 Hi, I'm Leslie McVane. Welcome to CTN Member Highlight. Today, my special guest is Tom Hindell, the Executive Director of CTN. Hi, Tom. Hi, yeah. Here I am in the hot seat. Yeah. Isn't this funny? Now, why are you here? Because we have something big coming up that we need to talk about, our telethon. Our first annual 25-hour telethon in September. It's going to be September 22nd, Friday night at 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday night, September 23rd. And it's going to be full of all kinds of surprises and musicians. And tell us a little bit about who's going to be on the show. Well, we have the mayor of Portland, Ethan Stremling, kicking it off. And then we have a whole string of different local musicians. We have Michael Heath, we have David Bullard, Lacuna, K.G. Freeze, Cues Me. We have a number of bands right up to three o'clock in the morning. Heath McVane. Heath McVane. Just a shout-out to a relative. And he's going to be on. Yes, he is. He is. And then we have, at three o'clock, a social bridge dance party, which is a reggae dance party with a DJ right through to six o'clock in the morning. So that, if you're ready to party all through the night, this is the place to come or tune into on your TV set. And then at six o'clock in the morning, we cool down a little bit with a yoga class. And then at seven o'clock, we have USM videos with one of our board members, a professor at the media studies department at USM, showing different videos, short videos from USM. At eight o'clock, we have our own president of the board, Abby McGilvery. And she does an interview show, Bring Brave. But this time, she's interviewing her son and his friends. So that's, kids can tune in and find out what it's like. That'd be a kid. That'd be brave as a kid. And then at nine o'clock, we're going to have a musician, Alex Armstrong. And he's just a recent volunteer here also at CTN. The morning and the afternoon are filled with a whole bunch of different things. We have sound journeys. Some Ben Carroll plays these glass crystals and sings in tune with them. We have the city council debate happening later in the afternoon. We have young talents of Maine, which is a series of different talented people. We have the playback theater. Meg Christie from Playback Theater is going to do an improv class. We have a Tai Chi class. We have a golf talk. We have people talking about golf, people talking about softball. We have Lighthouse Jubilees. And in the evening, we are going to have the circus Maine here, Portland Ballet, Viva singing and Primo Kubano. Leslie Murray. Leslie Murray in a flute, yes. Direct from Shanghai. Right, yeah. And so we have an artist paint-off happening, actually. Oh, that's going to be fun. Yeah, we're four artists. They're going to be painting to music. And while they're painting, people can call in and play spids on the paintings. And, you know, that is so much fun to watch. We just saw that in Spain. Oh, really? Doing that jazz festival. And it was like, oh my gosh, you couldn't take your eyes off of it. Well, we heard a show like this a few months ago. That's really interesting. Well, I mean, this is fabulous. People can come down here to 516 Congress Street anytime during that 25 hours. They can pay a small fee and they get some kind of stamp or something so that they can keep coming back. Keep on coming back. If they come Friday night, they can come again Saturday night. For yoga class in the morning and then come back in the evening against Primo Kubano. Yeah, after breakfast or whatever. Whatever, yeah. Children under 12 will be free, which is nice for families who want to come. And the purpose of this is to showcase all the local talent that can be on community television, as well as to raise money for the station. We're going to be asking them. We're hoping this is going to be one of our big annual fundraisers every year. And so for $20, people can become a member. That means they get to vote at the annual meeting. They get our newsletter. So there's a lot of benefits. And there might be some prizes along the way. I mentioned some of the people who are painting will give their classes. The Friends of Fort Gorgeous just donated two free tickets in 2018 for a tour. So we might put that up available to the highest bidder for an hour and prizes like that. And what a treat that would be to be able to go see what they're doing at the fort. A lot of people can't get out there. Right. That's fantastic. Yeah, it's going to be a fun 25 hours. There's a few of us staying up for all 25 hours. I think I might be one of those people. And we'll hold each other up. But it'll be a spectacle no matter what. And a really good reason to call in and donate. It'll be online to streaming. So if you can't come down or you want to watch it. Just turn your computer on. And anywhere in the world. People can be watching this. And they can donate from anywhere in the world. And donate. You can donate online or call in and donate. We prefer U.S. dollars, but we'll take anything. Yes, we will. Thank you, Tom. I'm looking forward to it. Oh, I'm looking forward to it, too.