Hello, and welcome back to the Curious Kid podcast.

Depending on where you live, you may or may not have come across a cactus before.

Where we live in New Jersey, the only native cactus is the prickly pear.

Well, all the way back in February, we got mail from two awesome listeners who both live in

the southwest United States and have probably seen many more cacti than we have here in New

Jersey, and they want to learn more about them.

Double mail bag!

Double mail bag. Double mail bag.

Hello, my brother and I just started listening to your podcast on our long drive from

Carlsbad, California to Sundance, Utah.

Our favorites were diapers since we have a baby sister, waterfalls, and

unicorns. On our drive, we thought of a few things we'd be curious about. Cactuses, soap,

quicksand, and gum. Hopefully you can do one of those topics. We told our cousins about the

podcast, too, from

Colette, Eli, and Quinn. Hello, Mr. Jacob and Olivia. My name is Olivia, and I am seven years

old. My mommy turns the podcast on for me every week. My little sister Abigail and I love to get

curious with you. We live in Arizona.

There are lots of cactuses and rocks, some with crystals inside. My mommy told me they are called

geodes. Could you get curious with us about cactuses or about geodes? I hope you read my email. Thank you from the Arizona

Desert, Olivia, Abigail, and their mommy Stephanie. Those were a couple of super-duper emails.

We are getting curious about cacti this week for Colette, Eli, Quinn, Olivia, and Abigail.

And it's going to be so much fun. I know very little about cacti. In fact, I had to look up the

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