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For example - I am quoting here, - 'Your nose makes about one quart of snot every single day, and you swallow most of it.'

MARTIN: I mean, I do love that you lean into the gross stuff, and it is awesome. RAZ: And we needed something to make us laugh all the time, which is what Wow In The World does. THOMAS: And that combination is kind of what we do best. So why not write a book about the combination of this incredibly complex piece of machinery, more complex than anything we'll ever experience, that also makes funny sounds and, you know, produces gross things? THOMAS: Like, we have a computer in our heads, and we also leak. THOMAS: Yeah, and so that's the other thing - it's also just really gross. I mean, it is the most complex machine in the known universe - full of amazing (laughter) parts and movements and so visual. And when we were talking about a way to explain the magic in the world, we immediately went to the human body.

I mean, when I was a kid, I used to love books like 'The Way Things Work.' I used to love playing Operation. And why not start there? Let's understand ourselves before we even get out in the world. MINDY THOMAS, BYLINE: This is something that every kid could relate to. And the world encompasses a lot, right? So I asked them how they settled on doing a book about what happens in our bodies. They are also the hosts of the hugely popular podcast Wow In The World. It's called 'The How And The Wow Of The Human Body.' It's written by two people who know a lot about channeling kids' curiosity and wonder - Guy Raz and Mindy Thomas. MARTIN: And that's what the book was designed to do. How many blood does your heart even have? WYATT: Your heart beats 100,000 times a day, pumping 2,000 gallons of blood through your body. He started reading out loud, and then the questions came on fast.

The other day, my 8-year-old Wyatt picked up a book about the human body.

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