Emily Bateman, a millennial woman who never got into Game of Thrones, finally sits down to watch and analyze each consecutive episode of the popular HBO show. With the help of her sister, Kate Koballa, and sometimes a guest, Emily tries to figure out what the heck is going on in the show, why it was so popular at the time and who is actually going to win the game of thrones (if there actually is a winner at the end).
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Sisters Kate and Emily have seen a lot of movies, but not as many as they would like. With their differing tastes in genres, they will work through their backlogs of movies they haven't seen yet. Both sisters talk about why they did or didn’t see the movie, the plot, and rate them out of ten at the end.
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Shining a light on invisible illness. Emily Kate Stephens, journalist and Long Covid sufferer, discusses the latest research and insights with the world’s leading experts, scientists and healthcare professionals. Including ME/CFS, Long Covid, Ehlers Danlos (EDS), Fibromyalgia, POTS, MCAS, Chronic Lyme, IACCs and more, we dive into the science of energy-limiting, complex illness, whilst providing patients, caregivers and medical professionals with practical tools to diagnose, understand and m ...
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Get ready for a multiverse showdown! Join us on Super Bracket Bros where we select some of the greatest fighters across the multiverse and pit them against one another in a grand tournament to decide who is the best of the best.
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Every medicine in your pharmacy has a human story behind it. Real people doing real work and living real lives. We all have romantic ideas about scientists working late into the evening or doctors dropping everything to answer a phone call about a patient. You can almost envision the moment when one of those researchers finally solves an intellectual puzzle and leaps into action. Their eyes go from an empty stare to an alert laser-like focus. They sit a bit taller and start to read frantical ...
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SBBCU Holiday Special 2025: The Twitch Stream Present Draft
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2:06:25It's that time of year for the Super Bracket Bros, The Friendly Neighborhood Gamers, Game of Groans, and The Wait For It podcast to gather around the microphone for the holidays. For our sixth anniversary, the gang changes things up and does a Christmas present draft to see who would have the best childhood Christmas morning. Follow all of the show…
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#24 Ehlers Danlos Syndrome & Orthostatic Intolerance in Chronic Fatigue conditions with Dr Peter Rowe
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45:45Dr Peter Rowe is a leading voice for adolescents and young people with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS) and Fatigue-related conditions. An expert in orthostatic intolerance (OI), which is prevalent in nearly 100% of his patients, he believes that these conditions are treatable and he can move patients from bed-bound to regaining a decent quality of lif…
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Welcome to Sister Cinema Swap, the podcast where two sisters work through their backlogs of movies they haven't seen yet. Join sisters Kate and Emily as they finally watch movies old and new for the first time and share their honest opinions. First two episodes of the podcast are dropping on Tuesday, November 4th! Please subscribe so you don't miss…
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#23 Improving quality of life - managing P.E.M. and moving towards stability with O.T. Amy Mooney
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1:03:54Amy Mooney’s aim is to improve the quality of life for her patients. She is an occupational therapist specialising in the treatment of conditions that cause post-exertional malaise (PEM) and their comorbidities – working with patients with ME/CFS, Long Covid, Ehlers Danlos, fibromyalgia, dysautonomia, POTS, and MCAS. Operating from a place of huge …
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#22 Vagus Nerve & inflammation: the body’s healing reflex with Dr. Kevin Tracey
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49:47Dr. Kevin Tracey is a pioneer in understanding the molecular basis of inflammation, and identifying the way in which neurons control the immune system via the Vagus Nerve. A neurosurgeon, scientist and entrepreneur, he is CEO of Feinstein Institutes, New York, where they bridge neuroscience, molecular biology and biomedical engineering. His lab’s d…
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Wong Fei Hung v Adonis Creed | ft. Emily Bateman
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#21 Living life with energy-limiting conditions - Personal wins & perspective, with Gez Medinger & Emily Kate Stephens
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40:05In a change to our usual format, this week Emily Kate Stephens sits down with fellow journalist, podcaster and chronic illness sufferer, Gez Medinger to explore their personal anecdotes and discuss the strategies that have made a difference in the trajectory of their health. Between them, over the last five years of their illnesses, they have inter…
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Yu Shu Lien v Rhea Ripley | ft. MrEricAlmighty & Affable Joey
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#20 Practical guide to pacing and managing Post Exertional Malaise (PEM) with Dr Melanie Hoppers, Bateman Horne Center
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1:04:20Bateman Horne Center internist and paediatrician, Dr Melanie Hoppers, has always been driven to approach her patients’ treatment with a holistic strategy, combining first line medicines with lifestyle, diet, stress reduction and movement. But in 2015, when her daughter became sick with ME/CFS, it became an even more personal mission to understand, …
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Sifu v Knuckleduster | ft. Dave Jackson (Tales from the Backlog)
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#19 Female hormones and the immune system, with Abigail Goodship
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47:19Analysis of wearable data gathered from the Visible app found that symptoms in Long Covid and ME/CFS fluctuated considerably in-line with the menstrual cycle, in a new study from Imperial College (currently in pre-print). In this week’s episode Abigail Goodship, a biomedical scientist at Imperial College, responsible for scrutinizing the data from …
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Vi v Sanji | ft. Matt AKA Stormageddon
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#18 Leading research, delivering hope: The Open Medicine Foundation’s mission with Linda Tannenbaum
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1:05:36The Open Medicine Foundation is the world’s largest non-profit aimed at diagnosing, treating and preventing complex chronic disease. This week, founder and CEO Linda Tannenbaum joins Emily Kate Stephens to discuss the OMF’s work, delivering collaborative research from some of the world’s leading scientists, and offering hope to millions. Now with s…
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#17 PEM: measuring the threshold and understanding the cause with Dr. Rob Wüst
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38:16What is the threshold over which PEM is induced in chronic illness? This is a hugely important question for sufferers, and one for which Rob Wüst is trying to find an answer. Assistant Professor in Musculoskeletal Health and Physiology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Dr. Rob Wüst is able to see the physiological impact of Long Covid and ME/CFS…
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Chun-Li v Kenny Omega | ft. Kaiju vs. History & Phil Barrera
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Lee v Danny LaRusso | ft. Caleb Van Nice & Jon Haig (Video Game Lounge)
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#16 Why are women more susceptible to complex illness? Predicting chronic conditions with Michal Caspi Tal PhD
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56:53This week’s episode takes us on an exploration of the exciting work coming out of M.I.T’s Biological Engineering teams into understanding infection-associated illnesses and the emerging field of menstruation science. Emily Kate Stephens is joined by Dr Michal Caspi Tal, Principal Scientist of the Tal Research Group and Associate Scientific Director…
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Kingpin v Hwoarang | ft. Aaron (SuperPod Saga)
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#15 Monoclonal Antibodies and the Future of Complex Illness Treatment with Dr Nancy Klimas
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56:01A new clinical trial is underway to test a monoclonal antibody as a treatment for Long Covid. In this week’s episode Emily Kate Stephens sits down with Dr Nancy Klimas at Nova Southeastern University (NSU), Florida, to discuss the trial alongside the groundbreaking research and integrative care, that is taking place at the Institute for Neuro-Immun…
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#14. Wearable technology and patient-led innovation with Dr. David Putrino
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49:06Data gathered from wearable technology can warn of impending symptom exacerbation in complex chronic illness a new study has found. In this week’s episode Dr. David Putrino discusses the findings. He, in collaboration with leading immunologists, microbiologists and data scientists, tracked data points from 5000 Visible app users (who enrolled in th…
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Ep. 97 - HOTD Series and Podcast Wrap-up
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1:57:08This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate join together to do a wrap-up of HOTD and the podcast as a whole. They discuss cast interviews, Rotten Tomato scores, a GOT storybook, negronis, fancy dress time, wigs, and nice guys. Additionally, Kate wants thematic symbolism and Emily has feelings about internet spoilers. THANK YOU for joining us on th…
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#13 The role of Mast Cells in complex illness: what they are and how to calm them with Dr. Theoharis Theoharides
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59:50Dr. Theoharis Theoharides ‘The Mast Cell Master’ has been at the forefront of mast cell research for over 30 years. A renowned expert in allergy, neuroinflammation, and mast cell biology, his work centers on understanding the regulation of these critical immune cells. His extensive studies explore their fundamental role in the body, the mechanisms …
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Ep. 96 - HOTD S02E08 The Queen Who Ever Was w/ Jay Davis
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2:55:47This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Jay Davis from Super Bracket Bros to talk about the season finale, Episode 8 of Season 2, The Queen Who Ever Was. They discuss horse-mermaids, a chunky recap, men with blue hair, Larys' Swiss bank account, the Fast and Furious movies, The Witcher, rabid lamination, and the Kit Harrington cli…
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Ep. 95 - HOTD S02E07 The Red Sowing w/ Dylan Wren
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2:48:01This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Dylan Wren from Your Friendly Neighborhood Gamers to talk about Episode 7 of Season 2, The Red Sowing. They discuss spoilers for "The Witch" movie, the power of friendship, purebred dogs, the aura of ableism, a dragon arms race, Daemon and his influencer apology, the whisper campaign cloak, …
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#12 "Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions" in ME/CFS, new insights with the C.D.C’s Dr Elizabeth Unger, Yang Chen & Elizabeth Fall
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48:22The U.S.A.’s Centre for Disease Control (C.D.C) ME/CFS program has been working for decades to deepen our understanding of the condition. Their Multi-site Clinical Assessment of ME/CFS (MCAM) study, conducted across seven specialized clinics in the U.S. from 2012 to 2020, provides valuable data that forms the foundation for ongoing research. Dr Eli…
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Ep. 94 - HOTD S02E06 Smallfolk w/ Jason Edwards
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2:43:57This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Jason Edwards to talk about Episode 6 of Season 2, Smallfolk. They discuss where lions live in Westeros, Alicent's gentle parenting, fantasy bullshit & deep lore, Aemond not having enough therapy, Dire Hard Goldenbooks, Larys going into worm mode, and Alicent's backup son. Additionally, Jaso…
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Ep. 93 - HOTD S02E05 Regent w/ Eliah Nelson
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3:05:44This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Eliah Nelson from Super Bracket Bros to talk about Episode 5 of Season 2, Regent. They discuss gay marriage in Dorne, the YA spinoff of GOT, ghost confessionals, overstimulating crowds, angry husband vibes, widow wine moms, and actual chaos ladder, and that Daemon is a Kardashian. Additional…
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Finals: Puss in Boots v Hardwon Surefoot | ft. Emily Bateman & MrEricAlmighty
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Toilet Bowl: Hector v Darth Vader | ft. Affable Benjamin & Andrew Kimball
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Puss in Boots v Darth Vader | ft. Andrew Kimball & MrEricAlmighty
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#11 Post-Pandemic prevalence of ME/CFS - what we can learn from the increase with Suzanne Vernon, PhD
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56:48In her latest paper Suzanne Vernon, PhD, Scientific Director at the Bateman Horne Center, reveals that ME/CFS prevalence is now 15 times higher than pre-pandemic estimates. The study, carried out by the RECOVER initiative, and published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine confirmed that ME/CFS has a 4.5% prevalence among those who did not r…
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Ep. 92 - HOTD S02E04 The Red Dragon and the Gold w/ Sarah Sheppard
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2:00:24This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Sarah Sheppard to talk about Episode 4 of Season 2, The Red Dragon and the Gold. They discuss the podcast five timers club, The Haunting of Hill House, Sesame Street names, manic pixie dream witches, Jace being bitchy, peak Jim Carrey, the fine line between horny and suspicious, and dragons …
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#10 Staying connected (Part 2): Dealing with isolation and limitations in complex illness with Suzy Bolt
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34:43When Suzy Bolt developed Long Covid in 2020 she searched for ways to understand her condition and began to create an online community of like-minded people traversing similar health situations. From her dark bedroom she found many others looking for answers, validation and ideas to help them navigate their illnesses, and from this she started to de…
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#9 Staying connected (Part 1): Dealing with isolation and limitations in complex illness with Suzy Bolt
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46:15When Suzy Bolt developed Long Covid in 2020 she searched for ways to understand her condition and began to create an online community of like-minded people traversing similar health situations. From her dark bedroom she found many others looking for answers, validation and ideas to help them navigate their illnesses, and from this she started to de…
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Ep. 91 - HOTD S02E03 The Burning Mill w/ Andrew Kimball
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2:24:31This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Andrew Kimball from Your Friendly Neighborhood Gamers to talk about Episode 2 of Season 3, The Burning Mill. They discuss time being irrelevant again, a permanent sneer, Joffrey being the middle child, this episode being poorly written, Dylan's HBO algorithm, Tyland Lannister's character arc…
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Ep. 90 - HOTD S02E02 Rhaenyra the Cruel w/ Nav
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3:05:51This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Nav from A Song of Ice and Fire Symposium to talk about Episode 2 of Season 2, Rhaenyra the Cruel. They discuss cathartic arguments, Mark Zuckerberg shark eyes, incredible face acting, too many Aegons, Legos, pop-up video for HOTD, the event coordinators for King's Landing, Jon Snow wannabes…
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#8 Exploring the drivers of post-infectious illness, with Harvard Neuroimmunologist Michael VanElzakker, PhD
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51:30Dr. Michael VanElzakker’s mission is to identify the individual drivers of post-viral illnesses. “How do you find something when you don’t know what you’re looking for?” he asks, believing that COVID-19, whilst a disaster for humanity, is giving us the opportunity to establish practises to identify those unknowns and establish more unbiased researc…
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Ep. 89 - HOTD S02E01 A Son for a Son w/ Mark Metta
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3:00:02This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Mark Metta talk about Episode 1 of Season 2, A Son for a Son. They discuss Hulu with ads, bad news ravens, all blonde kids look the same, Bruce Willis in Red, more weird little guys, the definition of magnanimous, Larys being an introvert, Costco CEO, the return of the crime hoodie, the plot…
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#7 Discovering new treatments for Brain Fog with Yale M.D. Arman Fesharaki-Zadeh
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45:03Arman Fesharaki-Zadeh is a behavioural neurologist and a neuropscychiatrist whose primary focus has been treating patients with cognitive deficits – from Alzheimer’s to Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Since 2020 a considerable portion of his clinic at Yale Medicine have been Long Covid patients and he noticed similarities in symptoms with post-concus…
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The One With Big Co-Host Energy - A SBBCU Holiday Special
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1:46:19It's that time of year for the Super Bracket Bros, The Friendly Neighborhood Gamers, Game of Groans, and The Wait For It podcast to gather around a holiday topic and argue about it. For our fifth anniversary, the gang aims to find out what the best Santa Claus of all time is. Follow all of the shows with the links below https://superbracketbros.buz…
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The One with Big Co-Host Energy - A SBBCU Holiday Special
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December Bonus Episode: Last Christmas Movie Review
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2:05:40This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are still taking time away from "canon" episodes and have watched a holiday movie with a Game of Thrones actress in it. We decide to watch Emilia Clarke's movie, "Last Christmas." They discuss modernizing language can be bad, manic pixie dream boys, Whamageddon, Patti Lupone, Fleabag, suspension of disbel…
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#6 The Science of Stress: Exploring Brain Function, Inflammation, and Cognitive Health with Yale Prof. Amy Arnsten
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48:29Amy Arnsten, PhD, is a Professor of both Neuroscience and Psychology at Yale University, where she runs her own lab which studies and teaches about the brain’s higher cortical circuits and their molecular regulation. In this week’s episode we discuss Prof. Arnsten’s recent paper published in Biological Psychiatry looking at the impact of stress (bo…
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November Bonus Episode: Blind Rankings
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1:08:34This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are taking time away from "canon" episodes and just play some games this month in a bonus episode. Emily has created some lists that Kate has to "blind rank" and it gets quite interesting. They discuss actors being hotter than their characters, Dimension 20, award-bait speeches, that Cersei was a victim b…
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#5 How our understanding of ME/CFS, fatigue and pain has progressed over the past decade with Lucinda Bateman M.D.
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55:36Lucinda Bateman, M.D. has been seeing patients, learning about, and educating about ME/CFS and fibromyalgia for decades. She is Chief Medical Officer of the Bateman Horne Center, Salt Lake City, whose mission is “improving access to informed health care for individuals with ME/CFS, Long COVID, and fibromyalgia by translating clinical expertise into…
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Ep. 88 - HOTD S01E10 The Black Queen (Season Finale)
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2:37:57This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate talk about the season finale Episode 10 of Season 1, The Black Queen. They discuss the infamous war table, the Olsen twins, a Dragonstone Hotel, Breath of the Wild, symbolism, how dragon bonding works, jade eggs, and Viserys as a Force ghost. Additionally, Emily thinks the finale was a little anticlimacti…
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#4 Balancing the autonomic nervous system with Dr Boon Lim (Part 2)
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48:53In this week’s episode renowned cardiologist Dr. Boon Lim returns for Part 2 of the conversation with Emily Kate Stephens, presenting three clarifying analogies to represent a wider view of the impact of acute stress on the autonomic nervous system, and its role in complex chronic illness. Dr. Boon Lim uses the poem The Blind Man and the Elephant t…
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#3 Brain Fog not ‘just in your mind’: new insights into physical markers of Cognitive Impairment with Dr William Hu
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50:07Director for the Center for Healthy Aging Research at the Rutgers Institute for Health, Dr William Hu is a cognitive neurologist: he studies and treats patients whose thinking is affected by disease. Typically Dr Hu was dealing with Alzheimer's and related dementias in patients who were cognitively ageing whilst otherwise healthy, and those whose c…
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Ep. 87 - HOTD S01E09 The Green Council w/ Eliah Nelson
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3:16:22This week on Game of Groans, Emily and Kate are joined by Eliah Nelson from Super Bracket Bros to talk about Episode 9 of Season 1, The Green Council They discuss the series was leading up to this episode, all characters are morally grey, the return of weird little guys, Criston's dumb hat, an evil himbo, truth bombs, Mysaria's bad accent, an aggre…
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