 Hello Susie. Thank you, thank you. Yeah, yeah, amazing, huh? Well, we've been up for a few hours, yeah. My son says, yeah, crazy. My daughter says, holy bleep. My son says, front page of the New York Times. My daughter says, recognize several exclamation points. At first I heard some noise and my wife said, this is it. And I jumped up and I heard the phone ring and picked up the phone and I was shaking and, you know, speechless, which is for me quite an unusual situation. Hey, oh, congrats. Graduates student of mine, come on in. So when are you going to get your free parking spot? First things first. Here's the lab. Hello there. Congratulations. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I sort of vaguely heard something and then Nancy yelled out, that's it, this is it. And then I got up and the phone rang again. I started to get really nervous and picked up the phone and, you know, there was a reassuring Swedish voice on the other end. Hello, hello. This is high Nancy. This is so fantastic. Yeah, this is my high school biology teacher. Wow, what a trip you have taken from high school science fair award to the Nobel Prize. Oh, I love it. I imagine you've loved every minute. I'm so proud and happy. Keep going, you're going to cry. I can't. You've pushed, here it is, you've pushed Tiger Woods aside as Western High's most famous alumnus. Hi, nice to meet you. Come with me. Congratulations, Randy. Thanks, thanks. Good to see you. I feel giddy. It hasn't dawned on me yet. I probably will tonight when I try to sleep. So on behalf of the University of California, Berkeley, I not only recognize Professor Randy Scheckman for his grand accomplishment as a Nobel Laureate, but conferring you a lifetime parking permit. The greatest honor we can bestow, Randy Scheckman. Thank you, Chancellor Dirks. When I started, though I had no experience in this, I was full of confidence, perhaps too much confidence. I wrote my first federal grant to the NIH and was rebuffed with what basically was a triage telling me that I didn't know what I was talking about and I may know how to pipette E. Coli, but that I certainly didn't know anything about yeast. Fortunately, again, with a little bit of money that came from the department and a generous, though small grant to begin with from the National Science Foundation, Novik and I were able to embark on a several year project to isolate mutations that block secretion culminating in 1979 with a publication in a journal called The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. One third of the world's supply of human insulin is produced by secretion and yeast. These were anticipated, but nonetheless inevitably the direct product of the investment not only of this institution but of the federal government in basic science. Many of us are here, will stay, will continue to invest in public education and I intend to use whatever glory comes to me to the benefit of this institution to spread the word about him how important public higher education is in this country. Thank you. Randy, congratulations.