Hello, Sarah. Are you coming in hot, Jen? Are you fixing your levels? Listen, I try to fix my levels. Listen, you guys, you don't know how much Eric comes at us with turn down your mics, get up on top of it, get hot, get cold, make out with the microphone, don't make out with the microphone. What I am confused about

is it's like get up on the microphone, but then turn it down. But don't be too hot. And I mean,

to be honest, like, what kind of question? What kind of request is that of us? Obviously,

we're going to be hot. We're doing hot girl's ship all the time.

All the time.

Listen, I often just have to yell inside of a classroom.

That's what I have to do.

And that's, I can't turn that down.

Listen, sometimes do you listen to episodes and you're like, do I sound like this?

I still get that.

I know that you listen to them.

Like, you're very good.

You listen to them. Like, you're very good. You listen to them multiple

times, but I'm always like, I don't know why anybody would listen to us. But hi, everyone.

Welcome to Fated Mates. I'm Sarah McLean. I read romance novels and I write them. And I'm

Jennifer Procop, a romance reader and editor. And we have a very exciting show for you today, but first of all, we have to do some

housekeeping, which is, some of you out there may have noticed that we are running

advertising here on database now.

And so we just want to let you know that we are running, as you can tell, when you listen to these episodes, what's called 60 Second Midroll as, although, spoiler alert, they're never 60 seconds.

We have a lot to say. It's fine. We're just flammats. We're coming in hot. And so, but we want to let you know if you're an author or you work with products that

you think Theta Mates listeners would like, you can always reach out to us at Advertising at ThetaBates.net

And talk to us about ads. You'll get Eric at that email with us and we will help you find your way with us. We are currently

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