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 are pleased to present you with "Affairs of the State:": our analysis of AGOT, Eddard II! 

This week, we:

- Answer two more questions

- Get in depth on Robert's psychology

- Theorize about Varys being a conduit of bad information to Robert

- Jorah Mormont and why it had to be Ned who went to bring him justice

- Wylla and how GRRM wants us to pay attention to the different stories on Jon's parentage

- Jaime and the Unsatisfying Warden of the East subplot

- POV intersections: how Ned and Jaime view the killing of Aerys II.

Next Week: Jon and Tyrion go on a road trip the opposite way!

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