Hello everyone and welcome to a cast of Kings and unofficial podcasts 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. I'm Joanna Robinson. I've read every

book in George R. Martin's The Song of Ice and Fire. And welcome back to the show ladies

and gentlemen. We are back. It is mid February and a lot of people might be asking why are

we recording in new episode? We're going to get to that in a bit. But first I just want

to mention you can find more of our episodes at Game of Thrones Podcasts.com. You can also

email us at a cast of Kings at gmail.com. That's a cast of Kings at gmail.com and find us on

Facebook at Facebook.com slash a cast of Kings. We should also mention during the course

of this episode we're probably going to spoil everything through the last season of Game

of Thrones, which is Game of Thrones season four. But we will not spoil anything from season

five. And that includes any of the materials that have been released. Right, John Robinson?

That's the plan.

All right. Let's hope we stick to it. Anyway, so why are we back? Why are we invading your

audio feeds after nearly a year-long absence? Well, as I mentioned, a lot of developments

have happened both of the world of Game of Thrones and in terms of the podcast. One of

the big things we wanted to mention is that we are launching Kickstarter today. So as you

listen to this, there will be a Kickstarter for the show. A lot of people have been asking

us, are you going to do a Kickstarter? Are you going to do something, you know, the next

season of Game of Thrones? So there will be a cast of Kings this season to cover Game

of Thrones season five. That is the big news. It is definitely happening. And the reason

it's definitely happening is because we have received full corporate sponsorship for the

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