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The Happy Rant

Episode #432 - Middle Aged Birthdays the Most Millennial Movie

The Happy Rant

Happy Rant

Comedy, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8896 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Ted and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

  1. Middle aged birthdays: the moods, celebrations, and gifts that make them awful or wonderful
  2. Why La La Land is the MOST millennial movie
  3. How we move on from dreams and pursuits well

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Life Audio Hey, welcome to the Happy Ramp Podcast. I am Ted Cluck.

0:19.2

Joined as always in studio. By my good friend, my partner in radio, Barnabas Piper,

0:26.0

Pipe, Ron's, just doing that small town pasture work,

0:31.0

meaning that he's in Portland for the week.

0:33.7

Probably taking some meetings with Harvest House, you think?

0:37.9

Some exciting new Harvest House business in the works?

0:40.8

It's possible.

0:41.6

I mean, it, you know what when a small town guy goes to the big city you never know what's going to happen

0:46.8

Hyjinks and soo it's a little overwhelming. I've been to Portland. It is it's a it's an exceptionally weird city and I have to imagine that's just shocking to his small town

0:56.6

sensibilities.

0:57.6

He's just purl clutching and horrified at all of the debauchery going on around him.

1:02.4

Yeah, kind of a Mr. Smith goes to Washington. at all of the debauchery going on around him.

1:02.8

Yeah, kind of a Mr. Smith goes to Washington vibe, you know, just that he's probably

1:07.6

wearing overalls and just being that humble small town guy completely overwhelmed by what he said.

1:13.6

So.

1:14.3

Trying to figure out why his corn cob pipe smells like tobacco and everybody else's

1:18.1

smells like another plant.

1:20.3

Exactly.

1:22.1

Shout out Ronald, just doing the Lord's work out there. Exactly. book deal from Harvest House. We'll see how it goes for him. But Piper, we are here in the

1:35.0

studio doing radio, doing our radio program, as we always do. And I have a question for you and it's related to birthdays in middle age and we'll get to that right after this quick break.

1:50.0

All right, pipe. So, full disclosure, we're taping this on March 15. Today is my birthday.

1:58.9

And I turned 47 today and I feel like for the last decade or so my only expectation for my

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