Hello and welcome to the MadataCast, 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, better known as Brenda B. Fish. And I'm your other host, Emmett, better known as Poor Quentin.

And welcome to the 63rd episode of the Nata cast entitled Moonlight Sonata, an analysis of a Game

of Thrones, Catlin 10, in which Catlin Stark describes the Battle of the Whispering Wood.

With such lyrical beauty, you almost forget that a bunch of people are about to fucking die

horribly.

This is one of my favorite chapters in the series for sure, probably my favorite Catalan chapter in book one. And yeah, just the way it's written is so terrific and so lovely and

unique that I've been looking forward to this one for a while. This is really just the best

stretch of material, I think, in a Game of Thrones. This is the first book of A Song of Ice and Fire,

The Green Fork, Whispering Wood, Miriamazder's blood magic, Ned's execution.

This is just legendary stuff, and I've been excited to do it with you for a while.

I've been excited too, man.

I'm really happy to be here now in, you know, the 63rd chapter of a Game of Thrones.

And yeah, I agree.

The stretch of chapters are really, really good.

So much fantastic stuff. So many battles for me to actually talk about so much of that,

you know, character and story elements that you like to talk about so much. So it's going to be

a lot of fun getting into this chapter. Something for everybody, something for the whole family.

We do love being a family podcast, of course. Yes. Do not worry about the E that is for the

explicit content warning that is on every single podcast because that's, yeah, you should

worry about the E being in the explicit podcast. We're just explicitly American. That's all that means.

We're explicitly excited about this chapter, Emmett. I think that's what you're going for.

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