Hello, everybody. Welcome to Hot D.

It's the officially unofficial podcast for all of the Game of Thrones

slash A Song of Ice and Fire stuff on HBO.

And for the next six weeks, you are locked in to more of that.

It's a Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

It's based on a series of novellas from George R.R. Martin.

Will, it's an interesting bottom-up look at the Seven Kingdoms instead of traditional top-down,

where most of the major characters are kings, queens, and great ladies and lords.

Jim, my partner, has come down with the pale mare a wasting

sickness he got while he was traveling to uh esos and he's kind of been waylaid so we we called in

maister anthony uh who is uh who holds down the game and thr Thrones property I recommend the television is none yeah you want to leach him Jim if you're listening just leach it leach it leach it I'll come over to his house I'll come over to his house of the bucket after after the podcast Anthony introduce yourself I'm sure most of the Game of Thrones nerds here know you,

but tell if not tell people about yourself.

Yeah, sure.

Off seasons from when the show is running,

I do a chapter by chapter reread of a song of ice and fire.

I bring on guests, both sort of literary experts, but also

historical experts on the medieval period. I have a regular stable of people who are in love

with George R.R. Martin's series. And right now we're going through a storm of swords. So we'll jump into that again once nine of the seven

kingdoms is up however i will say that i might be looking forward to this show more than any

show since the end of game of thrones i'm really excited about 9 of the 7 kingdoms.

Yeah, I want to talk about that

because, you know, one of the hesitations

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