Are you gonna run for president . I think i just got an f from you actually. audience applauding r. L. Stine, welcome. Thank you. Very nice to meet you. So nice to be here. I seem to remember the actual Christmas Carol being scary. Why is it necessary to write a scary version of this . I know, and nothing like stealing from the best, right . Right, well, but you understand its like when i hear that were gonna do a scary version of a Christmas Carol, thats like a musical version of rent. I thought it was a musical. No, youre totally right. Why this now . I had never written a christmas book before. [evan] oh is that right . Yeah. [evan] in all the books youre written, hundreds of books. I thought no, this is inappropriate for christmas i thought, and then i realized the most popular christmas story ever was a ghost story. Thats true. Yeah. Multiple ghosts. Then i had this idea, well what if there was a 12yearold scrooge, or what was scrooge like when he was 12 . [evan] right. And i wrot
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 way out of it. So right now were in this really important point where i feel like if there is a possiblity that this is going to happen it makes a lot of sense for us to take care of it now. And i think its not just a possibility. Most scientists would agree that it is a reality. The debate mostly is about how quickly its going to happen and what we can do about it. Hinojosa but the fact is that
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. Its based on the experience of biosphere, biosphere 2 in arizona in the early 90s. You have really drawn a picture that is similar to, but, in so many ways, different from the real thing. Well, thank you. When the biosphere 2 experiment first happened in 91 through 93 northeast of tucson, i was fascinated by this. Like most of the public, i clipped out all the articles. I thought, this is right up m
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, the worst place in the world and nothing good could come of it, because thats where crime and prostitution and all these awful things were, and so thats what i saw, you know, as a kid. Hinojosa what does that do to a kid . sighs deeply hinojosa i mean, profoundly, what does it do to you when you, every day to get to school, youve got to walk by the crack addicts, and the garbage thats not collec
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 was done quickly, a week and a half and [eric] you recorded it in a week and a half . We did. And those are exactly the words we want you to use to describe it. Good. And it was recorded in different places, or it was recorded in one place . No, it was recorded in nashville with buddy miller whos a producer and often its not when he produces, you record at his house, which is what we did and it was