Small Council Matters

Wendy and the Small Council of Shannon Clarke, Jesse Jackson, and Christine Peruski discuss Game of Thrones’ episode 505 “Kill the Boy”. Some of the Council have read the books, but they do not spoil future events. Thank you for listening! Leave us a SpeakPipe audio message. Call us at 206-202-4182. Send feedback to Twitter, [...]

Wendy and the Small Council of Shannon Clarke, Jesse Jackson, Christine Peruski, and Lou Sytsma discuss Game of Thrones’ episode 504 “Sons of the Harpy”. Some of the Council have read the books, but they do not spoil future events. Thanks for listening! Leave us a SpeakPipe audio message. Call us at 206-202-4182. Send feedback [...]

In this episode Wendy and the Small Council (Christine Peruski, Shannon Clarke, Lou Sytsma) span the map on all the story movements in the recent episode 503 “High Sparrow” of HBO’s Game of Thrones. Some of the Council have read the books, but they do not spoil future events. Thanks for listening! Leave us a [...]

Wendy and the Small Council convened to discuss episode 502 “The House of Black and White” of HBO’s Game of Thrones. Jesse Jackson, Christine Peruski, Shannon Clarke, Lou Sytsma and Wendy take up the business of black and white choices or if our characters face grey haze between what’s right or wrong; between what’s good [...]

Wendy convened the Small Council of Jesse Jackson, Christine Peruski, and Lou Sytsma to discuss the season premiere of HBO’s Game of Thrones episode 5.01 “The Wars to Come.” Some of the Council has read the books, but they do not spoil future events. Thanks for listening! Leave us a SpeakPipe audio message. Call us [...]

Wendy and the Small Council of Shannon Clarke, Jesse Jackson, Christine Peruski, and Kelley Harkins met up for the pre-season discussion for Game of Thrones season 5. Beware of Spoilers ahead! We cover all the events through all of Season 4. (We do not spoil future events from the book series though.) Thanks for listening! [...]

Wendy convened the Small Council of Shannon Clarke, Jesse Jackson, Christine Peruski, and Lou Sytsma to consider “The Question.” You know The Question? No, it’s not about what is The Matrix. The Question is “Who is Jon Snow’s mother?” Author George RR Martin posed this question to the Game of Thrones show runners (Benioff and [...]

Wendy and the Small Council of Shannon Clarke, Jesse Jackson, Christine Peruski, and Lou Sytsma met up for the post-season wrap up discussing the power plays, casualties, and MVPs across Game of Thrones Season 4. We also take up new business in responding to listener questions. Beware of Spoilers ahead! We cover all the events [...]

Wendy and the Small Council of Shannon Clarke, Jesse Jackson, Christine Peruski, and Lou Sytsma continue their post-season wrap discussion of Game of Thrones Season 4. As with Part 1, beware of Spoilers ahead! We cover all the events through all of Season 4. We do not spoil future events from the book series. Thanks [...]

Wendy convened the Small Council of Shannon Clarke, Jesse Jackson, Christine Peruski, and Lou Sytsma to discuss the events in HBO’s Game of Thrones episodes 4.09 “The Watchers on the Wall” and 4.10 “The Children.” Beware of Spoilers ahead! We cover all the events through all of Season 4. (We do not spoil future events [...]

Wendy convened the Small Council of Shannon Clarke, Jesse Jackson, Christine Peruski, and Lou Sytsma to discuss the events in HBO’s Game of Thrones episodes 4.09 “The Watchers on the Wall” and 4.10 “The Children.” Beware of Spoilers ahead! We cover all the events through all of Season 4. (We do not spoil future events [...]

Wendy convened the Small Council of Shannon Clarke, Jesse Jackson, Christine Peruski, and Lou Sytsma to discuss the upsets on HBO’s Game of Thrones episode 4.08 “The Mountain and The Vyper.” Beware of Spoilers ahead! We cover all the events through Season 4 episode 8. (We do not spoil future events from the book series [...]

Wendy convened the Small Council of Jesse Jackson, Christine Peruski, and Shannon Clarke to discuss the wounds of childhood on HBO’s Game of Thrones episode 4.07 “Mockingbird.” Beware of Spoilers ahead! We cover all the events through Season 4 episode 7. (We do not spoil future events from the book series though.) Leave your feedback [...]

Wendy and the Small Council of Jesse Jackson, Christine Peruski, and Shannon Clarke met to discuss HBO’s Game of Thrones episodes 4.05 “First of His Name” and 4.06 “The Laws of Gods and Men”. Beware of Spoilers ahead! We cover all the events through Season 4 episode 6. (We never spoil future events from the [...]

Wendy and the Small Council’s subcommittee of Jesse Jackson and Lou Systma met to discuss HBO’s Game of Thrones episodes 403 “Breaker of Chains” and 404 “OathKeeper”. Beware of Spoilers ahead! We cover all the events through Season 4 episode 4. (We never spoil future events from the book series though.) Leave your feedback at [...]

Join Wendy and fellow fans Shannon Clarke, Jesse Jackson, Christine Peruski and Lou Systma as they discuss the second episode of season 4 of Game of Thrones. Beware of Spoilers ahead! We cover all the events through Season 4’s episode 4.02 “The Lion and the Rose.” Read on for some interesting links and images. Game [...]

Season 4 of HBO’s Game of Thrones has started, and Wendy has convened the small council – Shannon Clarke, Jesse Jackson, Christine Peruski and Lou Systma – to discuss the return of swords, whores, hands and dragons. Beware of Spoilers ahead! We cover all the events through Season 4’s episode 4.01 “Two Swords.” Read on [...]

Wendy and some of the GoT gang – Christine Peuruski, Shannon Clarke, and Kimberly Thompson – get ready for the return of HBO’s Game of Thrones with this pre-game show bonus podcast. We discuss the Game of Thrones Season 3 DVD highlights and special features, and what we hope for Westeros when season 4 begins [...]

Wendy discusses season 3 overall with returning guests Jesse Jackson and Shannon Clarke. We cover the family feuds, class warfare, real warfare, and other standout moments including: Season MVP; Best actor and actress; Best Episode, Favorite Overall Storyline/Character Arc; Best use of magic /visual effects; Character we want to die soon. Beware of spoilers! All [...]

“The house that puts family first will always defeat the house that puts the whims and wishes of his sons and daughters first.” – Tywin Lannister Wendy discusses season 3 overall with returning guests Jesse Jackson and Shannon Clarke. We cover the family feuds, class warfare, real warfare, and other standout moments including: Season MVP; [...]