Hey, welcome to the

Happy Rand. Hey, welcome to the Happy Rand podcast.

I am Ted Cluck joined as always in studio.

By my good friends, my partners in radio, Barnabas Piper and Ronald J Martin, who by the way Pipe,

Ron's, his attendance has been exemplary lately.

Yeah, I feel like you, maybe you've done a really good job of just being on the program

lately which is a great information we need to get him like an iron on patch

for his jacket dude, a little attendance patch, a little good attendance patch.

And then get him back out on the road because I'm sure, you know...

Oh, it's coming.

It begins on Monday to be honest. because then he needs to show off his patch to people across

Correct. Yeah, baby. Where are you going on Monday?

Head not for a little retreat near a near a be pipe actually. Wow.

Gatlinburg. Oh, Gatlinburg. Yeah.

Watch. Watch out for bears. They run rampant. Like when so pipe when big M saw those bears and she

knew we were going to the same area she it's literally all she's been talking

about this chick loves bears and things like that. I mean she's just

she's just kuku for cocoa puffs over things like that. So well, wow. They're yeah they're they're fun to see and then when they get up close it's less fun because

But dude, are the baby bears, are they like can they still just like tear your arm off or

you know how does that work with them?

Well you know I didn't stick my arm in front of them to find out but the baby bears are like the

size of a Saint Bernard this time of year so...

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