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

1. Podcasts as the new radio
2. If there are so many writers and books, why do we keep doing it?
3. Writing idealism vs. pragmatism/capitalism
4. Writing for legacy vs. writing to “make it”
5. How do we treat younger generations well instead of dumping all over them?

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In this episode of Happy Rant Sports Ted and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:
1. Helping an NFL fan find a new team to root for
2. Discussing the good, the bad NFL draft picks
3. Ted’s favorite offensive linemen in the draft
4. Teams in QB purgatory
5. Teams that fan should definitely NOT root for

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In this episode of The Happy Rant, Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics as posed by our listeners LIVE from New Albany, Indiana leading up to the final T4G conference:

1. Fan encounters and celebrity moments
2. Regrettable cultural choices and fashion decisions
3. Pastoral and teaching mistakes
4. Greeting others with a holy kiss
5. Transformative books, music, and movies for us
6. Slapping pastors (again)
7. The “C” in Jared C. Wilson – wrong answers only
8. Book endorsements
9. Ideal piece of sports memorabilia
10. Who in the Bible do we identify with the most?

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In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics LIVE from New Albany, Indiana leading up to the final T4G conference:

1. Church decor and interesting instruments
2. Writing advice and writing cohorts
3. The value of writing inspiration
4. Advice for D.Min students and Ronnie’s classroom vibe
5. Marriage advice and marriage questions

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In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics LIVE from New Albany, Indiana leading up to the final T4G conference:

1. A T4G retrospective of our favorite moments
2. The future of reformed conferences
3. Angry Calvinists
4. Tell me you’re reformed without telling me you’re reformed
5. Violent Grace
6. Fighting famous pastors

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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. Where have all the youth pastors gone?
2. Are church planters the new youth pastors?
3. Are pastors particularly bad at digital and personal communication?
4. Gaming as a career and as socially acceptable

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In this episode of Happy Rant Sports Ted and Barnabas Wander to and fro through a variety of topics:
1. Who are our favorite broadcasters (old school vs. current, national vs. local)
2. Baseball aesthetics (Which players look the coolest? Cool pitching deliveries)
3. Timberwolves vs. Grizzlies playoff talk

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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 is selling out going?
2. The Hillsong controversy (implosion) and pastoral lavish lifestyles
3. What level of lavishness is acceptable for pastors?
4. Will successful pastors inevitably be accused of bullying?
5. How do we avoid this sort of pastoral and church failure?
6. The etiquette for introverts hosting extraverts

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

1. The Madden and analytics effects on NFL GMs
2. What are the Browns offensive prospects?
3. Making peace with Kirk Cousins
4. Where are all the coaches with personalities?
5. Big wide receiver moves
6. March Madness boredom

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In this episode of the Happy Rant Ted Kluck, Ronnie Martin, and Barnabas Piper wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. Gauging our Oscars interest
2. Is Will Smith an actual movie star?
3. The Slap: our takes on the takes
4. Who would we choose to slap if given the chance?
5. A T4G royal rumble

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In this episode of the Happy Rant Ted Kluck, Ronnie Martin, and Barnabas Piper wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. Who we are, a brief introduction for new listeners
2. What we love about podcasting together
3. How we would describe our show: The Seinfeld of podcasts, a Piper family dinner party, and a description to aspirational college students

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

• Moving from sweet freedom to being corporate sell outs
• Our upcoming train wreck of a live show
• A podcast prenup
• Crispin Glover vs. Jared C. Wilson
• Early memories of the show

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In this episode of the Happy Rant Sports Podcast Ted and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of sports topics, particularly QB movement.

**We recorded this before the Deshaun Watson trade**

• Russell Wilson trade
• Carson Wentz trade
• SO MANY middling QBs
• What will the Colts do?
• Other trades that should’ve happened

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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:

• Big changes coming
• Photos of shoes in airports
• Tiny houses. Why?
• Suburban living vs. urban living
• The sexiness of small town church planting

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

• Metaverse church campuses and whether the metaverse will ruin church
• Book publishing in the metaverse (we want in!)
• Guys named Dale
• Generational names
• When funny people outgrow being funny

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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. Well, really just one topic:

• Channeling Jared C. Wilson
• What is different about pastoring in a world recovering from COVID?
• What challenges are pastors facing?
• How is the life of the church different?

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

• Honest book promo interviews
• Gestating books
• The vibe, persona, and desire of #AmWriting
• Perfectionism vs. Competitiveness
• Pastoral competitiveness and personality types

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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:

• The David Brooks NYT piece about folks trying to redeem evangelicalism
• How we hero worship and look for “saviors”
• What is the New York Times of young folks?
• What are young people passionate about?
• Being “into” stuff in the 90s vs. today

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

• Why we love Aldi, from friendly employees to real human interactions over carts
• Ronnie’s Super Bowl vibe
• The anti-sports persona and who its seeking to impress
• How focusing on misery makes us more miserable, especially on social media

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

• Why we love to annoint the next great athletes
• QB worship
• Team structure and good team building in the NFL
• GM hires and NFL coaching searches
• Giving old coaches more chances

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

• Reliving the 80s through theological debate, specifically complementarianism
• What did Twitter warriors do before Twitter?
• Defining “theobros”
• Reviving “pinko commy”
• Is twitter temptation?

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

• What is the age ceiling on “visioneering”?
• Publishing trends in pastoring books
• Leading and teaching teens – are we too old and irelevant?
• What does it even mean to “get back to normal” after the last two years?

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

• Hearth time
• Know it all kids and the cultural anthropology of modern teens
• Losing northern muscles
• Having earthquake muscles
• Goodbye Hyatt Place, hello Sonesta Select
• Vision casting at Taco Bell
• Pastors and Restaurants

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

• Chip and Joanna Gaines are the original influencers
• Paul Tripp as hipster influencer
• Writing 4,000 words a day
• Matt Damon as youth group mime performer
• Only Murders in the Building – thoughts and reflections

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In this episode of the Happy Rant Sports podcast Ted and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of sports topics:

• Relishing old NFL uniforms
• Relishing old school NFL safeties
• The Minshew Experiment: Would a team be better or worse if they swapped their current QB for Gardner Minshew?
• Man in the Arena and why current super star athletes aren’t interesting
• Covid turning the NBA upside down
• Hypocrisy of player safety in football

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

• Diehard, the Christmas movie: our takes
• Christmas carol discussions and disagreements
• Finding consensus on good Christmas movies
• Things we expect to look back on at the end of 2022

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

• The perks of ruddiness
• Ronnie’s think piece on Hallmark Christmas Movies
• Ted’s tenure and Taylor Swift takes
• Cruise ship experiences and vibes
• River Cruises

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

• Ronnie’s new music
• Middle aged men fanboying over Taylor Swift
• Taylor Swift, the Beth Moore of pop music
• The sound guy persona
• Why is everyone becoming Anglican?
• Quick hitter questions: soup vs. stew, drive thru vs. go inside, holiday foods

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

• Our brand new website and merchandise
• A silk shirt weekend with Josh McDowell
• Blazers and Khakis, the academic uniform
• The ethos of khaki pants
• Piper’s introduction to Downton Abbey

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

• DRISKY BUSINESS: evaluating Mark Driscoll’s Yoda tweeting technique
• The practicalities of punching something evil in the face
• Cracker Barrel Christians vs. Whole Foods Christians
• Reformed Mingle (not a joke): a new reformed dating site