Hey, welcome to the Happy Ramp Podcast. I am Ted Cluck joined as always in

studio by my good friend and partner in radio Barnabas Piper and

pipe we found out just a

scant few minutes before going on the air that we would be without Ron Martin today

so because he is of all things. Wait for it.

Traveling.

Of course he's traveling.

Our boy man, you cannot pin Ron Martin down.

He is a traveler and I don't know if he's in Florida planting substance south.

I mean what kind of a jet setter is it that confirms yesterday he can do this and then today like there's just an urgency to his like the need for

Ron Martin in another part of the country or yeah yeah the world who knows yeah and he's

that's it I mean I just feel like there's an unbelievable need for Ron Martin out there and you and I pipe are just

We're just a part of it. You know what I mean and as much as that hurts

Apparently not the first ranking part of it? Apparently not the biggest part of it exactly like he's needed in other places and I think

the prospect of like sitting down in that Ashland studio and doing radio like it can't

hold a candle to getting on an airplane, you know, you're

rolling that little rolling bag down the concourse and waiting for your gates, you know,

those things are magic compared to this and how how

thrilled like just so what how much did his soul just well up when scant minutes before the podcast he received the call you

get to leave Ashland again.

Dude what do you think it feels like for Ronnie when like some organization reaches out and says will you

come speak at our regional whatever conference like that's got to spike the heart rate like

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