 2022, this year, we welcome you in two ways, in person for some and virtually for others. They're out there. They're out there watching. Okay, be careful. Okay? And thank you for being here. I say that to everybody. Our bully, Oha, this evening will be by Kolehi Akita, member of Oha, president of Grassroots Institute, longtime host and friend on Tic-Tac-Away. I give you Kolehi Akita. Thank you, Jay, for that warm introduction and everybody, aloh. I can't tell you how very proud I am to be a member of the Tic-Tac-Hawaii family. I've been associated with Jay Fidel and Carol Bonley for about a couple of decades. Here in Hawaii, we welcome people with an ole, a chant. And this ole is special because it was designed to welcome people from anywhere and everywhere, which is really what we do in Tic-Tac. I want to simply go back with you hundreds of years. This is what you would hear if you arrived on the shores of Hawaii. And the most important word is aloha. Welcome to Tic-Tac's annual holiday celebration. If you weren't watching, 2022 was a very interesting year. And I think I mean that in the Chinese sense, or maybe in the Dickensian sense, but it was a very productive year for Tic-Tac. And for many of us, it was also a challenging year in terms of our production. So our first order of business is to take a look back. And we made a short video, Hailey Ekeda did it, of our year in review. As we say, it was a year of impact. Watch this. Arquino. Arquino is Suzy Bereslum. She's the president of the East West Center. She's a retired three-star Army general. I want appropriate respect and salutes on that. And she's the center's first woman and native woman to lead the organization. She's been a great guest on Tic-Tac. Please give her a warm welcome, president, general, Tic-Tac guest and friend, Suzy Bereslum. Honor it is to be here with creators, thinkers, part of this Tic-Tac who've helped to advance knowledge, not just in Hawaii, but obviously internationally, much like the East West Center. I'm so proud to be here today with many friends that I see and new friends that I hope we get to know each other more. I'm so really want to congratulate the authorities because now I'm going to go have to go back and look at some of the creations that you've made. I'm honored to be here, along with my colleagues, you know, Derek, Varar, who by the way, we're all connected because we were in college together. And while we were in college, our board of governors, Governor Wahey, was our governor, but that we just graduated a little while ago. It wasn't that long ago. You know, the East West Center's mission, and I'm so excited that we, I came a little late, I apologize, and I get to mix with you, because we had our APEC informal senior leaders meeting that started yesterday on December 7th. Very fitting this week as we look at, we were able to share that, you know, as we reflect on that remembrance day that we know full well, as many of us here, the cost of war. So having organizations like the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation to bring people together to look at ways that we can build capacity, security, through economic viability, prosperity for us all. And so I was just with them at the Holy Kulani, and they are all mixing just fine and talking, and they love Hawai'i. Yesterday we set the foundation of who we are. We brought this Aula spirit that we feel in the room that you push through that video screen, and they feel it. And they said, there's just, there is something about this place. That is the first meeting of a series of meetings that the United States will have before they have the leaders meeting in the fall in San Francisco. Of course Hawai'i was on the list, but it's so fitting that we would be the first ones since 2011 to be able to do that. And so I'm grateful to be able to share with you because our mission at the East West Center is very similar. You might not believe it, but I'll share a little bit with you that in 1960 when Eisenhower signed the authorization of the establishment of the East West Center, ushered in by then-Senator Lyndon Johnson, who became President Lyndon Johnson, along with Governor Burns, the state of Hawai'i. Obviously the impact of World War II and into a Cold War that there needed to be a place where we could build understanding on people and nations. And it was decided through cooperative research, dialogue, and education, which is much what you all do, that through this virtual means that we can connect people around the world. And that map was pretty stunning. And we need to do one of those. We'll get that in our annual report, Governor Hawai'i. I think that's a great idea. On the people that we touch around the world, because really East West Centers had 68,000 over alumni from around the world, this model was designed that we'd have American students, Asian students, and Pacific students all living together. And it's not the University of Hawai'i campus. Yes, thank you, Jody Noskus, on the University of Hawai'i campus. But we are adjacent, partnering with the University of Hawai'i. We're congressionally funded, about 80% of other philanthropic donors who provide scholarships for international students also fund the East West Center. But this design is unique. And it was decided that Hawai'i would be that place, because Hawai'i, not just because of its geographic location, but also because of the multicultural nature, we just need to look at this room and the experiences that we have here at Hawai'i, as well as our own. And we heard the oli and the beginning before we started the kanakama oli, the native Hawaiian culture that ushers in this idea of aloha. And we shared a lot of that at APEC yesterday. And even the director of the APEC secretariat said that this is the first time when she heard John DeFries from our Hawai'i Tourism Authority said, you know, that sometimes responsibility finds you. Your kuleana finds you. And for these people who work just like you, work every day to try to improve knowledge. And you wonder why, why am I doing this? Right? Why do I have to do this? But maybe it's because it is your kuleana. Maybe you didn't look for it, but it found you. And that really spoke to me because sometimes we're on a journey and we don't understand why. But if you're connected with our aina, our place, and our culture, and our people, that maybe we were chosen. Maybe you weren't chosen. And clearly our awardees today were chosen because you listened to that calling when your kuleana came to you. And you said, what if, what if we did a program on this? What if we talked about this? Because it found you. And you listened to that call. And you answered that call. And you shared that call with everyone else. So I am so grateful. And I'm grateful that I'm a place where the Governor Wahe is on our board. And Derek, we answered the call to try to promote those federal relations. You know, we embarked on a strategic plan. And it was very exciting. I started in January at the East West Center. And we brought together the board including the governor. It's a wonderful board because it's diverse. We have Pompeo Trump appointees from the State Department. We have Hawaii Democrats. And we have international partners of this 18 board, 18 number board. And I thought, actually brought in a prayer in Oli because I thought, how are we going to come together with the vision and priorities that we all agree on? Fortunately, we have great leadership, like the governor here. We came together and agreed that the vision of the East West Center should be a place here in Hawaii where it's a premier institution for the Indo-Pacific that develops and equips leaders to face and solve those challenges of common concern in five different areas. We believe that the legacy of the East West Center has been its built leaders through education, much like what you do. You might do it indirectly. You don't always see the fruits of it. You see the fruits of it long term. It's a long term investment. What you're doing, what we're doing. Because later on in life, we've seen just in the Pacific alone five heads of state who come from the East West Center as East West Center fellows. Of course, one of the most famous that I spoke to the APEC team or that senior leaders course was President Obama's mother, who was a fellow, as well as his stepfather from Indonesia, where they met on the second floor of Burns Hall where I work. And President Obama used to come into the gardens. Of course, they all went out to the garden. Did he stay here? Oh, it's a picture. And his mother's memorial service was there. That's how meaningful that place and space was and is to him. But it's that the leaders that we've had, we've had five heads of state from the Pacific alone. Like I said, when I went to meet alumni, whether it Tokyo, Okinawa, since I started this position, Fiji, Halao, Guam, Washington D.C., New York City, many came from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 2000s and current. And they've all said that the East West Center and Hawaii helped to shape their lives. And they made a difference. They went on to do things. They listened to the call because Juliana found them just like you. And the second thing is that we convene impactful dialogues. This past year, just like you convene, so a lot of similarities here, we convene them there at the East West Center, but also around the world. Like you touch the world through the virtual space. We also go out to the world pre-COVID and now post-COVID. We're actually going in person around the globe, which is really exciting. Having conversations like bringing together Kashmiri, Indian, Pakistani journalists together in Nepal, something that most people wouldn't do. Having the International MIA conference with Maria Ressa this past summer with over 300 journalists who are East West Center fellows or alumni from 35 different countries. Having Maria Ressa share about her challenges as a journalist and her fight to have free and open independent media. And on that day, she spoke to us. It was the day that they told her Rappler.com needed to come down, which is pretty amazing. And in the audience she shared, we had a META senior leader from Facebook, META Facebook, in the audience. And she shared about how information now for journalists, it's before you were able to decide the content and distribution somewhat. But now distribution is out of your hand and even content could be reshaped in different ways. Which makes places and formats like think check important because it provides an alternative. It provides another venue so that factual information can receive, public can receive that information. And she said, and I just want to share with you because I thought it was fascinating. He's sitting in the audience and she's standing there and she says, you know, there've been improvements to the social media, but you know, it's been hell for the information space for factual information. And META has said they've made some improvements. But when you're in hell and make a few improvements, you're still in hell. So I thought, you know, he sat there and just like East West Center convening, we give two sides of the story. So the next day he was allowed to give his case on what they're trying to do to improve, improve the social media process. But then of course an Indian journalist got up and said, so can you tell us META, why is it that you give the names of surgeon journalists to the government after they post certain items on Facebook? Well, we have to follow the laws of the land wherever we are present. So there was the answer there, right? So that's another challenge. Very interesting. So we convene impactful dialogues. We've also looked at the spotlight on the Pacific because of climate change and of course the geopolitical strategic competition that's happening in the Pacific and the needs of the Pacific. We're going to start to see challenges to climate in the Pacific first. Rising sea levels, challenges to our biodiversity of our oceans and its impact on food and water security as well as migration and we're seeing some of those impacts already here in Hawaii. And of course the fourth and fifth area are fostering environmental solutions and supporting good governance, which is what they're talking about this week at APEC ISOM, is really fostering sustainable economic development and growth as well as good governance. You know, we see the rise of authoritarian regimes and the challenges to our free and open press. East West Center for 50 years has been committed to promoting relationships among journalists for 50 years and then challenging some of the connections. You know, when Derek and I were in school at UH, we actually had a lot of Chinese journalists that would come into our classes to look at balance rate. Now, because of the geopolitical situation, we see less of that. However, we do have Chinese students in our dorms and in our programs, but we're looking at ways that we can do this more creatively. Much like the creative ways that you have, can we bring journalists together who talk about culture and the arts, non-contentious space so that you keep the dialogue going? So we do have a funder who said, I only want to fund US Chinese journalists. So we're looking at creative ways that we can do that and super excited. So those are our priorities, which I think are yours. You're always looking for great stories. I remember how we can connect the contentious areas. When I was still in uniform, we did some stories. You invited us to talk about what we're doing on the training area, what we're doing with Red Hill, what we're doing so you weren't afraid to touch on those things that the public needed to hear. So I know that you'll continue to do that with these amazing leaders. I mean, I feel like, you know, the time that you take to do this for our community, you truly are servants of the community. So thank you for your selfless service and what you do for our community. And I'm honored to be here and to see you receive your awards. So thank you so much, Jay, I appreciate it. Let's talk about our community service awards every year. We have the pleasure of recognizing organizations and individuals of merit who have made notable contributions to our community, our society, and our collective well being. Our community service awards sometimes honor those who are not necessarily in the news, but who nevertheless provide noteworthy value, stories, and focus to our community on the issues and events we care about. Today, we're going to present three such awards. So let's meet the recipients. Our first 2022 community award is you. Goes to Compie Girls Hawaii, part of the National Compie Girls Organization, dedicated to encouraging young women to learn information technology and cyber security skills. Very important to the nation and to Hawaii. Let me read part of the citation. We are presenting a Think Tech Hawaii Community Service Award to Compie Girls Hawaii, a Hawaii nonprofit that is part of the National Compie Girls Organization, managed by its executive director, Whitney Aragaki. I have proof. The work of Compie Girls Hawaii in helping young women learn about and become competent and cutting edge computer equipment, information technology and cyber security has been of great value to them as future participants in our workforce and to the future of Hawaii. This is especially important in our efforts to recover from the challenges of COVID. You have helped Hawaii train a generation of skilled workers, keeping our graduates home and making Hawaii a better place in the global competition and in the Pacific region too. Representing Compie Girls Hawaii is its executive director, Whitney Aragaki. Whitney Aragaki, will you accept and acknowledge this award on behalf of Compie Girls Hawaii? How about taking a minute to give us your response to this proposal we have made to you and your thoughts. Mahalo Jay. Thank you so much for the opportunity to be here. Compie Girls Hawaii is in partnership with the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Cyber Hawaii and Arizona State University Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology. So we are so appreciative of all the contributions from nonprofits as well as higher education to support our students. We've been working with students from grades 6 through 12 in teaching about cyber security. Currently I feel like it's my charge to teach about this because cyber security will be the next level prevention of gendered violence for our women and non-binary individuals. The world is so digital now and digital and analog identities are so intertwined that it's so important for our girls to be taught about how to protect themselves online and then become active users and creators in this cyberspace. So just imagine what it would look like. You know we have 50 students that went through our programs this summer from across the islands. We've worked with students from Kevo and Kona all the way up to Kaua'i and all the way in between and just imagine what it looks like if every student, if every girl and non-binary student got the opportunity to work in cyber security for help. Mahalo Nui for the opportunity. Our next 2022 Community Service Award goes to Project Expedite Justice which you may or may not have heard about but you're hearing about it today. PJ is the most remarkable organization operating out of Kona and helping the victims of war crimes atrocities. I wasn't kidding. And violations of human rights around the world. I should include genocide in that. This is important that Hawaii is actually involved. This organization is based in Hawaii. Let me read a part of the citation. So we present a Think Tech Hawaii Community Service Award to Project Expedite Justice of global nonprofit founded and led by Executive Director Cynthia Tile operating out of Kona and she came here tonight except for a war. The courageous work that Project Expedite Justice has done and we know this because they have been on our lineup, our talk show lineup many, many times from many, many places in the world including a number of shows from Ukraine has done in its investigation and prosecution of war crimes atrocities and other human rights violations have been of extraordinary value to the global community just as the revelations that your guests on our shows have reported on our transitional justice talk show. They've been of enormous value, raise awareness including right here tonight everywhere among our viewers. So you're working providing support to other NGO organizations governments and commissions including truth commissions who are investigating and prosecuting war crimes atrocities and violations of human rights and advancing justice in troubled and violent areas and there are plenty of them and in raising the funding necessary to do that has been notable and impressive. So representing PEJ Project Expedite Justice is its founder and Executive Director Cynthia Tile right here. Cynthia Tile will you accept and acknowledge this award on behalf of Project Expedite Justice. Now how about taking a minute to give us your response and your thoughts. Okay so first of all I wanted to thank notably Carol and Jay and Haley for their amazing work and putting together such such a wonderful cast of leaders in Hawaii. It's an honor to accept this award on behalf of Project Expedite Justice and as Jay stated while we were founded locally we act globally. Our area of expertise lies in the areas of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide and as Jay noted there are plenty of troubled areas. At presently PEJ six years into its existence works in five countries. I'm sure most of you know that this year and for the foreseeable future the world has been profoundly changed by the Russian Federation's attack on Ukraine. We at Project Expedite Justice are honored and privileged to launch our Ukraine project this year to support the Ukrainian government, its prosecutor general's office and all civil society actors who are for the first time in history documenting as the war is evolving. It's very difficult, the landscape changes all the time and tomorrow my team heads to capital. This award is mostly about them and I want to say I'm going to start to cry sorry. It's really about my Ukrainian colleagues and watching them, their commitment, their just their their steadfast commitment to their future for their own children and for Ukraine. They do it selflessly, they don't complain, they show up every day waiting for the next job and the biggest complaint about me is why aren't you giving me more work which is something that we don't really hear about a lot today in our world today. They are honestly grateful so it's with Alyssa Demetrio Max and Bogdan and mine that I'm very grateful. Thank you. John, can we call upon you? I'll tell you why because the next award is to CJ and could you be CJ to accept this award on behalf of CJ? Would that be appropriate? Mark Rectonwold. Rectonwold, yeah. If Susie Barr is alone could get a promotion so can you. So our next 2020 new community service award goes to Mark Rectonwold, Chief Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court. I'm going to read part of the citation. We present a Think Tech Hawaii Community Service Award to Mark Rectonwold, Chief Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court. Your work in dealing with the complex challenges presented by the COVID pandemic over the past three years and the transitional issues involved in shifting from courtroom to virtual proceedings and then back again to keep the wheels of justice moving has been remarkable and impressive. However stressful the circumstances you have maintained your good nature and the high morale of the judiciary and the bar which is an easy even in the face of the COVID pandemic you have continued your very important access to justice program as well as your statewide infrastructure projects and thus you have maintained public confidence all important public confidence in our courts and our government. So although the CJA isn't here we have somebody who looks like him namely former Governor John Laihei. Governor Laihei, do you accept this award on behalf of Chief Justice Mark Rectonwold? I do and the last time I said that it was for light. We're also presenting Think Tech Family Awards to one Think Tech Talks Show series, two Think Tech hosts and a Think Tech Underwriter all of whom represent the best of our Think Tech work and family over the past year. We wish we could honor and inherently do honor all our volunteer hosts and all their shows as well as all of our cherished underwriters. So here's our first 2022 Think Tech Family Award and it goes to the show Big Year. This year we probably present that award to a nation of immigrants hosted by Chong Wang, an immigrant from China who is now a practicing lawyer in Minneapolis. We present a Think Tech Talks Show the year award to a nation of immigrants, a talk show covering immigration and immigrants in the United States hosted by Chong Wang of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The show's coverage of these subjects reveals that we do live in a nation of immigrants not only in Hawaii but in so many places on the mainland and that the diversity of our country resulting from the diversity of our immigrants is our greatest strength and increasingly important to our productivity, our vitality and our future in the global community. The quality of the show is notable, impressive and successful. Chong Wang is joining us virtually from Minneapolis. There he is. Chang Wang, will you accept and acknowledge this award for a nation of immigrants? Yes, thank you. Can you please give us a few minutes of your thoughts? Aloha, Think Tank, Hawaii, Jay, Carol, distinguished guests, fellow awardees, friends. Sorry I can't be with you in person today. We have been busy with snow shoveling in Minnesota. 22 years ago, I came to America with a dream. Today, America is my home. We start a nation of immigrants with this famous quote, anyone from any corner of the earth can come to America and become an American. We have heard this program feature the lives of immigrants, knowledge, diversity and inclusion. We have heard stories from Chinese, Japanese, Hmong, British, Indian, Cambodian, Austrian, Italian, Pudinese, Ukrainian, Lao, Scottish Irish, Jewish, Lebanese, Persian, Canadian, Americans. The list goes on reminding us that we can define America in one word, possibilities. We listen to their stories, celebrate their contributions to the fabric of American life. The work goes on, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die. These award and these show are dedicated to all immigrants, all citizens of our country, the land of the free. Thank you very much. Thank you, Chang, for joining us from Minneapolis. Next, we're presenting two hosts of the year awards this evening. Our first host of the year award goes to Christine Linders, host of the show physical therapy for a better life. Let me read part of the citation. We present a think tech host of the year award to Christine Linders, host of our popular lifestyle talk show, physical therapy for a better life. The show is practical and helpful and that you not only educate us about the anatomical concepts of physical therapy, but that you also personally demonstrate physical therapy tips and techniques, thus making the show and the lessons you provide all the more useful. You have an ability to connect with your audience in a warm and engaging manner while conveying this valuable information. The coverage and content you offer is therefore notable, impressive, and successful. Christine Linders is here. Christine, will you accept and acknowledge this award? I will. How about taking a minute to give us your thoughts? Thank you so much. This is most unexpected and appreciated and I also am emotional because my brother surprised me. He flew from New York today and just arrived after having his appendix out. So I've been worried about him and then he walks in today. So thank you all. Physical therapy for a better life and life is better when you listen to your physical therapist. That is a quote that my dad said before he passed to me and it's become my slogan. I end every show with it and I tell people when I leave the office, often life is better when you listen to your physical therapist and what that means is I want people to feel better. I want people to move better. I want you to know that there's something that you can do to feel better. I came to Hawaii four years ago and I had a mission. I wanted greater impact and I met my dear friend Catherine Norr and I said, I want to get on TV and she went, I have an idea. Let me make a phone call and she called Jay and the next thing I know is getting interviewed on this amazing platform that I had no idea about Think Tech Hawaii which all of you are such an amazing part of worldwide and I talked to Jay. He interviewed me twice because I was tentative but I wanted it and I was nervous and we talked about my show. It might be a little bit different. I might be the ghost and I mean the guest and the host. I would have a patient. We would explain to you what to do and thank you for taking a chance on me and thank you to Jay and Carol and Hayley and Eric and Michael and everyone behind the scenes that has helped me to grow and learn and to get to where I am today. This is such an honor and it's been an honor to be a part of Think Tech Hawaii. All the sponsors and donors that let us be here today. Thank you so much. I am so grateful. Thank you. Our second Host of the Year award goes to Chuck Crumpton, host of not one but two of our talk shows. Let me read part of the citation. We present a Think Tech Hawaii Host of the Year award to Chuck Crumpton, host of two national issues in our lineup, the rule of law and the new abnormal and it's time for responsible change. You're also a frequent guest and contributor on our American issues take one and take two shows. The coverage of your two shows has been highly consistent over the years and your expert guests from all over the country are candid and often passionate in their conversations that cover political and legal sea changes which we need to know about. Your thoughtfuls and journalism and high level content on these shows have been extremely valuable to our viewership given the difficulty and danger of the times. Chuck is here, Chuck Crumpton. Chuck, will you accept and acknowledge this award? How about taking a minute to give us your time, your thoughts. Okay, so for everybody who's familiar with Think Tech, this is not an individual award. We all know that. It really honors three groups of people at least. First is the Think Tech team, Jay, Carol, Haley, Michael, Eric, the whole group. They're fantastic. Without them there would be nothing coming out of the kitchen. And second is the incredible panelists from all over the country. We've had law school deans here and across the country. We've had David, we've had Doug Chen, we've had Jeff Portnoy, Sandra Sims, many people locally. And third, most important of all, every single co-host and panelist who has contributed to make Think Tech what it is. It takes a village and this is one hell of a village. Thank you. The last Think Tech family award is to our Underwriter of the Year, Michael Slarnes. We're deeply grateful to Mike who has been an unflagging underwriter and supporter of Think Tech for many, many years. Contributions from underwriters like Mike have the largest part of our budget and we would not be here celebrating our 22nd anniversary without his longstanding and continuing generosity and encouragement. Let me read part of the citation. We present our Think Tech Hawaii Underwriter of the Year award to Michael Slarnes. This award expresses our special recognition and appreciation of your long-time generous and continuing support of our efforts at Think Tech. The underwriter contributions you've provided over the years since 2016 have kept us going and have enabled us to develop our platform for engagement and our content for public awareness and we are very grateful to you. Michael is here. Michael Slarnes, will you accept and acknowledge this award? How about taking a minute to give us your thoughts? Thanks everybody. I was telling Jay that when he called me to say I was going to give us a word I said okay I've never gone to the word before so I wouldn't insist or anything. And you guys probably don't know Jay and I are cousins so he's a very persuasive guy. When he and Carol came to ask me to be a sponsor I didn't really have a choice. But no I'm delighted to be a sponsor. It's a wonderful organization. It's really intelligent and insightful programming and I really think it's a wonderful service and I was really happy to be a part of it so thank you. In addition this year we've started another awards program highlighting what we call our distinguished guests. Each month we ask our Think Tech hosts to nominate a slate of outstanding guests from their shows and then we put those nominations out for voting by our viewership. So far this year we're proud to announce that the following individuals have won these distinguished guest elections. Alan Brennert, Anthony Crisco, Teresa Wee, Colin Moore, Ken Demgibach, David Larson, J.K. Lin, Cyber Bunny, and Brandon Loresco. Congratulations now to all of our 2022 Community Service Award winners, Think Tech Family Award winners, and our distinguished guests. Please give a round of applause to all of our winners. Thank you. I'll tell you about the state of the nation. Actually it's the state of the station. You've heard of the state of the nation. You've heard of the state of the state. This is the state of the station. Say that ten times fast. Never mind. Yes, we live in interesting and also frightening times making it all the more important to think that covers all we can. Now, Colin and I work free, always, because we're dedicated to providing a platform for what we call civic engagement by citizen journalists and that's our mission, our dedication. We believe that everyone needs to do something to help, especially now. And that's what drives us, so we do what we can. And our guests and hosts are in the same ballgame. We do 30 talk shows a week of monthly webinars. We do 60 hosts and thousands of guests in a year. Our shows and our technology better than ever. We're always making it better like every day the staff will tell you. And this past year we have connected with more hosts and guests from more places in the world, including synthesized places and far away and troubled areas in Ukraine and Africa, Latin America, everywhere. And we talk to them live. We connect with them on Zoom. Our station manager, we're very happy to have a highly committed staff. We're very proud of them. Our station manager, Michael Panglinen. There he is. Our production manager, Haley Ikeda. Our administrative manager, Maria Sabia. All great people. They all do such work. And let me thank them. And we thank our hosts, guests and viewers and our directors, underwriters like Mike, supporters and friends for their participation, their encouragement, which is very important to us, their validation, if you will, and their help. So there's a picture of our underwriters. There's a picture of our directors, some of whom are here tonight. And there's our hosts. You can see there's quite a few of them. Special thanks to our program sponsor, Clay Chapman, Iwamora, Police and Nervell, and to Brian Moore and our friends here at the Pacific Arts Center for providing this great venue. They have been very, very kind to us, especially in connection tonight with the parking. So that's really nice. Okay. It has been a challenging year for the country, as I said, and for Hawaii and the world for that matter. We look forward to better times in 2023, but we have to keep our eye on the ball. We have to connect the dots. We have to remember and synthesize the events around us. We wish you and yours the best for this holiday season and for the new year, whatever it brings. Thanks for sharing the special occasion with us. We are recording this event and we'll play it again on our website, thinktecawaii.com and our social media, including, you know, YouTube and Vimeo, and our community TV platform, including Alela. See it again. Just sign up on thinktecawaii.com. You have it already and you can see it in all our other content, which is incredible at this point. We've been doing this for 12 years, building a library and we now have something in the order of 17,000 talk show videos on there. Okay. Aloha to you all. All the best to you all. We really mean that. A hui hou.