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

To get to their hearts with your host's us, it's Ariel and Traylene. Hello.

Woohoo! There's so many things to tell you.

Which one should I say first?

I'll say the fact that this is not my background.

Well, it is my background.

You move.

Right now.

Yeah, I bought a new house.

No, I am currently traveling, and I am in England, Jolly England.

And so I'm staying at an Airbnb and this is the background that I set up for us today.

Um, so we also have noticed that the lag is just a few seconds slower than usual,

but on this phone call between Raylene and me. So if you, if one of us

says a hilarious joke and the other one doesn't laugh right away, that's because of the ocean.

It's not because we're being mean. There's nothing between us other than the ocean.

Exactly. That's a really great way to put it. Um, oh boy. Okay, so the next thing we want to talk about is, it's pretty exciting. I don't know. Like, okay, we have it on our content calendar, like on our notion where we organize everything.

But we kind of forgot until our last live show, someone was like, you guys are doing mashed potato

May, right? And we were like, yeah, we just have totally forgot to think about it. I don't know how.

It just kind of slipped past, but instantly we were like, of course we've got to do that. So mashed potato may is a month where we all try and tackle

our mashed potato books as best we can just for fun, a month of concerted and concentrated effort.

Yeah.

Really.

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