Episode #446 - Books, Vigilantes, and Romance
The Happy Rant
Happy Rant
4.8 • 896 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Ted and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:
- Books that everyone loves that you dislike or don't get
- The most ripped-off Christian authors
- Books that turned us on to writing
- Guilty pleasure books
- Violent vigilantes vs. Christian romance
- Good writing vs. bad stories
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| 0:00.0 | Life Audio Hey, welcome to the Happy Ramp Podcast. I am Ted Cluck. |
| 0:18.0 | Joined as always in studio. By my good friends, my partner in radio, Barnabas Piper, pipe, just you and me again this morning. |
| 0:28.0 | This is becoming the norm, rather the exception. |
| 0:32.0 | When I stopped receiving pictures from Ron, which was a day or two ago, he was in |
| 0:38.3 | Dallas. But this morning he indicated that he's in quote a remote part of Texas. Is he at like a |
| 0:44.7 | dude ranch? Do they have Ron doing like manly stuff like to break him? Is he |
| 0:50.5 | is he like riding horses or like roping cattle what what's Ron doing in a remote part of Texas |
| 0:55.7 | my my my internet journalistic investigative journalistic skills tell me that that they were at the Magnolia, I don't know, what do you call that place with the two big silos |
| 1:09.3 | where all the shiplap comes from? |
| 1:11.3 | Oh yeah I was going to say the shiplap place, |
| 1:13.5 | the ship enjoy the Gaines place, right? |
| 1:14.9 | Which is in like, uh... |
| 1:16.6 | It's in Waco area. |
| 1:17.8 | Waco, yeah. |
| 1:18.8 | So that was within the last day or two. |
| 1:22.2 | And so, you know know I wasn't aware that Waco was |
| 1:25.8 | particularly remote so maybe they've gone from there to somewhere more remote? |
| 1:29.4 | Well you know how it is I mean you can't get an internet in Waco you know I mean it's just too hard |
| 1:36.7 | you know what's interesting about that to me is that Ron positions himself is sort of so unique and so different and there's no one like me. |
| 1:46.0 | And yet I feel like every Christian white couple between the ages of like 25 and 70 have made the pilgrimage |
| 1:54.4 | down to the ship lab place where Chip and Joanna Gaines are. I just I wonder how |
| 2:00.5 | like I wonder how he's going to frame that on social media you know what I mean if it'll be |
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