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You know how much we love and appreciate our patrons, so let's start out with a Patreon shout out. Denelia V. You are a cactus cat, a feline of the American Southwest with hair like thorns and a particularly spiny tail.

You're especially ingenious, so at night you slash cacti with your sharp tail and then come back a couple of days later to drink the now fermented

juice.

It's said that the cactus cat can be heard whooping it up at her very own badass cactus juice party from miles around.

You're basically a homebrew and self-care expert. And fun fact, you're also immune to scorpions.

We also have a sponsor for this episode. Tits out for sponsors! This episode is brought to you by Heart and Hand by Rebel Carter.

It's a Maynage male-order bride romance set in Western times that will melt your heart and set your bathing suit parts alight.

Here's the description.

As the daughter of a wealthy union officer and a freed woman,

Julie Baptiste is used to the glitter and privilege that comes with being one of New York

society's upper 400. But it doesn't take long for Julie to realize she

earns for more than the non-stop engagements and niceties dictated by high society.

So, she decides to do something bold and answers an advertisement for a mail-order bride and town teacher in Gold Sky, Montana.

Ex-union soldiers, Forrest Wicks, and William Barnes have been inseparable since the war.

They share everything, including the dream of finding a bride who's willing to marry them both

and provide the isolated town with a teacher. How will a

debutant-turn teacher manage frontier life with two husbands?

Talia Hibbert, a huge favorite of ours says,

Rebel Carter writes with wit, elegance, and longing.

Her love stories exist in a world of their own,

and it's one I never want to leave.

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