aphids are, these days, agricultural pests. >> little guys, right? >> yeah. super, super small. you would hardly notice them if you weren't looking for them. >> you can gather their poop. >> you can gather their poop. not fresh, it has to dry on -- [laughter] it has to dry on the plants first, but the once it does dry -- and, by the way, what they're eating is plant sap, and plant sap is very sweet. so what they're pooping is also very sweet. and so you can gather their poop and make it into candy. and, like, that kind of thing is both ingenious and also funny, and it doesn't need my help to make it any funnier. but there were some parts where, you know, i'd throw in a joke, and then i'd have my partner julia read it, and then if she, like, half chuckled i'd be like, okay, that's good. and if she rolled her eyes, i'd be like, okay, i'm cutting this. >> the julia index. did your editor ever come back and say, george, no? >> yes, actually. the book had, the book had a lot of four-letter words in it my first draft, and he cut 99% of those. >> okay. all right. so four-letter words a