Podcast
Too Busy to Flush
Hosted by JR & Molly · EN
One couple's slightly irreverent musings on faith, family, food and...marriage
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Ep. 221: What Does "Jesus is Mine" Mean?, Teenage Crushes, & Setting the Standard for Future Spouses
2w ago01:06:36Tap to summarizeIt’s been over a month since our last episode, J.R. is back from his extended stay in Nashville touring and Molly wants has so many things to say! Not really, but she did have an interesting conversation with our youngest about a line in a classic, hymn, we have teenagers with crushes which means discussion around framing relationships with opposite sexes and how to point to examples of character traits that are worth pursuing in a person. We’d love to have you join us around our digital table this week!Show NotesIntro: Travel, difficult people, lots of travel, keeping in touch with the family.6:00: People are weird and hard and dumb. J.R. recaps his summer touring and J.R. made progress on Molly’s [not that] big to-do list.12:40: Molly tries a TikTok recipe trend: Boursin cheese sauce for pasta18:30: What J.R.’s been eating while away, store bought eggshells are a lot thicker than backyard chickens.20:40: How many songs did Fanny Crosby write?24:15: What does “Jesus is mine” mean?27:41: Seeing flaming gaps as a parent because of your weaknesses.29:18: How to see the goal, not just the rules and conversations with our kids33:55: Molly really likes @PleaseDontMarryALoser’s content when it comes to developing relationships as a teenager.39:36: Teenage crushes, squashing them appropriately and pointing out good qualities in a person worth pursuing.45:35: Setting the tone for future potential guys by being a good husband and father.50:45: Doing sports with kids vs. putting them in traditional sports.57:02: J.R.’s most rewarding moment while touring and living in Nashville (it involved a couple big deal songwriters.)1:04:35: Show CloseCanavoxPique Tea - Referral Link (it’s super-delicious and healthy)Wealthfront Referral LinkMolly’s preferred Stone Heating PadIncogni (data removal and internet anonymizer) Get full access to Too Busy to Flush at www.toobusytoflush.com/subscribe
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Ep. 220: Looksmaxxing, Successful Wives Divorcing, & How Not To Wreck Your Family
Jun 1901:01:49Tap to summarizeIntro: Our rabbit loses his tail, loud chickens, making the kids upset.8:27: The hardest parts about J.R. being gone, Molly bags up and tosses a bunch of Faith’s clothes.12:18 JR’s clock and evening phone habits, our dog takes my place on the bed when I’m gone.15:50: Looksmaxxing: an overreaction to trans-ideologies?23:33: Humanity is like a drunk person on a horse- Insights from Carl Trueman and Friedrich Nietzsche.33:13: How to inoculate our children against unhealthy trends.35:44: Molly’s deadhorse 3: Objectification and what it means to be human.38:05: Baking soda biohack.39:54: Social influence pushing women to get divorced: men can’t handle successful wives or something else?47:40: What women are specifically designed to do and feel satisfaction and joy. The real goal as a husband and father and not letting careers take precedence over family.52:43: Critical ages to be at home with your kids.55:41: GK Chesterton (https://www.online-literature.com/chesterton/wrong-with-the-world/18/), drudgery, the problem with men and women and what’s wrong with the world.57:56: Molly’s message to women to be successful but not wreck your family.59:50: Show Close--------------------------------------------CanavoxPique Tea - Referral Link (it's super-delicious and healthy)Wealthfront Referral LinkMolly’s preferred Stone Heating PadIncogni (data removal and internet anonymizer) Get full access to Too Busy to Flush at www.toobusytoflush.com/subscribe
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Ep. 219: Drawing Lines, Family Vision Statements, & Low Key, Long Term Faithfulness
Jun 1201:07:19Tap to summarizeIntro: Music mixing, emotional manipulation of music, worship music, secular music, composition and considerations.13:50: We’ve changed over 6 years of podcasting and Angel Studios’ David movie shows a bit of this.19:00: Peeing into a watering can.19:58: Back to David…21:52: Sending kids to youth group at a different church and in-breeding.25:52: Christian liberty and soft and hard lines.34:22: Drawing lines based on a family vision statement.39:03: Kids going to camps and multiple rededications.43:53: Our family vision statement.47:35: Molly discovers something legendary at church.53:51: The only thing Molly actually planned on saying this episode: Insights into the disciple Andrew.56:19: Examples from Ray Boltz.1:01:17: Low key, long term faithfulness.1:05:30: Show Close--------------------------------------------CanavoxPique Tea - Referral Link (it's super-delicious and healthy)Wealthfront Referral LinkMolly’s preferred Stone Heating PadIncogni (data removal and internet anonymizer) Get full access to Too Busy to Flush at www.toobusytoflush.com/subscribe
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Ep. 218: First Wave Feminism, Limitations Are Good, & Other Truths
May 2901:20:50Tap to summarizeIntro: Sickness over the holiday weekend, I stink at archery (hunting).6:45: Brocasts, Ancient Nashville, conspiracy theories and parental moderating.11:25: Humility vs. skepticism when it comes to what we understand about history.14:52: The waves of feminism. A new take on first wave feminism. Rachel Wilson and Joe Rogan and women voting.19:00: Men and women: Carrying each other’s burdens, time with kids at bedtime.25:16: Mary Queen of Scots and religious persecution.33:06: Good, true, and beautiful, Theo of Golden, JR has deja vú.38:38: JR asks about visiting people in June/July. Molly says “no” to bringing kids down.41:57 Eugene Peterson and accepting the terms of creation, The Desecration of Man.47:20: A story about a neighbor and having a moral basis for outrage at a school shooting.54:45 Part of being human is recognizing our limits, obligations, and…something else 😝, and the connection to Natural Law, our limitations are a feature, not a bug and it is good.1:01:44: It’s a progression of growth and parenting as such younger sets the tone for later. 1:08:00: Dropping the ball with the youngest kids.1:10:05: Titus’s performance and dedication as a Judo kata partner, raising your children in the way the should go, not the way they will go.1:18:06: Show Close-----------------------------------CanavoxPique Tea - Referral Link (it's super-delicious and healthy)Wealthfront Referral LinkMolly’s preferred Stone Heating PadIncogni (data removal and internet anonymizer) Get full access to Too Busy to Flush at www.toobusytoflush.com/subscribe
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Hobby Farms, Furries, & To Be Human
May 2201:00:05Tap to summarizeIntro: coffee for fun, end of school, small talk, 6:00: Garden, chicken coop and huge new builds, sprinkler systems killed it.18:53: Do we need to take Furries seriously? Virtual reality, the loneliness epidemic, and lack of interpersonal skills.24:45: A chicken rabbit trail.31:04: It is much easier to turn in a relationship to an animal vs. another human. What does it mean to be human? Vice Regents of the created order.37:35: Once you unmoor humanity from who is God, there’s no stopping where it goes.38:54: The book of Daniel and the more prideful we are, the more susceptible to idols and the more disconnected from our humanity we are.48:22: Molly’s hot take: Climbing Mt. Everest is dumb.57:40: Show CloseCanavoxPique Tea - Referral Link (it's super-delicious and healthy)Wealthfront Referral LinkMolly’s preferred Stone Heating PadIncogni (data removal and internet anonymizer) Get full access to Too Busy to Flush at www.toobusytoflush.com/subscribe
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Ep. 216: Ben Sasse, The Desecration of Man, & The Value of Church Tradition
May 1501:12:16Tap to summarizeIntro: Life updates: touring, gardens, chickens, JR’s bald again, update on injured house chicken.13:35: Ben Sasse’s podcast, Not Dead Yet20:54: AI and degradation of humanity, The Way of Medicine, and conversations around difficult conversations.24:20: Observations on difficult conversations with those of other generations.28:00: Everyone has to wrestle with what it means to be human.33:01: The Desecration of Man and What We Can’t Not Talk About36:50: The spiritual side of desecration and abortion as a sacrament.39:36: Consecration, liturgies and church practices44:26: Things in our lives that shape our worship, cathedrals of consumerism and You Are What You Worship.47:20: Truman on the attraction of tradition and orthodoxy49:37: Holy Spirit leading people in heresy. “That’s modalism Patrick!”52:37: LISTENER REQUEST!55:56: The Abolition of Man and other edifying historical documents to understand the historical roots of the Christian faith.59:01: Musings about the value of university and higher education and one of our kids is a natural academic.1:06:17: IQ vs. EQ 1:03:55: Show Close Get full access to Too Busy to Flush at www.toobusytoflush.com/subscribe
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Ep. 215: God Calling Kids and Living an Apologetics Lifestyle
Mar 2701:03:01Tap to summarizeIntro: Spirit week, Guinness chocolate sourdough bread, making Turkish Delight was not fun and Lemon Angel Pie.14:24: New garden plans, a new chicken coop, new chicks, and another injured chicken.23:53: A definition of faith: longing for a better city, and when your kids do things of the Lord unbidden. Abiding City - YouTube Adorning the Dark30:43: New World Watch feature and the importance of kids learning Apologetics.35:54: Wes Huff in Diary of a CEO. Keller’s cultural moment is over.41:38: Living an apologetic lifestyle and consistency with kids.48:10: The fear of losing your sense of confidence in knowledge and truth.52:40: Molly’s habit of Jane Austen night: Mansfield Park, J.R.’s review of latest Brandon Sanderson series he’s reading, book adaptations, and the problem of building out old stories.1:01:33: Show Close Get full access to Too Busy to Flush at www.toobusytoflush.com/subscribe
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Ep. 214: Concerts, Jane Austen, & Olympic Moments
Feb 2700:54:10Tap to summarizentro: Jesus-y sayings, studies in Revelation, Brian’s sermon series in Revelation.12:15: Recap from JR’s first arena mix in San Antonio with Terri Clark.20:00: Molly recaps her substitute teaching on Monday and all the first graders fall apart about death.22:30: Molly finishes Sense and Sensibility and loves how great Jane Austen writes.29:53: Olympics, paedo-president’s day rant.33:22: Hormonal birth control and its correlation to anxiety disorders.34:56: Johnny Gaudreau's kids and Olympic moments.38:00: Molly’s amusement with Sam "Moose" Morse and terrible ski racing culture.43:52: Olympian Caesar Salad rater.44:40: Molly’s etomologies of the week: tempura and semitic languages48:43: Lack of sleep and picking up kid woes.53:02: Show Close______________________________CanavoxPique Tea - Referral Link (it's super-delicious and healthy)Wealthfront Referral LinkMolly’s preferred Stone Heating PadIncogni (data removal and internet anonymizer) Get full access to Too Busy to Flush at www.toobusytoflush.com/subscribe
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Ep. 213: The Collapse of Civilization: AI, Human Laziness or Door Dash?
Feb 2001:09:53Tap to summarizeIntro: Ash Wednesday, Lent, and Mardi Gras.17:04: An update on AI since last week and Cheney’s commentary.21:05: AI crushes a medical diagnosis.26:47: The average person’s Door Dash budget and the short line between Door Dash and collapse of civilization.32:46: Humanity wants the bare minimum, and adapting to new circumstances.36:57: We went skiing and had forced disconnect time.41:10: Food inflation and a recipe to turn any red meat into deli-style lunch meat.48:20: FB Marketplace comedy52:50: A reflection on Sandra McCracken’s Grace Upon Grace.59:12: You are either moving towards or away from your spouse, pressure points in marriage like tidiness and forgetting to schedule reminders, and throwing this away without telling them.1:08:59: Show Close____________________________CanavoxPique Tea - Referral Link (it's super-delicious and healthy)Wealthfront Referral LinkMolly’s preferred Stone Heating PadIncogni (data removal and internet anonymizer) Get full access to Too Busy to Flush at www.toobusytoflush.com/subscribe
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Epstein, AI, & Living A Quiet Life
Feb 1301:22:37Tap to summarizeIntro: The basics and some comments on our very early history during COVID.3:30: Molly’s afternoon substituting for a sick teacher at the girls’ school, what a daughter was supposed to be doing last year, a student tries to run things, and boredom for an hour.12:30:Jesus to the elite, Isaiah 2 and Molly’s Epstein file dump reaction.17:20: J.R.’s reaction and The Hittite Warrior and the Christianizing influence on society. 22:50: God is sovereign over all things and separate realities and deepfakes.28:00: Cross-generational distrust of the government and the rise and fall of civilizations.31:37: Trusting God, living a quiet of life, planting gardens, and parents’ rights.35:23: Something Big Is Happening (AI), some theoretical musings.46:47: Molly interrupts. 49:49: AI is creating itself and the potential benefit to your ideas.53:13 Recalibrating how we train our kids, future eduction, nefarious directions.59:44: Titus’ language immersion program and some of Molly’s ideas for AI use, and is there a demonic influence on AI?1:05:30: Would it be better to have an AI that doesn’t learn what you want? Molly’s Poison Hemlock story.1:11:30: Some ideas we have for AI.1:12:50: J.R.’s has been playing with a paid version of AI (Claude) and here’s his experience so far.1:21:15: Show Close Get full access to Too Busy to Flush at www.toobusytoflush.com/subscribe
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