we've got import and export prices for the last month four years ago "washington post" reporter chris ingramed an article that would change his life he wrote the absolute worst place to live in america is drum roll please, red lake county, minnesota. minnesotaians were not pleased and invited them to see their county with his own eyes so what happened next? chris explains in his books. it's called if you lived here you'd be home by now it's great to see you. thank you for joining us >> thanks so much for having me. >> so let's talk about that article that upset all those people in the first place. why did you write that red lake minnesota was the worst place to live >> yes, so this was based on a really interesting data set from the usda called the natural amenities index and what it did was it ranked all 3,000 plus counties in the united states on their natural beauty, things like climate, topography, bodies of water the usda scientists were trying to understand migration patterns they thought people were moving away from uglier places and moving toward hospitalable ones. so i call out the