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Published on:

8th Jan 2024

Ep. 312 - 2023 HB Reading Embrace!

Helloooooo HBs! I hope you've been exercising your huggin' arms because it's time for the 2023 annual Heaving Bosoms Reading Embrace!!!!!!!! We gave you 20 categories and you did whatever you wanted with them. And if you notified us that you even thought about doing the Embrace, YOU GET SNUGGLED INTO OUR BOSOMS!

More than anything, we need to say the biggest, most heart-felt thank you to YOU, Listener. You continue to melt our hearts and blow us away with your support, generosity of spirit, and ability to send love over any distance. We feel so very embraced by you as well.

Bonus Content: Lamb Chop's Play Along, pterodactyl porn, bogarting boob juice, and so much more!

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Transcript
Sabrina:

Terrible phrase.

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Mel: boob juice is I think

my new phrase, my new

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favorite.

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Sabrina: Bogarting the boob juice,

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specifically.

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Mel: Hey Sabrina,

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Sabrina: Hello, Mel!

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Mel: feel vindicated.

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Sabrina: Oh, you have

a surprise for me too?

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Mel: it's not a surprise, I think it's

very known to you, is it because our

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patrons embraced me by showing how

many of these millennials out in these

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streets know about Lamb Chops Play Along?

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Is that

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Sabrina: Damn, you

really just called me out

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Mel: so embraced earlier this week

because everybody knew about lamb CHOP's.

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Play along just like I did.

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Sabrina: Mm.

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Mm hmm.

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Yeah, right.

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You're right.

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You're right Although I will

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tell you that the minute lamb chop

came on screen Do you want to know what

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the first thing I thought of was Mel?

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Mel: What?

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Sabrina: It was that pterodactyl

porn that I mentioned in that watch

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Mel: No

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Sabrina: Yeah,

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Mel: What part of my

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Sabrina: just the way that the hand,

just the way of the hand puppet movement

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Mel: Oh.

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The way that the, the mouth

seems to move in every direction.

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Sabrina: I looked at your childhood

exper your chi like, I looked at

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your whole childhood and went, That

reminds me of pterodactyl porn.

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Mel: Very different references.

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Sometimes.

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Sometimes it's just surprising.

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Sabrina: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Now I'm curious, I'm gonna have

to, like, hit up Watch Party

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Shenanigans and be like, Did

anybody actually go look that up?

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By the way, for reference

listeners, that was during one of

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the Patreon watch parties for the

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Twilight Saga.

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Um, I did horrify everybody

with the fact that

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Mel: We're always finding

shit out about Sabrina.

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I'll tell you what.

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Sabrina: Well, we Whoa.

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How much do you think

Listener knows about you?

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Listener

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knows an abnormal amount of

You've been around for five years.

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It's my turn.

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It's my turn to overshare.

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Mel: stones

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Sabrina: Good.

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Good.

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Keep your glass house fucking

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Tidy with the tree inside of it.

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Mel: yeah, absolutely.

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Oh my God.

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It's our annual embrace episode.

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Sabrina: That means we

have gone full circle.

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The first time you and I ever

recorded together was last year for

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the embrace episode because I was I

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Mel: my God.

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You're right.

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Sabrina: I was one of your little mods

And I was like, I'll come with you.

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Uh huh.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Thanks to you.

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Thanks to you.

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I now

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Mel: recordiversary!

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Sabrina: Basically, no free time, because

before you asked me to join your podcast,

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I did in fact start my own podcast.

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Mel: That was inspired by the embrace!

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Sabrina: it was, it was.

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Mel: What?

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Wow, this is all, this is

an asp eating its own tail.

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You know what I

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Sabrina: Well, especially because

you've already agreed to come be a guest

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Mel: Yeah,

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Sabrina: TBR to talk about,

probably, the Reading Embrace.

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Mel: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

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Oh my

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Sabrina: This really is, like,

this is, this is no longer

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a circle, actually, this is

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like, one of those like, fancy,

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Mel: one of those Mobius

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things.

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Is it a Mobius thing of some

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Sabrina: Sure.

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Yep.

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Mel: Look at this brain on me!

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Ooh!

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Sabrina: my God.

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It's so sexy.

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You

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Mel: It's a hot and sexy brain!

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Sabrina: A Sherlock Holmeses.

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Mel: I'm being, sure,

look, Holmes is in:

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Sabrina: It's officially

Sherlock Holmes in:

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By the way, I have already failed

at being a Sherlock Holmes.

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No, that's not true.

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I both failed and succeeded.

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One of the books

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that I've read so far this year, I

was like, I know exactly where this

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fuck, motherfucker is ending up.

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And I was right.

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And it was adorable.

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And then the second time I was

like, I have no idea what's

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happening here, but I

am along for the ride.

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Mel: Yeah.

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Mm hmm.

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No, I hear you.

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So it's time to embrace everyone.

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Hey, everyone.

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I don't know.

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Listener.

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Hello, listener.

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Did you remember that we had

a reading embrace this year?

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Sabrina: Are you, are

you talking to them about

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the fact that we hella

dropped the ball this year?

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Mel: Apparently there was too much going

on, and I embraced myself too hard, and

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I just didn't make a spreadsheet, and

I didn't We got some good categories

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though, and we

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got some really

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Sabrina: have, we did have

listener who made spreadsheet.

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It was amazing.

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It was copy.

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Yes.

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But unfortunately it was

view only not calling you

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Mel: It was for you only!

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Sabrina: I've been there.

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No, I got

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so many emails that were like,

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Hey, we couldn't.

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I couldn't actually, like, fill it

out, so I just made a copy of it,

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and sent that in, and I was like, you

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know what?

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Fucking God bless you.

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Mel: God damn, I love Listener so much.

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Listener shows up every fucking time.

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God damn it.

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Sabrina: Listener.

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Thank God, because

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we

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Mel: Thank God, I didn't for sure.

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Boy, and apparently I, I run

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this

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Sabrina: I'm also, like, if anything,

I, like, joined and should have been,

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like, all over talking about the reading

embrace, because I'm literally a fan.

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challenge whore.

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All I do is reading challenges.

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My,

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literally to the point where my reading

goal for this year, my reading goal for

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this year was do less challenges.

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Mel: Listener, this bitch, that's

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Sabrina: Oh my god, do, no,

that is one of my goals.

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I have

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more than one.

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Mel: No, tell them the other one.

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Tell them, tell listener

to their face, tell them.

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Do it, Sabrina.

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What's your reading goal

this year, Sab Bur ina?

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Sabrina: Okay, don't act like

there's not more than one of them.

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sloppy bitch.

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Okay.

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Mel: That's fair.

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Tell them what the one

I'm referencing is, ma'am.

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Sabrina: Well, I feel like to do that

accurately or adequately I need to

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pull up how many books I read last year

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Mel: No, you don't!

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You can just say the

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Sabrina: for maintenance.

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Never

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Mel: Heheheheheheh Ahaha,

StoryGraph was like, Fuck that!

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Heheheheh

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Sabrina: Fuck you, Sabrina!

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No, um, so my reading goal may

or may not be to read less.

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Mel: I am like the personification

of an eye roll emoji.

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This

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bitch!

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Sabrina: the

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way,

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Mel: you so much.

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Heheheheh Heheheheh

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Sabrina: at it.

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I just finished, like, I

finished my fourth book today.

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Mel: I can't.

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It's the third, ma'am.

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Sabrina: Full book, by the way.

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I

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Mel: It's January

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Sabrina: tw I f So I finished My last

book of last year, I finished it the

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morning of the first, and since then I

have read four books in another series.

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Mel: Stop it.

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You're a monster and I love you.

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I

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hear

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Sabrina: not true, so like, I'm

gonna, I'll be better, okay?

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I have DIY dreams for this

year, and like, I have

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Mel: You do.

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Sabrina: plans.

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And I'll probably be putting

them all over my personal TikTok,

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slash

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Mel: Yeah.

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Or ours.

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I don't care.

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Sabrina: or I won't,

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um,

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Mel: Or we'll say, we'll say,

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we're going to do

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social medias.

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Sabrina: I did

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say that for every book that I finished, I

was gonna post on the HB TikTok about it.

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Mel: four books that

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you

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didn't post about.

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You know what?

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I actually probably can't throw any

stones, because since, the first,

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I think, I've read one, two, and

I'll finish the third one tonight.

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So I really need to shut my

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Sabrina: and I'll bet

those are full books!

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I'll bet those are actual

novels instead of novellas, huh?

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Mel: Um,

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well One of them, yes, was, was 15

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hours.

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Mm

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Sabrina: sloppy.

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The term is messy bitch, isn't it?

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Mel: I like sloppy though.

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Blah, blah, blah.

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We're sloppy

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Sabrina: like that.

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I see why you're you're

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a narrator.

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You,

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Mel: They were books.

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Sabrina: you got lots of sounds.

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Mel: Got lots of sounds.

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I'm my own Foley artist.

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Okay.

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So we have to get into this embracing.

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Listen.

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Listener.

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Thank you for being here for

us and embracing us when we

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could barely embrace ourselves.

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And we didn't make it easy

for you to get embraced.

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We really, we really like turned

tail and ran away and we made

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you chase us and you still

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Sabrina: And you

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Mel: And I love you for that.

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Yeah, good job.

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We've already made the

spreadsheet for:

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So that's going to go up in that

cult is what that's going to do.

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I might even link that

bitch on a link tree, maybe.

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I don't

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Sabrina: I was just gonna

say, we're gonna put it on

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Linktree, there's gonna be a

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link.

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All over the place.

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We're also going to

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be talking a lot more about it.

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So one of the

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things that I, to be

clear, to be clear, I'm

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coming to you, listener,

as a listener, okay?

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This

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is the first reading embrace that

I've been a part of creating.

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We,

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we know where all of these come from.

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Mel: We do.

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In our brain

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Sabrina: all of these prompts come from.

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We also can tell you we're

gonna probably, maybe, do a

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Mel: Mm.

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Let's not make any promises!

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Heh heh heh.

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Don't make any promises!

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Heh heh heh.

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Sabrina: The maybe is strong with this.

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Mel: The maybe is strong in us.

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Heh heh

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Sabrina: we have, we have plans, okay?

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Mel: We do.

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We have said so many plans out loud,

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Sabrina: by the way, we haven't

written a single one of those down.

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But, um, or I haven't.

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Mel: I hear that's part

of smart goal making.

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Sabrina: Most of them, mo mo

fuck, that's gonna be our:

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We're Sherlock

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Holmeses in 2024 and planners in 2025.

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Yeah.

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plotters instead of pantsers.

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That's a lie.

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Mel: Oh, wear pants.

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I pants my whole life.

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Sabrina: That's a mood.

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so first

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things first.

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we have patrons

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Mel: Thank

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you, Sabrina.

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Oh my god, you hot genius.

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I forgot.

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Hello, patrons.

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I'm so sorry.

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Okay.

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So we are going to shout out some patrons.

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Dare you don't, don't you

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Sabrina: just

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Mel: undercut me in front of listener.

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Sabrina: We've officially, we've

officially been recording together

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for a year now with, like, a six month

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hiatus.

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It's fine.

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Um, and then, actually, I don't

think it was even six months,

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I think, anyway, it doesn't

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matter.

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But, it means that I can take off

my, nice Sabrina hat and start.

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Being a little, little shithead

to you, as if I haven't been

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doing that for the last month.

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But,

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it means I'm

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comfy with

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Mel: Yeah, yeah, it's

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Sabrina: on the playground with a crush.

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I'm just pulling your

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Mel: Oh boy.

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Those are dangerous.

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All right, we have had some people

who've joined the patreon in the

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last like week or two and we're

so We're so thankful for you.

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So welcome to Emma E and Esther

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Sabrina: And Devin H.

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and Samantha R.

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Mel: Renee R and Megan O.

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R

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Sabrina: I

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love that you put This one.

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Um, welcome to it makes me

uncomfortable to hear my name

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read on a podcast and Kira M.

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Mel: I

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Sabrina: I'm so happy.

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I'm the one who got to

read that one out loud.

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Mel: right?

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I know.

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And I put that in there specifically

because I do want you to know that

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if any of you do not want your

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name

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read, also yeah, just send me a

message and no big deal, I'll just

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make sure that you're not in there.

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Sabrina: fucking name.

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Give us

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some fucking bonkers shit.

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And you can be like,

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Mel: Yeah.

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Love that.

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All right.

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Welcome to Kira, Em, and Jennifer,

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Sabrina: welcome to Marliss C and Alara.

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Mel: and Aoka.

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Thanks so much for joining the

Patreon, and I hope you love it.

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Sabrina: Yeah.

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Welcome to.

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It, it gets weird in there.

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Look, look forward to the fact that our

next watch party is fuckin Fifty Shades of

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Grey.

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Ha ha

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ha!

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Alright.

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Mel: I've got, I've got a first embrace

and it is really, Sabrina made these

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notes and I fucking love her for it

because like this listener, I lacked

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the executive function, to accomplish

it this week, period, the end.

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And so Sabrina swooped in.

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I love this one.

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Yeah.

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So, hey, Carrie, I am in a big

giant snuggle pile with you

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because her email says, so, um,

I read a lot of books this year.

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According to Goodreads, it was 247.

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And according to Storygraph, it was 122.

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Clearly, I'm not great

at consistent tracking.

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That's also a mood.

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I'm positive that some of those fit

into the embrace categories, but I

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lack the executive function to look

back through them and put them there.

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Can I have a pity embrace?

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Pretty please.

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Sabrina: Um,

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as far as I'm concerned, Carrie,

As far as I'm concerned, according

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to your Goodreads number, you

completed The Embrace 20 times.

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So, congratulations.

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Mel: this is the embraciest embrace.

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Sabrina: Yeah.

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Actually, we could even go farther

and say that it's 30 times if

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we just add the books together.

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Really, last year, you

read, what, 169 books?

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Nope, 369 books, if

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Mel: There we go.

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I was like, where did we How

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did we

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get there?

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Sabrina: So, uh, Goddess bless y'all,

we, Mel and I, within, like, five

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minutes of each other, posted in the

cult, asking people, like, cause, again,

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we were last minute, like, oh shit.

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Mel: We're chaos monsters!

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Sabrina: Um, and we were like,

please, please come and fucking

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embrace, like, send us your embraces!

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And, some of y'all came

through, beautiful comments.

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Mel: Yeah.

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Sabrina: we got

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Caroline who was like, Oh

shit, gotta drop my crochet!

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Um, so you're embraced, you are

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clinched and snuggled, k?

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Mel: Caroline D, you're so embraced.

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Sabrina: we also have Elizabeth R.

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who couldn't remember what

some of the prompts were, and I

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basically said, uh, Get creative.

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And they were

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like, perfect.

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You're, you, you are gripped

in my heaving puzzle.

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Mel: Absolutely, the embrace

is anything you need it to be.

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That's how it works here.

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Sabrina: Yeah.

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Mel: So Sarah J said, I tried,

I tried on laptop and phone, but

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apparently I only have viewing

permission on the spreadsheet.

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Is there a way to change that?

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Guess what?

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Even if you don't send

it in, you're embraced.

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Sabrina: So there you go.

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Mel: Mm hmm.

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Mm

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Sabrina: think one of my favorites that

there were a lot of these in the, like

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this year and it brings me a lot of joy.

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Allison said, can I just be

included and meant to fill it out?

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And probably didn't

because I don't remember.

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You

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know what?

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You're

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Mel: I am clinching you hard.

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Okay, so throughout these, we're gonna

do a couple of the, um, well, a few

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of the reasons that we really liked.

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And so, Leanne H., one of her reasons

for Smart Bosoms Milking Farm, The book

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she chose was Book Lovers by Emily Henry.

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And it says, The female main

character keeps getting asked if

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she's going to live on a farm.

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I think?

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I marked this in StoryGraph and didn't

write this explanation until months later.

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Whoops!

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Sabrina: And then also, for Dark Lover

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by J.

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R.

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Ward, they use that for

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Cucumbery Dicks, because it's

another weird food comparison.

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The pillow was soft as if

his head was on Wonder Bread.

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And you know what, Leanne H.?

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You are fucking just

locked in these arms and

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Mel: my gosh.

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Sabrina: nuzzled to Kingdom Come.

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Mel: Yeah, I basically got you in a BJJ

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Sabrina: We are down to the business of

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embracing.

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Mel: everyone.

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Sabrina: huh.

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Mel: dare you put that

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bitter, dark lover taste in my mouth.

469

:

How dare you on this sacred day?

470

:

Sabrina: sorry.

471

:

I'm not!

472

:

sorry.

473

:

Unabashedly not sorry.

474

:

Mel: know, I know.

475

:

Okay, Patricia BM went

above and beyond, as usual.

476

:

And she

477

:

Sabrina: Patricia BM rolled in

under, like, just under the line.

478

:

I was

479

:

about to close the email

480

:

Mel: I saw that email pop up

481

:

Sabrina: notes,

482

:

Mel: Yeah.

483

:

Sabrina: and then this email

484

:

came through.

485

:

Mel: I know!

486

:

Sabrina: You're, pre embraced.

487

:

Mel: you're pre embraced,

488

:

you're post embraced.

489

:

Yeah, so it says that, she filled

it out on StoryGraph, but since we

490

:

can't see the reasons, she sent in a

separate email, and it's the best.,

491

:

So, for Shopping Mall Orgasms, she

did Barbarians Taming by Ruby Dixon.

492

:

Haasen and Maddie loooove sex in

places where they could be discovered.

493

:

That's true.

494

:

Including one very memorable time in

a hunter cave, which is basically the

495

:

ice planet Version of a shopping mall.

496

:

That's true.

497

:

Sabrina: Accurate.

498

:

They also, she also did

hashtag Tad and Ralph forever

499

:

using all of the colors of

the night by Jane Anne Krentz.

500

:

I think there was a minor

character named Ralph?

501

:

Ortad?

502

:

One of those.

503

:

And it just brought me a lot of joy.

504

:

And then, this is just a reminder to

you listeners, because I've had some

505

:

people asking, how does the embrace work?

506

:

And you're gonna, like,

507

:

honestly just listen to probably any

embrace episode, and you will very

508

:

quickly understand how it works.

509

:

But at the end of, uh, Patricia's email,

she said, I always love The Embrace.

510

:

It's the first reading challenge I

ever tried, and frankly, the best,

511

:

because I can read whatever I want,

512

:

force those books to fit,

and quote, unquote, win.

513

:

You get an A plus in Embraces,

and you are cradled to my heart.

514

:

Listen to it, but, um,

515

:

Mel: Oh, oh wow.

516

:

That's intimate.

517

:

I'll tell you what.

518

:

Sabrina: cradle cradled to my heart.

519

:

Mel: Oh my gosh.

520

:

All right.

521

:

Do you want to take this next one?

522

:

Because Sabrina is the best.

523

:

Sabrina: guess who else is

getting embraced this year

524

:

on our, um, wild Mad Hatter

run race to the finish?

525

:

Um, we had people.

526

:

React to those double Facebook posts.

527

:

Mel: We had some reactions.

528

:

Sabrina: Uh huh.

529

:

Are we gonna, are we gonna

like, speedrun these together?

530

:

Mel: Let's do it.

531

:

Sabrina: Okay.

532

:

3, 2, 1.

533

:

Mike,

534

:

Mel: Melissa.

535

:

Sabrina: Robin,

536

:

Mel: Sophia,

537

:

Sabrina: Elizabeth,

538

:

Mel: Megan,

539

:

Sabrina: Katerina,

540

:

Mel: Liz,

541

:

Sabrina: Michelle,

542

:

Mel: Sarah,

543

:

Sabrina: Carolyn.

544

:

Mel: Katie,

545

:

Sabrina: Melissa,

546

:

Mel: Mary,

547

:

Sabrina: Kate,

548

:

Mel: Sarah, and

549

:

Sabrina: Hazel.

550

:

Mel: Brianna!

551

:

Yay!

552

:

Sabrina: you supported the,

553

:

Mel: embraced!

554

:

Sabrina: random, just, the

post, and you are embraced,

555

:

Mel: You interacted with us

regarding the reading embrace,

556

:

and that gets you

557

:

an embrace.

558

:

Sabrina: embraced.

559

:

hmm.

560

:

Okay, wait, I, wait, can

561

:

I take

562

:

Mel: have to do this one.

563

:

Sabrina: like, cry laughing.

564

:

Okay, so, this, I saw this

email on my lunch break.

565

:

And for my lunch break, as you all

probably have guessed at this point,

566

:

I usually am just sitting in my

car, feral, eating, and probably

567

:

scaring the local townsfolk.

568

:

Hannah G.

569

:

typed in,

570

:

Mel: Mm.

571

:

Sabrina: sent us an email, and, I'm just

gonna give you the first Reasoning, right?

572

:

The

573

:

first reason, because

it explains everything.

574

:

By the way, apologies for any

pauses in my speaking, because

575

:

they're, it is riddled with typos.

576

:

Mel: It's the best.

577

:

Sabrina: So,

578

:

Mel: didn't she do it on a train?

579

:

Didn't she?

580

:

Sorry.

581

:

So sorry.

582

:

Ahem.

583

:

Mm hmm.

584

:

Sabrina: was

585

:

Mel: Having several seats.

586

:

Sabrina: howling with

laughter, alone in my car.

587

:

Uh, so, for keep being a badass,

Hannah used Ladies of Malabar Hill.

588

:

Some might say this is a mystery.

589

:

I argue.

590

:

It's about.

591

:

Interracial love with some crime

solving in between the romancing.

592

:

Also, I read the entire series and

I'm just realizing that the romancing

593

:

wasn't until the second or third book.

594

:

Satypur Stone might be the title.

595

:

We'll never know because I only have

five minutes left to fill this out

596

:

before it's my stop on the train.

597

:

And you know what, Hannah?

598

:

I could tell, and I love you

for it, also, to be clear.

599

:

Only the first 10 were filled out.

600

:

And it was very clear that like,

Hannah was like writing, writing,

601

:

writing, and then train stop came up

and they're like, well, that's it.

602

:

And just hit send.

603

:

You are so fucking embraced,

just enveloped in my cackling

604

:

Mel: enscancing you!

605

:

Sabrina: Y'all, I like, oh my God.

606

:

It was, it was so fucking funny.

607

:

It was perfect.

608

:

Mel: It's the best.

609

:

Okay, so Leah G really dropped

some wisdom in her email.

610

:

And that was in the form of,

Thank goodness it's Heaving

611

:

Bosoms and I don't have to be

embarrassed by my reading choices.

612

:

No you don't!

613

:

Leah G.

614

:

So for Smart Bosoms Milking Farm, she

chose I Married a Dragon by Regine Abel.

615

:

It says, dude has an adult breastfeeding

fetish and he gets upset by his

616

:

baby bogarting all the boob juice.

617

:

Incredible.

618

:

Sabrina: Terrible phrase.

619

:

Mel: boob juice is I think

my new phrase, my new

620

:

favorite.

621

:

Sabrina: Bogarting the boob juice,

622

:

specifically.

623

:

Also, read the book.

624

:

I'll let you read the

reasoning, but I read this other

625

:

Mel: Oh yeah.

626

:

Sabrina: that series.

627

:

Mel: Oh really?

628

:

Okay.

629

:

Yeah.

630

:

Oh, this is for bargains

with her Naga boss?

631

:

Sabrina: Yep.

632

:

Mel: Okay, so she chose that

for a deeply cock in Fossbender.

633

:

And, um, turns out if you want to go

home early, you just need to let your

634

:

boss bend you over the counter and D.

635

:

P.

636

:

you with his double Naga snakes.

637

:

Sabrina: So, like, you know

638

:

good advice.

639

:

Mel: That's

640

:

Sabrina: Absolutely.

641

:

Mel: cock in

642

:

Sabrina: I'll be frank, I don't

remember if it's in a cock

643

:

pocket, but it probably is, yeah.

644

:

Mel: are

645

:

always in a

646

:

Sabrina: be,

647

:

Mel: It's gotta be, because it's a snake.

648

:

Sabrina: without a cock

649

:

pocket?

650

:

Mel: don't want to imagine that.

651

:

I don't.

652

:

Those snicky snakes.

653

:

Slither, slither!

654

:

Oh my god.

655

:

Sabrina: then our next one is Marika, who

said this was once again a lot of fun.

656

:

Even, or maybe especially,

because I have no idea what

657

:

some of these categories mean.

658

:

Who

659

:

Mel: No

660

:

Sabrina: No rules!

661

:

So, for Bonkers Romance,

ooh, we're pulling my high

662

:

school German pronunciation

out of my, out of me.

663

:

Okay, Bonkers Romance.

664

:

Uh, they used Wecklspiel der

Liebe by Rosamunde Pitscher.

665

:

Mel: Okay,

666

:

Sabrina: Just gonna do a

hard American accent on

667

:

Pitscher.

668

:

Mel: I dig it.

669

:

Sabrina: This book drove me bonkers.

670

:

Which decade is this set in?

671

:

Who is the love interest?

672

:

And then he hits her in the face?

673

:

And she apologizes?

674

:

Is Rosamunde Pilcher.

675

:

I

676

:

now I don't know.

677

:

Mel: it could be either.

678

:

Sabrina: Pilcher?

679

:

I'm just

680

:

Mel: Oh,

681

:

Sabrina: gonna.

682

:

Mm hmm.

683

:

Is Rosamunde Pilcher a thing in the U.

684

:

S.

685

:

by the way?

686

:

The answer's no, clearly.

687

:

Mel: I'm gonna say I'm so sorry.

688

:

No, I have no idea who that

689

:

is.

690

:

But apparently she writes

people who hit people in

691

:

Sabrina: Maybe that's how

I'll relearn German, is I'll

692

:

read this book specifically.

693

:

If you

694

:

think, feel free to reach out,

heavingbosomspodcast at gmail.

695

:

com if you think that this is a good,

um, example of the German language, and

696

:

if this is how I should relearn German.

697

:

Mel: Okay.

698

:

Kristen Kay wrote in for St.

699

:

Vincent Wood Always, Ugly

Love by Colleen Hoover.

700

:

And in, this is a, this

is a full quote, okay?

701

:

I can't love.

702

:

If I could love, it would

be you, but I can't.

703

:

And I'm certainly not going

to put in any effort to making

704

:

myself emotionally available.

705

:

That part of my life is over and I

can't love and you can't make me.

706

:

A direct quote, probably,

is what she said.

707

:

Sabrina: Beautiful!

708

:

There was also, honorary mention,

um, Twilight on that embrace.

709

:

And it brought me a lot of joy.

710

:

Mel: Hell yeah.

711

:

You are deep in my bosom.

712

:

Both of you.

713

:

You're

714

:

Sabrina: Alright, so, now,

I was a big ol creepy creep

715

:

and did roll up onto StoryGraph.

716

:

And guess

717

:

what?

718

:

We're embracing all you StoryGraph

motherfuckers out there.

719

:

Do we know if you

720

:

completed it?

721

:

No idea.

722

:

Do we know if you even started it?

723

:

No idea.

724

:

But

725

:

Mel: You thought about it.

726

:

Yeah, you thought about the embrace at

727

:

one

728

:

Sabrina: might, you might have,

729

:

Mel: Gets you an embrace.

730

:

Sabrina: guess what?

731

:

That's how that fuckin works.

732

:

So, uh, you are embraced, all of you.

733

:

Ashvaburla16,

734

:

Mel: Kit fate.

735

:

Wait, KT fate.

736

:

Sabrina: MissHarmonyB,

737

:

Mel: Valmai.

738

:

Sabrina: MeggyBree, Bray,

739

:

Mel: Lucky reader.

740

:

Sabrina: oh shit, that's me,

741

:

ha, hey, I forgot to

take myself off, I just,

742

:

Mel: No, you're great.

743

:

You did the embrace,

744

:

Sabrina: Burnloves,

745

:

Mel: Eimerhoff.

746

:

Sabrina: I'm pretty sure that's an L, Mel.

747

:

Mel: What?

748

:

Sabrina: L.

749

:

Meyerhoff.

750

:

heh.

751

:

heh.

752

:

heh.

753

:

Mel: that makes sense.

754

:

L.

755

:

Sabrina: Uh, romantic reader.

756

:

Mel: Oh, I like that.

757

:

Oh, roman thic.

758

:

T H I C

759

:

Sabrina: That's Kristen K.

760

:

Maybe I shouldn't call her out like that.

761

:

No, yeah, you know what?

762

:

Kristen K, one of my TBR co hosts.

763

:

She's a fucking bookstagrammer, too.

764

:

Mel: Hell yeah.

765

:

Sabrina: ass reviews.

766

:

Mel: Hell yeah.

767

:

Thrashmaster Becks.

768

:

I think I want to be their best friend.

769

:

Sabrina: Queen A.

770

:

Mel: Awesome Chelle.

771

:

Sabrina: Jeans

772

:

bookbag.

773

:

Mel: Awesome.

774

:

Yeah, right?

775

:

Sabrina: Awesome

776

:

shell?

777

:

Mel: Awesome shell?

778

:

Listen.

779

:

It's fine.

780

:

Sabrina: Who cares?

781

:

They're fucking handles.

782

:

You're embraced.

783

:

I'm embracing you for your whatever

the fuck pronunciation you choose, Mo.

784

:

Mel: Okay.

785

:

Oy with the poodles.

786

:

Is the

787

:

next one.

788

:

Sabrina: Charlotte, Coyne,

789

:

Mel: Sarah Thorne back.

790

:

MMKing108!

791

:

Sabrina: I would have pronounced that mmm

kang, so I'm glad that you got that one.

792

:

Mel: Oh, no, it's totally MMMKing!

793

:

God damn it!

794

:

You're

795

:

Sabrina: Rachel Dida.

796

:

Mel: than I am!

797

:

Sabrina: It's because

I'm a fucking gamer, Mel.

798

:

Mel: S M

799

:

Sabrina: I'm used to looking at

a letter thing and being like, I

800

:

don't know how to say this, but

we're gonna come up with something.

801

:

Mel: Stone E.

802

:

S.

803

:

Stone S.

804

:

Sabrina: Colleen Delaney.

805

:

You all are fucking embraced.

806

:

We have no idea where you were, and

actually some people commented on

807

:

that in their emails about like,

I, um, I can't share these reasons,

808

:

but they're, they're on there!

809

:

and so some of our

810

:

emails were literally, they literally

copy and pasted the page from StoryGraph.

811

:

And I was like, fucking God, get

812

:

Mel: You're embraced.

813

:

Oh my god.

814

:

Sabrina: Alright, so, our next one

is, this one gave me a lot of feels.

815

:

So, Shayla F., like, I don't have

any quotes from the email, because it

816

:

was just, it was personal, and it was

817

:

beautiful.

818

:

And

819

:

I just, it brought Yeah, me too.

820

:

And it was just about how, like,

HB as a community and how, like,

821

:

feeling happy and engaged with people.

822

:

And it was just

823

:

wonderful.

824

:

And I just, I loved it.

825

:

I also loved that for Science Daddy,

they in fact used World Wild Vet by

826

:

Evan Anton, which is in fact science.

827

:

Like, a, like, nature

documentary style book.

828

:

Um, and the reason is, just look up the

cover of the book, it does a perfect

829

:

job of explaining why I used it.

830

:

I did go Google that book.

831

:

Mel: she was right,

832

:

Sabrina: I think, am

833

:

I, is it, I I

834

:

feel I

835

:

feel like I can't add a real life human

to my harem, that's weird, but also,

836

:

like, I also don't know, well he, so

he's got literally a giant snake, right?

837

:

Like the, like a fucking gigantic,

no, I know, I know how it sounds, but

838

:

they're literally pictures, so like

he might be able to take on some of

839

:

the weirdies in my harem, you know?

840

:

He might be able to hold his own.

841

:

He might be able to hold his

own with his knowledge of the,

842

:

like, the wildern like, the

843

:

animals, you

844

:

know?

845

:

yeah.

846

:

I don't know if he's a survivalist, but

I do know that he knows about animals.

847

:

I, well, I don't know.

848

:

I, I suspect, based on

849

:

Mel: Listen, he's such a distant

stranger that he could be fictional,

850

:

and I wouldn't know the difference,

so Put him in your harem if you want!

851

:

Sabrina: Yeah, alright, here we go.

852

:

Nobody sent like, fucking keep

this is this is our s This is

853

:

our secret, y'all, okay?

854

:

Nobody knows that

855

:

nobody's nobody Oh god, No!

856

:

No!

857

:

Mel: was a deep cut!

858

:

That was a deep cut!

859

:

You

860

:

Sabrina: this is terrible!

861

:

There's pictures of this one online!

862

:

You could probably find a public email!

863

:

Don't!

864

:

This is a secret!

865

:

Mel: That's why we tell

people don't find Tonku.

866

:

Sabrina: Is it It might be Actually, no.

867

:

This might be better because this

person is a public To be clear!

868

:

To be clear!

869

:

This is not permission!

870

:

I will be mad at you, listener!

871

:

I will be so fucking Unless he does have

a tax deductible ass and thinks I'm cute.

872

:

So, you

873

:

know.

874

:

Mel: Like, you know, don't

875

:

shut

876

:

Sabrina: Do I know how old this man is?

877

:

Doesn't matter.

878

:

he live?

879

:

Doesn't matter.

880

:

Mel: matter.

881

:

He's a Okay.

882

:

This next one might be one

of my favorite reasons in the

883

:

whole

884

:

Sabrina: fucked up.

885

:

Oh, by the way,

886

:

Shayla F, you are, um, enfolded in my

887

:

Mel: Shayla.

888

:

Sabrina: and I bantering at this point.

889

:

Mel: I know, I love it.

890

:

This is great.

891

:

Best embrace ever!

892

:

Um.

893

:

Yeah, Shayla.

894

:

I am pressing you into my

chest and I'm nestling you

895

:

there.

896

:

Sabrina: I'll be frank, uh, like, as long

as it's consensual, you, based on this,

897

:

uh, the knowledge that you've brought

into my brain of this human existing in

898

:

the world, you might be a little fondled.

899

:

Mel: Oh, okay.

900

:

Sabrina: Consensually.

901

:

If it's not,

902

:

Mel: consensually.

903

:

Sabrina: then you just get, then you

just get a pat on the back and that's

904

:

Mel: Sure.

905

:

Okay, we have to get to this Steak Tartare

traditional bus snack reason from Liz D.

906

:

Liz D, you goddamn genius.

907

:

She put a Blue Ribbon Romance by

CM Nascosta, and it says Uh, the

908

:

main character is a minotaur,

and a snack slash whole meal.

909

:

Steak tartare, minotaur.

910

:

Yes, I am inappropriate.

911

:

No, you are so

912

:

very

913

:

Sabrina: Perfect.

914

:

Mel: this audience.

915

:

Sabrina: seized into

916

:

Mel: yeah,

917

:

Sabrina: arms.

918

:

Mel: absolutely.

919

:

I'm

920

:

clinging to you.

921

:

Sabrina: Okay, the next one, I

had so much trouble picking, I,

922

:

like, it took everything in me

not to read the entire thing,

923

:

Mel: Every single year, every single year.

924

:

This is the way that this fantastic

smutty book club operates,

925

:

Sabrina: So this year, the Smutty

Book Club, our favorite slacker book

926

:

club from mainland Europe, UK and

Ireland made up of Joanna S, not Shoop,

927

:

Cecilia, Sophia, Hazel, Christa,

Natalie, and Molly amongst others who

928

:

they force along their little reading

929

:

journey.

930

:

I chose a couple of

reasons for this, okay?

931

:

So, this one.

932

:

brought me a lot of joy.

933

:

So, for keeping a badass, I want

to nominate the whole group.

934

:

This year, we were complete badasses.

935

:

People looked after babies,

went for their dream jobs, moved

936

:

houses, remembered to shower when

they really needed it, and made

937

:

sure to prioritize smut wherever possible.

938

:

Mel: that's beautiful.

939

:

Sabrina: I know.

940

:

That's perfect.

941

:

Mel: Beautiful.

942

:

Sabrina: That's embraceable alone.

943

:

Mel: Mm hmm.

944

:

Absolutely.

945

:

She said, The Wisteria Society of Last

Scoundrels feels appropriate for going

946

:

rogue in 2023, since they are air pirates.

947

:

Also, since I can't remember

anyone's names, I'm going to elect

948

:

this for hashtag Simone facts and

pretend that's the main character.

949

:

And I love that.

950

:

Sabrina: Me too.

951

:

And then the last part is I'm

choosing a touch of darkness for magic

952

:

strangles since I wanted to strangle

both the magic main characters.

953

:

Also for cucumber dicks as I

imagine this Hades would have a

954

:

chili dick and I hate cucumbers.

955

:

To be clear, my feelings are not

representative of the group as a whole.

956

:

And you know what?

957

:

All of you are entwined and

958

:

nuzzled

959

:

Mel: embraced.

960

:

Sabrina: just the biggest puppy pile of

smutty Slacker book club ness possible.

961

:

Hell

962

:

Mel: That's my favorite,

one of my favorite things.

963

:

Like she started the email.

964

:

It's not in here, but she started

the email by saying, this is the

965

:

email where I take all 20 categories

and I make 12 books fit into them.

966

:

I was

967

:

like, yeah,

968

:

that's how you do it.

969

:

Oh my God.

970

:

All right, so, Abby R.

971

:

wrote in,

972

:

Abby, you're so fucking embraced.

973

:

For

974

:

Sabrina: Goddess bless you, thank you.

975

:

Mel: her magic strangles, she said,

We're all mad here, by Leanne Bell.

976

:

There was a lot going on in this

book, but I'm pretty sure she was

977

:

strangled sexily at least once,

and several more times not sexy.

978

:

I have got to stop accidentally reading.

979

:

Dark reverse harem Alice in Wonderland

retellings, and start doing it on purpose!

980

:

Here, have a meme that I sent to my

best friend once I realized my goof.

981

:

It's so funny!

982

:

Sabrina: will be, so we were given

permission to share this meme, and we

983

:

will be sharing it on

social media, because

984

:

it's the I can't think of his

name, but the, the scientist

985

:

dude from Phineas and Ferb,

986

:

Mel: Uh

987

:

Sabrina: and it's the whole, if I had

a nickel meme, and it says, if I had

988

:

a nickel for every time I accidentally

read a Dark Reverse harem Alice in

989

:

Wonderland retelling, I'd have two

nickels, which isn't a lot, but

990

:

it's weird that it happened twice.

991

:

Right?

992

:

And like.

993

:

Yeah, you are, you are so

fucking embraced, like, just

994

:

enveloped in my meme loving arms.

995

:

I love memes.

996

:

Eh, to be clear, listener, if you

ever want to make memes and send

997

:

us memes, I will be delighted.

998

:

They will go every, like,

the most unhinged shit.

999

:

I will fucking love it.

:

00:36:22,986 --> 00:36:23,686

Mel: Absolutely.

:

00:36:24,036 --> 00:36:25,726

Sabrina: Heavingbosomspodcast at gmail.

:

00:36:25,726 --> 00:36:25,966

com.

:

00:36:26,356 --> 00:36:26,976

Mel: Mm hmm.

:

00:36:27,316 --> 00:36:31,700

Sabrina: So, next up we have Rachel H who

:

00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:33,090

sent

:

00:36:33,150 --> 00:36:34,900

us literally just an email.

:

00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:39,450

With reading embrace, all of the reasons.

:

00:36:39,650 --> 00:36:40,350

That was it.

:

00:36:40,630 --> 00:36:41,780

Fucking love it!

:

00:36:41,780 --> 00:36:46,310

Like, you are you are

locked in my loving arms.

:

00:36:46,540 --> 00:36:49,140

Mel: Oh, I'm huggin on you.

:

00:36:50,110 --> 00:36:52,540

I might even bounce a

little while hugging you.

:

00:36:52,550 --> 00:36:53,320

Who knows?

:

00:36:53,756 --> 00:36:55,196

It's gettin weird over here.

:

00:36:55,246 --> 00:36:56,576

Sabrina: bounce over here, Yeah,

:

00:36:56,826 --> 00:36:58,656

Mel: a little, a little comforting bounce.

:

00:36:59,596 --> 00:36:59,756

Sabrina: Mm

:

00:36:59,816 --> 00:37:00,086

hmm.

:

00:37:00,946 --> 00:37:01,536

Mel: now.

:

00:37:02,067 --> 00:37:07,477

we are going to do a metric

fuckton of storygraph peeps.

:

00:37:08,067 --> 00:37:09,847

So, I will start.

:

00:37:10,957 --> 00:37:13,147

Nope, you will start, because I think

:

00:37:13,292 --> 00:37:14,132

Sabrina: With Le

:

00:37:14,527 --> 00:37:15,077

Mel: one.

:

00:37:15,912 --> 00:37:18,152

Sabrina: with Leanne T 519.

:

00:37:19,007 --> 00:37:22,537

Mel: Oh my god, that was, I could've,

why couldn't I pronounce that one?

:

00:37:23,512 --> 00:37:27,115

Sabrina: I mean, you did

say La Lamere Lamerev

:

00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:32,480

Mel: Heheheheheheheh

That L looked like an I.

:

00:37:32,850 --> 00:37:34,040

And that is a problem with the

:

00:37:34,095 --> 00:37:35,375

Sabrina: All lowercase.

:

00:37:35,510 --> 00:37:36,410

Mel: and this Sans

:

00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:39,170

Sabrina: All of the everything

that a story graph is

:

00:37:39,250 --> 00:37:39,980

Mel: Oh really?

:

00:37:40,050 --> 00:37:40,640

Sabrina: be clear.

:

00:37:40,730 --> 00:37:41,170

Yeah.

:

00:37:41,930 --> 00:37:43,930

Mel: That is information I could've used!

:

00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:49,330

Sabrina: Uh,

:

00:37:49,330 --> 00:37:50,070

ha ha ha.

:

00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:52,460

Mel: Hey Tostita, you're embraced!

:

00:37:53,223 --> 00:37:54,643

Sabrina: Uh, Bryomide,

:

00:37:54,891 --> 00:37:56,391

Mel: And Holli Holli

:

00:37:57,001 --> 00:37:57,981

Sabrina: Chickaloo Kate,

:

00:38:01,401 --> 00:38:02,766

Mel: al veal.

:

00:38:04,541 --> 00:38:05,611

Sabrina: Carla Gale,

:

00:38:06,701 --> 00:38:07,631

Mel: T sub

:

00:38:09,611 --> 00:38:11,261

TT

:

00:38:12,281 --> 00:38:13,001

Sabrina: I don't know how

:

00:38:13,001 --> 00:38:15,541

either, T, the B and the H.

:

00:38:15,957 --> 00:38:16,497

Mel: Yeah,

:

00:38:16,777 --> 00:38:17,387

Sabrina: me off.

:

00:38:17,587 --> 00:38:17,977

Mel: it's all right.

:

00:38:17,977 --> 00:38:18,397

It's all right.

:

00:38:18,427 --> 00:38:18,937

It's all right.

:

00:38:18,937 --> 00:38:19,027

I'm

:

00:38:19,027 --> 00:38:20,497

just glad you know it's not just me.

:

00:38:20,637 --> 00:38:21,547

Sabrina: Wilson Reads.

:

00:38:22,257 --> 00:38:24,687

Mel: Danielle's over nine

:

00:38:25,161 --> 00:38:26,241

Sabrina: Crazy Sarah.

:

00:38:27,049 --> 00:38:27,739

Mel: Acorn

:

00:38:28,125 --> 00:38:29,385

Sabrina: Nerdy Spinster.

:

00:38:29,675 --> 00:38:32,075

Mel: Shadow Master 13.

:

00:38:32,758 --> 00:38:34,688

Sabrina: Oh no, I hate

that you gave me this one.

:

00:38:34,718 --> 00:38:35,688

I'm conflicted.

:

00:38:35,728 --> 00:38:38,078

I was staring at it, conflicted

about how it's pronounced.

:

00:38:38,108 --> 00:38:38,408

Is it

:

00:38:38,408 --> 00:38:41,641

Kaylee Maylee or Kaylee Maylay?

:

00:38:41,641 --> 00:38:43,005

Kaylee Maylee?

:

00:38:43,005 --> 00:38:43,688

Kaylee

:

00:38:44,928 --> 00:38:45,958

Maylay.

:

00:38:46,218 --> 00:38:47,028

Mel: Kaylee Melee.

:

00:38:47,298 --> 00:38:48,028

Sabrina: You get all three of

:

00:38:48,198 --> 00:38:49,688

Mel: You get all three!

:

00:38:49,688 --> 00:38:49,938

Hey!

:

00:38:50,308 --> 00:38:50,738

Sabrina: Mm hmm.

:

00:38:51,548 --> 00:38:52,968

Mel: Um, Chi ha

:

00:38:54,945 --> 00:38:55,385

reads.

:

00:38:55,515 --> 00:38:56,435

Sabrina: Ha ha!

:

00:38:56,885 --> 00:38:57,314

Mel: Kai ha

:

00:38:57,315 --> 00:38:57,715

reads.

:

00:38:57,785 --> 00:38:58,855

Sabrina: Bombardment.

:

00:38:59,725 --> 00:39:00,555

Mel: That's awesome.

:

00:39:00,973 --> 00:39:02,373

KG reads seven.

:

00:39:03,442 --> 00:39:04,752

Sabrina: Loridel.

:

00:39:05,722 --> 00:39:06,242

Mel: Oh, I like that.

:

00:39:06,242 --> 00:39:06,522

Yeah, LauraDell.

:

00:39:07,575 --> 00:39:07,985

I like that a

:

00:39:07,985 --> 00:39:08,365

lot.

:

00:39:08,405 --> 00:39:08,865

Okay.

:

00:39:09,101 --> 00:39:10,341

BADDIEMATH.

:

00:39:10,501 --> 00:39:10,991

Now that's a

:

00:39:10,991 --> 00:39:14,161

username.

:

00:39:15,441 --> 00:39:17,031

Sabrina: you are all embraced.

:

00:39:17,061 --> 00:39:19,501

Do we know if you even have a single book

:

00:39:19,511 --> 00:39:20,521

tracked on StoryGraph?

:

00:39:21,101 --> 00:39:22,691

No fuckin idea.

:

00:39:22,741 --> 00:39:23,541

But you know what?

:

00:39:23,791 --> 00:39:27,811

You are just wrapped up and

smushed to our bosoms one

:

00:39:27,811 --> 00:39:28,801

after another.

:

00:39:29,081 --> 00:39:30,371

Mel: absolutely.

:

00:39:30,751 --> 00:39:32,801

I'm doing a big affection on you.

:

00:39:33,101 --> 00:39:37,631

I'm maybe, maybe I'm doing

a very light caress on a non

:

00:39:37,651 --> 00:39:38,881

intimate part of your body.

:

00:39:39,154 --> 00:39:40,602

if you're consenting to it.

:

00:39:40,942 --> 00:39:41,572

Sure.

:

00:39:41,742 --> 00:39:42,272

Yeah.

:

00:39:42,282 --> 00:39:42,602

One of

:

00:39:42,642 --> 00:39:43,492

Sabrina: just a pet.

:

00:39:43,732 --> 00:39:43,872

Mel: Yeah.

:

00:39:44,242 --> 00:39:46,902

And one of those really

nice shoulder caresses.

:

00:39:46,922 --> 00:39:47,412

Yeah.

:

00:39:48,002 --> 00:39:48,312

Okay.

:

00:39:48,312 --> 00:39:55,492

Also for the record, I looked at that

last username and I would have said

:

00:39:55,582 --> 00:39:58,382

middle Kissimmee, which is not what that

:

00:39:58,682 --> 00:39:58,792

says,

:

00:39:59,612 --> 00:40:02,362

Sabrina: Literally, the minute I looked

at it, I was like, Mel would have

:

00:40:02,522 --> 00:40:02,592

Mel: but

:

00:40:02,712 --> 00:40:03,572

Sabrina: this Midlec.

:

00:40:04,072 --> 00:40:05,062

Midlec Missy.

:

00:40:09,662 --> 00:40:11,072

Mel: also, that's also a

:

00:40:11,072 --> 00:40:11,322

possibility.

:

00:40:11,532 --> 00:40:11,912

Sabrina: Yeah.

:

00:40:12,572 --> 00:40:13,552

Mm hmm.

:

00:40:13,552 --> 00:40:14,102

Mm hmm.

:

00:40:14,102 --> 00:40:14,652

Heh heh

:

00:40:14,677 --> 00:40:16,577

Mel: This is one of my

favorite reasons too.

:

00:40:17,067 --> 00:40:20,477

Kristen wrote in for Steak Tartare.

:

00:40:20,707 --> 00:40:22,027

Traditional bus snack.

:

00:40:22,727 --> 00:40:26,097

That time I got drunk and saved

a demon by Kimberly Lemming.

:

00:40:26,387 --> 00:40:31,327

Because if anyone would be capable of

pulling a perfectly preserved container

:

00:40:31,327 --> 00:40:36,857

of Steak Tartare out of one of her skirt

pockets, it would be Sin Hot Pepper.

:

00:40:37,137 --> 00:40:38,247

And you're right!

:

00:40:38,982 --> 00:40:39,482

Sabrina: Yep!

:

00:40:39,682 --> 00:40:43,442

You are fuckin entwined in my arms.

:

00:40:44,057 --> 00:40:44,297

Mel: Hell

:

00:40:44,362 --> 00:40:46,572

Sabrina: Because, accurate.

:

00:40:46,717 --> 00:40:47,497

Mel: Hell yeah.

:

00:40:48,052 --> 00:40:49,772

Sabrina: And even if it

wasn't accurate, guess what?

:

00:40:50,192 --> 00:40:51,642

He'd still be embraced.

:

00:40:52,251 --> 00:40:54,221

Alright, Charlotte C.

:

00:40:54,271 --> 00:41:00,821

for HB Author, used Josh and Hazel's Guide

to Not Dating and The True Love Experiment

:

00:41:00,821 --> 00:41:06,301

by Christina Lauren because if they've

been on the podcast, they're counting it.

:

00:41:06,456 --> 00:41:07,556

Mel: hell yeah!

:

00:41:07,926 --> 00:41:08,996

Embraced.

:

00:41:09,081 --> 00:41:09,901

Sabrina: in this house.

:

00:41:10,176 --> 00:41:11,376

Mel: You're getting a snuzzle.

:

00:41:12,169 --> 00:41:12,789

Alright,

:

00:41:13,254 --> 00:41:13,644

Sabrina: Oh my god.

:

00:41:14,189 --> 00:41:15,639

Mel: we have an MVP.

:

00:41:16,049 --> 00:41:16,739

And she was an

:

00:41:16,739 --> 00:41:17,059

MVP

:

00:41:17,059 --> 00:41:17,949

last year.

:

00:41:18,164 --> 00:41:20,294

Sabrina: have a side

note at the end of this.

:

00:41:20,519 --> 00:41:23,859

Mel: Okay, she's also an MVP of my heart.

:

00:41:24,389 --> 00:41:26,249

And that is Robin J.

:

00:41:27,339 --> 00:41:32,714

Over the course of this year, Robin

J sent in The reading embrace five

:

00:41:33,304 --> 00:41:37,114

times, and I'm obsessed with her.

:

00:41:37,624 --> 00:41:40,664

the second group also contains

the book title that I would

:

00:41:40,664 --> 00:41:42,324

steal for my autobiography.

:

00:41:42,324 --> 00:41:46,024

She says, regrettably, I'm

about to cause trouble.

:

00:41:46,744 --> 00:41:50,114

And honestly, that's definitely,

that should be yours.

:

00:41:50,224 --> 00:41:52,584

I can't believe somebody

stole that from you, Robin J.

:

00:41:53,294 --> 00:41:53,924

Oh my god.

:

00:41:54,934 --> 00:41:55,414

Okay.

:

00:41:55,884 --> 00:42:01,554

So, for Magic Strangles, she said, The

Tyrant Alpha's rejected mate by Kate C.

:

00:42:01,554 --> 00:42:02,014

Wells.

:

00:42:02,474 --> 00:42:03,914

There's magic, and

:

00:42:04,779 --> 00:42:05,639

Sabrina: oh, sorry, finish.

:

00:42:05,749 --> 00:42:06,089

I

:

00:42:06,104 --> 00:42:06,594

Mel: Oh, oh.

:

00:42:06,824 --> 00:42:10,204

The reasoning is, There's magic,

and somebody should have strangled

:

00:42:10,204 --> 00:42:11,494

him right in the beginning.

:

00:42:11,494 --> 00:42:13,242

ha ha

:

00:42:13,279 --> 00:42:16,829

Sabrina: loved, by the way, how

many people's reasoning for Magic

:

00:42:16,829 --> 00:42:20,559

Strangles was that they're like, I

wanted to strangle these characters.

:

00:42:21,159 --> 00:42:22,619

Like, it brought me a lot of joy.

:

00:42:22,929 --> 00:42:27,059

By the way, of note, I specifically

chose one from every one.

:

00:42:27,139 --> 00:42:29,239

All of these are from a different embrace.

:

00:42:29,484 --> 00:42:29,864

Mel: Yes.

:

00:42:30,594 --> 00:42:31,004

Yeah.

:

00:42:31,659 --> 00:42:32,949

Sabrina: So, , second embrace.

:

00:42:33,349 --> 00:42:35,649

Was a deeply cockin Fassbender.

:

00:42:36,189 --> 00:42:39,929

they used Entranced with the

Basilisks by Lillian Lark.

:

00:42:40,709 --> 00:42:44,929

Multiple cocks that go deeper

than even Fassbender has imagined.

:

00:42:46,764 --> 00:42:47,234

Embrace

:

00:42:47,234 --> 00:42:47,664

twice.

:

00:42:48,002 --> 00:42:50,439

Mel: That's so funny!

:

00:42:51,219 --> 00:42:53,179

Okay, oh boy.

:

00:42:53,689 --> 00:43:00,079

Smart Bosom's Milking Farm was The Doctor

and the Dungeon Master by Jiffy Kate.

:

00:43:00,459 --> 00:43:04,139

And her reasoning is, it is

not what you think it is.

:

00:43:04,964 --> 00:43:07,574

Sabrina: That makes me so fucking curious.

:

00:43:07,934 --> 00:43:09,824

I'm gonna have to read it now.

:

00:43:10,804 --> 00:43:13,524

I feel like we should

read it for pod or like

:

00:43:14,099 --> 00:43:16,129

Mel: Yeah, something.

:

00:43:16,229 --> 00:43:16,239

Oh

:

00:43:16,394 --> 00:43:17,294

Sabrina: does that mean?

:

00:43:17,799 --> 00:43:18,629

Mel: no, but I'm, I'm

:

00:43:18,629 --> 00:43:18,879

big

:

00:43:18,924 --> 00:43:22,914

Sabrina: Okay, I am so fucking happy

that I got this with it, but just

:

00:43:22,914 --> 00:43:24,034

worked out that I got this one.

:

00:43:24,184 --> 00:43:26,474

So hashtag simone facts

:

00:43:27,149 --> 00:43:33,829

Before I go further, on the spreadsheet,

it was written in as hashtag Simon Facts.

:

00:43:34,699 --> 00:43:34,759

Mel: Hee

:

00:43:34,759 --> 00:43:37,119

hee hee hee, that's so funny.

:

00:43:37,119 --> 00:43:37,309

Ha

:

00:43:37,439 --> 00:43:48,439

Sabrina: about Simon, and also love this

because Okay, so for hashtag Simone Facts,

:

00:43:49,099 --> 00:43:49,659

Mel: Uh huh.

:

00:43:49,659 --> 00:43:50,455

Ha ha

:

00:43:50,559 --> 00:43:57,149

Sabrina: said most eligible billionaire

by Annika Martin because there's a dog.

:

00:43:57,599 --> 00:43:59,539

His name is not Simon.

:

00:43:59,549 --> 00:43:59,579

What?

:

00:44:05,463 --> 00:44:06,323

Mel: It's incredible.

:

00:44:06,776 --> 00:44:07,456

It's incredible.

:

00:44:08,156 --> 00:44:12,106

The next one also makes just as little

sense to me, and that makes me so

:

00:44:12,106 --> 00:44:12,626

happy.

:

00:44:13,476 --> 00:44:14,786

The next one!

:

00:44:15,966 --> 00:44:17,356

Robin Jay, you goddamn genius.

:

00:44:18,299 --> 00:44:21,199

The next one for Steak

Tartare, traditional bus snack.

:

00:44:21,908 --> 00:44:26,318

She chose Bigfoot and the

Librarian by Linda Winstead Jones.

:

00:44:27,508 --> 00:44:32,338

And the reasoning is, it's a shifter

book, but he shifts into a Sasquatch.

:

00:44:33,888 --> 00:44:39,427

I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure there is

a line of logic that I just can't see in

:

00:44:39,427 --> 00:44:39,667

there.

:

00:44:39,772 --> 00:44:44,392

Sabrina: Yeah, like, this is, like, this

is the kind of shit that like my ADHD

:

00:44:44,392 --> 00:44:45,502

brain would do.

:

00:44:45,897 --> 00:44:46,417

Mel: Mm hmm.

:

00:44:46,607 --> 00:44:48,097

Sabrina: I can't track it, right?

:

00:44:48,097 --> 00:44:50,797

Like, I don't know I don't

know how we got there.

:

00:44:50,857 --> 00:44:52,477

Mel: can't give you a map To get there.

:

00:44:52,617 --> 00:44:55,557

Sabrina: to be clear, I also

have no idea where Steak Tartare

:

00:44:55,577 --> 00:44:56,907

Traditional Bus Snack came from.

:

00:44:56,907 --> 00:44:58,027

I have no memory of it.

:

00:44:59,047 --> 00:44:59,997

Mel: Oh, do you want me to tell you?

:

00:45:00,737 --> 00:45:01,417

Sabrina: Yes.

:

00:45:01,507 --> 00:45:07,137

Mel: Okay, that was from our episode

with Sierra Simone and Julie Murphy,

:

00:45:07,297 --> 00:45:15,097

where we recapped that 90s, that 90s

e with JTT, or maybe it was a:

:

00:45:15,107 --> 00:45:21,027

movie with JTT and they're on a bus and

there's, at one point there's a cooler,

:

00:45:21,895 --> 00:45:28,180

I think they say like a kidney is in,

in order to get them to go to, to, Y you

:

00:45:28,180 --> 00:45:32,980

know, the, the Christmas time cunt punch

extravaganza that the heroine is at?

:

00:45:32,980 --> 00:45:35,500

Pfft.

:

00:45:35,500 --> 00:45:35,760

It is,

:

00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:35,960

it's a

:

00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:36,820

Christmas village.

:

00:45:37,125 --> 00:45:39,975

Sabrina: You've grown your

you've grown your business, Mel.

:

00:45:39,975 --> 00:45:41,370

Wow.

:

00:45:41,370 --> 00:45:42,765

Wow!

:

00:45:42,830 --> 00:45:44,550

Mel: back in time with it, I'll tell ya.

:

00:45:44,590 --> 00:45:45,230

It's really

:

00:45:45,230 --> 00:45:45,670

serious

:

00:45:45,670 --> 00:45:46,230

over here.

:

00:45:47,369 --> 00:45:53,034

Sabrina: so, next up oh, by the way,

you're, Not quadruple, quintuple embraced,

:

00:45:53,547 --> 00:45:54,167

Mel: Oh yeah.

:

00:45:54,604 --> 00:45:58,074

Like, I'm embracing you, and then

I think we're like gonna fall down

:

00:45:58,074 --> 00:45:59,624

and roll down a hill together.

:

00:45:59,714 --> 00:46:01,584

You're gonna be embraced so much.

:

00:46:01,654 --> 00:46:03,324

It's just like a boom boom boom boom boom

:

00:46:03,324 --> 00:46:03,674

boom boom

:

00:46:03,674 --> 00:46:04,444

boom level of

:

00:46:04,444 --> 00:46:04,894

embrace.

:

00:46:04,944 --> 00:46:08,364

Sabrina: kidney in a thing.

:

00:46:08,434 --> 00:46:11,724

It's because somebody lost a body part.

:

00:46:11,754 --> 00:46:15,274

It's not a kidney in there, it's

probably an arm or something.

:

00:46:15,439 --> 00:46:18,319

Mel: It's steak tartar,

the traditional bus stack.

:

00:46:18,986 --> 00:46:19,736

to keep that cold.

:

00:46:20,776 --> 00:46:22,996

Sabrina: That's very

Hannibal Lecter of you.

:

00:46:24,446 --> 00:46:29,819

So, next up, we have Sarah

P., who did two embraces.

:

00:46:31,177 --> 00:46:34,067

one of which was why St.

:

00:46:34,067 --> 00:46:38,357

Vincent, Devil and Winter

fit every single category.

:

00:46:38,446 --> 00:46:42,766

Mel: When Sabrina, when I tell

you the joy that, that, that, that

:

00:46:42,796 --> 00:46:46,756

particular email brought me when it

came in, I don't even know that I can

:

00:46:46,786 --> 00:46:48,196

adequately express it.

:

00:46:48,196 --> 00:46:48,376

That's so

:

00:46:49,187 --> 00:46:50,017

Sabrina: I knew.

:

00:46:50,067 --> 00:46:51,017

I could feel you

:

00:46:51,017 --> 00:46:52,057

from afar.

:

00:46:52,327 --> 00:46:52,837

Mm hmm.

:

00:46:53,428 --> 00:47:01,018

I was also deeply cackling at how just

how many Like in the other, embrace

:

00:47:01,018 --> 00:47:03,388

the wrong embrace,, the non St.

:

00:47:03,388 --> 00:47:04,678

Vincent embrace.

:

00:47:04,738 --> 00:47:05,188

Right?

:

00:47:05,608 --> 00:47:08,158

Not that there's ever a wrong

embrace, but obviously the St.

:

00:47:08,158 --> 00:47:10,258

Vincent embrace is the right one.

:

00:47:11,038 --> 00:47:11,578

Unless,

:

00:47:11,788 --> 00:47:12,148

Mel: Got it.

:

00:47:12,225 --> 00:47:14,955

Sabrina: unless somebody next

year wants to give me a west

:

00:47:14,955 --> 00:47:15,975

Rev embrace.

:

00:47:15,975 --> 00:47:17,085

In which case Yeah.

:

00:47:17,175 --> 00:47:18,765

In which case I will accept that.

:

00:47:19,255 --> 00:47:19,945

I'm a Raven.

:

00:47:19,945 --> 00:47:21,745

I'm a West Raven fan girl.

:

00:47:21,745 --> 00:47:22,525

I can't help it.

:

00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:26,740

Anyway, uh, I was calculating how

many of the books the reasoning was.

:

00:47:26,940 --> 00:47:29,980

Don't remember why they're here,

but damn, I bet the reason was good.

:

00:47:30,420 --> 00:47:32,824

Like, so many of

:

00:47:33,204 --> 00:47:33,723

Mel: It's so good.

:

00:47:34,002 --> 00:47:35,872

Sabrina: Would you like to

take the honors of the St.

:

00:47:35,872 --> 00:47:36,682

Vincent one?

:

00:47:37,371 --> 00:47:37,851

Mel: I will.

:

00:47:37,881 --> 00:47:38,511

Yeah, I will.

:

00:47:39,201 --> 00:47:43,351

She said for baboon hearts, honestly,

I'm surprised that phrase didn't

:

00:47:43,351 --> 00:47:45,721

appear in the book with as much as St.

:

00:47:45,721 --> 00:47:52,061

Vincent tried to avoid actually

saying, I love you . Hi, baboon heart.

:

00:47:52,066 --> 00:47:52,211

You

:

00:47:56,021 --> 00:47:56,621

Oh my God.

:

00:47:56,957 --> 00:48:02,697

Sabrina: Um, for Cucumbery Dicks,

Sarah used Meat Load by Evie Mitchell.

:

00:48:02,857 --> 00:48:03,167

Honestly,

:

00:48:03,837 --> 00:48:07,355

I'm pretty sure, honestly, I'm

pretty sure I just liked this book

:

00:48:07,665 --> 00:48:11,635

and wanted to add it to the list

and this was the last category left.

:

00:48:11,710 --> 00:48:13,390

Mel: Frankly, Sarah, you

:

00:48:13,390 --> 00:48:18,130

did the right thing because I have

never seen a better title in my life.

:

00:48:19,260 --> 00:48:19,830

load.

:

00:48:20,095 --> 00:48:23,405

Sabrina: Honestly, the title

should it could be The Reason,

:

00:48:23,535 --> 00:48:24,185

Mel: Yeah.

:

00:48:24,305 --> 00:48:25,412

Sabrina: Sarah's Reason.

:

00:48:25,412 --> 00:48:26,555

Sarah's Reason's perfect.

:

00:48:26,695 --> 00:48:27,375

Mel: Oh, absolutely.

:

00:48:27,375 --> 00:48:27,745

Yeah.

:

00:48:28,315 --> 00:48:31,195

And then for millennial

skills, she said two scoops of

:

00:48:31,195 --> 00:48:33,085

hellfire by Kimberly Lemming.

:

00:48:33,695 --> 00:48:37,745

If summoning a sex demon with

pandemic baking isn't a millennial

:

00:48:37,745 --> 00:48:39,865

skill, I'm not sure what is.

:

00:48:39,865 --> 00:48:40,552

It's

:

00:48:40,552 --> 00:48:41,238

so

:

00:48:41,335 --> 00:48:44,325

Sabrina: the most accurate fucking thing

I've ever heard in my goddamn life.

:

00:48:45,135 --> 00:48:49,705

You are getting the

biggest bear baboon hug.

:

00:48:49,925 --> 00:48:51,215

Mel: Whoa.

:

00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:52,510

Sabrina: possibly give you.

:

00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:53,810

Mel: Incredible.

:

00:48:53,810 --> 00:48:58,700

I'm locking you in my grasp

and we're doing an embrace.

:

00:48:59,670 --> 00:49:00,030

Yeah.

:

00:49:00,670 --> 00:49:06,560

Sabrina: So, next up, we have Mary, who,

for Steak Tartare, a traditional bus stat

:

00:49:06,570 --> 00:49:17,262

bus snack, used an education in pleasure

by Eva Lee, very a student teacher vibe

:

00:49:17,272 --> 00:49:19,352

without him actually being her student.

:

00:49:19,592 --> 00:49:20,552

Youngish man, though.

:

00:49:20,552 --> 00:49:29,451

He learns He learns to eat

that, uh, tartare real good.

:

00:49:29,861 --> 00:49:30,421

Sorry.

:

00:49:30,861 --> 00:49:32,261

A good short story.

:

00:49:32,261 --> 00:49:35,063

I, I, I'm

:

00:49:35,151 --> 00:49:38,231

Mel: Mary, you are so fucking embraced.

:

00:49:38,231 --> 00:49:40,001

That shit's

:

00:49:42,181 --> 00:49:42,731

hilarious.

:

00:49:42,821 --> 00:49:48,271

Sabrina: hope you felt my hold

on your soul from afar when I

:

00:49:48,621 --> 00:49:49,581

read that.

:

00:49:50,191 --> 00:49:51,261

Mel: Seriously.

:

00:49:51,731 --> 00:49:53,981

Sabrina: What's the thing where

you, like, send your brain

:

00:49:53,981 --> 00:49:55,621

and your soul someplace else?

:

00:49:56,171 --> 00:50:00,711

Yeah, I actually projected my

ass to wherever you were to

:

00:50:01,081 --> 00:50:03,691

give you a hug when I read that.

:

00:50:04,251 --> 00:50:06,301

Because I did cry laughing.

:

00:50:06,331 --> 00:50:10,101

If you couldn't tell, I've cried laughing

a couple of times this episode, but

:

00:50:10,101 --> 00:50:11,421

like, the fact that I couldn't even.

:

00:50:13,471 --> 00:50:13,571

Mel: Uh

:

00:50:13,571 --> 00:50:13,981

huh.

:

00:50:14,061 --> 00:50:16,321

Sabrina: the way, that is,

um, going in my lexicon now.

:

00:50:17,191 --> 00:50:17,581

Um.

:

00:50:18,011 --> 00:50:19,621

Mel: Eatin that tartare real good.

:

00:50:19,631 --> 00:50:21,051

Yeah, absolutely.

:

00:50:21,211 --> 00:50:21,901

Sabrina: or she, or

:

00:50:22,241 --> 00:50:23,211

Mel: Or she, they, whoever.

:

00:50:23,481 --> 00:50:24,141

Sabrina: whoever!

:

00:50:24,536 --> 00:50:28,206

Mel: Yeah, okay, we're back

in my personal hellscape.

:

00:50:28,596 --> 00:50:29,206

So,

:

00:50:32,526 --> 00:50:34,286

You are embraced, Ms.

:

00:50:34,296 --> 00:50:34,906

Lori.

:

00:50:35,921 --> 00:50:36,961

Sabrina: Anna92,

:

00:50:37,351 --> 00:50:37,731

Shan

:

00:50:37,766 --> 00:50:38,626

Mel: the book dragon.

:

00:50:38,626 --> 00:50:39,536

This one might be fine.

:

00:50:40,556 --> 00:50:40,966

This list.

:

00:50:41,031 --> 00:50:41,591

Sabrina: Girl,

:

00:50:42,286 --> 00:50:42,546

Mel: M.

:

00:50:42,556 --> 00:50:44,316

Hainsworth, hey.

:

00:50:44,871 --> 00:50:45,311

Sabrina: Laura C7A7C2,

:

00:50:47,626 --> 00:50:48,566

Mel: I would have said Lorac.

:

00:50:52,951 --> 00:50:56,401

Sabrina: The Keeper of the

Trees, The Savior of the Trees,

:

00:50:57,366 --> 00:50:59,186

Mel: Yeah, that's what

happened when I read

:

00:51:00,366 --> 00:51:01,026

Melvad.

:

00:51:01,901 --> 00:51:02,821

Sabrina: Rogue Cake,

:

00:51:03,161 --> 00:51:04,371

Mel: Ciara Jonah.

:

00:51:04,716 --> 00:51:05,956

Sabrina: Comet Loves Cupid.

:

00:51:06,546 --> 00:51:07,576

Ooh, I like

:

00:51:08,021 --> 00:51:10,091

Mel: Madeline the Terrible.

:

00:51:10,336 --> 00:51:12,036

Sabrina: The reader reads stuff.

:

00:51:12,111 --> 00:51:13,231

Mel: Ha ha ha.

:

00:51:13,231 --> 00:51:14,591

Lively Psyche.

:

00:51:14,591 --> 00:51:15,661

I like that one too.

:

00:51:16,246 --> 00:51:17,316

Sabrina: Ray Wolf.

:

00:51:17,316 --> 00:51:18,116

Did

:

00:51:18,171 --> 00:51:19,671

Mel: Tori Twatlastname.

:

00:51:19,671 --> 00:51:20,906

No!

:

00:51:20,906 --> 00:51:22,141

Tori!

:

00:51:26,121 --> 00:51:29,224

When it says, Tori Toolastname.

:

00:51:29,224 --> 00:51:30,169

So, whoopsie!

:

00:51:30,169 --> 00:51:30,641

ha

:

00:51:30,641 --> 00:51:31,586

ha ha.

:

00:51:31,586 --> 00:51:32,531

Oh, no!

:

00:51:32,531 --> 00:51:33,476

Apparently, yeah.

:

00:51:33,476 --> 00:51:36,311

I mean, it makes recording the

:

00:51:38,886 --> 00:51:39,556

Sabrina: Can you read?

:

00:51:40,116 --> 00:51:42,836

Is this why you listen to audiobooks?

:

00:51:44,331 --> 00:51:46,251

Mel: audiobooks pretty tough.

:

00:51:46,251 --> 00:51:49,991

Ha

:

00:51:50,416 --> 00:51:51,105

Sabrina: Oh my god.

:

00:51:51,105 --> 00:51:52,460

Tory Twat last names.

:

00:51:52,460 --> 00:51:53,476

I'm so sorry.

:

00:51:53,476 --> 00:51:56,186

F of Melody and all of us at

:

00:51:56,946 --> 00:51:59,026

Heaving Bosoms Headquarters.

:

00:51:59,771 --> 00:52:00,191

Mel: Listen,

:

00:52:00,191 --> 00:52:07,971

we here at HBHQ, uh, do embrace you

hard, and we also issue you an apology.

:

00:52:08,301 --> 00:52:11,741

Tori, what's your last name?

:

00:52:11,856 --> 00:52:12,736

Sabrina: Oh my god,

:

00:52:13,556 --> 00:52:19,346

oh, so I'm gonna say Lizzie Shoney, and

I'm so excited for this one for you.

:

00:52:22,161 --> 00:52:22,751

Mel: Ajmerer.

:

00:52:22,751 --> 00:52:25,526

Twelve.

:

00:52:25,526 --> 00:52:28,301

Ajmerer.

:

00:52:30,236 --> 00:52:31,696

Sabrina: AJ

:

00:52:31,696 --> 00:52:38,506

Maurer, 12 probably, Jenner B.

:

00:52:40,634 --> 00:52:40,994

Mel: C.

:

00:52:41,054 --> 00:52:41,364

E.

:

00:52:41,414 --> 00:52:41,544

Dickey.

:

00:52:42,185 --> 00:52:43,595

Yeah.

:

00:52:43,786 --> 00:52:45,736

Sabrina: And Lucas 6, 5, 9 3

:

00:52:46,336 --> 00:52:50,866

You're all so embraced and wow.

:

00:52:51,136 --> 00:52:55,426

Also, probably apologies

to most of you, um,

:

00:52:56,226 --> 00:52:56,736

Mel: Yeah.

:

00:52:56,856 --> 00:52:57,106

Usernames

:

00:52:57,996 --> 00:52:58,466

it turns

:

00:52:58,706 --> 00:52:59,696

Sabrina: my God.

:

00:52:59,876 --> 00:53:00,626

Wow.

:

00:53:00,716 --> 00:53:01,226

That was

:

00:53:01,556 --> 00:53:02,051

so beautiful.

:

00:53:02,756 --> 00:53:03,356

Wow.

:

00:53:03,509 --> 00:53:06,299

I, I am embracing you so hard right now.

:

00:53:06,299 --> 00:53:06,779

Melody.

:

00:53:06,779 --> 00:53:07,019

Good

:

00:53:07,019 --> 00:53:07,439

job.

:

00:53:07,439 --> 00:53:07,889

I'm giving you.

:

00:53:07,889 --> 00:53:12,629

a pat on the back and embracing everybody,

everyone who's StoryCraft, you know.

:

00:53:13,179 --> 00:53:16,469

We're just one giant puppy puddle of

:

00:53:16,829 --> 00:53:19,749

delight with probably at

least a few people smothered

:

00:53:19,749 --> 00:53:20,819

underneath going, That's not

:

00:53:21,209 --> 00:53:21,879

how it's pronounced!

:

00:53:21,879 --> 00:53:25,869

Um, but we can't hear them

:

00:53:26,449 --> 00:53:27,149

Mel: Right.

:

00:53:27,769 --> 00:53:29,329

We still love them equally,

:

00:53:29,329 --> 00:53:29,889

though.

:

00:53:30,794 --> 00:53:30,974

Sabrina: but

:

00:53:31,019 --> 00:53:32,179

Mel: just might be murdering

:

00:53:32,534 --> 00:53:33,114

Sabrina: of

:

00:53:33,449 --> 00:53:34,449

Mel: Accidentally.

:

00:53:35,189 --> 00:53:35,449

Yeah.

:

00:53:35,449 --> 00:53:35,739

I'm so

:

00:53:35,739 --> 00:53:36,229

sorry.

:

00:53:36,584 --> 00:53:36,964

Yeah.

:

00:53:37,374 --> 00:53:37,914

Sabrina: sorry.

:

00:53:38,094 --> 00:53:38,774

Mel: Alright.

:

00:53:39,194 --> 00:53:45,394

Esprit says, Thank you for a delectable

year of lightning cum, shadow slingers,

:

00:53:45,694 --> 00:53:53,214

primordial horn, badass shifters, mafia

times, TM, fucking Nesta, orcs and

:

00:53:53,214 --> 00:53:57,504

coffee, HEAs, and top notch roasting.

:

00:53:57,714 --> 00:54:00,254

Oh my god, Esprit, I feel, like,

:

00:54:00,394 --> 00:54:01,344

so seen.

:

00:54:01,604 --> 00:54:02,364

Sabrina: Love you.

:

00:54:02,564 --> 00:54:04,164

Mel: I feel very seen.

:

00:54:04,538 --> 00:54:05,988

In the best way.

:

00:54:05,988 --> 00:54:06,808

Oh my God.

:

00:54:07,773 --> 00:54:12,743

Okay, so for keeping a badass,

they chose wild at heart by K.

:

00:54:12,773 --> 00:54:12,943

A.

:

00:54:12,943 --> 00:54:13,703

Tucker

:

00:54:14,268 --> 00:54:15,748

Sabrina: my own heart, Esperit.

:

00:54:16,569 --> 00:54:19,529

Mel: because the real badassery

isn't moving to Alaska with your

:

00:54:19,539 --> 00:54:22,689

sky cowboy, AKA Alaskan bush pilot.

:

00:54:23,229 --> 00:54:28,579

It's wrapping your arms and your community

around an elderly recluse who believes

:

00:54:28,599 --> 00:54:30,649

the only thing left for him is death.

:

00:54:30,849 --> 00:54:32,249

Dying alone.

:

00:54:33,644 --> 00:54:34,364

Sabrina: After my

:

00:54:34,484 --> 00:54:36,234

own heart.

:

00:54:36,784 --> 00:54:39,114

I adored that reason.

:

00:54:39,599 --> 00:54:40,069

Mel: Yeah.

:

00:54:40,464 --> 00:54:43,244

Sabrina: I love an old person.

:

00:54:43,899 --> 00:54:47,609

Mel: Have I told you that I have been

adopting the guy across the street?

:

00:54:47,790 --> 00:54:48,800

Sabrina: No!

:

00:54:49,205 --> 00:54:51,745

Mel: Yeah, I've been

adopting him for a while now.

:

00:54:52,772 --> 00:54:54,052

Sabrina: Does he have things he likes?

:

00:54:54,052 --> 00:54:55,362

Can I send him a present?

:

00:54:56,027 --> 00:54:57,347

Mel: Probably, but it's great.

:

00:54:57,737 --> 00:55:02,507

Because, like, he takes no shit,

and he has no qualms whatsoever.

:

00:55:02,877 --> 00:55:03,647

It's amazing.

:

00:55:03,687 --> 00:55:06,787

Like, one time I made a bunch

of brownies, and so I was like,

:

00:55:06,817 --> 00:55:08,487

I can't have these in my house.

:

00:55:08,752 --> 00:55:10,432

Um, I'm going to take some to neighbors.

:

00:55:10,892 --> 00:55:14,272

And so I said, Hey, like, would you

by any chance want these brownies?

:

00:55:14,422 --> 00:55:16,802

And he goes, he looks at him

and he goes, you know what?

:

00:55:17,172 --> 00:55:18,972

No, nope, I don't.

:

00:55:19,112 --> 00:55:20,812

I like him way crispier than that.

:

00:55:21,412 --> 00:55:23,072

I like him, I like him crispy.

:

00:55:26,512 --> 00:55:29,822

Alright, Ed, I'm gonna go fuck off

:

00:55:30,162 --> 00:55:30,592

with my

:

00:55:30,762 --> 00:55:32,042

squishy brownies.

:

00:55:32,117 --> 00:55:35,687

Sabrina: I am embracing

you so hard right now, Ed.

:

00:55:38,202 --> 00:55:43,492

Mel: He also knocked on our door and

asked for the woman who lives here

:

00:55:43,662 --> 00:55:45,182

because he needed help with zooms.

:

00:55:45,837 --> 00:55:47,647

and Michael was like, Oh, she's

:

00:55:47,647 --> 00:55:48,267

recording right

:

00:55:48,267 --> 00:55:48,417

now.

:

00:55:48,417 --> 00:55:49,337

I'm so sorry.

:

00:55:49,752 --> 00:55:51,222

Sabrina: know your he doesn't know

:

00:55:52,162 --> 00:55:53,442

Mel: No, absolutely not.

:

00:55:53,442 --> 00:55:54,752

Ed cannot.

:

00:55:54,752 --> 00:55:55,382

Ed Cantony won't.

:

00:55:56,502 --> 00:56:00,102

And so I went over afterwards to be

like, did you have make Zooms work?

:

00:56:00,112 --> 00:56:01,702

Like, can I help now or whatever?

:

00:56:02,112 --> 00:56:08,502

And he looked me in my face and

he said, so that guy who answered

:

00:56:08,502 --> 00:56:09,882

the door, was that your son?

:

00:56:13,622 --> 00:56:17,292

Ed, are you so old that you're age blind?

:

00:56:18,262 --> 00:56:19,902

That's my husband.

:

00:56:23,052 --> 00:56:23,542

Sabrina: Oh my

:

00:56:23,542 --> 00:56:24,352

god.

:

00:56:24,942 --> 00:56:25,802

Wow.

:

00:56:25,822 --> 00:56:26,482

Mel: so much.

:

00:56:26,512 --> 00:56:26,962

Okay.

:

00:56:27,091 --> 00:56:27,795

Sabrina: Oh man.

:

00:56:28,125 --> 00:56:33,595

So, Esperant also said, for Science

Daddy, they used Crooked Kingdom by

:

00:56:33,935 --> 00:56:38,935

Leigh Bardugo, because Weiland saves his

whole ass crew with chemistry, and is

:

00:56:38,935 --> 00:56:41,325

the science daddy we need and deserve.

:

00:56:42,025 --> 00:56:46,185

Special mention to Demetrius in Stardew,

if you know you know, and you know what?

:

00:56:46,275 --> 00:56:47,355

I know.

:

00:56:47,555 --> 00:56:48,125

Sabrina

:

00:56:48,125 --> 00:56:48,775

knows.

:

00:56:49,195 --> 00:56:52,355

I actually rang in the New

Year playing Stardew Valley

:

00:56:52,710 --> 00:56:53,680

Mel: Aww.

:

00:56:54,310 --> 00:56:54,570

That's

:

00:56:54,620 --> 00:56:55,970

beautiful.

:

00:56:56,240 --> 00:56:57,340

I love that.

:

00:56:57,720 --> 00:56:57,970

Yeah,

:

00:56:58,155 --> 00:56:58,615

Sabrina: Yeah.

:

00:56:58,740 --> 00:57:02,410

Mel: of HBHQ knows what you're talking

about right now, and that's beautiful.

:

00:57:02,765 --> 00:57:03,375

Sabrina: I know.

:

00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:08,850

Mel: the next one is Magic

Strangles, and she decided on King

:

00:57:08,850 --> 00:57:13,640

of Flesh and Bone by Liv Zander

because her legs were just twisted.

:

00:57:13,730 --> 00:57:14,450

It's fine.

:

00:57:14,820 --> 00:57:16,990

And I'm pretty sure there was strangling.

:

00:57:17,110 --> 00:57:20,980

Special mention to Iron Flame

for Zayden with that Viscount.

:

00:57:21,744 --> 00:57:21,954

Sabrina: It

:

00:57:22,149 --> 00:57:24,889

Mel: Oh, it was.

:

00:57:24,889 --> 00:57:26,219

It was twisted.

:

00:57:27,083 --> 00:57:28,443

He didn't break her legs.

:

00:57:29,153 --> 00:57:29,913

He twisted.

:

00:57:29,913 --> 00:57:30,153

them.

:

00:57:30,223 --> 00:57:31,173

Thank you so much.

:

00:57:32,274 --> 00:57:33,134

Sabrina: Shannon H.

:

00:57:33,649 --> 00:57:34,189

Mel: Mm hmm.

:

00:57:34,339 --> 00:57:34,979

Hey, Shannon, you're

:

00:57:34,989 --> 00:57:35,779

embraced.

:

00:57:35,904 --> 00:57:36,824

Sabrina: hella embraced.

:

00:57:37,609 --> 00:57:38,789

Mel: Oh my God, you're

:

00:57:39,064 --> 00:57:41,434

Sabrina: Uh, so cradled and cuddled.

:

00:57:41,469 --> 00:57:42,019

Mel: I'm rocking

:

00:57:42,019 --> 00:57:42,529

you back and

:

00:57:42,529 --> 00:57:43,059

forth.

:

00:57:43,214 --> 00:57:45,744

Sabrina: I'm just enjoying

reading reasons and laughing

:

00:57:45,754 --> 00:57:47,864

that I keep forgetting to

actually embrace people.

:

00:57:47,894 --> 00:57:51,764

If we forget to embrace if we forgot

to embrace any of you, this is just

:

00:57:52,759 --> 00:57:53,019

Mel: Just

:

00:57:53,294 --> 00:57:53,534

Sabrina: right?

:

00:57:53,544 --> 00:57:53,734

This

:

00:57:53,734 --> 00:57:54,164

is

:

00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:55,711

Mel: is embracing you

:

00:57:55,984 --> 00:57:56,494

Sabrina: Yeah.

:

00:57:57,284 --> 00:57:57,724

Yes.

:

00:57:58,684 --> 00:57:59,124

Mel: Yeah.

:

00:57:59,414 --> 00:58:02,424

Sabrina: So, next up we have

Shannon H., who, for bonkers

:

00:58:02,444 --> 00:58:04,004

romance, used Deal with the

:

00:58:04,004 --> 00:58:08,964

Demon by Meg Anne and Kay

Lorraine, completely blank reason.

:

00:58:09,204 --> 00:58:10,884

And you know what, Shannon?

:

00:58:11,064 --> 00:58:12,444

You're fuckin right.

:

00:58:12,594 --> 00:58:13,624

Mel: That's correct.

:

00:58:13,864 --> 00:58:14,554

Sabrina: embraced!

:

00:58:15,144 --> 00:58:15,374

You

:

00:58:15,544 --> 00:58:17,544

Mel: correct to this embrace.

:

00:58:18,254 --> 00:58:19,724

Sabrina: you to my bosom.

:

00:58:20,169 --> 00:58:20,179

Mel: Hehehehe.

:

00:58:20,339 --> 00:58:20,849

Okay.

:

00:58:21,016 --> 00:58:26,276

Kaitlyn F., the subject was, I

actually did it this year, smiley face.

:

00:58:26,406 --> 00:58:26,576

Huzzah!

:

00:58:27,696 --> 00:58:31,246

For Simone Facts, she said,

trick shot by Kayla Gross.

:

00:58:31,876 --> 00:58:33,816

Nothing says Christmas like two penises.

:

00:58:35,056 --> 00:58:35,416

It's true.

:

00:58:35,726 --> 00:58:38,206

That is a Simone Fact.

:

00:58:39,086 --> 00:58:39,576

Sabrina: Yes.

:

00:58:40,236 --> 00:58:41,136

Mel: Yeah.

:

00:58:42,041 --> 00:58:42,761

Yeah.

:

00:58:43,126 --> 00:58:44,936

Sabrina: where hashtag

Simone Facts came from.

:

00:58:45,541 --> 00:58:45,991

Mel: You know what?

:

00:58:46,001 --> 00:58:49,751

That was also, it was the same episode as

traditional, traditional steak tartare.

:

00:58:49,871 --> 00:58:50,241

And it was

:

00:58:50,241 --> 00:58:50,881

because,

:

00:58:50,926 --> 00:58:53,096

Sabrina: I swear to God I

listened to that episode

:

00:58:54,051 --> 00:58:54,641

Mel: it's fine.

:

00:58:54,671 --> 00:58:59,331

No, this is, I mean, you know, I put

this together on my onesie last year.

:

00:58:59,331 --> 00:59:00,541

And so it was all of my

:

00:59:00,561 --> 00:59:01,381

favorite things.

:

00:59:01,421 --> 00:59:03,721

Not necessarily listeners favorite things.

:

00:59:04,546 --> 00:59:07,126

Sabrina: mm, mm,

:

00:59:07,241 --> 00:59:11,371

Mel: because we would say something and

then she would be like, actually when

:

00:59:11,381 --> 00:59:14,781

the 17th century, when they were, when

they were sewing up men's clothing,

:

00:59:15,461 --> 00:59:16,121

shmurtleblurtleblur.

:

00:59:16,356 --> 00:59:17,486

Hashtag Simone Facts.

:

00:59:19,256 --> 00:59:20,906

Sabrina: Uh, and then, Caitlyn F.

:

00:59:20,956 --> 00:59:26,386

also said, for Lady Love,

used Zoe Draven's Warriors

:

00:59:26,386 --> 00:59:28,736

of Luxuria and Horde Kings.

:

00:59:29,416 --> 00:59:31,716

And this is a fucking mood.

:

00:59:32,196 --> 00:59:36,006

The reasoning was, I'm surprised

I read anything else besides

:

00:59:36,006 --> 00:59:37,316

these and Kimberly Lemming.

:

00:59:37,716 --> 00:59:38,026

Because

:

00:59:38,581 --> 00:59:41,971

All of the books by all of

those authors are incredible.

:

00:59:42,911 --> 00:59:44,641

Love, Kim and Zoe.

:

00:59:44,931 --> 00:59:45,821

I'm saying Zoe.

:

00:59:45,821 --> 00:59:48,011

like I'm on a first name

basis with Zoe Draven.

:

00:59:48,311 --> 00:59:51,341

I would like to be on a first

name basis with Zoe Draven, to

:

00:59:51,341 --> 00:59:51,491

be

:

00:59:51,491 --> 00:59:53,031

clear, but I'm not.

:

00:59:53,566 --> 00:59:53,876

Mel: That would be

:

00:59:53,876 --> 00:59:54,276

great.

:

00:59:54,441 --> 00:59:54,626

Sabrina: hmm.

:

00:59:54,626 --> 00:59:55,611

Mm hmm.

:

00:59:55,651 --> 00:59:57,021

You're embraced, Caitlin.

:

00:59:57,286 --> 00:59:58,516

Mel: I mean, you're so embraced.

:

00:59:58,556 --> 01:00:03,096

And again this year, HB Author,

the top two were Kimberly

:

01:00:03,096 --> 01:00:04,396

Lemming and Katie Robert.

:

01:00:04,846 --> 01:00:06,226

Love, love, love.

:

01:00:07,496 --> 01:00:10,777

Okay, you gotta take this

one because it's the best.

:

01:00:10,957 --> 01:00:13,847

Sabrina: So, this one

had me fucking cackling,

:

01:00:13,907 --> 01:00:19,717

Mel: So, Lynn Camden wrote in Author

Lynn Camden, who everyone should read.

:

01:00:20,742 --> 01:00:21,262

Sabrina: Yes,

:

01:00:21,992 --> 01:00:28,382

Incredible Books, uh, said, My

darlings, lights of my life, allow me

:

01:00:28,392 --> 01:00:32,032

to embrace you into my chaotic bosom.

:

01:00:32,922 --> 01:00:33,722

Have I read this year?

:

01:00:34,452 --> 01:00:34,792

Books?

:

01:00:35,312 --> 01:00:35,962

Not really.

:

01:00:36,312 --> 01:00:36,812

What have I read?

:

01:00:37,462 --> 01:00:40,322

Nearly exclusively Dromione y fanfic.

:

01:00:40,692 --> 01:00:41,522

Am I proud?

:

01:00:42,468 --> 01:00:47,062

Around everyone except Ciaran, who finds

them deeply problematic as a couple.

:

01:00:47,462 --> 01:00:51,162

Ah, but you haven't read what

the fic authors do with them,

:

01:00:51,162 --> 01:00:53,082

I say, shaking my head sadly.

:

01:00:53,462 --> 01:00:57,042

Around Ciaran, I simply

slink away in shame.

:

01:00:57,511 --> 01:01:01,042

She knows of my shame, and

yet she loves me still.

:

01:01:01,522 --> 01:01:07,402

Anywho, to the list, I'm completing

it with Wild Abandon and Aldramione.

:

01:01:07,612 --> 01:01:10,592

And if this is not the most embraciest

:

01:01:10,667 --> 01:01:11,207

Mel: Embrace iest.

:

01:01:11,652 --> 01:01:12,742

Sabrina: way to embrace,

:

01:01:12,742 --> 01:01:13,712

fuckin

:

01:01:13,992 --> 01:01:14,882

do fanfic.

:

01:01:15,087 --> 01:01:16,027

Mel: Hell yeah!

:

01:01:16,222 --> 01:01:16,442

Sabrina: episodes.

:

01:01:16,682 --> 01:01:16,812

Other

:

01:01:17,362 --> 01:01:18,182

podcast episodes.

:

01:01:18,182 --> 01:01:19,892

We had a couple of those in here, too.

:

01:01:20,942 --> 01:01:23,512

have, uh, something funny

happened in your life.

:

01:01:23,512 --> 01:01:24,482

Tell us the story.

:

01:01:24,512 --> 01:01:24,932

K.

:

01:01:25,377 --> 01:01:26,077

Fuck yeah.

:

01:01:26,382 --> 01:01:26,922

Mel: Yeah.

:

01:01:27,507 --> 01:01:32,782

Sabrina: for keeping a badass, Between

Us flows the Nile by The Bright City.

:

01:01:32,962 --> 01:01:33,752

Alert!

:

01:01:34,002 --> 01:01:36,292

It's Dramayani X The

:

01:01:36,442 --> 01:01:37,262

Mummy!

:

01:01:37,667 --> 01:01:42,177

All my faves mushed together in

one long, god, it's so long, fic.

:

01:01:42,837 --> 01:01:45,687

I specifically brought this one in because

I figured there were probably gonna be

:

01:01:45,687 --> 01:01:47,927

some listeners that would be, uh, very

:

01:01:48,252 --> 01:01:49,052

Mel: Interested.

:

01:01:49,812 --> 01:01:50,212

Yeah.

:

01:01:50,537 --> 01:01:51,307

Sabrina: y, The Mummy

:

01:01:51,552 --> 01:01:52,072

Mel: yeah.

:

01:01:52,116 --> 01:01:52,522

Sabrina: handles,

:

01:01:52,607 --> 01:01:56,697

Mel: And then for Simone Facts, she

said, How to Win Friends and Influence

:

01:01:56,717 --> 01:01:59,727

People, by Olive, uh, Olivier Blake.

:

01:01:59,837 --> 01:02:00,877

Olivier Blake.

:

01:02:01,227 --> 01:02:01,907

Who, who knows?

:

01:02:02,637 --> 01:02:02,907

Listen!

:

01:02:02,907 --> 01:02:03,735

Ha ha!

:

01:02:03,735 --> 01:02:04,562

ha ha!

:

01:02:04,562 --> 01:02:04,976

ha!

:

01:02:04,976 --> 01:02:05,390

ha!

:

01:02:05,390 --> 01:02:06,217

I can't!

:

01:02:06,682 --> 01:02:09,322

Sabrina: Is this your, is this your

:

01:02:09,377 --> 01:02:09,887

Mel: I don't know!

:

01:02:10,087 --> 01:02:10,687

It's not a bit!

:

01:02:11,057 --> 01:02:13,237

And I'm, I'm embarrassed to say that!

:

01:02:17,062 --> 01:02:19,522

I had

:

01:02:19,522 --> 01:02:21,262

no problem with the Bright City.

:

01:02:21,352 --> 01:02:22,942

I did that one just fine.

:

01:02:23,422 --> 01:02:31,152

Anyway, um, so for Simone Facts, it

says, listen, let me tell you a fact.

:

01:02:31,422 --> 01:02:41,502

This thick holy ballsack, this

thick is 386,435 words long.

:

01:02:41,922 --> 01:02:42,672

Does it need to be?

:

01:02:43,232 --> 01:02:43,972

No.

:

01:02:44,372 --> 01:02:49,012

Is it unceasingly complicated and

weighted down with plot and hijinks?

:

01:02:49,442 --> 01:02:50,092

Yes!

:

01:02:50,672 --> 01:02:51,432

But I read it!

:

01:02:52,012 --> 01:02:53,152

Yeah!

:

01:02:53,432 --> 01:02:56,182

Also, I have another

embarrassing thing to say.

:

01:02:57,562 --> 01:03:03,043

And that is, that in my brain,

since the dawn of people shipping

:

01:03:03,043 --> 01:03:06,442

this couple, anytime I read it

with my eyeballs in my brain.

:

01:03:06,752 --> 01:03:08,142

I say Dramione.

:

01:03:09,652 --> 01:03:11,842

Sabrina: That sounds like

a sleeping medication.

:

01:03:12,042 --> 01:03:14,492

Mel: I've never heard Dramione brain.

:

01:03:14,682 --> 01:03:16,602

What's the matter with me?

:

01:03:18,342 --> 01:03:20,602

Sabrina: Were you one of those

people who pronounced it her me own

:

01:03:21,362 --> 01:03:23,352

before the movies and audiobooks came out?

:

01:03:23,772 --> 01:03:24,632

Mel: I for sure did.

:

01:03:24,632 --> 01:03:27,632

Okay.

:

01:03:30,392 --> 01:03:31,072

That works.

:

01:03:32,852 --> 01:03:33,162

Nice.

:

01:03:33,452 --> 01:03:34,552

That's really the way to do it.

:

01:03:34,552 --> 01:03:36,142

Because now you can say Dramione.

:

01:03:36,172 --> 01:03:38,052

And you don't say Dramione.

:

01:03:38,543 --> 01:03:38,943

Anyway.

:

01:03:40,243 --> 01:03:40,763

Okay.

:

01:03:40,783 --> 01:03:41,183

Sabrina: night!

:

01:03:41,523 --> 01:03:42,973

Sleep tight, listener!

:

01:03:45,093 --> 01:03:45,643

Mel: Okay.

:

01:03:46,325 --> 01:03:49,727

Sabrina had an amazing idea

because we've been nervous

:

01:03:49,857 --> 01:03:51,847

Nellies, or at least I have been.

:

01:03:52,247 --> 01:03:52,927

But

:

01:03:53,407 --> 01:03:54,297

one of the things,

:

01:03:54,627 --> 01:03:55,107

Sabrina: Nelly.

:

01:03:55,417 --> 01:03:56,057

Mel: yeah, that's true.

:

01:03:56,077 --> 01:03:56,317

Yeah.

:

01:03:56,917 --> 01:03:59,537

One of the things that's been

absolutely incredible about this

:

01:03:59,537 --> 01:04:02,847

year, and it's no, I mean, it's

no different from any other year.

:

01:04:02,967 --> 01:04:06,457

And that's one of the reasons

that I love podcasts so much.

:

01:04:06,467 --> 01:04:11,267

And I love listener so much is that

in addition to embracing y'all,

:

01:04:11,507 --> 01:04:15,437

we felt so embraced by like the

:

01:04:15,457 --> 01:04:15,977

emails

:

01:04:15,977 --> 01:04:16,137

you

:

01:04:16,227 --> 01:04:17,027

Sabrina: by the way,

:

01:04:17,357 --> 01:04:18,007

Mel: Yeah.

:

01:04:18,047 --> 01:04:19,787

Sabrina: you you were embraced, Lynn.

:

01:04:20,187 --> 01:04:20,367

We

:

01:04:20,607 --> 01:04:22,077

embraced the hell out of you.

:

01:04:22,967 --> 01:04:23,627

Mel: Yeah.

:

01:04:23,987 --> 01:04:24,637

Yeah.

:

01:04:25,282 --> 01:04:25,982

Sabrina: Mm hm.

:

01:04:26,096 --> 01:04:26,517

Mel: hmm.

:

01:04:26,577 --> 01:04:28,157

I, I mean, I tackled you.

:

01:04:28,207 --> 01:04:29,217

I hope you noticed.

:

01:04:29,846 --> 01:04:31,357

Otherwise, I did it wrong.

:

01:04:31,717 --> 01:04:33,667

Anyway, you're embraced!

:

01:04:34,507 --> 01:04:36,677

Yeah, we, I mean, the amount of

:

01:04:36,687 --> 01:04:42,217

emails that came in, just being

incredible, I, it makes me so happy.

:

01:04:42,803 --> 01:04:46,533

One listener, Marike, said,

Thank you for another year of

:

01:04:46,533 --> 01:04:48,583

great podcasts and fun and joy.

:

01:04:48,833 --> 01:04:53,413

Sabrina is a great addition, and

I've been loving the episodes lately.

:

01:04:53,423 --> 01:04:53,433

Eeeeee!

:

01:04:55,321 --> 01:04:56,311

have been too.

:

01:04:56,681 --> 01:04:57,271

Editing has

:

01:04:57,271 --> 01:04:57,491

been a

:

01:04:57,491 --> 01:04:58,011

joy.

:

01:04:58,011 --> 01:04:58,471

Yeah.

:

01:04:58,751 --> 01:04:59,331

Yeah.

:

01:04:59,561 --> 01:05:00,191

Yeah.

:

01:05:00,401 --> 01:05:02,451

Sabrina: and listening after

the fact has been a joy.

:

01:05:03,451 --> 01:05:07,281

Mel: I mean, like, I think part of

the, the magic and like, you know,

:

01:05:07,281 --> 01:05:12,226

the reason that I I can tell, like,

inside it's working, is that, for

:

01:05:12,226 --> 01:05:17,356

example, just to peel the curtain

back a little bit, I'm not super okay.

:

01:05:18,526 --> 01:05:20,466

Haven't been okay for a minute.

:

01:05:20,476 --> 01:05:23,146

Gonna talk to my

psychiatrist about my meds.

:

01:05:23,176 --> 01:05:24,486

Maybe that's the problem.

:

01:05:24,486 --> 01:05:25,416

Who knows?

:

01:05:26,306 --> 01:05:31,881

But, All day, I was like, Oh my god,

I, I just can't, I can't do anything.

:

01:05:31,901 --> 01:05:34,481

Like, I can't, I, I can't.

:

01:05:35,071 --> 01:05:39,451

And then I start, we sit down, and

it's just like the best time ever.

:

01:05:39,681 --> 01:05:41,971

Sabrina: Yeah, it's a fucking great time!

:

01:05:42,421 --> 01:05:42,811

Mel: Yeah!

:

01:05:42,851 --> 01:05:43,351

It's so

:

01:05:43,351 --> 01:05:43,991

great!

:

01:05:44,291 --> 01:05:45,441

Sabrina: couple of weeks over

:

01:05:45,441 --> 01:05:47,291

here in Sabrina's house,

:

01:05:47,481 --> 01:05:47,721

Mel: Yeah!

:

01:05:47,921 --> 01:05:50,411

Sabrina: like, I'm still

having a good time.

:

01:05:50,581 --> 01:05:51,331

Mel: know.

:

01:05:51,331 --> 01:05:52,861

It's the best!

:

01:05:52,861 --> 01:05:54,391

Okay, go ahead.

:

01:05:54,391 --> 01:05:54,901

Hehehehe.

:

01:05:54,911 --> 01:06:00,151

Sabrina: And so, we also wanted to

embrace, uh, Shannon H., who wanted

:

01:06:00,151 --> 01:06:04,471

to say a huge welcome to me, but

also said that they're happy to have

:

01:06:04,471 --> 01:06:05,476

me, which was very sweet of her.

:

01:06:05,846 --> 01:06:11,436

Feels real weird to say that, and

self indulgent, but more specifically,

:

01:06:11,646 --> 01:06:14,686

Shannon is so proud of Mel

:

01:06:15,316 --> 01:06:18,286

for all she has done this year, yet again.

:

01:06:19,146 --> 01:06:19,596

you know what,

:

01:06:19,951 --> 01:06:20,231

Mel: uh.

:

01:06:20,416 --> 01:06:20,846

Sabrina: right.

:

01:06:21,486 --> 01:06:22,786

Mel: Thank you, Shannon.

:

01:06:22,996 --> 01:06:24,586

Oh my god, thank you.

:

01:06:24,726 --> 01:06:25,816

That's really nice.

:

01:06:25,816 --> 01:06:26,616

Uh oh.

:

01:06:27,516 --> 01:06:29,376

I think we have to move on before I cry.

:

01:06:30,226 --> 01:06:30,386

Um.

:

01:06:30,716 --> 01:06:32,976

Sabrina: You're gonna be crying

probably by the end of all of

:

01:06:33,066 --> 01:06:33,656

Mel: Oh, fuckstick.

:

01:06:34,166 --> 01:06:34,886

Oh no.

:

01:06:34,916 --> 01:06:35,346

Alright.

:

01:06:35,926 --> 01:06:41,234

So, Melissa R said, I listened

to the recent episodes and wanted

:

01:06:41,234 --> 01:06:42,844

to add my two cents to the mix.

:

01:06:43,184 --> 01:06:46,024

It sounds like you both were

really nervous about the

:

01:06:46,024 --> 01:06:48,024

host plus branding changes.

:

01:06:48,294 --> 01:06:51,604

And I'm here to say that I

remember listening to Sabrina.

:

01:06:51,924 --> 01:06:55,714

Sabrina's guest episodes and

thinking, wow, she would be a

:

01:06:55,714 --> 01:06:57,754

fantastic co host for Melody.

:

01:06:58,034 --> 01:07:00,934

They really have great

host chemistry together.

:

01:07:01,314 --> 01:07:06,534

And I was so, so excited when I found

out that you were going to do that.

:

01:07:08,939 --> 01:07:10,379

Thank you, Melissa.

:

01:07:10,489 --> 01:07:10,749

Thank you.

:

01:07:10,749 --> 01:07:11,249

Thank you.

:

01:07:12,199 --> 01:07:12,899

Oh, shit.

:

01:07:13,279 --> 01:07:18,659

Um, I've been listening since:

podcast got me back into reading romance.

:

01:07:19,219 --> 01:07:20,079

I won't lie.

:

01:07:20,149 --> 01:07:22,839

I really loved the episodes

with Aaron and Melody.

:

01:07:22,899 --> 01:07:23,989

They're the OG hosts.

:

01:07:24,288 --> 01:07:25,439

Absolutely.

:

01:07:26,324 --> 01:07:31,334

But I know that media changes and grows,

people have to shift priorities, and

:

01:07:31,334 --> 01:07:35,134

I'm really glad that Heaving Bosoms

pulled through and is back at it.

:

01:07:35,534 --> 01:07:38,163

I'm having a wonderful

time listening to you all.

:

01:07:38,844 --> 01:07:40,694

Oh my God, Melissa.

:

01:07:40,704 --> 01:07:42,394

Thank you so much.

:

01:07:42,474 --> 01:07:42,624

Oh,

:

01:07:42,844 --> 01:07:43,064

that's so

:

01:07:43,064 --> 01:07:43,484

nice.

:

01:07:44,114 --> 01:07:44,604

Okay.

:

01:07:44,609 --> 01:07:45,049

Sabrina: cuz

:

01:07:45,724 --> 01:07:45,844

Mel: All

:

01:07:45,909 --> 01:07:47,479

Sabrina: fucking badass, Mel.

:

01:07:47,704 --> 01:07:48,594

Mel: Thank you.

:

01:07:48,674 --> 01:07:49,614

Oh, shit.

:

01:07:49,823 --> 01:07:53,313

Sabrina: And then Patricia BM was super

:

01:07:53,313 --> 01:07:57,307

sweet and said, I was hoping Sabrina

would be the permanent co host since

:

01:07:57,307 --> 01:08:01,537

the first time she, you, I have no

idea who's reading this, stepped in.

:

01:08:01,857 --> 01:08:06,887

Heck, my book club even started waxing

on recently about how great Sabrina

:

01:08:06,887 --> 01:08:09,267

has been without any prompting from me.

:

01:08:09,897 --> 01:08:11,507

When I tell y'all I blushed.

:

01:08:13,407 --> 01:08:13,567

I

:

01:08:13,667 --> 01:08:14,357

Mel: Yeah,

:

01:08:14,577 --> 01:08:15,327

Sabrina: inside

:

01:08:15,697 --> 01:08:16,477

Mel: I love it.

:

01:08:16,792 --> 01:08:17,752

Sabrina: the book club.

:

01:08:17,939 --> 01:08:27,526

Mel: I mean, I, an entire book club,

Sabrina, I know, holy shit, uh,

:

01:08:27,555 --> 01:08:32,236

Hannah embraced us by saying I just

wanted to officially welcome Sabrina.

:

01:08:32,556 --> 01:08:36,526

I really love the podcast and while I

have liked all of the co hosts, it's

:

01:08:36,526 --> 01:08:40,056

so nice that Sabrina is going to be

the one who keeps the party going.

:

01:08:40,685 --> 01:08:43,356

I'm glad Melody isn't alone

in steering this ship.

:

01:08:43,395 --> 01:08:44,996

Oh my gosh, me too.

:

01:08:45,431 --> 01:08:45,711

Not

:

01:08:45,711 --> 01:08:48,941

that she ever was alone,

because Listener is omnipresent.

:

01:08:50,270 --> 01:08:50,431

Hannah,

:

01:08:50,616 --> 01:08:51,196

Sabrina: never

:

01:08:51,531 --> 01:08:52,461

Mel: so nice!

:

01:08:53,515 --> 01:08:57,520

Oh boy, oh Hannah, oh wow.

:

01:08:57,795 --> 01:09:01,135

When some people stress,

they go on a shopping spree.

:

01:09:01,205 --> 01:09:05,385

I go to the library and wander

and read blurbs for an hour and

:

01:09:05,385 --> 01:09:09,385

then leave because I have 5 to

20 library books at home already.

:

01:09:09,925 --> 01:09:13,615

Anyway, listening to your podcast

feels like visiting a library to

:

01:09:13,615 --> 01:09:18,734

me, surrounded by books and good

people and worlds of possibility.

:

01:09:20,225 --> 01:09:23,845

Hannah, that's one of the most beautiful

sentences I've ever read in my life,

:

01:09:23,885 --> 01:09:28,484

and I can't believe that you're saying

it about us, and I'm kind of dead.

:

01:09:29,515 --> 01:09:29,725

P.

:

01:09:29,725 --> 01:09:29,934

S.

:

01:09:29,965 --> 01:09:34,705

I've started reading more romance since

I started listening to the podcast, but

:

01:09:34,705 --> 01:09:39,745

the Reading Embrace is a true challenge

in which I'm honored to participate.

:

01:09:39,745 --> 01:09:42,255

Oh my

:

01:09:42,335 --> 01:09:42,694

gosh!

:

01:09:42,825 --> 01:09:43,625

Sabrina: did that!

:

01:09:43,625 --> 01:09:44,024

You

:

01:09:44,215 --> 01:09:45,255

Mel: Thank you.

:

01:09:46,005 --> 01:09:46,904

Sabrina: did this!

:

01:09:47,325 --> 01:09:51,595

I have joined in with you, but

ultimately you did this with

:

01:09:51,595 --> 01:09:53,184

Listener always around.

:

01:09:53,774 --> 01:09:54,225

Mel: Listener.

:

01:09:54,956 --> 01:09:58,630

Sabrina: So, we just wanted to embrace

y'all cause, like And this is not

:

01:09:58,630 --> 01:10:00,910

even, this isn't all of the emails that

:

01:10:00,910 --> 01:10:01,090

we have

:

01:10:01,345 --> 01:10:02,145

Mel: Yeah.

:

01:10:02,180 --> 01:10:02,430

Sabrina: months.

:

01:10:02,460 --> 01:10:02,850

And it just,

:

01:10:03,180 --> 01:10:03,790

it really means a

:

01:10:04,085 --> 01:10:09,434

Mel: And I have to say, I'm really, really

sorry for how bad I am at emailing back.

:

01:10:09,475 --> 01:10:12,015

I discovered something about

myself through podcast.

:

01:10:13,015 --> 01:10:17,385

And that is that I respond immediately.

:

01:10:17,680 --> 01:10:19,070

To negative feedback,

:

01:10:19,387 --> 01:10:20,087

Sabrina: Oh,

:

01:10:20,587 --> 01:10:23,407

Mel: boy, do I hop to it when

I get a negative feedback.

:

01:10:24,257 --> 01:10:29,127

But when I get a positive feedback,

I like lock up because it's so nice.

:

01:10:29,167 --> 01:10:32,957

And I think anything I'm going to say

back is going to like pale in comparison.

:

01:10:33,047 --> 01:10:35,737

And it's really hard for me to

respond when people are nice.

:

01:10:36,587 --> 01:10:37,157

So.

:

01:10:37,602 --> 01:10:43,442

I have to say that I'm, I'm sorry if

I, if we haven't emailed you in return,

:

01:10:44,122 --> 01:10:50,052

and, uh, one of the people specifically

I want to shout out, I feel like it's too

:

01:10:50,182 --> 01:10:57,545

personal to talk about on the podcast,

but goddammit, Jordan, You and Papa Bear

:

01:10:57,595 --> 01:11:06,815

made me cry, and I love you, and I really

appreciate you telling me all about you.

:

01:11:08,591 --> 01:11:11,338

And it makes the hard

days really worth it.

:

01:11:11,988 --> 01:11:14,728

You know, when we get Pfft!

:

01:11:15,469 --> 01:11:16,509

When we get embraced by listener!

:

01:11:17,616 --> 01:11:18,196

Sabrina: yeah.

:

01:11:18,381 --> 01:11:21,391

So we just wanted to say

thank you ultimately, because

:

01:11:21,721 --> 01:11:22,901

it really does mean a lot.

:

01:11:22,901 --> 01:11:25,211

And the reason that we're even

like popping this into this episode

:

01:11:25,211 --> 01:11:27,251

is the rebrand did just happen.

:

01:11:27,251 --> 01:11:29,071

We did have the pod iversity and

:

01:11:29,081 --> 01:11:30,951

do all of that just a

couple of months ago.

:

01:11:30,951 --> 01:11:33,671

And like the support that we

got from y'all with all of

:

01:11:33,671 --> 01:11:35,471

the changes has been just.

:

01:11:36,436 --> 01:11:37,346

Mel: Beautiful.

:

01:11:38,156 --> 01:11:38,606

Yeah.

:

01:11:38,636 --> 01:11:40,862

It's been, it's been so buoying.

:

01:11:41,272 --> 01:11:41,402

Sabrina: Mm

:

01:11:41,412 --> 01:11:41,822

hmm.

:

01:11:41,867 --> 01:11:42,927

Mel: It's been wonderful.

:

01:11:43,196 --> 01:11:48,736

can I tell you, can I tell listener

about the hilarious and fabulous

:

01:11:48,736 --> 01:11:52,916

way that we were embraced recently

by one of the capital L listener?

:

01:11:53,654 --> 01:11:55,234

Do you remember in the discord?

:

01:11:55,624 --> 01:11:57,054

When Leliot

:

01:11:57,334 --> 01:11:58,034

sent us

:

01:11:58,804 --> 01:12:05,044

a logo, an entire ass logo,

for Mel's Knuckles Christmas

:

01:12:05,064 --> 01:12:07,554

Time Cunt Punch Extravaganza.

:

01:12:08,959 --> 01:12:12,199

If we get permission, we will put

it all over the socials, because

:

01:12:12,199 --> 01:12:15,989

it's, it's one of my favorite things

I've seen, maybe in my whole life.

:

01:12:16,229 --> 01:12:16,969

Holy shit.

:

01:12:18,154 --> 01:12:19,644

Yeah, okay,

:

01:12:20,504 --> 01:12:21,644

Sabrina: Oh boy

:

01:12:22,084 --> 01:12:23,693

Mel: oh, we did a big

:

01:12:23,854 --> 01:12:24,994

Sabrina: are you feeling embraced?

:

01:12:25,004 --> 01:12:29,344

Yeah, so I'm pretty sure that we

did skip embracing some people just

:

01:12:29,344 --> 01:12:31,384

because we were rolling through names.

:

01:12:31,404 --> 01:12:33,934

Again, next year is gonna be a lot easier.

:

01:12:34,014 --> 01:12:38,374

All of this shit's gonna be, like,

we're gonna make it as easy as possible

:

01:12:38,464 --> 01:12:39,884

Mel: We're gonna be so organized.

:

01:12:40,044 --> 01:12:41,594

It's gonna be like we're new people,

:

01:12:41,624 --> 01:12:41,804

you

:

01:12:41,804 --> 01:12:42,354

know?

:

01:12:42,443 --> 01:12:43,174

Sabrina: are organized.

:

01:12:43,193 --> 01:12:44,124

It's already.

:

01:12:44,274 --> 01:12:44,374

It

:

01:12:44,654 --> 01:12:45,494

just needs to go

:

01:12:45,744 --> 01:12:46,284

Mel: yeah.

:

01:12:46,484 --> 01:12:49,693

When we take the moment to

organize, it really works.

:

01:12:49,994 --> 01:12:50,274

Yeah,

:

01:12:50,274 --> 01:12:50,744

Sabrina: Mmhmm.

:

01:12:50,979 --> 01:12:55,509

Mel: but, speaking of being

fucking organized and on it We

:

01:12:55,729 --> 01:12:56,289

Sabrina: Mmhmm.

:

01:12:56,769 --> 01:13:00,719

Mel: the categories for:

:

01:13:01,281 --> 01:13:01,521

Sabrina: And

:

01:13:01,559 --> 01:13:01,780

Mel: I,

:

01:13:02,441 --> 01:13:05,161

Sabrina: We're gonna explain them.

:

01:13:05,701 --> 01:13:06,341

So

:

01:13:06,660 --> 01:13:07,480

Mel: think, I don't know,

:

01:13:07,530 --> 01:13:07,730

should

:

01:13:07,730 --> 01:13:08,130

we?

:

01:13:09,125 --> 01:13:09,275

Is

:

01:13:09,275 --> 01:13:09,545

it?

:

01:13:09,621 --> 01:13:10,511

Sabrina: know what?

:

01:13:10,511 --> 01:13:11,211

Let's not.

:

01:13:11,799 --> 01:13:12,509

Let's not.

:

01:13:12,634 --> 01:13:15,844

Mel: social media because we're

probably going to be explaining it

:

01:13:15,844 --> 01:13:16,184

there.

:

01:13:16,193 --> 01:13:16,754

Hopefully.

:

01:13:17,079 --> 01:13:21,519

Sabrina: that means that if you don't

want to know what they come from,

:

01:13:22,106 --> 01:13:22,256

Mel: Yeah.

:

01:13:22,381 --> 01:13:23,511

Sabrina: don't have to know,

:

01:13:23,516 --> 01:13:23,656

Mel: you

:

01:13:23,656 --> 01:13:24,356

don't have to know.

:

01:13:24,621 --> 01:13:25,701

Sabrina: fuck you want for

:

01:13:26,026 --> 01:13:26,436

Mel: Yeah.

:

01:13:27,056 --> 01:13:27,426

Yeah.

:

01:13:27,806 --> 01:13:28,296

Okay.

:

01:13:28,656 --> 01:13:31,796

Although we can't answer one

question when we get to them

:

01:13:32,136 --> 01:13:34,646

because I don't know that we've ever

actually answered it on the podcast.

:

01:13:34,656 --> 01:13:37,666

But we got a question in the cult that

I think would be good to answer here.

:

01:13:37,706 --> 01:13:38,136

Okay.

:

01:13:38,896 --> 01:13:44,143

So, the:

The Ever Present Ones, Keep

:

01:13:44,153 --> 01:13:46,713

Being a Badass, Lady Love, H.

:

01:13:46,713 --> 01:13:46,883

B.

:

01:13:46,883 --> 01:13:48,303

Author, and St.

:

01:13:48,303 --> 01:13:49,452

Vincent Would Always.

:

01:13:49,880 --> 01:13:56,699

Sabrina: and then, for our new

year, we have Holmeses in:

:

01:13:57,074 --> 01:13:57,824

Mel: Yeah, and since,

:

01:13:58,314 --> 01:14:02,474

you know, since, since Heaving Bosoms

runs on a fiscal year, we've already

:

01:14:02,474 --> 01:14:04,754

been nailing Sherlock Holmeses

:

01:14:04,844 --> 01:14:05,094

in

:

01:14:05,094 --> 01:14:06,154

:

:

01:14:06,344 --> 01:14:07,724

Because we go from October to October.

:

01:14:08,723 --> 01:14:10,433

Sabrina: that's not how years work,

:

01:14:10,718 --> 01:14:12,088

Mel: that's a fiscal year, ma'am.

:

01:14:12,543 --> 01:14:14,163

That's a tax thing, I think.

:

01:14:14,783 --> 01:14:16,313

Sabrina: it's October to September.

:

01:14:16,952 --> 01:14:19,153

Mel: Fuck you, right in your face.

:

01:14:20,633 --> 01:14:21,163

God damn it!

:

01:14:22,513 --> 01:14:25,123

Sabrina: We also have, uh, whimsy, whimsy,

:

01:14:25,153 --> 01:14:25,823

whimsy,

:

01:14:26,013 --> 01:14:26,243

Mel: and,

:

01:14:26,243 --> 01:14:28,823

that's what we need to

answer a question about.

:

01:14:29,353 --> 01:14:33,233

Because somebody in the cult asked,

What's the difference between

:

01:14:33,513 --> 01:14:36,608

Urbzing And Whimsy Whimsy Whimsy.

:

01:14:37,118 --> 01:14:41,138

And so Urbzing is when you're reading a

book and you either don't have time or

:

01:14:41,138 --> 01:14:44,618

you're not really interested in whatever

the fuck they're talking about, i.

:

01:14:44,658 --> 01:14:45,077

e.

:

01:14:45,558 --> 01:14:49,498

all of, um, Claire's Urbs in Outlander.

:

01:14:49,778 --> 01:14:53,278

And so you just start skipping, like,

paragraphs, maybe you skip a page, it's

:

01:14:53,308 --> 01:14:57,628

Urbs Urbs Urbs, you just keep going over

those Urbs until you get to a dialogue

:

01:14:57,628 --> 01:14:59,308

and then you jump back into the story.

:

01:15:00,218 --> 01:15:05,298

Whimsy Whimsy Whimsy, on the other

hand Is seeing something in the text

:

01:15:05,327 --> 01:15:07,448

that is problematic in some way.

:

01:15:07,827 --> 01:15:10,678

Whether it's problematic

on a moral level, or a

:

01:15:10,678 --> 01:15:12,138

logistics level,

:

01:15:12,643 --> 01:15:14,303

Sabrina: you have a question,

:

01:15:14,408 --> 01:15:15,348

Mel: question about it.

:

01:15:15,468 --> 01:15:17,298

And then you're just like,

nope, don't have time for that.

:

01:15:17,298 --> 01:15:18,398

Whimsy, whimsy, whimsy.

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01:15:18,398 --> 01:15:18,618

I'm

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01:15:18,943 --> 01:15:21,563

Sabrina: yep, mm hmm, yep,

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01:15:21,643 --> 01:15:25,013

you, and you, you may, you may not

actually be fine with it, you may

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01:15:25,013 --> 01:15:28,283

actually really want the answer to that

question, you would have, but you just,

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01:15:29,063 --> 01:15:29,183

You

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01:15:29,183 --> 01:15:30,113

just whimsy on.

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01:15:30,513 --> 01:15:30,793

Mel: Yeah,

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01:15:31,053 --> 01:15:31,823

absolutely.

:

01:15:31,998 --> 01:15:35,448

Sabrina: ain't nobody got time

for morals and ethics and Google.

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01:15:35,558 --> 01:15:36,438

That's not true.

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01:15:36,728 --> 01:15:37,528

That's a joke

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01:15:37,918 --> 01:15:39,028

to be clear That

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01:15:39,033 --> 01:15:40,443

Mel: Big jokes over here.

:

01:15:40,443 --> 01:15:41,713

Comedy podcast, you know?

:

01:15:42,090 --> 01:15:44,550

Sabrina: what a terrible

soundbite that is.

:

01:15:46,215 --> 01:15:46,735

Mel: Okay.

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01:15:47,105 --> 01:15:54,245

The seventh category for the

:

:

01:15:54,345 --> 01:15:55,865

Yeah.

:

01:15:56,223 --> 01:15:59,593

Sabrina: I try I did desperately try

and think of what sound a toad makes

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01:16:00,123 --> 01:16:01,663

And realized I'm not gonna do that.

:

01:16:01,733 --> 01:16:02,373

Mel: Whoa.

:

01:16:05,302 --> 01:16:05,862

Sabrina: Whoa.

:

01:16:05,962 --> 01:16:08,517

Mel: why sir?

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01:16:09,051 --> 01:16:09,941

I think is what

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01:16:10,311 --> 01:16:11,191

toads make.

:

01:16:11,191 --> 01:16:12,201

Yeah!

:

01:16:12,296 --> 01:16:13,376

Sabrina: Budweiser?

:

01:16:14,761 --> 01:16:17,411

Mel: Is this a fucking

reference you also don't know?

:

01:16:17,991 --> 01:16:20,451

Do you not know about the Budweiser frogs?

:

01:16:21,354 --> 01:16:22,004

Ma'am!

:

01:16:23,024 --> 01:16:23,224

Ma'am!

:

01:16:24,764 --> 01:16:25,844

They were a whole Super Bowl

:

01:16:26,394 --> 01:16:26,544

commercial!

:

01:16:27,999 --> 01:16:28,899

Sabrina: I don't know.

:

01:16:28,919 --> 01:16:30,739

Okay, so, fun fact.

:

01:16:31,014 --> 01:16:32,814

I have problems with the Super Bowl.

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01:16:32,899 --> 01:16:33,568

Mel: I mean, me too.

:

01:16:33,568 --> 01:16:33,739

I don't

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01:16:33,739 --> 01:16:33,959

watch

:

01:16:34,054 --> 01:16:40,154

Sabrina: Because, no, not because of that,

because I always had to move my birthday

:

01:16:40,154 --> 01:16:43,633

party because of Super Bowl season.

:

01:16:43,829 --> 01:16:44,719

Mel: Fuck that!

:

01:16:45,189 --> 01:16:47,619

Sabrina is way more

important than Super Bowl.

:

01:16:47,629 --> 01:16:48,149

How

:

01:16:48,534 --> 01:16:53,152

Sabrina: Literally one time, because

none of my family is a football, and I

:

01:16:53,152 --> 01:16:55,082

threw my little birthday party as a youth

:

01:16:55,916 --> 01:16:56,986

Mel: Nobody came?

:

01:16:58,006 --> 01:16:58,586

it!

:

01:16:58,702 --> 01:17:00,102

Sabrina: their parents

were at a Super Bowl

:

01:17:00,102 --> 01:17:00,612

party.

:

01:17:01,076 --> 01:17:02,696

Mel: else was a football!

:

01:17:03,427 --> 01:17:04,077

Sabrina: Yes.

:

01:17:04,657 --> 01:17:04,947

And

:

01:17:05,211 --> 01:17:05,800

Mel: dare.

:

01:17:06,117 --> 01:17:07,337

Sabrina: it then, because we had no idea.

:

01:17:08,027 --> 01:17:09,447

We're not a, we're not a football.

:

01:17:09,751 --> 01:17:12,751

Mel: Oh, Beautiful, tiny

:

01:17:12,751 --> 01:17:13,651

Sabrina.

:

01:17:14,187 --> 01:17:17,127

Sabrina: the worst part is, because

my brain is the way it is, I

:

01:17:17,127 --> 01:17:20,267

don't remember what fun thing

we did to make it better.

:

01:17:20,877 --> 01:17:22,067

All I remember

:

01:17:22,987 --> 01:17:27,187

is that nobody, yeah, yeah, So.

:

01:17:28,282 --> 01:17:29,302

Anyway, whimsying

:

01:17:29,822 --> 01:17:36,982

along, um, uh, number eight, prompt

eight is Zero to Steal Magnolias,

:

01:17:37,081 --> 01:17:38,481

Mel: Whoa.

:

01:17:38,622 --> 01:17:40,472

Sabrina: couple of times this episode.

:

01:17:40,631 --> 01:17:41,661

Mel: Yeah, just about.

:

01:17:42,037 --> 01:17:42,737

Sabrina: Mm hmm.

:

01:17:42,967 --> 01:17:44,327

Mel: Splash Mountain.

:

01:17:44,619 --> 01:17:46,599

Sabrina: 10 is squelchers.

:

01:17:46,949 --> 01:17:47,839

Mel: Yeah.

:

01:17:48,126 --> 01:17:51,116

11 was It Was Twisted.

:

01:17:51,799 --> 01:17:55,189

Sabrina: 12 is Mel's

cunt punch extravaganza.

:

01:17:55,189 --> 01:17:59,049

I

:

01:17:59,528 --> 01:18:01,398

Mel: 13 is feral eating.

:

01:18:03,395 --> 01:18:04,425

Sabrina: feel so called out.

:

01:18:04,845 --> 01:18:06,324

Mel: The 15th

:

01:18:06,525 --> 01:18:08,585

Sabrina: that celestial trumpet.

:

01:18:10,505 --> 01:18:16,845

Mel: category of the:

Reading Embrace is Noodle Loving!

:

01:18:22,615 --> 01:18:24,065

Sabrina: And number 16

:

01:18:24,255 --> 01:18:24,275

Mel: Yeah.

:

01:18:24,365 --> 01:18:27,150

Sabrina: is detective hate boner.

:

01:18:27,150 --> 01:18:28,245

I

:

01:18:28,325 --> 01:18:30,965

Mel: 17 is sex scene logistics.

:

01:18:31,015 --> 01:18:33,415

And I think there's going to

be a question mark on that.

:

01:18:33,455 --> 01:18:33,975

I don't know.

:

01:18:34,665 --> 01:18:35,434

We'll see when we

:

01:18:35,705 --> 01:18:35,965

Sabrina: think,

:

01:18:35,985 --> 01:18:36,285

Mel: down.

:

01:18:37,225 --> 01:18:38,215

Sabrina: yeah, we'll figure it out.

:

01:18:38,525 --> 01:18:41,485

Uh, number 18 is doing a gondola on her.

:

01:18:41,940 --> 01:18:42,510

Mel: Mm hmm.

:

01:18:43,030 --> 01:18:45,690

Nineteen is Harem Watch.

:

01:18:46,288 --> 01:18:48,538

And twenty, I have to say it, I'm

:

01:18:48,538 --> 01:18:55,178

sorry, twenty, last but not

least, is Sabrina's Missing Ghoul.

:

01:18:59,288 --> 01:18:59,798

Oh my

:

01:18:59,798 --> 01:19:02,318

god, so do with those

what you will, or follow

:

01:19:02,318 --> 01:19:03,238

us on Instagram.

:

01:19:03,503 --> 01:19:04,103

Instagram is

:

01:19:04,103 --> 01:19:05,213

at heaving bosoms.

:

01:19:05,452 --> 01:19:06,143

Sabrina: maybe.

:

01:19:06,363 --> 01:19:06,843

Mel: maybe.

:

01:19:06,843 --> 01:19:07,173

Really?

:

01:19:07,178 --> 01:19:11,659

It's a hard, maybe TikTok,

is at heaving bosoms?

:

01:19:12,439 --> 01:19:14,719

And if we make videos, they'll be there.

:

01:19:15,119 --> 01:19:15,479

Sabrina: yep.

:

01:19:15,749 --> 01:19:16,589

Mel: It's a hard maybe.

:

01:19:17,312 --> 01:19:17,582

sure.

:

01:19:18,085 --> 01:19:18,845

Oh my god.

:

01:19:19,311 --> 01:19:21,321

This whole thing was a fucking lady

:

01:19:21,571 --> 01:19:23,011

Sabrina: it's a group lady love.

:

01:19:23,821 --> 01:19:28,041

this was, like, y'all coming in hot

:

01:19:28,160 --> 01:19:29,350

at the finish line,

:

01:19:29,600 --> 01:19:31,610

Mel: Y'all saving our asses,

:

01:19:31,700 --> 01:19:32,550

really.

:

01:19:33,920 --> 01:19:35,050

Sabrina: that's the lady love.

:

01:19:35,390 --> 01:19:36,660

Mel: goddamn, listener,

:

01:19:36,670 --> 01:19:36,870

you

:

01:19:36,870 --> 01:19:36,970

had

:

01:19:37,120 --> 01:19:38,830

our backs this year.

:

01:19:39,275 --> 01:19:40,189

Sabrina: Just making it work.

:

01:19:40,680 --> 01:19:41,540

Mel: usual,

:

01:19:41,684 --> 01:19:42,095

Sabrina: Thank you.

:

01:19:42,095 --> 01:19:42,705

listener.

:

01:19:42,836 --> 01:19:44,016

Omnipresent listener.

:

01:19:44,341 --> 01:19:46,941

Mel: I love your whole

fucking face, and I really

:

01:19:46,941 --> 01:19:47,601

appreciate

:

01:19:47,721 --> 01:19:48,231

you.

:

01:19:48,306 --> 01:19:48,836

Sabrina: Love that

:

01:19:49,321 --> 01:19:50,331

Mel: God, it's a good one.

:

01:19:50,981 --> 01:19:52,361

Ooh, yeah,

:

01:19:52,966 --> 01:19:53,806

Sabrina: so schnuzzled.

:

01:19:54,221 --> 01:19:55,931

Mel: ab so lutely.

:

01:19:56,018 --> 01:19:57,727

Sabrina: So hope you're feeling embraced.

:

01:19:58,172 --> 01:19:59,822

if you're not, well, I

don't know what to tell you.

:

01:19:59,947 --> 01:20:00,857

Mel: There's no hope.

:

01:20:01,707 --> 01:20:02,127

Yeah.

:

01:20:02,761 --> 01:20:07,141

Keeping badass and love yourself

as much as you love getting

:

01:20:07,151 --> 01:20:09,781

ensconced in these heaving bosoms

:

01:20:10,251 --> 01:20:10,701

Sabrina: Buh dum.

:

01:20:11,361 --> 01:20:11,791

Buh dum.

:

01:20:12,371 --> 01:20:17,041

Mel: and screaming your username.

:

01:20:17,941 --> 01:20:18,531

Not being

:

01:20:18,531 --> 01:20:18,981

heard.

:

01:20:19,061 --> 01:20:21,111

Sabrina: Ha ha, yeah, yeah!

:

01:20:21,111 --> 01:20:24,161

Screaming on the other side

of the fuckin headphones.

:

01:20:24,521 --> 01:20:25,471

Fuckin why?

:

01:20:26,071 --> 01:20:26,191

Why?

:

01:20:27,281 --> 01:20:28,550

Mel: Why?

:

01:20:29,031 --> 01:20:30,661

Sabrina: That's the sound a frog makes.

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Heaving Bosoms
A Romance Novel Podcast
Melody Carlisle and Sabrina Bradley love romance and they do it out loud! Every Monday, these long-distance best friends recap romance novels from a comedic, intersectional feminist, sex-positive perspective.
If you're itching for a BFF book club or just love raucous slumber party vibes, this is the show for you! Whether you've read the book or not, all are welcome! Giggling, tangents, and sincere joy abound.
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