History is filled with unexpected stories and I'd like to tell you about them. I'm

Aaron Mankey and for the past six years I've been sharing history's most curious

tales on my podcast Cabinet of Curiosities such as the surprising country that invented the

Crescent and the wrestling champ who won the White House.

And now these amazing stories and many more have been compiled into my new book.

Curious to know more, pre-order Cabinet of Curiosities

available November 12th, wherever books and audio books are sold. Learn more

over at grim and mild.com slash curiosities.

Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky,

listener discretion advised.

Before we begin just a very exciting announcement, I am so thrilled that next July, July 2025,

I will be leading a pilgrimage to the Cotswolds in England to talk about the novel The Remains of the Day by Kuzu Ishiguru, the Nobel Prize winner.

First if you haven't read the novel, it is absolutely one of my favorite books and I cannot think

of a better way to appreciate it than get a great group of people together. Talk about the book.

These pilgrimages are so much fun. We talk about a book. There's writing. You go on walks every day.

You get to explore these amazing tiny towns, stay at beautiful locations. This is actually the third program I've done with this company.

The company is called Common Ground.

So yeah, if this interests you, if you think that next summer

you'll want to be in a cozy English town talking about a brilliant book

working on your own writing and going on walks you should absolutely sign up. I know there's a few

spots left register Register, Common Ground Pilgrimages,

remains of the day, Danish Schwartz. The website is actually reading and

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