Buffett kicks off 2024 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting after emotional tribute to Charlie Munger

Yeah, yeah. Don’t worry out all your clapping on Charlie. I mean we got in addition, well we have first of all Greg Abel the director and and AG Jane sitting at stem from insurance and moving then to this back of this first section if if each of the directors there would remain standing till we finish, we’ll we’ll go alphabetically down the line. And we’ve got Howard Buffett, we have Susan Buffett. Steve, Steve Burke, Ken Chanel, Chris Davis, Sue Decker, Charlotte Diamond, Tom Murphy Junior, Ron Olson, Wally Whites, and Meryl Whitmer. OK. There are two people I would like to thank and then we’ll get on to the brief description of the results of the first quarter. First of all, I’d like to thank Melissa Shapiro who put this whole event together. You can’t imagine the work that goes into it, but she just reported to me that we set a new record for See’s Candy. I think they brought along 6 tons and they will sell out. And one thing I do want to mention, we have only one book as a bookstore of the Bookworm this this year. Normally we have about 25, but we have poor, poor, poor Charlie’s Almanac, 4th edition and I think we sold about 2400 of them yesterday and that will be the only book next. Next year we’ll go back to having our usual selection, but we thought we would just turn it over to Charlie this year and then I would like to introduce one for the person. And that’s the person who put that movie together. And you can’t imagine the amount of work it is because for example on those scenes that we’ve used from the past if they involved Hollywood stars or various people we needed to get permission all over again to show it because we’re we told them originally we would only show it within the confines of our auditorium here. And of course it went out on CNBC and and you just can’t imagine how much effort but also the the the great cooperation we got from all those Desperate Housewives and Jamie Lee and and with the Desperate Housewives we we had to get Disney’s OK and and that was easy to get but running down five Desperate Housewives that one came on came in toward the end. But wait that that the job of putting this together has been handled by the same fellow that handles us. Been doing these for years and years and years and years and I just would appreciate it if you could just put the spotlight on Brad Underwood for just a minute and done.