One, two, three, four.

Hello and welcome to Winters Crapening. It is a watcher crapens podcast about House of

the Dragon. I'm Ben Mandelker and joining me today is the one, the only and just mere inches

away from me. Mr. Ronnie Karam. Hi Ronnie, how are you? Oh, good. Oh my goodness, we are here

to talk House of the Dragon and I'm very excited that Ronnie is, is right here in Los Angeles.

It's always exciting to have you here. Yes, it's really good to be, you know, given dirty

licks out from my weight again, I've really missed that from Texas. So thanks.

We are doing, this is crap is on demand. So you can actually watch us here together sharing

the same screen. Go to patreon.com slash watch what crapens and you get access to our videos

if you support on the crap is on demand level. And we are not going to, we're not going

to waste any time. We're diving into this episode. Partially because we've actually already,

we actually dove into it already. We recorded for a good 15 minutes and realized our audio

wasn't on. So before we got too deep into it, we stopped. We had some excellent banter

about cobblestones. Hey, save it. We can reuse banter. Okay. Okay. I'm, I'm, you're

working the way I'm before. Who cares? I'm just saying, it's, it's a, it's a, it's a

loony place today. But either way, episode one on nine. Wow. Lots of, lots of, lots of,

what an episode. Lots and lots of, lots and lots of madness happened. So it opens up

in an extremely, extremely dark place. Like literally dark. Okay. This whole thing is

dark. They don't use lighting. I mean, what the hell? A big dark castle with nobody

walking through the halls. Does nobody have to piss at night in this castle? What's

going on here? Like all they do is eat and drink in this castle. We've not seen anybody

squat. We've seen nobody leaning up against a wall just peeing. You know, some of you

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