Hello everybody and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we unbind books to get to their hearts with your host, us.

It's Ariel and.

Raylene. Hello. I feel like there was a big drum roll there, silent drum roll. It's Ariel and Reline, hello.

I feel like there was a big drum roll there, silent drum roll.

Oh man, you guys, we are happy to be here recording this episode.

Before I talk about literally anything else, I would like to thank every single person who has shared on social media, but also just the fact if this happened to you, that Books Unbound was your top played podcast on Spotify,

wrapped or the Apple music equivalent,

whatever other ones there are.

That is so cool.

That's so cool, right, Raylene?

It is cool, especially seeing when people listened to like 2,000 hours, or not hours,

sorry, minutes.

Yeah, that would be a lot of hours.

But I mean, I guess that's also a possibility.

20 hours worth of books unbound.

But yeah, no, that's really cool.

It's kind of crazy to think about.

And definitely kind of, you know, it's like that very validating,

legitimizing thing where it makes me feel like we have a real podcast.

If people are like having their little Spotify wrapped and it's like books unbound. And it's another moment

where I'm so unbelievably proud of our logo. Our logo is so nice. Yeah, we're really lucked out there.

We don't have to, we'll probably never have to make a new one because it's perfect.

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