Hello and good morning. How are you doing, Christina? Good? How are you arrow? Absolutely fantastic. You guys at National Geo. You just keep coming up with these books. And you know what, I gotta tell you. My neighbor across the street, Gerrik, when I go over there and we sit on the front lawn and we read these books. I wish you guys could see what you do to their imaginations. Oh I love that. I'm looks like, can you send me a video? Sometimes? That is that just makes my heart so happy. Well, I mean because I mean National Geo has gone from being that magazine that we would pick up at the dentist's office or go to the doctor's office and we would learn about parts of the world. But the way that you're outreaching now, I mean you're showing us in fact, this one here it asks questions that we're all going to ask anyway, and it's fun to learn them. Oh. Absolutely. Our whole goal is the spark that sense of adventure, exploration and curiosity and kids, and we want it to relate to them. It feels like when you're reading these books, you're talking to your best friends about seeing the coolest subjects and things that you've always wanted to learn more about. Well, you make me want to go back to be a kid again. I mean you really do, because I mean it's like I want this stuff from my childhood to see how I would be in adult shoes. Well, and that's honestly some of the motivation that I have when we make these books. It's like, what would I have wished I had when I was younger? What do I wish I could have gone to the library and gotten or somebody would have told me? And that honestly, we're all kids at heart. So I sometimes say our books are really for every age group, even all the way up to ninety nine years old. You know what's really interesting is that you really do hit subjects that are about the everyday world. Because a good example, as we get older, we tend to get gray hair. Why does hair change? And you know a lot of people are freaked out about it, but it's it's such a natural thing. Yeah, And it's just have to do with the melatonin and melanin in our hair. And as they get older, I mean different parts of our body, even our ears have hair cells in them, and as they get damaged or older, we just start to lose either color or in the sense of our ears hearing because we just age. I wish we could reverse aging. We do talk about that too, where we think can't I live forever? We exlaim all right now, we don't know how we can live forever, but we're trying to figure out what causes us to slowly stop functioning anymore. And we think it's the chrominosomes in our body that have ends called peal wears that keep getting shorter. That's what we're researching right now. We empower kids by telling them that's a thing. How did you come up with all the questions? Because they really are spot on, honestly. So this book came from a sister book that was a little bit earlier as our miss a little bit bigger, and each chapter was on a different subject related to the question why. And then we broke it down into this subject matter, which is the why the human body. And we brought it to our fabulous software page Tower, and we said we'd run to break this down into partment just like the human body. You want to start with anatomy, give everybody a basic overview, ask them the big questions that you wonder about your body. Like why do I breathe? Why is my blood bread? And then we want to go into this really detailed questions like things about our senses or our brain, like why is it wrinkly? So when the questions like the gross ones you never want to ask anybody the biggers, Yeah, why do I pick my nose? Why do I have buggers? You know exactly? And then we end with this future question of like empowering the next group of scientists and explorers and writers to figure out what's going to happen to our bodies in the future. What are the things that are unanswered? Yeah? See, I'm interested in that because I want to know how these ais are going to you know, because I mean medically speaking, AIS are going to be so positive to us. How is that going to change it? Do you do you dive into something like that? We do talk about the brain versus machines, and right now the brain still out does machines. And we've even talked about things like, well, can we upload our brain to some kind of computer or server? And the truth is, there's so many we don't have the answer to these questions yet, but researchers are trying to find out. But the truth is nothing. It's equal to the humans. Whether it's yeah, there are some computers out there that know a lot, but they don't have a personality, or we're figuring out how to replicate personalities, but they can't predict certain occurrences or irregularities. And so right now we are still superior. Our brains are still far more complex and we don't even know everything about them. So AI, well, it's really useful, honestly, and in some respects, we'll never outdo the human brain. I'll tell you. I giggled like a child when I when I read that there's over one thousand, one hundred and eleven questions answered, And I giggled because I believe in numerology that's a good group of numbers you put together. We put together there, Oh, we an't ideal love our numbers. We have so many great books like this one, like this one has some ninety nine in questions. We have one that's called like five thousand awesome facts about Everything, And it's just it's like, how much can you pack into a book that you can hold or put throw into your backpack? Why so, why is it that that lamas are are given permission to spit, but the human being, Oh, that's just so gross. You stopped doing that. Well, that's the funny thing. We ask, like, oh, why are lamas like able to spit so far? And like when we try, one, we're told it's growth, and two we can't get it very far no matter how hard to try. And we have And it's funny. I grew up on a little farm in Indiana and we had lamas and let me tell you, their spit is pretty growth. And it's because they actually regurgeous hate from their stomach and spit up whatever is in there in a lot of acid. And that's where they get all their momentum. So you will never be able to do it. You're relying on just your mouth muscles. Imagine if we could use their stomach muscles. Growing up on that farm, let me ask you a question because I grew up with a state of Montana, and one of the things that people are shocked by when when I talk about farm life and stuff is the importance of the chicken. Did you guys raise chickens? So we somehow inherited all the local classrooms chickens. Anytimes when they would raise these chickens and they were like, here you go. And they were like, oh, but honestly, they are some of the coolest animals, even though they seem dumb. We had a couple but just we're like, don't don't go where the predators are. That's not a good idea. But the truth is a chicken and this is the coolest thing ever. That is our closest descendant to the dinosaurs that we have today. You're kidding. If you look at their feet, they are related to the dinosaurs. If you look at their feet, it comes as no surprise. They look like they have their little claws and scales. That's exactly what we think the last descendant of the dinosaurs. Wow. We would go into the henhouse at about five o'clock in the morning and grab a hen because we had to go out to the hay bales to get so we could feed the cattle and those chickens at five am would they would they would go. If there was a snake or if there was a mouse in the hay, they would find it and eat it. They're great. I was keeping bugs and all of the other little pets away. I love it. Now, what did you learn in putting this book? Together for National GEO because I mean every I could sit in your library and just vege for months. Oh for me, this book, I feel like every time I opened a new page or I would get a new manuscript, it's I learned something new this book. One of my favorite, honestly is the area of the brain, because I know basically nothing about the brain, and honestly, I had some things that we're actually miss that we fust did, like the idea that the largest brain is the smartest brain, and you're like, oh, wait, that's not the case. Actually, what's the smartest brain is? It depends on the number of wrinkles you have in your brain and how close to neurons. So yeah, so if your brain goals, it's because it's trying. We think that it's trying to get the sides closer to each other. And when they keep doing that, since the neurons can fire quicker. And our evidence for this is, do you know who has the most rankly brain of all humans? Albert Einstein? Did he really? Wow? You had the Muslim goals. So those kind of things made me think, I'm like, WHOA, I didn't know that. I didn't realize it makes sense when you think about it, it's going to keep folding over to get more than asses and you keep firing those those thoughts and electoral um like electric power um. But yeah, so I loved that section. I also just I also struggle because I with taste. I can't eat cilantro, and it drives me insane. And it turns out it's because I got genetics that say I can't eat cilantro. But I did get the ones that say I can eat spicy food. And who not? Whos right? Who knew it was? It was all related as genetic I would I would love to see I would love to see a group of children when you share stories like this, especially with a wrinkly brain, just to watch them roll their eyes in the way of trying to get a wrinkle in their brain. I'm gonna work on it. I'm gonna I gotta get a wrinkle going on here, right, It's like I just gotta have. I'm gonna be smarter to say, yeah, so, where can people go to get more information? I know that National GEO Kids is all about, you know, one on oneness and interaction. Where can they go to find out more information and get involved? Absolutely so This book is sold wherever your favorite books are sold, whether it's online or in a bookstore, and we do have more information on our website. We also now have a YouTube channel that you can go check out or we'd like to put up some videos to inform you a more. Yeah, so check out Natio Kids YouTube. We're trying to get everywhere because we want to make sure that all of this information gets into the hands of kids. But they keep learning and exploring and getting those answers to those big questions of why whow Christina. You got to come back to this show anytime in the future. The door is always going to be open for you. Oh, Errol, I hope so, and I was like, we need to have you come out here and we can give you all the books so we can watch your we can all read them together. Oh, let's do it. I'm in for that. I'm in for that. Will you be brilliant today? Okay Uel, and have a lovely weekend.