Episode #452 - Fly Fishing, Poker, and Dream Retirement Jobs

The Happy Rant

Happy Rant

Comedy, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

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

Ronnie the outdoorsman
A River Runs Through It and the late 90s Christian fly fishing boom
The male attraction to poker nights
Having purpose in retirement
Dream retirement jobs

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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, join not as always.
0:27.0	July is crazy.
0:29.0	I've been traveling, you guys have been traveling, we've been kind of like just getting whatever two are together together, but it's you and me today and the boy Ronnie is on like a fake fly fishing trip that I hear this correctly
0:44.3	I have I have friends who listen to the show and and he's out doing something
0:48.6	masculine which is which is wild to be fair to be fair, but you know, in his own description, he is going with
0:56.1	guys who are doing that while he enjoys whatever sort of lodge accommodations they have, and he was amused at his own presence on this trip.
1:06.7	So that's I think that's probably you know he was not he was not posing as you know as an outdoorsman or something.
1:15.6	Interesting yeah I hope the lighting is good in the lobby for the Instagram's and
1:20.1	they'll come back after a day of fly fishing and he will have like written a poem about an acorn and taking some pictures of himself.
1:26.5	But that's wild. Pipe I have more, actually have more to ask you on fly fishing,
1:33.3	and more to ask you about this trip and trips in general.
1:37.0	We'll get into all that right after this quick break.
1:52.0	All right, Pipe. Do you remember like the first like Christians with money fly fishing boom in like the late 90s? Did that get to you up in up in Minnesota? It kind of came on the
1:56.2	heels of a movie called The River Runs Through it that was kind of the first big Brad Pitt thing.
2:01.1	Do you remember this? I do remember River Runs Through it and in classic Christian fashion, seven years late, because that movie
2:06.8	came out in like 1993.
2:08.8	So if there was late 90s, like, oh yeah, perfect timing.
2:11.8	We're only six or seven years behind the
2:13.2	behind the arc on this. I kind of remember it, but like I was young enough, well two
2:17.4	things. One, I was young enough that I didn't totally register it. And also
2:21.8	my dad's preaching scared away all the people with money from our church.
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