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You've probably already noticed here from the very beginning that Gabby is not with us again.

I do apologize for that. She was going to join, but she got sidetracked by having to prepare for the trip that we are getting ready to go to South Carolina because we are going to be doing a larping event down there.

This is only preparation for that event, so we're getting ready for it.

But if you want to be one of my nights and participate in this fight that we're going to be

doing down there, click the link down in my description because we're going to be having a ton

of fun this coming February. Anyway, the thing that I wanted to talk about here today is I wanted to talk about the HRE,

the Holy Roman Empire, and the rise of the Habsburgs.

And the reason that I wanted to do that is because we just got back from Austria a little bit ago

and seeing all of the buildings, the ancient, like everything that is there. Going back the past

thousand odd years for its history is fascinating. I mean, you all know what it is that I'm talking

about here. The H.R.E, like the Holy Roman Empire. The thing that was neither holy nor Roman

nor empire, as the classic joke goes. Many people, when they talk about the HRER.E., they don't really understand what it is that I am talking about, like the scope of it.

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