Hello everybody and welcome to Books Unbound, a podcast where we Unbind books to get to their hearts with your host.

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It doesn't matter.

It's your host, Ariel and Raylene. Hello. Damn it. I was going to say Yola again. Yola. I haven't failed an intro in a while, and you know what? Let's keep it. We're not going to re-record that one.

This is an authentic podcast with authentic people and authentic opinions. There you go. Thank you.

Thank you and good night.

Anyways, that's all for today.

I will talk to you next week.

Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

We're here, we're here, we're here.

And what can I say?

I was wearing a different dress like 10 minutes ago. And then I remembered it was the dress I wore in last week's episode. I was like, damn it, I got to go up. Or people are going to think that I'm wearing the same. They're going to think I'm an outfit repeater, which I am an outfit repeater. But it's different when it's your job, right? And also, like, if it was just spread out two episodes apart or something, that'd be fine. But, like, it's kind of nice visually when you look at the episodes and you see the different outfits, like, you're like, oh, yeah, that was that episode or whatever. I was like, I got to go change. That's true. I know. sometimes I have to look back through the episodes to be like, okay, can I wear this shirt again? Oh yeah, it's been like a month. It's all good.

How about you? Why'd you choose that shirt today?

I honestly, I said to Kyle, what should I wear? And he said, pick something from the left side of your closet. And so I picked the dress. Yeah. That's actually cool. Yeah, actually. That is kind of a weird reason. That's really funny. I couldn't decide. So I just did that. When you can't decide, make someone else decide for you. That's what I always say. So freaking true, man. That's why I always get you to pick my books for me. I have no decision-making skills.

I feel that I should update people on some stuff. Because last week's episode, I started with some

kind of sad news about my dog. And the truth is, I don't have a good update. He's still really sick.

It's depressing. It's rough. I keep crying a lot.

But listen, I bring that up, not for pity, not for anything, but just to say that like,

I get it. I just get it. Like, friends have dogs and animals that get sick and it's sad.

And here it's my turn. and soon it will be someone else's

we're all in this horrible hell together that's the sad thing about having pets is you it's so

freaking joyful to have them but yeah it always has to come to an end at some point and it sucks

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