Derek Thompson

What's it going to do by ripple effect to other parts of Los Angeles and Southern California and even parts of Northern California if this state becomes uninsurable? It's just huge, huge questions.

Strangers that were hurting too. Misery loves company, I've found. A little joint where you'd never be. What they don't ask ain't hard to see. Where a good girl goes to drown and open. I used to lean on neon. When I got down and home, son, I used to hold a cold mind. Those nights when I had no When a jukebox is your only friend, that corner drops and a heart aches.

Strangers that were hurting too. Misery loves company, I've found. A little joint where you'd never be. What they don't ask ain't hard to see. Where a good girl goes to drown and open. I used to lean on neon. When I got down and home, son, I used to hold a cold mind. Those nights when I had no When a jukebox is your only friend, that corner drops and a heart aches.

Strangers that were hurting too. Misery loves company, I've found. A little joint where you'd never be. What they don't ask ain't hard to see. Where a good girl goes to drown and open. I used to lean on neon. When I got down and home, son, I used to hold a cold mind. Those nights when I had no When a jukebox is your only friend, that corner drops and a heart aches.

You want to know how I moved on. I used to lean on me.

You want to know how I moved on. I used to lean on me.

You want to know how I moved on. I used to lean on me.

You know, the great thing about a book is that the reason to go into journalism is because you have a lot of questions that you want answered.

And the best reason to write a book is to answer questions.

And so I wrote a book about why people like what they like and why cultural products succeed.

It's a huge answer, but I loved writing it.

And the funny thing is people say, you know, every book has to have an elevator pitch.

You nailed it right there.

But I think books are really kind of like broken elevators.

On the one hand, you need both an elevator pitch

but also it's like 200, 300 pages long.

So if the elevator breaks, you need to be able to entertain people for eight hours.

And that challenge of being able to write something that's both focused, but also entertaining for 300 pages was really awesome.

Oh, artwork is very nice of you, Nathan.

Thank you.