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

joined by my good friend Barnabas Piper, Sans Ronnie Martin, Barnabas, you and Big R, are in Louisville, man, City of Dreams for

reformed types because this is a magical time in the reform person's calendar meaning that it's together for the gospel time.

It is the most wonderful time of the year if you're right here at the Calvinist blazer wearing type.

It's Christmas in April baby because it's the time where you converge on a, you know, kind of second tier huge city and gather in an arena that's full of like-minded people and you browse book tables dreaming of one day

having your book on that table and maybe not to not to kind of probe at a sore spot but off the air you were telling me that

the the t4g bookstore didn't carry any of your of your books man do you want to

do you want to talk about that you want to like explore that a little bit so that you can let the healing begin here on the air or is that something that you're not quite ready to talk about?

Well, apparently nepotism doesn't get me as far as I thought it would.

Dude, seriously. I thought being like, you know, John Piper's kid would get you in any reform

bookstore like in perpetuity for the rest of your life.

Apparently with a certain brand of Calvinist, it creates a higher bar to clear or something you know because I'm

You have to you have to really prove yourself and not just ride daddy's coat tails and you know I mean of course of the caveat that nothing is about

works and Calvinism except that you have to totally prove yourself that's right or yeah and

I'm not sure I mean prove yourself is a nebulous thing I don't know what that

means I'm really not sure whatulous thing I don't know what that means I'm really not

sure what's missing I don't know if it's that I'm I'm not explicitly

reformed enough I don't know if it's that my books I mean neither of my books are

over 200 pages it could be that could be a

problem right could be a I'm simply not verbose enough you'd also your a little

and this is one of the things I love about you so don't take it as a critique

but you're a little a little

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