lisa, thank you very much for having me here. lewis: good afternoon everyone. trying to eyeball everyone. -- i am gratitude filled with so much gratitude. i am already fired up. and thank you so much, mayor. i appreciate the real talk. the straight talk. the only way we are going to get to some real solutions that go deep into our communities, families, workers, for our future -- that we are talking about the present and the future , is to have real and honest conversations about how we feel and how we can fix it. so, thank you mayor for starting a soft with some challenges. and laura, we go back a little bit. i appreciate your work. and i feel like we can do gratitude rounds all day. that is not a bad thing. thank you. because this is the first of several. i am completely amazed at the energy that is popping up to make sure that we make some transformative change. to really do something that is right in this country. i want to thank every one of you for showing up and continually showing up. that is how we win. that is how we change. thanks to all of you. a --