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The Ford Pickup Show
by Dwayne and Patrice Ford
Dwayne and Patrice Ford have been married sixteen years. Every episode, they pick up a real conversation about love, parenting, money, faith and culture — and they don't pretend to agree.Some weeks it's marriage advice. Some weeks it's an argument about whether their teenager gets to quit. Real faith, real family, real money, from people actually living it.New episodes every two weeks. Video version on YouTube @thefordpickupshow.
Episodes
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One Says Let Him Quit. Other Said Absolutely Not.
Our son wanted to skip practice. Dwayne said kids don't get to opt out of what their parents decide is good for them. Patrice said a teenager who never makes decisions turns into an adult who can't make them. We never agreed. We didn't even get to the intro until eight minutes in. This is the...
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Wife Says Ban the Bonnets. I'm Not Sold.
Patrice is a thousand percent behind Tuskegee banning do-rags and bonnets on campus. Dwayne isn't sold. What started as a conversation about what we're losing — the barbershop, watch night service, the recipes — turned into a real disagreement about whether respectability protects us or costs us...
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Is Being Petty Actually a Communication Skill?
Patrice makes the case that petty isn't a character flaw. It's information. Dwayne isn't convinced. This one gets into what pettiness actually communicates in a marriage, why the small stuff is rarely about the small stuff, and a socks confession sixteen years in the making. Watch the video…
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They Told Me I Wasn't Black Enough
First-generation Jamaican-American. Somehow that made Dwayne a suspect at his own family reunion. This one gets into diaspora wars — Caribbean versus Black American, who worked harder, who had it worse, who's the real one. It's an argument that plays out at every cookout and in every comment...
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Chasing a Dream With Kids, a Job, and a Spouse Who Isn't Sold
Dwayne was putting cash in envelopes to stay on budget when he announced they were buying a new house. Patrice said she didn't see how that was going to happen. Six months later, they bought it. This one's about what actually stands between you and the thing you said you'd do — kids, a full-time...
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Marriage Isn't Hard. Life Is Hard.
Everybody told Dwayne not to get married. Sixteen years later, we're picking up the conversation nobody has honestly: is marriage actually hard work, or is life hard and marriage is what makes it lighter? We get into why a whole generation talked younger people out of marriage, what "marriage is…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Dwayne and Patrice Ford have been married sixteen years. Every episode, they pick up a real conversation about love, parenting, money, faith and culture — and they don't pretend to agree.Some weeks it's marriage advice. Some weeks it's an argument about whether their teenager gets to quit. Real faith, real family, real money, from people actually living it.New episodes every two weeks. Video version on YouTube @thefordpickupshow.
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Dwayne and Patrice Ford
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