Happy Round.

Hey, welcome to the Happy Ramp Podcast.

I am Ted Cluck joined as always in studio by only Barnabas Piper.

Pipe, we have some breaking news. only Barnabas Piper.

Pipe, we have some breaking news.

I will cue the breaking news music.

Dant-dant-dant-dant-dant-dant-dant-dant-dit-dant,

this is me shuffling papers around in the newsroom.

So the breaking news paper is that our good friend in radio,

Ronald J Martin, will be not only taking a sabbatical from his church, but also taking a

sabbatical from this program until live in Louisville.

So this was a resounding blow just throughout the radio community, lots of shock waves and I'm still processing. I'm sure you are. I don't presume to speak for where you're at on this pipe, but do you have any thoughts, any words for Ronald in this time?

I don't know if he's sabbaticaling from even listening to the program. Well, I believe he is because when he surreptitiously got me this news,

he made allusion to needing a complete and utter break from his electronic devices.

So I believe that he is, he's not going to listen to this so we can say whatever we want,

but, I mean, he's, yeah, he's not going to listen to this so we can say whatever we want.

But, yeah, he's completely separate.

This is a very telling thing about our day and age because when he told me, and I'm sure our

listeners are thinking the same thing you know and he used an

excuse like I need a total sabbatical you know I'm on the sabbatical so I spent part of it doing it this way

and I need to do part of it this way all of that blank space just leaves room for the imagination to run as to what's really going on here. Like did he get a better offer from another podcast? Is he planting another campus of his church? Like what's the actual reason here that's that was

the question that goes from my mind but but I also believe like I probably have to

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