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Well, i dont really feel it, it doesnt feel like a crisis, you say what . So the way i approach Global Warming is that i think of it as an insurance question. Its like if you were driving down the street and someone told you that your house was on fire, and then someone said, oh, no, its not really your house, its the house next door, dont worry about it, what would you do . Youd probably turn around and go back. You have insurance not because you actually think your place is going to burn. You have insurance because, you know, if it happens, its such a catastrophic problem that theres no real...

Are you gonna run for president . I think i just got an f. applauding t. C. Boyle, welcome. My pleasure. Congratulations on the book. Thank you so much. I publish books all the time, every year, and i go out on the road and every once in a while somebody says, congratulations, and im wondering, for what . Its like going to war when you publish a book. No, its like giving birth, here it is. It was long awaited. No, no, the thing about this book that i thought was especially great was it took me back, truly took me back to the mid and early 90s, you know. This is a novel based on real events. It...

When you look at the south bronx, you see what . Possibility, promise, some of the worlds most beautiful people. Hinojosa hmm . All sorts of assets that are just waiting to be developed and recognized as such. Hinojosa but when you were growing up in the south bronx. Uh hinojosa . One of ten kids, okay . laughing yeah. Hinojosa what were you seeing around you . I was seeing, you know, the burnedout shells of buildings. I did see, you know, crack heads who lived across the street from me in a burned out shell. I did see my neighborhood played out larger than life on television about being, like...

Shawn colvin, welcome. [shawn] thank you. [eric] nice to see you again. [shawn] you too. [eric] its so nice to hear your voice coming out of a record, i have to tell you the great fun ive had over the last couple of weeks listening to this record. It reminds me how much i enjoy hearing your music. Thank you. And its a really great, and interesting, and different record. Its very spare, very raw, and casual. Not is as if pejorative i say that, but it just doesnt feel like its been overproduced and over done. Feel like you all had fun thats a great compliment. [eric] making it. We did, and it wa...

This community. And you started writing that when you were in college. Yeah. Hinojosa so did you ever imagine, yeah, its going to end up on broadway, or was that just like an illusion . Oh, i imagined it laughing i mean, you wouldnt write it if you didnt feel like it was. It was worth something, but i imagined it in the way that you imagine being a jedi when you are three years old, you know . Its in the realm of possibility, and sure, maybe one day. But you know, i just. I knew that i wanted to write, i knew that i wasnt good at anything else, and i just. I knew there werent enough musicals t...