Hey, welcome to the Happy Rant Podcast. I am Ted Cluck.

Joined as always in studio by my good friends, my partners in radio, Barnabas Piper, and Ron Martin, back from the road,

knocking the rest off two weeks away from the program.

Boys, I'm back. I'm back.

I'm back. You had..., yes you sure are. Wow. Yeah, man, it's it's big.

Your first your first big retreat baby boy, your first big Ronnie Tar Mac experience and like a year. big

big Rani, Rani Tarmac experience and like a year. And it's interesting, so the university that I work at,

we had our graduation while you were gone,

and I had a family approach me.

I'm glad they still pulled off the graduation while I wasn't there baby.

I appreciate that they still went forward with that.

Well they did. I mean there was a lot of discussion and you know should we do it should we not and this family approached me and they said

We know Ronnie Martin and they said in fact we were just at a retreat with him. So they somehow pulled themselves away from all the steak and lobster and like

Sojourn Harbor Carnival Cruise Line network pampering that that you guys were experiencing in order to they came to watch

their kick graduate so that baby I I know exactly the couple you're talking about yeah

and and I know the think, like I think you know the student, I don't know that he's, he knows you and I don't know that he took your class, but they've talked to me about him talking about you.

Okay, interesting. Yeah, he had a different major.

He was like engineering or something that...

He's engineering.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, he wouldn't have taken me, but suffice it to say, baby, you were back in the pampering saddle which is where

you belong I want to hear everything about the trip and I want to hear about your

networking opportunities and if you've got like some big dreams that you're

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