{"id":6674,"date":"2020-11-14T08:58:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T15:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=6674"},"modified":"2020-11-12T10:27:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T17:27:54","slug":"ryan-the-collector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2020\/11\/14\/ryan-the-collector\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan the Collector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Ryan Condal, the showrunner on HOUSE OF THE DRAGON, is not hunkered down in King&#8217;s Landing&#8230; er, London&#8230; casting roles and writing scripts, he likes to collect movie memorabilia.<\/p>\n<p>And now he&#8217;s started a podcast about it, with his friend David Mandel of VEEP and SEINFELD fame.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at this interview with the two of them for a taste.\u00a0\u00a0 (Ryan talks a bit about HOTD as well). Then check out their podcast.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"INTERVIEW - HBO&#039;s House of the Dragon, Seinfeld, &amp; Movie Memorabilia Podcast!\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TQBeSLFwOPc?start=22&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Myself, I collect toy soldiers and miniature heraldic knights, as long time readers of this Not A Blog will know.\u00a0\u00a0 Books too, though only by happenstance.\u00a0 I am more a reader than a collector; I never seek out rarities or firsts myself, though I admire those who do.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So I understand the collecting passion, and movie (and television) props and costumes are a cool thing to collect.\u00a0\u00a0 Actually I have a few old TV props myself&#8230; though more from BEAUTY AND THE BEAST than from GAME OF THRONES.\u00a0\u00a0 A pity I never got that severed head&#8230; maybe on HOUSE, who knows&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Ryan Condal, the showrunner on HOUSE OF THE DRAGON, is not hunkered down in King&#8217;s Landing&#8230; er, London&#8230; casting roles and writing scripts, he likes to collect movie memorabilia. And now he&#8217;s started a podcast about it, with his friend David Mandel of VEEP and SEINFELD fame. Take a look at this interview with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238,62,18],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6674"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6678,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6674\/revisions\/6678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}