Hello and welcome to the NataCast, podcast, a podcast that usually goes through a song

device and fire once after a week, but not here. I'm one of your hosts 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.

Soon as he's back, which is going to be in a late July, we will resume the weekly

A Song of Ice and Fire podcast with a Storm of Swords.

In the meantime, I'm recording weekly episodes with a rotating series of guest hosts,

as well as doing some audio and text posts of my own.

And I'm happy to welcome back. My guest for this week, Mihal, thank you so much

for coming back on the NataCast. Hey, my pleasure. So we're going to be talking today about

Littlefinger and about anti-Semitic stereotypes that we've seen crop up in stories and how

Jewish representation works or doesn't work in a song of ice and fire.

Before we get into that, I just wanted to ask you what I've been asking a lot of guests on the podcast while Jeff is away.

How did you first get into a Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones?

Well, that was a journey a little bit.

Basically, my younger sister led me through kind of the typical fantasy experience. Like we started

with Harry Potter and then she read Tad Williams and then that led to Wheel of Time, which I also

read. And then, you know, when you found when you found, you know, certain online communities,

it was sort of like, what should I read next? And the obvious answer was Game of Thrones.

This was about 2003, 2004. So we were both in high school. And she was like, you have to read this.

You absolutely have to read this. But it's really sad. And people die. Fair warning. And I was like, well have to read this. You absolutely have to read this. But it's really sad and people die.

Fair warning.

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