'House of the Dragon’ Season 3, Episode 5 Deep Dive

**Mallory Rubin** (0:05)
Greetings, and welcome to House of R, a Ringerverse podcast on the Ringer Podcast Network.

**Joanna Robinson** (0:10)
I'm Mallory Rubin.

**Mallory Rubin** (0:11)
Joining me today, her founding stones were watered with the blood of a man, and she's always thirsty. It's Joanna Robinson.

**Joanna Robinson** (0:20)
Wow, likening me to a haunted castle. What could be a higher compliment, honestly?

**Mallory Rubin** (0:25)
I quite agree, I quite agree. Jo, we are here, of course, to dive deep, all the way down into the fifth episode, somehow already, of the third season of House of the Dragon. We're gonna get to it right after this.

**Chris Ryan** (0:38)
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**SPEAKER_4** (0:42)
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**SPEAKER_5** (0:44)
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**Chris Ryan** (0:49)
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**Mallory Rubin** (0:55)
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**SPEAKER_5** (0:57)
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**Chris Ryan** (1:03)
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**Mallory Rubin** (2:21)
Programming reminders. Talk to Thrones right after the new episode of House of the Dragon, Sunday night with CR. That'll be on episode six, which is batshit bonkers. Because this is only an eight episode season. I don't know how that happened already, but alas, that's the case. And then Comic Con.
It's actually Comic Con is before Talk to Thrones.

**Joanna Robinson** (2:42)
It is.

**Mallory Rubin** (2:43)
We're recording Talk to Thrones before that, but Comic Con is before you'll watch Talk to Thrones.

**Joanna Robinson** (2:48)
I'm excited. We're going to San Diego.
As we've mentioned one million times, we're doing a meet up on Thursday evening at Whiskey Girl. No badge required. And then there's a panel where you do need a badge on Saturday morning. That's right. And we'll just be out and about and around in San Diego and taking in panels and drooling over cosplay and enjoying the brisk sea breeze air.

**Mallory Rubin** (3:11)
Yeah. It seems like it's going to be a bazillion degrees.

**Joanna Robinson** (3:13)
Cool. So that's exciting for everyone.

**Mallory Rubin** (3:16)
Come hang with us as we are drenched in sweat. All of the details, times, if you're like, wait, where was that?

**Joanna Robinson** (3:21)
When?

**Mallory Rubin** (3:22)
On the social channels, on the social handles. Speaking of which, follow along.

**Joanna Robinson** (3:26)
Why not?

**Mallory Rubin** (3:27)
Follow this podcast, House of R, on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. You can watch full video episodes of House of R on Spotify, incredible stuff.
And you can also watch those episodes on the Ringerverse YouTube channel. So follow along there. Joanna, where can the folks follow us on social?

**Joanna Robinson** (3:42)
Oh my gosh, at House of R, on TikTok, on Instagram.
We're really, we're gearing up to cover the new Spider-Man movie. We're really, really excited about that. You can email us your Spider-Man thoughts, your Comic Con thoughts, certainly your House of the Dragon thoughts, hobbitsanddragons at gmail.com.

**Mallory Rubin** (4:04)
Delightful.
Spoiler warning for today, it's the same as always. Everything that happened in this episode of House of the Dragon, we're gonna talk about it. If it's ever happened in a Game of Thrones episode of television, this show, Game of Thrones proper, Night of the Seven Kingdoms, it could come up today. In terms of book information, we'll have a little dabbling of context as we go today, but anything that is in the future in the text, anything from the future of Fire and Blood, we're gonna save that for a quick book spoiler section at the end of the pod, and you will have a warning before that section begins if you don't wanna hear it.

**Joanna Robinson** (4:34)
What about a song of ice and fire? Everything a song of ice and fire is on the table, right?