Episode #444 - Books That Shaped Us and Slippery Slopes

The Happy Rant

Happy Rant

Comedy, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

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

Books that shaped us as children
Books that have shaped us this year
Our families' relationship with TV
Slippery slope TV shows
Fight Club hate

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0:00.0	Life Audio Hey, welcome to the happy ramp podcast. I am Ted Cluck. joined as always in
0:20.4	studio by my good friends my partners in radio
0:24.1	Barnabas Piper and Ron Martin baby you are on the road I got some spectacular
0:28.8	pictures from you last night it looked to me like you were in the Manhattan of East Central Indiana. Our old stomping grounds,
0:36.8	have they stopped talking about us there in Fort Wayne yet? I mean there was a while where like we ran that that town you know we breezed into town into
0:44.8	Fort Wayne and it's like the city was ours you know what I mean?
0:48.1	Well baby I mean we we went downtown we we hit some of the the old familiar you know haunts yeah and it was it was
0:55.2	literally it was hard to get it was hard to walk down the street I mean we
0:58.4	couldn't get I couldn't get five or ten feet without getting stopped and people
1:02.2	wanted to talk about the reformatory, people just having old
1:05.4	reformatory merchandise just on them.
1:08.0	I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:10.0	I mean, it's like, look, man, my hand is, my hand is getting worn out here with all the signatures it was tough yeah it is it is everybody
1:15.7	wants to share their their favorite reformatory memories and you know I mean hear this I enjoy
1:21.6	doing it you know I'll do that all day long but it does get
1:24.9	tedious you know what I think it's tedious yeah yeah people who aren't in the
1:28.2	business they don't realize what a hub Fort Wayne really is.
1:33.0	Yeah, when you think about Christian media, Christian publishing, I mean, there's kind of Wheaton, Colorado Springs, Fort Wayne, you know, Nashville. They're all, they're all kind of at the same level.
1:45.4	So, for those who are, who may be newer listeners or missed an episode or 27 where you guys have talked about this previously.
1:54.4	What is was and forever shall be the reformatory?
1:59.5	Well, that's a great question, Pipe.
2:02.6	Ron, in a sentence or two, what was the reformatory?
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