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Jun 2014
1h 54m

408 - The Mountain and the Viper

Bald Move
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Game of Thrones delivers another gut punch to Westerosi fans everywhere this week… how did Jim and A.Ron react? Find out this, and much more as we ponder the sexual equipment and proclivities of castrated slave soldiers, rank the creepiness factor of Littlefinger’s latest gambit, the pros and cons of banishing royal advisers, and… oh yeah, some brief discuss ... Show More
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