Hey, welcome to the house. Happy Rand.

Hey, welcome to the Happy Rant Podcast.

I am Ted Kluck joined, as always by my partner in radio, Barnabas Piper.

Sans, Ronald J Martin, Ronald is on a sabbatical pipe, but he's no longer

on a social media sabbatical, I hear.

But he didn't end it according to our rules. didn't make a he didn't make a big

hey guys i'm back he just sort of posted a normal thing as as if his return was

not the biggest deal in the past week i I'm a little disappointed in him.

As though he'd never been gone, as though the world wasn't waiting with baited breath

as he made his first tweet.

I mean, I know I let out a sigh of relief when I saw his Instagram post because it was you know it was like proof of life

Was the Instagram related to like beaches and feet and piles of books and great relaxation?

I think it involved let me see I think it in of books and great relaxation?

I think it involved, let me see.

I think it involved his wife and coffee, which are like two of his top three favorite

things in the world.

So, no, not quite as as beachy as all that.

Although he did, once I made fun of him for it, he did text me a picture of feet and swimming pools and palm trees.

Oh, that's great. You know, he saved that for the private communicate

to make me feel like a schmuck for sitting here

in 40 degree rainy weather.

I don't want to feel like our boy is doing nothing but the hard work of going to

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