Hello, and welcome to the Nauticast, podcast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through a song of ice and fire.

I'm one of your hosts Emmett, also known as Poor Quentin.

And I'm Mennu, also known as Manuilar bomb.

And welcome to the 181 episode of the Nauticast titled Phantom Pain, an analysis of a storm of swords,

Jamie Four, in which Jamie Lannister suffers for his crimes at the hands of the righteous icons of justice known as the brave companions.

And about damn time, as far as I'm concerned.

There is no finer gentlemen in the realm than the brave companions.

That's why they're called that.

They couldn't call themselves that if they weren't good guys.

That's just the rules.

Name this episode in, of course, in part in honor of Middle Gear Solid.

I thought of you when we decided to name this one Phantom Pain.

It works excellently, and I'll probably get a couple more episodes in before I reveal how many

words and phrases I'm using in my analysis and recaps that are straight Metal Gear solid

riffs.

But right now, they're just Easter eggs for the listeners of Podcast Sons Frontier.

They haven't quite caught up to Simpsons references, but they're definitely there in the race.

So, spoiler wording, as always, we are potentially spoiling you for all published books,

all five novels, the three Duncan Egg novellas, histories, interviews, the Wins of Intersample

chapters, as well as Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, the TV shows. So spoiler warning

for anything and everything. So no question for this

episode. We've kind of run dry on our well of questions. So I want to encourage anyone who's a

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