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Welcome to Query.

Hey Query Rose, Cammy here.

This week's episode is a chat with actor and now author, Malik Pincholi, whose new book,

The Best Addit, is for middle-grade readers, but sounds awesome and I can't wait to read

it myself.

Enjoy!

I've been feeling wrong, but I'm still in my toilet.

I know, I know, I know it's careless.

I always have guests introduce themselves.

Will you introduce yourself?

Yeah, hey, I'm Malik Pincholi.

Do you want some more than that or do you just want to name it?

It's kind of one of these things where it's different folks.

It's just like interesting to hear how somebody introduces themselves.

Yeah, I'll bring it.

I'm Malik Pincholi.

I'm an actor.

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