Hello everyone and welcome to a cast of Kings, an unofficial podcast about the HBO original

series Game of Thrones. I'm David Chen and I've never read any of the books in George

R.R. Martin's The Song of Ice and Fire.

My name is Joanna Robinson and I've read every book in George R. Martin's The Song of

Ice and Fire.

And welcome to the show ladies and gentlemen. So if you're just tuning in to a cast of

Kings for the first time, find more of our episodes at Game of Thrones podcast.com.

You can also email us at a cast of Kings at gmail.com. That's a cast of Kings at gmail.com.

What we do here on the podcast is we discuss everything through this week's episode of Game

of Thrones. We spoil everything but we don't spoil anything from future episodes. That includes

anything from the next time on preview that HBO shows. That also includes anything from

future books or future book developments that Joanna happens to know really intimately.

So nothing is spoiled for people who only watch the show which are people like me. And

we will just talk about everything through this week's episode. So one other thing I wanted

to announce before we begin today's episode and that is we have a lot of new listeners.

Every single time the show starts up again, there's a renewed amount of interest in Game

of Thrones podcast out there. So a lot of people downloading some of the older episodes

of the show and catching up on the podcast. So first of all, thank you guys so much. We

really appreciate you guys dipping back into the archives and do feel free to check out

those episodes. Leave us a review on iTunes if you like it. You can also follow us on Facebook.

There's a nice level of Game of Thrones community going on there at facebook.com slash

a cast of kings. That's facebook.com slash a cast of kings. No spoiler zone in the Facebook

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