Hello and welcome to Outrage and Optimism. My name is Clay Carnell, producer.

This week we're here in Washington, D.C. for a live conversation about Tom and Christiana's brand new book,

The Future We Choose, with three-time Pulitzer Prize winner

and New York Times columnist and Friend of the Pod, Tom Friedman.

Thanks for being here. So yeah, the future we choose is out. I'm literally holding it in my hand right now. Can you hear the pages?

It's a real book. It's not just available for pre-order, but for order. You can get your copy at global optimism.com and there is an

e-book as well as an audiobook version which is read by Tom and Christianas that's pretty cool

okay so we're here at Politics and Pro's a bookstore in Washington, D.C. for the future

we choose live book event.

As I mentioned before, Christina and Tom will be joined by Tom Friedman.

He was actually on a previous episode of the podcast.

So if you enjoy today's conversation,

head back to that episode and give it a listen.

Okay, I know they're gonna start the event here

in just a few moments, but before they do, I do want to mention that they're doing more live book events just like this one,

and you can go to global optimism.com and find out if they're coming somewhere near you.

So let me kind of describe to you what the scene is here before we get started.

People have been staking out seats for about an hour.

All the seats are taken, and so now there's some overflow of people standing.

It's very full and people are standing and leaning on the bookshelves waiting for the

event to start. It's really cool. It's in the kind of the back section of a bookstore.

There's no elevated stage.

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