it to her in person and mariane ali. everything in the kitchen is in large part because of her. let's give her one more round of applause. and and so the last thing i want to say, you know, jonno killens had a saying. he said each quote, each generation has a responsibility to document its times because we are future will make mistakes. the hope is that they make them on a higher level thanks to. alex moore and and him really chronicling and adding on to the initial 25 years we now have a rich history of the success of the kitchen some of the challenges the kitchen face and so as a result of this history being chronicled, this book the kitchen is now set up for the next 35 years. and so i just want have us all to celebrate and give a round of applause. alex more. but without further do, i'm going to turn it over to the fearless leader, the kitchen. mike curtin. so we probably could have left it there and just brought alex up, but i, but i'm going to, i'm going to go ahead. so first welcome everybody. this so awesome to s