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Hello, and welcome back to big mood, little mood. I'm your host, Danny Levery. I'm with

me in the studio this week as Auro Cone, the nationally best-selling author of the

incendiaries and the co-editor of Kink. Auro, welcome to the show.

Hi, Danny. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here with you.

I am so happy to be here as well, not least, because I have once again almost but not

quite burned my apartment down for the second time this summer. I learned something today,

which is that you have a portable air conditioning unit. You shouldn't plug it into a court

extender or whatever you put next to an outlet to make more outlets. Don't plug it into

that. In fact, there's even like a big, big tag on the court itself that says, don't

do that. I only read it after. I made an error and things began to burn. Oh, no, no.

Well, you know, I didn't know that you're not supposed to do that with air conditioners.

That's very useful info. I'm sure plenty of people don't know. You're saving lots of

houses from burning down. I appreciate that. Although one of the things that was funny

was as soon as I unplugged it and was like, wow, there's some scorch marks. The little

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