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Season 3 Bonus Episode: Our Not So Drunkest Episode

March 24, 2026

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Bonus Episode: We Tried to Get Drunk. We’re Just Too Professional.

Two Wisconsin bookish biddies set out to record their “drunkest episode ever.”
What happened instead? Competitive drinking stamina, chaotic games and way too much honesty.

This bonus episode skips the book review and goes full chaos mode:

🍸 Co-Host Compatibility Challenge – We test how well we really know each other (spoiler: not as well as we thought). Fated mates are slandered. Dirk Ramsey is ghosted. Jamie Fraser is defended.
🎲 Cocktail Confessional (Truth or Drink with Dice) – We revisit the cringiest lines we’ve ever read on mic (looking at you, Bertrice), confess which episodes we’d delete from existence (Season 1 Episode 3), and admit which covers we’re too embarrassed to read poolside.
📚 Romance Mad Libs Chaos – Featuring a crunchy elbow, a Furby, a tardigrade (??), and possibly the least sexy basement encounter in literary history.
📖 Am I Drunk or Is This Real? – Necromancer cinnamon rolls? Real. Billionaire beekeeper with weaponized pheromones? Absolutely not.

We debate overrated tropes (fated mates is on thin ice), morally gray demons, stepbrother scandal, and the fine line between “passionate critique” and “what the f*ck, Bertrice.”

Did we get as drunk as we promised?
No. Because apparently being professional Wisconsin drinkers is both a strength and a curse.

But we did spill secrets, call out bad behavior and prove once again romance novels deserve both reverence and roasting.

Grab a drink (or three) and join us for the chaos.

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And then came Luke Skycocker.
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Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TeOZNjje5sQ

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