Hello there, dear listener. You're about to listen to the latest episode of the Versailles Anniversary Project.

One of two things has just happened. Either you're listening to this for the first time and you just so happened to press play when maybe a few other times you thought about it, but not quite gone that far.

Or you're more than ready to get into this and wait for me to stop rambling. Of course, you know by now

that I do tend to ramble a teeny tiny bit at the beginning of these episodes, just to help

remind you that this is a listener-supported podcast, and we've gotten this far because of

listeners doing things as simple as telling people about this podcast, which has really helped it succeed.

2019 is going to be a huge year for this podcast, and it's going to be a great year for

when diplomacy fails, and when diplomacy fails as owner, producer and podcast chancellors,

I'd like to call myself sometimes, Zach Twomley.

It's going to be a great year for me and for

everyone who's listening and the best way guarantee this, but also piggyback alongside it, is to go and

play the delegation game. For $6 a month, you can send an avatar to Paris. You can play what's called

the delegation game and if you'd like to know more about that,

if you'd like to know about exactly what you're going to get from that, how long it's going

to take, all the details that go on besides, click on the link in the description of this episode

below or simply listen to the episode that comes out tomorrow.

So the 11th of January on a Friday.

It's only a week to go until the delegation game launches.

I could not be more excited for the delegation game to begin.

I can't believe this idea I had has taken off so much, but hey, there you go.

27 people have signed up.

We've got people as varied as the Greek premier, Venizelos, whose name I'll definitely

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