 Don't want it all the way. OK, so everybody can hear me at this point? Yes. OK. First of all, a little housekeeping. There is a registration book that Michelle and Maria have been organizing. Please sign in right neatly. And your email address is the most important thing, because I've got a couple of spammers that will pay big. So what you really need to do is write neatly. The list, excuse me, gets read. That email list will be used to send out news as it happens. And I'll talk a little bit about that before. But first of all, again, as Phil said, thank you, everybody, for coming. This was kind of on the spur of the moment. I only had about, I guess, a month and five weeks to plan. And it's very, very amazing that so many people came from so far away. And I understand the circumstances are not the happiest, but would you rather be looking at my ashes or me personally? Don't answer the question. Because I know my stepbrother will say ashes. And I'll be talking about him in a minute. First of all, as Phil said, there's a lot of people from different parts of my life. We have, of course, my family. We have my brother, my father, and my stepbrother here. And I have to give thanks to my father for, well, the obvious reasons. But he's been a very steady influence in my life over the years. I've never seen him angry. He is a Viking by descent handsome. He does not swim the sword around nearly as much as he used to. And he's given up the helmet with the forms coming out of it. But he has a Scandinavian extraction and has shown quiet strength through all my zaining is over the years. And he's shown incredible support. I've been up until very recently in my life when I needed some additional support. Always. Also, of course, my brother, who, as simply rivalry goes, we were almost at the MMA level, close. Weapons weren't involved. Fire was involved. So we fought bitterly growing up. He's even been through divorce and all that fun stuff. But as we got older, we got to be much closer friends. We had a lot of adventures together. We bummed around Asia for a couple months at one point. We did some pretty cool things. And during one of his high school, going on camping trips, he was off in my chauffeur. He bitched in a moment about it, but we still managed to get the main friend who we went into the woods. And my brother drove back home. Thank you, little brother. His little brother was out of the scene for a week. He's giving knowledge to my step-brother. Now, that's the Jewish side of the family. OK, this is, OK, it gets a little confusing. OK, I have a mother and a father. They divorced when I was seven. My step-mother, a lovely woman from Maine named Sally Hansen. Not that person. And so they got married. And then my mother married her regal. She was the nice Jewish boy from Newton, Massachusetts. And that's where I actually spent most of my teenage years in the regal household. Now, Herb had three kids from a previous marriage. Wow, this is confusing. I'm getting older, too. So they were the three regal kids. And David was one of them. David, are you the youngest? Yes, I am. David had a unique gift. David is an entertainer, by the way. He's having a Hollywood movie. But he could make people laugh. And I noticed that because I first met David when I was, I guess, 12 or 13 years old. Maybe even younger than that. And he had this unique ability to have the perfect, awful, witty, retort, quip, whatever you want to call it. And it disarmed people all around him in this situation. And here's David with the right thing to say at the right time, perfect timing. That was a joke, by the way. And I secretly emulated that for a year. David doesn't know this, by the way. But I secretly emulated that for years. And I finally got good enough in high school to avoid a potentially expulsionary event by disarming somebody with the right quip and a witty retort to make them laugh. So I give David a lot of credit for that. OK, now we come to a gap in my life. There's nobody from my college days here right now. This is the realm of my first marriage. Didn't get married then, but that kind of took all my social time. And that marriage ended, of course. And now we come to my local friends from here in South Florida. We all remain friends through your college years, because that's one of the great reasons we have this moment. So very, very valedictory. Disappeared after I had been married. Right, so for the high school folks, as Phil had said, we have Phil Schwartz. We have Clayton Adams, who has actually been in school briefly. But I was a four-year student briefly. And he was my roommate. Then we had Higham, who we went to for a whole length of time. And there's a fourth guy named Sebastian Younger, who could not make it, because at 55 he had a newborn. Stop asking. Now, Sebastian will ultimately be seeing this video. And God love you, Sebastian. But you're really pushing your judgment. He wrote a couple of really good books. He wrote the book Perfect Storm, by the way. No, I was kidding. Yeah, so this guy is not a stupid. He's a good writer. He's a very good writer. So there was sort of a bunch of us kind of all around high school. There's a very small high school called Concord Academy. There was only 63 kids in the graduating class. They're very well. And then, of course, I don't have any friends from college. And now we're just coming into my adult life here in South Florida. And I have all my adult friends from here in South Florida living here about 14 years, 13 years longer than I thought I'd live down here, because you never end up in New South Florida. I can't believe I'm down here so long. And I didn't just show up. I came here for a job. I mean, I had a job waiting for me. And I had a full relocation the whole line yards. So I have this whole crew. And you know, you've all got name tags. Thank God. I can't read them, but still. Now they're coming. Can't read anything at this point in my life. And so then we have the third group, which is my online life. And for those of you who don't know, I think most of you know, is that I've had a pretty active online life through my blog and my Twitter account this past about five and six years. And I've met some wonderful people online. And there are some people here that I've met for the very first time in real life. My friend Matt, for instance, who flew in from Austin, Texas. I'd seen him via some video chat programs. But I've never actually seen him. He is. Yeah, he's sitting over in a corner. My name is Joe Business. He's from Texas. So he's there for the dangers. But he was for helping me. We did some various errands. I did not find my kilt. I was going to wear my kilt tonight, but it was a lot of storage somewhere. And I couldn't find it. And so these are the people that are sort of representational of this, of who's here right now. I have to give thanks. This is going to be hard. Tracy. Hey, baby. Tracy and I were just in relative terms less than a year ago. And our first date was just over there, but an ice cream place, which, by the way, for you single guys, I recommend ice cream for the first date. No, seriously, I really do. And I told her about my condition, my cancer. First of all, you've got to have a real reason to wear an ice cream. OK, so for a real reason, I only have a little ice cream. And I told her I had oculomabinoma. I've lost my ball about two years ago. It's part of the treatment regime. But there's never a 100% chance that it's going to disappear. She took a chance. Now, I thought I had a couple of three years left in me. She did, too. Well, it turns out I don't. But she's there. I've seen her cry once, just once over this. Remarkable, absolutely remarkable. And frankly, I've been married twice. I won't talk about my Venezuelan period. Venice. I just got to Florida. I mean, what did I know? She was Venezuelan. They raised them on ranches to look good. They shipped them into Caracas for the various beauty hedges. I swear to God, that's the truth. So anyway, so then I met Tracy. And it's been an amazing, amazing experience. Because this shows me that the best realm of love really is unconditional. And I think the most might, though, life, realizing that love is conditional, which was finished. And then, Tracy, how dare you upset my worldview? I had a streak of cynicism going that was this thick going real well until you came along. So they're going to burn my cynicism along my ashes. So anyway, that's all I have to say at this point. Again, I am very, very grateful. This is a celebration. Don't talk about what's going to happen to me. Talk about what's happening right to second. And right to second, I feel pretty good. Now, that being said, we have to be brutally honest. I am not seeking any kind of therapy at all, because there are not. And I know you people mean well when I'm getting the emails for marijuana treatment, yoga, finding faith in God, a diet. Somebody recommended that I freeze my head. Is there news on the radio? Thank you, David. That's impossible. I know. It's already too cold. No, I mean, so I'm getting very, very, very happy. I like that. I don't want to treat it. We'll talk later. But so I've been getting a lot of well-meaning wishes about feeling with this particular type of cancer. What I have is a melanoma that is a blood-borne cancer. It is resistant to pretty much everything out there, with the exception of small elements of immunotherapy. Again, I have declined many of my three decisions to have three and a half years of care for this. And I know people mean well. But I'm just going to say, yes, thank you for the advice. And I'm not going to do anything. And I don't want to move like a bank. But I also want to make my decisions. And so it has been affecting my body and my choice. That being said, in the future, if you want to get news on my condition, best place to hit it is my blog, www.brivenpan.wordpress.com. There's a page there called My Cancer, a little bit, because I don't want to make this the defining element of my life. I want the words that I've written for to be the defining element of who I am. There's a lot of videos that have come out on me recently that's got hundreds of thousands of views. I'll be assembling it all back in one spot. When things get really bad, there will be an email list. What'll happen is is that eventually, probably sooner rather than later, I'll start experiencing symptoms of liver failure. And this is the reality on the ground. I'm not going to lie. What will be a matter of days of most weeks? So we have to be aware of that. This is why I'm having a party today. I mean, what a great reason to have a party. Thank you. At that end, drink, take Uber, or walk, or whatever people have you. The staff here is very good. I know the staff. I know Skyler and I are back there. Tip heavily and tip often, because whether they don't know it or not, they're actually paying for my cremation services. No, I'm just kidding, go on and pay for it. No, no, it has. I've already paid for it. It's already taken care of. And the good folks at the hospitals have already been talking to me. They're really efficient. They want me dead. Well, think about it, it's hospice. So they want me dead. But they're very nice. They're just a little too efficient. Keep wondering about my bowel movements. And that the shit. They're really curious about my bowel movements. So on that happy note, enjoy the rest of the party. We'll be here until midnight. Or maybe later, who knows. Oh, we're combining this with something else. Tracy. No, no, no, no, you say the words. You say something, you say something, you say something. OK, fine. All right, do people know that my birthday is coming up? I didn't know that. I didn't know. It's March the 7th. It's like in just a few days. Right, so there's a cake over there in the bottle of scotch. And leave the scotch behind. Don't touch the scotch. The cake your everybody's welcome to. So yes, I mean, I suppose we could say happy birthday, but it seems kind of. Let's do that. Let's do that. I can't do that. I can't have what's happy birthday to me. Yeah. Oh, my god. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear to you. Happy birthday to you. South Florida? Suddenly, I have many more housing options available. Because everywhere down here is 55 plus, so here we go. OK, so anyway, so we're going to be cutting cake. We're going to be handling. And if you all haven't met each other, just walk around and meet each other. Pretty cool, huh? Yeah, thank you. And Paulette, by the way, the microphone can be yours at any time tonight. So it's up to you. I'll leave it at that. Paulette is actually a professional singer. Some years ago, she won the Best of the United Kingdom for a singing contest on TV, sort of like Merritt Highwood. Say that by the way. Yeah, she's from Birmingham, so speaks low. So, and again, if you have any questions about what I'm dealing with or whatever, just give her up to me. That's about it. And thank you. Thank you.