Hey now, Kabbalis, Merry Christmas, happy holidays. We hope that everybody out there is having an absolutely wonderful holiday season. However you celebrate, from everybody here at the Secret Cabal, we are wishing you the warmest and happiest season's greetings.

Tomorrow, if you're listening to this, the day it is released, is Christmas Eve.

And normally that would be a podcast release day, but we decided that we're going to take

the week off because it's Christmas week, and it's hard to wrangle a bunch of founders

and lords and whoever's to get together and do a podcast on this, the very busiest week

of the year.

And if you haven't looked at the calendar lately,

it is a five Wednesday month.

So next week would normally be, you know,

one of our extra shows or something.

So we're taking this week off

and we will do the Secret Cabal Express next week.

But since I have you as a captive audience here, I'm going to make a quick announcement.

Chris, Don, and I have been asked to be special guests of New England's largest gaming convention,

and that is Total Con in Marlborough, Massachusetts, and that is taking place February 19th through

the 22nd of 2026. Now, we've never been to TotalCon before. It looks like an absolutely fantastic convention. And this year is TotalCon's 40th anniversary. So we're gonna be up there. We're gonna be celebrating the 40th anniversary. We're gonna be running some games. We're gonna be doing some panels. We'll be at whatever parties they have to offer up there. So if you're in the New England area, Marlborough, Massachusetts, you want to hang out with Chris Don and I will be there February 19th through the 22nd. If you would like to get in on some of the games that we're running, go to the secret cabal.com slash total con. T-O-T-A-L-C-O-N. On that page, I'll have links to the event pages so you can sign up for them. Friday morning, Don's going to run Etherstone, Chris is going to run Last Will, and I'm going to run Clank Catacombs. On Saturday morning, Don will run Cryptid, Chris will run Orleon, and I'll run Lost Ruins of Arnac. We're really excited to get up there. We've never been to TotalCon before. Sounds like a blast. February 19th through the 22nd. Go to totalcon.com for information. We hope to see you there, Kabbalas. Jump on that Discord and let us know if you're going to be at TotalCon this year. We'll meet up, we'll hang out, we'll have some fun. The last thing I want to throw out here before we get on to some goofy

stuff, I would like to thank everybody again for the wonderful showing that our fundraiser had

this year. It was much later in the year than it normally is, of course. It was a little too

close to Christmas for my comfort.

And nonetheless, the Kabbalist came out and we hit that ultimate goal and I'm so happy and I'm so

appreciative of all the listeners that came out to help us. Thank you so much to everybody who

supported us. If you haven't supported us yet, you actually still

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