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here we are here we are are are you excited I am am. I'm super. I mean, I've been, I've been, I've had the chance the last couple days to do a lot of reading on the passage before us today. I, you know, actually, we should probably take a moment to acknowledge at least like the fact that we do, we are doing a fair bit of reading and a fair bit of commentary

buying for this for this podcast and and we've got some pretty diverse voices here as we go

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or we have a new insight we'll be sure to share share that with you so you know nowhere you to find it and how you can get your own copy if you want to dig deeper.

But yeah, I've had the chance to dig deep these last couple of days. So I'm excited about the

passage. How's your 2019 going so far? You know, and so far so good. I'm not one of those

guys that was super upset with 2018

all i saw yeah all i saw on the internet uh of course it's the way it is every year a bunch

pessimists running around uh and everyone especially twitter do you know it's just terrible

twitter everything's always burning to the ground everyone acting like 2018 was the worst year ever.

So there's like, Goodridden's worst year ever.

I've had infinitely worse years than 2018.

So I'm good with 2019.

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