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

listener discretion advised.

One quick announcement before we start today's podcast, if you are a listener of this show,

you might be interested in the fact that I have

a book coming out in May. It's a book by S.D. Coverly, which is a pseudonym very cleverly of my first

initials transposed, that I co-wrote with a friend of mine. And the book is called The Arcane Arts.

It's a dark academia, sort of

romantic fantasy novel about magic and a graduate student and a professor doing illegal,

secret magic. It's a really fun, sexy adventure, thriller time, not for kids, which is also

part of the pseudonym explanation. But if you're a

listener of the show, I really think you would like it. And if you're interested in it at all,

I would beg you, actually, please, to pre-order it. Pre-orders are the number one way you can

support an author. If you have friends writing books, really, forgo their Christmas and birthday and anniversary gifts.

Just pre-order their books.

So look it up, the Arcane Arts.

It's in the episode description, a link.

And if you're interested, please pre-order.

Thank you so much.

In 2013, Queen Elizabeth II of England achieved a major coup.

At the Royal Ascot, she won the Gold Cup, with her horse, whose name in fittingly

nonsensical, fancy horse horse fashion was named Estimate.

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