Hey, welcome to the Happy Rant Podcast. I am Ted Cluck.

Joined as always here in the studio by my good friends Ronald Martin and Barnabas Piper.

Boys, we've got another sponsorless episode today, man.

There's a little hole in my heart, to be honest,

a little void in my life without sponsorship. I got used to...

Yeah, man, exactly. I kind of got used to the...

just the excess of being, you know, a sponsored podcast host.

I walked a little taller, like the world looked a little bit brighter to me,

so I don't know, man, this feels strange.

I don't know how you guys feel.

It's good to go through some of the down times. I mean, it's like being an unemployed actor, you know, it just, it makes that next job that you get just seem that much more significant. So it's probably good for us, but that doesn't mean we don't want more sponsors.

So, listeners, if you run a small business or just want to throw money at us, we're

a huge gigantic mega company. Yeah or if you like say run

run red wing boots and wanted to sponsor us or you know you have friends in their

marketing department or something we would love to do that. We would love to do that and we would love to get sponsored again so that we can walk tall, you know, once again and

show our faces in public.

The boys, we soldier on on this program, that's just what we do because we're pros.

And we've got three things to talk about as per the ush.

And in Pyke this first one, this was something that you wrote about, wrote about very well, I might add on World Magazine.

And this concerns an incident that happens in the NBA on the LA Lakers, but that's really neither here nor there it's more about

just sort of the secrets that men will keep for one another kind of referred to as

bro code and what happened was on the Lakers, there was a guy who was engaged to a pretty huge famous

...