Welcome to francie and fitch book shop. We have a lot of helpers. I want to point out if you havent noticed, weve got cspan in the room, tony came in from iowa, taking a little break from the iowa campaigning. So youre going to be on cspan. Ill find out when, im not sure when, but ill be finding out so you can spread the word and let people know. Mary anne andre is here, awardwinning producer of documentaries, among them under the milky way. It was absolutely beautiful. And were kind of in a little fish bowl today, right . [laughter] which is great. I also want to recognize stephanie, shes going to be helping with the book signing afterwards. Well kind of try and streamline that process a little bit. How the agendas going to go is im going to youre going to get some introductions of some great people that are going to talk to you about this book, therell be a q a, and afterwards youll be able to meet the author and have your books autographed. And at that point, theres a lot of people
After ziplining a raging river my confidence soared. Thats all right. Until i came face to face with the rock. That thing was flat, perpendiculala and high. Well, its gonna be me just trying to get to the top. I dont know if its gonna happepe im gonna be 100 honest with you someone just climbed it, an experienced rock climber, and all i can remember is she said, this is the scariest thing ive ever done in my life. Those are not the words i wanted to hear. They really are not. Im a little terrified at what im about to do. Should i be . Not really. Um, i think its a lot like any adventure sport. The adrenaline rush is kind of why youre here, so we get people coming back all the time for more. robert all right, well, im gonna try to put the fear where it belongs, off to the side, and im gonna follow your lead 0and see what happens, man. So, uh, take good care of me. L right. But youre telling me it is. Yep. You dont have a little kiddie rock or Something Like that for me to practice . isa
And some genius said you may know this story. What is this stuff that comes out of the ground in pennsylvania and they were fined into kerosene and kerosene replaced whale oil but by the 1890s when the lightbulb came along and cities were switching rapidly to electric light the oil industry with saying what are we going to do . They have this waste product that they couldnt use that they were dumping in the river at night to get rid of it because it was useless and they had to find a place to put it. Fortunately the automobile came along just in time and save the oil industry. So they use this waste product and refineries. There are lots of stories. They havent been told as usual. The last natural gas as an industry book was published in 1938. So im just having great fun beginning this work which im sure you will enjoy. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you. [applause] Richard Rhodes will be outside at the signing desk. The books are still for sale in the Welcome Center so come and
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