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The ‘Game of Thrones’ Draft | The Midnight Boys

17 Jun 2026

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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?

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Shop the new Blink 2K video doorbells at Amazon.com slash Blink. Welcome into the Reverse. This is, of course, the Ringer's Nexus podcast feed for all things fandom. We are Steve, the Architect Almond, the Builder and Tigger of Things. Jomie, the Explainer. Dinner on. You've got questions, he's got answers. Old Man Van here, the receding resurgent hairline.

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Jomie? Fellas, House of the Dragons is back, baby. We're here. This is the prime time. This is the money-making season. We're going to lock in on the socials. If you're following us on Ringiverse, Midnight Boys Pod, House of R-Ever, you want your House of the Dragons fix, this is where you're going to find it. Hell yeah.

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Right there. Hell fucking yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, daddy.

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Charles, you don't want to get in on this? You don't want to?

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No. Get in on White. Get in on the House of the Dragon fever. It's the fever of the dragon.

Chapter 2: What are the categories in the Game of Thrones draft?

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And we, everybody was so, but then after all of that, the next day was when I, somebody wrote this tweet. I have to look at the tweet. Somebody's like, man, this dude wrote a tweet. He's like, bro. Last night was crazy. He was like, I watched the episode. I went to sleep. I got up this morning. I made some raisin bran, two strips of turkey bacon. I drank some orange juice.

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Then I ran out and had a light jog. A light jog. One of those ones where you just get the runner high and none of the soreness. Came back, took a shower, sat down, and damn, that shit was ass.

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2144.725 - 2173.602 Jomie Adeniran

like he had a whole day and it's still bad damn that shit was epic I feel like people were really upset once they sat with it but it's like when was the death knell moment for Game of Thrones like when for you was it like no it's gone it happened before but when Danny forgot the Iron Fleet that was that was the moment where I was like yeah it's over Danny kinda forgot the Iron Fleet I'm like alright man yeah we lost it we lost the sauce it's over

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it's over I check where you at nah it's me it's you I'm going to go wild card here I know it's early but I gotta get him off the board my guy Egg. Okay. I'm taking Egg.

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Oh, okay. I was interested to see how many people would be drafted from the other shows.

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There will be a presence. I got to give love to my guy, Egg, man.

Chapter 3: Who is the first overall pick in the draft?

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He came on screen. At first, I'm like, look at that bald-headed egg kid. But, man, when I tell you, he flew in my heart, that little homie, man. When he out there, rise, get up, Sir Duncan.

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2214.824 - 2236.157 Charles Holmes

i'm gonna start crying man that's my little dog bro i wish well i hope he is a healthy strong growing boy but like damn i hope we do get a few more years of just like the precocious please be cute for like one more season or another before you get crazy or the avatar problem where eric is facing wood he a little baby he's 60 tall he tall in his sock

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What I like about Egg more than anything is his comic timing.

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2240.305 - 2241.306 Van Lathan

Oh, he's so funny.

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He is so funny. So funny. He's looking at the different, he's just, they cast it perfectly. Right. Even talking about the show makes me miss the show. I can't wait for it to come back.

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I love that show. I'm so excited. They did such a phenomenal job. It's so amazing. It's so amazing. I guess I'm going to take episode right now. Oh, episodes need to start flying off the show. I'm going episode next. Man, because there's,

2266.529 - 2271.024 Jomie Adeniran

I think if the ones that I need are taken, then I know what to do.

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I know what I want to take, but I'm going to take hard home. Okay. I'm going to take Hart home because they go to the Wiley things. They had a conversation.

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Interesting.

Chapter 4: How do the hosts feel about the character Jon Snow?

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That wasn't even the episode I was thinking about. You were thinking about one before, after. There's one I think that is objectively like... When I was going back through the ringer, shout out our website, did like the best Game of Thrones episodes. Their number one surprised me, but I was like.

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It doesn't surprise me because in the moment as I'm watching it, I'm like this particular, we'll talk to somebody. We'll talk, somebody's going to pick it. If somebody doesn't pick it, oh, we'll talk about it. I'm watching it. I'm like, I'm standing up at my crib. It is 2.30 in the morning. Everybody else is asleep. I am in my parents' house staring at the TV, standing up there like this.

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Like, oh my gosh, I'm waiting to see the cinema, but we'll talk about it.

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But Battle of the Bastards, when I rewatch it today, I'm like, oh, even in the moment, because I was watching this live with the people, we got so many memes. It's still one of the greatest shots of Game of Thrones, of Jon facing down the army alone in real time. We're like, what the fuck? To this day, watching the little homie not zig and zag, I was like, God. Yo, we're coming.

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Come on, Serpentine.

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Serpentine, you guys. That is a curse of the Rickys. Oh. Rickon. Yeah. Anybody named Ricky.

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In the Game of Thrones universe? No.

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In any universe. In any universe. From Ricky and Rickon. Neither one of them knows how to zigzag when someone is shooting at them. Now, I'll say this. There's a difference. Yeah. Rickon is what, like 11 years old? Yeah. Okay, not known to be incredibly athletic. Ricky from Boys in the Hood has a scholarship to USC. Football. Yes. He has a football scholarship to USC.

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This is the school of Marcus Allen, of Reggie Bush, of OJ Simpson. Even Lindell White was very fleet of foot.

Chapter 5: What decisions did Ned Stark make that impacted his family?

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There's so many decisions that he made that were the wrong decisions. That's not one of them. But every decision that he made that actually strategically in a world full of cynicism was wrong, he made it for honorable, heroic purposes.

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Who is more of Ned Stark's son in terms of having his blind spot? Rob or Jonathan?

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Chapter 6: How do Jon and Rob Stark compare to Ned Stark?

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Because the same thing that undoes Ned, undoes Jon.

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It's Jon because Ned marries the fray girl. Yeah. Right? If Ned takes a vow, he would have done it. He wouldn't have killed the whole family. Right? Rob was like, I'm going to go marry Talissa. She cute. She not. And everybody suffered for it. Ned never would have done that. Right. Under no circumstance would Ned would have done that. Probably true.

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Ned probably marries the fray girl. Whatever. Rob didn't do it. These Starks, man. These Starks. Good at fighting.

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Not really decision makers.

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Not great decision makers.

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They're not made for politics.

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And by the way, can I say something else? Don't really listen to women. Well, I don't think anybody listens to women in that universe.

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I think that's a problem the whole world has.

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Jamie listens to women. Jamie listens to women? He listens to a certain woman.

Chapter 7: What makes the season one finale, Baelor, significant?

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I'm just saying, stars don't really listen to women. Try to tell them, this is what you gotta do. Don't listen. You get fucked over.

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2926.964 - 2929.688 Charles Holmes

Are they the Kennedys of the... Without a doubt.

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They could be the Bushes. They keep dying. They the Kennedys. They keep dying. They the Kennedys. But either way, that's a value pick for me. I like my team so far.

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2940.946 - 2952.181 Jomie Adeniran

All right, Steve. Okay, I got the turn. Okay, so my episode, I'm going to pick, speaking of Ned Stark, I'm going to pick season one finale, Baelor. Yeah.

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Episode nine.

2953.204 - 2953.906 Jomie Adeniran

Episode nine. Yeah.

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Yeah.

2954.607 - 2972.989 Jomie Adeniran

No, that's a, it's an incredible episode. And basically like, to me, this is the thing that actually declares the show that it is game of Thrones and not just some other show because a hero or a self-proclaimed like noble person like Ned simply does not belong in it. Because he does not think that he can survive in something like that.

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Well, also, like, I mean, maybe this is more meta, but, like, when watching the show, Sean Bean's the first guy on the call sheet. He's the first guy on the credits. He was, like, the selling promo picture on that show. I'm watching for Sean Bean. You're not going to kill Sean Bean. You're not going to kill House. You're not going to kill Michael Scott.

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