Hey and welcome to the happy rant podcast I am not your host Ted Cluck I'm

Barnabas Piper Ted is not on with Ronald J. Martin and myself today. But Ronnie and I are here to bring you the long

awaited CCM, Tales from the Road, Behind the scenes, stories from the band, look at the great

world of Christian music. Ronnie are you are you thrilled to be doing this?

Oh I mean tell them about all the money that you're paying me for this to even happen. I mean, give them an idea of what that is.

Well, tell them, tell them about all the money you made being a famous Christian musician.

I think that's, I think that's where to start is just I think

How did your life change when you got filthy ranch from Christian music? You know the money I here's the thing you know because I

because I dropped out of school early to do music I don't even know how to

count as high as the number of dollars that I made so there's that's the rub you

know that's the rub and did they pay in, like did you ask for it in duffel bags of cash?

Was it in like did you have them just skip the paycheck just bring me like live llamas and emus like what what did you do to just handle the successive wealth?

I mean it just depends on the it depends on the party it depended on the level of

decadence of which we wanted to derive it all from but yeah there's

believe it or not there's a lot of there's a lot of potential for bags of

money there was at least within the the C. C. M. World. There's a lot of a lot of

potential for lots of money. So I know that the joke is always oh there's no

money. It's all zero dollars. But it's actually almost the other way in a sense and

that's where that's where things can be a little deceiving and tricky.

Well no that that's really interesting and I know that so so for listeners this is this is not a Ronnie

untangling the not of the Christian music industry this is much more we want to have

fun that picking apart Ronnie's music career, just

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