Hello, and welcome to the podcast, podcast, the one true chapter by chapter podcast going through a song, license by our one chapter week.

I'm one of your host, Jeff, better names for Billy Fish.

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

And welcome to the 75th episode of the Nauticast titled On the Road. Did you like that? I didn't sing at that time. On the road analysis of a Clash of King's Aria. One, two, and three, in which Arias Stark wanders the war-torn riverlands with their new companions, kids who try to rob her, adults who threaten her, and her guardian, Yorne, who beats her.

God, I love friends.

Aren't people just the best?

Well, you are, Jeff.

Thank you for your restraint and not singing.

I promise I'll let you do it whenever you like five or ten times.

We'll make a list.

We'll make a schedule.

So, as you can tell, folks, we're kind of doing the opposite of what we did with the prologue to a Clash of Kings, where it was so dense and weighty and just long that we slid it into two

episodes. This time, we are combining three chapters into a single episode, Ari's first three

chapters in the Clash of Kings, and that's not a reflection on them being of poor quality.

There's a lot of really interesting and valuable stuff that talk about is going to get into this episode, but they are kind of repetitive. So I think if we, we thought if we did individual episodes for each of these three chapters,

we'd kind of get tired and samey by the time we got to the third one. They'd be kind of shorter

episodes than you guys are used to. So we wanted to do both these chapters right and do you folks

right and do them all at once so it can really tackle the themes they all have in

common. And they do have a lot of themes in common and a lot of the same kind of storytelling devices

which George integrates into the narrative, which is a lot of fun to unpack. But like Emmett said,

gets a little repetitive doing these kind of one chapter after the other. That's not to say these aren't

bad chapters like Evan also said. These are actually really good chapters, and I will defend them to the death.

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