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Hey, it's me, your financial advisor. Look, I know you've got to get your portfolios in order,

and maybe you want to figure out if you want to get in on Bitcoin if you think it's going to surge again. But you know what's for sure? A good financial decision. It's listening to this podcast because it costs zero dollars. Hooray! Before we continue my first ever journey through the Harry Potter series, just a few quick announcements. First, I hinted at this last week, but we will be doing a Potterless fundraiser coming up soon. We will have details for it next week. So get ready. I'll say to the intro of next episode. I'll post it on social media and stuff like that. But the gears are turning and I'm excited to make this happen. Also, I just want to lay out the groundwork for what this episode is. This is a standalone episode that Eric Silver worked on the Research 4. It was for an article that he is writing that will be

released online, depending on when you're listening to this, it might already be out there. If it is out

there, it'll be a link in this episode. If not, here's a preview, I guess. But basically,

Eric did a bunch of research into anti-Semitism in fantasy as a whole, but then also is able to

relate that to Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Dungeons and Dragons, and more. So this episode starts with a comedic story that Eric makes me tell everyone that has nothing to do with anything that we're about to talk about. It's from my childhood. Then Eric will talk about Harry Potter-based anti-Semitism stuff, and then there will be a discussion of Lord of the Rings and other fantasy beyond Harry Potter.

But it's solid work from Eric. It's an important discussion to have, and I think it's a nice discussion to have before we end up covering a bunch of JK Rolling-based stuff in the Fantastic Beast's movies. I thought it was nice to have a bit of a more JK-critical episode. So I hope you all enjoy this, and I'm excited to present this episode for you. But before we do,

let's thank the newest members of our team over patreon.com slash potterless who are supporting the show. So shout out to Kathleen Bissett, Katie Nudson, and Micromama 47, also a name correction for Lavender Jones. And of course, as always, a huge shout out to our producer-level patrons. Vicki Christine Aaron Clowmer, Chertizmo, Juan, Rosemary, Marie, Mara, Mara, Lise, Audra, Eleanor, Nikita, Rachel, Zachary, Alex, John Noelle,

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