it is my great pleasure to welcome scott shane michael fletcher to the pratt library. yeah, thank you everyone and have to say it's a privilege to be here with my old friend and colleague. and when i say old, i mean long, you know, of long standing. and i mean the other thing i was going to ask you about, you know, scott and i worked together at the baltimore and, you know, back then, like everyone else in the newsroom, i had the utmost for scott's work. he had such range as a reporter. he could find compelling stories and research laboratories on street corners, even at the nsa you know, this guy knew how to do his job. and it was always it was just always who you know, who i respected and i think everyone in the room looked up to. and he's done it again. he's done again. another compelling piece, this book is is so, so interesting. it's a fascinating read that for me kind of reordered how i thought about how i think about the underground railroad. it sort of added a lot of context, a lot of have to the story. i knew in the story i had learned in school was about harr