I love Chuck; he’s just so awesome. Chuck is the invaluable web developer (alongside Jason — the right-brain and left-brain super hero in the office) at SamataMason and since day one we’ve been right up there with the tech talk; everyday I take a couple breaks and go in their corner of the office and knock off some jokes and chillax. Chuck introduced me to Second Life, Twitter, cool websites and he also informed me of him and his family’s Candy Podcast and invited me to be a guest on their next show — which had been on hiatus since last October. Chuck’s mother-in-law Pamela owns a candy shop in Algonquin Illinois — a small town with cute little shops. Chuck always has candy in the cabinet by his desk that he brings from her store and shares with the office — no, that’s not the reason why I’m in their corner of the office twice a day.

Last Thursday, Chuck and I took our lunch break at Hi Sweetie — (no we didn’t have candy for lunch) we picked out some candy for the Candy Podcast show that we were going to record at Chuck’s house in the evening. We picked up some mandarin salads from Wendy’s on the way and headed down to the shop.

Hi Sweetie is like candy antique store. Pamela has a colourful and collections of candies from all around the world for all different tastes buds. I hope the pictures speak for themselves.

After our quest to Algonquin for some sugar, we went back to work and Chuck emailed me and let me know that his lovely wife Dayna had ordered Chinese food and her son Charlie, baby Carson and Val were awaiting our arrival at their awesome-looking home.

Yummy dinner followed by yummy dessert. The Candy Podcast is about Chuck and his family with occasional featured guests to part take in rating candy from 1 to 5. This was a super cool experience. I had so much fun! Thanks for having me guys! I know you’re reading this.

Okay so everyone, listen to our show: Candy Podcast 36. You can subscribe to their fun show on iTunes of you can just play it right off of candypodcast.com Here are the results and the candies we tried.