Hey, welcome to the Happy Ramp Podcast. I am Ted Cluck joined as always in studio by my good friends and my partners in radio, Barnabas Piper and Ronald J. Martin, Pipe, you have had a great week, my friend, in that you got engaged, which is the thing

that you texted me an announcement about and then put on social media for everyone else.

Why don't you tell us a little bit about getting engaged, but also the politics of how you share these things and who you share them with and how your

bloodite friend who's not on technology creates more work for you but suffice to say

Piper that we hear at Happy Grant Corporate at the Happy Grant Media Empire.

We're very happy for you.

Couldn't be more thrilled for you, my friend, and we're eager to hear about it.

Yeah, I anticipate like a fruit basket or something from Happy Grant Corporate to celebrate

this occasion.

Some sort of impersonal.

Yeah, something impersonal and useless as a corporate gift to celebrate this momentous occasion. and bouquet so why to forget the edible arrangement that's the one I'm going for so

personal and useless just like this program you know got to keep it consistent

I stay on right so yeah last Saturday I got engaged, which is very exciting and still is very exciting actually. And then came the very tenuous and tricky process of figuring out who needs to know what, when, and by what communication source.

You know, so there's, so obviously social media communication source.

You know, so there's, so obviously social media post comes last because that's, that goes up to all the

people you don't really know, but you would like the world to know that this thing happened.

So then, who do you call, who do you have there in person,

you know, if they're in town, who all,

who do you text, do you know, is that too impersonal?

Who do you fax? You know, who do you mail it?

Dude, I like faxing. Yeah, old school.

In those moments, I was extremely jealous of your Luddite existence, Ted,

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