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We have an excellent episode planned today. We are finishing up the awesome 9 Penny Kings War, which we got started a few weeks ago and covered a lot of the backstory, a lot of the

characters, a lot of the preparations for war, the setup in terms of politics, and how all the

band of nine came together.

We talked about the strange and interesting tree of crowns,

whatever the heck that is.

We talked about the unusual, to put it mildly,

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