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excited. I'm so excited. It has been four years and you help kick off this podcast. Lenore Skinaezy is back.

Welcome. Wow, four years older. Yay. Great. Here I am, Jenny. Yep yep so my story is that someone asked me

to do a podcast well they said I'm I'm launching a book and can I come on your

podcast to help launch this book and I kind of had one that I'd done some episodes

by myself but I it didn't work well so I'd let it go so then I was like I guess so

and then I was like well well anybody else come on you know if i'm going to do this and you said yes

and i was shocked i was shocked because i had already read your book free range kids lower level

celebrity than you would assume i was such a fan this This is the most amusing.

It is wildly beneficial, but also the most amusing parenting book.

I think that's out there.

I have read so many of them.

And when I read it for the first time, I didn't know I was going to have a chance to talk with you.

But when I read it for the first time, I was like snorting. People were like, what is going on? And it's like a comedy book. I'm reading a parenting book, free range kids, how parents and teachers can let go and let grow. I'm snorting. And then I read it again to get prepared. You know, I'm like, I'm going to go back through. I tend to like have my books on my shelf and I'll, you know, glance through from time to time. But I went cover to cover. I was like, it's one of the funniest books I've ever read. Certainly the funniest book. Four years ago when Lenore was still funny. Yes. Okay. Now I'm happy to hear it. Yes. Right, right. I'm coasting on the fumes. How are you so funny? I used to write for Mad. I used to write for Mad magazine and Cracked as probably before your time. No, that's all I wanted to be was Funny Writer. And my dearest friend from high school, who I always just, we had so much fun together and were always writing together. We went on to write sitcoms. And I thought, oh, no, and I'm just journalist, but it comes out. I mean, it is so funny. I'm going to read just one. It is the most entertaining, enjoyable parenting book you'll ever read, plus you're going to learn a lot. So you talk about, this is just one little part. You're talking about Halloween. The biggest fear on Halloween, of course, is that your nice, quiet neighbors, the ones who you never really got to know but somehow managed to live next to you

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