Hello and welcome to the other cast, podcast, the one true chapter by chapter podcast going through a

Song of Ice and Fire one chapter week. I'm when you're host, Jeff, better known as Brennke P. Fish.

And I'm your other host Emmett, better known as Poor Quentin. And welcome to the 77th episode

of the Nauticast entitled The New Boss, an analysis of a clash

of kings, Tyrion, one of which everyone's a gangster until a gangster walks into the room.

Can I say gangster? Is that a right for me to say, or do I have to say gangster?

I wrote it with the hard ours for a reason, Jeff, but you do you, buddy. You do you. Oh, I always do me. That's that's kind of the way that I roll these things, so to speak. So I, so yeah, this chapter and Tyrion's chapters in Clash Kings, we were talking about our pre-production is, they're a whole lot of fun. You know, it's one of those things that we have had a lot of fun reading about in a Game of Thrones. I think when we were doing our patron-only episode, I'll talk about this a little bit in the regular cast, that they were my favorite chapters from a Clash of Kings, or from a Game of Thrones,

rather, those late Tyrion chapters, 7, 8, and 9 were really spectacular, I thought. And I think

like we're just continuing in that good vein here in a Clash of Kings. Oh, yeah, Tyrion really ramps up in clash. Arya, as we said, when we're doing the, Arya 1 through 3 episode gets twice as many chapters. But even more so, you can see George Zierring and on Tyrion's character and what he wants to do with Tyrion. And the first book, as fun as his chapters were, they weren't hugely plot relevant. Or they were, but he himself wasn't hugely plot relevant. You know what I mean? He was just kind of wandering around the edges of things, being like the jester character poking fun and stuff. Now he's the center.

And it's such a different ballgame with Tyrion versus Ned, as we'll get into in the episode proper.

Absolutely. It's going to be a lot of fun to like get into Tyrion as the pro tag for Clash of Kings,

just as Ned was for a Game of Thrones. But before we go any further, this episode, as always, is brought to you by

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and we have a brand new member of the Small Council, but they would prefer to remain anonymous,

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