Hello, my fellow Westoreans. Happy new year. It is January 1st, as we are recording here.

What year?

2023 in case you were confused. I'm not sure. Maybe it's a different year where you're

from, where you're listening right now. If you're listening from the future, or from

the past, if you have one of those fancy listen to future podcasts, devices that don't exist.

But maybe they do in the future. So you can listen to podcasts from the past. It's really

great to be here. I'm excited that we're streaming on New Year's Day. We streamed on

Christmas. That was fun too. So we're really hitting all the holidays so far, hitting the

ground running. Sean, how was your Christmas? You weren't here. We had a nice episode without

you, but it was great that you weren't here. Now we got a deal with you being, but now

it was great. Just kidding, of course. It's awesome to have you back. How was your time

off? It was great. We had good family time and had some, I don't know, for a lot of people

maybe trouble, but I thought beautiful snow. We got like a Buddhist snow here. Wow.

That's cool. We did not get snow here. We did have an internet outage this morning.

We almost thought we'd have to postpone the stream, but it came back about a half an hour

before. So just in time, also shout out to our good friend Nina, who has provided us with

some excellent notes. As she often does, check out her blog at good queen alley with 1l.tumbler.com.

Right now, the front post on her page is a question about whether John snow could have married,

say, Maya Stone or another high born bastard and maybe gotten lands and things like that. How

that have worked out if such a pairing had occurred or in other pairings of similar types,

how has that gone or how does that as opposed to going to the wall, if he hadn't gone to the wall.

Right. Right. Because obviously going to the wall means you're not marrying anyone or at least

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