Life Audio Hey, welcome to the Happy Ramp Podcast. I am Ted Cluck.

Joined as always in studio by my good friends my partners in radio

Barnabas Piper and Ronald J Martin boys it's been a minute

since we've been all in the studio together but we are here now coming off some travel, getting ready to send

kids back to school or in Pipes case, kids have been back to school for two weeks, which is ridiculous.

We're going to get into these topics. We're going to into that. back to school for two weeks, which is ridiculous.

We're gonna get into these topics.

We're gonna into that,

what it feels like to have a new book in the world

and many more things right after this break.

All right, boys, we're back.

We just launched our groundbreaking new book.

Really the reception of it has been so warm.

It's been a whirlwind, much like the rise and

triumph of the modern self, you know, the the book landscape will really never be

the same because of it. What's your experience been this last week boys in terms of

the reception to the book, the buzz, the continued online buzz that it's been receiving?

Pipe how's it been for you?

Yeah, I mean, you use the term groundbreaking and I'm just kind of thinking about

the, yeah, the, what we're building with this thing and how clearly it's coming together and it just

the horizons are expansive and I'm just gonna mix all my metaphors because that's what writers do.

Oh yeah.

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