The Hello everybody welcome back to Hotty we're the officially unofficial

podcast for all of a song of ice and fire the collected mythos,

legendarium and narratives of the mind of George R.R. Martin has brought to us by

the Goofballs at Max. I'm your host A Ron and I'm Jim and today we're going to be doing our continuing series of comparing the book Fire and Blood volume one

And it's and it's telling of the Dance and Dragons with House of the Dragon.

This time we're looking at episode 2 from season 2,

Renier the Cruel.

We're going to be reading page 428 paragraph 2 to page 430 paragraph 3 from

Fire and Blood and then skipping to page 431 paragraph 2 through page

432 paragraph 2 through page 432 inclusive.

Jim, I'm wondering if there's anything that leapt off the page

and into your eyeballs this week?

Yeah, I mean some stuff that if you're just coming to the show

and for some strange reason you ended up not watching it while was out now you're going

with us here I feel like there's a little bit of extra stuff in this reading that maybe hasn't quite happened yet in the show but it will like they're

shuffling things around a little bit mostly around Damon we get kind of a preamble to what you actually like read in that first part of our reading this week but

No, I mean the big thing like like obviously the big event is Arrik and Eric going at each other and ending up both dead.

That is definitely a little different than it is in the show for several reasons, not just

the sort of way it goes down, but the people surrounding it yeah and it's context I guess.

Yeah I also you know we're mostly comparing the book to the show, but obviously I've had the foresight of seeing the entire season now, and I was also interested in some things that jumped out to me from the show when I was watching it with like the full full knowledge of what's to come.

Do you want to start with the Eric and Eric stuff?

Because this is if you'll, you you know to be reminded this is the

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