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

original series Game of Thrones.

My name is David Chen and I've never read any of the books in George R.R. Martin's A Song

of Ice and Fire.

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

and Fire.

And welcome to all of our listeners.

I don't know how people have been finding this podcast.

Actually, if you could let us know how you found it, that would be really interesting

to both of us.

But we have gathered a bunch new subscribers this week, I think at least in the hundreds

if not of thousands of new people who are listening to this show this week that weren't

last week.

So welcome to all of you.

We hope you like it here and hope you find our discussion of Game of Thrones interesting.

If you've never been here before, this is your first time listening to the podcast.

What we do is we talk about this show primarily as a television show.

Even though Joanna's read the books, we do not reveal anything that happens in future

episodes of Game of Thrones.

That includes anything that appears in the next time on Game of Thrones previews that

you see on HBO sometimes.

If you'd like to hear what we think of, I'm sorry, if you'd like to share what you think

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