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 is just you and me this morning.

No Ronald.

He indicated that he's at a three hour meeting from 9 to 12 his time.

It sounds suspiciously like a grad school thing.

I feel like only in academia would you meet for three hours and

expect people to pay attention and be engaged. So shout out to Ronald.

Or like reformed conferences.

That's true.

Because I'm pretty sure, I mean may it rest in peace forever and ever

aim in, but I'm pretty sure the sermons at T4G were about three hours long? I think I think so which flouts any and all

rules of like human communication and decency. They're like studies have shown

people can only pay attention for 30 to 45 minutes so we'll make our sermon three hours

Yeah, there's an interesting like juxtaposition between the preponderance of Tweed and the lack of human

communication skills and reformed conferences in academia heavy on the Tweed

so much Tweed what Light on the decent communication skills.

Yeah, that's so true.

So much Tweed, so many meetings and they're so long.

Pipe, I want to take a break.

Actually I don't want to, we're going to because we have to

As for our contract with the nameless faceless corporate entities that we're dealing with but after the break I want to come back I want to talk about

this dynamic that you observed in me wherein I talk a lot of crap about things that I've been

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