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

It's Ariel and Raylene. Hello.

That's right, baby. You look so chill right now, Ariel. The way that you're sitting is quite chill. Hello. That's right.

You look so chill right now, Ariel.

The way that you're sitting is quite chill. I'll tell you why I'm sitting this way, Raylene.

Uh-oh.

Okay.

So I was already so excited to record this episode because over the last few weeks,

things have been pretty crazy at Books Unbound

headquarters, you know? I was visiting you for a while, so we did some special episodes,

then you went and got married, and that was a whole song-endent, um, although maybe not literally.

If you were out in the woods, I'm sure you didn't have a, like a first dance or whatever. No, we did some fake dancing for pictures, but that's it. Yes, I saw. Yeah, totally. But so because of that, we, it's almost been like a month. It actually has been a month. Yes. Since we've recorded a normal episode because I was over there the week of July 20th.

That is true. Whoa. It's now the end of August. So it's been like a bit over a month since a normal

episode. And I have just accumulated so many, so many stories, so many things to tell you. And I'm like,

oh, I can't wait to tell her about that. Oh,

I'll put that on the podcast. But slowly as the time goes by, things kind of like, I'm like,

well, that's not even relevant anymore. And like, now I'll just tell her about this. Well, today,

genuinely three hours ago, Something so stupid happened.

That explains why I'm sitting on this chair like an idiot.

Raylene.

Yeah.

I almost don't want to tell you because it's so dumb.

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