The Boiled Leather Audio Hour
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The Boiled Leather Audio Hour
The longest continously running ASOIAF podcast, in which Stefan Sasse and Sean T. Collins talk about ASOIAF and many other pop cultural issues, and where in every other episode Stefan Sasse talks with another guest about wide-ranging topics from history to nerd culture.
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BLAH 211 | Good and evil in ASOIAF, with Quinn the GM
Is there good and evil in ASOIAF, or is just a morally grey mass and mess? I take this up with Quinn the GM, who made a very instructive video essay o...
BLAH 210 | A Tale of Two Germanies - Ostpolitik, with Jim McGeehin
Today, we're taking a look at the detente between West and East Germany. What were the factors breaking the deadlock in domestic and international pol...
BLAH 209 | Best of ASOIAF - Jon's death, with Sean T. Collins
Jon's death comes as a big surprise for first-time readers, and not because it's sprung on you but because Martin is a damn good writer. We explain al...
BLAH 208 | The Best of ASOIAF - The Whispering Wood, with Sean T. Collins
We’re talking about the Whispering Wood, and come off with one fundamental insight: GRRM is a good writer.
BLAH 207 | Designing board games, with Artyom Nichipurov
I’m talking to Artyom Nichipurov from Wolffdesigna Games, a Latvian firm that’s most famous for the excellent “Guards of Atlantis II”, a tabletop adap...
BLAH 206 | A Tale of Two Germanies - Change, with Jim McGeehin
Today, we're talking about the period from 1966 to 1974. Witness the Grand Coalition and the coming into power of Willy Brandt, heading the first SPD...
BLAH 205 | A Tale of Two Germanies - Ulbricht, with Jim McGeehin
Today, we’re covering the first half of the history of the Democratic Republic of Germany - or East Germany, to its friends. From the earliest days of...
BLAH 204 | The Best of ASOIAF - The Bridge of Dream, with Sean T. Collins
In our ongoing series on the best moments of the series, we take apart the Bridge of Dream sequence, which provides us with some unusualy challenges -...
BLAH 203 | A Tale of two Germanies - Conservatism, with Jim McGeehin
Today, we're looking at why the CDU could rule for 20 years in the early German republic. There's a good combination of electoral shenanigans, foreign...
BLAH 202 | A Tale of Two Germanies - Berlin, with Jim McGeehin
From the Berlin airlift to the Berlin wall, this episodes covers Germany’s capital (and the capital of spies) from wall to wall.
BLAH 201 | Few Dungeons and Rare Dragons, with Adrian Daub
Everyone and their mother knows Dungeons&Dragons, at least in concept. But few people know the most important German roleplaying game, “The Dark Eye.”...
BLAH 200 | Best of ASOIAF: The Red Wedding, with Sean T. Collins
This is our 200th episode. Of course we wanted to do something special. George R. R. Martin asked us if he could guest host, but we were too busy, so...
BLAH 199 | A Tale of Two Germanies - Establishment, with Jim McGeehin
We’re back again! With Jim McGeehin, I talk about the founding of not one but two German states. We’ll have a look at why we’re creating two states in...
BLAH 198 | A Tale of Two Germanies - Collectivization, with Jim McGeehin
After 11 months, we’re back talking the history of the divided Germany! After looking at western Germany last time round, this time, we’re taking the...
BLAH 197 | House of the Dragon, S02E08, with Sean T. Collins
The season finale is here! Sean and I have a slightly different view about it, but as is our wont, we agree on a lot, and the show stays superb even t...
BLAH 195 | House of the Dragon, S02E07, with Sean T. Collins
There’s a lot of dragons this episode, and we’re comparing the show to Better Call Saul, The Americans and Halt and Catch Fire, because that makes a l...
BLAH 195 | House of the Dragon, S02E06, with Sean T. Collins
Three days, and there’s good news (even earlier if you’re a
Patreon!): HotD is STILL one of the best things on TV right now. This episode, char...
BLAH 194 | House of the Dragon, S02E05, with Sean T. Collins
“House of the Dragon” continues to be excellent in this laid-back but still incredibly rich and textured episode. We discuss shot compositions, nightm...
BLAH 193 | House of the Dragon, S02E04, with Sean T. Collins and Gretchen Felker-Martin
The dragons danced and died, but Stefan skipped town. Yet Sean is not flying solo! Friend of the show Gretchen Felker-Martin, the acclaimed horror nov...
BLAH 192 | House of the Dragon, S02E03, with Sean T. Collins
This may just be the best episode of a great show yet. Sean and I discuss why in exhaustive and euphoric detail. Also, more detail than you wanted abo...
BLAH 191 | House of the Dragon, S02E02, with Sean T. Collins
Now we’re in episode 2. Who won? Ser Arryk or Ser Erryk? We’re not confused. Because we care about themes.
BLAH 190 | House of the Dragon, season 2, episode 1, with Sean T. Collins
You didn’t think we’d miss this, right? Weekly episodes, from now on, on the regular channel! Listen to us how we discuss the most important thing in...
BLAH 189 | Best of ASOIAF: Dracarys, with Sean T. Collins
We finally did it and continue the “Best of ASOIAF” series. It’s a
crowd pleaser, Daenerys’ “Dracarys” moment, which also marked a turning poin...
BLAH 188 - Fighting Trump, with Frank Spring
In a special, political episode, I talk with political operative
Frank Spring about the upcoming presidential elections. If you don’t want poli...
BLAH 187 | Top Ten TV Shows of 2023, with Sean T. Collins
Sean has written a list of the top ten TV shows of 2023 (https://decider.com/2023/12/29/sean-t-collinss-top-10-tv-shows-of-2023/), and we’re here to t...
BLAH 186 | Oppenheimer and logical insanity of nuclear weapons, with Tim Westmyer
Oppenheimer has been released on BlueRay. Having missed it in cinema and after covering Barbie with Sean, I’ll now took BLAH veteran and nuclear deter...
BLAH 185 | Napoleon, way too short and way too long, with Steven Attewell
Ridley Scott’s new epic “Napoleon” sure is divisive and polarizing. It takes two historians to get the definitive judgement on the movie, and it’s gre...
BLAH 184 | A Tale of Two Germanies - Democratization, with Jim McGeehin
With Zero Hour dealt with, we’re looking at how the Western Allies laid the foundations for the democratization of Western Germany. From the foundatio...
BLAH 183 | Javi interviews Stefan, with Javi Marcos
In a crossover with Javi Marcos, you’re getting an episode in which he interviews me.
BLAH 182 | A Tale of Two Germanies - Zero Hour, with Jim McGeehin
Jim and I started a new subseries in our ongoing coverage of German history. This time, we will cover the divided Germany after World War II up until...
BLAH 181 | Designing board games, with Bryan Kromrey
With board game designer Bryan Kromrey, I talk about the adaptation of the famous RTS “Company of Heroes”, how the modern Kickstarter economy works an...
BLAH 180 | Best of ASOIAF - The Hounds origin speech, with Sean T. Collins
Origin stories are a Hollywood trope. Oftentimes, they’re rote and uninteresting, but if done right, they can recontextualize and enrich characters yo...
BLAH 179 | Kaiserreich - War, 1918, with Jim McGeehin
Finally, we’re in the home stretch. From the peace of Brest-Litovsk to the Kaiserschlacht offensive to the breakdown of the Central Powers and the win...
BLAH 178 | The best of ASOIAF - Bran's Dream, with Sean T. Collins
In the next installment of our ongoing series, we talk about Bran’s Dream from AGOT, Bran III. It’s a testament to Martin’s abilities as a gardener as...
BLAM 177 | Kaiserreich: War 1917, with Jim McGeehin
We continue into the year 1917! This time, our focus is not on
tactics, strategy, weapons and stuff but on the epochal events of the Russian Re...
BLAM 176 | Kaiserreich - War 1916, with Jim McGeehin
We’re continuing the story of World War I with the year 1916. The battles of Verdun and the Somme are the most famous, and we’re giving them the space...
BLAH 175 | The best of ASOIAF - Septon Meribald's monologue, with Sean T. Collins
It was only a question of time until we hit one of the most profound and meaningful pieces of text in the whole ASOIAF corpus, but we did it! Sean and...
BLAH 174 | Who is the Knight of the Laughing Tree?
This is special episode. I have been challenged by Kienn Joiaf to defend my assertion that Lyanna Stark is the Knight of the Laughing Tree and to disp...
BLAH 173 | Kaiserreich - War 1915, with Jim McGeehin
We’re continuing the story of World War I with the year 1915. From the massive loss of human lives in the big offensives, the Western stalemate and th...
BLAH 172 | Kaiserreich - War 1914, with Jim McGeehin
We are finally here: World War I has broken out, and now it’s off to the military history. But not so fast! Before you think we’re down to discussing...