Erika Barris

And thanks.

Hey, everyone.

For the past couple weeks, the Planet Money team has been on the road on Book Tour.

Tonight, live from New York, the Planet Money book launch.

Hello, everyone.

Thank you so much.

We have been crisscrossing America doing live shows to help promote the new Planet Money book.

We've been in New York, D.C., Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles.

And this is a rare thing that we don't get to do very often.

We don't get to meet and talk with so many of you.

In DC, we played this game with the audience to demonstrate a concept known as the wisdom of the crowds.

This is the idea that if you ask a large group of people to guess the price of something, like a piece of art, the average will actually be pretty close to correct.

I don't think that's right.

It wasn't a perfect study.

In New York, our hosts Amanda Aronchik and Mary Childs answered audience questions about how we choose what stories to report or not report.

And at every stop, we have gotten the true delight of meeting so many of our listeners turned readers, some of whom it seems like maybe should be writing their own economics books.

Now, we do have a few stops left on this book tour, but obviously we can't make it to every city in America.

Can't actually make it to most of them, really.

And so we thought, not everyone can come to the book tour.

Let's bring the book tour to everyone.