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The Happy Rant

Episode #451 - Barbenheimer, Elon's Folly, and Does Seminary Matter?

The Happy Rant

Happy Rant

Comedy, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8896 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

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

  1. Live show nostalgia - a look back
  2. The Barbenheimer phenomenon--how did this happen and why it's kind of great
  3. So, Elon Musk is ruining twitter
  4. Does seminary really matter? Why? For whom?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Life Audio Hey, welcome to the Happy Rent Podcast. I am your host Barnabas Piper. While Ted is off doing his

0:20.4

July thing and speaking at camp.

0:22.7

I think it's Camp Barricel in Michigan.

0:24.8

I think this is the annual trip up there

0:26.9

that he loves and adores and is so consistent at.

0:30.4

Here with Ronald J Martin, as usual as usual Ronnie how are you?

0:34.7

Hi man doing good hanging.

0:37.1

How's sabbatical and where are you geographically as we record this?

0:42.3

So this was more of what I call a stay badical.

0:45.0

So we kind of, we've taken some road trips, but it's primarily been at home,

0:49.0

which has been super weird, and not all bad, but challenging in some ways right if you're looking to kind of get away

0:56.4

reset refresh harder to do that when you're just at home so those have been some of the challenges, but ultimately it's been good and we're

1:08.6

here the last probably three weeks to a month left and yeah so so far so good okay so you have not been jet setting you have

1:19.3

been just like closing the shades and hiding from neighbors that's been more the tone of this sabbatical.

1:24.5

Yeah, I mean kind of, you know, like we took some road trips and, you know, we've gotten out of Dodge quite a bit, but we have spent a lot of time at home.

1:35.0

And, you know, our church did this.

1:38.0

We've done, we did one five years ago, and, you know,

1:41.2

so our church kind of is they know the rules so you know nobody

1:46.4

bothers us and you know but we're in a small town so we see people which is

1:49.8

great you know and so we're not trying to hide away necessarily but everybody knows that you know we

1:55.8

do you know we just keep it we keep it on the on the sort of a friendly tip and kind of

2:00.2

keep ministry out of the equation. Not really that difficult.

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