so please join me in welcoming lanny jones and evan thomas thomas. thank you, brad is now politics and prose the greatest bookstore of all. yes. so, lanny, tell us about your book. oh, i've well let's see here. before i do that, let me thank you for for a grander ground and give me some tough questions and thanks, brad, for for inviting and thank all of you here. now, the weather was so good. i can't wait. there's more of this outside somewhere. i have so many friends here and some and also some writers and editors. i wanted to say a few words to sort of stir the pot about the sort of basic themes in my book. and then we're going to get to the data gretel. and so i, like many of you, i used to think that celebrity culture wasn't a an intriguing diversion and musing. so professor but not harmful. it is a source of gossip and funny stories but that was before the celebrity stayed morphed into a vast profit generating enterprise i like to think of as a celebrity industrial complex and magazines paper, where i write from the start or its initiators. and