Hello and welcome to a very special not a cast podcast, the podcast that usually goes through a 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, it is taking a couple months off the podcast for work-related reasons. Soon as he is back, we will 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, which will be coming

soon. And I'm very happy to welcome my guest for this episode. Micah, thanks so much for coming on.

Thanks for having me. It's great to be here.

We're going to be talking about a cherished topic, I think, for both of us, a real source and

nostalgia for me. The fantasy book series Red Wall by Brian Jakes, the fantasy series for kids

about a bunch of anthropomorphic mice and rats and hedgehogs and otters

and trues and a bunch of other assorted forest animals carrying out their alternately peaceful

and warlike little lives and a series of rousing adventure tales what Brian Jake's call is the

kind of yarn you used to be able to go pick up in the library. I'm imitating his accent

probably horribly. And this was this was your idea, but as soon as you came up with it, I seized on it, because I just, I have a lot,

a lot of fun memories of reading and rereading those until the books basically disintegrated.

I was actually wanting to, at first, do an episode on like minor characters and whatnot, because

everyone who's on Twitter knows that that's my brand. But then I was

reminded, I was actually reminded by Chloe from Girls Gone Cannon that we both liked Redwall.

And I was like, hey, we should do a subject on that because there's going to be a movie and TV show

coming out for it within the next couple of years. And that's something I'm going to be looking

forward to.

I'm very curious to see how that goes, because one of the things I like about Brian Jakes is he

was kind of a curmudgeon about things and didn't like the video games, and, you know,

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