Well, welcome bibliophiles, or as Kate likes to refer to you as book nerds, good to have you

with us for the podcast again.

And Kate, I had some reaction to last week's podcast, which I'll tell you about after you

introduce yourself briefly.

Oh, hi.

I'm Kate, and now I'm interested to find out what reaction you got to last week's show before we start on this week's show.

Well, a couple of people. Well, they were two together, and they had both heard the podcast, and they said, I want to talk about your podcast this week.

And I'm sort of looking at my shoes and saying, oh, shucks, and that they

wanted to talk about what I thought was such a terrific book that Bell Burton had written.

No, they wanted to talk about candy hearts, and they concur that they are probably made out of chalk.

And can I tell you how often over the last week new things have occurred to me

to put on the Tum's hearts? How about better out than in? I've had so, like seriously, I've had so

many, like it's, it's, you know, anyway, I'm just saying they are, I think, made by, and I think

we've been handing out an

acids for years in cute containers with cute sayings on them, but we're probably more

healthy for it. We're more regular because of it, but we'll leave it there.

And somebody, somebody, well, these two people said, what's worse, the candy hearts

at Valentine's Day or peeps at Easter, those little gummy things that, anyway.

Yeah, but you know, but you can't blow up candy hearts in the microwave, but you can with the

marshmallow peeps. They blow up and they get really obscene sizes. You can't do that with the candy hearts.

That's a scientific experiment, is it?

Sure, it's being done all across the world.

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