Really happy to have you here. I've got two quick announcements for you right at the top of the hour here.

The first is I have a new book, which I have not told you about at all.

I haven't told anybody about it yet. But I just got the cover from my publisher, so for the first time ever, I can show you what it looks like.

Ready? Ready? Ready? Ready?

It is called Department of Fate, the promise, the power, and the collapse of America's

most consequential institution. This is my new book. It does not come out until November.

So I will tell you more about it when we're closer to the data comes out. It comes

out November 10th, which is right after the midterms. I wanted to tell you about it, though, as soon I got the cover, because if you would like to pre-order it, so you don't have to put it on your to-do list, so you will get the book, literally the day it comes out, you can do that as of today. You can pre-order it by just opening up the camera on your phone and scanning that QR code on the screen. Or you can just go to mattoblog.com. But again, it's called Department of Fate. It comes out November 10th. I have been working on this thing without talking about it for a very long time. I think this is going to be a

particularly useful book right after the midterms. It's sort of a what do we do now kind of thing.

Anyway, you can pre-order it now, and then I will tell you more about it as we get closer to the

pub date. I'm going to do a book tour for it as well. I'll have a whole bunch of live events all around the country. So that's it.

Department of Fate. My new book comes out in November. That's the first announcement.

Second announcement is for something that happens much sooner in June next month. We're going to do a live

event next month in one of my favorite cities on earth,

a place that I lived in and a very, very happy time in my life has a very soft spot.

I have a very soft spot for it. I think of it as a city where everybody's always glad to see you,

even if they go out of their way to not show it.

The event is called We the People, America 250, country at a crossroads.

But it's going to be in Philly. It's going to be in one of my favorite places in the world.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Thursday, June 25th. I'm going to be interviewing the legendary civil rights lawyer and political oracle, Cheryl and Eiffel, live on stage at Philadelphia's historic Metropolitan Opera House.

What are you doing for America 250? This is what I'm doing. This is going to be a big MS Now event.

There's a bunch of us from MS now who are going to be doing a

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