Episode 88: A CLASH OF KINGS, BRAN II: "The Home Front" ft. Steven Attewell

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🗓️ 18 November 2019

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! In this episode, the Northmen come to Winterfell to offer their services to the Starks for nothing in return, because they’re all about manly honor. Right? Right?! This week, we: -Defend George's food porn as an essential part of worldbuilding and character development -Compare Bran to the terrible horrible Walders as microcosms of the Stark v. Frey approaches to politics -Dig deep into the layers of Northern politics as acted out by everyone from Lord Wyman Manderly to the Umber Uncles to (from afar) the Bastard of Bolton -Discuss Bran's character arc from a would-be knight to a will-be king, with magic powers along the way -Frame the Hornwood inheritance crisis as central to the downfall of House Stark Next week: "one, two, three." Need we say more? Oh, yes: ACOK Tyrion IV will be our next livestream episode, on Monday 11/18 at 830 PM EST! Steven's blog: https://racefortheironthrone.wordpress.com/ Steven's Tumblr: https://racefortheironthrone.tumblr.com/ Steven's Twitter: https://twitter.com/StevenAttewell Our patreon: www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF Our twitter: twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF Our facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/289889118235797/ Our youtube page: www.youtube.com/channel/UCmmDfPdG…iew_as=subscriber Emmett's twitter: twitter.com/PoorQuentyn Jeff's twitter: twitter.com/BryndenBFish

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the podcast, podcast,, podcast, the one true chapter by chapter podcast going through Song of Ice and Fire one chapter week.
0:28.1	I'm one of your host, Jeff, better on spread of beefish.
0:30.7	And I'm your other host, Emmett, better known as poor Quentin.
0:33.9	And welcome to the 88th episode of the Nauticast titled The Homefront, an analysis of a Clash of King's brand two in which the Northmen come to Winterfeld to offer their services to the Starks for nothing, nothing at all in return because they're about manly honor.
0:48.4	Right? Right. Right.
0:50.2	Hell no. They're politicians and they've come to play the game. And we're very happy to have back on to talk the politics of ice and fire as always.
0:56.6	Please welcome back to the Natickast, Stephen Atwell.
0:58.3	Hello, hello.
0:59.3	Welcome back, man.
1:00.1	It's a pleasure to having you back.
1:01.0	It's going to be a lot of fun unpacking this chapter you've been on for a bunch of chapters that have involved Riverlands politics.
1:06.8	And now we're going to be up in the north with you. It's going to be a lot of fun. Yes, my northern feudal politics thesis, finally showing itself in all its glory.
1:14.9	I do remember reading your essay on this one for the first time specifically because of the attention you paid to it, and this is a chapter, and this is kind of a storyland.
1:21.1	It doesn't get a lot of attention and love, I feel, generally speaking. But he made a very strong case that it's not only really thematically important in terms
1:28.8	of the kind of politics and the kind of struggles we see, but also reveals a great deal
1:32.4	about the character of the North and really sets up strongly plot-wise where the North goes
1:36.3	by the end of the Clash of Kings and the effects that has on the Storm of Sword.
1:39.0	So we knew we had to have you on this one for a, to tease it all out.
1:42.7	As always, this episode is brought to you by our small council on Patreon.
1:46.0	Our hand of the king, wolfman, Zach, Grand Master Timbob, Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, Mark
1:50.0	N, Lord Travis, Master of Shipson, Word of the Waves, Sir Keith J, Master of Whisperors,
1:54.6	Lord Philip the Merciful, Master of Laws, Jancy O, Lady Commander of the Knights Watch. Lord Jean, Master of Coin. Arch, Mr. June,
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