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Thank you all for coming out tonight and braving this potential derecho storm that just missed us here in Washington, D.C. So it's always a pleasure to talk to people about the work that we do and I want to give you some idea of the history of this research. So 40 years ago, I was an Assistant Professor at Indiana University and I met he guy who is a best friend at our wedding, Julie and I were wedding 26 years ago, Bob Levenson, who is now a psychology professor at the University of California, Berkeley. And Bob and I become friends right away, we -- you know, we love laughing together and laughing at ourselves mostly and we started having coffee once a week. And -- and our relationships, we found that with women were not going very well. So basically we were really two coolest guys about relationships. And -- and so we decided that since we didn't understand to have a good relationship with a woman, we might as well study it, you know. So -- so we -- so we built this lab that there was really a lot of fun, you know, we --