Hello and welcome back to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through\xa0A Song of Ice and Fire\xa0one chapter a week!\nToday, Emmett and Jeff\xa0get their hands dirty in the swamp politics of King's Landing as Lord Eddard Stark enters King's Landing, and we have our first small council session.\nThis week, we:\n-\xa0Answer questions on why other theories besides R+L=J don't make sense and answer why there are few Valyrian steel weapons in Essos\n-\xa0Breakdown Ned's no-good, very bad first day at the office.\n-\xa0Analyze each of the small council counselors, who they are, their aims, their ambitions\n- Littlefinger the Incel\n-\xa0Is Pycelle an idiot, just pretending to be an idiot or is an idiot who thinks he's pretending to be an idiot?\n- The beautiful tragedy of Ned and Catelyn's final meeting\n-\xa0Get into foreshadowing and talk about why Ned fundamentally misunderstands his role as Hand of the King and how it leads to his downfall\n-\xa0Do you like debt economics? We do! We analyze who is truly to blame for the 6 million golden dragon debt the crown currently has.\n\xa0\nNext Week:\xa0AGOT,\xa0Tyrion III\n\xa0\nOur patreon:\xa0https://www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF\xa0\nOur twitter:\xa0https://twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF\xa0\nEmmett's tumblr:\xa0http://poorquentyn.tumblr.com/\xa0\nEmmett's twitter:\xa0https://twitter.com/PoorQuentyn\xa0\nJeff's twitter:\xa0https://twitter.com/BryndenBFish