• The Power of Real World Accomplishments
    Apr 19 2024

    Intro: Coffee substitutes, cortisol levels and protein intake.
    7:38: One way to tell if you’re healthy via your fingernails.
    10:10: Molly’s milk frother died!
    10:36: If you’d invested in Apple with iPhone money you’d have how much?”
    11:56: Creo brew coffee substitutes, price per serving and the cost of Starbucks.
    16:45: Moody’s analytics and the last year’s inflation numbers and saving money at the grocery store. Organic Shell Pasta.
    21:43: Finances, young couples owning a home and reasons to get married.
    26:15: One of the reasons people aren’t having kids.
    28:03: Do your kids a favor and have them watch The Tuttle Twins
    28:55: Zimbabwe’s attempted currency relaunch.
    32:48: Attending a heavily edited play about The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
    37:12: A lazy kid and why dad’s are important.
    40:44: Data on men and boys are failing. Mike Rowe and Nicolas Eberstat. A failure of unemployment statistics.
    43:41: Boys Adrift
    46:03: Manual labor, masonry and bricks.
    47:54: Leonard Sacks’ 5 reasons boys are failing
    54:10: Isn’t this a pendulum swing from the women’s rights movement?
    56:32: Just get the boys out of the house, video games and hijacking the brain rewards center.
    1:00:29: Titus and his hatchet. Outdoor Boys.
    1:07:32: Doing something hard and building neural pathways.
    1:12:27: A contrast in the brain between playing a video game and real world accomplishments.
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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Calvin & Hobbes, Doomsday Cults, & Great TV
    Apr 12 2024

    Intro: Trying to get back into the swing of things.
    3:30: JR’s shoulder recovery- tremendously better
    8:27: Molly got sick, her parents had surgery, and
    9:38: Some recent TV Shows and our kids’ American history books
    14:48: JR’s other things happening, TV shows he’s watching
    19:04: Molly started Dear Mr. Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes and some interesting facts about that.
    25:41: Molly gets sucked into a doomsday cult - Gloriavale
    34:24: What does it mean to say, “I believe it’s the Lord’s will to X.”
    40:03: How do you see through lies? Courage to opt out of a system based on fear and control
    42:00: How young men are lost in America and an example of gross reporting.
    45:53: Legitimate conviction through Scripture.
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    55 mins
  • The Roots of Real Relationship
    Mar 14 2024

    Show Open
    2:02: Molly’s weekend trip to a homeschool conference speaking on Canavox.
    5:28: A Youth Leader spot a People are Weird and Hard sticker.
    7:38: Katy Faust’s foundational topic at the conference- The Seven Loves and building relationships.
    12:10: A case against “bromance”, “man crush” and sexualizing things that aren’t inherently sexual.
    15:47: The most popular MB personality type of gay men is…
    19:25: The punchline: Family love.
    22:17: Molly’s session on hookup culture.
    23:14: Vanity Fair article and modern bar culture.
    25:46: New challenges and dynamics to today’s dating world.
    27:21: The Dating Project (we’re sorry, it’s currently not streaming.
    28:48: JR’s weekend and the weird contrast to phones and bars in modern dating culture.
    31:06: The Gabb phone thing and tragedies of the Snapchat algorithm.
    39:08: Bringing your phone to bed and better morning routines.
    40:44: We’re in a mess societally with our children, Abigail Shrier and the onset of kids’ mental health, and raising your kids to be less American.
    47:04: Leonard Sax’s council to new American Immigrants.
    49:08: American culture is a toddler dragging a rug around the room.
    53:11: The results of the AI worship song.
    58:45: Faith will be back in a gypsy.
    59:05: Results of a new physical health experiment and being bloated and gassy.
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Mayonnaise, AI Worship Music, & Hookup Culture Cats
    Mar 8 2024

    Intro: Kid’s favorite salmon recipe, homemade mayonnaise, seed oils.
    9:38: Explaining the stock market to a kid.
    12:16: The Roarin’ 20’s, prohibition and the creation of finger food.
    14:54: The origin of the Caesar Salad.
    17:48: Telegram discussions, global warming and just being a good steward
    21:19: AI, music and human connection
    28:39: Molly muses on live music and AI with worship music, and replacing worship leaders
    32:24: An assignment for the savvy: a ChatGPT worship song.
    37:30: Human achievement and you shall be like God
    43:31: Cats bringing [live] kills into the house.
    49:58: Molly tries out a cat metaphor for a hookup culture talk this weekend.
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Christian Nationalism, Moral Failings, & Deepfakes
    Mar 1 2024

    Intro: JR’s shoulder update. ACL surgery recap, the brilliance of the human body.
    7:56: Surgery during COVID, and the month of madness with sick kids.
    11:47: First ever family destination ski vacation! 75mph + winds
    15:22: Molly’s current homeschool studies. Children’s dustbowl era literature anyone?
    16:52: Mahatma Ghandi: and meaning of “Mahatma” and the work still happens even if the worker morally failed.
    19:36: “Christian Nationalism.”
    23:28: Gandhi and India’s independence
    25:57: A deep hypocrisy and we can honestly say the Declaration of Independence is true AND the authors were not acting in accord with their beliefs.
    28:00: Complex outcomes of moral failings and assurance of salvation.
    31:50: Falling into the trap of believing Christians won’t fail.
    34:35: A cultural sifting of church leaders and a gossipy pastor’s wives Facebook group.
    37:58: Sharing the things that are weighty when you’re strong enough to carry them.
    41:07: If we obfuscate justice because we’re trying to protect ourselves, it’s a violation of scripture.
    43:12: AI, deepfakes and you can’t trust anything you see anymore.
    49:38: Nothing new under the sun and reorientation.
    52:39: Go to the ant you sluggard! Termite architecture.
    56:43: Chocolate milk recipe: 1/2c cocoa powder, 1/2c sugar, 1/2c hot water, 1/4t salt, splash of vanilla. Mix well and add to 1 gallon milk or store in the fridge as syrup. Recipe from Ruthann Zimmerman.
    1:00:30: Tortilla maker!
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Hope, False Comparisons, & Sticking Your Neck Out
    Feb 22 2024

    Intro: Ginger beer, kid stress, another chicken death and a nightmare week.
    14:35: Recap on my short trip Ft. Benton.
    19:07: Molly and I had a date and saw The Lucky Valentines live and a discussion about complicated relationships with Christianity. Josephine OEO
    24:03: The world is a dark and scary place, Carlson/Weinstein Interview, orienting our hearts and our kids amidst the fear and uncertainty.
    32:00: We are the new singles ministry.
    33:25: Potions for joint health and MRI results.
    37:24: Amazing home Chicken Drumsticks (just like wings).
    40:29: Homemade Nilla wafers.
    42:40: JR switched back to green tea in the morning.
    43:23: Coffee is not good first thing in the morning…here’s why.
    46:50: Molly is almost incensed by an old friend in Instagram. Transgender deaths and false equations.
    56:33: Trying not to be the person that can’t handle history.
    1:02:49: We didn’t take their books and teenage mushbrain.
    1:05:16: Scrips for Testosterone made a woman a goes crazy.
    1:09:10: Transgender suicides and “The Dutch Studies.”
    1:15:50: Things Unseen podcast, Sinclair Ferguson and “Goodness” (Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus) and sticking your neck out for what’s right and true when it will cost you something.
    1:20:08: You can’t divorce your soul from your body, Abigail Fivale.
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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • Marriage Metrics, Mandie Books, & WW1
    Feb 8 2024

    Intro: More dogs, sick kids, and another chicken down.
    10:08: Growing your own loofahs.
    14:47: Other new garden plans, update on bees.
    23:05: Having an ecosystem on our property and thoughts on regenerative farming.
    27:30: Molly’s brain is mush, a WW1 study with the kids and book reviews on the topics, They Shall Not Grow Old.
    30:08: Why we have poppies on Veteran’s Day, In Flander’s Fields
    32:37: Molly found some new, great bread baking forms Ebay forms.
    37:56: Who’s still reading the Mandie books?
    45:05: Every metric for a man’s quality of life goes up if he’s married…including his weight.
    51:07: Theology of human depravity and God’s sovereignty.
    54:24: Anything is possible with evil humanity but ultimately will not survive.
    55:01 Gaining a degree of clarity on the end times with Wayne Grudem’s Christian Beliefs.
    57:03: Amillennialists were very shaken by WW1.
    1:01:30: Molly’s new podcast chair
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  • Righteousness, Guilt, & Granola Bars
    Jan 24 2024

    Intro: Righteousness vs. sanctification.
    4:37: Jackie Hill Perry comes out against the enneagram.
    7:24: Preston Perry invites some LDS in and records the convo, and it applies to Muslim evangelism.
    9:09: Conversations with kids about guilt and Tales of Persia.
    11:43: Pervasiveness of Islam everywhere except Billings.
    13:15: How do you get on Allah’s good side? The distinction of Christianity.
    15:56: Distinctions from every other religion in the world.
    17:51: Explaining Proverbs to kids.
    19:23: being a part of the body of Christ, partaking in the Lord’s Supper in a worthy manner.
    21:47: The weekly Laura Ingalls Wilder reference to being individual but communal.
    24:22: JR adds color from world travels.
    26:43: Honor shame vs. Western Individualism, following Christ and “My Soul My Choice.”
    27:57: Generational loneliness.
    30:32: Your soul will shrivel without others. Faithfully Finite t-shirt plug.
    32:34: Discussing the end of the world with a 5 year old.
    36:06: Has Been Hotel on Amazon
    40:44: A picture of Noah’s ark as safety and protection (not s cute boat full of animals). There was still sin in their hearts.
    43:35: Faith’s (our daughter) response.
    45:57 Dressing up for church. “You Do You Before The Lord.”
    48:08: Being financially wise before the Lord very much depends on life circumstance.
    50:20: Meat stick followup. Hint: It’s a big win.
    56:21: Granola Bar recipe like the ones you loved from your youth (or maybe still do)
    59:30: Chocolate Peanut Butter Granola bars
    1:00:33: The bread boat
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    1 hr and 6 mins