This is on being's unheard-cut. I'm Krista Tippett. You're listening to my unedited conversation with Muhammad Feruz

Download the MP3 of our produced show with him at on being dot org

And we are connected and

Chris is ready to say hello to you. Oh great as soon as you sit down

I'll just I'll get you on the mic and then I'll go get the water for you

Okay, I'm gonna turn my phone on. I would love that if you put on an airplane mode or power it down

That's the best for us

Good there we go

All right, and if you can pull right into the table perpendicular, it's gonna help me position the mic properly

Hello, hello, Muhammad

Hi, Krista. Yes, hi. I'm so sorry. I'm running a few minutes away here

Don't worry. We were just talking about how it's impossible to ever get anything exactly on time in New York

I'm so sorry. No, no, don't worry at all. We're fine. We have all the time in the world

So glad you're there. It's good to meet you

It's great to meet you. Do you have any questions on me before we start?

No, no, I did my homework too. Okay

Good and I just want you to be I'm just gonna talk to you about things you are thinking and writing about all the time

So and the great thing about this format is

Have you done ISDN interviews before this? Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah, so I find it very intimate in its way and

And the great thing about you know, we'll we'll talk for

somewhere between 16 90 minutes and it if you you know

It's a thing stupid you can edit it well exactly exactly, but you will but but but but it's a real conversation

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