Oh, hey there. It's Kristen. How are you doing? Are you ready for hush? I have just a few

items of news. Jenny has unfortunately lost her voice, so I'm here by myself. She's

traveling. She hasn't actually lost her voice, but you know, it seemed thematic at the

very least. Since she's not here, I'm starting a new segment so she has no stay in

mother we do it or not, because now it's begun called spooky news. I'm starting this

segment. I mean, it is almost Halloween, but also like we do a show about vampires.

And also, also, last week two teenage girls baked the ashes of one of their grandfathers

into sugar cookies and brought those cookies to school and some of the students ate them

knowing that they were ash cookies and some of them ate them not knowing that they were

eating ash cookies. And I can't stop thinking about it. I want to make sure you know about

it. I understand that there's a lot of complicated pieces of this whole story, but at the

end of the day, I just pictured Regina George and Wednesday Adams coming together, falling

in love, having a baby, raising the baby. And then this is that baby. Like it just baking

your relatives ashes into sugar cookies and bringing them to school is definitely, it

just needs to be like in a future teen movie. I think so that's my vote. I also wanted

to let you know that when I looked up the story just now to find out if I needed to share

any other details with you, it looks like the people over at a live science, either

live science or live science.com. I don't know. They talked to a microbiologist, Ralph

Halden, who's the director of the Center for Environmental Health Engineering at Arizona

State University's BioDesign Institute, who let us know that there's actually not a

health concern from eating the ashes of a human being in a cookie. So you know, in case

you had interest, in case your interest was peaked, in case you wanted to know some of

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