Welcome. Thank you. Thanks, everybody. Hi, im jimmy. I am the host of the show. Thank you for watching. Thank you for coming. Im glad you made it. You made it, right . How many of you are visiting from out of the country . From far away, a foreign land . Okay, quite a few quiet handraisers here in our audience. [ laughter ] well, you got here just in time because this morning the faa had to ground every flight leaving the united states. Basically, the faa fed everyone in the a, eh . [ laughter ] their system went down, resulting in an awful morning for travelers, and a great one for southwest airlines. [ laughter ] they were like, wasnt our fault this time. More than 8,000 flights were delayed, another 1,200 were canceled. After the outage, senator ted cruz released a furious statement calling the situation unacceptable and, of course, blaming the biden administration. [ laughter ] ted has a bug up his butt because the outage made him unable to flee to cancun. As he does every winter.
Was a Pulitzer Prize winner and he has been a columnist reporter for the Chicago Tribune since 1984 and just about any honor that can be imagined in the national deciding newspaper columnist and the chicago journalism shes going to talk about his book and then open up questions and because it is being taped please come to the microphone to ask your question and following that the books will be available. So welcome and i will turn it over. [applause] thank you for that introduction and for coming out. Luckily it worked out. Many people asked me how did you get started in this business of journalism. The answer is rather simple. I was 16yearsold and i didnt have much of a social life in high school. And so, i thought that writing for this newspaper would give me an excuse to put together two things i really enjoy doing which is writing and talking. And also i found that it opened up a lot of new worlds to me by getting to know people. My friend knows i i drove to the name of that local
The 30-year-old - who uses they/them pronouns - found fame starring in movies such as Cheaper by the Dozen and Step up, as well as television series Drake & Josh and That s So Raven.