Hi Wild Thing fans, do you have kids? Do you know any kids? Or are you just a big kid yourself?

Have I got some very exciting news for you? Wild Thing is no longer just a podcast.

It's a middle grade non-fiction book series aimed at kids between the ages of 8 and 13.

And the first book, The Search for Sasquatch, which is based on the first season of Wild Thing,

is available now. It's a beautiful hardcover book with full color illustrations, or if you like

the melodious sounds of my voice, there's also an audio book from Audible. My guess is you'll

probably want to get both. For more information on where to find it, go to wildthingpodcast.com.

You wouldn't know that the desert spread out in front of me was the site of America's

deadliest nuclear accident, a disaster that left three men dead and spewed clouds of radioactive

gases into the air. There are no visible signs of the meltdown, no burned out buildings or

barren patches of earth. SL1 is long gone, and the cracked asphalt road that leads to where it once

stood lies behind a locked green gate and a brightly colored restricted area sign.

So all you'll see, aside from some skittish jackrabbits, are hundreds of acres of sharp,

black hardened lava rock, dusty green sagebrush, and the whistling wind.

The nearest town is miles away, and it's not a place where you'd want to put down stakes.

Early settlers tried to eke out a living on this land and failed, and even the ancestors of

today's Shashone and Bannock tribes only spent time here in the spring when there was water,

before they moved on to more hospitable landscapes. It's not a welcoming environment by any stretch,

but looking at this expansive isolation is an obvious reminder of why exactly the US government

decided that this was the place to build the National Reactor Testing Station, the site.

I'm standing outside a squat brick building, utilitarian, nondescript, beige.

It's got that 1950s feel, and it probably wouldn't even catch your attention if it didn't have a

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