Hello everybody and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we unbind books to get to their

juicy hearts with your hosts, us. It's Ariel and Raylene. What if I just said my name was juicy?

I almost said with your host,

Juicy Ariel and Juicy Rayleigh. And then I was like,

that's the wrong way to start. We don't like that. That's not what we stand for.

But you are bringing juicy back.

I see that.

I'm bringing juicy back.

Oh, shoot.

I swear this isn't a nighttime episode.

It has the nighttime energy already.

It has the nighttime energy.

It does.

We're feeling a little silly.

Whenever Aileen and I record at night, the episodes go a little unhinged.

I think the reason is over exhaustion on my friend.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

It has been such a tiring week.

If everyone on the camera and just saw me squint for a second, I almost ran over my foot with my wheels on my chair, but I didn't. I didn't.

Yeah, it's been such a fun, fun week, but it's been so hectic and full. As you recall,

I had my friend staying with me. Yeah. And she visited for a week. And it was so much fun.

And I, I really jam packed the hell out of that week.

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