Hey and welcome to the Happy Grant podcast I'm your host Ted Cluck joined by

my good friend Barnabas Piper and and no Ronnie Martin today.

Today being Holy Week, all of my pastor friends have completely tapped out on other responsibilities

in their lives and I don't ask questions Barnabas I just I kind of give

them the space that I feel like they need you know what I mean?

Yeah I mean I guess having grown up in a pastor's house, I have a slightly different view. I understand every

pastor thinks this is a busier week. Color me skeptical. I think it's just, I think it's a convenient week for them to to not

answer emails and texts is what this is and then they go and they go

reach the exact same sermon on Sunday and in fact they probably are going

to preach the same sermon they did last week or last year at this time I mean

There it is man challenging words from from Barnabas Piper I kid I know I gotta say that because somebody's gonna get offended we do that on occasion we offend well

dude somebody always gets offended I mean you can set your watch by that and speaking of I

feel like I don't know man let me let me sess this out to you maybe you've noticed this but I feel like

Ronnie Martin brought a different kind of fan base to the happy rant and like I feel like there are people

who listen to our program just because they have a weird sort of

infatuation with Ronnie. So I feel like that that group is going to be disappointed just kind of right off the

bat because he's not here. Am I right? That's true true but if they've gotten this far it means they

already downloaded the podcast which means we really got what we wanted from them

anyway so problem yeah that's true I mean so sorry. This is all just big business, man.

It's all just numbers and transactions.

And speaking of, we have sponsors to throw love to.

I will throw my initial bit of love to the boys at Resinet Recordings who as always do a

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