Hello everyone and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we Unbind Books to get to their hearts with your host.

It's Ariel and.

Raylene.

Hello, hello, hello.

Do you think there's anyone at home that says it along with me?

I like to imagine that actually. Definitely. That's so beautiful. I think there's at least a few people who do.

I never thought about that before, and I really like that. I think that's so cute. Hello, everyone.

We are back with an episode. We have books to haul. I said to Raylene, because right before we record,

there's like, usually, usually it's like five minutes of me and Raylene just setting stuff up

and chatting. Today was 20 minutes because things just kept going awry. A classic, everything is

going wrong situation. I was like, oh, hold on, I'm having an SD card problem. And really, it was like, well, thank God, because my headset won't connect. And I'm like, oh, wait, now the camera's not connecting to the Bluetooth thing. And you're like, wait, I forgot lipstick. So it was just a situation where the ships were crashing into every possible show. But I feel like we're taking it pretty easy, taking it chill.

Like, we're not scared. We're not worried. No. Because there's times when these sorts of things go down and we're like frazzled. We weren't frazzled. We were just kind of like, ah, I got to deal with this now. Okay. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. I feel like we've really come to peace with the problems that happened.

Right.

But right before we were hitting record, I was like, we like to talk about what we're going to talk about, right? Just so we both have a little bit of an insight on like, okay, I have this many books to haul. Because sometimes there will be an insane imbalance where Raylene will be like, I'll be like, I have two books to haul.

And Raylene's like, I have 12.

So it's like, okay, how are we going to do that? Yeah. Or the opposite is like, I'll be like, I didn't finish any books. And you'll say, I finished four. And we're like, okay, balance is restored. So we've got to figure out our balances and stuff, right? Anyways, I said to Rayleigh, okay, I've got seven books to Hall because it was my, it was my birthday.

And Rayleigh said, what did you stuff, right? Anyways, I said to Rayleigh, okay, I've got seven books to haul because it was my,

it was my birthday.

And Relyan said, what did you say, Ray?

I have 10 because I've been bad. I have, oh yeah, I have five. Wait, five, shoot, I actually have six. I totally lied to you. I actually have six. I actually have six. Dude, you said five.

I said I have five because I was a bad girl.

Because, I mean, the reason I said that is because I am moving in five days.

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