Ray Schroeder Interview Transcript

and let me give you uh um just a few

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anecdotes from

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you know i started teaching in 1971 and

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you two weren’t very old in 71 were you

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so but i i was at the urbana campus of

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the university of illinois

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and they cut i was in the radio and

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television department within the college

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of

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communications and i

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formed as a group that i advised called

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rats radio and television students

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and we were the ones protesting we got

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to the president’s office and all um

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yeah so uh certainly i can

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you know i want to answer your questions

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i will of course

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but then i also think that there are a

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few things that we can

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um strategies beyond just

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telling the university why it’s

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important you know one is um

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look to graduates who are in the media

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get endorsements like we had gene

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charlotte whom you don’t know

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but he was on nbc you’re a famous guy

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you know and we had a couple of others

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um oh yeah who’s that movie where you

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were who died you know those two guys

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that did movie reviews together anyway

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so we you know we got them to write

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letters

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we were not successful but but

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draw on those graduates because the

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media has a lot of influence

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so i think that’s really important so no

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doubt i mean you probably have specific

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questions

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go ahead and ask me some okay so our

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first question is just kind of can you

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give us a

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brief rundown of your background in the

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communication field

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yeah sure you know long long ago

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um i worked in radio and in college

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i worked at the student radio station in

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augustana college in rock island

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small liberal arts school and um it

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became an npr affiliate wbeik

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i um i

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went from there to wowo which is a

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50 000 watt am stationed and did news

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i went to graduate school then at urbana

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the interversity

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of illinois urbana where i

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had a split appointment half time as

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news producer for their public radio

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station

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w ilo and halftime as an instructor of

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radio tv

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and that was actually in 72 i think

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ultimately in 75 i moved over to

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full-time faculty

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taught broadcast journalism journalism

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for the electronic media as we called it

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also taught some graduate courses you

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know one

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influence of broadcasting in american

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society those kinds of things

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and then in 77 i became i came to

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the springfield campus of the university

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of illinois

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and i uh built a television office and

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we did

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public affairs and documentary videos

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and distributed them through well what

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film for the humanities but also uh pbs

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and

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we even had some uh commercial

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affiliates come to town

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and we would provide the staffing for

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them and then

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um gosh i kind of uh oh yeah and so

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in uh you know i moved up the ranks full

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professor and whatnot and

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then i uh was asked by our

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um vice president for academic affairs

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for the whole u of i

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system for the multiple campuses

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to bring this internet to

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to the faculty and that was in 97 and

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and from there i i worked in developing

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degrees we have

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26 degrees now online totally online

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we also have and half of them are

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graduate half our undergrad

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are baccalaureates and and then a whole

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bunch of certificates and whatnot and

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you know so now i’m 71 so you know

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i i kind of hired a successor but but i

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couldn’t quite let go

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so i’m continuing as assistant

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or associate vice chancellor which is

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really like associated

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provost at the university uh for online

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and so now also halftime i work for a

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national association

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the university professional continuing

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that association

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we represent 375 universities

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all of the ivy league all of the uc all

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of big ten you know

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very large universities but smaller

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universities as well

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and my job there for the last 10 years

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in part has been to consult

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and so i’ve consulted with 20

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universities so i’ll go to ones

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you know you’ve heard of like colombia

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and johns hopkins

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to those universities and help them with

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developing and expanding their online

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programs

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but then i i also as

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you you associated me with journalism so

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perhaps

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i i do a bi-weekly column in inside

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higher education

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and i get a lot of visibility inside

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higher ed

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is you know like the trade magazine that

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and the chronicle

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of higher ed you know people switch to

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inside higher ed because the chronicle

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subscriptions are pretty expensive

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so uh yeah they have a circulation of

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3.7 million

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in a month so they’ve got you know quite

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a few breeders

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and so i love writing those columns

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and then the feedback i get that was a

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long-winded answer i’m stopping

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that’s that’s where i am now i’m

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installing tile

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okay

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thank you so much for that like i right

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now

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work for our student radio station and

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jen has a show on our student radio

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station

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too wonderful wonderful yeah great place

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to begin

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oh man and what you’re doing in your

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newspaper

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wow you know that’s tremendous your

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experience you’re making

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the most of your career and that

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that cannot be replaced in any other way

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yeah so next um kind of as

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working as a professor for so many years

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were the

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major changes that you’ve seen

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specifically in the last 10 years

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for um kind of programs in com

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yeah so um communication

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you know it used to be that we had three

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tracks we had a research

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you know theories and research which

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frankly

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just withered on the vine people don’t

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want a theory

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degree there’s no future then we had

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radio television electronic media cable

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you know all the electronic stuff which

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ultimately then pulled in the internet

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and delivery through electronic media

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and then we have

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a separate journalism program by the way

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that the two of you might consider

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it’s a master’s program in public

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affairs reporting

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and every student is guaranteed an

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internship with

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ap upi chicago tribune

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you know we only have it’s a limited

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entry program

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everybody gets an internship and you get

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bylines in those papers

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so um but what’s happened over time

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is that we’ve really shifted to the

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electronic media

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now certainly public relations is still

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kind of on the fringe but that’s part of

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it

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um but uh but it is it is the internet

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and how to do um effective

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videos how to do campaigns how to

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you know social media i mean all of

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those

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areas are so very important

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when when you’re studying the media in

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the 21st century

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and and you know i i’ve written a bit

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about um

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in inside higher ed about how

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we really need to tie ourselves to the

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industry

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what happens in communication is slowly

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professors fall behind because

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remember back in the day we used radio

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we used microphone

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and a little tape recorder and you know

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that just doesn’t

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do it you know we have to follow the

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technology

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and it’s changing very rapidly so i

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think within all communication programs

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you need to do that i used to teach a

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graduate seminar in new and emerging

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technologies

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in the electronic media and so that

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would

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roll over you know every time i taught

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it i’d have a whole new

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uh syllabus okay

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um i definitely think that’s like a

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really big thing

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i know our professors specifically for

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our advanced news reporting class

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he like worked for um the new york times

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when they were developing their website

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so he is very big on like making sure

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that

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they are like up on the newest

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technologies because he’s seen it

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through everything so our next question

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that we have

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is when you see enrollment rates kind of

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drop which is one of the points our

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provost made to

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about why they’re doing this revamp of

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the um

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program is there like a specific reason

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for it or is it just

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kind of what happens it comes in waves

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okay it’s competition so you know there

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are more and more programs because

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other universities with bigger budgets

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have jumped in

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and they have lots of marketing

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now i wrote a column and i don’t have it

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right in front of me

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but i don’t and i don’t know but if you

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look inside higher ed ray schroeder

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you’ll get a list and you’ll see one

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where i gave a kind of a prescription

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what i think the comm program

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should do if you don’t you need to have

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an industry council

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i mean you’re so well positioned you’re

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right there new jersey new york

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you know get some representatives from

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the media

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to advise you and give them a t-shirt or

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a throw or a cap

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or something but get them engaged in

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what you’re doing the second thing i

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would do

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is invite the hr the human relations or

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human resources rather directors at

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the major employers and have them talk

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if you have a capstone class or

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something that people take

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kind of in that last senior year

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have them as guest speakers

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electronically zoom

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or whatever but and say

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how do you go through those resumes and

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it may be ai

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they may have an algorithm that goes

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through every

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application and they’re looking for

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certain keywords

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and certain experiences like student

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newspaper

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like leadership editor like

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radio station those are the pieces that

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they probably are looking for but

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you want to find out specifically

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and so the the department needs to know

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that

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they also need to be sure to have

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students on that committee

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on the committee that meets with the

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industry

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representatives the industry council if

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you will

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and and you have to kind of cover the

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breadth of your curriculum

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because they’re the ones that are going

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to give you the early warning

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of what you should put in your courses

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and

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that question should be asked i mean

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faculty have to be

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open they have to be going to say hey

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look at here’s my syllabus what’s wrong

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with it what am i missing

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and what do i need to add and in doing

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so

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that person and maybe that radio station

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that

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cable provider

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the newspaper will will look favorably

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upon the grants because they’re going to

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expect you to know that

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so there are a number of things it’s in

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an article

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but but what we’re seeing is

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middle-sized universities

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and small colleges are are getting hurt

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tremendously because the big ones have

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enough revenue

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that they can do the marketing and they

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honestly they have more campus life i i

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don’t mean

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camp i mean surrounding campus town if

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you will

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you know the you know all the things

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right around the campus

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so that and football and you know

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everything else

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so that’s what you’re fighting but i

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think part of the

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proposal from the comm program uh com

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department could be

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look at we have these graduates we have

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we’re going to get representatives from

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these

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media outlets on an industry council

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and we’re going to aggressively

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determine

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what we can do and then we’re going to

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push it out and yeah

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we don’t have 200 000 for marketing the

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communication department

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so we’re gonna do it on social media

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we’re gonna do it in twitter

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we’re gonna do it in linkedin we’re

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gonna do it in facebook

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we’re gonna do it in instagram we’re

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gonna push these things

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out so that people in the industry see

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it

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where we really don’t have to eat up

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marketing budget money

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okay that was actually very insightful

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and we’ll definitely

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look up that article um i just made a

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note of it in our notes to make sure

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that we look it up

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um okay because we are a

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smaller university that definitely is

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part of the reason that we’re struggling

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um you know something our provost said

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to us is you know back in like 2008

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there were like

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250 com students and now we’re in a

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program where there’s 40 of us

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and everyone knows each other like we

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have the same people in all of our

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classes

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and met at freshman orientation like

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everyone knows

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everyone so how does how does marketing

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work

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at farley dixon i mean

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is there a central office called you

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know the director of marketing or

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something

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um so there’s marketing specialists

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and different offices throughout the

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campus to like admit as a marketing

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person

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um the student life has a marketing

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person throughout the different

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offices there’s a marketing person in

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each place

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yeah and if i were consulting there like

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i did at northwestern then you feel like

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another you know look at you need to

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consolidate these

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and i you know i’m happy to talk to

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someone by the way if you ever

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have a link to someone who with whom i

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could share

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ideas at no charge i would be happy to

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do that but

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but it should be they have to be linked

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together you can have multiple people

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there has to be one person creating the

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image to feel

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the visuals they all have to

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interconnect

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and they have to be coordinated what i

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suspect has happened is

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tom historically has done well so

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yeah they were down the show they were

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down last year

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yeah but but we’re trying to save

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english

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and we’re trying to save the humanities

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and

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um and that’s a much more difficult job

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yeah so you know i think that they could

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do a lot

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with khan if uh if they recognize it the

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other thing

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is i would go to the the us department

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of

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labor has employment statistics

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so u.s department of labor and they list

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for communication fields

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whether the jobs are going up or if

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they’re going down which ones are going

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up which ones are going down

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i would have one thing just kind of an

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anecdote that you

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be aware of is that

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the average tenure of an american worker

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with an employer so let’s say you went

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out and you got a job

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you know across the country people old

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like me and young like you

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the average is only four years people

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only stay with

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lawyer for four years well

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what happens is when you get fired or

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laid off or leave

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you’re going to need retraining you

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could use

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a farley dickinson university

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certificate

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in xyz new and emerging technologies new

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strategies uh

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strategies in the in social media

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um you know the new

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uh journalism um in all these topics so

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that these could be short courses

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let’s say three courses and it would

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boost your enrollment

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it might not bring in freshmen but what

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we’re seeing

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is and and we in the academe

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say this is the 60-year learner

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not that they’re 60 years old but that

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they’re coming back

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for 60 years every four eight years

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they’re coming back to us

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because they need another certificate

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because artificial intelligence

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has been eating away at their job by the

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way do you know that

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you know it’s like 20 of the news

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articles written

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are written by a.i and new york times

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uses

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particularly in sports because those are

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real easy ones you know

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but but they’ll use vernacular like a

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four bagger

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or this or that you know and so

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they just have to plug the data in and

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they’re not paying a reporter

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to cover you know anyway so that’s a

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that’s a challenge in the field

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but if you understand artificial

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intelligence if you take

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what we call python is the programming

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used

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most commonly if you get a sense of that

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that’s going to help you

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if you have like a python one class

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and you go that you can you can help

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your employer move and better use

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ai okay

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that’s definitely something to think

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about um i know that we have like looked

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at the

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us um for like labor statistics because

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that’s definitely something that we are

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planning on talking about

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um our next question and this is

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something we’ve like asked a lot of

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experts across the board that we’ve

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talked to is

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what skills do you think are important

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for someone who’s entering the

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communications field to possess

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yeah there are many and i i would do a

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quick uh google search

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for linkedin top 20

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hard and soft skills so every year

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linkedin surveys you know thousands of

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companies you know how big linkedin

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is and and you’ll find they list them

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which include

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um that you know an understanding of

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social media but also its leadership its

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ethics its uh um

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oh gosh they’re just a whole bunch of

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soft skills

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that they’re looking for which

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traditionally would be provided

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at your university and when i went to

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augustana that

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that too at that college you know that

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that was really emphasized

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now they’re looking for you know if

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you know you you’re on a mission both

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you and jennifer you know

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you’re doing something positive but if

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you get tired and

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you know look at blockchain right now

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starting salary

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125 000 even without a degree

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if you can do blockchain development no

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experience

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right off the shelf you start at 125

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and and we don’t start that way in most

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communication fields

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so you know there are those fields that

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are really taking off

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but lacking um that skill

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if you understand the way blockchain

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operates

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if if you could you know i don’t know do

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you have one more year in school or is

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this your last yeah we both have one

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more year

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okay good so if you could somehow in one

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of the papers

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many papers that you write do something

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with blockchain

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and put it in an e-portfolio if you have

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that formally

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or if you don’t have that you know have

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it in your back pocket

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and say by the way you know i wrote this

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about blockchain and you’re going to get

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their attention

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because everybody you know that’s the

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you know new plastic the new whatever

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it’s the technology that people um are

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are using and you know that’s what uh

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bitcoin and

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you know the electronic uh those uh

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currencies use but it’s used for far

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more

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ultimately your university and mine are

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going to be

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distributing our transcripts via

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blockchain and i’ll

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digress for 30 seconds to say it will

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give

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you control of your transcript

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you will be able to add items

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internships even that didn’t come from

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fdu you’ll be able to add them to it

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and they can’t withhold it if you

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haven’t paid your parking

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ticket you know they won’t have control

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of it

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it’ll be you who has control of it and

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that will go with you as you come back

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in four years and eight and twelve and

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and you’ll have a very large

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but a blockchain verified

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transcript

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that’s very interesting i didn’t even

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know that that was something that was

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like i wrote about that too so

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you know if you and you can just skim i

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think they only have the last 60 or 70

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articles

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but and you don’t have to you can just

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do a google search

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but but it is transcripts and blockchain

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so one of the um other professionals

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that we talked to

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was barbara allen from the pointer

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institute and she

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like is working with um

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the pointer institute and creating like

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courses for them that have to do

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with higher ed and knowing how to report

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on higher ed and whatnot

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so i wanted to ask you she had spoken to

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us about

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finding a niche and she said that maybe

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like some sort of higher ed course would

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be something that would set

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fdu apart have you seen that in any

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other colleges or programs or anything

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i think it’s a good idea first let me

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say that

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i have not seen any specialization in

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higher ed

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and you could do it in um you know

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futures trading you could do it in any

22:56

of a

22:57

wide variety you know precious

23:00

metals pork bellies well not pork

23:03

bellies

23:03

but you could do you know any of those

23:05

kind of areas higher ed is

23:08

is in transition and you saw

23:11

and probably how possibly even wrote

23:14

about

23:15

uh community colleges that the biden

23:18

administration has

23:19

proposed to make them all free right

23:22

great idea

23:23

and so what would be useful is for

23:27

reporters to have insight and i didn’t

23:29

see much of this

23:30

that like germany has a a k-14

23:34

system where they take those two years

23:36

and they put it into

23:38

along with the high school you can still

23:41

specialize

23:42

but that means then that there will be

23:44

degree completion programs

23:46

at universities the final two years and

23:49

you get the two-year baccalaureate or

23:51

maybe a three-year

23:52

but uh you know a shorter baccalaureate

23:55

and what that means in higher ed

23:58

and what it means for uh continuing that

24:00

and professionally yeah

24:06

yeah we actually just um we started

24:09

something this semester called

24:10

daily news where we kind of try to find

24:12

something

24:13

each day that has to do with either new

24:15

jersey bergen county or just

24:17

college students in general and our

24:19

reporter writes on it in the morning

24:21

then we also have a

24:22

cobia 19 update for the county schools

24:24

and and

24:25

new jersey as a whole so people know

24:27

what’s going on with case numbers

24:29

but the article

24:32

about um the bind administration free

24:34

community college was actually just

24:36

recently done

24:38

24:42

is there anyone else that you think that

24:43

we should talk to about

24:45

this

24:48

um i’m thinking

24:59

i mean there are some people in

25:00

associations

25:02

uh you know your east coast i’d say

25:05

um maybe

25:10

julie uranus like the planet

25:14

j-u-l-i-e uranus u-r-a-n-i-s

25:18

and so her email is j

25:21

uranus at u-p-c-e-a-dot-edu

25:27

and she has worked at

25:30

several universities she’s our vice

25:33

president

25:34

i mean you know they’re people in um

25:37

other

25:37

associations but she would be one who’d

25:40

have a lot of enthusiasm you’ll see when

25:43

you talk to her

25:44

and uh and energy and

25:48

an empathy for what’s going on now

25:52

um you know i think

25:58

others in communication

26:02

and and you can look up julie you know

26:04

linkedin is a tool i use often so

26:06

look her up you know and you’ll get more

26:09

of a bio i think she was at

26:11

central michigan she’ll see it western

26:13

kentucky and

26:14

and maybe another school and then came

26:18

uh originally from michigan

26:22

um

26:24

yeah who’s our problem she’s probably

26:27

the best choice she may have other

26:29

choices um

26:31

you know other people too so it’s good

26:33

that you’re following this chain of

26:35

of connections i think that there’s

26:39

much you can do i think that the media

26:42

wields a lot of power the social media

26:45

wields

26:46

a lot of power so if you can get someone

26:50

in instagram facebook or in

26:54

one of the others to say that they’ll

26:57

you know serve on your virtual board

27:00

that would be really good

27:02

and the president

27:05

and or vice president or provost or

27:08

whomever dean will oh yeah well

27:13

we better not look too bad you know to

27:16

them so we ought to look like

27:18

we’re trying to save the program and not

27:21

kill the program um i think it’s

27:24

the future there are you know when you

27:27

think of other

27:28

fields put aside

27:31

computer science um and

27:34

you know the uh as a like fields putting

27:37

that aside

27:38

communication is just critical it is the

27:41

field that will

27:43

uh that will lead the rest so

27:46

you know and i think having an industry

27:49

council

27:50

and then strategically having

27:54

making sure the upper administration

27:58

comes to that board meeting they’ll want

28:00

to because these

28:02

are going to be influential people i

28:04

think

28:05

i think that’s important and they will

28:07

you know they’re savvy i mean these

28:09

folks know what they’re doing

28:10

and they’ll say well you know you can do

28:12

some public service are done we’ll run

28:14

them

28:14

you know we’ll run these we’ll make sure

28:16

they get out and we’ll put them in the

28:18

paper we’ll give you

28:20

you know three inches or whatever

28:23

you know we’ll give you a few inches for

28:24

a little display ad

28:27

about con not just about fdu

28:30

but specifically about your future

28:34

the future of the world is in

28:35

communication you know we learned that

28:38

i mean you could do wonderful things on

28:40

this we learned it in covid we learned

28:42

it’s all about that’s where we’re in a

28:45

crisis that will continue for years

28:47

beyond the virus

28:49

will be the mental health ramifications

28:52

that have the damage that has been done

28:55

by

28:56

limiting communication interpersonal

28:59

communication

29:01

so you know i mean there’s so many

29:03

things you can use

29:04

and your faculty member can use and you

29:07

know again if i can

29:09

help let me know and i’d be happy to

29:11

talk to other people when you get to

29:13

that point

29:14

you know after your report has been

29:16

submitted and

29:17

you you could put me in a list of people

29:20

willing

29:21

to uh to help out if we

29:25

would be great thank you so much for

29:27

your time today um

29:29

we are going to be publishing this the

29:32

week of may 10th

29:33

on our website but i’ll send the links

29:35

to the articles whenever they’re up

29:37

um as i would everyone that we’ve talked

29:39

to but

29:40

thank you so much um we really

29:42

appreciate it

29:43

we know that everyone is so busy and

29:45

coveted like

29:47

zoom has made things a little bit easier

29:49

with getting to talk to people but

29:51

people are very busy so we do appreciate

29:53

it yes well thank you so much

29:56

thank you so much jennifer it’s good to

29:58

see you andy hear from you

30:00

and good luck to both you ellie and

30:02

jennifer

30:04

all right all right take care

30:07

bye

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