Which Reminds Me

We were talking about how some evangelists get overly exuberant when estimating the potential numbers of people in the audience. Just because your program has a potential of 5 billion listeners, that does not mean there were actually that many people tuned in and listening. Not quite. Of course it would be impossible to calculate the exact number and that is why numbers are often ballparked. So some exaggeration is forgivable to some degree, obviously. Just don't overkill it. But even if you weren't that off the mark there are always these obnoxious people like Mark Carpenter tapping your phones and eavesdropping on your private consultations with your public relations expert, which really was ridiculous on his part, just to feed his appetite for satire and criticism. Give me a break.