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 Ray Green.

Whoa! I didn't plan that.

That just came out.

I feel like that was such a good omen for this episode.

The fact that you just improved Ray Green to launch your new green hair.

Yes.

Yes.

Also, you're wearing a red sweater right now, so we like Christmas.

Oh, my God, we're so cute.

We're so cute.

So yeah, for those who aren't watching the video, I would suggest maybe you do because my hair is green and I think it's pretty freaking sick. I'm just gonna give a little spin. It looks so beautiful. before we hit record on this episode and before I like joined this video call,

Raylene was like, I have a surprise for you and I was like, what is it?

And they clicked onto the video and her camera was angled down to like showing me her shirt and I was like, what's happening? And you angled it up and it was green-haired Raylene and it's very exciting because if you don't know the lore, I have been gunning for Raylene to have green hair for like five years at least. Yeah. I've always wanted you to have green. I don't know why. I just had my head it would look cool. Look at it. It looks awesome. It does look cool. Yeah. Yeah, I'm excited about it. It's a little slightly different from what I like anticipated, but it's still pretty cool. It doesn't show up as green on camera. It does

look a little bit more blue, and it is kind of bluey at the bottoms, but it's green, baby.

It's green. It's beautiful. And what an exciting and festive way to celebrate this epic

and exciting episode. This is the first video in our end of the year trilogy of videos. I actually genuinely

do feel like we work all year, like we work up to these episodes. This is the grand finale

of the year. Yeah, I feel like I want to stage right now. Like I literally feel like this is such a

grand occasion for us. It feels quite scary. the year. Yeah, I feel like I want to stage right now. Like I literally feel like this is such a grand

occasion for us. It feels quite scary. We're a little nervous about it. There's a lot to get through.

There's, yes. Okay, first of all, there's just so much to do and say and share and talk about,

but also just like these videos get viewed way more than the other

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