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Hello and welcome back to the Big Mood, Little Mood podcast.

I am your host, Danny M. Lavery, and with me in the studio this week is Celesteing,

the number one New York Times best-selling author of Everything I Never Told You

and Little Fires Everywhere. Her third novel, Our Missing Hearts, will be published in October

2022. Celeste, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me on.

I'm so so excited to get to try to answer some questions with you.

Before we get started, a really quick note. I heard from an eagle-eared listener last week that

apparently, if you download the podcast through like a third-party platform, not from Slate

directly, but elsewhere, some of the ads that it gets fed come from the Spotify ad network.

And it was briefly running ads for Regent University, which is Pat Robertson's University.

Thank you very much for bringing it to my attention. Our ad team got in touch with them and they

have assured us that won't happen again. But do let me know if like a third-party platforms are

like packaging the show with just really any ads for like virulently homophobic, right-wing,

hyper-nationalist, Christianist organizations. I'd love to hear about that because I think it's

bad for them because they're unlikely to find any students among my audience. And it's not great

for me because I don't like them and I hope Pat Robertson dies soon and in pain. And that's

fine to say on the air because it's my show. So last, welcome to the show again.

I am really thrilled to be here. Thank you so much for being here and for not being associated

in any way with Pat Robertson or Regent University. May they all die in a fire this week. How are you?

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