Hello and welcome to the Natacast podcast, the podcast that usually goes through a song of ice and fire one chapter a week.

But for right now, one of our hosts, Jeff, aka Brendan B. Fish, is absent due to work duties. He's going to be back shortly.

We're recording this on January 31st, Sunday. He's going to be back in the seat on Monday, February 8th.

So we'll be resuming our regular chapter-by-chapter podcast.

But in the meantime, some of our great friends in the community have been kind enough to

join me for some guest episodes.

So please welcome back to the podcast, our friend Matt, aka Joe Magician.

Thanks so much for coming on, buddy.

I really appreciate it.

I'm really glad to do it, Emmett, although I am very unhappy to hear Jeff is coming back. The Emmett podcast was much stronger,

I would say. Well, thank you kindly for lying in my direction. But it's true. I'll have to

tolerate Jeff's presence. I thank you for filling his clown shoes. None can do it better.

God love his clown shoes. Yeah, I am of of course, Matt also known as Joe Magician. I have a YouTube channel of the same name at YouTube.com slash Joe Magician, where I post weekly live streams talking about kind of random topics. It's kind of whatever is top of my head, sort of like we're doing today. And in between every

once in a while, as I've been made fun of by my own fans, I do post theories and analysis

videos themselves. So that's the whole Joe magician's schick, I would say. You're a jack of all

trades, which is what I've always liked about your stuff. You cover a lot of different topics

within and without the series really well.

And I think we're both excited about the topic we have today.

We talked about video games with Manu a week ago.

We talked about Metal Gear Solid, and we're going to shift gears, so to speak,

and talk about a different video game franchise and one video game within that specifically.

We're going to do an episode about Final Fantasy Tactics, which came up in the conversation

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