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And the head of Oliver Cromwell.

The same head they kept on a pike for three years?

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And I'm Gabby.

And welcome back to the podcast, my hos.

Before we begin, I just want everyone to know that the Italy trip is happening.

We got the bookings that we needed to confirm the trip this weekend, so there are no more early bird spot.

But you can still sign up to go with us. It will just be full price. And we're so excited to see you guys there

because the trip is actually over our seventh wedding anniversary. Which we didn't plan, by the way.

We did not. That was not something that we thought was happening. We realized it this week that we

will be in Florence, Italy on our anniversary with you guys.

So come on, sign up. Let's have some fun.

Oh, yeah. This is going to be a party, which speaking of a party, this is one that is the exact

opposite of a friendly and happy thing that we're going to be talking about here today.

If anything, we're talking about something that is rather, um, how do I put this?

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