In this episode Ted and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. Middle aged birthdays: the moods, celebrations, and gifts that make them awful or wonderful
2. Why La La Land is the MOST millennial movie
3. How we move on from dreams and pursuits well

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In this episode Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. Why Millennial movies kind of stink
2. The rise of casual profanity
3. Self-conscious story telling
4. The millennial love of irony
5. Consumption as a persona builder

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In this episode Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. Gen Z stinks at tech support
2. Gen Z and email
3. Dealing with texts from non-friends
4. Gen Z can’t do humor
5. Gen Z as elite processors of information

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This episode includes all the usual wandering to and fro, but in a very different way than usual: it includes every single one of the live Q&A’s that Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas have done since 2017. So sit back, relax, and enjoy this abundant collection of absurd and clever and dumb and brilliant questions and responses.

TIME STAMPS:

• Q&A 1 – 00:01:42
• Q&A 2 – 00:50:15
• Q&A 3 – 1:31:00
• Q&A 4 – 2:30:00
• Q&A 5 – 3:32:00

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In this episode Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. What other posters need a “Clearly Reformed”  website? (Tim Keller, Matt Chandler, Steve Furtick, Francis Chan, Andy Stanley, Carl Truman, etc.)
2. Violated reality
3. Asbury Revival responses and the tendency toward skepticism
4. Asbury responses by theological camp, especially reformed
5. Can you have a “social media ministry?

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In this episode Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. The Satanic Grammys and Satan’s big trick
2. Reformed reactions to the Grammys
3. BREAKING NEWS: Kevin DeYoung is Clearly Reformed
4. Birthday requests for grown ups (especially pastors)

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In this episode Ted and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of sports topics:

1. Tony Romo hatred (that escalated quickly)
2. Which theologian would Andy Reid and Nick Siriani be?
3. Who is the coolest white dude in sports and why is it Christian McCaffery?
4. QB movement fits and predictions
5. Manning fatigue
6. Super Bowl predictions

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1. Pastors and Apple Watches (and John Piper’s mishap)
2. Preaching motions, gesticulations, and mobility
3. How pastoral fashion affects pastoral output
4. What it looks like for pastors to dress their age
5. Becoming “dad” instead of “a guy”
6. Doing the Daddest things

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1. What New Year’s resolutions are the best for being pretentious and superior?
2. A draft of the best movie plot and character devices and why we love them

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In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. Ted has a big confession and needs help litigating it from Ronnie and Barnabas
2. What does one do when one has NO CHRISTMAS TREE
3. Piper Family Christmas decorations

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In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:
1. How year-end book lists are planned and put together (make it about me, posture a bit, be well-rounded, etc.)
2. Incorporating theology, history, Wendell Berry, biographies, and more
3. Barnabas and Ronnie’s year-end book list line-up from 1-9

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In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through variety of topics:
1) The outrage and controversy over churches meeting on Christmas
2) Deviating from a sermon series for Advent
3) Variations in Church Christmas decorations
4) Christmas pastor attire
5) Santa as a type of Christ

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In this episode of The Happy Rant, Ted and Ronnie wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. Pastor voices
2. How does a pastor come across authentically from the pulpit?
3. Fake intellectual pastors and theological verbiage
4. Wanting to be liked vs. wanting to appear smart

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In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas do something a little different. Instead of wandering to and fro they offer up three free chapters from the audiobook of The Happy Rant.

Chapter 1: Evangelical Fame (We do weird stuff with Christian celebrity.)
Chapter 8: Evangelical Money Guilt (Why are Christians so weird about money?)
Chapter 14: Manly Men (What is manhood? What makes a good man?)

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In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1) The big three for men in the church (according to a tweeter): Money, Sex, and Fitness
2) Are men actually leaving the church?
3) What men actually need in church
4) Learning leadership right

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In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. Why are people so aggressive about when they start Christmas?
2. Identity everything – claiming and defending holidays or anything else
3. When is aggression the right response to anything?
4. Holding your ground vs. being an aggressive jerk
5. How the insistence of having a take feeds aggression and anger

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In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. The death of cool as a thing
2. Our stories of growing up in the church
3. Growing out of cage stage calvinism
4. Post Young, Restless Reformed church

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In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. Our feelings about Halloween and experiences with it growing up
2. Ronnie’s experience at a college football game
3. Halloween costumes by enneagram numbers
4. Why we love writing (especially since we’ve griped about it a lot)

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In this episode Ted and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of sports topics:
1. The best raspy coaching voices
2. Is the NFL Product good?
3. Playing a game: Are they good?
4. Recent favorite sports books

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In this episode of The Happy Rant Ronnie and Barnabas, sans Ted, wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. Jesus apparently needs a $100 million PR campaign
2. But does Jesus want a PR campaign? Will it do any good?
3. Is viral kindness actually kind?
4. Is therapy booming because the church is failing? (pastors as counselors, therapists as hired friends, and outsourcing honesty)

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In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted and Barnabas, sans Ronnie, wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. Observations on how teens view their parents
2. How adults get boring
3. What’s the deal with Ronnie’s hair?
4. Why do people watch selfie videos?
5. Is there any way to be genuine online?

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In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted and Ronnie sans Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. Baz Luhrman’s Elvis movie
2. Do we really care about Elvis?
3. The delightful energy of rock music movies
4. Journey and the appeal of beige music
5. The business of fame and whether we’ll ever see another dollar from this podcast

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In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. How do professors choose how much to assign?
2. What makes a good professor?
3. Syllabus flexes
4. How do we break writing slumps?
5. Romanticism about writing: where did we lose it and where do we still have it?

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In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. Reacting to the death of Queen Elizabeth
2. Reacting to the reactions to the death of Queen Elizabeth
3. Why do so many people make grieving about them?
4. Which celebrity deaths really affected us?
5. Adult hero worship and “knowing” public figures

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In this episode of The Happy Rant, Ted and Barnabas, sans Ronnie, wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. Why does Ted mock the very things to which he devotes his time?
2. Doing dumb marketing things out necessity
3. Do most books really sell under 2,000 copies?
4. Social media influencing and playing the marketing game (which doesn’t work)
5. Giving away our own books and feeling like Leo Marvin

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In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:
1. The “We notice your silence” people on social media
2. Are we obliged to post about everything?
3. Learning the names of waitstaff: a pastor thing?
4. Book release expectations and feedback we’ve received

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In this episode Ted and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of sports topics:
1. How the NBA is the new WWF (and is that ruining the game??)
2. How Rich people are taking over normal people sports
3. NFL Rookies we are excited to watch
4. NFL player who will fall off a cliff this year
5. High ceiling/low floor NFL players

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