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 Rubin.

Otherwise known as Rayleigh.

I heard somebody in the comments, I guess I didn't hear them.

I read them.

I read somebody in the comments that was like very earnestly trying to understand if Ruben is like a different name you prefer to be called sometimes.

Oh, no, no.

And I was like, no, it's just a

dumb nickname. It's just a silly joke. Yeah, no, it actually, I was, I remembered where it came from

the other day, because I, when it came out of my mouth the first time I ever said it, I don't know

what made me choose to say in that moment, but it takes me back to, back when I worked at

the bookstore, I used to work at a bookstore and me and all my pals there used to give

each other nicknames like all the time, like we have probably 20 nicknames for each other. And there

was one where we were like, let's all make nicknames that are sandwiches. Oh my god, yes. And so my

name became Ruben. A Ruben sandwich. Of course.

So it's my sandwich nickname, but I would, you know, I don't want to act.

I mean, you can call me that as a joke. I don't mind being called it as a joke, but it's

certainly not my real name.

I will respond to Rubin, but I don't prefer Rubin, I suppose. I love having weird

nicknames, though. That's one of my joys in life, just having such strange names. This is kind of a

little hint to the very end of this episode when we'll talk about how we're recording movie tub,

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