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Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are out there in this world.

It's a brand new year and it's time to step out onto the high wire.

Well, everybody, welcome to 2022.

How are you feeling?

I mean, where are you at right now?

Are we approaching the new year with excitement?

A little bit of cautious optimism, total terror?

I know, it's a bad mixed bag of emotions, isn't it right now?

I mean, we are literally going into years, like three years of the COVID pandemic now, which

is hard to wrap our heads around the longest 15 days of flattening the curve the world has

ever seen.

But before we really sort of launch into this new year on the high wire, I just wanted

to take a moment to talk a little bit about our culture.

What the high wire is because coming into the end of last year, we were accelerating,

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