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Tim and Becca are making some strange decisions for their life. Let's follow along and see how badly this goes. Also, why are feelings so difficult? No, we're asking you...
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Amazon Reviews
Snow Dogs review from 2002
Bounty Paper-towels (Probably Counterfeit)
The sort-of light-hearted feminist aggression I can get behind.
It’s totally normal to be like “raawrrr I just bit the head off of something, I’m a monster!”
On average, Colorado is higher than any other state.
Ways that it’s better to be an adult:
- Quantifying the world and understanding numbers
- Getting basic things done isn’t traumatic anymore
Review of The Mandalorian on Disney+
You are the only monster who doesn’t love BB-8.
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Mistakes were made.
Starbucks upsells - and what is Wednesday, after all?
Movie Review The Force Awakens
Is it Po or Bo?
Sand Sledding https://www.google.com/search?q=sand+sledding
Ridiculous Amazon Reviews
Sriracha the Documentary https://www.amazon.com/Sriracha-David-Tran/dp/B00MLYNYDI/
Set of 10 Finger Hands https://www.amazon.com/Accoutrements-Set-Finger-Hands-Puppets/dp/B00OACD9CU/
Trivia It’s colder than a banana out there, you monkey! Juries and best guesses We’re just a cliche factory It seems like you’re a little uncomfortable talking about concentration camps Using fiction as a coping mechanism Man’s Search for Meaning His thesis- a person needing to pursue a meaningful life How do you experience the rest of life after undergoing the most excruciating trial in your life If you’re focusing on your circumstances you’re missing out on the meaning of what your reaction to the circumstances are Jesus has a name for us- Revelation 2:17 Our choice to worship God has a meaning amplified by the circumstances Even if you can’t do anything you still have a choice to be spiritually above your circumstances The purpose isn’t about judging yourself based on what you achieve It’s about the choices you make despite the lack of physical evidence What apathy is- The cost of being apathetic your life and the life of your friends Save the Cat Loglines American Christianity- Is it harmful to consider ourselves alien The effects of shame on our faith What’s the most stressful part of your day followup@terribleaudio.com Parenting ideas take high creative energy with little time payoff
Tasers are Just Sad - With Special Guest Adriana
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- What is a Portmanteau?
- Crochet Fashion Show
- Adriana’s Book: The Storyweaver Chronicles
- With photos by “Harrier Bogbean”.
- Building off of classic old fairy-tales.
- Save the Cat
- Everyone is the hero of their own story. The villain doesn’t see themselves as evil
- Unless it sounds like a lot of fun to become an evil villain to you.
- Time Travel Book
- Inventing our own Languages
- A sample of Penelope and the Hob King
- Inspiration
- Fairy Tales and Accents
- Bohemian Rhapsody (The Movie)
- Margaret Atwood’s Office
- Vermeer - The Girl with the Pearl Earring
- Meow Woof (Santa Fe)
- A Whole Side Topic about meat packing
- Career Advice
- Most Embarrassing Phobia
- Tim Finds a Fellow Ocean-Hater
- Tornados
- Babies Eating Anything
- If you could program a robotic arm to do one child-care activity what would it be?
- Tasers are Just Sad
- And Tim is the Evil Villain yet again
- The Daddy-Long-Legs
- How many joints should a spider have anyway?
- [AdrianaCarlson.com](http://www.adrianacarlson.com/
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Nebraska’s new slogan- passive aggressive or just aggressive? Hipsters with a sense of humor invade the government The pumpkin patch plot thickens… Menagerie of personality Gandolph the Grey is an otter I’ve been hit about by the wet slimy paw of you Lions are all psychopaths! Trivia- Halloween edition Amazon remaking Lord of the Rings Chickerella Perelandra Painting a picture of where your actions are taking you Trying to make the price tag of sin small The importance of being around people going through serious stuff Sleep study time Does research help or hinder anxiety? If there’s one thing people don’t understand about you what is it? If you could ask anyone to be on your personal board of directors who would you chose? No one will ask me to mentor them until I’m a ghost The annoyance of Kindle samples New Kindle and Fitbit reviews The recipe In Season :: Curried Sweet Potato Soup – Camille Styles Don’t put peas in this soup unless your spouse is psychopath InstaCart App
Pumpkin Patches Guy’s newscaster make-up Guyliner Quiz Categorization and Nomenclature of Marine Animals Email in and Tim will eat whatever ocean creature you want live Do cannibals eat live people? New premarital question: Would you let your future spouse eat part of you to keep them alive? A musical paradoy about gastroporesis Bitter resentments about not getting to see Hamilton What’s your favorite quote Up taught us whimsy conquers all Is doing something for God that’s not a part of your natural strengths or passions right to do? Experiencing God There is going to be bleed through of our own passions and flesh when we talk to God Is the pure form of communicating with God completely ridding myself of self Missions My trade is being an alien and stranger in this world :) Is the ultimate calling to be weird Worrying about every word that’s said and leaving awkward messages If you’re going to be weird, it might as well be about God I was trying to think about how to be more offensive Do we have to move every few months to be alien? Our house is telling us to go to bed. Help! Why is our smart home so creepy? Tim has a dream to create an artificial intelligence to control our home…for our good Why do we believe our kids will like something if we act super excited
Thank you for opening your mind to us and putting down the welcome mat in your brains cape Thunderstorm music Trivia- They are a sport team! Irony- being annoyed when others talked about kids when we didn’t have them Would being famous make you happier? Swings and roundabouts Fire station open house Spider friendship necklaces Making an office in your master closet Walmart has skylights?!?! Repentance- an overused term? Perhaps, the Coming Clean Club What are you holding onto that comes before God? Believing that doing spiritual things won’t be a net negative on our days I guess it’s not helpful visualizing hitting my head on the cement I’m scared of being fearful When you’re praying more do life circumstances get harder? Master Class Excellent recipe made by Tim- Check! Making a historical timeline for a character- Check! Well Check-ish! How we look at and collaborate with our art Getting drones stuck Doing hobbies at a social event Writing as wet cement Editing podcasts
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Tim’s sanity is questioned Attack or Intervention? Having a go bag, who can get out first? How often do you know you’re right, but “let it go” to avoid an argument? “Do you want to be right or in relationship.” You want to both, I want to be neither. Knowing your own opinion, in public, can be difficult. Tim bits (thoughts that graced Tim’s brain this week) How God speaks- Numbers?!?! Experiencing God The idea that God is in everything- the grid lines in an Excel sheet, He is the surface on which the Universe is built Trivia Question Quebec nationalism It would be easy to use powers of mental anguish against your spouse Taking Master Classes Do you do things just for the pleasure or for ambition? We went to a hootenanny. Spaghetti Westerns vs. Singing Cowboys If you’re alone with your horse all day, wouldn’t you sing to your horse? Can you come up with a title for a combined spaghetti western and musical western?
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- Trivia
- Have you ever tried to eat with your feet?
- Visually showing others how we feel
- Having higher functionality with other people
- Being social with goggles on
- Thirty second vacations…where have you gone today?
- Optimal brain functionality
- Frozen Indian Cuisine
- Once you break it down to the molecular level it doesn’t matter
- We finally finished Wild Things!
- Rituals
- Leveling up in life
- Master Classes
- Immersing yourself in a subject
- How do we do a ritual for our kids without them?
- Telling the kids the story of their lives
- Do you tell them verbally, visually, pictures of the kid that year?
- How do you help your children reflect on their lives without making it narcasstic
- Trying to not talk negatively about ourselves in front of our kids
- Dino Trucks…are you serious?
- Parent guilt…ug
- What’s the best piece of marital advice ever given to you?
- If you started hearing a voice in your head in what accent would you like it to speak?
- Writing a description of your business
- We’re in phase zero people
- Little kid’s seem so smart until you realize they literally can’t feed themselves
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Becca is tired and is developmentally comparable to a 3-year-old Moth’s-3; Human’s-0 Trivia TV giving a sense of a regular schedule Tim rolls his rrrr’s Oh we have advice for you Wild Things We see ourselves in our boys more than is healthly We have to deal with our own childhoods when we have kids Marriages tend to get harder when we have kids, maybe because we are dealing with our pasts instead of just being busy Dredging the muck up in our marriages time and time again when we go through life crises All this today if you’re going through a marital crises you’re not alone No matter what we think or story we’ve told ourselves about our childhood there are things in that are going to leave marks where we’ve destroyed some part of our selves in order to make it or get by Males make vows to never have emotions that leave them vulnerable Sometimes it speaks to our worth when others are able to show “perfect” emotions Being embarrassed of your son having a huge emotional swing Trying to stop our kids negative emotions rather then entering into it The lie of what will get your kids friends Put your thinking cap on Stethoscope check Staying relaxed with our kids when talking about the most important things to us The Industrial Revolution and the change it brought to parenting Telling our kids it’s ok to want time with dad
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Whose fault is it? Tim doesn’t need a mic Wild Things “Names” we pronounce over our kids Setting realistic expectations for our kids It feels so unnatural to expect feelings Buying into our kids dreams, and experiencing their disappointments with them Not forcing our kids or ourselves into more “realistic” goals Shutting off dreams can limit our ability to connect with those around us Snow Dogs - a metaphor for this podcast Meeting your teenage boys where they are at - through movies The importance of comfort and ease between family members Observing our kids When they struggle, they are rough gems that are being refined An animated gif of Cuba Gooding Jr eating blue cheese? No. But I did find this. https://giphy.com/gifs/3ornjTeFkvURoUM3Mk/html5 The difficulty of pharmaceuticals Trivia Are headphones a metaphor for our relationship?
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We threw in the towel and then we used that towel to wipe the pee off the floor Potty training- a topic we are so sorry to talk about (don’t worry it’s brief) He’s sweet, he’s got that going for him Listeners who rated the show - thank you! The Google Search completion game A song by “The Sesame Street” Some Follow-up William Shatner’s “Rocket Man” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lul-Y8vSr0I Shadowbox Photos Phone Call Scammers The 12 Week Year Seeing job or goal changes as failures or a closed door Does it take courage to call things failures? Or is it not acknowledging all that was gleaned form an experience? Emotions come ten times faster then the logical side of your brain Were you made for joy? Is joy relational? How have you been living more joyfully lately? The courage of putting a goal down- risking failure Breaking goals down day by day Smiling awkwardly at someone verses talking Skyscraper Some people’s skyscrapers to climb are burning buildings, others are learning how to use technology
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Things you never thought you’d have to childproof The knife shape of the Apple computer Do you look more often for the tragedy in comedy or the comedy in the tragedy Comedians in Cars getting Coffee Follow-up Link to review in iTunes Who Let the A out..ah, ah, ah, ah The anxiety of Bob Ross Picture of the game of Bob Ross Our local paper Protecting endangered mice Tim’s mice killing habits How often do you think about germs? New spot: Is this gross or not? Parenting is like a chemistry experiment Stopping counting to five with the boys Emotional processing tactics with the kids Hugging in the major leagues Cave rescue in Thailand The untold stories Putting the best people in for the job in the Christian community Moth balls are terrible Influencing just a few people Chewbaca vs. Leia vs. Lando vs. Millinium Falcon It’s not feminism it’s falconism Would you buy wookie conditioner?
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- More headlines from the local paper
- Tim has no sense of humor in the morning… ugh
- We aren’t communicating well
- Also we can’t remember which month comes before May.
- Is it a semi-colon or a colon?
- Safe Salads?
- Bugs and Children at the Same Place, No Thanks!
- No more picnics.
- Button-making?
- You’re going to get several ideas before the obvious one
- Please, stop crushing me.
- Abandon any rooms that have dead spiders in them.
- Trivia: Project Dulcimer
- A trip is fun, but it’s not as much fun as owning a gadget
- Tell us what your first iPod was.
- The problem with listening to music in the past
- Oh no, we still haven’t repaired those headphones
- Why do children love terrible things?
- Sharing Becca’s creative output
- Play Therapy - sounds awesome for Adults
- Poor “rage”, I’ve abused you a lot in my life.
- I’m supposed to be modeling it; Ahh – and you’re supposed to be modeling it too! – unhhh
- Fear Factor
- An Abrupt ending due to running out of space on our hard-drive.
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Our Community News
Our DJ career
Children’s music, such as “Rocket Man”
Solo: A Star Wars Story Tim was right- the Millennium Falcon is a character! Personality imbued…Check!
Trivia question. 2/2, that’s the fraction we chose?!?!? The “texting subculture” Have you ever turned down an opportunity because of fear?
The Disney Shorts
Making it through the mountain or burning out? What makes a folk hero so inspiring? Milkshake duck…could a folk hero even exist today? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkshake_Duck
Home remodeling
Silence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silence_(novel)
Of nail guns and staple guns
The absurdity of Eenie-meenie-miney-mo”
Everyone knows the 52nd anniversary is the important one
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It’s a morning podcast! Becca sounds hyped up or Tim sounds slow Breaking news…the foam fortress collapsed Not to brag, but we have not one, but two used mattresses What keeps you up at night? Where will the story go from here? Right now not a page turner Dream small, fear small (slogan of a depressed person) Trivia Spray painting leaves to change the season Wild Things: The Art of Nurturing Boys The men’s rights propaganda film Tucker: Something ominous is happening to men in America I invited someone of special interest to interview…a man Men are facing a high level of mental health issues, IQ changes, and physiological changes over the last 40 years The growing pangs of teaching boys how to clean-up Teaching the boys what it means to be a part of a family Favorite tips from the book so far: Get boys outside where there aren’t many restraints around them Invest boys into whatever task you are doing Validate all the efforts at tasks even if their attempts aren’t that successful Hands-on learning with school
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Sleep=A good podcast Let us know if we help you sleep We went to Avengers Infinity Wars just for you – the listeners Infinity Wars VS. Star Wars Punchy arrogant VS. Obsessive sociopath arrogant Which avenger would you most want to be? Being Willing to sacrifice those we love All about Marvel Fahrenheit 451 How our comforts take us away from our tasks The great sloth It’s enjoyable to watch people be so focused in movies Chewing gum produced with genetic engineering Our “special” outside holiday projection Trying to balance freelance work pacing Becca’s speaking orcish again…she made “enough” sense Remembering Jesus took the curse away from us Favorite characters from literature Making a soundtrack to a book you love Optimizing fun through a system Fun has no system! Tim was Spiderman on the playground
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The creature named Gollum Our top 4 favorite characters from movies and TV—the game! What personality does a spaceship have Character arcs Our top character flaws how they weave their way throughout our life stories, our struggles shapes us in so many ways Tim likes drug dealers and people with integrity in his characters Fun words Tim shouted out at improv Puff the Magic Dragon, love or hate? To kill your imaginary friends or not? Tim is concerned Becca thinks her imaginary friends are real Murdering our metaphors How do you say goodbye to a character that you’ve written The process of writing an inventory Anxiety disorders The struggle of productivity The Wild Things
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- Special guests- Rachel and Nate- they are like a roaring fire of wisdom
- Trivia, it’s the special round!
- A violent (accurate) take on the story of David and Goliath by young children
- Is it surprising, what it’s like to have teenagers, or what you thought it would be like?
- The importance of hanging out with parents whose kids are different ages from your kids
- How are you dealing with smart phones
- Everything is questioned, and who do you trust?
- The parent of the year awards
- Is there a point you realize I am "that parent"?
- What to do when one children favors one parent over the other
- Do you discuss what your kids tell you together
- Expectations as you approach having your kids leave home
- Enjoying each stage of your kids’ life- trying to not hold on to each of the stages
- College finances
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Swim lesson report card Tim’s Ethiopian coffee takes him places Children…it prepares us for torture The holy blanket Seeking the hand of God verses the heart of God Should we keep on fasting after we’ve been set free from captivity? Figuring out God’s judgment calls We view sin as a failure of performance rather than a failure of relationship The length Jesus went to, to restore relationship A poor performance report card, but a great relationship built How do I have a fun social butterfly relationship with God? I’m going to do this to glorify to God…since I enjoy it, it must be fine First enjoying the presence of God, before focusing on bringing the message Why is it so hard to just wake up every day and try to stay in relationship with God? Once you get what you want, why put the effort in to the relationship? You may evacuate the hot seat now This is why a marriage works, you both have different skill sets and then you grudgingly use them to help the other person Bringing it home with a trivia question
A rambling podcast…Excuse me? No I didn’t have to cheat at trivia, I’m just that awesome That laser would just stun and disorient them. Bringing the message along with the presence of God Becca brags about knowing science fiction?!?!?! The pain of sharing Our children’s play—they keep killing off the mom! And a lot of awkward pauses We created that landmine in our son’s future How honest should you be when filling out your child’s baby book…
The Daniel Dilemma - Is pride at an all time high? - Is the only thing we can give credit to success, prayer? - What surprises you most about where you ended up in life? - God would rather have you holy then happy - Would you accept less love from God so that He could give you an easier destiny? - Containing the fiery power of our emotions - Picking your fights/battles that are constructive
Would you trade 10% of your sanity to become 10% smarter I don’t think intelligence is all it’s cracked up to be
- Kick’n it off with trivia
- Do you still like our wedding photos?
- Are vilifying me, or do you just think I’m insane?
- Have you ever justified stealing something?
- Which of your teachers did you more harm then good?
- We complain about old people these days, and their loud music.
- The Daniel Dilemma
- What is our mandate in this current culture we are in?
- Quick movie review 15:17 to Paris
- No matter what we lose God’s goodness will sustain us
- Have you ever felt held hostage by heavy emotions?
- True worship is following God when you don’t understand
- What motivates us to get closer to God
- Why does it matter to fight the fight to know God and others
- How much do you trust your judgments about people?
Front row at a play! Tienenmen square (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeFzeNAHEhU) The Table Topic question game What are you afraid of at 3 AM? What is the funniest thing your inner child wants? Barreling forward with the Daniel Dilemma Everytime you see the culture take a step further from God do you look at it as a new ministry VidAngel comedians Fighting with a clever person vs. an intelligent person The Tim and Becca fighting style. Give me feeling and logic for crying outloud :) Would using just facts in a fight work with some people? Do you change your arguing style base on the personality you’re fighting with? Oh we do have an argument notebook! Trivia game…This in a shake….yikes!
Freelance woes When justice is good and when to let your tunic get stolen Trivia question- Tim is up Hope! Exodus, Zachariah, hope and perfume The Israelites and their invisible force field Visions and dreams “The Daniel Dilemma” How do you gracefully confront cultural norms How was Jesus unoffensive and how was he offensive Should you volunteer in the area of your vocation, or what you want to volunteer in? Therapy Game questions: What are you in denial about? What’s the happiest movie ever made? To be Baghera or not to be with parenting
Episode 36 Touch that fire, baby.
Childhood and parenting with special guest Kelly!
Best advice ever…blink your eyes and your kids will be at college Did you know before you were a parent that it would be a “life calling” How many times can you safely microwave a plate of food? Oh cherry flavored medicine! How many kids are just so pleasant after giving them de-worming medicine. Is it ok to make rules for kids that don’t apply to yourself? Are you afraid of breaking kids spirits when you give them rules? Representing God to your kids When were you forced to become independent growing up? Birth order How do you not patronize your kids when they are young? Would you let your baby touch a fire to teach them? Or maybe tell them “stop”? Burn one hand off and he’ll have another Not helping a stranger Time schedule and parenting Is it hard to not know what a baby is thinking? Raising ourselves at the exact stage as our own kid
Who am I? Trivia The meandering path Inn of the Sixth Happiness So many times what we tell our kids is a disappointment, talking about heaven is a fun reversal of that what is chalcedony Is daydreaming about heaven a biblical thing or an escape? Santa is the perfectionist dream Is Santa a fun daydream or a dangerous lie? Merry Christmas you didn’t get salmonella this year son! Discipling your kids and rewarding them based on behavior Eager expectation for heaven and our new bodies or is it bad to ponder what we do not know The emergency alert in Hawaii A hypothetical from our game…how long do you keep mementosos from past relationships Is there anything of mine you’d eagerly get rid of?
- Trivia… Let’s grill Tim
- Santa has jazz hands
- Rudulph the Red Nose Reindeer "row"
- Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego the card game!!
- Traveling Light finale!
- How often do you dream of heaven? A preoccupation. Does thinking about it give you strength for the here and now?
- I have 1% generosity left to give
- Our special gift from Tim’s aunt and grandma
- Tim is more American
- Tim HAS NOT read!
- Tethering ourselves to God
- Different ways of showing our children or others how we love them
- Tim’s love language is rambunctious, silliness
- Seeing the outcome of some of God’s promises and using those instances to gain acceptance for the promises not yet seen
- If I stay sick I have to accept that it’s for God’s glory, or my growth
- Sometimes life is all morning sickness... and then the end comes
- Believing God that it’s all going to be worth it in the end.
- Is it wrong for my motivation to be about the promise of the beauty of heaven and not completely about Jesus?
- Keeping a steady burn rate
- Don’t burst my peaceful bubble
Special Guest: Jon
Trivia questions Bible trivia and Alzheimer’s revenge Improv stuff Spanish and our first mission trip together "Jerusalem You Know Nothing Guy" Life Calling Short term missions trips Concentration camps New small group: “Let’s talk about your biggest sin and why you’re not changing” Ashamed to admit I remember Mark Lowry The Afternoon Bible Quiz The Babylon Bee
The day is Sunday The verdict is I think it’s going to be ok The infamous quiz show…Tim does not know his Disney princesses Tim claims he’s “tired” Link to Dobson’s interview with Nick Vujicic
http://drjamesdobson.org/Broadcasts/Broadcast?i=2b05cb63-9d32-4827-b21b-74d1d694f1bc
I don’t have it as bad as….shame isn’t change The pain of vulnerability The pride of wanting to explain yourself Becca’s book wins of getting through it further! Max Lucado Traveling Light Where am I in this jungle? Peruvian jungle The shepherd makes me lie down by still waters A giant boat captain illustration- close down the compartments of your boats We haven’t been able to function enough hours to do the normal stuff Article link to Iowa
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/13/where-the-small-town-american-dream-lives-on
America’s small towns are dying So why do these dutch people want to stay? If you have the money to pave your roads I’m a little suspicious of you
It’s trivia time!! (To clarify we do believe dinosaurs existed, just disagree on the millions of years time frame) I shall name my third child Othaniel About depression, but we promise we get perkier Talking, is it burning trash or chocolate cake? Would you rather sweep or deal with urine? (Yes we are back to urine) More on dinosaurs… Do you think I’ll hate jello “stew” for the rest of my life? Can you see how you’re changing while you’re environment is putting pressure on you? The ripples of events in life’s events, do they get stronger as life goes on? Holding on tightly with hands of wet clay Do you believe you can tell if someone is lying? Are you afraid of mind reading? Do we pay attention enough to ourselves to know if we are going against our natural inclinations? Let’s call me the protagonist of the show Our character is drawn with very fine pens Is real love the capacity to endure any hardship for someone?
The two versions of Tim you can get tonight I love the idea of all of you And Becca gets sicker by the moment… The Walmart mistake Robot dogs and the dog’s revenge If Alexa had arms right now I’d be terrified The irritation of being corrected Making gunpowder ingredients include: Your own urine!!
We are back! I’m glad we got back on the bike and kept on riding Wasps, floods, ripped open car, debt collectors, illness, oh my! The Feminist Baby or the continued discussion of the role of women in the church Discussion of men’s pants Winnie the Pooh analogy…We are so sorry The Innovators The perception of the midwest When we put our phones down it’s often dying to ourselves The phone has become a way to check out at any moment you want and society has accepted Hiding in plain sight These ear phones are literally glued into my ears, I have no choice but stick with it Grace is the opposite of the belief in karma, it’s not about justice Trivia- Becca’s up and wishing her Encarta ’95 knowledge was more helpful Ran out of time…Next week Idols of Power
The Role of Women in the Church - Charles C Ryrie “He shows you the depth of the pool and says now go swim in it” Everyone wants more applause…or sarcasm Our robot idea! Go make some more yarn Male fear of talking about feminism Tertullian….ug Can women teach in front of the whole church? The Feminism Mistake - Mary Kassian How much has the feminist idea of the world effected the church? Where is our perfect utopian church? Is the body numb? Reading for the Common Good - Christopher Smith The Nashville statement https://cbmw.org/nashville-statement/ The importance of open discussion in the church The bones of the tiny dream bird snap so easy
Parenting is kale
How would you possibly think you could have control over another person? Tim’s gotten twitchy Loyal love
Idols for destruction Turning the state into “father” The idea that all US dollars belong to the government and we are just borrowing them How much privacy are we willing to give up in order to be “protected”? Children as assets of the state The role of the press Our current Utopia- it’s not 1984 What I think I deserve turns into an idol
Kwiniac- Tim is literally in the hot seat
Kwizniac- Remember that one time Becca answered the “Space Invaders” question correctly? The yellow jackets love of Tim continues Another item off Becca’s bucket list (bee killing picture) A discussion of Mice and Men and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Verse Correction: “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life.” Proverbs 13:12 It’s ok to stay in the mental institute, but watch for the open window Idols for Destruction
- Can everything be seen and understood by the sciences and the human mind?
- Medicine is more an art than a science
- Do you believe at the end of science there will be perfection?
- Science and history seem trustworthy, but anything that makes you feel safe besides God will lead you into trouble
- The importance of listening to the stories of other people who are being honest about their stories
- Is our generation more interested in experiences then materials?
- Are animals more innocent then people?
- Trivia
- So here’s what I learned…exercise is hard
- Parenting
- Yelling at your kids
- Learning to apologize to a toddler
- Becca’s war against Daniel Tiger’s mom
- Simon’s horse deconstruction (include picture)
- “You are not your mistakes”
- Wanting our kids to look normal
- Kids with developmental issues…wanting to support your child, not knowing how much to intervene in your child’s life
- Chameleon parenting
- Amusement parks
- Our new “pet”
- Idols for Destruction
- The fear of savings
- How much savings is enough?
- Wrestling with our own fiscal insecurities
- Does bureaucracy have more control over us then our employers?
- Elections department work
- The love of systems
- As christians where does our responsibility lie when we participate in government?
- Pragmatism is not honest...We are not called to be pragmatic
- Don't lend your voice to what you see as the unavoidable system of this world
- What if technology is improving/accelerating at such a rate that productivity per person will increase to such a point that all the service needs are taken care of by smaller number of people?
- Would you kill your robot to hire a human?
- An unusual freelance request
My latest bone to pick with Tim...He was awesome until he wasn't Tim the bludgeoner The bee that traced a poisonous spray straight to Tim Tim is now Bee Man...Also he is now Rocky instead of Adrian Our war on loose dogs continues Trivia Game...It's a zany one INSIDE OUT! BING BONG!! And the further tale of spiritual struggles of Becca Dumbo...Spoiler alert he is encouraged to repress his feelings and then accidentally gets drunk Idols for Destruction Idols of Mammon- yes that is the actual chapter title Does our culture feel strongly envy is a sin? Gratitude for the creation verses the Creator The reorganization of the Kathmandu cupboard Inflation Bitcoin Let's talk dictators
New mic set-up TV Watching record The disobedience of our robot daughter Military honors for dad I need an imaginary husband The proper protocol of wrestling by tombstones Acorn slippers- It's like wearing a sheep inside out...without the blood of course Trivia...Tim has been killing it, can he keep his lead? Or, will I punch him in the face? You only have one bible app on your phone?!?!?! Another chapter of Idols of Destruction! Humanism...Humanitarism Do you feel like the world has used guilt to shape your attitudes and feelings towards poverty? The importance of sharing stories between people across the world Has poverty become a virtue? Is there something intrinsically Christian about working hard or not working hard? How poor would you be willing to be? I may not be able to snare a rabbit but I can definitely snare some cockroaches Are there some cultures that are inherently better? The more we are consumers, are we less concerned with the rights of our elders or unborn children? Fairness verses Love
Grief – We Don't Know the Next Chapter
The history of the "gate wars" the Methodists strike back What toddlers think about babysitting Trivia question..."You're doing it wrong if you use 39 ingredients to make this thing"
- A "succint" compliment of Tim
- Parenting in anger - grace & forgiveness
- I have a "grown-up" who is going to take care of things
- "Boys, the sooner you accept we are messing you up the better."
- Whack-a-mole parenting
- Guilt-motivated parenting
Freelance and value in work Showing the kids our old homes and sharing our family story Walking through our grief and walking through it with children The feelings of shyness with a podcast The irritants are outweighing my large gratitude list
Trivia Game- Becca 6; Tim 7 Worst birthday Amazon wish list There’s only one thing worse than ventriloquism; children’s dinosaur-ventriloquism 6 months of filtering air through nothing Violent lions versus silent termites Would you want to know everything about your genes?
Idols for Destruction - Does our understanding of history leave room for God to break the patterns? - Do we pretend that we understand how God’s will is at work?
“A society that can not tolerate a judge beyond history will find that it can learn to tolerate anything.”
What if your duty as juror conflicts with your moral convictions? Why did humans chose individuality?
- Isn’t the best kind of party a party of one?
- It’s the Fourth of July!
- Should I murder or take a risk?
- If your spouse could choose your one life interest
- The book of Daniel- Relating to ol’ NebuchadnezzarI don’t want people to bow down to a giant golden statue of me, but maybe just kind of admire it a little
- It’s good you’re talking about something you’re passionate about—yourself
The reading of two sample books * 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You * Idols for Destruction
- History and the power of control
- Do you believe “when we find our vocation, thought and life are one”
- The library program and kids
- Tim loves him some climbing fourteeners
Baby deer death Processing sadness and honesty with kids Becca will hurt dogs that aren’t invited on our property The dead deer being immortalized in kids pictures And the topic is…disappointment When life moves you in a different direction The years are passing… let me see some of these big dreams come to fruition, please? On writing Parenting doesn’t stroke your ego Future childhood resentment about yard work Latest dreams being crushed Our personal relationship with God and needing to grab onto metaphors Do our dreams come true in this lifetime or is it in a future way with future people- even if we feel like God’s not giving us His dreams, then we say like Schadrach Mesach… um, Rack Shack and Benny… that we will still chose to follow Him. And that’s when God manifested Himself Corporate dreams passed on from generation to generation Programming and “regular work” is not going into the void Our regular job takes so much time and it can’t just be accumulating resources to do the next thing Freelance business thoughts What does the temptation to play it safe look like Are American christians just “lightweights”? It’s so difficult to remain unpolluted by freedom and hundreds of choices…a test we don’t even know we are under Our current struggles with God BMW in a church parking lot… well, I have a bad car so I love Christ more. We have to know what battle we are fighting Becca has a cold! The rousing game of trivia continues - Becca can’t pronounce words
(note I fixed a big audio gap at the beginning of this episode)
Tim's revenge - trivia game
Downhill skiing war
"Ok here's the plan, we are going to wait until the enemy gets right to the bottom of this perfectly clear area and all slide down with pieces of wood on our feet"
skiing with cannons?
We have an email address for the show...possibly
Writers group short story
Would you break down and cry and let the t-rex eat you?
Weird 70 disaster movies that did not make me grow as a person in comparison to modern Chris Pratt movies
An awkward effort to be real even about topics we don't talk about often
David Platt and his emotional bombs
How many of your beliefs do you have to hang up when you go out the door
How many of your beliefs do you feel strong enough to integrate them with your business
Let's have a moral discussion, not culture warfare.
In our culture today we can't point out anything that is the desire of your heart.
Is a commercial transaction a form of speech
What we choose to do with our freedom
Our "new" studio
Self-employment
Dreams that aren't coming true
Grief and public crying. Yikes!
Why would someone want to listen to vulnerability?!?!
What if Les Mis was a Disney cartoon with talking animal characters?
Tims embarrassing trivia game
- The monkey party in the domestic terminal.
- Rude wakeups on international flights.
- Finding Nemo for 16 hours
- Simon with jet-lag is like a little zombie
- Gaming the airline system with our giant 23-month-old
- Connect as families and disciple each-other
- Terrified of going back to being a frantic family
- A balanced body of the church
- Recent challenges in marriage
- Health and hope
- Our hulk baby in the nursery
Show Notes:
Gourmet Hotdogs The talking speaker strikes again Learning a language Hearing stories of refugees Helpful ways to serve refugees Vulnerability of asking for help in a foreign land God weaving our stories
- The final week in Nepal
- depressed tim
- missed mountain flight
- sickness
- stressed out parenting
- final chapter of the book
- why we can’t be funny this week
No power tonight. Taking a day of rest. Coffee-shop delivery is great. Smelly clothes. A new hairbrush. Stroller road-kill. Riding on the back of a motorcycle. The movie-going experience in Nepal, including some fascinating commercials. Big picture vision. Cooking with the help of two toddlers. Culture shock waves. What is it like to take the boys on an errand any given day of the week? We are now phonetic actors. Followup on the action items from last week. This week we cover chapter 5 in “You and Me Forever”
Episode 10 Show Notes
If it doesn’t have a tail it’s not a monkey.
Eating out with the kids More about our kids adapting our schedule to a new way of life getting a haircut in nepal last trip to volunteer at the school Curious George Even more about our kids Our kids growing and getting an imagination meeting our neighbors comedy-fantasy-middle-grade fiction Mice and Elephants and Me eating chicken at work with the kids Tim’s soccer injury Convincing Simon that he’s not really a bird Living in a neighborhood with lots of kids Man, we talk a lot about our kids! Emoji woes
And then back to our discussion of marriage - using the book "You and Me Forever" and some of the intense questions from it.
Tim and Becca are joined this week by special guests Karlee and Scott. We discuss our trip to Chitwan Park, riding elephants and the long road trip there and back. We then delve into some updates on what a vet would recommend for treating the parasites in our child.
Further topics include:
- Tour guides
- bird-safe coffee
- traffic in Kathmandu
- how to end a conversation
- super powers
When we went to Pokhara last weekend we decided to all go on a two day trek in the mountains. That was a mostly good idea. We all made it. God's grace and some very tolerant porters make it possible. At the end of the conversation things start to fray. It's been a hard couple of weeks and we are pretty worn.
We have a new house and we are living it up. Shopping trips. Eating dirt. Terrible menu mishaps. And, why is there a lock on the outside of our bathroom door?
We talk about our first full week in Kathmandu. How things are going. Other tourists harassing our kids. And KFC.
We let our kids do what they will to each other. We submitted some really exciting paper-work. Then we talk about stress, vulnerability, and judgement. Finally we discuss revenge stories.