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going to start a little with one of my favorite other authors besides the three of you i know yuval noah harari, the author of sapiens, the history of humankind mind and 21 lessons for the 21st century, both in his books and also in recent interviews, talks about story and how there is a difference between fact and story and that the stories are the things where we our our values and our values then are outcomes. so just briefly, for the three of you, you all brought three stories to this audience today and to all of your readers, you know, what are the values that arise from, your writing these particular stories. wow. all right, tim, i'm going to start with you because you're right here. wow. okay. well, thank you, rabbi tom, for the thomas fine no title. okay. no titles for the for the totally specific and easy question to off with. yeah. why a story. and thank you all for being here. so you know where my mind goes when you say that. is that maybe the primary difference in this political age, this cultural age, this american age, this moment that we're living through between fact and story,