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It's not good to live in your head is basically what I've learned from my time as being a love sick nerd.

We got to find that magazine. It's got to be in here somewhere, right?

This place is like a candy store for nerds.

I'm Tricia Bobita.

I'm Greta Johnson.

And this is the Nurdette Podcast.

This week a conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning author Deborah Blum.

She's a science journalist who's also a Poisons nerd.

And we'll hear your voicemail's

dedicating songs to the nerdy loves of your life.

But first, for this Valentine's Day episode we're going to check in

with our movie nerd friend Joe Yuchel. Joe interviewed some horror filmmakers

and turns out there's more romance in those slasher films than we originally

thought.

I went and talked to two groups of screenwriters.

One of them were adorable and married.

They would hate being called Adorable.

John and Lottie Knowles, who wrote a movie called Chastity Bites,

which is about the real life 16th century blood countess Elizabeth

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