Hey, welcome to the happy rant.

Hey, welcome to the Happy Grant podcast.

I'm Ted Cluck joined by Barnabas Piper and Ronald J Martin.

And boys, it is a patriotic time right now it's a great time to be alive and

Big hour you and I were treated to some texts from our our friend Barnabas last night and and let me just say I'm glad we're I'm glad we're at that stage in our relationship where we're we're texting about our real lives you know it feels like another level of of depth all just it's not all just business for

it's not just business in a long time it really was yeah fame and the adulation

and you know we're all kind of disconnected it's like why it's like in one of those

behind the music documentaries where we're all getting off the private plane but

we're all just kind of looking at our own direction and you know there's no

warmth that's how we were before I know finally that finally, though, we have a relationship now.

It's gone beyond power lunches and contracts and big business and sponsorships.

And I'm really grateful for that.

The amazing thing is that it was an altar call or really the concept of altar calls that drew us all together so closely.

It really was.

It's true.

Now, Pye, briefly, paint the picture for us as to what you got to experience last night as a part of this 4th of July slash church

celebration.

Yes, well I went under the auspices of it being a 4th of July celebration, which I feel I tend to enjoy those.

I like explosions and people being happy and whatever.

Did not know it was a church one until the details came out later.

So I was in true church evangelism fashion, they saved the worst for last.

And I was hoodwinked as they often do.

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