Hello and welcome to Talk the Thrones.

My name is Chris Ryan.

I am an editor at the ringer.com.

And joining me in the studio is Joanna Robinson and her helmet is keeping it all together.

Mallory Rubin, we are going to jump into the extraordinary fifth episode of

A Night of the Seven Kingdoms right after this.

All right, guys, we are back, the penultimate episode of this season.

I know.

Where's the time gone?

I'm sad.

And this is an episode about time and about what makes us.

If we go back to our youth, you know, and what shapes our kind of our worldviews. we're going to get into all of that. When are we getting the Chris Ryan Philly origin?

I know. Where's the, where's the, where's the, where's your podcast? Every podcast is essentially

building that origin story. Why don't we do the recap? Okay, so after some forced trades and free agent signings, the deadline has passed.

And we're ready to rock here at Ashford Baylor, offers to take on the Kingsguard,

the logic being that they are bound by duty not to harm him.

I love a strategist.

I love a tactic.

I love an observation about. I love a tactic.

Some tight observation about how unloved sons make good fighters and Duncan Eggshare a laugh and a tear.

We are off to the trial.

After the first corner, it's not going very well for our band of brothers.

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