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  • Ep. 175: Intuition, Deceitfulness of the Heart, & a New Favorite Book

    Intro: Drinking glassware quirks, open house happy hours, updates from the last three weeks.
    8:45 Jesus juking, waves of exhausting heat, and Faith is outraged at Rapunzel’s hair cutting in Tangled.
    14:02: The verses Molly’s been working on with the kids and a philosophy of intuition
    17:03: JR finds the DC Talk lyrics
    18:40: Our experience with a sexual predator. Abuse Prevention
    22:25: the paradox: don’t follow your heart but also, the intuition…
    26:20: Where the heart is deceitful. The 77’s song.
    30:52: Being weird and a convo with Titus about goat milk.
    35:55: What cholesterol is and what big medical says it is.
    41:38: More weird diet things Molly’s learned- discuss!
    44:25: When the tide turned on cigarette companies.
    48:54: J.R.’s almost favorite book. Kindle Audiobook Paperback


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    1 hr 3 min
  • Parenting Dilemmas: Sheltering vs. Exposure & Discussion

    Show open, Delicious recipes like these cinnamon knots!
    5:09: Roasted cauliflower, chicken shwarma.
    7:55: A recipe Molly did NOT like.
    15:41: Simple syrup disaster.
    18:38: More Disney things.
    21:01: Molly’s parenting moral crises.
    29:28: Parenting wisdom: sheltering vs. exposing and discussing.
    35:37: Disconnects in the movies.
    40:43: Adult movies with kids vs. kids movies with kids
    45:13: Show Close


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    49 min
  • More Than or Less Than...What?

    Intro: Gauging how you’re doing, resilience and banjos at church.
    8:06: Product Rec: Cooking From Scratch for Teens, and completely vapid Disney movies with our girls.
    15:19: Titus bakes himself a pizza and meatball subs.
    19:04: Making yourself less when feel more and more when feeling less.
    24:00: Taking self-introspection too far.
    25:18: Everything hinges on your heart motivation and finding rightness and righteousness in God.
    28:25: A prick on the conscience and calls to action when someone is “more than you.”
    31:06: Being faithful and standing before a holy and righteous God and grumbling.
    32:50: Two holy responses when feeling “less than.”
    35:17: The diagnosis have zero expectation on treatment.
    36:56: People are weird and hard, “Better than I deserve.”
    40:02: JR’s personal struggles in this area and Ecclesiastes.
    44:48: Improving yourself, living in a fallen world and knowing where to work on changing things.
    48:18: The moral of the story.
    48:46: Show Close


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    51 min
  • Building Kids' Resilience, The Breath of Life, & Vale of Tears

    Intro: Juneteenth, Salem Witch Trials.
    6:55: Family camping trip recap.
    11:25: Farragut State Park's (Idaho) WW2 history.
    13:44: Almost destroyed SUPs.
    17:21: Reflections on things going wrong in life as a kid.
    23:22: A gross story about mice and farm life and bats.
    26:32: The Hillbilly Thomists, “The Power and The Glory.”
    32:28: Resilience, Bad Therapy and Socio-Emotional Learning damage in schools.
    36:44: Vale of Tears: Our default state is not feeling like we’re doing well.
    39:08: How scripture speaks into our state.
    41:28: The problem of sending kids going through puberty to therapy and pharmaceuticals and The Anxious Generation.
    48:35: Website hustle, JR’s audiobooks, Anne of Green Gables and the importance of imagination as a child.
    55:46: Alone with your thoughts can be good for you.
    58:09: Working out with our son, Breathe, ancient Yoga, and breath in the Bible and being fearfully and wonderfully made.
    1:14:33: Mini Panthers.
    1:16:17: Show Close


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    1 hr 18 min
  • Weird Kids, Being Overwhelmed, & A Good Debate

    Intro
    2:30: TB2F community comments, free books from Barnes & Noble, corporate puking on June 1.
    6:13: AI phones and doctors.
    10:30: The challenge of good medical care
    13:30: Why is Ai going after creative jobs?
    15:30: Creating a 15 minute city without walls.
    17:43: Barnes and Noble summer reading club and their giveaways.
    21:00 The Tuttle Twins TV, weird watching habits and the Classical school assessments.
    22:15: A new curriculum for our oldest.
    24:55: Faith interrupts.
    26:37: Molly makes a confession about Andor.
    28:24: Kids and weird music habits.
    30:41: What else do you do when you feel overwhelmed? You get more chickens and a pool.
    36:50: The humbling nature of being an adult.
    42:58: We think we have our chicken situation figured out this year.
    46:54: A debate between Allie Stuckey and a transgender activist.
    51:59: Assigning sociological roles based on gender.
    54:50: Transgenderism is not the physical condition you’re trying to prove.
    56:41: We can watch and learn to not fall into fight of flight in these situations.
    59:04: Truth vs. love.
    1:02:01: Adult desires should not be at the cost of children’s needs.
    1:05:05: Anti-natalism in culture today.
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    1 hr 16 min
  • Checking Cakes, Israel, & Life Together

    Intro: JR got some audiobook work, Molly’s baking a cake.
    3:40: Molly needs a cake break.
    3:53:JR’s audiobook adventures.
    11:23: The girls’ academic assessment for the new school.
    15:26: Commercial Break while Molly checks the cake.
    17:50: Breathe review.
    1:02:52: Commercial break while Molly checks the cake 2.
    23:42: A couple other books: Bennett Coles, Splendid and the Vile, Virtuous Liberty.
    26:14: Conservative is not synonymous with Christian, Christian views on Israel and ignorance of the people.
    31:23: An analogy on JR’s Biblical belief of today’s Israel.
    34:52: Geo-political considerations, 1948, and just war theory.
    44:20: Bonhoeffer, Life Together and a trip to Rome.
    49:45 : Eric Peters and finding a sense of identity in being a nobody.
    57:38: The Proverbs 31 woman was a nobody but it was acknowledged and a blessing.
    1:00:58: Show Close


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    1 hr 3 min
  • This is Not The Way, Life Changes, & Breathing

    Intro
    2:35: Nomadic lifestyles. This is the way…or maybe not.
    6:18: Nomadic families that have pivoted to homes but…it was the way.
    11:04: The crunchy IG accounts that were the way…no, not the way anymore.
    13:59: Conveying “Follow me as I follow Christ.”
    17:05: Our life pivot. The nature of homeschool mom is you can’t push the kids as hard as you want to and feelings of deep inadequacy.
    20:02: Pride and academic assessments.
    23:07: 13yo boys and knives and thriving on alternative education like The Outdoor Boys and conspiracy theories.
    30:57: A straight-up product recommendation: Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales and Great Battles for Boys.
    35:40: Cooking and cooling rice makes it a better starch and the history of fried rice.
    39:36: Some contemplations JR has during his life season.
    42:16: Soda pop suicide and college cafeteria food.
    44:40: Memories and brains.
    48:00: Breathing isn’t something that just happens.
    55:20: James Nestor interview
    1:00:48: Show Close


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    1 hr 5 min
  • Deconstruction, A Warning for Women, & A Mandate for Men

    Show Open: Caedmon’s Call, Deconstruction, Mr. Red Pen, and Derek Webb.
    8:41: Molly’s experience in seminary with intellectual superiority.
    10:20: Alisa Childers and Tim Barnett, The Deconstruction of Christianity and an encouragement to doubt your faith and a fear of losing salvation.
    18:30: Hyper intellectualism and fear of losing your faith are both gnosticism.
    20:25: Paul’s warning against deceitful intellectuals and the application to women and Instagram and internet things.
    21:07: A super-rich mormon intellectual cosplay or real? Good or bad? Is this a Godly woman or not? What really matters?
    26:10: 2 Timothy is a talking about women for a reason. Them Before Us and men protecting families. The 3Ps of manhood.
    30:52: Men should be the protectors in home and church.
    34:54: The difference in our empathy levels.
    37:10: The appearance of godliness and capturing weak women.
    41:05: Feedback from listeners on kids doing hard things.
    46:35: Brad Wilcox’s Get Married is a great read.
    48:33: A fear of consuming resources over belief that God will provide what we need to flourish is idolatry.
    54:00: Inflation, the trajectory and the pinch.
    57:30: Strivers, progressive speaking but conservative living, divorce rates and the power of good community.
    1:10:00: Show Close


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    1 hr 13 min
  • Genuine Care for Others & Seeing Growth in Your Kids

    Show Open
    2:44: More chickens, more eggs, money-making jobs for the kids
    12:38: Lili wants to learn French, Chicken prices, eating out of the freezer
    15:26: WW2 resources; Masters of the Air, The Bloody 100th, Victory at Sea, unauthorized WW2 podcast, Number The Stars, Titus really likes a biography about Brother Andrew
    26:00: JR and Molly enjoy a listening room experience with Jenna Greenwell, Jess Arndt, Zechariah Peabody and Bailey Mattson
    32:20: Self-righteousness and being genuinely enthusiastic about the good or capability of other people and not feeling threatened.
    40:35: The helping nature of artistic communities and encouraging that spirit in our our kids
    45:15: Did I Kiss Marriage Goodbye? It’s easy for us to weep with others, but much harder to rejoice with those who rejoice.
    50:54: Eating through pantry and freezer items in an attempt to save money. Drumsticks are the way to go for affordable eating.
    53:26: Show Close


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    57 min
  • Marital Conflict: Building Kids' Mental Fortitude

    Intro
    4:13: Property, neighbors, covenants.
    7:35: Molly has a soft spot for dead tires.
    8:39: A trailer park, a dirty magazine and the level of “parents don’t know.”
    10:02: Repeat sexual predation on Snapchat, and swapping texts with friends.
    13:55 For the love of what is good and holy, don’t let your kids download stuff on their own - a funny story about our kids and devices.
    19:28: Marital conflict: What to do about building mental fortitude in our kids- JR’s case.
    26:58: Molly’s perspective.
    32:11: What is the ultimate goal for our kids and physical strength in women.
    38:09: How Molly fell in love with classical studies.
    42:14: Stacking the deck in your favor and your kids’ favor.
    43:42: Our son is recognizing the evilness of Hitler.
    49:34: How horrible just barely escape death and The Parables of Jesus and the Devil’s work in the church.
    51:02: Show Close


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    55 min

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