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Hello fellow West storyans welcome back to another episode of Bell are we read us for the world of ice and fire

George our Martin deeply embeds world building into a song of ice and fire

We all are in part products of our environment and surroundings and so too are the characters he's written this authentic

Interplay between these fundamental aspects of our own existence is one of the more important ways he's managed to make this very

fantastical setting feel authentic and real

Are we read of the world of ice and fire allows us to better understand the world these characters exist in the platform on which the story rests

We won't limit ourselves just looking at the world building though

We will take a look as well at the building of the world building pointing out influences sometimes what we call meta history

We'll get extra time in the spotlight. Of course, we'll do the same level of research and data gathering

It's always a focus for us. We always like to be well prepared and

Because the nature of this portion of the reread is more open-ended

We're lighting up a large number of guests some of them are going to be returning guests and others will be first timers and

some of them will be

Object matter experts on some of these meta history subjects, right? Like um well

Alio Garcia is in a meta history. He's a direct subject matter expert

But we're going to have some other people who are experts on things like China

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