The I'm going to be. Hello and welcome to Bend the Knee a song of Ice and Fire podcast. I am Sir Matt the Traveler and I am Sir Jimmy of House Nutts Lord of the

Staff Infection. Welcome to our song of ice and fire book club. Today we are into

a storm of swords Tyrion three and this one's a doozy.

Anytime a chapter starts out with a small council you know it's going to be a banger and there

is a lot in this chapter that I think is fantastic so and plus it's a Tyrian chapter so how could you really go wrong but before we get into all that Matt how you doing?

I am doing okay man my work is on strike largest health care strike ever in America

crazy so I'm just my phone's been like blowing up all day. I'm leaving for Italy.

As I'm recording this, I'm leaving tomorrow. We're going to Florence and then Venice and then Rome.

So I can answer that age old question, how often, you know, do men think about the Roman Empire?

Often enough for me to go.

So...

Yeah, and I got married, got married last year and got COVID on the honeymoon.

So this is kind of like our, we wanted to redo over.

Yeah, redo over.

So, yeah, so we're like, all right, we gonna do it. And it just so happened to time up with that work strikes.

So just crazy. I'm just trying to run around the house getting everything going but yeah, Jim and I are gonna bang out here a huge chapter.

I mean, this is some, speaking of weddings a little bit,

you know, this is like the prelude to a red wedding.

The red wedding and then some other forced marriages that people don't want to be in and alliances and then just oh my God like having to navigate the history of houses and who you're going to piss off if you marry who to who and this is the best of the political stuff until we get to a dance with dragons and marine and it's just so good and it shows how capable, by the way, that Taiwan is.

Taiwan is so capable.

And definitely drops hints here at some things that end up happening.

So I think Taiwan's knowledge and plans extend further than sometimes we remember, but I'm excited for you to go to Italy just so you can tell me how good the bread and the pasta. I I'm gonna be drinking wine and eating everything

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