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

studio by Barnabas Piper and Ron Martin. Boys, I feel like it's gloomy everywhere we are today, even in our own emotions.

So Ron is back off the road.

I can hear the sadness in his voice at being at home and

Pibe you and I are where it's where it's raining so heavily that we're

considering like just making arks out of our houses and floating away so

a little gloom today, boys, but you know what makes me not gloomy is thinking about all the sponsor

money that's flowing our way because of all the sponsors we have.

So Piper, why don't you tell us about who some of those people are?

There are so many sponsors.

And before the listeners tune out, I'm going to give them our new sponsor

because I know the listeners tune out for this stuff.

So our newest sponsor is IVP books

with particularly the title Disruptive Witness

by Alan Noble.

I actually read this book. He asked me to endorse it. I don't know if they used the endorsement or not. I said nice things, so I hope they did. But it's a really, really good

book. So it's a book about essentially overcoming the

distractions of the flood of digital everything in our lives.

So he has this great excerpt in chapter one where he just basically describes from the

minute he wakes up till the minute he goes to bed and how every minute is inundated with something.

You know, there's his iPhone

is his alarm clock and then there's,

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