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.

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Hello, everybody. Welcome to a glo, hello. Hello. Hello, everybody.

Welcome to a gloomy Monday.

Is it gloomy over there?

It's gloomy and sunny at the same time somehow.

You know those times of days?

Like the sky is gray, but there is sunshine.

Yes.

It's pretty good stuff.

It's my favorite.

The best of both worlds. Not depressing, but not too bright. Yeah. Exactly. Oh, man. All right. How's the West Coast really? And how's life over there? How are you doing? Oh, I mean, I'm doing good. I'm doing good. I just wanted to, first of all, follow up on the podcast recommendations that everyone has given me. Yes. Lots of good ones. People went crazy. Yeah, people went crazy. So I'm going to be

set for podcasts for a long time, especially because I started listening to one, but it was one that

you recommended to me. I've started the unmade podcast. Oh my god. And I'm loving it.

Like I it's my it's my driving to work in the morning podcast. Like that's what I listen to as I'm

driving to work. And it's just lovely. Like I'm still in the early episodes like I think I'm on

episode seven or eight now. Okay. Gotcha. I'm still ready for like the audio to get a little bit better because it's a little bit sketchy at times. Yeah, and it does get way better. Yeah, I figured it would, but it's, it's so fun. And at the beginning of the podcast, I was like, I cannot tell these two people apart. And it's funny because now that I've listened to enough episodes, I'm like, of course I can tell who's who. And like, I know at first I was like, I don't know their names. I don't know who's who. And it's funny because now that I've listened to enough episodes, I'm like, well, of course I can tell who's who.

And like, I know at first I was like, I don't know their names. I don't know who's who. And it kind of made me think of people listening to our podcast because people often will say like, you guys sound the same, which I think is crazy. Yeah. But I guess if you don't know a person and what they sound like, it's hard to differentiate between them. If you can't picture them and you, you know what I mean?

And we're talking about the same thing and kind of the same excitement level. what they sound like, it's hard to differentiate between them. If you can't picture them and you, you know what I mean?

And we're talking about the same thing and the kind of the same excitement level. Like I can see why you would think. But once you get to know us, I can't imagine that our voices actually sound very similar. I really don't think. So that makes sense to me as well. Yeah. Yeah. But at first I was so confused. but now that I'm into it, I'm like, it's great. It's very funny. And I love like how sometimes they'll really take off on a tangent for a specific idea. And it's almost like they are making the podcast that they're talking about because they're just talking about it for 20 minutes. And it's just so fun. So I'm really, really enjoying it. Oh, Oh, that's the best. I'm glad I'm so glad.

I'm glad I followed your recommendation finally. Yes. So yeah. So that's going great.

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