Hello and welcome to the Nodcast podcast, the one true chapter by chapter podcast going through a song of vice and fire one chapter week.

I'm one of your host, Jeff, better known as Brandy Bifish.

And I'm your other host Emmett, better known as poor Clinton.

And welcome to our 34th episode of the Nata cast entitled Mountain High, Valley Low, an analysis of a Game of Thrones, Catlin 6.

Man, good chapter title, man.

In which Catlin Stark makes it out of the mountains of the moon to the veil proper,

only to have to climb yet another mountain.

She can't win despite doing nothing wrong ever.

Good, good, good.

This episode is brought to you by all of our Lord's commander, Mark, and Timothy W. Hayden, Jay, and Wolfman, Zach.

Thank you, gentlemen, very, very much. Thank you as always. Our spoiler warning, as we talk about in all of our

podcast, we'll be talking about all published books as the five novels, the three-dick

novellas, histories, interviews, the wins of winter sample chapters, as well as Game

and Thrones TV show. Anything and everything. And as a quick special note that this episode

will have spoilers for both the wins of winter particularly and the novellas and histories that are

associated with the Song of Ice and Fire Universe. So the first thing we wanted to bring up in this

particular episode was our initial reactions to a sample dropped from the volume one of fire and blood,

George R. Martin's upcoming history on House Targaryen and all their dragony weirding ways.

Martin gave us a sample regarding the passage of good Queen Alassan in her time in the north.

That would eventually lead to her creation of the new gift.

It was a passage all about King Jaharis having to stay behind and handle some headache-worthy diplomacy problem in

Esos, where they were coming to King's Landing for arbitration, and Queen Alasanne was going

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