Hello and welcome to a very special not a Cast podcast, the podcast that usually goes through the Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week, but not here. Oh no, not here.

I'm your host, Emmett, better known as Poor Quentin. My co-host, Jeff, better known as Brendan Beefish, is taking a couple months off the podcast for work-related reasons.

Soon as he's back, which we expect to be around late July, early August,

we'll be resuming the regular weekly podcast with a Storm of Swords.

Until then, I'll be putting out weekly episodes with rotating guest hosts on a variety of topics,

as well as audio and text posts of my own.

And I'm very happy to welcome on my guest for this episode.

Yogi, thanks so much for coming on.

Thanks so much for having me, man.

Really great to be here.

A big fan of the podcast, of course, for a long time.

A big fan of the Girls Gone Cannon podcast as well, which we are somewhat connected with.

So I'm really glad that this worked out.

Really glad to help out.

I know I can't replace Jeff, but I'll do my best to fill in.

So we're going to be talking today about a topic.

I know interests both of us a great deal.

And that is the topic of dragons.

And so before we get into anything specific to a Song of Ice and Fire, I wanted to start by asking, why do you like dragons?

What first got you interested in dragons when you were a kid?

I mean, that's quite a question because a lot of people have been trying to figure that one out.

Why are people so fascinated with dragons?

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