Okay, everybody. I'm starting the show, which feels very weird and it feels weird to me.

But I think I'm the first person that gets to do this. Ladies and gentlemen, would you

join me in welcoming New York Times best-selling author, Annie F.

Downs!

You are the first person to do that. I can't believe it.

You're gonna hear that your whole life.

For the rest of my life, Eddie.

You're like not a Academy Award nominee. You are Academy Award winner. New York Times

best-selling author, Annie.

I know.

How are you? I am emotional right now and I was not expecting that. How are you? You're

the New York Times best-selling author.

Thank you. I am a lot of things. I am surprised. I am thankful. I am emotional constantly.

I am emotional constantly. I mean, I have never, I don't know that I have emoted like

this in a long time. But, you know, I wrote my first book in 2006 and so this is, what

is that 15, literally 15 years that I have looked toward this as, because this kind of

is the highest accolade in our profession.

And so it's the one that you look to when you're looking forward. Yeah, it's the one you

look to. So it just is, it's just, it's wild, Eddie. It's wild. And of course this is the

book that does that, which makes me so happy because it has 3,000 of my friends in it,

like who submitted their stories of what sounds fun to them. It has so many stories of my

real-life friends that let me tell. I mean, this is the book a bunch of us wrote together.

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