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Ladies and gentlemen, I'm so excited today.

My guest on the rush hour podcast is Romance Expert and has a new Romcom novel out called

Not Here to Make Friends all the way from Australia.

It's Jody McAllister. are you I'm pretty good thank you for

so exciting so you got a book here about a a it's like a bachelor adjacent love story?

Yeah, very much so.

So I have two careers.

I am both an author of romances, like not here to make friends,

but I'm also an academic and in my academic life I

study love stories and I have written like a truly embarrassing amount of words

about the bachelor I tried to add them all up once and I had to stop because it got a little bit scary when we were kind of getting close to a

I was saying in my research I saw that you had we're at half a million at the time so now you're getting close to a million

Yeah, yeah like I can't put a precise figure on it because the number is too large that it's just simply too embarrassing for me but I've written a lot of

academic articles and book chapters and things like that about the bachelor and I've recapped every episode of the Australian Bachelor franchise going back to 2015 which is you know a lot of that's amazing. So I want to get I want to get into your expertise on both levels as a writer but also a romance expert I am not a romance expert so I'd love to know exactly what that entails.

Ah, so it is not practical expertise, it is theoretical expertise.

People ask me this all the time.

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