Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming out on yet haanother rainy day in kentuckyn 2019. Let me take a moment to ask you to take your time now to check your cell phones and make sure it is turned off. Are you picking me up on this, mike . Well, thank you all for coming out. Go ahead and sit down. You for coming out today to another historic moment in the history of the Mcconnell Center here at the university of louisville. Theres number of distinguished guests in the audience tonight and i decided to handle it this way. If you think i would feel you are distinguished, assume that is the case. I will not call you out. But i do owe an instruction and appreciation for president of the university of louisville for being here with us. [applause] thank you for bringing or dragging yourselves here throughout the rain today. This is and historic moment for the Mcconnell Center. Its one of many in our history and i was thinking about it this week that Marcus Cicero and the great roman state