Hey, and welcome to the Happy Ramp Podcast. I am Ted Cluck, joined as always by Barnabas Piper

and Ronald J Martin. And boys, it is a little early in the morning for us to be recording

because of how busy and in demand we are as people because of how difficult it is to

schedule this program we are we are going at an hour. So if we sound a little bit more

raspy and used up and tired than usual, that is why. But I'm excited about our topics this morning boys.

I feel like we've got a good slate of things to talk about.

And we also have an amazing slate of sponsors and several to talk about.

So Piper, why don't you kick us off with another incredible promo read?

I like how promo reads are not like a segment. Oh, it's a segment. It makes me feel special.

It's basically the segment, you know. I would love to do a show. I would love to have so many sponsors that an entire episode is just promo reads. I think that's

listeners have actually suggested that like throwing

finding products just to see if if I can turn them into a promo of some kind which just to see if you can make magic you know what that's the equivalent of Piper what's that's Larry Bird playing an entire game left-handed.

Like you've gotten so bored because you're so good at like doing the promo reads.

They have to become more and more challenging.

We keep getting good promos like University Press in a book by Mike Cosper.

Please throw me some Frank McKinney just to see if I can do it.

Dude, right, throw us some hot garbage and see if we can turn it into magic.

But tell us about Cosby.

All right, so yes, our first sponsor is IVP books

and the book is Recapturing the Wonder by Mike Kossper.

Listeners to this podcast might be familiar with

Cossper since he's he's in the same circles we are he's a he's a friend of

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