Hey, welcome to the hat. Happy Round.

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.

Pipe, we are without Ronald J. Martin again this and partner in radio Barnabas Piper.

Pipe, we are without Ronald J Martin again this week,

and lest anyone think this is a referendum on his performance,

it is not.

And he's actually not traveling either. So I don't feel like there's much we can do with this humor wise he's not traveling no he's he's actually he'd like literally moments before we were going to record he had to he had to take off to deal with a

pastoral situation so that's that's a real thing for like buying a plane ticket to

a conference I gathered that it was a real pastoral situation.

Yeah, he's in town, he's not shopping for cabins, he's not luxuriating in Christmas lights

or any of the things that Ron does. He's helping people.

And that's... He's doing his job. Yeah. Which means he's helping people and doing work he's doing his job yeah which means he's gonna

thing we all do on occasion yeah from time to time for sure which means he's gonna

need to pamper himself next week at at Soma So Soma Church in Day Spa, hopefully Ron has booked himself a couple

of extra days on the front end of Indie Live, Piper. So why don't you tell the audience

about Indie Live, how and where they can get tickets and why they should get tickets.

Yeah, if my math is correct, I'm not real good with numbers,

I'm more of a words guy, but if my math is correct,

when this episode releases,

it will be less than a week until

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