Hey, H.B.S. This is Heaving bosoms. The podcast were two best friends, romance novels while commenting swooning

giggling and telling stories. Let's start off with a Patreon shout out.

Lauren G.

You are a Billywig, a beautiful Australian insect.

You are a gorgeous shiny iridescent glue, but you're too fast for the average muggle to see.

You have a stinger that is pretty intimidating, but when you sting people, it just makes them so giddy and happy, sometimes even making them fly.

You are like a happiness fairy, spreading joy wherever you go.

And now we've got a re-release of one of our early episodes, Ice Capaid by Josh Lanyon. We recorded a new intro for you, celebrating 2019's reading embrace participants.

And we did that when we were sweet, sweet summer children, who hadn't yet experienced

RWA's implosion over racist ethics complaints.

So if you want our thoughts on that, head over to the Patreon.

There's an hour-long episode about the whole debacle.

But now, 2019's reading embrace and ice caped. Here we go. So. Hi Aaron. Hello Melanie. Hello Melanie I don't know why I feel like such a new

today such a what a new but like a podcasting newbe yeah yeah as we were as we were getting

started with this I was like I don't know I felt all jitter I was like, I don't know, I felt all jittery. I felt like, I don't know, we were maybe like 13 episodes in instead of 117 episodes in.

Is that because we're re-releasing an episode that we were probably like 13 episodes?

I think it might be.

Okay, guys, listen.

Hey, we had to Christmas, so we're just going to be release Ice Capate.

But this is a new intro that's being recorded solstice 2019, Ull 2019.

And we're going to... 2019, and you'll 2019. That's right.

And we're going to announce the,

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