How many from outside of washington . How many had never been to the book festival before . How many have been to all 19 of them . Wow. Okay. Were going to have a very interesting conversation today with one of the countries leading i was a intellectuals and columnists and tv commentators and authors. His new book is the Second Mountain. How many people have read this book at . Come people are going to read this after its over . , okay. How many people are going to get autographed copy from david brooks today. Okay. So david, thanks for doing this. Before we go into this book, the Second Mountain which ive read and think its a very good book. I like to go through about your background. You grew up in new york . The lower side of new york. My parents were somewhat leftwing. So thel story tell about my childhood is when i was identically, this is, this is in the late 60s,s where hippies would go just to be. One of the things they did was they would set a garbage can on fire and they thre
Why did u. S. Oil prices hit negative territory an unprecedented fall in American Crude Oil sales has added to the hardships caused by coronavirus so what will that mean for the u. S. And the Global Economy this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im Richelle Carey thats one of the worlds most valued commodities but the coronavirus lockdowns to overturn the dominance of oil the worth of a barrel of u. S. Oil fell to less than nothing on monday thats the 1st time in history the price has turned negative so this means producers ended up paying buyers more than 30. 00 a barrel to get oil off their hands it rebound a slightly shit disturber 2 dollars the next day that jaw dropping slide this because the world has more crude that it could use and Storage Facilities and even ocean tankers are filling up oil is traded on future contracts and fears of not finding a place to put oil in may means nobody wants crude thats led to a severe drop for west texas intermediate a benchmark
How much of a threat is coronavirus to the worlds food supply is there a serious warnings of a global shortage as the pandemic spread so how can the availability of food be safe and kind of a crisis be averted this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program. Widespread famine of biblical proportions the u. N. Is warning covert 900 could cause an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe it says the number of people who cant get enough to eat could double by the end of the year thats more than a quarter of a 1000000000 people 21000 people already die of hunger every day and that number could saw if people dont get help Food Supplies are limited by lockdowns and peoples incomes are drying up poor countries affected by conflicts economic crisis and Climate Change are particularly at risk the un says this could drive a wave of refugees and friends an exponential rise in social unrest the World Food Program has previously been pledged one point 9000000000. 00 and is urging donor nations to
Leading eye with the intellectuals and colonists and tv commentators and authors. His new book is tonight. How may people have read this book . How many people are goingan to read it after this is over . How many people are going to get autographed copy from david brooks today . So david, thanks for doing th. Before we go into this book, the Second Mountain which have read and its a very good book, will go through it id like to go through about your background. You grew up in new york . Lower side of new york. About, hippies would go just to be. And one of the things they did was they threw their they put the garage can garbage can on fire, i saw 5dollar bill in garbage can and i reached in the fire and grabbed money and ran away. That was my first step to the right. At age 8i read a book calling paddington the bear and decided that i wanted to become a writer and ive been writing pretty much every day since and in high school i wanted to date a woman named bernice and she wanted to da
Finally escapes the white house, and why you might never eat a hamburger again. So lets get into it welcome to the daily social distancing show. Announcer from trevors couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily social distancing show, with trevor noah. Trevor Trevor i know these are hard times right now, and while covering yourself in bleach is a terrible idea, exposing yourself to a hefty dose of sunshine of may be exactly what you need. Our first feelgood story comes out of south korea, birthplace of kpop and the best place to raise a family in someone elses house. After successfully dropping their coronavirus cases to basically zero, south korea has decided that its time to play ball responsibly. Reporter baseball season is under way in south korea, but no fans are there to see it. Reporter posters posing as fans filled the seats for yesterdays opening game of the kbo league. They may not see anything more bizarre though than this thats a 9yearold