Hey there, listen, welcome back to Heaving Bozoms. The podcast were two best friends, usually Aaron and Melody, celebrate the beautiful

world of romance novels with a heaping dose of friendship, feminism, and foolishness. We're kicking off our third year of this crazy ride with a guest

host. Fan favorite Cole is back to read Alicia Rye's newest novel The Right Swipe.

Embrace yourselves. Cole has gone full fan boy.

Enjoy! Fuck it. No numbers. Okay. How are you doing? I'm doing really well. How are you doing? Great. This is a perfect start. Do you have any banter as if we haven't been speaking already for, oh fuck, like an hour and 20 minutes I don't actually I did have

banter I always have banter but oh you did well I mean just general banter but like

I don't know what's banter. What are the rules?

I don't want to break the banter rules.

Oh, well, what I did, well I did something where I said,

let's fucking cut it, no more banter, let's just get right to the book, that's what the people

want, and the people did not like it.

In fact, I don't know that they even like that we do the books anymore.

They're just like...

I'm one of the people who loves the banter.

Like, the banter is...

That's the icing on the cake.

I think there was one woman who does not like the banter and she left us a bad review and then we've been paranoid about it ever since.

She was like you said you were here for books and instead you're talking about your dogs and shit.

So we were like, okay, again I'd love that I love

it took one to scare you away what banter did you prepare and not bring up in the last hour

and a half oh no I didn't prepare anything. Oh you said you had

banners I thought you maybe like came with something. We could just continue the

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