From the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center,

the Armstrong and Joe Getty, the Armstrong and Getty Show.

Sometimes, in my real life, I say WTF out loud.

And I said WTF out loud when I saw the Microsoft corporate meeting opening yesterday.

So Microsoft opened the big corporate meeting online with this.

And when I heard it, I thought, what the...

What is this?

It seemed like a comedy bit.

It seemed like a really droll, dry comedy routine.

But then we got all kinds of texts which I'll follow up with after you hear it from people saying,

no, this is the way my company, my school, my whatever has been doing it for the last year.

Apparently, this is a common thing.

It's going to sound strange to you if you've never heard it before.

This is the opening of a big online Microsoft meeting corporate meeting yesterday.

Hello and welcome to Microsoft Ignite.

We've got a big day ahead and lots in store for you.

First, we want to acknowledge that the land where the Microsoft campus is situated

was traditionally occupied by the Samamish, the Duwamish, the snow qualmi, the Suquamish,

the muckelshoot, the snow homish, the Tulalip, and other coasts, salish peoples since time immemorial.

A people that are still here, continuing to honor and bring to light their ancient heritage.

My name is Allison Wines.

I'm a senior program manager in our developer tools division.

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