The Happy Rant

The Happy Rant

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The Happy Rant episodes

  • Episode #89 - Perpetual Potty Training, Doggy Daddies, and Hipster Homemade Tracts

    In this episode of the Happy Rant Ted Kluck, Ronnie Martin, and Barnabas Piper bring you a particularly delightful episode for this long weekend. They rant about the following.

    • Why do we celebrate everything our kids do? First grade "graduation", finishing dinner - everything gets a "Good job, buddy!"
    • Dogs are not children. There, it is said. And that means your dog is not your child.
    • What's the deal with tract evangelism? Is it still around? Might it make a comeback with the retro-loving hipster crowd? 
    40 min
  • Episode #88 - Mr. Manners Answers Your Questions
    In this episode of the Happy Rant Ted Kluck, Ronnie Martin, and Barnabas Piper take on some of the toughest etiquette questions you listeners had to offer. These are just some of the topics they sort out on your behalf.  Proper physical affection Texting and social media while with others Texting vs. calling Eye contact while conversing

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    47 min
  • Episode #88 - Mr. Manners Answers Your Questions

    In this episode of the Happy Rant Ted Kluck, Ronnie Martin, and Barnabas Piper take on some of the toughest etiquette questions you listeners had to offer. These are just some of the topics they sort out on your behalf. 

    • Proper physical affection
    • Texting and social media while with others
    • Texting vs. calling
    • Eye contact while conversing 
    47 min
  • Episode #87 - D.C. Talk Cruise, Trigger Warnings, and Email Sign Offs
    In this episode of the Happy Rant Ted Kluck and Barnabas Piper rant about the following while Ronnie grinds away on the C- conference tour. Don't know if you heard, but D.C. Talk, that legendary CCM group, has announced a comeback . . . cruise. So of *course* we ranted about it. What's the deal with trigger warnings that ridiculous amount of sensitivity and thin skin that demands them? How does Ted handle this as a professor? Are some email sign-offs more holy than others? Why do some people drop a Sola Fide in there while others only use "blessings"?

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    44 min
  • Episode #87 - D.C. Talk Cruise, Trigger Warnings, and Email Sign Offs

    In this episode of the Happy Rant Ted Kluck and Barnabas Piper rant about the following while Ronnie grinds away on the C- conference tour.

    • Don't know if you heard, but D.C. Talk, that legendary CCM group, has announced a comeback . . . cruise. So of *course* we ranted about it.
    • What's the deal with trigger warnings that ridiculous amount of sensitivity and thin skin that demands them? How does Ted handle this as a professor?
    • Are some email sign-offs more holy than others? Why do some people drop a Sola Fide in there while others only use "blessings"?
    44 min
  • Episode #86 - Calling Wives Hot, Accountability, and Sarcasm vs. Snark
    In this episode of the Happy Rant Ted Kluck and Barnabas Piper rant about the following while Ronnie posts beach photos from a well-earned vacation. Why don't men realize how awkward it is when they publicly declare their wives to be HOT? How is accountability supposed to work? Is it a weekly meeting? Is it mutual flagellation? Might there be a better way? What is the difference between sarcasm, snark, and satire and what is the place for each?

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    37 min
  • Episode #86 - Calling Wives Hot, Accountability, and Sarcasm vs. Snark

    In this episode of the Happy Rant Ted Kluck and Barnabas Piper rant about the following while Ronnie posts beach photos from a well-earned vacation.

    • Why don't men realize how awkward it is when they publicly declare their wives to be HOT?
    • How is accountability supposed to work? Is it a weekly meeting? Is it mutual flagellation? Might there be a better way?
    • What is the difference between sarcasm, snark, and satire and what is the place for each?
    37 min
  • Episode #85 - Followers be Crazy, Celebrity Death Fervor, and Unpopular Opinions
    In this episode of the Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas Rant
    about the following:

    How did the death of celebrities become a game of "I'm sadder
    than you"? The internet grieving is over the top.
    Why is it that followers are ALWAYS craze than the leaders they
    follow? They take a strong statement and turn into a bizarre mantra
    or a nuanced view and turn it into a concrete law.
    Unpopular opinions - Sincere people, In 'n Out Burger, and
    more

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    45 min
  • Episode #85 - Followers be Crazy, Celebrity Death Fervor, and Unpopular Opinions

    In this episode of the Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas Rant

    about the following:

    • How did the death of celebrities become a game of "I'm sadder
      • than you"? The internet grieving is over the top.
    • Why is it that followers are ALWAYS craze than the leaders they
      • follow? They take a strong statement and turn into a bizarre mantra
      or a nuanced view and turn it into a concrete law.
    • Unpopular opinions - Sincere people, In 'n Out Burger, and
      • more
      45 min
    • Episode #84 - Politically Correct Stupidity, The Danger of Platform, and a LIVE Rant
      In this episode of the Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas rant about the following:

      What in the world is wrong with people? The college students in this video are incapable of declaring obvious truths for the fear of offending people. Of course, we might be afraid of offending them by airing our true opinions too. 

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfO1veFs6Ho


      What are we supposed to do with big-platform ministries that seem, pretty obviously, to be ruining pastors? Is the platform sinful? Is it just a good ol' boys club? What should our response be?
      Big announcement, or rather, big tease - we are planning to have a LIVE HAPPY RANT in October in Louisville. We discuss some details and more are to come.

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      37 min

    About The Happy Rant

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    Barnabas Piper, Ted Kluck, and Ronnie Martin cheerfully - if sarcastically - rant about all the things that don't matter all that much (and some that do).

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