Life Audio Hey, welcome to the happy ramp podcast. I am Ted Cluck. Joined as always in studio.

By my good friend, my partner in radio, Barnabas Piper.

Pipe, you have been on Death's Door this week,

but because you're a radio pro, and because we're really radio pros now given some of the things that are happening on our show

Which we'll get into momentarily

You have rallied to be in the studio. Ronald, meanwhile, is doing what Ronald does best,

which is being somewhere else and lounging

and not doing a whole lot.

So what do we know about where Ronald is? Let's start there.

It's he's in Hilton Head I believe and I feel safe saying that because I know our swarms of fans would want to just

flock to where he is but by the time this releases he he probably won't be in

Hilton Head anymore I think it was for a period of vacating and then a period of

retreating which I don't know what the difference is except one is vacating with no agenda and the other is vacating with an agenda or something along those lines.

Interesting.

Yeah, that may be interesting to have him flesh out those distinctions on the air at some point.

And provided he ever returns.

With as many retreats as he goes on, what is he retreating from? I feel like you know yeah in the history of the world

retreating is generally it's like a withdrawal you know that's right yeah strategic withdrawal a you know we

just got our butts kicked withdrawal something what is he

retreating from yeah that's a great question like if you're always retreating are you

ever retreating and there's got to be like some Zen nugget of wisdom in there somewhere

Which he's kind of trying to position himself as like Zen guy so maybe you know maybe he fleshes that out in a

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