Hi, I'm Dan Jones, and this is history a dynasty to die for, is back for a brand new season.

This time we meet Edward II, a larger-than-life character who starts out as the party boy prince and ends up well I don't want to give

too much away. He's got one thing on his mind not war not ambition but love and it's a love that will get him in burning hot trouble with his

barons, his family, and his queen. The king's affection for his favorite

night kicks off a wild roller coaster rain full of love and hate, war and grief,

famine and just about all the horsemen of the apocalypse.

Along the way we'll meet Tiger Mums, Scottish legends, murderous cousins, a herd of camels,

and one extremely hot iron poker.

Listen to and follow This is History to Die for, available song of X and Fire podcast I am Sir Matt and this is

Follow up Friday. Yeah I'm flying solo this week Jimmy is out he is on his quarterly trip to his company's work in Denver, which he absolutely

hates, so send him some good wishes and positivity when he comes back from that on this

coming Sunday.

But there was a lot of response

to this week's episode of House of the Dragon

and you guys sent us in a ton of ravens and theories.

So we're just gonna sort of fire into those and just lightning around this thing and just knock it out.

So with that here we go. This one comes to us from Sir Bill the Fretful who says love listening to you guys

talk through legitimate versus silly criticisms of the show as book readers.

One thing I've been thinking about a lot is the lack of non-war interactions between writers and their dragons.

In the books, dragons are like big dogs that are occasionally useful in war.

In the show, they feel like Instruments of War only. Do you think this is because of a budget mostly?

Because there are other ways of doing this through dialogue, similar scenes with a ton of

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