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. 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 the show, ladies

and gentlemen, if you're just tuning in to a cast of Kings for the first time, you

should know that we will spoil everything through this week's episode of Game of Thrones,

but nothing from future weeks episodes, and that includes anything on the next time

on preview that HBO shows. So nothing from future books, nothing from future weeks of

the TV show. This week we're going to be spoiling everything through season 4 episode

5 of Game of Thrones, first of his name. Find more of our episodes at Game of Thrones

Podcasts.com, email us at acastofkingsatgmail.com. That's a castofkingsatgmail.com. That's also

where you can follow us on Facebook and Twitter. So Facebook.com slash a castofkings and

at a castofkings. General Robinson, what we like to do at the beginning of every episode

is talk about emails, emails people write into a castofkingsatgmail.com. Got in a few emails,

but we also like to correct mistakes that we made in the last week. And so let's dive

into some of these emails. This first email comes in from Cameron from Cornwall in the United

Kingdom. In the last episode, quote, in relation to the slave population of Marine, Dave

expressed an opinion that the enslaved must be stupid as they outnumbered the masters

by three to one. On the surface, this is a fair comment, but many slave based economies

in the ancient world, such as Rome's Athens and Sparta, maintain far higher numbers of slaves

proportionally, sometimes exceeding 10 to 1. Any whiff of insurrection and the slaves

were brutally put down. There were even institutions such as a Spartan cryptia whose sole purpose

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