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More Than or Less Than...What? Jun 28, 2024

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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.
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Building Kids' Resilience, The Breath of Life, & Vale of Tears Jun 21, 2024

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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.
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Weird Kids, Being Overwhelmed, & A Good Debate Jun 01, 2024

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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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Checking Cakes, Israel, & Life Together May 24, 2024

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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.
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This is Not The Way, Life Changes, & Breathing May 17, 2024

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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
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Deconstruction, A Warning for Women, & A Mandate for Men May 10, 2024

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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.
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Genuine Care for Others & Seeing Growth in Your Kids May 03, 2024

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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.
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Marital Conflict: Building Kids' Mental Fortitude Apr 26, 2024

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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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The Power of Real World Accomplishments Apr 19, 2024

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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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