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 your other host, Manu, also known as Manucleur Bomb.

And welcome to the 209th episode of the Nauticast titled, Secrets and Lies,

an analysis of a Storm of Swords, Jamie 7, in which Jamie returns to King's Landing to find his

sister ready to kill his brother, and his dad preparing to basically disown all of them.

Might seem dysfunctional, but these are the Lannisters. We have to grade them on a curve.

I'll give him a C-plus.

Could have gone as high as a B if Jamie and C-Sercy left Joffrey's corpse out of their reunion

sex.

We see just the step door closed behind Jamie, and then he comes out like pushing Joffrey on a gurney,

and then he closes the door again.

Immediate grade inflation right there. Spoiler warning, as always, prepare to be spoiled for all five A Song of Ice and Fire novels,

the three Dunkin' Egg novellas, histories, interviews, wins of winter sample chapters, as well as

Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, the TV shows, anything and everything.

Our question this episode comes from our patron Travis O, who asks,

Hi, fellas, love the show for a long time, happy to be finally able to join the Patreon.

Got a maybe weird question for you. Ever since a Game of Thrones when Robert brings up the

idea of running away and becoming the Sel-Sword King, I've wondered, assuming a steady

stay Westrose that doesn't collapse into war, if you needed to assemble an A team, Mastermind, Face Man, Muscle, and Wildcard,

of notable a song of ice and fire characters who are alive at the start of the story to

accomplish an impossible task. Who would you pick and why? All right. So who you're sending in

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