dunk.

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Tony Sisk
And he... He is headed... i think they were both headed to a joust, right?

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Jaime G
Yeah, there was this tournament that some minor lord of it or region was going to put together.

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Tony Sisk
mean... Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
Yeah, one of the lords has a big tournament that he's throwing together.

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Jaime G
And so

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Tony Sisk
And I think they were probably on their way there, but he ends up dying on the way. But Dunk kind of takes on the knighthood right he like he shows up and he wants to enlist in the tournament as a knight which leads which leads to the question it's like well is dunk actually a knight we they kind of they have kind of left that open-ended right for us to interpret what do you think hymie

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Jaime G
i you know You asked this question yesterday and on and the Discord chat, and I answered with, if a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

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Tony Sisk
which didn't answer the question that asked, but...

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Jaime G
Vance, what's your? No, no, no, but but but what but wait. Vance, what's what what's the answer to that?

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Sentfrmheaven
Yes, it does make a sound. But, ah well, so, in um because don't you have to be knighted by somebody?

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Jaime G
So that's kind of where the analogy for the tree is. if if OK, did it make a sound? Yes. If no one is there to hear it and appreciate it, did it really exist? I don't know. You can go into philosophical idealistic territory here with that.

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Jaime G
To me, the answer is, does it matter at this point if he was knighted or not if nobody can vouch for whether if he was or wasn't? so So he just shows up and says, I'm a knight.

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Jaime G
All right, buddy. Tap on the shoulder. Go.

00:12:41.62
Tony Sisk
Okay. Yes. He shows up and says that he was knighted by Sir Arlan. There are no witnesses that we know of two to this knighting.

00:12:55.07
Tony Sisk
Doesn't necessarily mean you have to have a witness. Right? Yeah.

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Jaime G
Now, if you go fast forward to maybe like five episodes into this series, I kind of do think that I'll agree with you, Tony, that something happens that, you know, when they say like, hey, any knight can make another knight.

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Tony Sisk
Right.

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Jaime G
And he didn't knight somebody else. So part of me is thinking that his honesty is kind is catching up to him here. Like, maybe he wasn't knighted.

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Tony Sisk
So, and this is why i think it's important it's an important question in relationship to Dunk as a character. Because Dunk is,

00:13:39.38
Tony Sisk
he he gets himself in trouble. for trying to live up to the standard of of a knight, right? ah Because he's like, you know, a knight has says his vows and he should live up to those vows.

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Tony Sisk
But at the same time, up until that point that he got in trouble for living up to those vows, you have the audience is left wondering, is he actually a knight?

00:14:10.65
Tony Sisk
Which would mean that he's lying about being a knight. So if he's lying about being a knight, then what, where is the honor in the lie? And why is it now he's standing up for principles when he, at the same time, he's lying.

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Jaime G
and he's Because he's going to be killed otherwise, man

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Tony Sisk
ah

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Tony Sisk
Right. Well, he didn't realize, i mean, he, he, he took action and didn't think out his actions. Right. So, um, but I, like I said, maybe I didn't say this to you, but I think that the show runners want us to believe that, um,

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Tony Sisk
dunk has not been knighted and that he is playing a part where he's just playing at being a knight right that's what they want us to believe because we're leaving out information on purpose but if you look at him as a character

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Jaime G
Agree.

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Tony Sisk
Everything he does, once he's, even when he picks up his his squire, which is an important character, Vance. um We'll get to him in a second.

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Tony Sisk
um Everything he does is pretty, like, you know, nice guy, honorable, you know.

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Jaime G
Honorable. Yeah. they They want you to like this character.

00:15:32.44
Tony Sisk
Yeah, they want you to like him, which is, you know, usually when they want you to like a character, they kill that character in Game of Thrones.

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Jaime G
He's he's not. Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
So he's already treading and in dangerous territory here because he's likable. and And he's treading in Ned Stark territory. Ned Stark territory is a likable character that has honor, and he would not bend that honor.

00:15:58.68
Tony Sisk
he would not forsake his honor for anything, which got himself, you know, executed, right? Because, remember, they, in the original Game of Thrones, actually, how many you have never seen Game of Thrones, have you?

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Jaime G
I'm here wondering who is this Stark guy related to Tony?

00:16:15.58
Tony Sisk
Oh, my goodness. Man, you've seen Game of Thrones, haven't you?

00:16:19.32
Sentfrmheaven
Yes, I have seen it.

00:16:21.88
Tony Sisk
Okay, well, I can't spoil it for Jaime. Okay. Anyway, um even though he's had like 10 years to watch it.

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Jaime G
Okay.

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Sentfrmheaven
At least

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Tony Sisk
In the Game of Thrones universe, and I know you don't really see this in House of Dragons, which I know you've watched House of Dragons. You don't see it as much in House of Dragons. But in the original series, honor is very, very important.

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Tony Sisk
Right? ah

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Tony Sisk
and But there's a price to be paid for being honorable. in a world where um everybody is stabbing each other in the back. It's like a match of Raiders, right?

00:17:05.50
Tony Sisk
ah You can't trust anybody, okay? Hey, I'm your friend until I'm not your friend, right? And you don't know when that moment's going to come. That's Game of Thrones, right?

00:17:17.53
Tony Sisk
So... In this series, ah Nine of the Seven Kingdoms, we have an honorable, likable character, which usually does not bode well for that character in the future.

00:17:28.73
Tony Sisk
ah But we have this, is it a lie or is it is isn't it a lie? Is he a knight or isn't he a knight? they're They're not giving us the information to us establish a firm answer.

00:17:43.19
Tony Sisk
So it's a mystery, which is a good mystery because it has us talking about it here on this podcast episode about whether or not it's a lie or not. So I don't think he's lying.

00:17:54.65
Tony Sisk
I think that he actually was knighted by Arlen, Sir Arlen. I just don't think that Arlen was ah mentally aware when he did it.

00:18:05.70
Tony Sisk
I think he was drunk out of his mind.

00:18:06.42
Jaime G
That that i can totally see.

00:18:09.30
Tony Sisk
I think he was totally drunk and I have not read the books.

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Jaime G
Yeah.

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Tony Sisk
I'm not coming from like, you know, any, any, uh, preexisting knowledge or anything like that. I know, um, the series is based on some novellas, uh, but I have not read them.

00:18:23.18
Tony Sisk
So everything that happens in the series is totally new to me versus the original game of Thrones, which I knew everything that was going to happen for the most part. Um,

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Jaime G
So. so Fast forward, Vance, this is Tony has set the stage to the main character, which is which is Dunk. He, along his path to this tournament, meets a little boy that he picks up like outside of a restaurant in whatever, what if you want to call it.

00:18:56.34
Tony Sisk
Tavern, tavern in yeah.

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Jaime G
Right. He picks up a little boy. Actually, I take that back. He meets a little boy. who the kid offers to be become his squire if he can travel with him.

00:19:11.35
Jaime G
And I think ah initially he kind of like blows him off and says like, yeah, whatever, go back to your parents. or And somehow when he arrives to where this area of of events is happening, the boy kind of shows up like the next day.

00:19:27.77
Jaime G
So now he's forced into like this relationship, like, I need to take care of this kid because nobody else is. And this kid's like way far from his own family where nobody, I mean, he's by himself.

00:19:40.85
Jaime G
Right. And there's like a line that he says, like, Hey, if you, if you rob me, I'm going to hunt you down like with dogs or something. Right. Is that.

00:19:49.21
Tony Sisk
Yeah, I'm going to hunt you down with dogs.

00:19:52.24
Jaime G
Yeah. Yeah.

00:19:53.85
Tony Sisk
ah

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Jaime G
Because there there is no trust at this point.

00:19:55.42
Tony Sisk
But.

00:19:57.27
Jaime G
Right. He, he, he just met the boy, the boy showed up and he's like, OK, do I just leave it by himself?

00:20:02.86
Tony Sisk
Yeah, he's taking on a sense of responsibility for this kid that this shows up and the kid is like, you know, tiny little kid with a bald head.

00:20:04.10
Jaime G
or

00:20:14.14
Tony Sisk
So hit the kid goes by the name of Egg. So, um

00:20:19.74
Jaime G
hence Hence the reference Team Egg that I've been throwing out there.

00:20:22.35
Tony Sisk
yeah. ah But yeah, like I said, Duncan is like six foot five and this kid is like tiny. So it's funny watching him like try and be a squire because he's got the lance and like, it's like, like watching one of those little ah animated cartoons where the kid's trying to carry like this thing that weighs three times as much as him and he's just like,

00:20:48.82
Tony Sisk
Can't hold it still. but But, yeah, so they show up at the tournament. The royal family shows up, right, because...

00:20:59.13
Jaime G
and That part to me was like, are you for real?

00:21:02.84
Tony Sisk
ah Right? So... ah But Dunk tries to enlist in the tournament, and the guy that's running the tournament says, look, you know, you know what happens? You know what we do to people that...

00:21:17.64
Tony Sisk
Aren't knights because dunk looks like a beggar, right? He he's got some dirty clothes, right?

00:21:23.46
Jaime G
Well, he's a squire, right? He he was never...

00:21:25.23
Tony Sisk
He was a squire just, you know a day before and he's just got ratty clothes, right? He does not look like a knight at all and the guy's like he comes in he's like I want to sign up for the tournament and the guys like who's running a tournament.

00:21:40.27
Tony Sisk
It's like You know what we do to people that aren't knights who try to play themselves off as knights And he's like, no, sir, what? And he's like, we stick him on a chair made of point, you know, whatever.

00:21:53.14
Tony Sisk
in in And Doug's face is like, you can just see it And he's like running through his mind.

00:22:00.01
Sentfrmheaven
you

00:22:00.73
Tony Sisk
ah Well, I don't know what to say. I don't know. And then the guy's like, I'm just messing with you.

00:22:04.18
Jaime G
Again, up to this point, dunk Dunk is such a likable character up to this point.

00:22:10.23
Tony Sisk
Right. He's like, but seriously, he's like, but seriously, you can't sign up. Unless you have the spot. He basically, he needs a sponsor, right? He needs, he has to have somebody that will vouch for him.

00:22:25.14
Tony Sisk
So for the next couple of episodes, he is traveling around all the nights that have shown up.

00:22:32.50
Jaime G
So get this. He goes to like the the is it like the groups, the clans of people that Sir Arlen of Penitry had actually worked for as as a knight for hire.

00:22:47.67
Jaime G
And he he goes to each and everybody and everyone's like, who? What guy? and and And he's like, this guy took four hours in this battle fighting for you and you don't remember. He's like, I have no idea who who you're even talking about, right?

00:23:06.20
Tony Sisk
Yeah. So like nobody even remembers his night. It's like you start, and it starts to make you question whether or not Sir Arlen was a night, right?

00:23:14.42
Jaime G
Exactly.

00:23:14.54
Tony Sisk
Was he even a night?

00:23:15.14
Jaime G
like like like i I was actually at one point wondering, like Was this guy for real or were these a bunch of stories that he told Dunk as he was, you know, traveling with him?

00:23:28.86
Tony Sisk
Right. But, uh, So he's going around. He's trying to get somebody that will vouch for for him so he can enlist into the tourney.

00:23:41.78
Tony Sisk
And he cannot get anybody. ah But he somehow, don't remember how, he ends up getting into the castle. And he's so goofy, Vance.

00:23:55.66
Tony Sisk
he's He's so goofy in a funny way.

00:23:56.44
Jaime G
No.

00:23:57.86
Tony Sisk
he's like he comes He actually comes across like, the room where the royal family is sitting and they're talking and he stands outside the door listening and literally there's like holes like slits in the wall where you can see out into the hallway and you can see his big butt just like out in the hallway next to the door and they immediately like who is there you know like come out here.

00:24:28.02
Tony Sisk
And he comes in and he then he starts like, you know, trying to explain himself.

00:24:32.47
Jaime G
so but but By this time, I think he's he's already started calling himself Sir Duncan the Tall. Because he's just like super tall, right?

00:24:43.00
Tony Sisk
Right. But he, he, um, Explains himself you know he's like oh i'm I'm Trying to enlist in the tournament And everything the in the And there's there's like three four Princes in the room right and they're All like nobody cares dude who are You and the And the guys like My knight sir arlen served You at you know the black water Or whatever the rebellion or whatever and And The one of the princes the hand of the King

00:25:15.48
Tony Sisk
ah Prince, uh, Balor. He's like, I remember. It's like, yeah, I remember. And he starts spouting off exactly what he remembered of Sir Arlen.

00:25:27.45
Tony Sisk
Right. And what he did at the, like some tournament or something. And I'm thinking like, is he making this up? Like, because like his memory about it, it was like, so exact.

00:25:41.02
Tony Sisk
And then after he says all that, like his brother, the another Prince going, How do you remember that? He's like...

00:25:49.22
Jaime G
I ah

00:25:53.08
Jaime G
i too was like, really?

00:25:53.34
Tony Sisk
of Yeah, so... um The prince was like... Prince Bailower's like... Yeah, I remember. I remember Sir Arlen.

00:26:05.30
Tony Sisk
He's like... Tell you what. I vouch for you. You can go ahead and enter the tournament. So... And the guy who was running the the the list is in the room there too.

00:26:17.81
Tony Sisk
And he's like, okay, I got you. You can sign up. But there's an episode or two we get, you know, where, you know, he's getting prepped to go into the tourneys and they go to some preliminary tournaments and you get to see the violence of the Joust and some of the other knights fighting it out.

00:26:37.71
Tony Sisk
And and you get to see one of the Targaryen princes just be a total...

00:26:40.09
Jaime G
one I was just about to say that. Yeah.

00:26:44.63
Tony Sisk
um bad night, right? He like does something dirty and ends up breaking the leg of another night through like, you know, dishonest, you know, ah trick or something like that again, you know, just like,

00:27:00.86
Jaime G
na na that Now, this is this is kind of really and and interesting to me, Tony. Because what you just said, he did he he did something that was dishonest in the tournament.

00:27:13.72
Jaime G
And while this is happening, while Dunk is trying to get a sponsor, well, he's figuring out the lay of the land or whatever. He starts getting so and so disappointed with all the knights that he starts to come across.

00:27:29.50
Jaime G
And he's like he was like, no, a knight would never do this or a knight would never say a lie or whatever, right? And this key aspect is the one thing that has kept me coming back to this show because you know that saying like never meet to your heroes?

00:27:51.05
Tony Sisk
Mm-hmm.

00:27:51.88
Jaime G
Dunk had had like this idealized idea of what a knight should stand for and what they should how they should behave.

00:27:52.65
Sentfrmheaven
Right.

00:28:01.50
Jaime G
And he's actually starting to see them up close and personal. And there's like this disappointment on it. And I am just hooked on this show so far because I am wondering if Duncan is going to pull a 180 and go that path down. I mean, does it doesn't look like he's doing it right now, but I'm just like, is he going to like really...

00:28:27.13
Jaime G
you know, stand up for the things that he's right now acting like, hey, this is the right thing to do. This is how we should behave. Or is he just going eventually reach that point in his life where he's going to be faced with that that choice to say, like, do I take path number number two and really no longer stand for all these things that I'm like signaling?

00:28:49.82
Jaime G
Sorry, Tony.

00:28:49.82
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:28:50.62
Jaime G
i just wanted to throw that out there because

00:28:51.02
Tony Sisk
Well, I mean, in it wasn't even that long after he was given permission to enter the list that um the guy who's running the whole thing ah it comes to him with a ah scheme ah to to throw a fight, right? Basically, so they can make money off of it, right? So immediately his honor is tested.

00:29:14.74
Tony Sisk
um But, you know, he... he lives up to, you know, being an honest person. He does not, he, he's, he's like, he's been, he's put in a bad position, right?

00:29:29.37
Jaime G
and now No, no, but I think he had he wasn't able to actually put that resolve to test because didn't they get rained out and they kind of moved the the event till the next day?

00:29:40.06
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:29:41.11
Jaime G
I mean, again, he was about, right, he was about to be faced with like, am I going to act the way I'm saying that people should act or am I going to take this opportunity that's presented to me?

00:29:42.10
Tony Sisk
And then something happened.

00:29:54.77
Jaime G
And I was like really hoping to see that. Right. But, you know, after God, rain happens, all jousting is delayed for a day. right So you never get to see that choice.

00:30:05.00
Tony Sisk
Right. Right. So Vance, so he finally gets to enlist. ah During his time at the tourney, he has met a girl that he's kind of gotten you know infatuated with.

00:30:22.65
Tony Sisk
And um she runs a, she well, she helps run a puppet show for the entertainment of the masses, right?

00:30:34.10
Jaime G
this ain't no regular sock puppet show man it's like they make like they make like even like dragons in the background and they have like people like with broomsticks like moving parts of the dragon's body and even like rigged it up so that they can like breathe fire it it actually made me wonder several times like man if you could do that for like a school play that would look amazing

00:30:34.37
Tony Sisk
With

00:30:37.14
Tony Sisk
No. Yeah, yeah.

00:31:00.60
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:31:01.66
Sentfrmheaven
Hey, till you burn one of the curtains.

00:31:04.15
Jaime G
It just takes one, man.

00:31:06.17
Tony Sisk
Right. So, uh, he, oh I remember. so Baelor tells, um,

00:31:18.30
Tony Sisk
Duncan that before he could enlist, he needs to have his own coat of arms, right? Because he can't use Sir Arlen's. he hit it's So he has to have his own.

00:31:30.61
Tony Sisk
So he goes to this girl who he assumes is is is an artist and ask her to paint him a coat of arms, right?

00:31:41.58
Tony Sisk
Which is, was it an oak tree and a falling star?

00:31:43.32
Jaime G
I'm Sir Arlen's old shield.

00:31:46.58
Tony Sisk
Yeah, on Sir Arlen's Little Shield. But it's basically a an oak tree and a falling star. Right? So the falling star is because he sees the falling star when he's sleeping outside underneath a tree.

00:32:04.66
Tony Sisk
And he sees this falling star. is it Now, was it Egg that said, if you see a falling star, you need to wish on it or whatever?

00:32:13.21
Jaime G
I think it was. Yeah.

00:32:14.52
Tony Sisk
Yeah, so he, ah that's that's what he chooses as his coat of arms, so. But,

00:32:25.62
Tony Sisk
something happens, and i'm um I'm trying not to spoil it for Vance case he decides to watch the show.

00:32:31.42
Jaime G
Yeah. yeah they're We've thrown a lot of like something happens.

00:32:34.62
Tony Sisk
Right. Something happens, and things just go sideways. Right? And, What ends up happening is.

00:32:45.62
Tony Sisk
Dunk gets thrown in the dungeons. And. He's basically. Facing a a sentence of death.

00:32:56.89
Tony Sisk
Because he does something you should not be doing. You should not have done. And they give him. um a way out.

00:33:07.32
Tony Sisk
And that is because he's a knight.

00:33:07.70
Jaime G
so as Yeah, somebody somebody somebody comes up and advises him, like, hey, your only way out of this is to invoke a certain law that they had where, but yeah, trial by combat.

00:33:09.12
Tony Sisk
He has a way out.

00:33:23.19
Tony Sisk
Trial by Combat.

00:33:26.14
Jaime G
And it's like they they they kind of said it like, hey, the gods are going to favor whoever is right on this one. So if you win, it means that you were right. and in and whatever happened. right and ah And Duncan's like, again, faced with this moral dilemma of like, do I really want to go into a you know life or death fight? and and the And the guy who's advising him says like, well, if you don't, you're going to die anyway.

00:33:54.39
Tony Sisk
Right. So he goes into the trial and he's like Jaime said, he's been instructed to say, i want trial by combat.

00:34:08.12
Tony Sisk
Right. On the presumption that the person that he would have to fight would not want to fight him. Right.

00:34:20.86
Tony Sisk
And that the charges would be dropped.

00:34:26.52
Tony Sisk
But unfortunately, that's not how it plays out. And the other person, the other person says, oh, trial by combat?

00:34:31.63
Sentfrmheaven
Of course, of course.

00:34:33.27
Jaime G
It's like, bring it on.

00:34:38.46
Tony Sisk
Okay. I want a trial of seven.

00:34:45.50
Tony Sisk
And that's last night's episode. And go ahead, Vance, ask the question.

00:34:53.24
Sentfrmheaven
So what is that? What is the trial sentence?

00:34:57.05
Jaime G
So, so it means that Dunk was going into this thinking like, hey, I'm going to call you out. We're going to have a 1v1, right? And the other guy is like, well, per custom, you can invoke a battle, but I can invoke it to be a trial of seven or whatever. It just means that there has to be, it's not actually a at the same time.

00:35:27.03
Jaime G
at the same time

00:35:28.06
Tony Sisk
yeah It's a seven-on-seven cage match.

00:35:34.57
Tony Sisk
It's WWE up in here.

00:35:37.08
Jaime G
but but but but But Dunk is like, I don't know anybody. i don't have any friends. Nobody recognizes me as a knight.

00:35:45.77
Tony Sisk
Right. Right. Which is why the other guy flipped it, right? Because he knows that Dunk is a hedge knight. There's nobody loyal to him.

00:35:58.32
Tony Sisk
There's nobody that it barely even knows him. He's like, there's no way this guy is going to get six other knights. And this is a this is a comp this is a trial where people can die, right?

00:36:14.17
Sentfrmheaven
Right, right.

00:36:14.55
Tony Sisk
this is This is the trust.

00:36:15.08
Sentfrmheaven
Man.

00:36:15.75
Tony Sisk
you have heat So basically, done. And he has like less than six hours to go find these people that will fight for him.

00:36:23.67
Jaime G
Yeah, they had to happen like by right? That's it.

00:36:27.67
Jaime G
dawn right theres

00:36:29.27
Tony Sisk
Yeah the Like Because the trial they had was at like Nine or ten o'clock at night And they're like When dawn comes Trial by seven If you don't have the other six nights You're guilty and you're executed So

00:36:29.39
Sentfrmheaven
Right.

00:36:46.37
Jaime G
that's it

00:36:46.38
Sentfrmheaven
Right. Right.

00:36:48.73
Tony Sisk
And Dunk has, like, remember, these are the same people that all said, I don't remember Sir Arlen. I'm like, I don't know who you're talking about. Right? And, like, now Dunk, who they don't, ah they look, he's still dressed up, like, you know, in just his dirty rags.

00:37:08.41
Tony Sisk
has to go ask them to fight by him. with the book past One, possibility of dying. And two, not only is there a possibility of dying, but guess who he's fighting who you will be fighting against?

00:37:23.24
Sentfrmheaven
The princess.

00:37:24.65
Jaime G
A Targaryen.

00:37:26.65
Tony Sisk
but So you would be putting your house, your your your livelihood, your fortune on the line to side with a a bum hedge knight against the ruling clan of the kingdoms.

00:37:42.49
Tony Sisk
So that so

00:37:43.67
Sentfrmheaven
You know what? Let's go with Duncan.

00:37:49.91
Tony Sisk
that was last night's episode was the result of that trial of seven. And it was pretty good.

00:38:00.34
Tony Sisk
It was pretty good.

00:38:02.61
Jaime G
It's pretty graphic.

00:38:04.31
Tony Sisk
it is. I am amazed. And obviously, Vance can probably say, since there was a, since we are talking about the trial of seven, that, that dunk did manage to get those nights.

00:38:17.14
Tony Sisk
We won't say how, but he did.

00:38:19.00
Jaime G
yeah Yeah, there's a couple twists and turns, and in his lineup of knights is not what you're what you would expect by by anything that we've told you so far.

00:38:19.74
Tony Sisk
this Right. Right.

00:38:28.34
Tony Sisk
Right. It's basically the bad news bears, right? Of Knights.

00:38:33.75
Sentfrmheaven
Mm-hmm.

00:38:34.81
Tony Sisk
not Not exactly the a team. um ah And I don't know.

00:38:40.82
Jaime G
I don't know. There were a couple A-Team members in there.

00:38:43.20
Tony Sisk
Hey, man. Hey, Raymond Foss away. MVP. Raymond.

00:38:53.34
Tony Sisk
So I don't know if you went, i I went back and watched the episode today, Jaime in slow motion. and what's so fantastic about this episode, right?

00:39:05.21
Jaime G
ah Tony, you you're all in into this now, man.

00:39:05.46
Tony Sisk
What's, I mean, I'm all in. What's so fantastic about this is the core, the battle choreography that is happening in the background, right?

00:39:16.77
Tony Sisk
You, i mean, you,

00:39:17.62
Jaime G
I will give you that, yes.

00:39:19.42
Tony Sisk
You can expect like, yeah, the two, two, three, whatever main guys that the camera is going to focus on. Yeah. You know that no matter what TV show or movie that that typically that battle is going to be well choreographed. Right.

00:39:36.68
Jaime G
There's a lot of so of story that gets told through Duncan's eyes, through like the the helmet visor or the helmet space. which really made me feel like you were in the middle of this into what you're saying.

00:39:51.81
Jaime G
Like there's a lot happening in the background more so than, than just Duncan's own sequence of events.

00:39:55.35
Tony Sisk
Right. like right um Because up until i mean up to this point, there's a couple characters. One, that the show does a really good job of making you hate.

00:40:14.78
Tony Sisk
And two, there's a couple of characters that the show does a really good job of making you really like.

00:40:15.42
Jaime G
Yes.

00:40:21.82
Tony Sisk
right and those guys are in the background battling and you only get to see glimpses of it but like yeah you like literally like that's why i have to do the slow motion right i'm like oh what yeah i see what's going on there oh yeah it's all in the background i'm just i'm just picturing like they filmed this and had all these guys in the background Doing all this stuff.

00:40:50.74
Tony Sisk
On horseback.

00:40:51.01
Jaime G
It was only seven guys, man. Only seven.

00:40:53.57
Tony Sisk
No. But they were on dude they were crisscrossing on horseback. select

00:40:59.13
Jaime G
Yes.

00:40:59.90
Tony Sisk
you know Crossing lances. Knocking each other off. Whatever. And it's like.

00:41:06.84
Tony Sisk
I mean, some of this battle, like, did they actually choreograph this or did it just happen? Like, look, we're just going to put you guys all in there. And this is kind of how we want it to end.

00:41:16.95
Jaime G
just Just go. just Just go. Like, make it feel real.

00:41:18.65
Tony Sisk
this Yeah. So this is how we want it to end. This is how it should look at the end. How you guys get there. You do it. Right.

00:41:29.36
Tony Sisk
And that's how I feel like they did. And like these guys are going at it.

00:41:33.58
Jaime G
I'm going to say, man, on on a personal note, okay, and this is... I have felt that this ah spinoff of the game of Game of Thrones franchise has been low budget.

00:41:50.13
Jaime G
don't Don't shoot me for saying this, man. It's been low budget because everything's happening in the same spot for the whole season. So that's like, they just got one location.

00:41:58.89
Tony Sisk
Mm-hmm.

00:42:01.44
Jaime G
They got the same horses. They had got the same people. So it's like ways how they're cutting, you know, ah they're they're they're conserving money, right?

00:42:11.56
Jaime G
Because you know that they spent a lot in that prop in the second episode and the rest of the money for the whole show happened

00:42:19.45
Tony Sisk
ah

00:42:20.83
Jaime G
And this fight sequence, like it is like so well done. they this is This is where the whole budget for the season went to.

00:42:29.40
Tony Sisk
So, Jaime, you have to understand, like as a in the original Game of Thrones, they would have battles.

00:42:42.65
Tony Sisk
yeah there was There's armies going against armies, right? And the armies were being led by the the princes or the kings or whatever, and those characters are primary characters in those shows, right?

00:42:49.26
Jaime G
And

00:42:55.77
Tony Sisk
So the story centers on them.

00:42:56.15
Jaime G
Yeah. Yeah.

00:42:58.87
Tony Sisk
But they would be like, oh, you know, we we're going to have this huge battle. And ah so that so we'll say, for example, episodes episode seven would be like, oh, you know, you'd see the armies marching, right? And they're like facing off against each other.

00:43:18.84
Tony Sisk
And then it cut to cliffhanger, right? And then the start of episode eight would be like, you'd see a guy riding his horse out of the trees, right?

00:43:29.22
Tony Sisk
And there'd be somebody sitting there and that horse would ride up and and he'd go, we won, right? That was it.

00:43:39.35
Tony Sisk
That was the battle, right? There was no battle.

00:43:41.97
Jaime G
Wait, wait, wait. But in House of Dragons, you have like battles with like hundreds of soldiers, dragons, things flying in the air, like things exploding, right?

00:43:49.46
Tony Sisk
Mm-hmm.

00:43:52.57
Tony Sisk
that That is a result of having a successful show before it. When Game of Thrones originally aired, there was no predecessor to it.

00:43:57.30
Jaime G
ah But this... Yeah.

00:44:01.25
Tony Sisk
Like literally their budget was a guy riding out of a tree, out of the trees and going, we won. And then showing some dudes laying on the ground.

00:44:09.53
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:44:11.42
Tony Sisk
That was like, that was a battle.

00:44:11.86
Jaime G
Well, i I'm just telling you, man, this this this this one's like, it's all filmed the same location. Everything's happening around either when they're at the camp or when he's like over by the tree where they're sleeping or inside that tent of the guy that, you know, brief friends him.

00:44:28.91
Tony Sisk
Okay. So I think the series is filmed in Ireland. I think that's the setting that's the location that they're doing the filming. But, so there's a flashback scene in this particular episode where Dunkel's a kid, right? And he's with that girl.

00:44:50.49
Tony Sisk
Remember that?

00:44:52.02
Jaime G
Yep, yeah yep, yep.

00:44:52.09
Tony Sisk
so So you remember when they they had just kind of ah taking stuff off like the the the horse and the knight that they found yeah and they're and they're going down the road and then they see somebody coming and they jump out into the ditch and hide remember that scene so that road with the that tree line road that they're on um has appeared in the Game of Thrones series before right it was right

00:45:02.46
Jaime G
Yeah, when they're trying to take like the shoe, the shoe, yeah.

00:45:11.67
Jaime G
Yeah, yeah.

00:45:24.65
Jaime G
I'm telling you, that there you go. they're they're They're not spending money on this.

00:45:27.67
Tony Sisk
That tree-lined road was in ah the original Game of Thrones series. And when they shot that episode on that roadway, they were shooting two characters that were riding down that roadway, right?

00:45:48.47
Tony Sisk
One of those characters is a descendant of Dunk in the original Game of Thrones series.

00:45:54.96
Jaime G
Oh.

00:45:56.87
Tony Sisk
So... When they showed Dunk walking down that roadway with the girl, it's the exact same. What do you call it? Like one was going ah away and and Dunk is going toward, but it's like the exact same location of and his descendant in the original Game of Thrones series, who is also a knight.

00:46:21.78
Tony Sisk
whose is who is a knight who's going down that road.

00:46:24.09
Jaime G
Who is a knight?

00:46:25.50
Tony Sisk
Yep.

00:46:25.62
Jaime G
Okay.

00:46:26.10
Tony Sisk
They put that Easter egg in there. I saw that today. The producer said, I really wanted to get this in there as an Easter egg to to show the crossing of Dunk's ancestor who has become a who is a knight.

00:46:44.48
Sentfrmheaven
Tony saw that during the ah slow motion.

00:46:47.61
Tony Sisk
Yep, I did.

00:46:47.67
Jaime G
Yeah, right?

00:46:48.63
Tony Sisk
it Yeah, in the slow motion. Frame by frame.

00:46:50.94
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah, because speaking of the budget, yeah cause this they spent a third of what it costs to do House of Dragons per episode.

00:47:05.21
Jaime G
A third.

00:47:07.03
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah, so it was like just under like $10 million per episode.

00:47:07.48
Jaime G
Probably,

00:47:14.49
Jaime G
I can see that.

00:47:20.13
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah, you give me $10 million trees, I can do a lot too.

00:47:23.51
Tony Sisk
there

00:47:24.42
Sentfrmheaven
All

00:47:24.70
Jaime G
Right? You need some horses?

00:47:28.38
Sentfrmheaven
right, just give me some horses.

00:47:28.68
Jaime G
I'll ground you up some horses. yeah

00:47:33.59
Tony Sisk
Yeah, so um Anyway, that's where we're at We have one more episode left on the season And ah so there's a chance for you to get caught up, Vance

00:47:49.53
Sentfrmheaven
So is Duncan's descended.

00:47:55.52
Sentfrmheaven
The one that protected lady.

00:48:00.92
Jaime G
You have lost me on that question, man. I have no context to like Game of Thrones, the original series.

00:48:08.95
Sentfrmheaven
Was the lady targeting.

00:48:12.60
Tony Sisk
in the original series are you talking about the one that um no

00:48:20.47
Sentfrmheaven
Yeah, the lady, the lady night.

00:48:23.26
Tony Sisk
yes exactly that's exactly you just look that up

00:48:25.91
Sentfrmheaven
Okay. No, I didn't look it up. I just remember when you ah said six, five, I was like, yeah, she about six, three. Okay. Yeah.

00:48:34.84
Tony Sisk
Yeah, there's a female knight in the original Game of Thrones series. And that's that's Dunk's descendant.

00:48:40.74
Jaime G
OK.

00:48:43.93
Sentfrmheaven
okay yeah

00:48:44.66
Jaime G
The female?

00:48:44.86
Tony Sisk
ah Yep.

00:48:47.60
Jaime G
OK.

00:48:47.70
Tony Sisk
she She becomes a knight.

00:48:48.69
Sentfrmheaven
Hey, she's bad. Like, I need her to protect me.

00:48:51.59
Jaime G
I have a question here, Tony, and this is your your opinion.

00:48:53.27
Tony Sisk
Okay.

00:48:58.68
Tony Sisk
Okay.

00:48:58.97
Jaime G
At one point when they're in the tent and they're partying, they're all singing this song about a certain Alice

00:49:11.29
Jaime G
I won't get into the details of what she was famous for and and and the folk song that they're singing.

00:49:16.70
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

00:49:18.07
Jaime G
Question. Do you think that this has any connection to House of Dragon and what's going to happen to Lady Alice?

00:49:30.26
Tony Sisk
Probably.

00:49:31.90
Jaime G
I know, right? Like, I was like, I was, I was like trying to make that connection thinking like, hmm, is this a spoiler?

00:49:40.79
Tony Sisk
Probably. Yeah.

00:49:45.78
Tony Sisk
Yeah, I think so.

00:49:46.10
Jaime G
i was really i was really listening to this and like trying to be like, hold up, hold up. Are you telling me that this is going to happen in season 10 House of the Dragon or something?

00:50:00.63
Tony Sisk
Right, yeah, I don't know if we'll make it that long, but yeah. But yeah, I mean, ah Nine of the Seven Kingdoms, it's been it's been better than I anticipated.

00:50:15.22
Tony Sisk
Because I told...

00:50:15.82
Jaime G
I'll give you that, yes.

00:50:16.98
Tony Sisk
Because i like guess because what I told somebody, it's like, all the other Game of Thrones shows centerner around center around noble houses, right?

00:50:17.02
Jaime G
It has been better than I expected.

00:50:28.73
Tony Sisk
Like, people of royalty, people of higher status.

00:50:35.29
Tony Sisk
I mean, there are characters that don't fit that, but they're not knights, right? They're they're not like they're not in that world. Here you have ah just a regular guy, basically, who is affecting the outcome. He's affecting things, right?

00:50:58.42
Tony Sisk
ah And he's just a regular dude, right? like that's That's something new for the series because everybody else has always been like descendants of royalty or you know representative of and of a house altogether.

00:51:13.50
Jaime G
Or somebody in a high standing political position or something.

00:51:18.07
Tony Sisk
Right. or they were representative of somebody of a higher status.

00:51:19.22
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:51:22.94
Tony Sisk
Right. This is just dunk. Like he's just a ah hedge knight. Like who is this guy?

00:51:33.10
Tony Sisk
He's got people out there like, you know, obviously you would know since there's a trial of seven, people are fighting for him. it Like, Why does this guy have people fighting for him?

00:51:44.50
Tony Sisk
Now, and not everybody is fighting for him per se, but...

00:51:47.70
Jaime G
No, and now somebody are like using this for their own reasons, but still.

00:51:50.71
Tony Sisk
Right. We're using it for their own reasons, but there are a couple people that are that are actually, i mean, at least one I know of ah that is fighting for him because...

00:52:03.31
Tony Sisk
He's a good guy. he's He's his friend, right? It's like, that's what friends do. And the the represent representation of what, you know, what a friendship to in this is really good.

00:52:15.67
Tony Sisk
Like, you know, you got a guy that was like, ah you know, hey, night me right now. I'm fighting for you.

00:52:26.52
Tony Sisk
Right? He wasn't even a knight. He's like, night me. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:52:33.37
Tony Sisk
So good show, good show.

00:52:36.64
Jaime G
Yeah, no, it's a good show.

00:52:37.46
Tony Sisk
Highly recommend it.

00:52:39.00
Jaime G
It's it's it's not House of the Dragons. It's got like a third of the budget and you can tell. But it is highly entertaining. ah He's just a like the main character is just so likable. You kind of want to root for him because you know he's the underdog.

00:52:55.77
Jaime G
But he's coming at at every situation from like from from like a good perspective. which is not what reality is around him. And again, i want to see if he is faced with that impossible choice of do the right thing and stand my ground, or will he you know falter and in go in a different direction?

00:53:16.95
Tony Sisk
Right. Yeah, it's definitely an underdog story. So, cool. ah All right, before we...

00:53:29.66
Tony Sisk
Well, before we end up, I'm not going to end the episode because we've got one more segment to do, right? That is... This reminder, this is a video game podcast that sometimes veers off and talks pop culture and ah other variety things.

00:53:46.08
Tony Sisk
We particularly like TV shows and or Marvel, ah some Star Wars, whatever.

00:53:46.52
Jaime G
Yes.

00:53:51.70
Tony Sisk
But, ah and Game of Thrones. I know we've done a lot of Game of Thrones discussion. But now that we've got that out of the way, Jaime has a...

00:54:03.86
Tony Sisk
a segment that we call play.

00:54:11.00
Tony Sisk
What is We call it

00:54:11.30
Jaime G
Yeah.

00:54:13.44
Sentfrmheaven
Play, pay, or pray.

00:54:17.21
Tony Sisk
play, pay, pray.

00:54:17.69
Jaime G
All right. It's the right name. You guys got it a bit out of sequence. yeah This segment is actually called Pay, Play, Pray.

00:54:31.06
Jaime G
And it's the segment where we celebrate the games that we're grinding on, question the ones that are draining our wallets, or daydream about the gear that we swear that we're going to buy one day.

00:54:44.92
Jaime G
Ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:54:45.94
Tony Sisk
yeah

00:54:48.66
Tony Sisk
All right.

00:54:48.87
Jaime G
OK, yeah. So this is the second ever Triple P, Pay, Play, Pray. So what we're trying to do is help anybody who is in the community listening to this and help you play smart, pay with caution, or pray without shame. And here's a breakdown. Play is a no-cost gem that you can jump into right now, right?

00:55:13.37
Jaime G
Your backlog might not like it, but you will. Pay is that tempting purchase sitting in your car to whispering, just do it.

00:55:23.67
Jaime G
And pray is the wishlist holy grail, the thing that you want so badly that you might start checking cushions your couch cushions for like loose chains to get some extra cash.

00:55:36.76
Jaime G
Sell. Let's go. um The theme of this one, I actually decided to make it a theme, is the road to Resident Evil. So for our play segment last month, ah we got in PlayStation Plus Resident Evil Village, right? So this game is equal parts beauty, creepy, and let's be honest, it's emotionally damaging in all the right ways.

00:56:07.93
Jaime G
right This is Resident Evil Village. Tony and I have have done a playthrough on it. um Vance, he decided he was not going to play it because it was just not scary enough for him.

00:56:20.99
Jaime G
And I had the worst I had the worst jump scare history in the second chapter of this game.

00:56:22.26
Sentfrmheaven
Sit it out.

00:56:30.36
Jaime G
For context, the game originally launched on May 7, 2021 across PlayStation, Xbox. Believe it or not, it launched on Stadia, if you guys can remember that, and PC platforms, right? And this was the eighth major entry on the Resident Evil franchise.

00:56:48.50
Jaime G
And yes, this is that one that had the infamous castle, the cla claustrophobic villages, and the towering ancient internet icon herself, Lady Dimitrescu.

00:57:05.05
Jaime G
This character was so popular even before the game's release that people were like cosplaying as her, making like, you know, fan art, lore, you name it. She became a sensation.

00:57:20.34
Jaime G
Now, Resident Evil Village hit that sweet spot right now. I've just recently played it and I did like as much as I could prepping for this episode where it mixes a little bit of survival horror, a little bit of action chaos, and a lot of, do I really want to open this next door? I literally texted Vance and Tony over the weekend and said, hey, Tony, I made it to this spot you told me And I was playing this like around like 2 a.m. on a Friday night. And I was like, I'm going to pause right here because Tony told me that there's like a huge jump scare. I kid you not. i wanted to play this with sunlight outside.

00:58:04.57
Jaime G
Now, the pacing of the game will take players from eerie exploration to full tilt panic. And the visuals on this game are so good that every shadow, every portrait that's hanging on the wall that sometimes move by themselves make you just have like little heart attacks, right? It's immersive and nerving and incredibly fun.

00:58:29.82
Jaime G
The best part of this is something that we even haven't, haven't even scratched the surface on since the game released. In 2021, they launched in October of 2022, major DLC updates, right? There's actually three pieces of content. Tony, did you play Shadows of a Rose? I don't think you did, but I could be wrong.

00:58:54.07
Tony Sisk
No, I did not.

00:58:55.96
Jaime G
It's a whole new story that happens 16 years after the main game, and it stars a grown up rose. there' They added third-person mode.

00:59:06.06
Jaime G
like The game is originally played in first-person mode. You can play now third-person.

00:59:09.41
Tony Sisk
Right.

00:59:10.46
Jaime G
And they added the mercenaries. right And now in the mercenaries, you can play as characters like Chris Redfield, Carl Heisenberg. And yes, you can even pick Lady Dimitrescu as a character you can play with.

00:59:23.89
Jaime G
Now, if you if you have never played Resident Evil Village, like I hadn't, I totally skipped this little gem.

00:59:24.37
Tony Sisk
Interesting.

00:59:32.15
Jaime G
Or you're thinking about returning and playing this, there's never been a better time, right? Because this game, it's gorgeous, it's terrifying, and it's packed. with content that actually keeps the story going.

00:59:44.61
Jaime G
So this month's play pick is simple step into Resident Evil Village and hope that nothing steps towards you. Now, question for you guys.

00:59:56.54
Jaime G
Before this game actually released, there was a Resident Evil demo that you could download and play. you guys know who the main quite Trivia question, do you guys know who the main character in the demo was?

01:00:09.46
Jaime G
Ha ha ha.

01:00:12.64
Tony Sisk
No.

01:00:14.53
Sentfrmheaven
No.

01:00:15.95
Jaime G
OK, so in the main demo, you don't play as the main protagonist of the game, Mr. Ethan Winters. You actually play this demo in the shoes of a completely unnamed maiden girl that's known as the maiden, and she works at the Castle Dimitrescu.

01:00:35.00
Tony Sisk
Oh, I remember now because I played the demo. I played the demo. Yeah, I remember.

01:00:39.64
Jaime G
Right. and And when you actually play the game, there's like a lot of lore and things that you find out saying, hey, they sent one of the mating girls to the to the underground cellar.

01:00:51.03
Jaime G
She was never heard of again. Hint, hint. Same character. Right? So there's another character that shows up in this game, and this is Carissa Redfield.

01:01:04.27
Jaime G
Trivia question for everybody. How many movies... movies has Chris Redfield appeared in?

01:01:13.62
Sentfrmheaven
Seven.

01:01:15.80
Jaime G
Very close. Actually, six. The character Chris Redfield, oftentimes portrayed by different actors, has appeared in real life, real life actors in Resident Evil, Afterlife, Retribution, The Final Chapter, and Welcome to Raccoon City.

01:01:33.75
Jaime G
And he showed up in two CGI movies, Resident Evil Vendetta and Resident Evil Death Island. So you were really close on that one. Now, the question here for everyone is, why is it a play pick for the month? Well, this is no a no-brainer.

01:01:48.97
Tony Sisk
Thank

01:01:49.43
Jaime G
Resident Evil will just dropped last month as a PS Plus monthly game, which means if you're a subscriber, it's basically free real estate for you, right? And the timing couldn't be better. With the upcoming release of Resident Evil Requiem on February 27th, diving into Village is a perfect warm-up before the actual next big nightmare begins. So if you've been waiting for a sign to jump into it, this is it.

01:02:18.88
Jaime G
Now, moving on to the next segment, which is our pay, which is what game do we recommend? right What's the game that's sitting in your cart staring you at you, breathing heavily, whispering in your ear? Come on, click purchase.

01:02:34.97
Jaime G
Feed me. Feed me brains. Well, this time's pay pick is the one that I personally can't stop eyeballing, and this is Resident Evil Requiem, of course, dropping next in about two weeks from today's. And even though this game is not out just yet,

01:02:56.09
Jaime G
you know that this game is dangerous, right? The anticipation for this game is building up. The franchise is lining up another heavy hitter.

01:03:05.57
Tony Sisk
Thank you.

01:03:07.71
Jaime G
And if honestly, Village was a warmup that I totally missed five years ago, Requiem is gearing up to be like ah the main event right now in all the Resident Evil main franchise releases.

01:03:22.90
Jaime G
And here, At the Good2Game radio team, we're really slapping this one with our certified pre-hype seal of approval. Why?

01:03:33.38
Jaime G
Because everything from the buildup to the timing screams must buy.

01:03:35.89
Tony Sisk
Thank

01:03:38.42
Jaime G
The series is really getting a lot of momentum. Fans are buzzing. And with Capcom's recent track record. I think this is going to be straight fire. And Spidey Dude, if you're listening, I know that this was your first draft pick. So I know that you're hoping that this one's going to be doing really good. So You know that feeling when the game hasn't released, but you're already emotionally and financially committed to it?

01:04:06.59
Jaime G
That's it. That's wrecking for me.

01:04:07.63
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

01:04:08.73
Jaime G
And for me in particular, I mean, Tony and Vince, you know this, but other people don't know this.

01:04:12.87
Sentfrmheaven
you

01:04:15.00
Jaime G
I've already pre-ordered this game. I ordered the deluxe edition that comes with the steelbook, and the order was canceled by Amazon. The demand for this game is through the roof that they're canceling orders on the on on this.

01:04:30.06
Jaime G
I sent you guys the picture of the email I got from Amazon.

01:04:33.66
Tony Sisk
yeah

01:04:34.74
Jaime G
So if your checkout page is burning a hole in your screen, I don't want to tell you what to do, but the Good2GameRadio pay segment is telling you what to do.

01:04:46.39
Jaime G
Go on. Treat yourself on this one. All right?

01:04:50.00
Tony Sisk
I've got my $69 lined up, ready to go.

01:04:50.41
Jaime G
Now,

01:04:53.00
Tony Sisk
hu

01:04:53.62
Jaime G
I was ready to pay for the steel book, man.

01:04:53.72
Tony Sisk
Set aside, ready for ready for it

01:04:56.62
Sentfrmheaven
Hey, make sure y'all go on Metascore and give it give it a one-two.

01:05:02.84
Jaime G
i Trivia question, kiddos. How many movies has Leon Kennedy appeared in? Leon Kennedy is the main character. Well, one of the two main characters.

01:05:15.19
Jaime G
Wild guess. Tony?

01:05:16.98
Sentfrmheaven
Seven.

01:05:19.70
Jaime G
Tony?

01:05:21.14
Tony Sisk
Six.

01:05:23.36
Jaime G
Six is the right answer. He's appeared live action in two of the main Mila Jobovich movies. He appeared in Resident Evil Retribution and a different actor played him in Welcome to Raccoon City. He was really more like a joke character versus like, you know, the the tough bravado person.

01:05:44.06
Jaime G
And in CGI, he appeared in Degeneration, Damnation, Vendetta, and Death Island. Mm-hmm. So there's all of these movies I checked out on Netflix. So if you want to catch up on them, go for them.

01:05:55.22
Jaime G
And lastly, for the Prey segment, Tony and Vance got a chance to see what the Prey pick for the month is.

01:06:07.13
Jaime G
And since I was just recently playing the you know my playthrough on Resident Evil Village, I was able to find a one fourth of a size that's what they claim but this is a statue for for miss lady d herself right we've reached that tier of collectible where the price tag alone will send you into survival horror

01:06:37.02
Jaime G
ah there's a company that's called prime one studios that did ah a statue of lady demetrescu And this this, honestly, for anybody who's listening, it's not just a statue.

01:06:50.93
Jaime G
It's a shrine, OK? Stands at nearly 26 inches tall. This is a hyper-detailed monument that captures Lady Di exactly as she was meant to be seen, right?

01:07:05.01
Jaime G
impossibly elegant monstrous monstrously intimidating and dripping with that aristocratic menace that made her the undisputed star of resident evil village in my opinion prime one studio really nailed it right you're gonna get that piercing stare from that statue that's gonna make you feel like you're already disappointing her the moment that you buy her right uh It's luxurious. This statue is over the top. And it sits at a price tag of $1,650 if you choose to get one.

01:07:44.72
Sentfrmheaven
Oh.

01:07:45.02
Jaime G
By the way, there's only going to be, i think, a total of 270 of these in production. So act fast, right? So for collectors, for fans of Lady D and lovers of premium art pieces, this is going to be one of the holy grail items. That's going to be that centerpiece that really needs its own room. And it needs to be close to your wallet because it's constantly going to be reminding your wallet who's really in charge, right?

01:08:21.50
Jaime G
So kiddos, Last couple of trivia questions. How tall is Lady Dimitrescu? Her height was actually confirmed by COPCOM, OK?

01:08:37.97
Sentfrmheaven
I think Tony said it. Go ahead, Tony.

01:08:41.55
Tony Sisk
Well, the statue is 26 inches.

01:08:43.85
Jaime G
The statue.

01:08:46.20
Tony Sisk
And that's her sitting down.

01:08:48.45
Jaime G
Yeah.

01:08:49.58
Tony Sisk
That's two feet in a seated position. But her character, i don't i don't know how tall her character is, like 6'8 or something?

01:09:03.86
Sentfrmheaven
Seven foot.

01:09:06.65
Jaime G
Lady D confirmed height is nine feet and six inches.

01:09:11.96
Tony Sisk
Wow.

01:09:13.62
Jaime G
This does include her hat.

01:09:17.39
Tony Sisk
Mm-hmm.

01:09:18.77
Jaime G
And much like the actress and model that um was the actress who, like, they did her physical likeness for Resident Evil 4 remake, you know, the Ashley Graham, the president's daughter. There was, like, a very famous model in Japan who actually played No, they modeled the the character of her.

01:09:40.44
Jaime G
Lady D was actually modeled ah in the likeness of a Polish model named Helena Mankowska. Now, this this question, this one was hard, really hard to come back and figure out a ah trivia.

01:09:58.74
Jaime G
Anybody know what Lady D's shoe size is? You know her height. What do you think her shoe size is?

01:10:09.26
Sentfrmheaven
Saz a tings.

01:10:14.39
Jaime G
Okay, so art director Tomori Takano, who was the person who was responsible for lady's Lady D's design, admittedly ah said that a lot of people would ask him this question, what is her shoe size? So he had the the the computer models, right? So he they could like go and measure any of the characteristics of her body. They went back and modeled her computer model and came back that her shoe size was 17.3 inches enough,

01:10:49.46
Jaime G
or about forty four centimeters which oddly enough beats the Guinness World Record of World's Largest Feet by nearly four centimeters, if her feet were real.

01:11:02.71
Tony Sisk
you

01:11:02.87
Jaime G
so so that really wraps up this special edition of Play, Pay, Pray. This episode, we were driving into the horrors you can play right now, the temptations that are sitting in your cart, and the dream collectible that belongs in her own castle.

01:11:23.12
Jaime G
Right? So this whole segment has been our way of gearing up for the next chapter in the Resident Evil franchise, sharpening our stakes, stocking up in green herbs, and letting the hype build as we build towards or as we head towards launch day.

01:11:38.62
Jaime G
So If you've got your own play, pay, or pray picks, hit us up on Discord. Let us know what you're jumping into, saving for, or hopefully manifesting into men into existing. So until next time, from myself in this segment, play it smart, pay if you dare, and pray for the dream.

01:11:59.35
Jaime G
ah And stay safe out there. Watch out for Nine Foot Vampires.

01:12:02.20
Tony Sisk
they yeah thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you

01:12:08.55
Sentfrmheaven
Good job, Jaime. Good job.

01:12:10.07
Tony Sisk
good job good job uh ah i want that 26 inch annabelle like statue with blood coming out of her if

01:12:10.30
Jaime G
Hey, Triple P edition.

01:12:26.52
Jaime G
it might It might make it into the segment at some point.

01:12:29.27
Tony Sisk
Yeah. What'd you say? $1,600? Okay. I got that laying around here somewhere.

01:12:32.79
Jaime G
Yes. Yeah, sure, right? just It's couch couch money

01:12:39.70
Tony Sisk
Awesome. Okay, cool.

01:12:40.34
Jaime G
like Act fast, man.

01:12:42.52
Tony Sisk
Yeah, right. So like hotcakes at that price.

01:12:47.21
Jaime G
Yeah, yeah. It's on pre-order right now because it's not released yet.

01:12:53.25
Tony Sisk
Yeah.

01:12:56.82
Tony Sisk
All right. Well, I think that wraps up our episode for tonight. So if you haven't watched Game of Thrones, uh, nine the seven kingdoms, get in there and watch it. We have one episode left for the season.

01:13:09.40
Tony Sisk
Check it out. And thanks again to Jaime for presenting the play, pay, pray segment. ah ah And the Resident Evil centered segment.

01:13:26.65
Tony Sisk
uh yeah go check that out before warrant if you play eight which is village right that you'll probably be like me and say oh i need to go back and play seven because they kind of tie together so um but yeah i can't wait for nine to come out in what two weeks

01:13:32.28
Jaime G
Village.

01:13:41.23
Jaime G
Yeah.

01:13:48.25
Jaime G
Two weeks. Actually, 10 days from now. It comes out on the 27th. It's the 16th. So yes, there's going to be that.

01:13:55.71
Tony Sisk
Cool. I'll be there. ah So just want to say thanks again for everybody supporting the Keep tuning in And just appreciate you guys.

01:14:08.98
Tony Sisk
And we'll catch you guys in the next episode.

01:14:13.08
Sentfrmheaven
Later.

01:14:13.99
Jaime G
See guys.