Unabashed Book Snobbery
The A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones podcast where we gush about Martin's prose and complain about the atrocious adaptation of his finest work.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Episodes
- 84
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
UBS #24: Embarrass Your Favourite Canadian
We're so sorry! Kylie and Julia cope with the world ending by hitting the record button, talking about Julia's fanfic, and hoping you don't riot because they promise the Ironboor podcast coming up is…
Wed 16 Nov 2016
UBS #23 Simplified Bay of Dragons Part 2: Analysis
Julia and Kylie close out their planning for the Simplified Bay of Dragons retrospective with heavy analysis of Deadpan and Saint Tyrion's arcs, featuring "so she didn't burn down any damn patriarchy…
Sun 30 Oct 2016
UBS #22 Simplified Bay of Dragons Part 1 (Recap)
Kylie and Julia move to their next retrospective: Simplified Bay of Dragons. Here, they spend a full episode recapping the events, even though it's the biggest nothing plot possible. UBS is about the…
Tue 18 Oct 2016
UBS #21 Horn Faire Retrospective
Julia and Kylie continue their Game of Thrones Season 6 retrospectives with Sam Tarly's plotline, full of sassy women and puffy sleeves. What even is worldbuilding? Please visit gotgifsandmusings.tum…
Sun 25 Sep 2016
UBS #20 Cheryl's Landing Part 2: Analysis
To plan their retrospective, Kylie and Julia finish up their discussion of the S6 King's Landing plotline and all of its...meaning. Please visit gotgifsandmusings.tumblr.com for podcast episode notes…
Sun 11 Sep 2016
UBS #19 Cheryl's Landing Part 1: The Recap
Kylie and Julia sit down to discuss the King's Landing plotline of Season 6 in advance of writing their retrospective, and only make it through their **high level recap** after 90 minutes. Though to …
Mon 05 Sep 2016
UBS #18 Bran & Northern Mysticism
Julia and Kylie are back and totally didn't record this episode over a month ago! They discuss a spookier element of ASOIAF: Northern Mysticism, which includes Bran/Bloodraven, the Others, and the Ch…
Tue 26 Jul 2016
UBS #17 The Inbox Strikes Back
Kylie and Julia try to tackle their inboxes and hilarity ensues. They also break their streak of the past 6 episodes and allow themselves to talk about the show as well as the books. What is happenin…
Sun 12 Jun 2016
UBS#16 Keeping up with the Tyrells
Kylie and Julia sit down to talk about the most opaque Great House in Westeros: the Tyrells. What is Martin going for with them, and why is the fandom so ding dang obsessed? For related episode links…
Mon 30 May 2016
UBS #15: Jaime & Brienne take the riverlands
Kylie and Julia recap and discuss Jaime and Brienne's riverlands plot-lines and intersecting themes in FeastDance...for two and a half hours. Someone take their microphones away from them. For relate…
Sat 14 May 2016
UBS #14: In Defense of Feast Dance
Julia and Kylie sit down for two hours to gush about "A Feast for Crows" and "A Dance with Dragons," the two more divisive novels in the A Song of Ice and Fire fandom. Which frankly, confuses them, b…
Sun 01 May 2016
UBS#13 Ironbore
Julia and Kylie push themselves to discuss one aspect of ASOIAF that they are less compelled by: the Ironborn chapter (Theon excluded). Can they find an appreciation? Or literary significance? Or any…
Tue 19 Apr 2016
UBS #12: Theories Galore! (Part 2)
Julia and Kylie are back with more A Song of Ice and Fire theories that they totally love. Listen as the sodium reaches lethal levels! Oh, and they both suggest their own crackpots and get embarrasse…
Sun 27 Mar 2016
UBS #11: Theories Galore! (Part 1)
Julia and Kylie only talk about A Song of Ice and Fire! Hooray! In this episode, they tackle some of the biggest fandom theories, as well as some crackpots. Neither one likes to speculate, so listen …
Sun 20 Mar 2016
UBS #10: Arya Retrospective & Season 5 wrap-up
Julia and Kylie wrap up their Season 5 retrospective series with this podcast, covering the Game of Thrones Braavosi plotline. In the second half of the episode, they also wrap-up Season 5 based on l…
Wed 02 Mar 2016
UBS #9: Bryan Cogman & the Sansa Marriage Strike
Julia and Kylie react to the new interview given by Bryan Cogman (or commentary track, whatever), where he continues to defend the shitty, shitty Season 5 Winterfell plotline involving Sansa Stark. W…
Sat 20 Feb 2016
UBS #8: Dornish Headcanon Hour (or 2)
Julia and Kylie talk about their opinions and headcanons for their favorite region of Westeros. It's all canon-compliant, so it's basically educational. Episode breakdown (kinda): 0:00 Intro & what i…
Sun 07 Feb 2016
UBS #7: Deadpan's Bestest Nameday Gift Retrospective
The dissection of Game of Thrones's Season 5 Meereense plotline, dubbed "Deadpan's Bestest Nameday Gift," because St. Tyrion is the Mary Sue that keeps on giving. Episode breakdown: 0:00 - Introducti…
Sat 30 Jan 2016
UBS #6: The Cersei Lannister Show
Kylie and Julia discuss and analyze Cersei Lannister, one of Martin's more misunderstood characters. Episode Breakdown: 0:00 -High level summary of Cersei pre-AFFC 14:33 - Discussion of AFFC: plot, …
Sun 17 Jan 2016
UBS #5: Jon's fOlly
The dissection of Game of Thrones's Season 5 Wall plotline, dubbed "Jon's fOlly," for the best accidental protagonist ever Episode breakdown: 0:00 - Introduction and fandom names 7:05 - Recap of the …
Sat 09 Jan 2016
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