Problem until and selling eating chimpanzees into different parts of africa sassed that again from another wild wild animal market in china then again from probably camels in the middle east and then being simple epidemics began from our factory farms in the avatars and all these terrible unhygienic conditions one of the new films that are out from national geographic. Called james the 1st of their 2 once called hope talks about you when youre in goma in tanzania and the tragedy when polio hits the Small Community of a chimpanzees you are investigating in and made the whole of the world realize that humans were the only not the only species to have consciousness arguably just tell me about when a pandemic hit that camp. Well it was it was really only the worst time in my life because we never knew which chimpanzee would come in dragging an arm or a neck and then some of them would just disappear and it was it was absolutely heartbreaking and it began in a nearby town. And bizarrely the
[inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, we are here to welcome the 11th time number one New York Times bestseller across many genres including fiction, nonfiction, childrens, how to use, graphic novels. Erie. So you know all of you have cameras out, cspan is here and you know what that means. All of us book nerds are being watched by all our Favorite Book nerds. We arefinally altogether in oneplace. We have as many viewers as svn right now. That joke does not work in sports places. I love coming to virginia, obviously the washington dc area was our home and a beautiful place for us where we had our children here. We had our lives here. I started writing here and its especially important today. Today is the day my dad died and we marked the day and i know it seems like something sad but i love my father and i especially love being in this barnes and noble because my father used to go into barnes and noble and say yes, im here for brad meltzer book, hes my favorite author and the
Company as apublic service and brought to you today by your television provider. Hey everyone, im in number of the event staff here and id like to welcome you all this evening to politics and prose. A few quick notes, but tv is here with us and we are filming for our own Youtube Channel so with that in mind if you could take a moment of silence your cell phones, the opry two to, snap, however you like to use social media, just do it silently and along those same lines when we get to the q a portion we have one microphone set up over here and if you line up behind that for your questions andmake sure your short question is a short question and gets said into the microphone. We want to keep the dialogue running. Books areavailable at the register if youve not yet bought one. We have copies of the first conspiracy and we also have copies of bradschildrens book which are also really fun and interesting. You might want to pick up a couple of those as well which is of course why we are here
[applause]. Getting a fun, one because youre in the front row and you are chaos people. Two, weve got cspan here lets hear it for cspan. [applause]. We live cspan. Washington dc metro area. All the viewers of cspan, i think are in this room right now. We love you. And the regular viewers as well. We welcome everyone to cspan. But theres a couple of other things. First i am going to tell you about the different between history and destiny. And we all know what history is of what happened. But destiny is what must happen. And this is true pretty cant believe this is happening. My father, he rested piece he was start by finding predict my father, was struck by lightning. The main still stand next to me in a rainstorm. It must become selling my son the story. And telling him, listen. My dad was struck by lightning, his dad was struck by lightning pretty so my gosh, we could be struck by lightning. As the senate, we wont but sure you might be. Tonight, and this is true. My son, and my wife
Show lost history. And he is also the host of decoded. We although why you are here, with out further do lets welcome mr. Brad meltzer. [cheering] [applause] stomach or having fun now just you all know, cspan is here but you know what that means questioning that means all of us book nerds are being watched by her fellow book nerds. That that were altogether one place. [applause] we have as many viewers as espn right now. [laughter] that joke does not work in sports places. I love coming to virginia, obviously the washington d. C. Area was our home in a beautiful place for us where we had our children here, we had our lives here. We started writing here. Its especially important today, todays the day my dad died. And we mark today. And i know it seems like something sad part by loved my father specially loved biggins barnes noble because my father used to go into our local barnes noble, and he would always go yes im here for brad meltzers to but he is my favorite author. And they would