Hey, welcome to the hat. Happy Rand.

Hey, welcome to the Happy Rand podcast.

I am Ted Kluck joined as always by Barnabas Piper and Ronald J Martin.

And boys, I am broadcasting today live from a very special place.

I am in Camp Barracow which is in the the far reaches of northern Michigan

and we're right on the edge of the Huron National Forest up here and I'm in a in a conference room

with my studio resting on a desk on a table made of like like a tree.

So they just like cut a tree in half and like put some chairs around it and that's that's what I'm working with man it's rustic did they make their own chairs too what's that? Did they make their own chairs too? No, no, I don't think so. I think these are pretty standard like office chairs, but the whole thing

smells piny, like I'm smelling a lot of a lot of pine up here and I got to tell you boys,

I love it. I love this this gig I've done it twice

So this is my second summer up here at Camp Barricle. So this is a Christian camp

They have grade school middle school school, high school camps.

They do family camps.

They do like father-son retreats and really things

all around the calendar year.

But I speak at high school camps, so this is my second go around doing it.

And I have to tell you, man, I don't know what your camp experiences were like as a kid, but

church camp for me as a kid was always like a lot of kind of standard camp activities

with some pretty bad theology thrown in.

And this camp...

You clearly didn't grow up at Bethlehem Baptist Church.

No, I didn't.

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