Reginald

Yep.

My biggest supporters are the Department of Corrections.

Our first Freedom Library was in Angola.

1A and 1B, Angola and MCI Norfolk where Malcolm X did his time.

And you got to understand that there's work that we've done, opening 600 libraries across the country, prisons in 14, 15 states, about 50 different prisons.

That doesn't happen without the Department of Corrections and the senior leadership in the Department of Corrections and the line CEOs, all saying, we believe in books.

We believe in literature.

I mean, we bring 100-pound bookcases everywhere.

And put them in cell blocks that have never had anything but plastic and metal and steel.

We bring 500 brand new books into the lives of people, many of whom have never seen a brand new book, have never smelled a brand new book.

I mean, you know, it's about work that I do.

But with all due respect, it's like the most humbling, you know, awe-inspiring thing I've been a part of.

Because to be a part of it is to literally watch how an invention that dates back hundreds of years, the Gutenberg printing press, actually is still the conduit for people to have access to the world that we first imagined a printing press would give them access to.

I appreciate that.

And I, you know, I, we have seven, eight people to work for us out of our team of 22 serve time in prison anywhere from 18 months to 30 years.

And, and for each of us, you know, books played a profound role in us reshaping our lives.

And so I love the fact that I feel like it's, um,

Remember I got a bald head, but you remember,

I'm not just a client.

I'm not just a president.