Can I Just Say

This week on Can I Just Say, the last of our dispatches from 2019 Con of Thrones. We discuss fate and destiny for one who is so powerful, our shifting experiences of “Dracarys” the end of Season 8, and conquering vs ruling. Daphne’s co-panelists: Quinn Howard on Twitter: @IDEASOFICE_FIRE and on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1rFmaGLYr0Ve_Y_soxZNWQ Casey Zuccarelli on Twitter: @BlueEyedQueenn and on the Vassal of Kingsgrave Podcast: VOKpodcast.wordpress.com Kev (Bridge 4) on Youtube: https:/www.youtube.com/channel/UCB3w8ltYiIpSqH7sgjg1a8w To listen to our Game of Thrones Season 7 discussion: click here To listen to our Game of Thrones Season 8 discussion with Petra: click here Listen to Podcasts of our Panels from 2018 Con of Thrones: CIJS 18: Women in Game of Thrones CIJS 19: The Sisters Stark Support us on Patreon for Black Sails commentary tracks, bonus episodes, and our undying love. Buy Elizabeth's Book or See Daphne's Jewelry Follow us on Twitter! @JustSayPodcast and use the hashtag #CanIJustSay E-mail us at Podcast@CommonRoomRadio.com Music - Me and Billy Barnum by Josh Woodward. Free download: www.joshwoodward.com

This week on Can I Just Say, Elizabeth was on a fascinating Con of Thrones panel looking at the arc of Theon Greyjoy from start to end of Game of Thrones. Greyjoy or Stark? Theon’s story ends up being one of the most interesting and heart wrenching story in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire. Petra on Twitter: @PLHalbur and her writing on Watchers on the Wall: https://watchersonthewall.com/author-bio/petra/ Kyle on Twitter: @AzorAhype and on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AzorAhype Matt on Twitter: @musicalconcepts and his blog: https://mattsaudioblog.com Michael on twitter: @bookshelfstud at Maester Monthly: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbua-sAAJNwIJ2XrfmMLJSw and his blog: https://offmichaelsbookshelf.wordpress.com To listen to our Game of Thrones Season 7 discussion: click here To listen to our Game of Thrones Season 8 discussion with Petra: click here Listen to Podcasts of our Panels from 2018 Con of Thrones: CIJS 18: Women in Game of Thrones CIJS 19: The Sisters Stark Support us on Patreon for Black Sails commentary tracks, bonus episodes, and our undying love. Buy Elizabeth's Book or See Daphne's Jewelry Follow us on Twitter! @JustSayPodcast and use the hashtag #CanIJustSay E-mail us at Podcast@CommonRoomRadio.com Music - Me and Billy Barnum by Josh Woodward. Free download: www.joshwoodward.com

This week on Can I Just Say, the first panel dispatch from Con of Thrones. In a sequel to last year’s Queendom panel, Daphne joins Kristine Kippins, Lauren Sarner, and Kim Renfro to discuss women and politics in Game of Thrones. You can find Kristine on twitter here @kippinsk And her podcast, Your Watch Begins Kim on twitter: @kimrrenfro Her writing for Business Insider And Kims book: The Unofficial Guide to Game of Thrones Lauren on twitter: @LarenSarner Lauren’s writing for the NY Post Lauren’s other writing, including coverage of Black Sails: https://laurensarner.wordpress.com/clips/ Listen to Podcasts of our Panels from 2018 Con of Thrones: CIJS 18: Women in Game of Thrones CIJS 19: The Sisters Stark Support us on Patreon for Black Sails commentary tracks, bonus episodes, and our undying love. Buy Elizabeth's Book or See Daphne's Jewelry Follow us on Twitter! @JustSayPodcast and use the hashtag #CanIJustSay E-mail us at Podcast@CommonRoomRadio.com Music - Me and Billy Barnum by Josh Woodward. Free download: www.joshwoodward.com

This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss Season 8 of Game of Thrones, for a long long time. Kristine Kippins is back and we are also joined by Petra Halbur who writes for the Game of Thrones dedicated site Watchers on the Wall. Daphne is a bit salty and Elizabeth is (as always) sweet. To listen to our Season 7 discussion: click here You can find Kristine here @kippinsk And Petra here @PLHalbur Check out Watchers on the Wall and sign up for Con of Thrones And you can listen to the podcast Your Watch Begins here Watch Petra’s fab video on Plot Armor and Stakes in Game of Thrones (also featuring Black Sails) And listen to Podcasts of our Panels from 2018 Con of Thrones: CIJS 18: Women in Game of Thrones CIJS 19: The Sisters Stark Support us on Patreon for Black Sails commentary tracks, bonus episodes, and our undying love. Buy Elizabeth's Book or See Daphne's Jewelry Follow us on Twitter! @JustSayPodcast and use the hashtag #CanIJustSay E-mail us at Podcast@CommonRoomRadio.com Music - Me and Billy Barnum by Josh Woodward. Free download: www.joshwoodward.com

This week on Can I Just Say, we look back at Season 7 of Game of Thrones, in our excitement for Season 8. Kristine Kippins joins Daphne for a continuation of our Con of Thrones panel discussions and a preview for our 2019 panel. We discuss Being the Dragon, leadership styes, bending knees, and who will bring the balance of The Force to Westeros (if anyone can) You can find Kristine here @kippinsk And listen to Podcasts of our Panels from 2018 Con of Thrones: CIJS 18: Women in Game of Thrones CIJS 19: The Sisters Stark We didn’t have time to ask ourselves the fab questions from the Insider piece by Kim Renfro. We would love to hear your answers! https://www.thisisinsider.com/game-of-thrones-season-7-finale-unanswered-questions-2017-8 Here are the journalists we mentioned. Find them. Listen to them. Read them: Lauren Sarner @LaurenSarner Kim Renfro @kimrrenfro Michelle Jaworski @michejaw Lindsey Romain @lindseyromain Joanna Robinson @jowrotethis Dave Gonzales @Da7e Neil Miller @rejects And you can listen to the podcast Your Watch Begins here Support us on Patreon for Black Sails commentary tracks, bonus episodes, and our undying love. Buy Elizabeth's Book or See Daphne's Jewelry Follow us on Twitter! @JustSayPodcast and use the hashtag #CanIJustSay E-mail us at Podcast@CommonRoomRadio.com Music - Me and Billy Barnum by Josh Woodward. Free download: www.joshwoodward.com

This week on Can I Just Say, we enter the church of Baseball and find that we believe in belief. If you love something enough it can be profound. Annie and Crash are two of the most fascinating and fun characters you will ever meet, and Daphne proves that you don’t need to know anything about baseball to love this film. Support us on Patreon for Black Sails commentary tracks, bonus episodes, and our undying love. Buy Elizabeth's Book or See Daphne's Jewelry Follow us on Twitter! @JustSayPodcast and use the hashtag #CanIJustSay E-mail us at Podcast@CommonRoomRadio.com Music - Me and Billy Barnum by Josh Woodward. Free download: www.joshwoodward.com

This week on Can I Just Say, Lindsey Romain of Nerdist joins us to discuss The Favourite by Yorgos Lanthimos. We chat about shooting, dancing, women in power and men throwing fruit. You can read Lindsey's writing here and find her on twitter here Elizabeth Minkel was a guest on our other podcast, Fathoms Deep, and discussed The Favourite on her podcast, Fansplaining https://www.fansplaining.com Support us on Patreon for Black Sails commentary tracks, bonus episodes, and our undying love. Buy Elizabeth's Book or See Daphne's Jewelry Follow us on Twitter! @JustSayPodcast and use the hashtag #CanIJustSay E-mail us at Podcast@CommonRoomRadio.com Music - Me and Billy Barnum by Josh Woodward. Free download: www.joshwoodward.com

This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss the 1987 film, Moonstruck. We howl at the moon and break our hearts and go to the opera. We both loved this story of a woman’s self-discovery, set in NY but also in a modern fairy tale based on love, family, beauty, and wolves…. Support us on Patreon for Black Sails commentary tracks, bonus episodes, and our undying love. Buy Elizabeth's Book or See Daphne's Jewelry Follow us on Twitter! @JustSayPodcast and use the hashtag #CanIJustSay E-mail us at Podcast@CommonRoomRadio.com Music - Me and Billy Barnum by Josh Woodward. Free download: www.joshwoodward.com

It is time to plug in our splitter and wander around New York listening to our playlists and talk about this delightful film that defies tropes and is truly a pleasure to watch. Support us on Patreon for Black Sails commentary tracks, bonus episodes, and our undying love. Buy Elizabeth's Book or See Daphne's Jewelry Follow us on Twitter! @JustSayPodcast and use the hashtag #CanIJustSay E-mail us at Podcast@CommonRoomRadio.com Music - Me and Billy Barnum by Josh Woodward. Free download: www.joshwoodward.com

This week on Can I Just Say, the 1991 film, Impromptu. When discussion of darling film about the 1830’s art world in Paris and a fabulously gender fluid writer (George Sand played by Judy Davis) becomes a grand sweeping debate of arts place in society, democracy, cultural norms. Support us on Patreon for Black Sails commentary tracks, bonus episodes, and our undying love. Buy Elizabeth's Book or See Daphne's Jewelry Follow us on Twitter! @JustSayPodcast and use the hashtag #CanIJustSay E-mail us at Podcast@CommonRoomRadio.com Music - Me and Billy Barnum by Josh Woodward. Free download: www.joshwoodward.com

This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss the 1994 film, Little Women. Gentlemen of the press. Hear! Hear! We so enjoyed the March family… enough to want to be a part of it (but not in quite the same way as Laurie) Support us on Patreon for Black Sails commentary tracks, bonus episodes, and our undying love. Buy Elizabeth's Book or See Daphne's Jewelry Follow us on Twitter! @JustSayPodcast and use the hashtag #CanIJustSay E-mail us at Podcast@CommonRoomRadio.com Music - Me and Billy Barnum by Josh Woodward. Free download: www.joshwoodward.com

This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss the 1985 Merchant Ivory film, A Room with a View. The wonderful Louise Barnes from Black Sails joins us for: Beauty! Joy! And the eternal Yes! You can find Louise on Twitter @LBarnesBoraine and Instagram @LouiseBarnesBoraine and our Black Sails interview with Louise on Fathoms Deep here – spoilers for all seasons of Black Sails – watch Black Sails, already 🙂 Support us on Patreon for Black Sails commentary tracks, bonus episodes, and our undying love. Buy Elizabeth's Book or See Daphne's Jewelry Follow us on Twitter! @JustSayPodcast and use the hashtag #CanIJustSay E-mail us at Podcast@CommonRoomRadio.com Music - Me and Billy Barnum by Josh Woodward. Free download: www.joshwoodward.com

This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View – introspection or the lack thereof, bathing, piano, and fate all wrapped in some of the most beautiful prose. We so enjoyed ourselves! Next episode we discuss the film with actress Louise Barnes. Support us on Patreon for Black Sails commentary tracks, bonus episodes, and our undying love. Buy Elizabeth's Book or See Daphne's Jewelry Follow us on Twitter! @JustSayPodcast and use the hashtag #CanIJustSay E-mail us at Podcast@CommonRoomRadio.com Music - Me and Billy Barnum by Josh Woodward. Free download: www.joshwoodward.com

This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss the 1996 and 2009 adaptations of Jane Austen’s Emma and we will try not to kill Knightly’s dogs…. Listen to our discussion of the book Emma Visit the website of the Jane Austen Society of North America Support us on Patreon for Black Sails commentary tracks, bonus episodes, and our undying love. Buy Elizabeth's Book or See Daphne's Jewelry Follow us on Twitter! @JustSayPodcast and use the hashtag #CanIJustSay E-mail us at Podcast@CommonRoomRadio.com Music - Me and Billy Barnum by Josh Woodward. Free download: www.joshwoodward.com

This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss Jane Austen’s Emma, our well meaning and often misguided heroine of a very different sort than we have met up until this point. We talk of responsibility and pride and what may be the true meaning of ‘extensive grounds’ Listen to the podcast about Austenistan: www.npr.org/2018/07/10/627779858/austenistan This is the article Elizabeth referenced: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/05/jane-austen-emma-changed-face-fiction Listen to our podcast on Jane Austen’s book Pride and Prejudice here and on Sense and Sensibility with Louise Barnes as our guest here Visit the website of the Jane Austen Society of North America Support us on Patreon for Black Sails commentary tracks, bonus episodes, and our undying love. Buy Elizabeth's Book or See Daphne's Jewelry Follow us on Twitter! @JustSayPodcast and use the hashtag #CanIJustSay E-mail us at Podcast@CommonRoomRadio.com Music - Me and Billy Barnum by Josh Woodward. Free download: www.joshwoodward.com

This week on Can I Just Say, culture writer Lindsey Romain joins us to discuss Star Wars: The Last Jedi and we had the most fun talking about The Force, the characters, the themes…. and a few things we had not anticipated. Lindsey Romain is a Culture Writer. She is @lindseyromain on twitter and you can see her writing here: https://lindseyromain.contently.com This is the Tom + Lorenzo article about Rey’s costume Daphne mentioned: https://tomandlorenzo.com/2018/07/star-wars-the-force-awakens-the-last-jedi-costume-analysis-movie-reviews/ Support us on Patreon for Black Sails commentary tracks, bonus episodes, and our undying love. Buy Elizabeth's Book or See Daphne's Jewelry Follow us on Twitter! @JustSayPodcast and use the hashtag #CanIJustSay E-mail us at Podcast@CommonRoomRadio.com Music - Me and Billy Barnum by Josh Woodward. Free download: www.joshwoodward.com

This week on Can I Just Say, Andrew Dyce joins us to discuss the 1995 and 2005 adaptations of Pride and Prejudice. We had a fantastic conversation, a crazy revelation mid-podcast, and sadly some tech problems and not our usual standard of audio quality (sorry!) We find great enjoyment in professing opinions which in fact are our own. Find Andrew Dyce on twitter as @andrewbdyce and his writing at SreenRant.com – and especially his piece on the Black Sails finale (SPOILERS) here Listen to our podcast on Jane Austen’s book Pride and Prejudice here Visit the website of the Jane Austen Society of North America Support us on Patreon for Black Sails commentary tracks, bonus episodes, and our undying love. Buy Elizabeth's Book or See Daphne's Jewelry Follow us on Twitter! @JustSayPodcast and use the hashtag #CanIJustSay E-mail us at Podcast@CommonRoomRadio.com Music - Me and Billy Barnum by Josh Woodward. Free download: www.joshwoodward.com

This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. We talk about the beautifully flawed characters of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, the choices (or lack thereof) for women of that time, and who we would choose to go to our Ball and who to our dinner party. Find our discussion of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility here Support us on Patreon for Black Sails commentary tracks, bonus episodes, and our undying love. Buy Elizabeth's Book or See Daphne's Jewelry Follow us on Twitter! @JustSayPodcast and use the hashtag #CanIJustSay E-mail us at Podcast@CommonRoomRadio.com Music - Me and Billy Barnum by Josh Woodward. Free download: www.joshwoodward.com

Special Episode: Dispatches from Con of Thrones – a series of podcasts of Daphne’s panels at the Con. This one is from the Sisterhood of Sansa and Arya Stark panel with Lindsey Romain, Laura Stone, and Kristine Kippins where we talk about loving our Stark girls and how we experience their characterization and arcs as women in the Game of Thrones fandom. Lindsey Romain is a Pop Culture writer @lindseyromain on twitter and you can see her writing here: https://lindseyromain.contently.com Laura Stone is an author and Game of Thrones recapper @StoneyboBoney on twitter and at http://heydontjudgeme.com Kristine Kippins is a non-profit constitutional lawyer who is obsessed with Game of Thrones and @kippinsk on twitter. Support us on Patreon for Black Sails commentary tracks, bonus episodes, and our undying love. Buy Elizabeth's Book or See Daphne's Jewelry Follow us on Twitter! @JustSayPodcast and use the hashtag #CanIJustSay E-mail us at Podcast@CommonRoomRadio.com Music - Me and Billy Barnum by Josh Woodward. Free download: www.joshwoodward.com

Special Episode: Dispatches from Con of Thrones – a series of podcasts of Daphne’s panels at the Con. This one is from the Queendom of Thrones: Women in Game of Thrones panel with Lauren Sarner, Kim Renfro, and Kristine Kippins where we talk about our favorite characters, sexposition, and costuming as female transformation. Stay tuned for more panels to be posted soon! Lauren Sarner is a entertainment journalist who writes about TV for The New York Post https://nypost.com/author/lauren-sarner/ and @LaurenSarner on twitter. Kim Renfro is a senior reporter for INSIDER http://www.thisisinsider.com/author/kim-renfro and @KimRenfro on twitter. Kristine Kippins is a non-profit constitutional lawyer who is obsessed with Game of Thrones and @kippinsk on twitter. Support us on Patreon for Black Sails commentary tracks, bonus episodes, and our undying love. Buy Elizabeth's Book or See Daphne's Jewelry Follow us on Twitter! @JustSayPodcast and use the hashtag #CanIJustSay E-mail us at Podcast@CommonRoomRadio.com Music - Me and Billy Barnum by Josh Woodward. Free download: www.joshwoodward.com