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Hello, and good afternoon. How
are you doing today, Catherine good?

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How are you? Absolutely fantastic?
I gotta ask you, is we continue

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to do this every single year.
We love weird stuff, and what is

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it about weird stuff that calms down
our anxiety? You guys have got magic

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inside of this book. Thank you. Yeah, this look is full of

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the weirdest rackiest of the world has
to offer. I don't know. I

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think weird stuff is like changes the
way you feel about the world. So

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from one moment you don't know something
exists, and then you open this book

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and you're like, Wow, the
whole world has changed. I now know

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about It's really weird thing I didn't
know before. The one thing that charges

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me up about this book is that
when when young adults and younger read this

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book, they're not on Google reading
that and I love the fact that they've

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got a book in their hand and
it shows them and hopefully inspires them to

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use their own imaginations. Yeah,
it's a great experience to just be able

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to flip through this book, open
into any page. We have incredible photos

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and we have a team of photo
editors who really spend a lot of time

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selecting the best images, the coolest
stuff. We have writers working so hard

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on all of the facts and the
stuff we put in here. It is

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a really a labor of love,
and I think a lot more rich than

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maybe what you could get from a
quick Google search. Well. Probably one

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of the biggest biggest shocks to me
was I always thought you could see the

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Great Wall of China from space.
Not so true? Is it tell me

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something else? I don't know about
the Great Wall. I do know that

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parts of the Great Wall of China, this one is in my brain,

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were that rice was used. Sticky
rice was used as part of the construction

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material in the Great Wall of China
many many, many years ago. What

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sticky rice? I mean, I
mean the stuff that we usually have for

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like sushi and stuff. Yeah,
just part, just part of it though

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not the whole. Oh oh.
Well. And another thing that really what

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I thought was so incredible was a
leaf sheep. When I think of sheep,

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I think of sheep, you know, out on a farm. But

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this leaf sheep, I mean,
what an amazing photograph you've got of this?

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Yeah. So the leaf sheep is
a little sea slug that has a

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face that looks a lot like a
sheep. It's very funny. Highly recommend

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looking it up. And it looks
like it has a body made out of

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lead, but it is a sea
slug and it is only a little less

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than half an inch long, so
it's super tiny. And the photo we

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have in the book is very very
much zoomed in. It's much much larger

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than the actual animal is. I
think it's quite cute. It's a very

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strange looking creature. Speaking of strange
creatures, I love the way that doctors

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will the rumble rump and the crunch
roll. I've never seen a spider dance

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before, and I love spiders.
Oh you do, Yes, I do.

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That's awesome. Yeah that these these
little jumping spiders are so fun.

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And yes, the scientists have been
naming their dance moves because they're so unique.

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When you put a book together like
this, I mean, I'm wanting

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listeners to understand that. First of
all, this book is eight and a

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half by eleven or a little bit
larger, but it is hardcore when it

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comes to the cover, are you
guys pretty much speaking to the generations of

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twenty to thirty years from now,
because you know that this book will be

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in pristine shape even during that time
period. Oh, I don't know.

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We're coming out with a new book
every year, so who knows what we'll

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be doing in twenty or thirty years. But this is this is quite the

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tone. It is a big book, hardcover, and I think bill to

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last. So there's a lot in
here that I think, I hope some

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of it will still be. You
never know, a lot of stuff changes,

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but a lot of this stuff I
think will still be still be weird

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and exciting. Well being a part
of that creative team, I mean,

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how is it that you know where
is the cutoff point? Because there is

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so much weird in our weird lives. Yeah, it's tough. So part

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of my job is just to decide
which weird stuff gets in the book and

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which weird stuff we don't put in
the book, or maybe we favor a

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different book. And part of it
is signing stuff that is weird enols,

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and then another part of it is
just making sure that we have all of

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our bases covered. So within each
continent, we want to represent a good

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number of different at different countries,
and then different ecosystems, so we wanted

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some desserts and rainforests on a good
mix of manmade stuff and natural stuff,

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and so part of my job is
to make sure the book feels diverse and

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not too much of the same type
of things, because you could find,

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you could feel a whole book of
weird waterfalls from around the world. There's

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a lot of them, and so
part of what we want to do is

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make it feel like you open any
page and there's something just totally different,

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fresh. Well, even as an
adult. You make me feel like Pusti

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Leon or even Christopher Columbus. I
go in there to explore. I'm going

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in there to learn something new,
even at my age. Yeah, I

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learned things every day when I work
in this book. And I think one

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thing I love about it is that
because of the photo if you can really

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armchair travel and feel like you're seeing
parts of the world that, especially for

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middle school kids, they may be
too far away, not accessible right now,

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but you really can get a flavor
of all of the all the how

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big the world is and how many
things are are to see in it.

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Now. I am here in the
South and we do have our beaches and

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we boogieboard all the time down in
Charleston, but I've never heard of volcano

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boarding. What the heck is that
all about? So it is kind of

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exactly what it sounds like. There
is a volcano called their Own Negro in

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Nicaragua where you can rind a sled
essentially a board and sled down the side

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of a volcano. And I did
have someone asked me, is the volcano

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erupting? And no, you're not
sledding on lava. It's this volcanic ash,

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which turns out is good for sledding, So people do put on their

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safety goggles and their job suits and
sled down it. But it is.

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It is a tourist attraction in the
area. You know. The twinkie has

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always been talked about as being the
one thing that will always be here,

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But now now I've discovered inside this
book the fruitcake will last over a hundred

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years as well. Yes, there's
a fruitcake that that was discovered in Antarctica.

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I forget exactly how old, but
very very very old, one hundred

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years or so, and they found
it and it's still as as they say,

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edible. I don't know, would
you try it? Yeah, you

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know what I would. I would, I would, but it would be

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just a little bit of a nibble. I would have to say, it's

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just let me, let me just
try just a little bite problemies. I

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would probably like it and try to
finish it. Sound good to me.

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You might be braver than I am. But who knows on a book project

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like this does this? I know
that it comes out each year, but

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it's got to take more than a
year to put something like this together.

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Yes, so the our books take
maybe a year and a year and a

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half, sometimes too, depending on
the books to put together. And so

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we work on this quite a while
in advance, and then we keep our

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eye on the news every bit of
the reason why I keep coming back because

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you're so up to date, and
yet you take us back into this time

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period where it's like, really,
you got to come back to this show.

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I love talking with you guys and
sharing conversations National geographic kids. That

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is great to hear. Excellent,
Will you be brilliant today? Okay,

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all right, you se