Hey, welcome to the Happy Rant Podcast. I am Ted Kluck, joined as always in studio by

Barnabas Piper and our special guest host, Ronald J. Ron you've been guest hosting on the

program for like three years now. How does it feel baby? Do you feel like a regular yet?

You were because you were sharing with us off the air that you still in some ways felt like you were just kind of a guest in some ways felt like you were just kind of a

guest in Trogg's house as it were. But I think I speak for Piper in that I want to tell you

that you're a made man now.

You're part of this program and you're part of it in perpetuity.

How do you feel, baby, I can't tell you what that means to me.

But so let me say thank you. yeah you know coming on to an already

established growing obviously not where it is since I've been on it you know

podcast yeah there's a little I I've been on it, you know, podcast.

Yeah, there's a little, I think there can be a little of that, you know, I mean, I wasn't, I wasn't one of the

founding fathers, uh, fathers, founding team players, you know, so coming in, it's like, you know, it's like, it's like, it's like being a, you know, a first pick draft three years in in some place.

And I know you guys enjoy that, that little analogy I just made a lot.

Well, I'm a happier in sports folks.

Absolutely. So, but I you know would be a guest host on that program.

I think I'm just starting to feel at home. I think the memory in the scent of one Stephen

Altrogue is just starting to fade into the proverbial, you know, ether.

So I have two questions in light of that statement. The first is what is

the scent of Altrogy? What would you compare it to? And the second is what could we have done to make you feel more welcome sooner?

That's good. Pipe that's a good question. I'm just going to be honest with you. You guys did a you guys did a stand-up job. It wasn't I don't think it was you I think it was me

That just felt like maybe hey is trogs gonna want to come back in and then you guys are gonna say sorry it was Tro Troges gig so we're going to have to we're

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