so please me in welcoming laura meckler and jesse jesse holland. wow, this is quite the turnout. this this is great, isn't it? yeah, i was very much so. i mean, not so great for the people who don't seats, but, you know, really, really great from this point of view. yeah, well, we'll keep engaging. look at it. engage again. it's interesting them you know they'll be light on their feet. exactly. so, first of all, i to say thank you to laura for inviting me to be here with her, i was lucky enough to see it early. copy of this book. and if you want to know what i, think about it. just look on the back of my blurb is the last one on it. so. so i'm so thank you so much for. allowing me to see it early copy of and for the work that you've done here. so we're going to have a quick conversation. we'll take a few minutes and we'll talk about the book, the process of writing it, but we'll ask for your questions so we'll i'll i'll stop talking after a while and i'll turn it over to because you probably have better questions than i do and i've already learned there are several people from sh