I Am a Spicy Nugget

180: From Instagram Poems to a Bestselling Book, with Loryn Brantz

Cortex, 22 June 2026. The author is the guest. The book comes up at 44 min 6 sec in.

Loryn Brantz discusses her forthcoming children's book about a child who becomes so angry they turn into a spicy nugget, drawing on her experiences with her daughter's explosive emotions and the failure of conventional parenting advice. The story has the parent modelling calm while the child rides through the emotion. Host Mike Hurley, who read an advance copy, says it made him feel personally better.

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