daniel rivero was also an alumnus of miami-dade college. i discovered that talking to linda back.h that, chris hedges and daniel rivero. [applause] [applause] >> hello. how is everyone doing? thank you for that intro. so to get started i think one good way just to set the tone and the tenor of the conversation is to make light of something that i think a lot of us forget, and that's that a lot of us here in this room have probablyav done something that could've put us in the prison system. we might not haveso been caught. we might have been caught and gotten off somehow. but a lot of us, including me myself, have done things that could've put us in the prison system. i want to just laid about to because i think there's a lot of times when we talk about people who are in the county jail or a state prison, federal prison, it's like them and us. no, no, no. we are all for the most part on the same plane. it's just different things happen to us along the way. so can i comment on that, because that's a very important point. >> doubt. >> so i have this book that we will get into it, but