The Boiled Leather Audio Hour
An in-depth thematic discussion of George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, the basis for HBO's Game of Thrones, featuring Sean T. Collins and Stefan Sasse. Warning: Westerosi wonkery ahead.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 62 minutes
- Episodes
- 231
- Years Active
- 2025
BLAH 156 | House of the Dragon, season 1, episode 2
We did it! Sean and I coordinated our schedules and join our forces once again to talk “House of the Dragon”. This time, it’s episode 2. Is it better or worse than episode 1? It’s almost a moot discu…
BLAH 154 | Best of ASOIAF - The Defenestration of Bran, with Sean T. Collins
When Bran was thrown out the window by Jaime Lannister, this marked the first real signal that something was different about this series. Today, Sean and I explore as to why this is and what makes th…
BLAH 153 | Obi-Who Kenobi
The Disney+ Miniseries “Obi-Wan Kenobi” starring Ewan McGregor just concluded its six-episode run. We are talking about why it was a show that exists but doesn’t really rise beyond that. Where does t…
BLAH 152 | The best of ASOIAF - The Knight of the Laughing Tree, with Sean T. Collins
We are returing to our new series on our favorite moments in A Song of Ice and Fire. After Sean’s pick of the Tower of Joy last time, this time Stefan chooses The Knight of the Laughing Tree, the mos…
BLAH 151 | Kaiserreich, episode 7 - Alliances, with Jim McGeehin
After we followed Bismarck’s delicate attempt at maintaining European balance in the favor of German foreign policy interests, we now watch it all crash down as Kaiser Wilhelm II takes the reigns and…
BLAH 150 | Best of ASOIAF - Tower of Joy, with Sean T. Collins
Sean and I start a new series, analyzing our favorite moments of the series. This week is about the Tower of Joy.
BLAH 149 | Kaiserreich, Episode 6: Colonialism, with Jim McGeehin
Bismarck famously refused to engage in colonialism, only to do an about-face in the 1880s to create the third-largest colonial empire of the world. It didn’t do much good. A drain financially, utterl…
BLAH 148 | Kaiserreich, Episode 5: Balancing, with Jim McGeehin
Bismarck felt, in the colloquial French of the times, the "cauchemar des coalitions", the nightmare of coalitions. He wanted to keep the peace, but a peace on his terms. Was this ever possible, or wa…
BLAH 147 | Wheel of Time, with Sean T. Collins
Amazon produced a gigantic fantasy series in the hopes of upstaging Game of Thrones - or at least its own "Lord of the Rings The Rings of Power". Did they succeed?
BLAH 146 | The Expanse, with Tim Westmeyr
I'm talking about the phenomenon of "The Expanse" with Tim Westmeyr.
BLAH 145 | Kaiserreich, episode 4 - Kulturkampf, with Jim McGeehin
The first political conflict of the Kaiserriech is upon us! The Kulturkampf, the first and titular culture war, against the catholic church and the suppression of the social democrats are major facto…
BLAH 144 | Happy Birthday to us, with a lot of people
We are ten years old! Almost everyone who is someone in nerddom came over to talk to me and say some kind words.
BLAH 143 | Kaiserreich, Episode 3 - Constitution, with Jim McGeehin
With the Kaiserreich now founded, Jim and I take a look under the hood and dissect its constitutional framework.
BLAH 142 | The Fremen Mirage, the myth of the Chosen One and military strategy in the Dune universe, with Bret Deveraux
To talk about his famous blog series, I invited Bret back over to talk about the myths mentioned in the title.
BLAH 141 | A heap of toxic nerddom, with DancingSean
One of the most popular series right now is "The Boys", which is rather toxic. So what's the whole deal about?
BLAH 140 | Kaiserreich, Episode 2 - War with JimMcGeehin
After we looked at the political unification process, we're now looking at the more martially oriented one.
BLAH 139 | Do Fantasy and SciFi stick at the wall?, with Aziz
What's this question about? Listen to find out!
BLAH 138 | Kaiserreich, Episode 1 - Federation, with Jim McGeehin
Jim and I start a new sub-series on our "history of Germany" bigger series, looking where it all began: in the Kaiserreich.
BLAH 137 | US presidents, part 4, with Jim McGeehin
We continue our series.