From Wondry, I'm Nikki Boyer, and this is Call Me Curious, where every week I'll get to the bottom of those funny, strange, puzzling, or just got-a-no questions you have.

And we'll tell you the best we can what the answer is.

Because I've got 21 questions.

I've been 21 guessing you could teach me a lesson.

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So tell the truth Hey everybody, hi, welcome to call me curious. Don't you just love this time of the year? Oh, for me, the month between Halloween and New Year's Eve always just feel super special. You've got all the best holidays, right? You've got warm winter sweaters, comfort food, just ugh. But the best part of it all, I think, is that we just seem to dive

in to volunteer work. People help out at meal centers and delivering holiday dinners. It's kind of

like there's this surplus in our heart's compassion budget that needs to be spent by the end of the

year or we lose it. And I love it. Everybody's give, give, give, I love it. Which brings me to the topic of today's show. Even though we tend to focus our efforts to help

feed people around the holidays, some people experience food insecurity 365 days a year.

And that should not be happening in one of the richest countries in the world. We have the food

and not just the

canned stuff, right? Like good fresh fruits and vegetables and eggs and meat and milk. We have the food.

But what we've been lacking is an efficient way to get it to the people who need it the most.

Until now, the advent of the community fridge is changing how we think about the nutritional needs of the people in our neighborhood.

And so I was so excited today because we're going to ask the question, should every neighborhood have a community fridge?

But first, we got to say hello to my good friend. Malone! How are you?

Hi, Nikki. I'm great. How are you? I am so excited about this topic because so often in life,

I say to myself, what can I do? What can I do? And I think this quenches the thirst of that question.

So I'm excited to dig in. Yeah, it's a good one. But when you say community fridge, that's what you said, right? Yeah. I think of a refrigerator if it's in every community, like on my corner here. Like, would it just be a refrigerator? See, I know nothing about this. No, I love this, but you're not wrong.

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