Episode 27: A GAME OF THRONES, EDDARD VI: "The King's Bastard"

Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week! Today, Emmett and Jeff tackle AGOT, Eddard VI in which Ned Stark has a frustrating small council session, the reader receives our first inklings of who Stannis Baratheon is and Ned visits an armorer and his apprentice who turns out to be Gendry: Robert Baratheon’s bastard.  This week, we: - Answer a question about what era of history in Westeros or Essos and our own time we'd live in. - Announce our next patreon-only episode: a character analysis of none other than King Robert Baratheon! - Get into the small council session, more players, Janos the Fuckboy, others - Stannis! Stannis! STANNIS! - Baratheon Family Dynamics - Where is Robert Baratheon in all of this? - Renly's knowledge of the twincest - Who paid for Gendry's apprentice fee? The Amen Brothers open a detective agency and investigate     Next week: AGOT, Eddard VI!   Our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF  Our twitter: https://twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF  Emmett's tumblr: http://poorquentyn.tumblr.com/  Emmett's twitter: https://twitter.com/PoorQuentyn  Jeff's twitter: https://twitter.com/BryndenBFish