Hello and welcome to anodcast, podcastast, podcast, the one true chapter by chapter podcast going through a song of Ice and Fire one chapter week.

I'm one of your host, Jeff, there's going to be Bish.

And I'm your other host, Emmett, better known as Poor Quentin.

And welcome to the 168 episode of theta Cast titled Hands of Gold, an analysis of a storm

of swords Tyrion 3, in which now that the supernatural threat to Westros is complete,

we now get a massive small council chapter, super fitting, I think. As we're recording this,

season three of Succession just ended on HBO. And this chapter feels very much like an

episode of Succession to me. Everyone, everyone with their own political interest in their own

schemes, but also just the personal dysfunction and rot at the heart of it all. I think,

you know, following up Sam one from last week, from the last couple weeks,

as it was a real tall order, but I think George picked the perfect chapter for it.

I think he picked the perfect chapter, too.

And I do need to catch up on Succession.

I have not watched any of season three yet.

So is it just as good con head moments?

I know you're, I know you're a con head. So there's some good Conner moments.

Connor's the best in succession, the best character of all time. Maybe not the best character of all time. But he's an excellent character. He's up there. As always, this episode is brought to you

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