A warm, funny finale chat that finds the emotional core without losing its playfulness.
Raven On ends its A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms finale discussion on a loose, easy note before settling into the sharper emotions underneath.
Natalie Bochenski & Stuart Layt
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Raven On began life as a Game of Thrones podcast, and branched out into other pop culture content, including James Bond, Doctor Who, Batman and Robin Hood. Tragically, co-host and all around legend Stuart Layt passed away in 2023, leaving Natalie with an unfulfilled "Revvin' On" series still to complete (maybe one day!). Natalie has been joined by Tom Salinsky to recap S2 of "House of the Dragon". She's teamed up with Ben Pobjie to recap S1 of "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms". Stuart Layt's incredible voice and knowledge is preserved in these files until Natalie can figure out a...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Natalie Bohensky and her rotating partners turn close scene observations, franchise memory and comic disagreement into revealing screen conversations.
Raven On: A Pop Culture Podcast turns screen recaps into lively arguments about character, craft and the odd choices hiding in plain sight. Natalie Bohensky works through Westeros stories with Ben Pobjie and Tom Salinsky, while conversations with Stuart Layt revisit the Fast and…
A Targaryen's awkward armor becomes your cue to argue about the man inside it.
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A warm, funny finale chat that finds the emotional core without losing its playfulness.
Raven On ends its A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms finale discussion on a loose, easy note before settling into the sharper emotions underneath.
A grim, funny recap that treats one sudden death like an event, not a footnote.
Baelor Targaryen's brief arrival and sudden loss give this recap its charge. The piece keeps the grief close, but it does not stay solemn for long; the jokes about helmets and maces keep cutting in, and that friction gives the conversation its bite.
A loose, funny recap that finds tragedy inside Aegon's borrowed armor.
Raven On turns House of the Dragon into a loose, funny discussion of power and Aegon in borrowed armor. Natalie Bohensky and Tom Selinski move from dragon strafing jokes to British politics, then back to a sharper read on how malleable Aegon is, and that back-and-forth gives the…
A loose, funny recap that keeps King's Landing's fallout lively and messy.
Raven On's House of the Dragon recap stays focused on the fallout from Jaehaerys' murder and the bad stretch hanging over King's Landing. Natalie Bohensky, just waking up, and Tom Sulinski, on the other side of the world, make the cross-time-zone setup part of the rhythm, then…
A loose, funny recap that keeps the throne-room jokes tied to the politics underneath.
Season 2 of House of the Dragon gets a loose, funny recap that benefits from Natalie Bohensky being back on mic, with Stuart Late out and Tom Selinsky alongside her.
A warm Doctor Who chat that balances grief, jokes, and return-era speculation.
Raven On frames The Giggle as a conversation about return, grief, and Doctor Who's familiar strangeness, with Natalie joined by Tom Selinsky and John Dorney in a relaxed, lived-in exchange.
A playful Fast and Furious 6 discussion that leans into the franchise's odd chemistry and the Vin Diesel-Dwayne Johnson cookout moment.
The review treats Fast and Furious 6 as the point where the franchise really leans into its own strange momentum: Dom, Brian, and the crew are on the run, chasing one more job, and the talk never loses sight of the series' off-kilter chemistry.
A breezy recap that finds the franchise's gears, gripes, and family mythology.
Raven On treats Fast & Furious as a loose franchise check-in, with Natalie Bohansky and Stuart Leight noting the return of Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, and other familiar faces, including the guy from Tokyo Drift.


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Asian drama talk with fandom built in.

Retro specials, recovered and roasted.
Natalie Bohensky and Ben Pubgey recap A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms episode three, The Squire, with jokes, complaints, and plenty of tournament speculation.
Natalie Bohensky and Ben Pobjie recap Raven On | AKotSK S1E4, with the conversation quickly centering on the episode’s final 30 seconds and Natalie’s repeated rewatching of it.
Natalie Bohensky and Tom Selinski open Raven On | HotD S2E5 with football, Donald Trump being shot at, and a contrast between public chaos and House of the Dragon's quieter politics.
Raven On: A Pop Culture Podcast spends most of "Raven On | HotD S2E4" on the fallout from Rook's Rest, especially whether Aegon is dead or only badly injured after the dragon battle.
Raven On returns for 2026 with Natalie Bohensky welcoming Ben Pobjie as guest host for A Night of the Seven Kingdoms.
Natalie Bohanski and Tom Selinsky spend most of the episode on House of the Dragon season 2, episode 8, arguing that the finale has strong individual scenes but weak season-ending structure.
Natalie Bohensky and Stuart Light dig into Fast Five, the movie where the franchise really turns itself up and stops pretending to be small.
Natalie Bohensky and Ben Pobjie wrap up their run through the A Night of the Seven Kingdoms finale.
Natalie and Ben recap episode 5 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, focusing on Baelor Targaryen's emotional death, medical inaccuracies in the show, and flashback analysis.
A drawing nobody needs to see but everyone understood in middle school.
Natalie Bohensky and Tom Selinsky spend most of Raven On | HotD S2E7 on House of the Dragon episode 7, “The Red Sewing,” focusing on Rhaenyra’s dragon power move over King’s Landing and the beach-facing dragon standoff.
Natalie and Tom recap House of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 6, discussing themes of female leadership, dragon training, and political intrigue, while drawing parallels to real-world events like the U.S.
Natalie Bohensky and Tom Selinski open with their usual banter.
King's Landing is a mess.
Natalie Bohensky welcomes listeners back to Westeros for Season 2 and brings in Tom Selinsky as her new recap partner.
Natalie hosts Tom and John to analyze the Doctor Who Christmas special 'The Church on Ruby Road', focusing on the debut of the 15th Doctor and Ruby Sunday.
Natalie hosts Tom Salinsky and John Dorney to review Doctor Who's 60th anniversary special 'The Giggle', focusing on the Toymaker, Neil Patrick Harris's performance, and the bi-generation twist.
After a year, the 10th Doctor is back—and this episode is dedicated to their late co-host
The host of Raven On podcast shares a deeply personal episode about processing grief after the death of her best friend and co-host Stu.
Natalie and Stuart humorously dissect Fast and Furious 6, focusing on its ridiculous physics, convoluted timeline, and over-the-top action sequences.
The hosts recap and critique Fast and Furious (2009), finding it dull and forgettable compared to earlier films, with digressions into Australian crime series Underbelly and personal anecdotes.
Natalie and Stuart analyze Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift, exploring its production history, cultural impact, and unexpected role as a franchise linchpin.
The exact moment the Fast & Furious franchise stopped being about cars and started being about superheroes.
Natalie Bohensky and Stu open Raven On's Fast and the Furious run by treating the 2001 release as a time capsule of street racing, VHS-era theft, and early-2000s fashion.