Hauling Off: Recent Episodes
Erin and Mo
Erin and Mo haul off on various topics with various guests, mostly related to life at Trinity Evangel Church and Evangel Classical School in Marysville, Washington.
Round two of culture building…in which we go on about Latin, geography, reading drills and how the vision of the long haul makes the short term more palatable!
In which we discussed some random topics, and the nature of culture building. Are we all talking about the same thing? Ha!
Lip gloss spatula!
Wallace's Lists!
In which we discuss more dog breeds, this time Anatolian Shepherds and Border Collies, and the poison of sentimentalism!
The one in which we talk about name pronunciations, and rightly ordering priorities…until Aisha slips Erin a note about the meeting she failed to show up for, and then we stopped. 🤣
In which we talk about social standards for flourishing, arguing well about ideas (Momnibus, we are looking at you!), and Erin tries her hand at impromptu speaking in front of a bunch of secondary kids.
P.S. Sorry for the delay! Technical difficulties that have now been conquered.
In which we talked about Swedish Death Cleaning and the transitional seasons of life…and we made Kimmy join us again!
Today’s Podcast: The one in which we confronted Kimmy about her secret Instagram account, and discussed the realities of pursuing a fruitful happy home.
You can find said account on Instagram - @fruitful.happy.home
We talked about parenting babies and what to do when they are raging, but on our way to this topic we wrapped up Advent and talked about being joyful while being pinched for others.
A little more advent chat for you, just in the nick of time! Merry Christmas and enjoy!
We give a quick advent update at the beginning and then wander around about contentment! Enjoy!
P.S. Here's the gift wrap lady!
We meant to talk about Advent, but spent a good chunk wandering around, mostly about Twitter wars...actually, I guess we are supposed to calling those X wars now, but that's dumb. Also, another Advent help came after we recorded! What Have You is doing a mini-podcast every day of Advent this year with all kinds of tips! Enjoy!
The alternate title of this podcast is "Millie Picks Corn", because it was a major distraction to Mo throughout the podcast. Millie is a DOG, guys. She kept going in and picking an ear of corn off a stalk and then taking it off to snack on.
But the actual topic is laughing when it isn't easy peasy. Enjoy! And laugh!
P.S. Mo apologizes for her really atrocious posting diligence. This is from August. Yikes.
Well...we actually recorded this (and the next episode) before our live recording at Titus 2. I think this is actually from May...let's just pretend that's not true. But it had been long enough that I could not remember a single thing about this episode, and Hallie offered to listen to it to find out for me. But she is her mother's daughter and was unable to sum anything up for me, so we are going to say it's her fault this doesn't have a title. Enjoy!
Hauling Off hauled off at Titus 2, our church's ladies' group, and we had Jolie Hall as our guest. And it was fun! We talked about confrontation and the context our overall perspective on sin should give to our approach. Shockingly, our high tech audio set up (Mo's phone on a plastic stool), worked ok, so you should even be able to hear everyone. Enjoy!
Well, let's see. As I post an episode, Spotify helpfully prompts me to answer, "What else do you want your audience to know?" Probably a lot of things. But we finally had our dads on the podcast, and unsurprisingly, one of them got away from us down some rabbit trails. If you like Dave Light (I know I do!), you will enjoy this. John Giddings did also get some good stuff in.
P.S. As I checked the recording to post it, I heard us talking about how we were recording this near Mother's Day, so we were really ahead of schedule with our Father's Day episode. It is now August 4th, and that's how it goes, lol.
Kara Fujinaka joined us to talk about what it's like to marry your favorite soldier and immediately move across the country with him. Fair warning, due to allergies, Mo's voice makes her sound like a horrible hag. Sorry about that, and enjoy!
We didn't want you guys to get too used to regular posting, so we recorded this one quite a while ago and saved it for this very moment. We talked about lots of stuff regarding education and ownership of that education. Enjoy!
Continuing in our series, we talk about marriage! Also, Laird Marlatt pops in at the end as a bonus surprise guest star and invites you all to his business breakfast. Enjoy!
We talked about if parenting seminars are for everyone...and the title is a major spoiler regarding our position. Enjoy!
Abigail van der Beken joined us again, hooray! She came to talk about education, philosophy and how big ideas are for everyone. And, here's the Mortimer Adler book we are talking about. Enjoy!
We talked about experts and dabblers, professionals and amateurs, and some of the many ways this applies to life in Christian communities. Enjoy!
Guys, four episodes in four(ish) weeks! Here we meander around in the how-to-find-a-spouse topic - we talk about if you should even be trying to find a spouse, matchmaking in both its good and bad forms, online dating, etc., etc. We made Erin nervous at one point, which then made Mo nervous, but probably we came back around to a balance of wisdom and...hauling off. Hopefully. Anyway, enjoy!
Well, guys, we recorded this on time, but then...life. Allow the title to warn you sufficiently - there are a LOT of interruptions in this one. Mostly we forgot to have a topic but did a lot on parenting. Enjoy!
We chat about coaching both as a thing and as a parenting and teaching metaphor. Or as an analogy? I can't remember. Maybe both! Enjoy!
We are back within a week!!!!! Enjoy some chatter about organizing books and free range children. Probably other things. Also, Mo realized the Hank picture didn't come through most podcatchers, so here it is just in case you missed it. Enjoy!
People! We recorded an episode! AND WE POSTED IT!
Here is a nice Christmas fish skeleton for you to enjoy.
And, just for good measure, the Mission Impossible stunt video.
No idea. As I quickly checked the stellar audio quality, I did hear a joke at the end that we should name it "The Great Books Episode"...so maybe it's about books? I do know it was recorded in the new (well, at least at the time of recording), fancy Curriculum Room at the school, and the date of recording was September 6th, which means this is a new record for delay between recording and posting - 55 days! Go team!
For those of you who don't prefer our meandering, most of (all of?) this episode is to be avoided. We did try to talk a little about why the third "How to Train Your Dragon" is actually an excellent movie, but mostly Mo just mixed up all the character names and overall failed at the mission. Go find her somewhere if you want a better rant on the topic.
We scratched the surface on emotional control, with a few interruptions along the way. There's still time to join Rachel's webinar on emotional control if you are interested! Just let Mo know that you want in. Enjoy!
Well, we recorded this a couple of weeks ago and can't really remember what it's about. We did remember that beards were a suggested topic and that we rejected it. Maybe you can tell us what it was about! Enjoy!
We talked about popularity and lots of related pitfalls, sins and silliness. Also, Erin got a cute new shirt, so hopefully she is popular now! Enjoy!
P.S. ALSO. We recorded on Monday and posted only two days later!?!?! This may be a weird side benefit of Maymaggedon - being unsure of our survival, we post ASAP, lol.
Jonathan Sarr, the illustrious Unruly Headmaster of our very own Evangel Classical School, joins us to talk about education. Other stuff too. Enjoy!
P.S. Just in case you aren't aware, Jonathan knows a thing or two about kettlebells. Here's some proof.
P.P.S. Fitness is a family thing for the Sarrs - look at Abbie pistol-squatting like not many four-year-olds can.
We aren't sure this episode has a topic...Mo skimmed through to jog her memory and came away without a topic but a very clear understanding that she shouldn't talk so much. It seems like we had some ranty rabbit trails mostly in the fields of science and education. Enjoy(?)!
P.S. Here's the Radiolab that Mo blathered on about.
As our brilliant title suggests, we talked about parenting. We just can't remember what it was specifically. Enjoy!
Erin and Mo bring you a special episode from the road! We visited Logos School in Moscow, Idaho on behalf of ECS and recorded on the way home, chatting about some of what we learned and appreciated from that visit. As the title says, road noise is featured heavily, for which we apologize. But as Sean pointed out, it's not like our audio quality is normally stellar. Enjoy!
We had our much better halves on to talk about...a lot of things. And they/we did...so enjoy this double length episode!
We came back around to explain our metaphor and were much less rabbit-traily than last time. But of course, much less is still a lot. Enjoy!
WARNING! We may have seriously surpassed the highest (lowest?) standards for chaos in this episode. We started with a solid metaphor, but without fully explaining it proceeded to jump to another metaphor and then to another and then to another, etc. We also got completely derailed from the Friends are Drugs topic and had a long chat about toddlers at some point. Hopefully you'll find some edifying tidbits if you are brave enough to listen! Enjoy!
"The first rule of Hospitality Club is...invite people to Hospitality Club." - Sean Higgins
We had Ginger Herr on to talk about all things hospitality and we had lots of fun! Enjoy!
We had Sophie Pearson on to hear her testimony and to talk about hospitality in the situations God has providentially placed you in. Of course we also talked about a lot of other things. We also had another lightning round! Woohoo! Enjoy!
We are back! Talking about all kinds of things, including New Years and cleaning, Edwin Friedman's theory of differentiation and a Lightning Round of Random! (Obviously the LRoR is way in our wheelhouse.) Also, we narrowly missed becoming a baseball podcast. You are welcome.
P.S. Here's Edgar Martinez and his light bat - quite entertaining.
P.P.S. Here's "Four Days in October" for any interested parties!
P.P.P.S. Whatever Mo said about The Natural had all the wrong details. SHOCKER. Spoiler alert! Here's a clip of the final home run.
With the Christmas roller coaster still careening the loop-de-loops, we talk about various sin traps during this time of year. Mo talks about the changing seasons of Christmas, with a newly married child, and Erin retells the Pakinas Christmas Tree saga of 2021. Merry Christmas to all, and BE JOLLY this Christmas!!
This is the podcast that neither of us can remember…like at all. So here’s your job: tell us why we named it “Triangle Grab Bag.” Enjoy!
"And friends are friends forever, if the Lord's the Lord of them" - remember these lyrics, guys? These are the only good ones. Skip the rest. Especially the part about the fertile soil of you. Enjoy!
Chickenpox tried to stop us, but we have prevailed. Enjoy our super late episode featuring Mrs. Taylor Rothenberger!
Abigail van der Beken joins us again, this time to unwrap the mysteries of the Enneagram personality...system? Religion? If you are already sick of personality talk, which we assume some of you are, get some Sea-bands before listening.
Ruth Callender hopped in the van to talk with us about podcasts, specifically the temptations and ditches that accompany their very existence. Enjoy!
Guys! We had a guest for the second week in a row! Abigail van der Beken joined us to talk about personality tests and types. Fair warning, Abigail and Mo are probably legit personality junkies, but Erin did her best to keep everyone in line! Enjoy!
Here is the Vine Abigail referenced...also, it would be rude of me (Mo) to not recommend that you search "clean Vine compilations" since Vine came up during this episode. You are welcome.
And here is the map I mentioned - I remembered wrong, this shows the known human metabolic pathways, not cellular interactions or whatever I said. No matter what, be amazed at the complexity, and this is just the parts they have figured out!
In this episode, we talked about cutting your losses so that the anchor of misery (which comes in many forms) doesn't capsize your boat. Happy sailing!
Since we spoke of chaos and crazy town last time, we felt like giving you a real life experience of it. First, it turns out we are extra random without a set topic. We hit living life while you are sick, a lot of wandering around in Robot Lyfe (you'll have to listen to know what this means) and just when we were about to get into budgets and money, Mo had a major Robot Lyfe FAIL. Chaos FTW! Enjoy!
Here we wander around talking about busyness, peace, re-orienting your perspective and being in relationship with God in any circumstances, while He writes your story. Enjoy!
Well. What is there to say? I'm not sure. This conversation was about panicky and anxious feelings and what you might do about them. Once again, the conversation happened quite a while ago, so there is probably quite a bit more that I just can't remember. Enjoy!
Once again, we recorded this some time ago, so things are a little hazy regarding what we covered. We know we chatted about spanking, dog and horse training, and guilt...but probably we talked about a lot of other things too. Mo does remember saying she'd link to Clinton Anderson starting to work with Cider, so there's that. Enjoy!
We recorded this at Erin's house during our church's youth retreat, which was happening IN Erin's backyard. So it's a little rowdy and scattered...but isn't that what you come here for? In a last minute move we roped Leila and Maggie in with us again and we hit a lot of topics - normal Christian growth in a variety of contexts, tattoos, Flannery O'Connor, sentimentality, weddings and then gave you some unsolicited tax advice. Yep. Also...due to an exceptionally disorganized start, it may or may not have ended up in the recording when Erin gave us an update on her sunflower with the busted stem. But here's a picture to keep you up to speed - still going strong!
Well, we recorded this episode almost a month ago and then Mo got it about halfway posted before a wedding happened to us all (YAY!). So enjoy this very delayed episode where we discuss the gardening life...literal gardening, and of course all the metaphorical gardening too. (At least that's what Mo remembers us talking about...it was a long time ago, haha!)
Guys! We recorded this episode on time, but then Mo rudely disappeared into a week of crazy and neglected to post it in a timely fashion. This one is all about reading the Bible, and guess what! That topic is relevant and timely ALL the time, late or not. And look! We have tons of links to things we mentioned this time. Enjoy!
Here is The Bible Reading Challenge by the Ladies' Fellowship at Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho.
Next up, our favorite, Grant Horner's Reading System.
Bonus #1! The podcast episode featuring Horner that Erin mentions.
Bonus #2! This site has a few different resources for the Horner plan.
Sean's all time favorite, The M'Cheyne Bible Reading Calendar.
The good old Discipleship Journal Bible Reading Plan.
In anticipation of this month’s discussion at Titus 2, Erin and Mo have a little preview conversation about the Fruit of Her Hands in the WinCo parking lot. Enjoy!
Jolie Hall, officially styled as "Energizer Bunny Extraordinaire" (EBE), joins us to talk through a sampling of things related to being an elder's wife. We get very distracted near the end by hordes of children dancing around the van and accidentally tackling each other. Also, Mo is pretty sure she talked too much. Enjoy!
Guys! Grab a blanket and sit still for this amazing episode. JUST KIDDING! You can totally wiggle around however you'd like the whole time. (And, full disclosure, it's not an amazing episode.) Thanks to a listener suggestion, we hauled off on blanket training toddlers, which inevitably leads into talking about parental authority, worshipping as a family at church, being in fellowship with your people...etc., etc. Enjoy!
We might be a little late to call this a Mother's Day episode, but we actually did record on Mother's Day...with our mothers! Laurie Giddings (Erin's mom) and Gale Light (Mo's mom) joined us to talk about God's kindness in mothering throughout all seasons and circumstances. Turns out the four of us can talk for a long time, so we set a new record for episode length. Enjoy!
This time we start with Mo opening a seltzer water! Exciting, we know!
Leila Bowers is back by popular demand (we like her too), and we are also joined by Maggie Higgins (Mo's eldest daughter). We assembled this all-star team to discuss parenting imaginative kids...but we wandered around in the imagination topic quite a bit. Enjoy!
In this episode we discuss...some things. Honestly, it's pretty fuzzy in my lack-of-memory. I know we had fun news at the beginning and we definitely talked about strategies to cut off your own sin at the pass. And at the end it got rowdy with about twenty visitors swarming the van. Enjoy!
In this (much shorter) episode, we revisit something from last time that we may have hauled off too sloppily about and Mo gives a very disjointed jaunt through her background and testimony of God's faithfulness.
By the way, "Disjointed" was a contender for our podcast name, so you should probably get used to that vibe.
Also, we'd love any ideas for a real intro. Until we have one, I'm going to keep leaving in weird parts at the beginning for everyone to enjoy. (You're welcome.)
In this episode, we discuss our favorite movie ever.
JUST KIDDING! We hate that movie.* However, we do talk a little about Erin and Dean's love story while Erin lets us all get a little more acquainted with her. We also talked for a bit about why we are even trying to haul off with a podcast anyway.
And here's our beautiful podcasting notebook (thanks to the talented Allyson Cork for the artwork)! The "P" used to stand for Pakinas, but now it stands for "Podcast".
*Well, honestly, I'm technically speaking for myself because I didn't ask Erin, but I bet I'm right.
We start off our podcasting lives with a bang...actually, a beep. That's our school's very expensive and quirky fire alarm you'll hear all throughout the first episode.
Leila Bowers kindly joined us on our maiden voyage to talk academics and motherhood, advice for teenage girls and probably some other things too.
This episode was brought to you by Ellie Sarr's 16th birthday!