Hello and welcome to the Nauticast podcast, the one true chapter by chapter podcast going through a song of ice and fire one chapter week.

I'm going to host Jeff, better known as Brenda P. Fish.

And I'm your other host Emmett, better known as Poor Quentin.

And welcome to our one, wait a minute, not our 103rd episode of the Nodcast, no, no. This one is actually

our very special episode called Stump the Chumps

part. What is this, what's Stump the Chumps number are we up to at this point?

I think it would like five or... Five or six, something like that. Something, something in

that range. So many chumps to be stumped.

Well, we are definitely the chumps to be stumped for sure. So this is our special episode talking about answering you guys as questions. We got a number of great questions on Patreon.

And I see there's already a number of questions that are queuing up here on my little sidebar

for this episode itself. And yeah, we really appreciate you guys stopping by.

Before we actually got into, get into the episode itself, I figured we would, we did explain

this a couple times on Patreon and on Twitter and then things like, we want to talk about why

we're foregoing doing Tyrion 9 right now.

And I think the biggest issue of doing Tierian 9 is that is a chapter that deals with the

riot in Kings Landing, the bread riot that starts as the Lannisters and their friends are progressing

back from the docks of the Blackwater Rush back to the Red Key. So we didn't, we wanted,

I mean, you had a really good Twitter thread about this last week, which I thought was really

really excellent, but I think like for us, me, specifically, I felt like that probably didn't

want to trivialize some of the issues that are going on currently in the world at large. And I felt

like it was a good, probably not the best timing for us to be doing that chapter. Even though it was

completely coincidental. I guess we shouldn't have taken, like, done, like, the prolog in, like, two, two parts and, you know,

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