Episode #437 - Vacation is Hard Work
The Happy Rant
Happy Rant
4.8 • 896 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Ted and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:
- Parents at high school sporting events
- The work it takes to go on vacation
- Different styles of vacation
- The nautical life - manhood tests, new guy pressures, and more
- Making vacation friends
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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. joined as always in studio. |
| 0:21.0 | By my good friend, my partner in radio, Barnabas Piper. |
| 0:24.8 | Pipe, part-time Ronnie is gone today and it's such a shame because we're going to be talking |
| 0:32.1 | about vacationing as an adult and I feel like |
| 0:34.8 | Ron vacations for a living. This is his purview if nothing else but yeah I feel like he would I feel like he would look at this episode and it would sort of be like those who can't vacation |
| 0:47.8 | Teach about vacationing or something you know sort of the old deal that adage. Those who haven't gained their life, right, in such a way as to always be vacationing. |
| 0:59.0 | Yeah, so we're gonna, we're gonna talk about a thing that we're admittedly not as good at as as Ronnie but you know we'll we'll try we'll give it the old college try and |
| 1:09.3 | We're going to also talk some youth sports by it because |
| 1:16.4 | We're we're in the middle of high school track season which is an interesting deal that we'll get into after this quick break. |
| 1:22.0 | All right pipe we're after this quick break. |
| 1:25.0 | All right, Piper back. So I texted you last night at like 9 p.m. |
| 1:29.0 | from a high school track meet |
| 1:32.0 | that we were nowhere close to being done with. |
| 1:36.2 | And high school track is an exercise in like |
| 1:39.7 | sitting around for hours |
| 1:41.9 | to watch your kid run around the track for like one minute and it's ridiculous you know it's kind of fun |
| 1:49.7 | like, depending on what other parents are there. It could be fun. |
| 1:54.8 | It could be like a fun hang with your friends, |
| 1:56.4 | especially if the weather's good. |
| 1:57.8 | But it's a long evening. |
| 1:59.9 | You were kind to push back our recording time in the morning so that I could |
| 2:04.0 | have a little bit more relaxed morning but you've done the like high school |
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