Hey, welcome to the happy. Happy Rand.

Hey, welcome to the Happy Ramp podcast.

I am Ted Cluck joined as always in studio by my good friends and partners in radio,

Barnabas Piper and Ronald J Martin.

Ronald, I couldn't help but notice the glum sadness in your voice.

It's the glumness that says,

I've been home for a while and I need to get on the road and you're getting out of town soon baby and we're going to hear all about that and we're going to talk kind of broadly just about this this concept of conferences because I don't know how you guys do it I don't know

how you sit through multiple marathon-length reform sermons each week but we'll

get into that but first Piper we have sponsor business to get into. We've got lavish

decadent leather goods, leather bags to talk about. So Pipe tell us about

saddleback leather.

Man, I feel like the name saddleback leather kind of just explains itself.

It just smacks of quality and aromatic cowhide and over-engineered goodness.

But yeah, our primary sponsor this week is Saddleback Leather,

as they have been the last few episodes

uh... let me not bury the lead on this one they're giving away five different really

high quality items so you can enter to win one of these

at saddleback leather.com slash happy rant so saddleback leather

dot com slash happy rant for those of you who didn't get it the first time

they're giving away what is called a baby beast which is like a really nice leather overnight bag

a messenger backpack a bear trap leather pen case a little big mouth toiletry bag and a front pocket leather ID wallet. That's like one of the

slim wallets that you you know so instead of the big dad like wear out your back pocket

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